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Morley Safer Letter 17 28Oct99 CBS must produce its evidence

"At the end of June 1941 the NKVD massacred 10,000 prisoners in Lviv."

Nicolas Werth

In connection with the photograph below, the caption referring to "hundreds of bodies"

at Vinnytsia may be somewhat of an underestimate, as other sources give higher counts,

as for example in a Chronology of Major Events, opposite the date 13-17 July, 1943, the

following entry: "An international medical commission with representation from neutral

powers examines the graves of 9,439 victims of NKVD shootings (1937-8) in Vinnytsia"

(Yury Boshyk, Ukraine during World War II: History and its aftermath, Canadian Institute

of Ukrainian Studies, Edmonton, 1986, p. 257).

October 28, 1999

Morley Safer

60 Minutes, CBS Television

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New York, NY

USA 10019

Morley Safer:

Jews massacred Ukrainians in pre-German Lviv

One cannot read the history of the 1941 German invasion of Ukraine without endlessly

bumping into accounts of the massacre of Ukrainians by the retreating Jewish-dominated

NKVD. In reinforcement of the many quotations which I brought to your attention in my

letter to you of 04Jul99, I presently enclose the chapter-long statement of Alfred M. de

Zayas, and I add below the briefer statement of Nicolas Werth:

The rapid German advance in the first months of the war forced the NKVD

to evacuate several prisons, labor colonies, and camps that would

otherwise have fallen into enemy hands. Between July and December

1941, 210 colonies, 135 prisons, and 27 camps, containing nearly

750,000 prisoners, were transferred to the east. Summarizing "gulag

activity in the Great Patriotic War," the Gulag chief, Ivan Nasedkin,

claimed that "on the whole, the evacuation of the camps was quite well

organized." He went on to add, however, that "because of the shortage

of transport, most of the prisoners were evacuated on foot, over

distances that sometimes exceeded 600 miles." One can well imagine the

condition in which the prisoners arrived at their destinations. When

there was not enough time for a camp to be evacuated, as was often the

case in the opening weeks of the war, the prisoners were simply

executed. This was particularly the case in western Ukraine, where at

the end of June 1941 the NKVD massacred 10,000 prisoners in Lviv, 1,200

in the prison at Lutsk, 1,500 in Stanislwow, and 500 in Dubno. When

the Germans arrived, they discovered dozens of mass graves in the

regions of Lviv, Zhytomyr, and Vynnytsa. Using these "Judeo-Bolshevik

atrocities" as a pretext, the Nazi Sonderkommandos in their turn

immediately massacred tens of thousands of Jews.

Nicolas Werth in Stephane Courtois, et al., The Black Book of

Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press,

Cambridge Massachusetts and London England, 1999, pp. 225-226.

The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny is a lie of Orwellian

proportions

Of course my reason for bringing these two additional accounts to your attention is to

underline the admission that journalistic ethics demands that you make - that your

23Oct94 60 Minutes story The Ugly Face of Freedom got things exactly backwards. In the

days prior to German occupation, it was Jews who were killing Ukrainians by the

thousands. This is attested to by many. The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny that in the

days prior to German occupation, Lviv Ukrainians killed some five to six thousand Jews

is attested to only by Simon Wiesenthal and yourself.

CBS attempts to re-write history

One motive for CBS Jews to broadcast the Ugly Face of Freedom appears to be to re-write

a history that they find unflattering. The historical record shows that Communist rule

over Ukraine was largely a Jewish-inflicted oppression and carnage of which the Lviv

massacre constituted a single incident. The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny, then, gives the

impression of being, in part, an attempt to replace the accurate perception of Jews

killing Ukrainians - or more generally, Jews killing Slavs - with the false image of

Ukrainians killing Jews. However, the CBS effort was insufficient to erase from the

historical record that the essence of Ukrainian-Jewish relations is captured not by the

Ugly Face of Freedom, but by scenes such as the one below.

Vynnytsa, Ukraine, June 1943. Here trenches dating from 1937-38 were opened and hundreds of bodies exhumed.

The authorities had built a park and summer theater on the site. Similar trenches were discovered in Zhytomyr,