Ed-note (Sabba) – The Empire strikes back: too many Gentiles have woken up to the the Truth, even more Gentiles are waking up to it and so this can be seen as the latest counter attack of the chosenites to prevent any further hemorrhage. This is a desperate counter offensive against this tsunami of Truthers who, once they understand WWII, will not fail to go back in time and look into WWI and the Bolshevik takeover of Christian Russia, who will then look into the Present and never see the world the same again.
The danger is that once they can no longer protect and rescue their narrative of WWII, once no one believes in it, what will they then do? Will they let it rest in the hope that our Christlamic ethics of ‘forgive and forget’ will work its magic? Will they claim insanity? Or will they try and find a new and more horrendous story to replace the holocaust? And in that case, what will they be willing to do, how far will they go to find such a replacement story?
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – When the German film “Labyrinth of Lies” opens, Hitler’s Third Reich was defeated only 13 years earlier. Germany is rising from the ruins, but in 1958 its people are largely in a state of forgetfulness and denial about the recent past.
Ask the man in the street about millions of Jews exterminated in SS concentration camps and he’ll tell you that’s “Greuelpropaganda,” horror propaganda, invented by the enemy.
Auschwitz? What’s that?
What about the Nuremberg Trials of war criminals? Well, that’s just the winners judging the losers, as after every war.
Today — when the German government and people have accepted full responsibility for the murder of 6 million Jews — it’s hard to fathom the German mindset in the immediate postwar years.
The first chink in the wall of denial was the so-called Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials, from 1963 to 1965, in which the German government prosecuted 22 people who helped run the death camp. “Labyrinth of Lies,” though fictionalized, explores how the trial — which triggered a gradual transformation of the German mindset — came to be.
“I thought the story was incredible and I couldn’t believe that many Germans in the late 1950s had never heard of Auschwitz,” the film’s director, Giulio Ricciarelli, said in an interview. “But actually, after the end of World War II, there was an attempt to silence the dark past.”
Originally and more aptly titled “Labyrinth of Silence,” the film illustrates Germany’s transformation over the last half-century. The film, which was written and performed by German artists, was selected as the country’s official Academy Awards entry in the foreign-language film competition.
“Labyrinth of Lies” explores a favorite cinematic theme: the young idealist going up against an entrenched bureaucratic power structure.
The stubborn truth-seeker here is the young German lawyer Johann Radmann — a composite of three of the real-life prosecutors in the trials — who has just been hired as a junior prosecutor by the attorney general for the German state of Hesse. He is played by Alexander Fehling, best known in the United States as Wehrmacht soldier Sgt. Wilhelm in “Inglourious Basterds.”
In the film, Radmann quickly tires of dealing with traffic offenses. He perks up when an investigative journalist tells him that a former SS concentration camp guard now works as a gym teacher in a local high school.
Such an appointment is against the law, but nobody wants to bother checking out the case. Radmann’s immediate superior, Prosecutor General Fritz Bauer (a real person who eventually plays a key role in the trials, played by Gert Voss), wearily explains that the statue of limitations prevents the prosecution of anyone except those personally convicted of actual murder during the Hitler era.
As a Jew and a socialist, Bauer himself spent some months in a concentration camp when the Nazis came to power, then went abroad and returned after the war. He tells his naive young colleague that the entire German civil service is replete with former ardent Nazis, but it would be an impossible job to bring them to justice.
However, Radmann keeps digging for bigger game than the teacher. In an especially emotional scene, he meets a Jewish survivor whose twin daughters died during one of Dr. Josef Mengele’s “experiments.” The survivor possesses an official list with the names of all the SS guards who served in Auschwitz, but doesn’t want to reopen old wounds by testifying.
Radmann visits the U.S. Army Documentation Center in Wiesbaden, where the American major in charge points to a jumble of files on 600,000 Nazi suspects — including 8,000 who worked in Auschwitz — and invites Radmann to peruse them at his leisure.
Radmann gets no help from the German authorities. He is told that every suspect insists that he had no choice but to follow orders and, in any case, does Radmann really want every young man in Germany to wonder whether his father was a murderer?
While battling indifference everywhere he turns, Radmann discovers to his horror that his own beloved father was also a member of the Nazi Party. Radmann starts drinking and slowly falls apart. He takes to accosting pedestrians on the street, demanding to know whether they had been Nazis.
In the end, though, he buckles down and, after five years of preparation, the trial of 22 SS officers who helped run Auschwitz begins in Frankfurt in late 1963. Two years and 183 court sessions later, German judges sentenced six of the accused to life in prison and 13 to sentences ranging from three to 14 years. Three were acquitted.
Ricciarelli 50, is the son of an Italian father and a German mother. Growing up in Germany, he first saw photos of the Holocaust when he was 8 and “was destroyed,” he said.
“I still cannot understand how ‘normal people,’ who prided themselves in living in ‘the land of poets and thinkers,’ could do such things,” the director said.
The SS men of Auschwitz were brought to trial mainly through tedious paperwork — an activity that’s challenging to dramatize on film. To quicken its pace, Ricciarelli lightens the mood somewhat by introducing a love story between Radmann and a feisty young woman.
Ricciarelli shows considerable sensitivity in portraying the victims of the Holocaust, though some Jewish viewers may wince when the very gentile Radmann fulfills a promise by reciting the Kaddish prayer for mourners, in Hebrew, on the grounds of Auschwitz.
The well-acted film is intriguing as one man’s battle for the truth. It resonates with particular importance for postwar generations, which must reckon with the Nazi era and its immediate aftermath from a distance of 70 years.
“Labyrinth of Lies” is showing in New York and Los Angeles; a national rollout follows.
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We’ve a new ‘Art Haus’ in Billings, MT, for films i’ll see if they will show it???
So why even report on this garbage? Certainly no Truther will watch the worn out parade of lies this film projects.
If it’s true that the Germans have accepted full responsibility for the “murder of 6 million Jews” as the Jew claims, it’s only because they don’t want to be sent to jail like so many others, including Sylvia Stolz, the lawyer who is in jail right now for making a very informative speech about the lies.
“I thought the story was incredible and I couldn’t believe that many Germans in the late 1950s had never heard of Auschwitz,” the film’s director, Giulio Ricciarelli, said in an interview. “But actually, after the end of World War II, there was an attempt to silence the dark past.”
I think that says it all right there. They hadn’t heard of Auschwitz because very few Germans ever saw the place and no one told them about it. Then when all the movies and propaganda came out, telling them about it, they heard about it. So the proof that “everybody knew what was going on,” as the Jews used to write is true, but only after the war was over when they were told about it.
“Auschwitz? What’s that?” That is exactly right. No one heard of the place because it was an insignificant work camp. And what was Adolf Hitler’s, the supposed mastermind behind the murder of “six million Jew$” reaction when discussing the situation at the front and Guderian casually mentioned that Auschwitz had been overrun by the Russians – he said “oh,” and they immediately moved onto discussing something else. This was supposedly the center of all the killing, 4 million supposedly murdered, until after 45 years that number was shown to be a lie and they dropped it to 1 million. The mastermind behind this evil plan was just informed the most important center of Germany’s war machine was overrun, the place that Jews said Germany would sacrifice sending vital assets to the front and risk losing a battle so they could kill more Jews. And when the mastermind behind the plan was told his most important asset was overrun, he said “oh.” Not, “I hope they managed to cover up what we were doing” or anything else – just “oh” because that was how important it was, completely unimportant in which little to nothing ever happened as evidenced by the lie that exploded in the early 1990’s when they dropped the number of victims by 3 million people, with no evidence to support the claim that the remaining one million were murdered either.
When I, like everyone else was bombarded with the holocaust story in class beginning in the early 1970’s I felt numb throughout my body, sunk down in my seat, didn’t say a word until finally one day I spoke to my Jewish teacher. I went home and asked my mother who was 18 when the war ended, what she saw. She saw the same thing as everyone else – nothing remotely related to what they were talking about. She didn’t live near a “concentration camp” and even those that did wouldn’t have seen anything. But the Jews were telling everyone that all the Germans, from five year old children to eighty year old men were complicit in their holohoax. It took me a long time to realize the extent of their lying and how unlike most people, they can lie without any sense of guilt. Those are the best liars, the most convincing ones.
Thank you Sabba for the wonderful introduction.
” Not until the Allied Propaganda of WW 2 is in the history books, can we say their is victory”.
Jew columnist ,and Presidential ” advisor”; Walter Lippmann in 1946.
Modern Zionist Occupied Germany must protect these lies ,through hard core Orwellian laws against freedom of speech.
The total nonsense taught generally about WW 2, and portrayed in the Jewish Media brain washes millions into Jewish ” Group think”.
Everything about the history ,and politics is bounced off of ” fighting another Hitler” .
WW 2 was for,and by the Jews.
The Axis powers led by Europe’s Germany,and Asias Japan has where declared war upon by International Jewish Finance….period.
” The Jews won WW2″. Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy, to Dewest Hooker .
Study their demands , machinations, Propaganda,influence, and conduct running the Allied war effort, and you will learn all you need to about the Jews.
Breaking the lies about Axis motives,and conduct in that war ,they did not begin, need,or want,is the key to defeating the Jews.
Debunking the ” 666 ” million is the other foundation .
Just like finding water on Mars ( the well read always new) , having the courage to speak out mainstream about Hitler, Germany, WW 2 ,with honest, informed fearless discussion is key to breaking Jewish power.
See The Great Tomato Bubble, You Tube
David Irving Action Report .Com.
The Greatest Story Never Told.Com.
Education of the truth of this era, opens up new vistas of understanding on everything !
Yes, seeing images of emaciated dead bodies is traumatic; it’s the initial trauma that allows the further mental manipulation: these people were intentionally killed, with poisonous gas, and the number of deaths was at least 6 million. There are people who, right now, believe Bergen-Belsen was a death camp, when the allies themselves said it was a concentration camp where no systemic homicides took place. Then you have these bodies, real bodies mind you, being use to push even the most absurd stories that Elie Weasel’s Night or that woman and her shit diamonds. The fact they are going to trot out these old ponies against to keep a lid on holocaust research and otherwise silence any dissent from the mainstream narrative is sickening.
No mentioning of Gas Chambers.
One of the most important aspects of the Report of the ICRC is that it clarifies the true causes of those deaths that undoubtedly occurred in the camps towards the end of the War. Says the Report. ”In the chaotic condition of Germany after the invasion during the final months of the War, the camps received no food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increased number of victims.
In dealing with this comprehensive, three-volume Report, it is important to stress that that the delegates of the International Red Cross found no evidence whatsoever of ‘gas chambers.’ The original 1946 edition did not even talk of ‘extermination ‘or death camps’ but after the emotional impact of the Nuremberg trials the Red Cross felt compelled to introduce into the expanded 1948 Report several, very cursory references to ‘death camps’ ‘extermination camp’ ( Vol. Ip.646 )
However, no means of ‘extermination’ is indicated. In all its 1,600 pages the three-volume Report does not even mention a thing as a ‘gas chamber’. It acknowledges that Jews, like many other wartime nationalities, suffered rigours and privations, but’ its complete silence on the subject of ‘gassing’ is ample refutation of the “Holocaust’ legend.
The death books consist of 46 volumes which document each death at Auschwitz ( each death certificate consists of the deceased person’s full name, profession and religion, date and place of birth, pre-Auschwitz residence, parents’ names, time of death, and cause of death as determined by a cam physician.
The Auschwitz death books contain the death certificates of some 69,000 individuals, of whom 30,000 were listed as Jews. Ever- Diminishing Official Numbers of Auschwitz Dead.
How may I obtain this GREAT film? I have no paypal, and willnot use my credit card online. HELP!
We’ve a new ‘Art Haus’ in Billings, MT, for films i’ll see if they will show it???
So why even report on this garbage? Certainly no Truther will watch the worn out parade of lies this film projects.
If it’s true that the Germans have accepted full responsibility for the “murder of 6 million Jews” as the Jew claims, it’s only because they don’t want to be sent to jail like so many others, including Sylvia Stolz, the lawyer who is in jail right now for making a very informative speech about the lies.
“I thought the story was incredible and I couldn’t believe that many Germans in the late 1950s had never heard of Auschwitz,” the film’s director, Giulio Ricciarelli, said in an interview. “But actually, after the end of World War II, there was an attempt to silence the dark past.”
I think that says it all right there. They hadn’t heard of Auschwitz because very few Germans ever saw the place and no one told them about it. Then when all the movies and propaganda came out, telling them about it, they heard about it. So the proof that “everybody knew what was going on,” as the Jews used to write is true, but only after the war was over when they were told about it.
“Auschwitz? What’s that?” That is exactly right. No one heard of the place because it was an insignificant work camp. And what was Adolf Hitler’s, the supposed mastermind behind the murder of “six million Jew$” reaction when discussing the situation at the front and Guderian casually mentioned that Auschwitz had been overrun by the Russians – he said “oh,” and they immediately moved onto discussing something else. This was supposedly the center of all the killing, 4 million supposedly murdered, until after 45 years that number was shown to be a lie and they dropped it to 1 million. The mastermind behind this evil plan was just informed the most important center of Germany’s war machine was overrun, the place that Jews said Germany would sacrifice sending vital assets to the front and risk losing a battle so they could kill more Jews. And when the mastermind behind the plan was told his most important asset was overrun, he said “oh.” Not, “I hope they managed to cover up what we were doing” or anything else – just “oh” because that was how important it was, completely unimportant in which little to nothing ever happened as evidenced by the lie that exploded in the early 1990’s when they dropped the number of victims by 3 million people, with no evidence to support the claim that the remaining one million were murdered either.
When I, like everyone else was bombarded with the holocaust story in class beginning in the early 1970’s I felt numb throughout my body, sunk down in my seat, didn’t say a word until finally one day I spoke to my Jewish teacher. I went home and asked my mother who was 18 when the war ended, what she saw. She saw the same thing as everyone else – nothing remotely related to what they were talking about. She didn’t live near a “concentration camp” and even those that did wouldn’t have seen anything. But the Jews were telling everyone that all the Germans, from five year old children to eighty year old men were complicit in their holohoax. It took me a long time to realize the extent of their lying and how unlike most people, they can lie without any sense of guilt. Those are the best liars, the most convincing ones.
Thank you Sabba for the wonderful introduction.
” Not until the Allied Propaganda of WW 2 is in the history books, can we say their is victory”.
Jew columnist ,and Presidential ” advisor”; Walter Lippmann in 1946.
Modern Zionist Occupied Germany must protect these lies ,through hard core Orwellian laws against freedom of speech.
The total nonsense taught generally about WW 2, and portrayed in the Jewish Media brain washes millions into Jewish ” Group think”.
Everything about the history ,and politics is bounced off of ” fighting another Hitler” .
WW 2 was for,and by the Jews.
The Axis powers led by Europe’s Germany,and Asias Japan has where declared war upon by International Jewish Finance….period.
” The Jews won WW2″. Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy, to Dewest Hooker .
Study their demands , machinations, Propaganda,influence, and conduct running the Allied war effort, and you will learn all you need to about the Jews.
Breaking the lies about Axis motives,and conduct in that war ,they did not begin, need,or want,is the key to defeating the Jews.
Debunking the ” 666 ” million is the other foundation .
Just like finding water on Mars ( the well read always new) , having the courage to speak out mainstream about Hitler, Germany, WW 2 ,with honest, informed fearless discussion is key to breaking Jewish power.
See The Great Tomato Bubble, You Tube
David Irving Action Report .Com.
The Greatest Story Never Told.Com.
Education of the truth of this era, opens up new vistas of understanding on everything !
Yes, seeing images of emaciated dead bodies is traumatic; it’s the initial trauma that allows the further mental manipulation: these people were intentionally killed, with poisonous gas, and the number of deaths was at least 6 million. There are people who, right now, believe Bergen-Belsen was a death camp, when the allies themselves said it was a concentration camp where no systemic homicides took place. Then you have these bodies, real bodies mind you, being use to push even the most absurd stories that Elie Weasel’s Night or that woman and her shit diamonds. The fact they are going to trot out these old ponies against to keep a lid on holocaust research and otherwise silence any dissent from the mainstream narrative is sickening.
No mentioning of Gas Chambers.
One of the most important aspects of the Report of the ICRC is that it clarifies the true causes of those deaths that undoubtedly occurred in the camps towards the end of the War. Says the Report. ”In the chaotic condition of Germany after the invasion during the final months of the War, the camps received no food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increased number of victims.
In dealing with this comprehensive, three-volume Report, it is important to stress that that the delegates of the International Red Cross found no evidence whatsoever of ‘gas chambers.’ The original 1946 edition did not even talk of ‘extermination ‘or death camps’ but after the emotional impact of the Nuremberg trials the Red Cross felt compelled to introduce into the expanded 1948 Report several, very cursory references to ‘death camps’ ‘extermination camp’ ( Vol. Ip.646 )
However, no means of ‘extermination’ is indicated. In all its 1,600 pages the three-volume Report does not even mention a thing as a ‘gas chamber’. It acknowledges that Jews, like many other wartime nationalities, suffered rigours and privations, but’ its complete silence on the subject of ‘gassing’ is ample refutation of the “Holocaust’ legend.
The death books consist of 46 volumes which document each death at Auschwitz ( each death certificate consists of the deceased person’s full name, profession and religion, date and place of birth, pre-Auschwitz residence, parents’ names, time of death, and cause of death as determined by a cam physician.
The Auschwitz death books contain the death certificates of some 69,000 individuals, of whom 30,000 were listed as Jews. Ever- Diminishing Official Numbers of Auschwitz Dead.
How may I obtain this GREAT film? I have no paypal, and willnot use my credit card online. HELP!