Copyright (c) 2000 - Ingrid A. Rimland


ZGram: Where Truth is Destiny

 

February 13, 2000

 

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

 

 

Today is Dresden Day:

 

As I do every year, this morning I send out into cyberspace the counterpart to the Anne Frank story - the "German Annas" who left no diary.

 

Fifty-five years ago today, the city of Dresden, which had no strategic military significance at all and which had become a huge refugee city for civilians fleeing the Red Terror, became a huge fireball in the fiercest Allied terror bombing ever.

 

David Irving has written about the Dresden Holocaust. It is a book well worth reading - and one you will never forget.

 

Many historians estimate that as many as 350,000 victims were incinerated beyond being identifiable or even recognizable as human remains in that Holocaust. Only 35,000 could be identified.

 

Many of the pictures that people were served up as "pyres of gassed Jews " from Auschwitz and elsewhere in early Allied "atrocity flicks" are, in fact, photographs the Wehrmacht took of German victims of the Allied war crime of Dresden.

 

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The War Department, describing another city, Hamburg, noted how people died in such a firestorm:

 

"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."

 

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A reporter, Melitta Maschman, wrote of what happened in the City of Darmstadt:

 

"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."

 

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Robert Lenski in his description of the Second Zundel Trial in 1988, described how Ernst Zundel 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."

 

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A similar fire bombing took place a month later. The target was the City of Würzburg, a much smaller town than Dresden. I read that Würzburg was firebombed on the very day Anne Frank died of typhus in Bergen Belsen.

 

As the entire world knows by now, "Anne left 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 the thousands of victims of this Allied atrocity the following women and children named "Anna":

 

Anna Maria Katharina Adler, geb. Steinel, Amalienstraße 2

Anna Baadsch, Ursulinerstraße 13

Anna Baetz, Marktplatz 6

Anna Barth, Büttnerstraße 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. Höhn, Franziskanerstraße 14

Anna Blank, geb. Fleischmann, Arndtstraße 33

Anna Braun, Steinheilstraße 4

Anna Lina Breunig, Marktgasse 7

Anna Brückner, 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 Dürr, 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. Fürter, 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 Fröhlich, Oeggstraße 1

Anna Frosch, geb. Hartwig, Bibrastraße 6

Anneliese Funke, Altes Gymnasium

Anneliese Gärtner, Franziskanergasse 4

Anna Gebhard, Arndstraße 6

Anna Gehrling, geb. Amend, Schenkhof 3

Anna Göbel, 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 Grötsch, geb. Prechtl, Am Pleidenturm 6

Anna Therese Maria Grosch, geb. Keil, Friedrichstraße 19

Anna Dorothea Grossberger, geb. Wörrlein, Ottostraße 10

Annemarie Haag, geb. Hirth, Otostraße 14 Anneliese Haeckel, Wöllergasse 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. Grünewald, Semmelstraße 24

Anna Maria Herbert, geb. Schellenberger, Arndtstraße 6

Anna Herzog, Sanderstraße 33

Anneliese Hess, Moltkestraße 10

Annastasia Höller, Domerschulstraße 5

Anna Margarete Hoffmann, geb. Scheid, Gerbrunner Weg 50

Anna Hüge, geb. Ohlsen, Schlörstraße 2

Anna Maria Hufgard, geb. Dumproff, Neumannstraße 16

Anna Illig, geb. Ackermann, Fichtestraße 19

Anna Keller, geb. Liebstückel, Steinheilstraße 5

Anna Elise Kimmel, geb. Küchler, Oswaldspitalgasse 17

Anna Kinzig, geb. Kuhn, Gallstraße 1

Anna Karolina Köhler, geb. Schmitt, Matterstockstraße 17

Anna Krämer, Textorstraße 13

Anna Krines, Herzogenstraße 7

Anna Katherina Kübert, geb. Hummel, Sanderstraße 4a

Anna Kuhn, geb. Kuss, Grombühlstraße 47

Anna Berta Irmtraud, Winterleitenweg 16

Anna Leimeister, Kapuzinerstraße 4

Anna Lieselotte Lindner, Theaterstraße 23

Anna Lippert, Neubaustraße 42

Anna Löhr, geb. Badum, Prymstraße 13a

Anna Lotter, geb. Münch, Fichtestraße 18

Anna Maria Lutz, geb. Heimer, Neubaustraße 38

Anna Meinberger, geb. Geiger, Neubaustraße 7

Anna Theresia Mark, geb. Götz, Klosterstraße 25

Anna Markert, geb. Bayer, Ingolstadter Hof 4

Anna Metz, geb. Alzheimer, Weingartenstraße 18

Anna Moser, Riemenschneider Straße 9

Anna Müller, geb. Wittstadt, Maxstraße 9

Anna Münch, 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 Pfülb, geb. Beck, Oswaldspitalgasse 15

Anna Rausch, beg. Nusser, Steinheilstraße 33

Anna Rheinthaler, Erthalstraße 2

Anneliese Reiter, Steinheilstraße 24

 

I would like you to honor and remember these German victims of a deliberate Allied policy with genocidal overtones in a few moments' worth of silence.

 

 

Ingrid

 

 

 

Thought for the Day:

 

"Before World War Two, Hitler tried to get England to sign a treaty outlawing the bombing of civilians. During the Battle of Britain, Hitler initially did not bomb British cities, until after Churchill launched a terror raid on Berlin".

 

 

(Letter to the Zundelsite)


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