Word: zionistic
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...Rosenberg/Vrba may be "content to feel that he himself is not taken in by what he believes to be the myths surrounding the holocaust" but others might be interested in knowing who these alleged Zionist conspirators were. Why did this not come out in the Eichmann trial? The Nuremberg trials? Where did Rosenberg/Vrba find these Zionist leaders roaming about at a time when most of the Jews of that area were already in concentration camps, in contained areas or hidden...
...tale of the Rabbi that refused to listen to Rosenberg/Vrba's report is not the tale of a Zionist suppressing a warning of doom. A Rabbi is not to be confused with a Zionist. Many people were disbelieved in a similar fashion, regarded as madmen for their ravings of such barbarity. It is not difficult to understand, even now, why this might be so. By the time the Jews began to realize the seriousness of the situation, it was too late. They were all neatly rounded up in ghettoes from which escape was not exactly an easy feat...
...There were Jewish leaders who did have contact with the Nazis for the Germans established indigenous Jewish chiefs of ghettoes. These people were not necessarily Zionist and to call them collaborators in the destruction of European Jewry is an outrageous bending of what is a complex story laboriously documented in Isaiah Trunk's recent book, Judenrat...
...anger and frustration that has built up in Rudolf Vrba during the last 30 years has left its mark. Vrba has made a conscious effort to keep himself totally unaffiliated: he is anti-Zionist, anti-communist, and even somewhat anti-Semitic, particularly with respect to American Jews. A pessimist by virtue of experience, he terms Israel "a potential Auschwitz," speaks of "Zionist megalomaniacs," and says that nothing is more repugnant to him than middle class American Jews demonstrating for Soviet Jewry. ("Let them go to Israel themselves, not send Russian Jews to fight there...
Vrba's proudest boast is objectivity. And his claim to it is valid--he is a man in limbo, a man without traditional allegiances. He has no desire to expound on the subject of Zionist collaboration, but when he saw that it was an issue I wanted to pursue, he endeavored to present his case as cogently and unemotionally as possible. At a meeting last week at Phillips Brooks House, when he raised the question of collaboration after a lecture on the holocaust, he was shouted down and insulted. "I have no axe to grind. And if I have shown...