Left-Extremist Endeavours

Agitation against
reparation claims
Agitation against the
principle of democracy
These weeklies also exploited the public controversy about the
travelling exhibition "War of Extermination. Crimes of the Wehrmacht,
1941 - 1944". In numerous articles, they presented polemics
against the exhibition and dismissed it as a hate and
horror show 34) which abounded with manipulations and false
representations and nevertheless roamed around Germany and
Austria 35) . The articles were almost regularly combined with advertising
of the books Die Wahrheit über die Wehrmacht.
Reemtsmas Fälschungen widerlegt ("The Truth about the Wehrmacht.
Reemtsma’s Falsifications Refuted") and Bilder, die fälschen.
Dubiose 'Dokumente' zur Zeitgeschichte ("Pictures that
falsify. Dubious ’Documents’ on Contemporary History") edited
by Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus SOJKA, a member of the DVU National Executive
Committee, and published by the FZ-Verlag.
Numerous articles in these newspapers agitated against what the
DVU considered excessive and perpetual demands on the State
and on German companies for reparations for Jews and former
forced labourers. Victims of National-Socialism were attacked
with aggressive headlines, such as "Paying for Hitler to the end
of time - New Jewish demands for billions of deutschmark" 36)
and " ’Nazi-Era Forced Labourers’: Playing poker for thousands
of millions" 37) In parallel to the criticism of the reparation claims
and of the negotiations conducted by the Federal Government
with the victims’ lawyers, it was deplored that no reparations
were paid for the wrongs suffered by Germans:
"The negotiations, which have been conducted in a downright
extortionist manner, about the enormous increase of German
reparation payments, which anyhow have already reached
astronomical amounts, threaten to end in the largest financial
redistribution of all history. ... Let us recall: the Federal
Republic of Germany - that is, the German taxpayer - has by
now paid gigantic sums of reparations amounting to nearly
200,000 million deutschmark. Fifty-four years after the end of
the war, there is no end in sight to these expiation payments -
on the contrary: ever new and higher claims are being
construed. But for German victims of the victors’ terror, there
was, and is, no indemnification or reparation whatsoever, not
even an excuse."
(DNZ, no. 35/1999, pp. 1 seq.)
The DVU launches polemic and defamatory attacks against the
democratic constitutional state and its representatives. The aim
is to detract from their reputation and to shake confidence in the
value system of the Basic Law. In particular, they claim that, for
reasons of power politics, democratic politicians insisted on the
collective guilt of the Germans regarding the mass extermination
of Jews: by means of this instrument of power, they intended to
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