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According to the 1935 census, there were 93,479 Jews
in Latvia; so that the 70,000 persons that the German troops found upon their
arrival in Latvia in June 1941 represent 75% of the total population who were
surely not "saved," instead of the 80% "of certain survivors" discovered by
Rassinier. Moreover, the comparison between the 123,930 people killed as of
October 1941 in the Baltic countries and the "49,000 missing in 1945" according
to Rassinier, provides a new occasion to judge his self conceit and his
frivolity. That is how he wrote history.
3. The Hungarian Chapter
The last example exposing Rassinier's methods concerns the
deportation of the Hungarian Jews in 1944. Rassinier came back to the problem
innumerable times for two reasons: the first is that he was desperately seeking
to discredit a book by a Jew deported from Hungary, Myklos Nyiszli, who
described the operation of the gas chambers at Auschwitz and indicated the
frequency of the arrival of the convoys; the second is that he had his own
ideas on the subject. The least incoherent of these ideas takes up ten pages in
his book, "The Drama of the European Jews" (41, pp. 150-190). It may be summed up in the following
manner: different Jewish sources, including the Tribunal of Jerusalem which
judged Eichmann in 1961, fix the number of Jews deported from Hungary in 1944
at more than 400,000 persons transferred in two months by 147 trains of 3,000
people each following each other at a rhythm of two to three per day. Rassinier
revolted against such inventions and showed that it was materially "impossible"
and therefore completely false. He advanced two reasons to explain why it was
impossible. First of all, according to Kasztner (one of the leaders of the
Jewish community of Budapest), the "Eichmann Kommando" disposed of but 1,000
railway cars of which "only two-thirds could be affected to the deportation,
hardly more. Let's say 700," conceded Rassinier. The three hundred remaining
cars, according to Rassinier, were used to bring the future deportees to the
assembly point. Furthermore, personal experience of the deportation showed
Rassinier that the gathering together, the setting them on their way from the
assembly point to the train, the embarking of only 3,000 persons in the train
required "a good half-day," whereas the single voyage from Hungary to
Auschwitz, by his calculations, required four days plus an a additional four
days for the return of the empty cars. The consequence was that in few days
"the system was blocked." Finally, Rassinier's personal experience allowed him
to affirm that to guard 147 trains at the rate of two to three per day during
two months, Eichmann had to dispose of 22,050 policemen; whereas he (Rassinier)
could affirm that it was impossible to transport 3,000 persons in a convoy. For
all of these reasons and for many others of the same nature, Rassinier reached
the conclusion that there were really 77 trains instead of 147,
transporting
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