German Judeophobia and the Holocaust
However, there is no comparison in Jewish or even in world history to the Nazi Holocaust when more than six million Jews were systematically murdered by the German Nazis. The Holocaust has been an unprecedented anti-Jewish horrendous historical phenomenon that must be carefully analyzed, so as to prevent it from happening again. It was initiated by an ostensibly non-Christian ideology by Adolph Hitler, a self declared secular ex-Catholic, whose strong anti Jewish feelings were rooted in endemic Austrian medieval Catholic Judeophobia.
Hitler believed that Jews are evil subhuman beings who are going to take over the world. He did believe that the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” are true. These “Protocols” were authored by the Czarist secret police at the turn of the 20th Century in order to incite the masses in Russia against and Jews and at the same time “justify” Russia’s severe discrimination against them. Since their publication in 1903 the “Protocols” became and the banner of Jew hatred. Wherever they have been republished or distributed are hotbeds of Judeophobia (See map). Hitler felt that his mission is to eradicate the Jews from the world. This seemed to be his true passion rather than the German conquest of Europe. When it came to choosing between defending Germany and continuing the massacre of Jews, Hitler opted for the latter.
Hitler’s first targeted German Jewry. Having been elected Chancellor of Germany
in democratic elections, Hitler, who explicitly spelt out his intentions to rid
the world of Jews in his 1928 book Mein Kampf (“my struggle”),
started his anti-Jewish campaign by infringing on Jewish civil rights – making
them second-class citizens, as they were before the emancipation (the Nuremberg
“laws”). At the same time Hitler encouraged “illegal” anti-Jewish riots that
culminated in the Kristalnacht (See map and please read the inserts).
Once the Germans got used to idea that Jews do not have civil rights it was
easier to dehumanize them as social outcasts who can be arrested just for being
Jewish and interned in concentration camps, first in Germany and then in the
occupied Eastern European countries (see map).
At the same time, the Germany army advancing into Russia included special units whose mission was to round up and exterminate Jews wherever they are found. (E.g., the notorious massacre at Babi Yar, near Kiev in the Ukraine). It is estimated that one million Russian and Ukrainian Jews were murdered this way in addition to the six millions exterminated in the death camps. (See map)
Some German Jews who saw the pending catastrophe managed to flee Germany but
most countries, including Palestine under British Mandate (see above), were
closed to Jewish immigration.
The next phase was the physical extermination of Jews in specially designed
death camps, of which Auschwitz is best known. 
The magnitude of the effect of the Holocaust can be seen in the next three
maps:
The same information can be presented graphically:
We cannot discuss the Holocaust without mentioning two dignified occurrences:
1. The saving of many Jewish lives by righteous Christians who endangered their own lives hiding Jews from the Nazis.
2. The revolts of Jews in the ghetto-concentration camps. Unlike the medieval ghettos these were actually huge German prisons where Jews were confined before being sent to the death camps; these were not ghettos in any classical sense of the term. Those revolt were desperate attempts to break the Nazi death-siege. These poorly armed Jews were no match for the German army. But those Jewish fighters decided to fight to the death, killing some of their German tormentors, who were utterly surprised by the courage of “those timid Jews.” The heroic uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto, the best known of these revolts, started on April 19, 1943 and lasted for 27 days, with Jews fighting with smuggled handguns and shotguns against German artillery and armor. If the European Jews had manifested resistance to German oppression much earlier, rather than being “law abiding citizens,” the Holocaust would have been prevented in great part.
The Holocaust could have been far less extensive and millions of Jews could have
been saved had President Roosevelt listened to Jewish and Polish pleas and not
forbidden American bombers from interfering with the Nazi extermination of the
Jews by bombing the railroads to Auschwitz. Moreover, American bombers that
destroyed a German chemical plant in Auschwitz were explicitly
ordered not to damage the German Gas chambers. Roosevelt also refused a deal in
which a million Hungarian Jews would have been permitted to leave. President
Roosevelt has been, therefore, a tacit accomplice in the deaths of million of
European Jews. The Roosevelt Administration has been hostile to the European
Jewry already since 1938, when it refused Jewish immigration to the US and
refrained from pressuring Germany to rescind its anti Jewish legislation, which
undoubtedly infringed on human rights. Even of Roosevelt might have acted in the
best interest of the USA, at least according to his judgment; his decisions were
immoral by absolute criteria.
Here is some material for thought: Adolph Hitler was an outspoken, murderous Judeophobe; was Franklin Roosevelt a tacit one? What could have been Roosevelt’s motivations? How can a tacit Judeophobe be identified? Could another US president with relativistic morality behave similarly when it comes to the Jewish people? What are the criteria of absolute morality?
By the end of the war in 1945 the survivors of the Holocaust tried to leave Europe but practically all doors were closed them. In the years 1945-47 before the establishment of the State of Israel only 83,000 survivors found a home in their homeland. (See map)
The reason for this relatively small number was that the pro-Arab British Labor Government prohibited immigration to Palestine in order to please the Arabs. The Arabs were chagrin at the time realizing that Haj Amin Al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem failed in his mission to prompt Hitler to kill all Jews in Europe as well as those in Palestine. Unfortunately for the Arabs the war ended before Haj Amin accomplished his religion motivated, Judeophobic efforts. Many of those 83,000 Holocaust survivors tried to enter their homeland “illegally” (by British emergency law), were intercepted and interned in concentration camps for months, some in Cyprus and some in Palestine. If the British pro-Arab Laborite policy was not flagrantly anti-Jewish then it was certainly immoral. Once the Jewish state was established there was an influx of Holocaust survivor immigrants, some of whom found temporary refuge in the UK. (See Map)
European anti-Semitism did not die with the Holocaust. A new wave of Jew hatred emerged in the atheistic Soviet Union in 1961 under the rule of Joseph Stalin. This time Jews were indicted, tried and executed or sent to Siberia for all kinds of trumped up charges.
Communist anti-Semitism had the same purpose as that of Czarist Russia (the creators of the “Protocols”) – distraction of the masses from their misery. Like the latter it was successful because it was rooted in the Judeophobia imbedded in the traditional Greek Orthodox Church, which remained viable also in an atheistic Communist regime. The following map describes that wave of anti-Jewish trials in the USSR. The next map shows that anti-Semitism was still alive and well in post-Holocaust Russia 30 years after the Stalin era.
Current European anti-Semitism is not limited to modern Russia as can be seen in the following annotated map:
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