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Ilya Ehrenburg
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Ilya Grigoryewitch Ehrenburg (russ. Илья́ Григо́рьевич Эренбу́рг, born January 15th 1891 in Kiev, Russian Empire, died August 31st, 1967 in Moscow) was a Jewish propagandist in the USSR, who agitated for genocide against Germans. Ehrenburg, along with Lazar Kaganovich and Grigory Zinoviev, was one of the most notable Jewish criminal personalities to openly use Bolshevism as a means to exterminate gentiles for the benefit of the Jewish race. In the aftermath of World War II, through the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Ehrenburg was one of the Jewish liars in the Soviet Empire who were involved in formulating the "Holocaust" frame as a blood-libel against the Germans.
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Life Before World War II
Jewish Upbringing
Ehrenburg was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Kiev, which was then a part of the Czarist Empire. His mother, Chana, made sure he knew all the rules and rituals of the Jewish religion. As a young adult, he began to think of himself more as "cosmopolitan". He would later on have a sudden "reawakening" of Jewish ethnic-pride during the German-Soviet war.
Communist subversive, Exile
As a teenager, he became involved with a band of communist subversives and had to flee the Russian Empire in 1908 because of his political activities[1]. Although he was elated to hear that the Bolshevik usurpation was a success a decade later, he continued to live abroad. He visited the USSR for a time in the early 1920s, but spent most of the period 1908-1940 in Paris[2]. During his exile, he began publishing books, and by the end of his life had published nearly 30.
Soviet Propagandist
Ilja Ehrenburg returned to the Soviet Union in 1941. He returned as an eager volunteer to help coordinate anti-German activities. His dramatic rise to prominence, despite never living in the Soviet Union until 1941, showed he had the total trust of Stalin. Hitler called him "Stalin's House-Jew".
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Among the cofounders of the "Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of the Soviet Union", Ehrenburg played a key role. The group's task was to incite the Jews, not only the Soviet Union but all over the world -- especially in the USA -- in to support Stalin's war against Germany. Some members of this group toured the USA showing phony "bars of soap made from Jewish flesh"[3].
Human Soap hoax
Ehrenburg himself is the man single most responsible for the "Jewish soap" myth, alleging that the Germans made soap from the fat of Jews they killed. As part of the prosecution at Nuremberg on behalf of the Soviet delegation, Ehrenburg used the human-soap hoax against German defendants. Bars of soap were discovered with the stamp "RIF". Ehrenburg claimed this was proof the Germans had made such bars of soap, as it stood for "Reines Judenfett" (Pure Jewish Fat), according to him. The stamp actually stood for "Reichsstelle für Industrielle Fette" (Reich Center for Industrial Fat).
Violently Anti-German Agitation
The historical infamy attached to the name "Ilja Ehrenburg" comes above all from his shockingly violent and genocidal wartime propaganda. In numerous leaflets distributed to frontline Soviet soldiers -- As well as in Pravda and in the "Red Star" military newspaper -- he encouraged war crimes, crimes against civilians, mass-rape -- and generally a dehumanizing, fanatical hatred. Alexander Wirth, British correspondant in Moscow, called him "a genius at stirring up hatred of the Germans."
One of the Ehrenburg leaflets, called simply "Kill", was distributed by the millions to Soviet soldiers. It incited them to treat Germans as sub-human. In other writings he used analogies to animals ("rabid dogs", "reptiles", "scorpions") to describe Germans.
War Crimes
As the Red Army was pushing west into Germany, starting in late 1944, Ehrenburg openly called for Red Army soldiers to commit rapes of all German women they encountered. He continued to incite the soldiers towards killing German civilians to the very last days of the war.
His poisonously-violent anti-German writings -- far beyond anything that appeared in Der Stuermer -- are considered by historians to have strongly contributed "to the orgy of murder and rape by Soviet soldiers against German civilians"[4]. (See Quotes).
Ehrenburg and Zionism
Ilja Ehrenburg remained associated with the Soviet Empire, and never himself moved to the Zionist State in Palestine. However, he left a secret will stating that his possessions and his vast archive were to be transferred to the Zionist enetity 20 years after his death. This happened in 1987, and was hailed by Jewish media worldwide as proof he was a "Jewish patriot"[5]. Ehrenburg was honored by the Soviet Empire in 1952 with the Stalin Prize for his life of work on behalf of international Jewish Bolshevism.[6], but the secret clause in his will, moving his estate to the Zionist state, proves he was put his tribal interests first to his last day.
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Quotes
| “ | The Germans are not human beings. From now on, the word "German" is the worst possible curse-word to us. From now on the word German strikes us to the quick. We shall say no more. We shall not get excited. We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German in a day, you have wasted that day. If you think your neighbor will kill a German, then you do not realize the danger. If you don't kill the German, the German will kill you. He will abduct your relatives and bring them back to his accursed Germany where he will torture them. (July 7th, 1942) | ” |
| “ | If you cannot kill your German with a bullet, kill him with your bayonet. If there is calm on your part of the front, or if you are waiting for the fighting, kill a German in the meantime. If you leave a German alive, the German will hang a Russian and rape a Russian woman. If you kill one German, kill another -- there is nothing more amusing for us than a heap of German corpses. Count not the days, nor the kilometers. Count only the number of Germans killed by you. Kill the German -- that is your grandmother's request. Kill the German! -- that is your child's prayer. Kill the German! --your motherland cries out. Do not miss. Do not let through. Kill! (From leaflet "Kill" by Ilja Ehrenburg) | ” |
| “ | It is not enough to drive the Germans back to the west. The Germans must be hunted, all the way to the grave. Certainly, a Fritz with a black-eye is better than one without. But among all varieties of Fritzes, the best is the dead one. (Ehrenburg, October 1944, writing in Red Star). | ” |
| “ | Kill, you brave Red-Army men, kill! There is nothing that the German is not guilty of. Comrade Stalin instructs us to put down this rabid animal. Break, with your force, the arrogant racial-pride of the Germanic Woman. Take her as your rightful prize of war. Kill, you brave Red Army men. Kill. | ” |
| “ | Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is evil! Follow the precepts of Comrade Stalin. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm onward, kill, you gallant soldiers of the Red Army. | ” |
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References
- ↑ The Strange Life of Ilja Ehrenburg by Mark Weber (IHR)
- ↑ The Strange Life of Ilja Ehrenburg by Mark Weber (IHR)
- ↑ The Strange Life of Ilja Ehrenburg by Mark Weber (IHR)
- ↑ The Strange Life of Ilja Ehrenburg by Mark Weber (IHR)
- ↑ Canadian Jewish News, March 17, 1988.
- ↑ The Strange Life of Ilja Ehrenburg by Mark Weber (IHR)
