Comments on: The Youngest Corporal In The Nazi Army

How A Young Jewish Boy Escaped Death And Became A Mascot For Nazi Soldiers

[mitdgreenb]

Andrew -- amen. Belarus has a long and storied history of antisemitism which continues into the present.

NY View -- you attempt to make a good point. However, there is a relatively obvious flaw in your logic. Specifically, the story says he joined as mascot in 1942, but it does not say that the photo is from 1942. In fact, the photo may be from 1943 and/or a still from the propaganda film mentioned in the story. Further, the story cites town records... records kept proudly by the antisemitic Belarussians... that show that 1600 people were killed there. Do you doubt these records too? Do you doubt the meticulous records that the Nazis themselves kept?

[missingamerica]

Kind of hard to take such stories at face value, when I just found out that CBS has named Jeff Ballabon as their Senior Vice President of "Communications".

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-forman/cbs-news-pick-claimed-dem_b_168688.html)

Between eight years of an Administration famous for adulterating their "communications" to be sure that they stayed "on message" and knowing that CBS just hired somebody who has been quoted as saying "Democrats are inherently bad people" (that being a "kindler, gentler" example of his works) as THEIR master of "communications", you have to wonder.

When righties are at the reins, truth falls off the wagon.

[andrew_693]

tthe latvian division was one of the most murderous in WW2 I saw an interview with a member of it on the history channel. The people in occupied russia were some of the worst anti semites you can imagine and participated happily in the murder of jews and communists. Europeans in general are racist, but they like to blame the Germans for everything.

[newyorkview]

... the "division" that Kurzem speaks of here is the Latvian Legion of the Waffen-SS. In the CBS story's video, Kurzem is seen wearing an alleged Waffen-SS uniform. On the left sleeve of the uniform is the insignia of the Waffen-SS Latvian Legion, which was comprised of two divisions.

The Latvian Legion and its two divisions were not even created until 1943. So how was it that Kurzem joined this unit as its mascot in 1942?

Further, the Latvian Legion was not involved in the Holocaust, and no members of the Latvian Legion were ever tried for war crimes associated to their service in this unit.

Another fable to evoke sympathy and guilt ...

I'm really getting annoyed at these "stories"!

[rushlimpdrug]

Real or myth?

Put him on oprah, he can sell millions of books
then the truth will come out, he can apologize,
and we can go on to the next hollowcowst story,
or whatever.

[jamster31]

Eh its probably a fake story like the a lot of the other fake holocaust surviver/hero/love stories.


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Posted by Anti-Zion at 08:07 AM : Feb 23, 2009

Maybe one day your children will be in a similar situation. Anyone who doubts the holocaust is in serious denial and has no apathy for human life.

[babooph]

A child surviving a Europeon winter with no food in the forest with only a coat -quite a STORY.

[pat_olson]

mmm...the Nazi's conned the world...

I don't think so...HOLD UP before you think I am insensitive or anti-semitic. Remember the chimp cartoon and the holocaust of the African in this country???

Do not call someone racist or anti-semitic when one behaves racistically.

By the way, I was under the impression that the rules of engagement were that we do not discuss Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pot. WHy the exception today?

Its a "Brave New World" on the "Animal Farm"...

Let the World BE HEALED. Let us all Move Forward.

[eliphord]

Why have I seen more Nazi stories on CBS in the past month than ever before in my life??

Could Obama's Hitler-esque policies have anything to do with that?

[fred2571]

This may seem a minor point, but the story should not have referred to the unit that "adopted" Mr. Kurzem as an army unit. The uniforms, including the one that Mr. Kurzem wore, are clearly SS. This is not to say that the German army was not involved in the Holocaust -- it was, and deeply -- but it's important to be accurate in such matters, both for the sake of accuracy in itself and so as not to give ammunition to the deniers, some of whom have obviously already latched onto this story.