I've got a lot to say about the topic of holocaust reparations as it's something I've studied out of sheer interest, which I'll tie in with this book review. Strap in, this is going to be a long review.



I'll give Finkelstein credit that he's probably the first person (at least that I know of) to blow the whistle on the holocaust reparations racket in a major way (and definitely the first Jew to do so).

Finkelstein does a great job in exposing a few of the many holocaust shucksters such as Elie Wie

I've got a lot to say about the topic of holocaust reparations as it's something I've studied out of sheer interest, which I'll tie in with this book review. Strap in, this is going to be a long review.



I'll give Finkelstein credit that he's probably the first person (at least that I know of) to blow the whistle on the holocaust reparations racket in a major way (and definitely the first Jew to do so).

Finkelstein does a great job in exposing a few of the many holocaust shucksters such as Elie Wiesel. Not only does he expose Wiesel as a liar (Wiesel claims to have read Kant's 'The Critique of Pure Reason' in Yiddish as a teenager straight out of Auschwitz, even though it had not been translated into Yiddish at that time), he also reveals Wiesel's greed (he was demanding a $25,000 speaking fee per engagement as well as a chauffered limousine for transport to the venue).

Using Wiesel's works as an example, Finkelstein also goes on to show how the holocaust has become a uniquely terrible event in history to Jews which can never be paralleled nor compared to in any way. Forget the Holodomor, the Rwandan genocide, the nukes dropped on Japan... Finkelstein makes the point that many Jews consider it anti-Semitic to even compare these events to the holocaust.

In fact, a recent poll questioned Jews on what the most important thing about being Jewish is, and the number one thing, receiving a whole 73% of the vote, was 'The Holocaust'.

The book also does a decent job in explaining the Jewish love of victimhood, but not to the degree of which Kevin MacDonald does in 'The Culture of Critique'.



Finkelstein also illuminates the discrepancies in the number of Holocaust survivors - at one point, Jewish organisations and historians claimed the number to have walked out from the camps to be at about 20,000 individuals. As this book progresses, Finkelstein notes how that number jumped up to over 900,000 as reparations became a reality.

It's important to note here that the definition of holocaust survivor was changed by these Jewish organisations so that even Jews serving in the Red Army were considered holocaust survivors, due to the fact that they might have been put into camps if the Germans ever took them hostage.

Since the writing of this book in the early 2000s, the definition of holocaust survivor has once more been modified - I recently discovered that those who were just a fetus in their mother's womb while she was in a concentration camp during WWII are now considered survivors of the holocaust and are eligible for compensation from the German government (and as of last month, so too are the partners of holocaust survivors eligible for nine months of compensation if the survivor is to pass away).



Speaking of compensation from the German government, Israel claims to have over 200,000 holocaust survivors still living within her borders and will receive over $560 million dollars in reparations this year (2019) alone. That brings the total amount of restitution paid by Germany to approximately 100 billion dollars. Someone please remind these people that the war ended 74 years ago.

More instances of Jewish demands for reparations since publication of this book include the French national railway being collectively sued for compensation, a Dutch railway being sued in the same manner, a current lawsuit against Hungary where claimants want 'tens of billions of dollars' in return for Hungary's cooperation with Nazi Germany (this last case was actually green lit by the judicial system in the US).



Back to Finkelstein's book. 'The Holocaust Industry' focusses mostly on Swiss bank reparations, which is alright, but it severely misses out on an opportunity to undermine the holocaust as a whole (which is probably not the intention of the Jewish writer).

There's no mention of the ludicrous claims made by Jews of the happenings within the concentration camps - the soap bars made of Jews and lampshades of Jewish skin, the masturbation machines, the stairs of death, the holocoaster, the electric floors, the eagle and the bear ring and so on (google any of these claims if you're unfamiliar with them), nor much emphasis on Hollywood's love of propagandising the holocaust.

Finkelstein also claims early in the book that 'after 1967, Israel facilitated assimilation in the United States; Jews now stood on the front lines defending America - indeed 'western civilization' - against the retrograde Arab hordes.' This is blatantly false. Jews are underrepresented in the military, and Israel has never cooperated in defending American interests - just look at the Lavon affair, or the USS Liberty incident, or the claims about Saddam's nuclear stockpile, or today's Jewish warmongering against Iran. America serves Israel's interests, and not the other way around.

There's also frequent justifications made for reparations to blacks and Indians in America - if the Jews get their payday, why not the blacks and Indians too, suggests the author.

Another gripe I have with the book is its readability. All too often it reads like the terms and conditions of an iTunes account when there's so many opportunities to add context and a bit of flavour to the issues at hand.



A more appropriate title of this book would be 'The Swiss bank shakedown', as most of it deals with the pressure placed on Swiss banks to pay large amounts of money for fraudulent claims of persecution.

It's a book worth reading as it really does confirm the Jewish stereotype of the love of money and of playing the victim, which some people are yet to accept, but for people who've read a little about the behaviour of these people, it's nothing surprising and not the book it really could be.