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The US State Department reportedly tried to verify Riegner's telegram with
the Vatican and the Red Cross, but both said they knew of mistreatment and
deportations of Jews, but not of a mass extermination plan. It was one of the
Nazi's most closely guarded secrets. Now consider this; the warning was
issued just short of sixty years ago. That comprises the lifetime of many
still living, including myself. It didn't occur two or three hundred years
ago. It was a mere lifetime ago.
The final tally of the final solution was closer to six million before the
Nazis were through and to that you can add the lives of five million Gypsies,
homosexuals, labor unionists, priests, nuns, and just about anyone that
resisted the evil of Nazism. A mere lifetime ago.
The United States was warned in 1979 when Islamic radicals took over Iran and
took our diplomats hostage for 444 days. It was warned in 1983 when the US
Marine barracks were destroyed in Beirut by a Muslim suicide bomber. It was
warned in 1993 with the first attack on the World Trade Center. It was warned
in 1996 when a barracks for US military personnel was bombed in Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia. It was warned in 1998 when US embassies were bombed in Kenya
and Tanzania. It was warned October 2000 when the USS Cole was bombed in
Yemen.
If you do not believe that Islamic radicals would hesitate to destroy the
lives of millions of Americans, then you have been blind and deaf to the
warnings. Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban called for "the destruction of
America." Just because he and the Taliban will be defeated does not mean
that, throughout the Islamic world, the call for US destruction will end. If
anything, it will intensify. These are people who, after more than fifty
years, have been unable and unwilling to accept the existence of Israel.
Gerhart Riegner had been born into an intellectual Jewish family in Germany.
In 1933, Nazi thugs stood outside his parent's home and shouted "Jews out!
Jews out!" The family fled first to France and then settled in Switzerland. A
lawyer by profession, Riegner remained in Switzerland throughout the war,
working for the newly founded World Jewish Congress. On July 29, 1942, he
received a call with news that a German industrialist, troubled by what he
knew, had revealed a terrible plan to kill all the Jews throughout Europe and
Russia.
The news he relayed made it to the White House. It was not, however, until
January 1944 that then President Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board to
make an effort to save the Jews. It was too late. The Nazis would continue to
kill them up to the hour allied soldiers breached the gates of the many death
camps they had created. Auschwitz. Treblinka. Bergen-Belsen. Sobibor. Others.
This is what happens when we fail to heed the warning that "evil doers" in
the world plan "unthinkable" acts. This is what happens when we do not
marshal our will and our power to resist evil, whether it comes masked as
religion, as a utopian economic theory, as a "save the Earth movement", or as
an international organization designed to insure "peace" among nations.
Alan Caruba is the author of "The Pocket Guide to
Militant Islam", for sale from the Internet site of The National Anxiety
Center, a clearinghouse for information about scare campaigns at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Copyright, Alan Caruba, 2001
Published by permission.
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