He [Sheptytsky] dispatched a lengthy handwritten letter dated August
29-31, 1942 to the Pope, in which he referred to the government of the
German occupants as a regime of terror and corruption, more diabolical
than that of the Bolsheviks. (Raul Hilberg, Perpetrators, Victims,
Bystanders, 1992, p. 267)
One of those saved by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky was Lviv's Rabbi
Kahane whose son is currently the marshal commander of the Israeli Air
Force. (Ukrainian Weekly, June 21, 1992, p. 9)
Sheptitsky himself hid fifteen Jews, including Rabbi Kahane, in his own
residence in Lvov, a building frequently visited by German officials.
(Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust, 1986, p. 410)
However, despite the widespread agreement that the Catholic church headed by
Sheptytsky was outspoken and courageous in its defense of Jews, you have consistently
portrayed Christianity in general, and the Catholic church in Lviv in 1941 in
particular, as being virulently anti-Semitic. I refer, for example, to your fable of
the alcoholic priest in Western Ukraine who incites a pogrom (Alan Levy, The Wiesenthal
File, 1993, p. 24), which fable I have already brought to your attention in my letter
to you of December 8, 1994; and I refer as well to your story of the Ukrainians who you
say almost executed you:
As the shots and shouts of the boisterous Ukrainians drew closer to
Wiesenthal, he heard a new sound: church bells. The Ukrainians heard
it, too. Good Orthodox Catholics all, they laid down their arms for
evening mass.
Wiesenthal and his friend had stood five or six bullets away from
extinction. (Alan Levy, The Wiesenthal File, Constable, London, 1993,
p. 36)
Now if it is the case as we have just seen above that the Catholic church
unambiguously and unequivocally stood for the defense of Jews, then we would expect
devout Catholics to not be among the executioners of Jews. Conversely, given that
someone is among the executioners of Jews, we would expect him not to be a devout
Catholic. Your portrayal of sadistic executioners as being simultaneously devout
Catholics is incongruous and elicits incredulity.
But your story goes beyond the incongruous to the grotesque. You portray a team
of executioners who have been repeatedly drinking vodka - and may therefore be depicted
as drunk. You say that they have also just been shooting prisoners in the back of the
neck, and then lifting the bodies from the floor and placing them into makeshift
coffins - therefore, the executioners are also covered with blood. Assuming that these
executioners did not have a place to shower and had not brought with them a change of
clothing, and assuming that the church bells are signaling the imminent commencement of
mass so as not to leave time for showering and changing, then I have trouble conjuring
up a credible image of these executioners arriving at the church for mass. To accept
your image requires us to accept that the appearance of drunk and blood-spattered
executioners at a mass would not attract notice and repugnance - a supposition which is
erroneous and offensive. And it requires us also to accept that the mind set of
executioners engaged in genocide is so similar to Christians engaged in devotion, that
they make the transition instantaneously and seamlessly - another supposition which is
erroneous and offensive.
Mr. Wiesenthal, I entreat you to either explain and defend your bizarre story, or
else to withdraw it.
Yours truly,
Lubomyr Prytulak
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Wiesenthal Letter 24 Jan 18/98 Reversing victim and victimizer
The caption at the top of the photographs shown below is from LIFE magazine, 11Jun45, p. 50. The caption in German
and Latin at the bottom of the Simon Wiesenthal drawing below was, of course, included with the drawing in Simon
Wiesenthal's KZ Mauthausen, 1946, p. 64. This caption says:
The Gallows
The Marquis de Sade would have been in ecstasy if he could have seen the gallows in a
KZ [concentration camp]. His faithful successors the SS-hangmen had daily execution
fever. It provided some variety, beyond the eternal, monotonous shootings and
beatings. Something one could photograph with pleasure. They placed bets for rounds
of beer on how long the offender could hold out. He must not die too quickly. When
he threatened that, he was bound, and when he had somewhat recovered, it continued
... to the greater glory of the devil!
I refer to Simon Wiesenthal's drawing as a "1946" drawing because that was the date of publication of the book in
which the drawing appeared. A reader using a recent version of a NetScape browser can click here to be taken to a
discussion of the Lviv pogrom referred to in the letter below. A reader using an Internet Explorer browser can go to
the top of the page which contains that discussion by clicking here, and once on that page, can click "What happened
in Lviv?" to arrive at the same discussion of the Lviv pogrom.
January 18, 1998
Simon Wiesenthal
Jewish Documentation Center
Salztorgasse 6
1010 Vienna
Austria
Dear Mr. Wiesenthaclass="underline"
In the course of the October 24, 1993 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom, you leveled the accusation,
echoed by Morley Safer, that immediately prior to the occupation of Lviv by German forces in 1941, Ukrainians killed
some 5 to 6 thousand Jews. I have already brought to your attention evidence that your accusation is unfounded, and
that the more likely reality is that during approximately that same interval, the NKVD - dominated by Jews - killed
approximately that same number of Ukrainians. This evidence was presented to you in five letters, dated September 8,
9, 12, 13, and 14, 1997.
That the NKVD was dominated by Jews is not an irrelevancy which I am introducing gratuitously, but, rather, is germane
in that it offers a motive for your reversal of the truth. That is, it is possible that your reason for falsely
portraying Ukrainians killing Jews is to cover up the reality that Jews were killing Ukrainians, and to make any claim
on behalf of the latter seem implausible should it ever be put forward.
What I ask you in the present letter is whether you had not begun a comparable reversing of victim and victimizer
earlier in your career - almost five decades earlier, as a matter of fact - and on a smaller scale?
Specifically, I am enclosing copies of two similar, and yet contrasting, images:
Three LIFE magazine photographs, 1945
Enclosed you will find a photocopy of three photographs from LIFE magazine (June 11, 1945, p. 50) which appear at the
end of a photo essay titled "FIRING SQUAD: Army executes three German spies who were caught in U.S. uniforms." The
story appears on three pages - 47, 48, and 50. There are a total of nine, mutually-consistent photographs in the
essay. The first paragraph of the story is:
During Nazi breakthrough at Bastogne last December the Germans managed to smuggle
some of their intelligence officers behind U.S. lines. Three of these spies were
captured, tried and shot. Last week the War Department released pictures on this and
the following pages, taken by LIFE Photographer Johnny Florea, which show their
speedy execution. (p. 47)
One Simon Wiesenthal drawing, 1946
Enclosed you will also find a photocopy of one of your drawings, signed "SWiesenthal," from p. 64 of your 1946 book of
drawings KZ Mauthausen showing three individuals in striped uniforms, tied to stakes, and apparently either
unconscious or executed. As your book is dedicated to depicting the suffering of Jews at the hands of the Nazis at
the Mauthausen concentration camp, and as your caption indicates that the drawing depicts victims of Nazi torture, the
reader is encouraged to the conclusion that the drawing represents a scene witnessed by yourself of Jews tortured to
the point of unconsciousness or executed by Nazis at Mauthausen.
However, the similarity between the three individuals shown in the 1945 LIFE magazine photographs and in your 1946 KZ
Mauthausen drawing is striking and unmistakable, and suggests the alternative conclusion that you copied the LIFE
magazine photographs, added striped uniforms to the victims, and then misattributed the result.
Questions
I would appreciate your answering the following three questions:
(1) How do you explain the similarity between the LIFE magazine photographs and your drawing?
(2) Do you not feel it appropriate at this time to issue a retraction of the misattribution of your KZ Mauthausen
drawing?
(3) Might it not be even more appropriate to issue a similar retraction of your more extreme, more recent, and more
damaging reversal of victim and victimizer in the case of the pre-German Lviv massacre of 1941?
Yours truly,
Lubomyr Prytulak
2. Israel-Jewish Diaspora World-Wide criminal activity
(Jewish extremists lobbism is behind the cover up of the Israel-related criminal activity world wide and money laundering)
Hassidic Jews in New York yeshivas are among the top money launderers in the world. They use the cloak of religion to hide their work and they use Israel's
exclusively Jewish immigration policy (the "law of return") to escape U.S. justice by relocating to Israel. One of these Hassidic Jews candidly admitted that as
long as it benefitted "their community" it didn't matter whether money was laundered.
The article is interesting in that demonstrates another example of the age-old problem of Jewish loyalty being to "Jews first" rather than their country of
residence. It also shows how can Jews benefit from and get away with crimes due to Israel's exclusive immigration policy which allows Jewish criminals to
escape U.S. prosecution by fleeing to Israel (and in most cases, with=the money). The U.S. government -- ever beholden to Jewish influence and Jewish
interest as always -- dare not extradite them.
It is amazing how these Jewish criminals can exploit America and then escape its laws by recourse to an immigration policy which Jews claim is "racist" for
every other country but Israel (!)
New York's 47th Street : Maariv, September 2, 1994 By Ben Kaspit, the New York correspondent
Rabbi Yosef Crozet fell because of his big mouth. "I launder money, a lot of money," he once told an acquaintance. "Every day I take $300,000 from 47th