Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

Party under Prime Minister John Howard, read the mood of the people,
and the policies of One Nation, then took most of them on board. The
conservative country folk swam back to familiar shores and re-embraced
the Liberal/National Party coalition.
Father’s political ideas on how to get the farming industry away from
reducing the number of Australian farms, as dictated by the Lima
Agreement, were not welcomed. Such ideas were too German and from
an era that saw nothing good come out of Germany, so according to the
prevailing orthodoxy!
German hatred in Australia in the past couple of decades has been on the
rise. This is mainly owing to Australia’s Zionists not letting the Hitler ghost
rest. They need Hitler as a convenient scapegoat for their own failed
policies. With the troubles caused by the Israeli state in the Middle East,
there thus also is a rise proportionately of ‘Holocaust’ propaganda so that
Israel can continue to justify its horrendous crimes perpetrated against the
Palestinians. It was even obvious to my father that this raising of the war
story, about what the Germans are allegedly to have done to European
Jewry, was designed to weld the Australian public together in support of
Israel. The culmination of that propaganda push came to fruition with
Australia joining that immoral Anglo-American-Zionist attack on Iraq.
By this time, though, father couldn’t care less what was going on in the
world. He was too busy trying to cope with his own ailments and had little
time and interest in following the world’s troubles.
In any case, father had risen above such primitive German hatred that the
Zionists and their helpers indulge in because he realized that if it is not
that, then it would be something else. In a farming community, for
example, if you have millions in your bank account, as one German in the
district has, there is little open German hatred going his way.
I had a similar experience as a teacher. Antagonistic and unwilling
learners, who did not know I had a German background, would call me a
‘f-cken Pommy bastard’. Those that knew of my German background
would call me ‘Hitler, Nazi’. You can’t win them all, and this kind of
name-calling is a universal human characteristic, albeit a hurtful one.
That’s what the sticks and stones business is all about. Like father, I too,
got over it! It does not make for a balanced mind to have that persecution
complex writ large in advanced years because it smacks of an infantile,
immature attitude.
When I visited father last weekend, he thought that he, too, would go back
with me to Adelaide. That was the first time that he expressed a desire to
leave his home because over these past five years he wanted nothing but to
stay at home with mother. I saw his asking me whether he was coming
with me, and when we were leaving for Adelaide, as an expression of a
wish to go on that final journey, perhaps to Walhalla.
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