It's Newsletter Week again - which means my ZGram readers will get a bit short-changed for a few days while I attend to the all-important financial supporter base.
For the uninitiated: I put out a monthly newsletter - titled "Lebensraum!", true to my style! - which is my lifeline and my gesture of appreciation for my own sponsors.
Ernst has done this letter-writing very steadily and successfully for the past 30 years in English and German for his supporters. Every month, come rain or shine, his "Power" letters and "Germania" letters go into the mail bags.
That's where I learned how to do it so that my sponsors know they are part of this intellectual global struggle - and so I know that I am not alone.
These monthly letters are not available by subscription. They are courtesy letters to keep my financial donor friends and advisors emotionally close to my struggle and up to date on my activities. Many are not connected to the Net, and to them the Internet is just one great big mystery. It takes a lot of explaining why I always sound so busy!
Since time is very short today, here are just a couple of thought-provoking statistics and news snippets.
First Item:
* One of the ZGram readers wrote to the Canadian Globe and Mail (letter somewhat shortened):
Today I got the latest "list of material reviewed by the Prohibited Importations Unit at Headquarters in Ottawa", to which unit all hate material is sent for a decision.
From a close look (nothing that would stand up in court), a figure stuck out. There were ***no*** books (or materials) banned because they were hateful to Moslems.
There were ***no*** materials banned because they were hateful to Christians.
There were ***no*** materials banned because they were hateful to "all other religions".
There were 30 materials banned because they referred to Jews, and were presumably hateful.
Not scientific, but interesting.
I have never understood why Jews are the only people throughout time and throughout Europe who have been deported as a group. Over all these years and in all these countries, have the natives been wrong and the Jews right every time ?
Interesting.
I admit I don't know any answers to this. Could you publish a study or history of these people who hold this unique record?
I am open-minded because I have read both sides of the question.
Second item:
* In scanning some German language papers printed in the US, I found these interesting statistics:
In the wake of the Walser controversy in Germany where this famous novelist announced that "Enough is enough!" regarding Holocaustomania, about 50% of Germans polled agreed. 44% did not.
42% believed they were reminded of the Holocaust "too often." 13% thought that reminders did not happen "often enough." 38% thought that guilt reminders were "just right."
Regarding the proposed and then shelved Holocaust Museum in Berlin, opinions are split right down the middle - 47% pro, 46% con.
Of those who are in favor of such a museum, only 6% want it to commemorate Jewish losses alone; 94% feel it ought to commemorate ***all*** victims.
(Source: California Staatszeitung, December 31, 1998)
Thought for the Day:
"The (Holocaust) story is widely believed and every technician that dismisses it, is a brain-dead Nazi. Actually a lot of intelligent people believe the Nazis exterminated the Jews - even though the Jew are still here."
(Sent to the Zundelsite)
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