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in all groups. Relevant here is that every faithful account of the Jewish Holocaust is peppered

with statements such as the following:

Question survivors of the ghettoes and camps. They all certify that the

beatings they received at the hands of the Jewish 'golden youth' were filled

with scorn. They fulfilled their tasks with a zeal and cruelty to a greater

extent than that required by the German commanders. (Y. Efroiken, Sanctity and

Valor of the Jews, in Reb Moshe Shonfeld, The Holocaust Victims Accuse:

Documents and Testimony on Jewish War Criminals, 1977, p. 21)

He [K. Tzetnik] depicts the figure of Eliezer Greenbaum, son of Yitzchak

Greenbaum, who, thanks to his tactics of acting as informant and displaying

cruelty - to an extent which amazed even the Germans - was elevated to the rank

of the bloc commander. (Reb Moshe Shonfeld, The Holocaust Victims Accuse:

Documents and Testimony on Jewish War Criminals, 1977, p. 21)

Practically all of the kapo officers were academicians - persons with degrees

who behaved like wild beasts and at times were more cruel than the Nazis. (Reb

Moshe Shonfeld, The Holocaust Victims Accuse: Documents and Testimony on Jewish

War Criminals, 1977, p. 121)

Is it in the interests of historical truth to allude to the Ukrainian beasts without mentioning

the Jewish beasts? Does the depiction of one without the other constitute information or

disinformation, reporting or propaganda? Who commands such bias in the media? Who pays for

it? These are issues worthy of address by a team of intrepid investigative reporters, should

any be found.

Comparison 3: Ukrainians Saving Jews Compared to Jews Saving Ukrainians

Jews have had many opportunities to save Ukrainians. For example, Jews could have saved

Ukrainians during the induced famine of 1932-33, during which Jews fared better than Ukrainians

for several reasons: (1) Jews tended to be urban whereas the famine tended to be rural; (2) Jews

were more affluent, and money buys food even during a famine; (3) Jews received support from

other Jews in the West; (4) Jews occupied positions of authority, and in fact can be said to

have administered the famine. Thus, Jews had ample opportunity to save Ukrainians simply by

giving them food or by sabotaging the food-confiscation process. Or, in the mass deportations

and executions, during which Jews again occupied positions of authority, there was again ample

opportunity for Jews to subvert the process and hide or save Ukrainians.

We have already seen above innumerable cases of Ukrainians saving Jews, but can we now locate a

single case of a Jew saving a Ukrainian? Simon Wiesenthal, for example, had his life saved by

the Ukrainian Bodnar, but did Simon Wiesenthal ever in his long life reciprocate by saving a

Ukrainian? We saw above that an entire Ukrainian family was shot by the Nazis for hiding a

Jewish woman, but can we find a single instance of an entire Jewish family being shot by the

Bolsheviks for hiding a Ukrainian woman? We saw above that the Ukrainian mayor of a town was

shot by the Nazis for helping Jews, but can we find a single instance of a Jewish mayor - and

there were many Jewish mayors in Ukraine - being shot by the Bolsheviks for helping Ukrainians?

We saw above Metropolitan Sheptytsky risking his life and the lives of other Ukrainians by

hiding Jews on church property, but can we find a single instance of a rabbi risking his life

and the lives of other Jews by hiding Ukrainians on synagogue property? We saw above

Metropolitan Sheptytsky writing to Himmler protesting the shooting of Jews, but can we find any

similar case of a rabbi writing to Lazar Kaganovich protesting the starvation of Ukrainians?

One would like to see a statement from Morley Safer as to the justification for this double

standard. When the most rudimentary and obvious comparisons indicate that Ukrainians have been

disposed to Jews much more favorably than Jews have been disposed to Ukrainians, how can Morley

Safer justify concluding the opposite?

CONTENTS:

Preface

The Galicia Division

Quality of Translation

Ukrainian Homogeneity

Were Ukrainians Nazis?

Simon Wiesenthal

What Happened in Lviv?

Nazi Propaganda Film

Collective Guilt

Paralysis of the Comparative

Function

60 Minutes' Cheap Shots

Ukrainian Anti-Semitism

Jewish Ukrainophobia

Mailbag

A Sense of Responsibility

What 60 Minutes Should Do

PostScript

60 Minutes' Cheap Shots

60 Minutes peppered its broadcast with distortions and misrepresentations. Here are nineteen

miscellaneous instances:

(1) Doctoring the sound track to bring out the evil of torchlight parades. The torchlight

marchers are not a clear indication of anything, and without some enhancement, the scene would

have fallen flat, and so 60 Minutes overlaid an exaggerated, rhythmic tramping sound which added

an ominous militaristic flavor to the scene. In fact, given that it is dark and there is no

band and the marchers are not singing, it is impossible for any but local groups of them to keep

in step, and simple leather-soled or rubber-soled shoes could not have made such a sound - it

would have taken cleated boots. The rhythmic tramping superimposed by 60 Minutes continues to

be heard even when the paraders can be seen to be walking more than marching. One can see that

the added sound effects are only imperfectly coordinated with the movements of the feet.