ZGram - 6/20/2003 - "Schadenfroh!"

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June 20, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Germany is "schadenfroh" - a descriptive term that is hard to 
translate but that means, loosely translated, gleefully watching an 
enemy getting in trouble.  Literally it means "being glad about the 
damage."

Michel Friedman, a prominent Jew who claims to have been one of 
Oskar's "Schindlerjuden", was heartily disliked by young and old in 
Germany for his oily moralizing.  Now look what happened lately - can 
you spell "schadenfroh"?

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Police Find Cocaine In German
Jewish Leader's Apartment

By Roger Boyes in Berlin
www.timesonline.co.uk
6-17-3


Police said yesterday that traces of cocaine had been found in the 
Frankfurt apartment of Michel Friedman, the prominent deputy head of 
the German Jewish community.

They searched his apartment after a tip-off from Berlin investigators 
who arrested a Polish-Ukrainian prostitution gang. One of the 
arrested women said she was part of a group that supplied sexual 
services to celebrities, and claimed that she saw Herr Friedman take 
cocaine. The furore whipped up by the raid on the home of Herr 
Friedman, a Christian Democrat politician, has shaken some 
long-standing taboos in German society.

Since the Hitler years the press has been very cautious about openly 
criticising members of the Jewish community.

Herr Friedman, whose parents were saved from death in Auschwitz by 
Oscar Schindler, has refused to comment on the accusation. But the 
mass circulation Bild newspaper, part of the Springer group, which 
requires its journalists formally to support the state of Israel, 
said in a headline yesterday, even before the police had tested the 
white powder found by dogs in the raid, "Drug-thriller Friedman".

The police took a hair sample from Herr Friedman and confiscated 
documents. Three small paper sachets, "typical of the drug milieu" in 
the police phrase, were analysed and at least one tested positive for 
cocaine. Cocaine abuse is common among Berlin celebrities, and it is 
rare for the police to act. This has stirred speculation on why the 
police should suddenly have singled out Herr Friedman.

It was Herr Friedman who, through his sharp questioning on his own 
television talk show and public statements as a politician, had 
branded Jürgen Möllemann, a Free Democrat politician, as anti-Semite. 
Herr Möllemann had printed an election pamphlet attacking Israeli 
policies; Herr Friedman accused him of trawling for far-right voters.

After the Free Democrats lost badly in the general election, Herr 
Möllemann, who was being investigated for suspected fraud, was 
ostracised by his own party and died last week when his parachute 
failed to open in what appeared to be suicide.

One newspaper suggested yesterday that somebody was trying to even 
the score for his death by dragging down Herr Friedman. If Herr 
Friedman does not dispute the cocaine find, his days as a television 
celebrity could be numbered, and with it his power to argue the 
Jewish case in German society. Four planned television shows starring 
him have been removed from the schedules.

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