65 The "myth" of the Holocaust was created solely for the financial benefit of Israel (Holocaust: Leuchter)
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This article is from the Holocaust FAQ, by Ken McVay kmcvay@nizkor.org with numerous contributions by others.
65 The "myth" of the Holocaust was created solely for the financial benefit of Israel (Holocaust: Leuchter)
Holocaust denial often asserts that the sole reason that the
"Holocaust hoax" has been promulgated was that it created a financial
windfall for the State of Israel. Deborah Lipstadt provides this
information in "Denying the Holocaust":
"Israeli officials detailed their claims against Germany in their
communique of March 1951 to the Four Powers, and this document became
the official basis for the reparations agreement. It contained an
explanation of Israel's means of calculating the size of the
reparations claim. In the communique Israeli officials explained that
Nazi persecution had stimulated 'a second Jewish exodus' of close to
five hundred thousand. Based on the size of this exodus, Israel
determined the amount of the reparations it would request:
The government of Israel is not in a position to obtain and
present a complete statement of all Jewish property taken or
looted by the Germans, and said to total more than $6 thousand
million. It can only compute its claim on the basis of total
expenditures already made and the expenditure still needed for
the integration of Jewish immigrants from Nazi-dominated
countries. The number of these immigrants is estimated at some
500,000, which means a total expenditure of $1.5 thousand
million.
It seems hardly necessary to point out that since the money the state
received by based on the cost of resettling _survivors_, had Israel
wanted to increase the amount of reparations it obtained from Germany
it would have been in its interest to argue that fewer than six
million had been killed and that more had managed to flee to Israel."
(Lipstadt, 57)
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