ZGram - 10/12/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 12

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October 12, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

This letter, dated June 12, 2003, was written to a long-time friend 
named Helmut who, apparently, yielded to some pessimistic airing of 
assorted grievances about the lack of quality in our people and 
complaining of Ernst's treatment in a Canadian prison at the hands of 
guards much younger than he.

I am picking up in the middle of Ernst's reply where he makes short 
shrift of one his own tribe's many pessimists:

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Maybe the odd prison official might reflect on the Herculean tasks 
their German colleagues faced with overcrowded camps of 30,000 and 
more prisoners , with typhus epidemics rampant while the Allies 
mercilessly bombed the hospitals, pharmaceutical companies etc. that 
were supposed to bring relief to those infected inmates.  Not that I 
think many understand enough about history because most, even the 
officers, are 10-15 years younger than I am.  Thus all are post-war, 
having grown up amidst plenty - and now security, full employment 
etc.  Not one of them went through what we went through as children, 
or as a nation - not yet, anyway!  Not yet!  Their criminal leaders 
will involve them in their wars of resource-robberies around the 
globe, and expose them to all the horrible diseases there.  When they 
come back, that will teach them some valuable, unforgettable, 
terrible lessons.

Apparently, 250,000 U.S, war veterans are desperately ill.  No crimes 
go unpunished - and those G.I.s who went overseas to Afghanistan and 
to Iraq - and soon, undoubtedly, to Syria, Iran, and then maybe on to 
North Korea - are not innocents.  They all write, read, vote.  They 
share in the collective guilt of their criminal leadership and thus 
will get to think about it in wheelchairs, on crutches for the next 
50 years while rotting away, forgotten, warehoused, doped up, in some 
out-of-the-way U.S. Veterans Hospital.  Thank God the Canadians and 
Germans had this much sense to stay out of the latest crime of waging 
aggressive war!

But now to your letter - which needs an answer!  I could not help but 
think of a series of articles I read in Paris in March 1969 by Jean 
Jacques Sargent Shriver, related to the Kennedys, in which he wrote:

  "If you are wondering about poor quality or lack of European 
political leadership, look for your answer to the battle fields of 
Verdun (1914-18) or Stalingrad." (1942). 

I would ask you, my dear friend, to also keep that in mind.

The French and the Germans, and also our Russian brothers to the 
East, suffered such a terrible loss of men, all in the prime of their 
lives - prime breeding age! - that it will take generations to 
recover naturally, unless we can muster the political courage to 
impose selective breeding on a large scale.  I see no political 
movement or leader on the horizon to dare to propose, even less to 
legislate it.  Thus we are left to replenish Š

(______ here a large segment is unreadable, apparently comparing our 
dormant genetic potential to a garden that may lie frozen, apparently 
dead but only waiting for "the seeder and the seed."  Ernst then 
refers to the 17 million politically inert and intimidated Canadians 
of German background):

That is our role for now and in the short-term future.  You speak 
German.  You have Internet skills.  You are a talented communicator 
in English and German.  You have no right to despair, to turn your 
back on these people - especially not now, while the enemy of our 
people has temporarily immobilized me.  Now it is, and has to be, the 
role of each and every one who has ever heard me, read my words, seen 
my videos, to translate that spark into the flame of enthusiasm that 
is needed - until thousands, hundreds of thousands are infected by 
the will to live, the defiant "Š 'til here and no further!"   Then 
and only then has my lifetime of service and sacrifice, then and now, 
been worthwhile.  Only then!

First comes the thought, then the carefully considered action on 
those thoughts.  You are a sensitive, insightful artist.  Think and 
reflect on what I always preached in the past:  We have a heritage to 
look back on, a people who have made greater sacrifices to our 
culture, and the race which produced this high culture, than any 
other kinsman - through hard labor of hundreds of millions of people 
over eons of time! 

"Why we?" you and many others have asked me.

I am not God, I am just Ernst Zundel.  I don't know, "why we"!  

Janick, my first wife, apolitical girl that she was, asked me one day 
in utter exasperation:  "Who elected you to this work?"  The only 
answer I had for her was simply:  "A majority of one elected me.  My 
conscience."

I believe if each and every one of us begins to comprehend that if we 
do not make the conscious choice and act on it, then and there, 
nothing will change by itself - for Fate or Destiny or Nature or God 
act through implementing instruments like you or I.  WE! 
Collectively!  WE are the means!

All great achievements of mankind may have been sparked by the 
thought of great genius - but not one was realized without the 
helping hands and minds, the active sacrifices and devotions of many. 
So off your knees, Helmut!  As Christ reportedly said:  "I command 
thee!"

All the best,

Ernst Zündel