Trump's Moscow Declaration?

The USA Today reported:[1]

“In a departure from predecessors on both sides of the political aisle, President Trump’s statement Friday marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day did not mention the deaths of six million Jews — a lapse the head of the Anti-Defamation League called ‘puzzling and troubling.’ In the three-paragraph statement Friday, Trump said:

“‘It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims, survivors, heroes of the Holocaust. It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror. Yet, we know that in the darkest hours of humanity, light shines the brightest.? As we remember those who died, we are deeply grateful to those who risked their lives to save the innocent... In the name of the perished, I pledge to do everything in my power throughout my Presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good... Together, we will make love and tolerance prevalent throughout the world.’”

New Anti-Defamation League chieftain Jonathan Greenblatt was incensed – and we’re not taking about mugmar.

“The White House statement with Trump’s remarks ‘misses that it was six million Jews who perished, not just innocent people,’ tweeted Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the ADL shortly after the comments were released. ‘Puzzling and troubling’ that it ‘has no mention of Jews,’ Greenblatt added in a follow up tweet.”[2]

It’s interesting, however, that an official condemnation of “Nazi atrocities” – released as World War Two was unfolding – also makes no mention of the Jews.

In the Joint Four-Nation Declaration penned during the Moscow Conference (Oct. 1943), the “Statement on Atrocities” reads thus:[3]

“The United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union have received from many quarters evidence of atrocities, massacres and cold-blooded mass executions which are being perpetrated by Hitlerite forces in many of the countries they have overrun and from which they are now being steadily expelled. The brutalities of Nazi domination are no new thing, and all peoples or territories in their grip have suffered from the worst form of government by terror. What is new is that many of the territories are now being redeemed by the advancing armies of the advancing armies of the liberating powers, and that in their desperation the recoiling Hitlerites and Huns are redoubling their ruthless cruelties. This is now evidenced with particular clearness by monstrous crimes on the territory of the Soviet Union which is being liberated from Hitlerites, and on French and Italian territory.

“Accordingly, the aforesaid three Allied powers, speaking in the interest of the thirty-two United Nations, hereby solemnly declare and give full warning of their declaration as follows:

“At the time of granting of any armistice to any government which may be set up in Germany, those German officers and men and members of the Nazi party who have been responsible for or have taken a consenting part in the above atrocities, massacres and executions will be sent back to the countries in which their abominable deeds were done in order that they may be judged and punished according to the laws of these liberated countries and of free governments which will be erected therein. Lists will be compiled in all possible detail from all these countries having regard especially to invaded parts of the Soviet Union, to Poland and Czechoslovakia, to Yugoslavia and Greece including Crete and other islands, to Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Italy.

“Thus, Germans who take part in wholesale shooting of Polish officers or in the execution of French, Dutch, Belgian or Norwegian hostages of Cretan peasants, or who have shared in slaughters inflicted on the people of Poland or in territories of the Soviet Union which are now being swept clear of the enemy, will know they will be brought back to the scene of their crimes and judged on the spot by the peoples whom they have outraged.

“Let those who have hitherto not imbrued their hands with innocent blood beware lest they join the ranks of the guilty, for most assuredly the three Allied powers will pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusors in order that justice may be done.

“The above declaration is without prejudice to the case of German criminals whose offenses have no particular geographical localization and who will be punished by joint decision of the government of the Allies.”

“Signed by President [Franklin D.] Roosevelt [FDR], Prime Minister [Winston] Churchill and Premier [Joseph] Stalin.”

Oy vey! According to the Israel-based newspaper Haaretz: “Mass killings of Jews became commonplace following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.”[4] Late political scientist Raul Hilberg, writing in his supposedly “definitive,” multivolume The Destruction of the European Jews, claims that “2,600,000” Jews were killed in 1942.[5]

It’s also “puzzling” then, that in this wartime statement from 1943, we find “no mention of Jews” either.

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[1] David Gibson, “Trump Fails to Mention Jews in Holocaust Remembrance Statement,” Religion News Service via USA Today, Jan. 27, 2017, <http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/27/trump-fails-mention-jews-holocaust-remembrance-statement/97150252/>.

[2] Ibid. It also fails to mention the holocausts of Germans at Dresden and of Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For more on unmentioned holocaust, see Michael A. Hoffman II, “The World War Two Revisionist FAQ,” Revisionist History, <http://www.revisionisthistory.org/revisionist4.html>.

[3] A Decade of American Foriegn Policy: Basic Documents, 1941-49, Prepared at the request of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations By the Staff of the Committe and the Department of State, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1950; reproduced online as “The Moscow Conference; October 1943,” The Avalon Project, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale University, 2008, <http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/moscow.asp>.

[4] “When Did the Holocaust Begin?” Haaretz, Feb. 17, 2014, <http://www.haaretz.com/1.574739>.

[5] Raul Hilberg, “Deaths by Year,” Table B-3, The Destruction of the European Jews, 3rd Ed., Vol. 3, New Haven, Conn. and London, Yale University Press, 2003, p. 1321, <https://books.google.com/books?id=HinIpmliz2MC&pg=PA1321>.