The document provides updates on several news stories related to Germany:
1) The American Jewish Committee awarded German Chancellor Angela Merkel with an award for her support of Jewish people and Israel.
2) Documents revealed that German and American intelligence services knew the location of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1952, eight years before his capture.
3) The German intelligence agency (BND) is working with a mediator to negotiate the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been held by Hamas for over four years.
4) For the first time, the Simon Wiesenthal Center gave Germany an "A" grade for prosecuting Nazi war criminals, while Canada
The pink triangle richard plant presentationBradleyHeinz
This document summarizes Richard Plant's book "The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals." Some key points:
- Plant details the horrific treatment of homosexuals under Nazi Germany, including the rise of anti-homosexual policies and propaganda.
- He discusses Nazi policies like Paragraph 175 which criminalized homosexuality and led to the arrests and convictions of over 63,000 men.
- Plant explores how homosexuals were treated in concentration camps, forced to wear pink triangles and subjected to abuse, medical experiments, and death.
- Through translated documents, letters, and survivor interviews, Plant provides first-hand accounts of the discrimination and suffering homosexuals faced.
- The book brought attention
Rolf y hans günther, los cómplices de eichmann que la cia …eliahmeyer
The document reveals that Rolf Günther and his brother Hans Günther, assistants to Adolf Eichmann, were living in Eschwege, Germany in 1961 and being protected by the CIA and German government. Hans and Rolf Günther were high-ranking SS officers involved in the deportation and murder of Jews. The CIA message discusses details about the brothers and their roles in Nazi war crimes but censors most of the information. It indicates protecting the brothers from being exposed would prevent international embarrassment for West Germany.
Two students have been asked to inform on their classmates and report back to their teacher. This document discusses how Hitler maintained control over Germany through fear and terror using secret police like the Gestapo to spy on and arrest enemies of the state. The SS ran concentration camps where hundreds of thousands of Germans were imprisoned or executed for being perceived as enemies of the state.
[Aflaai] (Kindle) Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in His...HizkiaHerdani
Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among those war criminals were Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed hideous medical experiments at Auschwitz; Martin Bormann, Hitler's brutal personal secretary; Klaus Barbie, the cruel Butcher of Lyon; and perhaps the most awful Nazi of all: Adolf Eichmann.Killing the SS is the epic saga of the espionage and daring waged by self-styled Nazi hunters. This determined and disparate group included a French husband and wife team, an American lawyer who served in the army on D-Day, a German prosecutor who had signed an oath to the Nazi Party, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, tracking down the SS fugitives and bringing them to justice, which often meant death.Written in the fast-paced style of the Killing series, Killing the SS will educate and stun the reader.The final chapter is truly shocking. .
The document summarizes key events leading up to World War 1:
1) The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Serbian nationalist group Black Hand, in Sarajevo sparked an international crisis.
2) Austria-Hungary issued a list of demands to Serbia in an ultimatum that was intended to be unacceptable, justifying war. Serbia agreed to most demands but refused to allow Austrian officials to investigate within Serbia.
3) As tensions escalated, British Foreign Secretary Grey proposed a conference of major powers to resolve the dispute, but Austria refused and Germany did not pressure them to accept, indicating their desire for war
1) The document discusses evidence of links between Nazis still operating after World War II and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, focusing on General Reinhard Gehlen, the former head of Nazi intelligence against the Soviet Union.
2) After the war, Gehlen struck a deal with the CIA where he and his entire Nazi intelligence network were incorporated into American intelligence to spy on the Soviet Union, receiving $200 million in funding.
3) Gehlen helped establish anti-Soviet emigre groups in the US and Dallas area where Lee Harvey Oswald lived, suggesting a possible Nazi connection to the JFK
DuBow Digest american edition feb. 8, 2011 (2)dubowdigest
The document summarizes Chancellor Merkel's recent visit to Israel, where she and other German cabinet members met with Israeli leaders including Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Peres. Key topics of discussion included the ongoing unrest in Egypt, Iran's nuclear program, and restarting peace talks between Israel and Palestine. The document also briefly describes a Holocaust memorial project funded by Germany to identify and preserve mass grave sites from World War II in Eastern Europe.
The pink triangle richard plant presentationBradleyHeinz
This document summarizes Richard Plant's book "The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals." Some key points:
- Plant details the horrific treatment of homosexuals under Nazi Germany, including the rise of anti-homosexual policies and propaganda.
- He discusses Nazi policies like Paragraph 175 which criminalized homosexuality and led to the arrests and convictions of over 63,000 men.
- Plant explores how homosexuals were treated in concentration camps, forced to wear pink triangles and subjected to abuse, medical experiments, and death.
- Through translated documents, letters, and survivor interviews, Plant provides first-hand accounts of the discrimination and suffering homosexuals faced.
- The book brought attention
Rolf y hans günther, los cómplices de eichmann que la cia …eliahmeyer
The document reveals that Rolf Günther and his brother Hans Günther, assistants to Adolf Eichmann, were living in Eschwege, Germany in 1961 and being protected by the CIA and German government. Hans and Rolf Günther were high-ranking SS officers involved in the deportation and murder of Jews. The CIA message discusses details about the brothers and their roles in Nazi war crimes but censors most of the information. It indicates protecting the brothers from being exposed would prevent international embarrassment for West Germany.
Two students have been asked to inform on their classmates and report back to their teacher. This document discusses how Hitler maintained control over Germany through fear and terror using secret police like the Gestapo to spy on and arrest enemies of the state. The SS ran concentration camps where hundreds of thousands of Germans were imprisoned or executed for being perceived as enemies of the state.
[Aflaai] (Kindle) Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in His...HizkiaHerdani
Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among those war criminals were Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed hideous medical experiments at Auschwitz; Martin Bormann, Hitler's brutal personal secretary; Klaus Barbie, the cruel Butcher of Lyon; and perhaps the most awful Nazi of all: Adolf Eichmann.Killing the SS is the epic saga of the espionage and daring waged by self-styled Nazi hunters. This determined and disparate group included a French husband and wife team, an American lawyer who served in the army on D-Day, a German prosecutor who had signed an oath to the Nazi Party, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, tracking down the SS fugitives and bringing them to justice, which often meant death.Written in the fast-paced style of the Killing series, Killing the SS will educate and stun the reader.The final chapter is truly shocking. .
The document summarizes key events leading up to World War 1:
1) The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Serbian nationalist group Black Hand, in Sarajevo sparked an international crisis.
2) Austria-Hungary issued a list of demands to Serbia in an ultimatum that was intended to be unacceptable, justifying war. Serbia agreed to most demands but refused to allow Austrian officials to investigate within Serbia.
3) As tensions escalated, British Foreign Secretary Grey proposed a conference of major powers to resolve the dispute, but Austria refused and Germany did not pressure them to accept, indicating their desire for war
1) The document discusses evidence of links between Nazis still operating after World War II and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, focusing on General Reinhard Gehlen, the former head of Nazi intelligence against the Soviet Union.
2) After the war, Gehlen struck a deal with the CIA where he and his entire Nazi intelligence network were incorporated into American intelligence to spy on the Soviet Union, receiving $200 million in funding.
3) Gehlen helped establish anti-Soviet emigre groups in the US and Dallas area where Lee Harvey Oswald lived, suggesting a possible Nazi connection to the JFK
DuBow Digest american edition feb. 8, 2011 (2)dubowdigest
The document summarizes Chancellor Merkel's recent visit to Israel, where she and other German cabinet members met with Israeli leaders including Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Peres. Key topics of discussion included the ongoing unrest in Egypt, Iran's nuclear program, and restarting peace talks between Israel and Palestine. The document also briefly describes a Holocaust memorial project funded by Germany to identify and preserve mass grave sites from World War II in Eastern Europe.
Haim Harari provides a summary of the root causes of dysfunction and upheaval in the predominantly Arab and Muslim region between Pakistan and Morocco. He identifies four main pillars fueling what he calls "World War III": 1) suicide bombings as a potent psychological weapon, 2) widespread lies and disinformation spread through media, 3) huge amounts of money funding terror networks and infrastructure, and 4) words that normalize and justify violence through Orwellian language. He argues the issues are internal to the region rather than caused by external factors like Israel, and must be addressed through a unified offensive approach rather than just defensive measures.
Historical events connected in German History to the 9th of November, the history that connects them and the history of my family that connects me with those.
Benjamin fulford february 23, 2015 cia put under lockdown by pentagon to st...PublicLeaks
The Pentagon raided the CIA headquarters to stop nuclear terrorism and seize 3 rogue nuclear weapons threatened to be detonated in Ukraine. An explosion near a CIA facility in West Virginia may have been connected. The raid has weakened cabal resistance in the US and allowed a deal to keep the US government operating. However, cabalist factions still remain in parts of the US, UK, Italy and the Vatican working to undermine peace efforts. Ongoing purges in China have targeted cabal-linked billionaires and factions there. The cabal is now threatening new "terrorist" attacks against Western shopping malls for insurance fraud purposes and to preserve homeland security funding. Events are expected to slow in Asia during holiday periods but the campaign
This document discusses the Holocaust and provides background information. It defines the Holocaust as the systematic state-sponsored killing of 6 million Jews and others by Nazi Germany during WWII. It explores the origins of anti-Semitism in Germany prior to Hitler's rise to power and how he propagated further hatred against Jews. The document outlines key events that led to the Holocaust, including Hitler becoming Chancellor in 1933 and enacting anti-Jewish legislation, as well as the 1942 Wannsee Conference where the "Final Solution" was implemented.
The document provides historical context and details about the prelude and progression of the Holocaust. It summarizes that the Holocaust was a state-sponsored persecution of European Jews by Nazi Germany between 1933-1945 that resulted in the murders of 6 million Jews. It then details how the Nazis passed increasingly restrictive laws and policies that systematically stripped Jews of their rights and property and dehumanized them through propaganda to pave the way for their eventual mass extermination in death camps.
The document discusses the history of attacks against Jewish people throughout history from ancient times to the present. It then discusses concerns that Israel may become a "death camp" surrounded by enemies and argues that establishing a Palestinian state could endanger Israel's security and potentially lead to genocide against Jews. The document claims Western media falsely accused Serbs of atrocities during the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and draws parallels to accusations against Israel.
Karl otto braun reflections on german and american foreign policy, 1933-194...RareBooksnRecords
This document provides an autobiographical account from Karl Otto Braun, a former German diplomat, about his career and experiences during 1933-1945. It summarizes that Braun had three superiors during his career - Alfred Rosenberg, Konstatin von Neurath, and Joachim von Ribbentrop - who were later condemned as criminals. Braun then discusses his experience as an "automatic arrest" inmate in Dachau concentration camp under U.S. control after the war. The document goes on to provide historical context and perspectives on German and American foreign policy during this period.
➽=ALL False flag-War Machine-War profiteering-Energy (oil/Gas) Iraq, Iran,…oil and gas
USA invades other countries just to own their natural resources and to place them in the hands of American corporations. Facebook doesn’t call that terrorism. They call it democracy. BBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, FR 24, ITV/CH 4, SKY, EURO NEWS, ITV trash Sun paper,… Facebook all are protector and preserver of the propaganda classifying IR Iran as a dangerous terrorist organization. But FB, BBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, FR 24, ITV/CH 4-SKY, EURO NEWS, ITV do know well, that USA is the biggest terrorist country in the world.
‘terrorism’ the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
"the fight against terrorism" is the fight against the unlawful use of violence and intimidation and carpet bombing.
Ever since the beginning of the 19th century, the West has been sucking on the jugular vein of the Moslem body politic like a veritable vampire whose thirst for Moslem blood is never sated and who refused to let go. Since 1979, Iran, which has always played the role of the intellectual leader of the Islamic world, has risen up to put a stop to this outrage against God’s law and will, and against all decency.
The document summarizes aspects of Nazi Germany including:
1. Symbols and rituals used by the Nazi party such as the Hitler salute, swastika, and anthems that were meant to unite Germans and promote Nazi ideology.
2. The suppression of human rights under Nazi rule such as the elimination of democracy, freedom of speech, religion, and press. Opposition to the Nazi party was crushed.
3. The genocide and mass murder of groups considered enemies including Jews, Romani people, Slavs, homosexuals, disabled people and political opponents that resulted in the deaths of millions.
The key causes of WWI according to the document were militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism in Europe. Militarism involved countries like Germany, Britain, France and Russia rapidly expanding their armed forces from 1880-1914. The system of alliances between countries like Germany-Austria-Italy and Britain-France-Russia increased tensions. Imperialism led countries to compete for colonies in Africa and Asia. Nationalism in places like the Balkans, supported by countries like Serbia and Russia, challenged Austrian rule. Significant individuals like Kaiser Wilhelm II and leaders in Austria and Germany contributed to rising tensions during the July 1914 crisis over the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that triggered WWI.
The Holocaust in Hungary occurred from 1944-1945. Over 600,000 Hungarian Jews were killed or deported during this period. Measures taken against Jews by the Hungarian government included restrictive laws defining who was a Jew, quotas limiting Jewish participation in the economy, and forced labor. In 1944, under the pro-German Sztojay regime, ghettos were established and over 400,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz between May-July 1944. In Budapest, raids and mass executions occurred between 1944-1945 before the war ended. Over 250,000 Hungarian Jews survived the Holocaust.
The document discusses how news and information may have been manipulated during the 2016 US presidential election and Brexit referendum in the UK. It notes that outright false reports, targeted social media campaigns, and lies from politicians were spread. Data analytics companies specialized in precision voter targeting on social media platforms. Fact checkers found many misleading or false statements from Trump and Brexit supporters regarding issues like Turkey's EU membership and UK payments to the EU. The British press also exhibited bias in favor of leaving the EU. Overall, the document examines how manipulation of news and information may have influenced the outcomes of these pivotal votes.
Many people believe that the evil culture of Nazi Germany could never happen in America, but the truth is, not only can it happen, but the Nazi’s who constructed the system of race laws and the eugenics final solution followed the examples of what was worst in America. The book we will ponder documents how the Nazi architects used the Jim Crow laws in America as precedents and inspirations when drafting the Nuremberg Race laws in Nazi Germany.
We will also discuss:
• The German American Bund Organization, a small ethnic German Nazi group in America.
• How the Reich Flag Law was passed after the Bremen Incident, where Judge Louis Brodsky released rioters who tore down the swastika, calling the swastika a black flag of piracy that rejected everything that America represents.
• How the Citizenship distinguished between nationals and true citizens of German blood who had full political rights.
• How the Blood Law sought to guarantee the purity of German blood and the Volk, or people.
• How the miscegenation laws in the Deep South, making interracial marriages illegals, were consulted when the Nazis drafted the Blood Law.
• How the Supreme Court case Loving v Virginia overturned the US miscegenation laws in 1967.
• How the United States had race-based immigration laws until the passage of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965.
• How the Prussian Memorandum documents how Nazi radicals were inspired by the Jim Crow segregation and discrimination laws in their drafting of the Nazi race laws.
• How Hitler admired the American conquest of the West, which helped justify his eastern conquests for living space for Germans, or Lebensraum.
• How Nazis viewed lynching as a natural resistance of the American Volk to the blacks who were trying to get the upper hand.
• How Eugenics and Scientific Racism also contributed to anti-Semitism.
• How we can compare the Nazi Kristallnacht to the American practice of lynching.
• How FDR was not able to support the anti-lynching bill in Congress, lest the Southern Senators and Congressmen derail the war effort against Germany, and how Eleanor Roosevelt kept pushing for this and other civil rights legislation.
YouTube video: https://youtu.be/_td3jPGD5TI
See my blog: http://www.seekingvirtueandwisdom.com/how-the-racist-jim-crow-laws-served-as-precedent-for-the-nazi-nuremberg-race-laws/
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
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For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest Against Hitler, by Victoria Barnett
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1. The document outlines the foreign policy and military actions of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939 that ultimately led to World War 2, including Germany's invasions and annexations of neighboring countries and signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with the Soviet Union.
2. It then discusses Germany's strategy of "total war" and exploitation of occupied territories and populations during the war.
3. The document concludes by examining the devastation wrought by the war and Germany's defeat in 1945.
- Ethnic German Jews who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s were recruited by the US Army in 1942 and trained at Fort Ritchie in Maryland to serve as interrogators and translators, known as the "Ritchie Boys".
- During World War 2, the Ritchie Boys provided valuable intelligence by interrogating German prisoners of war and extracting tactical information that helped the US in battles.
- After the war, some Ritchie Boys focused on strategic intelligence collection from captured German officials and interrogating former concentration camp guards. Their contributions helped the US defeat Nazi Germany.
The document discusses four forms of war reporting: technical, official, ideological, and critical. It provides examples of each type from various conflicts. Technical reporting focuses on the equipment journalists use. Official reporting involves working with the government and military. Ideological reporting takes sides. Critical reporting aims for objectivity but faces challenges remaining neutral given constraints on access and information.
In the beginning of Hitler's term as Chancellor of Germany, before the Enabling Act was voted on that gave him dictatorial powers, he posed as both anti-Semitic and as a friend of the German Catholic and Protestant Churches. Many Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, were misled into supporting the totalitarian regimes of Mussolini’s fascists and Hitler’s Nazis in the pre-World War II years.
We naturally want to interpret pre-World War II history from our modern democratic perspective haunted by the black and white bulging eyes of starving waifs and skeletons half alive looking up at us from the concentration death camps, but nobody in the 1930’s realized just how evil Hitler was. The fascist dictators Mussolini in Italy and Franco in Spain were the champions of the Catholic Church, protecting the church from the godless communists, so Christians were slow to see the evil in Hitler’s more radical anti-Semitic Nazi regime. We will examine both the struggles of the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany and also the struggle of the Protestant Confessing Churches in trying to keep the Christian faith alive under a brutal pagan Nazi totalitarian state.
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The document discusses several key events following the Holocaust:
1) The Russian counterattack at Stalingrad in 1942 slowly pushed German armies out of Russia.
2) In the years before WWII ended, the Allies declared they would put enemies on trial for war crimes, resulting in 12 trials in Nuremberg from 1945-1949 where over 100 defendants were tried.
3) The first Nuremberg trial focused on 21 high-ranking Nazi criminals and established the International Military Tribunal.
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This document provides a table of contents for chapters covering World War II and related topics in a book called "NOW Forbidden History". The introduction discusses two quotes - one from Aesop's fables about different perspectives shaping history, and one from Edward Gibbon noting that history often records mankind's crimes, follies and misfortunes. Chapter 1 covers events from 1848 to 1913 that helped plant the seeds for future world wars, including revolutions across Europe, the publication of the Communist Manifesto, the establishment of the Reuters news agency, the Franco-Prussian War and unification of Germany.
Haim Harari provides a summary of the root causes of dysfunction and upheaval in the predominantly Arab and Muslim region between Pakistan and Morocco. He identifies four main pillars fueling what he calls "World War III": 1) suicide bombings as a potent psychological weapon, 2) widespread lies and disinformation spread through media, 3) huge amounts of money funding terror networks and infrastructure, and 4) words that normalize and justify violence through Orwellian language. He argues the issues are internal to the region rather than caused by external factors like Israel, and must be addressed through a unified offensive approach rather than just defensive measures.
Historical events connected in German History to the 9th of November, the history that connects them and the history of my family that connects me with those.
Benjamin fulford february 23, 2015 cia put under lockdown by pentagon to st...PublicLeaks
The Pentagon raided the CIA headquarters to stop nuclear terrorism and seize 3 rogue nuclear weapons threatened to be detonated in Ukraine. An explosion near a CIA facility in West Virginia may have been connected. The raid has weakened cabal resistance in the US and allowed a deal to keep the US government operating. However, cabalist factions still remain in parts of the US, UK, Italy and the Vatican working to undermine peace efforts. Ongoing purges in China have targeted cabal-linked billionaires and factions there. The cabal is now threatening new "terrorist" attacks against Western shopping malls for insurance fraud purposes and to preserve homeland security funding. Events are expected to slow in Asia during holiday periods but the campaign
This document discusses the Holocaust and provides background information. It defines the Holocaust as the systematic state-sponsored killing of 6 million Jews and others by Nazi Germany during WWII. It explores the origins of anti-Semitism in Germany prior to Hitler's rise to power and how he propagated further hatred against Jews. The document outlines key events that led to the Holocaust, including Hitler becoming Chancellor in 1933 and enacting anti-Jewish legislation, as well as the 1942 Wannsee Conference where the "Final Solution" was implemented.
The document provides historical context and details about the prelude and progression of the Holocaust. It summarizes that the Holocaust was a state-sponsored persecution of European Jews by Nazi Germany between 1933-1945 that resulted in the murders of 6 million Jews. It then details how the Nazis passed increasingly restrictive laws and policies that systematically stripped Jews of their rights and property and dehumanized them through propaganda to pave the way for their eventual mass extermination in death camps.
The document discusses the history of attacks against Jewish people throughout history from ancient times to the present. It then discusses concerns that Israel may become a "death camp" surrounded by enemies and argues that establishing a Palestinian state could endanger Israel's security and potentially lead to genocide against Jews. The document claims Western media falsely accused Serbs of atrocities during the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and draws parallels to accusations against Israel.
Karl otto braun reflections on german and american foreign policy, 1933-194...RareBooksnRecords
This document provides an autobiographical account from Karl Otto Braun, a former German diplomat, about his career and experiences during 1933-1945. It summarizes that Braun had three superiors during his career - Alfred Rosenberg, Konstatin von Neurath, and Joachim von Ribbentrop - who were later condemned as criminals. Braun then discusses his experience as an "automatic arrest" inmate in Dachau concentration camp under U.S. control after the war. The document goes on to provide historical context and perspectives on German and American foreign policy during this period.
➽=ALL False flag-War Machine-War profiteering-Energy (oil/Gas) Iraq, Iran,…oil and gas
USA invades other countries just to own their natural resources and to place them in the hands of American corporations. Facebook doesn’t call that terrorism. They call it democracy. BBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, FR 24, ITV/CH 4, SKY, EURO NEWS, ITV trash Sun paper,… Facebook all are protector and preserver of the propaganda classifying IR Iran as a dangerous terrorist organization. But FB, BBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, FR 24, ITV/CH 4-SKY, EURO NEWS, ITV do know well, that USA is the biggest terrorist country in the world.
‘terrorism’ the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
"the fight against terrorism" is the fight against the unlawful use of violence and intimidation and carpet bombing.
Ever since the beginning of the 19th century, the West has been sucking on the jugular vein of the Moslem body politic like a veritable vampire whose thirst for Moslem blood is never sated and who refused to let go. Since 1979, Iran, which has always played the role of the intellectual leader of the Islamic world, has risen up to put a stop to this outrage against God’s law and will, and against all decency.
The document summarizes aspects of Nazi Germany including:
1. Symbols and rituals used by the Nazi party such as the Hitler salute, swastika, and anthems that were meant to unite Germans and promote Nazi ideology.
2. The suppression of human rights under Nazi rule such as the elimination of democracy, freedom of speech, religion, and press. Opposition to the Nazi party was crushed.
3. The genocide and mass murder of groups considered enemies including Jews, Romani people, Slavs, homosexuals, disabled people and political opponents that resulted in the deaths of millions.
The key causes of WWI according to the document were militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism in Europe. Militarism involved countries like Germany, Britain, France and Russia rapidly expanding their armed forces from 1880-1914. The system of alliances between countries like Germany-Austria-Italy and Britain-France-Russia increased tensions. Imperialism led countries to compete for colonies in Africa and Asia. Nationalism in places like the Balkans, supported by countries like Serbia and Russia, challenged Austrian rule. Significant individuals like Kaiser Wilhelm II and leaders in Austria and Germany contributed to rising tensions during the July 1914 crisis over the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that triggered WWI.
The Holocaust in Hungary occurred from 1944-1945. Over 600,000 Hungarian Jews were killed or deported during this period. Measures taken against Jews by the Hungarian government included restrictive laws defining who was a Jew, quotas limiting Jewish participation in the economy, and forced labor. In 1944, under the pro-German Sztojay regime, ghettos were established and over 400,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz between May-July 1944. In Budapest, raids and mass executions occurred between 1944-1945 before the war ended. Over 250,000 Hungarian Jews survived the Holocaust.
The document discusses how news and information may have been manipulated during the 2016 US presidential election and Brexit referendum in the UK. It notes that outright false reports, targeted social media campaigns, and lies from politicians were spread. Data analytics companies specialized in precision voter targeting on social media platforms. Fact checkers found many misleading or false statements from Trump and Brexit supporters regarding issues like Turkey's EU membership and UK payments to the EU. The British press also exhibited bias in favor of leaving the EU. Overall, the document examines how manipulation of news and information may have influenced the outcomes of these pivotal votes.
Many people believe that the evil culture of Nazi Germany could never happen in America, but the truth is, not only can it happen, but the Nazi’s who constructed the system of race laws and the eugenics final solution followed the examples of what was worst in America. The book we will ponder documents how the Nazi architects used the Jim Crow laws in America as precedents and inspirations when drafting the Nuremberg Race laws in Nazi Germany.
We will also discuss:
• The German American Bund Organization, a small ethnic German Nazi group in America.
• How the Reich Flag Law was passed after the Bremen Incident, where Judge Louis Brodsky released rioters who tore down the swastika, calling the swastika a black flag of piracy that rejected everything that America represents.
• How the Citizenship distinguished between nationals and true citizens of German blood who had full political rights.
• How the Blood Law sought to guarantee the purity of German blood and the Volk, or people.
• How the miscegenation laws in the Deep South, making interracial marriages illegals, were consulted when the Nazis drafted the Blood Law.
• How the Supreme Court case Loving v Virginia overturned the US miscegenation laws in 1967.
• How the United States had race-based immigration laws until the passage of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965.
• How the Prussian Memorandum documents how Nazi radicals were inspired by the Jim Crow segregation and discrimination laws in their drafting of the Nazi race laws.
• How Hitler admired the American conquest of the West, which helped justify his eastern conquests for living space for Germans, or Lebensraum.
• How Nazis viewed lynching as a natural resistance of the American Volk to the blacks who were trying to get the upper hand.
• How Eugenics and Scientific Racism also contributed to anti-Semitism.
• How we can compare the Nazi Kristallnacht to the American practice of lynching.
• How FDR was not able to support the anti-lynching bill in Congress, lest the Southern Senators and Congressmen derail the war effort against Germany, and how Eleanor Roosevelt kept pushing for this and other civil rights legislation.
YouTube video: https://youtu.be/_td3jPGD5TI
See my blog: http://www.seekingvirtueandwisdom.com/how-the-racist-jim-crow-laws-served-as-precedent-for-the-nazi-nuremberg-race-laws/
Purchase from Amazon:
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q Whitman
https://amzn.to/3fUE72N
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
https://amzn.to/3opqQnY
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
https://amzn.to/3sgj53J
For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest Against Hitler, by Victoria Barnett
https://amzn.to/3828kJ0
1. The document outlines the foreign policy and military actions of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939 that ultimately led to World War 2, including Germany's invasions and annexations of neighboring countries and signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with the Soviet Union.
2. It then discusses Germany's strategy of "total war" and exploitation of occupied territories and populations during the war.
3. The document concludes by examining the devastation wrought by the war and Germany's defeat in 1945.
- Ethnic German Jews who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s were recruited by the US Army in 1942 and trained at Fort Ritchie in Maryland to serve as interrogators and translators, known as the "Ritchie Boys".
- During World War 2, the Ritchie Boys provided valuable intelligence by interrogating German prisoners of war and extracting tactical information that helped the US in battles.
- After the war, some Ritchie Boys focused on strategic intelligence collection from captured German officials and interrogating former concentration camp guards. Their contributions helped the US defeat Nazi Germany.
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1. The document is an American edition newsletter covering various news items related to Germany and Jewish/Israeli issues.
2. It discusses Germany spying on other countries like Turkey, the growth of right-wing populist parties in Germany, and Germany providing aid to Israel to help victims of trauma from the Gaza war.
3. It also covers Germany banning ISIS, adding more advanced submarines to Israel's fleet, providing additional Holocaust compensation funds, and the neo-Nazi NPD party failing to retain its seat in the Saxony state parliament.
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This document summarizes several news stories from Germany:
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2) A project is returning books taken by German Jews fleeing Nazi Germany to Germany to teach students history. The personal histories in the books help students understand the human costs of Nazi era.
3) Despite low poll numbers, Chancellor Merkel has announced she will run for re-election in 2013 and challenges opponents to find strong candidates against her.
4) The FDP, junior coalition partner of Merkel's CDU, faces declining support which
This document is a newsletter providing updates on Jewish and German news. It summarizes that the German government recently refused funding to an Orthodox Jewish rabbinical seminary in Berlin, citing budget constraints. This caused controversy, with accusations of discrimination against Orthodox Jews. However, the Interior Ministry later said it is considering funding options for the seminary. The newsletter also notes that a woman, Alina Treiger, was recently ordained as the first female rabbi in Germany since 1935.
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The document discusses several topics:
1) A book review about Israel facing a permanent "cold war" with its Islamist enemies like Hamas and Hezbollah, calling into question whether Israeli concessions will make a difference.
2) Criticism of the UN Human Rights Council for appointing an openly biased professor to implement the biased Goldstone Report on Gaza.
3) Plans by anti-Israel groups to hold another "Durban conference" to delegitimize Israel, and countries boycotting the event.
4) An opinion piece arguing that Israel should admit peace is currently unobtainable and stop pretending the Palestinians are willing partners.
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This document summarizes news from Germany reported in an American-German newsletter. It discusses several topics:
1) A village in Germany called Jamel that has become dominated by neo-Nazis, with most houses owned by far-right extremists and neo-Nazi symbols and rhetoric openly displayed.
2) In Dresden, thousands of citizens formed a human chain to protest a neo-Nazi march commemorating WWII bombings, showing the city rejects far-right extremism.
3) Germany's defense minister has admitted plagiarizing his PhD thesis, adding to Merkel's political troubles as European leaders criticize her economic plans.
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The document provides summaries of several news stories related to German-Jewish and German-Israeli relations. It discusses:
1) Angela Merkel's speech reaffirming her commitment to Israel's security and Jewish life in Germany.
2) Germany's abstention in the UN vote on Palestinian statehood, which disappointed Israel but which Germany viewed as supporting a two-state solution.
3) The annual meeting between the Israeli and German cabinets in Berlin, where Merkel and Netanyahu pledged continued friendship despite disagreements over settlements.
4) Germany's efforts to document remnants of German-Jewish culture worldwide through a public broadcaster project.
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The document provides an overview of recent political events and issues in Germany:
- Election results in France and the German state of Schleswig-Holstein complicate Chancellor Merkel's political situation as the new French president favors more stimulus spending.
- A Salafist Muslim group distributing free Korans in Germany is causing controversy due to the group's radical interpretation of Islam and alleged threats against journalists. Politicians are concerned about the group's influence.
- Many Israelis and some American Jews are claiming German citizenship through laws granting citizenship to descendants of Jews who fled Nazi Germany. Some see Germany as a safe place for Jews today.
- The Pirate Party has become the third largest political force in Germany
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Helmut Kohl, Germany's former chancellor, criticized the current foreign policies of Angela Merkel and her predecessor Gerhard Schroeder. Kohl said that Germany has become an erratic and unreliable partner for its allies. He pointed to Germany's decision not to support allies in Libya and its lack of leadership during the Eurozone crisis as examples. While personal dislike may factor into his criticism, Kohl is seen as an authority on German foreign policy. He warned that bailing out heavily indebted Eurozone countries is crucial to the future of the European Union.
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This document provides a summary of key discussions and opinions shared during a trip to Germany with the American Jewish Committee - Konrad Adenauer Foundation Exchange Program. The main topics discussed include:
- German support for Israel's security but a view that the current Israeli government is not doing enough for peace. Support for Israel among German citizens is low, around the teens.
- Debate over the future of the Jewish community in Germany, which has grown substantially since the late 1980s but now has a death rate exceeding the birth rate. Opinions vary on whether the community will continue to exist long-term.
- Mixed assessments on the current level of anti-Semitism in Germany, which does not appear to be
Du bow digest american edition june 12, 2011dubowdigest
This document provides a summary of a trip to Germany by the author and participants in an exchange program. Some key points made in the document include:
- Germans stand firmly behind Israel's security but feel the current Israeli government is not doing enough for peace. Support for Israel among average Germans is low, around the teens.
- The future of the Jewish community in Germany is uncertain but may stabilize at around 100,000 people with the emergence of a "Russian leadership" among second generations.
- Germany has reversed its stance on nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster, planning to phase out all nuclear reactors by 2022. This was a change from Chancellor Merkel's previous policy.
- Critics argue Germany
The document discusses Jewish emigration from Germany in the 1930s. It makes three key points:
1) Jewish emigration was welcomed and supported by German authorities as a way to remove Jews from Germany, partly in response to declarations of war against Germany by Zionist groups.
2) Emigration occurred through a lawful, regulated process with cooperation between German and Jewish authorities, not as a clandestine flight as sometimes portrayed. Jews received help and advice from both sides.
3) Many German Jews originally felt integrated into German culture and society. Jewish organizations had a variety of political stances, but some, like the Union of National German Jews, strongly identified as Germans rather than seeing themselves as a separate ethnic group
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1. AMERICAN EDITION
January 24, 2011
Dear Friends:
Germany seems quiet at the moment. Yes, they’ve undergone a farm scandal
(cancer producing dioxin in their chickens and chicken eggs), their railroad
system fell apart in the snowy weather and they are suffering continued worry
over the stability of the Euro countries they may have to bail out but…there do
not seem to be any disasters on the immediate horizon. That sort of situation
never lasts very long so with seven state elections coming up and continued
uncertainty with their economic situation (which is presently strong) they’re
waiting for the next shoe to drop (It will!)
However, with the relative peace and quiet “stuff” that interests us is still
happening. So, let’s get on with it…
IN THIS EDITION
AN HONOR FOR THE CHANCELLOR – AJC bestows an award.
THEY KNEW – Where “he” was hiding out.
BND IN A BETTER LIGHT – Help from the secret service.
AN “A” GRADE – In hunting Nazis.
GERMANY & THE SECURITY COUNCIL – It takes a non-permanent seat.
THE EU & EAST JERUSALEM – A troublesome report.
DIE LINKE: POPULARITY POOPS OUT – Will the Left Party be left out?
A NEW GERMAN JEWISH VOICE – The Z-rat President speaks out.
THE SUBS ARRIVE – In Israel from Germany.
THE NEO-NAZIS & WILLIE HORTON – “…where they are”.
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2. AN HONOR FOR THE CHANCELLOR
This past week AJC presented Chancellor Merkel with its “Light unto the Nations
Award”.
In a press release AJC reported, “David Harris, AJC Executive Director,
present(ed) the award on January 20 at a ceremony at the Chancellery in Berlin.
"Chancellor Merkel is a true light unto the nations,” said Harris in advance of
Thursday’s ceremony. “Her outspoken support for the Jewish people, the State
of Israel, and the values of human freedom and human dignity are hallmarks of
Chancellor Merkel’s visionary political leadership.”
The award presentation comes during an AJC senior leadership delegation visit
to Germany. AJC has maintained close relations with Germany for decades, and
opened its Berlin office in 1998. Deidre Berger is the current director.
I cannot think of a more deserving person to receive this award. The Chancellor
is a genuine friend of the Jewish people and a great supporter of Israel. Her
personal stands on Iran and discrimination in her own country are exemplary. We
just could not ask for more. ‘Nuff said! Congrats to a great person.
THEY KNEW
The Local reporting on an article that appeared in the daily newspaper Bild notes,
“German and American intelligence services knew where Nazi war criminal Adolf
Eichmann was hiding eight years before Israeli agents apprehended him,
according to documents released this week.”
Daily paper Bild reported … that it had succeeded in getting the German federal
intelligence service, the BND, to release microfilm of documents which show it
knew how to get to the man known as the architect of the Holocaust, back in
1952.
“SS colonel EICHMANN is not to be found in Egypt but is residing in Argentina
under the fake name CLEMENS. E’s address is known to the editor of the
German newspaper ‘Der Weg’ in Argentina,” says an index card dated 1952,
according to the paper.
There is also evidence to show that the BND told the Americans about
Eichmann’s flight to Argentina – CIA documents released in 2006 show that the
BND told a US agent of his whereabouts in 1958.
Eichmann was captured by the Israelis in 1960, brought to Israel for trial and
executed.
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3. So, how come if both the CIA and the BND knew where Eichmann was, how
come they didn’t try to get him arrested in Argentina? That’s an easy one. The
Germans at that time were not trying very hard to bring former Nazis to justice. In
fact, many convicted Nazis who were give long prison sentences were being
released. Some were serving in the government and more focus in general on
Nazis in the 1950’s was about the last thing the German political leadership
wanted to provoke.
If the suppression of Eichmann’s whereabouts were suppressed is not bad
enough it now comes out that the BND paid Klaus Barbie, the Nazi war criminal
known as the Butcher of Lyon for political information well into the 1960’s.
According to The Local,” Barbie fled to Bolivia after the war, in which he had
served as the head of the SS in Lyon, and lived there under the name Klaus
Altmann from 1951. It was there that he was recruited by the BND intelligence
service, the magazine reported on Saturday.
A file on Barbie, whose codename was Eagle, says he was of ‘complete German
attitude’ and a ‘committed anti-Communist’. He delivered at least 35 reports and
was seen as a political source, although it is not yet known what kind of
information he gave the agents.
Payments for his work were made to him via a branch of the Chartered Bank of
London in San Francisco”. Read more.
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20110115-32449.html
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4. As far as the CIA is concerned, back in those days they were putting their efforts
into tracking down and dealing with Communists. As our kids would say today,
“Nazis were so yesterday”.
I have the feeling that things are not much different today. Politics still play an
important part in the way these agencies operate. Luckily we do have some
“sunshine” laws these days in the U.S. so that the intelligence people cannot
totally hide whatever it is they want to hide. Of course, there is a need for secrecy
in national defense. However, I hope the CIA and the BND are not shielding any
international criminals presently. (Don’t bet on it).
In the meantime DW-World.de noted, “Germany's domestic intelligence agency
wants to shed light on its past by opening the books on its many former Nazi
employees during the post-war era. A team of historians is to be given this task.
There seems to be some difficulty is what sorts of records they would open up
but, at least, they are finally getting around to being more transparent. You can
read about it be clicking here.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14775766,00.html
BND IN A BETTER LIGHT
Having lambasted the BND of the past let me now mention a very positive
undertaking that they are involved in on behalf of Israel – the freeing of Israeli
soldier Gilad Shalit who was kidnapped by Hamas four years ago.
Haaretz reported, “Senior Hamas official tells Al-Hayat that Gerhard Conrad
presented a number of new ideas, but refuses to elaborate expect to say that
Hamas insisting Israel agree to release all prisoners it had demanded in official
list.
The German mediator negotiating for the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad
Shalit has concluded a two-day visit to the Gaza Strip where he held talks with
senior Hamas leaders, the Al-Hayat daily reported on Thursday.
Gerhard Conrad presented a series of new ideas to Hamas in a renewed effort to
reach a deal with Israel over a prisoner swap that would see Shalit freed after
more than four years in Palestinian captivity, a top Hamas official told the daily.
The official did not elaborate on what those ideas entailed, but said that Hamas
would remain firm in its insistence that Israel free every prisoner that it
demanded on a list it presented earlier in the negotiations.
Hamas wants some 1,400 prisoners released from Israeli jails in return for
handing over the soldier, who was captured in a cross-border raid in June 2006.
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5. Israel has balked at a number of the names on Hamas' list - which includes some
responsible for deadly terror attacks in Israel - agreeing to free around 980
prisoners.
Negotiations have stalled numerous times. Hamas last year accused Israel of
changing its stance over points to which it had already agreed. Hamas sources
have said that Israel is delaying the completion of the Shalit deal by refusing to
release 50 Hamas officials it holds in its jails.
One must give Conrad and the BND a lot of credit for keeping on this case. Let’s
continue to hope that success will come soon.
AN “A” GRADE
According to The Jerusalem Post, “First time Simon Wiesenthal Center has
given "A" grade to anyone but US for trying Nazi war criminals; Canada, Hungary
receive failing grades.
It is the first time the center has given any country besides the United States an
"A'' grade for prosecuting suspected Nazi war criminals.
The director of the center's Israel office, Efraim Zuroff, said Wednesday that
Hungary received a failing grade for not imprisoning Dr. Sandor Kepiro, a
Hungarian military officer convicted in 1944 in the mass murder of civilians.
Zuroff said Canada didn't extradite former Nazis even after stripping them of
citizenship.
The annual report covers the period between April 2009 and March 2010.”
I’m not too sure what determines an “A” as opposed to and “F” but this sort of
news coming from the Wiesenthal Center confirms what I have been saying for a
long time, namely, that Germany these days (as opposed to “those days”) is very
serious about cleaning up any left over Nazis criminals.
GERMANY & THE SECURITY COUNCIL
According The Local, “Germany has taken its seat on the UN Security Council
this week touting an ambitious agenda. Some of this will end in disappointment,
experts warn. But there is still much Berlin can achieve.
Germany (has taken) its temporary seat this week touting an ambitious agenda,
including human rights, climate change and – the big prize – reform of the
council itself.
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6. Some of this will end in disappointment, foreign policy experts warn. But there
are still useful things Germany can achieve. However complicated, unwieldy and
out-of-date the structure of the Security Council may seem, it is still the
international body where collective decisions on global security are made and
carried out. And there is value being on the inside of that.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has made clear nuclear
disarmament will remain a priority for Berlin. But some of Germany’s stated aims,
such as raising climate change to the status of a global security issue, are plain
unrealistic, some experts say.
Germany can bring its values to the UN – multilateral promotion of the rule of law
and human rights, peace-building and peace consolidation, protection of civilians
and the primacy of diplomacy before armed intervention.
As the third-highest contributor to the UN, Germany paid €130 million to the
organisation in 2010 – about 8 percent of the total budget. It does, on the other
hand, contribute relatively few of the actual “blue helmet” troops, said David
Bosold, an analyst at the German Council on Foreign Relations. Bosold points
out – about 10 times fewer than say Italy and France. A challenge ahead for
Germany will be to contribute more of these troops to boost its leverage in
persuading other countries to send troops.
“That would benefit their reputation. If a crisis occurs, they would need to deploy
at least a kind of symbolic contingent of troops. That’s a way to demonstrate,
‘We’re on the Security Council.’”
Germany’s biggest goal for the next two years will be helping push along what
many impartial observers agree is much needed reform, particularly changing
the regional representation to reflect the 21st century.”
What Germany relishes, of course, is a permanent seat on the Security Council.
As the leading country of the EU (more so in many ways that the UK or France)
many feel that they are entitled to one. However, that is not about to happen
anytime soon unless there is a general reform with countries like India and Brazil
gaining permanent seats if, indeed, those sorts of seats will remain. Again,
nothing along these lines is going to happen in the near future so the Germans
must be satisfied with a two year seat. However, their values certainly seem
admirable so – good luck!
THE EU & EAST JERUSALEM
When (and if) most of us think of the EU, we think about trade, easy access for
across borders for travelers and Euro bailouts. A united Europe, after centuries of
war seems like a wonderful idea. A Germany linked to other countries makes it
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7. very remote that it will repeat its 20th Century behavior. However, when the EU as
an entity gets itself involved in world politics, especially Middle East politics, a
much more troublesome entity shows itself.
For a year or so I have been harping on the one-sidedness of the EU’s High
Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and warning that
Germany’s even handed outlook on the Israel – Palestinian situation was being
subsumed (and watered down) by the EU policy.
Haaretz reported, “East Jerusalem should be treated as the capital of the
Palestinian state, according to a report compiled by the heads of European
diplomatic missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah. The report includes several
other unprecedented recommendations to the European Union regarding its
attitude toward East Jerusalem.
The European diplomats, mainly consuls, also recommend that EU officials and
politicians refuse to visit Israeli government offices that are located beyond the
Green Line and that they decline any Israeli security in the Old City and
elsewhere in East Jerusalem.
The report, which was completed last month, was sent to the EU's main foreign
policy body, the Political and Security Committee in Brussels. It was apparently
not released at the time due to the sensitivity of its content.
The diplomats' report also discusses the possibility of preventing "violent settlers
in East Jerusalem" from being granted entry into EU countries. In the area of
commerce, it recommends encouraging a boycott of Israeli products from East
Jerusalem.
The first part of the report details construction and expansion of settlements in
East Jerusalem, the infringement of human rights of Palestinian residents of the
eastern part of the city, as well as inequality in education and medical services
available to Palestinians. The report concludes that beyond their humanitarian
significance, these conditions weaken the Palestinian hold on the city.
European criticism of Israeli policy in the territories and particularly East
Jerusalem is not new. But the dramatic turn in the report can be seen in the
operative steps it recommends, which in fact constitute the foundations for
sanctions against Israel.
For example, the document proposes that visiting senior EU officials not use
Israeli businesses operating in East Jerusalem, such as hotels and
transportation companies, and that archaeological sites operated by "pro-settler
organizations" (a reference to the City of David National Park ) not be visited.
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8. The report goes on to suggest that public awareness be raised about settlement
products, "for instance by providing guidance on origin labeling for settlement
products to major EU retailers," and that EU citizens be informed "of the financial
risks involved in purchasing property in occupied East Jerusalem."
The diplomats also recommend that the EU encourage Israel to allow the
reopening of Palestine Liberation Organization offices in East Jerusalem, in
keeping with the road map. Israel closed the PLO institutions during the second
intifada.
EU diplomats are called on to express great concern during their meetings with
senior Israeli officials over the state of emergency services to East Jerusalem
Arabs, the report also says.
It added that EU officials should be present at house demolitions or evacuations
from homes, as well as at court hearings on such issues, and "ensure EU
intervention when Palestinians are arrested or intimidated by Israeli authorities
for peaceful cultural, social or political activities in East Jerusalem".
The report further recommends that the European Union "encourage Arab
countries to acknowledge the multicultural dimension of Jerusalem, including its
Jewish and Christian heritage."
Granted! This report was issued only by Consuls who, for the most part, are not
top policy makers. And, as far as I can tell, the report has not been issued as an
EU document nor does it have the backing of the EU – as yet. However, one
might be led to believe that there is a state of mind being developed (or is
already developed) which is terribly (I mean terribly!) one sided – and it ain’t on
our side.
This is serious business! The American Jewish community should not be taking it
lightly. Some sort of confrontation with the EU and the nations whose consuls
were involved in the report is called for. I hope it happens. Stay tuned!
DIE LINKE: POPULARITY POOPS OUT
Der Spiegel notes, “Not so long ago, the Left Party (Die Linke) was hailed as a
radical new force that would give a voice to millions of people who felt the
country was no longer delivering social justice. But it has failed to build on its
early success. Its charismatic founders have retired, its new leadership is weak
and it is beset by in-fighting.
When Germany's Left Party was founded in 2007, it looked destined to shake up
Germany with a radical, populist social agenda that rapidly won support and
shifted the entire political spectrum to the left -- even Chancellor Merkel's
conservatives adopted shades of pink.
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9. The emergence of a new political force left of the center-left Social Democratic
Party threw the SPD into turmoil by attracting voters incensed at the welfare
cutbacks pushed through by the SPD-led government in 2003 and 2004.
But the Left Party, formed out of an alliance between former eastern communists
and disgruntled western Social Democrats and trade unionists, has not lived up
to its early promise. Its current leadership is divided and weak, it is losing
members as a result of intrigue and persistent quarrelling in local party
organizations, and it doesn't have a convincing manifesto to take it into seven
important state elections this year.
Its problems were highlighted last week by an ill-judged statement from co-leader
Gesine Lötzsch in a guest commentary for a left-wing newspaper in which she
said: "We can only find the paths to communism if we hit the road and try them
out, whether in opposition or in government."
The remark drew heavy criticism from rival parties but also from within the Left
Party, which is keen to shake its associations with the communist party that ruled
East Germany. It has also prompted fresh questions about whether the party's
current leaders are up to the job.
The party is still surprisingly stable in national opinion polls at between 8 and 10
percent. But its influence in national politics is waning. No one knows what it
really stands for. Democratic socialism or a return to communism?
The party has failed to reconcile its two identities. Does it want to be a pragmatic,
broad-based governing party like it is in eastern German states, or does it want
to be a radical political sect like it is in the west? Does it favor reform or does it
want the "revolutionary Realpolitik".
The other leader of the Die Linke, Klaus Ernst recently said (The Local) that, “the
socialist party was in danger of becoming “as attractive as a cow pie.”
http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20110113-32379.html Click here for the article.
If you don’t know what a cow pie is, drop me an e-mail and I’ll send you a pile – if
the post office will allow me to ship it.
My guess is that Die Linke will lose a lot of support in the State elections and
slowly fall into insignificance nationally. It really has no place on the national
scene except for a small minority on those on the very left side of the political
spectrum and for those in the eastern part of Germany who haven’t gotten East
Germany out of their minds as yet. The left, it seems to me, is going to be taken
up more and more by the Greens and maybe a resurgent SPD (Social
Democrats). Political reality for those who are the left, if they’re sensible, will
dictate that a vote for Die Linke is a wasted vote. One caveat however. There are
some local D.L. people who are good representatives and they are likely to
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Die Linke were never a real force except for the initial splash they made.
Germany would better off without them.
A NEW GERMAN JEWISH VOICE
I previously reported that Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat), the
umbrella group for all Jewish communities, had inducted a new president.
I didn’t know much about Dieter Graumann except that he was 60 (Born after the
Holocaust), born in Israel and runs a real estate business. He is also an attorney.
JTA reported, “In several interviews since his election, Graumann has stressed
the importance of building Jewish identity, interfaith relations with Christians and
Muslims, support for Israel and for democracy in Germany. He has said that
criticism of Israel is normal, but must go hand in hand with support for Israel's
right to exist peacefully next to its neighbors.
Graumann also supports a renewed attempt to ban the far-right National
Democratic Party of Germany, which he said promotes xenophobia and anti-
Semitism, and intimidates elected officials.
He emphasized the need for stronger ties between the established postwar
community and Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
Most importantly (in my opinion) Graumann has been quoted as saying that Jews
in Germany must stop emphasizing their role as victims and develop their
positive Jewish identity. This position is enormously important. First, the old guilt
trip is working less and less as younger Germans come into leadership roles
feeling little direct connection to the Holocaust. If the German Jewish community
is to continue to have political influence it must learn to relate to these younger
people.
Second, with the current Jewish community being made up of people from the
former Soviet Union, many of whom have very poor (if any) Jewish training and
connection, focus has to be on what I would call “community development”.
Graumann seems to understand all of that. We can only wish him great success
and as American Jews who understand the importance of Germany to Jewish
interests, give him as much help and support as we can.
THE SUBS ARRIVE
I have previously reported that Israel gets its submarines from Germany. The
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) website recently reported, “After months of
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11. preparation, the Israeli Navy is prepared to receive its new submarine. In the last
two enlistment cycles for the corps's Submarine Flotilla, there was an increase of
30% combat soldiers trained for the position, a result of two new submarines
acquired from Germany.
Navy officials explain that the submarines’ arrival will increase the number of
such vessels in the IDF. In order to have enough soldiers to successfully operate
the new vessels, more fighters will complete the course each cycle.
These soldiers completed their naval course just two weeks ago. "We're at the
peak of a process and we're slowly adding more crews to be trained for the
position," explains Commander of the Naval Training Base, Col. Ronen Nimni.
"Additionally, we made sure to increase the number of commanders to maintain
more personalized instruction for soldiers."
Since all military personnel in Israel are in one organization (no distinct navy)
their submarine sailors are referred to as soldiers.
The important point is that no matter what sort of political differences Germany
and Israel might have, the needed military equipment keeps coming. Frankly,
that’s more important than a lot of nice or even troubling diplomatic words.
THE NEO-NAZIS & WILLIE HORTON
The infamous American bank robber, Willie Horton is reported to have responded
when asked why he robs banks, by saying “because that’s where the money is”.
It seems that the neo-Nazis in Germany have adopted that philosophy in trying to
impact on German youngsters. The Local reported, “Right-wing extremists have
begun infiltrating sports clubs to influence young people across the country, a
leading researcher said Tuesday, calling the situation a pressing problem.
Sociologist at the University of Hannover, Gunter Pilz, has found that neo-Nazis
are taking advantage of a general unwillingness to volunteer at sports clubs to
install members as functionaries and coaches. Some are also founding their own
sports clubs, he said.
There they organise free time activities for young people in an attempt to gain a
foothold for their ideas in the centre of German society, he added.
“It’s not just a problem in the east,” Pilz said, explaining that he has observed the
phenomenon across the country.
The problem has gained the most attention for being at football clubs, but other
sports are also included, though there it is often “suppressed” or “played down,”
he said.
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12. The sociologist’s comments came ahead of a meeting on Tuesday in Berlin for
politicians and sporting authorities, who aim to create an initiative against right-
wing extremism in sports.
Why should anybody be surprised? The neo-Nazis are not dumb and if they want
to make inroads with German young people sports clubs are the perfect starting
places. I do not expect Hitler Youth clubs to emerge. The neo’s are too smart for
that – it’s illegal. However, a militaristic, nationalistic point of view interspersed
with soccer practice does not seem out of the question. I’m encouraged by the
fact that sports authorities and politicians are aware of the problem. Once
surfaced at least there is a chance that something will be done about it.
Thank you Gunter Pilz!
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