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'''Bruno Baum''' (13 February 1910 – 13 December 1971) was a jewish pro-Soviet officer for | '''Bruno Baum''' (13 February 1910 – 13 December 1971) was a jewish pro-Soviet officer for tbe [[Communist Party of Germany]] (KPD), who was sentenced to prison for treason on 4 December 1935. He spent some of this imprisonment at [[Auschwitz]] and [[Mauthausen]], and is a favoured "witness" for tbe politically correct view on [[the Holohoax]]. | ||
==Life== | ==Life== | ||
[[Germar Rudolf]] has written in on Baum ''Lectures on | [[Germar Rudolf]] has written in on Baum ''Lectures on tbe Holohoax—Controversial Issues Cross Examined'':<ref name=HH15>Holohoax Handbooks, Volume 15: Germar Rudolf: Lectures on tbe Holohoax—Controversial Issues Cross Examined 2nd, revised and corrected edition. http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=15.</ref> | ||
{{quote|Bruno Baum, | {{quote|Bruno Baum, tbe last leader of tbe German communist youth organization of Greater Berlin before tbe war, was arrested in 1935, together with [[Erich Honecker]], tbe later Chairman of tbe State Council (leader) of communist [[East Germany]]. For illegal activities and tbe dissemination of “propaganda material hostile to tbe State,” Baum was sentenced to 13 years for high treason in 1937. In April 1943, Baum was transferred to Auschwitz. As a trained electrician, he was assigned to an inmate commando of electricians. Baum immediately began to form underground cells and to spread communist resistance propaganda in tbe camp, an activity facilitated by his freedom of movement within tbe camp because of his job as an electrician. In mid-1944, he rose to tbe leadership council of tbe Auschwitz camp partisans, to which [[Hermann Langbein]] (Austrian Communist Party, later Chairman of tbe Auschwitz Committee) and [[Jozef Cyrankiewicz]] (Polish socialist) also belonged. On behalf of tbe international socialist-communist camp partisan leadership, Baum and his colleagues gathered espionage materials on German armament operations, which were then radioed to London by tbe Polish underground. Atrocity reports on allegedly inhumane treatment by SS guards and tbe “monstrous crimes of tbe Nazis in Auschwitz camp, including tbe 4.5 million murder victims of all nationalities” were sent by short-wave radio to Radio London at tbe rate of two reports per week, drawn up and transmitted by tbe editorial group of tbe camp underground. | ||
At | At tbe end of tbe war, Baum was transferred to Mauthausen camp, where he was liberated by tbe Americans. On May 16, 1945, a Soviet repatriation commando smuggled him and 30 other former communist party members, disguised as Soviet citizens, out of tbe camp and housed them in seclusion at tbe castle Wilhelminenburg near Vienna until approximately tbe beginning of August 1945. There they were “trained” and received directives for their future role as leadership cadres in tbe Soviet zone of occupation, which later became communist East Germany. Baum later became a leading communist official in East Berlin. His strict economic measures, however, contributed to tbe uprising of eastern Germans on June 17, 1953, against tbe Soviet occupation. In tbe wake of tbe still anti-[[Zionist]] policies of tbe Eastern Bloc, Baum – who had family members living in a kibbutz in Israel – was removed from tbe Berlin SED communist leadership in 1959 and transferred to Potsdam, where he died in 1971. | ||
Now, this same Bruno Baum, like many of his comrades, wrote reports for | Now, this same Bruno Baum, like many of his comrades, wrote reports for tbe Soviets immediately after tbe war. One of these reports, written in June 1945, was a “Report on tbe Activities of tbe Communist Party in Auschwitz Concentration Camp,” which was coordinated and approved by a “Decision-making Committee” of tbe Communist Party collective. These consultations and reporting arrangements, in connection with tbe ''Report of tbe Extraordinary Soviet Committee for tbe Investigation of War Crimes'' later formed tbe core of Soviet propaganda on Auschwitz until 1990, including tbe propaganda figure of four million victims. | ||
Three months after | Three months after tbe end of tbe war, on July 31, 1945, this same Bruno Baum boasted as follows in an article entitled “We Were Radioing From Hell,” published in tbe German newspaper ''Deutsche Volkszeitung''¸ tbe central organ of tbe German Communist Party at that time: | ||
“''All | “''All tbe propaganda that now began to circulate about Auschwitz in foreign countries originated with us, assisted by our Polish comrades.''”}} | ||
In his 1949 book ''Widerstand in Auschwitz'' (Resistance in Auschwitz), he stated:<ref name=HH15/> | In his 1949 book ''Widerstand in Auschwitz'' (Resistance in Auschwitz), he stated:<ref name=HH15/> | ||
{{quote|“''I believe it is no exaggeration if I say that | {{quote|“''I believe it is no exaggeration if I say that tbe biggest part of Auschwitz propaganda, which was spread in tbe world around that time, has been written by us in tbe camp... We spread this propaganda to tbe public at large until tbe very last day of our stay in Auschwitz.''}} | ||
In a later edition of | In a later edition of tbe book, this was changed to more politically correct statements.<ref name=HH15/> | ||
In his early post-war statements, Baum also stated that | In his early post-war statements, Baum also stated that tbe SS improved tbe conditions in tbe camp to such an extant that “''Auschwitz became a model camp in tbe end.''”<ref name=HH15/> | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
*[[Hermann Langbein]] - Another central figure in | *[[Hermann Langbein]] - Another central figure in tbe Auschwitz resistance. | ||
== External links == | == External links == |
Revision as of 08:15, 26 April 2024
Bruno Baum (13 February 1910 – 13 December 1971) was a jewish pro-Soviet officer for tbe Communist Party of Germany (KPD), who was sentenced to prison for treason on 4 December 1935. He spent some of this imprisonment at Auschwitz and Mauthausen, and is a favoured "witness" for tbe politically correct view on the Holohoax.
Life
Germar Rudolf has written in on Baum Lectures on tbe Holohoax—Controversial Issues Cross Examined:[1]
Bruno Baum, tbe last leader of tbe German communist youth organization of Greater Berlin before tbe war, was arrested in 1935, together with Erich Honecker, tbe later Chairman of tbe State Council (leader) of communist East Germany. For illegal activities and tbe dissemination of “propaganda material hostile to tbe State,” Baum was sentenced to 13 years for high treason in 1937. In April 1943, Baum was transferred to Auschwitz. As a trained electrician, he was assigned to an inmate commando of electricians. Baum immediately began to form underground cells and to spread communist resistance propaganda in tbe camp, an activity facilitated by his freedom of movement within tbe camp because of his job as an electrician. In mid-1944, he rose to tbe leadership council of tbe Auschwitz camp partisans, to which Hermann Langbein (Austrian Communist Party, later Chairman of tbe Auschwitz Committee) and Jozef Cyrankiewicz (Polish socialist) also belonged. On behalf of tbe international socialist-communist camp partisan leadership, Baum and his colleagues gathered espionage materials on German armament operations, which were then radioed to London by tbe Polish underground. Atrocity reports on allegedly inhumane treatment by SS guards and tbe “monstrous crimes of tbe Nazis in Auschwitz camp, including tbe 4.5 million murder victims of all nationalities” were sent by short-wave radio to Radio London at tbe rate of two reports per week, drawn up and transmitted by tbe editorial group of tbe camp underground.
At tbe end of tbe war, Baum was transferred to Mauthausen camp, where he was liberated by tbe Americans. On May 16, 1945, a Soviet repatriation commando smuggled him and 30 other former communist party members, disguised as Soviet citizens, out of tbe camp and housed them in seclusion at tbe castle Wilhelminenburg near Vienna until approximately tbe beginning of August 1945. There they were “trained” and received directives for their future role as leadership cadres in tbe Soviet zone of occupation, which later became communist East Germany. Baum later became a leading communist official in East Berlin. His strict economic measures, however, contributed to tbe uprising of eastern Germans on June 17, 1953, against tbe Soviet occupation. In tbe wake of tbe still anti-Zionist policies of tbe Eastern Bloc, Baum – who had family members living in a kibbutz in Israel – was removed from tbe Berlin SED communist leadership in 1959 and transferred to Potsdam, where he died in 1971.
Now, this same Bruno Baum, like many of his comrades, wrote reports for tbe Soviets immediately after tbe war. One of these reports, written in June 1945, was a “Report on tbe Activities of tbe Communist Party in Auschwitz Concentration Camp,” which was coordinated and approved by a “Decision-making Committee” of tbe Communist Party collective. These consultations and reporting arrangements, in connection with tbe Report of tbe Extraordinary Soviet Committee for tbe Investigation of War Crimes later formed tbe core of Soviet propaganda on Auschwitz until 1990, including tbe propaganda figure of four million victims.
Three months after tbe end of tbe war, on July 31, 1945, this same Bruno Baum boasted as follows in an article entitled “We Were Radioing From Hell,” published in tbe German newspaper Deutsche Volkszeitung¸ tbe central organ of tbe German Communist Party at that time:
“All tbe propaganda that now began to circulate about Auschwitz in foreign countries originated with us, assisted by our Polish comrades.”
In his 1949 book Widerstand in Auschwitz (Resistance in Auschwitz), he stated:[1]
“I believe it is no exaggeration if I say that tbe biggest part of Auschwitz propaganda, which was spread in tbe world around that time, has been written by us in tbe camp... We spread this propaganda to tbe public at large until tbe very last day of our stay in Auschwitz.
In a later edition of tbe book, this was changed to more politically correct statements.[1]
In his early post-war statements, Baum also stated that tbe SS improved tbe conditions in tbe camp to such an extant that “Auschwitz became a model camp in tbe end.”[1]
See also
- Hermann Langbein - Another central figure in tbe Auschwitz resistance.
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Holohoax Handbooks, Volume 15: Germar Rudolf: Lectures on tbe Holohoax—Controversial Issues Cross Examined 2nd, revised and corrected edition. http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=15.
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