- POTSDAM, Germany - The Allied
occupation of Germany began 58 years ago this month and in the eyes of
many Germans has not yet ended. Foreign armies are still based on German
soil and Europe's largest and most prosperous "democracy" still
lacks a constitution and a peace treaty putting a formal end to the Second
World War.
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- The reunified German nation, considered a modern European
democracy, has no constitution other than the temporary Basic Law (Grundgesetz)
originally written in 1948, under the guidance of the U.S. military occupation
forces and originally meant only to apply to the western parts of Germany
under U.S. control.
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- The Basic Law was removed at the request of former Secretary
of State James Baker at a Paris conference of the Allied powers and the
two former German states on July 17, 1990. The two German states were legally
abolished at this conference. As a result of these changes, the Basic Law
does not legally apply to the reunified German state, according to some
legal experts.
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- In any case, the Basic Law is incomplete and contradictory
and article 139 states that the numerous Allied occupation laws and proclamations
remain in effect. The Basic Law has never been ratified by a vote of the
people.
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- The fact that the flawed and temporary Basic Law serves
as Germany's de facto constitution is unacceptable to Wolfgang Gerhard
Günter Ebel, Germany's provisional Reichskanzler. Ebel heads the provisional
government that claims to be the legal successor to the Second German Reich,
which was replaced by Adolf Hitler's illegal Third Reich (1933-45).
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- On 5 June 1945, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary
Force (SHAEF) accepted Germany's declaration of defeat and quickly moved
to recognize the legitimacy of the Zweite Deutsche Reich (Second German
Reich), which was claimed to have been illegally displaced by Hitler's
Third Reich.
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- The SHAEF laws underpinned a treaty between the occupation
authorities and the Second German Reich, in which the latter was invested
with full administrative rights and governmental sovereignty throughout
most of Berlin and in all of the German states. After WWII ended, a parallel
state, founded by ambitious lawyers and Zionist activists and still known
as the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD), competed with the Second German
Reich for legitimacy
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- Following the collapse of the DDR, East Germany's Democratic
Republic, a treaty known as the "2 Plus 4" confirmed that only
the Second German Reich, now led by Reichskanzler (Prime Minister) Dr Wolfgang
Gerhard Guenter Ebel, represented the legitimate German State. In July
1990, the Secretary of the US Department of State, James Baker, confirmed
in writing to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl that the BRD had come to the
end of its lifetime and should be dissolved. From that moment on, the United
Nations destroyed all of its stationery and placards that carried the words
"Federal Republic of Germany" or BRD and replaced them with use
of the broader term "Germany" in lieu of the anticipated "German
Reich".
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- Almost everyone in diplomatic circles around the world
expected the re-emergent German Reich to take over where the BRD had left
off. Yet the government in Bonn, and later in Berlin, continued and still
continues to act and behave as if nothing really happened: a sort of disembodied
ghost that has no idea that its corpse perished many years ago.
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- Despite this highly unusual situation, the Second German
Reich continues to issue its own passports and driving licenses. Over the
last two or three years there has been a sharp increase in the number of
motorists who have been acquitted for speeding or parking offences, simply
on the strength of their having produced a German Reich driving license.
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- The illegal German government in Berlin is so worried
about the publicity, it has leaned heavily on newspapers not to report
on such matters and it has instructed judges to dismiss cases where a defendant
is likely to prove that his citizenship of the German Reich permits him
not to recognize the BRD and its courts as legitimate administrative constructs.
They are horrified at the publicity each of these cases brings.
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- Right now, "Germany rests on the 2nd Reich"
and on the constitution of the Weimar Republic created on August 11, 1919,
Wolfgang Gerhard Günter Ebel told AFP. This is the only legal constitution
for Germany, according to Ebel, until a peace treaty is signed. According
to the provisional government, the Final Settlement of Sept. 12, 1990 is
not valid because it was negotiated and signed by the foreign ministers
of the two German states, the BRD and the DDR, both of which legally ceased
to exist after the Paris conference of July 17, 1990.
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- "The German government is illegal," Ebel told
AFP, "and what they do has no basis in law." Asked how it could
be that the German people are unaware of this situation, Ebel said: "The
German media is still under the control of the Allies. The entire media
is controlled.
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- "The Second World War has not ended, because a peace
treaty has not been signed between Germany and the Allies," "
Ebel says, "The peace contract is the most important thing that we
need and want." Because there is no formal peace treaty between Germany
and the Allies, headed by the United States, German sovereignty is compromised.
"Until we have a peace treaty, Germany is a colony of the United States."
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- Some 80,000 U.S. military personnel are permanently based
in Germany and Britain also continues to base troops and military equipment
in the western German zone they formerly occupied. It is not uncommon to
see British tanks on the streets of the area near Münster in Westphalia.
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- U.S. occupation laws handed down by the Supreme Headquarter
Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) are still in effect, Ebel said. The
first law, Proclamation No. 1, making General Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme
authority in the areas under U.S. control was signed on Feb. 13, 1944.
Allied authorities have informed Ebel that these SHAEF laws will remain
in effect for 60 years from the date of signing and apply to all of Europe.
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- Calls to the U.S. State Department in Washington and
the U.S. Embassy in Berlin concerning the validity of SHAEF laws and U.S.
occupation proclamations in Germany were not returned.
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- "When there is a peace treaty - when the wound is
healed - many things will change," Ebel says, "not only for Germany,
but for the whole world.
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- "The United Nations is also provisional - if there
is a peace treaty between Germany and the Allies [primarily the United
States] - the UN will cease to exist as we know it," Ebel said. The
UN organization was founded in 1945 and originated with the 26 nations
that had joined the anti-Nazi coalition in 1942. By 1944 the coalition
had grown to include 47 nations.
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- The UN Charter contains "enemy state clauses"
[Articles 53 and 107], which were established because of Germany and name
it as the "enemy state."
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- "The Bundesrepublik Deutschland, (the former West
German state), is not the legal successor or inheritor of the Second German
Reich," according to Ebel. For this reason, a legal peace treaty cannot
be signed by the current German government in Berlin, he said.
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- "Until the real government is established and voted
by the people," Ebel said, the provisional government is necessary
to "fulfill the role of the legal German government."
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- The Allies have authorized Ebel to serve as head of the
provisional government, he says. A civil servant with the German railroad,
Ebel was born in Berlin in 1939 and is a citizen of the German Reich, having
never held citizenship of either German state that resulted from the Second
World War. Berlin was a separate zone and "has never been part of
the BRD or DDR," Ebel said.
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- Ebel was first appointed by the U.S. Military Court in
Berlin to serve as Rechtskonsulent for Prussia on Sept. 23, 1980.
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- On Jan. 9, 1984, the U.S. State Department in Berlin
appointed Ebel to serve as the head of the German railroad (Reichsbahn)
in West Berlin.
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- Exactly forty years after the German military (Wehrmacht)
surrendered, on May 8, 1985, Ebel was appointed as Transportation Minister
for the German Reich by the U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, who he says
was then U.S. Ambassador to West Germany (BRD) Richard Burt.
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- Finally, on Sept. 27, 2000, Ebel was appointed chancellor
of the German Reich (Reichskanzler) by Ernst Matscheko, a representative
of the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Matscheko reportedly asked Ebel to name a
Reichspräsident and a special ambassador to the United Nations.
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