ZGram - 8/26/2003 - "Is there a thaw in Germany?"

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August 26, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Some very interesting developments seem to be going on in Germany of 
interest to Revisionists.  It looks like a serious effort is being 
made, partly with the silent agreement of the Powers-that-be,  to 
dismantle the so-called "Holocaust" myth kind of by what we call 
salami tactic - one slice at a time. 

The information below is incomplete, and I have been waiting for some 
of our more scholarly Revisionist folks to do an essay analysis - but 
so far, nada!  I don't have time to do it or to undertake the 
necessary careful translations.  So let me give you the rudiments.

At first, there was the Fritjof Meyer essay in an obscure but 
apparently scholarly publication called Osteuropa.  Now Fritjof Meyer 
is not just anybody - he is a senior editor of Der Spiegel, one of 
the most important magazines in Germany.  While not (yet) tackling 
the contested issue of "genocidal gassings", Meyer claimed that only 
some 375,000 people died in Third Reich concentration camps during 
the war - nowhere near the "Six Million" claimed.

Now to do a thing like that is heresy in Germany!  The people held 
their breath.

Nothing happened.

Next, there were rumors that four different self-accusing "Holocaust 
Deniers" had dared four independent courts to charge them. 

The courts did not oblige.  Not enough evidence!

Then the flamboyant and controversial German attorney, Horst Mahler, 
did his thing.  I have described it briefly already.  Here I let 
Walter Mueller, the California publisher of a community paper, tell 
it how he heard it:

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[Slightly edited]

"Lower German Court Says
Its OK To Question Holocaust

Horst Mahler Says Only 375,000 Died At Auschwitz - German Court Agrees
 From Walter Mueller
Commentary
8-27-03

Dr. Tom Sunic arrived in Sacramento yesterday and we had coffee this 
morning. He just came from a summer school, put on by the NPD in 
Saarbruecken, Germany. He was the interpreter for Horst Mahler.

As you know, the NPD (http://www.npd.de) has won a court case, which 
forces the German government to treat them like a major party, 
including funding.

Also incredible news about Horst Mahler's lawsuit:

Background: A while back "Der Spiegel" printed an article, written by 
[Fritjof Meyer], where [Meyer] points out that not more than 375,000 
Jews had been killed.

In an ingenious move, Horst Mahler, who is an attorney, took the 
editor, the writer and himself to court for 
Volksverhetzung/holocaust-denial. The lower court declared that it 
was not holocaust denial to point out the true facts of the 
holocaust. This decision has not been appealed yet. It makes it 
possible for Germans now to question the holocaust, I guess, until 
somebody appeals the lower court decision.

Because of this court decision, Horst Mahler wanted to travel to 
Auschwitz to give a speech. However, German authorities confiscated 
his passport. [...]

Then, Horst Mahler went a step further, testing the courts decision 
by traveling to Wartburg, a famous German Fort, and displayed a 
banner, saying that the holocaust is a hoax, and that only 375,000 
people died in Auschwitz. German authorities made pictures of the 
banner, however, [they] could not charge him under their 
"Volksverhetzung" law, because of the court decision.

If this is not awesome news for free speech and inquiry, I don't know 
what is. Wouldn't it be amazing if we had activists like this here in 
America.

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Finally, I received a brief summary from someone via John Bryant who 
runs the popular website, www.thebirdman.org :

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This is a highly interesting law-suit filed by Herr Glagau ... 
against the three top politicians in Germany. He is sueing them for 
"Failure to render assistance".  This appears to be a German legal 
concept which requires a person to render assistance to another in 
case of need.

In German legalese 'person' seems to mean an individual OR an entire 
people. [Glagau] claims (rather convincingly so) that the three knew 
all along and certainly must know by now, that the Auschwitz myth is 
exactly that - a myth, no more and no less - and that this myth has 
been used to literally enslave the German people.

He goes on citing several obvious instances and situations proving 
his assertion, i.e. that Germany is being ruled by the Allies of WW2, 
using puppets, that these puppets are living high on the hog, while 
being the Step-'n-Fetchits for the victors of WW2.

He furthermore points out the fact that witnesses for the defense 
were kept from appearing at various concentration camp trials, 
witnesses which include former concentration camp inmate Rassinier, a 
French communist party official and revisionist author.

The law-suit also points out that several similar lawsuits have been 
filed in the past, only to disappear - and that the authorities have 
stonewalled every effort to get to the truth.

The suit essentially says that since the three in  question are in 
powerful positions, as representatives of the German people, they are 
legally obliged to uncover the lies, thereby 'assisting' the German 
nation in her rehabilitation and 'assisting' her in stopping the 
continued outrageous Holohoax-blackmail payments.

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Somebody NEEDS to tackle all this in a scholarly way and put some 
parameters around it, telling us what this might mean in the Grand 
Design of Things.  Let me just finish by saying that I know Glagau 
from his writings - and I have read this latest in German.  Glagau is 
now 90 years old, still sharp as a whip, and he essentially says: 
"See if I care...I will tell it now like it is!"  Perhaps his law 
suit will dislodge the triste matter and bring some sanity back into 
Germany?  I wish him all the luck.

I know what I would do if I were in Germany and in a leadership 
position.  Now that the ball has start rolling, I would  line up as 
many young people as I could and ask them to speak their own minds as 
loudly as they could about the Holocaust in a very public place.  My 
guess is that would do it!  In the meantime, scholars to the fore! 
This needs to be written up for the archives!

Ingrid