Konrad
Morgen
A wrench in the works of the Holocaust Myth
I used to have all 4 hours of my video "One Third of the Holocaust"
on Youtube.com, but then holocaust denial censorship finally kicked
in and all episodes were removed.(1) Even episodes
with titles as milk toast as "Reader's Digest" were deleted,
where I look at a 1943 issue of that magazine. It's interesting to note
that videos which claim 9-11 was an inside job orchestrated by George
W. Bush, are not videos that get deleted.(2) In
other words, on Youtube it's o.k to say that a president of the United
States deliberately killed thousands in the World Trade Center (I don't
believe that theory) but it's not o.k. to say that Jews did not die
in gas chambers in East Europe 60 years ago. Strange isn't it?
But before my videos got deleted, I noticed a recurring response from
the Youtube community: How could I be denying the holocaust when millions
of people saw it happen? Were they hallucinating? Here's the answer:
According to standard holocaust history, there weren't even hundreds
of witnesses who saw it happen. There's a difference between seeing
Jews leave on trains and seeing them killed. Holocaust believers and
holocaust deniers both believe Jews were sent to camps and lots of people
saw that. But deniers believe those camps were not death camps. They
believe they were labor camps. Germany was kicking Jews out of Europe
and temporarily putting them into camps in the East.(3)
Thus the photos of Jews waiting at train stations; and the photos of
Jews inside trains, those are real. They fit with what deniers believe.
So the issue is not about Jews leaving on trains or being in camps,
it's about what happened in the camps, and that hinges on what was seen
and known by camp staff and by inmates. But because the alleged death
part of the camp was supposedly secret (at Auschwitz for instance) not
every inmate or guard saw it. We thus don't have tens of thousands of
witnesses as so many people think. We are narrowing it down to a select
group of camp staff and inmates forced to work in the alleged killing
section of a camp. The alleged victims can't be witnesses because they're
dead. So the number of first-hand witnesses to the holocaust (who made
statements after the war) if I had to make a rough guess, is about 50
inmates and 100 camp staff. The small numbers are confirmed by the holocaust
research literature where the primary sources which various scholars
use, are a fairly small group of people. It's not a situation of picking
a witness randomly out of a hat because there's so many to choose from,
which is what so many people on youtube thought.(4)
But if members of the camp staff were close enough to see something,
then they were also close enough to be accused of being involved. Those
100 or so camp personnel would be the only ones in the world to know
first-hand that a giant lie was being put upon the German people. Here's
what happened to those administrators and guards: Most were executed
or given life sentences in court cases run by the Americans, British,
Polish, and Soviets. These cases often had Jewish witnesses, most were
former camp inmates, offering obviously fraudulent testimony with their
motivation being revenge.(5) When the German and
Ukrainian camp staff fell through the gallows floor, their first-hand
knowledge of the camps died with them.(6) And the
ones sent to prison weren't exactly going to have a forum to express
their views that the holocaust was a myth. I, an American, couldn't
even do that on Youtube 60 years later!
But there was one German SS officer, with inside knowledge of concentration
camps, who couldn't be accused of taking part in the killing: Georg
Konrad Morgen. His situation was unique: he was an SS Judge who investigated
the camps for wrongful conduct and had himself charged leaders of concentration
camps with murder. He'd imprisoned and charged the Chief of Police at
Auschwitz, Maximillian Grabner, with murder. He'd charged the camp commander
of Buchenwald with murder and then sentenced him to death. Like the
lyrics to the song "Rollercoaster" by the Ohio Players, your
response might be, "Say what!?"
Short bio on Konrad Morgen:
Having
the dual role of both investigator and judge, Morgen prosecuted SS camp
administrators and guards as head of an internal SS apparatus against
corruption. (The SS ran the camps.) Of particular note is what he did
in the Buchenwald camp. Four people were arrested, including the former
camp commander's wife, Ilse Koch. After a lengthy 8 month investigation
of the camp, where rumours and allegations were looked into, and inmates
were interviewed; it was determined that 3-4 prisoners had been killed
some years earlier.(7) For that Morgen sentenced
the former commander of Buchenwald, Karl Koch (along with his deputy)
to death, and Karl Koch's wife, Ilse, was acquitted on a charge of embezzlement.
Morgen also investigated the charge against her levelled by the inmates
of making items out of human skin. That charge was dismissed due to
lack of evidence. That allegation would later become notorious around
the world when the allied Psychological Warfare Department would fabricate
a story about it. 8 But before that happened, Morgen
had interviewed the prisoners at Buchenwald, but couldn't prove their
stories about Ilse making tattooed lamp shades and thus dismissed the
charge.
In
short, Morgen couldn't be charged with murder after the war by the allies,
because he himself charged camp commanders with murder. That made him
a threat to those promoting the holocaust myth, because Morgen knew
what was going on in the camps, but couldn't be accused of taking part.
No
one disputes Morgen's extensive wartime prosecutions. He described them
in his own words at the Nuremberg Trial:
"I investigated
about 800 cases, that is, about 800 documents, and one document would
affect several cases. About 200 were tried during my activity. Five
concentration camp commanders were arrested by me personally. Two were
shot after being tried."(9)
And his career also had other Allied brownie points: In 1936, he put
out a book called War Propaganda and the Prevention of War which
was against the militarization of Germany. True Morgen was a member
of the SS, but even that couldn't be used against him. At Nuremberg
he explained,
"I
was drafted compulsorily into the General SS. In 1933, I belonged to
the Reich Board for Youth Training, whose, students' group was completely
incorporated into the General SS."(10)
It's
hard to reconcile Morgen's actions with the standard holocaust story.
Think of the movie Schindler's List: the camp commander wakes up in
the morning and shoots Jews for fun. In between yawning and stretching
from a good night's sleep he cocks his rifle for another shot. That
description melds with most holocaust survivors' descriptions of camp
guards. The camp commander portrayed in the movie Schindler's List is
Amon Goeth and though the movie portrayal is largely false, there is
a kernel of truth: Goeth was scheduled to go before an SS tribunal headed
by none other than Konrad Morgen and charged with theft of Jewish property,
but the end of the war prevented the tribunal from taking place. In
other words, there were isolated cases of the SS acting acting cruel,
but it couldn't have been that widespread and the SS prosecuted for
it. Even the guy portrayed in Schindler's List was scheduled to go before
Morgen!
What
Morgen's wartime job tells us is that most "survivors" who
report a carnival of death mayhem in the camps are simply lying. Their
accounts of camp guards shooting Jews for fun anytime they want can't
be true. Contrast with more details of Konrad Morgen's Buchenwald investigation:
he moved to the Buchenwald area for 8 months in the middle of the war
in 1943 and 1944, and had to really look, having his staff live in the
concentration camp itself. He wasn't investigating the current camp
commander Hermann Pister, but rather the former camp commander who had
left 2 years earlier. After some major sleuthing, Morgen found some
corruption practices but turned up no murder leads. Finally, near the
end of 8 months, and looking at records that were 3-5 years old, Morgen
uncovered a stealthy way in which the camp commander, Karl Koch, with
the help of the camp doctor had killed around 4 inmates, and Koch was
tried and sentenced to death. Would Morgen have really done this if
it was typical for your average camp guard to kill a couple Jews for
fun before breakfast? (11)
Thus
Morgen was a wrench in the works of the holocaust myth, and the best
way to deal with him would have been if he had conveniently died, which
is what according to him almost happened.
"The
Americans almost killed me."
John
Toland was an American historian best known for writing a biography
on Adolf Hitler. In 1971 he interviewed Konrad Morgen. The transcript
of this interview was later given to the Roosevelt Library at Marist
College in New York. When controversial British historian David Irving
was doing research on his book called Nuremberg The Last Battle, he
went to the library and found the unpublished transcript. Irving wrote
the following about Morgen:
"But
(Morgen) refused to give perjured testimony at Nuremberg to the effect
that Ilse Koch, widow of the commandant hanged by the S.S., had made
lampshades out of human skin. That was a legend, he said: totally untrue.
'The Americans almost killed me,’ recalled Morgen. ‘They threatened
three times to turn me over to the Russians or French or Poles.’"12
To
mention a minor point: Irving errors as Karl Koch was shot at the Buchenwald
camp (not hanged.)
We
see related testimony from Morgen when he testified at the Nuremberg
Trial on August 8, 1946:
"MORGEN:
Yes. At the time of the (German government) collapse I was chief justice
in Breslau. When I came to Germany after some time, I heard the CIC
was looking for me on account of my knowledge about concentration camps.
I reported to the CIC headquarters Mannheim-Seckenheim, 7th Army, and
said I was ready to help clear up these crimes. I gave my testimony
on the same lines which I attempted to follow today. I went to the CIC
headquarters, Oberursel, and after I had given my testimony, I was locked
up in a bunker in Dachau, together with the accused people whom I had
previously arrested myself."
Locked
up after giving testimony about how he prosecuted concentration camp
administrators? Why? Answer: So he couldn't testify about Buchenwald
as a defense witness at Nuremberg.
Morgen's
testimony mentions "CIC headquarters" in the above quote,
and in context one would think the CIC was an investigative body connected
with the Nuremberg trials. But that's not the case. The CIC is the Allied
Psychological Warfare Department, with it's post-war name-change, to
become the Center for Information Control. It controlled all the information
the German people received and it fabricated holocaust atrocity stories
which it then fed to the German population via it's control of the German
newspapers, bookstores, movie theaters, etc. Run mainly by the Americans,
it's showcase atrocity propaganda location was Buchenwald which put
the CIC on a crash course with Konrad Morgen's wartime investigation.
That's because Morgen was investigating Buchenwald long before Psyche
Warfare arrived there. Psyche Warfare didn't know about Morgen and his
time at Buchenwald when they set up a display table with a supposed
human skin lampshade, tattooed skin and shrunken heads, and made much
about the "Bitch of Buchenwald" Ilse Koch. Famous director
Billy Wilder, an Austrian Jew, even came in to help film Buchenwald
and he himself strategized ways to psychologically manipulate the postwar
German population. Thus one can see why Konrad Morgen was locked up
at Dachau when he went to the CIC headquarters to help "clear up
these crimes."13
I have
made a 2-hour video called "Buchenwald" and also a 25 minute
video called "Nazi Shrunken Heads." These videos fill in the
story of how Buchenwald was used as a propaganda scam, and thus I won't
go into that in this essay. The next part of this essay looks at how
Konrad Morgen collided with the US prosecutor's presentation at the
Nuremberg trial.
Thomas
J. Dodd Presents A Shrunken Head At Nuremberg
What
was meant to be some atrocity items, planted by Psyche Warfare, to then
be filmed for denazification film strips, "blew back" into
American media and also as Nuremberg trial evidence.
At the Nuremberg Trial, American prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd wants to
give the court an idea of what the camps were like. In front of the
courtroom there is a table with something on it, but no one can see
what it is because a sheet covers it. Dodd mentions the depravity that
went on at the concentration camps and offers an example from Buchenwald.
Just then a clerk pulls the sheet off the mystery table to reveal a
shrunken human head. It has a powerful effect, particularly since next
to it, on a bulletin board, are hanging samples of tattooed human skin.
Dodd describes the head and skin by reading from an affidavit taken
from an inmate at Buchenwald named Andreas Pfaffenberger:
"There
I also saw the shrunken heads of two young Poles who had been hanged
for having had relations with German girls. The heads were the size
of a fist, and the hair and the marks of the rope were still there."(14)
Pfaffenberger's statement also describes the skin. Dodd reads,
"
'No one knew what the purpose was; but after the tattooed prisoners
had been examined, the ones with the best and most artistic specimens
were kept in the dispensary and then killed by injections administered
by Karl Beigs, a criminal prisoner. The corpses were then turned over
to the pathological department where the desired pieces of tattooed
skin were detached from the bodies and treated. The finished products
were turned over to SS Standartenfuehrer Koch's wife, who had them fashioned
into lamp shades and other ornamental household articles, I myself saw
such tattooed skins with various designs and legends on them, such as
"Hansel and Gretel," which one prisoner had on his knee, and
designs of ships from prisoners' chests. This work was done by a prisoner
named Wernerbach."(15)
After
this presentation Dodd left to go back to the United States and have
Christmas with his family, and the trial went on without him. The next
day a lawyer for the Germans has an issue about Dodd's presentation.
The part of the quote in bold is my emphasis:
DR. KAUFFMAN: "May I bring up two points
with regard to yesterday's and in future presentation of evidence on
the section dealing with Crimes against Humanity.
Firstly, I request that the affidavit of the witness Pfaffenberger,
which was submitted yesterday, be stricken from the record. The witness
himself will later have to be cross-examined, since his affidavit is
fragmentary in most important points. In many cases it does not appear
whether his statements are based on personal observations or on hearsay,
and therefore it is too easy to draw false conclusions. The witness
did not mention that the Camp Commander Koch and his inhuman wife were
condemned to death by an SS court, among other things, on account of
these occurrences. It is, of course, possible to ascertain the complete
facts by questioning the witness at a later stage of the Trial. But
until then the Tribunal and all members of the Prosecution and the Defense
must be continually influenced by such dreadful testimony.
The contents of this testimony are so horrifying and so degrading to
the human mind that one would like to avert one's eyes and ears. In
the meantime such statements make their way into the press of the whole
world, and civilization is justly indignant. The consequences of such
prejudiced statements are incalculable. The Prosecutor clearly recognized
the significance of this testimony and exposed the sorry documents in
yesterday's proceedings. If weeks or months pass before such testimony
is rectified, its initial effect can never be wholly eliminated; but
truth suffers and justice is endangered thereby."
Dr. Kaufmann, quoted above, made the mistake of saying Ilse Koch had
been condemned to death by an SS court. In fact she was acquitted on
embezzlement, and the charges dropped on the tattooed skin allegation
due to lack of evidence. But the main point to notice from the above,
is that Morgen's wartime prosecution is beginning to enter the awareness
of people in the courtroom.
Another
German lawyer then chimes in and states that maybe the Prosecution knew
about wartime Buchenwald prosecutions, but deliberately concealed that
from the court:
DR.
FRIEDRICH BERGOLD (Counsel for the Defendant Bormann): May it please
the Tribunal, I should like to bring up one other point, which appears
to me important, because it was apparently the real source of this discussion.
According to our legal system it is the duty of the Prosecution to produce
not only the incriminating evidence but also evidence for the defense
of the accused. I can well understand that my colleague, Dr. Kauffmann,
protests the Prosecution's failure to mention a very important point,
namely, that the German authorities indicted this inhuman SS leader
and his wife and condemned them to death. It is highly probable that
the Prosecution knew of this and that these horrible exhibits of perverted
human nature, which were presented to us, were found in the files of
the German Court.
I believe the whole discussion would not have arisen if the Prosecution
had mentioned, as part of the ghastly evidence, the fact that the
German authorities themselves passed judgment on this inhuman man and
condemned him to death.(16)
Thomas J. Dodd came back after almost a month absence and on 1/14/46
he responded to the accusation. He told the judges the following:
MR. DODD: "I have one other matter that I
should like to take up very briefly before the Tribunal this morning.
It is concerned with a matter that arose after I had left the courtroom
to return to the United States.
On the 13th of December we offered in evidence Document Number 3421-PS,
and Exhibit Numbers USA-252 and 254. They were, respectively, the Court
will recall, sections of human skin taken from human bodies and preserved;
and a human head, the head of a human being, which had been preserved.
On the 14th day of December, according to the Record, counsel for the
Defendant Kaltenbrunner addressed the Tribunal and complained that the
affidavit, which was offered, of one Pfaffenberger, failed to state
that the camp commandant at Buchenwald, one Koch, along with his wife,
was condemned to death for having committed precisely these atrocities,
this business of tanning the skin and preserving the head. And in the
course of the discussion before the Tribunal the Record reveals that
counsel for the Defendant Bormann, in addressing the Tribunal, stated
that it was highly probable that the Prosecution knew that the German
authorities had objected to this camp commandant Koch and, in fact,
knew that he had been tried and sentenced for doing precisely these
things. And there was some intimation, we feel, that the Prosecution,
having this knowledge, withheld it from the Tribunal. Now, I wish to
say that we had no knowledge at all about this man Koch at the time
that we offered the proof; didn't know anything about him except that
he had been the commandant, according to the affidavit. But, subsequent
to this objection we had an investigation made, and we have found that
he was tried in 1944, indeed, by an SS court, but not for having tanned
human skin nor having preserved a human head but for having embezzled
some money, for what - as the judge who tried him tells us - was a charge
of general corruption and for having murdered someone with whom he had
some personal difficulties. Indeed, the judge, a Dr. Morgen, tells
us that he saw the tattooed human skin and he saw a human head in Commandant
Koch's office and that he saw a lampshade there made out of human skin.
But there were no charges at the time that he was tried for having done
these things." (17)
A flawed
lie for Thomas J. Dodd. Afterall, why would you bother futzing with
a charge of embezzlement, if you'd seen a human head in that person's
office?
So Morgen's name enters the court transcript, but as part of a lie Dodd
is telling in order to save the integrity of his shrunken head presentation.
Morgen would have been a devastating defense witness at that point.
And as we've just read, one German lawyer would like to question the
Buchenwald witness Andreas Pfaffenberger. So both Pfaffenberger and
Morgen on the witness stand are a threat to Thomas J. Dodd's presentation.
Pfaffenberger won't testify under mysterious circumstances, that likely
involved strong-arming and/or intimidation by Dodd's staff,18
and Morgen won't be able to testify because he's secretly locked up
at Dachau.19 It begins to make sense why Morgen
later told John Toland, "the Americans almost killed me."
Because Morgen wouldn't agree to say he saw the lamphade and shrunken
heads. (Dodd's obstruction is all the more galling considering he went
on to become a U.S Senator.) When Morgen was finally released from Dachau,
and could testify, it would be after this part of the trial was over.
Morgen
Testifies at Nuremberg
Konrad Morgen was called as a witness by Defense lawyer Horst Pelckmann
toward the end of the trial in regard to the criminality of the SS.
As Morgen was finally in the courtroom waiting for his turn to take
the witness stand, he could have looked over at a depressed and dejected
group of men: The former leaders of Germany, sitting for 10 months in
this victors' trial. Morgen was one of the few people who knew, first-hand,
that a giant lie (the holocaust) was being put on them. His testimony
however, wasn't going to be about them. He was being called as a witness
in defense of the SS, meaning not those defendants in the courtroom
who were part of the SS, but the SS as an organization in Germany. Let
me explain:
At
the Nuremberg Trial, besides trying individuals, the court tried organizations.
Thus the SS was charged just like an individual was charged. For instance
Rudolf Hess had a lawyer and was charged with war crimes; and similarly
the SS had a lawyer and was charged with war crimes. Morgen was called
to testify by Horst Pelckmann, the lawyer defending the SS. Morgen,
himself a lawyer, would have understood that the Nuremberg Court, in
declaring the SS to be a criminal organization, had the potential to
effect thousands of wartime SS members. This was due to "Control
Council Law #10." The Control Council was the first allied governing
body of postwar Germany. Skipping the legalese, Law #10 stated,
"Any
person...is deemed to have committed a crime...if he was...a member
of any organization or group connected with the commission of any such
crime." 20
In
other words, if the Nuremberg Court found the SS to be a criminal organization,
then Control Council Law #10 could be referred to, and any person in
that organization could be deemed to have committed a crime. It would
be a melding of what the Nuremberg Court declared and the Control Council
declared.
Control
Council Law #10 then went on to describe punishment:
3.
Any persons found guilty of any of the crimes above mentioned may upon
conviction be punished as shall be determined by the tribunal to be
just. Such punishment may consist of one or more of the following:
(a) Death.
(b) Imprisonment for life or a term of years, with or without hard labor.
(c) Fine, and imprisonment with or without hard labour, in lieu thereof.
(d) Forfeiture of property.
(e) Restitution of property wrongfully acquired.
(f) Deprivation of some or all civil rights.
Theoretically
at that moment in postwar Germany, a member of the SS could be sentenced
to death for being in the SS, if the SS was declared to be criminal
by the Nuremberg Court. Later, in the Nuremberg Judgment, that point
was confirmed, but a number of limitations were also placed. Indeed
the Nuremberg Court judges intended their declarations regarding the
SS to work in conjunction with Control Council Law #10. 21
At the time of Morgen's testimony though (before the judgment of course)
the implications of the SS being found to be a criminal organization
looked grim for the future of Germans who had been in the SS during
the war.
So
Morgen was called as a witness to try to persuade the judges to not
declare the SS to be a criminal organization. Morgen couldn't deny the
holocaust. If he did that, he wouldn't have been called as a witness
in the first place. It would have been too much. It would have hurt
the S.S. case. Commenting on what defendants in holocaust trials had
to do, Robert Faurisson states,
"That ought to remind us of the unfortunates
who in the Middle Ages were accused of having met the devil on such
and such a day, at such and such an hour, in such and such a place.
They would have been able to deny it fiercely. They would have been
able to go so far as to say: "You know very well that I could not
have met with the devil for one excellent reason, which is that the
devil does not exist." The unfortunates would have condemned themselves
by such responses. They had only one way out: to play the game of their
accusers, to admit that the devil was there without doubt, but ... at
the top of the hill, while they themselves, located below, heard the
horrible noise (sobs, groans, cries, racket) made by the victims of
the devil." (22)
That's exactly what Morgen did. He created an alternate version of the
holocaust myth where the chain of command bypassed the SS, so that the
SS would not be seen as in the loop. 23 His strategy
was to say that the killing happened but the SS was not greatly involved.
Take note while reading the following, that Morgen's non-SS version
of the holocaust is certainly a nutty story:
Morgen
tells the court how he first began to learn about the extermination
program: By hearing about a surprisingly lavish wedding in of all places
a Jewish Labor camp near Lublin. He testifies:
"1,100 guests participated in this
Jewish wedding. What followed was described as quite extraordinary owing
to the gluttonous consumption of food and alcoholic drinks. Among these
Jews were members of the camp guard, that is to say some SS men, who
joined in this revelry." (24)
Thus begins Morgen's bizarre alternate story, begging such questions
as: How could Jews in a concentration camp, who sleep on bunk beds,
put on a wedding with so many guests? How could they afford the food
and drinks? And why in the world would German SS men be invited to take
part in the celebration?
Something seems fishy to investigator Morgen. Perhaps there's some corruption
going on in Lublin. So he travels there and talks to an administrator,
Christian Wirth, and right away Wirth confesses to an enormous secret
killing operation. Morgen then describes how Wirth recruited Jews to
kill other Jews.
"Wirth staged an enormous deceptive maneuver.
He first selected Jews who would, he thought, serve as column leaders,
then these Jews brought along other Jews, who worked under them. With
that smaller or medium-sized detachment of Jews, he began to build up
the extermination camps. He extended this staff of Jews, and with these
Jews Wirth himself carried out the extermination of the Jews.
Wirth said that he had four extermination camps and that about 5,000
Jews were working at the extermination of Jews and the seizure of Jewish
property. In order to win Jews for this business of extermination and
plundering of their brethren of race and creed, Wirth gave them every
freedom and, so to speak, gave them a financial interest in the spoliation
of the dead victims. As a result of this attitude, this sumptuous Jewish
wedding had come about."(25)
Thus
Morgen creates a non-SS version of the holocaust myth to try to keep
the SS from being declared a criminal organization. Because of Morgen's
extensive knowledge of the camp system, he figures-in the deceased Christian
Wirth as a major part of the holocaust story. This famous trial, which
at the time had been going on for 10 months had never had anyone mention
Christian Wirth, but in the subsequent story of the holocaust myth,
such as put forth by historians Raul Hilberg and Yitzhak Arad, Wirth
figures prominently. That's because Morgen with his extensive knowledge
of the camps, could in some ways fabricate a better holocaust myth than
the prosecution could at that time.
Morgen later said the German SS involved at the top, were so few you
could count them on your fingers.(26) To recap
Morgen's version of the holocaust: Christian Wirth recruited 5,000 Jews
to kill their own people. Hence the suspicious wedding of 1,100 Jews.
And the reason everyone is friends with one another at this wedding?
They are in on a multi-level scheme of killing other Jews and taking
their money. So enthusiastic are they, that they even invite the Germans
to celebrate at the wedding with them.
Morgen
is filling-in a vacuum because the prosecution was not able to explain
the inner workings of the alleged genocide, and Morgen knew enough to
be able to fabricate that. This can be seen in Thomas
J. Dodd's interruption of Morgen's testimony below. Dodd, who after
10 months of trial plus additional months of trial preparation, should
be one of the most knowledgable people in the world on the holocaust.
Yet instead of protesting Morgen's crazy story, he tells the judges
he has no problem with it. While Morgen is testifying, Dodd interjects,
MR. DODD: "Mr. President, we do
not have the first responsibility, of course, for this defense. But
I have discussed with Mr. Elwyn Jones my objection, he has it in here,
and he finds no fault with it. It seems to me that what we are hearing
here is a lecture on the Prosecution's case, and I do not see how it
in any sense can be said to be a defense of the SS."
(27)
When Morgen gets to the Auschwitz part of the story, he mentions that
the killing happened in a section called Monowitz. Some of the Germans
on trial, in their mix of depression, daydreaming, worrrying, and thinking,
might have been actually listening to the proceedings. If they didn't
already know that Morgen was creating a fake story, they might have
pricked up their ears on hearing the word "Monowitz" since
some of them would have known that Monowitz was a giant industrial section
of Auschwitz that was run by private companies. The killing couldn't
have happened there. Morgen adds a description:
"The Extermination Camp Monowitz
lay far away from the concentration camp. It was situated on an extensive
industrial site and was not recognizable as such and everywhere on the
horizon there were smoking chimneys."(28)
Morgen then describes a secret killing operation at Monowitz, done mainly
by the Jews themselves, with the external perimeter guarded by non-Germans
from the Baltic countries dressed up as SS officers. The non-Germans
are impersonating SS officers so that it appears they are doing basic
SS guard duty and not keeping people out of an area where Jews are helping
to kill Jews. In other words the actual SS isn't even involved in guarding
the perimeter of the killing site. (29)
Standard holocaust history today involves no such account.
In
short, the irony is that Morgen knows the truth, but is telling a lie.
The lie is an alternate version of the holocaust myth that exculpates
the SS. The truth that there was no secret gassing operation wouldn't
be acceptable at the trial.(30)
Morgen's testimony was to no avail. The SS was declared to be a Criminal
Organization, declared guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.
Largely based on the holocaust myth.31 The Court
judgment stipulated certain limitations such as that a local German
Denazification Law should supercede it in some West German territories.32
But in East Germany declaring the SS to be criminal was likely a moot
point, since thousands of former SS were sent to labor camps where they
perished from lack of food, disease, cold, and depression; and were
buried in mass graves.33 In other words no
"legal paving of the way" was needed.
Morgen went on to have a successful law practice in Frankfurt, West
Germany. He died in 1982. Unbelievably, holocaust scholars, in a conundrum
on how Morgen can fit into the myth, tend to present him as a "righteous
gentile." In the befuddled world of holocaust scholarship where
cherrypicking facts that fit, is the order of the day, scholars use
Morgen as a source. Raul Hilberg, for instance, in his book The Destruction
of the European Jews uses Morgen as a source multiple times.34
Historians of course discard Morgen's "complicit Jews having a
lavish wedding" part.
CONCLUSION
Three key points to walk away with from this essay are:
1)
If the holocaust had really happened, there wouldn't have been a person
like Konrad Morgen investigating camp staff like he did.
2)
At the Nuremberg Trial, the truth that the holocaust was a myth wasn't
acceptable, and thus Morgen crafted a lie when he was called as a witness.
3)
Most people who knew what Morgen knew, were camp guards or administrators
and were either executed or sent to prison after the war, but Morgen's
unique job prevented that from happening.
Thus
Konrad Morgen stands out as an unusual and problematic figure for the
holocaust myth.
Originally posted in July 2007. Reworked in January 2010.
Written by Denierbud
N
O T E S
1) I had 30 chapters of my 4 hr. 15 min. video One Third of The Holocaust,
and my 25 minute video Nazi Shrunken Heads. All were removed. Here
is a "screen capture" of one of the messages:
http://www.holocaustdenialvideos.com/inappropriate_content_2.jpg
also
see:
http://www.holocaustdenialvideos.com/inappropriate_content.jpg
2) See the video Loose
Change on Youtube. Notice the view count is in the millions.
3) Prior to this, there was a plan to create a Jewish homeland in Madagascar.
It was called the "Madagascar Plan." But with the war this
wasn't possible. It's important to note that a lot
of Jews also wanted a homeland somewhere. Israel was the ideal place
but Uganda and Madagascar had also been possibilities. In other words,
besides the Nazis who wanted the Jews out of Germany, there was a huge
movement called Zionism which had the aim of Jews leaving Europe as
well.
4) Take Philip Mueller and his book "Eyewitness Auschwitz."
He claimed to be a sonderkommando. That is an inmate who worked in the
death part of the camp. He is featured in Claude Lanzmann's movie Shoah,
and he is used as a source in Raul Hilberg's The Destruction
of the European Jews. Both Hilberg and Lanzmann use the same person
because there aren't that many people to use as a source.
5)
Probably the last case, the John Demjanjuk Sobibor trial in Germany,
going on at the time of my reworking this essay in late 2009, early
2010, has as it's biggest witness Thomas "Toivi" Blatt who
is an obvious fraud. See my
exposé of him here.
6) In fact no one could say anything 10-20 years
later. There was no statute of limitations on being arrested and put
on trial. 20 years later, all kinds of holocaust trials occurred and
more administrators, and camp staff were put in jail or executed.
7) Karl Koch had left for another camp in 1941. Ilse Koch had stayed
at Buchenwald. In 1943 Morgen arrested them as well as the deputy commander
Hermann Florstedt, (who had also since moved to another camp) and a
Buchenwald doctor Waldemar Hoven. All for stuff that had happened from
1937-41. In other words, Morgen was there in 1943 investigating things
that happened in 1937-41 involving camp administrators,
some of whom weren't even there anymore. During his investigation, the
head of the camp was Hermann Pister.
8)
See the video "Buchenwald" found at holocaustdenialvideos.com
9) Morgen's testimony at Nuremberg Trial of the
Major War Criminals, page 488 (website shows page numbers):
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-07-46.asp
10) Nuremberg Trial, pages 486 and 487
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-07-46.asp
11) The camp commander Karl Koch and the deputy commander, Herman Florstedt
were both executed for being involved in secretly and illegally killing
3-4 inmates. But this is not to say that executions did not happen at
Buchenwald. The camp briefly had "legal" executions of Soviet
Political Commissars. Most of whom were Jewish, but executed for being
commissars, not Jews. This is often used by historians to falsely state
that Buchenwald was a concentration camp that killed Jews as part of
the holocaust. See episode
20, called "Buchenwald Executions" of the video "Buchenwald."
12)
Nuremberg The Last Battle by David Irving. Focal Point Publications,
1996, page 223. This
book is a free download.
13) Nuremberg Trial, page 511
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-08-46.asp
The
CIC headquarters was right next to Oberursel which Morgen mentioned
as the place he was sent to. Buchenwald inmate Eugen Kogon was also
sent to Oberursel, and given a house by Psychological Warfare Lieutenant
Albert G. Rosenberg, so that he could write "Der SS Staat."
The SS State, which is a seminal book on Nazis and the concentration
camps. The contrast of Morgen and Kogon both there, and Kogon getting
a house in which to write his book, while Morgen was sent to Dachau,
elucidates the hidden agenda of the CIC.
In
June 2007 I telephoned the above-mentioned Albert G. Rosenberg, who
had been at Buchenwald, and was no doubt the person verbally berating
the German residents of Weimer on their forced
tour of Buchenwald. Rosenberg was 89 years old when we spoke. I've discussed
that phone conversation in another
place.
Regarding
Billy Wilder strategizing ways to psychologically manipulate the postwar
German population. See "The Wilder Memorandum" in the book
The Americanization of Germany by Ralph Willett, page 40. Published
in 1989 by Routledge. See my archived copy of the Wilder Memorandum
here.
14)
Nuremberg Trial transcript, page 515. The website includes page numbers:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/12-13-45.asp
For internet video footage of this moment in the courtroom, click the
following link to the US
Holocaust Memorial Museum website, and then select the first video
entitled "Concentration Camp Evidence presented at Nuremberg Trial."
Also see topic
#1 on the webpage for the video "Nazi Shrunken Heads."
15) Nuremberg Trial transcript, page 514:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/12-13-45.asp
16) Nuremberg Trial Transcript. Beginning of the day's proceedings.
Bergold
starts on the bottom of page 547.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/12-14-45.asp
17) Nuremberg Trial transcript, page 199: (website shows page numbers)
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/01-14-46.asp
18)
See my video
Buchenwald, episodes 16 and 17.
19)
Nuremberg Trial transcript. Pelckmann explaining why Morgen couldn't
testify earlier, end of page 481 and page 482.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-07-46.asp
20)
Nuremberg Trials Final Report Appendix D:
Control Council Law No. 10
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/imt10.asp
I've
shortened Article II, number 2, so that the point is understandable.
21)
Nuremberg Trial Transcript, 9/30/46, page 499, 500:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/09-30-46.asp
The
Control Council Law #10 was issued December 20, 1945. The Nuremberg
Judgment which made it clearer, came out 9 months later. Morgen testified
in between.
22) Confessions of SS Men who were at Auschwitz by Robert Faurisson.
Journal of Historical Review. Summer 1981. Found online at:
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p103_Faurisson.html
23)
An assertion put forth by Arthur Butz in his book The Hoax of the Twentieth
Century, 1976, page 217.
24) Nuremberg Trial Transcript. Page 491
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-07-46.asp
25) Nuremberg Trial transcript page 492 (website shows page numbers)
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-07-46.asp
26) Nuremberg Trial transcript page 494 (website shows page numbers)
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-07-46.asp
27) Nuremberg Trial transcript page 496 (website shows page numbers)
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-08-46.asp
28) Nuremberg Trial transcript. Page 503
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-08-46.asp
29) Nuremberg Trial transcript. Page 503
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-08-46.asp
30)
Arthur Butz in his 1976 book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century comments
on Morgen's strategy and his "better ideas" for the myth and
writes:
"the
inventors were so concerned with getting some real fact into their story
that it did not occur to them that there are some real facts that a
good hoax is better off without."
See
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, page 217-218.
31)
See this section of the Judgment beginning at the end of page 514 through
page 516.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/09-30-46.asp
32)
Nuremberg Trial Transcript, 9/30/46, page 499, 500:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/09-30-46.asp
33)
Buchenwald Memorial Website. Information on Soviet Special Camp #2
http://www.buchenwald.de/media_en/en_ct_ges_hist1.html
"The
conditions of life in the Soviet special camps were nothing short of
disastrous in certain phases, accounting for the high mortality rate.
According to official Soviet documents, 7,113 persons died in Special
Camp 2 Buchenwald. They were buried in mass graves, their families receiving
no notification of death."
The
above link is a frame in this page, in the "history" section:
http://www.buchenwald.de/index_cten.html
34)
Revered holocaust historian Raul Hilberg frequently uses Morgen as a
source, and the structure of how Morgen described the killing operations
at Nuremberg became essentially the inner workings of the "Operation
Reinhardt" part of the standard holocaust story.
See
Hilberg using Morgen's affidavits as a valid holocaust source in the
footnotes on pages 872, 873, 892, 896 of:
The Destruction of the European Jews
Holmes and Meier, 1985