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NOVANEWS Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz (BfV), has been grilled over paying a neo-Nazi informer linked to a far-right terrorist group a wage of almost a quarter of a million dollars. ed note–and how much is the US Gov paying their white nationalist/white supremacist/Christian Identity cousins here in America with their websites and internet radio programs who are collecting names, IP addresses and other sorts of useful information, to say nothing of the manner by which they keep all discussion of the problem involving organized Jewish power on an obnoxious, racist level meant to dissuade otherwise intelligent people from getting involved in the anti-Israel debate? presstv.ir The head of a parliamentary committee tasked with investigating a string ...

NOVANEWS ed note–please take notice of the fact that much of the book–by the author’s own admission–is based upon his ‘imagination’, and yet those who dare to suggest that much of it is fictional will be called ‘anti-Semitic’ for doing so, and in some parts of the world, will be thrown into prison. bloomberg.com Here is a new genre in Holocaust memoirs: Otto Dov Kulka, a distinguished Jewish professor specializing in Nazi history, waited till his sixties before recording his own stay in Auschwitz as a boy. In “Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death,” the book these recordings have become, Kulka insists that this is not autobiography, rather “fragments of memory and imagination” retrieved from the mind of a 10-year-old child. Otto Dov Kulka, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University o...

NOVANEWS by Paul Eisen The re-posting of the piece about Dresden has reminded me of this. For all its notoriety the attack on Dresden was nothing like as severe as those on, for example, Berlin Cologne, Essen and Hamburg. But the German town whose fate moves me most is the old northern town of Duren. The Market, Duren - 2009 Maria is nearly 65 and born and raised in Duren. She's a friend of Francis' so we're invited to her small apartment. To this day, I'll never quite know why it should have happened like this but within one hour of our coming Maria has rushed to her bedroom and brought out for us the two blue-bound volumes she has kept so close for over fifty years. They were given to her when she was a little girl by the grandmother with whom she was so close and who was so anxious t...

NOVANEWS Valentine's Day is here again, so I thought I'd repost my pretty Valentine's card from the city of Dresden. The famous photograph in which August Schreitmueller's sculpture 'Goodness' surveys the city February 14th is Valentine's Day when we all remember the ones we love. It's also in the middle of three days when, in 1945 the German city of Dresden was bombed by the Anglo-Americans. On a visit to Germany with my friend Dr. Francis Clark-Lowes I visited the city. We trod the tourist route so my guess is that we saw what Dresden wanted us to see. But it was only in the Altmarkt that we saw any public memorial to the bombing. It was a partially obscured metal plate on the ground which marked the spot where, to cope with disposing of the bodies, the citizens of Dresden had ...

NOVANEWS The Victory of the Red Army in front of Moscow was a Major Break… by Jacques Pauwels Global Research   World War II started, at least as far as the “European Theatre” was concerned, with the German army steamrolling over Poland in September, 1939. About six months later, even more spectacular victories followed, this time over the Benelux Countries and France. By the summer of 1940, Germany looked invincible and predestined to rule the European continent indefinitely. (Great Britain admittedly refused to throw in the towel, but could not hope to win the war on its own, and had to fear that Hitler would soon turn his attention to Gibraltar, Egypt, and/or other jewels in the crown of the British Empire.) Five years later, Germany experienced the pain and humiliation of total de...

NOVANEWS By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, The decision of Germany’s Bundesbank to repatriate part of its Gold Reserves held at the New York Federal Reserve bank has triggered a frenzy in the gold market. German news sources suggest that a large portion of the German gold stored in the vaults of the New York Fed and the Banque de France is to be moved back to Germany. According to analysts, this move could potentially “trigger a chain reaction, prompting other countries to start repatriating the gold stored in London, New York or Paris…. “ If gold repatriation becomes a worldwide trend, it will be obvious that both the US and UK have lost their credibility as gold custodians. For gold markets worldwide, this move may mark a switch from “financial gold” to “physical gold”, but...

NOVANEWS Richard Williamson found guilty of incitement, fined €1,800 for telling Swedish TV station he does not believe Jews were killed in gas chambers in WWII ynet  A German court has fined an ultraconservative British bishop €1,800 ($2,400) for denying the Holocaust in a television interview. German news agency DPA reported that an administrative court in Regensburg convicted Richard Williamson of incitement and levied the fine on Wednesday. The case was retried after an earlier conviction of Williamson was overturned on procedural grounds. The 72-year-old Williamson told a Swedish TV station in 2008, during an interview conducted near Regensburg, that he did not believe Jews were killed in gas chambers during World War II. Holocaust denial is a crime in Germany. A traditionalist grou...

NOVANEWS This is from the Daily Telegraph and I read it thinking to myself, "How wonderfully easy it must be to write stuff like this. You just know you're going to be approved of" Hitler's academics genuinely believed that Nazism was a force for good A new book looks at the way academics in Germany reacted to the coming of Adolf Hitler Photo: AP By Alasdair Palmer Crude and vicious anti-Semitism; narrow, bigoted nationalism; and total indifference to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people – these are not attitudes we expect from philosophers. On the contrary, these academic thinkers are supposed to have sophisticated ethical outlooks. They aim to be supremely rational, and to believe only what they can show to be true. So it comes as a surprise to be reminded of the stor...

NOVANEWS dw.de Germany has said it is sending two transport planes to Mali to help shore up an initial battle against Islamist insurgents. French ground troops already in Mali were set to engage directly with the rebels Wednesday. The German government on Wednesday pledged two Transall military transport planes to fly troops of the 15-nation west African grouping ECOWAS to the Malian capital Bamako. Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the two C-160 planes would depart once technical details had been resolved. “Germany will provide logistical support based on the situation on the ground,” de Maiziere told reporters at a hastily-called press conference in Berlin. Visiting Berlin on Wednesday, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara was told by Chancellor Angela Merkel that the Bundes...