”Statistics, media and organisations within judaism in the United states and Canada” is authored by the German researcher and linguist Heinz Kloss, and are only remain in a few copies. Last year was bought the book in over the internet by the librarians in the canadian government, and on Wednesday was presented for the first time to the public.
the Book contains an extensive cataloging of jewish citizens in the united states and Canada, and plans about what the nazis would do if they took control of north America.
the Book shows that the holocaust was a european phenomenon, it was a phenomenon that just did not have the opportunity to spread outside Europe, ” says Michael Kent at the Canadian riksarkiv to The Guardian.
north America than many are aware, the magazine writes. For example, established the germans a weather station in the canadian province of Newfoundland in 1943, and there were also several reports of German submarines in the St. Lawrence river.
Heinz Kloss was frequently hired by the nazis, and his book is believed to have been a part of Adolf Hitler’s personal library in his home in the Alps. Block mapping has been done in collaboration with an extensive network of nazistsympatisörer, and the jews in Canada have been sorted by language and ethnic origin.
“I think it is a part of the second world war and the holocaust horrors, the amount of intelektuell thought that the perpetrators put in their work,” says Michael Kent.
in order to preserve an important part of the story, in a time of growing anti-semitism and förintelseförnekelse.
A recent study also shows that more than half of all adult canadians did not know that more than six million jews killed in the holocaust, and among the younger the defendant, the awareness was even lower.
” I’m still struggling against the nazis and white power supporters in ways I never could have dreamed. When I come to schools, I see young people who have not learned history’s lessons, says Bernie Farber, president of Canada’s ”anti-hat-network”, The Guardian.