Hitler: An Officer And A Gentleman ?

History's warning regarding journalism and the compliant media.

by Henk Ruyssenaars

The Netherlands - Until the Russian bullet hit officer Schultz, during the battle at Stalingrad, he really was totally convinced that Adolf Hitler was 'an Officer and a Gentleman', like himself. And he explained why, while we sat at a small round table in the wine cellar of his cozy forest hotel, where he taught us how to drink vodka like the Russians.

One side of his face was paralysed by the bullet, so he had to pull his lips ajar to get the vodka glass in between. "It was the propaganda" he said, "because in

the Army - like in the rest of the Third Reich - no other information than Reichs-propaganda was allowed".

Officer Schultz survived the long march back home, to a destroyed Germany, and started a small family hotel at the Hariksee, just across the border from Holland, where my family lived. Ex-officer Schultz was trying to cope with the harsh life he for such a long time had known so little about; a reality very different from the army propaganda in the newspapers.

The first time I - at age 13 - met him, on a family holiday in his hotel, was in 1955. The Second World War just ended ten years ago, and Hitler's bloody horror had been on the front pages all over the world, for just as long.

And I still remember his explanation : " Why do you think nobody - in the by German troops occupied countries - was allowed to have a radio ? The German Supreme Command didn't want any other information than the German newspapers and broadcasting to reach the people. It was their - and their information alone - which counted. And when I learned upon returning, in what way the facts had been forged by Goebbels* , I understood Hitler's Third Reich was a fake."

"Wir haben es nicht gewusst"

Mr. Schultz was not using the usual: "Wir haben es nicht gewusst"-excuse:"We didn't know about it", but carefully pointed out, that lack of facts and information creates disasters. "You can brainwash many people for a very long time" he said, "but you can only fool them, if you control all the information outlets; rewriting history."

And for the past decades- working abroad as a foreign correspondent - I've seen the same development in the United States and many other places, but in my own country the Netherlands too. Which was a very open and progressive society before, but where also most journalism now has fallen victim to commerce and politics, and different points of view are not allowed any more.

Like the United States, the Netherlands and it's workforce is mainly run by the military-industrial complex,(SHELL-Philips-Unilever-Amro-ING-Akzo-Nobel etc. etc.), having absorbed the politicians and media already earlier. The effect is dishonest and disastrous.

In a poll just published, it is indicated that in Holland, with it's 16 million - badly informed - inhabitants - a whopping fifty-six percent of the people is supporting the US/UK-wars ? Since it's the journalists which write, read and show the selected information - they form the opinion.

There is absolutely no question about it : all those lies, the fakes and the non-existent evidence of this or that, is put in our ears and eyes by my 'colleagues'; they are trying to brainwash us. This is not a matter of 'shooting the messengers'; it's just telling them that many of them are traitors, collaborators and liars.

They are selling our profession and honour for a lousy plate of genetically manipulated lentils - forgetting they are working for the people, and not working for the shareholders.

Holland is still a friend of the United States and Israel's people: it's those genocidal war criminal governments we can't stand. Whatever nationality...!

In the Netherlands, still a friend of all those honest people, nowadays only the corrupt people at present holding the reigns, support the Bush/Wolfowitz junta.

Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq takes its toll on Dutch- U.S. ties, because the population has a feeling of being constantly misled. Like officer Schultz. And like in the US, England or the Third Reich, the collaborating journalists are to blame.

Their 'effect' is for instance clearly shown in a poll in Germany where journalists and Government are mostly anti-war, and thus do not slide as much 'Newspeak' on the plates of the people they are working for, as is done by the collaborating media in Holland:

"Poll shows : George W. Bush; another big reason Americans not very popular in Germany right now". 

By Elisabeth Noelle - Allensbach Institute of Public Opinion Research.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Poll:



Text in English: http://tinyurl.com/2jxgf

Poll in German: http://tinyurl.com/ypztb

Quote: "A new survey of German public opinion leaves no doubt that the Iraq war caused serious damage to the German-U.S. relationship. Almost half the

respondents in our poll, conducted on behalf of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, said the United States and Europe have grown apart.

Although the Bush Administration made clear its disapproval of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's position on the conflict, this appears to have had little impact in

Germany, where 68 percent of respondents backed the chancellor's definitive "NO" to the war and his argument that there was insufficient justification for an American attack on the country." [ end quote FAZ ].

And here's the proof, for the umpteenth time,

of how journalists are 'guilty by association' :

Based upon the information distributed by the journalists, in Germany 68 percent of the people are saying 'No' to the US/Israel-wars.

If there's any truth in the Aug. 7th-Dutch poll; 56 (fifty six) percent in Holland is thus saying 'Yes' to the wars ? How come there's absolutely nobody I know, nor my friends know in the rest of the country, who supports the

war ? Are all those polls faked ? That should surprise nobody.

NVJ - the 'Netherlands Journalists Union' - kills the Freedom of the Press.

When a debate about  the legitimacy of the Dutch F-16's bombing in Afghanistan erupted, on the web site of the Netherlands Journalists Association (NVJ), the Forum was closed !.  

None of the Dutch mainstream media until today (February 5th 2004 - even mentioned it ! (http://www.villamedia.nl/ ).

And that's a very, very bad sign in itself: the rot sits deep, and - like with fishes like the famous dutch herring - Holland has started rotting at the head.

Foreign regime's bad influence: the US & the Mossad 'Headquarters Europe' in Holland

The Dutch are paying the second highest taxes in the world - Sweden is nr. 1 - and are seeing $-billions disappear in "secret agreements", with mostly the US

and Israel. Israeli products are repackaged in the Netherlands, otherwise they couldn't be sold globally, since most people abhor the Israeli Holocaust of the

Palestinian people. Israel seems to be 'running' Holland's main airport 'Schiphol' close to Amsterdam. Where - according to US-sources - the 'Mossad', Secret

Isr. Service has it's European headquarters.

Dutch Attorney General Vrakking testified on Jan. 29, 1999, that the El Al security detachment at Schiphol, was a branch of Mossad.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/10_14_02/Jetliner_Crash_/jetliner_crash_.html

Holland commits war crimes - bombing in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, and is secretly taking part in the american naval blockade of North Korea.

Planned support for the next fascist coup against President Chavez of Venezuela ?

From the Dutch Antilles the US will have the Dutch Navy and Air Force's secret help again to re-stage a coup in Venezuela, the US wants the oil, nothing else matters. like happened last year. And every day the right wing Venezuelan 'momio'- and US-media support the coup makers. Concerning the media and Venezuela : this is also according to me the real situation, about which you can read what Le Monde (in English) had to say :

http://mondediplo.com/2002/08/10venezuela

Or see how big the danger is today for democracy in Venezuela, under president Chavez, who is twice democratically elected: http://tinyurl.com/2y6zp

For the bombing by the Dutch Air Force in Afghanistan's 'killing fields' - on the Royal (?) Dutch Air Force's web site it says 804 bombing missions have been flown.

Killing an unknown amont of innocent people, without trial or compassion. Like bloody animals ?

There is no UN-mandate, the Netherlands is - like the rest of the "Coalition of the Killing" - in breach of the Charter of the United Nations. Which is a crime against humanity. Holland was not attacked, nor threatened, and there is no declaration of war: so the bombings are war crimes, legal experts conclude.

But also this information may not be discussed; nor is information welcome about Holland now secretly taking part in the naval blockade of North Korea, to start a new war there. (The "Nuclear Surprise" ? ).

And the Dutch taxpayers ? It's the media originated "Silence of the Lambs" that reigns; a deafening silence of the ill-informed, which foot the defense-bills.

The following is an example of information which was published on the web site of the Dutch Journalists Union (NVJ), shortly before it was closed :

"On July 23, 2003, a USA Today report indicated that the United States had reached an agreement with Japan, Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, and Spain to intercept North Korean ships suspected of carrying narcotics or weapons materials." [end quote ] - Url: http://tinyurl.com/24qyj



Finding a stick to hit the dog, while lying to us through their teeth !

But, before e real debate in Holland could get started, the 'journalists union' closed shop ! To please whom are they silencing/muzzling so many of us, one must

ask those traitors ? Who Profits ?

In short : German 'Officer and Gentleman' Shultz, saw 50 years ago what we see happening again around us: as long as many people - under the cover of

journalism - collaborate with warmongers and secret services - instead of using their own brains - Goebbels-propaganda* is triumphing.

There is however hope for humanity, and punishment for the war junkies; bad geniuses like the Bushes, Kissinger, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Perle,

Powell etc. and all their 'Karl Roves, Ari Fleischers, Nato's Jamie Sheas and Alistair Campbells' and other followers of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph

Goebbels also among the journalists:

"On December 15, 2002 aalready the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan (ICTA) convened its first public hearing in Tokyo to try President Bush. Four hundred participants gathered to raise the curtain with an opening declaration of the 'Culture of Peace' against "The Globalization of the Military".

http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=3173&sectionID=49

As was seen at the Nuremberg Trial; the tide always turns.

And Goebbels' and his collaborators ? They were hanged. Since we are against capital punishment - even for killers - we suggest a cookie of their own dough: after capture, the supposed war criminals will all be transferred to the Guantanamo base which will be given back to the Cubans.

Looking at their global crimes, they'll all probably get a life sentence, during which they can use their days with hard labour: making coffins for all their future victims of the millions of land mines etc. everywhere.

Help get them there !

Henk Ruyssenaars

* Rove+Campbell+Goebbels: http://www.thedish.org/TheDISHv6no33.htm

* Bush:"The Lord is with the US!": http://tinyurl.com/2tdfp

* GOEBBELS - Background: 1943 had seen Stalingrad, and a general series of reversals for Germany across all battlefields. Nonetheless, Goebbels finds reason for cheer as he looks forward to 1944. Goebbels' basic argument is the same from here to the end of the war: Germany must win because otherwise it will be destroyed.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goebmain.htm

* The Source: Joseph Goebbels, "Sylvesteransprache Dr. Goebbels am 31 Dezember 1943," Deutschland im Kampf , ed. A. J. Berndt and von Wedel, Nr.101/104 (Berlin: Verlagsansalt Otto Stollberg, 1944), pp. 135-139.  URL : http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb63.htm

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The Dutch author worked for 4 decades for international media as foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East.

Seeing that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !

Help the troops come home: we need them to fight our 'governments'.



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