- It's been two months, and Germany has not yet come up
with a charge as to why Ernst Zundel is being held in prison. Allegedly,
there are two dozen huge cartons of "evidence" collected on him
over the past two decades or so, but his attorney has only been given two.
Ernst is in no hurry; he is recovering from the nightmare inflicted
on him in Canada, and he is enjoying getting to know and assess the
political
landscape in Europe. He is carefully preparing himself for the next trial
- in all likelihood "The Great Holocaust Trial Number 3" - this
time on the soil of his homeland.
-
- You are eager to hear about Ernst, and I am taking this
opportunity to present to you for your appreciation two of his slightly
shortened and edited letters to friends. One was written to his very close
friend, Yvonne, Dr. Robert Faurisson's sister. The second one was written
to a well-known American publisher.
-
- Here goes:
-
- Dear Yvonne and René, and of course children,
grandchildren and brothers -
-
- The arrest, deportation, the farce of a proceeding before
Blais, the unconscionable treatment by Canadian authorities in court and
in prison, were only the first act of a drama soon to unfold in Germany
- and elsewhere! A play of many acts - unless, of course, historical
developments
and events upset the carefully laid plans of the enemies of mankind. They
are not infallible and definitely are defeatable. It's only a matter of
time.
-
- Time is a man-made concept and construct - that's why
Jean d'Arc, before her Nostradamus, and after her Edgar Cayce, Rudolf
Steiner
and A.H. had such a hard time with Time. In cosmic "Time", days
can mean years, even decades. That's what makes the Quadrains of
Nostradamos
and other seers so very difficult to interpret and to translate into
earth-time
history, our own human continuum. But it is also what makes being alive
so very interesting!
-
- I have started to go to in-prison church services of
both the Catholic and Protestant faiths and have even attended one Bible
Study Hour, surrounded by murderers, dope pushers, child molesters, con-men
and crooks. What a scene in the play I described to you! I go to church
to listen to glorious organ music, look at a large, beautifully stained
glass window like in Notre Dame or the Strassburg Cathedral (Muenster)
of René's Elsass region. The Protestant minister is an interesting
man the size and looks of Martin Luther, with a pleasant singing voice
- powerful enough to be heard above the organ. Yes, they have quite an
organ in this church-chapel, which was built about a hundred years ago
and is in the typical architectural style of Wilhelm II, just like my
schoolhouse
in our little Black Forest village. It is not as frilly and playful as
the Victorian style so common in England and her former colonies. Being
typically an expression of the Germanic spirit, it is solid, no nonsense,
with a bare touch, [at the most] borrowing from Gothic lines, but it is
built to last for centuries - sandstone, exquisitely cut by obviously very,
very skilled stone masons and by bricklayers so accurate that the whole
building could rival the pyramids in quality. No kidding! The
salmon-colored
sandstone is offset by stucco in a pleasant, inoffensive cream-like color,
and I do not tire [looking at it] in my daily one-hour exercise walks.
In Toronto I got 5 to 10 minutes if I was lucky.
-
- For instance, just to show you the German idea of Beauty
being a Duty for architects and masons at the time, the arches made above
the cells and doors, even though resting on a slab of solid sandstone frame
around these openings, nevertheless have a "rising sun" design
above each and every window and door. This must have cost them extra
months
or even years of labor by hand, and thus must have added enormously to
the cost of the building, without adding appreciably to the structural
stability, I am sure - and yet, there it is! For Beauty's sake!
-
- When I pointed that out to one of my fellow German
inmates,
he looked at me quizzically as if I was a little daft or had lost my
marbles.
Some have eyes but cannot see!
-
- Every day I discover new little features and
craftsmanship
that brings me closer to my long-dead ancestors and makes me admire their
skill, dedication and also patience in building what was, after all, not
a royal residence or palace, but a building for criminals!
-
- [Ingrid's comment: It has always hurt me in my soul
and does to this day to see American schools who truly look like and have
the feel of prisons. Most school yards don't have a single blade of grass.
Our precious children spend most of their formative years cooped up in
such monstrosities. I never understood how we, as parents and citizens
of the richest country on earth, could inflict such a cruelty on our
offspring!]
-
- I keep in touch as stamps come in. I try to write a
few letters each and every day to keep in touch with my friends, lawyers,
children, grandchildren - and, of course, Ingrid who gets more letters
than anyone. As it should be!
-
- Yesterday I also received my first book, ordered via
computer print-out request form, from a massive catalog listing 1,500-2,000
titles in at least ten languages - Russian, Albanian, English, Dutch,
French
etc. The original title of the book was Water and Man. The German title
is much more complicated and convoluted, but inside are fantastic drawings
of irrigation devices, dams, pumps, Greek and Roman inventions, aquaducts
etc. I have always been interested in reclaiming deserts and improving
agricultural productivity. I read and read til the early hours of the
morning
and completely forgot that I was in prison in my Martin Luther type room
he had at the Wartburg where he translated the Bible into what became
"High
German." I must admit that I sometimes feel guilty of goofing off
in visions and dreams, while Ingrid, my poor wife, works so hard to keep
going the work we began! I have only received one letter in six weeks
from Ingrid so far, and your letter was the only one of substance - the
few others were postcards mailed in envelopes from Cambridge, UK, Spain,
Norway, and Japan.
-
- [Ingrid's comment: I have written to Ernst every week
since he was deported - long letters of at least 5 typewritten pages each.
Evidently they are all still parked at the censor's!]
-
- I have been keeping myself super-occupied with writing
and planning, note-keeping, drawing and cooking. Yes, you read right -
cooking in a "war-like way." So far, I was refused vitamins
and my anti-cancer diet. I tried to make an ad hoc combination of foods,
fruits, cheeses, and spices, and aargh (!) garlic and onions. Ingrid is
lucky not to have to smell me near her, otherwise I would be banished from
her presence. She positively hates onions - never mind garlic! I am lucky
that there are so many Balkan and Turkish prisoners here because the prison
store caters to that large clientele, and cancer and garlic are
"self-negating"
- which means, at least theoretically, that people who eat a lot of
cold-pressed
oil keep a potential problem at bay by strengthening their own immune
system
[with garlic].
-
- Thus I may survive to spite my enemies a few years
longer!
-
- I found sunflower oil, feta cheese, some lemon juice.
The problem is, of course, that we have no refrigerators. Lemons and
milk products spoil fast, and even sausages are dangerous after more than
a day. Thus, sardines in cans have to substitute for the other parts of
a "survival diet." I live like a soldier on the Eastern
Front.
-
- We get three kinds of herbal tea - Rose Hip plus
Hibiscus,
Peppermint Tea, and some British type Ceylon or Black Tea. I spoiled
myself
and bought one of those conical manual coffee filter tops and an immersion
heater. Twice a day, I make myself a nice cup of German Melitta coffee
and have mental communion with Ingrid who used to make a coffee break with
sinfully sweet pastry or a piece of chocolate. The whole house smelled
absolutely heavenly of German style strong coffee! You have to know it
to mentally taste this treat! Twice a day, my mind takes "focused
wings" while at other times it's just daydreaming and visualizing
a new age - more beautiful and more perfect than man has known til
now.
-
- I have now obtained the following bourgeouis
items:
-
- A paint box (Boite a coleur) Brushes (princean) A nice
set of coloring pencils An eraser Even a pencil sharpener of my own, A
nail clipper A real tooth brush A comb Some felt markers White-out (when
I make a mistake) Some yellow hi-lighter - it took a judge's order to get
that in Canada!
-
- And, of course, I am sitting on a real chair, writing
at a real table, and the judge allowed my sisters to bring me a watch.
Yes, my first watch in 27 months! Now I feel positively civilized and
spoiled!
-
- They also have a library here, as I said.
-
- I have Ingrid's bookmark with the color photo of her
and her trilogy less than two feet away from me as I write this, plus a
large photo of the Soaring Eagles Gallery and a lovely photo of an American
Bald-headed Eagle before a U.S. flag - one of my favorite images showing
the German-Roman influence over America's heraldry. It's not the British
Lion ( of Judah?) nor the Fleur de Lyse (?) the U.S. Founding Fathers
adopted,
but the powerful image of the Eagle. I always found that very much to
my liking and made my mental association with that great
"continental"
country - like the errand child of Prussian Germany gone temporarily
astray.
-
- Most people in our age have not the faintest idea of
the remarkable and profound part German immigrants had on the creation
and founding of this great overseas extension of Europe. I always looked
upon Americans as Romans undoubtedly looked upon Carthagenians at the prime
of Carthage, and always hoped that the modern Carthagenians would come
to their senses and not continue to squander their precious gene pool and
resources in the service of "extra-European" forces. My fervent
hope is that America will find men and women of wisdom and courage who
will soon seize the reins and, like Christ, drive the money changers from
the Temple of American public life. It can be done! Germany did it
successfully
and almost bloodlessly - that means that America with their revolutionary
traditions will once again defeat the tyrants who lately have usurped power
by stealth and by deception - and are now ever more visible!
-
- Mother's Day is coming, and I wanted to say, Yvonne -
in a way, you are like a mother to French, even to Continental Revisionism,
whereas Robert is the patriarch and I am, and was, a pupil. I think of
you - what an unusual family you are, brilliant, independent thinkers,
dedicated, courageous. You are a unique family. I know many people, but
the Faurisson clan is like a Scottish clan - fierce and independent, yet
organized, not berserker-like. Magnificent!
-
- Please, thank Chard [a French cartoonist] and the people
at Rivarol for sending me their paper. The censor - the judge who put
me behind bars - let me have the paper, and I am making an effort to
understand
the very subtle nuances of French political and cultural commentary -
thanks
to the Gaissot Law, no doubt. The people at Rivarol are very courageous
- and intelligently patriotic! Compared to Rivarol and some of the other
smaller patriotic French publications like Verite et Justice, Faites etc.,
German publications are what Robert accused the Quebecois of, and the
Germans.
He said they felt "lourdes" - in German
"schwerfällig"
- meaning, in a way, ponderous, and as usual, Robert is right on target.
Ingrid was always troubled by my own ponderousness, and it will
undoubtedly
be evident to many that Ernst without Ingrid is like an unpolished diamond.
She spoiled me about my lousy grammar, and of course she knew how to spell
and what tenses to use. For me, all those "things" were always
a Book of Seven Seals - and of little interest, I must confess. I am and
always will be a peasant at heart, and despite of all attempts to civilize
me, easily revert back to type and write, as they say in German, "wie
mir der Schnabel gewachsen ist." This must be a 500-700 year old
saying - I write the way my beak is grown. I love these old sayings.
They are so unique, powerful, and pregnant with meaning.
-
- I am slowly clarifying in my mind how I will tackle the
problem ahead of me. More judicial proceedings. Disgusting! Please thank
Robert for his succinct advice and M.D. for his excellent translation.
I have asked [Attorney] Rieger not to see me to save money and time before
he has sifted through the 24 large 3 inch to 4 inch files he has finally
been given after I instructed him to take the prosecutors to court to force
them to turn over these files to me as well as to him. I will, after
careful
study, decide on a strategy to adopt.
-
- Some people have already offered to testify on my behalf,
but with that "New European Arrest Warrant" [law] and those
disgusting
precedents about "Offenkundigkeit" [literal translation
"It's
obvious", in this case it means judicial notice that "the
Holocaust
happened" and cannot be challenged], I frankly would feel loath to
endanger any potential witnesses. In other words, I do not want to be
used as the "cheese in the trap" or some honey pot, as they say
in American parlance. I believe in being brave, even in acting heroically
- but, Yvonne, I abhor suicidal behavior! That's why I request urgently
that no one should come to visit me - not you, René, Robert, Ingrid,
not even my sons. You are all far too valuable and too dear to me to
risk endless persecutions and hassles at borders and airports.
-
- It is a new Dark Age that has temporarily seized Europe
and North America. It is like some kind of intellectual virus that has
befallen Western culture. My mentor called it "the bacillus of
decomposition",
a very fitting description for this condition. Mr. Arcand used to tell
me that our Western culture was gravely ill, caused by this invading
bacillus,
and that our immune system was already compromised and our defense
mechanisms
confused by alien concepts and false ideas - but that, in the end, we would
marshal all our vital forces just before we succumbed and would rise from
the sickbed, shake off the invaders and tormentors in one heroic final
act of self-assertion - cast them off, the way one purges a body of a
deadly
illness. I believed him, because that was the message of the Great One
also. That's why he did not like Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the
West."
-
-
- =====
-
- (Excerpts from a letter to an American publisher of a
weekly paper)
-
- Your fax was given to me on the 30th of March. It
arrived
here the 25th; the censor stamped it on the 28th. That is the speediest
mail I have had. I got a letter from Jürgen Rieger, my attorney,
which, according to German law, must not be opened or censored. Yet it
took 19 days to reach me. A normal letter in Germany takes 2-3 days
maximum,
so somewhere obviously this letter was held up - why and by whom is
anyone's
guess. I am totally out of my depth here because my 46 years' absence
really do show!
-
- [Your wife] was absolutely right in her assessment of
the human treatment of prisoners here, certainly since my arrival until
now. I cannot complain of my treatment. On the contrary, it has always
been correct, even courteous, helpful, and sympathetic. Canadian guards
working under disgusting rules and regulations showed individual humanity
and also empathy [on occasion] that surprised me, especially after they
got to know me. They went to the zundelsite.org so often, apparently from
within the prison, that the administration had the website blocked so the
staff could no longer access it from work.
-
- It was actually gratifying to me to hear the intelligent
questions on history by some of the guards who had me and my case as a
high school and later as a university subject, since I got several pages
from 1987 on in Canadian textbooks. It was amazing! Others remembered
me walking to court with my yellow hard hat body guards. Just picture
the scene [here] - a potbellied and bald Ernst Zundel, stark naked, locked
into a Sing-Sing like prison shower, guarded by a Black, a Sikh, and a
German or a Chinese or Filipino, listening in rapt attention as I held
forth on the causes of World War II or the other subject which so freaks
out German authorities. Guards would buy the "Letters from Cell #
7" book via the Internet from Ingrid and sneak it in, shove it through
my feeding slot and ask me to autograph it or to dedicate it to their
fathers
- [one of whom] living 5,000 miles away, had been a Zundel supporter for
20 years!
-
- One day I will write you some details that will warm
your heart of Aryan brotherhood beyond guard-and-prisoner. A movie is
waiting to be made just about this.
-
- The worst, coldest, most callous and nastiest place was
undoubtedly Blount County Jail in Tennessee where the food rations were
so small that all prisoners were constantly hungry and the staff seemed
to be made up of people who were just plain bullies - impolite, crude and
rude. I had one cell mate for a few days who was clearly mental as a manic
depressive. He had regular pretend phone calls with the President. He
fancied himself to be the Chief of the CIA. The guards knew he was
"off"
because he would get up at 2-3 a.m. and press the emergency button on the
Intercom - to berate them!
-
- One morning 5-6 huge guards stormed into our cell. I
was in the top bunk. They hollered at me to take my mattress and
belongings
and get out of the cell while they pushed him [out of] the bunk bed below.
I was not yet out of the cell when they began to slap, punch and kick
that man. He was curled up on the ground, screaming, blood squirting from
his nose and head. They kept pummeling, punching, kneeing him, finally
dragging him out of the cell on his side, pulling him with one leg. He
bled profusely, spattering the walls and floor with blood - in full view
of other prisoners! I saw him three days later, black and blue, in sick
bay where we were always taken in painful leg irons connected with long
metal chains on our feet and handcuffs - within the prison, mind you! -
six to seven prisoners padlocked together, shuffling along the corridors,
to and from sick bay. This man sued the prison. I knew the lady lawyer.
How far this case went, I don't know - but here was a clearly mentally
imbalanced American, a chemical engineer by profession, treated like a
piece of meat! Awful! Sad!
-
- I heard and saw some similar things in Toronto. One
young Negro died in the cell next to me. Why? He must have had some
seizure
or breathing difficulties. The guards shouted, danced around and taunted
him. I saw him the day before. He was athletic, had good muscle tone
like many young Blacks who are in far better physical shape than Whites
- yet I saw him through my little 8 1/2 by 11 cell observation window,
carried out of his cell limp like a dish rag, dumped unto a guerney,
electric
shock applied to his heart, given an injection, given CPR, oxygen - the
fellow was dead!
-
- Another inmate, in a wheelchair, in his fifties, died
in Thorold, Ontario in the cell next to me. I saw the relatives come,
identify him and wail til the cell echoed from their sobbing, and I thought
to myself, "What a place do die in - all alone, locked in, helpless!
Nightmares followed. This prison experience really is something!
-
- I saw nothing of the sort here - so far!
-
- The medical doctor, who checked me upon arrival, was
a gentle, blue-eyed, tall German with a sympathetic manner who prescribed
immediately some herbal, plant-oil based mouth wash, for which I had asked
repeatedly in Canada - to no avail! It took me more than a year to see
the Jewish prison dentist who promptly went to work on my teeth like the
Boys from Brazil dentist on Dr. Mengele - grinding away, no needle. He
then wanted to pull my wisdom teeth because my "mouth was too
crowded."
Well, I told the man that I was 65 years old and had every tooth in my
mouth and that I was not about to lose my first tooth in his establishment!
I was not allowed a tooth brush or tooth paste in my cell. I had to ask
the guards for it. [These items] were out in the open, on top of a plastic
bin, where all the guards and other inmates walked by, kicking up dust
and germs! When I was refused a medical mouth ways, [this dentist]
graciously
gave me a thimble full of salt water twice a day for three days, which
gave me a little relief, but after three days that largesse stopped. I
thought I was in Siberia!
-
- Here the doctor prescribed the mouth wash, the medical
orderly gave me a little bottle, and after two years of almost constant
unpleasantness and pain I feel like a human being again. It means that
within 14 hours of landing on German soil I was given cheerfully and with
a warm smile something denied to me in Canada for 24 months.
-
- Your assessment of the German situation is right on
target.
There is a mood I can only describe as "government fatigue"
that is palpable and was expressed to me within 30 minutes of my landing
on German soil by border guard police with a frankness that I found
astonishing
- and refreshing, to say the least.
-
- You can be sure that I will be suffering Manfred Roeder's
fate many a times. Guenter Deckert found a fair judge who was then
promptly
put on forced sick leave while other judges took over and reversed the
first judgment - not only punishing Deckert with a severe sentence, but
subsequently increasing his sentence, adding two more judgments to it for
private letters written from his cell! You can be sure that this will
be one of the tactics used on me to increase my sure-to-be-lengthy
sentence.
And there are other chicaneries waiting! I am not bragging when I say
that in the German context I am developing into something of a German
Nelson
Mandela.
-
- The German entity is in a similar financial state, an
untenable, irrepairable, near-collapse state just like the United States
government. Interest payments on the national debt on the state and
municipal
levels are so huge that it is simply out of control and cannot be paid
off! The servicing of the debt paralyzes the German state entity. Now
that German industry is relocating to Rumania, Poland, Bulgaria, the
Ukraine
and the Baltic states where labor laws are lax and labor costs from 10-20
percent of what they are in Germany proper, German unemployment has now
been admitted to be higher than even in Hitler's 1933 ascension to power.
It is now finally admitted to be at least 8 1/2 million unemployed - with
increasing numbers, because companies cannot compete against the East.
Thus the German entity's tax base is shrinking and they are caught in
a descending spiral. The German post-war system is collapsing by
implosion.
-
- Since I have always been the most politically incorrect
and outspoken of the Revisionists and knew all along what the logical
outcome
of properly applied Revisionism would have to lead to, quite naturally
the currently ruling oligarchy knows that I am, by now, a Symbol of
Resistance.
I am, in fact, the Avenger Anti Portas, biding my time. Blais's judgment
makes that perfectly clear. I am the living, breathing link to our
history.
Thanks to my very young emigration and meeting Adrien Arcand, who gave
me that first hard cover edition of Imperium, which introduced me to you,
I had excellent teachers, and North America freed me of my mental shackles.
Had I been trapped in Old Europe, I could have never blossomed and
expanded
my horizons the way I did.
-
- I always felt thoroughly at home in the New World - more
so in America than in Canada. I have and have had an affinity for the
America of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Baron von Steuben and Madison
that has puzzled me at times - like when I trod that hallowed ground at
Valley Forge. It's almost as if I had some karmic connection to that place
and that period in American history. When I read Jefferson's thoughts
and ideas on the separation of powers, his warnings about the dangers to
American liberty and to human freedom of an appointed judiciary, it gives
me goosepimples! That man Jefferson far more completely and intimately
expresses my feelings about "People Power" and the importance
of checks and balances than any other political thinker - including
National
Socialist thinkers. Thomas Jefferson accurately foretold what would happen
to America if its citizens would not be very vigilant. He even understood
the money question 135 years before Gottfried Feder introduced Die Brechung
der Zinsknechtschaft -in short, the practice of usury and interest slavery.
I am in awe of that man Jefferson - simply in awe!
-
- All America needs to do is to apply the emergency brake
and go back to American fundamentals. People laugh when I say that. They
say it could never be done. It would be old-fashioned, not feasible.
Yet vast numbers of these same Americans think nothing of being identified
with and espousing the most reactionary religion, Christian Fundamentalism,
which is 1800 years older and farther back than Jefferson
Fundamentalism!
-
- When Jefferson was in his prime, the census of 1796
showed
that there were 4.6 million white Americans. That just happens to be
almost
the exact same number the Kingdom of Prussia had under Frederick the Great,
We should not be overly impressed by mere numbers today. Look at little
Israel. Six Million Jews, surrounded by - what? All told, 1.2 billion
Muslims?
-
- After the United States, Israel is the most advanced
and highly militaristic state. They produce their own jets, guns,
ammunition,
torpedoes, tanks, artillery, rockets with which they launch satellites.
They have long range ballistic missiles, A-bombs and H-bombs - and now,
thanks to the Germans, even submarines capable of launching atomic warhead
tipped missiles anywhere on the planet. Against anyone they hate! So,
what exactly do these vast numbers we are so overly impressed by mean?
To do what? To achieve what? Do we need to have military bases,
missions,
and a presence in 142 countries - or would Americans be better served to
rethink their foreign and especially their domestic and financial policies
along Jeffersonian lines? And heed George Washington's so very eloquently
expressed ideas in his farewell address?
-
- In fact, if America wants to recover her bearings and
sanity, national health, and purpose, there is no finer and wiser counsel
to heed than the simple and yet brilliant concepts which gave birth to
America from the 1750s on to 1796 and into Jefferson's reign and even
Madison's.
I wish I had my files here to quote some of these men's thoughts.
-
- Very few finer minds trod this earth then, or since.
I say that as a European, but compared to the Founding Fathers and forces
at work in America then, I cannot point to a European country or a group
of Europeans who at that time had such a complete and realistic, even a
wholistic concept of what a modern state should look like, be like, and
function like - and, above all, be governed like!
-
- They were unique. There simply is not one.
-
- Of course the Americans were blessed with vast, open
spaces, a thinly populated continent, while especially Western Europe was
a mess of warring duchies, fiefdoms, principalities and city states that
were exhausting their gene pool with criminal recklessness. What prevented
Russia, or the Germans led by the Prussians, to develop and then turn their
vision into an American-like reality? They did not rise to the occasion
for a thousand reasons - from jealousy to greed, from ignorance to
religious
bigotry.
-
- I just reread again the British historian J.F.C. Fuller's
book, "Decisive Battles of the Western World." We wasted our
precious gene pool on internecine wars and struggles - and now we are
paying
the price. It was criminal and reckless and a very sad example of utter
stupidity and short-sightedness.
-
- Ernst Zundel
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