February 12, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

With the Canadian Holocaust Promotion Lobby practically foaming at the mouth about the Canadian government's "sluggishness" to torment ancient men regarding so-called "war crimes," Ernst wanted me to incorporate some information about the Walus Case. The content never quite fit into my previous ZGrams, and I set it aside to make it stand out by itself.

I think that way it will stay in your memory. The Walus Case is a sad commentary on how these "war crimes" trials play out.

To set off the wrenching human tragedy below, keep in mind that Canada's own soldiers who fought against Germany in World War II - as well as Americans, Soviet-Russians and other Allied soldiers - are exempt from prosecution the way the Canadian War Crimes Law is written, simply because they served the Allied cause. Only Axis soldiers can be tried.

Similarly, Israelis killed over 50,000 Egyptians in the "Yom Kippur" and "Six Day War." There were reports in the mainstream media about this. The Israelis, however, have a 20-year-prosecution-for war crimes limit for their soldiers. Many Jews who served in the Israeli Army emigrated to Canada and the USA - are they being interrogated on what war crimes they committed? Imagine the howl that would go up if anyone dared - as did Ernst Zundel in the Zundel mode, way back in 1987.

Frank Walus was a simple German Pole who worked as a teenage field hand near Ulm, Germany, during the war. The Germans needed farm workers because all their able-bodied young men were at war, and so the mayor of the Polish town came to Walus's mother and said: "You don't have enough to eat. Let Francisek go. The Germans will feed him."

The Germans did. Frank, underweight and undernourished, was first "hochgepaeppelt" by kind German farmers before he could even be of help to them - this at a time when Germany itself was heavily food-rationed. He later worked for them. He had nothing but good things to say about the way he was treated. He never returned to Poland and went to the US after the war, where he was employed as an autoworker.

He was arbitrarily targeted, accused and branded by Simon Wiesenthal as a "war criminal." From where these charges came is still a mystery. Perhaps there was a need for headlines. The headlines came on rolling in:

"Witness testified he saw Walus beat Jew to death" -
"Witness links Walus to deaths of three Poles" -
"Witness testifies that Walus shot woman, daughter" -
"Witness puts Walus at Gestapo shooting" -
"Claims Walus threatened his life here" -
"Walus accused: He's 'murderer'" -
"Walus killed man in Poland, Witness says" -
"Walus threatened me, Jewish orphan testifies" -
"Judge brands Walus as guilty" -

Physically, Frank Walus was a little fellow, only 5'3'' tall, slight of build. Mentally, he was a mild and simple man, a devout Catholic, not at all equipped to face down and defend the shredding of his life and name that came in the wake of his vicious judicial persecution and media vilification.

He was put through hell in a federal court room. His judge was the famous Judge Hoffman in the "Chicago Seven" fame. He stood trial against the background of the shrieking of the Holocaust Promotion Lobbyists, charged with concealing his alleged "Nazi war crimes" from United States immigration officials. Why? More than a dozen so-called "witnesses" had implicated Walus in the murders of nearly two dozen Polish civilians, including young children, and the beating deaths of Jews in the Polish towns of Czechostowa and Kielze (Kiebze?) between 1939 and 1943.

The witnesses described in the minutest detail how they heard the nearby church tower clock chime at the very moment Walus beat a Jew to death with an iron bar. Another Jew could remember the Jewish holiday it was when Walus was supposed to have committed his fiendish tortures on her husband.

Of the 13 witnesses, it turned out, according to Polish government records made available to Walus in Warsaw, NINE HAD NEVER EVEN BEEN IN POLAND DURING THE WAR!

Little good did that do Walus. As a result of the charges and the lapdog media mob, he was beaten, spat at, attacked with a chemical spray and ruined financially. Friends and neighbors shunned him. He suffered seven heart attacks by the time his ordeal was over.

He had heard of Ernst' struggle and came to Toronto, seeking advice, help and relief. Ernst collected funds for him among his friends, arranged for some simple speaking engagements, and essentially just lent a willing ear and a ready shoulder. As a result, Walus participated in the First Holocaust Trial when Ernst himself got into trouble, caused by the same type of people. He functioned as a witness and also made videos with Ernst. You see Frank Walus in some of the Trial videos which will stand as a permanent record.

Frank told the court about how his alleged crimes were totally fabricated by Simon Wiesenthal, and what he had to suffer as a consequence, illustrating the lying and deceit in these types of cases. He was never properly compensated by the US authorities for what they put him through. The press did not rehabilitate him. No one apologized.

Frank Walus died in 1996 of a final heart attack, a poor and broken man. His premature death is on Wiesenthal's conscience.

The Imre Finta Case in Canada was very similar. It went to trial in the early 1980s, and Finta's defense attorney was Doug Christie, Canada's Battling Barrister. The essence of the Finta charges was that he had "kidnapped" and "robbed" Jews in his capacity as a police gendarme whose orders were to round up, process and ship Jews out of Hungary toward the end of the war. After a grueling nine months trial, Imre Finta was acquitted on all charges by a jury.

Now we read in an Associated Press Report of February 3, 1997 that

"Jewish leaders are asking Canada to investigate allegations that hundreds of former members of a Nazi SS division are now living in Canada and receiving German war pensions."

Sol Littman, Canadian spokesman for the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Canada, met with Canadian Solicitor General Herbert Gray, who is Jewish and also is the Cabinet minister who oversees law enforcement. Last week he asked that Canada investigate German news reports that 1,882 members of Waffen-SS units are in Canada and are receiving German pensions. The report goes on to say that

"The Wiesenthal Center's demand came at a sensitive time for the Canadian government, which is under intense pressure to speed up deportation proceedings against alleged Nazi war criminals . . .

One suspect died last month, just before proceedings against him began. The death prompted new criticism from Jewish groups of Canada's poor record in prosecuting or deporting war criminals.

Though several hundred suspected war criminals immigrated to Canada following the war, only one has been deported."

Justice Minister Alan Rock, a steely-eyed, cold-hearted "anti-private-gun-ownership" zealot who loves to espouse Jewish championed causes and whose government is up for re-election soon, has stated, according to this AP Release, that his department is ". . . determined to improve Canada's record." Could politics have anything to do with the timing?

Rock questioned allegations that thousands of former Nazis live in Canada. "I think some of the numbers may be exaggerated,'' he said. However,

"'This government is committed to acting where there's evidence that someone has been involved in crimes against humanity or war crimes,' (Rock) said in Ottawa. 'We're doing the best we can to get them removed from the country if that can be proven.'''

In January 1995, the Justice Department announced it planned to launch deportation proceedings against 12 men "suspected of war crimes." Ten cases have been initiated.

"We are well on track with this new approach,'' Rock said. "We are determined to deny safe haven in Canada to war criminals.''

This is Talmudic vengeance playing ghastly.

I'd like to think there is an instinct in the human psyche that kicks in when a swarm of vultures circles overhead a wounded animal, befouling the wind with the beat of their wings. The strongest word that I can think of is abhorrence - a word my dictionary defines as ". . . repugnant or detestable; a feeling of utter loathing causing violent recoil."

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"Nature gave men two ends. One to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most."

(George R. Kirkpatrick)

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