The Catch-22 Trial: "truth is no defence"

If you defend yourself, you compound your guilt;
if you remain silent, you forego your defence.

From the: National Journal

1. As late as October 2003 Dr Fredrick Töben had a letter from the German authorities wherein it is stated that there is nothing about him on file in Germany, and that he is free to travel within Germany. On 13 April Töben learned at Helsinki Airport that German authorities had on 9 January 2004 imposed a ban on his traveling to Germany and to any EU country.
Dr. Fred Töben
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So, unbeknown to Töben, since 9 January 2004 he has been banned from entering any European Union country because Germany has declared him an undesirable person - on account of the 9 November 1999 Mannheim judgment. Had he been detained by any EU country, for example on 12 April 2004 at Amsterdam, then that would have led to Töben’s deportation, a reason for other countries to hop on the bandwagon and impose a ban on Töben. The New Zealand authorities did this to historian David Irving on account of his framed expulsion from Canada. That so-called democratic countries are criminalizing Revisionists in secret trials is graphically depicted in Ernst Zündel’s almost two year solitary imprisonment in a Toronto detention centre.

2. On 12 December 2000 a Karlsruhe appeal court granted an appeal and ordered that the November 1999 court case be re-heard at Mannheim. Some time during April-May Judge Adam ordered Michael Rosenthal act as Töben’s defence counsel because Z. Rosenthal had been involved in the appeal. Rosenthal refused because he stated in writing that were he to defend Töben, then he, Rosenthal, would also make himself liable because court proceedings in Germany are not privileged, and that at the first stage of the trial where matters of facts are canvassed, it is not possible to mount an effective defence because that would also criminalize the defence counsel. Rosenthal stated to Judge S. Adam that he would adopt the strategy used by defence counsel Ludwig Bock during the November 1999 trial and offer no defence. Bock at that time in another case had been charged with defending Günter Deckert "too vigorously", thereby bringing Bock’s mindset too close to Revisionist thinking ? and that is a criminal matter. Günter Deckerthttp://www.globalfire.tv/nj/graphs/gd.jpg
3. The fact that Bock did not offer a defence gave rise to the appeal court granting Töben a re-hearing; and the prosecutor was granted the appeal so that he could argue that German law applies to Internet sites anywhere in the world. The Appeal Court had found that the Mannheim Regional Court had erred in not applying German law to the Internet. This ruling has massive world-wide implications on Internet traffic, and the issue will be aired again during 8, 9 and 11 November 2004.

4. Töben asked Judge Adam to appoint well-known defence counsel Horst Mahler as Töben’s counsel because Mahler is defending himself against the same allegations in a Berlin court - to date quite successfully. Soon after Töben’s request had been submitted, a court in Berlin stripped Mahler of his legal practice certificate thereby prohibiting him from acting as a defence counsel for another person. Judge Adam thus rejected Töben’s request to have Mahler as his defence counsel of choice.

5. On 27 May 2004, Judge Adam issued the Summons and activated the office of the German Public Prosecutor that activated the Australian office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, which in turn had the Australian Federal Police (AFP) serve the Summons on Töben.

6. When the AFP officer handed Töben the Summons, he asked Töben: "Will you be attending this court hearing?" Töben responded in writing without specifically answering the question.

7. It must be stated that if Töben answers "Yes", then he will be breaking the law that since 9 January 2004 prohibits Töben from traveling to Germany. If Töben answers "No", then he foregoes a defence, a defence that will be conducted not by Töben’s counsel of choice. Add to that the fact that an effective defence merely compounds Töben’s guilt, the need to have someone like fearless Horst Mahler as defence counsel is obvious.Horst Mahlerhttp://www.waswarlinks.de/personen/fotos/mahler.jpg
8. What happened to Töben in the Federal Court of Australia case is instructive here. A judge granted the Jewish Zionist’s application for a "summary judgment" on account of Töben not finding a defence counsel to assist in mounting an effective defence. On 19 May 2003, however, Töben had a defence counsel who ran the appeal "unsuccessfully" on similar grounds to that mentioned by Michael Rosenthal, i.e. it is not possible to mount an effective defence at the first stage of the legal process where matters of fact are canvassed because truth is no defence. At the appeal stage it is a matter of law - a safe haven for counsels.

The breaking of civilisation.
The German prosecution machinery is responsible for appr. 10.000 thought-crime persecutions and hundreds of imprisonments a year. Masses of people are incarcerated for nothing else but expressing politically incorrect opinions. One of the BRD's most prominent victim was the innocent Günter Deckert who had been incarcerated for five years. Deckert's crime was that he abbreviated the word holocaust with "holo" and that he smiled when uttering the word "holo" - the price of a smile in democratic Germany. On the 9th of April 1999 the German persecution system had the Australian historian Dr. Toben arrested by the infamous thought-crime prosecutor Hans Heiko Klein in his Mannheim office. Dr. Toben's crime was that he intended to discuss controversial scientific-historical questions on the holocaust. He wanted to know from Mr. Klein how to secure holocaust research, without being persecuted if findings did not match with the politically and judicially approved Holocaust narrative. Whilst asking, Dr. Toben was hand-cuffed. The late Jewish leader in Germany, Heinz Galinski, imposed his will years ago, prohibiting the discussion of the holocaust if the old holocaust dogma was likely to be undermined: "We will not allow an unlimited discussion on history." ("Papers for German and International Politics" - Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik -, Bonn, January 1987, Page 20-24.) Galinski's will seems to be Germany's command - still today!

Source:
http://globalfire.tv/nj/04en/persecution/toben.htm

Germany holds the world to ransom

Any individual anywhere in the world will
be hounded down for expressing thoughts,
not in line with the German political holocaust dogma

"The right to know is like the right to live.
It is fundamental and unconditional,"
wrote Nobel-Price winner George Bernard Shaw.

From the National Journal

"Democratic Germany" denies this fundamental human right to its people although it adopted Article 19 of the United Nations Human Rights Charter as superior and overriding to its own law. Article 19 of the United Nations Human Rights Charter reads: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

On Dec. 12, 2000 the German Supreme Court (BGH, Bundesgerichtshof, case nr. 1 StR 184/00) ruled that any information, differing from the German political holocaust version or from its general political dogma "threatens internal peace in the Bundes-republik", hence it constitutes a major crime in "Democratic Germany".

Any person, whether living in Washington, Cape Town or Timbuktu will be hunted down, persecuted, arrested and indicted (when entering Germany) by the Bundesrepublik's persecution machinery, if they verbally or literally broadcast criticism against Jewry, the political holocaust-dogma and the German government.

This madness is based on fear of the truth because post-war Germany was founded on allied propaganda lies which became constitutionally established. The results of this lie, siege mentality, has now resulted in a law involving the internet. Simplified it declares that everybody on our globe represents a potential criminal to the German system. I.e.: "A democratic American, sitting by his computer in Ohio writes and posts an article on the internet which displeases the German authorities, will be persecuted by the German system." Even though he is technically in no position to exclude Germans from being able to access his internet posting due invisible extending borders in the world-wide-web-system, he will be arrested when entering "Democratic Germany". Exception: If the author is of Jewish origin there is no fear of persecution or harassment.

Until the 12th of December 2000 Germany restrained itself to the persecution of the free thinkers within its own borders. Now it is the world. This latest strike against universal human rights by the German system has reached a new peak of madness. It is a declaration of war against free thinking to everyone, anywhere in the world.

"Adenauer [postwar Germany's first Chancellor] thought the Germans were a 'sick people'." (Die Welt, Nov. 30, 2000, page 3)

According to the Annual Reports of the 'German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution' (George Orwell could not have invented a more sinister title) the German persecution machinery prosecuted the following totals of citizens for expressing politically incorrect opinions in Germany:

Thought-crime offences 1994:///2,083///innocent persecuted victims
Thought-crime offences 1995:///1,601///innocent persecuted victims
Thought-crime offences 1996:///5,635///innocent persecuted victims
Thought-crime offences 1997://10,257///innocent persecuted victims
Thought-crime offences 1998:///9,549///innocent persecuted victims
Thought-crime offences 1999:///8,698///innocent persecuted victims
Thought-crime offences 2000://13,863///innocent persecuted victims
Thought-crime offences 2001:///8,874///innocent persecuted victims
Thought-crime offences 2002:///9,807///innocent persecuted victims
Thought-crime offences 2003:///9,295///innocent persecuted victims
///////////////////////////////////81,662 total

The figures are based on statistics provided by the Federal Criminal Office (BKA)
:http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/en/index_en.html

Source:
http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/persecution/germanfreedom.htm

Civil Rights In Germany
http://www.germarrudolf.com/civil/

...that teacher gets accused for expression violations, the matter gets immediate disciplinary attention.
Here, is a case where a teacher gets fired for alleged acts which have not yet been proved. He is accused to have raised his hand in a Hitler salute and other similar infractions based on what perhaps unsatisfied students organized to invent. He is a mathematics- and physics teacher.
In Germany, the result of a mathematics task is less important than the orderly written out form of the calculation itself. In physics, I'm sure the methods are likewise. In the American system, it's the result which determines correctness.
That's why the American methods facilitate learning through a practically-based approach.
I wouldn't be surprised that his possible rigid teaching methods are the initial cause for the organized defamation:

http://vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=61645
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Police seize discs from far-right party in Germany

Posted : Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:28:01 GMT

Berlin - Berlin police who searched the national office of Germany's main far-right group, the National Democratic Party (NPD), said Friday they seized digital music suspected of breaking German laws against Nazis. The 50 recordings appeared to be seditious, and a separate inquiry had been opened into distributing anti-democratic propaganda.

Police also seized an unauthorized electro-shock weapon during the nine-hour hunt Thursday of the suburban Berlin offices, which have been violently attacked by leftist groups in the past.

German authorities have sought various ways to close down the party, which has no seats in the federal parliament but has seats in two eastern German states.

The national treasurer, Erwin Kemna, 57, was remanded in custody Friday in his home town, Muenster. He is accused of misappropriating funds from the party, which receives automatic government subsidies based on its voter support.

A prosecutions spokesman, Wolfgang Schweer, said Kemna confirmed payments to himself but asserted these were repayments of money he had earlier lent to the party or of cash loans by supporters.

He is alleged to have taken 627,000 euros (909,000 dollars) to bolster the balance sheet of his fitted-kitchens company.

An NPD spokesman voiced concern Friday that the party might be penalized for accounting irregularities by the treasurer. He said, "Our financial position has been perilous since the start of 2007."

The NDP denies it is Nazi, but its nationalist, anti-foreigner message and its outreach to overtly neo-Nazi groups have made it a pariah for Germany's mainstream parties.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/184615,police-seize-discs-from-far-right-party-in-germany.html

If We Can't Ban 'em, Let's Bankrupt 'em

Germany's interior ministers have faced frustrating setbacks fighting the far-right in court. A new tactic under consideration involves hitting organizations that support the party where it really hurts -- in the wallet.

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,800068,00.jpg
German politicians want to cut all public funding to these guys.

For four years, ever since a 2003 push to ban the neo-Nazi party NPD failed in Germany's high court, political leaders have been looking for a strategy to combat the country's extremist right wing. But ideas -- most of them centering on a renewed attempt at prohibiting the party -- have been wanting, and action has been virtually non-existent.

On this Thursday and Friday in Berlin, though, interior ministers from Germany's 16 states will discuss a plan to weaken the NPD by eliminating state funding from foundations and organizations that espouse the party's right-extremist views. It is time, many believe, to move beyond a commitment to banning the party and begin looking for ways to make the lives of Germany's neo-Nazis more difficult.

"We have to publicly stigmatize people who fund the NPD and the associations that support it," Schleswig-Holstein Interior Minister Ralf Stegner (SPD) told the Süddeutsche Zeitung. "We should name by name the trade organizations that recruit using their right-extremist ideology and that prefer to give apprenticeship positions to young neo-Nazis. We should not stand back and be polite about this."

The problem, say many, is that the NPD, as a legal political party in Germany, receives federal and state funding based on election results. NPD representatives in the state parliaments of Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, for example, got a combined €1.38 million for campaign costs in 2006.

Germany's Social Democrats are still in favor of a second attempt at banning the NPD, but have not pushed hard for the idea at the federal level. The Christian Democrats under Chancellor Angela Merkel fear that a second failure in German courts could give the NPD a boost and are against pursuing a ban.

"If we wage a second attempt, we have to be sure that we're going to accomplish our goal," Saxony's Interior Minister Albrecht Buttolo (CDU) told Deutschlandradio Kultur on Thursday.

There are numerous ideas on the table for cutting funds to the right. In Saxony, for example, the law requires that subsidies be paid to foundations and organizations if the party they are affiliated with has been represented in the federal or state parliament for two legislative periods. Since 2004, NPD has held seats in Saxony's state assembly and has founded an "Educational Institute for Homeland and National Identity."

Berlin Interior Minister Ehrhart Körting, who is heading the conference in Berlin, proposes seeking countrywide legislation that forbids states from providing financial support to organizations "opposed to the constitution." If organizations can be shown to promote such positions, state funding could be choked off.

Some interior ministers have also voiced their support for using this tactic on other groups. "That must also be valid for left extreme or radical foreign establishments," Bouffier said. Such a foreign establishment could include the Church of Scientology, which German politicians have labelled as a money-making cult and denied it recognition as a legitimate religious institution.

Körting also proposes hitting these organizations in the wallet in an additional way. If possible, he would like to see if the non-profit status of some far-right organizations could be revoked, thereby denying them the tax breaks such status offers.

The hurdles for such an approach remain high, as pointed out by Hesse Interior Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU). "I don't see any chance of depriving the NPD of support funds by means of a special law," he told the AP on Thursday. "The law isn't applied based on taste; the constitution prescribes a strict equality of treatment for all parties."

There may, however, be ways around the legislative approach. If such measures fail, some hope to fight the NPD and allied organizations with the time-tested tool of bureaucratic harassment. According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, mayors and municipal councils in Rhineland-Palatinate are already making things difficult for the NPD by, for example, requiring a few more toilets in a NPD-related construction projects so as to raise building costs. The state has also put together brochures for municipalities on how to deal with NPD members who come to municipal council meetings. According to the state's Interior Minister Peter Bruch, requests for the brochure "come from all over the country."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,521774,00.html

"...According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, mayors and municipal councils in Rhineland-Palatinate are already making things difficult for the NPD by, for example, requiring a few more toilets in a NPD-related construction projects so as to raise building costs..."Typical Süddeutsche :[] Zeitung Scheiße. Big deal. So the NPD have to adhere to building codes which dictate the minimum amount of toilets required in a building which is used for public assembly or for example, how many fire exit routes. The building codes are identicle for schools, public offices, etc... So, what's the Süddeutsche Zeitung talking about? Are they teaching kindergarten? Everybody's aware of building codes. No public official will change the criteria for one building, arbitrarily without risking a legal challenge.
The NPD has enough skilled tradesmen, like the one accused of embezzling campaign funds, to install any fixture for code compliance.
What's important here, is the readiness of authorities to use any flaw to shut down an opposition party. That's why it is of utmost importance for the NPD and others to screen active members who hold sensitive positions.
Imcidentally, the suspected embezzler is also in charge of the party newspaper

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/6995/jewslieslutherjk1.jpg

http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=53300

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856051/posts

http://healtheland.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/germany-jails-lutheran-pastor-johannes-lerle-for-anti-abortion-sermon/

http://www.nonkonformist.net/?p=1062

http://www.johannes-lerle.de/

Home-school Germans flee to UK

A 1938 law designed to ensure state control of all children has provoked a family exodus to Britain

Charlie Francis-Pape and Allan Hall in Berlin
Sunday February 24, 2008
The Observer

Families are fleeing to the UK from Germany to escape a law introduced by Hitler that could lead to their children being taken into care if educated at home. One father, who arrived in Britain with his wife and five children last month, has told The Observer that his family had no choice after being warned that their children would be taken into foster care unless they enrolled them at local schools. Another, who fled in October, said he believed the 70-year-old law was creating hundreds of refugees and forcing families into hiding to protect their children.

Home-schooling has been illegal in Germany since it was outlawed in 1938. Hitler wanted the Nazi state to have complete control of young minds. Today there are rare exemptions, such as for children suffering serious illnesses or psychological problems. Legal attempts through the courts - including the European Court of Human Rights - have so far failed to overturn the ban.

Klaus Landahl, 41, who moved in January from the Black Forest in Germany to the Isle of Wight with his wife, Kathrin, 39, said they had no option but to leave their home, friends and belongings in order to educate their five children, aged between three and 12, legally and without fear. 'It feels like persecution,' he said. 'We had to get to safety to protect our family. We can never go back. If we do, our children will be removed, as the German government says they are the property of the state now.'

The family now live in Shanklin, surviving off savings while Landahl seeks work to support them. His wife said they chose home-schooling to spare their children from bullying and to allow them to focus on their individual interests. 'In school in Germany they expect you to be like everybody else; you cannot be different,' she said. 'If you don't have the correct clothes, like Nike and Adidas, or if you wear the wrong colour, other children will not accept you.'

Jonathan Skeet, who is British-born, said that he, his wife and five children, aged between two and 11, were driven from Lüdenscheid after the authorities froze their bank account, removed money from it and confiscated their car. The former aid worker fled in October and chose the Isle of Wight because of its large home-education network. In Germany, he said, the family were blackmailed and threatened with the loss of their children in an attempt to force them back into mainstream school education.

'It was crippling,' he said. 'When we lived in Germany we wanted to live a very inconspicuous and quiet life. But instead we ended up in direct confrontation with a very powerful state.'

The 43-year-old nursing home worker said they wanted to home-school because they were worried about the state of the German education system. 'We were concerned that the atmosphere in schools in Germany had become very rough and ready. We thought our children were too young to deal with that. '

About 800 families are believed to educate their children at home illegally. Stephanie Edel, who runs the Schulbildung in Familieninitiative, a German organisation that aims to support those who educate at home, said that last year some 78 home-schooled children fled Germany with their parents. 'It is very dangerous to home-educate here,' she said. 'Home-educators have to learn to expect anything and have to be ready to leave overnight.'

In 2006 the UN sent a special rapporteur to assess Germany's education system. He reported that necessary measures should be adopted to uphold parents' rights to educate children at home where necessary and appropriate.

Last year, in an extreme example, 15-year-old Melissa Busekros was removed from her family. Her mother, Gudrun, said more than 15 policemen took her to a psychiatric unit for psychological tests. After refusing to be tested, Melissa was placed in a foster home. She escaped on her 16th birthday and has since been left alone by the authorities.

Her mother said: 'All of the supposed independent experts are paid by the government, so they say what the social workers tell them to say in court.'

Both domestic and EU courts have ruled in the German state's favour on numerous occasions in recent years.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2259509,00.html

2007 German horror tale

http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed...4730-5162r.htm

Earlier this month, a German teen-ager was forcibly taken from her parents and imprisoned in a psychiatric ward. Her crime? She is being home-schooled.

On Feb. 1, 15 German police officers forced their way into the home of the Busekros family in the Bavarian town of Erlangen. They hauled off 16-year-old Melissa, the eldest of the six Busekros children, to a psychiatric ward in nearby Nuremberg. Last week, a court affirmed that Melissa has to remain in the Child Psychiatry Unit because she is suffering from "school phobia."

Home-schooling has been illegal in Germany since Adolf Hitler outlawed it in 1938 and ordered all children to be sent to state schools. The home-schooling community in Germany is tiny. As Hitler knew, Germans tend to obey orders unquestioningly. Only some 500 children are being home-schooled in a country of 80 million. Home-schooling families are prosecuted without mercy.

Last March, a judge in Hamburg sentenced a home-schooling father of six to a week in prison and a fine of $2,000. Last September, a Paderborn mother of 12 was locked up in jail for two weeks. The family belongs to a group of seven ethnic German families who immigrated to Paderborn from the former Soviet Union. The Soviets persecuted them because they were Baptists. An initiative of the Paderborn Baptists to establish their own private school was rejected by the German authorities. A court ruled that the Baptists showed "a stubborn contempt both for the state's educational duty as well as the right of their children to develop their personalities by attending school."

All German political parties, including the Christian Democrats of Chancellor Angela Merkel, are opposed to home-schooling. They say that "the obligation to attend school is a civil obligation, that cannot be tampered with." The home-schoolers receive no support from the official (state funded) churches, either. These maintain that home-schoolers "isolate themselves from the world" and that "freedom of religion does not justify opposition against the obligation to attend school." Six decades after Hitler, German politicians and church leaders still do not understand true freedom: that raising children is a prerogative of their fathers and mothers and not of the state, which is never a benevolent parent and often an enemy.

Hermann Stucher, a pedagogue who called upon Christians to withdraw their children from the state schools which, he says, have fallen into the hands of "neo-Marxist activists," has been threatened with prosecution for "Hochverrat und Volksverhetzung" (high treason and incitement of the people against the authorities). The fierceness of the authorities' reaction is telling. The dispute is about the hearts and minds of the children. In Germany, schools have become vehicles of indoctrination, where children are brought up to unquestioningly accept the authority of the state in all areas of life. It is no coincidence that people who have escaped Soviet indoctrination discern what the government is doing in the schools and are sufficiently concerned to want to protect their children from it.

What is worrying is that most "free-born" Germans accept this assault on their freedom as normal and eye parents who opt out of the state system with suspicion.

The situation is hardly better at the European level. Last September, the European Court of Human Rights supported Hitler's 1938 schooling bill. The Strasburg-based court, whose verdicts apply in the entire European Union, ruled that the right to education "by its very nature calls for regulation by the State." It upheld the finding of German courts: "Schools represent society, and it is in the children's interest to become part of that society. The parents' right to educate does not go so far as to deprive their children of that experience."

While it is disquieting that Europeans have not learned the lessons from their dictatorial past — upholding Nazi laws and sending dissidents, including children, to psychiatric wards, as the Soviets used to do — there is reason for Americans to worry, too. The United Nations is also restricting the rights of parents. Article 29 of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child stipulates that it is the goal of the state to direct the education of children. In Belgium, the U.N. Convention is currently being used to limit the constitutional right to home-school. In 1995 Britain was told that it violated the U.N. Convention by allowing parents to remove their children from public school sex-education classes.

Last year, the American Home School Legal Defense Association warned that the U.N. Convention could make home-schooling illegal in America, even though the Senate has never ratified it. Some lawyers and liberal politicians in the states claim that U.N. conventions are "customary international law" and should be considered part of American jurisprudence.

At present, young Melissa Busekros' ordeal is a German horror story. Could it soon be an American one?

Hitler’s Ghost Haunts German Parents
Homeschooling In Germany

The Brussels Journal
2005-08-02

Of all religious groups Baptists were among the most fiercely persecuted in the Soviet Union. They were not just Christians but they also distrusted the state, preaching an institutional secession from state-run institutions. Many Baptists belonged to the German-speaking minority in Southern Russia and Kazakhstan. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, they emigrated to Germany, the land where their forefathers had originally come from. Today, these Baptist immigrants from Russia, as well as the Low-German Mennonites, are being prosecuted in Germany because they are unhappy with what their children are learning in the German public schools, which they consider too secular. Children are not allowed to opt out of classes or school activities and homeschooling is illegal in Germany since Adolf Hitler outlawed it in 1938.

Last week, a court in Paderborn in the German state of Westphalia ruled that two Baptist couples lose their parental authority over their own children in educational matters. The court said it was interfering “in order to protect the children from further harm.” It stated that the parents had shown “a stubborn contempt both for the state’s educational duty as well as the right of their children to develop their personalities by attending school.” The court appointed the local Paderborn social service as guardian over the children to ensure that they attend public school.

The two couples belong to a group of seven families with a total of fifteen children of elementary school age who do not attend school. The parents were brought to court by the local education board of the county whose director, Heinz Kohler, argued that homeschooling cannot be allowed because it is “a right of the child not to be kept away from the outside world. The parents’ right to personally educate their children would prevent the children from growing up to be responsible individuals within society.” Kohler was backed by the Westphalian minister of Education, the Socialist politician Ute Schäfer, who stated that the obligation to attend a government approved school follows from the “right of a child to free education and maturation.”

Last January, a court in the Westphalian county of Gütersloh sentenced a couple to imprisonent, six days for the mother followed by six days for the father, because the parents had refused to let their children attend a Christmas school play after Grimm’s fairytale “König Drosselbart” (King Thrushbeard), which they considered blasphemous. The prison sentences were demanded by Sven-Georg Adenauer, the Christian-Democrat Landrat (governor) of Gütersloh county, because the parents refused to pay the fine of 150 euros which they had received for not sending their children to the school play.

Upon the conviction Hermann Hartfeld, a Baptist preacher from Cologne who is also an immigrant from Russia, wrote to Adenauer: “These parents did not give in to the intimidations of the Communists. Do you really believe that they will give in to you?” However, Germany’s Christian-Democrats, who are likely to win the coming general elections in September, are as opposed to homeschooling as are the ruling Socialists. The German mentality, even among its so-called conservatives, is very statist. Parents are considered to be incapable of schooling their own children. In this respect the German mentality does not seem to have changed much since the days of Adolf Hitler, when the Germans were expected to look upon the state as a caring parent. Ironically, Sven-Georg Adenauer is the grandson of Konrad Adenauer, the first post-Nazi Chancellor of Germany.

The initiative of the Paderborn Baptists to establish their own private school was rejected by the authorities, who argued that such a school is but a cover for homeschooling and that “the living room is not a class room.” The Baptist families received the support of Hermann Stücher, a 68-year old Christian pedagogue who from 1980 to 1997 homeschooled all his seven children, despite a government prohibition. Stücher runs the Philadelphia School in Siegen, another Westphalian town. The Philadelphia School, which is not recognised by the German authorities, was established to assist homeschooling families. Stücher called upon all Christian parents in Germany to withdraw their children from the public schools which, he says, have fallen into the hands of “neomarxist activists propagating atheist humanism, hedonism, pluralism and materialism.” Manfred Müller, the Christian-Democrat Landrat of Paderborn county, has threatened to take Stücher to court on charges of “Hochverrat und Volksverhetzung (high treason and incitement of the people against the authorities) – a charge which the Nazis also used against their opponents. Müller considers homeschooling to be high treason because “die Schulpflicht sei eine staatsbürgerliche Pflicht, über die nicht verhandelt werden könne” (the obligation to attend school is a civil obligation, that cannot be tampered with).

The total number of homeschooled children in Germany is estimated to be only some 500 in a country of 80 million inhabitants. Unlike in its Western and Southern neighbours, however, homeschooling is illegal in Germany. Last year the police in Bavaria held several homeschooling fathers in coercive detention. They belonged to Christian groups who claim the right of parents to educate their own children, but they are not backed by the official (state funded) churches. Reinhard Hempelmann, a spokesman of the Evangelical Church in Berlin, maintains that the homeschoolers “isolate themselves from the world and the traditional churches.” Alfred Buss, the president of the Evangelical Church in Westphalia, has said that “freedom of religion does not justify opposition against the obligation to attend school.” Six decades after Hitler, German politicians and official church leaders still do not seem to understand what true freedom implies: that raising children is a prerogative of their fathers and mothers and not of the state, which is never a benevolent parent and often an enemy.

The targeted parents are all Christians, whose faith encourages them to act upon their principles, but the fierceness of the authorities’ reaction is telling. The dispute is not about religion (though that alone would be bad enough) but about the hearts and minds of the children. In Germany schools have become vehicles of indoctrination where children are brought up to unquestioningly accept the authority of the state in all areas of life. It is no coincidence that those who have escaped from indoctrination under the Soviets discern what the government is doing in the schools and are sufficiently concerned to want to protect their children from it. What is worrying is that “free-born” Western parents accept this assault on their freedom as normal and regard the Christian parents who want to opt out of the state system with suspicion.

What is one to make of modern-day Germany, a country which happily appoints a former marxist fanatic and condoner of terrorism to the post of minister of foreign affairs but accuses ordinary citizens of treason when they voice concern about what the schools are teaching their children? Clearly they have learned nothing from their experiences with state totalitarianism in the last century.

Source URL:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/139

[eBay turns in Germans who buy pro-White material]

German police raid homes in far-right Internet probe

Feb 28, 2008

BERLIN, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Police in eight German states raided the homes of 23 suspects on Thursday as part of a lengthy probe into the illegal sale of right-wing extremist literature and audio material, the Federal Crime Office (BKA) said.

A further 70 suspects had been identified in the investigation, which began in August 2006 after the German unit of U.S. online auction company eBay Inc (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) reported the sale via the Internet of far-right material, the BKA said.

Twenty-four computers, around 50 memory devices and some 3,500 right-wing extremist CDs and LPs had been seized in Thursday's raids, it added.

"The measures are a continuation of ... the fight against right-wing extremism on the Internet," the BKA said. "They show that the Internet is not a law-free zone and that online auctions are also checked from incriminating content."

German laws ban Nazi emblems like the swastika but grant public funds to the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD), whose followers implicitly back racist and some Nazi ideas.

The German government follows a so-called "four-pillar" strategy against right-wing extremism that was agreed in 2002. It seeks to educate on human rights, strengthen civil society and promote civil courage, help integrate foreigners and target suspected far-right extremists. (Reporting by Iain Rogers, editing by Mary Gabriel)

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[Dr. Ludwig Watzal]

Mar 2, 2008

Outcry over 'anti-Semite' at German gov't agency

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT - BERLIN

A German politician is leading calls on Germany's Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB), which provides educational material to combat anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hatred, to sack an employee for a series of alleged fiercely anti-Israel and anti-Jewish statements.

The controversy has raised an outcry in Germany because the employee, Dr. Ludwig Watzal, is more than a simple civil servant; he writes for the Das Parlament, a paper funded by the Federal government that covers domestic and international affairs, and serves as co-editor of Apuz, an academic supplement to the parliamentary paper. He has written widely on issues related to Israel and presents himself as an expert on Middle Eastern affairs.

Watzal has openly identified himself as a BpB employee in his widely disseminated writings on the Middle East. He did so, for instance, for a November 2007 article in Lebanon Wire, an on-line news site based in Beirut, to blast the prominent Israeli historian Benny Morris, saying Morris "encapsulates all Zionism's major elements, its inherent implausibility as a practical enterprise, its arrogance, racism and self-righteousness."

Elsewhere, Watzal has written, "Now that the US has been Israelized, is the Israelization of the world imminent?"

In an e-mail to The Jerusalem Post, the head of the BpB, Thomas Krüger, wrote that the agency "has always made it clear that it does not identify with Watzal's statements as a private person, and has in fact clearly distanced itself from them."

However, Gert Weisskirchen, a leading Social Democratic Party deputy, has called Watzal's positions anti-Semitic and demanded his dismissal. German politicians tend to be extremely reluctant to accuse other public officials of anti-Semitism, a charge that carries particular weight in Germany because of its history.

Critics charge Krüger with tolerating Watzal's anti-Israeli outlook by hiding behind employee rights arguments. Belinda Cooper, a lawyer and specialist on Germany at the World Policy Institute in New York, said, "By falling back on legal arguments, the BpB is making things too easy for itself; surely, it would find a way to fire a neo-Nazi employee, if the situation came up."

When questioned about Watzal's alleged anti-Jewish views, the University of Bonn, which Watzal cites as his current academic teaching post on his CV, said that he was no longer employed by the university's institute for political science and sociology. No reason was given.

Watzal's hostile sentiments date back to the 1990s. In a widely heard German radio broadcast in 2005, Watzal said the Israeli media businessman Haim Saban's purchase of the German television pro7 outlet was "evidence of how symbiotic the relationship between power and money is. Saban's political desire is to obtain as much control as possible over the media."

Dr. Juliane Wetzel, a historian at the center for the research on anti-Semitism at the Technical University of Berlin, said Watzal "activates the typical clichés of Jewish capital and Jewish power."

Cooper said that "instead of engaging in thoughtful examination, the BpB is responding with defensiveness - as though the critics were the problem."

At a parliamentary hearing devoted to combating anti-Semitism on January 25, several specialists in the field criticized the BpB for what they said was its failure to realize that Watzal's continued employment undermined their credibility. Asked why the Interior Ministry, which oversees the BpB, had extended Watzal's contract in 2006-2007, Gabriele Hermani, the spokeswoman for the agency, declined to comment on "personnel" matters.

Following the parliamentary hearing, Watzal initiated legal action against a critic at the session and the journalist Samuel Laster in Vienna, who is the editor of the on-line Jewish magazine Die Jüdische.

"If Watzal can accuse Benny Morris of racism, why can Watzal's critics not accuse him of anti-Semitism?" said the journalist John Rosenthal, who writes for the World Politics Review and has reported on the Watzal affair.

"If Benny Morris is worried that anyone might take Watzal's opinion seriously, then it is up to him to be a big boy and defend himself with words, not by running to the courts. In a mature democracy, Ludwig Watzal would be expected to do the same. In Germany, evidently he is not," said Rosenthal.

Watzal did not respond to e-mail requests for comment for this article. Reached on his mobile phone, he said that "Mr. Weisskirchen can say what he wants," in response to Weisskirchen's assertion that his positions constitute anti-Semitism. Weisskirchen, the Social Democratic Party deputy, serves as the personal representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for combating anti-Semitism.

The controversy surrounding Watzal and the BpB comes ahead of a March 16-17 visit to Israel by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her cabinet. Merkel told the German parliament on January 25 that "mainstream forms of anti-Semitism" must be combated in Germany.

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Neo-Nazi Goods Seized in Germany

Berlin, Feb 28 (Prensa Latina) An undetermined number of neo-Nazi Germans were stripped of their goods and properties for spreading songs and texts with racist messages, Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) reported Thursday.

Since the beginning of the investigation in August 2006, the BKA has carried out more than 20 home searches of suspects, together with 40 provincial prosecutors' offices and local authorities of eight federated states.

Computers, thousands of CDs and other equipment for saving and reproducing music, as well as neo-Nazi insignias and symbols were confiscated.

Germany-Crime-Online

Germany's constitutional court on Wednesday restricted online police searches, ruling against a law which allows authorities in the western state of North Rhine- Westphalia to snoop on computer users.

The constitutional court argued in its decision that "the basic right on ensuring confidentiality and integrity of information technology systems" had to be made possible.

The court added that online police searches are only permitted when there are concrete dangers to the lives of people or the existence of the state.

The German government has repeatedly called for online searches in its war against terrorism, organized crimes, child pornography, neo-Nazi propaganda and other types of crimes.

German lawyer and journalists group have continuously rejected online police snooping.

Last year, the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) ruled that based on the German Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO), online police spying was illegal.

The court argued that the StPO had no provisions to allow the authorities to perform secret online snooping.

YouTube - German challenge to Holocaust-Shoah Narrative

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YouTube - German challenge to Holocaust-Shoah Narrative (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72dHps9pYSc)

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ZigZog Zionist Jews Run Scared Of Mike James
German State Attorney Cites Insanity
Learning to live among the sane and comfortably numb
in the European Soviet Union of Zionist States
By Michael James in Germany
6-30-8


"No policeman would ever ask someone born in 1959 to stand in the dock before a judge and swear on the Bible that he had witnessed a crime that allegedly took place twenty years before he was born. Such a policemen would soon find himself charged with corruption and the witness would be incarcerated for perjury." -- 'Mike James Sues "German" Jews for Incitement to Bear False Witness'.

"It remains the case that the German Reich survived the collapse of 1945 and did not cease to exist, neither through capitulation nor the exercise of foreign power in Germany on the part of the allies; it possesses today, as it always has, legal and judicial sovereignty. The BRD is not the legal successor of the German Reich." -- Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court), 31 July 1973 (Urteile 2 Bvl.6/56; 2 BvF 1/73; 2 BvR 373/83; BVGE 2,266 (277); 3, 288 (319ff; 5.85) 126; 6, 309, 336 und 363)

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It's not every day an educated and highly-informed former journalist is accused of insanity. It's the sort of thing that happened quite frequently however in the former USSR. It was a classic defence of those exposed by the STASI for anti-Marxist thinking in the former communist East Germany.

I don't have access to a scanner at the moment and can't upload this frighteningly Orwellian letter sent to me by the State Attorney of Frankfurt, so please see my faithfully typed reproduction below.

In essence, the State Attorney, having conferred with the Central Council of Jews in Germany, has decided not to bring a prosecution for Volksverhetzung (racial incitement [against the Jewvandals]) against me for the following reasons (adapted translation):

"The guilt of the accused, following some consideration was estimated as very minor. It would not be in the public interest to seek a prosecution. Contingent upon this assessment were the following factors: the accused has no previous criminal record and is not under investigation; on account of his psychiatric health there remains some doubt as to his awareness of the crime."

Paradoxically, the letter ends with a warning: "If the [mentally insane] accused continues [to ask troublesome questions] he will lose the benefit of the above-mentioned ruling." (Additions in brackets are mine.)

One strike and you're crazy; two strikes and you're sane. Don't "crazy" people repeatedly make the same "mistakes" or is the State Attorney afraid to prosecute a man who will counter-sue for incitement to bear false witness?

What did I do? Let me refresh your memory. I simply sent letter to the Central Council of Jews asking them if there was something mysteriously Kabbalistic about the very rounded and sacredly indisputable six million number. Why would positing 5,999,999 or even 6,000,001 be considered "holocaust" denial and put an inquisitive man behind bars? Why can't mature, grown-up human beings answer such a question without hauling me before the police and then involving the State Attorney into the bargain? Did I hit a nerve?

And why the snide the comment that, should I continue in my "craziness", I shall suddenly be deemed sane enough to go before the bench (without a jury, which is always the case in Soviet Germany)? Is that not a threat? Is not making threats with menaces a crime in Germany as it is elsewhere?

There is something else which irks me profoundly by the way I have been slandered in this letter, and here I have an honest confession to make. I do indeed suffer from depression and I have a long history of alcoholism. In the latter case, I've kept my old pals, Johnny Walker and Jack Daniels, well out of reach for ten years, despite two spectacular relapses. In the former case, I tried everything the Jewish medical establishment threw at me before deciding to live with depression and chronic fatigue rather than endure the horrific side effects delivered by pharmaceuticals.

So how did the Central Council of Jewvandals and the Frankfurt State Attorney get hold of my medical records? There are very strict laws in place in Germany that prohibit the betrayal of trust and confidence in terms of doctor-patient relationships. Who snitched? Who pried? Who stole information that does not belong in the public domain?

If they really want to know just how crazy I am, I must also fess- up to a midlife crisis. I'm a divorced 48-year-old desperately in love with the daughter I never had. Her name is "Billie". I met a young lady recently who told me she wouldn't mind cooperating with me in an intimate manner to bring forth "Billie", but now I have cold feet. I would really love to meet "Billie" one day and teach her everything I know, and learn much more from her besides. I yearn for this unborn daughter of mine but I have serious doubts about her prospective mother, and I wouldn't want her to grow up in the European Union of Soviet [ZigZog] Zionist States.

On April 4, I shared a series of e-mails with a close friend in Germany. I spoke of my depression and how pessimistic I was in terms of a free Europe. I spoke at length about ways in which the European Union could be abolished. I expressed my wish to leave the European Soviet and live a life of freedom in South America. I may even have said it would be better to commit suicide than live in the emerging Soviet Zionist European Union.

I awoke the next morning in the company of two policemen. They were polite, embarrassed almost, but asked me to dress myself as quickly as possible and pack my necessities. What ensued was the scariest 24 hours of my life. Now, I've been there, folks. I was once surrounded by 36 paratroopers at Nairobi airport, all under orders to shoot me dead. I was also the target of an MI6 hit-man in the Taunustrasse in Frankfurt in May 1997. I can still remember having a [Vandal Nigger] Kenyan General Service Unit assassin put a gun in my mouth on the outskirts of Nairobi, and instead of blinking, I laughed, and he ran off.

This was different. They took me to a high-security psychiatric clinic in Koppern and they locked me in a room with lights that never dimmed, even during sleeping hours. A fat, balding man would peer in on me every twenty minutes or so, and he wondered why I had not undressed; why it was that I lay on my bed in the cold, tie undone, shoes in place. I didn't plan to stay.

They sent in a battery of "doctors" and psychiatrists to probe, prod and test me. They could find nothing wrong with me, and I still have the report to prove it. Psychiatric health: A-plus. Extremely high IQ. As sharp as a whistle.

Isn't that fucking amazing? You're feeling depressed and you end up in the most nightmarish, hellish scenario you can ever imagine just because you told a friend about your fears for the future of Europeans and how you're hurting deep down inside for yourself and your own People [Whites].

Do you know what they did? They said, "Okay, here's your 'get out of jail free card', but (and there's always a fucking 'but' in your face when that's the last thing you want to see), "You take these, and you take them without question."

So I did.

Do you know what they were? Paxil (Paroxetine). Never heard of this garbage ever before in my life. I was online for 24-hours-straight trying to figure out what was going on inside of my head. I did not know who the hell the I was. I did not even know I had started to drink again. They put me on this pharmaceutical trip, and I went wheeling from one bar to another and my guess is I drank the whole of Bad Homburg dry.

I have no real, quality spectacles anymore. I smashed them by falling over simply because some girl said, "Hi, Mikey." I just span around and my face hit the concrete. I had been off the booze for three days and eventually flushed those tablets down the toilet after four weeks. I can't even remember whether this "Hi, Mikey" happened to me here in Burgholzhausen, Bad Homburg, Switzerland, Berlin or even in Shanghai City. Could have been anywhere. Really. Name that planet.

I purchased two pairs of replacement spectacles at Woolworths, and I have to keep swapping them out because I get a headache after each shift. I can neither read nor write for more than ten minutes without losing vision. I've always had migraines, but now they're worse than ever before. I now have a tremor in my right hand and it shows no sign of abating. That Paxil was designed to destroy my brain cells. Thanks ZigZog Zionist Jewvandal Swine!!!

As my readers will know, my Internet connection was recently shut down for six days. When they can't win, they [The Jewvandali] kick the game board.

The "German" government and their ZigZog Zionist and Jewpiggish puppet masters have a new weapon in their armory to be used against those who tell the Truth about suppressed history and the illegal European Soviet Union: denial of internet access, without warning and without any apparent remedy.

It is a cruel cut. In all of my discussions with my ISP and the infrastructure 'providers', T-Com, the message came through loud and clear: We reconnect at our leisure. You're not welcome here. You're making waves. Stop writing the things you're writing and everything will be just fine.

What would Billie say?

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Mike James, an Englishman, is a former freelance journalist resident in Germany since 1992 with additional long-haul stays in East Africa, Poland and Switzerland. 88!
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Xuxa Rihhia, a PM or e-mail would be nice. 88 Bob

Xuxa Rihhia, a PM or e-mail would be nice. 88 Bob

You have mail!:) Heil Hitler!

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Germany Declares War on Home-Schoolers
By Dale Hurd
CBN News Senior Reporter
August 11, 2008

CBNNews.com - NUREMBURG, Germany - It certainly looks as if the German government has declared open season on Germany's tiny home-schooling community.

CBN News was first to bring the story of Melissa Busekros to American television last year. The home-schooled teenager was snatched from her family by police in a SWAT style raid and put in a psychiatric ward. After an international uproar, Melissa was returned to her family.

But other home-schooling families face even worse persecution. More and more parents are being sent to prison. Heavy fines are leaving home-schooling families destitute. And more and more children have been taken into state custody.

Throw Back to the Third Reich

It's been 70 years since compulsory education was made law by Adolf Hitler's government. And in what is eerily reminiscent of the 1930s, more and more home-schooling families have been forced to flee Germany or risk losing their children.

Klaus and Kathryn Landahl fled to England after they were tipped off that authorities were going to take custody of their kids.

The Gorber family, who reside in southern Germany, have had six of their children taken from them by the state.

And Juergen and Rosemarie Dudek each face 3-month jail terms, and are economically ruined from heavy fines.

These are just a few of the cases. But there are only about 400 home-schooling families left in Germany now.

The home-schooling experts CBN News spoke to believe the government wants to wipe out the small home-schooling community here, before it can become popular, like it has in the United States.

"What you're having now is legitimate full blown persecution. They're trying to eradicate this movement before it can gain traction and become a popular movement like it has in America," explained attorney Joel Thornton, President and CEO of the International Human Rights Group, which defends German homes choolers in court.

In the Bavarian town of Schwabach, attorney Johannes Hildebrandt, who also represents home-schoolers, says the movement is at a critical point.

"In the courts, it is in danger. Home schooling is very strange to the German people. They have no experience with this kind of education," Hildebrandt said.

The German government's argument against home schooling as stated by Wolfgang Drautz, German Consul General is that "The public has a legitimate interest in countering the rise of parallel societies that are based on religion or motivated by different world views and in integrating minorities into the population as a whole."

"Germany does not want the kind of citizens that home schooling produces. They've seen how the home-schooling movement in the U.S. developed and they're very keen on that not happening here," said German academic Klaus Guenther, who is also an American citizen and was home schooled.

Home schooling Barred to Non-Germans

The Germans don't even want non-Germans home schooling in Germany.

American missionaries Clint and Susan Robinson moved their family to Germany only to have their visa application turned down because they home school. They now have to leave the country, and are looking to move to Austria, which allows home schooling.

"What we're trying to do is get a house just across the border so we're living in Austria, where our visa comes from so the government can't control us with home schooling," says Clint Robinson.

Susan added tearfully, "We left our home country and came over here and God supplied this house and the environment and just everything, and now they're saying 'no, you can't stay, you've got to leave.' It's hard."

And at the same time that the German government is persecuting home-schoolers in Germany, including Americans who want to homeschool there, Berlin is encouraging its diplomats abroad, including its diplomats in Washington, to home school their children with a state homeschooling curriculum.

Thornton said, "Their officials are actually encouraged to home school and not put their children into American schools and into foreign schools."

A Questionable Education

A lot of American Christians would have good reason not to want their kids subjected to German state schools. The sex education curriculum is often pornographic, even for young ages, and the occult is often celebrated.

Missionary Robinson told CBN News, "I know of schools right in our area where it's not just mixed swimming but mixed showering after the swim class is over and mixed locker rooms and then they leave and go to the next class."

German home-schooler Heiko Krautter told us he would be sinning to put his children in a state school.

He said, "These things in the school, the official state school, they destroy the children. And we teach the children in the things of God. And the people in the official school teach the children in other things, against God."

Krautter fled Germany after this interview and took his family to Norway.

Thornton believes Germany's war on home-schooling is just a part of Europe's war against Christianity.

"This is a battle to eradicate spiritual life from every person in Europe, to eradicate spirituality and Christianity from the culture," he said.

And the unfortunate victims in this battle are the families who believe educating their children is their God-given right.

Missionary Robinson told CBN News, "I know of schools right in our area where it's not just mixed swimming but mixed showering after the swim class is over and mixed locker rooms and then they leave and go to the next class."

German home-schooler Heiko Krautter told us he would be sinning to put his children in a state school.I bet if Heiko's kids are boys, they hate his guts.

Tomislav Sunic: Brainwashing the Germans
Brainwashing the Germans

In the aftermath of World War II, the role of the American-based Frankfurt School scholars and European Marxist intellectuals was decisive in shaping the new European cultural scene. Scores of American left-leaning psychoanalysts - under the auspices of the Truman government - swarmed over Germany in an attempt to rectify not just the German mind but also to change the brains of all Europeans. Frankfurt School activists were mostly of German-Jewish extraction who had been expelled by the German authorities during National Socialist rule and who, after the Second World War, came back to Europe and began laying the foundations for a new approach in the study of the humanities. But there were also a considerable number of WASP Puritan-minded scholars and military men active in post-war Germany, such as Major General McClure, the poet Archibald MacLeish, the political scientist Harold Laswell, the jurist Robert Jackson and the philosopher John Dewey, who had envisaged copying the American way of democracy into the European public scene. They thought of themselves as divinely chosen people called to preach American democracy - a procedure which would be used by American elites in the decades to come on each occasion and in every spot of the world.

Most of the new American educators, however, were former disciples of Freud and Marx, who considered that the best approach in curing defeated Germany was by treating Germans as a nation of “clinical patients” in need of a hefty dose of liberal and socialist therapy. The Frankfurt School, during its days of American exile, had already drafted various social theories as to how to cure Germany of its “authoritarian character.” Accordingly, its major spokesmen argued that “the German petite bourgeoisie has always demonstrated a sado-masochistic character, branded by veneration for the strong man, hatred against the weak, narrow-mindedness, pettiness, hostility, thriftiness, often bordering on miserliness (both in terms of their feelings and money).” In the decades to come it sufficed to be labeled a “Neo-Nazi” or a “radical right winger” in order to lose the right of free speech and become an intellectual pariah. Although the American provisional military government in Germany pursued the hunt for National Socialist dignitaries and brought many to justice, it used the same tactics in the realm of German education and the media. It never crossed the mind of American post-war educators that their actions would facilitate the rise of Marxist cultural hegemony in Europe and lead to the prolongation of the Cold War.

As a result of Frankfurt School reeducational endeavors in Germany, thousands of book titles in the fields of genetics and anthropology were removed from library shelves and thousands of museum artifacts were, if not destroyed in the preceding Allied fire bombing, shipped to the USA and the Soviet Union. The liberal and communist tenets of free speech and freedom of expression did not apply at all to the defeated side which had earlier been branded as “the enemy of humanity.”

Particularly harsh was the Allied treatment of German teachers and academics. Since National Socialist Germany had significant support among German teachers and university professors, it was to be expected that the US reeducational authorities would start screening German intellectuals, writers, journalists and film makers. Having destroyed dozens of major libraries in Germany, with millions of volumes gone up in flames, the American occupying powers resorted to improvising measures in order to give some semblance of normalcy in what later became “the democratic Germany.” The occupying powers realized that universities and other places of higher learning could always turn into centers of civil unrest, and therefore, their attempts at denazifaction were first focused on German teachers and academics.

From the Allied viewpoint, and particularly from the viewpoint of the American military government, the universities, despite their undoubtedly great academic achievements in the past, were the breeding ground of reactionary nationalism conducted by the conservative oligarchy of professors. The focus of the universities was overspecialization by means of sharp delimitation between students as a unique elite versus the rest of the society. Moreover, education at the universities transmitted technical competence while neglecting social responsibility.

Boy, what an informative article! I do notice, though, that Sunic doesn't mind using the term "WASP" to describe Puritan-minded scholars & military men. For as long as I can remember, WASP implied cork-up-the-ass and not much else, as if only white Anglo Saxon Protestants might have these attitudes. I wonder if Sunic has a poker up his own ass over his being neither anglo-saxon nor Protestant in his own origins.

Not to get off your topic too much, now, but wasn't it Sunic who looks askance at the idea of a whites-only nation-state, on the grounds that, given our history of killing each other over there in Europe for centuries, it would be only a matter of time before we are at each other's throats in our glorious :D new land. I am not saying he is wrong, I'm just wondering if all that slaughter necessarily occurred as a result of our excessive individualism or if maybe it is something that we have gotten out of our system once & for all.

Celtic cross banned in Germany

http://vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=84295

VIDEO: Germar Rudolph discusses his experiences

http://vnnforum.com/showthread.php?p=886151#post886151

[Germany Bans Al-Manar TV]

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More Condemnations for German Decision to Ban Al-Manar

25/11/2008 Four days on the German "strange" and "political" decision to ban Al-Manar Television on the grounds that it "violates the country's constitution," condemnations and denunciations annexed to support declarations predominated.

On Tuesday, the National Council of media held a meeting to discuss the German decision against Al-Manar. The head of the Council Abdul Hadi Mahfouz revealed that the mentioned decision came out following a meeting that joined the German Interior Minister to the Israeli Minister for Internal Security Avi Dichter.

Mahfouz concluded that the decision comes in the framework of a general policy that seeks to "abolish" the Resistance media outlets. He announced to the Council members and media representatives that he has held a meeting with the informative envoy in the German embassy and discussed with him the repercussions of such a decision.

The council called on to adopt tangible steps, such as opening dialogue with the European Union about freedom of expression, to oppose the German decision as a necessary move to protect the other Lebanese media outlets and prevent Arab and Western states of taking any similar measure against them.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese Information Minister Tarek Mitri renewed on Tuesday his solidarity with Al-Manar in regards to the German decision, expressing astonishment for the ban's decision. He pointed out that the decision was legally weak, since it was issued by an Interior Minister, not even the Information one.

Speaking to Al-Manar, Mitri pointed out that the impact of the decision on Al-Manar was a moral one, recalling that people would be able to receive the channel from their homes. However, he deemed that resorting to judicial authorities was the best and favorable step to be taken for now.

Mitri has called on Monday Al-Manar's General Director Abdallah Kassir and told him that the German measure taken against the Lebanese TV station was strange and unacceptable. According to Mitri, the German decision does not harmonize with the freedom of expression believed to be an evident right in the democratic societies.

But former MP Nasser Kandil expressed wishes that Mitri translates his position of solidarity with Al-Manar through raising the issue within the cabinet in the next session in order to present an official protest against the German decision as an insult to the bilateral relations. In a statement, Kandil compared between the aggressions Al-Manar TV was subject to from the part of many European countries and the facilities offered to the Zionist media that propagates extremist incitements.

For his part, MP Mostafa Hussein condemned the German decision, and said it was unfair with respect to the channel and its supporters, calling on the Lebanese government to deal with the German media outlets similarly.

The German decision was also denounced by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement as unethical and despotic.

On Friday, Germany has banned Al-Manar television station on grounds that it violates the country's constitution, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Friday. The Al-Manar ban prevents German satellite television companies from offering the channel.

The channel's administration has issued on Saturday a statement in which it declared that the ban's decision was strange. "Al-Manar channel has always abided by all the observed laws, it assumed its role with responsibility and professionalism," the statement noted, adding that it has always been and is still a target for the American and Zionist unfair policies only because it played an efficient and operative role.

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German court rejects appeal, upholds ban on words with Nazi link

Jun. 25, 2009

Germany's highest court on Thursday rejected an appeal by a far-right party member and upheld a ban on three words appearing in sequence because of their link to a former anthem of the Nazi party, Reuters reported.

The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe rejected an appeal by a member of a far-right party who was fined 1,750 euros after he was convicted of wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "die Fahnen hoch" in 2007.

The court said the words, which appeared as the final part of an eight-word slogan on the shirt and literally translate as "the flags on high," were too similar to the opening line of the Nazi anthem, the Horst Wessel song.

"An observer familiar with the existence and history of the Horst Wessel song will be able to place the short text passage in a broader context," the court reportedly said in a statement.

09/07/2009

Germany calls for ban on neo-Nazi Web sites abroad

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1099040.html

Germany's Justice Minister on Thursday called for foreign Internet service providers to remove neo-Nazi images, texts and other content that can be viewed inside the country in violation of laws forbidding any Nazi symbols.

German authorities have little control over German-language content hosted by servers in other countries, including the United States.

Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries said her office would appeal to foreign Internet providers to use their own terms of service as grounds for eliminating content promoting the far-right ideal.

"The general terms of service that they have issued themselves say that hate should be discouraged, so take things down that go against that," Zypries said.

A separate debate over Internet monitoring in Germany broke out last month as federal lawmakers approved legislation to allow Web sites containing child pornography to be blocked.

Using ideology or symbols from the Nazis is forbidden in Germany, but far-right groups that do not associate themselves with Nazis directly have more leeway. Stefan Glaser, spokesman for a youth protection group called jugendschutz.net said it catalogued 1,600 sites run by far-right extremists last year, and that the number was growing.

The Internet has become the number one propaganda platform for far-right extremists, Glaser said.

If Zypstein has problems viewing Swastikas and the like, I wonder how discomforting she would find WNs using Jew symbols sewn onto baseball jackets or used as avatars on WN forums.
There might be money to make in reproducing- and distributing these sew-ons:

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Prosecutors Look into NPD Campaign Song

The public prosecutor's office in Berlin is examining a song on the far-right NPD party's Web site that refers to Himmler and Rommel and asks its followers to "punch" Michel Friedman, a former vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

A song by the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) praising Himmler and Rommel and threatening a prominent member of Germany's Jewish community is attracting the attention of the authorities.

The Berlin public prosecutor's office is investigating the election ditty that features on the NPD's Web site.

The anthem, sung by "Karin," aims to encourage party members to come out and help distribute party material ahead of the elections in September, with the words: "With Himmler, Voigt and Rommel, one likes to throw one in, banging on the mail box, I give Friedman a punch."

Udo Voigt is the NPD party chairman, Erwin Rommel was the German Field Marshal during World War II while Heinrich Himmler was the head of the feared Schutzstaffel, or SS. Michel Friedman, meanwhile, is a well-known talk show host and former vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. The song also takes a swipe at Green Party leader Cem Özdemir, a German citizen born to Turkish parents.

Michael von Hagen, the chief prosecutor in Berlin, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper that his office was examining the content of the song to see if it is "relevant to criminal law." He said it was possible that the tune could be seen regarded as insulting to Friedman, as well a public call to take action against him.

Winfriede Schreiber, who heads the Brandenburg branch of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany's domestic intelligence agency, told the same newspaper in comments published on Friday that the song underscored the fact that "the NPD is increasingly blatant in showing its ties to National Socialism."

The Central Council of Jews meanwhile is looking at whether legal steps can be taken against the NPD. General Secretary Stephan Kramer said that the party used every opportunity to "incite violence and racial hatred."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,638160,00.html

Hitler’s Ghost Haunts German Parents
Homeschooling In Germany

The Brussels Journal
2005-08-02

Of all religious groups Baptists were among the most fiercely persecuted in the Soviet Union. They were not just Christians but they also distrusted the state, preaching an institutional secession from state-run institutions. Many Baptists belonged to the German-speaking minority in Southern Russia and Kazakhstan. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, they emigrated to Germany, the land where their forefathers had originally come from. Today, these Baptist immigrants from Russia, as well as the Low-German Mennonites, are being prosecuted in Germany because they are unhappy with what their children are learning in the German public schools, which they consider too secular. Children are not allowed to opt out of classes or school activities and homeschooling is illegal in Germany since Adolf Hitler outlawed it in 1938.

Last week, a court in Paderborn in the German state of Westphalia ruled that two Baptist couples lose their parental authority over their own children in educational matters. The court said it was interfering “in order to protect the children from further harm.” It stated that the parents had shown “a stubborn contempt both for the state’s educational duty as well as the right of their children to develop their personalities by attending school.” The court appointed the local Paderborn social service as guardian over the children to ensure that they attend public school.

The two couples belong to a group of seven families with a total of fifteen children of elementary school age who do not attend school. The parents were brought to court by the local education board of the county whose director, Heinz Kohler, argued that homeschooling cannot be allowed because it is “a right of the child not to be kept away from the outside world. The parents’ right to personally educate their children would prevent the children from growing up to be responsible individuals within society.” Kohler was backed by the Westphalian minister of Education, the Socialist politician Ute Schäfer, who stated that the obligation to attend a government approved school follows from the “right of a child to free education and maturation.”

Last January, a court in the Westphalian county of Gütersloh sentenced a couple to imprisonent, six days for the mother followed by six days for the father, because the parents had refused to let their children attend a Christmas school play after Grimm’s fairytale “König Drosselbart” (King Thrushbeard), which they considered blasphemous. The prison sentences were demanded by Sven-Georg Adenauer, the Christian-Democrat Landrat (governor) of Gütersloh county, because the parents refused to pay the fine of 150 euros which they had received for not sending their children to the school play.

Upon the conviction Hermann Hartfeld, a Baptist preacher from Cologne who is also an immigrant from Russia, wrote to Adenauer: “These parents did not give in to the intimidations of the Communists. Do you really believe that they will give in to you?” However, Germany’s Christian-Democrats, who are likely to win the coming general elections in September, are as opposed to homeschooling as are the ruling Socialists. The German mentality, even among its so-called conservatives, is very statist. Parents are considered to be incapable of schooling their own children. In this respect the German mentality does not seem to have changed much since the days of Adolf Hitler, when the Germans were expected to look upon the state as a caring parent. Ironically, Sven-Georg Adenauer is the grandson of Konrad Adenauer, the first post-Nazi Chancellor of Germany.

The initiative of the Paderborn Baptists to establish their own private school was rejected by the authorities, who argued that such a school is but a cover for homeschooling and that “the living room is not a class room.” The Baptist families received the support of Hermann Stücher, a 68-year old Christian pedagogue who from 1980 to 1997 homeschooled all his seven children, despite a government prohibition. Stücher runs the Philadelphia School in Siegen, another Westphalian town. The Philadelphia School, which is not recognised by the German authorities, was established to assist homeschooling families. Stücher called upon all Christian parents in Germany to withdraw their children from the public schools which, he says, have fallen into the hands of “neomarxist activists propagating atheist humanism, hedonism, pluralism and materialism.” Manfred Müller, the Christian-Democrat Landrat of Paderborn county, has threatened to take Stücher to court on charges of “Hochverrat und Volksverhetzung (high treason and incitement of the people against the authorities) – a charge which the Nazis also used against their opponents. Müller considers homeschooling to be high treason because “die Schulpflicht sei eine staatsbürgerliche Pflicht, über die nicht verhandelt werden könne” (the obligation to attend school is a civil obligation, that cannot be tampered with).

The total number of homeschooled children in Germany is estimated to be only some 500 in a country of 80 million inhabitants. Unlike in its Western and Southern neighbours, however, homeschooling is illegal in Germany. Last year the police in Bavaria held several homeschooling fathers in coercive detention. They belonged to Christian groups who claim the right of parents to educate their own children, but they are not backed by the official (state funded) churches. Reinhard Hempelmann, a spokesman of the Evangelical Church in Berlin, maintains that the homeschoolers “isolate themselves from the world and the traditional churches.” Alfred Buss, the president of the Evangelical Church in Westphalia, has said that “freedom of religion does not justify opposition against the obligation to attend school.” Six decades after Hitler, German politicians and official church leaders still do not seem to understand what true freedom implies: that raising children is a prerogative of their fathers and mothers and not of the state, which is never a benevolent parent and often an enemy.

The targeted parents are all Christians, whose faith encourages them to act upon their principles, but the fierceness of the authorities’ reaction is telling. The dispute is not about religion (though that alone would be bad enough) but about the hearts and minds of the children. In Germany schools have become vehicles of indoctrination where children are brought up to unquestioningly accept the authority of the state in all areas of life. It is no coincidence that those who have escaped from indoctrination under the Soviets discern what the government is doing in the schools and are sufficiently concerned to want to protect their children from it. What is worrying is that “free-born” Western parents accept this assault on their freedom as normal and regard the Christian parents who want to opt out of the state system with suspicion.

What is one to make of modern-day Germany, a country which happily appoints a former marxist fanatic and condoner of terrorism to the post of minister of foreign affairs but accuses ordinary citizens of treason when they voice concern about what the schools are teaching their children? Clearly they have learned nothing from their experiences with state totalitarianism in the last century.

Source URL:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/139



One group is trying to help and has some more horror stories: www.hslda.org/hs/international/Germany/default.asp

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[from David Irving]

Munich has decided in double-quick time that the twenty year old ban on my setting foot on German soil is to be extended by another ten years.

http://www.fpp.co.uk//docs/Irving/RadDi/2012/250312.html

The Third Reich banned the works of numerous musicians and writers, from Felix Mendelssohn to Franz Kafka. What is your view on Nazi cultural policy? - Israel now does the same, banning literary works. So does the Bundesrsepublik with its Index of jugendgefährdende Schriften Index of Youth-endangering Writings and by other, more subtle, means (e.g., banning me from Germany effectively for life since 1993, so I cannot access publishers, booksellers, audiences, archives).

http://www.fpp.co.uk//docs/Irving/RadDi/2012/250312.html

Germany Censors Book on Sobibor
Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/30/2012 - 01:00

The German government's censorship authority "Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien" (BPjM) has moved to put the German edition of the book Sobibor. Holocaust Propaganda and Reality on the list of banned books.

In a letter dated July 19, 2012, the publishers of this book were informed that the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had suggested ten days earlier to include this book on the list of banned media for the following reason:

"In it, the authors of the book deny the mass murder of Jews in the extermination camp Sobibór during World War II, but also the Holocaust in general. The book is therefore capable to potentially disorient adolescents socio-ethically."

Although the publishers or authors have a right to argue against such a listing and to appeal to a court of law, arguing with German authorites on revisionist books would be a perfect waste of time and money. As a counter measure, Castle Hill Publishers have instead given CODOH the permission to post the entire book as a free download online, which is the first time if can be had as a pdf, contrary to what the German authorites claim (so far only a shorter, unedited pre-publication typescript version has been elsewhere available online).

So here it is, with links both for free downloading and for ordering a hard copy: Sobibor. Holocaust-Propaganda und Wirklichkeit

http://codoh.com/news/1803

Here's the PDF of the book. In GERMAN.

"Sobibor - Holocaust Propaganda und Wirklichkeit" and reality or actuality

http://codoh.com/sites/default/files/SobiborDs.pdf

German Patriotic Publisher Target of Government Censorship
Submitted by admin on Sat, 08/04/2012 - 16:06

On Tuesday, July 31, 2012, officials from the State Police of Saxony searched the offices of the LiberGraphics publishing company of Adrian Preissinger, a moderate German patriot. Reason: Preissinger had offered a pre-owned copy of the book Mit ruhig festem Schritt (With Calm, Steadfast Pace), written by Wilfred von Oven, who between 1943 and 1945 was Joseph Goebbels's personal press adjutant. The book was published in 1998 by the German patriotic publishing house Arndt and is a brief history of the SA (Sturm-Abteilung, Strom Troopers), a paramilitary organization of National Socialist Germany. So far the book has neither been indexed by Germany's offical censorship department nor is there any court order known for its confiscation and destruction.

A day later, Aug. 1, 2012, Adrian Preissinger obtained a letter from Germany's government censors informing him that the book Die Jüdische Epoche (The Jewish Epoch) by Wolfgang Hackert is slated to be put on the index of media endangering the youth (which would effectively ban it from public view). The book is an exposure and scathing criticism of Jewish-dominated background powers manipulating the public at large to serve their ends.

http://codoh.com/news/1847

Die Juedische Epoche
http://www.libergraphix.de/Verlag/product_info.php?info=p1_Wolfgang-Hackert--Die-Juedische-Epoche---Ordo-ab-chao.html

[from David Irving]

Germany has prosecuted over 17,000 Germans for thought-crime offences of "right-wing extremism" over the last 12 months. [Irving wrote this in 2006]

http://www.fpp.co.uk//online/indices/Radicals_Diary.html

German court fines far-right parliamentarian for blaspheming 'the' 'holocaust'

A suspended jail term and 6,000 euro fine have been imposed on a far-right German parliamentarian who mocked Holocaust Day in 2010. A northern German court found that Udo Pastörs had insulted the memory of dead.

The administrative court in Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg West Pomerania state, ruled that Pastörs was not protected by freedom of speech nor privilege for parliamentarians when he denied Nazi Germany's murder of six million Jews in what it called his "diatribe" on January 28, 2010 when parliament remembers the victims of Nazi tyranny.

The many faces of neo-Nazism

The 10 murders carried out by the neo-Nazi NSU have shown how the risks of the far right were widely underestimated. In fact, the diversity of the far right makes it a real challenge for the security services. (31.07.2012)

The court ordered him to pay his fine to Schwerin's city library for children's books and slapped him with an eight-month suspended jail term.

In the state's regional assembly in Schwerin, 59-year-old Pastörs leads a minority parliamentary group of the anti-immigrant National Democratic Party (NPD). The party also has a few seats in another eastern German state, Saxony, but no seats at the federal level.

The presiding judge in Schwerin said Pastörs' use of prepared notes in parliament showed a premeditated use of significant "criminal energy" that could only be interpreted as Holocaust denial. In his speech, Pastörs had described parliament's ceremony as a "cult of guilt."

Pastörs already has a conviction for inciting hatred against Jews and Turks in 2010 during a NPD party gathering in the western German state of Saarland. For that, he was fined 6,000 euros and handed a ten-month suspended jail term.

German mainstream considering NPD ban

Groups with explicit neo-Nazi ideology are banned in Germany. Federal and regional state authorities are considering submitting a fresh application to ban the NPD to Germany's constitutional court in Karlsruhe.

Civic groups in Schwerin demand the banning of the NPD

A similar bid failed in 2003 because the top court said the presence of high-place informers had tainted evidence. But public pressure to outlaw the NPD has mounted further since a neo-Nazi cell, the National Socialist Underground (NSU), was exposed in November. The cell is alleged to have killed eight ethnic Turkish shopkeepers, a Greek man and a German policewoman between 2000 and 2007.

Latest figures indicate that the NPD has about 6,600 members.

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16173614,00.html

[cops try to bust Germans who hold anonymous rallies to remember their own dead and protest Volkstod - the attempted genocide of the German folk]

http://vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=144986

In Germany You Can Lose Your Job & Go to Jail for Translating A Book Questioning the Hollywood Version of World War II
http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=2392

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“To secure the victory, beside the necessary occupation of the enemy nation and the sentencing of the elite in war crime trials, it is most important to impose on the conquered a re-education program. The means are: to implant into the brains of the conquered the presentation of history from the viewpoint of the victors. It is important to transfer the moral categories of the war propaganda into the consciousness of the vanquished. When the war propaganda of the victors is written up in the history books of the vanquished and is believed by the successive generation only then can re-education be looked upon as having been a success.”
~Walter Lippman, President Woodrow Wilson's propaganda minister

[Editor's Note: To my knowledge this is the first English translation of the trial of Guenter Deckert translated from the original report of German lawyer Sylvia Stolz. I am deeply indebted to the dedicated efforts of my colleague Christine B. Miller for translated the text of the trial into English so that the West can now get a much fuller idea of the scope and degeneracy of the current German justice system.

To say the very least what we are witnessing here in the manner in which Guenter Deckert was treated by the German judiciary and the Zionist media is beyond comprehension for anyone who still adheres to the notion that law is somehow connected to both reason and logic. After reading this long and interesting report one cannot fail to realize that Germany is now firmly held in the claws of the Zionist power machine. Walter Lippman's prognosis for brainwashing those defeated in war appears to have come true.

All that said though, here in Canada with the current "Hate Crime" laws like sec. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and sec. 319(2) of the Canadian Criminal Code, we're not really that far away from being a full-blown Zionist Occupied nation as well.

It must also be clearly understood that the German media and the Canadian media are both controlled by the Zionist Jew criminal cartel just as the British, the French and the American media also are and if a person gives sufficient thought to the success of the victors in the case of Germany they can also extrapolate for there to any other nation where the media is in the hands of the oppressors and the manufacturers of "Hate crimes".

This is an important document for anyone interested and concerned about freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Please take the time to read it and also consider passing it on to as many other websites as you can. The world needs to be fully aware of the collective danger posed by political Zionism in order that steps can be taken to dismantle this global, power-crazed entity before our collective health, welfare and security are all destroyed. Arthur Topham/Editor/Radical Press]


The Trial of Guenter Deckert

By Sylvia Stolz

Translated from the German language
by Christine B. Miller


"A prison sentence will not force me into believing."
~ Guenter Deckert


"When I have doubts I demand the right to express them …They talk about tolerance, but mean the inquisition. … The hunt to find incorrect literature pretending to fight crime. For a short time people can be intimidated by the threat of punishment, but the brain continues to reason."

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Thus spoke Guenter Deckert in his final comment at his sentencing February, 2012 in front of the state court Mannheim. The report of his trial follows.

Since January 2, 2013 Guenter has been in prison on account of aiding and abetting so-called Holocaust denial. We accompanied him on his journey to prison and took leave of him at the Mannheim prison gate.

We expressed our thanks for his courage and his commitment to freedom, justice and truth. We will always remember that. The day will come when the Germans and other people will appreciate his zeal.

He is supposed to be released May 2013. We will be there waiting for him starting at nine o’clock.

Address: Herzogenriedstrasse 111, 68169 Mannheim. Whoever wants to be there and greet him is cordially invited.

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Mannheim Prison, Germany

The Opinion Terror

By Sylvia Stolz

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Lawyer Sylvia Stolz

A prison sentence for doubting the “Holocaust.”

No probation for expressing one’s opinion in these times of alleged "right wing terror.”

In these times of the “resurfacing” of right wing extremism which, without question, is due to the criminal deeds of the alleged “NSU”, Holocaust denial constitutes a considerable danger for public peace.

Guenter Deckert, former high school teacher, on February 2, 2012 was sentenced by the state court of Mannheim to a prison sentence of six months without probation on account of aiding and abetting so-called Holocaust denial. As well, because of the “radical” law and in spite of high evaluations he was dismissed from his high school teaching job in November, 1988 in the State of Baden-Wuertenberg and was denied his pension.

He is charged with having cooperated in the translation into German of the book by Carlo Mattogno, Auschwitz – the First Gassings, Rumors and Reality (December, Castle Hill Publishers.)

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Author & Historian Carlo Mattogno

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On July 28, 2010 Guenter Deckert had been sentenced by the lower court of Weinheim to a prison term of 4 months with probation. The charges were: promotion of incitement of the public by means of Holocaust denial and defamation of the memory of the dead. (&&130 III, IV, 189 STGB-BRD. Aktenzeichen: 2Ds 503 Js 14219/08 – AK 579/09).

The prosecutor appealed and on February 2, 2012 the sentence by the state court of Mannheim was increased to six months without probation. Guenter Deckert’s appeal was thrown out (Aktenzeichen: 12Ns 503 Js 14219/08)

Many people in the BRD (Germany), the BRO (Austria), Switzerland, France, Spain, Greece and other countries have been sentenced because they denied or doubted the Holocaust when defined as systematic genocide. At times very high prison sentences have been handed down. For example the sentence against lawyer Horst Mahler.

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Lawyer Horst Mahler

The Holocaust is not defined

During his appeal Guenter Deckert wanted to know the concrete facts which he, according to the accusations, deliberately ignored and the truth he contested. He received no answer.

It is especially telling that the so-called “Holocaust” is not legally defined (This is against the principal of the penal law). In the first trial no concrete facts as to the place of the crime, the methods of killing or other proofs, directly or indirectly presented in the findings of other trials, were presented.

Concerning his denial the court pointed to &130 section 3StGB , &6 section of the international penal law which defines genocide as being when a member of an ethnic or religious group is killed with the intent to destroy or partially destroy the whole group. According to &130 section 3StGB i.V.m &6 section VStGB people can be punished who deny that under the rule of National Socialism, without knowledge or intent of the German Reichsregierung, a Jew, by someone or another (even by a non-German), had been killed with the intent to partially destroy Jewry as an ethnic and religious group.

"Known to the court” to be challenged"

Guenter Deckert at the beginning of his appeal made the following motion:

"I move for the court to discuss point by point the principles on which the court rests its “known to the court” facts which, since the beginning of the Seventies of the Twentieth Century, generally go under the notation “Holocaust.”

The court should establish if and how far the persons who are called to judge have knowledge of these “facts” or only base their judgment on hearsay or secondary literature."

Before coming to a decision about this motion the court should take into consideration the resolution by the petition caucus of the German Bundestag (upper house) Pet 12-4-07-45-5699 Deutscher Bundestag 12. election period – print 12/2849.

An excerpt: During a main trial the court is duty bound to discuss those facts of which the court has taken judicial notice in order to give the accused the opportunity to contest them. In addition it has to be acknowledged that “known to the court” does need to exist in perpetuity or has to remain unchanged. New information might have been gotten and new events might have happened which will bring about a different conclusion. If the accused presents such circumstances which in the past have not been mentioned or discussed the “known to the court” can be challenged and new proofs concerning these facts have to be considered. In this way the accused and his defender have the possibility to counter “it is known to the court.”

The decision concerning “it is “known to the court” & 244 lies therefore exclusively in the hands of the court in question and is subject to the principle of independence in respect to judges. It is also possible that in individual cases a different judgment may be the result."

Judgment based on the media


Concerning “it is known to the court” the following decisions have been made: (…)

The county court Bernau presided over by the female judge Kroh rejected the motion to discuss the principles of “known to the court,” stating that the facts and the legal situation were the same. She simply gave judicial notice that during the National Socialist (NS) period, the genocide of the Jews in gas chambers located in the concentration camps happened.

The 3. Senate of the Bavarian state court rejected the motion concerning “the Holocaust is a fact, known to the court” with the pronouncement that it does not have any doubts as to the reality of the Holocaust, referring to the accessible and common information in words, pictures, and sound. (decision 1/14/2011, Bay AGH II – 27/09). The motion of the defense to challenge which material the senate based its certainty of “known to the court” was denied citing material in newspapers, on TV, in reference and history books (decision 2/8/2011).

The judiciary degrades itself to a grotesque caricature if it bases its judgments on the media and TV. Judiciary contains the word justice. It does not deserve its name.

No actual facts

It is worthy of notice that the so-called Holocaust is not legally defined and facts are avoided. In & 130 StGB-BRD which is used to convict “Holocaust deniers” the so-called Holocaust is not defined. It is not even mentioned.

The sentencing of Guenter Deckert in the first instance at the local court in Weinheim contains no determination of the crime of “Holocaust denial”. In other words there is no determination of the Holocaust in regard to the place of the crime, the methods of killing, the number of the dead, the time frame, the perpetrators, the bodies, no deposition taken of the witnesses, no proof of the intent by National Socialism to completely or partially exterminate the Jews. There is no determination about decisions, planes, orders or documents not even in the form of references to other judicial sentences.

In addition there is no determination of the knowledge the accused had, or is supposed to have had, or must have had, or could have had.

As long as the courts do not name the location on which the mass murder was suppose to have happened; as long as the courts do not describe how the killing was done; as long as the courts do not mention any proofs; a judgment that mass murder has occurred is not possible. The same is the case for “it is known to the court.”
Without submitting proof as to actual facts a sentencing for Holocaust denial is not valid.

Without the determination of what knowledge of the so-called Holocaust the accused had or could have had, the charge that he acted against his better knowledge is void.

If the above mentioned points are not addressed a sentencing for the denial of the Holocaust is arbitrary and a corruption of the law.

A defense is not possible


The refusal by the judiciary to bring up for discussion the principle of “it is known to the court that the holocaust happened” makes any defense impossible. Not knowing the concrete facts on which the accusation is based emasculates the defense. The law used to sentence an accused without the defense being able to challenge “it is known to the court” defeats the ends of the law.

“The Holocaust as fact is known to the court.” Which facts however the court knows are not stated.

For example: Dr. Martin Broszart, director for the federal Institute fuer Zeitgeschichte published the following: “Neither in Dachau, nor in Bergen-Belsen, nor in Buchenwald were Jews or other inmates gassed.” (Die Zeit, 8/19/1960, p 16). On the other hand there are publications which talk about the gassings in Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald. Which of the two is, according to the judiciary, “…known to the court?” Is it “known to the court” that inmates were gassed at Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald, or is it “… known to the court” that nobody was gassed at Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald? Both cannot be “… known to the court.”

An entire event such as the so-called “Holocaust” can only be undisputed (facts known to the court) when the individual events are undisputed (facts known to the court).

The history Professor Dr. Gerhard Jagschitz of the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna wrote the following expert opinion: “Substantial doubts about the trials in question have been raised by the presentation of expert opinions to national and international courts. The relentless repetition of judgments using “ facts known to the court,” namely that the Jews were killed by gas in the concentration camp of Auschwitz, will not be enough on which to base sentencing in a democratic nation which is supposed to be founded on justice and right.” (letter to the state court Vienna, January 10, l991, AZ:26b Vr 14 184/86)

The Ruhr –Nachrichten (Bochum) No. 277 (November 29, 2005) printed a citation by the Israeli writer and musician Gilad Atzmon: “The historiography known to us about WWII and the Holocaust is a complete falsification initiated by the Americans and Zionists.”
Is the Holocaust indisputably “a fact known to the court” or is it indisputably “a fact known to the court” that the Holocaust is frequently challenged and therefore can not be “a fact known to the court?”
It is therefore illogical to call a certain alleged historical event which is frequently contested as “a fact known to the court,” a concept which the authorities then use to persecute and penalize the “deniers.”
Abuse of procedural rights
After reading the motion Guenter Deckert wanted to know what he has to accept as “facts known to the court.” The prosecutor, Andreas Grossmann replied (11/14). “That you will find out during sentencing.” During the sentencing however nothing was said.
The chairman, Ross, decreed to postpone the decision concerning the motion. He said: first principles have to be established. Prosecutor Grossmann remarked (January 13, 2012) that the motion only will be dealt with after the pleading. The purpose became obvious when (January 13, 2012) the motion was denied. In the meantime Guenter Deckert took up his case again. In order to show that the “facts are known to the court” must be fully discussed he described in detail circumstances and facts which made him doubt the “Holocaust.” For example he mentioned Dr. Benedikt Kautzky who, for seven years, was in German concentration camps among others, in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and who wrote that in no camp did he ever see a gas chamber.
The chamber denied the motion to discuss “facts are known to the court“ (chairman - Roos, jurors-Wolfgang W. and Helmut M.) using, among other arguments, the reason, “the Holocaust defined as mass killings of Jews especially in the gas chambers of the concentration camps during WWII is “a fact known to the court” (January 13, 2012). The Holocaust as historical event is considering evidence beyond discussion.”
“The facts are known to the court” is not to be discussed because “the facts are known to the court” is a circular argument which is incompatible with logic and beyond reason and the principles of justice.
The resolution goes on to accuse Guenter Deckert of abusing procedural rights. The need for proofs is not applicable since Guenter Deckert's demands in that regard, during the main trial, are only designed to involve the court in order to spread his revisionist ideas. This is obvious from his presentation in which he declared that “facts known to the court” needs to be discussed.
According to the court it is an abuse of the justice system when an accused, before being sentenced, tries to move the court to examine the facts of which he is accused.
The resolution furthermore implies that the chamber considers the discussion which forms the basis of the accusation as “court research” to which the accused is not entitled.
The court in this resolution has obviously ignored the laws of reason.
On one hand the court looks at the motion to discuss “the Holocaust, a fact known to the court” (contrary to what Guenter Deckert has said) as a move for proof, on the other hand, in contradiction to this, as a motion to obtain “court research”. The motion however implies neither one nor the other.
Historical facts are deliberately ignored
The resolution further states that Guenter Deckert deliberately ignores historical facts and obstinately refuses to accept the truth.
Reacting to the resolution (January 13, 2012) Guenter Deckert moved (February 2, 2012) that the chamber communicate the following:
According to the court’s knowledge "the 'Holocaust' is a fact” in which concentration camps and gas chambers existed.
According to the court’s knowledge in what ways did additional killings take place?
According to its knowledge what were the number of victims?
According to the court’s opinion which facts of the so-called Holocaust have I ignored and accepted?

Since the prosecutor and the court have not produced any facts in regard to the accusation I cannot know which facts I supposedly ignore.

I made the motion to discuss the principles of the “Holocaust is a fact known to the court” in order to be able to defend myself against the accusation of Holocaust denial. I stated in detail that the court is duty bound to discuss their determination that the “Holocaust is a fact known to the court.”

In addition I have pointed out that there is no concrete definition of the so-called Holocaust.

Furthermore no determination has been made about which knowledge of the so-called Holocaust I had or was supposed to have had or could have had.

In the resolution of January 13, 2012 the so-called decision does not contain any determination to the circumstances and “it is known to the court,” nor are there any references.

Without defining the deed in question a sentencing for Holocaust denial is not possible.

Without determining which concrete knowledge the accused had about the so called “Holocaust", or could have had, an accusation to have acted against his better knowledge is void, and therefore a sentencing for denying the truth is not possible.

What is “fact known to the court”

During my argument I presented facts which show that there is a need for a discussion about “fact known to the court.”

“Known to the court” are historical facts which by means of historical research are considered proven and everybody therefore without specific knowledge can inform himself from history books, encyclopedia and similar reference books (Alsberg/Nuesse/Meyer, proof in a trial, 5. edition, Carl Heymanns publishing house, Berlin 1983, p.539.

The acceptance of “the fact is known to the court” rests on the preliminary condition that the fact is not challenged (vglAlsber/Nuesse/meyer, a.a.O., p. 568.

If however in historiography the truth of an event is contested it does not become accepted knowledge just because much has been written about it and disseminated (Alsberg/Nuesse/Meyer, a.a.O.,P. 540).

In my motion to discuss “the Holocaust happened is known to the court” I cited examples of publications, especially non revisionist publications which prove that the Holocaust historiography is not in agreement, does not speak with one voice, is not unchallenged, and contradicts itself. The Holocaust therefore cannot be claimed as “a fact known to the court.”

A sentencing for denying the Holocaust on the basis of “the Holocaust is known to the court” is therefore not possible. I made the motion not in order to spread revisionism, as maintained by the chamber, but for the simple reason that I have been accused of Holocaust denial and that I want to use my right to defend myself.

To dismiss my motion because I intended for the court to deal with “the Holocaust is known to the court” is arbitrary. Before sentencing it is an essential duty and the task of the court to deal with the underlying facts.

It is factually and judicially not understandable why in a trial for Holocaust denial a motion is supposed to be abusive which is meant to bring clarity in regard to “a fact known to the court.”

“Fact known to the court” is in need of discussion

When a French historian, Jacques Baynac, a proponent of the Holocaust writes that for the existence of the Nazi gas chambers only the lack of documents, traces and other material proofs can be confirmed (Le Noveau Quotidien de Lausanne, Switzerland , September 2, l996, p.16 and September 3/l996, p.14) then this means that there is a need to discuss “the Holocaust is known to the court.”

Michel de Bouaerd, professor for history and dean of the faculty for the Arts and Sciences at the University of Caen (Normandy) states that the documentation concerning the Holocaust is rotten, that the documentation about the system of the German concentration camps is permeated by a mass of invented stories, relentless repetitions of falsifications, especially in regard to numbers, and confusion and generalizations (Ouest-France v. 2-3 August l986, p. 6). This again proves that there is a need to discuss “the Holocaust is known to the court.”

Historian, Professor Ernst Nolte seconds the need for a discussion of “fact known to the court. “The testimony of witnesses rests to a large part on hearsay and mere surmises; the testimony of the few eyewitness are in part contradictory and create doubts in regard to their veracity.”

The director of the Yad Vashem memorial, Shmuel Krakowski, in the same vain states (Jerusalem Post, August 17, l986): “Most of the 20,000 witnesses' testimony concerning the Holocaust are unbelievable, falsified, cannot be verified, or in other ways are not true.”

On January 13, 2012 during a pause in the proceedings (around 16:30) the chairman Ross directed the following words to me: “You would be surprised at the knowledge of history by the jurors.” But judges have to make an unencumbered decision, based on their conviction which they formed during the proceedings in question (& 261 StPO). In addition “facts known to the court” in order to be useable have to be introduced during the main trial in order to give the participants the opportunity to take a position.

It would therefore be useful if the members of the chamber would reveal their knowledge of history to the accused before they convict him on the basis of this knowledge.

If not it will remain obscure on which facts the members of chamber base their views. It (the Holocaust) is supposed to be a wrong removed from common categories and therefore &130 StGB is an exception to the prohibition of having a special law. (motion of cessation of the trial on account of the special law & 130 which is contrary to the German basic law. The motion was denied January 13, 2012)

Permanent misjudgment

The chamber misrepresents my motion. It considers it a motion for proof which is obvious from their choice of words. “The chamber is supposed to furnish proof,” “makes proof unnecessary.” “proof is also inadmissible,” “a motion for proof is inadmissible (p.2 of the resolution).”\

But it is unequivocally clear that the motion was not a motion for proof.

The motion to discuss the principle of “the Holocaust, a fact known to the court” does not mean, that the Holocaust did not happen (p. 2 of the resolution), but was a motion to examine the facts on which “fact known to the court” are based.

The chamber maintains that I contested “facts known to the court." The chamber is mistaken. I did not contest facts, but demanded the discussion of facts.

What is a circular argument?

A circular argument is to deny the motion for discussion of the principle of “fact known to the court” with the argument that a discussion is not necessary since the Holocaust is “a fact known to the court.” (p.2 of the resolution.)

The chamber misunderstands not only the meaning of a “circular argument,” but also the concept of “an established fact known to the court.” What is frequently contested can’t be “an established fact known to the court” since “an established fact known to the court” is defined as undisputed, unchallenged (see above).

It is a circular argument if I would say “the holocaust is not “a fact known to the court” because “it is not known to the court.” It is, however, not a circular argument if I say: “the Holocaust is not fact known to the court” because “known to the court” is equivalent to conformity and indisputability. The historiography of the Holocaust is not in conformity and is not unchallenged. The resolution stated by the chamber shows a lack of capacity to reason.

It is inconsequential if it happened or not

My motion of January 13, 2012 in which I stated that the incriminating book is scientifically correct was denied. The following reason was given: It does not matter if the book is scientifically correct. I am guilty since I assisted in the formation of the book.

It looks as if the chamber agrees with the view of the Mannheim court who convicted Ernst Zuendel. “It does not matter if the Holocaust did or did not take place.” The “tageszeitung (February 9, 2007, p.6)” writes about the Zuendel trial: “At the end the court denied all the motions with the lapidary reason (a shock to some of the antifascists among the audience): “It does not matter one wit if the Holocaust did or did not take place. Its denial is punishable under German law. Only this is what counts.”

It is a strange concept of justice and the law, namely, to convict somebody on account of Holocaust denial because it does not matter if or if not the Holocaust took place. It disregards all the principles underlying right and justice. The federal court promoting this view does not make it right and changes nothing.

The chamber appears to arbitrarily use a formulary in order to avoid having to bother with analyzing the arguments of the defense.

Up to now it is obvious that the chamber abuses “procedural rights” with goals which have nothing to do with the trial. It feigns an interest in the truth, but uses the law for a nefarious purpose.

Even if a falsehood is repeated a thousand times, it does not turn it into the truth.

This motion was denied using as justification the argument that the court has no duty to communicate, and no duty to clarify. The motion to communicate was denied even in regard to the fairness of the trial.

Contrary to the basic law

Guenter Deckert, at the beginning of his appeal (November 14, 2012), moved to postpone the trial until the federal court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) had made a decision in so far as &130 Abs. 3 StGB conforms to the Basic Law, especially Art. 5 GG (freedom of opinion) and Art. 103 Abs. 2GG.

Doubting or contesting the Holocaust is, according to the new principles laid down by the BVerfG, not punishable (1BvR 2150/08 V. November 4, 2009).

In as far as the chamber is convinced that &130 Abs. 3StGb does not agree with the interpretation of the Basic Law concerning the “denial” and the down playing of the Holocaust, the chamber should postpone the trial and await the decision of the Federal Court.

In the meantime, according to posted principles of the BVerfG, punishment for denial or down playing of the Holocaust is not congruent with Art. 5 GGand Art. 103 Abs. 2GG. This can be deduced from the decision 1BvR 2150/09 (November 4, 2009)

This decision in regard to &130 Abs. 4StGB came about on account of a Basic Law complaint by the deceased lawyer Juergen Rieger against the prohibition of a memorial march for Rudolf Hess in Wunsiedel. It contains basic principles which effect &130 Abs. 3StGB.

In the above mentioned decision the promulgated principles are not only important for &130 Abs.4StGB but also for &130 Abs. 3StGB. This can be surmised by the explanation of the 1. Senate of the BVerfG which is meant to clarify the law concerning the expression of opinions and therefore is all around binding. Due to the death of the plaintiff (Juergen Rieger) the 1. Senate did not see it to the end and did not make use of its possibility to discontinue the trial.

Opinions which doubt or contest the truth of the so-called Holocaust are, according to recently determined principles of the BVerfG, not punishable.

Special Law


The 1.Senate emphasized in the above mentioned decision that the prohibition concerning a special law has to be universally valid and has to extend to all opinion limiting laws (Abs.- Nr.63).

It states that a special law is indicated if it leads to a connection with an opinion limiting law concerning “certain historical interpretation of events.” That definitely applies to &130 Abs. 3 StGB.

The Senate of the BVerfG determined that special laws are laws which do not limit the freedom of opinion concerning historical reigns of terror, but only limit themselves to a reign of terror of a special kind; explicitly named is the National Socialist regime.

Since Art, 5Abs. 2GG does not allow for special laws concerning the limitation of freedom of opinion, but only general laws, special laws are not in agreement with the Basic Law.

For this reason the 1.Senate of the BVerfG determined &130Abs. 4StGB to be a special law – as an exception - which is nevertheless in agreement with Art. 5 Abs. 1 and 2 GG, since & 4StGB puts limits on the approval of the historical National Socialist reign of terror and despotism (lead sentence Nr. 1), but does not penalize anybody who minimizes the ideology of National Socialism or has an objectionable historical interpretation of that time.

Denial is not punishable


The 1. Senate considers &130 Abs.4 StGB, in spite of it being a special law, in agreement with the basic law since its judicial value is similar to &140 StGB which heavily punishes anybody who rewards or approves certain factual events (Abs.-Nr. 82). In this way it demarcates &130 Abs. 4 from &130 Abs 3 StGB in as far as &130 Abs. 3StGB, contrary to &130 Abs. 4 StGB, penalizes not only approbation, but also denial or disparagement.

The 1 Senate of the BVerfG emphasized that &139 Abs. 4StGB as special law can not be based on the right to personal honor according to Art. 5 Abs. 2 alternative 3GG referring here to the dignity of the victims. In regard to the general public the requirement of opinion limiting laws according to Art. 5 Abs. 2 alternative 1 GG extends to the protection of honor. Therefore the same is valid for & 130 Abs. 3StGB. Since this is a special law it can not be based on the right to personal honor or the personal dignity of the victims – in as far as it extends to the punishment on account of denial or diminishment.

The 1 Senate in its decision states that it is “critical” of the literature dealing with penalties concerning the disturbance of the public peace and refers among others to the BGH judge and StGB commentator Thomas Fischer (Abs.-Nr 93). The Senate unequivocally states that the expression “Public Peace” meaning interests worth protecting has to apply universally to rules in regard to offensive opinions. It makes a point to emphasize that the paragraph: “incitement of the public” (&130 Abs. 1 to 3 StGB” (Abs.-Nr. 78) also covers the other infractions.

In reference to the protection of the public peace &130 Abs. 4 StGB also contained in &130 Abs. 3StGB the 1. Senate of the BVerfG declared following:

“The concept of public peace which intends to protect the citizens from being confronted with provocative opinions and ideologies does not justify the interference with the freedom of opinion even if the consequences might be dangerous and even if they propose a radical change of the present valid order. A free nation has to be able to cope with freedom of opinion. To protect the citizens from having their feeling for peace and harmony disturbed, or the poisoning of the mental climate, or a wrong interpretation of history does not justify an intervention.” (Abs.-Nr.77)

In as far as &130 Abs. StGB penalizes the down playing or denial of the so-called “Holocaust” it does not support a basis to threaten punishment. It is therefore dissimilar to &130 Abs.4 StGB which penalizes the APPROVAL of criminal offenses.

According to & 130 Abs. 3 StGb, not only the approval and approbation, but also the denial and downplaying should be punishable, is not congruent with the Basic Law.

In this connection it is meaningful that the Spanish constitutional court on November 2007, in regard to a suit brought by the Spanish publisher Pedro Varela, invalidated the order which penalized the denial of the so-called Holocaust, but exempted approval.

On September 2, 2009 the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal judge, Athanasios D. Hadjis, declared in the case of Warman v Lemire: The prohibition against Holocaust denial is against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The attempt by the Italian parliament to push through a law similar to &130 Abs. 3 StGB was not successful.

In 2008 the pensioned judges Hoffmann-Riem and Hassemer of the German Federal Court took a critical stand in regard to penalizing Holocaust denial. The daily paper “Der Tagesspiegel (July 10, 2008) commented on Hoffmann-Riem’s opinion: "The Federal Court, according to Hoffmann-Riem, has up to now not engaged itself with the punitive illegality of Holocaust denial. But it is possible that in the future there could be a new basic decision."

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (March 4, 2010) p. 4 writes: “Shortly after his retirement from the Federal Court Hoffmann-Riem said: ‘As a lawgiver I would not penalize Holocaust denial.’”
In the charge against the accused (Guenter Deckert) there is not a hint that he would have approved of a Jewish genocide or that he would have approved of a “Holocaust” or any other crime.
According to the above mentioned decision by the federal court the trial should be suspended. A false interpretation of history, or an offensive interpretation of those times (the Nazi period) in contrast to approval has no basis in the law to curtail freedom of opinion.
No attempt to prove exceptional crimes
In spite of this decision there were more convictions on account of so called “Holocaust denial.” It is obvious that some judges interpret that decision at will.
In as far as the Federal Court speaks of the “unique crimes” of the historical National Socialist regime (BVerfG a.a. O.,s.B. Abs.-Nr. 68) denial of the “Holocaust” does not mean its approval nor does it lead to endangerment of law and order. Even a “unique crime” does not make the provision of proof superfluous.
Denial does not mean approval
It is telling that the BVerfG does not make a difference between approval of the so called “Holocaust and the approval of the National Socialist regime but without any ado throws “Holocaust and the reign of the historical nationalist reign of terror into one pot without mentioning the one and defining the other."
The approval of the National Socialist regime in the conviction that it had not committed mass murder of the Jews is equated with the approval of the so called “historical reign of terror” which is quietly equated with the approval of the ”Holocaust.”
Cleverly they leave out this muddling. They try to make it disappear in a fog of generalizations.
They manipulate in the attempt to justify the persecution of “Holocaust denial.” Without producing concrete facts or proofs they accept, as an unquestionable fact, that the historical National Socialist regime committed crimes. They try (in vain) to justify as lawful that raising counter proofs merits punishment.
Special Status for the BRD (Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
The Federal Court tries to make us believe that the BRD can legislate special laws as &130 StGB (punishment of a certain opinion which includes the prohibition of presenting proofs for the defense because the historical identity of the BRD is a “reverse mirror image of National Socialism” (BVerfG a.a. O., Abs.-Nr. 66). In other words, because the BRD is the BRD.
The arbitrariness (despotism) can not be expressed more succinctly.

Despotism

The decision of the 1. Senate of the BVerfG does not mention any concrete facts or any court verdict on which it bases its conviction that the historical National Socialist regime was a regime of terror and despotism. The so-called court judgment of the BGH (Abs.-Nr.100) does not name concrete facts or events.

The Spiegel author, Goetz Aly, reports that 95% of Germans did not look at the National Socialist system as a system which suppressed freedom and ruled by terror, but as a system promoting social warmth - a feel-good dictatorship. (Spiegel Nr.10/2005, p. 56). Again the Spiegel: Even in the year l948 app. 57% of Germans thought that National Socialism had been a good idea (Nr. 20/2003, p.47).

Revealing is the reference regarding the reasons of the allied victorious powers which the 1. Senate states in connection with the identity of the BRD (Abs. Nr. 65, 66). The final conquering of National Socialist structures and the prevention of their resurrection was the main reason of the Allies to reestablish German statehood. (Abs.-Nr. 65).

In this connection it is interesting what Wendell Willkie, special envoy of US President Roosevelt writes about his negotiations with Stalin, namely that the first aim of the war should be the “Abolition of racial exclusiveness.” (W.L. Willkie: “One World”, Simon&Schuster, New York, l943 – published in the FAZ, February 4, 1992).

The historian Prof. Christian Meier (University Munich), questioned by the publication “Der Spiegel”: “How do you explain that the national pride of the Germans was so effectively broken?” had this to say: “The totality of the defeat and the collective shame about Auschwitz.” (“Der Spiegel” Nr 30/2010, July 26, 2010, p. 126).

“Die Welt” (November 20, 1982) cites Walter Lippmann, chief of the unofficial propaganda ministry under President Woodrow Wilson, in the twentieth to fiftieth year of the past century and one of the most influential journalists in the USA: “To secure the victory, beside the necessary occupation of the enemy nation and the sentencing of the elite in war crime trials, it is most important to impose on the conquered a re-education program. The means are: to implant into the brains of the conquered the presentation of history from the viewpoint of the victors. It is important to transfer the moral categories of the war propaganda into the consciousness of the vanquished. When the war propaganda of the victors is written up in the history books of the vanquished and is believed by the successive generation only then can re-education be looked upon as having been a success.”

The Historian, Prof. Dr. Ernst Nolte, said this: If the radical revisionism is right insisting that there was no holocaust in the sense of an all encompassing, systematic genocide wanted by the top echelon then I would have to admit that National Socialism was not a fun house mirror copy of Bolshevism, but only a fight for survival by a Germany pushed into a worldwide political defensive. (Ernst Nolte, Francois Furet, Feindliche Naehe, Herbig, Munich l998, p. 222-224).

In l994 Patrick Bahners, who later became Feuilleton chief of the FAZ, made this comment regarding the trial of so-called “Holocaust denier” Guenter Deckert: If Guenter Deckert’s belief about the “Holocaust” is correct then the Federal Republic would be founded on a lie; every presidential speech would be a lie, every minute of silence and every history book would be all lies. In as far as he denies the genocide of the Jews he contests the legitimacy of the Federal Republic. (“Objective suicide”, FAZ , August 15, 1994)

It is obvious that there is no legitimate basis to punish “denial of the Holocaust”

This motion was rebuffed. In its reasoning the chamber confirmed that 2 and 3 of &130 StGB-BRD is not a general law, but a special law. But an exception had to be made in regard to the prohibition of a special law. The reasoning: a special law is legitimate on account of the injustices and horrors of the National Socialist regime which were beyond all categories and which involved Europe and many parts of the world (decision January 13, 2012; replica of the 1.lead sentence of the BVerfGE 11/4/2009, 1BvR 2150/2008).

With this decision the BVerfG claims that the Holocaust is not to be judged according to general categories. That means the interpretation concerning the Holocaust is outside of the law.

It is a clear case of despotism when proof is superfluous and even declared punishable because it deals with a singular crime.

It is noteworthy what prosecutor Grossman, off the cuff, said about the motion: “We interpret the decision of the BVerfGE not the way you interpret it." … &130 needs to be interpreted?! The wording of &130 is not understandable?!

Science does not matter

Guenter Deckert moved to get the expert opinion of an historian to prove that Carlo Mattogno’s book “Auschwitz-the First Gassing, Rumors and Reality” is scientifically correct.

The motion was denied: “Not only the professional judge, but also the two lay judges have enough expertise in order to judge the problem in question.”

Revealing is the further explanation of the chamber: The scientific proof of the incriminating book is in regard to the court decision “meaningless.” In judging the defendant it is irrelevant, even if one holds the opinion that the publication is scientifically correct. To have assisted in the translation of the book and its final revision by the defendant, the defendant committed an offense of incitement or assisting in the incitement of the public. The demand for proof is not applicable in regard to &&130 Abs. i.V.m. 86 Abs. 3 StGB (social adequacy clause) since the format of the case does not apply here.

In other words: It does not matter if the incriminating book is scientifically correct. Assisting in the formation of the book has to be punished.

Bias

Finally, Guenter Deckert rejected the judges due to bias giving following reason (January 3, 2012):

The denial of my motion of November 14, 2011, pronounced today to discuss the principles of “facts know to the court” of the so-called Holocaust is worrisome because the lay judges let themselves be guided by foreign interests instead of facts and take a position which can not be squared with their duty to impartiality.

[cont'd]

The denial of my motion gives the impression that the lay judges conducted the trial with a goal in mind and do not look at facts with the necessary distance of the impartial.

Rejecting my motion the lay judges rejected the necessary elucidation of the facts before pronouncing a conviction.

In my motion to discuss “manifest obviousness” of the so called “Holocaust” I pointed out that the judgment of the first instance does not contain any facts in regard to the so-called Holocaust” not even in regard to other court decisions.

The decision in the first instance points to numerous passages of the incriminating book by Carlos Mattogno which deny, in defiance of the law, the historically established fact of the Holocaust of the Jews, respectively the gassing crimes in Auschwitz. The first instance however does not discuss or confirm any proofs that Auschwitz was the actual place where the genocide occurred. No historical source is mentioned which would allow for informing a person about the legally binding “historically established Holocaust.”

Without actual determination of the deed a conviction for truth rejecting denial of the deed is not possible and legally not tenable.

Without determination, which concrete knowledge about the so-called “Holocaust” the accused had or at least could have had, a verdict having acted against his better knowledge is not legal.

An unbiased judge would take that in to consideration and not deny the discussion of “Holocaust, a manifest obviousness.”

In order to counter the accusation of so-called “Holocaust denial” I moved to have a discussion of the principles underlying “Holocaust, a manifest obviousness.”

As long as the lay judges give judicial notice that the “Holocaust” is “a manifest obviousness” I am not able to give concrete proofs on my behalf. In this way the lay judges deny me the right to a legal hearing (Art 103 ll GG) and give cause to a worrisome prejudice.

In addition it is contradictory to sentence or to confirm that a truth rejecting denial took place, and at the same time deny proof of the deed.

Judgment according to political correctness

The necessity to discuss the principles of “manifest obviousness” is a given on account of numerous statements which put “manifest obviousness” in doubt. “Manifest obviousness” means unchallenged and unanimity (vgl. Alsberg/Nuesse/Meyer, “Motion for Proof in a Criminal Trial,” 5. Aufl. Munich 1983, p.568)

(…) Following statements by history professor Dr. Ernst Nolte are important.

“Only when the rules of the interrogation of witnesses are generally applied and the testimony of witnesses is no longer evaluated according to political correctness will a secure basis be created for scientific objectivity in regard to the ‘final solution.”

“The common belief that every doubt about the “Holocaust and the six million victims a priori is a mark of a malignant mindset and has to be forbidden, can not be upheld according to the fundamental meaning of the maxim ‘de omnibus dubitandum est – everything has to be doubted.’ Science can never accept that and is to be rejected as an attack against the principal of scientific freedom.

The questions regarding the reliability of the testimony of witnesses, the evidence contained in documents, the technical possibilities of certain events, the believability of the given number, the weighing of circumstances, are not only permissible, but necessary for science. Every attempt, by means of silencing or banning of certain arguments and proofs, must be looked upon as illegal.”

“(…) Questioning the reliability of the witnesses, the veracity of the documents, the technical possibilities of certain events, the believability of the numbers, the weighing of circumstances, is not only permissible, but scientifically necessary. Every attempt to silence or forbid certain arguments and proofs is illegal.”

“If radical revisionism is right on insisting that there was no holocaust in the sense of an all encompassing genocide authorized by the top echelon then I would have to admit that National Socialism was not a fun house mirror image of Bolshevism, but only a fight for survival by Germany pushed into a worldwide, political defensive.”

“…It (revisionism) challenges me, but I am nevertheless unable to join those who demand that the prosecutor and the police take action against it. On account of that I feel myself forced to pose the question: does revisionism have valid arguments or does it rest on lying agitation?

And here the quality of the historian comes into play. The historian knows that ‘revisionism’ is the daily bread of science.(…) The historian also knows that, as a rule at the end, some of the revisionist theses will be accepted by the establishment or at least considered in discussions.

By means of silence it is relegated to the ‘memory hole’

During the historian congress not specifically mentioned were the following: during the war and the first years after the war it was maintained that the mass killings were done by means of blowing in hot steam into closed chambers or the killings occurred by means of huge electrified plates, or by means of quick lime. These lies were simply dropped, just like the rumor of the soap from Jewish corpses, which in Germany however was picked up again just recently by an ad in the newspapers paid for by a well known producer. The best known witness report of the member of the confessional church and SS leader Kurt Gerstein has been dropped from the collection of documents by orthodox scholars.

It is also known that Jean-Claude Pressac, in spite of his strange presence and recognition as a serious scholar, has recently reduced the number of victims gassed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz to approximately half a million.

Confessions gotten by torture

These specific corrections are not basically different from the claims which according to my knowledge the revisionists believe in: namely that the first confessions of Hoess, commander of Auschwitz were forced out of him by torture; that the witnessing of flames, sky high, coming from the chimneys of the crematoria must have been due to deluded imagination; that it was technically not possible to cremate daily 24,000 bodies; that the mortuaries which daily registered 300 bodies during typhus epidemics were indispensable and during these periods therefore could not have been used for mass killings.

6 Ernst Nolte, Streitpunkte, Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin 1993 S.308 (Vorlesungen S. 137).
7 Ernst Nolte a.a. O.S.309.
8 Ernst Nolte, Francois Furet, Feindliche Naehe, Herbig, Muenchen 1998 S. 222-224.
9 “Atze Brauner, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, May 6, 1995.

Such numbers do not surprise the historian, since he knows from his studies that since the time of Herod gigantic numbers (if they are not recorded as official statistics) are questionable. He also knows that rumors will fly where large crowds of people are finding themselves in extreme situations and experience events difficult to understand.

The statements of Rudolf Hoess, commander of Auschwitz, which without a doubt contributed in a large part to the mental collapse of the accused during the Nuremberg war crime trials, were preceded by torture and therefore, according to the rules of Western civilization, are not legally valid. The Gerstein documents contain so many contradictions and so many impossibilities that they are also without value. The testimony of witnesses rests to the largest part on hearsay and conjecture. The reports partially contradict each other and create doubt as to their believability.

A careful examination after the war by an international expert commission as was performed after the discovery (l943) of the mass graves at Katyn by the German Army did not take place. The blame for this rests on the Soviet and Polish Communists.

The publication of photos of the crematoria and a few cans labeled ‘Zyklon B. poison gas’ are no proof whatsoever since in the larger camps infected by typhus crematoria were a necessity. Since Zyklon B. is a well known vermin killer it can’t be dismissed where there are masses of people living under poor hygienic conditions.

Questions have to be permissible

To question the traditional belief that the mass murder in gas chambers is a “manifest obviousness” proven by countless witnesses and facts has to be permissible, or science is not applicable.

We are dealing with claims which, on the basis of natural science, respectively contain technical impossibilities such as mass murder by means of gas which was not possible and could not have been possible especially to the alleged extent. I am talking here about the chemical analysis of the Cyanide residue in the delousing chambers on one hand and the rooms first planned as mortuaries on the other hand. These expert opinions were written up by Leuchter, Rudolf and Lueftl and last but not least by the extremely thorough studies by Carlo Mattognos who concerned himself with details like time span of incineration, usage of coke, etc. Against the fact that scientifically and technically the mass murder as described was not possible (even if hundreds of confessions and witness reports maintain the opposite), arguments such as these cannot be given credence. In this matter scholars of philosophy and ideology critics are not qualified to have any say.

It is absolutely necessary to discuss the “manifest obviousness’ of the ”Holocaust.” The proof is in the factual and legal article by Fritjof Meyer, a representative of the “exterminationists” who wrote in the year 2002 in the magazine “Osteuropa” in regard to Auschwitz-Birkenau: “The genocide did not take place in the concentration camp (Auschwitz-Birkenau), but most likely in two farm houses. (Osteuropa, v. May 2002, pp. 631-641). With this he contradicts witnesses and innumerable statements about Auschwitz-Birkenau. This again points to the fact that there is a need for a discussion about Auschwitz-Birkenau as to the “manifest obviousness” of the place of the crime.

Judges deny elucidation of facts

The court is supposed to freely decide according to its conviction which it should gain from the content of the trial. Without judicial discussion of “manifest obviousness” of the so-called “holocaust” which is not going to be the object of the trial, it remains unclear how lay judges gain their conviction. It is worrisome that their conviction is not based on the content of the trial, but that they let themselves be influenced by outside considerations. This is not only a violation of & 261, but also worrisome bias.

Since factual, meaningful reasoning is neither named nor can be surmised why the “manifest obviousness” of the “holocaust” is not to be discussed the conclusion can only be that an elucidation of facts has to be avoided on account of outside influences. That is not only a serious violation of & 244 II, III StPO, but also an offence against the basic principles of right and justice.

It is worrisome that the lay judges are striving for an outcome of the trial which has nothing to do with trying to elucidate facts.

The refusal to discuss the “manifest obviousness” of the so called “Holocaust” gives rise to the fear that they desire a conviction on the basis that it does not matter to them if the so-called “Holocaust” did or did not take place.

It is worrisome that the lay judges insist on a conviction on the one and only basis namely that the “Holocaust” has been doubted.

This opinion was already articulated by the state court of Mannheim which in the year 2007 convicted Ernst Zuendel. The “tageszeitung” (2/9/2007, p.6) writes about the Zuendel trial: “At the end the court denied all motion with the lapidary reasoning (shocking for some antifascists in the audience) that it does not matter if the Holocaust did or did not take place. In Germany its denial is punishable. And it is only that which counts in front of the court.”

It is not enough to simply base a sentencing on the accusation that the so-called “Holocaust” was contested. It is also not enough to sentence the accused for defamation without ascertaining if and how his claim was untrue.

It is a violation of all the principles of justice and a clear case of arbitrariness.

Perpetual pressure for a “correct mind set”

It should not be assumed that the lay judges simply set aside the principles for correct procedures due to their own volition, but are subject to and succumbed to the pressure to follow the “correct mind set.” It is for this reason they prevent a discussion about “manifest obviousness” in order to make an effective defense impossible.

The so-called “Holocaust’ is not defined in &130, and not even mentioned. It is to be feared that the lay judges convict by disregarding the iron clad principle that in order to punish a deed culpability has to be described and circumscribed by the law beforehand. (Art 103 GG/nulla poena sine lege – no punishment without law).

The argument of the lay judges that the “manifest obviousness” of the “Holocaust” needs no discussion because the “Holocaust” is manifestly obvious is a circular argument, and neither logically nor legally tenable. Circular arguments of this kind show clearly the bias of the judges.

The well founded fear that the judges will pronounce a sentence based on bias (as described here) justifies the rejection (of the judges) by the accused on account of bias.

Judges and jurors declared that they harbor no sentiments of bias. (By the way it does not matter if a judge considers himself biased. It does not even matter if he follows a party line or is biased. The application for rejection has to be judged from the point of view of the accused). The very same day, after one sitting, the application for rejection was turned down.

During an intermission the jurors and Guenter Deckert started to talk. The jurors gave him to understand that the application for rejection offended them because they were considered stupid.

We know what kind you are

After that, still on the same day (January 13, 2012), the prosecutor Andreas Grossman had several questions for Guenter Deckert. His aim was to elicit Deckert’s opinion about the “Holocaust.” After his introduction “you are the great doubter” he wanted to know if what’s in the preface of the incriminated book is correct, namely that he (Guneter Deckert ) is neutral to the content of the book. The prosecutor continued with his questioning: was there according to his opinion a state organized genocide of the Jews? Guenter Deckert answered: I am not an arbitrator here. I am not a researcher. I have doubts and my doubts are justified. I fight against the limitation of expressing an opinion.” “What is claimed is technically not possible. THAT is what I say. One must be allowed to express doubts.” “If you give me forensic proofs, I will be the first one who will admit I was mistaken.”

After that the questioning was finished.

The next day of the trial came the final speeches.

Andreas Grossmann exclaimed: Deckert defamed the memory of the dead (&130). It is very clear that the ”Holocaust” was denied. In his book, Carlo Mattogno writes about the “supposed genocide” and the “supposed mass gassings of humans.” He continues on that the lies have been enshrined in memorials and that there is no historical proof of the first mass gassings in Auschwitz. Without a doubt Carlo Mattogno wanted to deny the “Holocaust.” Guenter Deckert contributed to the book in order that it could appear in Germany. This has been proven by two secured copies.

Guenter Deckert, in the preface of the book, wrote that he is neutral to its content. Judging by his curriculum vitae that is pure hypocrisy. He turned to Deckert: “We know what kind you are. Don’t expect us to accept your pretense of distancing yourself from the book.” He spoke of the vain attempts (by Deckert) to exonerate Germany. You will not be successful. With what you are doing you will only prolong Germany’s disgrace. He (Deckert) is not contrite and not redeemable. One thing you can’t tolerate namely that the Holocaust is an historical fact. Grossmann increased his attack calling Deckert a vainglorious, stubborn, unredeemable holocaust denier.” Deckert evaded his question as to whether there was a state organized genocide.

Hunt for unwanted literature

In his final defence Guenter Deckert pointed out that the memory of HIS ancestors is continuously defamed. There is no proof (as to the Holocaust). The historical truth is neutral. “One must ask: What are the concrete facts. I will not be cowed by cheap arguments. I will not have my rights as a citizen restricted. I do not like to be forced to believe without concrete proofs. Even a prison sentence will not be able to force me.

They talk about tolerance and mean the inquisition. People can be intimidated by the threat of punishment, but only for a certain period of time. The brain continues churning. I am not crawling on account of you … The hunt for unwanted literature is disguised as a fight against crime. … Having doubts I insist on the right to express them. You, Mr. Grossmann believe, because you want to believe. The German people first had to be “reeducated” in order to believe the “Holocaust.” I will gladly admit being in error if you show me proof. Why is there no call for an independent research committee? I am for plurality of opinion … It has always been my motto: Don’t believe if there is no proof. I want to be part of an enlightened state.”

After an interruption of less than an hour the Sentence was pronounced: 6 months without probation. One month was deducted on account of the undue length of the trial.

The main judge, Roos, said in the oral pronouncement “that one can be of a different opinion. This has always been the case. Whatever happened here in the state court of Mannheim, the trials against Zuendel, Rudolf or whomsoever, have no bearing on this case. This case deals only with your work on the book by Carlo Mattogno … WE have tried to interpret you correctly. First we hold that &130 is in agreement with the constitution. The problem is that &130 contains innumerable undetermined concepts and interpretations….The Castle Hill publishing house resides in England. There the denial of the Holocaust is not punishable. The special rule of & 9 StGB: participation in crimes committed in foreign countries applies here to you. Maybe this rule would allow for different interpretations. But that is the least of the problem. About disturbing the public peace we can work ourselves into a bind. Let us wait what the higher court decides. This trial was dropped into my lap. I did not want it.

…On one hand you have a right to stick to your convictions. On the other hand you have to count on bearing the consequences of your insistence on staying with your opinion. Mentally you did not distance yourself from your convictions which was obvious during the trial. If you had distanced yourself we could have considered probation. The negative consequence of this trial is that the publicity of the book will be promoted. We have to accept that …and is just as unintelligible as & 130.”

Expressing an opinion is equated with committing a violent action

In its written judgment the chamber justifies not granting probation as follows:

The deed of the accused seriously endangers the public peace, especially in these times of the resurgence of right wing extremism which have been documented by the crimes of the NSU. Since it is obvious from the growing dangers of a resurrected right wing extremism, the chamber holds that these accused have to be fully punished in order to prevent the danger of imitation. Probation for the accused would not go over with the general public and would be considered as an unjustified leniency toward right wing radicalism [The public knows nothing, because there is not a peep in the media about the Deckert trial. C. Miller]” (p.56 of the appellate court).

That the chamber seriously supports a judgment with such untenable factual and legal arguments points to an arbitrary persecution dictated by foreign interests outside the confines of the trial. It is obvious that the argumentation of the chamber is politically motivated and has nothing to do with justice.

The federal constitutional court made the following decision: The prohibition to spread so-called right wing thoughts lacks defined contours. A position such as right wing extremism depends on the reciprocal effect of changing political and societal contexts and a subjective valuation which does not allow for defining the borders where punishment is justified.

The spreading of right wing and National Socialist thought is not enough for a critique of what is right or wrong or which disallows certain thoughts. (1BVerfG, 1 BvR 1106/08, 12/8/2010, number II 2 b cc(1).

In spite of the fact that this is not a critique of legality, the statement of a politically uncomfortable, so called right wing extremist opinion is categorized as a “first step” to violence. But that is not all. Even an opinion is equated with violence. Guenter Deckert is equated with a murderer in order to justify the denial of probation. With this judgment the chamber ignored the most basic principle of justice.

For a long time they tried to portray so-called right wing extremists (a slogan of the office for the protection of the state) as prone to violence in order to isolate them and to make it easier to persecute them on account of their “incorrect” opinions.

They don’t even hesitate to portray assassins as right wing extremists even if they are declared opponents of National Socialism and supporters of Israel, for example the “assassin of Oslo,” (July, 2011) Anders Behring Breivik, who in the meanwhile has been sentenced.

Gilad Atzmon, Israeli musician, writes on the net under the heading: “Was the massacre in Norway a reaction to BDS?” (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions):”

“The AUF (Norwegian Worker Party Youth Organization) promoted an Israel-Boycott Campaign (…) Yesterday we learned that the mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is an openly enthusiastic supporter of Israel (…)Yesterday Gordon Duff wrote in the paper “Veterans Today,” that the car bomb attack” is marked by an official secret handwriting. (…) In his admiration for Israel Behring Breivik seems to have treated his own countrymen with the same disdain as the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) treat the Palestinians. In a Hebrew article which states that the AUF Camp is pro-Palestinian and supports the Israel boycott, I found among others, the following comments:

24. “The Oslo criminals paid.”
26. “It is stupid and wicked not to wish death on those who call for a boycott of Israel.”
HYPERLINK “http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-was-the-massacre-in-norway-a-reaction-to-bds.html” www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-was-the-massacre-in-norway-a-reaction-to-bds.html; July 24, 2011.

A manifest by Anders Behring Breivik titled “2083” – A European declaration of Independence is supposed to call for: “Support Israel’s fight against the Dschihad.”

The mass media however call Andres Behring Breivik a right wing radical. It is another trick commonly used to deceive and to even malign many an Israeli and their supporters as right wing radicals. In this way the establishment hopes to blame violent crimes on national movements in order to discredit them. You could call such an act of perfidy artful, if it weren’t too unbelievable.

They also emphasize that Breivik’s neighbors found him friendly and nondescript.

Such articles are supposed to give people the impression that “Nationals” are violent, brutal, unpredictable, and their friendly behavior is only camouflage.

It is not a new method to malign the opponent as a criminal and to saddle him with having committed murder, in order to effectively eliminate him.

The existence of the so called “NSU” was then and is now unproven. Let me point out that up to now there is neither a proof nor a sentencing in regard of acts of violence of a so-called “NSU” (“National Socialist Underground.”). The so called “Doener murders have not yet been cleared up, and an involvement by the NSU is extremely doubtful. On the other hand the involvement of the “Verfasssungschutz” (protection of the constitution) which shuns the light of day is quite obvious.

From where then does the Mannheimer court get its conviction that the NSU committed crimes?

The two following articles contain only a fraction of facts which refute the unsubstantiated supposition of the Mannheim chamber.

“Doener” murder on account of gambling debts?

Turkish press ( HYPERLINK “http://www.turkishpress.de/2009/12/12/doener-morde-wegen-wettschulden/id287” www.turkishpress.de/2009/12/12/doener-morde-wegen-wettschulden/id287) by Fikret Deniz 12/12/2009-18:28.

In the continuing investigation that began in 2000 into the mysterious murder series there might be a possible new trail. In 2007 the Turkish office for criminal investigation reported that a drug war was the cause.

According to “Spiegel” Turkish “Ceska” investigators follow a hunch that the murder of nine men in Germany are connected to betting frauds and postponed football games. But the German BKA did not want to comment on the report on account of the ongoing investigation.

According to “Spiegel” the police, by means of telephone surveillance, found out about a murder in Turkey for which a 42 year old Turkish godfather was named as having given the order. Additional telephone conversations of the circle of the betting mafia about this murder were overheard.

The Turkish office for crimes in 2007 already gave a report which had come to another conclusion.

According to the newspaper “Zaman” of October, 2007 the Turkish state office for criminality gave to the German investigating bureaus their results in regard to the Doener murders. The summary of this report to the German office showed a connection between the Doener murders and the drug scene in Europe which involved a family clan from Diyarbakir. According to the report the eight victims of the “Doener murders” were considered distributors within the drug scene. In addition the victims were supposed to have paid “protection money” to the PKK in Europe and the family clan in Diyarbakir.

The Turkish office for criminality at that time found out that the family clan in Diyarbakir wanted to establish a new distribution ring in Europe. When the hoped for money from the drug scene did not materialize the PKK blackmailed the new distribution ring. The family is supposed to have ordered the murder. The brazenness with which the victims were murdered in broad daylight made one suspect, already then, that it was the handy work of professional killers. The BKA (Bundeskriminalamt) and the Nuremberg police were in the dark, since there were no witnesses or clues. According to the report all murders were committed with three different pistols of the Czech brand Ceska (7.65mm). This report was handed over via the BKA to police chief Wolfgang Geier.

The KOM checked out the 8 victims which were supposed to have been distributors of drugs. The terrorist organization PKK was supposed to have extorted protection money from the victims and in that way tried to take over the drug scene. A successful investigation of the drug scene in Turkey and arrests would have, according to the report, for quite some time seriously hindered the distribution of drugs and curtailed the flow of money. In this phase the family extorted protection money because it wanted to gain a foothold in Europe and build up a new drug ring. The Turkish office of investigation therefore surmised that a drug war had broken out between the PKK and the family clan and that the drug distributors were killed in this war. The Turkish investigators announced that the family clan had commissioned a five member murder commando. The murder itself was always committed by one member of the team with three different pistols of the trade mark Ceska. In this report the name of the murderer and the family clan were revealed and the Nuremberg police informed.

The dubious role of a “protector of the constitution”

zeit online, Datum 14.11.2011-20:33 Uhr, @ Uwe Zucchi/dpa.

The investigator of the Neo-Nazi group NSU has a hard time to come up with an explanation. According to a media report a “protector of the constitution” was supposed to have been on location during a murder.

It is possible that an official of the Hessian “protection of the constitution” is more involved in the offence which is supposed to have been committed by the Neo-Nazi-group, National Socialist Underground (NSU). During the murder of a Turkish shop owner in Kassel (April, 2006) the official was supposed to have been seen at the scene of the crime (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – referring to security circles).

Up to now the official story was that the man had left the Internet Cafe that the victim was in one minute before the murder was committed. In the meantime the official has been suspended from his position. According to the report the Kassler prosecutor investigated the “protector of the constitution.” The investigation was discontinued because no connection with the murder could be found. At that time several weapons were supposed to have been found in the apartment of the official. The Turkish shop owner was the last in a murder series of migrants which are blamed on the Neo-Nazi group whose members are supposed to have lived in a mobile home in Eisenach. The Hessian protection for the constitution did not give out any information.

The office for the protection of the constitution considers consequences

In the meantime the office for the protection of the constitution is examining which consequences the case will have on its future work. The office is checking which changes it has to make in regard to the Neo-Nazi-Scene.

The court in Mannheim painted a picture of a criminal NSU using innuendos and thereby subjecting itself to foreign considerations.

The utterance of an opinion, for example the denial of the so called “Holocaust,” meaning the refutation of a mass genocide is equated with assassination and murder.

This is arbitrary. (Does the “NSU” serve the same function for a pretext as “9/11”?)

To know and having to believe

The judgment of the appellate court, just like the first judgment, contains no facts about the “Holocaust”, not even references to other trials.

The chamber considers Guenter Deckert to be unrepentant (Page 55 of the appellate court) and therefore probation can not be considered. To call Guenter Deckert an unrepentant “actor” along with the accusation of denial of the Holocaust against his better knowledge is a contradiction. The sentencing is therefore contradictory and flawed.

The lack of action against better knowledge is fortified by the determination of the appellate court about the mind set of Guenter Deckert: “At the beginning of every scientific debate, and he also considers his own action and also Mattogno’s publication as such, there has to be doubt. Science lives from the exchange of arguments. And that has to be permitted. He wants to know and does not want to be forced to believe. His doubt can be explained by the ad in the Impressum. In all modesty he (Guenter Deckert) cannot judge if Mattagno is right with his objection to Danuta Czech ’scientific opus’” (p. 48 of the judgment).

The judgment states: “The intent of distributing the book is to incite the reader not only against Jews living in Germany and in that way to produce discontent among the people, but more important (what the accused was aware of) he denied that the dead were persecuted, especially the Jews, who had been killed en mass by means of poison gas. This is an offense against the dignity of the Jews.” That Guenter Deckert wanted to sow dissent in the population and wanted to offend the dignities of the Jews is pure surmise and insinuation on the part of the judges. As was mentioned above no elucidation of the “Holocaust” neither an elucidation of the knowledge of Guenter Deckert was attempted. Mere suspicions cannot be used to the detriment of the accused. (Dreher/Troendle, commentary to the Strafgestzbuch, 46 edition, Muenchen l993. to&46 Rn 17a).

“The action of Guenter Deckert, denial of the Holocaust, contrary to historical truth, is defamation, especially of the Jews” (p. 53 of the sentencing).

Since in the course of the whole trial no concrete facts regarding the historical truth of the Holocaust were brought forth nor communicated – not even in reference to other judgments – a sentencing for defaming the memory of the dead is not legal.

Manifest obviousness is unsupported

The OLG Karlsruhe denied revision of Guenter Deckert’s case as having no merit (August, 2012) (349 Abs. 2 StPO) (3 (4) Ss304/12-AK126/12).

The constitutional court of the BRD did not accept and made no decision concerning the complaint citing the constitution (basic law December 12, 2012 – 1 BvR 1891/12). No reason was given. According to & 93 d Abs. 1 Satz 3 BVerfGG non-acceptence does not have to be justified.

Guenter Deckert’s motion to repeat the trial has not yet been looked at.

Guenter Deckert was ordered to start his sentence January 2, 2013 at the prison in Mannheim.

For every logical, thinking and honest person it is obvious that Guenter Deckert’s sentence rests on many arbitrary decisions. His sentence is based on illegality and has no merits.

A female judge of the former DDR was convicted on account of bending the law: “This is not justice, but arbitrary suppression, aimed to eliminate a political opponent. The type of punishment does not agree with factual considerations. Its recognizable aim is to intimidate politically incorrect thinkers and thereby secure the rule of the present power elite.” Object of the sentence which the judge pronounced, was an undesired opinion and was therefore penalized (news of the BVerfG Nr 41/98 , April 22, l998, BVerfG 2 BvR 2560/95).

February, 2013

Sylvia Stolz, excluded from the law profession on account of “Holocaust denial”.
Pfarrer –Grabmeier-Allee 10, 85560
Ebersberg
Tel:08092-24418
Email: sylviastolz@aol.com

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Germany may ban magazine said to glorify Nazis
By SAM SOKOL, BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST
08/01/2013 22:27

‘Der Landser’ accused by Simon Wiesenthal Center of presenting SS officers as heroes.

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THE COVER of the ‘Der Landser’ magazine’s English edition.

The German Interior Ministry is contemplating banning Der Landser, a magazine accused of glorifying Nazism by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, according to a report by news outlet Der Westen.

Der Landser is a historical publication focused on the “hardships and sacrifice demonstrated” by German troops during World War II.

Last week, Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the SWC, wrote to both German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich and Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger to request that the government investigate the magazine for violating a federal statute prohibiting the glorification of Nazism.

A ban would show “neo- Nazis, skinheads, and jihadists other than the bare truth that there was no honor or nobility ever attached to the Third Reich,” Heir wrote. “The Simon Wiesenthal Center believes that by presenting members of the Waffen SS, members of the infamous Totenkopf units and Nazi war criminals as German heroes, Der Landser is desecrating the memory of the Holocaust and glorifying Nazism.”

Heir urged the ministers to take what he called “appropriate action” against the publication, which he said “portrays [members of the Waffen SS] as honorable soldiers – such as British, American, Canadian or French soldiers – but the reality is they were murderous thugs.”

Heir said his call comes “at a time when 20 percent of all Germans still harbor anti- Semitic attitudes, when crimes committed by the far right rose to 17,616 and anti- Semitic attacks increased 10.6 percent.”

He added that he also appealed to the German operation of online bookseller Amazon.com to stop selling the magazine but was rebuffed.

The German Interior Ministry said it is looking into the matter and that it takes Heir’s accusations “very seriously.”

A report issued by SWC researcher Dr. Stefan Klemp in July noted that out of 29 SS men featured in the magazine, 24 served in units that engaged in actions considered war crimes.

“These so-called military units of the Waffen-SS were deeply involved in the Holocaust,” Klemp noted.

Bauer Publishing, one of Europe’s largest publishers of periodicals and the producer of the magazine, issued a statement denying Heir and Klemp’s critiques and stating that they had been investigated for possible violations of the law several times since Der Landser began publication in 1957.

“Every publication of the Bauer Media Group is in accord with German law. This is also true of Der Landser,” Bauer responded.

“The publisher puts great value on not allowing Nazism to be glorified or Nazi crimes to be played down.”

Heir responded incredulously, saying that “at no time did the magazine point out that the ‘hero’ they were profiling belonged to a unit that took part in the extermination of the Jews.”

“By cleansing and hiding that fact from the public, they are directly in violation of section 86 of the German penal code,” Heir said.

“Imagine today doing a profile on Heinrich Himmler at home with his family without pointing out what Himmler’s role was in the murder of six million Jews.”

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