UnderTwoFlags-HeinzWeichardt

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Under Two Flagsby Heinz Weichardt

Under Two Flags

IntroductionAfter years of urging my dear friend Heinz Weichardt to make at least a partial memoir of thevicissitudes of his interesting life, he finally was persuaded by ouis !eam, whom he met last year, todo so" This article was originally in the form of a letter to ouis"

Heinz certainly has had an unusual perspective of the Twentieth #entury" A supporter of Hitler wholeft $ermany as an unwanted non%Aryan, he became an enemy alien in America" As the years passed,Heinz became successful in his field of physics &electron%optics', retiring from (!) as a manager in itsresearch division" As his article reveals, he never wavered in his support for *ational +ocialism, even ifhe had himself been reected by it"

ately there has appeared a peculiar contempt for Historical -evisionism" The latter has undeniably

been slashing and chopping the roots of contemporary .ewish power, so Heinz was very unsettled bysuch criticism" He told me often that when the Holocaust was beginning to be promoted in the /012s hecould only recall his school days in $ermany" 3( went to school with those fellows in the ++" ( knewthat they were simply not capable of behavior which the .ews were ascribing to them"3 He felt that-evisionism was crucial to the regeneration of his once%beloved $ermany which has staggered underthe libels of .ewish%American lies for fifty years" The same goes for this miserable country"

Heinz believed that our goal must be to disfranchise .ews, to dislodge them from government,medicine, law, education, the arts and, of course, from the media" He believes that to criticize thosewho have demonstrated the Holocaust to be a lie only helps to maintain the .ews as our overlords"

(t doesn4t matter if one genius today says he knew the Holocaust was phony in /056 and because of that

-evisionism is a waste of time" ( don4t notice any reduction of Holocaust poison in the media today7 ourchildren continue to receive it" They must be protected from deadly lies" We adults must grow up, too"The truth will make us mad" (t may make us fight" The fighting may one day make us free"

." !" #ampbell

February 89, /005

:ear ouis,

( felt that ( should give you a somewhat more e;tended background to the political situation which led

to the events of .anuary /099 in $ermany, since most of the pertinent facts are only rarely realized byor available to the citizenry of this country"

First a few biographical notes about myself" )y father, :r" #arl Weichardt, of Frisian background, wasamong the dozen leading ournalists of $ermany, during the years /0// to /0


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World War he became the co%founder of a small south%$erman newspaper" He died in the year /055"His brother became an officer in the (mperial Army during the First World War and duringthe Weimar -epublic he was the adutant to $eneral%Field )arshal and resident von Hindenburg inthe latter4s honor regiment" His oldest son lied about his age to oin the army during World War ( andbecame a lieutenant at the age of eighteen" He remained with the -eichswehr during the Weimar yearsand became a high level officer in the Wehrmacht" He fell during the campaign in -ussia" The ne;t son

was active as a radical nationalist as early as /08/ and was even ailed for a few months because of itduring the Weimaryears" ater he became a *+ party functionary" The third son becamea -eichswehr officer and later a lieutenant colonel in the Wehrmacht" He was seriously woundedin -ussia but is still alive and well at the age of ninety%four" The fourth, my youngest cousin, fell as amember of -ommel4s Afrika%Borps and is buried at Tobruk" A brother of mygrandfather emigrated to +outh Africa and his son, ouis Weichardt, was the highly respected founderof the *ational +ocialist movement of +outh Africa in the early thirties" :uring the war he wasincarcerated by the !ritish" At the end of the war he was released and became the senator of theprovince *atal" He was so highly respected that after his death in /065, even the=ionist #apetown Times, which had fought him for si;ty years, wrote a decent obituary"

)y mother, of .ewish e;traction, was a professional musician and renowned opera singer" Her father

fought in the russian army during the Franco%russian war of /6C/" Her brother%in%law was aprofessional soldier and captain in the (mperial Austrian army" He fell during the first si; days of WorldWar ( when -ussia invaded Austria and $ermany" Her first cousin, also an Austrian officer, receivedshrapnel in his right lung on the same occasion and spent the following seven years as prisoner of warin +iberia" Another of her cousins fell on the Western Front and still another cousin survived all actionsof the war in the !alkans and became, during the early thirties, personal adutant toprince +tarhemberg, the leader of the Austrian *ationalist, but not *ational +ocialist, Heimwehren untilthe Anschluss"

( was born in /0/< and grew up in $ermany, +witzerland and Austria, depending on my father4sassignments" From /080 to the end of /096 ( lived in !erlin where ( finished my intermediateschooling and obtained my master4s degree in engineering%physics from the !erlin (nstitute of

Technology" ( like to emphasize the military participation of the .ewish part of my family because thiswas by no ways an e;ception but rather the norm, especially among the more well%to%do .ewishfamilies which strived to be $ermans first and in many cases, such as my family4s, to forgettheir .ewishness by letting themselves be baptized" (t is generally well known that in no other countryin the world was the .ewish community assimilated as well as in $ermany" >;amplesD Ene of the bestknown $erman romanticists, H" Heine, was .ewish &baptized'7 the greatest .ewish composer,)endelssohn, was another $erman romanticist and to this day his music cannot be performed in somesynagogues because he too had himself baptized" The best friend of the Baiser was Albert !allin, the.ewish founder of the largest $erman shipping line and the only person who had a private telephoneline into the emperor4s bedroom" The famous .ewish chemist Haber was director of the Baiser Wilhelm(nstitute for #hemistry where he developed the process for the production of ammonia from the

nitrogen in the air" For this he received the *obel rize for chemistry" Without this process the $ermanarmament industry would not have been able to produce sufficient munitions within one year intoWorld War (" As a fact, the condition of the 522,222 .ews among the si;ty million $ermans was suchthat at the beginning of the war in /0/< the American%.ewish press stood solidly behind $ermany"

What happened then Why was there virulent 3anti%+emitism3 in $ermany only ten to fifteen yearslater

The main reason that .ewry became so respectable and could aspire to be accepted by the highest levelsof $erman society was the rigid structure of the russian dominated state" Within this environment


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there simply was no possible room to develop shady business methods so acceptable to the orientalmind7 there were no corruptible officials which could be bought because to become an official did notentail the possibility to enrich yourself at the cost of the public" (t was an honor, which had to be earnedby hard and successful labor" A teacher, a soldier, a postal employee, a policeman or any othergovernment worker had to be a role model and if he ever betrayed the trust given to him by the publiche had to serve, he was finished" Today russianism is eGuated to despotism" *othing could be further

from the truth The motto of russia and later of the $erman -eichwasD $emeinnutz geht vor >igennutz" &The well%being of the people is more important than your own"'This might sound somewhat e;aggerated for the citizens of a vast and immensely rich domain, butmust be the mode of survival in a relatively small, overpopulated country, whose main resource was thediligent labor of its hands and the creativity of its brains" *othing describes better the difference in theidea of statehood better than the declarations of Frederick the $reat of russia and ouis I(?of France" 3( am the first servant of the state,3 for the former and 3( am the state3 for the latter" The.ews of $ermany, and especially of russia, being, if nothing else, Guite smart, simply adaptedthemselves very successfully to the rules of the game and many of them became even more russianthan the russians" They were greatly assisted therein by russia as well as by the rest of thepredominantly evangelical north $ermany, being by far the religiously most tolerant domain in allof >urope" Any remaining anti%.ewishness, anti%+emitism barely e;isting, was mainly aimed at some.ewish mannerisms which sometimes grated on the somewhat stiff russian form of social etiGuette"Today we know, of course, that e;actly those mannerisms e;pose a deep%seated character flaw and, ifpermitted to become the norm of societal behavior, will lead to the destruction of a whole culture" A.ewish acGuaintance of mine during the Hitler years, when asked why the .ewish people everywhereand always are getting into trouble, put it Guite succinctly" TheanswerD Wir sind leider ein zwar kleines aber JuKerstmieses ?olk" &Unfortunately we are a small bute;ceedingly obno;ious people'"

While the .ewish Guestion seemed solved, or at least dormant, in $ermany and mostof western >urope, real trouble began across the Atlantic" After the disastrous defeat of the morecivilized half of this country by ruthless Lankeeism, the *orth soon found that the fleeing blacks of the

+outh were essentially useless for cheap labor in a feverishly e;panding industry driven by mercantilematerialism" The search for easy profit led to the laying of a cuckoo4s egg of such size that after it isfully hatched may yet lead to the final destruction of this country" ( am referring to the massiveintroduction of the 3huddled masses and refuse3 &>mma azarus4 desecrating inscription at the foot ofthe +tatue of iberty'" Thereafter this country was never the same" These masses were a totallydifferent breed from the docile, now 3liberated3 slaves of the +outh" )ostly the large numbers ofeastern .ews with their inborn 3smartness3 Guickly worked themselves out of the sweatshops and low%paying industrial obs and became independent businessmen" Their ruthless and unconscionablebusiness methods, possibly a necessity for survival in -ussian and olish ghettos, were permitted todevelop without restrictions in a country where unlimited personal liberty was sanctified" This lack ofrestrictions on personal behavior culminated in the appearance of such financial 3geniuses3 &( am

Guoting the Wall +treet .ournal' as )ilken, !oesky, +teinberg and evine" (n >urope, meanwhile, thepolitical influence of the .ewish banking dynasties became so strong that a )rs" -othschild could state,3)y sons can decide if there will be war or not"3 After the death of Mueen ?ictoria, under the rule ofthe already somewhat degenerate playboy, >dward, this influence would become all%pervasive" Thesimultaneous growth of $erman industrial might under the wise political guidance of !ismarck was ofcourse unacceptable to !ritish self%esteem and the thought that the competition on the world marketscould be met with a bit more of hard labor and diligence or by reducing the length of the e;tendedweekends to which >nglish upper classes had become accustomed, was simply too horrible to becontemplated" When the $ermans committed the unspeakable crime of becoming financially nearly


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independent from the international banking system and began to build a high%seas fleet to assure accessto their modest colonial possessions, this was the last straw and something had to be done to put themdown for good" With the help of -ussian imperialism and French chauvinism and revanchism &they stillhad not reconciled themselves with the loss of the war of /6C/ which was started by them under typicalFrench delusions of grandeur' it was easy to pursue a policy of encirclement against $ermany"

Baiser Wilhelm was an utterly civilized and peace%loving man" ( know this from the !ritish mother of

my best friend7 she was a close personal friend of Wilhelm who in turn was my friend4s godfather" TheBaiser did suffer unfortunately from an inclination to vainglorious gab and this was used Guite liberallyagainst him by his enemies" At a much later time the similar afflictions of the warmongering criminals,#hurchill and -oosevelt, were generally well accepted After the -ussians arranged the murder of theArchduke Franz Ferdinand through their +erbian dupes, the First World War was on" The Americanpeople wanted to stay out of the >uropean mess, but since the country was, at the time, suffering fromone of its strangely recurring recessions, the powers that were decided differently" The opportunity ofreaping huge profits by supplying one of the fighting sides with liberal credits and massive infusions ofwar matNriel was too tempting and could not be ignored"

Alas, the boys in *ew Lork and Washington bet on the wrong horse" The war went badly for them" !ythe year /0/1 -ussia was ready to collapse and on the Western Front the combined Anglo%Frenchforces were fought to a standstill" The treacherous (talians &they were bound by a tripartite treatyto Austria and $ermany until they found it to their advantage to switch sides' were losing in the south"The multiple declarations of war by many powers as distant as .apan and !razil did not seem toimprove the situation either and there were nasty rumors of a negotiated peace floating in the air" Ate;actly this point the seeds were laid to the future growth of $erman 3anti%+emitism3 &a euphemism foranti%.udaism' because the maority of middle%eastern +emites were still backing $ermany at that time"The .ewish bankers in ondon and *ew Lork had !ritain over a barrel and found it easy to e;tract the!alfour :eclaration, which promised them a .ewish homeland%%but not a sovereign .ewish state%%in alestine, which in /0/1 still belonged to Turkey" The !ritish, being famous for their fairness andintegrity in all their dealings, made a similar offer to middle%eastern Arabs and even dispatched T" >"awrence to found the Arab egion" At a later time when awrence reminded his government of this

promise he suddenly and conveniently died in a motorcycle accident"

As an aside, a propensity for accidental death seems to be Guite common among people not agreeingwith the prevailing Anglo%American policy" Lou surely remember $eorge atton, who wanted to warnthe American people that the war was not won if the Western Allies did not continue their advancesuntil they reached Warsaw" He also was greatly impressed by the human Guality of the personnel in the++%FOhrerschulen and had the audacity to state so publicly" After these unpopular utterances thehealthy, strapping general suffered minor inuries in a highly suspicious car accident and died shortlyfrom the conseGuences" Er the court appointed .ewish lawyer, who was to defend(van :emanuk during the latter4s show trial in .erusalem" (t was his misfortune to discover some itemswhich disputed the claims of the prosecution and promptly and conveniently dropped out of a high%up

hotel room window" (t was declared a suicide but this was hotly denied by his family" There are manyother cases, of course"

!ack to /0/1" After obtaining the !alfour :eclaration the .ewish%American press and their followersmade a sudden turnabout and began to pour their well%practiced venom on the still hard%fighting$ermans, who were from now on to be known simply as barbarous Huns" This was not only a betrayalof $ermany but also of their $erman co%religionists who were more accepted in $ermany thananywhere else in the world and where most of their able%bodied men were still fighting for what theyconsidered their fatherland" (t was rather easy to convert the 3idealistic3 but feebleminded Wilson into afanatic crusader for 3democracy3 and America oined the bloodletting with supposedly the best of


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intentions" As far as the public was concerned it was the ob of the .ewish press, as well as others suchas the Hearst press to release a never ending stream of anti%$erman hate propaganda which did a goodob and the easily misled masses patriotically marched off to war" -ussia had collapsed, the .ewBerensky formed the first revolutionary government and decided to continue the waragainst $ermany%%a preposterous idea considering the condition of -ussia at that time" $ermany, eagerto end the war in the east, decided to help a new and more radical revolution in -ussia" enin, leader of

the far left #ommunists, was residing in =urich" He had promised to end the war with $ermany as soonas he was in control of -ussia and negotiations began for his secret transport through $ermany to +t"etersburg" ( am somewhat familiar with these occurrences because my father was at that time the topmember of the $erman press corps in+witzerland and got involved in the above%mentionednegotiations" The .ews outside $ermany decided to help enin along in his bid for power and sent hiscomrade Trotsky &!ronstein' and hundreds of #ommunist .ewish radicals from !rooklyn, armed withuntold millions of dollars, to -ussia" The rest is well%known history as far as the events in -ussia areconcerned"

Things began to look up for $ermany because the Americans had as yet not arrived in telling numbersat the Western Front and there would be soon some two million battle%hardened $erman troopsreleased from the east and available in the west for a final push" aris was in panic and very drastic

measures had to be applied to prevent mutiny in the French army"Here now rises the curtain over the second act of .ewish treachery against $ermany%%this timeunfortunately in $ermany proper" This is the storyD After the $erman army had driven the -ussians outof$ermany and Austrian $alicia it drove them out of -ussian oland and Ukraine" The .ews,in oland a maor part of the population, became fearful of the traditional severe anti%+emitism in thoseparts, especially since the $ermans had the plan to create a new olish state at the end of the warwith -ussia" A massive movement of $alician .ews, most of them being Austrian citizens, began theirtrek westward into Austria, mainly ?ienna, whence they could freely enter $ermany" A few thousandsin the beginning swelled to hundreds of thousands towards and after the end of the war" Among the firstarrivals there was a disproportionate amount of #ommunist agitators which wormed its wayinto $ermany4s +ocialist movement, which already was dominated by .ewish intellectuals" (n $ermany,

because of the Allied blockade, the suffering of the civilian population had already become severe anddemoralizing and e;actly after the -ussians were forced to sign the peace%treaty of !rest%itowsk, theunions struck a mortal blow to $ermany4s war effort by striking the munitions factories" The plannedoffensive was thereby sufficiently delayed to permit the Americans to arrive with their unlimitedsupplies and after another year of hopeless resistance and president Wilson4s reasonable sounding peaceoffer, revolution broke out in $ermany"

The war was lost and in ?ersailles Wilson4s proposals were wiped off the table and a peace was dictatedto the newly formed $erman democracy, the insanity of which doomed it to an early demise at the dayof its birth" The #ommunists under their .ewish leadership &iebknecht, u;emburg, Toller,>isner, -adek, Buhn, etc"' started bloody uprisings in !erlin, )unich and Hungary" Hostages,

including women, were being taken and murdered, thousands were dying in street fights with policeand gendarmes" Toller, leader of the -ed Army which formed in !avaria, recommended that most$ermans should be gassed &aha' and received congratulations and promises of help from eninpersonally" The new +ocialist president, >bert, was finally forced to call on the remnants of the $ermanarmy, and with the help of the newly formed Freikorps &mostly patriotic former members of thearmy', the !olsheviks along with the incursions of oles across the newly enforced $erman borderswere finally defeated" (t should be emphasized at this point that nearly all the leaders of the #ommunistterrorists were foreign .ews" :uring the accelerating inflation certain businessmen and well connectedfinanciers, again the maority being .ewish, were able to amass fortunes, which helped the rise of anti%


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+emitism in the country suffering from defeat and incredible hunger, thanks to the continuing !ritishblockade, which was prolonged for one year after the armistice and caused the deaths of appro;imately622,222 $ermans, mostly women and infants"

When the populace observed newly%rich .ewesses in their fancy fur coats, bedecked with ewelry,entering e;pensive nightclubs with their escorts while veterans with missing arms or legs are sitting onthe sidewalks, shivering in their worn uniforms and trying to sell some pencils or whatnot to earn a few

pennies for their modest needs, it did not go over too well with them, even if the maority of theprofessional .ews, professors, engineers, doctors, government employees, etc", shared the misery withthe rest of the people" )y mother4s father, a retired small businessman, made the mistake to invest hissavings in >nglish industrial stocks long before the war and lost every penny of it when, after the war,the >nglish, like all the other 3victors,3 stole every bit of private $erman property they could lay theirhands on" The Americans got away with 3taking%over3 all $erman patents and sold them to the publicat a dollar apiece" An acGuaintance of mine, :r" !ecker, a $erman immigrant chemist, bought asufficiently large amount of them to found Allied #hemical #orp" on the basis of their content" The lasttime ( visited him, in /0lectric after his father4s death" :uring the war he distinguished himself byorganizing the supply of raw materials for the war effort, while being in charge of the correspondingdepartment of the $erman ministry of war" After the revolution he entered government service andbecame $ermany4s foreign minister" His murder was not only a senseless crime but also caused aserious setback to the nationalistic cause, because of the general revulsion against this deed amongeven the most nationalistic circles"

The invasion of the industrial -uhr ?alley by 62,222 to /22,222 French troops, in .anuary /089,because of lagging tribute deliveries, as well as the total collapse of the $erman mark &in *ovember

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The Hitler putsch was betrayed and defeated and Hitler was sentenced to five years imprisonment, butwas released after less than one year" :uring his captivity he wrote, with the assistance of -udolfHess,)ein Bampf which, with the e;ception of the !ible, had the largest edition of any bookpreviously printed" Unfortunately, as with the !ible, too few of its purchasers read it, but consideringthe present disastrous worldwide conditions this might yet be remedied in the not too distant future"Hitler had decided to attempt his Guest for power by totally legal means, a decision from which he

never wavered and which in the end lead him to success, all negative propaganda to the contrary"+tarting with the year /08< a slow but steady recovery began" :uring /081 the last French troops leftthe -uhr ?alley region, but occupation of the -hineland lasted until .une /092"

:uring the Weimar years many outstanding performers in concerts and theater as well as scientistswere .ewish, but they never dominated and were more than balanced by $ermans of eGual or superiorstature" (n literature, however, in the arts as well as in the left%leaning part of the press their influencebecame all encompassing and pernicious" With it, the deterioration of civility, speech and socialbehavior became endemic" *othing, of course, compared with what we are witnessing today, but onemust remember that seventy years ago the standards of propriety were vastly different when comparedwith the present" The constant assault on the sensibilities and moral values which were held dear by themaority of patriotic $ermans created a backlash within the parties from the center to the radical right"

3Anti%+emitism3 was again on the rise"After the /080 crash of the *ew Lork stock e;change most of the credits to $ermany were called inand a world%wide depression began" )illions of $ermans lost their obs, the payments to the enemycountries had to continue and the political situation became progressively chaotic" !y the end of/098 $ermany counted over si; and a half million unemployed, about one third of the total workforceThe #ommunist arty, over three million strong including an armed organization, thought its day hadcome and began freGuent attacks on rightist groups which developed into regular street battles"Together with the +ocial :emocrats, who also commanded a large Guasi%military organization, they hadstill 9C"6Q of the voters behind them, but the *ational +ocialists, with 99"1Q, had become by far thelargest party of the -eich"

En .anuary 9/, /099, with a !olshevik uprising only weeks, perhaps days, away, Hitler, as leader of thelargest party, was constitutionally named -eichs #hancellor" The most remarkable part about thefollowing national 3revolution3 is the fact that it was totally orderly and bloodless" A few especiallyobno;ious leaders of the e;treme left were locked up and perhaps got a well earned beating fromoverly enthusiastic storm troopers, who remembered their murdered comrades" (f ( am wrong aboutthis, please name me one prominent victim of this 3terror"3 When on February 8C, /099 a #ommunistsucceeded in setting fire to the -eichstag building in !erlin, the #ommunist arty was outlawed andthe top leaders were arrested" Any claim that the *ational +ocialists set the fire is typical lyingpropaganda" Today this is even admitted in .ewish%ruled $ermany :uring the following fall a trial washeld in $ermany4s highest court against the admitted arsonist and the #ommunist hierarchy" Ene!ulgarian #ommunist, :imitroff, of postwar fame, had a field day in court by insulting

Hermann $@ring, but in the end all of them were acGuitted e;cept the arsonist" The highest court in*ational +ocialist $ermany could not produce sufficient evidence to tie the #ommunist Nlite to thecrime which was certainly committed in their name" #ompare this with the .ewish%run show trialsin )oscow, the lynchfest in *uremberg and the .erusalem lynching of >ichmann &who did not heed thewarnings about his impending abduction, because 3the .ews will not do anything against me, after what( have done for them during the war3'" The above story about the acGuitted #ommunists has an ironicendingD They all took off for )oscow, being afraid that some of the stalwart storm troopers might notbe too happy with the result of the trial and take matters into their own hands to amend the udgment ina way more suitable to their ideas" (n )oscow they found several things not Guite to their taste and, in


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typical $erman fashion, they did not keep their mouths shut and voiced some criticisms" (n typical-ussian fashion they were put into the slammer" After the end of the olish war, when the -ussian and$erman armies met, still cordially, they were unceremoniously handed over to the $estapo" Whathappened thereafter, ( do not know"

What was the situation of the $erman .ews at that point The first blow came from abroad" World.ewry declared war on $ermany" This was no idle threat" (t is true that the .ews at that time did not

control the most powerful army in the world as in our day when they e;ert nearly total domination overthe deployment of forces of the United +tates" !ut neither did the $ermans possess an army whichcould become a threat to anybody somewhat larger than $renada or maybe anama" $ermany faced themost disastrous economical condition in its history and was completely dependent on foreign trade inorder ust to feed the population" Any successful boycott of its foreign trade would greatly e;acerbatethis already dangerous situation and could even lead to widespread starvation" At first the $ermanreaction to riotous, .ewish%led, anti%$erman demonstrations abroad was a government%decreed one day&' boycott of .ewish stores which had been marked overnight with stars of :avid" *ever at any time,neither then nor today, did *ational +ocialists mark .ewish properties of any kind with swastikas,because this would be considered a desecration of their revered symbol" The most astonishing result ofthis boycott was the revelation of the unbelievably large number of big and small businesses in .ewish

hands" Had the $erman%.ewish community voiced a unanimous and vociferous protest against theaction of their co%religionists throughout the world, they would have avoided, in my opinion, some ofthe harsher measures soon to come" (t must, however, be understood and firmly remembered, that .ewswith regard to one characteristic are and act vastly superior when compared with most other whitepopulations" (t is their unflinching racial cohesion, which makes them .ews first and anything elsesecond" This leads them to actions which might be at first thought detrimental to their interests, butwhich have resulted over more than two thousand years in their survival in a largely hostile world"

The ne;t anti%.ewish measure was the Arierparagraph, which eliminated non%Aryans from allgovernment positions" >verybody with one Guarter or more .ewish background was considered non%Aryan" >;empt from this law were all .ews who had fought for $ermany in the World War or had lostsons during that war or who already held government positions before that war" #ertain e;emptions for

meritorious individuals could be granted" All non%Aryans in government positions had to be retired &notfired' with their pensions forthcoming" !usinesses, large or small, were not affected7 doctors couldcontinue their practices but were not compensated for treating patients insured under the government%run health plan" )any, many%%including high party officials%%stayed with their .ewish family doctorswho had treated them for a long time" The number of university students of three%Guarters or all%.ewishancestry were limited to the percentage of their numbers in the populace" +till pretty good, whencompared with the e;perience of deserving whites under our .ewish%imposed affirmativeaction" +tudents with one%half or less .ewish ancestry were under no restrictions at all, and even had, ata later date, to oin the nationalist student organization" They were not permitted to oin the +A or ++".oining a national organization became, in effect, obligatory for all Aryan students"

The immediate effect on the private lives of most .ews was in the beginning only minimal" +omepersonal e;periences will show this" +ince my early teens ( had been an avid gun lover" (n Austria,where we lived at the time, there were in effect no restrictions on the possession of handguns or rifles"(f there were, they certainly were not enforced" At the age of fifteen ( could walk into one of the finestgun shops in?ienna and purchase any weapon in the store, as long as ( had the necessary money"Unfortunately ( didn4t, but after some time ( had scraped together a sufficient amount to start mymodest collection by acGuiring three low%priced handguns" +hortly thereafter, in /080, we movedto !erlin" (n $ermany, under the Weimar -epublic, one had to register each gun with the police" Therewere no restrictions on the possession e;cept if you wanted to carry them" (n this case you had to have


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a hunting license which reGuired a lengthy course in gun handling, marksmanship, game laws andhandling of bagged game" The police had absolutely no say or power to refuse you the ownership ofyour guns when you came to register" (t was a purely bureaucratic measure which enabled the police totrace a gun involved in a criminal action"

)y guns were registered in the name of my &.ewish' mother, who had contributed the money for theiroriginal purchase, because ( was only fifteen years old and could not own firearms until ( reached

maturity &8/ yrs'" After Hitler came to power, nothing was changed in the e;isting gun regulations7nobody had to turn in the registered guns%%period" )y mother still had them on the day of herimmigration to the U+&)ay /0uropean market" Today4s eGuivalent wouldbe a fully automatic )5 or (ngram" .ust imagine somebody informing our democratic governmentthat ( was stocking one hundred of those, possibly intending to sell them to some shady charactersharboring racist or otherwise non%# views" #an4t you ust hear .anet -eno screaming and ordering hertrigger%happy minions into action" The roar of armored trucks loaded with +WAT teams in full battledress would be deafening and reinforced by the clatter of helicopter%gunships hovering overhead, incase any difficulties should develop" The headlines would shoutD $un #razy -ightist Has Arsenal


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>ndangering His *eighborhood $overnor )ight #all (n *ational $uard -emember the recent actionsof our government in the case of a man who sold a shotgun, allegedly one Guarter inch shorter than thelaw permits, to an undercover agent, which resulted in the deaths of a mother holding a baby in herarms, one un%armed child, the family dog and a marshal" Er the one involving a religious nut whocould have been arrested any day by a single cop while the former attended to his shopping in the localsupermarket" -esultD about eighty people, mostly women and children, incinerated alive" ( think my

imagined scenario above is an understatement")y ne;t run%in with the authorities of the Third -eich happened about three years later and was a bitmore ominous" ( had ust received the notification that my application for voluntary service in thenewly%recruited army had been definitely denied and ( was understandably very bitter because servicein the armed forces was considered an honor and privilege, not an onerous duty" (nstead of swallowingmy badly inured pride ( complained to everybody who would listen to me, ending my complaints withthe caustic GuestionD Why me, when even the top general of the uftwaffe, >rhard )ilch, had a .ewishfather Well it didn4t take very long for the knock at the door" This time ( faced three members ofthe Algemeine%++" The situation was made more serious by my little :achshund" +he had a dislike fortall men in black uniform and immediately attacked the intruders, loudly barking and snapping" The ++retreated a few steps until ( had taken control of the obecting animal" recautionary shooting of pet

animals was definitely not # in Hitler4s $ermany" !esides, no member of a uniformed organization,e;cept army and police, was ever permitted to carry firearms publicly in order to emphasize their non%military character" After the three men had entered our apartment, ( was severely admonished forspreading insulting rumors about high%level army officers" All ( could say was that ( was absolutelysure that the father of $eneral >rhard)ilch was buried in the .ewish cemetery in :essau, home of thefamous .unkers aircraft works" ( will never forget the stunned e;pressions on the faces of the three asthey left, this time without apologies, in a huff" ( did not hear from them again" Ef course ( knew thatthe statement to which they obected was true"

Another little story which characterizes the official attitude for behavior towards .ews was told to meby a very good friend" As a member of the storm troops, he had to attend weekly meetings of his troopfor political indoctrination and other matters" (n $ermany, as well as in most >uropean countries, it was

the custom that children and young men ceded their seats in crowded trains when a lady or elderly adultentered and could not find a seat" :uring one meeting of the troop the members were reminded toadhere to this rule and a wise guy asked the tricky Guestion of what to do if the lady or elderly adultwas obviously .ewish After a short silence for reflection, the &pardon thee;pression' solomonic udgment was forthcomingD 3+torm troopers, in order to avoid this embarrassingsituation, remain standing in trains which were apt to be crowded3 To some nice old .ewish lady (strongly recommend a ride on the *ew Lork subway or any other public conveyance"

*e;t, consider the listening to foreign radio stations" (n >urope, there were fewer transmitting stationsthan here in America, but they were much more powerful and in centrally located $ermany you couldalways listen to the transmissions from Austria, +witzerland, France, >ngland, :enmark, +weden,

-ussia, oland and Hungary" They all disseminated programs in $erman language and most of themcontained vicious anti%$erman and specially anti%Hitler propaganda as well as outright lies about theterrible conditions in $ermany under 3*azi terror"3 Lou were not supposed to listen to these radiotransmissions but most people did and it was technically not feasible to am the powerful foreign long%and middle%wave transmitters without causing disturbing interferences of your own radio programs"Ene evening, while listening to radio )oscow, the bell was ringing and there stood the lady living inthe apartment below us" Her husband was the !lockward of our building and responsible to take care ofall problems of or with the tenants and to make sure that everybody behaved nicely and in accordancewith the rules and regulations of the new era" How did she phrase her demands and threats 3:ear


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)r" Weichardt, if you have to listen to radio )oscow, wouldn4t you be so kind and turn the volumedown a bit in order to avoid possible trouble for you or us"3 (n today4s $ermany, under the mostdemocratic government in the country4s history, if you are found to possess two or more copies of thisletter you could wind up in ail up to five years for making light of 3*azi crimes3 and inciting racehatred" House searches without warrant are the order of the day, confiscation of 3incriminating3 printedmaterial and privately%owned office eGuipment are rampant and if you are lucky &and well insured',

your insurance company will be stuck with the ensuing e;penses if a bunch of paid ruffians burns downyour place of business"

et4s go back to *azi terrorism" There were, as everybody knows, concentration camps" Who were theinmates )ostly vagrants, bums and, yes, some obno;ious politicians of the leftist variety &come tothink of it, not a bad idea at all' who had previously caused the ire of the new rulers" +trangelyenough%%hardly any .ews, who after all, according to Hitler, where at the root of most of the country4stroubles" According to a typically nasty postwar !ritish anti%$erman propaganda movie &H(+TE-L EFTH> ++', the pre%war population of the concentration camps never e;ceeded ten thousand inmates, outof a population of nearly seventy million ( should say this is pretty good, when compared with thetwenty thousand penal institutions and camps &+olzhenitsyn, $ulag Archipelago' in +oviet -ussia,which at the same time had%%Guoting resident -oosevelt%%the most progressive government in >urope"

While confined in a camp the inmates had to perform labor, ( am sure sometimes hard labor, which wastough on the mostly overweight politicians" They learned new skills, were well fed and had e;cellentmedical facilities available in case of illness or inury" After their release some actually became usefulcitizens"

Here ( must state categorically that during my nearly si; years under the Hitler regime, living at thecenter of power in !erlin with my father, as a ournalist in constant touch with the authorities &he had,e"g", to attend, together with other ournalists, confidential monthly meetings with ropaganda )inister$oebbels to obtain political directives and listen to pep talks' and aware of all nasty anti%governmentrumors, ( had neither a single personal contact with anybody who had suffered physical harm from theauthorities of the Third -eich, nor did ( hear from anybody among my rather e;tended acGuaintancesthat they knew of somebody who had" Les, yes, ( know there was the nasty -@hm affair, which ( shall

discuss a little later, and which was an interparty affair" The e;odus of .ews began immediately,principally of the well%to%do and the prominent, some of whom felt that they had e;posed themselvespolitically" They could leave with all their property but had to pay a ta; of ten percent on their liGuidassets according to a law already enacted under the Weimar government" This caused a maorhemorrhage of $erman foreign e;change reserves and forced a change in the law after which, a yearlater, emigrants had to pay a ninety percent ta; on their liGuid assets and were forced to sell all theirreal estate" >migrants to alestine were eventually e;empted from all ta;es" The not so well%to%do,while never hindered by the $erman government, were not so lucky, because no country was willing toreceive them if they did not bring along sufficient capital to sustain themselves over an indefiniteperiod" The remaining .ews also had to suffer from the vicious propaganda which was launched abroadby the .ewish%controlled press and by some of the NmigrNs"

Toward the end of /099 Hitler took the first maor step towards the resurrection of the -eich4s authorityand independence" He demanded from the eague of *ations, that club of vacationing parasites on theshores of ake $eneva, that after $ermany had fulfilled all the onerous conditions imposed on her bythe dictate of ?ersailles, including essentially total disarmament, the other signatories should nowadhere to the agreed upon condition and begin with their much talked about disarmament" This was anabsolutely fair demand, since $ermany was surrounded by her former enemies possessing large andsuperbly eGuipped armies" Ef course this is denied today, but France had the largest air force in theworld, >ngland the largest fleet, -ussia the largest number of active soldiers and tanks, oland heavily


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armed and sounding as aggressive as ever, the #zech army probably the most efficient of the lot and(taly, under )ussolini, was at that time still hostile towards $ermany" The silence answering Hitler4sdemand was deafening, whereupon $ermany left the eague and suspended all future tribute paymentscoming due"

To survive economically $ermany was forced to conduct most of her foreign trade on the basis ofe;change and went off the gold standard" The last measure was probably the real beginning of World

War ((" The world4s banking system simply could not permit that this upstart free his nation from theirshackles" (f his bold try became a success their whole empire would begin to crumble because othersmight be emboldened to try the same gambit" Horrors over horrors, it did become a success" $ermany4seconomic recovery became meteoric, unemployment disappeared rapidly while the rest of the worldwas floundering in an ever%worsening depression" (t would take a maor volume to describe the detailsof changes which took place in the first year of the Third -eich and the enthusiasm with which the vastmaority of the people greeted the new system" When, at the end of /099, after leaving the eague of*ations, elections were called for the approval of the new and forceful foreign policy, 08"5Q of theeligible voters backed the new government" +ince ( voted in several elections, together with my mother&', until the fall of /096, when ( left for the U+, ( can assure everybody that there was never anycoercion or fraud involved in these elections" The only serious crisis developed during the spring of

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(n the meantime, back in the good old U+A, )r" -oosevelt4s hatred of everything $erman in generaland Hitler specifically, became pathological" To understand his rage one must compare the rapidrecovery of small resourceless country which had been held down and ransacked by its enemies withthe meager results of his policies as president of the then still richest nation in the world, which wassuffering under a seemingly never ending depression" While Hitler was able to raise capital throughloans from the top industrialists%%they must have been sitting on it during the largely distrusted Weimar

regime%%by giving them ironclad guaranties for repayment, -oosevelt was unsuccessful in obtainingthem from the powerful capitalists in his country, who were more interested in ma;imum returns fortheir investments than in the well%being of their nation"

This situation could only be remedied by stirring up a little war which would guarantee huge profits ina revitalized heavy industry and loosen the money in the pockets of the recalcitrant bankers andindustrialists" (t is therefore understandable that already as early as /09rhard )ilch" (t proved to be fatal during the coming war imposed on$ermany by -oosevelt and his Behilla of advisers" (n )arch of /095 the new Wehrmacht wasestablished and every young $erman had to serve in the army for one year" The time of service in theFrench army was three years, as it had been for over si;ty years

(n .une of /095 the famous *uremberg laws were issued which laid down the condition of .ews andthose of partially .ewish descent within the -eich" From that date on .ews were considered members ofthe -eich, enoying the protection of the law but not full citizenship" To be a one%hundred percentAryan, one had to prove that there were no .ewish ancestors in the family as far back as /622" That thiswas possible at all shows to what length the $ermans went in the effort to keep orderly records of vital

data" &( mention this to show how ridiculous it is to assume that during the war there was no orderlyrecord kept of the people sent to labor camps" Today we know, as a fact, that all data were kept to thebitter end" They are available today and show that in case of death of an inmate, the family of thedeceased was notified and the ashes returned to them whenever possible"'

At the time these laws seemed to be e;traordinarily harsh, especially to those with only partially .ewishbackground, who had been brought up, like myself, as #hristians and patriotic citizens who loved their3fatherland3 unconditionally" ersonally ( was devastated" ( could not marry the Aryan woman ( lovedand my application for voluntary service in the Wehrmacht was denied, probably because ( was ofslight build and had brown eyes and hair" This was most embittering, considering the military history ofboth my paternal and maternal ancestors" Today, si;ty years later and observing the precipitous decline

of a typical multiracial and multicultural society, ( am forced to conclude that it was e;actly the racialand cultural unity of the Third -eich which enabled its people to survive the monstrous assault of theirenemies and to arise again from the ashes of their nation" The present effort to destroy by all means thisunity through the planned influ; of millions of the unwashed garbage of the Third World andsystematic destruction of all traditions in the mind of the present generation shows that $ermany4seternal enemies fully agree with me on this point" That this destruction proceeds under the direction ofa .ewish dictator &(gnaz !ubis, head of the thirty to forty thousand strong .ewish community amongeighty million $ermans', who rules $ermany solely through the strength of American bayonets, bodesill for the future of that nation, if he should succeed in his nefarious plans" (t is high time that


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Americans realize that they have been reduced to the unbecoming status of e;ecutioners for the all%powerful state of (srael"

(t must be mentioned, that the *uremberg laws only applied to $erman non%Aryans and never to.ewish visitors traveling under foreign passports, for whom there e;isted no restrictions whatsoever"The .ews were permitted their own organizations in sports, culture, medicine, schools and they evenhad their own department at $estapo headGuarters which was staffed by =ionists who welcomed the

government4s anti%.ewish measures because they promoted their wished%for emigration of .ews toalestine" There were a total of si;ty training camps run by the =ionists under $erman sponsorship"However at this point the !ritish obected and demanded that every .ewish immigrant must bring onethousand pounds sterling in gold &today eGuivalent to at least 52,222' in order to be permittedpermanent residence in alestine" The $erman government concluded the so%called 3TransferAgreement3 with the =ionists and supplied the reGuired funds from its scarce foreign e;change reservesto help young .ews emigrating to alestine" About fifty thousand young .ews received this assistancewhich represented an outlay of 52,222,222 of pre%war dollars to the e;change%starved -eich" +o muchfor the 3planned destruction3 of the .ews

The international Elympics of /091 presented a high point in the unrelenting rise of $ermany" Ene hadto be there to marvel at the e;pressions of astonishment on the faces of the guests from all over theworld who had been prepared to e;pect a Guite different appearance of a people 3groaning under theyoke of *azi tyranny"3 The oy at the festivities and the show of solidarity and comradeship among theyouth from everywhere in the world seemed to herald the coming of a new and peaceful future" Let,until this day, the .ewish controlled ournaille repeats the stupid story that Hitler left the games in orderto avoid shaking hands with America4s top gold medal winner, .esse Ewens, a *egro" Theyconveniently forget to mention that Ewens, like all the other medalists, was invited to a festive dinnerat Hitler4s chancellery" This included, of course, also the .ewish girl, Helene )ayer, who won the silvermedal in fencing for $ermany" They also forget the remarks of another American *egro athlete, who,on his return was asked by a reporterD 3:id you meet any nasty *azis in $ermany3 AnswerD 3*o, (only met nice $ermans and ( didn4t have to ride in the back of the bus, either"3

Hitler4s unprecedented diplomatic successes, which, without e;ception, were achieved by peacefulnegotiation, only increased the relentless propaganda war against $ermany" This was primarilyconducted by the .ewish%controlled foreign press and hostile emigrants" The *uremberg awscontained a specific clause, that in case of continuing .ewish attacks through propaganda or any othermeans, further restrictions of .ews in $ermany would follow" And so they did" )ost of the .ews wantedto emigrate but this was nearly impossible because no country was willing to receive them" +witzerlandwent so far that it asked the $erman government that all .ewish passports should be recognizable assuch" Thereafter all .ewish passports had the additional first names 3(srael3 and 3+arah3 added, formales and females respectively" These were names which no $erman .ew would have given hischildren" Also, a large letter 3.3 had to be imprinted on the first page of their passports" The murder of avery prominent *ational +ocialist, Wilhelm $ustloff, in +witzerland by a .ewish assassin and another

assassination by a .ew &the circumstances and name of the victim have slipped my mind' e;acerbatedanti%.ewish sentiments in $ermany" Enly the U+A allowed a modest amount of immigrants, if theemigrating person had a relative in the +tates, who was an American citizen and would supply anaffidavit stating that he was willing fully to support the immigrant as long as necessary, or if the lattercould bring along adeGuate financial means to support himself for several years" Walking across the-io $rande at night was definitely not considered an alternative in those days" >ndless lines wereforming around the block in !erlin which housed the U+ consulate by .ews hoping to get on thewaiting list which would permit them to apply for an immigration visa after several months or evenyears of waiting time"


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Austria finally united with the -eich amid the ubilant approval of practically the whole population" Enhis entrance into Austria, Hitler, the country4s most famous son, could barely proceed through thethrongs of flower%throwing people" These were the same people whose +ocialist parliament hadnineteen years earlier voted unanimously to oin the -eich but were then prevented by the Alliedpowers to do so under the threat of refusing the signing of a peace treaty" After the Anschluss theAustrian .ews faired much worse than those in $ermany because the local population harbored much

stronger anti%.ewish sentiments than in $ermany" This was largely due to the fact that in predominantly#atholic countries there is always more religious bias against .ews, but in addition great resentmentwas caused by the influ; of more than one hundred thousand $alician .ews into the starving capital?ienna after the war and by the creation of an independent oland" Let, when the previously mentionedcousin of my mother left the country for !razil, the ++ officer who inspected his baggage at the +wissborder saw in the first trunk the uniform of the former officer of one of the emperor4s e;clusive guardregiments, he stepped back, gave the appropriate military salute and refrained from any furtherinspection"

!ecause of the great pressure e;erted on the Austrian .ews resident -oosevelt conceived the brilliantidea to convene an international conference at the lovely French resort at >vian &reads 3naive3backwards' on the shores of ake $eneva" The purpose of the meeting was to persuade every country

present to lower its stringent immigration reGuirements and permit the remaining three hundredthousand .ews remaining in $ermany to emigrate" (t was .uly /096, the weather in >vian was gloriousand a good time was had by everybody" The results were according" *ot one of the thirty%three nationspresent, including the U+A, was willing to change its immigration laws :r" $oebbels was in sheerecstasy" The display of hypocrisy was plenty of water on his propaganda mills" &3:oesn4t anyone wantour geniuses3' Ene $erman newspaper commentedD 3We see that one likes to pity the .ews, as long asone can use this pity for a wicked agitation against $ermany, but that no state is prepared to fight the4cultural disgrace4 of central >urope by accepting a few thousand .ews" Thus the conference serves toustify $ermany4s policy against .ewry"3

:uring the fall of /096 Hitler achieved one of his greatest political triumphs" The return of thepredominantly $erman +udetenland was achieved without war" The an;iety of the people in !erlin

during the )unich #onference was e;tremely high because the arrival of the #zech air force wase;pected at any minute" Their flying time to !erlin was less than half an hour and $ermany was, at thattime, totally unprepared for any maor military confrontation" ( shall never forget the evening Hitlerreturned from )unich" The relief and ubilation were without bounds" The anti%aircraft batteries in andaround !erlin, some eighty guns, had been lined up along Hitler4s route from the railroad station to thechancellery and ( was standing behind a good friend of mine who fired the electrically connected gunssimultaneously with the push of one button" The roar of that salute was indescribable"

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)y stay in $ermany came to an une;pectedly early end on *ovember 5, /096" ( had received mydiploma of engineering &)+' during April of that year but my efforts to obtain an adeGuate position in

the $erman industry had been unsuccessful because of the ever%stricter application of the *urembergaws" )y father had a good and very influential friend, :r" Hugo >ckener, who was president of theworld famous =eppelin and )aybach )otor Works" He was best known as the commander of thepioneering, world encircling flights of the =eppelins during the Twenties and Thirties" He was also atthe time the best known and most respected $erman in the United +tates" Upon his strongrecommendation ( decided to emigrate to the U+, where he had influential connections and assured methat, despite an again deepening depression and rising unemployment, ( should be able to find gainfulemployment" He arranged my personal introduction to the #onsul $eneral of the U+, )r" -aymondH" $eist" The latter was most cordial but regretted that he could not overrule the e;isting restrictions on


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immigration into the U+" This decision held even after ( showed an affidavit of >ckener4s representativein the U+, a vice%president of his own company, which guaranteed that ( would be supportedindefinitely after my arrival" The affidavit had to be ruled insufficient because the guarantor was norelative of mine" >ven if adeGuate, it merely would put me on a waiting list for up to several years untilmy application could be acted upon" The only possible way to obtain an immigration visa in short orderwas to deposit a large sum into an American bank, which would enable me to immigrate as a capitalist"

:r" >ckener would have made the deposit for me, but under e;isting $erman laws one could not e;portmore than ten marks &ckener, who was a vice%president of *ational #ity !ank of *ew Lork, been on a visit in!erlin" Upon my introduction to him he sat down and wrote a note to the #onsul $eneral in which headvised the #onsulate that a sum of /2,222 &/096 when the price of a brand new #adillac sedan was/,152' has been deposited in my name at his bank in *ew Lork" With this note in my hands ( returnedto the U+ #onsulate where ( received my immigration visa in a couple of hours, accompanied by thepersonal good wishes of )r" $eist"

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$ermans" En the fifth day out, however, the news of the anti%.ewish riots in $ermany were receivedand somber thoughts about the future overshadowed the festive mood"

What had been the cause of the 3Bristallnacht,3 which resulted in damage to or destruction of /62synagogues among the e;isting /rnst vom -ath was still alive and no news of theshooting could have been made public"$iafferi appeared at the police station whichheld $ruenspan and announced that he was representing the assassin" Who paid him Why his interestin an unknown foreign criminal who was illegally residing in France

*othing ever happened to $ruenspan" After the fall of France the French authorities handed him overto the $estapo, which detained him hale and healthy during the whole war without bringing him totrial" After the war he was not tried by the French but was permitted to emigrate to alestine, where he

was reunited with his family" They had been deported from $ermany to oland whence they emigratedto alestine" Where did $ruenspan +r", a poor tailor, obtain the four thousand pounds sterling reGuiredby the !ritish to permit his family of four entrance into alestine The solution to these puzzlingGuestions is revealed in Flashpoint, a book by (ngrid Weckert" En the fateful day of *ovember 0th thewhole hierarchy of the *ational +ocialist party was assembled in )unich to commemorate the fallen ofthe Hitler putsch on the same day in /089" When the first news of the riots hit the assembly, everybodywas aghast and immediate orders went out to the +A and ++ to suppress all attempts of doing damageto .ewish properties" The $erman government was e;tremely concerned about its image abroad whichwas constantly smeared by hostile propaganda and it is inconceivable that the riots were ordered at a


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high level" (t has been established that any orders given were issued by telephone through agentsprovocateur, who followed a well thought%out plan doing the ma;imum damage to the $ermangovernment and people" Through personal contacts ( was well aware fifty%five years ago that theversion of the whole affair, as given by the foreign press, was obviously wrong" The president of thecompany ( eventually worked for happened to be a Herr vom -ath, the uncle of the murdered embassysecretary, from whom ( got a more detailed description of what went on in aris after the assassination"

:r" >ckener was in constant personal contact with Hermann $@ring concerning air force matters andthe building of a new airship, and he wrote to me that the air marshal was in a state of shock because ofthe irreparable damage done to the $erman reputation abroad"

Eur ourney continued through very stormy weather and on the /1th of *ovember we disembarked inHoboken" The reception was not too friendly because the customs inspection lasted for hours andturned out to be a disaster for a few" +ome young olish .ews were hit especially hard" They weretrained craftsmen and not being able to e;port any sizable amount of money from either $ermany oroland, they had invested all they had in tools of their trade" They had no money to pay the reGuiredduty for their brand new eGuipment, which was simply confiscated" ( wonder if they remembered theirtreatment at the :utch border, where nothing was taken from the harshly persecuted ones" When thesurly customs inspector laid eyes on my brand new camera, my sterling silver flatware and my thirty

year old, but still like%new looking microscope &but not my disassembled and concealed uger' heliterally began to salivate and declared everything for brand new and subect to duty payments" He had,however, not reckoned with the presence of my sponsor, )r" Wilhelm von )eister, an imposing figureof nearly seven feet in height and capable of an impressive and demanding bearing" Already annoyedfor having to come to Hoboken instead to one of the fancier shipping lines docking on the *ew Lorkside, to which he was accustomed, he was visibly irritated by the slowness of the proceedings" He toldthe customs inspector in an inimitable !ritish accent to repack everything because his time was toovaluable to be wasted on such trivia" He further demanded that everything was to be kept under lockuntil the arrival of his lawyer, who would take care of the necessary formalities" The startled inspectorretreated immediately to the office of his superior and reappeared shortly to tell us that everything wasokay and that we could leave with all of my belongings" This showed me for the first time that even in

a much%vaunted democracy some people are more eGual than others"Thereafter ( was driven to *ew Lork #ity and installed at a very comfortable hotel in downtown)anhattan" This was followed by a sumptuous lunch at an e;clusive club" Things were beginning tolook up" )y sponsor gave me 85 every week, which ( was to repay after having obtained a ob andgetting settled" The weekly bill at the hotel amounted to /8 and a good dinner at that time wasobtainable for less than /"22" After three days at the hotel ( got bored and called an acGuaintance ofmine who was residing at the (nternational House of #olumbia University" He immediately arrangedfor me to move uptown into a room at the House with a splendid view of the Hudson river and the$eorge Washington bridge" The weekly cost of my new accommodation came to 0"22 and the food atthe in%house cafeteria was even cheaper than in the downtown restaurants" ( was beginning to feelaffluent" The atmosphere at the house was most encouraging for a lonely stranger in a new country with

a very limited knowledge of the then still prevailing language" The best ( could do in >nglish was torecite )arc Antonio4s funeral oration from +hakespeare4s .ulius #aesar, which together with Hamlet4s3To be or not to be,3 had to be learned by heart during my high school years in !erlin" This did not getme very far when trying to order a hot dog, a cheeseburger or asking a gruff%looking policemen forsome direction in downtown )anhattan" His curt but easily understandable answerD 3Why the hell don4tyou learn first some >nglish before asking stupid Guestions3 ( must confess to some nostalgic thoughtsat the time about the policemen in !erlin, placed at maor intersections and carrying armbandsdesignating the foreign languages they were speaking, who would accompany a stranger to the place hewanted to go, if they felt he didn4t understand their verbal directions"


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At the House things were very different because Guite a few people did speak $erman, including anumber of acGuaintances from !erlin and ?ienna, whom ( had not seen in years and who had arrivedearlier" There was also a great number of very attractive girl students who, after proper introduction,were kind enough to help me in improving my knowledge of basic >nglish" After celebrating my firstThanksgiving among the students of the House ( had to give some serious thoughts to the finding of aob" ( had good credentials and personal recommendations to top e;ecutives at $eneral >lectric, Allied

#hemical,Hanovia and -#A, whose world famous director of research, ?ladimir =worykin, was agood friend of my thesis%father in !erlin, )a; Bnoll, the original inventor of the magnetic electronmicroscope" (n the latter4s laboratory ( had studied the then still very new and advanced field ofelectron%optics which became of fundamental importance to the development of T? picture% andcamera%tubes" The course and the results of all these interviews with bigwigs of the American industrywere of discouraging sameness" !efore each meeting ( was picked up by a chauffeured limousine and acompany representative who took me to lunch at an e;clusive restaurant and, after consuming somefine food and a couple of soothing drinks, ( was driven to a grimy looking factory in *ew .ersey where( was introduced to the top e;ecutive to whom ( was recommended" After listening to a friendly andreassuring pep talk ( was interviewed by several department heads, each of them offering me his bestwishes for a successful future but regretting that at the time there were no openings in theirdepartments" Thereafter ( was driven to my temporary abode at the (nternational House, again bychauffeured limousine but this time without accompanying company representative"

#hristmas was approaching and ( became increasingly pessimistic about my chances of findingemployment in my chosen field or otherwise" The country was in a deepening recession and theglowing stories which ( had heard during the listening to foreign broadcasts while still in !erlin, of howthe friendly genius -oosevelt was leading his country to new economic heights, lost some of theirluster" ( was walking up and down the endless avenues of *ew Lork to catch the flavor of The #ity butonly developed a bitter taste, which has remained ever since" Let, ( do not want to be totally negative,because if ( compare the *ew Lork of /096 with the one ( last visited in /068, it seemed like paradiselost To someone having been primarily raised in the two cleanest places of the world south of+candinavia, namely !erlin and +witzerland, the first impressions were devastating" The streets were

far from clean and the wintry winds blew the dust through the canyons between the skyscrapersresulting in sore eyes" The subways were incredibly noisy and grimy" )illions of people with strangelye;pressionless faces were constantly rushing around, seemingly from nowhere to nowhere" The showwindows appeared dull and their displays were lacking taste but sometimes showed refreshing humor" (fondly remember a department store displaying ladies4 unmentionables with a sign from a servicestation among them announcingD 3We Are Fi;ing Flats"3 The best and cheapest diversions were a rideon the +taten (sland ferry, which cost only one nickel, and a visit to gorgeous -adio #ity )usic Hallwhich cost only


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start work at the camera plant of Agfa%Ansco #orporation in !inghamton, *L" To understand how hewas able to perform this seemingly impossible feat ( must digress and relate some of his background aswell as some of the history of the company where ( was to start my career on the second day of theapproaching *ew Lear" ?on )eister was, as previously mentioned, the son of a !ritish mother" He wasborn and educated in >ngland and therefore a !ritish subect" His father was the president of thegovernment of the russian state, Hesse%*assau, and a prominent industrialist as well as one of the

three founders of the giant $erman chemical trust known as ($%Farben" The trust consisted of si; maorcombines, one of which was Agfa%!erlin, the number one supplier of photographic materials andeGuipment throughout >urope" The American subsidiary of ($%Farben was $eneral Aniline and Film#orporation, which had purchased the venerable photographic firm of Anthony and +covill in!inghamton, from then on called Agfa%Ansco" There they produced all types of photographic films,papers and chemicals as well as low priced cameras in competition with Bodak and :uont" !ecauseof the high Guality of their products, especially the photographic papers, they became very successful"?on )eister had come to the U+ in the Twenties where he became, only twenty%some years old, thesales representative ofuerssen Lachts, a $erman manufacturer of large and lu;urious motor yachts"They must have sold very well during the -oaring Twenties, because after the :epression hit thecountry in the early Thirties, von )eister was able to found his own company which producedreproduction papers for engineering drawings" The new product, he introduced, known as :iazo%rint,was the property of ($%Farben and therefore easily available to von )eister" >ventually :iazo%rintreplaced blueprinting in the U+ as it had done previously in $ermany and most of >urope" Hiscompany, Ezalid #orp", was located in .ohnson #ity, *L, a small town situated between its two sistercities, !inghamton and >ndicott" The latter was the home of (!)" .ohnson #ity was hometown to the>ndicott%.ohnson shoe factory" !inghamton had, in addition to Agfa%Ansco, the ink Aviation#orporation and later a large division of -emington%-and #orp" The whole area of the 3Triple #ities3called itself the 3?alley of Epportunity"3 +hortly before my arrival Ezalid had fused with $eneralAniline and Film #orp" and von )eister became thereby a vice president in this large combine" Thefinancial relations with ($%Farben were severed for political reasons and their interest in $eneralAniline, today known as $AF, was taken over by +wiss (nterhandel, a financial institution of+witzerland" These details are important to appreciate the actions of the U+ $overnment a few yearslater"

En :ecember 92, /090 ( arrived by bus in !inghamton and settled temporarily in von )eister4sbeautiful little summer house in .ohnson #ity" The following week ( was introduced to the managementof Agfa%Ansco where ( found to my great surprise that nearly everybody from the president down to thechief engineer was a recently arrived .ewish NmigrN from $ermany" As everybody knows today, ($%Farben was the terrible outfit which mistreated .ewish deportees in their large !una &artificial rubber'Works located in Auschwitz" Ef course their management was tried after the war and many of themseverely punished for their alleged misdeeds" Anyway, during the late Thirties Agfa%!erlin waspressured by the $erman government to get rid of its high%level .ewish staff members and arrived atthe heinous solution of deporting them to the wild west in !inghamton, *L, where they languished at

salaries from fifteen to fifty thousand dollars per annum" These salaries were published by the localpress at the end of each year and should be compared with my starting salary of /,922 &85 per week'and the then%e;isting minimum wage of 2"


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unlocked during the night" There was some resentment because a greenhorn such as ( had what wasthen considered a well paying ob, while many locals were unemployed during the still%unrelieved:epression"

The personal difficulties ( had were mainly with ethnic $ermans who had immigrated into the U+ inthe Twenties" They resented my efforts of setting them straight with respect to their distorted views ofthe Third -eich, which had been infected with anti%$erman media propaganda" )y efforts to give them

a more balanced view of the new $ermany were usually given the pat admonishmentD 3?ee areAmericans and venn in America you have to do as ze Americans do"3 This attitude, shared by the vastmaority of ethnic $ermans, comprising about twenty percent of the total population, is actually Guitelaudable and could, if practiced by the numerous and more vociferous minorities, would make life inour times much more agreeable" For the $erman%Americans it has led to a situation were they have,despite their not inconsiderable contributions to the progress and well%being of this country, become thepolitically most impotent group in the U+" #ompare this with the influence and power of American.ewry, whose supposedly two percent of the population occupies nearly fifty percent of the seats of theupper echelons of our government, and e;erts an iron grip over the remainder" There is not a single$erman%sounding name in the ranks of our present administration A more active participation inAmerican politics by the large $erman minority would certainly have prevented the idiotic and

disastrous participation of the U+ in a war in >urope which was instigated by the imperialisticambitions of -ussia, France and >ngland" &For the best researched background to that conflagration,make sure to read :egrelle4s HitlerD !orn at ?ersailles'" (t also would probably have nullified thesinister plans of -oosevelt which caused the outbreak of the war in oland and dragged the Americanpeople into it through his lying and the cynical sacrifice of nearly three thousand sailors and soldiers atearl Harbor"

The spring of /090 saw Hitler4s last effort to solve the problems of the $erman .ews in a civilizedmanner" He sent Halmar +chacht, the president of the -eichsbank and architect of of the $ermanrecovery, to >ngland for the purpose of negotiating a large loan which would enable $ermany to let theremaining 852,222 .ews emigrate with their belongings and the necessary financial means to assure thereGuired immigration visas" The governor of the !ank of >ngland, )ontagu *orman, along with many

members of parliament, were agreeable to this scheme but it was immediately torpedoedby #haim Weitzmann and the warmongers around #hurchill, who had become a faithful servant of the.ewish banking hierarchy after they had saved him from bankruptcy from the loss of his fortunes in thecrash of /080" (n earlier times he had been an outspoken anti%.ew" The olish dictator ilsudski hadconcluded a friendship and non%aggression treaty with Hitler but after his death the brainlesschauvinistic successor, #olonel !eck, became a willing victim of Anglo%American intrigues" WhenHitler advanced the incredibly generous offer to oland which let her keep the totally undeserved spoilsfrom World War (, and only asked permission to build an autobahn through the former $erman landsmaking up the 3Borridor3 to connect >ast russia with the -eich, and asked for the return of thepredominantly $erman city :anzig, he was rebuffed" :anzig was a free city under the protectorate ofthe eague of *ations" -oosevelt4s traveling emissary, William !ullit, had completed his assignment

well in Warsaw and ondon" >ngland concluded a treaty with oland promising instant help in case ofwar with $ermany" #areful and treacherous as usual For the still large $erman minority in oland anincredible rule of terror ensued immediately" (t resulted in 56,222 gruesomely mutilated $ermancorpses, victims of murderous, thieving olish mobs" The events and political machinations during thefinal days of August and the beginning of +eptember are meticulously reported and referenced in thebook, The Forced War, by the eminent American historian :avid Hoggan" The assumption of any guiltof Hitler in the outbreak of the war is simply ludicrous" Hitler, who had by then concluded the famousnon%aggression pact with +talin, reacted swiftly to the e;cesses of the oles against the helpless$erman minorities in their midst and their multiple border violations"


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:uring two month%long visits to Warsaw, where my mother4s cousin &the one who survived seven yearsof captivity in +iberia during the first war' was manager of the largest and most e;clusive nightclub inall of eastern >urope, ( had plenty of opportunity to observe the large amount of olish officersswaggering through the streets in their impressive uniforms and boasting about how they would get to!erlin in less than two weeks and ride triumphantly through the !randenburg $ate" They had beenpersuaded by their leaders that the new $erman army was badly eGuipped and poorly trained and

would revolt as soon as Hitler sent them to war" Well, they had to revise their travel plans a bit" Theoutmoded olish air force was smashed in the first few hours of the conflict before it even could take tothe air" Thereafter their army was driven eastwards into the loving embrace of the -ussians, which hadin the meantime advanced to the demarcation line previously agreed upon between Hitler and +talin"The good friends of the olish people in ondon and aris declared war on $ermany but did not send asingle round of rifle ammunition to help them in their distress" *either did they order a few regimentsto distract the $ermans in their endeavor to resolve the olish Guestion once and forever" )aybe ( amwrong about that, because there is a story floating about that a couple of French regiments advanced amile across the border into the +aarland but beat a hasty retreat after sighting a few $erman uniforms"The brutal but cautious Asiatic tyrant, ruling in -ussia, immediately solved the problem of a possibleorganized resistance in oland by ordering fourteen thousand of their officers and intelligentsia to beliGuidated by the simple e;pedient of a single shot in the back of the head" This e;emplary display ofefficiency and frugality should be a valuable lesson to our money%sGuandering military establishment"The supposedly even more brutal $ermans sent many of the captured olish officers to schools werethey could study fields of their choice, hoping that they would become useful members of the humansociety" This was possibly a mistake"

After the successful completion of the olish campaign Hitler began the demobilization of his army,because he was convinced that the !ritish were sufficiently reasonable to discontinue a war which bynow had become utterly senseless" )ost of the !ritish were possibly agreeable to this, as were theFrench" *ot so )r" -oosevelt, who ordered his ambassador, .oe Bennedy, to 3put some iron up the!ritish backsides"3 Bennedy was reluctant to do it, was recalled and went home fearing for his life,according to his own remarks" The war continued7 Hitler sent his soldiers to the recently constructed

West wall and the warring armies were staring at each other for several months" The 3phony war3After several unsuccessful tries to persuade the stubborn >nglish to make peace, Hitler finally decidedto end this nonsense and went to the attack" The invincible French army as well as their !ritish alliesand even the impenetrable )aginot ine collapsed within a few weeks under the rapid advanceof $uderian4s panzers and the relentless pounding of the +tukas" The !ritish retreated to :unkerGue,Hitler ordered his victorious panzers to stop and let the e;peditionary force escape to >ngland" Thiswas a very bad mistake which none of his enemies would have made" !ut then he was after all a sort ofidealist who simply could not comprehend that his racial brothers across the sea would not finally seethe light and agree to make peace" They didn4t, which eventually cost them their empire and reducedthem to the status of a small secondary power" Their megalomaniacal, alcoholic leader was from nowon merely a lieutenant to our 3great3 president"

The French were ordered to sign the armistice in the same railroad car in which the $ermans werepreviously forced to sign the armistice after the First War" (n typical brutal Hitlerian fashion he ordereda $erman army band to strike up the French national anthem at the arrival of the emissaries and openedhis speech by paying homage to his brave enemies who had fallen in the defense of their country"#ompare this with the humiliating behavior of the 3gentlemen3 of the !ritish army who, after the finaldefeat of $ermany, arrested the only legal post%Hitlerian $erman government of Admiral :oenitz"They stormed into the room where the $ermans had been waiting for them, shoutingD 3Hands up, pantsdown3 and proceeded to steal all their personal items including the fountain pens" For me, having


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grown up in post%?ersailles $ermany, the day of the signing of the French surrender was one of thehappiest of my life" .ustice had finally been done

!ack in !inghamton my life became less carefree because of the incessant anti%$erman propagandawhich was to push the reluctant American people into oining the homicide far beyond their shores"Theodore Baufmann was laboring on his infamous opus, $ermany )ust erish, which demanded thatall $ermans of reproductive age should be sterilized, a book which was highly recommended by

-oosevelt, especially for recruits of the newly drafted army" (t was said that the $ermans, who were noteven able to cross the >nglish #hannel in force, were going to invade !razil and proceed their marchnorthwards to attack the U+" The highly%paid .ewish managers of Agfa%Ansco suddenly becamesuspected of being secret *azi agents and as for me personally, most people were sure of it because notonly was ( not .ewish but ( had also previously defended $ermany and worst of all ( had reGuired asecondhand !uick for the princely sum of C52 as early as *ovember /090" +ince this seemed to beimpossible, considering my still low%level position, ( must surely have received remunerations for myactivities in service of the Third -eich" (n addition, some observant neighbor had seen me at nightcarrying a suspicious looking briefcase, probably containing contraband of some sort" Actually ( wasattending an evening course in order to improve my still very limited >nglish and carried my writingpapers in the briefcase" ( was reported to the local :istrict Attorney and called on the carpet for this

deviation" (t took the chief of the !inghamton F!( office to supply me with a clean bill of health" RTrythat todayS

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+urprisingly, the $erman army beat the -ussians to the gates of )oscow, despite its lower numbers andinferior tanks" They did, however, have much better trained soldiers and far superior leadership" Theadvance of the $ermans was stopped by the onset of an abnormally harsh winter for which they lackedthe appropriate clothing" +talin4s breathing spell was used to re%eGuip his forces, thanks to a massiveinflu; of American war matNriel of all kinds" +talin could also shift his large +iberian armies to thewest, having concluded a non%aggression pact with .apan, which made the fatal mistake to fall into the

trap -oosevelt had set for them at earl Harbor" Had they attacked -ussia instead, to help their ally$ermany, +talin could not have recovered from his defeat and -oosevelt would not have been able todrag this country into the war by the back door"

)y situation in !inghamton became now Guite precarious" After earl Harbor all $erman emigrantswho had as yet not acGuired full citizenship &it took a minimum of five years of continuous residence inthe U+ to receive the second and final papers' had to leave Agfa%Ansco, which by now was namedsimply Ansco #orp" This included the .ewish top managers" The +wiss%owned $eneral Aniline wasillegally disowned and put under the totally inept management of the >nemy Alien roperty #ustodian"(n addition, the top management of the corporation was sued for infringement of the +herman Anti%Trust Act" (t was a totally ridiculous, trumped%up charge and the government indirectly admitted asmuch by thwarting every effort to let it come to a trial" ?on )eister was able to switch me to

his Ezalid #orp", but a few days later the a;e fell on him, too" A born !ritisher who had years agobecome an American citizen was now considered suspect because his late father had been a prominentfigure in imperial $ermany" The well laid plans of my becoming the future director of research at thecamera plant were thereby shattered" Ene afternoon three agents of the F!( showed up and confiscatedmy camera &it was returned in good condition after the war' as well as those of my two roommates" (showed them the shortwave coils, which ( had removed from my radio set, as reGuired by the law,which prohibited the possession of shortwave radios by enemy aliens" Ene of the agents turned on theradio and, believe it or not, the booming voice of :er FOhrer filled the room, giving a maor pep talk tothe $erman nation" +hort waves are very tricky" >verybody had a good laugh but the radio was takenanyhow" The ne;t day a front page photo appeared in the local blat showing all the contraband takenfrom the enemies and, of course, all their names given" As it turned out ( stayed at Ezalid another eight

months, but then ( had to leave because their copy papers were considered essential to the war effort"(n four years my career had now advanced from an unwanted non%Aryan in $ermany to an unemployedenemy alien in the U+" !ecause ( had to eat and to support my mother, ( was desperately looking for aob until the kind hearted owner of a $erman%American bakeshop hired me to drive his delivery truck,which brought bread and rolls to most of the restaurants in and around !inghamton" This ob actuallypaid as well as my former engineering position, but when the owner found out about my professionalbackground he immediately pulled me off the truck and wanted me to look after the machinery in hislargely automated bakery" First ( had to learn everything about baking bread, which paid much less thandriving a truck, but to keep me he gave me a raise every week" The working hours were brutal" ( had tobe at the shop at 9 am and left around 8 pm" !eing already used to a more leisurely approach to makinga living, ( got on the phone to call )r" $eist at the department of state and let him have my tale of woe"

Within a few days ( held in my hands the papers, which stated that ( could be hired for war%work up tothe classification of 3#onfidential"3 ( was now on my own and luckily another $erman%American, whowas director of research at the Tung%+ol amp works in *ewark hired me over the telephone" *ewarknot being a very attractive place, ( rented a nice little apartment in a high%rise on )anhattan4s West+ide" >verything went well for about nine months, when ( was called in to my boss, who sadly told me,that 3Washington3 had revoked my working permit" *o reasons given" +ome dimwitted officialprobably had to show that he was doing his ob, watching diligently that no dangerous alien impairedthe safety of the war effort" ( was told that ( would be paid an additional two weeks and that ( couldreturn as soon as ( straightened things out with Washington" (n a similar case affecting a $erman%


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American colleague of mine who was already a full citizen, the 3straightening%out3 process had takensi; months" +itting with my mother in a, for me rather costly, apartment, recently furnished on credit,the situation was depressing to say the least" And now, on my way ho

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