Yesterday an Australian court
in Perth sentenced to nine years prison a man who pleaded
guilty to the charge of conspiring to terrorism, i.e. joining a
Muslim terrorist group and threatening to blow up the Israeli
embassy in Australia.
How convenient for the
judiciary that the man – after offering the standard evidence
of Muslim conspiratorial claptrap – then pleaded guilty,
thereby avoiding a close scrutiny of Australia’s security
service, ASIO, and the Federal Police’s role in this matter.
During his submission the man claimed his warnings to ASIO of a
possible terrorist attack in Australia were ignored. He will
now spend a maximum of four and a half years in jail, and then
with time already served may be out in under that. Not bad for
a self-confessed, aimless and vagrant alcoholic who became
abstinent only when he converted to Islam. I extend my sympathy
to Mrs Roach who had begun to love him when he converted to
Islam.
After the sentence was handed
down it was good to see prosecutor, judge and justice minister
admit that there was a conspiracy operating here – a Muslim
conspiracy, a terrorist conspiracy!
Interestingly, when I claim
that a conspiracy of another nature brought about the 9:11
tragedy in the USA, I hear nothing but howling from those who
believe in the Muslim terrorist conspiracy. They are true
believers, while those that claim it was not a Muslim terrorist
conspiracy – but rather an internal US job used as a pretext to
save Israel from extinction - are labelled deniers!
This reminds me how much of
the 9:11 talk and writings that is flooding the Internet has
become a religious matter. The believers in the conspiracy
theory – that Arabs/Muslims did it – base their argument on
this non-proven premise that Osama bin Laden‘s organisation did
it.
Like most religious arguments
which are based on the premise that there is a God, the Muslim
terrorist argument rests on the premise that the cause of, for
example, the 9:11 tragedy, is Muslim terrorism.
‘Holocaust’ matters are also
based on the premise that ‘it happened’.
Critical voices that question
the physical authenticity of the 9:11 premise are as yet not
silenced through legal prosecution-persecution, as have
critical voices of the physical ‘Holocaust’ story. Thanks to
the Internet’s free flow of information the official/orthodox
version of 9:11 is still open for debate because assertions
made about the physical happenings just don’t add up. The same
problem is now developing for the upholders of the 9:11
terrorist theory as faced by those who uphold the ‘Holocaust’
theory – how to deflect from a physical analysis of the alleged
murder weapon/site. But the 9:11 sceptics are well on the way
to becoming potential ‘terrorists’ themselves if they do not
conform to the official version of events. Forcing individuals
into silence is a show of power, political and legal, which in
turn rest on economic power. Then, ultimately, it is a matter
of a society’s leaders’ moral and intellectual integrity.
Yesterday, also, our Prime
Minister stated that as regards the Iraq torture matter he did
not know about it and the security forces briefings had misled
him about it. If I had the power to effect events, I would then
charge our PM with being a dictator and sheet home the blame to
him, as was done with Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein who was
answerable to all the forms of abuse that occurred under his
watch. Our PM escapes the noose by claiming that he was wrongly
advised. Poor Adolf Hitler and his generals couldn’t pull that
swiftie and blame someone below themselves for things that
happened!
Empirical-factual evidence
in ‘Holocaust’ and 9:11 tragedy
Empirical evidence is vital to
settling doubts about assertions concerning physical events
whose premises are unproven – such as the ‘Holocaust’ and the
9:11 tragedy. I say this with qualifications because it is a
criminal matter in Germany, and other countries to doubt any
aspects of the ‘Holocaust’. As Mannheim’s public prosecutor,
Klein, gleefully stated to me in 1999, ‘The Holocaust is set in
concrete and beyond debate – from the lowest to the highest
court in Germany’!
Anyone writing about these
events needs unfettered access to physical evidence, something
that was denied the 9:11 sceptics – and is still legally denied
to the ‘Holocaust’ sceptics - when the authorities hurriedly
removed vital matters before anyone had a chance of
forensically analysing the various plane-crash sites.
Being a sceptic should not be
a criminal matter because absolute knowledge of the physical
world is not possible. That is why our knowledge of the
physical world is forever growing. It is different with
knowledge that we create within our mind - that’s absolute in a
way! Hence an open enquiry needs to have an element of doubt if
we wish to achieve some approximate or relative certainty on
physical matters. And the worry with 9:11 is that dissenting
voices have been marginalized and ‘forced’ to conform to the
prevailing ‘Arab-Muslim terrorist’ version of events.
I need not reiterate what
happens to those who refuse to believe in the orthodox
‘Holocaust’ story because the current prime example is
Revisionist Ernst Zündel who has been imprison since 5 February
2003 – just because he will not accept the premise that ‘it
happened’, and demands physical proof of ‘that it happened’.
Still, intelligent and
critical voices will never be silenced on any issues – and
truth will out, thanks to scientific analysis and thanks to the
still free flow of information via the Internet. That’s where
an individual will find freedom to think and to speak
unhindered, but hopefully in a civilized way about anything at
all. Again with Robert Faurisson, for the individual
Revisionist the situation looks bleak, but for Revisionism
itself the dawning of the day is inevitable.
Revisionism
After ten years of focusing on
matters ‘Holocaust’, after the failed April 2004 Revisionist
Conference at Sacramento, and in view of the appalling internal
squabbles before and after that non-event, there are now voices
joining Professor Robert Faurisson singing a Revisionist
swan-song – it’s Götterdämmerung – Twilight of the Gods.
Those who opposed the staging
of the conference, unfortunately, had nothing to offer in its
place, nothing but empty rhetoric dreamt up in personal
isolation. I hasten to add that I am not decrying isolationists
as such because most worthy intellectual impulses arise in
isolation.
How does this relate to
Revisionism at a movement? Some isolationists have for decades
claimed that if a snake is attacking your value system, then
you needs to go out and chop off its head in order to guarantee
personal survival.
Although I understand such
comments to mean that this is a call to action, my personal
endeavour has always been to resolve disputes through dialogue
rather than through us-them confrontation. Perhaps this is
because of my having been raised on a farm, and of having spent
much time in the Australian bush where any walk could bring me
into contact with a snake. There was then never any urgency for
me to strike at a fleeing snake because it is at home there –
and I had been the invader/visitor.
However, when snakes venture
to the homestead, and during the setting sun laze about on some
footpath that offers them some fleeting warmth before the
evening chill sets in, they have to learn that this is not
their home and that this home is defended – to the death.
It has always amused me to
hear my critics claim that our work is irrelevant because we
have not posed the ultimate question: Power!
Most societies operate a legal
system that guarantees social stability and furthers the
interests of the political elites. In this respect Australia is
no exception, and my various ventures into our law courts
attest to that where I have battled undesirable impulses
against my person. My Federal Court of Australia gag-order
arose out of an uncontested case because I could not find a
single legal counsel that was prepared to take on Australia’s
powerful Jewish lobby – and I was not fool enough to defend
myself because it would have been a no-match situation. How can
I compete against a Queens Counsel who has all the necessary
legal arguments at his finger tips? And a judge, in order to
hand down a ‘safe’ judgment, will take into consideration only
the legal arguments, even if the matters of fact canvassed by
myself held sway over him for a moment.
The gag-order under which I
have operated since 2003 indicates how powerless I am against
the Australian Jewish lobby. It is much the same in Germany
where the current ‘political occupying power’ has control of
the judiciary. More of that below.
So, here is my brief thought
about power:
German Pain – Jewish Power
Jewish Pain – German Power
Creating this German-Jewish
dialectic process has some individuals battling to bring about
a synthesis whereby Germans and Jews become harmoniously
intertwined. Unfortunately this cannot be because certainly
from the Jewish perspective it is highly undesirable to lose
the Jewish exclusivist identity, and non-Jews are there to be
subjugated. The cultural divide is also too great because
German culture and German spirit would find itself stifled and
reduced somewhat by Jewish thought and culture. The German free
spirit cannot thrive within the Jewish-imposed mental
dictatorship.
The dialectic also raises the
conflict between nomadic and sedentary forms of society,
between nationalism and internationalism, between separation
and integration, and how it is expressed in religious thought,
and much more.
Horst Mahler’s current
endeavours in a Berlin court aims to liberate the Germans from
this dialectic process that has been imposed upon them. Hence
Mahler’s exclamations that his work in court is for those
Germans who still want to be Germans. His aim is to create the
German Volksgemeinschaft as a national unity where a
monarchical system operates, rather than a
republican-democratic-multicultural system. The latter is open
to abuse because the concept of responsibility resides with
behind-the-scene political lobby groups and not with members of
a local community. He sees this as the only alternative to the
current state Germans find themselves in - an occupation
government imposed by the Anglo-American-Zionist allies on
Germans since 1945, after the Third Reich’s representatives
accepted an unconditional ceasefire.
We are currently witnessing
another occupation by the Anglo-American-Zionist Forces (AAZF)
– of Iraq, and this is proving more difficult than was the
occupation of Germany sixty-odd years ago. Also, the Iraqis are
not falling for that freedom and democracy thing because they
must know that the AAZF form of democracy means military
occupation and economic-predatory capitalist exploitation,
something that still persists in Germany, Japan, South Korea,
et al.
Unlike Iraq at the moment,
Germany’s unconditional surrender and total subjugation of
German life through a massive re-education program, did bear
fruit. Germans are so vile to their own culture and to their
dead – self-hating Germans! - that a fundamental
characteristic of any healthy society has been abandoned:
honouring the memory of their dead and fallen soldiers, and of
remembering the injustices perpetrated upon their women by the
occupying forces at the end of the war. Instead, anything
non-German is celebrated as superior, and German history is
distorted by a constant emphasis on uncontested ‘Holocaust’
mythology.
If moves are seen to be afoot
to challenge this ‘Holocaust’ straightjacket in Germany, they
are quickly nipped in the bud, and this happens at all levels
of German society where the spectre of evil Nazism is used to
castrate Germans who want to be Germans.
The following item illustrates
this well:
Protesters try to halt modern art show over owner's link to
Nazi war criminal Mercedes heir vows to go ahead with plan to
exhibit his collection
By Ruth Elkins in
Berlin
The Independent
30 May 2004
One of the key moral dilemmas
left over from the Third Reich has been flushed to the surface
by a fierce row over a forthcoming exhibition in Berlin of a
huge contemporary art collection owned by the grandson of a
convicted Nazi war criminal.
The
collector in question is Friedrich Christian Flick - or the
multimillionaire Mercedes-heir "Mick" as he's known in society
circles from Chelsea to Gstaad.
At the centre of the dispute
are plans to put on show some 2,500 works of modern art,
ranging from Duchamp, Mondrian and Giacometti to more
contemporary names such as Bruce Naumann, Martin Kippenberger
and Paul McCarthy. Never before shown in its entirety, the
collection of painting, sculpture, installations and
photography is being billed as "one of the most exciting
collections of contemporary art in the world".
Mr Flick
must be bracing himself for controversy every time he tries to
show the works in public. Munich and Dresden have already
turned down plans for an exhibition after widespread protests.
A similar outcry led to its rejection in Zurich - along with a
museum he proposed building to house the works designed by
architect Rem Koolhaas.
The reason is that his
grandfather, Friedrich Flick, made his fortune as one of the
Nazi regime's largest arms manufacturers and was jailed at
Nuremberg for, among other offences, using some 40,000 German
and East European slave labourers in his factories.
Accusations have been flying
back and forth all month. Salomon Korn, of Germany's Central
Council of Jews, said: "This amounts to a moral whitewashing of
blood money."
He said
it would be like showing the "Göring Collection": the head of
Hitler's Luftwaffe, Hermann Göring, raided galleries and
private collections across Europe. Looted treasures are still
being returned to their rightful owners.
Another leading member of the
council, Michael Fürst, said that if the exhibition, at
Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art, went
ahead, it would be an "insufferable provocation to all those
who suffered hunger, humiliation and torture in his
grandfather's business".
The Flick Industrial empire,
with stakes in Daimler-Benz among other businesses from
chemicals and construction to insurance, lost much of its
assets after the war, but was rebuilt by the family.
For his part, 59-year-old Mick
Flick - whose company refused to pay into a German government
compensation fund for families of forced labourers - claims his
wealth is separate from that amassed by his grandfather. But,
he said, "I have never shied away from what my grandfather did
and never sought to relativise his acts".
It is
not the first time that the post-war Flick generation has
struggled for public acceptance. In 1995 his brother Gert
Rudolf "Muck" Flick's attempts to set up a history chair at
Oxford were rejected after a massive outcry by academics, who
said the Flick name would tarnish the university's reputation.
Nonetheless, the Berlin exhibition looks likely to go ahead.
Mick Flick is to pump some ?7.5m (£5m) into renovating part of
the museum, and the exhibition has the support of Gerhard
Schröder.
"Art is Mr Flick's personal
passion," said the state-funded arts organisation, Preussischer
Kulturbesitz. "One cannot stigmatise art, and one cannot
continually punish grandchildren for acts committed by their
forefathers."
Indeed,
the issue has even split the Jewish community. As Michael
Blumenthal, the director of Berlin's celebrated Jewish Museum,
told Der Spiegel: "I do not think much of those who make the
grandchildren of those with a Nazi past responsible for what
their forefathers did."
© 2004 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=526290
So what’s new as far as
matters of German re-assertion is concerned – of German power
rather than German pain? The academic rejection of the
Flick-endowed chair at Oxford University only happened in 1995,
and it indicates how insidious German hatred still is,
especially among the wilting academics who are living on a lie.
All too often individual
academics and publicists will state that Germany still hasn’t
come to terms with its past because it does not permit a free
and open debate on its ‘Nazi past’. Dr Wilhelm Stäglich in 1983
had his doctorate revoked from the University of Göttingen
because he wrote the definitive The Auschwitz Myth.
That’s a powerful message to any academic to let that subject
go. Some years ago Dr Stäglich advised me that all it needs is
a courageous judge to stop the nonsense that passes off as
justice when it comes to questioning the ‘Holocaust’. Perhaps
Berlin’s Justice Faust, the judge who is hearing the charges
against Horst Mahler, will rise to the occasion and exonerate
Mahler of all allegations that public prosecutor Krüger has
brought against Mahler.
Likewise with Justice Adam,
the Mannheim judge whose task it is to organize my re-trial,
possibly set down for July 2004. Justice Adam is facing a legal
dilemma. Although I stated to him, in writing, that I am quite
prepared to return to Mannheim for my re-trial, a snare
developed. He assigned a lawyer whose task was to defend me in
court. I objected to that and asked for Horst Mahler to be my
lawyer. Soon after, the Berlin public prosecutor initiated a
‘Berufsverbot’ for Mahler, which was then granted and so
Mahler is not permitted to work as a lawyer anymore.
On this happening I advised
Justice Adam that without Horst Mahler as my defence counsel I
now have to re-think my willingness to participate in a
re-trial. I also posed a number of questions about the German
legal process and how it is different to the Common Law where
truth is generally a defence. Add to that the fact that I have
legally been barred from entering any European Union country,
how am I to get into Germany for the trial. I am still awaiting
Justice Adam’s reply.
Unzumutbarkeit
Meanwhile, on 28 May 2004 I
received an email letter from my court-assigned defence
counsel, Michael Rosenthal. Therein he states that he has
advised Justice Adam of his unwillingness to represent me, and
thus he wishes to be relieved of his task as my court-assigned
defence counsel. He also states that if this does not happen,
then he will adopt the position that my legal counsel Ludwig
Bock adopted during my November 1999 Mannheim trial – sit there
and remain silent.
In 2000 legal counsel Michael
Rosenthal agreed to take my case to the appeal stage at
Karlsruhe, and he explained in his 27 May 2004 letter to
Justice Adam, that the appeal stage concerns itself with legal
arguments only, and not with matters of fact. Rosenthal claims
that Justice Adam cannot expect him to defend an accused
because in any spirited defence legal counsel would have to
grapple with the problem of possibly criminalizing himself when
it gets to talking about matters of fact. Barrister Ludwig Bock
had vigorously defended Günter Deckert before a Mannheim court,
and state prosecutor Hans-Heiko Klein immediately threw a writ
against Bock for having moved too close to the Revisionist
mindset. Bock had to pay a DM9.000 fine!
State prosecutor Krüger is
doing the same thing to Horst Mahler in Berlin. Every time
Mahler elucidates a point wherein he needs to elaborate on
matters ‘Holocaust’ Krüger jumps up and warns him that what
Mahler is stating in court will attract another charge. Mahler,
of course, realizes that Krüger just does not have the mental
capacity to understand Mahler’s argument, and this constant
interrupting the argument’s flow is not helpful to gain an
understanding and advancement of the argument. But that is, of
course, Krüger’s intention – to impose his kind of mutated
mindset onto the world!
Back to my pending case in
Germany. Somewhat disturbing is Michael Rosenthal’s comment to
the judge about my having rejected him on account of his having
Jewish ancestry! This is a nonsense claim, and I wonder why he
did this. Before the appeal I had even met a person in Germany
who spoke highly of Michael Rosenthal’s capacity as a defence
counsel, and so I had no objection for Rosenthal to do the
appeal on my behalf. This pulling out the Jewish card is what
the quest for power is all about – when it suits – German Pain:
Jewish Gain.
Ethnic Cleansing of German Territories
And now to some interesting
material that comes from the Hausner Foundation, 28 Concord
Drive, Oak Brook, Il 60523, USA. Email:
medical@elmed.com
For a number of years I have
been following the written and video output of this
organisation that primarily concerns itself with post-war
Sudetendeutsche concerns, and also of those Germans who were
forced to flee from East Germany – not to be confused with
Central Germany/Mitteldeutschland, formerly the GDR/DDR.
The foundation’s head, Dr Karl
Hausner, is not associated with any kind of ‘Holocaust’
revisionism, but rather looks at the issue of historical truth
in the following terms:
Truth and Wisdom
If you are seriously ill, you are advised to consult at
least two, preferably three, physicians independently.
If you wish to purchase a major piece of equipment,
such as an automobile, a house, etc. or want to remodel your
home, you should get three estimates. You will be surprised
about the difference.
If you wish to know historic truth, you must at least
consult five different essays on the same subject, preferably
produced in different countries and, if possible, one or two
must come from neutral sources. Remember, our public schools
and the primary media are tools of politics and/or government.
History is written by the mighty and cultivated by groups who
benefit from it.
The above appears on the back
cover of the foundation’s 2002 published book
This Too Happened
Ethnic Cleansing Happened Before Kosovo…
One Hundred Witnesses Of Exodus, Expulsions And
Deportations
By Rudi Maskus
The contents of this 152-page
book should be compulsory reading for any German public
prosecutor who still entertains a sick delight to stifle open
debate on what Germans themselves endured during World War Two.
I am thinking here of the Horst Mahler case in Berlin where
public prosecutor Krüger suffers from deficiency thinking
whenever anything German, not viewed through the distortions of
the ‘Holocaust’ glasses, comes his way.
From memory it was Krüger who
conducted the 1999 trial of Ingrid Weckert who faced charges
for minimizing the harm done by the National Socialist ‘regime’
during World War Two, and at which I was present. What had she
done? Ingrid Weckert had written an article in which she
compared the work of two diary writers who had spent time at
the Auschwitz concentration camp; one writing positively and
the other writing a horror story about time spent there.
Prosecutor Krüger asked Ingrid
Weckert why she had done this work. Spontaneously I interjected
and said that she did this to find out the truth of the matter.
I was immediately warned that if I again interrupted the
proceedings through such an interjection I would be fined. I
asked how high the fine would be. Krüger responded that he
would tell me how much – ‘das verrat ich Ihnen nicht’. To that
I asked him if he has secrets in this open court – ‘Geheimnisse
im Gericht’.
Upon that the judge stopped
the proceedings and cleared the court and asked me for my name
and other matters. I willingly offered this information, but
when I asked for his name, the judge refused to give it to me.
Subsequently I enquired at the court office where I received
the answer. Then, during a break in the proceedings, I was able
to approach the judge and address him by his name - and again
apologize for that outburst of mine. A couple of weeks later,
on 8 April 1999, I had become an inmate of Mannheim prison.
The following is a brief
selection of the tragic stories that until now have remained
untold. Interestingly, all 100 contributors have given their
name and current residential addresses:
1. Maria Hesselbarth: Handed Over To Partisans…
My homeland was the Banat. I
am Donauschwäbin (Germans of Swabian descent along the
Danube). Possibly, it has been public knowledge what happened
to us in 1944, after the Russians had captured Yugoslavia.
It is my homeland, but even at this time, it is impossible for
me to completely reiterate the horror we lived through at the
end of the war.
We could not flee, where could
we go? We were helplessly handed over to the Partisans. Our
misfortune was the fact that we spoke German! Before World War
I, we belonged to Austria-Hungary; afterward our region
was divided between Hungary, Rumania and
Yugoslavia.
When the Russians came after
World War II, all of the new Communist countries persecuted the
so-called Ethnic Germans. But the worst ones of all were
the Partisans, the treacherous criminals who took
everything they wanted, letting nothing stand in their way. It
was not so much the Russian Army that ravaged through our
countryside, but the murderers who came from what is today
called Kosovo and the surrounding areas, most of them
from Bosnia. Their brutality cannot be recounted!
As for myself, I was deported
in 1944 to Russia, not alone, but with thousands of
others. Ethnic Germans from Hungary, Rumania and
Eastern Germany. There were 2,000 prisoners in a camp at
Kriwoi Rog; half of them perished from starvation. None of
them were even given a decent burial. Why should they be
buried? They were only Ethnic Germans! No one speaks
publicly about them. On the contrary! It is deliberately
silenced about what happened to us!
The deported German civilian
prisoners were mostly between the ages of 16 and 30. I was 23
years of age at the time. In the middle of winter, we were
transported inc cattle cars through Poland to Russia.
We were held prisoners in buildings without windows or beds. We
heard nothing about the families we had to leave behind. We
were totally cut off from our homeland and civilization. Until
the end of 1947, we had to perform inhuman slave labour on
construction sites and saw mills.
Even then, we were not allowed
to go home. The Communist dictator, Tito, would not let us
return to our homes. Rather, we were shipped to the
Communist Eastern Zone of Germany where we were not
welcomes, because all of us were in terrible physical and
mental condition, sick and emaciated. I suffered from
tuberculosis, along with other ailments…Only recently someone
in the local newspaper, the Wiesbadener Kurier called
all the Germans who were forced into slave labor, to apply for
restitution. Unfortunately, we do not know to whom we can
direct our application. Hardly to the Russians! Maybe we can
apply to the present Government.
But it would make no sense! To
get attention one would have to be a foreign individual, not a
German or an Ethnic German! Our rightful concerns do not
find an ear in our government. They pretend to be deaf. Anyone
who would stand up for the rights of German slave labors would
deserve our gratitude!
(Now: Faaker Strasse 11,
D-65187 Wiesbaden, Germany)
2. Hildegard Fiedler: Brutal Rapes…
Forests and lakes surrounded
my home village of Mertenheim, County Lötzen in
East Prussia. My mother, my brother (18 months) and I
(18), had fled from the Russians on January 23, 1945. It was
bitter cold, and we waited many hours for the train. It never
came. We walked back home and fed out pigs and chickens. When
we suddenly heard a freight train stopping at the depot, we
grabbed a few meager belongings, ran across the fields and
boarded the train.
Many refugees and a few
soldiers were on the train. We departed, but had to stop very
often on the open fields. We proceeded extremely slowly. It
took us eight days until we came close to Heilsberg,
about 50 kilometers from our village. We were stranded again on
an open field and were told: ‘Save yourselves if you can, the
Russians are here!’
The children began to cry, and
all of us were panic-stricken. In a village, about one
kilometer away, we found shelter in a house. We slept in one
room on the floor with 20 other refugees. A short time later,
it seemed to us that the whole village was burning. I looked
briefly through the window, and was hit by grenade splinters on
my head and chest. I fell down, unconscious. One of the women
made a makeshift bandage.
Towards evening, the first
Russians entered the house. They did not harm us,, but the next
day they were cruel and horrible. The women had to endure
brutal rapes, often accompanied by ceaseless clubbing with the
butts of their guns, until they were unconscious. Their clothes
were slit open from top to bottom. No amount of crying or
begging helped! It went on day and night…
(Now: Marktstrasse 14, D-06686
Lützen, Germany)
3. Vera Heger-Glatz: March Of Death Through Prague …
The fortress of Breslau
was already in Russian hands on May 6, 1945, when we got an
official order to bring the women, children and old people to a
safe place. My mother, along with us three sisters (16, 14 and
12), lived in Habelschwerdt in Grafschaft Glatz.
Even before we began our exodus, our mother tried to explain to
us the horrifying effects of possible rapes.
An evacuation route through
the Sudetenland was still accessible at the time, but it
became our misfortune.
Prior to our arrival in the
city of Prague, we got a message, ‘You will be sent back
home.’ But soon many of the Czechs stood along both sides of
the road, spitting and cursing at us. They threw stones at us,
and we were beaten and chased. The closer we came to the city,
the worse it got. A little German boy sat crying on the side of
the street, calling for his mother. While I watched, a Czech
walked up to him with a few rude words, and then shot him dead.
A forest ranger walking ahead of us carried his dachshund. His
pet was ripped from his arm and the dog was beaten to death
before his eyes.
We ran for our lives, and
threw away our last bundles to run faster. The Czechs had
plundered most of our belongings earlier on. We saw many
desperate Germans vaulting across the railings into the river.
Mother and I still tried hard to keep our family together. ..
(Now: Elbuferstrasse 41, D-
21436 Marschacht 1)
4. Liselotte Meyer: Free To Plunder
The first news of the
approaching Soviet tanks came to Köslin in
Hinterpommern on March 1, 1945. Since we had not received
an order to evacuate, we were surprised while we were at work.
A few of our fellow townsmen fled, but returned later on, often
without their baggage because the war front had come
threateningly close. Some of them had to leave relatives behind
because they could no longer walk. We never heard of their
fate. Many children died during these ordeals, and had to be
buried along the route.
On March 4, 1945, we saw the
first Russians, after we had hidden in a room in a cellar below
the workshop of a locksmith shop. A few of the Russian officers
tried to rape a 12-year old girl, but her mother was able to
escape with her and her deaf son. Unfortunately, near our
hideout, a boy fell into a mill brook and began to shriek
terribly, and they were re-captured. Not satisfied with them,
two other women were taken along and raped by the Russians.
Another 12-year old girl
escaped while her mother struggled valiantly against a Russian,
suffering a severe beating with the butt of his machine gun. We
no longer felt safe in our hideout and returned to our small
apartment, sheltering four other women with us. At night we
slept fully clothed, eight people in two beds and one cot.
During the daytime, the
Russians constantly molested us…
(Now: Hoheluft 1, D- 24768
Rendsburg, Germany)
5. Anna Bank: Miscarriage After Rape…
A short time before the
Russians invaded our village, we were ordered to flee to
Danzig. An East Prussian woman, who sought shelter with is,
was hit and killed by enemy fire. The Russian troops came in
late afternoon. Another woman and her daughter, who had fled
from Küssow in fear of the Russians, were also staying
with us. They became terrified and crawled under the bed, where
they stayed all night.
The rapes began right away!
Very few females escaped. Our 13-year old daughter and a
12-year old girl from Küssow dressed in men’s clothes
and shoved their hair under a cap. It saved them from the
brutish Russians.
It was a different story for
my sister-in-law from Lauenburg, who had found asylum
with her three children in our home. The women, who tried to
defend themselves, were shot to death. Everything was stolen,
without any consideration for our basic needs. The Russians
loaded all of our food supplies on a wagon and carried them
away.
At that time, 21 people lived
in our house. When things seemed to quiet down just a little, a
woman from Küssow dared to walk back to look after her
close relatives. She learned that her parents and siblings, ten
people in all, had drowned in a pond, driven to suicide by the
extreme horror and desperation…
(Now: Haus#18, S-D23996
Dambeck, Germany)
6. Brigitte K Gabriel: Shot And Killed After
Interrogation…
I was born in 1930, in
Buschwinkel near Schlochau, at the beautiful farm of
my ancestors. During the bitter cold winter of 1945, inundated
by huge snowstorms, the stream of fleeing people who sought
refuge in our house never ceased. On February 22, 1945, just
before the Russian Army broke through, we escaped with a
horse-drawn vehicle to Klein-Karzenburg, County Rummelsburg.
Mr Fedke, the shoemaker from Stretzin, with his wife and
two children, came with us. Later, after severe interrogations
by a Russian woman commissioner, my father and Mr Fedke were
shot to death.
The rest of us were plundered
and chased into a nearby forest. At that time, a woman was shot
and killed right at my feet because she was physically unable
to follow a mounted Russian officer. I was able to crawl away
and hide in a dense thicket; now I was all by myself. From a
nearby knoll, I saw reddish-coloured skies in every direction.
The village of Bublitz, Forst, Baldenburg, Karzenburg
were all in flames.
In my loneliness I did not
even feel hunger or frost, just mortal terror deep inside me!
It would never quite leave me during my entire life…
(Now: 1038 East Vargo Lane,
Arlington Heights, Il 60004, USA)
7. Margarete Dimke: Beaten To Death…
I was born in 1917 in a
village near Breslau. My father owned a small farm,
which he was able to expand over several years. It was lots of
work for us, but we enjoyed it, and we were happy when
everything greened up and bloomed around us. In 1939, the
unfortunate war began, and then came January of 1945. The
Russian Army stood at the doors of Breslau, and the
population of our village fled towards the Grafschaft Glatz,
a former earldom. But we all retuned on May 9, 1945, when the
war ended.
The Poles arrived and began to
take possession of our village. We were disowned and became
slave laborers for them, without even receiving a zloty for
wages. Our German money became invalid. We did not know how to
survive. My brother caught sparrows; we cooked nettles and
collected wild herbs. I was fortunate enough to get work from
the Russians, which helped a little. I got a few zlotys for it
and bought a piece of soap. At least we could wash ourselves.
My father was dragged into a
torture cellar in Breslau and nearly clubbed to death.
These torture cellars were in almost every street of our
metropolis, and the loud screams of the tormented Germans could
be heard on the streets. The butts of firearms thundered on our
doors many times, and we were plundered again and again. The
German girls fled into the fields to escape the ravages of the
rapists…
(Now: Johann-Jakob-Rieger-Strasse
6, D-67149, Germany)
The current feeding frenzy as
to what the AAZF has done in Iraq prisons pales into farce when
one reads the brief testimonies of individuals – still alive –
who have graphically written first-hand accounts of the horrors
that Germans, particularly women and girls, have had to endure
as they fled from advancing Soviet soldiers. In the above
volume there is no mention of the rapes and abuse suffered by
women and girls living in the western sector under French
control.
A nation that does not protect
the honour of its women is destined to disintegrate into a mess
of consumer-driven hedonism where money and other material
goods defines their mindset without any self-reflection. Such
is the shame of the Germans who have succumbed to a mutated
perspective of their own self. Rudi Maskus’s book re-kindles
moral values lost to those Germans who are riding the consumer
bubble like an express train out of control. It is worse when
a nation does not honour its fallen soldiers!
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