ZGram - 9/11/2004 - "Germany: 58 Years of US Occupation"

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September 11, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I find the article below of interest - especially given  the fact 
that today is the third anniversary of America's shadowy war, which 
should be called the "Nine-Eleven War."  I don't pretend to 
understand the meaning of the shadowy arrangement described below 
that some consider pending liberation and others final enslavement of 
Germany to serve the New World Order. 

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Germany: 58 Years of US Occupation

Christopher Bollyn

POTSDAM, Germany - The Allied occupation of Germany began 58 years 
ago this month and in the eyes of many Germans has not yet ended. 
Foreign armies are still based on German soil and Europe's largest 
and most prosperous "democracy" still lacks a constitution and a 
peace treaty putting a formal end to the Second World War.

For Germany, World War II, like the conflicts in Iraq and 
Afghanistan, lacks formal legal closure because a peace treaty has 
never been signed between the Allies and Germany.

The stated goal of the Anglo-American forces in Iraq is to liberate 
the Iraqi people and establish democracy. However, if the U.S. and 
British occupation of Iraq follows the pattern set by the Allied 
occupation of Germany, a sovereign democracy in Iraq is not likely to 
appear in the near future.

Although President George W. Bush's much ballyhooed victory speech 
from the deck of an aircraft carrier was meant to look like the end 
of the Iraq conflict, it was not, and if the German model is repeated 
in Iraq, there may never be a formal end to the war in Iraq.

While the partly reunified German nation is considered a modern 
European democracy, it has no constitution other than the temporary 
Basic Law (Grundgesetz) originally written in 1948 under the guidance 
of the U.S. military occupation forces and originally meant only to 
apply to the western parts of Germany under U.S. control. One of the 
Basic Law's final articles says it is to be replaced when Germany 
obtains a constitution.

Article 23 defining the legal jurisdiction of the Basic Law was 
removed at the request of former Secretary of State James Baker at a 
Paris conference of the Allied powers and the two former German 
states on July 17, 1990. The two German states were legally abolished 
at this conference and their foreign ministers were only informed of 
the changes after it had been done. As a result of these changes, the 
Basic Law does not legally apply to the reunified German state, 
according to some legal experts.

In any case, the Basic Law is incomplete and contradictory and, 
therefore, cannot serve as a proper constitution. For example, 
Article 139 states that "legal provisions" concerning Nazism and 
German militarism are "not affected" by the Basic Law. This article 
indicates that the numerous Allied occupation laws and proclamations 
remain in effect in spite of the Basic Law.

"Article 139 is a little contradictory," Christian Tomuschat, 
professor of German constitutional law at Berlin's Humboldt 
University, told American Free Press. Despite the obvious problems 
with the temporary Basic Law, which has never been ratified by a vote 
of the people, Tomuschat says it is a valid German constitution in 
his opinion. "The Grundgesetz is the constitution - it just has a 
different name," he said.

There is no movement in Germany towards creating a constitution, 
according to Tomuschat, who says a proper constitution is not as 
important as the unemployment problem: "Jobs are now more important 
than a constitution," Tomuschat told AFP.

The fact that the flawed and temporary Basic Law serves as Germany's 
de facto constitution is unacceptable to Wolfgang Gerhard Günter 
Ebel, Germany's provisional Reichskanzler. Ebel heads the provisional 
government that claims to be the legal successor to the Second German 
Reich, which was replaced by Adolf Hitler's illegal Third Reich 
(1933-45).

"Germany rests on the 2nd Reich" and on the constitution of the 
Weimar Republic created on August 11, 1919, Ebel told AFP.

In 1987, the Allies requested that Ebel submit a copy of the 1919 
original Weimar constitution of the German Reich, which he did. This 
is the only legal constitution for Germany, according to Ebel, until 
a peace treaty is signed.

The Allies recognized the legal boundaries of the German Reich from 
December 31, 1937. These borders include the occupied German lands of 
East Prussia, Pomerania, and Silesia, the final status of which was 
meant to be determined in a peace settlement.

This peace settlement never happened. The so-called Final Settlement 
of Sept. 12, 1990 called for the existing border between Poland and 
Germany to be confirmed and for Germany to relinquish any territorial 
claims in the future. The status of East Prussia and the capital city 
of Königsberg, which was occupied and renamed by the Soviet Union in 
1945, is not mentioned in the Final Settlement.

According to the provisional government, the Final Settlement is not 
valid because it was negotiated and signed by the foreign ministers 
of the two German states, the BRD and the DDR, both of which legally 
ceased to exist after the Paris conference of July 17, 1990.

"The German government is illegal,"  Ebel told AFP, "and what they do 
has no basis in law." Asked how it could be that the German people 
are unaware of this situation, Ebel said: "The German media is still 
under the control of the Allies. The entire media is controlled.

"The Second World War has not ended, because a peace treaty has not 
been signed between Germany and the Allies," " Ebel says, "The peace 
contract is the most important thing that we need and want."

Because there is no formal peace treaty between Germany and the 
Allies, headed by the United States, German sovereignty is 
compromised. "Until we have a peace treaty, Germany is a colony of 
the United States," John Kornblum of the U.S. State Dept. told Ebel 
on Oct. 20, 1985. Kornblum is now employed by Lazar Bank in Berlin, 
according to Ebel.

Some 80,000 U.S. military personnel are permanently based in Germany 
and Britain also continues to base troops and military equipment in 
the western German zone they formerly occupied. It is not uncommon to 
see British tanks on the streets of the area near Münster in 
Westphalia.

U.S. occupation laws handed down by the Supreme Headquarter Allied 
Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) are still in effect, Ebel said. The first 
law, Proclamation No. 1, making General Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme 
authority in the areas under U.S. control was signed on Feb. 13, 
1944. Allied authorities have informed Ebel that these SHAEF laws 
will remain in effect for 60 years from the date of signing and apply 
to all of Europe.

Calls to the U.S. State Department in Washington and the U.S. Embassy 
in Berlin concerning the validity of SHAEF laws and U.S. occupation 
proclamations in Germany were not returned.

"When there is a peace treaty - when the wound is healed - many 
things will change," Ebel says, "not only for Germany, but for the 
whole world.

"The United Nations is also provisional - if there is a peace treaty 
between Germany and the Allies [primarily the United States] - the UN 
will cease to exist as we know it," Ebel said. The UN organization 
was founded in 1945 and originated with the 26 nations that had 
joined the anti-Nazi coalition in 1942. By 1944 the coalition had 
grown to include 47 nations.

The UN Charter contains "enemy state clauses" [Articles 53 and 107], 
which were established because of Germany and name it as the "enemy 
state."

"The Bundesrepublik Deutschland (the former West German state) is not 
the legal successor or inheritor of the Second German Reich," 
according to Ebel. For this reason a legal peace treaty cannot be 
signed by the current German government in Berlin, he said.

"Until the real government is established and voted by the people," 
Ebel said, the provisional government is necessary to "fulfill the 
role of the legal German government."

The Allies have authorized Ebel to serve as head of the provisional 
government, he says. A civil servant with the German railroad, Ebel 
was born in Berlin in 1939 and is a citizen of the German Reich, 
having never held citizenship of either German state that resulted 
from the Second World War. Berlin was a separate zone and "has never 
been part of the BRD or DDR," Ebel said.

Ebel was first appointed by the U.S. Military Court in Berlin to 
serve as Rechtskonsulent for Prussia on Sept. 23, 1980.

On Jan. 9, 1984, the U.S. State Department in Berlin appointed Ebel 
to serve as the head of the German railroad (Reichsbahn) in West 
Berlin. Exactly forty years after the German military (Wehrmacht) 
surrendered, on May 8, 1985, Ebel was appointed as Transportation 
Minister for the German Reich by the U.S. High Commissioner in 
Germany, who he says was then U.S. Ambassador to West Germany (BRD) 
Richard Burt.

Finally, on Sept. 27, 2000, Ebel was appointed chancellor of the 
German Reich (Reichskanzler) by Ernst Matscheko, a representative of 
the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Matscheko reportedly asked Ebel to name a 
Reichspräsident and a special ambassador to the United Nations.

The U.S. Embassy in Berlin will neither confirm nor deny the claims 
made by Ebel, for which he presents documents as evidence. A 
spokesman at the U.S. Embassy told AFP: "We are not responsible for 
what they [the Reich's government] claim."

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