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If Morley Safer will not swerve from his position that Ukrainians were keen on Naziism, then he

should explain how Ukrainians were able to maintain their keenness when their cities were being

starved:

Koch drastically limited the flow of foodstuffs into the cities, arguing that

Ukrainian urban centers were basically useless. In the long run, the Nazis

intended to transform Ukraine into a totally agrarian country and, in the short

run, Germany needed the food that Ukrainian urban dwellers consumed. As a

result, starvation became commonplace and many urban dwellers were forced to

move to the countryside. Kiev, for example, lost about 60% of its population.

Kharkiv, which had a population of 700,000 when the Germans arrived, saw

120,000 of its inhabitants shipped to Germany as laborers; 30,000 were executed

and about 80,000 starved to death.... (Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History,

1994, p. 469)

Among the first actions of the Nazis upon occupying a new city was to plunder it of its

intellectual and cultural treasures, material as well as human, and yet somehow - if we are to

believe Morley Safer - being so plundered failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the Ukrainians for

Naziism:

Co. 4 in which I was employed seized in Kiev the library of the medical

research institute. All equipment, scientific staff, documentation and books

were shipped out to Germany.

We appropriated rich trophies in the library of the Ukrainian Academy of

Sciences which possessed singular manuscripts of Persian, Abyssinian and

Chinese writings, Russian and Ukrainian chronicles, incunabula by the first

printer Ivan Fedorov, and rare editions of Shevchenko, Mickiewicz, and Ivan

Franko.

Expropriated and sent to Berlin were many exhibits from Kiev's Museums of

Ukrainian Art, Russian Art, Western and Oriental Art and the Taras Shevchenko

Museum.

As soon as the troops seize a big city, there arrive in their wake team

leaders with all kinds of specialists to scan museums, art galleries,

exhibitions, cultural and art institutions, evaluate their state and

expropriate everything of value. (Report by SS-Oberstrumfuehrer Ferster,

November 10, 1942, in Kondufor, History Teaches a Lesson, p. 176, in Andrew

Gregorovich, World War II in Ukraine, Forum, No. 92, Spring, 1995, p. 23)

Only genetic programming could explain how - according to Morley Safer anyway - Ukrainians could

have been among the most loyal of Nazis when their intelligentsia were being decimated and they

were being treated as Untermenschen:

Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS, proposed that "the entire Ukrainian

intelligentsia should be decimated." Koch believed that three years of grade

school was more than enough education for Ukrainians. He even went so far as

to curtail medical services in order to undermine "the biological power of the

Ukrainians." German-only shops, restaurants, and sections of trolley cars were

established to emphasize the superiority of the Germans and the racial

inferiority of the Ukrainian Untermenschen. (Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A

History, 1994, p. 469)

There must not be a more advanced education for the non-German population

of the east than four years of primary school.

This primary education has the following objective only: doing simple

arithmetic up to 500, writing one's name, learning that it was God's command

that the Germans must be obeyed, and that one had to be honest, diligent, and

obedient. I don't consider reading skills necessary. Except for this school,

no other kind of school must be allowed in the east....

The [remaining inferior] population will be at our call as a slave people

without leaders, and each year will provide Germany with migrant workers and

workers for special projects ... and, while themselves lacking all culture,

they will be called upon under the strict, purposeful, and just rule of the

German nation to contribute to [Germany's] eternal cultural achievements and

monuments.... (Himmler, May 1941, in Hannah Vogt, The Burden of Guilt: A Short

History of Germany, 1914-1945, Oxford University Press, New York, 1964, p. 263)

The notion proposed by 60 Minutes that Ukrainians were as one with the Nazis - or if we are to

believe Mr. Safer, more Nazi than the Nazis themselves - is a colossal fiction based on colossal

prejudice:

A graphic indication of the extremes of Nazi brutality experienced in Ukraine

was that for one village that was destroyed and its inhabitants executed in

France and Czechoslovakia, 250 villages and their inhabitants suffered such a

fate in Ukraine. (Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, 1994, pp. 479-480)

CONTENTS:

Preface

The Galicia Division

Quality of Translation

Ukrainian Homogeneity

Were Ukrainians Nazis?

Simon Wiesenthal

What Happened in Lviv?

Nazi Propaganda Film

Collective Guilt

Paralysis of the Comparative

Function

60 Minutes' Cheap Shots

Ukrainian Anti-Semitism

Jewish Ukrainophobia

Mailbag

A Sense of Responsibility

What 60 Minutes Should Do

PostScript

Simon Wiesenthal

Discovered Under the Floorboards

In reading Simon Wiesenthal's biography, one cannot but be impressed by his exactitude. Take

this account of how he was discovered underneath the floorboards:

In early June 1944, during a drinking bout in a neighbouring house, a chief

inspector of the German railways was beaten and robbed by his Polish