- Even though communication between me and Ernst is
now severely restricted, I can give you the exact dates of when
Ernst's trial will start. For now, five days have been reserved in
November.
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- They are:
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- Tuesday, 8 November 2005 - 9:00 A.M. -
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- Wednesday, 9 November 2005 - 9:00 A.M.-
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- Tuesday, 15 November 2005 - 9:00 A.M.-
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- Wednesday, 16 November 2005 - 9:00 A.M.-
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- Thursday, 24 November 2005 - 9:00 A.M.-
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- Just a few days ago, I received the text of these
charges in German - 14 points. Those who are able to read these
charges with an open mind, will know they are an indictment not
against Ernst Zundel who speaks the truth as he found it and knows it,
but against a country that prides itself on being a
"democracy".
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- 1. The bulk of the charges pertains to documents
that have been posted on the Zundelsite for some 8 years, translated
into several languages. They are introductory essays ( "Holocaust 101"
) to Holocaust Revisionism and come in eight languages. You can read
for yourself what they say if you are so inclined.
( http://www.zundelsite.org/101.html
)
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- 2. A few of Ernst's "Germania" letters sent to his
world-wide network of friends and supporters are also found
politically objectionable. These letters were legal in Canada, where
most of them were written, thanks to the Supreme Court ruling in 1992
giving Ernst the right to say what he believes to be the truth, and
they are legal in the United States, based on the First Amentment to
the Constitution. They were NOT written in Germany, where draconian
laws are locked in place that serve the State of Israel and not the
German people.
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- I don't know anything beyond this document outlining
Ernst's political "sins". I will keep you updated to the extent that I
hope to be updated on developments.
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- I should also add that an arrest warrant in Germany
has been sworn out against me as well, which means that I will not be
able to attend the trial in Germany.
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- So we are gearing up for yet another round. It will
be yet another burden on my time and drain on our resources. It is
also an important step forward.
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- Stand by for a Zundel Holocaust Trial # 3, to be
fought on the soil of Germany.
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- Ingrid Zundel
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- I conclude with a few comments from Ernst on this
upcoming trial, gleaned from various letters to me...
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- "I have had no more mail since I was notified that
my case has been taken over by the Landgericht, which as first order
of business decided to restrict my incoming and my outgoing mail by
what amounts to a 90% reduction. This allowed me to go through every
document (I assume!) that the government is marshalling against me.
Since I am still uncertain what I am allowed to say about things, let
me be general in comments:
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- Remember how useful court cases have been in the
past - for instance, when in 1981 during the postal hearing I got to
see the letter of Simon Wiesenthal, which started all these years of
persecution? Well, this time we hit the Motherlode, and Bruce [our
immigration attorney who handles our suit against the U.S. government]
will be able to add a few names to the depositions.
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- I found it a very painful process because I am tired
of the subject, but it seems my fate is that I have to go through this
rigmarole (sp?) one more time. With hard work we will produce a
shocking documentation, and that will be useful.
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- I was up at 4:30 a.m., and I have been studying and
preparing for the trial and had to relive my life and my struggle,
almost as if in a film - and, kiddo, was it one steady grind! I am now
amazed and in awe of myself that, like a sleepwalker, I walked through
the minefields of my enemies! I now have ample, ample confirmation of
the accuracy of my intuition!
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- Remember when I used to be "soul-upset", when I used
to think there was something wrong with my kids? It was the
you-know-whats, scheming and meeting and interviewing people. We
suspected all along - except it is worse! But we were right on the
money most of the time!
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- I also read and am astonished at the millions of
words spoken, written, and typed - alone the typing was heroic. I also
note with sadness how many of our friends have fallen by the wayside,
now very elderly. And many, many died.
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- The whole exercise is like a standing on one of
those Tribünen, and instead of troops marching past, it is one's life
passing by in front of me for review. When I see the superhuman effort
in the face of such unmitigated callousness and unfairness, I can only
conclude that some extraordinary dynamism made me sustain all of
this.
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- I am going through those mountains and mountains of
documents and it's an upsetting task because it shows a huge amount of
work by thousands of bureaucrats of all stripes who have been
officially confronted with the results of my work. Yet when you read
their comments and analyses, it is not the least reflected that it
impacted on their thinking and attitudes about Germany's role. So we
deny ourselves what is called a normal life and happiness, while these
people, whom we try to shield and protect, attack us from behind
without any appreciation our work deserves. There has to be a way to
break through this log jam.
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- There are shocking things going on!
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- What we are dealing with are very, very complex
issues, especially in Germany as it tried to pick itself up by its own
bootstraps out of incredible pulverization. It's like trying to
reassemble the constantly changing little pieces of a kaleidoscope
being slowly turned, with its pieces tumbling and shifting. Compare
these pieces to the forces in society, all climbing over each other,
all juggling interests, wants, desires, personal ambitions, greed,
corruption, all the powers of lobbies, open and hidden, the secret
societies, cults and sects which have been around for hundreds, maybe
thousands of years!
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- The last century was the culmination and the
beginning of that never-ending process of "historification" where, as
soon as something is spoken or written, it's like a bullet out of a
rifle barrel on its own trajectory - gone, unleashed, aimed or
randomly heading somewhere. Seeing in these many, many thousands of
pages how thoughts and words impact on people's lives, on societies'
functioning - that is one hell of a realization!
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- In the end, the overall thoughts, concepts and goals
are lost in the minutiae of bureaucrats filling in papers, of the
statements of snitches and paid agents, of little petty thieves giving
false testimonies which then careen through history's corridors,
hitting this and that. You add to that the vendettas of minorities,
pyramid climbers in society's bureaucracies, in the spy services, in
the legal systems, the police forces, the corridors of power, elected
and unelected. Ingrid, add to that the betrayals of friends and of
wives, jilted girl friends, of revenge being extracted for imagined
hurts never inflicted, yet treated as if real!
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- What unfolds before one's eyes is psychohistory, a
drama with constantly changing actors and storylines and constantly
changing stage sets, only part of which are visible. The cranes,
wires, pulleys, carpenters, painters behind the scenes are invisible,
but very, very real to the unfolding of the play, which is unfolding
history.
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- The study of these documents have made me realize
that - with sledge-hammer-like impact!
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- If all this sounds weird to you, sitting on our
balcony, looking down our beautiful valley, I can understand you might
shake your head and maybe say, "What on earth is Ernst talking about?"
Well, it is that I am at the center of these unleashed, countervailing
forces - pushing, shoving, climbing over each other, tugging, pulling
me this way and that.
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- I am punch-drunk [with fatigue] and must end the
letter. I will continue it tomorrow morning 5 a.m."
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- Those are the words of the world's best-known
political prisoner, my husband and your friend. Since Ernst is
prevented from giving me specifics, I cannot give you specifics, but a
little bird has told me we can expect a few surprises. Please stay
with me - you and I have center stage, and it could well be that the
last round has begun!
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- To my friends, a big thank you, straight from the
heart! To our enemies: Don't count us out! To the rest of the world:
No surrender!
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- Ingrid Zündel
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