Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

Chapter 6
HOLOCAUST PROPAGANDA
BEFORE CHRISTMAS,
LEGAL PERSECUTION AFTER
NEW YEAR
Of interest to note is that the Holocaust propaganda before the festive
season is not a new phenomenon in the western media. It always increases
and serves well to stoke the fires of hate against Germans and anything
German. So, when on 22 December 2009 Australia’s ABC-TV screened a
documentary that rested on the premise Germans systematically
exterminated European Jews did not surprise me:
Hitler’s Favourite Royal
Queen Victoria’s favourite grandson, Prince Charles Edward, was forced
at the age of 14 to leave Britain to head up the hugely wealthy Dukedom
of Saxe Coburg and Gotha in Germany. The principality came under the
royal title through the marriage of Victoria to Prince Albert, but due to a
series of unexpected deaths of uncles and cousins in Germany in 1900,
the young prince was the only viable contender.
His life was changed in ways neither he nor Queen Victoria could ever
have imagined. At the outbreak of World War I, 14 years later, he was
forced to fight for Germany against the country of his birth. On
Germany’s defeat, he was stripped of his British titles by his cousin King
George V and declared a traitor peer by British Parliament. At the same
time in Germany, with the declaration of the Republic, the Kaiser
abdicated and all princes became ordinary citizens.
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