We have been running so many exposé articles and breaking news about the Holocaust industry and other current matters that it is time to switch focus for a while to give our weary readers a break.
For perspective and to understand the present, it is time to return to the past.
Canadian author James Bacques in his books "Of Crimes and Mercies" and "Other Losses" exposed to the English-speaking world massive Allied war crimes know to the Germans for decades. Here is one such account of the aftermath of the war. Remember, by then, the shooting had stopped and the people described below were utterly defenseless.
To this day, just under the surface of the ground in what were once known as the "Rheinwiesenlager" lie the skeletons of tens of thousands of German soldiers, buried in shallow graves dug hastily by their fellow comrades, usually with their bare hands.
In 1945 the German Armies surrendered and a revenge -filled General Eisenhower ordered the surrendering soldiers be put out into these open fields. Barbed wire fences were put around the fields and the soldiers were left there, with no shelter, no water or food and no medical treatment. Around one million of these men died either from hunger, illness or they were badly wounded or killed by the American soldiers patrolling the perimeter of the camp, who, whenever they felt like it, would fire their weapons indiscriminately into the camp .
News about the inhumane conditions in this "camp" finally made it through to the International Red Cross in Switzerland and large amounts of food and medicines were put on trucks and sent to help the German prisoners. Eisenhower, however, refused to allow the transports through, claiming no help was needed. By this time the helpless men were dying in the thousands from their wounds, starvation, dehydration, cold, exposure and illnesses.
One camp typical of these was "Camp Bretzenheim". A local farmer named Tullius who now owns a large piece of this land has so often plowed up the bones and skulls from these shallow graves that he commissioned an exhumation expert named Schmitt to help him find these bones and give the dead a decent burial. He also hoped to find their ID markers so he could inform the next of kin of the fate of those he found.
In Germany however, exhumations can only be carried out with written permission of the local authorities.
Surprisingly, the local authorities in Bad Kreuznach in a letter dated 1-25-1980 - and another on the 3-6-1987 - with the reference number 363-11/18-0 forbade all attempts to exhume the bodies. They actually sent a letter, dated 7-16-1987, threatening that any further exhumations would incur a fine of DM 250.000.- . This letter was written and signed by a Mr Bergs and Mr Paulus, both local officials. The reasons they gave for their decision were taken from Paragraph 3 of the laws covering "Protection of Memorials".
Schmitt and Tullius did not want to give up. They kept up their applications. On 3-2-1988 Mr Schmitt received a letter from the Legal Dept of the Bad Kreuznach local authorities with the reference number 11/057-W 145/ 87 - a final rebuttal, complete with an invoice for their legal expenses. In the seven page letter the authorities claimed the bodies were already well protected in the ground where they lie - and, in any case, any attempts to dig them up would just destroy any identification markers that they might still have had with them.
Undaunted, Mr Schmitt took legal action against the county of Rheinland-Pfalz represented by the Councillors of Bad- Kreuznach for "Refusing to issue a certificate allowing exhumation".
On the 4-20-1988, Hitler's birthday, Bad-Kreuznach Council wrote to the Court in Koblenz demanding the action be summarily dismissed.
On the June (specific date unreadable), 1989, under the reference number 1K 131/88 the action was summarily dismissed by the court - and "In the name of The German People" Schmitt and Tullius were also ordered to pay the full court costs,
The verdict was signed by the judges Packroff, Pluhm and Dr Held.
The very obscure wording and illogical reasoning given by the courts and authorities for ordering the exhumation be stopped easily leads one to the assumption that they are desperately trying to keep all details of this terrible Allied war crime well out of the media spotlight and as quiet as possible.
So the remains of hundreds of thousands of murdered German soldiers are to be left in their shallow graves, their names and identities unknown, buried without even the last rites sometimes even given the family dog. Millions of mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers still don't know the whereabouts of their loved ones.
The injustices continue, and each time the suffering of the German people increases.
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Thought for the Day:
"God, how I hate the Germans!"
(General Eisenhower, in correspondence to his wife)