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February 14, 2003
Frantic action is an understatement here at Tennessee
Zundel-Haus. We have all kinds of legal moves going behind the scenes - as,
I am sure, have our enemies. The story is still breaking.
Here is what I have found out so far:
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There is no arrest warrant. None! This is described as a
"civil arrest." Welcome to the New World Order!
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Yesterday, against the greatest of all lawyerly odds, we
managed to file a petition for "estraordinary relief" in
Federal Court - and did not even get a hearing. A one-sentence judgment
by Judge Jarvis: Denied.
Now comes the weekend, and not much will get done. In the
meantime, there seems to have developed a three-way tug of war between the
US., Germany and Canada - who will take him and inherit the publicity? As
far as I can tell, this sadistic brutality was planned to have taken place
on the sly and handled very quietly, but the Internet saw to it that the
story broke - and from there it was media mayhem all the way. Some of my
readers thought that I did make a mistake when I restricted my interviews
only to alternate media. Let me tell you I was right. Far and away, the
media write-ups and broadcasts HAD to get their info from the Zundelsite,
and so far it has paid off in advertising millions. For instance, NBC is
said to have run it - I am not sure when, but somebody sent me a tape. But I
have never EVER seen such fair headline news reporting. As soon as I come up
from under, I will transcribe the script. They showed the Zundelsite. They
showed some very good titles. They No yammering Holocaust survivor. They
even showed the Sinking Auschwitz cartoon. This was prime news. The only
"negative" anchor comment was that I had gloated about all the
attention I got. This time, at least as far as the media is concerned - they
didn't run us. We sat back and forced them to be a bit more polite and
civilized. WE controlled what was put on the newscast by forcing them onto
the Zundelsite. It was a sweet revenge.
For instance, I refused an interview to the Globe and Mail,
taking advantage of the opportunity to lecture the reporter on ethics - or,
better, lack thereof, of Canadian media in general! Here is that article:
Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada
Deportation to Germany threatens jailed Zundel
By COLIN FREEZE
CRIME REPORTER
Thursday, February 13, 2003 ? Print Edition, Page A9
Ernst Zundel could face deportation to Germany and that
country's powerful antihate laws, after making use of North American civil
liberties to deny the Holocaust for more than 20 years.
Mr. Zundel, a German national with permanent-residency
status in Canada, had long confounded this country's efforts to shut him up.
But on Feb. 5, he was arrested at his Tennessee home by five U.S.
immigration agents who came with a deportation order alleging that he
overstayed a visa.
A spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service said yesterday that it appears Mr. Zundel, who is in jail, will be
sent to Germany soon.
Temple Black, a New Orleans-based INS spokesman, said that
unless Mr. Zundel files a refugee claim or uses some other legal tactic, he
could be sent back within "a couple of weeks."
"We have to wait for the paperwork from Germany; that's
the way it normally works," Mr. Black said. "And then he'll be
deported back to his home country."
Canadian Jewish groups, which had been worried that the
United States might try to send Mr. Zundel to Canada, are overjoyed at the
prospect that their long-time adversary soon could be in Europe.
Germany has strict criminal laws governing the spread of
hate, meaning it would be very difficult for Mr. Zundel, a self-styled
freedom-of-expression activist, to spread the message there that he has from
North America.
"In Germany, he will be literally out of business.
That's something that will make most people breathe a sigh of relief,"
said Bernie Farber, spokesman for the Canadian Jewish Congress.
During a visit to Munich in 1991, Mr. Zundel was charged
with slander, offending the memory of the dead, inciting racial hatred,
public incitement and possession of illegal Nazi symbols. He was fined about
$30,000, though the amount was reduced to $9,000 on appeal.
In 1996, German Internet-service providers were investigated
by the government for providing access to Mr. Zundel's Toronto-based Web
site.
Mr. Zundel immigrated to Canada as a teenager in 1958.
During the 1980s, he became a familiar and notorious figure.
Reporters would flock to Mr. Zundel's news conferences,
where he would complain of persecution by the justice system -- while
wearing hardhats or skull caps, or in blackface or strapped to a crucifix.
His Toronto home became a library for the like-minded and the site of many
protests, arrests and the occasional bombing.
Mr. Zundel twice attempted to obtain Canadian citizenship.
In the late 1980s he was convicted of the little-known law against spreading
false news, but the decision was overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada.
In the late 1990s, the issue was whether his Toronto Web
site disseminated hate. Before losing that battle, Mr. Zundel ceased to
defend himself and headed south. "It is perfectly clear to me that the
courts of Canada have simply decided that Ernst Zundel has got to go,"
he said at the time.
About three years ago, he and his wife, Ingrid Rimland
Zundel, moved to Sevierville, Tenn., a community of about 12,000 best known
as the birthplace of country singer Dolly Parton. Using a Web site, the
couple continued to make their views known.
Shortly after moving there, Mr. Zundel said in an interview
with The Globe and Mail that he was enjoying the U.S. South. "America,
obviously, has a 225-year history of freedom of speech," he said at the
time. "I mean, they mean it. None of the things that I've been dragged
through the courts for in Canada would have brought me near a courthouse in
the United States."
He added: "You have all kinds of intellectual people
here in the United States who do and think and write and speak about the
topics that I do, and have absolutely no problems with the
authorities."
His wife said yesterday that he is "doing okay under
the circumstances."
She would not provide the name of his lawyer.
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The condition in Blount County jail are inhuman. I received
a 12-page, tightly written letter from Ernst describing some of his
observations and thoughts, and I am getting brand new insights into the way
Ernst Zundel thinks. When things calm down, I have to do our newsletter, and
since it is written in English, I will just take the personal comments out
and have it translated into languages other than English to be used as the
occasion warrants. Those twelve pages are a masterpiece of political thought
and what is in store for America in this powder keg right at the brink of
war.
Just a brief glimpse of the man millions have been taught to
hate:
[START]
Hi Ingrid,
The following is the reply I sent to the Mountain Press in
response to their story of Feb. 12th. I hope they publish it -- your
neighbors need to know what kind of man Ernst really is!
[START]
This is a very sad story.
The very idea that Mr. Zundel would deliberately break any
law is simply preposterous. I've known him for over fifteen years and in all
that time, I've never known him to do anything even remotely bordering on
illegal.
I've never seen anyone so meticulously law-abiding and fair
in his dealings with officialdom, business acquaintances and friends alike.
This is the man who scrupulously weighed his mail and if it
was so much as a gram overweight, he would insist on paying the next level
of postage. This is the man who always insisted on buying expensive, legally
licensed copies of computer software rather than allowing friends to give
him free copies on a "burned" CD.
This is the man who promptly paid all parking tickets, even
out-of-state or out-of country. This is the man who, in spite of the hectic
pressures in his own life, was never too busy to help his friends and
neighbors in Toronto and around the world.
If Mr. Zundel says he was unaware of any hearing date that
he missed, you can bet your bottom dollar that he never received any
notification to attend any such hearing.
This gentle man's detention in a jail filled with criminals
is an injustice that sullies America The Beautiful.
[END]
This writer is right. I have taken calls from many parts of
the world, and I have heard grown, even old men weep.
A strange fate has now befallen us. Just as I am finishing
this story, our attorney gives me a call. He has heard in Knoxville in a
court house from a clerk that Ernst will be deported Sunday. I don't know if
it is true. Nobody told me anything. My second one-hour visit since his
arrest, I was told, has been re-scheduled for Monday.
Herewith I bid you good-bye on Valentine's Day 2003 - the
very day when, 58 years ago, Dresden collapsed into ashes, holocausting
hundreds of thousands of Germans, mainly civilians. I once saw statistics
somewhere. I may be wrong, but I remember that, in the City of Dresden
alone, the victims included tens of thousands of babies under the age 6.
Ernst Zundel was then a youngster then, not yet six years of
age. He watched one of the many Allied terror bombings in his vicinity near
Pforzheim, a city close to where he lived. These bombing raids targeting
civilians were done to force the Germans to their knees. Robert Lenski in
his description of the Second Zundel Trial in 1988, described how Ernst
remembers a similar Holocaust, February 23-24, 1945:
". . . 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 connifers bent toward the
city center as if in a gale of 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."
As the entire world knows by now, "Anne Frank left us a
diary" - a manuscript which, incidentally, proved highly questionable
as to its authenticy. It was partly written in a ball point pen - a gadget
not in general use until 1953.
There were lots of bombing raids in the early and even late
spring of 1945 when the war was already technically lost. More than 5000
casualties of the Allied "Würzburg-Holocaust" were incinerated in
one of the last massive bombing raids of World War II. These German victims'
wartimes stories are not known. They left no diaries. They perished in the
flames of the devastating inferno of March 16, 1945 - among them the
following women and children named "Anna":
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Anna Maria Katharina Adler, geb. Steinel, Amalienstraße
2
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Anna Baadsch, Ursulinerstraße 13
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Anna Baetz, Marktplatz 6
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Anna Barth, Büttnerstraße 3
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Anna Klara Barz, geb. Kinzig, Nonnenfeld 22
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Anna Basel, Pfauenstraße 2
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Anna Bieneck, geb. Schaneng, Sicherstraße 31
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Anna Maria Bieneck, Sicherstraße 31
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Anna Bischoff, geb. Breunig, Theaterstraße 20
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Anna Margarete Bittler, Franziskanerstraße 14
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Anna Maria Bittner, geb. Höhn, Franziskanerstraße 14
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Anna Blank, geb. Fleischmann, Arndtstraße 33
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Anna Braun, Steinheilstraße 4
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Anna Lina Breunig, Marktgasse 7
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Anna Brückner, geb. Lukesch, Friedrich-Spee Straße 32
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Anna Diem, Sanderstraße 7
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Anna Katharina Dietz, Theaterstraße 9
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Anna Dinckel, Gerberstraße 21
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Anna Maria Margarete Dursch, geb. Fuchs, Neumannstraße
8
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Anna Sofie Dürr, Sanderstraße 10
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Anna Eckel, geb. Sdrzalek, Domstraße 19
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Anna Maria Luise Elzinger, Rotkreutstraße 21
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Anna Eppler, geb. Wagner, Traubengasse 19
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Anna Maria Eyssen, Herrnstraße 9
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Anna Faber, geb. Petres, Weingartenstraße 24
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Anna Stephanie Federl, geb. Fürter, Ottostraße 10
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Anna Feser, Peterplatz 3
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Anna Fieger, geb. Lamm, Steinhellstraße 12
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Anna Else Emma Berta Fick, geb. Schultze,
Augustinerstraße 22
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Anna Josefine Rita Firsching, Burkarderstraße 24
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Anna Flach, Randersackerer Straße 10
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Anna Forst, Ursulinergasse 5
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Anna Fretz, geb. Bodmann, Steinheilstraße 39
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Anna Barbara Freitag, geb. Reuss, Herzogenstraße 11
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Anna Fröhlich, Oeggstraße 1
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Anna Frosch, geb. Hartwig, Bibrastraße 6
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Anneliese Funke, Altes Gymnasium
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Anneliese Gärtner, Franziskanergasse 4
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Anna Gebhard, Arndstraße 6
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Anna Gehrling, geb. Amend, Schenkhof 3
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Anna Göbel, Ludwigkai 9
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Anna Franziska Gotthardt, geb. Ott, Pleicherpfarrgasse 6
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Anna Maria Gottwald, Zwinger 22
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Anna Grail, geb. Zeitz, Weingartenstraße 15
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Anna Granacher, geb. Weingart, Am Pfarracker 20
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Anna Josephine Grimm, geb. Sendelbach, Haugerkirchplatz
9
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Anna Grötsch, geb. Prechtl, Am Pleidenturm 6
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Anna Therese Maria Grosch, geb. Keil, Friedrichstraße
19
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Anna Dorothea Grossberger, geb. Wörrlein, Ottostraße
10
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Annemarie Haag, geb. Hirth, Otostraße 14 Anneliese
Haeckel, Wöllergasse 6
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Anna Hahn, geb. Brehm, Oswaldspitalgasse 15
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Anna Emilie Hain, Randersackererstraße 12
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Anna Emma Hain, Randersackererstraße 12
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Anna Dorothea Haufmann, geb. Gropp, Schiestlstraße 3
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Anna Heilmann, Friedenstraße 44
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Anna Maria Heinrich, geb. Fischer, Domstraße 38
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Anna Hem, geb. Grünewald, Semmelstraße 24
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Anna Maria Herbert, geb. Schellenberger, Arndtstraße 6
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Anna Herzog, Sanderstraße 33
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Anneliese Hess, Moltkestraße 10
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Annastasia Höller, Domerschulstraße 5
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Anna Margarete Hoffmann, geb. Scheid, Gerbrunner Weg 50
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Anna Hüge, geb. Ohlsen, Schlörstraße 2
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Anna Maria Hufgard, geb. Dumproff, Neumannstraße 16
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Anna Illig, geb. Ackermann, Fichtestraße 19
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Anna Keller, geb. Liebstückel, Steinheilstraße 5
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Anna Elise Kimmel, geb. Küchler, Oswaldspitalgasse 17
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Anna Kinzig, geb. Kuhn, Gallstraße 1
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Anna Karolina Köhler, geb. Schmitt, Matterstockstraße
17
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Anna Krämer, Textorstraße 13
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Anna Krines, Herzogenstraße 7
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Anna Katherina Kübert, geb. Hummel, Sanderstraße 4a
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Anna Kuhn, geb. Kuss, Grombühlstraße 47
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Anna Berta Irmtraud, Winterleitenweg 16
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Anna Leimeister, Kapuzinerstraße 4
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Anna Lieselotte Lindner, Theaterstraße 23
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Anna Lippert, Neubaustraße 42
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Anna Löhr, geb. Badum, Prymstraße 13a
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Anna Lotter, geb. Münch, Fichtestraße 18
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Anna Maria Lutz, geb. Heimer, Neubaustraße 38
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Anna Meinberger, geb. Geiger, Neubaustraße 7
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Anna Theresia Mark, geb. Götz, Klosterstraße 25
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Anna Markert, geb. Bayer, Ingolstadter Hof 4
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Anna Metz, geb. Alzheimer, Weingartenstraße 18
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Anna Moser, Riemenschneider Straße 9
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Anna Müller, geb. Wittstadt, Maxstraße 9
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Anna Münch, Domerschulstraße 2
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Anna Barbara Mulfinger, geb. Wolf, Neumannstraße 10
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Anna Nauer, Korngasse 22
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Anna Nieberding, geb. Dietz, Theaterstraße 9
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Anna Oeffner, Sanderstraße 27
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Anna Ortloff, Ludwigkai 9
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Anna Ostberg, geb. Wallrapp, Sanderstraße 27
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Anna Pfannes, geb. Gerber, Haugerkirchgasse
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Anna Pfeuffer, Martinstraße 13
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Anna Margarete Pfülb, geb. Beck, Oswaldspitalgasse 15
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Anna Rausch, beg. Nusser, Steinheilstraße 33
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Anna Rheinthaler, Erthalstraße 2
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Anneliese Reiter, Steinheilstraße 24
I would like you to honor and remember these German victims
of a deliberate Allied policy with genocidal overtones with a few moments'
worth of silence. That's what Ernst Zundel is really all about!
Ingrid Zundel
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