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Old August 10th, 2016 #1
Karl Radl
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Default Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #13: The Tango of Death

Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #13: The Tango of Death


In yet another instance of absurd claims made about the Germans in World War II. I quote an assertion of Soviet origin about the Germans torturing and executing jews to the accompaniment of an orchestra playing a specially-composed tune at the Yanov (aka Janowska) concentration camp in south-western Poland.

This is reproduced from the wildly popular history of 'Nazi atrocities' named 'The Scourge of the Swastika' authored by Edward Russell (aka Lord Russell of Liverpool) who was a key figure in the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crime Trials.

I quote:

‘In Yanov the tortures and the murders were carried out with musical accompaniment. An orchestra was formed of inmates and a special tune called the ‘Tango of Death’ was composed. When this camp was disbanded every member of the orchestra was put to death.’ (1)

This is one of the more farcical claims in the whole corpus of weird and wacky testimony that was, and to a lesser extent is, used as ‘evidence’ for the ‘Holocaust’. The sheer improbability of the claim is strikingly obvious and that it was manufactured for propagandistic purposes by the Soviet Union is probable.

Evidence that this is a piece of black propaganda is suggested by the origin of claim.

This is just one 'eye witness' named Manusevitch that the Soviet special commission 'investigating' the Yanov camp in 1944 – Russell's source via the medium of the Nuremberg Trials – ferreted out and used as propaganda against the Germans who the Soviet Union was still at war with at the time of the original publication of the report on Yanov. (2)

Hardly the best of evidence as we have no corroboration of anything that Manusevitch claims allegedly occurred at the Yanov concentration camp.

That it is unlikely to be true is also indicated – in addition to the paucity of evidence for the claim itself - by the rather convenient addition to the story of the details that the members of the supposed orchestra who played the ‘Tango of Death’ were all executed when the Germans evacuated the camp. This renders Manusevitch the only witness and made it difficult to directly disprove his improbable claims at the time of the Nuremberg Trials without other evidence.

Hmm… I wonder why that was useful with his making such improbable claims to, or at the behest of, the Soviet authorities.


References

(1) Edward Russell, 1972, [1956], 'The Scourge of the Swastika', 14th Edition, Corgi: London, p. 123
(2) Ibid, p. 123, n. 1

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