MANY YOUNG PEOPLE IN NZ THOUGHT THE HOLOCAUST WAS A MYTH: It was November 1934 when the crew of the Armando Diaz and other fascists were with the RSA at Wellingtons cenotaph  (Photo: PAColl-7081-16. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23124270). 6 ½ Million Jews died in Europe in between 1933 and 1945. In 2019 a poll showed that 29% of New Zealanders knew little to nothing about the Holocaust. When they  responded to the question as to whether to holocaust was a myth. A 1/3^rd of those polled either refused to respond or said they were unsure how to answer the question. Only 18% of young New Zealanders said they knew much about the Holocaust

KIWI’S ARE SKEPTICAL: An Associate Professor of History at Victoria University – Giacomo Lichtner wrote an op-on Stuff to explain why he was not surprised by the findings of the poll. He said when he tried to talk to NZrs about the Holocaust he found that often Kwi’s were skeptical about the Holocaust events relevance to their own country. “Eeem – What does it have to do with our country. Afterall New Zealand what have NZrs had to do with the tragedy of the Jews in fascist Europe”

NZ DID NOT GIVE THE JEWS THAT FLED EUROPE A WELCOME ON THE MAT: However, how many Kiwi’s would know that many Jewish victims that tried to escape Nazi persecution in the lates 1930’s- New Zealand was seen to be an place of urgent relevancy. Thousands of Jews dreamed of finding safety in New Zealand. And applied for permission to travel to our country

FOR THOUSANDS OF JEWISH PEOPLE FLEEING NAZI  PERSECUTION: In the late 1930’s NZ was a place of relevancy and urgency. They dreamed of finfing a place of safety. Applied to travel to New Zealand.  1, 100 Jewish refugees were accepted but thousands were rejected. Some countries were more generous to Jews. The Dominican Republic, which is less than a fifth of the size of New Zealand, accepted 30,000 Jewish refugees from Hitler. Switzerland, which is even smaller, also took 30,000. Fifty thousand Jews found refuge in the tiny international zone of the city of Shanghai.

SOON AFTER HITLER SEIZED POWER OVER GERMANY NEW ZEALAND STARTED TO RETURN HOME : They returned with great admiration for the Nazi Regime. In 1934 John Laird the Minister of Mt Albert Baptist Church returned from a conference in Berlin, he reported that “Hitler had given Germany Peace- Unity-Security and Hope. He blamed Germany’s Jews  for their persecution  by Hitler saying that many of them were “rabid communists”

IN 1935 DM RAE PRINCIPAL OF AUCKLAND TEACHERS TRAINING COLLEGE:- Gave a public lecture on the great things he had seen on his pilgrimage to Germany. Rae  said that “Hitler has given hope to the German people”.

IN 1935 REUEL LOCHORE RETURNED TO NZ WITH HIS TOOTHBRUSH LOOK ALIKE HITLER MOUSTACHE:  Reuel Lochore  was a linguist spent the first half of the 1930’s studying in Bonn and Berlin. He was described as wearing a toothbrush moustache like Hitlers. He was interviewed by an Auckland Star News Reporter.  He claimed that “Germany did not exist as a Nation until Hitler took power in 1933”

THE CLEANING UP PROCESS OF HITLERS POLITICAL OPPONENTS:  This was the description given by Lochore as he toured New Zealand viving lectures about the need for rapprochement with the Nazi’s. In one lecture he boasted he had attended a training camp for Nazi Stormtroopers. But Hitlers antisemitism reasonated amongst other New Zealanders too.  In 1931 a journalist, admirer of Hitler – Arthur Nelson Field published a book titled ‘The Truth About The Slump’ blaming a conspiracy by Jewish financiers for the Wall Street crash pf 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression. The book a best seller in NZ and found readers in Australia, Britain and the US

EARLY 1930’S THE NZ SOCIAL CREDIT ASSOCIATION WAS FOUNDED: By 1935 they had 225 branches regularly accused the Jews of orchestrating the Global economic Crash.

CONSPIRACY THEORIES SPREAD ACROSS THE WORLD: In 1931 the journalist and admirer of Hitler Arthur Nelson Field published a book called The Truth About the Slump, which blamed a conspiracy by Jewish financiers for the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression. Field’s tome became a bestseller in New Zealand, and also found readers in Australia, Britain, and the United States.

THE MASSIVE CONSPIRACIES AGAINST THE JEWISH PEOPLE: Have proven by Historians and reported  by mainstream media  to be Conspiracy theories..  Fake News.. Fiction( See- Western Imperial Russia- Russian Secret Police- The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion. The Jewish Pale Settlement- (Western  Russia stretched right across Hungry- Poland-Ukraine)

RESEARCHER: Cassie

WakeUpNZ

LINK (https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-01-2020/in-new-zealand-we-need-to-recall-our-own-links-to-the-holocaust?fbclid=IwAR36jwL0EK4eGSqE8V8BincAmORjmBO6cgwDqiapiEL2ZMFDRhyM6J0ODOE)

THE SPINOFF REPORTED 27^TH January 2020 ‘ In New Zealand We Need to Recall Our Own Links to the Holocaust (Scott Hamilton- Guest Writer)