Meet George Schwartz, born in Hungary in 1930. The distinguished Canadian journalist Ezra Levant has the story in the Ottawa Sun:
“George’s father Theodore tried to change the family’s fortunes by changing their name to something less Jewish-sounding. It didn’t help. And soon war came.
When the Nazis took total control of Hungary in 1944, the Holocaust followed. In two months, 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to death camps.
To survive, George, then a teenager, collaborated with the Nazis.
First he worked for the Judenrat. That was the Jewish council set up by the Nazis to do their dirty work for them. Instead of the Nazis rounding up Jews every day for the trains, they delegated that murderous task to Jews who were willing to do it to survive another day at the expense of their neighbours.”
After the war, George moved to London, and then to New York, where he became a wildly successful financier. Forbes lists him as the 35th richest man in the world. You know George. He goes by the name his father invented: Soros.
“By collaborating with the Nazis,” Levant writes, “George survived the Holocaust. He turned on other Jews to spare himself.” And how does he feel about that? Does his conscience bother him? A reporter for 60 Minutes asked him that. “Not at all.”
“No feeling of guilt?” “No,” said Soros, adding that “there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there. If I wasn’t doing it, somebody else would be taking it away anyhow. Whether I was there or not. So I had no sense of guilt.”
Got that? It was dirty work, but someone had to do it. Levant speaks of the “moral hollowness” that has shaped Soros’s life. He’s right, but somehow that phrase seems insufficiently harsh.
The sad thing is that the MSM and its allies have made sure George Soros is not particularly famous. Most Americans are not even aware of his existence. Soros mostly flies under the radar. By all rights, his name should be poison. No politicians should dare be directly connected to this disgusting man.
And Soros is content to set up the very same totalitarian system that brought the world to near destruction in WW2. He it’s a lousy job, but someone’s got to do it, eh George?
If there is any justice in this universe, Soros will suffer the same fate as Chaim Rumkowski.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Rumkowski)
There is a German word that well describes a fellow like Soros. The word is “Schweinhund”; and it is more disrespectful than the literal translation would indicate.
And Soros and his type are the real government in this country notwithstanding our faux two-party system of bought and paid for criminals in Congress. To bring an end to this we need a rallying cry to audit the Fed, which is effectively the enforcement arm of an international criminal financial syndicate. As it is, these bastards manipulating entire currencies will probably short the dollar into freefall and then buy back our assets at pennies on the dollar when the dust settles. There’s also the matter of the gold held in trust by the Fed and Treasury for the American people that many insiders believe was substantially stolen through foreign fronts. It’s not that so many of our congressmen take money from this human dirt, but that they actually work for him and those like him.
“Soros,” huh? I’m thinking it came from Esperanto…I may have read that it did come from that, but I don’t remember off-hand, and it does sound like an Esperanto name to me…
Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute
By Discover The Networks
Organizations that, in recent years, have received direct funding and assistance from George Soros and his Open Society Institute (OSI) include the following. (Comprehensive profiles of each are available in the “Groups” section of DiscoverTheNetworks.org):
Recognizing evil is healthy. Trying to understand it is only a pedantic way of refusing to recognize it.
One wonders where the initial capital that has become $14 billion came from . . .
With the Koch brothers funding all kinds of Right wing HATE organizations—I don’t think any righties want to bring up George Soros! His only crime was seeing George Bush for the destruction he was doing to this country!!!
PBerg you are one sad American..Soros is evil to the the bone…I guess you are in favor of a socialist state also?
PBerg you’ve really been worked over.Since when is ignorance a point of view ?
Ian Fleming disliked his Hungarian-born neighbor and named a villain after him. I suggest we give that name to $oro$: Goldfinger.
The name “Soros”, when properly spelled with umlauts (two little dots) over the two o’s, translates into English as “Brewer.
My father lived in those days in Hungary and he spoke of many who joined the Nazis when they took over (they imprisoned Hungary’s Regent when he tried to make a separate peace with the Allies) and then turned right around and signed on with the Communists when they conquered Hungary. A common joke of that era is that these slime balls took a long lunch one day and came back to work with red tabs on their collars – signifying conversion to the new rulers without the loss of even a day’s pay.
Mr. “Brewer” is just that sort of opportunist – possibly the most successful member of that odious breed now on life. The precise Magyar (Hungarian) term for him is “gaz-ember” (closest English translation is “bushwacker”) and what I would wish for him is tactfully rendered as “LFS” (Any Magyar knows EXACTLY what that means, but I draw a kindly veil over it to spare the delicate sensibilities of the members this forum).
RE:(Any Magyar knows EXACTLY what that means, but I draw a kindly veil over it to spare the delicate sensibilities of the members this forum). What sort of delicacy do you talk about? The dirty Magyar-like one? Are you one of them? Of course English language DOES have a translation and a very appropriate one. If this was for Magyars th question would not have to be asked at all, of course they know what they are, the others however don’t necessarily.
Interesting article. Thanks. However, Levant is way off base.
Soros was 14 in 1944. He also worked against the Nazis. I don’t blame him for whatever he did to stay alive, and I don’t think it is fair for anyone else to do so either.
Being an atheist is not a crime, nor is believing in Fallibilism or whatever you like.
Speculation is a part of our market economy. If he had been wrong, he would have lost billions of dollars. Not saying I like it, but how can the right wing blame people for being capitalists? What he did is not illegal, and not even particularly unethical. To say he bankrupted England is completely wrong. His fund, the Quantum Fund, bet the currency would go down by selling short, and it did, making Quantum a lot of money. It wasn’t the British government who was buying those short orders – it was the market.
This article mentions that the president of Malaysia denounced Soros during the Asian crisis, blaming speculators for the crash. However, it neglects to say that in 2006 Mohammad publicly apologized to Soros, saying he was wrong to blame him.
After reading both your article and the Wikipedia article on Soros, I conclude that Soros has done a lot of good in his life. His speculation, especially on currency, has also created enemies. However, I think the majority of attacks on him from the right come because of his politics. Why are there are no mentions of his contributions to charity here? Neglecting that and only focusing on the negative side of a person leads to becoming biased and polarized about that person, thinking that he or she is not even a human. I find the fact that there are no less than 4 comments on Levant’s article advocating killing Soros to be very frightening and extreme. I don’t want to see people killed, and I don’t support anyone advocating that kind of violence.
This article is stupid. Yes, Soros is a left wing moron, but to attack him for something his father did is retarded. People aren’t responsible for the actions of their parents.
How stupid the article is? The war started in 1939 and deportation started shortly after. You are saying he was that powerful to survive till he was 14. He was a fourteen year old and was on the board, give me a break. You cannot fault this guy for what he went through as a child.