Emperor's Clothes Newsletter * 9 January 2007 http://www.tenc.net
Please forward this text or send the link to a friend. You may post this text on the internet as long as you credit TENC and the author(s). http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm <http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm> To subscribe to our free newsletter and receive articles and documents posted on Emperor's Clothes, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll send you a confirmation; please hit 'reply' to finalize your subscription. Our readers make TENC possible. Please donate: http://emperors-clothes.com/donate.html <http://emperors-clothes.com/donate.html> ==================================== Dear readers, Below is the second installment of the TENC article, "The Suppressed History of the Holocaust in Croatia," which we are sending out in four parts. This mailing includes: * I.2 How the US State Department Misuses Washington's Holocaust Museum to Market Holocaust Denial, by Jared Israel. Summary: Evidence is presented that Washington's Holocaust Museum, which is playing a major role in the legitimization of Croatia's Holocaust-denying spin, is a tool of the US foreign policy establishment. The first installment of the article was sent out on 8 January. The rest of the article will be sent out as the next two Newsletter mailings. If you want to read the first installment, or the rest of the article, which includes the unabridged entries on "Croatia" and "Jasenovac" from Yad Vashem's "Encyclopedia of the Holocaust," you can do so using the links in the Table of Contents at the end of this email. Best regards, Samantha Criscione Emperor's Clothes ===================================== "The Suppressed History of the Holocaust in Croatia" - Second installment of 4-part mailing: * I.2 How the US State Department Misuses Washington's Holocaust Museum to Market Holocaust Denial * by Jared Israel Hearing that there is a Holocaust Museum in Washington, I imagine most people would assume it is run by a Jewish Holocaust memorial organization and/or by Holocaust scholars; they would be mistaken. Washington's Holocaust Museum began as a project of Jimmy Carter, whose underlying purpose was, I believe, built into the Museum's organizational structure: it is financed mainly by the US government, and as for its governing board: "The Council consists of 55 Presidential appointees in addition to 10 Congressional representatives and three ex-officio members from the departments of Education, Interior and State." http://tinyurl.com/tbk62 <http://tinyurl.com/tbk62> Aside from the obvious point that fifty-five members of the board are picked by the President and ten are members of Congress - in other words, that this is, by design, a political institution - aside from that, why the State Department? Why should the government agency which formulates, carries out and publicly justifies US foreign policy be given a position from which it can dominate an institution supposedly created to educate ordinary people about the Holocaust? I think the bottom-line purpose of the Museum with its 60 plus million dollars a year funding (2/3 from the federal government - see http://tinyurl.com/yy3els <http://tinyurl.com/yy3els> ), its 400 staff members and its vast media reach - the unstated but very real purpose is to use the Holocaust as a tool of the US foreign policy establishment, most obviously the State Department. If that sounds outrageous, it is, but the evidence for my charge was manifest from the time the Museum opened, on 21 April 1993. Not one single representative of the Serbian people was invited to the much touted opening, but Croatian President Franjo Tudjman was an honored guest. This is the same Franjo Tudjman about whom Time magazine later wrote the following understated comments: [Excerpt from Time magazine starts here] "In his book Wastelands: Historical Truths, published in 1988, Mr. Tudjman wrote that the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust was 900,000 -- not six million. He has also asserted that not more than 70,000 Serbs died at the hands of the Ustashe -- most historians say around 400,000 were killed. [Note from Jared Israel: Samantha Criscione and I have read a couple of hundred newspaper articles which discuss Jasenovac, and have observed that the media's estimate of the number of deaths drops steadily from 800,000, which we found in the New York Times following World War II, until today, when it is commonplace for the media to state that according to never-named "independent researchers," and Washington's Holocaust Museum, 100,000 or fewer were murdered. So, in the mid-1990s, that is, in the middle of this period of numerical decline, Time reports that most historians say 400,000 died.] Under Mr. Tudjman's leadership, Croatia began discriminating against Serbs in 1990 when it adopted a Constitution that declared Croatia "the national state of the Croatian nation." Under the old Constitution, the Serbs had had equal status with the Croats. Then the Government adopted a currency and flag associated with the Ustashe Government, a move that helped drive many moderate Serbs into the arms of the Serbian nationalists." -- "A Would-Be Tito Helps to Dismantle His Legacy," The New York Times, August 20, 1995, Sunday, Late Edition - Final, Franjo Tudjman, Section 1; Page 12; Column 3; Foreign Desk , 946 words, By Raymond Bonner, Zagreb, Croatia, Aug. 18 [Excerpt from Time magazine ends here] As I mentioned, Time is easy on Tudjman, who was in fact the most openly antisemitic of Holocaust deniers. (His book "Wastelands" endorsed the claims that Jews ran the Croatian Ustashe's Jasenovac death camp, that Jewish inmates, supposedly given a free hand by blasé Ustasha guards, slaughtered vast numbers of Serbs and Roma, and that this (imaginary) Jewish violence flowed directly from the violently self-centered nature (according to Tudjman) of Jewish culture. He also supported the blood libel that the Talmud teaches Jews to hate and persecute Gentiles, and on and on. Tudjman's anti-Serb and antisemitic book was hailed by one Mark Weber, writing in the "Journal of Historical Review," the main English language magazine for Holocaust deniers. Weber went into ecstasy, because: "While a few European countries have outlawed Holocaust Revisionism [i.e., Holocaust denial - JI], in Croatia it enjoys support from the highest level." -- "Croatia's Leader Denounced as Holocaust Revisionist; President Tudjman Refuses to Recant," by Mark Weber, The Journal for Historical Review, July / August 1993, Volume 1, number 4, Page 19 Famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal was quoted in the New York Times expressing horror that this arch racist was being invited, as a guest of honor, to the opening of what was, after all, supposedly a Holocaust memorial: "'Tell me who asked Tudjman to come to Washington for the opening of the museum,' Mr. Wiesenthal said." -- "Anger Greets Croatian's Invitation to Holocaust Museum Dedication," The New York Times, April 22, 1993, Thursday, Late Edition - Final Correction Appended, Section A; Page 1; Column 5; National Desk, 912 words, By Diana Jean Schemo, Special to The New York Times, Washington, April 21 In the same article, the Times answered Mr. Wiesenthal: [Excerpt from "Anger Greets Croatian's Invitation to Holocaust Museum" starts here] "Naomi Paiss, the museum's director of communications, said the museum knew about Mr. Tudjman's writings but decided to invite the Croatian President despite them. "'We were advised by the State Department [my emphasis -JI] to invite the Bosnians, the Slovenians and the Croatians,' she said. 'They told us those are the three that should be invited, who were democratically elected. We're well aware of Mr. Tudjman's book and statements, but we're not opening the museum to preach to the choir.'" [Note that from the time the Museum was opened, it was used by the State Department to provide a cover for the most extreme of Holocaust deniers. -- JI] [Excerpt from "Anger Greets Croatian's Invitation to Holocaust Museum" ends here] -- Jared Israel Editor, Emperor's Clothes ["The Suppressed History of the Holocaust in Croatia" continues with the article "Croatia" from Yad Vashem's "Encyclopedia of the Holocaust," which will be sent to you shortly. 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Introductory note by Jared Israel Edited by Samantha Criscione http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm#I <http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm#I> Summary: Why the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust articles on Croatia and Jasenovac are key documents that the US and German (and Croatian) governments and the Vatican kindly request you don't read. * I.1 The Croatian Government's Holocaust-Denying Exhibition at the Jasenovac Death Camp by Jared Israel http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm#I.1 <http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm#I.1> Summary: The media suppresses evidence of Croatian leaders' fascist views, evidence belying their claim to have rejected Croatia's Ustasha past. The Croatian government's newly opened exhibition at the Jasenovac death camp is a fraud; it is tragic that Serbian, Jewish and Roma ('Gypsy') groups have let themselves be used to hide its Holocaust-denying character. * I.2 How the US State Department Misuses Washington's Holocaust Museum to Market Holocaust Denial by Jared Israel http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm#I.2 <http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm#I.2> Summary: Evidence is presented that Washington's Holocaust Museum, which is playing a major role in the legitimization of Croatia's Holocaust-denying spin, is a tool of the US foreign policy establishment. * II. Croatia by Menachem Shelah http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm#II <http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm#II> Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Jerusalem/Tel Aviv, 1990; English translation, New York/London, pp. 323-329. II.1 Serbian Minority II.2 Jews II.2.1 Anti-Jewish legislation II.2.2 Roundup, incarceration and murder II.2.3 German role in deportation and extermination II.2.4 Italian protection II.3 Catholic Church II.4 [Jewish] Communities * III. Jasenovac by Menachem Shelah http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm#III <http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm#III> Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Jerusalem/Tel Aviv, 1990; English translation, New York/London, pp. 739-740. * * * Please forward this text or send the link to a friend. You may post this text on the internet as long as you credit TENC and the author(s). http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm <http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm> To subscribe to our free newsletter and receive articles and documents posted on Emperor's Clothes, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll send you a confirmation; please hit 'reply' to finalize your subscription. Our readers make TENC possible. 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