Ernst Zundel ponders court battle strategies

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Good Morning from the Zundelsite:


This Zundel letter was written to a young friend in Texas:


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October 24, 2005,


I am once again preparing for another trial about the same topics, 
even utilizing the same documents which were litigated some 
twenty-five years ago. That in the Twenty First Century - in an 
alleged age of Human Rights, global communications, etc.!


What we have here is a clear case of what in Canada and America is 
usually referred to as "venue shopping." My detractors had exhausted 
all the courts/kangaroo courts, tribunals/secret tribunals, 
hearings/secret hearing etc. in Canada.  I had fought my battles of 
attrition, patterned after the German Wehrmacht's tenacious, 
courageous and innovative retreat - Rückzug in German - and wore them 
out. When I was encircled in my own legal Stalingrad, I did what I 
promised myself I would do:  I did not allow them to encircle and pin 
me down for long.


I avoided the strategy employed by the French.  General Giap had 
surrounded the elite troops of the French Colonial Army at Dien Bien 
Phu, a situation identical to Stalingrad in many respects, especially 
in that relief via air supplies was attempted but was met with little 
success. At the time, eighty-five percent of the French Foreign 
Legion consisted of former German Army troops, SS and Germany Allied 
WWII combat veterans, who were given quick paratrooper training with 
only one or two trial jumps prior to being thrown into that cauldron 
in Vietnam.


The ever shrinking encirclement came to be known in German as the 
"Kessel" [cauldron] but Germans had developed some innovative 
techniques fighting on the Russian Front to meet and neutralize this 
type of strategy.  They refused to panic and hung on and fought like 
bastards, built up their ammo supplies and prepared a "mobile threat" 
in order to reconnect with their brethren outside of the cauldron in 
a sort of "walking encirclement!" There were many such 
"Kesselschlachten"/encirclement battles during the Second World War, 
one known as Cholin where my Master Artist, the man who trained me 
when I was 14-17 years old, was involved as an officer.  The 
Wehrmacht held fast.  Air drops kept up their resistance, and in 
combination with spirited counter attacks and break-out attempts, 
they managed to crack open the encirclement and snatch victory from 
certain defeat - with minimal losses to the Germans, I might add.


The "Kessel of Trcherkassy" [Chercassy in English] was another such 
example.  The SS-Division Viking, composed mainly of foreign-born 
Germans from all over Europe, Romania, Russia, and the Balkans, was 
trapped and withstood three months of attempts by the Red Army to 
annihilate them, constantly moving West as a mobile cauldron the size 
of Belgium! Imagine!


Several men who helped me in previous legal battles were Viking 
Division members and were involved in those epic battles, so I had 
the benefit of eye witnesses and the oral history they provided. A 
friend, an SS man, where I had my goats and rented fields in Ontario 
[for my young children] was a Foreign Legionnaire at Dien Bien Phu 
and was taken prisoner by the Viet Minh.  He told me that the 
cauldron at Dien Bien Phu was in fact so German in composition that 
propagandists from the other side were brought in from the East 
German Volksarmee [DDR] and loaned out to the Viet Minh in order to 
propagandize in German and to play German SS and Army songs in order 
to break down their morale.  In the best Saxonian-Thuringian Deutsch 
they were told, "Kameraden, this is not your fight!  You are being 
used as cannon fodder by a Colonial Power which mistreated you in its 
POW camps in an effort to compel you to enlist in this folly. You are 
being used to suppress a legitimate struggle for liberation against a 
Colonial oppressorŠ"


Believe me, those young men understood that and many lived because of it!


I knew many veterans of Stalingrad who had been flown out as a result 
of being wounded in the fabled Tri-motor corrugated metal body 
JU-52s, the backbone of the German Air Transport System during WWII. 
In 1994 I visited and toured the Stalingrad Front, went to the place 
where Field Marshal Paulus's H.Q. had been located. I was shown 
fields where hundreds of thousands of Germans, Russians, Romanians, 
Spanish, Hungarian, Italians and French had perished, where their 
bones are still buried.  In some cases bone fragments can still be 
seen on the surface. They were never given a proper burial; they were 
"verscharrt," put in shallow mass graves, Germans and Soviets 
together, united in death - a fact that has never received much 
attention.


Most ordinary people severely criticize Hitler and his incompetence 
for the depressing defeat at Stalingrad, the greatest military defeat 
of German arms in history!  As with so many historical issues, the 
facts are much more complicated than the poisonous propaganda of the 
Soviet and Western victors and their post-war German puppets would 
have you believe.  Few people realize or are even willing to consider 
the idea that Germany was not defeated by superior Soviet generalship 
or numbers but instead by treason!  Most Germans, regardless of their 
politics, have a hard time admitting to themselves that Germany lost 
not only at Stalingrad, but the entire war itself, because of rampant 
treason in many areas of German society, the diplomatic corps, the 
officer corps, the old aristocracy, bankers, industrialists, you name 
it - even the churches to a certain extent.  Treason was the reason!


I can understand the reluctance of German society to come to grips 
with this fact, to face this national character flaw, for which there 
are as many explanations as there are traitors. To acknowledge that 
treason was the reason behind Germany's defeat would mean that the 
chattering classes, bequeathed to us by our conquerors, would be 
exposed as the agents of defeat. They would have to explain 
themselves to the hundreds of thousands of still living, maimed, 
crippled veterans and their descendants that some of the people 
lionized in post war Germany as heroes, were in fact the lowliest of 
traitors. It would be like the Americans erecting statues and 
monuments in honor of Benedict Arnold or renaming West Point Benedict 
Arnold Military Academy.

Can you imagine renaming Camp Pendleton Camp Jane Fonda or renaming 
Strategic Air Command's H.Q.’s the Daniel Ellsberg Building? That is 
exactly what happened in Germany!

I remember hundreds of conversations with war veterans who hated it 
when I raised the topic of German treason. Even people knowledgeable 
about the topic warned me about washing dirty laundry in public. It 
gives me no comfort to say it - but not to address it is even worse! 
That means we will never re-educate and rehabilitate the German body 
politic.  Nobody will ever know what allowed this noxious crop of 
traitors to develop in Germany's midst.


We can see the evidence all around us in German society - what 
happens when you ignore and refuse to deal with issues of the utmost 
{political] importance. Germany's national interests are betrayed 
thousands of times each and every day in little individual economic 
and political decisions - like with the lost Eastern provinces, the 
Sudentenland, East-Prussia, etc.  Treason comes in many colors and 
many forms, not only in Germany, but in Britain, America, and Canada. 
I count abortion as treason. I count the interest-based banking 
system as High Treason!  Immigration policies and globalization - two 
other forms of treason! The ineffectual drug wars are treason! 
Treason has cost us trillions - not billions! Unimaginable sums!


But now - back to Stalingrad. I swore I would not suffer the same 
fate as those at Stalingrad; I would employ a flexible 
defense-offense. In the past I have successfully conducted my 
campaigns in this manner, and that is what I intend to do now. 
Unfortunately I have always been forced to operate in 
enemy-controlled territory, with insufficient forces, and [in the 
end] was captured in a stealth operation by irregular forces, then 
flown into this Stalingrad-like situation where the enemy now intends 
to conduct a Show Trial.  They'll be surprised at the defense I have 
in mind!


All the best to you!


Ernst Zundel