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Stunning New Facts Come to Light About the Holocaust
by Pastor Gary Boyd
Jan. 26th 2023

The latest revelation about the Holocaust stuns even the scholars who thought they already knew everything about the horrific details of Germany’s program of genocide against the Jewish people.


It’s taken more than 70 years to finally know the full facts about these Nazi monsters who had the Germans mesmerized by their hatred. What is almost beyond belief is that what really happened goes far beyond what anyone could ever have imagined in their wildest dreams.
For the longest time we have spoken of the tragedy of 6 million Jews going to the ovens of the concentration camps. It was a number that represented the closest approximation we could come to the victims of Hitler’s plan for a Final Solution, the extermination of the jewish people. Those who sought to diminish the tragedy claimed 6 million was a gross exaggeration. Others went further and denied the historicity of the Holocaust itself, absurdly claiming the Jews fabricated their extermination to gain sympathy for the Zionist cause.
Now we know the truth about that devilish time.
The reality was much worse than whatever we imagined.
The Real Holocaust Statistics
The unspeakable crime of the 20th century, more than the triumph of evil, was the sin of the “innocent” bystander.
It wasn’t just the huge killing centers whose very names – Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Majdanek, Belzec, Ravensbruck, Sobibar, Treblinka – bring to mind the ghastly images by now so familiar to us. It wasn’t just the Warsaw ghetto that was torched with jews still in the buildings. It wasn’t just the famous sites we’ve all by now heard of that deservedly live on in everlasting infamy.
Researchers at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have just released documentation that astounds even the most informed scholars steeped in the previously known statistics of German atrocities. Here is some of what has now been conclusively discovered:
There were more than 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe from 1933 to 1945.
There were 30,000 slave labor camps; 1,150 Jewish ghettos; 980 concentration camps; 1000 prisoner of war camps; 500 brothels filled with sex slaves; and thousands of other camps used for euthanizing the elderly and infirm, performing forced abortions, “Germanizing” prisoners or transporting victims to killing centers.
The best estimate using current information available is between 15 to 20 million people who died or were imprisoned in sites controlled by the Germans throughout the European continent were not only jews, but poles, czechs, hungarians, russians, french and german whose identity tied them to the jewish people.
Numbers Unbelievable
Simply put, in the words of Hartmut Berghoff, Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, “The numbers are so much higher than what we originally thought; we knew before how horrible life in the camps and ghettos was, but the actual numbers are unbelievable.”
And what makes this revelation so important is that it forces us to acknowledge a crucial truth about the Holocaust that many people have tried to ignore or to minimize – a truth that has profound contemporary significance: The unspeakable crime of the 20th century, more than the triumph of evil, was the sin of the “innocent” bystander.
For years our efforts to understand the Holocaust focused on the perpetrators. We looked for explanations for the madness of Mengele, the obsessive hatred of some say a demon possessed Hitler, the impassive cruelty of Eichmann. We sought answers to how it was possible for the criminal elements, the sadists and the mentally unbalanced to achieve the kind of power that made the mass killings feasible.
That was because we had no idea of the real extent of the horror. With more than 42,000 ghettos and concentration camps scattered throughout the length and breadth of a supposedly civilized continent, there’s no longer any way to avoid the obvious conclusion. The cultured, the educated, the enlightened, the liberal minded, the refined, the sophisticated elitists, the urbane – all of them share in the shame of a world that lost its moral compass and willingly acceded to the victory of evil, the murder of millions of innocents. We just could not get a grasp on the extreme extent to which the devil had done his work.
Allies Did Not Have A Clue
“We had no idea what was happening” needs to be clearly identified as “the great lie” of the years of Nazi power. The harsh truth is that almost everyone had to know. The numbers negate the possibility for collective ignorance. Still the killings did not stop, the torture did not cease, the concentration camps were not closed, the crematoria continued their barbaric task, as the children of that time were bull dozed into obscurity.
The “decent” people were somehow able to rationalize their silence, but isn’t silence consent?
A Small Town Near Auschwitz
Just last year Mary Fulbrook, a distinguished scholar of German history, in the book “A Small Town Near Auschwitz” wrote a richly and painfully detailed examination of those Germans who, after the war, successfully cast themselves in the role of innocent bystanders who played it off that they were completely clueless to what was taking place. An excerpt from that book follows:
“The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers.
The principal civilian administrator of Bedzin, Udo Klausa, was a happily married family man. He was also responsible for implementing Nazi policies towards the Jews in his area - inhumane processes that were the precursors of genocide. Yet he later claimed, like so many other Germans after the war, that he had 'known nothing about it'; and that he had personally tried to save a Jew before he himself managed to leave for military service. A Small Town Near Auschwitz re-creates Udo Klausa's story. Using a wealth of personal letters, memoirs, testimonies, interviews and other sources, Mary Fulbrook pieces together his role in the unfolding stigmatization and degradation of the Jews under his authority lies, as well as the heroic attempts at resistance on the part of some of his victims. She also gives us a fascinating insight into the inner conflicts of a Nazi functionary who, throughout, considered himself a 'decent' man. And she explores the conflicting memories and evasions of his life after the war.
But the book is much more than a portrayal of an individual man. Udo Klausa's case is so important because it is in many ways so typical. Behind Klausa's story is the larger story of how countless local functionaries across the Third Reich facilitated the murderous plans of a relatively small number among the Nazi elite - and of how those plans could never have been realized, on the same scale, without the diligent cooperation of these generally very ordinary administrators. As Fulbrook shows, men like Klausa 'knew' and yet mostly suppressed this knowledge, performing their day jobs without apparent recognition of their own role in the system, or any sense of personal wrongdoing or remorse - either before or after 1945.
This account is no ordinary historical reconstruction. For Fulbrook did not discover Udo Klausa amongst the archives. She has known the Klausa family all her life. She had no inkling of her subject's true role in the Third Reich until a few years ago, a discovery that led directly to this inescapably personal professional history.” This take is a must read for holocaust investigators.
Now the Killing of the Christians
This same devilish entity that existed some 70 years ago is now loose in the Middle East. This insanity of beheadings, shootings, suicide bombings, the killing of masses of innocent Christians, and the bulldozing of the truth only means the world did not learn from history. Those that did not learn are bound to repeat it. Are we headed back to those very dangerous times when the devil was loose? You tell me…..

Liberty Tree

Everyone should visit a holocost museum.

MidnightRider

I did get that the numbers (6 million) was very low.

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

I plan to visit the one in DC before We move back down south this Summer.

TruePatriot49 Loc: The Democratic People's Republic Rhode Island

Both of my parents served in the military during WWII, and one of my uncles was a part of the Army that liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp and they all told me that Germans murdered 6 million Jews and 7 million non Jews. The non Jews consisted of gypsies, criminals, mental patients and everyone who opposed the Third Reich. The Jews were the largest and most vocal group to be exterminated.