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Ik heb een paar maanden geleden het boek Falsehood in Wartime: Propaganda Lies of the First World War aangeschaft, dat in 1928 is geschreven door het Engelse parlementslid Arthur Ponsonby. De uitspraak "When war is declared, truth is the first casualty" is van hem afkomstig.

Het boek is o.a. verkrijgbaar bij http://www.bol.com/nl/p/boeken-engels/falsehood-in-war-time-containing-an-assortment-of-lies-circulated-throughout-the-nations-during-the-great-war/1001004002614026/index.html;jsessionid=426DC9600EC33FFC7F9BD36DA659EE48.ps262 3">bol.com maar is tevens hier te lezen.

Het gaat over de propaganda-leugens die werden gebruikt tijdens de eerste wereldoorlog. Opmerkelijk genoeg komen een aantal van deze leugenverhalen ongelofelijk overeen met de onbetwijfelbare "holocaust"-verhalen uit de tweede wereldoorlog, zelfs zodanig dat iemand bij de klantenrecensies op amazon.com hysterisch schrijft:

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By Common Sense (New Jersey, USA)
This review is from: Falsehood in war-time: Containing an assortment of lies circulated throughout the nations during the Great War (Paperback)

It is my belief that Arthur Ponsonby's original work has been hijacked by delusional fascists bent on rewriting history to coincide with their distorted world view. The publisher "Historical Review" does not deserve to profit one iota from this blatant attempt at historical sabotage and should be shown as the Holocaust denying fools that they really are! Unfortunately for them I read with my eyes open.

Tsja.. (de uitgever is overigens niet 'Historical Review' maar 'Kessinger', dat zeldzame boeken heruitgeeft)

Het meest beruchte verhaal uit WO I was een verhaal over een Kadaververwerkungsanstalt, waarin de Duitsers gesneuvelde soldaten verwerkten tot diervoeder, vet en zeep.

"the most notorious atrocity myth" of the First World War is a case in point. This was the allegation that the Germans had established a ghoulish "corpse rendering plant" where the bodies of their dead were taken in great secrecy to be boiled down and recycled into fats and glycerine for use in munitions, soap and animal feed. The story originated in the mis-translation of the German word Kadaver that referred to animal, rather than human, corpses.

Stories about the ‘Kadaver factory’ were first heard in London during 1915 alongside the Russians, the angel of Mons and the crucifixion of a Canadian soldier by the Germans. Credit for its authorship has been traced to a section of British intelligence who were largely successful in their plan to portray the Germans as uncivilised devils. The ‘corpse factory’ was seemingly invented to discredit the enemy in the eyes of potential allies, such as the Chinese, who revered their ancestors. The myth proved so durable that it was resurrected in 1917, when detailed accounts from witnesses who had visited the horrible factory appeared in an English-language newspaper, the North China Post. The story was subsequently reprinted in newspapers across Europe and North America. Whilst officially, the British Ministry of Information declined to circulate the allegations, secretly it was preparing specially-translated ‘Corpse Factory’ pamphlets translated into four languages.

The Corpse Factory myth was not exposed until 1925, when Charteris, then a Tory MP, gave a lecture tour in the United States. According to the New York Times, during a speech at a private dinner function he allegedly claimed credit for its invention. Charteris described how one day he had received two photographs, one labelled ‘cadaver’ showing a train taking dead horses from the front to be made into fertiliser, the other showing dead Germans being taken for burial. The New York Times alleged that: "General Charteris had the caption telling of ‘cadaver’ transposed to the picture showing the German dead, and had the photograph sent to a Chinese newspaper in Shanghai."

Furthermore, the retired officer described how a member of his staff then forged the diary of a German soldier which described his transfer from the front to work in the corpse factory, "and of his horror at finding that he was to assist there in boiling down his brother soldiers...[whereupon] he obtained a transfer [back] to the front and was killed." A plan was hatched to plant the diary in the clothing of a dead soldier and have it discovered by a friendly war correspondent.

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/213/the_angel_of_mons.html

Valse dagboeken, maar zelfs leugens over dodenmarsen en tatoeages doken op in de eerste wereldoorlog... De Duitsers werden zelfs beticht van het slavernijverleden en van de Armeense genocide!

Hieronder een gedetailleerd "ooggetuigen verslag" uit over de lijkenfabriek van de Duitsers, zoals dat op 17 April 1917 is verschenen in de Times.

The factory is invisible from the railway. It is placed deep in forest country, with a specially thick growth of trees about it. Live wires surround it. A special double track leads to it. The works are about 700 ft. long and 110 ft. broad, and the railway runs completely around them. In the north-west corner of the works the discharge of the trains takes place.
The trains arrive full of bare bodies, which are unloaded by workers who live at the works. The men wear oilskin overalls and masks with mica eye-pieces. They are equipped with long hooked poles, and push bundles of bodies to an endless chain, which picks them with big hooks, attached at intervals of 2 ft. The bodies are transported on this endless chain into a long, narrow compartment, where they pass through a bath which disinfects them. They then go through a drying chamber, and finally are automatically carried into a digester or great cauldron, in which they are dropped by an apparatus which detaches them from the chain. In the digester they remain for six to eight hours, and are treated by steam, which breaks them up while they are slowly stirring the machinery.
From this treatment result several procedures. The fats are broken up into stearin, a form of tallow, and oils, which require to be redistilled before they can be used. The process of distillation is carried out by boiling the oil with carbonate of soda, and some of the by-products resulting from this are used by German soap makers. The oil distillery and refinery lie in the south-eastern corner of the works. The refined oil is sent out in small casks like those used for petroleum, and is of yellowish brown colour.

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/