- One of the more inspired socially progressive ideas advanced
to foster good relations between blacks and Jews was celebrating on film
the liberation of a concentration camp by a black tank battalion, the 761st,
during the fading days of World War II.
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- The film was titled Liberators, and originally seen on
Nov 9, 1992. Reverend Jesse Jackson was so taken by the film he wanted
to give a copy to President-elect Clinton. Mr. Jackson was the driving
force behind the screening of the film at the Apollo Theater in Harlem
on December 17.
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- Prior to the screening Jack Newfield, an old line liberal
Jew on the New York Post, wrote that he had seen the film twice.
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- Mr. Newfield lamented the fact that because black troops
were in segregated units in General George Patton's Third Army no reporters
witnessed their tanks breaking down the gates of the death camp.
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- What really offended Mr. Newfield was this gallantry
was not even mentioned in the Hollywood film on Patton's life.
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- Jewish Psychology Applied To Joe Lewis
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- Liberators" showed Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling
which to Mr. Newfield suggested that Hitler's theories of Aryan supremacy
had also taken a pounding. [i] Sportswriter Paul Gallico, when writing
before World War II broke out, remembered Max as perhaps the most sportsmanlike
and decent prizefighter he had known.[ii]
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- Max Schmeling - Paratrooper
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- When real war did start, Mr. Schmeling was a serving
German paratrooper and was severely wounded when he jumped into Crete.
"
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- Mr. Louis in the segregated American army was a non-combatant.
Like so many Americans Mr. Newfield was only too eager to think sports
were war.
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- Blacks And Jews Unite
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- When the film was screened, the audience of 1200 blacks
and Jews came to tears. This extravaganza featured a kosher and soul food
banquet afterwards. Many platitudes were exchanged. The film was shown
on public television the same night.[iii] This public showing prompted
Mr. Newfield to call the night a "spiritual catharsis" for blacks
and Jews.[iv]
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- What Was Missing From The Film Was The Truth
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- The screening had been sponsored by Time-Warner and some
rich and influential New Yorkers who had hoped the film would be an important
tool in rebuilding a black-Jewish alliance. The veracity of the film did
not concern those who made it.
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- A Veteran Says: "The Jews faked the film."
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- One black man, Mr. E.G. McConnell, had cooperated with
the filmmakers until he came to believe they were faking material. Mr.
McConnell admitted he first went to Buchenwald in 1991, not with the 761st
Tank Battalion.
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- For this admission Mr. McConnell was labeled brain damaged
from a wound by Nina Rosenblum, who coproduced the film.[v] Mr. McConnell
had his invitation to the showing of the film at the Apollo withdrawn.[vi]
Blacks who were approached to authenticate the film almost to a man decried
the film as bogus.
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- Ms. Rosenblum had taken pains to describe critics of
the film as racists who would write blacks out of history. Ever the sanctimonious
righteous Jew, she further insisted that because of military prejudice
against Jews and blacks, she did not consult military historians as their
testimony would not be reliable.[vii]
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- Nina Rosenblum
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- Obviously, Ms. Rosenblum like so many of her brethren
in New York City had never doubted that truth and moral rectitude were
forever to be hers. The co-host at the screening at the Apollo, Ms. Peggy
Tishman, stated the accuracy of "Liberators" was of no concern
to her.
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- Jews Sought Dialogue With Blacks
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- The real need was for a dialogue between blacks and Jews.
She dismissed the need for honesty in this picture: "There are a lot
of truths that are very necessary. This is not a truth that's necessary".
These arrogant sentiments have been taken as a given by Jews who have dominated
American popular culture. They and their lies are not to be challenged
unless one is willing to be labeled a racist and anti-Semite. They have
succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Their dishonesty and cowardice have
diffused through the entire culture.
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- The Camp Was Liberated By 42nd - ' Rainbow Division'
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- When concentration camps were taken by advancing Allied
forces, very few shots were fired as most Germans had long left knowing
that if they were caught, they most likely would be shot out of hand.[viii]
[ix] By February the tempest had grown so heated about the veracity and
intent of the film that Public Television had withdrawn it from the airwaves
pending an investigation into its accuracy. Over six months later the inquiry
by Public Television could find no evidence that blacks had "liberated"
the camps.
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- The 761st Wasn't Even NEAR Dachau
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- The 761st was 50 to 55 miles southwest of Buchenwald
on April 11, 1945 when that camp was officially entered, and over the next
two days moved farther away. On April 29, 1945 when Dachau was declared
liberated, the 761st Tank Battalion was 70 miles away.[x]
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- The press secretary to David Dinkins, the black mayor
of New York, still maintained that blacks had played an important part
in the liberation of the concentration camps.
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- Holocaust Survivor Verifies Accounts
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- The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Elie Wiesel had
said he had been freed at Buchenwald by black GIs.[xi] The documentary
had been nominated for an Academy Award.
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- This prolonged dishonesty provoked from Mr. McConnell
an anguished letter where he expressed gratitude that his objections to
the truthfulness of the film had been examined and vindicated. Mr. McConnell
expressed concern that the thoughtless mendacity of the film would detract
from what he considered the honorable truth about his unit's service.
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- "Black Panthers" Unit Would Be Blamed For Jew's
Dishonesty
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- Sadly, he concluded that his proud unit, the "Black
Panthers", would be tarred as the ones who lied rather than the producers.
The national media had focused on the "liberation" lies while
neglecting the true heroism of the 761st Tank Battalion. His unit had served
183 days in the line while in George Patton's Third Army and suffered 50
percent casualties.
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- Mr. McConnell had been wounded in France.[xii]
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- A Jewish Woman Who Sees Herself As An 'Arbiter of Justice'
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- What would seem obvious later was that honest decent
blacks such as Mr. McConnell had little need for "friends" such
as Ms. Rosenblum whose true agenda has not been to reveal truth, but to
portray herself as the arbiter of justice, the Jewess in all her God given
majesty.
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- In 1992, she was nominated for an Oscar for the documentary
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II and in 1994 she won
an Emmy for The Untold West: The Black West.
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- [i]. New York Post, p2, Dec 1, 1992
- [ii]. Paul Gallico, Farewell to Sport, p279 (Knopf, 1941)
- [iii]. NYT, p25, Dec 19, 1992
- [iv]. New York Post, p5, Dec 23, 1992
- [v]. New Republic, p13-4, Feb 8, 1993
- [vi]. New York Post, p20, Feb 8, 1993
- [vii]. Tikkun, p56, May/June 1993
- [viii]. New York Post, p18, Jan 6, 1993
- [ix]. NYT, pA28, Apr 20, 1993
- [x]. NYT, pB1, Sep 8, 1993
- [xi]. New York Post, p3, Sep 8, 1993
- [xii]. New York Post, p22, Sep 21, 1993
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- Comment
- William Borgstrom
- 8-8-5
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- Jeff,
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- As I was scanning your site for some Skolnick info, I
chanced upon the article about "Blacks liberating Dachau concentration
camp. Fascinating. The depth of bs just deepens as I ungracefully age.
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- The camps were liberated by Americans and British, especially
Dachau. The Brits went in with their cameras rolling and filmed what they
saw. No audience in the 40's could have stood the shock of that brand of
reality.
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- Film was kept on ice for nearly 50 years. It was released
around 1992-4. My daughter heard an announcement on Public TV in Marion,
Michigan one Thursday around 2:00 in the afternoon that they were going
to show this film. The only VHS tape she could tape over was one of her
husband's bowling tournaments. She slammed the tape in in time to catch
the whole thing just as it started.
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- It was called, "Memory of the Camps" and
I can't describe the horror of seeing that many rotted corpses. It claims
over 30,000 were on the ground unburied.
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- I have never heard another word about this film. I personally
have only shown the film to a few. I meet very few people who are astute
enough to see, comprehend, and appreciate this kind of information. I am
looking into having this VHS tranferred to DVD. Don't know that it is possible,
but I think it can be done.
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- I will only mention in passing that I don't remember
anything other than white, British faces as Dachau is being filmed.
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- Very sincerely,
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- William Borgstrom
- Mobile, Alabama
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