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10 newspapers from 1915-1938 claiming 6 million Jews long before the Holocaust even happened.
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Reports from 10 newspapers from 1915-1938 before the alleged Nazi instigated Holocaust even happened.
Ever wondered where the 6 million figure came from?
This video shows that the figure was imprinted from the early 1900 right through to 1938.
Analysis:
These messages along with some video ‘proofs’ of old newspaper articles claim to suggest that the ‘6 million Jews’ killed in the Holocaust during Second World War were targeted methodically (or even persecuted) years before the war even started. Let us analyze if there’s any grain of truth in the claim.
About The Holocaust
The Holocaust (derived from Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned)) was a genocide conducted by the German Nazi regime, under the command of Adolf Hitler, and its collaborators during the Second World War, in which approximately eleven million people, including six million Jews were killed. The mass murder took place between 1941 and 1945 throughout the German Reich and German-occupied territories.
The Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was anti-Semitic, who considered Jews as an inferior race, and an alien threat to German racial purity and community. The Nuremberg Laws (Anti-Semitic legislation) deprived Jews of civil rights, barred them from professions and also prohibited intermarriage with Jews. Most of the Jews were forced to leave the country. During the Holocaust, millions of Jews were targeted and methodically murdered. Under Nazi rule, even Communists were let down and killed in concentration camps.
Before World War II
It is to be noted that the Anti-Semitism in Europe did not start with Adolf Hitler; the term itself dates back to 1870s. Also, the hostility toward Jews is evident long before the Holocaust – and goes as far back as the ancient world. During the Nazi rule in Germany (before WWII), Jews were consistently persecuted, before Hitler’s “final solution” – now known as the Holocaust – came to fruition under the cover of world war.
Quotes from Old Newspapers
Listed below are the 10 quotes of old newspaper articles from the video suggesting the Holocaust (mass murder of 6 million Jews) during Second World War was planned many years before:
1. The Sun (New York), June 06, 1915, (Page 1 of Fifth Section)
Horrors Worse Than Kishineff
Charged Against Russia To-day
Six million Jews, one-half of the Jewish people throughout world, are being persecuted, hounded, humiliated, tortured, starved. Thousands of them have been slaughtered. Hundreds of thousands of Jews, old men, women and children are being driven mercilessly from town to town — driven by the Government, attacked by the troops of their own country, plundered and outraged.
2. The New York Times October 18, 1918 (Page 12)
$1,000,000,000 Fund To Rebuild Jewry
Six Million Souls Will Need Help to Resume Normal Life When War Is Ended.
3. The New York Times September 8, 1919 (Page 6)
Ukrainian Jews Aim To Stop Pograms
Commission to Visit Europe and Prepare a Memorandum for President Wilson.
Mass Meeting Hears That 127,000 Jews Have Been Killed and 6,000,000 Are in Peril.
This fact that the population of 6,000,000 souls in Ukrainia and in Poland have received notice through action and by word that they are going to be completely exterminated–this fact stands before the whole world as the paramount issue of present day.
4. The New York Times November 12, 1919 (Page 7)
Tells Sad Plight Of Jews
Feliz M. Warburg Says They Were the Worst Sufferers in War.
“The successive blows of contending armies have all but broken the back of European Jewry,” he said, “and have reduced to tragically unbelievable poverty, starvation and disease about 6,000,000 souls, or half the Jewish population of the earth…
5. Atlanta Constitution February 23, 1920 (Frontpage, Continued on Page 3, Column 4)
$50,000 Raised In City To Save Suffering Jews
He called upon the Atlanta Jews to arise to the occasion, and to contribute to the emergency fund in order that the lives of six millions of Jewish people may be saved…
Dr. Marz made an eloquent plea for generous responses to the call of the representatives of the Jewish relief fund. He drew a graphic picture of the starvation and suffering of the 6,000,000 Jews who live in Eastern Europe and Palestine and reviewed the persecution they have undergone, but for almost a century.
6. The New York Times May 7, 1920 (Page 11)
Jewish War Aid Gets $100,000 Gift
The fund for Jewish War sufferers in Central and Eastern Europe, where six millions face horrifying conditions of famine, disease and death, was enriched yesterday by a contribution of $100,000 from Nathan Straus.
7. The New York Times July 20, 1921 (Page 2)
Begs America Save $6,000,000 In Russia
Massacre Threatens All Jews as Soviet Power Wanes, Declares Kreinin, Coming Here for Aid.
Russia’s $6,000,000 Jews are facing extermination by massacre. As the famine is spreading, the counter-revolutionary movement is gaining and the Soviet’s control is waning.
8. The Gazette (Montreal) December 29, 1931 (Page 6)
Six Million Jews Face Starvation
Bad Conditions in South-Eastern Europe Reported by Rabbi Wise
Fears Crisis At Hand
Six million Jews in Eastern Europe face starvation, and even worse, during the coming winter. If additional funds are not collected by the American Joint Distribution Committee to meet and estimated budget of $2,500,000 unprecedented havoc and misery will rule to the everlasting shame of humanity at large, Rabbi Jonah Wise, of New York, chairman for 1931, told a large gathering of leaders in Montreal Jewish communal life…
9. The New York Times May 31, 1936 (Page 14)
Americans Appeal For Jewish Refuge
Pro-Palestine Federation Asks Britain to Take a Strong Course in Holy Land.
The petition, in expressing the opinion of enlightened Christian leadership in the United States, favoring a larger Jewish immigration into Palestine, stressed the intolerable sufferings of the millions of Jews in “the European holocaust.”
10. The New York Times February 23, 1938 (Page 23)
Jewish Teachers Childed By Isaacs
Borough Head Tells Sectarian Group He Sees No Reason for Its Existence
“Jewish Tragedy” Pictured
A depressing picture of 6,000,000 Jews in Central Europe deprived of protection or economic opportunities, slowly dying of starvation, all hope gone, was presented to the teachers by Jacob Tarshis, known to his radio audience as The Lamplighter.
Inferences
As you can read through all the quoted articles in the video, nowhere it is mentioned that ‘6 million Jews’ were targeted – to be killed – as a part of any mass murder program (Holocaust).
It is repeatedly mentioned that six million Jews (as a section of vulnerable Jewish population) were ill-treated and were in danger.
The six million Jews in danger, also for the economic crisis and famine reasons, needed help, including relief funds.
In the video, it is said that the term Holocaust appeared in The New York Times newspaper article on May 31, 1936 – years before it actually happened during World War II. However, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word Holocaust has been used in English since the 18th century, and the earliest attested such usage dates from 1671.
To Conclude
The Holocaust, a genocide that took lives of about 11 million people, including six million Jews, did happen during Second World War, and there is no evidence it was planned years before the Nazi rule in Germany. The ‘6 million Jews’ quoted in the old newspapers, most probably, is for political reasons, also for the grant of relief funds and aid to rehabilitate Jews overseas.
Hoax or Fact:
Hoax.
