On 24 April 1945 when Berlin was Liberated the Jewish Hospital Was Functioning, its 800 Jewish Patients Still Alive
It was a
chance remark at the 2019 Palestine Expo
Conference in London that so enraged the Zionists. I was speaking
from the floor after having been asked to clarify a point someone had made
about Ha’avara, the Zionist trade
agreement with the Nazis. I explained that for the Zionists, the rise of Hitler
had been a golden opportunity which they seized with both hands. I said that
“Nazi Germany in a sense built the state of
Israel at a crucial time and you can actually say that the state of Israel
today is Hitler’s bastard offspring because the ideology, the ideology that
permeates Israel, Jewish racial supremacy, originated in the fascist states of
Europe.”
Katie
Halper interviews Tony Greenstein
However I
did not envisage that the Israeli state would sink to the levels of depravity,
sadism and cruelty that we have seen since October 7th where Israeli
government ministers take pleasure in trying to outdo each other in their
declarations of how cruel they can be.
Israel’s Fascist
Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich complained last
August that
“No
one in the world will allow us to starve 2 million people, even though it might
be justified and moral in order to free the hostages.”
Not to be outdone
the deputy
speaker of the Knesset, Nissim Vaturi, called for the separation of children
from their mothers and the killing of adults in Gaza. During
an interview with Kol BaRama radio, Nissim Vaturi called Palestinians “subhumans”.
The rear garden of Berlin's Jewish Hospital
Now that
Israel is actually starving Gaza’s Palestinians, having blocked all aid
shipments for a month, none of the imperialist powers is saying anything.
It was the
Nazi Governor-General of Poland’s General Government, Hans Frank, who declared a policy of death
by hunger. 80,000 Jews in Warsaw and 45,000 in Lodz died, not from deportation
but starvation.
But even the
Nazis allowed some food into the ghettos. Israel for the past month has allowed
no food or medicine or fuel into Gaza. This is a war crime yet the Western
governments say nothing, see nothing and hear nothing. That
miserable apology for a human being Starmer can only refer to 7 October, the
revolt of the slaves.
The position
of the German government is more understandable. Having been involved in 4
genocides so far (Maji Maji, Herero/Nama, Armenian &
the Nazi Holocaust) it is no surprise that they are funding and arming Israel’s
genocide. After all there isn’t a genocide that the German State hasn’t smiled
upon. But what of the silence of the rest of Europe?
From the
very start Israel had a simple policy. It was to destroy all traces of
Palestinian civilisation and society in Gaza. According to Israel, every
hospital, school, mosque, church and university that they have bombed have been
Hamas ‘command and control’ bases. If you believe that then I have a bridge to
sell you.
Main entrance to Berlin's Jewish Hospital seen from the inner garden of the hospital. Source: Jüdisches Museum
Israel’s
lies have been just that. If Hamas has
any command and control centers then they will be located underground in the
tunnels not in hospital wards. But
western imperialism and the United States, which committed the same war crimes
in Iraq and Afghanistan, was more than prepared to accept Israel’s lies.
The fact
that not one Hamas fighter has been photographed firing out of a hospital is
proof in itself of Israel’s lies. One can only imagine what the reaction would
be if Russia started making the same claims in Ukraine.
It was no
surprise that after having targeted journalists, health, UN and humanitarian aid
workers that Israel would murder 8 Red Crescent and 6 civil defence workers as
well as one UNWRA employee. UNWRA after all has been declared a ‘terrorist’
organisation so why not kill its employees?
But we
should reflect. Not even Nazi Germany
targeted ambulances, Red Cross workers or hospitals. Even Nazi Germany
respected the Geneva Convention in regard to captured soldiers (Russians
excepted) and didn’t torture them to death.
Nazi Germany
is rightly condemned for its extermination of 6 million Jews as well as millions
of others. It is well known that poison gas was used to murder many of
these. What is not known is why this was
so.
The first
mass killings of Jews took place in the wake of the invasion of the Soviet
Union on June 22, 1941 when four killing squads of SS men, the Einsatzgruppen, were sent in the rear of
the German army to murder Jews and Communists.
These
killings usually took place on the outskirts of towns and the victims were
forced to dig their own graves and undress before they were shot. The reason
that this method of murder, at least 1 million were killed this way, did not
continue was because of its effect on the SS men.
SS Obergruppenfuehrer
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski told Himmler that: ‘These
men were now finished for the rest of their lives: they would either be
neurotics or savages….’ The SS established a mental institution in the East by
November 1941 for men suffering from the effects of murdering women and
children.
It was then
that the Nazis began experimenting in other ways to kill Jews and other
undesirables. Arthur Nebe, the head of the Criminal Police who became head of
Einsatzgruppe B, was given permission by Himmler to try out dynamite on the
residents of a mental asylum. His
Wikipedia entry describes how
One of the bunkers was loaded with explosives
and 24 mental patients were put into it. Nebe gave the signal to detonate, but
the resultant explosion failed to kill the patients. Several of them emerged
from the bunker covered in blood and screaming loudly. Thereupon more
explosives were brought up, the wounded patients were forced back into the
bunker, and a second explosion finally finished the job. The bunker had become
quiet and parts of bodies could be seen hanging from nearby trees
Nebe later
confided to Zelewski that that the result of the experiments had been ‘woeful’. [Raul Hilberg, Destruction of
the European Jews, p.344]
It was this
that led on to the use of gas, firstly carbon monoxide and then Zyklon-B. One
suspects that if the Nazis had had access to the high powered explosives and
bombs that the Americans have supplied Israel with, then they may well have
decided to bomb the Jewish ghettoes instead.
Israel has embarked
on a policy of extermination coupled with deliberate starvation and destruction
of water sources, hospitals, schools and just about any form of shelter. Hence
their murder of the Red Crescent and other workers and their deliberate firing
on ambulances. Today, as International Law is rendered impotent there is no war
crime that the Israeli military is not capable of.
We have been
here before. In April 2024 Israel deliberately killed
7 World Food Kitchen workers who had supplied their coordinates to the Israelis
beforehand. On the pretext of targeting a Hamas fighter Israel picked off one
vehicle after another until it murdered the lot. The world was outraged but that outrage didn’t
extend to the mass murder of Palestinians.
Even
supposing that Israel was targeting ‘terrorists’ is the Israeli army be
entitled to bomb a hospital to kill them? Just imagine your local hospital.
Someone is on the rampage there with a gun. Is the army entitled to destroy the
whole hospital to kill one person? Yet
that is Israel’s excuse.
It is clear
beyond all doubt that it is not Hamas but Israel that is the terrorist state and
that the West is aiding its terrorism. We only need to contrast Hamas’ treatment of the Israeli
hostages with Israel’s torture of Palestinian
hostages.
We should
ponder on the fact that on April 24, 1945, when Soviet troops liberated a
Berlin hospital, they discovered, two
years after Goebbels had declared Berlin Judenrein, that there was a
Jewish hospital, where Jewish doctors and nurses had treated Jewish patients
throughout the war. Some 800 Jews survived.
Unlike all
of Gaza’s hospitals it hadn’t been bombed or shelled. That is why it is correct
to say that the Israeli state is now a fitting successor to Nazi Germany and
that it harbours exactly the same exterminationist mentality as the Waffen SS
who ran the extermination and concentration camps. The main difference is that
whereas the majority of the Israeli Jewish people consider Palestinians
to be subhuman, in Germany it was only a minority who held to these views.
That was why
all the extermination camps – Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Chelmno
and Maidenek - were situated on Polish soil. The vast majority of Germans were
unaware of what was taking place in their name. The same cannot be said of
Israeli Jews who are well aware of what is happening in Gaza even if they
pretend to the contrary.
And that is
why I was perfectly correct to describe
Israel as Hitler’s Bastard Offspring.
Tony
Greenstein
