(Clearwisdom.net) International Human Rights Lawyer David Matas was recently interviewed by the German-language branch of Sound of Hope Radio (SOH). Mr. Matas and former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia Pacific) David Kilgour, co-authored an independent report in 2006 which concluded that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners in China for profit. During the interview, as a Jew, Mr. Matas compared the Holocaust to the persecution of Falun Gong.

Matas pointed out that the first similarity between the two persecutions is that they both utilize advanced technology to implement their genocidal strategies. During the Third Reich, a modern industrialized nation was closely tied to unspeakable brutality. Without radio, for example, Mr. Matas said that it would not have been possible to develop large communication equipment which played an important role in the Holocaust. In China, advanced organ transplant technology is now closely tied to the persecution of Falun Gong.

Matas thinks that the second similarity is people's reaction to the atrocities. He said that nobody believed the Holocaust was real, because such atrocities were alleged to be widespread and systematic and yet everything in Germany appeared to be normal. In the case of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, Matas said, "We are experiencing such reactions to some extent."

Mr. Matas told SOH: "Organ harvesting from living people is a new crime, and it is not an old form of human rights violations, or an existing form of evil. It is a new form of evil. People tend to believe what they have already known. When something completely new happens, especially when such atrocities happen, people will not believe it.

"I grew up during the Holocaust, and at that time people had similar reactions." Matas said.

Matas thinks that the propagandas of the Nazis and the CCP are essentially the same: "Paul Joseph Goebbels said that propaganda was not established on small lies, but big lies. You need to tell the big lies repeatedly, and the lies need to be told in a closed environment in which no one can refute them. This is what the CCP is doing -- please do not forget how the CCP has been lying. The CCP has never acknowledged its persecution of Falun Gong. However, the CCP cannot deny its organ harvesting atrocities because they are such obvious facts. Nevertheless, the CCP is still denying the Tiananmen Massacre, and they are still denying all their human rights violations. I can see that they are repeating the lies using different methods."

For those living in China, Matas thinks that they can be easily manipulated by the CCP because there is no free press due to a tight information blockade. He said, "In fact they are the victims of this propaganda, it is very hard for them not to believe the lies and to see the truth."