TlsMS93 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 8:21 pm
bombsaway wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 8:04 pm
There is an immense amount of evidence in pre-war period that Jews lived in Poland, France, in rural areas, urban areas, wherever. Anyway, are you saying these people were just let off the trains in Russian territory and dispersed on their own account?
We would be talking about people like women, children and the elderly, that is, those who are unfit for work. If they were left to their own devices, that would be quite cruel and without the assistance they were entitled to under the laws of war, a crime, but it does not constitute extermination. Now, if they were unable to survive until the Soviets retook the territories, that would be strange too. Now, if the Soviets relocated them as they always did, how would we know? Or were they known for the transparency of their actions?
If they survived they would have told stories about it, especially the children, who would be in their 40s in the 1970s when masse emigration of Jews began and in their 60s when the USSR fell.
But your position here, that they were "left to their own devices" is ridiculous considering the evidence shows a policy of children and elderly being killed because of the security threat they apparently posed
Kube, Governor of Belarus:
Owing to encroachment by the Army Rear Zone (Command), which has already been reported, there was interference with the preparations we had made for the liquidation of the Jews in Glebokie. Without contacting me, the Army Rear Zone Command liquidated 10,000 Jews, whose systematic elimination had in any case been planned by us. In the city of Minsk about 10,000 Jews were liquidated on July 28 and 29. Of these 6,500 were Russian Jews mainly old men, women and children and the rest Jews incapable of work, who were sent to Minsk in November of last year by order of the Fuehrer, mainly from Vienna, Bruenn, Bremen and Berlin.
The District of Sluzk has also been relieved of several thousand Jews. The same applies to Nowogrodek and Wilejka. Radical measures are planned for Baranowitschi and Hanzewitschi. In Baranowitschi there are still another 10,000 Jews in the city itself, of whom 9,000 will be liquidated next month.
In the city of Minsk about 2,600 Jews from Germany have remained. In addition all of the 6,000 Russian Jews and Jewesses remained alive who were employed during the Aktion by various units [of the Wehrmacht]. In future, too, Minsk will remain the largest Jewish element owing to the concentration of armament industries in the area and as the requirements of the railroad make this necessary for the time being. In all other areas the number of Jews used for work will be reduced by the SD and myself to a maximum of 800, and, if possible, 500, so that when the remaining planned Aktionen have been completed there will be 8,600 in Minsk and about 7,000 Jews in the 10 other districts, including the Jew-free Minsk District. There will then be no further danger that the partisans can still rely to any real extent on Jewry.
These were ghettoized Jews and they were viewed as so much of a security threat that they were still killed. The revisionist position about what happened in the USSR (some vague notion of a non-extermination policy) is blatantly refuted, contradicted, many many times over.