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Inna Rogatchi
POST-HARMONY Special Project

What General Eisenhower Would Say Today

Inna Rogatchi (C). Pain. October 7 project. Mixed technique. 2025.
Inna Rogatchi (C). Pain. October 7th project. Mixed technique. 2025.

Eighty years ago, in April 1945, General Eisenhower leading the US troops in Europe and witnessing beyond-horrific  images on every inch of the liberated Nazi concentration camps, commanded, not for once: “ Document everything. Get it all on record now . Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up to say that this never happened’. 

Dwight Eisenhower was a shrewd man and a great soldier. But even he could not predict what will happen down the road of history in three generations after a massive shock to humanity by the Nazi crimes. Humanity massively became comfortable with exactly the same crimes. Humanity became benevolent to torture of civilians committed on racial hatred – after the Holocaust. Humanity became numb, dumb and impotent in the face of terrorists. 

There is more. The organisations which have been established after the Second World War as the instrument of a peaceful and orderly coexistence have become accomplices of crimes against humanity, selectively, the crimes against Jews. After the Holocaust. 

Three and a half weeks after October 7th, 2023,  I have written a pained analysis of the nature of what has happened: “What can be worse than the Holocaust? Only the second Holocaust”. And now, 15 months later, we all have seen it. The Second Holocaust in front of our eyes. 

In front of the world’s eyes. All of them. Everyone. In a direct transmission. Live. 

We all saw the shocking pictures of deeply deprived civilians who were tortured during 15 months by the monsters. According to the Israeli official first medical assessment, all three released  hostages are in conditions comparable with a human being imprisoned in a concentration camp for a year. So much for all these 80th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation somber events. Which were dutifully attended by 57 heads of states. Hallo, the heads of states. Hallo. We would like to hear your comments on what the world was shown  today. Who would be the first one? So far, only German and British Ambassadors to Israel had decency to speak up. It is noted. We know that the US leadership will speak about it strongly – as every single decent person should. This includes the leaders, too, one should think. 

But the world today is drastically more hypocritical and willingly ignorant than it was during General Eisenhower’s time. Not only world, in the face of its international organisations and too many governments of the countries which supposed to be civilised, does not want to admit, black on white, what has happened in Israel on October 7th, 2023, and thereafter to the people who were brutally taken hostages by the humanoid terrorists, but world today is full of compassion towards those monsters. Who can imagine massive pro-Nazi demonstrations in the wake of the Second World War, from April 1945 onward? Who can imagine the hot waves of open anti-Semitic racism overwhelming the entire world at the same time? It would be called madness and complete moral perverse. But eighty years later, it is called ‘solidarity with oppressed palestinian people’.  

We all know what it is. It is the eternal despicable anti-Semitism which had to be put at bay by the Eisenhower and Churchill generation, and which has been activated globally on October 7th, 2023 and thereafter, with no adequate resistance to the open racial violent hatred at any level whatsoever. And this is the utter shame, screaming injustice and despicable lowliness of our time. This stain would not disappear – because it is there, and it has been accepted as a new normal by the majority of international institutions and many of  its levels. 

Among those international organisations, the Red Cross stays apart in its openly outrageous stand. We all know that this organisation behaved shamelessly during the Holocaust. One can publish a much-telling booklet consisting of all their un-doings, their appalling actions, and their despicable statements. Public statements, that’s it. Perhaps, it is worth doing, to show to the world the essence of the Red Cross’ attitude towards the selected by them group of people on this planet, the Jews. 

But the Red Cross behaviour all fifteen months since the massacre of October 7th, 2023 is beyond comparison, really. The so-called humanitarian organisation has to be called what it is, the body with huge resources which has been totally subdued to the terrorists. It has to be challenged for its absence of real assistance and care to the victims of terror legally. 

As should be any single international and national organisation world-wide that promotes racial hatred and violent anti-Semitism. Recently established Task Force October 7th in the US Department of Justice is the most proper body to address the numerous issues with screaming violations of human rights of Jewish people world-wide. 

How on earth is it possible that after the most horrible, completely unprovoked massacre of October 7th, 2023, and ongoing shocking hostage ordeal of so many people, insignia of the terrorist organisation is not officially forbidden by the governments of the countries which listed themselves as civilised? What is the difference between the terrorists torturing people today and the Nazis? How come that those flags, bands, slogans and anything else promoting these unspeakable atrocities has not been forbidden yet?  It also should be challenged legally world-wide. 

It is far more than enough for a very long time now. Only those poor three men who we all saw today on a horrific images, testifying open ongoing torture, has promted this appeal, as many other similar ones. Let’s hope that something will be done – really, not verbally. Some certain, much needed and long overdue, actions in regulating promotion of hatred and defending humanity, real one, not virtual, a despicable Red Cross-type of , will be implemented in as many countries as possible shortly. Otherwise, humanity will become beyond redemption. 

Eighty years ago, General Eisenhower visited the liberated Nazi concentration camp. Soon after, he wrote about his impressions and thoughts with this regard in his letter to his comrades in the US Army. The letter had been a classified document for many years. But not anymore. Here is the quote from it:  “ While I was touring the camp, I encountered three men who had been inmates. I interviewed them through the interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality, were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of those things, if ever, in the future there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda’. “ This was written in  April 1945. 

Eighty years on, we have primarily general Patton’s-like figures among  the international leadership who are, to put it simply, afraid to become sick of what they see in front of them. But General Eisenhower, in the midst of cleaning up the horrible, unspeakable mess of piled crimes against humanity, knew that humanity will come back to the road of cowardice, cover-up, and indecency. Or at least that someone would have a tendency of doing it. The only thing in which the General was mistaken, is the quantity. Not someone, but many of someones. Too many. This tendency which prevails now in the post-October 7th world, has to be stopped and reverted. It has to be challenged legally. The actions have to be taken. We have no time to lose. 

The eyes of the decimated faces of our hostages screams it out. 

February 8, 2025.

About the Author
Inna Rogatchi is author of War & Humanity and co-author of POST-HARMONY special projects originated in the aftermath of the October 7th, 2023 massacre in Israel. Inna is internationally acclaimed public figure, writer, scholar, artist, art curator and film-maker, the author of widely prized film on Simon Wiesenthal: The Lessons of Survival and other important documentaries on modern history. She is an expert on public diplomacy and was a long-term international affairs adviser for the Members of the European Parliament. She lectures on the topics of international politics and public diplomacy widely. Her professional trade-mark is inter-weave of history, arts, culture, psychology and human behaviour. She is the author of the concept of the Outreach to Humanity cultural and educational projects conducted internationally by The Rogatchi Foundation of which Inna is the co-founder and President. She is also the author of Culture for Humanity concept of The Rogatchi Foundation global initiative that aims to provide psychological comfort to people by the means of high-class arts and culture in challenging times and situations. Inna is the wife of the world renowned artist Michael Rogatchi. Her family is closely related to the famous Rose-Mahler musical dynasty. Together with her husband, Inna is a founding member of Music, Art and Memory, M.A.M. international cultural educational and commemorative initiative which runs various multi-disciplinary projects in several countries. Her professional interests are focused on Jewish heritage, arts and culture, commemorative art, history, Holocaust and post-Holocaust, October 7th and post-October 7th challenges. She is author of many projects of the commemorative art, and of several projects on artistic and intellectual studies on various aspect of the Torah and Jewish spiritual heritage. She is twice laureate of the Italian Il Volo di Pegaso Italian National Art, Literature and Music Award, the Patmos Solidarity Award, the New York Jewish Children's Museum Award for Outstanding Contribution into the Arts and Culture (together with her husband), and the other recognitions. Inna Rogatchi is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Community of Helsinki and Finland. Previously, she was the member of the Board of the Finnish National Holocaust Remembrance Association, and is member of the International Advisory Board of The Rumbula Memorial Project ( USA). Her art can be seen at Silver Strings: Inna Rogatchi Art site - www.innarogatchiart.com
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