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Old June 17th, 2016 #1
Karl Radl
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Default Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #11: Cutting Jews in Half with Axes

Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #11: Cutting Jews in Half with Axes


In yet another instance of absurd claims made about the Germans in World War II. I quote an assertion of Soviet origin about an SS man named Wepke cutting a jew in half with an axe at the Yanov (aka Janowska) concentration camp in south-western Poland.

This is reproduced from the wildly popular history of 'Nazi atrocities' named 'The Scourge of the Swastika' authored by Edward Russell (aka Lord Russell of Liverpool) who was a key figure in the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crime Trials.

I quote:

'Murder was so monotonous that the staff were officially encouraged to devise new methods, and one of them named Wepke, made a bet that he could cut a boy in half with one stroke of his axe. The bet was taken. Wepke got hold of a ten-year-old boy in the camp, made him kneel down with his head hidden in the palms of his hands, and after taking a practice swing, with one single stroke he cut the boy in two.' (1)

That this is obvious propagandistic nonsense I don't see even the need to elaborate on.

Also one wonders where exactly this allegation came from?

The answer is just one 'eye witness' named Manusevitch that the Soviet special commission 'investigating' the Yanov camp in 1944 – Russell's source via the medium of the Nuremberg Trials – ferreted out and used as black propaganda against the Germans who the Soviet Union was still at war with at the time of original publication. (2)

One wonders why the highly efficient Germans would have left an 'eye witness' to their 'brutal murders' alive during their liquidation of the camp in November 1943?

The answer is that they wouldn't and even if they did: Manusevitch's claims are unsupported hearsay and it is rather unlikely the Germans would have committed the crime described. This is especially so because the German economy had been placed on a total war footing in late 1942/early 1943. Henceforth all labourers of whatever origin were of significant value to the Reich's war effort and chopping them in half with axe would have been an ipso facto crime against the German war effort.

Simply put: why on earth would the Germans be engaging in the random murder of (jewish) children with axes?


References


(1) Edward Russell, 1972, [1956], 'The Scourge of the Swastika', 14th Edition, Corgi: London, p. 123
(2) Ibid, p. 123, n. 1

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This was originally published was at the following address: Semitic Controversies: Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #11: Cutting Jews in Half with Axes
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