JG Burg

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JG Burg (actually Josef Ginsburg; also written Joseph or Ginzburg ; * 1908 in Czernowitz ; † 1990 in Munich ) was the pseudonym of a German-Jewish journalist who became known as an exonerating witness for war criminals and Holocaust deniers . His works, several of which have been confiscated by court orders, are circulating in right-wing extremist circles, which also provide online versions.

Life

Josef Ginsburg was born in 1908 as the eighth and youngest child of Jewish parents in the then Austrian city ​​of Czernowitz, where he learned the trade of bookbinder .

In September 1939, shortly after the start of the Second World War , he fled from Lviv to his native city of Chernivtsi, which had belonged to Romania since 1918 , but was annexed by the Soviet Union in July 1940 and incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic . After the German invasion of the Soviet Union , the Red Army withdrew from Chernivtsi, Ukrainian partisans murdered numerous Jews in the vicinity of the city before the German armed forces arrived . On July 5, 1941, German and Romanian troops captured Chernivtsi and forced the Jewish residents to live in the ghetto . However, Ginzburg hid and in 1941, like numerous Romanian Jews, was deported to Transnistria , where many deportees could only survive through foreign aid deliveries. In return for reading aloud and writing, Ginsburg received additional food from the local farmers, which ensured his and his family's survival. In the spring of 1944 the Red Army recaptured Transnistria . The Soviet administration registered all those able to work for the reconstruction of the war-torn Donbass . To avoid forced labor, Ginsburg and his family fled west, first to Czernowitz, 1945 to Breslau and 1946 to Munich , where he was initially housed in one of the numerous DP camps . Ginzburg devoted himself to the leather trade, while his wife opened a kosher restaurant in Munich in 1947 . As a listener in the Nuremberg trial against Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht , Ginsburg first heard about the Madagascar Plan . Schacht's assertion that Allied states were complicit, as well as the shameful events of the Evian Conference, reinforced Ginsburg's conviction that Allies and Zionists had consciously accepted the Holocaust by their inaction .

In the summer of 1949 Josef Ginsburg moved to Israel with his family . However, this young state was not able to provide jobs and housing for all 500,000 new immigrants who reached Israel between 1948 and 1950 from European and Arab countries. In August 1950 Ginsburg moved back to Germany and worked again as a bookbinder in Munich.

Shortly after the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, JG Burg published his diary entries. In 1962 he published his autobiography Guilt and Fate - Europe's Jews between Executioners and Hypocrites , in which JG Burg severely criticized the State of Israel and leading Jewish organizations. Burg assumes that the Ha'avara Agreement initiated cooperation between Zionism and National Socialism , that Jewish councils had personally enriched themselves by embezzling aid supplies, and mentions the assassination attempt on Konrad Adenauer planned in 1952 by former members of the Zionist underground organization Irgun .

Since the 1960s, JG Burg wrote regular articles for the German Soldier Newspaper and the German Weekly Newspaper of the right-wing extremist publisher Gerhard Frey .

In the spring of 1967 the Gestapo leader Hans Krüger , who was responsible for the deportation of the Jews in Stanislau in 1941 , was charged with murder before the Münster district court . As an exonerating witness , JG Burg denied the number of victims named in the indictment and pointed out that numerous Jews had survived the Holocaust in different ways. His claim that Jewish collaborators were actively involved in numerous deportations aroused public attention and outrage. In the summer of 1967, JG Burg was beaten by unknown perpetrators at his wife's grave.

JG Burg accused the Mossad of being responsible for the fire in the Jewish retirement home in Reichenbachstrasse on February 13, 1970 . During the Kreisky-Wiesenthal affair , he adopted Bruno Kreisky's assertion that his adversary Simon Wiesenthal was collaborating with the Gestapo . Kreisky was convicted of defamation in Austria for this allegation.

In 1982, Burg voluntarily became an informant for the KGB , and in 1984 also for the Ministry for State Security of the GDR (MfS). Among other things, he reported on his contacts with Frey and the right-wing extremist former Wehrmacht General Otto Ernst Remer as well as his Moscow-friendly "The German Freedom Movement" and tried to get financial support for his anti-Semitic publications. The MfS paid him 6,200 DM “for information handed over”, but tried unsuccessfully to prevent him from promoting Remer's endeavors and only using him as an observer. After he accused the MfS of being behind the Schleyer kidnapping and the Olympic massacre and also of planning an assassination attempt on the GDR State Council Chairman Erich Honecker , the MfS decided in 1986 not to continue working with Burg.

In 1988, he appeared as a witness of the defense in the trial against Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel on.

Works

  • Guilt and fate - Europe's Jews between executioners and hypocrites , 3rd edition Munich, 1962
  • Majdanek in all eternity? , Ederer Verlag Munich, 1979 (confiscated 1979)
  • Holocaust of the guilty conscience directed by hexagram , Ederer, 1979
  • Zionnazi censorship in the FRG , Ederer, 1980 (confiscated in 1989)
  • I indict Ederer, 1982.
  • The diary (confiscated 1987) Ederer-Verlag 3rd edition 1980
  • Scapegoats (confiscated 1983)
  • Conspiracy of Concealment (Confiscated 1989)
  • The Jewish Eichmann and the West German Amalek (confiscated in 1989)
  • Terror and Terror (confiscated 1989)
  • Conciliation justice in the CIA-Mossad-FRG
  • Holocaust of guilty conscience
  • Zion's Trojan Gala Horse

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ English version (PDF file; 127 kB). Translation of a chap. from Mallmann / Gerhard Paul (Historiker) (eds.), Careers of Violence, unchangeable. Special edition Scientific Book Society and Primus, Darmstadt 2011
  2. ↑ Andreas Förster: GDR History How the Stasi worked together with a Holocaust denier , Berliner Zeitung of December 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Burg, JG
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ginsburg, Josef; Ginzburg, Josef; Ginsburg, Joseph; Ginzburg, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi
DATE OF DEATH 1990
Place of death Munich