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Old June 18th, 2016 #1
Karl Radl
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Default Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #12: German Soldiers using Jewish Children for Clay Pigeon Shooting

Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #12: German Soldiers using Jewish Children for Clay Pigeon Shooting


In yet another instance of absurd claims made about the Germans in World War II. I quote an assertion of Soviet origin about an SS Obersturmfuhrer named Wilhaus using jewish children as targets for clay pigeon shooting at the Yanov (aka Janowska) concentration camp in south-western Poland.

This is reproduced from the wildly popular history of 'Nazi atrocities' named 'The Scourge of the Swastika' authored by Edward Russell (aka Lord Russell of Liverpool) who was a key figure in the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crime Trials.

I quote:

'Wilhaus, from the balcony of his office, frequently shot prisoners walking across the parade group, partly for the sport of it and partly to amuse his wife and daughters. Occasionally he would hand the rifle to his wife so that she could have a shot. To entertain his nine-year-old daughter he sometimes used very young children for 'clay pigeon' practice, having thrown them up in the air so that he could take pot shots at them. His daughter would applaud and say, 'Papa, do it again', Papa did.' (1)

That this is obvious propagandistic nonsense, and was probably used as the model for some of the more famous scenes for the film 'Schindler's List', I don't see even the need to elaborate on.

Also one wonders where exactly this weird allegation came from?

The answer is just one 'eye witness' named Manusevitch that the Soviet special commission 'investigating' the Yanov camp in 1944 – Russell's source via the medium of the Nuremberg Trials – ferreted out and used as black propaganda against the Germans who the Soviet Union was still at war with at the time of original publication. (2)

One wonders why the highly efficient Germans would have left an 'eye witness' to their 'brutal murders' alive during their liquidation of the camp in November 1943?

The answer is that they wouldn't and even if they did: Manusevitch's claims are unsupported hearsay and it is rather unlikely the Germans would have committed the crimes described. This is especially so because the German economy had been placed on a total war footing in late 1942/early 1943. Henceforth all labourers of whatever origin were of significant value to the Reich's war effort and randomly shooting them as they went about their daily tasks would have been an ipso facto crime against the German war effort.

Why on earth would the Germans be engaging in the random murder of (jewish) children from a balcony as a kind of blood sport?


References


(1) Edward Russell, 1972, [1956], 'The Scourge of the Swastika', 14th Edition, Corgi: London, p. 123
(2) Ibid, p. 123, n. 1

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