ГУЛаг Палестины

Ukrainian editor ends up dead. That is the reality of Ukraine. It was the reality of

Ukraine when you visited it in 1994, it was the reality of Ukraine before 1994, and it

has been the reality of Ukraine since 1994.

As in earlier letters, I fault you for not reporting such incidents as are in the above

table that took place before 1994, and I fault you for precipitating such incidents that

took place after 1994. Thus, to the blood that is already on your hands, I add the

blood of Borys Derevyanko. You had the opportunity in your 1994 broadcast to come out

on the side of the victims against the butchers, but you preferred to side with the

butchers against the victims, and Borys Derevyanko has been one of the casualties of

your decision.

Lubomyr Prytulak

cc: Yaakov Bleich, Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney,

Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.

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Morley Safer Letter 13 04Jul99 The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny

Thus, it is possible that you contributed to Maksym Tsarenko losing his hands, and to

Volodymyr Katelnytsky together with his mother, and Borys Derevyanko, losing their

lives.

Additional information on the Lviv massacre can be found in Alfred M. de Zayas, The

Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939-1945.

July 4, 1999

Morley Safer

60 Minutes, CBS Television

51 W 52nd Street

New York, NY

USA 10019

Morley Safer:

You Broadcast to 30 Million 60 Minutes

Viewers that in the Days Prior to German

Occupation, Ukrainians Killed Jews

In your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom, you joined with

Simon Wiesenthal in charging that in the days preceding the arrival of German forces

in June 1941, Lviv Ukrainians killed thousands of Jews:

SAFER: He [Simon Wiesenthal] remembers that even before the

Germans arrived, Ukrainian police went on a 3-day killing spree.

WIESENTHAL: And in this 3 days in Lvov alone between 5 and 6

thousand Jews was killed.

[...]

SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian

militia, the police, killed 3,000 people in 2 days here.

Some 60 Minutes viewers may have been struck by the observation that while the 60

Minutes expert witness - Simon Wiesenthal - claimed that the number of Jews killed

was "between 5 and 6 thousand" in three days, you - supposedly the neutral

interviewer - chose to reduce the number killed to "3,000" and the duration of the

killing to two days - but without informing the viewer on what grounds you did so.

One wonders what reason you would have had for undermining the testimony of your

chief - and only - witness. One wonders what superior authority you discovered for

your revised statistic, and why you did not bring this superior authority forward to

testify in front of the CBS cameras instead of Simon Wiesenthal whose testimony you

apparently distrusted and chose to contradict. And one wonders that you could have

such low regard for the intelligence of 60 Minutes viewers that you would broadcast

discrepant accounts without explaining the discrepancy.

However, I Can't Find Anyone Else

Substantiating the Wiesenthal-Safer

Pre-German Lviv Pogrom

In my reading, I have yet to come across a single account which supports the

Wiesenthal-Safer claim of anywhere from 3,000 Jews killed in 2 days to 5,000-6,000

Jews killed in 3 days in Lviv during the pre-German interval. Had the

Wiesenthal-Safer pogrom taken place, then it would have been one of the biggest

pogroms of the war, and possibly the very biggest, and thus obligatory to describe

in every history of the Holocaust, if not in every history of the Second World War.

What I found, in contrast, was statements contradicting the possibility of the

Wiesenthal-Safer pogrom, most notably the following three made by Raul Hilberg:

From the Ukraine Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C reported as

follows:

Almost nowhere can the population be persuaded to

take active steps against the Jews. This may be

explained by the fear of many people that the Red

Army may return. Again and again this anxiety has

been pointed out to us. Older people have remarked

that they had already experienced in 1918 the

sudden retreat of the Germans. In order to meet

the fear psychosis, and in order to destroy the

myth [...] which, in the eyes of many Ukrainians,

places the Jew in the position of the wielder of

political power, Einsatzkommando 6 on several

occasions marched Jews before their execution

through the city. Also, care was taken to have

Ukrainian militiamen watch the shooting of Jews.

This "deflation" of the Jews in the public eye did not have the

desired effect. After a few weeks, Einsatzgruppe C complained once

more that the inhabitants did not betray the movements of hidden

Jews. The Ukrainians were passive, benumbed by the "Bolshevist

terror." Only the ethnic Germans in the area were busily working

for the Einsatzgruppe. (Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the

European Jews, 1961, p. 202)

The Slavic population stood estranged and even aghast before the

unfolding spectacle of the "final solution." There was on the

whole no impelling desire to cooperate in a process of such utter

ruthlessness. The fact that the Soviet regime, fighting off the