Soviets. This gave rise to one of the craziest accusations of that period:

among the strongly anti-Semitic population the rumour was spread by the

Ukrainian nationalists that all Jews were Bolsheviks and all Bolsheviks were

Jews. Hence it was the Jews who were really to blame for the atrocities

committed by the Soviets.

All the Germans needed to do was to exploit this climate of opinion. It is

said that after their arrival they gave the Ukrainians free rein, for three

days, to 'deal' with the Jews. (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance, 1989,

p. 36, emphasis added)

In conclusion, Mr. Wiesenthal's story of a massive pre-German Lviv pogrom is contradicted by

other testimony, some of it his own. Mr. Safer had the good sense to subtract 3,000 fatalities

from Mr. Wiesenthal's upper estimate of 6,000, suggesting that he too is aware of Mr.

Wiesenthal's unreliability. Had Mr. Safer dared to subtract another 3,000, he would have hit

the nail right on the head. If one were to sum up within one short statement the picture that

emerges from a consideration of the evidence, and if in doing so one were to be uninhibited by

considerations of political correctness, then an apt summary might be that during the very

interval that Morley Safer claims that Ukrainians were killing Jews by the thousands, in fact it

was Jews that were killing Ukrainians by the thousands. George Orwell's 1984 has arrived and is

in place - now our media drum into us that black is white, love is hate, war is peace,

Ukrainians killed Jews.

Morely Safer Invents Corroborative Events

Furthermore, in connection with the possibility of a massive, pre-German Lviv pogrom, 60 Minutes

insinuated into the pre-German interval three events which gave the viewer the impression that

the pre-German pogrom in question was well-documented and incapable of being doubted: (1) the

arrest of Mr. Wiesenthal's mother, (2) the shooting of Mr. Wiesenthal's mother-in-law, and (3)

the scenes depicted in "remnants of a film":

SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian militia, the

police, killed 3,000 people in 2 days here.

LUBACHIVSKY: It is not true!

SAFER: It's horribly true to Simon Wiesenthal - like thousands of Lvov Jews,

his mother was led to her death by the Ukrainian police.

These are remnants of a film the Germans made of Ukrainian brutality. The

German high command described the Ukrainian behavior as 'praiseworthy.'

WIESENTHAL: My wife's mother was shot to death because she could not go so

fast.

SAFER: She couldn't keep up with the rest of the prisoners.

WIESENTHAL. Yes. She was shot to death by a Ukrainian policeman because she

couldn't walk fast.

SAFER: It was the Lvov experience that compelled Wiesenthal to seek out the

guilty, to bring justice.

The above passage starts by mentioning Lviv prior to arrival of the Germans, and it ends with a

reference to "the Lvov experience," which invites the viewer to imagine that the events

mentioned in the same passage happened during the pre-German interval. However, examining Mr.

Wiesenthal's biographies for confirmation of the first two of these events - the arrest of his

mother and the shooting of his mother-in-law - turns up the following (it will help at this

point to recollect that Lviv was occupied by the Germans on June 30, 1941):

In August [1942] the SS was loading elderly Jewish women into a goods truck at

Lvov station. One of them was Simon Wiesenthal's mother, then sixty-three.

... His wife's mother was shortly afterwards shot dead by a Ukrainian police

auxiliary on the steps of her house. (Peter Michael Lingens, in Simon

Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance, 1989, p. 8)

"My mother was in August 1942 taken by a Ukrainian policeman," Simon says,

lapsing swiftly into the present tense as immediacy takes hold. ... Around

the same time, Cyla Wiesenthal [Mr. Wiesenthal's wife] learned that, back in

Buczacz, her mother had been shot to death by a Ukrainian policeman as she was