Saudi Arabia Isn't America's Friend

Mar 26, 2014
By The Editors
Source: Bloomberg View


Comments: The title of this article is misleading. Both the regimes of Arabia and The United States are members of the same team-the team of the NWO (New World Order). Just as the Democrats and Republicans are team mates within the team of NWO-the regimes of different nation states (which sometimes behave like they are hostile towards each other) are also team mates within the NWO team. The NWO play mind games against the public-both domestically within the U.S.-as well as internationally. "Bloomberg"  is obviously one of many mouthpieces of the NWO. With this article it is being an active player in the mind games of The New World Order (a.k.a. The Illuminati). There is some interesting information within the article itself. It is for this reason that I am sharing it in this blog. Here is the article:

"U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah tomorrow, and the president's critics have been sounding a warning: By parting with the Saudis on Egypt, Syria and Iran, they say, his administration is endangering a vital alliance. The truth is, the relationship with Saudi Arabia is overdue for a recalibration.

"The U.S. and Saudi Arabia still have common interests -- in fighting terrorism, for example -- and Saudi Arabia's oil wealth means it will hold disproportionate sway in Washington for years to come. But neither Obama nor his critics (nor, for that matter, Saudis themselves) should kid themselves. Saudi Arabia is not a natural ally of the U.S., and probably never has been.

"The current landscape puts in stark relief just how anomalous the relationship is. When the Saudis look around the region, they see rebellions that unseated autocrats, like them, in Tunisia and Egypt. The U.S. generally welcomed these developments. Meanwhile, the one uprising that Saudi's Sunni royalty supports -- in Syria, against Syria's non-Sunni dictator -- is failing, and the Saudis resent the U.S. for not intervening decisively.

"On Iran, the Americans and Saudis stood together when the country's government was led by the pugnacious Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. President Hassan Rouhani's election, however, created an opening for a diplomatic resolution to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program, splitting U.S. and Saudi interests. The U.S. wants the talks to succeed to avoid a war with Iran. The Saudis hope they fail so its Shiite archrival will remain the subject of sanctions if not attacks.

"By complaining that Obama turned his back on Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak after Egyptians rose up against him, Saudi leaders betray both an exaggerated sense of U.S. influence and an unwillingness to consider what democratic reforms they might make to avoid Mubarak's fate. Might they consider, for example, allowing national elections? How about peaceful demonstrations? How about giving women equal rights to men?

"For decades, Saudi rulers have been able to rely on their oil wealth both to pacify their population and smooth their relationship with the U.S. This tool, however, is not what it used to be. Increasing internal demand means the Saudis have less oil to sell abroad. And the U.S., by importing more crude from sources such as Canada and Mexico and exploiting its own shale oil reserves, has reduced its reliance on Saudi oil.

None of this is to argue that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have nothing in common. It is in U.S. interests for the Saudis to continue supplying oil to U.S. allies that need it, and for the Saudis to use their spare production capacity to keep prices stable. For their part, the Saudis have to sell oil to someone, as oil revenue supports 80 percent of their budget, and keeping prices reasonable discourages investments in shale oil and alternative energy sources.

"The two countries also share a strong interest in combating terrorism, particularly by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the most serious terrorist threat to both. It benefits neither to scale back their close counterterrorism cooperation, which includes U.S. drone operations out of a base in Saudi Arabia.

The U.S.-Saudi relationship is one the region's oldest, and has a storied past. Obama and Abdullah can be expected to celebrate that history at their meeting. The future of the partnership, however, will require a realistic accounting of their mutual and divergent goals.

Link: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-26/saudi-arabia-isn-t-america-s-friend?cmpid=yhoo.

Qatar defends foreign policy in face of Gulf anger

March 10, 2014
Source: Yahoo News

Doha (AFP) - Qatar defended its independent foreign policy Monday after Saudi Arabia and two other Gulf countries recalled their envoys from Doha accusing it of meddling in their internal affairs.

"Our policy is based on openness towards all, and we do not want to exclude anyone," Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiya said during a visit to Paris, in remarks aired by Doha-based Al-Jazeera television.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain recalled their ambassadors last week in a move widely seen as signalling their anger at Qatar's support for the Muslim Brotherhood of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi.

Saudi Arabia and other conservative Gulf countries welcomed the military's overthrow of Morsi last July and pledged billions of dollars in aid while Qatar, which had strongly supported him, has seen its influence in Cairo evaporate.

Doha said it "regretted" the decision to recall the envoys, which it said was based on differences concerning regional issues.

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies have long been hostile towards Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates across the region, fearing that its brand of grass-roots activism and political Islam could undermine their authority.

The Brotherhood is widely banned in the Gulf, and the UAE has sentenced scores of alleged members to jail, while Qatar has served as a refuge for Brotherhood sympathisers from other countries.

Attiya said Qatar "provides a forum for all those who do not belong to any bloc to come and exchange their views," but said this does not mean that Doha agrees with them.

Full text of the communique issued by the Saudi Interior Ministry on proscribed organisations

09 March 2014
Source: Middle East Monitor

 Full text of the communique issued by the Saudi Interior Ministry:

As per Royal Decree number A / 44 dated 3/4/1435H which orders in paragraph four the formation of a committee composed of representatives of the Ministry of Interior; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Da'wah & Guidance; the Ministry of Justice; the Court for Grievances; and the Department of Investigations and Public Prosecution, whose task would be to prepare a list, to be updated regularly, of the currents and groups referred to in paragraph 2 (1) of the decree, to be submitted for approval, the Ministry of Interior would like to explain that the said committee has met, deliberated the matter and submitted to his Majesty its proposal that the list should include any Saudi national or non-Saudi resident of the kingdom who perpetrates any of the following:

1) Preaching any atheistic thought in whatever form or casting doubt on the unchangeable principles of Islam upon which this country has been founded;

2) Whoever rebels against the covenant he pledged to the rulers of this country or whoever pledges homage to any party or organisation or current or group or individual whether local or foreign;

3) Participating in or calling for or inciting combat in any conflict zone in other countries or whoever issues a fatwa to that effect;

4) Whoever supports organisations or groups or currents or groupings or parties, or whoever manifests affiliation to any of these or expresses sympathy with any of them or promotes any of them or convenes meetings under their umbrella whether inside or outside the Kingdom. This includes participating in all forms of media, whether audio or print or video, and in social media networks of all forms and types, audio, print and video, and in internet websites by reporting or re-transmitting any of their contents in whatever format, or the use of the slogans or emblems of these groups and currents or the use of any such symbols that my express support for them or sympathy with them;

5) Donating to or supporting financially or materially the organisations or currents or terrorist or extremist groups or providing shelter for someone affiliated to them or promoting them inside or outside the kingdom;

6) Contacting or communicating with any of the groups, currents or individuals deemed hostile to the Kingdom;

7) Loyalty to a foreign country or associating with it or communicating with it with the objective of undermining the unity, stability or security of the Kingdom or its people;

8) Seeking to destabilise the social matrix and national unity, or calling for or participating in or promoting or inciting people to take part in protests or demonstrations or assemblies or joint statements under whatever pretext and in whatever format or in whatever means that undermines the unity and stability of the Kingdom;

9) Attending conferences or symposia or assemblies whether locally or internationally that target the security or stability of the country and stir up sedition within society;

10) Abuse of other states and their leaders;

11) Inciting other states or associations or international organisations against the Kingdom;

The Ministry of Interior would like to point out that His Majesty has approved these proposals and that Royal Decree number 16820 dated 5/5/1435H has been issued endorsing them. The implementation of these rules will begin as of Sunday 8/5/1435H which corresponds to the 9th of March 2014 CE. Whoever violates these rulings in whatever form or shape as of this date will be prosecuted and punished for all his past and present violations. His Majesty instructed that whoever is taking part in combat activities outside the Kingdom in whatever form will be given a 15 days ultimatum starting from the date of the communique to reconsider and return soon to their homeland. We pray that God may guide them back to their senses.
The Ministry of Interior attaches to this first list of parties, groups and currents covered by this communique those that call themselves any of the following: Alqaeda Organisation, Alqaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Organisation, Alqaeda Organisation in Yemen, Alqaeda Organisation in Iraq, Daesh (The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant), Al-Nusrah Front, Hezbollah inside the Kingdom (of Saudi Arabia), The Muslim Brotherhood Group, Al-Huthy Group. It should be known that this would apply to any organisation that is similar to any of these organisations in thought, discourse or action and to all the groups or currents listed in UN Security Council and other international organisations terrorism list or known to have been involved in terrorism and the use of violence.

The Ministry will update this list regularly in accordance with the Royal decree. All are urged to adhere fully to this. The Ministry would like to stress, in the meantime, that there would be no tolerance shown toward any person committing any of the above mentioned violations.

We pray to God Almighty to guide everyone. We would like to remind that God Almighty says: "God is forgiving for those who repent and do well after having been wrong."

First and foremost, it is God that is the provider of success.

Link:   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/10189-full-text-of-the-communique-issued-by-the-saudi-interior-ministry-on-proscribed-organisations.

Saudi, UAE, Bahrain recall their envoys from Qatar

22 hours ago
By AYA BATRAWY
Source: Yahoo News

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain said Wednesday they have recalled their ambassadors from Qatar in the clearest move yet underscoring their apparent displeasure over Doha's support for the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group in Egypt and elsewhere the region.

The three Gulf Arab states made the announcement in a joint statement on state media, saying Qatar had breached a regional security deal. They said the move was made to protect their security.

Tensions between the three and Doha intensified following the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Arab Spring protests in early 2011. Mubarak was long seen as a reliable Saudi ally and one whose disdain for Islamist groups was in line with the kingdom's own.

Qatar's massive financial and public support for Mubarak's successor, President Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the Brotherhood, stood at odds with UAE and Saudi policies — as did its condemnation of Morsi's ouster last July by the Egyptian military, following days of massive protests in Cairo against the Islamist president.

At home, both the UAE and Saudi Arabia have cracked down on Islamist groups with links to the Brotherhood, which they see as a threat to their ruling systems. They are both staunch supporters of Egypt's new military-backed government, which subsequently launched sweeping crackdowns on Morsi and his Brotherhood supporters.

The joint Gulf statement said Qatar's ruler Emir Sheik Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani failed to uphold a security agreement that he signed in late November in Saudi Arabia. The emir of Kuwait was a witness to the meeting in Riyadh and the agreement was endorsed by other members in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council.

 

The agreement called on all GCC members not to interfere, "whether directly or indirectly" in another member nation's internal affairs. It also stipulated that GCC countries would not support organizations or individuals that threaten the security and stability of Arabian Peninsula countries "either through direct security work or by attempting to influence politics."

The language appeared to have been shorthand for support for the Brotherhood and Qatar's funding of the Doha-based pan-Arab Al-Jazeera network.

However, three months after signing the agreement, no action was taken by Qatar despite "great efforts" by the Gulf Arab nations to reach out to Doha's leadership to fulfill its side of the deal, said the Saudi-UAE-Bahrain statement.

Details of the November agreement were not made public until Wednesday.

Saudi analyst Anwar Edshki said the decision was a warning to Qatar to stop inciting violence by Islamists in Egypt.

"It is Qatar's right to support the Muslim Brotherhood, but not its right to threaten security in Egypt and incite the (people on the) street," he said.

Edshki, who chairs the Middle East Center for Strategic and Legal Studies in Saudi Arabia, said Qatar's policies have created chaos in Libya, Yemen, Syria and Egypt. However, what particularly disturbed Saudi Arabia and the UAE more recently was how Qatar allowed Islamic cleric Youssef el-Qaradawi to continue attacking the policies of these countries publicly.

The withdrawal of ambassadors from Qatar came after a meeting Tuesday in Riyadh of GCC foreign ministers that tried to "persuade" Qatar to keep up its end of the deal.

"However, all these efforts have not resulted, with great regret, in the consent of the State of Qatar to adhere to these procedures," the statement said. "So the three countries have to start taking whatever they deem appropriate to protect their security and stability by withdrawing their ambassadors from the State of Qatar, as of today."

Though Wednesday's announcement was unprecedented for the region, last month the UAE signaled it was losing patience with Qatar when it summoned Doha's ambassador to formally protest the comments of the outspoken pro-Brotherhood el-Qaradawi who criticized the Gulf country's policies toward Islamist groups on Qatari TV.

The Emirati leadership said Qatar should stop the Egyptian-born cleric from expressing comments critical of the UAE.

Even though the UAE was part of Wednesday's three-state announcement, its ambassador to Qatar has not been present in Doha for several months.

U.S. House votes to delay Obamacare penalty for non-enrollment

10 hours ago
By David Morgan and Thomas Ferraro
Source: Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to delay for one year the tax penalty Americans will pay under President Barack Obama's healthcare law if they decline to enroll in health coverage.

The vote, part of a Republican election-year attack strategy against the 2010 healthcare law known as Obamacare, marked the 50th time House Republicans had passed legislation to try to repeal or dismantle it.

The measure to delay the tax penalty passed by a vote of 250-160, with 27 Democrats joining with 223 Republicans to back the legislation. The bill is certain to go nowhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate and would face a White House veto even if it succeeded.

The 27 Democratic votes on Wednesday for the bill fell short of the 39 who broke ranks with the White House last November and voted with Republicans in favor of a failed bill that would have allowed health insurers to continue to sell plans canceled under Obamacare.

Supporters of the new bill cast the legislation as an issue of fairness.

They argued that individual consumers should be granted a delay on the penalty because the Obama administration had postponed the implementation of some Obamacare provisions that apply to businesses.

"This is an opportunity to stop the political games and put working Americans first," said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Virginia Republican.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said after 50 such votes, "It's time for Republicans to end their obsession with upending health reform and work with Democrats to strengthen it."

Analysts say a delay on the penalty would undermine the law's aim of extending health coverage to millions of uninsured Americans by destabilizing new private insurance marketplaces established on the expectation the penalty would encourage people to enroll in coverage.

More than 4 million people have already enrolled in private insurance through the marketplaces. The open enrollment period ends on March 31.

One of Obamacare's most unpopular provisions, the individual mandate requires most Americans to be enrolled in health coverage by March 31 or pay a tax penalty that is being phased in over three years.

(Reporting by David Morgan and Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Peter Cooney and Andrew Hay)

 

 

 

WW II - The REAL Reason !

Source:  the fuhrerbunker.com
Massacre of Volksdeuterhers (ethnic Germans) by Polish military and civilians.

Most real scholars of World War Two are aware of the reasons that Adolf Hitler sent the Wehrmacht into Poland.  When we look back on what we now know, it was easy to understand why England and France threatened Hitler not to invade Poland.  They all knew it was inevitable and they all knew why.  Most governments knew of it; but the well-spun propaganda and controlled press made it appear that a power-crazed Adolf Hitler only wanted to kill Jews and rule the world.  Even today, this same false propaganda is taught in schools.

Simply put - not only was Germany herself under attack from the World Jewish community (the call to boycott all German made goods in the early 1930's) but worse yet, the Polish authorities were engaged is mass murder, rape and robbery of Volksdeutscher (ethnic Germans) living in Poland.  It reached such massive proportions that Hitler, as leader of the German people, could not ignore it.  He had to send in the Wehrmacht.

             DEPORTATION ORDERS

Deportation orders did not begin, as we are told to believe, with Germans deporting Jews.  In fact, the Deportation Orders began in Poland, deporting and/or arresting ethnic Germans.  There were three types of orders - the yellow form was merely deportation to central or eastern Poland; the pink form meant internment and the red form meant outright arrest.  In reality, each form meant deportation to one degree or another and ultimate death for most.

You will now read FIRST-PERSON accounts of that time, and they all justify the incursion into Poland.  In fact, they demanded intervention.

EUGEN HOFMANN - On 2 September 1939 this Bromberg merchant was arrested on orders of the commander of the air raid district, Isador Berger, a Polish Jew and was taken to the women's prison in Bromberg.  On 4 September, he and all Germans held in this prison were given a certificate of release and were indeed released.  However, this 'release certificate' also ordered any police officer to kill the bearer!  All but Hofmann were murdered the same day.  He escaped to tell his story by hiding with relatives.

  ROBERT KUNDE - Monday, 4 September 1939, four Polish soldiers entered the home of Kunde at Wierbathstraße 23 in Bromberg and searched for weapons.  Finding none, they wrote comments in the passports of Kunde and his son Wilhelm, that stated the bearer was "suspect" and on other pages, made the note that the bearer should be shot.  These soldiers arrested the male members of the Kunde family and handed them over, along with other Germans, to Polish soldiers who took them into the nearby woods.  Kunde and another German, a man named Grüning, managed to escape - all the others were shot dead.  Kunde later learned that his father had also been murdered.

 VERA GANNOTT - The home where she and her parents lived was invaded by Polish authorities on Sunday, 3 September.  Here is the translation of her sworn statement, taken on 14 September, 1939:
"I am 19, Protestant, without occupation.
          When it became known in town that the German troops were coming in, the civilian population and Polish soldiers began to commit acts of violence.  At about 2 o'clock on Sunday, Polish soldiers and civilians came toward our house at Thorner Straße 125, two and a half miles from town.  The Polish civilians said; "Germans live here!"  The soldiers immediately began to fire.  We fled into a shed.  I believe the Polish soldiers also threw hand grenades.  My father was the first taken from the shed.  The Poles asked him where he had the machine gun.  My father did not understand the question as he did not know Polish.  Thereupon I came out of the shed, for I knew Polish and wanted to help my father.  I asked the Poles what we had done to them and interceded for my father.  But the Poles shouted; "Down with you German swine!"  My father was repeatedly struck on the face and body with rifle butts, then stabbed with a bayonet.  Thereupon my father fell to the ground and as he lay, he was shot six times before dying.  The mob then left, after telling civilians they could loot the house else they (the soldiers) would burn it down.  Now my mother also came out of her hiding place.  She and I wanted to wash my father, who was completely covered with blood.  Just as we started, there appeared another Polish mob armed with pickets and clubs.  My mother and my aunt were beaten with the clubs.  I was slapped again and again.  Then they left.  After a while there came another mob of Polish soldiers and civilians.  As they approached, I ran into the River Brahe, which flows past the rear of our house.  I was dragged out by the hair.  Between ten and fifteen civilians dragged me into the house.  They said they were going to show me that the Poles weren't so bad after all; they would allow me to change my wet clothes.  No one left the room so I refused to change.  The Poles thereupon tore my clothes off and laid me on the ground naked.  About ten men held me down by the head, hands and feet while one of them raped me.  He completed the act and I suffered injuries.  I had considerable pain during the first days, but not any more.  The other Poles did not attack me.  During this time my mother was taken to a room on the upper floor and held at the point of a rifle.
          Polish soldiers robbed money, a bag, watches and rings from my father and myself.  Our home was completely destroyed - the furniture hacked to pieces with axes.  Our china and the linens were stolen.
          We did not have any arms in our house.  We had previously surrendered them to the police because of a general order."

 LORENZ BREITINGER was part of a group that was force-marched across Poland.  His sworn testimony reads:
"From Konin, our march could not be continued towards Kutno so we suddenly turned north.  About seven kilometers beyond Konin, our guards left us, only one remaining being a weak minded policeman.  We were now ill-treated with long clubs and stones by soldiers of the Polish reserves.  Military policemen rescued us.  We were allowed to stop for three days on a farm near Maliniec because our policeman first had to go and get orders as to what was to be done with us.
          Beyond Slesin we passed through many Polish positions and were placed on a farm which was completely overrun with Polish soldiers.  Here a young Polish lieutenant threatened us with  death, cursing us all the time.  On the next morning we were called as early as 2 o'clock to continue our march.  The carts with the cripples and children remained behind.  I heard later that they were shot.  They were the entire Schmolke family and another war invalid who had only one leg.  A forced march under the thunder of cannon, took us to Babiak.  We continued in the afternoon after having been subdivided into three groups and a number of soldiers having been added to our guard.  On a forest path, we were forced to hand over our watches and other jewelry, our money and, many of us even our wedding rings, to the soldiers.  When we were forced to continue on Monday morning, some of us were unable to stand on our feet.  Five who were ill and quite incapable of going on - a women school teacher from Posen among them - remained behind.  Three able bodied men stayed behind to protect them.  We learned later that the guards had shot them and beaten them to death with stones in a bestial manner.
          After days of aimless marching - the war front drawing nearer to us all the time - we were freed by German troops on 17 September 1939.  The German Army brought us home via Breslau."

 SISTER SCHMIDT and the CHILDREN'S HOME - "Bloody Sunday"
"The Deutsches Kinderheim (German Children's Home) on Thorner Straße in Bromberg, was searched five times in all on 'Bloody Sunday'.  About seven AM, two Polish soldiers demanded admittance.  They searched the house for arms and left after having convinced themselves that their mission was futile.  The soldiers were polite.
          The second search, by six Polish soldiers, occurred at about 9:30 AM.  They beat against the door with their rifle butts and demanded admittance.  One of them put his pistol to the temple of Sister Olga, head of the Kinderheim.  Insisting that a machine gun was hidden in the house and that shots from it had just been fired, they demanded surrender of the arms.  Sister Olga replied that there were no weapons, and bade them search.  The soldiers searched the house thoroughly, breaking into drawers and cupboards that could not be easily opened.  Finding no weapons, the searchers left.
          In the late forenoon, as the children were about to lunch, a third search was undertaken by four or five Polish soldiers accompanied by as many civilians.  Some of these soldiers had taken part on the previous search.  The soldiers again insisted that shots had been fired from the house and demanded to see the 'machine gun'.  One of them threatened the Sister with his bayonet.  The Sister repeated that she had no weapons.  One of the soldiers - the Sister believed that he was an officer - thereupon said; "But we have been told that shots were just fired from here."  The soldiers who had taken part in the previous search confirmed that there was really nothing upstairs.  However, a Pole named Maximilian Gackowski, the only civilian who had followed the soldiers to the staircase, kept shouting; "Shots have been fired from here.  I saw it myself!"  Turning to Sister Schmidt he yelled; "You old hag!  You old shrew - you and your brats should have been driven away long ago!  If I could have done what I wanted, you would have been dead long ago.  I would have killed you all myself!"  He brandished a weapon, believed to have been steel rod, in the Sister's face.  However, Gackowski could not convince the soldiers and the search ended.
          The next search by about five soldiers and five civilians, took place at about 3 PM.  Gackowski was again present.  The leader of the group ordered all inmates including three Sisters and eighteen children ranging from two to eighteen years, to gather and raise their hands.  Gackowski ranted as before, insisting time and again, that shots had been fired from the house and asked for the 'machine gun'.  He brought a 'witness' who, he claimed, was ready to swear that shots had been fired.  While the soldiers searched the house, one of them remained standing before Sister Olga with his Bayonet.  Gackowski took part in this search of the house.  After this group had found nothing, Gackowski declared, "They work in the daytime, but evenings they have men upstairs, they smoke cigarettes.  I have seen it myself, and nights they shoot."
          The raiders left the Kinderheim just as a man accused of having fired shots was being brought from the direction of the Schützenhaus.  Gackowski was the first to turn against this man.  After the fourth search, the Sisters discovered that smaller valuables, among them Sister Olga's watch, were missing.  The last search was made about 5:30PM.  It was again made by soldiers and civilians.  The head of the group approached Sister Olga with his rifle and threatened to shoot her.  At this moment, one of the Sisters who had been ordered to help in the cleaning up of the railroad station returned amid a mob of soldiers and civilians.  The Sister, having compelled to clean the railroad tracks, was very dirty.  At the instigation of Gackowski, who was again present, a railway man charged that the lubrication oil on the hands and the dress of the Sister was from a machine gun.  As before, Gackowski sought to entice the soldiers by declaring that shots had been fired.  However, it was proved that there were no arms in the Kinderheim and that no shots were fired from the house."

      

WILHELM STARKE testifies about the horticulturist Herr BERNDT
"An SS cap was reputedly found at the establishment of horticulturalist Bernd of Lissa.  Berndt was thereupon arrested.  Neither he not his brothers had ever had the SS cap in their house.  It was later discovered that the cap had been found by the Polish attackers of the village of Geiersdorf.  There were ten SS men in the village who had to leave without their outfits.  It was ascertained that the cap belonged to an SS man, Ernst Wiedermann, of Vienna."

                                        

Attack on the MATTHES FAMILY
"Late in the morning of 3 September 1939, the accused Kazimir Dybowski, Paul Kinczewski and Peter Pijarowski, accompanied by a considerable number of unidentified Polish civilians and by several Polish soldiers with fixed bayonets, marched along Albertstraße in Bromberg.  Dybowski had a knife in his hand; Kinczewski and Pijarowski had an axe and a hatchet.  When the mob arrived in front of Albertstraße 24, where witness Herbert Matthes, a member of the German minority (Volksdeutscher), carried on a large cabinet making trade.  They were incited by Kinczewski to raid the house.  Speaking to witness Biermann, who was responsible for the air raid protection of the house, Kinczewski insisted that Matthes had fired on Polish soldiers.  Biermann's repeated denials of the charge were to no avail and the mob broke through the courtyard to the drying room in which Matthes, his wife and two sons, and his 72 year old mother had hidden.  The door of the room was locked and when it was not opened at the ringleader's demand, Kinczewski simple smashed it in with his axe.  Thereupon, Mrs. Ella Matthes, her two sons and her mother-in-law appeared in the doorway; Herbert Matthes remaining in hiding at first.  Mrs. Matthes told the members of the mob and the soldiers that her husband was not at home and that she did not know where he had gone.  Kinczewski replied that in that case the two sons had would be taken as hostages.  However, Matthes stepped forward to save his children.  Kinczewski swung his axe at Matthes but Biermann caught the handle and deflected the blow.  Simultaneously Pijarowski with his axe, and Dybowski with his knife, headed toward 72 year old Selma Matthes, but failed to harm her.  Finally Matthes and his two sons were led away by Polish soldiers.  Matthes later succeeded in himself and his children by escaping while their Polish captors were quarreling over the division of the valuables taken from Matthes, thus relaxing their vigil."

      

'The SZWABY Must Be Shot!'  (Szwaby or Swabians was a derogatory Polish term for Germans)  Blood and Brains Spattered....
"My name is Johanna Giese, nee Keusch.  I am 51, Protestant, Volksdeutscher and live in Bromberg at Konopnickiej 9.
          On Sunday, 3 September 1939 between 11 and 12 o'clock, we were in the cellar of our residence.  Polish soldiers and civilians entered our yard and demanded that we come out of the cellar.  When we obeyed, a soldier asserted that shots had been fired from our home.  There were however, no weapons at all in our house.
          My son-in-law was the first to leave the cellar, and was greeted by a civilian's shout of 'The Szwaby must be shot!'  Without hesitation, the Poles fired at my son-in-law.  The first bullet pierces his jugular vein, while three others lodged in his chest and neck.  Nevertheless he was still alive when we were forced to flee that night.  We could not take him along, so we put him on a couch in our dwelling.
          When German troops entered Bromberg on Tuesday, a corporal accompanied me to our farmstead to see how things looked.  A horrible sight met out eyes.  The mob had taken my son-in-law from the couch and had dragged him into the kitchen.  His remains lay under the kitchen table.  His head was split, his skull cap was missing.  Brains and blood were spattered on the kitchen wall.
          My son, Reinhard Giese, 19 years old, had been in the cellar with us.  When he saw that my son-in-law was being shot, he dashed out and jumped over the fence to our neighbor's plot.  The Poles followed, caught my son and shot him.  In the evening, I managed to get the body into our laundry.  Reinhard was shot through the chest.
          Another son of mine, Friederich Geise, 25 years old, was reported shot in the mass murder of the family with which he had hidden in Hopfengarten."

              

'SLAY THE GERMANS!'                 Eyes Gouged out with Bayonets
"My name is Paul Sikorski.  I am 35, Catholic, a merchant.  I call myself Volksdeutscher and reside in Bromberg, Mühlenstraße 4.
          At about 6:00 am on Sunday, 3 September 1939, I went to the mill to put out the light and to stop the turbine.  On my way, I suddenly heard loud shouting from the direction of the railroad.  About a hundred meters away, a mob of railway men, civilians and soldiers with bayonets, rifle butts and clubs were attacking  seven people of ages varying from about 20 to 60.  The victims were surrounded.  As I approached the scene, I heard members of the mob call in Polish, 'Slay the Germans!'  I could see blood spurting.  It was then that I turned and fled for the mob was about to assail me.  I returned to the scene at nine o'clock and looked at the bodies.  The eyes of two corpses had been gouged out by bayonets.  The sockets were a mass of blood.  The skulls of three had been cracked open, and their spattered brains lay a meter away.  The other bodies were similarly slashed to pieces.  One belly was split wide open.  I recognized two of the murdered men; the butcher Leichnitz or Jägershof, and Mr. Schlicht.
          About three in the or four o'clock in the afternoon, a band of soldiers and railway men brought eighteen Germans to my mill. (the Peterson mill).  I could see from the garden that the Germans were tied in pairs.  All eighteen were shot, two at a time, then beaten as they lay on the ground.  Among them was a fourteen-year-old boy and a woman.  The murderers were obviously in a great hurry, for they all disappeared immediately after the slaughter.  I later had a thorough look at the bodies, which lay there for three days.
          At noon on Monday, when it was already rumored that the Polish troops had left, I saw two Polish soldiers march an elderly couple to the wall at the mill.  I ran up to the soldiers, knelt before them and begged them in Polish to spare the people, who were both about 65.  I was struck with a rifle butt and told, 'Let the damned Niemcys (Germans) die like dogs!'  Even before I could rise to my feet, the soldiers had shot down the two old people.  The bodies rolled into a ditch as the soldiers trotted away."

     

WILDEMANN MURDER     "They Should be Beaten to Death!"
Testimony of Frau Wildemann:

"On the morning of September 3rd, several raiding parties searched Frau Wildemann's house in Bromberg at Schwedenbergerstraße (Ugory) 56, but found no weapons.
          At about 3 p.m., a new mob, consisting of approximately thirty men all armed with clubs and similar weapons appeared.  Claiming that shots had been fired from the house and that it must therefore be searched for arms, the mob entered.  Several objects belonging to Wildemann family were stolen.  There were not arms in the house, and no shots had been fired from it.  When he saw the approaching mob, Herr Wildemann hid in the cellar.  Questioned as to her husband's whereabouts, Frau Wildemann said that he had gone to visit acquaintances in Kufawierstraße.  She was taken to the address.  When her husband could not be found there, Frau Wildemann was threatened.  Finally, after having been assured that nothing would happen to Herr Wildemann, she revealed his hiding place.  The mob returned to the couple's home, seized both the husband and wife, beating them on the way, dragged them into the garden.  They were stood up as if they were going t be shot.  When they embraced each other and began to pray, they were ridiculed.  Shouts were heard again & again,  'They should be beaten to death!'.  One of those who shouted was a barber names Alfons Lewandowski.  When Frau Wildemann asked him, 'Why should you kill me?  What have I done to you?' he slapped her in the face saying, 'German pig!  Damned Hitlerite!'  Herr Wildemann was then taken away by the soldiers who, on the whole, were less hostile than the rabble.  Several days later Wildemann's body was found nearby under a thin layer of sand.  So horribly mutilated was he that only by his clothing and the contents of his pocket could he be identified."

       

GOLLNICK & KÖPERNICK MURDERS     "All Germans Must be Butchered!"
Testimony of witnesses Olga and Franz Tafelski of Bromberg

"The throng milling about Breite Straße arrounsed the soldiers against a German named Gollnick.  The soldiers beat Gollnick down with their rifle butts and left him lying in the street badly injured.
          Toward evening, Franz Tafelski noticed that the victim's left leg and left hand were still twitching.  Gollnick had fallen on his face but the mob had turned him over and tore open the front of his trousers, exposing the whole lower part of his torso.  A civilian and two soldiers appeared and ran a bayonet into Gollnick's belly.  Following this, a final shot was fired into the body.
          Throughout the afternoon, a mob had milled up and down Breite Straße right by the dying man.  They shouted that the Germans had shot from their homes.  Sofie Bednarczyk, an unemployed woman, was in the mob.  She flirted with the soldiers and, according to Olga Tafelski, behaved 'like a mad woman'.  Franz Tafelski saw her, arms forled, leading the mob.  Her manner revealed a morbid lust for power.  Olga Tafelski heard her shout 'Give me the rifle; all Germans must be butchered!  The damned Hitlerites!'
        Franz Tafelski heard her shout, 'All Germans must be slain!'.  All the time she was laughing and flirting with the soldiers.  She stopped at the corner of No. 5 Breite Straße, where Gollnick lay with his trousers torn open.  Witness Bartkowski heard her shout, 'This Hitlerite ought to have his testicles cut off!'  About half an hour later, Köpernick, a Volksdeutscher, was dragged past the same house and murdered."

        

GOLLNICK MURDER     "The Swine is Still Alive!"
Testimony of Christa Gollnick of Kujawierstraße 101 in Bromberg

"We operated a flour and feed store.  As the first Polish troops were leaving, I noticed a Polish neighbor talking to a Polish major and pointing at our house.  Thereupon Polish soldiers broke open the door and rushed into our store.  Thinking that a skirmish was in progress and that the soldiers wanted to entrench themselves in our house, we ran toward the shelter which we had been ordered to build.  We did not reach the shelter because the Polish soldiers fired at us.  My husband was shot in the shoulder and hit in the face with a rifle butt.  He reeled but still tried to escape.  He started to climb the fence, but was held back by a civilian.  A Polish soldier gave him another rifle butt blow which knocked him out.
          A Polish lieutenant led me and the children back into the house.  From an attic window, I could see my prostrate husband.  He lingered on for a long time.  I saw him draw his legs up and stretch them.  Oncein a while he would life his hand.  However, it was impossible for us to go to him, for he was surrounded by Polish soldiers and civilians.  A Polish policeman stood guard at the fence.  Polish women shouted, 'The swine is still alive!'  Towards evening, my husband was shot three more times by Polish soldiers.  He had also been stabbed through the stomach with a bayonet.  Time and again he tried to open his trousers, finally succeeding.  The woman next door told me that he was still breathing the next day.  My husband was tall and strong and only 38 years.  Probably that is why he had such a hard time dying.  He lay about eighteen hours before he was released from his agony."




       

BETTIN MURDER     "We'll Butcher You!  Here's Some Young Hitler Blood for You!"
Testimony from Frau Bettin of Bromberg:

"About noon on 3 September 1939, the so-called 'Bromberg Bloody Sunday' a horde of Polish bandits overran the Bettin property at Frankenstraße 76.  The Bettins, hearing their windows being smashed in, decided to investigate.  They were seized and forced to raise their arms and kneel.  A Swastika, which Fraulein Bettin was wearing on her dress, fell to the ground.  Seeing the emblem led the mob to insult the girl outrageously.  Some of the Poles bore revolvers and pitchforks; one had an axe.  They shouted such things as:
     'Hitler Blood!'
     'Hitler Pigs!'
     'We'll Butcher You!'

Fraulein Bettin was taken away by two Poles, one of whom was a railroad employee named Bruski.  The captive was treated roughly and practically hurled from the farmstead.  She was dragged on by the arm and threatened with a club.  At the corner of Bölitzer Straße, she was turned over to two other Poles, a postal employee disguised as a policeman and a railway man.  Bruski told them, 'Here's some young Hitler blood for you!'  Between 4 and 5 p.m., she was freed by a young Polish officer.  When she got home she found that only her mother and sister-in-law were still there.  Her father and brother had been dragged away by the Polish mob.  Her brother's body was found some time later.  Her father is still missing and probably also murdered."

                          

THIEDE and MITTELSTÄDT MURDERS     "Hold Him so that I can Kill Him!"
Testimony of Gerda Thiede and Otto Papke, both of Schulitz:

"Waclaw Pasterski, a chauffer, owned property opposite the Thieses in Schulitz.  The Thiedes, a mother and two children Gerda and Werner, were Germans and had lived here for many years.  Waclaw Pasterski was a Pole and came to Schulitz about seven years ago.
          On Sunday, 3 September 1939, Polish soldiers drove stray cattle belonging to Poles who had fled, into the Thiede's best fields.  Accompanied by Emil Mittlestädt, who owned property nearby, the Thiedes went out to see how much damage had been done.  While they were there, a troop of Polish soldiers came from the direction of the woods and called, 'Germans or Poles?'  Werner Thiede answered, 'German.'  Mittlestädt replied 'Pole.'  Werner Thiede was searched and found unarmed.  The Thiedes were then compelled to walk with raised hands towards the woods.  The soldiers followed them, allowing Mittlestädt to remain in the meadow.
          Meanwhile, Waclaw Pasterski, armed with an axe and a knife, came out of the woods.  Seeing Werner Thiede, he shouted to the soldiers, 'Hold the little fellow so that I can kill him!'  At this threat, Werner turned and ran in another direction.  The soldiers pursued him, firing as they went.  Gerda Thiede now looked back, although the soldiers had forbidden it, and saw Mittlestädt, his side slashed open, lying in the meadow.  Since the soldiers had left the meadow in order to follow Werner, and Mittlestädt and Pasterski were left alone, Gerda attributed the wound to an axe blow by Pasterski.  No one else could have struck the blow.  Gerda furthermore had heard Pasterski insist that Mittlestädt was German.  Otto Papke who saw Mittlestädt lying in the meadow was certain that the would was caused by the blow of an axe.  Mittlestädt was in agony until he died some time during the night.  Werner Thiede's body was later found and buried by Kriewald, another neighbor.  Gerda Thiede had stated that according to information from Kriewald, her brother had been shot in the back and had his head slashed.
          Werner Thiede was 20, Mittlestädt in his early thirties.  The latter was a widower and is survived by a young child."

FINGER MURDER          "For God's Sake.....Now We'll Die"
Testimony of Käthe Finger

"My name is Käthe Finger, nee Böhkle.  I am 48, the widow of a bank attorney.  I reside in Bromberg.  I am in no way related to the accused.
         On 'Bloody Sunday', several Volksdeutscher and a Polish woman whom we had summoned for our protection, were gathered in my home. About 11 a.m. a mob came down our street.  The brothers Weyna, who live in the Raddatz house opposite us, and the accused Owczaczak were in the crowd.  One of the Weyna brothers was armed.
          I heard my husband in the next room telling our girl, Göde, that Owczaczak was pointing at our residence.  My husband then came to me and said, 'For God's sake, the mob is coming in.  Now we'll die!'  He added that we should perish together.  At that moment the mob broke into our apartment.  There was a soldier among them who demanded that my husband and I lie down on the carpet.  We obeyed.  The soldier fired and my husband was killed instantly.  I expected a second shot and since it failed to come, I raised myself a little.  My hands were red with my husband's blood.  I cried, 'My God!' and I was yanked to my feet by the soldier.  Then I was pushed through the door and led away with the others who had sought refuge in our house.  On the way we were insulted, beaten and kicked by the members of the mob.  As we passed the canal gates, a Polish civilian shouted, 'Psia krew Hitlerowa!' (Damned Hitlerite women!) and pulled me toward the canal.  I managed to tear myself loose.  I was then brought to the police station where I was kicked so viciously that the force hurled me against a wooden fence.  We were then all forced to lie down in the courtyard of the police station, amid shouts of, 'Lie here like cattle, you German bloodhounds!'.  Now victims, beaten, bleeding and groaning in pain - more were arriving continuously.  My 12-year-old son was lying beside me.  We were under constant fire from the neighboring houses and from the direction of the canal gates.  Many Germans were struck.  These were taken away.  How many were dead, I do not know.  My son and I lay there about seven hours before a Polish policeman effected our release.
          A machine gun had been trained on us in the police courtyard, while we received orders to shout, 'Hoch Rydz-Smigly!'.  We were then asked whether we enjoyed living in Poland and when one woman replied negatively, the machine gun was aimed at her.
          There was great confusion in the courtyard.  I cannot enumerate the hardships inflicted on us.
          I swear that this testimony is true, and reaffirm the oath I have already taken in connection with this matter before the Bromberg Special Tribunal on 11 September 1939."


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