German Militarism after September 11th

I. Preliminary note

"Peking must be truly attacked and flattenend to ground level. Peking
must
be shaved. It's a fight between Asia and the whole of Europe", Emperor
Wilhelm II wrote on July 20th, 1900. A few days later he spoke to the
German
soldiers, motivating them for the exterminating crusade in China:

"There will be no pardon, we will not make prisoners. Just like, a
thousand
years ago, the Hunns (? "Hunnen") under king ETZEL created for
themselves a
name which makes them seem powerful even today in fairytales and
historical
stories, the name "German" must be underlined in China for a thousand
years,
so that no Chinese will dare to even look squint-eyed upon a German."
The
German government today uses a similar choice of words.

II. Historical review

In the year 1900 the German army moved through China plundering and
murdering, killing tens of thousands of Chinese people both female and
male
as a revenge for the execution of the German embassador in China by a
revolutioner.

Only a few years later the German imperialists exterminated more than
80% of
the Hetero and more than 50% of the Nama in "Deutsch-Südwestafrika",
the
German South West Africa, the area today called Namibia.

Probably better remembered today is the unchained German soldiers' mob
of
the years 1914 to 1918, which put about 10 million people to death. It
is
dishonourfully known as the First World War.

On September 1st, 1939, Poland was attacked, on June 22nd, 1941, the
criminal German army ("Wehrmacht") invaded the Socialist Sovjet Union.
In
the course of this invasion 20 million Sovjet citizens were murdered.
In
between these two attacks were invasions in Belgium, Luxemburg, the
Netherlands and France. A further step towards gaining power over the
whole
world were the Nazi attacks on Yugoslavia and Greece.

When the fascist German army seemed defeated, the building up of a new
German army started openly in West Germany in the 1950s. In 1958, 12
900
officers of the "democratic" "Bundeswehr" (new name for the German
army)
came from the Nazi "Wehrmacht". By means of an order given by the
German
Minister for War, Blank, on September 1st, 1956, former SS officers
were
integrated in the newly founded army and given high military ranks.

Finally in 1999 the German army got the chance of participating in an
offensive war for the first time since 1945 and happily took the
opportunity. The Minister of War, Scharping, led the third attack of
Yugoslavia in the 20th century. He and his colleague, Fischer, invented
alleged concentration camps in Serbia. This one as well as some other
lies
were used to justify the attack. (By the way, chancellor Schröder and
the
Ministers Scharping and Fischer were judged guilty of war crimes by an
independent Serbian court in 2000.)

III. The German Army after 11/09/2001

When an attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in the USA on
September 11th, 2001, had been turned into an attack on "western
civilization", the German chancellor Schröder announced on November
6th,
2001, that now the German army would participate in the US war on
Afghanistan.

Now the meaning of the preliminary note becomes clear. With a very
similar
choice of words and the same attitude the martial German army will once
again kill helpless and innocent people to help the German and
international
imperialism gain the "Endsieg" (Nazi word for "final victory"). It's
not the
often quoted human rights that shall be protected, but geo-political
and
geo-strategic positions of power in the Near East and in that part of
Asia.

Everyone who demands bomb attacks on the Taliban-Regime, but hasn't
done so
before September 11th, should remain quiet! Of course this regime is an
inhuman dictatorship; but this fact does not justify the killing of
hundreds
of civilians! Besides, concerning inhuman policies, especially the
German,
but also the US government have a lot of experience - for with a bit of
good
will it would not be necessary to have 24,000 people worldwide die of
hunger
every single day, to name but one of many examples.

The German army today continues the tradition of the German army, in
both
historical and personal continuity, which invaded China in 1900, Poland
in
1939, the Sovjet Union in 1941 and once again Yugoslavia in 1999,
robbing
millions of people of their lives and freedom.

Because of that:
No - to a German military presence in Afghanistan!
No - to military help for the USA or other NATO states!
No - to German imperialism and militarism!

For the abolition of the German army!
For freedom and justice!

> Thomas Meyer-Falk c/o JVA - Z. 3117, Schönbornstraße
> 32, D-76646 Bruchsal, Germany