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The Titanic

An instrument of mass murder or merely an accident?

By Greg Raven

Now¹ that several years have passed since that fateful night of April 14, 1912, when the Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank, killing 1,503 of the 2,208 aboard, there is a movement afoot to rewrite the history of this event. This revisionist movement, about whose agenda we can only speculate, seeks to deny the fact that most of the lives lost aboard the Titanic were Jewish. Furthermore, the revisionists seek to cast doubt over the well-established fact that the Titanic disaster was a part of Adolf Hitler’s grand scheme to extermi­nate Europe’s Jewry.²

To counter this movement, it is important to recall certain indisputable facts about this event and to repeat them loudly until people cringe at the mere mention of the topic. The common thread linking the Titanic to the explosion of the Hindenburg³ to the Auschwitz gas ovens is clear and unambiguous: The victims were always Jews.

The revisionists make much of the fact that at the time of the sinking of the Titanic, Hitler had not yet come to power. Indeed, many go so far as to point out that World War I was yet to be fought. These seemingly plausible statements ignore the fact that Hitler did not become Chancellor of Germany overnight, he worked his way up, getting his start in the German army during World War I.

The revisionists also attempt to downplay Hitler’s (and indeed, Germany’s) role in the Titanic disaster by harping on the fact that the Titanic sailed from Southampton, Great Britain. This completely ignores Hitler’s V-2 bombing of London during World War II. Would a man who contents himself bombing the innocent civilians of a foreign country hesitate to sink a ship belonging to that same foreign country out of some sense of fair play? The answer, of course, is no.

Furthermore, the revisionists attempt to deny the fact that most of those who died in on the Titanic were almost without exception Jewish, targets of Hitler’s Final Solution. In Mein …

Notes

  1. The passage of time is of no importance. The reader should consider this to be a pressing, contemporary issue, no matter when this is read. We must never forget.
  2. Goebbels, Joseph. Ninety-nine and 44/100 percent pure: Aryans would have floated. Berlin: Reichminis­ter Press, 1912.
  3. May 6, 1937. And, while only thirty-six died out of 97 persons aboard, the Germans saw the future of using gas as a means of extermination.