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… The objective now – make no mistake
– is to bring the country under political control again. To accomplish
this, they have to go beyond the piddling sentences that have managed to
persuade the masses that the crimes of Hitler's Reich were the work of only a
few sadistic individuals. That notion has spared the most morally and
effectually guilty: the men in politics, law, and administration who
masterminded the crimes.
"Now the system is going even further by
rehabilitating them. If things go on like this, they will wind up
rehabilitating Hitler. When that day comes, we who are here in such numbers
will be quite alone, everyone for himself. When Kiesinger became Chancellor, I
could see the beginning of a real reconciliation between Germany and her Nazi
past, and that therein lay Kiesinger's place in history. I wanted my acting as
an individual to check him, but his total defeat must be the result of
collective action."
East German observers were there. Their newspapers
focused on my appeal. I could see that all was going well for my eventual
candidacy. Long articles had made me well known in the German Democratic
Republic and in the communist press of West German and the socialist countries.
January 22, 1969. Two soldiers were found with their throats cut
in Lebach, near Saarbrucken. The conservative press exploded and attributed the
crime to the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition. It seemed clear to me that no
militants who call themselves idealists would have cut the throats of sleeping
soldiers – who were actually civilians in uniform – just to get their
hands on some weapons. There had to be a quick reaction.
I went to Bonn
at once and wrote a pamphlet, had several hundred copies printed, and
circulated them by putting them into the mail boxes of all the newspapers in
the Press Building. In the pamphlet, I announced the formation of a committee
of inquiry headed by the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition. Of course I had no one
to conduct such an inquiry, but it would be enough for the reporters to write
that the Saar police have received support from the Opposition committee.
Later the murderers were caught – young conservatives who did it
to get the weapons.
Early in January the Düsseldorf DVZ, a
pro-communist weekly, asked me to be its Paris correspondent. My weekly
articles for it brought me 800 marks a month. I figured that this was a clandes
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