From: Bocage
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 2:55 AM
Subject: Nouvelles de Zündel (80)

 

(Attention: Nouvelle adresse et nouvelles dispositions concernant le courrier en fin de message!)

Le 15 juillet, après quatre mois d'emprisonnement en Allemagne, Ernst Zündel était enfin avisé des motifs de son inculpation: incitation à la haine raciale! Les autorités allemandes lui reprochent des décennies d'activisme antisémite et, surtout, d'avoir à 14 reprises nié l'Holocauste dans divers documents et sur l'Internet. La date de son procès n'en est pas pour autant fixée. Donnons la parole au prisonnier (traduction/adaptation rapide de quelques passages d'une lettre du 15 juillet):

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On vient de me signifier les motifs de mon inculpation: ils sont ceux auxquels je m'attendais de la part de l'Allemagne - pauvre, pauvre Allemagne.

(...) Ces dernières semaines j'ai dû passer en revue  près de 20.000 pages de documents réunis par le parquet sur plusieurs décennies!
 

(EZ se félicite ensuite de retrouver des documents qui, pour lui, étaient perdus depuis l'incendie criminel de sa maison de Toronto en mai 1995 - NDT.)
 

Quand, adolescent de 15 ans, j'ai visité Dresde et Leipzig en compagnie de ma soeur aînée (...), je me souviens qu'un guide nous avait fait traverser Leipzig en ruines et nous avait dit que 1 million et demi de manuscrits ORIGINAUX avaient été perdus dans cette seule ville. (...). Evidemment bien d'autres villes allemandes, comme Weimar, Iéna, Dresde, Nuremberg, Augsbourg, ont subi des dommages considérables de ce genre. (...) C'est à croire que les ennemis de l'Allemagne avaient délibérément décidé de séparer et isoler la société de l'après-guerre de ses liens avec son passé - afin de réussir plus facilement à créer pour elle une histoire NOUVELLE - après leur conquête. Les éléments d'envergure encore en vie ont été arrêtés, rassemblés comme nous le savons aujourd'hui, et des millions d'entre eux sont morts dans les camps de l'horreur de l'Union soviétique et dans les camps américains de Rheinwiesen et de Mannheim - où mon père a été incarcéré après la reddition de l'Allemagne.
 

Je réfléchissais à tout cela dans ma cellule - tandis que je passais de 12 à 14 heures par jour à consulter ces piles de documents, de plus en plus écoeuré par toute cette affaire dans laquelle je me retrouve à nouveau embarqué, cette fois en Allemagne. Dans mon propre pays...
Il arrive un moment où même Ernst, l'éternel optimiste, doit reconnaître que toutes ces chaînes et restrictions mentales ont fait leur oeuvre et atteint leur but si longtemps convoité. (...) Je n'ai pas le droit de m'exprimer librement et c'est ainsi que je rejoins non seulement 82 millions d'autres Allemands, mais près de 200-300 millions d'autres Européens qui sont dans une situation similaire et qui, hélas, s'imaginent qu'ils sont libres!
 

Mes amis et vous, vous recevrez bien peu de lettres de moi désormais parce que le juge par qui, à ce jour, transitait mon courrier et qui m'avait assuré que je pouvais recevoir autant de lettres que je voulais durant l'instruction, a été dessaisi du dossier. L'affaire se trouve maintenant à un autre échelon, celui du Land de Mannheim, où le "juge président", comme on l'appelle en Allemagne, a, pour première disposition, réduit considérablement le nombre de lettres que je suis en droit de recevoir ou d'expédier dans l'attente du procès: je ne dois plus recevoir ni expédier plus de deux lettres par jour ouvrable, ce qui signifie qu'en une semaine je ne pourrai pas recevoir plus de 8 lettres ni en expédier plus de 8 - ce qui correspond à environ 10% du volume de courrier que je recevais - rappelez-vous: 23 lettres et cartes postales de France en un seul jour! Une fois, j'avais reçu 62 lettres et cartes qui s'étaient accumulées dans le bureau de la censure: les gardiens étaient estomaqués!
 

Donc, au lieu de 62 lettres, j'en recevrai désormais 2. Les lettres en provenance de la famille ou des avocats sont, pour l'instant, exclues de ces dispositions mais je n'ai pas la naïveté de croire que chaque jour qui vient n'apportera pas de nouvelles restrictions. De plus, mes lettres ne doivent pas dépasser 5 pages. Pas 5 feuilles: 2 pages et demie! Il faut par conséquent que l'on sache tout cela. Il ne faut plus, non plus, m'envoyer de coupons postaux: les derniers envoyés ont été soustraits de leur enveloppe, sans la moindre explication.
 

Il faut faire connaître cette situation autour de vous car je ne voudrais pas que les gens soient déçus en pensant que j'abandonne! J'ai engagé un nouvel avocat, Me Schütz, qui parle couramment l'anglais, et je devrais normalement le voir la semaine prochaine. Son bureau est à 25-30 minutes de la prison - j'aurai donc ainsi quelqu'un proche de moi; j'espère qu'il sera un peu l'équivalent de ma Barbara (Kulaszka - NDT) et que Me Jürgen Rieger sera l'équivalent de mon lointain Doug (Christie - NDT). Il me faut quelqu'un de proche, notamment pour ces questions de restrictions de courrier, et je ne peux pas me reposer sur un avocat, débordé comme l'est Me Rieger, qui habite à une journée entière de trajet.
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ATTENTION: Il convient désormais d'écrire à l'adresse suivante:

Monsieur Ernst Zündel
Justizvollzuganstalt Mannheim
Herzogenriederstr. 111
D- 68169 MANNHEIM
Allemagne

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[ From Ingrid Zündel - Upon my return from California on July 19 I read in the papers and on the Internet that Ernst had finally received his charges.  Now he knows what he is « guilty » of according to his own homeland, Germany - I still don't know because letters to overseas take much longer.

I only know what his older sister, who also lives in Germany, told me - that he is now severely restricted in how many letters he can write, and receive.  He was additionally told that, henceforth, the few letters allowed, coming and going, will take some six weeks. (Each way ?)

So there you have it!

Ernst explains the situation in the letter below, dated July 15,  2005, written to his close friend and Dr. Robert Faurisson's sister, Yvonne :]

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From Behind the Wire: Ernst Zündel Speaks - National Vanguard

I HAVE RECEIVED my official charges, and they are what I expected them to be like in Germany -- poor, poor Germany.

This came during the weeks [where] I am slowly sifting my way through appr. 20,000 sheets of an incredible pile of documents compiled by the prosecutors over the decades!

Since many of them were burned at the great arson in Toronto on the 7-8th May 1995, I had not seen many in about one decade -- so something positive came out of this after all! The documents [at the Zündel-Haus] that survived the actual fire were so soaked by the firemen's hoses and the very hot steam that even after we open-air dried them with women's hair-driers, nevertheless a fungus or chemical process set in, which slowly turned these many hundreds of thousands of sheets of paper and photocopies into mountains of blotchy, musty-smelling archives. Truckloads had to be thrown out. Thus my archives partially suffered the same fate as the archives and papers of millions of Germans during and after World War II due to bombing raids, fires, theft, etc. (ILLUSTRATION: When he was free; Mr. and Mrs. Zundel.)

When I visited Dresden and Leipzig as a 15-year-old boy with my oldest sister, who had married a man from Saxony, I was told by a tour guide walking through the ruins of Leipzig that 1.5 million original manuscripts of publications, books, musical scores, compositions -- originals -- had been lost in the bombing of that one city alone! Leipzig was the production house/city for all of Germany's most well-known books, publications, plays, dramas, etc. The great writers would create their works and send them to the publishers, engravers, the printers, bookbinders and the distributors -- from which these great works of art and literature would be sent out into the world! The loss of cultural, irreplaceable works, drawings, sketches, printing plates etc. simply cannot be estimated, only dimly assumed.

Naturally there were other places in Germany like Weimar, Jena, Nürnberg, Augsburg, who also suffered enormous damage to what was in their possession. Thus far more than tanks, planes, battleships, submarines and soldiers were lost in that terrible war -- bad enough as that was! It was as if Germany's enemies had set out deliberately to separate and isolate postwar German society from its connection to its people's past -- in order to more easily succeed in creating a NEW history for them -- after they were conquered. The creative, still living elements were arrested, rounded up, as we know today -- and more millions died in the Soviet Union's horror and Eisenhower's Rheinwiesen and Mannheim camps -- where my father was incarcerated after Germany's surrender!

All this I was thinking about and reflecting on in my cell -- as I was poring, often for 12-14 hours, over these piles of documents -- where I developed hourly and more viscerally an intense distaste for the whole process, and the topic I was forced to immerse myself in, one more time -- this time in Germany. In my own homeland.

There comes a time when even Ernst, the eternal optimist, has to acknowledge that by now the mental shackles and restrictions have done their work and achieved their purpose for those who imposed them so long ago. I am hampered by what I can write and express to you, thanks to this situation, so you and my friends have to think back and look at previous writings -- for censorship and my incarceration do not allow me to express myself freely. I have now joined not only 82 million other Germans, but about 200-300 million other Europeans, who are in a similar situation. Alas, they fancy themselves to be free!

The amount of letters you and my friends will receive from now on will be few and far between, because the presiding or arresting judge of the Amtsgericht Mannheim, who told me the day I came here that I could write and receive unlimited letters while I was in investigative custody, is no longer in charge of my case. He was pretty flexible with me!

A different level of Court, the Landgericht Mannheim, has now been assigned my case, and apparently [one] is the head judge there, in German called the Vorsitzende Richter, who, as first order of business, has drastically reduced or curtailed the numbers of letters or mail I may receive or send while I am awaiting trial.

I am restricted to two incoming and to two outgoing letters on week days. No letters are allowed on non-working days. That's about 10% of what my mail volume was, where one day I had 23 letters and postcards in French on one day! One other day I had 62 cards, letters, etc., which had backed up at the previous censor's office. The guards were dumbfounded.

Letters to the family and lawyers are excluded, up to now at least, from these restrictions. But I am of course not naive enough not to understand that any day could bring new restrictions.

I am further restricted to five pages in a letter. Not five sheets: 2 1/2 sheets. That, too, means far less content, for some topics do take a bit longer than others to cover. So, Yvonne, it is important that people know about this.

Also, no postal coupons; they were taken out of the last envelopes, without an explanation. Please let [my friends know about] the situation, not that people are disappointed and think that I have given up!

I have engaged an additional attorney. He speaks fluent English.

I have issued him a Vollmacht, a Power of Attorney, and will see him hopefully next week. He works about 25-30 minutes away from [where I am] -- which means I have someone close by. I need local help, for instance with these postal restrictions and other things. I cannot rely and wait on an attorney who is a whole day's travel away from me!

Tell Robert that I did receive his excellent summary of Cicero, Socrates and Joan d'Arc -- that, with other examples in history, it will help me come to terms with my fate. I also note that the German news magazine, Der Spiegel of 6.6.05, has an insightful article over 25 pages long about the European crisis, covering for the first time the "European Arrest Warrant" giving actual examples [of] how absolutely innocently and also brutally this newest instrument of repression is already being used and abused! So you can see that the erosion of Euro-Madness is coming into focus. There are examples given of possibly returning to national currencies.

There is also a good explanation of England cooking its own soup again, as so often before in Europe's long history. And clearly there is something taking place behind the scenes, which will slow things down -- and allow the Russians to strengthen their system, make their economy more viable, and right their ship of state. Imagine: Russia becoming a stabilizing factor, a counterbalance to all these liberal forces of illusion and dissolution! Russia -- of all places! And of course China is working feverishly day and night to build its new super-power state, at the expense of Europe and a fast fading America -- bleeding in Iraq and 140 other countries where they have military bases. Yes, Yvonne, 140 countries! All that with ever shrinking resources and curtailed productive capacity taken over by Japan, Taiwan, Korea and the Chinese juggernaut.

We are in the middle of a realignment of economic and political forces, with clearly military consequences, so, while I take a breather, the Universe is unfolding as it should -- and will!

Nothing is ever forever! Not even for them.

I read a very interesting book entitled Freiheit, Freiheit über alles about Germany's struggle -- which of course is one of the determining forces in Europe always. The author, Wolfgang Frenz, lays bare the struggle, spanning hundreds of years, wherein the Germans, Austrians and Prussians are trying to free themselves, pull themselves out of the quagmire -- and cope with a country fractured and weakened by one political-military-dynastic-religious disaster after another over the last turbulent 500-1000 years. An instructive book, coming at the right time for me, while I try to reorient myself in this REMNANT of a once great people -- now reduced to the all-too-willing plaything of extra-European forces and hidden powers. When I look at the average, ordinary German -- and the other material which has flooded into our living space and fills our jails, courts, unemployment offices, etc., I look and I wonder how this bunch of human bipeds will hope to fix this mess ?

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CAUTION: It is advisable from now on to write with the following address:

Mr Ernst Zündel

Justizvollzuganstalt Mannheim

Herzogenriederstr.

111 D 68169 MANNHEIM

Germany.

 

 

Jul. 24, 2005. 01:00 AM

 

Rondi Adamson says we should not take risks with national security

It is interesting to see how few (that is, zero) Canadian "celebrities" held fundraisers or otherwise showed solidarity with racist Ernst Zundel during his secret trial. Zundel, you will recall, was ultimately deported to his native Germany, on the theory that they ought best deal with the monster they created (and by dragging our feet in booting we aided and abetted him for some time).

A sensible theory, in my view. Still, with the Canadian system, even the secret one, being what it is, things lumbered along way too slowly and generously, keeping the old Nazi within our borders for far too long.

But Canadian celebrityhood has been out in full force for Hassan Almrei, a Syrian who came to Canada under a false passport with a purchased visa in 1999. Off to a good start, eh? He had previously dabbled in jihad and traipsed about Afghanistan as a mujahideen, facts he didn't deem pertinent enough to bring up when applying for refugee status in this country.

In early 2001, he played welcoming host to suspected Al Qaeda sleeper agent Nabil al-Marabh, while the latter stayed in Toronto.

Through the celebrity PR attack surrounding Almrei, Canada's system of jailing suspected terrorists indefinitely, without charge, using national security certificates, has garnered much negative attention. The "Secret Trial Five," of whom Almrei is one, are now all Arab Muslims.

It is understandable that good people are rendered queasy at the thought of a "secret trial." But in Canada, publication bans on trials of our own citizens are routine. So the idea that we should be shocked we can't know what is going on in the case of a non-Canadian, Al Qaeda sympathizer seems silly.

And thanks to Islamist murderers, the idea of a secret trial, or of something akin to Guantanamo, seems less offensive.

After all, it is Islamist fanatics who brought us to this brave new world. Further, the decision to cloak evidence is not cavalier. There is the possibility that revealing certain facts could pose a national security risk.

And it should be noted that national security certificates are not haphazardly handed out. If they were, surely, in 2005, there would be more than five people held as a result. A federal judge, at the request of the federal government, must decide who potentially poses a great enough threat to Canada to be detained.

Keep in mind also, that all of these men can go back to their own countries by simply requesting as much. But a Moroccan or Syrian justice system would probably show them less sympathy than ours.

And I doubt a bunch of B-list Arab media celebrities would hold a fundraiser for any of them.

It is true that national security certificates date from 1991, long before 9/11. But they are a useful tool now, and given Canada's lackadaisical attitude to the overall "war on terror," I'm not sure Canadian celebrities couldn't find a better cause to champion.


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Rondi Adamson is a Toronto-based writer whose work has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, the Wall Street Journal Europe and USA Today.