Rare book served as the nazi blueprint for Canadian Jewish holocaust

Gaon · January 24, 2019, 06:09:55 PM

OTTAWA — Canada's national archive has acquired a rare book it believes could have served as a blueprint for a Nazi purge of Jews in North America.

Once part of Adolf Hitler's personal library, the 1944 volume reports on the Jewish population of various cities as well as key organizations and newspapers serving Canadian and American Jewish communities.

The 137-page German-language book, Statistics, Media, and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada, was compiled by researcher Heinz Kloss, who did field work in the U.S. in the late 1930s.

The research was carried out for the Nazi regime and hints at what might have happened in North America if the Allies had lost the Second World War, Library and Archives Canada says.

The book lists general population figures, as well as the number of Jews, in dozens of Canadian cities large and small, from Vancouver to Glace Bay, N.S. It also details ethnic backgrounds and the languages people spoke.

"This information would have been the building blocks to rolling out the Final Solution in Canada, allowing perpetrators of the Holocaust to know what cities to go to to find Jewish people and how many Jews to round up," said Michael Kent, a curator at Library and Archives Canada.

Given the horrors that transpired in Europe, targets would also likely have included any racial minority, gays and lesbians, Indigenous Peoples and others considered problematic in Nazi eyes, Kent told a news conference Wednesday.

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Bricktop · January 24, 2019, 06:39:23 PM

This is interesting;

"While the book is "certainly a creepy item," the decision to buy it was a simple one, Kent said. Preserving the memory of the Holocaust was more of a concern than "the possibility that someone might think we're glorifying Hitler through this acquisition."

Preserving the memory of the holocaust would seem to verge on obsession by some.

It's time to let it go in terms of defining what it is to be Jewish and justifying the Jewish cultural priority of "never again".

You can bang a gong only for so long before it converts from a warning message to an irritation.

Anonymous · January 24, 2019, 07:06:49 PM

It's not just the West that can't let go of the second world war. Some Asian countries have a hate so intense for Japan it's as if the war and occupation haven't ended.

Bricktop · January 24, 2019, 07:25:22 PM

Yes, true.

The Singaporean war museum is not exactly kindly disposed to Japanese memorabilia...

Anonymous · January 24, 2019, 08:23:36 PM

~~Quote from: "Bricktop"~~Yes, true.

The Singaporean war museum is not exactly kindly disposed to Japanese memorabilia...

Chinese media still has daily anti Japanese war propaganda .

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