Auschwitz Yet Again: Punishing The Palestinians For Crimes
Committed By Europeans
23 December 2009
By
Gilad Atzmon
Early on Friday the famous "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work
Sets You Free) sign that hung over the entrance gate
to the Auschwitz camp, was stolen.
Commenting to the BBC on the theft of the Auschwitz
sign, Rabbi Andrew Baker, the Director of the
International Jewish Affairs of the rabid Zionist
American Jewish Committee maintained that there should
be no replicas to substitute the entrance monument.
“There can be no copies or reproductions; visitors
must see only what was real. In that way they will be
bear witness to the very objects and structures which
in turn remain the mute eyewitness to what happened
there”.
Rabbi Baker wants the “real thing”. However, every
person who happens to be brave enough to step into the
muddy topic known as Holocaust history, is quick to
discover the embarrassing fact that lies at the heart
of the Auschwitz museum experience: the gas chamber on
display is no less than a reconstruction built after
the war by the soviets. The original gas chambers were
destroyed by the Germans in October 1944 just before
their evacuation.
The following extract is taken from an ultra kosher
Zionist Holocaust memorial site:
“In late 1944 (17 October 1944), the SS, on orders
from Berlin, dynamited all the still functioning gas
chambers to destroy any evidence of the killing that
had happened there.”
Here is an attempt by, again, another ultra kosher
Zionist memorial site to deal with the fact that
Auschwitz Crematorium 1 is a reconstruction.
“After the war, when the Main Camp was turned into a
museum, the authorities felt that a crematorium was
required at the end of the memorial journey for
visitors. Since the four cremas/gas chambers where
most of the mass murder of the Jews took place lay in
Birkenau two miles away, they couldn't be used for
that purpose…..The chimney, the gas chamber room, the
doors, and four of the openings in the roof which had
been used to pour in the Zyklon-B were restored. Two
of the three ovens were rebuilt. The ovens were not
hooked up to the chimney as it was not an operating
facility.”
The Memorial site concludes, “Crema 1 in Auschwitz I
(the Main Camp) is not a "fake" but a restored space
meant to be a memorial and symbolic representation of
all the gas chambers and crematoria in the Auschwitz
complex.”
Some historians debate as to the original function of
the ruined gas chambers. I would save myself from
commenting on the subject. First, I am not a
historian. Second, I am far more concerned by the
systematic destruction of the Palestinian people by
those who survived the Holocaust. This continuous shoa
that is curried out by the Israelis, in the name of
Jewish suffering, is taking place right in front of
our eyes.
Yet, one thing is clear beyond doubt. For the last six
decades tourists have been visiting a gas chamber that
was built after the war by the Soviets. As far as the
Auschwitz museum is concerned, people haven’t been
witnessing the ‘real thing’.
Accordingly, I would advise Rabbi Baker to revise his
demand. The Auschwitz Museum experience is founded on
a “copy” and a “replica” or in other words “a restored
space meant to be a memorial and symbolic
representation”.
For the last three decades Auschwitz has been
operating as a tourist resort. It has its Holiday
Tourist Guide, ‘near by’ hotels, Hot Dog stand,
recommended restaurants and so on. Considering
Auschwitz has achieved the status of a successful
tourist attraction, I would regard the theft of the
entrance monument as a major opportunity. I suggest
the current staff at Auschwitz prepare for a mass of
tourists to come. I propose creating many more gate
facilities decorated with entrance monuments. In the
spirit of multiculturalism and global markets, each
entrance can be accompanied by a real McDonalds for
the American crowd, a genuine pub for the Brits, an
authentic Nandos for chicken lovers and Maoz Falafel
for the Israeli youngsters who are sent year after
year to brew in Jewish suffering just before they join
the IDF. It is in Auschwitz where young Israelis fuel
themselves with enough hatred so they can punish the
Palestinians for crimes committed by Europeans.
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