The Red Cross is evil.
Red Cross Admits Holocaust Silence
JACK KATZENELL October 7, 1997
JERUSALEM (AP) _ The Red Cross handed over 60,000 World War II-era documents to Israel today and admitted a ``moral failure″ in failing to speak out against the Nazi genocide that killed 6 million Jews.
The Red Cross ``admits _ yes _ that it has kept silent with regard to the Holocaust, and I would say that this is the heart of the moral failure,″ said George Willemin, archive director for the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross.
The documents, on 30 reels of microfilm, were given to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, as well as the Holocaust Museum in Washington and the Jewish Documentation Center in Paris, Willemin said.
The decision to release the documents reverses a Red Cross policy of secrecy.
``The walls are coming down,″ said Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev.
Among other things, the documents show Red Cross investigators discounted reports of the mass murder of Polish Jewish prisoners of war in 1940, Yad Vashem said in a statement.
As the war continued, the Red Cross did cooperate discreetly with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and other bodies trying to ease the plight of European Jews, Willemin said. But it did not attempt to expose the Holocaust.
Swiss historian Jean-Claude Favez said the Red Cross silence was partly due to its being composed of Swiss citizens anxious to avoid compromising Switzerland’s neutrality.
``It was in the Red Cross’s interest to preserve Switzerland’s neutral status, despite the fact the ICRC was supposed to be a private and an independent organization,″ Favez wrote.
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