A right wing German war veterans publication asserted today in its current issue that the number of 6,000,000 European Jewish victims of the Nazi era was “highly exaggerated.”
Admitting that “unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed, the bi-monthly “Deutsche Soldatenzeitung” declared in its article, “The Truth About Auschwitz, ” that a large number of Polish and Russian Jews died as soldiers, were killed in war action or died of hunger in Soviet Russia “under unbearable working conditions” during the war.
“The population of Israel today encompasses 2,000,000 as compared with 200,000 before the war, and therefore not as many Jews could have been murdered as Jewish statisticians claim,”the Soldatenzeitung says; in another article, the periodical questioned the authenticity of Nazi atrocity pictures.
Dr. Hondrik van Dam, secretary-general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, drew attention today to the “violently anti-Semitic tenor” of numerous readers’ letters printed in West German magazines and illustrated newspapers. In an article in the current issue of the Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland, the leading Jewish paper in West Germany, Dr Van Dam also expressed suspicion that such anti-Semitic persons were behind the anti-German letters that recently appeared in the press, bearing typically Jewish signatures.
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