A FORGOTTEN DEATH CAMP
To this day, just under the surface of the ground in what were once known as
the “Rheinwiesenlager” lie the skeletons of tens of thousands of German
soldiers, buried in shallow graves dug hastily by their fellow comrades,
usually with their bare hands.
In 1945 the German Armies surrendered and a revenge -filled General
Eisenhower ordered
the surrendering soldiers be put out into these open fields, barbed wire
fences were put
around the fields and the soldiers were left there, with no shelter, no
water
or food and no
medical treatment. Around one million of these men died either from hunger,
illness or they
were killed or badly wounded by the American soldiers patrolling the
perimeter of the camp, who, whenever they felt like it, would fire their
weapons indiscriminately into the camp .
News about the inhumane conditions in this “camp” finally made it
through to
the
International Red Cross in Switzerland and large amounts of Food and
Medicines were put
on trucks and sent to help the German prisoners. Eisenhower however refused
to allow the
transports through, claiming “No help was needed”. By this time the
helpless men were
dying in thousands from their wounds, Starvation, Dehydration, Cold,
Exposure and
Illnesses.
One camp typical of these was "Camp Bretzenheim". A local Farmer named
Tullius who now
owns a large piece of this land has so often plowed up the Bones and skulls
from these
shallow graves that he commissioned an exhumation expert named Schmitt to
help him find
these bones and give the dead a decent burial, he also hoped to find their
ID
markers so he
could inform the next of kin of the fate of those he found. In Germany
however,
exhumations can only be carried out with written permission of the local
authorities.
Surprisingly the Local authorities in Bad Kreuznach in a letter dated
25.01.1980 and
another on the 06.03.1987 with the reference number 363-11/18-0 forbad all
attempts to
exhume the bodies. On the 16.07.1987 they actually sent a letter
threatening that any
further exhumations would incur a fine of DM 250.000.- . This letter was
written and
signed by a Mr Bergs and Mr Paulus, both local officials. The reasons they
gave for their
decision were taken from Paragraph 3 of the laws covering “Protection of
Memorials.
However Schmitt and Tullius did not want to give up, and kept up their
applications. On
the 03.02.1998 Mr Schmitt received a letter from the Legal Dept of the Bad
Kreuznach
local authorities with the reference number 11/057-W 145/ 87 a final
rebuttal, complete
with an Invoice for their legal expenses. Obviously the authorities were
now also attacking
Mr Schmitts professional Qualifications, in the seven page letter the
authorities claimed the
bodies were already well protected in the ground where they lie, and in any
case, any
attempts to dig them up would just destroy any identification markers that
may still have
with them.
Undaunted, Mr Schmitt took legal action against the county of
Rheinland-Pfalz represented
by the Councillors of Bad- Kreuznach for “Refusing to issue a certificate
allowing
exhumation”. On the 20.04.1998 Bad-Kreuznach Council wrote to the Court
in Koblenz
demanding the action be summarily dismissed.
On the 22.06.1989, under the reference number 1K 131/88 the action was
summarily
dismissed by the court and in the name of The German People Schmitt and
Tullius were
also ordered to pay the full court costs, The verdict was signed by the
Judges Packroff,
Pluhm and Dr Held.
The very obscure wording and illogical reasoning given by the courts and
authorities for
ordering the exhumation stop, easily lead one to the assumption that they
are desperately
trying to keep all details of this terrible Allied war crime well out of the
media spotlight and
as quiet as possible.
So the remains of hundreds of thousands of murdered German soldiers are to
be left in their
shallow graves, their names and identities unknown, buried without even the
last rites often
even given the family dog. Millions of mothers, fathers, sisters and
brothers still not
knowing the whereabouts of their loved ones.
The Injustices continue, and each time the suffering of this people is
increased.
(derived essentially from crimes amd mercies-bacques)
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