May 16, 1996

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I haven't yet read the Goldhagen book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust," but many people urged me to respond to the flagrant literary smear, and so I thought I would let Hans Schmidt do it for me because he has had some "hands-on experience" with having used a careless pen, and he has done considerable "study" on this topic.

Hans, as you may remember, spent more than 5 months in 1995 and part of 1996 in "investigative custody" for "defamation of an ethnic group" in one of Germany's most horrendously dehumanizing prisons for having used four "politically incorrect" words. He spoke of the German lapdog media and German politicians as ". . . Jew- and Freemason-infested" - words he had every right to use on American soil as a United States citizen who thought the First Amendment would protect his giving vent to a deep frustration that many Americans feel.

Assuming that the Goldhagen book is 80,000 words long-the preferred size that publishers urge writers to adhere to-it might be interesting to figure out how many years Goldhagen might be asked to spend in prison for defamation of the German people.

Anyone with a red pencil? Here is the formula: 1.25 months in prison per defamatory word.

Hans has an acid tongue and an astringent mind, and here is what he has to say:

29 April 1996

OPEN LETTER

Dr.Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Professor of Government and Social Studies Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Dear Professor Goldhagen:

Congratulations on the successful publication of your book: "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust". It appeared just in time for the yearly Holocaust shindig with which the docile mass of Americans is now being inundated every year.

I cannot help but admire the Oberjuden and Zionist activists like you for the virtuosity with which you play the "Holocaust-violin", and the never-ending story of the forever persecuted (and naturally totally innocent) Jewish people. To do that over and over again takes talents that have been finely tuned for millenia, and, naturally, a stupid mass of goyim that will always fall for the charade.

Your book is nonsense. Nevertheless, I am very grateful to you for having written it.

When I read the first review of it, I immediately realized that the Bonn vassals of the enemies of the German Reich would not like it. You probably were not aware of it, but the thesis of your book runs counter to the very basic principles upon which the German Bundesrepublik was founded, namely upon the contention that the "Nazis" were but a small gang of criminals who were merely able to capture the minds of ordinary Germans through insidious propaganda.

Your assertion of the culpability of all Germans for the (alleged, systematic) extermination of the Jews, (which) was only possible in an atmosphere of pervasive anti-Semitism, obviously does not coincide with the Bonn claims. Now the rulers of the Bundesrepublik are forced not only to defend all Germans collectively but we can also expect that some of the taboos will have to be abandoned that have hamstrung the Germans since 1945.

I, myself, a German-American writer, had to suffer the legal consequences of such taboos when last year I was incarcerated in a German prison for 5 months because I questioned certain incongruities of the "Holocaust".

When I state that the general thesis of your book is nonsense, then I am referring to the fact that you seem to have forgotten that there had been a great war, a World War, in which World Jewry was an active participant. In other words, WWII was also a war between the Germans and the Jews.

In the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., there is a plaque pointing out that during the war there had been more than a hundred Zionist and Communist partisan groups' that attacked installations of the German Wehrmacht. And in books about the partisans (terrorists!) one can read hat they often hid among the civilian population of the ghettos after their terrorist acts. It follows that many innocent Jews lost their lives when the Germans launched anti-partisan measures, and had to bombard the ghettos.

Lastly, I can state unequivocally that during the entire war there were no acts of violence by German civilians against the Jews still living in the Reich. In the Berlin phone book of 1941 there were still 110 different Jewish organizations, schools, hospitals and so on listed. -- How many Japanese-American groups still had telephone listings in San Francisco or Los Angeles two years after Pearl Harbor?. . ."

I often think how very odd it is that one ethnic group can smear another ethnic group for 50 years with all the money, might and media resources at its commands, while the group being smeared, merely defending itself and asking for a chance to clear its name, is called "hate mongering."

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"That there should be one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy."

(Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881)

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