"LET BYGONES BE BYGONES"
                                                          GENERAL EISENHOWER 1950
                                                                                            By Karl Hausner
                                                   

   I attended college in Landsberg when General Eisenhower traveled from campus to campus returning to the German people the military honor, which was removed from the German troops by the Allies as a result of the Morgenthau Plan. It called for the unconditional surrender and the total destruction of Germany. What went wrong that all of a sudden, we Germans, were supposed to be soldiers again and mobilize against the great ally and friend, Joseph Stalin. He was commonly called "Uncle Joe" by Roosevelt.
    The Nuernberg Trial and all the other trials of Nazi war criminals, or criminals against humanity, were the climax of victory by the Allies. In retrospect, we must admit neither one of these trials enhanced true justice at that time, or for the future. While some of these Nazis should have been severely punished, as they were, at least a neutral court of law should have tried them. Some of the concentration guards, who actually had very little to do with either concentration camps or the crimes committed, were sentenced to death, and in some cases, people who were not even in such positions were executed. After the execution, some were exhonorated. In Landsberg, at the penitentiary, over "360 Nazi criminals" were hanged. At the same time, General Eisenhower spoke these words: "Let bygones be bygones". They were busy finishing the job of execution in spite of the changing circumstances.

                                                            WHAT WENT WRONG WITH THE GREAT ALLIANCE?
                                                   

   Joseph Stalin at Pottsdam in 1945 got more than he expected. It is hard to believe, that Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Churchill were so ignorant that they believed Stalin had changed to become a humanitarian. His plan was to bring Communism to the whole world. First to Germany, then France, Italy, Britain and at the end, the rest of it. Although President Roosevelt died too early to see the blunder he had created, President Truman  still had the opportunity to correct some of the mistakes, or perhaps even international crimes against humanity, for which many Nazis were executed.
   First, they permitted the Soviet Union, after Germany had surrendered, to declare war on Japan just a few weeks before the total end. By this military action, Stalin was able to take all the weaponry from the Japanese and give it to the Communist Chinese. Also he prepared them to help the North Koreans and the North Vietnamese for their upcoming attacks. In a short time, Mao Tse Tung claimed victory over the Nationalists in China and China became Communistic. Dividing of Korea and Vietnam were other blunders, perhaps criminal decisions, which Churchill and Truman agreed to. In both cases, it led to war, not just for the natives, but involving American troops and a great deal of resources. This is why Eisenhower suddenly decided to rearm Germany.
 
                                                
                                                                    OTHER INTERNATIONAL CRIMES
                                                

    Stalin and his Allies in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Poland were able to expel sixteen million German people during which many died. Other millions of non-Germans fled the Soviet occupied regions to West Germany, in the hopes of immigrating to America, Australia or wherever possible. Stalin was mistaken that the expellees, who were driven into West Germany, would become Communists. The opposite occurred and most of us expellees, became determined, not just to resist Communism, but all forms of totalitarianism.
    Stalin blockaded the access to Berlin, which led to the air supply bridge by the American and British Air Forces to Berlin.
   In 1948, the three military occupying governors in West Germany, decided to establish a semi autonomous  German Government, which became known as the Federal Republic of Germany, under the able leadership of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

                                                
                                                               GERMAN SOLDIERS AGAIN WERE NEEDED
                                                

   Most of us young Germans had absolutely no interest in any form of military service, even as police. When the new government in West Germany was elected, they even had a hard time to recruit police officers. Nobody wanted to wear a uniform in their lives again. That was the reason why General Eisenhower had to use his influence to convince, not just the German Government, but us, young Germans, to show willingness to join the armed forces again, to defend the West from the threat of Bolshevism. It was a very unpleasant journey for General Eisenhower, because many students in German colleges and universities had spent years in the military and also a significant time in prisoner-of-war camps. These camps, in most instances, were not any better than Nazi POW camps, or concentration camps. The Western Allies cannot be commended for the way these German prisoners-of-war were treated in starvation camps so that 1.2 million of them perished after the war during 1945 and 1946. This was the situation which General Eisenhower had to reverse by saying: "Let bygones be bygones." This was also the lime between 1948 and 1952 when the United States opened its borders to German engineers to participate in the rapidly growing defense industry. This was the time when Wemer von Braun and many of his former colleagues, who worked on the German Missile Program, were moved to the United States to develop the first guided missiles even though, they all had to be members of the NSDAP, the Nazi party.

    In 1952, as I finished college, a priest, the pastor of Landsherg, Dr. Nikias, who spent 42 months in the Dachau Concentration Camp, recommended that I go, for a few years, to the United States, where he was a missionary in his early years, to increase my perspective of life. Within a few weeks after I applied, I had my visa and the Catholic Church found a sponsor, who was a farmer in Wisconsin, my present neighbor on the farm. The visas, we engineers received, were nicknamed Sputnik visas.
   Later, General Eisenhower was elected President, and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, was the first American in government who understood the threat of Communism. It is hard to believe that Presidents Roosevelt and Truman could not see it. It is my opinion, they believed in socialism and world government. They believed with Stalin, that they could form such an ideal government, the United Nations. Although the United Nations has not yet achieved that dream. Fifty years later, there are still many Americans and other leaders who pursue the course of global government, global involvement and global "protection".
 
                                                    

                                                                                   THE FIRST AWAKENING
                                                    

   When the Communists in Korea moved South, pushing the American troops almost out of the peninsula. General MacArthur proposed to attack the supply lines from Red China. President Truman removed him from his post, because the war in Korea was just a "police action". For some reason, over twenty military actions since World war II have been called police actions, United Nations support for freedom, for justice, Nato operating to stop ethnic cleansing, etc., etc.  Wars without declaration of wars. The United States spent ten trillion dollars on military hardware between 1945 and 1990. Just think what could have been built in this country with such a sum of money. Yet, we wasted these resources for the benefit of some, especially those in the defense industry.
    Shortly after I had arrived in the United States, while working for International Harvester, I had to go to Germany for a few weeks. While applying for my return visa, I had to go to the Selective Service, and had it not been for my already poor eyesight, I would have been drafted into the Korean Conflict. A friend of mine, Jochen Holz, who came with me to the United States, spent his share of time in Korea, even though, as a fifteen year old, he had already been in the paramilitary service just at the end of World War II, where he barely survived.
   In my essays 1945 In Memory and Concentration Camps, Myths and Realities, I expanded upon the circumstances surrounding World War II and the subsequent period, including our expulsion from the Sudetenland.
   Since Communism did not succeed in Western Europe, because the German people refused it, they put their efforts into Africa and Central America. I just would like to draw attention to Castro in Cuba and the missile crisis under President Kennedy . In Europe, the Soviets built the Iron Curtain right through Germany, all the way down through the Balkan States. In Asia, we had the Bamboo Curtain. All these costly disasters could have been prevented if wisdom had prevailed at the end of World War II. If Churchill and Truman had insisted that Stalin withdraw his troops and influence from Poland, the Baltic Countries, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, etc., he would have had no power in 1945 to resist such demands. His army was not in any better shape than that of the Germans or the Japanese
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                                                                                       "THE EVIL EMPIRE"
                                                    

   President Reagan called the Soviet Union the Evil Empire. He was one of the first who understood the real plan of the Soviet Union. The Star War technology, which he supported, gave the Soviets the conviction that they could not continue a superiority of military weaponry. They spent all their resources to keep pace with the developments in the United States and other Western nations. Thus, the Soviet Union and the whole Eastern Block collapsed economically, socially, politically and, of course, morally.
   Although West Germany had tried to convince their former enemies, and especially the Jews, that the crimes committed by the Nazis were deplorable, they paid billions to the State of Israel and to survivors. Yet, certain Jewish groups found it necessary to trademark the Holocaust as if the Nazi crimes on the Jews were the only crimes in the Twentieth Century. They are using resources to brainwash people and as Rabbi Lapin says, "This is deplorable that more American universities teach Holocaust than Jewish history." He will be the last Jew to visit the Holocaust museum, because of falsehoods displayed. Yes, it is deplorable, because all it does is keep certain statements alive which already have been weakened or disproved, as I point out in my essay. Concentration Camps, Myths and Realities.
   With the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the military threat from there diminished. The satellite countries had broken away, even the great Russian Empire crumbled.
    For financial reasons, the Holocaust promotion has rapidly increased, and as Professor Ralph Raico from the University of New York says, "It nazifies the German people." More recently, the Holocaust "industry" has targeted Pope Pius XII, the Vatican, the Catholic Church and even neutral Switzerland as contributors or collaborators to the Nazi Holocaust. Without question, Swiss Banks accepted, for decades and centuries, money from all kinds of people. This is what made the Swiss banking system so strong. Nobody complains that Lenin had millions stashed away there. But since Switzerland, that is the Swiss people, have voted not to join the United Nations, NATO, or the European Union, they have become an obstacle to the global government.
    The Catholic Church is attacked because it is resistant to certain radical agendas, which again ought to be implemented through the United Nations under the flag of population control and population assistance. Without question, there is a strong tendency to form a world government with an agenda which is anti-Christianity and anti-neutrality. Yet, the United States was founded both with Christian Doctrine and with a defensive neutrality.
    "Let bygones be bygones" is not necessarily a good philosophy, because if you don't know where you come from, you do not know who you are and you do not know where you are going to. We should master the history, learn from it, subscribe to the absolute truth as Jesus Christ commands us. This would be a blessing, not just for the people in the United States, but for other nations, which could form their own philosophy and lifestyle, compete with each other without conflict and not try to force all into one "great, world government". The Roman Empire fell apart. All the other empires, the British, the Spanish, the French and the Soviet, attempted the same, but they all failed.
 
                                                

                                                                                 CONCLUSION
                                                

   Have we learned from history? It does not seem so. There are many paradoxes to "Let bygones be bygones." For over fifty years the world is still hunting for "Nazi criminals". Even simple guards of Nazi concentration camps are tried and jailed. But, on the other hand, there have been practically no trials in Russia, Czechoslovakia and all other Eastern European countries of Communist criminals who tortured and killed millions, even ten years ago.
   There is another major paradox. While the Jewish groups demand compensation from the Vatican and from Switzerland, they do not demand due compensation from Czechoslovakia and other Eastern European countries, where Jews lost their assets prior or during World War II. Obviously, these countries are not yet sufficiently wealthy.
   Cultivating the Holocaust, is to "unite all Jews without God", says Rabbi Lapin. It is to extract big money, not just from the German people, as Norman Finkelstein in his book "The Holocaust Industry" points out. By the way, he is Jewish.
   In Moscow, London, Paris, Washington and elsewhere, more and more the truth will prevail. Regrettably, the Holocaust plays into the hands of radical nationalism. If economic conditions in Eastern Europe do not quickly improve, Russia will be the next country with significant anti-semitism. Therefore, let us be honest, let us practice what we preach and let ns put the historic facts on the table, so that the next generations can have more confidence in our political leaders and in our judicial systems.

ENDNOTES, RECOMMENDED READING:

1)   From the Author: "1945 In Memory", "When World War II Was Over", "Concentration Camps,MythandRealities", "HitlersCross", "WhyChristiaintylosttheClilture", "World War n, a Conflict between National Socialism and International Socialism", "The Silent Majority" and other essays.
2)    Alfred M. de Zayas, "The Wehnnacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939-1945", University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London.
3)    Alfred M. de Zayas, "A Terrible Revenge - the Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944-1950", St. Martin's Press, New York.
4)    James Bacque,  "Crimes and Mercies", the Fate of German Civilians under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950, Warner Books, London.
5)    James Bacque,  "Other Losses", An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans after World War II, Little Brown and Company, Boston, New York, Toronto, London.
6)    Ralph Franklin Keeling, "Gruesome Harvest" the Allies' Postwar War against the German People, Institute for Historical Review, Torrance, CA, ISBN: 0-939484-40-4. 7)   Norman G. Finkelstein, "The Holocaust Industry", Reflection on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, VERSO, London, New York, ISBN: 1-85984-773-0. 8)    James Paulding, "Brothers In The Storm", Video, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO.
9)    Rabbi Daniel Lapin, "America's Real War", Multnomah  Publishers, Sisters, OR.
    ISBN: 1-57673-366-1.
10)  Petr Novick, "The Holocaust in American Life", Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, New York, ISBN: 0-395-84009-0.
11)   Wolfgang Juchem,  "Truth and Justice Versus Lies and Hatred", Heimat Publishers, Toronto.
12)  John Sack, "An Eye for an Eye", Basic Books, ISBN: 0-9675691-0-9. 13)  Inglende Zway, "The Crime of being German", The Book Guild Ltd., London, ISBN: 1-85776-204-5.
14)  Patrick J. Buchanan, "A Republic Not an Empire, " Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, ISBN: 0-89526-272-X.
15)  Ernst Zuendel, "Ethnic Cleansing, Then and Now", Samisdat Publishers, Toronto, Canada. 16)  Erich Anton Helfert, "Valley of the Shadow", Creative Arts Book Co., Berkeley, CA, ISBN; 0-88739-117-6.
17)  Ralph Raico, "Nazifying the Germans", Chronicles, January 1997.

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