As many of you saw on CNN, we have had some horrendous fires in California,
including one that came very close to where I live. It went through three
towns and burned some 6,000 acres, much of it suburban area. Where I live,
there was an alert to evacuate, but luckily it wasn't necessary. People
fleeing made a river of cars just streaming down the hill.
I watched the fire for a while - half of the horizon was in flames. When
night came, the sight was even spookier. It brought back a lot of memories,
for as a child I saw Berlin burn in the very last days of the war. Then,
there were few roads left to escape, for everything was smashed to smithereens.
Every night, the horizon was lit as though the sun were coming up - and
by that time, Berlin was a city of practically all women and children -
the only men we saw in those sad days were amputees.
I want to share with you a passage from one of the Great Holocaust Trial
books, "The Holocaust on Trial: The Case of Ernst Zundel" (by
Robert Lenski, Reporter Press, 1989) just so you know where Ernst is coming
from:
". . . Many of Zundel's earliest memories are of bombing raids and strafings. He recalls the "endless droning" of Allied planes on their way to Nuremberg, Munich and Stuttgart, and the thunder of artillery coming ever closer. As elderly German soldiers streamed past their house, Zundel's mother gathered her then five young children, and goats, chickens and rabbits, and retreated to a nearby woods. . .
A bit earlier, however, came a night (February 23-24) which Zundel will never forget, when "golden" Pforzheim was firebombed and consumed by a red cyclone. Though the Zundels' house lay 12 miles distant, the sky above was brilliantly illuminated, and huge neighboring conifers bent toward the city center as if in a gale wind. The Pforzheim fireball was sucking oxygen toward itself from throughout the surrounding countryside. Zundel, not yet six, watched mystified as millions of leaves and branches were sucked violently skyward, with a howl and a roar. . . "
A report from the War Department in Washington, dated October 1945, describes
the night of July 27-28, 1943 in Hamburg during a bombing raid, but it could
have been describing Pforzheim or a hundred other German cities:
". . . High explosives and air mines destroyed houses, creating craters in streets and court yards, ruining lighting and the power supply. . . and opening the gas and water mains . . . At the same time incendiary bombs started fires which spread particularly in thickly inhabited parts of town in a very short time. Thus in several minutes whole blocks were on fire and streets made impassable by flames. The heat increased rapidly and produced a wind which soon was the power and strength of a typhoon. This typhoon first moved into the direction of the fires, later spreading in all directions. In the public squares and parks it broke trees, and burning branches shot through the air. Trees of all sizes were uprooted. The firestorm broke down doors of houses and later the flames crept into the doorways and corridors. The firestorm looked like a blizzard of red snowflakes. More scientifically, a firestorm is a mass of fresh air which breaks into burning areas to replace the superheated rising air. . . "
As Ernst watched the trees bend toward that Holocaust, between ten and
twenty thousand people, mostly women and children, died in Pforzheim that
night, a little city of fewer than a hundred thousand with almost no heavy
industry, which, since the 1700s, had been the center of the German jewelry
and watchmaking industry.
The Lenski book goes on to say:
"The War Department's report (on another city) suggests how many in Pforzheim must have died: 'Literally hundreds of people were seen leaving shelters after the heat became intense. They ran across the street and were seen to collapse very slowly like people who were utterly exhausted. They could not get up.' Melitta Maschmann offers other hints, in her recollection of (a) firebombing in August 1944, which killed 15,000: 'There was not a house anywhere in the street which had not turned into a blazing firebrand. Above the sea of flames, a glowing cyclone raged over the town; and whenever it caught the bodies of people in flight, it shriveled them in a second to the size of a child, and the next day they lay all over the streets, hardly burnt, but like mummified children."
So now you know where the pictures of the "Holocaust piles"
of dead people come from.
Toward the end of the war, civilian terror bombing was Allied policy, and
one of the cities that was laid to ashes was a city called Wuerzburg. You
know about the Diary of Anne Frank; a young girl who died due to typhus.
She did not die in flames. We, too, have our Annas. They died that way.
These Annas were among 5,000 people who perished in a real, documented Holocaust
in Wuerzburg on March 15-16, 1945. Where are their diaries?
+ Anna Maria Katharina Adler, geb. Steinel, Amalienstrasse 2
+ Anna Baadsch, Ursulinerstrasse 13
+ Anna Baetz, Marktplatz 6
+ Anna Barth, Buettnerstrasse 3
+ Anna Klara Barz, geb. Kinzig, Nonnenfeld 22
+ Anna Basel, Pfauenstrasse 2
+ Anna Bieneck, geb. Schaneng, Sicherstrasse 31
+ Anna Maria Bieneck, Sicherstrasse 31
+ Anna Bischoff, geb. Breunig, Theaterstrasse 20
+ Anna Margarete Bittler, Franziskanerstrasse 14
+ Anna Maria Bittner, geb. Hoehn, Franziskanerstrasse 14
+ Anna Blank, geb. Fleischmann, Arndtstrasse 33
+ Anna Braun, Steinheilstrasse 4
+ Anna Lina Breunig, Marktgasse 7
+ Anna Brueckner, geb. Lukesch, Friedrich-Spee Strasse 32
+ Anna Diem, Sanderstrasse 7
+ Anna Katharina Dietz, Theaterstrasse 9
+ Anna Dinckel, Gerberstrasse 21
+ Anna Maria Margarete Dursch, geb. Fuchs, Neumannstrasse 8
+ Anna Sofie Duerr, Sanderstrasse 10
+ Anna Eckel, geb. Sdrzalek, Domstrasse 19
+ Anna Maria Luise Elzinger, Rotkreutstrasse 21
+ Anna Eppler, geb. Wagner, Traubengasse 19
+ Anna Maria Eyssen, Herrnstrasse 9
+ Anna Faber, geb. Petres, Weingartenstrasse 24
+ Anna Stephanie Federl, geb. Fuerter, Ottostrasse 10
+ Anna Feser, Peterplatz 3
+ Anna Fieger, geb. Lamm, Steinhellstrasse 12
+ Anna Else Emma Berta Fick, geb. Schultze, Augustinerstrasse 22
+ Anna Josefine Rita Firsching, Burkarderstrasse 24
+ Anna Flach, Randersackerer Strasse 10
+ Anna Forst, Ursulinergasse 5
+ Anna Fretz, geb. Bodmann, Steinheilstrasse 39
+ Anna Barbara Freitag, geb. Reuss, Herzogenstrasse 11
+ Anna Froehlich, Oeggstrasse 1
+ Anna Frosch, geb. Hartwig, Bibrastrasse 6
+ Anneliese Funke, Altes Gymnasium
+ Anneliese Gaertner, Franziskanergasse 4
+ Anna Gebhard, Arndstrasse 6
+ Anna Gehrling, geb. Amend, Schenkhof 3
+ Anna Goebel, Ludwigkai 9
+ Anna Franziska Gotthardt, geb. Ott, Pleicherpfarrgasse 6
+ Anna Maria Gottwald, Zwinger 22
+ Anna Grail, geb. Zeitz, Weingartenstrasse 15
+ Anna Granacher, geb. Weingart, Am Pfarracker 20
+ Anna Josephine Grimm, geb. Sendelbach, Haugerkirchplatz 9
+ Anna Groetsch, geb. Prechtl, Am Pleidenturm 6
+ Anna Therese Maria Grosch, geb. Keil, Friedrichstrasse 19
+ Anna Dorothea Grossberger, geb. Woerrlein, Ottostrasse 10
+ Annemarie Haag, geb. Hirth, Otostrasse 14
+ Anneliese Haeckel, Woellergasse 6
+ Anna Hahn, geb. Brehm, Oswaldspitalgasse 15
+ Anna Emilie Hain, Randersackererstrasse 12
+ Anna Emma Hain, Randersackererstrasse 12
+ Anna Dorothea Haufmann, geb. Gropp, Schiestlstrasse 3
+ Anna Heilmann, Friedenstrasse 44
+ Anna Maria Heinrich, geb. Fischer, Domstrasse 38
+ Anna Hem, geb. Gruenewald, Semmelstrasse 24
+ Anna Maria Herbert, geb. Schellenberger, Arndtstrasse 6
+ Anna Herzog, Sanderstrasse 33
+ Anneliese Hess, Moltkestrasse 10
+ Annastasia Hoeller, Domerschulstrasse 5
+ Anna Margarete Hoffmann, geb. Scheid, Gerbrunner Weg 50
+ Anna Huege, geb. Ohlsen, Schloerstrasse 2
+ Anna Maria Hufgard, geb. Dumproff, Neumannstrasse 16
+ Anna Illig, geb. Ackermann, Fichtestrasse 19
+ Anna Keller, geb. Liebstueckel, Steinheilstrasse 5
+ Anna Elise Kimmel, geb. Kuechler, Oswaldspitalgasse 17
+ Anna Kinzig, geb. Kuhn, Gallstrasse 1
+ Anna Karolina Koehler, geb. Schmitt, Matterstockstrasse 17
+ Anna Kraemer, Textorstrasse 13
+ Anna Krines, Herzogenstrasse 7
+ Anna Katherina Kuebert, geb. Hummel, Sanderstrasse 4a
+ Anna Kuhn, geb. Kuss, Grombuehlstrasse 47
+ Anna Berta Irmtraud, Winterleitenweg 16
+ Anna Leimeister, Kapuzinerstrasse 4
+ Anna Lieselotte Lindner, Theaterstrasse 23
+ Anna Lippert, Neubaustrasse 42
+ Anna Loehr, geb. Badum, Prymstrasse 13a
+ Anna Lotter, geb. Muench, Fichtestrasse 18
+ Anna Maria Lutz, geb. Heimer, Neubaustrasse 38
+ Anna Meinberger, geb. Geiger, Neubaustrasse 7
+ Anna Theresia Mark, geb. Goetz, Klosterstrasse 25
+ Anna Markert, geb. Bayer, Ingolstadter Hof 4
+ Anna Metz, geb. Alzheimer, Weingartenstrasse 18
+ Anna Moser, Riemenschneider Strasse 9
+ Anna Mueller, geb. Wittstadt, Maxstrasse 9
+ Anna Muench, Domerschulstrasse 2
+ Anna Barbara Mulfinger, geb. Wolf, Neumannstrasse 10
+ Anna Nauer, Korngasse 22
+ Anna Nieberding, geb. Dietz, Theaterstrasse 9
+ Anna Oeffner, Sanderstrasse 27
+ Anna Ortloff, Ludwigkai 9
+ Anna Ostberg, geb. Wallrapp, Sanderstrasse 27
+ Anna Pfannes, geb. Gerber, Haugerkirchgasse
+ Anna Pfeuffer, Martinstrasse 13
+ Anna Margarete Pfuelb, geb. Beck, Oswaldspitalgasse 15
+ Anna Rausch, beg. Nusser, Steinheilstrasse 33
+ Anna Rheinthaler, Erthalstrasse 2
+ Anneliese Reiter, Steinheilstrasse 24
Why am I shipping you this list? Because in Germany it is against the
law to question anything pertaining to the Jewish "Holocaust,"
including the Anne Frank Diary, which is a doctored. documented literary
hoax, but it is not against the law to defame fallen German soldiers who
died defending their own Annas.
In fact, it will cause trouble if you, a German, would like to honor them
for how they fought and died, defending your own homeland against an alien
invasion. It seems that you can't do that - five decades after the war!
Here is one thought-provoking news bit:
"Protesters Cancel Veterans' Ceremony_ (ANA)
Protesters blocked the entrance to a cemetery in Dresden yesterday (10/19/96) where war veterans were going to hold a memorial ceremony. About 100 protesters, mainly young people, blocked the road leading to the cemetery. Some carried signs with slogans such as "Are Priebke, Karadzic and Mladic taking part too?"
The veterans, The Knights of the Iron Cross, said they are cancelling all public events they had planned for this weekend's reunion due to the protests. The demonstrators said in a statement: "We see the decision by the Knights of the Iron Cross to cancel all public events as a success for our protests against this shameful event."
Police broke up the protest after the activists started to hit and insult the veterans. About 45 protesters were detained and questioned, but all were released."
Take just a minute. Think about that poor, besieged and brainwashed country,
Germany, where now the grandsons of the men who died defending their own
loved ones will "hit and insult" their veterans - with nothing
more to fear than "being questions and released".
Ingrid
"In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences."
(Robert B. Ingersoll)