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Saturday, February 18, 2023
Days of Haman: Nazis Then, Nazis Now
Their Crime Against the Reich?
A: They Asked Their Government for Honest Elections
Esther 4
When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry. 2 He went as far as the king’s gate because no one was allowed to enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. 3 In each and every province where the king’s command and his decree came there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4 So the young women of Esther and her eunuchs came and told her of it. The queen was then seized by anguish. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai so that he could remove his sackcloth, but he would not accept them. 5 So Esther summoned Hathak, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to attend her, and commanded him concerning Mordecai to learn what this was about and why.
6 So Hathak went out to where Mordecai was in the area of the city in front of the king’s gate. 7 Mordecai told him about all that had happened to him and about the sum of silver that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. 8 Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa concerning their destruction so he could show Esther, tell her about it, and then charge her to go to the king in order to gain him favor with the king and to make requests in the presence of the king for her people.
9 Hathak returned and told Esther the words of Mordecai. 10 Again Esther spoke to Hathak and ordered him to reply to Mordecai: 11 “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that whoever, whether man or woman, wishes to come to the king at the inner court but has not been summoned, there is one law—to put him to death—unless for some reason the king should hold out the golden scepter so that he might live. I, however, have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days.”
12 So all the words of Esther were told to Mordecai. 13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think that in the king’s palace you will be more likely to escape than all the other Jews. 14 For if you remain silent at this time, protection and deliverance for the Jews will be ordained from some other place, but you and your father’s house shall be destroyed. And who knows if you may have attained royal position for such a time as this?”
15 Then Esther replied, sending back to Mordecai: 16 “Go, gather all the Jews who can be found in Susa, then fast for me. Stop eating and drinking for three days, night or day. I and my young women will fast likewise. Only then would I dare go to the king since it is not allowed by law, and if I perish, I perish.”
17 So Mordecai went away and did exactly as Esther had commanded him.
"Victoria White from Rochester, Minnesota attended the Stop the Steal rally in Washington DC on January 6th. She was nearly killed by DC police officers during the rally. Victoria was later arrested and charged with assault on the US Capitol.
Victoria White was brutally beaten near death by the US Capitol Police. According to attorney Joseph McBride:
She is hit approximately thirty- five times over the course of 4 minutes and 30 seconds, while appearing to be begging for mercy the entire time. She is hit with the baton while facing away. She is hit with the baton while facing forward. She is speared and poked with the baton about the face so as to inflict maximum pain. She collapses more than once and is stood up by the officers only to be maced and beaten again. At some point, White-shirt puts away his baton, not because he is showing mercy because he has a clear avenue to her face. As such, he unloads on the defenseless woman punching her five times in five seconds, directly in the face, with all of his might.
Not once in the DOJ report do they describe the brutal pummeling she received at the hands of the Capitol Police officers.
The fact that they ignored police brutality in their report is absolutely frightening.
The fake news mainstream media has also refused to report on this brutal police beating in any of their reporting.".......
"Helmuth Hübener’s short life was shaped by the rise of fascism in Germany. The Nazis changed nearly every facet of everyday life for Germans, and the boy was no exception. A devoted Boy Scout, he was forced to become part of the Hitler Youth, the youth arm of the Nazi Party, when the Nazis banned the organization in 1935.
For months, Hübener spread the word about lost battles and Nazi lies. But in February 1942, a coworker who saw him writing the pamphlets turned him in to Nazi officials. He was arrested and tried before the Volksgerichtshof, or People’s Court, a Nazi-controlled tribunal that dealt with matters of treason.
Hübener and his friends were imprisoned in Berlin’s Plötzensee Prison along with other political prisoners. The prison was notorious for its harsh treatment of prisoners and as a site of countless summary executions. For ten weeks, the boys were tortured and intimidated as they awaited trial. When the Nazi head of Hübener’s congregation found out about the arrest, he excommunicated the boy from the Mormon Church.
Finally, the trial arrived. Hübener, who was just 17 years old, was tried as an adult. Rather than argue for his release, the boy instead confronted the judges about the Nazi regime and the war. When a judge asked him if he really thought Germany would lose the war, he asked, “Don’t you?” His friends later told family members that they thought Hübener was purposely baiting the judges so they’d give the other boys less severe sentences. That’s exactly what happened. His friends were sentenced to imprisonment in labor camps, but Helmuth Hübener was convicted of conspiracy to commit high treason and treasonous furthering of the enemy’s causes and sentenced to death by beheading. Because his crime was considered so serious, Hübener’s sentence gave the Nazis legal justification for both his execution as a minor and the torture he had already withstood.
When asked if he had anything to say before his sentencing, Hübener confronted the judges again. “I have to die now for no crime at all,” he said. “Your turn is next!”
On October 27, 1942, guards told Hübener that Adolf Hitler had personally refused to commute his death sentence. Hours later, he was beheaded—the youngest person ever executed by the Third Reich.".......
"I cannot possibly throw up as much in my mouth as I would like to."--a German playwright on hearing of Hitler's election. In fairness, Hitler actually won his election, unlike der NippleFuhrer.
Capitol protestor Rosanne Boyland murdered by police officer Lila Morris -- covered up...DC Coroner claimed it was an overdose--body cremated to avoid further examination
This woman was beaten to death by the baton of officer Lila Morris. Boyland was knocked down and beaten with a baton and later died of her injuries. She was lying there defenseless and lifeless as officer Morris continued to beat her. Morris beat Boyland so hard and so many times that she lost her stick! Will our resident George Floyd supporters insist she died of an "overdose"?
Rosanne Boyland was lifeless and Morris continued to put her entire weight into beating Rosanne to death. Rosanne never recovered. The police officers fought off protesters who tried to rescue her. And when she was dragged away she never took another breath. She was dead.
The Washington DC Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Francisco Diaz came out and said Boyland’s first cause of death was “Acute Amphetamine Intoxication” and the media gleefully reported. As previously stated, it has been confirmed that Boyland had an Adderall prescription, which is an amphetamine. It is hard to fathom how the Medical Examiner missed the blunt trauma that should have been obvious after the police allegedly pushed the crowd on top of Rosanne, would not allow anyone to pull her out, and then beat her with a stick to the body and the head repeatedly as she lay motionless. Unfortunately, Boyland was cremated shortly after her autopsy. It may still be possible to order a second autopsy based on pictures and other forensics, something the people should demand, and Nancy Pelosi’s “House Select January 6th Committee” should be focused on.
It has become clear to many Americans that the Capitol Police and DC Police are allegedly responsible for the death of at least two unarmed female protesters.
13 This was Mordecai’s reply to Esther: “Do you think you will escape there in the palace when all other Jews are killed? 14 If you keep quiet at a time like this, God will deliver the Jews from some other source, but you and your relatives will die; what’s more, who can say but that God has brought you into the palace for just such a time as this?”
Summer of 1944 –A postcard flapped onto the railway tracks between Auschwitz and Theresienstadt concentration camps. It had been slipped through one of the cracks of the cattle wagons’ floorboards. These crummy airless boxes had borne Jews from around Europe on their way to the gas chambers.
The postcard was 23-year-old Alice Licht’s last attempt at surviving the Holocaust. She was aboard the “death train” along with her family. In what could have been a miraculous streak, her postcard was posted to the factory it was addressed to – a brush factory in Berlin owned by a certain Otto Weidt.
Weidt was Alice’s German employer and upon getting her postcard a few days later, he immediately went off to Auschwitz in search for her to try to save her and her family from their impending death in the camp. However, when he got there, Alice had been moved to another prison house while her family was murdered in the gas chambers.
But this did not stop Otto in his effort to save the young lady and when he was able to get hold of her even when she was still being held by the Nazis. He then spruced up a safe house near the camp she was in in preparation for her escape. The chance presented itself a few months later after she was sent off to Auschwitz, in January 1945. By this time, Soviet’s Red Army was strongly advancing against the Nazis and the latter started evacuating their camps throughout Eastern Europe.
Alice managed to slip away from the Nazis in one of their “death marches” and went to the safe house Weidt arranged. She then found her way to Berlin and eventually to her former employer. he kept her hidden until the Nazis defeat in May 1945.
Miss Licht was just one of the many Jews Otto Weidt helped to escape the Holocaust. In Germany, he is being set side by side with his more well-known contemporary, Oskar Schindler, whose life was immortalized in Steven Spielberg’s WWII movie Schindler’s List.
Otto Weidt often referred as the “Blind Schindler”
Both men saved many Jews from the Holocaust. But Otto Weidt’s tale has this one amazing touch – he did it all though he was blind. The Blind Heroalso shows how different Weidt was to Schindler. While Oskar had started his business first and his saving the Jews from the Holocaust had looked like it was a sideline to his running it, Weidt had been an original anarchist, was zealous in his being anti-Nazi and had detested Hitler even from the start. His factory had been put up to save Jews, many of whom were blind, by employing them.
Inge Deutschkron recounted how Weidt used his skills as a liar and a clever conman to outfox the Nazis. Deutschkron had been one of the few fully sighted employees he had in his factory; she worked as a telephone receptionist from 1941 onwards.
Her employer had to deliver all his products to the Wehrmacht war machine but this he did not do. As Mrs. Deutschkron explained, horsehair brushes were rated as first-class wedding presents so Weidt chose to market his produce elsewhere, meaning he sold them off on the black market to Karstadt, a German department store chain.
The money he gained from his illegal sales he used to buy luxury goods which he then used to bribe the Gestapo so that they would leave his Jewish employees and factory alone. These luxury goods included crates of champagne, boxes of first-rate cigars and even expensive scents which he said were “for the dear lady”. Weidt dutifully supplied Hitler’s men with these things and they left him, his factory and employees untouched and unharmed.".......
The small letters, tav, shin, and zayin in the list of Haman’s ten sons (Esther 9), with the combined numerical value of 707, are seen as a “prophetic” code hinting to the future hanging of the ten Nazis convicted at the Nuremberg trials in the year 5707, which Julius Streicher declared as “Purimfest 1946” before he was hanged. What is the origin of these small letters?
by Dr. Emmanuel Bloch and Dr. Rabbi Zvi Ron
The three small letters and the large vav in the ten sons of Haman, with the Nuremberg trial in the background.
Twenty-four defendants were tried at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals (Nov 20, 1945–Oct 1, 1946). Two were acquitted, eight were given prison sentences, and twelve were condemned to death. Of these twelve, Martin Bormann was tried in absentia, and Herman Goering committed suicide before he could be executed. Given their military status, the ten men asked for the firing squad, but to underscore that their crimes went beyond mere military offenses, the court decided on the more common death by hanging.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Kingsbury Smith of the International News Service was chosen by lot to represent the American press at the executions. He reported Streicher’s final moments and last words as follows:
As the guards stopped him at the bottom of the steps for identification formality he uttered his piercing scream: “Heil Hitler!” The shriek sent a shiver down my back… As he reached the platform, Streicher cried out, “Now it goes to God.” He was pushed the last two steps to the mortal spot beneath the hangman’s rope. The rope was being held back against a wooden rail by the hangman. Streicher was swung suddenly to face the witnesses and glared at them. Suddenly he screamed, “Purim Fest 1946!”…
The American officer standing at the scaffold said, “Ask the man if he has any last words.” When the interpreter had translated, Streicher shouted, “The Bolsheviks will hang you one day.” When the black hood was raised over his head, Streicher’s muffled voice could be heard to say, “Adele, my dear wife.” At that instant the trap opened with a loud bang. He went down kicking.”
Apparently, Streicher could not help but notice the parallels of the hanging of ten Nazis and the hanging of Haman’s ten sons.
The Nazi’s Preoccupation with Purim
As historian Martin Gilbert notes, the Nazis were well aware of the Jewish holidays and used “Jewish festivals for particular savagery; these days had become known to the Jews as the ‘Goebbels calendar,’” and many atrocities were committed specifically on Purim.
In Zdunska-Wola, for example, on Purim 1942, ten Jews were hung by Nazis “in revenge for Haman." On Purim of 1943, the Nazis fooled the Jews of the Piotrkow ghetto—a demonic version of a Purim prank—by asking for ten Jewish volunteers as part of an alleged exchange program for Germans living in Palestine, and then shot them all.
Julius Streicher himself, founder and editor-in-chief of the weekly German newspaper Der Stürmer (“The Stormer”), featured a lengthy report on March 1934 (Der Stürmer 11): “The Night of the Murder: The Secret of the Jewish Holiday of Purim is Unveiled.” On the day after Kristallnacht (November 10, 1938), Streicher gave a speech to more than 100,000 people in Nuremberg in which he justified the violence against the Jews with the claim that the Jews had murdered 75,000 Persians in one night, and that the Germans would have the same fate if the Jews had been able to accomplish their plan to institute a new murderous “Purim” in Germany.
In 1940, the best-known Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda film, Der Ewige Jude (“The Eternal Jew”), took up the same theme. Hitler even identified himself with the villains of the Esther story in a radio broadcast speech on January 30, 1944, where he stated that if the Nazis were defeated, the Jews “could celebrate the destruction of Europe in a second triumphant Purim festival.”
Jews and Nazi-Purim Parallels
The Jews at the time also saw parallels between Purim and the events in Nazi Germany. Already in the 1930s, European Jews connected Haman and Hitler, taking particular joy in the Megillah reading, especially at the hanging of Haman’s sons, interpreting it as the eventual downfall of the Nazis.
Hitler as a modern version of Haman appears in Purim plays going back at least to 1934,and this image figures prominently in the first Purim celebrations held by Holocaust survivors. Rabbinic letters at the time refer to him as the “known Haman” of the time. Photographs of the Purim celebration at the Lansberg DP camp show multiple versions of Hitler hanging in effigy in the fashion of Haman.
Unsurprisingly, therefore, an editorial on the Nuremberg trial in the Tel Aviv daily newspaper HaBoker (Oct 16, 1946, p. 2) as well as a front-page article in this paper discussing the Nuremberg trials (Oct 18, 1946) refer to the Nazis as “sons of Haman.”.......
Esther 7:6-10
6 Esther said, “This wicked Haman is the adversary and enemy!”
Then Haman was seized with terror before the king and the queen. 7 And the king arose from the banquet of wine in his wrath and went into the palace garden. But Haman remained to plead for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king.
8 Now the king returned from the palace garden back to the hall of the banquet as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was.
Then the king said, “Will he also violate the queen while I am in the room?”
As the shout erupted from the king’s mouth, they covered the face of Haman. 9 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in the king’s presence, said, “The gallows, fifty cubits[a] high, which Haman had constructed for Mordecai (who had spoken good on behalf of the king), stands at the house of Haman.”
10 Then the king said, “Hang him on it!” So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.
Father, we pray a hedge of protection around the rightful President of the United States Donald J. Trump and his family and we ask Father that You would cause wicked, unrepentant Haman to see Your Justice. WE speak Your Victory, Lord Jesus.
Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered! In Jesus' Peerless Name we pray, Amen and Amen!
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