Raul Hilberg Quotes

The bottom line, as Raul Hilberg put it, was that most people thought that, even if Jews shouldn't be killed, they weren't worth saving.

The railroads, however, were involved not on the fringe of the operation, but were indispensable at its core.

The 20th century merits the name "The Century of Murder." 1915 Turks slaughtered 2 million Armenians. 1933 to 1954 the Soviet government encompassed the death of 20 to 65 million citizens. 1933 to 1945 Nazi Germany murdered more than 25 million people. 1948 Hindus and Muslims engaged in racial and religious strife that claimed more lives than could be reported. 1970 3 million Bangladesh were killed. 1971 Uganda managed the death of 300,000 people. 1975 Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and murdered up to 3 million people. In recent times more than half a million of Rwanda's 6 million people have been murdered. At present times genocidal strife is underway in Bosnia, Somalia, Burundi and elsewhere. The people of the world have demonstrated themselves to be so capable of forgetting the murderous frenzies in which their fellows have participated that it is essential that one, at least, be remembered and the world be regularly reminded of it. _Consequences of the Holocaust

To a Jew this role of the Jewish leaders in the destruction of their own people is undoubtedly the darkest chapter of the whole dark story. It had been known about before, but it has now been exposed for the first time in all its pathetic and sordid detail by Raul Hilberg, whose standard work The Destruction of the European Jews I mentioned before. In the matter of cooperation, there was no distinction between the highly assimilated Jewish communities of Central and Western Europe and the Yiddish-speaking masses of the East. In Amsterdam as in Warsaw, in Berlin as in Budapest, Jewish officials could be trusted to compile the lists of persons and of their property, to secure money from the deportees to defray the expenses of their deportation and extermination, to keep track of vacated apartments, to supply police forces to help seize Jews and get them on trains, until, as a last gesture, they handed over the assets of the Jewish community in good order for final confiscation.

The 20th century merits the name "The Century of Murder." 1915 Turks slaughtered 2 million Armenians. 1933 to 1954 the Soviet government encompassed the death of 20 to 65 million citizens. 1933 to 1945 Nazi Germany murdered more than 25 million people. 1948 Hindus and Muslims engaged in racial and religious strife that claimed more lives than could be reported. 1970 3 million Bangladesh were killed. 1971 Uganda managed the death of 300,000 people. 1975 Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and murdered up to 3 million people. In recent times more than half a million of Rwanda's 6 million people have been murdered. At present times genocidal strife is underway in Bosnia, Somalia, Burundi and elsewhere. The people of the world have demonstrated themselves to be so capable of forgetting the murderous frenzies in which their fellows have participated that it is essential that one, at least, be remembered and the world be regularly reminded of it. _Consequences of the Holocaust by Raul Hilberg

Il est pitoyable que Raul Hilberg, le pape de l’exterminationnisme, ait osé écrire, en 1961, dans la première édition de The Destruction of the European Jews, qu’il avait existé deux ordres de Hitler d’exterminer les juifs, pour ensuite déclarer, à partir de 1983, que cette extermination s’était faite d’ellemême, sans aucun ordre ni plan mais par «une incroyable rencontre des esprits, une transmission de pensée consensuelle » au sein de la vaste bureaucratie allemande. R. Hilberg a ainsi remplacé l’assertion gratuite par l’explication magique (la télépathie).

Je dirai que, d’une certaine manière, Faurisson et d’autres, sans l’avoir voulu, nous ont rendu service. Ils ont soulevé des questions qui ont eu pour effet d’engager les historiens dans de nouvelles recherches. Ils nous ont obligés à rassembler davantage d’informations, à réexaminer les documents et à aller plus loin dans la compréhension de ce qui s’est passé. (propos recueillis par Guy Sitbon in « Les Archives de l’horreur », Le Nouvel Observateur, 3-9 juillet 1982, p. 71 A).