those in charge only remain so because they excel at creating lies to hide their shortcomings and we continue to buy them; 

 

Your death is a beacon for us.

At about eight o’clock in the evening of Tuesday, April 25, 1995, a retired German chemist walked to a prominent memorial hall in central Munich, poured a flammable liquid over himself, and set himself on fire. Reinhold Elstner, 75 years old, took his life in this gruesome, painful fashion to protest against a half century of “defamation” and a “Niagara flood of lies pouring down on our nation.”

During the Second World War Elstner served as a Wehrmacht soldier on the eastern front. For several years after the war he was held in the Soviet Union as a forced laborer. Along with three million other Sudeten Germans, his family was driven from its ancient home in the Sudetenland region that is now part of the Czech Republic.

As macabre as it sounds, if Elstner had survived his self-immolation, very likely he would have been arrested and put on trial as a criminal because he had expressed politically incorrect views about the Holocaust story in a farewell letter. (To deny, whitewash or approve of genocidal acts of the Third Reich is a crime in today’s Germany.) For example, he rejected as “lies, nothing but lies” the propaganda stories of gas chamber killings in Buchenwald, Mauthausen and Dachau “and the like.”...........more...........