| Can we listen to a man ? Can we understand what a man is saying if he freely pays his words with his life? The man who wrote the following letter burnt himself two years ago to give to his words the weight of one life. Although German and old, he was neither a nazi nor a racist. Just an old defeated soldier, tired by too many lies. We do not have to approve or disapprove these words. We just wish they are heard. |
* 50 years of never-ending defamation, ugly lies and the demonization of an entire people are enough:
* 50 years of incredible insults to former German soldiers, of blackmail that has cost billions and of "democratic" hatred, are more than one can take
* 50 years of judicial Zionist revenge are enough
* 50 years of trying to create rifts between generations of Germans by criminalizing the fathers and grandfathers are too much.
A Niagara of lies and defamations inundates us. Since I am now 75 years old, there is not much left for me to do -- but I can still seek death by self-immolation; one last deed that may act as a signal to the Germans to come to their senses.
Even if through my deed only one German will awaken, and because of it will find the way to the truth, then my sacrifice will not have been in vain.
I felt I have no other choice once I realized that even now, after 50 years, there seems to be little hope that reason would gain the upper hand.
As someone driven from his home after the war, I always had one hope, that which was granted the Israelis after 2,000 years, namely the right to return home would also be granted to German expellees. What happened to the promise of self-determination promulgated in 1919, when millions of Germans were forced to live under foreign rule? To this day we have to suffer from these wrongs, and it wasn't the Germans who can be held responsible for it.
I am a Sudeten German. I had a Czech grandmother, and on the other side Czech and Jewish relatives, some of whom had been incarcerated in concentration camps like Buchenwald, Dora and Theresienstadt.
I never belonged to the Nazi party or to any other group that was in the slightest tainted by association with national socialism. We were always on the best of terms with our non-German kin, and when necessary we helped each other out. During the war, our food market and bakery was responsible for supplying foodstuffs to the French prisoners-of-war and eastern workers living in the town. Everyone was dealt with fairly and at the war's end our business was not plundered because the French prisoners stood guard on it until they were repatriated to their own country. Our relatives who had been prisoners in concentration camps came already home on May 10, 1945 (two days after the hostilities had ceased), and offered their help. Of special assistance was my Jewish uncle from Prague who had seen the horrible blood bath that Czech partisans inflicted on the Germans left behind there.
The horror of these cold-blooded killings could still be seen in the man's eyes -- a horror the likes of which this former prisoner of the Reich had not experienced during his incarceration.
I was a soldier of the Wehrmacht of the Greater German Reich, fighting from day one on the Eastern front. To this I must add a few years of slave labour as a prisoner in the Soviet Union.
I well remember the Kristallnacht of 1938: on that day I ran into a Jewish girl, a girl with whom I had been studying, and she was crying. But I was even more shocked when I saw in Russia how all churches had been desecrated, how they were used for stables and machine shops; I saw grunting pigs, bleating sheep, and hammering machines desecrating the holy places.
Worst of all was to see churches being used as museums for atheism.
All this was going on with the active connivance of the Jews, that very small minority of which so many members were acting as Stalin's executioners. Foremost amongst them was the Kaganovich family, seven brothers and sisters, who were such mass murderers that alleged SS-killers seem harmless by comparison.
I was permitted to go home after my discharge from Russian prison camps (what a mockery to say "home" to a prisoner-of-war who has been expelled from his ancestral homeland).
I now heard for the first time of the brutalities of the German concentration camps; at first there was nothing about any gas chambers or the killing of human beings by poison gas. On the contrary, I was told that the concentration camps at Theresienstadt and Buchenwald even had bordellos for the inmates.
During the "Auschwitz trials" Prof. Martin Broszat of the Institute of Contemporary History [in Munich] stated that the famous "Six Million" figure was a purely symbolic one.
Although Broszat also declared that there had been no gas chambers used for the killing of human beings in any camps on German Reich soil, for years alleged gas chambers were shown to visitors at Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen, and the like.
Lies, nothing but lies to this day.
Everything became very clear to me when I read dozens of books written by Jews and so-called anti-fascists.
In addition, I was able to draw upon my own experience in Russia. I lived for two years in the hospital town of Porchov, where in our very first winter the danger of typhus epidemic arose, and all the hospitals and first-aid stations were deloused with what we called then "KZ-Gas" (concentration camp gas), namely "Zyklon-B".
I learned there how dangerous it was to handle this poison gas even though I did not belong to the teams that fumigated the buildings. Ever since then I have had no choice but to regard all concentration camp memoirs that describe the alleged "gas chambers" as fairy tales.
In 1988 the German TV broadcast a report on Babi Yar [near Kiev in the Ukraine] where it was stated that the SS had killed 36,000 Jews by stoning them. Three years later, a Mrs Kayser wrote in the Munich newspaper "TZ" stating that these Jews had been killed by shooting, and that their bodies had then been burned in the deep crevasses. Dr Kayser mentioned a bookstore in Konstanz selling the book Shoa at Babi Yar.
On the very day that this book arrived at my home, German TV reported from Kiev the latest findings of a Ukrainian commission at Babi Yar; they had discovered the remains of some 180,000 murdered human beings, all killed on Stalin's orders [i.e. before 1941].
The Germans were not responsible. But everywhere in the world one can still find Babi Yar monuments blaming the Germans for the killings there.
Due to the facts as stated by Prof. Broszat, namely that we had been deceived about the occurrences in a dozen concentration camps, I myself am unwilling to believe the tales that are being told about the alleged happenings in the camps in Poland. Nor do I accept to believe the postwar accusations that we Germans are particularly aggressive. While Germany kept the peace from 1871 to 1914, England and France, the foremost democracies, conquered most of Africa and expanded their colonies in Asia.
Meanwhile the USA fought Spain and Mexico, and Russia battled Turkey and Japan.
In these matters I consider the government of the United States particularly cynical since it was that country which twice this century crossed the ocean to attack Germany and convert us to "democracy".
And this was a government which exterminated its native Indian inhabitants, and to this day treats its Black population as second-class citizens.
During my years I met kind and helpful Jews not only among my relatives but also as a prisoner-of-war in Russia. In Gorki a female Jewish professor helped me back to health when I suffered pleurisy and severe eye problems.
I had also heard many ugly things about this minority. Was it not Churchill who wrote in the London Sunday Herald ( Feb. 8, 1920):
"From the days of the Spartacus Weishaupt to Marx, Trotzky, Bela Kun, Rosa Luxembourg and Emma Goldmann, there is a worldwide conspiracy busy to destroy our civilization, and to change our society on the basis of unhampered developments of ugly greed, and an impossible dream of equality of all.
"This conspiracy with its relentless undermining of every existing institution was able to engage a gang of unscrupulous people from the underworld of the larger cities of Europe and America to take over Russia, and make itself masters of this large empire. It is not necessary to overestimate the role which these godless Jews played in the establishment of Bolshevism."
(I hope it is in order for me to quote this recipient of the prestigious German Charlemagne Prize).
In the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson wrote:
"I am not certain what we should fear more, a street full of soldiers who are out to plunder, or a room full of writers who are used to lie."
Given what we have been through after 1918 and after 1945, we Germans ought to know whom we have most cause to fear!
München, 25 April 1995
Reinhold Elstner
Reinhold Elstner, a veteran, decided to set an example for Germany's youth and immolated himself. He burned himself in the centre of downtown Munich on Apr. 25, 1995, at the monument to the Fallen Heroes.
Not only was his self-sacrifice hushed up by the horrified German government and media. Now the contents of his last letter are being suppressed too: the German publisher of Zirkelbrief, the newsletter of the Notverwaltung des Deutschen Ostens, has been fined 9,600 DM (around $6,500) for publishing the letter. The German courts have defined Elstner's farewell epistle as posthumous "incitement" (Verhetzung)
Translated by Hans Schmidt... This translation appeared in
n° 10 of Mr. David Irving Action Report, dated 5 July 1996,
now available on the Codoh site
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