Chris Matthews: Hitler never used chemical weapons
Overlooks Nazi dictator's gassing
of defenseless Jews in concentration camps
Published: 08/30/2013 at 5:48 PM
In an appearance on the “Morning Joe” show Tuesday, MSNBC host Chris Matthews declared confidently that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons in World War II.
Matthews compared the dictator of Nazi Germany to Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad, stating (emphasis added):
The problem is, I don’t like it, first of all I’m rather dovish, I don’t
like what I’m going to say but it’s true. If you basically put down a red line
and say don’t use chemical weapons, and it’s been enforced in the Western
community, around the world – international community for decades – don’t use
chemical weapons. We didn’t use them in World War II, Hitler didn’t use them,
we don’t use chemical weapons, that’s no deal. Although we do know that Assad’s
father did. And then he goes ahead and does it. It makes you wonder what the
mullahs will do if they have a couple of nuclear weapons, just a couple. Are
they capable of not using them? And that, of course, you know, I think that
everybody talking this morning is projecting toward that, which is if you can’t
use deterrents the normal way – mutually assured destruction – you can’t say,
if you do this, we’re blowing you up. If that doesn’t work, what does work? And
that’s the problem.
Responding to Matthew’s comment,
Jewish Telegraph Agency Managing Editor Uriel Heilman set the record straight:
“For the record, the U.S.
used nuclear weapons in World War II, which arguably are worse than chemical
weapons. And, of course, Hitler used chemical weapons – gassing defenseless
Jews in the concentration camps.”
Hitler used hydrogen cyanide gas, known as Zyklon B, and
carbon monoxide inside concentration camp gas chambers in his effort to
annihilate the Jewish people, killing an estimated 6 million Jews.
The Jewish Virtual Library
explains the scientific breakdown of Zyklon B:
Hydrogen cyanide HCN, prussic
acid, is a chemical compound in the form of a powerfully poisonous, volatile
colorless liquid with the odor of bitter almonds. Prussic acid is considered a
battlefield poison agent. Its action depends on the restraint of cellular
respiration as a result of neutralizing the respiratory enzymes. Prussic acid
passes through the mucous membranes and the skin, but principally through the
lungs, into the blood. It blocks the process by which oxygen is released from
red blood corpuscles and the result is a sort of internal asphyxiation. This is
accompanied by symptoms of injury to the respiratory system, combined with a
feeling of fear, dizziness and vomiting.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf
Hitler was the Nazi Party leader,
and the fuhrer for Germany.
Note: Nazi Party was a political
party in Germany.
Richard R. Burt
was a U.S. ambassador for Germany,
and is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Rozanne L. Ridgway
was a U.S. ambassador for Germany,
and a co-chair for the Atlantic Council
of the United States
(think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), and the Center for American Progress.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and was a supporter for the Center for American Progress.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), the Center for American Progress, and the Sundance Institute.
Klaus Kleinfeld is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a director at the Bayer AG, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant
(think tank).
Bayer AG
The Bayer company then became
part of IG Farben, a German chemical company conglomerate. During World War II,
the IG Farben used slave labor in factories attached to large slave labor
camps, notably the sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.[3] IG
Farben owned 42.5% of the company that manufactured Zyklon B,[4] a chemical used in the gas
chambers of Auschwitz and other extermination camps. After World War II, the
Allies broke up IG Farben and Bayer reappeared as an individual business. The
Bayer executive Fritz ter Meer, sentenced to seven years in prison during the
IG Farben Military Tribunal at Nuremberg,
was made head of the supervisory board of Bayer in 1956, after his release.
Bayer
Corporation is the North American subsidiary of Bayer AG.
Mayer
Brown was the lobby firm for the Bayer
Corporation.
William
M. Daley was a partner at Mayer
Brown, the chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration, and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
William M. Daley
Professional career
Daley returned to the practice of
law, as a partner with the firm Mayer Brown (then Mayer, Brown & Platt)
from 1993 to 1997.
Robert
A. Helman is a partner at Mayer
Brown, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor,
Ezekiel Emanuel’s brother, and was
the White House chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.
Ezekiel Emanuel
is Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, a senior fellow at
the Center for American Progress,
and was the health care policy adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
Steven J. Spinner
was a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, and the president of strategic partnerships for NBC.
NBCUniversal
is a subsidiary of NBC.
MSNBC
is an NBCUniversal network.
Morning
Joe is an MSNBC program.
Chris
Matthews Show is an NBC program.
Chris
Matthews is the host of the Chris
Matthews Show.
Sidley Austin
LLP is the lobby firm for Bayer
HealthCare.
Bayer HealthCare
is a subsidiary of Bayer AG.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Mellody L. Hobson
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and a trustee at the Sundance
Institute.
Patricia E.
Mitchell is the vice chair for the Sundance
Institute, and a board member for Global
Green USA.
John
B. Emerson was a council of advisors member for Global Green USA, and is the U.S.
ambassador for Germany.
Global Green USA
is a US
affiliate for Green Cross International.
Mikhail Gorbachev
is the founder of Green Cross
International, and was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Green Cross International
Honorary Board
Robert Redford, USA
Robert
Redford is an honorary board member for Green Cross International, and the founder & president for the Sundance Institute.
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