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----- Original Message -----
From: Gerry
Frederics
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 7:51 AM
Subject: RE: Sacramento April 2004 Revisionist Conference Update
Dear Dr. Töben!
Thank you for your inquiries. I wish I could
tell you positive things, alas, there are too many negatives. I don't
want to bore you with any details, even though I will gladly give you
in-depth information regarding German immigrants and Chile if you so
desire.
Suffice it to say, that we Germans have
contributed more to this country than any other ethnicity. We started
with Bartolomaeus Blume, a general in the Bavarian army who joined Pedro
de Valdivia in the conquest of this land. He ended up being the
right-hand man so to speak and was awarded by receiving huge chunks of
real estate, including the area now known as the city of Vina del Mar,
where he, as the first man ever, planted vineyards. He also built the
first irrigation system, the first hospital for Chilean Indians, the
only one ever to my knowledge, the first water-wheel etc.etc. He is
carried in Chiles history books as Bartolomeo Flores and his German
origin is practically never mentioned.
Subsequently German Jesuits introduced
furniture making, candle-making, shoe-making and a myriad of other
industries to the land. The museum in the main cathedral is filled with
religious statues, carved of wood by those German Jesuits. There again,
the names have all been latinized, so there is no way for the
uninitiated to know-------- and so it went.
Many years later, a wave of immigrants from
Hessen, I believe the Hunsrück egion, settled in the south, an area
NOBODY wanted, because it was home to extremely hostile and warlike
Indians, as well as being covered in dense forest. Aside from overcoming
these obstacles, they built the loveliest cities, such as Valdivia or
Puerto Varas, Chile's brewery, meat and dairy industries, furniture
making, even a shipyard and the university with the finest school for
veterinary medicine and agriculture in all of Chile.
To this day German names figure prominently
in all areas of Chilean life. the Clinica Alemana is one of the most
modern hospitals in Santiago and the Deutsche Schule has a reputation
for excellence unmatched by any other. General Koerner is the father of
the modern Chilean military and watching them march reminds on a
miliotary parade in Berlin, 1936.
The police department was reorganized by a
German in the 1920s and is the best disciplined, dressed and trained
force on the continent, devoid of corruption.
The Kaiser donated to Chile the Fuente
Alamna, der Deutsche Brunnen, a magnificent structure which would make
any metropolis in the world proud. Years ago postcards with this Brunnen
abounded. Today - None exist!
Years ago postcards with the Museo Aleman in
Fruitillar abounded, today None exist! The same with the monument
honoring German immigration in Puerto Montt. There isn't a single
important street or Plaza named after anything German, unless one wants
to mention a few insignificant streets in mediocre neighborhoods.
Avenida Hindenburg is about 8 blocks long. Avenida Koerner was renamed
in WW2 to Avenida Suecia, Schweden, even though Sweden has as much to do
with Chile as the man on the moon.
The Deutsche Bank in Valparaiso was closed
and many millions disappeared in 1941. All references to anything German
are being assiduously avoided. Travel bureaus advertise Cancun,
Australia, Mexico, Cuba, Paris and London, but Germany is missing on the
list. My inquiries as to why these conditions persist at the German
embassy were ignored.
There is a giant, very rich German Club
here. My inquiries there about the same things, were also ignored.
My inquiries at the Deutsche Schule in
Concepcion as to why they teach the Anne Frank Diary, but appear not to
be teaching Schiller were equally ignored. I pointed out the Frank Diary
had been proven to be a forgery - no reply.
In the years 1880-90 President Balmaceda
imported 3000 German teachers, taught them how to speak Spanish and
installed them all over the country. They wrote the curiculum, taught
and within 5 years illiteracy had practically disappeared and within
another 5 years Chile had the best educated people on the continent. At
the ame time, Grl. Koerner instituted a new curiculum at the Military
Academy, which included the German language, the humanities etc., after
the Potsdam model. The result was an officers corps without equal in
this part of the world. In the early 1960s President Frei changed all
that and introduced American style 'equality' education.
Today Chile has a cretinesque general
population, similar to the USA. 15 years ago you couldn't find graffitti
or dirt of any kind in the Metro, the super-modern underground railway
system - today all of these things are beginning to make themselves
felt. The country is going the way all of the rest of the western
nations are going, titanically south. The American embassy is an obscene
bunker, covered in Carrera marble, monstrous and forbidding. Chilean TV
is the worst of the worst, sort of an attempt at latin MTV. REALLY
bad. On occassion one finds a decent movie on one of the cable channels.
The El Mercurio is the oldest newspaper worldwide, being
printed without interruption since 1821. It seems to be on a far higher
plane than let's say, the LA Times.
The economy is good, based on copper exports
and a fabulous agriculture, including some really fine wines. There are
few jobs for highly trained engineers and the like and consequently the
brain-drain is considerable.
Chile will go the way the US is ordering it
to go. The good thing is, it's a comparatively unimportant country, so
it'll be left alone for the most part. During WW2 Chile was put under
ungodly pressure by the USA to repress all things German and to declare
war on Berlin. To their credit they avoided that until I think March
1945. One of the ways to put pressure on the country was to cut off all
medical imports. Cooperation, even on the most insignificant scale with
Berlin meant no medicines. Despite that they held out. Chile was the
first and only country which sent a ship of food supplies and the like
to destroyed Hamburg in August 1945.
Holohoax education is in its infancy and has
dificulties taking hold.
The Jews are very powerful, but behind the
scenes, not openly. The B'nai B'rith has a huge house, heavily
fortified in one of the fine parts of town. There are a few Muslims, but
the numbers are small. There are no Blacks in Chile. The only one one
sees are American, Brazilian or Cuban basketball players on tour.
There are some Chinese, but again, small in mubers. All of them seem to
own restaurants and it always amazes me, that most of those are almost
always empty and yet ablaze in lights and operating. This tells me they
are probably fronts for some illegal operation. How else to explain it?
There is a small Korean community which appears to stick together and a
Japanese one as well. They are pushing Sushi as if it were the best
thing going. German restaurants are few and usually awful. The food they
serve has nothing to do with German. I have discovered exactly ONE good
German restaurant. The German newspaper is a pitiful, politically
correct 10 page mini-paper, appearing once a week and available at only
ONE location in this city of 6.5 million inhabitants! In the oftentimes
extremely impressive shopping malls are international newspaper stands
which sell every magazine known in English, Italian, French and
God-knows-what, but nothing in German. There again, there's ONE Kiosk
downtown, where one can get Der Spiegel or some major
newspapers, including one entitled Schwul in Köln.
No, I am not making this up. I wish as hell
I were.
The best selling car in Chile is the, hold
onto your hat, Chevrolet Corsa. Yep. CHEVROLET Corsa. Opel had
established one hell of a reputation, since 1931!, and all of a sudden,
GM decided to import Opel cars under name plate Chevrolet. BMW, Audi and
M-B are selling well, as is VW. VW is even selling a monster truck, made
in Brazil. It uses an American Cummins Diesel engine. Practically all
buses are Mercedes Benz. There are some Volvos, but very few. People
have no idea Audi is German. Some think it's Korean. No, I'm not making
this up. Heavy duty trucks are either Mercedes, VW or Mack from the US.
Some Fords, not many.
German products enjoy a very good reputation
and even identify themselves at times as 'Technologia Alemana', even
Triumph ladies underwear! Nivea is super sucessful. There's a
supermarket chain called 'Jumbo', and Jumbo it is indeed. There one can
buy Bosch refrigerators, Spreewalder Gurken, Bavarian cheese, Rhinewine,
Stollwerk and Sarotti Chocolates, as well as a myriad of German beers.
The best local beer is brewed acoording to the Reinheitsgebot down in
Punta Arenas. It's called Imperial. The personell behind the meat and
cheese counters are all dressed in Bavarian Tracht! German bread is only
so-so, but it exists. Chilean bread is almost all white Brötchen types,
even though a Brötchen called 'Maraquetta' is great. Sorry, I got
carried away. LOVE your work! Gerry Frederics
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