Iraq Attacks Recall Nazi 'Werewolves', Part 1

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This fits to the Werewolf camparison. From a German Pro-Israel mailing-list. 
I personally think that this comparison is completely absurd, because there 
were not much "werewolf" activities in Post-war Germany.
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From: inipa at gmx.de
To: dbenjami at csis.org
Subject: Condi Rice's phony history

Dear Mr. Benjamin,

I've just read your recent commentary (http://slate.msn.com/id/2087768/)
on Mrs. Rice's historical confession that post-war Germany isn't success
only, and as a Berlin dissident I am stunned how much ignorance towards
the track record of political activities of the Nazi regime's remnants
still exists expecially among critics of the Bush administration.

Unfortunately, your article did neiher mention the Gehlen Organization,
nor the Vertriebenen lobby, let off the fact that Germany didn't see an
Iraq-style card deck of most wanteds, but instead many of the Nazi
officials in the Western post-war government. Names of war criminals like
Franz Josef Strauss, who founded Germanys cold war army, Theodor
Oberländer, a Vertriebenen representative and minister, Hans Globke, a
coordinator in Mr. Adenauers chancellor's office, or Heinrich Lübke, who
built concentration camps and became President in 1959, should ring a
bell but appearantly didn't yet.

I'd agree with your point that the Werevolves were far from achieving what 
Al Qaeda terrorists are doing in Iraq just right now, though this is not 
an argument against the liberation. I also agree that Mrs. Rice and Mr. 
Rumsfeld can be criticized regarding their comparison of Germany and 
Iraq, but I'd like to point out that such criticism should not target 
their necessary challenge of over-optimistic views many Americans held of 
Germany during the cold war era, but rather the fact they tend to see the 
Werewolve facades as the only remnant of the Nazi regime while there have 
been others who unlike the Werewolves influence German politics till 
today.

To reply on your conclusion: "It's hard to understand exactly what
Rumsfeld was saying, but if he meant that the Nazi resisters killed
Americans after the surrender, this would be news." - Yes, it is news,
and they killed Americas appeal for freedom by becoming her cold war
allies and introducing the behavior of regime preservation into her
foreign policy, where other evil dictators exploited it until recently.

Please consider that historical revisionism means ignoring that the
Neonazis in Germany, and others who backed Gerhard Schröder, are still
using anti-American terrorism in Iraq as a projection screen for their
Werewolve fantasies. Though, Iraqis just are even more unwilling to fight 
for Al Qaeda as the forced youths in Germany were to fight for the 
Werewolves.

To find my views backed up please have a look at the must-reads section
of my website www.inipa.de

Thanks.

Leo Bauer

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