Embassy Federal Republic of Germany

90-92 Hobson St.,

Wellington

            I have somewhat belatedly read an article from The NZ Herald, dated Nov. 6 03, entitled “Special forces commander fired over anti-Semitic speech.” I enclose a copy of the article. The article concludes with a quote from Paul Spiegel of the Central Council of Jews, stating that “people abroad can’t understand” how certain statements could be made from a Government employee and an Opposition MP.  

            The statements deal with a speech made by Christian Democrat Martin Hohmann who described Jews as “a race of perpetrators”. Apparently Hohmann had stated in a speech in October that Jews had acted “like a race of perpetrators” during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and that many had been involved with the Cheka and NKVD.  

            His party bosses reprimanded Hohmann and historians apparently dismissed his statement as “amateur rubbish”.  

            As a non-German there are certainly things about this I “can’t understand”, to use Mr Spiegel’s expression.  

            I can’t understand the statement from your “historians” who claim that reference to Jewish involvement in Bolshevism and in particular the terror squads, is “amateur rubbish”. What kind of historians do you have and what rubbish are they teaching your youth? It seems that the young are being taught to dishonour their parents and grandparents, rather than to honour them for their sacrifices.  

            As for the alleged Jewish involvement in Bolshevik sadism, the Jewish role in communism and the Bolshevik Revolution was widely known by both Gentiles and Jews at the time. Winston Churchill for e.g. in an article he wrote for the Illustrated Sunday Herald (“Zionism vs. Bolshevism – a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people”, Feb. 8, 1920) described communism as “a movement among the Jews”, a “world wide conspiracy… of envious malevolence” “for the overthrow of civilisation.” In the context of what Hohmann and Guenzel were condemned for stating, Churchill wrote: “…And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the [Soviet] system of terrorism… has been taken by Jews…”  

            If we follow Churchill’s assertion, starting with the killing of the Czar and his family, here Jews served as the perpetrators, from the orders given by Jacob Sverdlov, first president of the USSR , to the intermediary, commissar Goloshchokin of the Ural Soviet, to the head of the murder squad, Yurovsky. This involvement is mentioned by the eminent Russian Jewish author Arkady Vaksberg in his 1994 book “Stalin against the Jews”, in which he documents the principal role of Jews in the Cheka and NKVD. So according to your country’s court historians and political and judicial authorities who routinely jail Germans who write such things, would Vaksburg be a perpetrator of “amateur rubbish” and/or an anti-Semite to be imprisoned? What about Churchill?  

            Immediately after the November Revolution the Petrograd Cheka became the embryonic Soviet secret police, headed by Uritsky. The first head of the Cheka was a Pole, Dzerzhinsky, of whom Vaksberg states he was totally indifferent to his duties and focused on his position as head of agriculture. Vaksberg states that the real head of the Cheka was Yagoda, who became chief of the GPU.  Jewish academic G Ginsberg, states that “during the 1920s and 1930s Jews were a major element in the secret police…” (“The fateful embrace – Jewry and the state”, 1994).  

            The director of the Gulag system was Frenkel, Matvei Berman was chief of concentration camps. Boss of the White Sea canal slave labour project was Firin; deputy chief, Rappoport; overseer Solts, at a time when the NKVD was headed by Beria, whom the Jewish academic Prof. Ivan Kalmar identifies as Jewish (“Portrait of a culture”, 1993).

            In 1995 Ukrainian prime minister Valery Gurzin stated that the reason for Ukrainian anti-Semitism was due to the Jewish predominance among the NKVD and as perpetrators of the Ukrainian famine. Presumably he would be jailed if he made that statement in Germany (?).  

            The situation was the same with the monstrous Soviet regime in Latvia . Bucinskis headed the Peoples Militia terror squads. Shivoshinsky directed the camp system. Sustins was head of the Latvian NKVD.

            Where Bolshevik regimes were established outside the USSR the situation was the same. The brief lunatic regime in Hungary after World War I headed by Bela Kun had Szamuelly in charge of the “Red Terror”. After the war, when Rakosi was running things, Jewish historian Paul Lendvai states of Hungary that “the political police proper was headed by the Jewish Gabor Peter and was staffed at its command level mainly by Jews.” (“Anti-Semitism in Eastern European”, 1972).  

            In Poland after the war Berman headed the secret police. Many Jews ran the concentration camps. One of the most notorious was Solomon Morel, who specialised in personally torturing and beating to death thousands of ethnic Germans who had been trapped in Poland after the war. The involvement of Jews such as Morel in this “ethnic cleansing” was documented by the well-known Jewish author Jack Sack who has been hypocritically attacked by the Holocaust lobby for his book “An eye for an eye”(1993). Morel was indicted for war crimes in 1998 but fled to Israel where he sits safe in the knowledge that Israel , which demands the extradition of every old man who fought against Bolshevism, refuses to extradite any of its citizens wanted for being perpetrators of Soviet terror. In 2000 the Israelis refused to assist with the case against Nachman Dushansky wanted for war crimes in Lituania, and of Semion Berkis-Burkov. So what moral or judicial obligation does Germany have to kow tow to every demand by Organised Jewry to prosecute its elderly war heroes. Or to silence the late Gen. Remer, Germar Rudolf, Dr Toben, Dr Staglich, Udo Wallendy, and literally thousands of others, and most recently Messrs Hohmann and Brig. Gen. Guenzel?  

            Gen. Guenzel seems to have served his country with distinction, yet one private letter that does not accord with the contrived image of Jews as sacrosanct, albeit one based on historically-verifiable fact, is sufficient to end a distinguished career overnight. What kind of nation is it that treats its heroes and patriots in such a manner yet lauds traitors such as Willy Brandt?  

            When one thinks of a Daniel Goldhagen or of the much lauded Elie Wiesel, and many others who condemn Germans as a “perpetrator race” on the basis of the Judaic concept of collective and hereditary guilt, “people abroad” certainly “can’t underhand it”. Most of all we can’t understand it when the German response to such ridicule is to perversely roll over and beg for more. Certainly the double standards involved are perpetrating an unwarranted Germanophobia against post-war generations, as per the abuse German schoolchildren receive in England when on outings, or the bigotry experienced a few years ago by the little German boy resident on Stewart Island . Considering the central role played by the German folk in the cultural history of Europe and of Western Civilisation, many more than only the Germans themselves lose when German officialdom persists with its craven, defeatist mentality.