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Masloff waited perhaps an hour and a half; after some time this suspicious noise
stopped, but the tangle of voices, which had to have originated from many persons,
persisted. "Suddenly the wings of the gates were opened, and three people emerged, two
were carrying a bundle, one walked immediately behind them; one of bundle-carriers could
have been Pince-nez Levy (nickname of the son of Moritz Levy). The people
were pulling along the bundle with much effort. . .They walked along the edge of the street
and turned off there toward Monk Lake, where the path went toward the basin and where
later the body parts were found. . ."
Masloff stayed for a short while yet at the yard: ". . .while I was at the yard, a
jumble of voices penetrated from out of the cellar, and I heard a sound as if [something] in
the cellar was being scrubbed." -- Masloff then left.
On the evening of the same day, toward eleven o'clock, several persons perceived a peculiar
odor, as if from incinerated rags, from the synagogue.
At the same time, these witnesses saw a light moving in the synagogue. When a
witness informed Commissar Wehn, the latter said: "There you see again the silly
prejudice, the silly fairy tale. . ."
The Jewish merchant Samuel Rosenthal from Kamin, a little town in the direct
vicinity of Konitz, said shortly after the murder of Winter, in the presence of
non-Jewish witnesses: "I'm going to Konitz, then I'll tell [the names of] all who
were there at the slaughtering of Winter." (311) --
On the following day, Rosenthal allegedly committed suicide. . .
In Polzin (Pomerania) lived a relative of the Konitz Levys. As was proved,
he was present in Konitz with them on 11 March. On his return, he brought
along a little flask of blood. He was not arrested!
In Prechlau, on 11 June 1900, the father of the victim received a letter
whose handwriting pointed to a "leading" Konitz Jew -- but this Jew, too, was not
bothered [by the authorities]!
The letter, whose photocopy is still preserved, has the following text (after removal
of numerous mistakes in spelling):
"To Herr Winter in Prechlau.
Since the proceedings against H. (Hoffmann is meant!) have begun, we ask that you remain silent,
we assure you that nothing will come of the murder. This affair has already cost us 200,000
Marks. If you, reckoned from today onward, stay silent about your suspicions against us,
which we had to deal with that way, you will receive 50,000 Marks. If you will stay
silent, you must immediately have the words 'Be silent, Winter' in the
'Geselligen'-Graudenz [i.e., the personals column of a local paper] and the 50,000
Marks will be sent to you within a month, and from different locations and in
various amounts, so that it does not attract attention. Should you be reasonable,
finally, it is to your advantage. -- If you run to Konitz again with this letter,
we will learn of it. . .(illegible!). . .and you won't get a penny. We Jews did it, but
we had to do it, let that be a consolation to you!"
On the basis of these prominently demonstrated facts, which represent only a fraction
of the events mostly already investigated in the court documents, the father of the murdered
boy made application at the State Attorney's office at Konitz in November 1900
to initiate criminal proceedings against the Jewish schächter Levy and
his son Moritz for aiding and abetting at the murder of his son.
(312) The Law Court
The procedure of the examining judge, Dr. Zimmermann, against the master butcher
Hoffmann, has already been treated in detail; as we recall, at the end of May the
proceedings against Hoffmann as the presumptive perpetrator reached a critical point,
in that the formal preliminary investigation was opened against this victim of Jewish
diversionary tactics! But after the proceedings had had to be stayed, the investigation was
carried on under the designation "Winter murder case." Since all tracks clearly pointed,
totally independently from one another, at the house of the Jewish schächter
Adolf Levy, the judicial investigation, with every [attempt for the] sparing of Jewry,
had to finally concern itself with the Levy family. To the greatest shock of town and
country, the examining judge, Dr. Zimmermann, adopted a course which ran directly
counter to public sentiment. Thus -- to set out only a few especially characteristic
examples of these corrupt "investigative" proceedings -- several witnesses were arrested in
the most ruthless manner, and indeed, witnesses who had affirmed under oath facts
strongly incriminating the Levy family.
a) The Speisiger trial
This fate befell first of all the seventeen year-old preparatory student Speisiger.
After he had been interrogated five times in total -- of which three times were under oath --
he was arrested under scandalous accompanying circumstances on the grounds of alleged perjury.
The final interrogation, before the district judge Zimmermann, lasted from ten in the morning
until ten o'clock in the evening, with a two-hour recess during which Speisiger was
locked in the court building! In the course of this entire day he received no nourishment and
was finally arrested at night by the order of Dr. Zimmermann! On 6 October --
Speisiger had meanwhile sat in custody for a full quarter year -- the Speisiger trial was
heard before the criminal court of the Konitz district court; Speisiger was
fully exonerated in the course of the trial! Moritz Levy, questioned as a "witness,"
was arrested while still in the courtroom, for intentional perjury!
(313) -- At the least, he had succeeded in damaging a young innocent person in the
worst way, who was soon supposed to take on a public office. Moreover, this victim was not
financially compensated in any way!
b) The Masloff trial.
The extremely important observations of the worker Masloff should have sufficed by
themselves alone for the arrest of the Levys. Consequently, Masloff had to be
silenced, since [attempts at] bribery had had no success!
Zimmermann now tried to wear down the prosecution witnesses by his own methods, in
hours-long, continuously repeated interrogations. Even here the witness was arrested,
again because of perjury! In order to intimidate further witnesses who had willingly placed
themselves at the disposal [of the court], every effort was made. The family members of the
main prosecution witnesses were likewise arrested!The chief state's attorney,
Settegast, filed charges of perjury against:
1. the worker Masloff, 2. Frau Masloff, 3. the sister of
Frau Masloff and 4. the mother-in-law of Masloff.
The jury court proceedings against these four non-Jewish accused took place from 26
October till 9 November 1900 before the Konitz jury court. The attempt was made
by the defense to bring forward a portion of the evidentiary material which gave indication
of the Jewish culpability at the murder of Winter, and with surprising success; for both the
jurors as well as the audience became convinced that the murder only could have been
committed by Jews for ritual purposes, and indeed, only in the cellar of the schächter,
Levy!
The court sessions, one summoned during the day and one at night, amounted to this, that
the observations stated by Masloff were quite possible -- the decision given by the
jurors was obscured and falsified by the Jewish press, so that the defense counsel
of the Masloff family saw themselves forced to bring to the attention of the general
public, in a message sent to the Konitzer Tageblatt,
(314) the depositions of the Masloff couple, which were true according to
the deliberation by the jury. (8)
After the outcome of this jury court proceeding, too -- the women were immediately released,
Masloff himself later -- there could be no doubt that, if the authorities had pursued
the actual murderers and their accomplices with the same zeal which they had employed
against prosecution witnesses, they [the real murderers] would have had to have come
promptly to sentence. But these manipulations had reached the point that a genuine panic
broke out among non-Jewish witnesses -- indeed, everyone had to fear that, after the
foregoing events, at the very least perjury proceedings would be contrived against him -- if
not worse still, as in the Hoffmann case!
The examining judge Zimmerman emerged as a veritable bogey man; in hours-long sessions,
witnesses whom he got into his grasp were questioned until they were totally exhausted and
intimidated, became tangled into supposed contradictions and stood on the verge of
prison!
Next to the Chief State's Attorney Settegast was the Attorney General Lautsch
of the West Prussian highland district of Marienwerder as the representative of the
prosecution authorities. For him, as well, the valid theorem was: non-Jews are suspect,
Jews, on the contrary, are credible and honorable witnesses! In the Masloff trial,
he did his part at a decisive point [of the trial] of designating the entire Levy
family as worthy of belief, although not three weeks previously, at the occasion of the
Speisiger trial, a member of this bunch, Moritz Levy, the so-called
"Pince-nez Levy", had been taken into custody from the courtroom due to intentional
perjury! And the appearance of this representative of "German" justice profoundly aroused
the non-Jewish segment of the population! And the result of these judicial efforts?
It did not succeed in saddling a non-Jew with the bestial crime, although the infamous
tactics of the entire Jewish-inspired proceedings aimed at doing so -- but also, a
preliminary investigation against no Jew whatsoever for the murder of Winter
was opened, (315) and that was the decisive thing, the
actual triumph of Jewish influence and lobbying! It makes one's face redden still today,
that "German" judges, who came from the folk and who had been trained at German schools of
higher education for service to these very folk, had, devoid of any healthy sentiment and
understanding, succumbed to the Jewish spirit: Xanten, Skurz, Polna, and Konitz
signify historic as well as judicial facts, which cannot be contested!
One might be able to let these scandalous trials be buried, if we, as members of a once
crippled and bled-out generation, did not realize that these events helped prepare the
moral collapse which took place barely two decades later!
Why did nothing come of [the events of] Konitz, either? -- We can formulate the answer
in one sentence: because at that time nothing was supposed to come of it!
Besides the Criminal Commissars mentioned, in the course of those memorable months a series
of higher -- very much higher -- officials and very learned and secret gentlemen surfaced in
Konitz, to "discuss" the case in long, very long conferences, which took place behind
locked and guarded doors! What was being said privately among the essentially illiterate
and less secret, honest Konitz citizens, was that the gentlemen: Ministerial Director
Lucas, Privy Supreme Justice Councillor Przewlocka, Privy Councillor
Maubach, -- naturally, all from Berlin -- , the Senate President Hasenstein
(see!) and the Attorney General Wulff from Marienwerder (West Prussia), tacitly joined
in the opinion of the gentlemen: Deditius, Wehn, Braun, Zimmermann, and Settegast
-- to wit, that only the completely "uneducated folk" could accept the "medieval
fairy-tale" of blood-murder as their opinion, while legal people were freeing themselves of
this prejudice, which, again, means that they had rejected in advance a Jewish
perpetration [of the murder]!
That desired stage had been thereby approached, which a Jewish organ dressed in the following
words: "By every appearance, the investigation in the matter of the Konitz murder
affair is coming (316) to a conclusion. According to every
probability, a criminal case (!) will result as the outcome, which claims a certain
interest merely by the method of the murderer and the speculations and debates attached to
his person. . .," therefore a criminal case, which merely claimed "a certain interest," was
to remain of this blood-murder to the end!
Deditius
It's necessary in this connection to bring closer attention to the person
and behavior of the Mayor of Konitz, in order to uncover his unwholesome influence,
also, on the course of the proceedings. Deditius, earlier Mayor of the Silesian
city of Strehlen, had made himself unbearable there by his all too openly displayed
Jewish-friendly attitude, and he preferred to favor [with his presence] the West Prussian
city of Konitz, as its head. The fate of the investigation lay to a great -- if not
decisive -- extent, in the hands of this man, who, in his capacity as head of the city, also
functioned simultaneously as Chief of Police, for the initiative of the discovery of
crime was incumbent upon the local police authorities, who were authorized to act
independently.
How did Deditius conduct himself now? -- In all of Konitz, everyone was of the
opinion that, if this man had immediately initiated measures in a truly expeditious manner,
the crime would have been promptly cleared up! Practical suggestions and assistance
were ignored or gruffly rejected. The city of Konitz -- as can be seen from the city
plan -- could be thoroughly cordoned off, according to its quite simple and clearly arranged
architecture, with the smallest conceivable detachment of troops and without the calling in
of outside military help. For this purpose the fire department, the veterans' association,
the rifle club, and the local citizens offered their help: Deditius refused
it!.
The next step, the house searches, were -- as far as Jewish property was
concerned -- conducted sloppily and superficially! After it was unavoidable that the
(317) Levy premises, the den of murderers, be
inspected, the Jewess Levy, who allegedly was not feeling well, was allowed to
remain lying peacefully in bed, although this circumstance had to have been highly
suspicious, indeed this Jewess was able to conceal extremely incriminating evidence! At
house searches arranged later, naturally even less was discovered, for one can characterize
the first, cursory "visits" as plain warning signals! As we recall, some Konitz gentlemen
offered their good hunting dogs to assist the searches, especially for finding the body
parts of the murder victim: Deditius declined with the suggestion that the gentlemen
could go in the houses themselves and search with their dogs, if they absolutely wanted to
do that! -- one was supposed to believe that the decisions about domestic law were still
currently the mayor's!
But the same Deditius personally beat with a whip young people who had given
unequivocal public expression to their opinion on the occasion of Hoffmann's arrest,
in the police building, after they had first been rendered defenseless! The same
Deditius, without being rebuked, entered extremely subjective comments into the
protocol records in his own hand instead of leaving this judgement to the judicial
authorities!
For rounding out this portrait the case of a witness interrogation should still be briefly
touched upon, which can be described as typical. -- A respected and honorable Konitz
citizen made very important observations on the day of the murder and on the day
after, which related to the presence of Polish Jews, ritual-slaughterers, and
rabbis in the city of Konitz, as a collusion of several
Konitz Jews. He was relating his observations at a table of his friends, and a
listener reported what he'd heard to the court. The citizen concerned was summoned as a
witness. In the between-time of only a few days, the secret Jewish intelligence service,
which pursued every witness with the greatest attention and so then attempted to deal with
him accordingly, had learned of this. The Jews threatened him with economic ruin; various
orders which the witness had received from Jews were cancelled with innuendos which were
not to be misunderstood, everything was tried in order to bring injury to the man. At the
police bureau, he was (318) questioned by Deditius
and the notorious Commissar Wehn jointly; the Mayor sought to make clear to him --
this time in an adroitly jovial manner, that his observations could have been based upon
mere delusions, without the witness even being heard to the end [of his statement]!
This cosy treatment of the matter did not soothe the conscience of this Konitz citizen,
and he spoke on. But now Wehn brought out the heavy artillery, without hesitation
declared the witness to be biased, his statements to be contradictory, and by no means
credible! The witness hardly noted what was written down and merely went home with the
conviction that statements against the Jews would not find the expected appreciation
from the authorities and moreover, would be very dangerous. . .
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The good will of some duty-conscious Konitz officials, who also once wanted to
subject Jewry to a closer inspection, was markedly dampened after these bad experiences, and
finally waned entirely. However, some brave German men, like the anti-Semitic Reichstag
Deputy Liebermann von Sonnenberg, mentioned in the beginning, still remained, who
possessed the courage to bring up the Konitz blood-murder, even in the Reichtag
(which should not be forgotten about him (9)) -- though
without result -- and that (to be sure) still small segment of the press which had not lost
its sober reasoning and its German qualities.
An extremely noteworthy article appeared there in Germania of 6 June 1900
(Nr. 127), which came into print and consequently a universal Jewish howling (Berliner
Tageblatt) ensued. Its text should be given, with omission of the inessential passages.
(319) -- The Germania wrote: "Soon a quarter-year
will have elapsed since the trunk of the murdered Winter was discovered in the Mönchsee
[Monk Lake], and the murderer has still not been found, and it has the well-justified
appearance, as if he won't be found, too. The present highly unusual circumstances
give us reason to subject the story of the murder to a closer examination. The fear and
the worry for the life of our children presses the pen into our hands. We well know
that the state cannot stop murders, but we also know that it has the duty to seek out
and to punish murderers and to thereby preventively protect the life of its subjects,
also the life of Christian children. After the present outcome in Skurz and
Xanten and after the result presumably expected today in Konitz, can we still have
confidence that murders of Christian children will be punished and atoned for? From the very
start, the investigation has taken an extremely remarkable course; After everything which has
been known about it up till now and which has been reported in the press under the explicit
adducing of the facts of the case which today remain uncontested, the proceedings of the
investigation show a remarkable disinclination toward [taking] energetic steps, as
soon as these steps lead to the Jews." -- And further: "Conspicuous, the treatment of all
persons who have made statements which incriminated the Jews; conspicuous, the
denunciations or attempted damage to all who unselfishly sought to contribute
to the solution [of the crime] at official summons; conspicuous the kind treatment of the
gravely incriminated Jews; (320) conspicuous the
obligingness toward foreign emissaries, who, in the interest of the accused Jews are
seeking to give another twist to the case. Now the case has taken the turn that the
universally respected Christian butcher Hoffman is charged with the murder by the
assumption of absurd motives. Conspicuous are the even more energetic proceedings
against Hoffmann, and conspicuous the thoroughness of the house search carried
out at his [place], conspicuous the energy and perseverance with which Hoffmann
and his daughter were interrogated. Were the incriminated Jews and Jewish daughters also
taken hold of in that way?" "The riots which occurred are, first and foremost, to be
laid to the account of the Jews -- the Schlochau Jews called Winter's burial an
"animal show" --, in the second place, to be laid to the account of the police. Now an
effort was made in Konitz to uncover an anti-Semitic agitation. If the latter, which
of course is not illegal, is present, then Jews and the police are its promoters, who are
unable to recognize the fruits of their activity, and wish to push off responsibility
for it onto others. We have tried here to openly and clearly show the situation; the result
of the entire case is, up to now, unfortunately, objectively an undermining in the
people of the consciousness of Law and the security of the Law, just as of the belief in the
impartiality of Justice! Let them not allow themselves to hope that the case can die
away, that the people of Konitz will be satisfied with a settlement on the order of
Skurz. Murder must be atoned for. And if the government of the State puts any value
in gaining the trust of the populace again, then it's necessary that it is taken out of the
hands of the persons entrusted up till now with the investigation, all of them
together, above all the Berlin Commissars. . ."
The Deutsche Volksblatt appearing in Munich described, in an article of 17 June 1900,
"The great Death in Konitz," the situation in Konitz in detail and the burial of the victim,
and then said in conclusion: "In Konitz a battalion of soldiers has entered which
will put to rest the 'damned hick town' with rifle butts and bayonets. Let peace prevail!
The peace of the cemetary! -- Who, now, is the great Dead One in Konitz? Is it Winter?
(321) No, not he. The other one, a much greater one, whom
they have buried there: It is the faith of the people in Right and Law."
The Liberté, the leading paper of the French-speaking part of Switzerland, wrote at
the beginning of January 1901: "The infamous murder of Konitz is still not atoned for.
If it remains without atonement, so will the belief of the German people in the Hebraic
blood-ritual be strengthened in the same measure as the trust in justice is
diminished. . ."
And Theodor Fritsch made this judgement in 1911 in the Hammer
(10): "The murder has remained unsolved up until the present day. . .The events at the
trial were of such an unusual kind, that one must say: the authorities have plainly made
desperate efforts, in order not to find the guilty parties."
In September 1901 the proceedings against the Levys were stayed; in June
1902 the complaint of the father of Winter was finally rejected by the
Oberlandesgericht [upper regional court] of Marienwerder "and thereby also the
blood accusation against the Jews" (Jüdisches Lexicon III [Jewish Lexicon
III]), and in October 1903, in conclusion, Moritz Levy, arrested in
the Speisiger trial on account of intentional perjury and sentenced in 1901
to four years incarceration, was "pardoned"! The Jewish dictionary (III, 842/843)
finally notes: "The truth about the murdering of Winter has, despite a reward of
20,000 Marks offered by the state attorney's office, remained unsolved. As a result of the
arousal of the anti-Semitic mood in Konitz in connection with this murder
case, many Jews abandoned the city." -- That is correct, for up till the year 1903,
not fewer than 130 Jews emigrated from Konitz. . .
But a Jewess had better knowledge of the fate of Winter
(322) than those "in charge of" the "Konitz case": Under the headline
"Ritual murder solved after 38 years," the Dresden Freiheitskampf [Freedom
Struggle] reported in its Nr. 349 issue of 1938: "Dirschau, 18 December 1938. -- The
murder of the high school student Ernst Winter in Konitz, which aroused
enormous excitement and set loose a wave of outrage in Germany and in the entire world
around the turn of the century due to the mysterious circumstances which accompanied the
crime, has now, after 38 years, been surprisingly cleared up. At the clearing out of the
ground level of a house which was in Jewish possession since 1900, the letter of an
accessory to the crime was discovered, from which it emerges without a doubt that Ernst
Winter fell victim to a Jewish ritual-murder." -- The Jew Hartwig had bought
this property in Konitz around the turn of the century. The letter, which was found
by a fortunate accident when the ground floor of the house was being cleared out, reads:
" Ernst Winter has been sacrificed in Konitz, and woe unto Israel,
three times woe, if it does not abandon the blood-sacrifice. We will remain pariahs
as long as it remains. It is indeed murder!. . .A Jewess and accessory, but an unhappy
one. M 1900."
In 1884, Skurz, 1891, Xanten, 1898 and 1899:
Polna, 1900, Konitz -- five ritual-murders on German soil, five
thriving human lives, among them two children, made to bleed to death under the hands of
Jewish ritual-slaughterers, five ritual-murders remained unrequited, for one cannot,
of course, feel that even the comfortable imprisonment of a Hilsner was an atonement.
But what remained unatoned for, that could, in the end, be taken as permitted and was
allowed to be repeated!
Or is it supposed to be only an accident that, after the Jewish 'successes' in Skurz
and Xanten, three ritual-murders occurred within three years?
We have reached the conviction that all these blood-murders took place according to
entirely definite instructions from a secret Jewish headquarters, at the highest level!
From Polna the threads run across Prague to Vienna, from Konitz,
as a result of its particular location, directly toward Poland -- to the ghetto
of this infernal pestilence! It cannot be subject to any doubt at all, that the limping and
smallpox-scarred Jewish monster of the Polna (323)
trial is one and the same person with the limping, ape-like Jew, who was conspicuous in
Konitz as much because of his especial ugliness as because of the deference of honor
shown to him. This Jew, whom the tailor Josef Strnad from Polna described very
graphically in his recorded witness statement(11): ". . .at
once I noticed a strange Jew was approaching us on the street, and when I was able to
recognize his face, I stepped toward Cink and said: 'he has a face like an ape'. . .
This Jew had a longer, light-colored coat, black hat and dark pants. In stature he was
rather tall, his face had a dark expression, his black full beard was of middle length,
he dragged his right foot behind him. . ." is a high Jewish religious official who was
the contact man! Had the authorities in Polna or Konitz quickly seized
their opportunity, then this reptile, who made certain of the proper performance of, and
provided support for, respectively, the ritual slaughtering of the victim, could have been
arrested on the spot and delivered up to closer examination, and they would have been able
to find the key to the mystery!
But of course we have gotten to know the system of public regulations -- for here,
too, it's a matter of a system, of a plan inspired even down to its details! Let us think
only of Skurz and Konitz: At the scene of the crime appears, after much
precious time has gone by, a police official from Berlin, who takes away the steps of
the investigation from the local authorities. The constitutional authorities, as
state's attorney, court, and regional police, have a further function, to be sure: but
actually, the whole center of gravity of the investigation shifts and arrives at the hands
of the Berlin Commissars. Skurz had its Höft and Konitz its Wehn
and Braun. Regarded objectively and factually, the activity of these gentlemen,
particularly in the all-important time after the discovery of the body parts was first
made, represents a protective wall, behind which the Jewish murderers and their
assistants found time and the possibility of concealing the tracks of their culpability!
And Polna as well! On his own initiative, the chief of the guards Josef Klenovec
arrested the murderer Hilsner -- (324) but the Jew
Reichenbach, set Hilsner, his racial comrade, at liberty once again. . .
In Skurz and Konitz German butchers were accused of the horrific crime and
placed in custody under unbelievable circumstances. In Skurz, the butcher Behrendt,
who was not well off financially, sat in investigative custody innocent for a full year and
was economically ruined thereby, the butcher Hoffmann, together with his daughter,
was subjected to a shameful interrogation and was supposed to be at least injured socially --
but the opposite happened! The Jew, on the other hand, as member of the ruling caste
and protected by it, remained untouchable.
In old Rome, the philosopher Seneca lamented: "The customs of this most vile people
have already become so strong, that they have spread themselves in all nations; the
conquered have impressed their laws upon the conquerors"(12)
The same thing was repeated in the 20th century after Christ: the Aryan man had become a
sacrificial animal!
Yet hopeful beginnings of a reaction were already manifesting themselves. We recall the bold
speech of the attorney Dr. Baxa in the Polna trial, which for the first time
sought out the motives of the terrible crime. Even before the judicial investigative
proceedings, the populace spontaneously boycotted Jewish businesses. But Konitz had a
decisive effect, for the arousal of the people had reached its zenith. Is is not to be
understood as a warning, when the then Jewish-edited Dresdener Neuesten
Nachrichten [Dresden Most Up-to-date News] on 13 November 1900 wrote: ". . . the
presence of the military, however, held in check the tendency (!) to riot; on the
other hand, in place of the noisy excitement (!) a quiet but for all that not less intensive
frustration has entered the picture; it is still fermenting with utter forcefulness
in the country, as all who know West Prussian attitudes confirm." But the Reichstag Deputy
Liebermann von Sonnenberg became the advocate for the German cause. In December 1900,
he wrote: "The conscience of the German people is not permitted to find peace!"
(325) On 7 February 1901, he broached the subject of the Konitz
blood-murder in the Reichstag(13). The "Vereinigung zur
Aufklärung des Konitzer Mordes" (14) [Union for the
Solution of the Konitz Murder] was created in Konitz by German city councillors,
pastors, Landtag and Reichstag deputies, and the first practical measure, the "Self-help for
the protection of our children," was propagated strictly within the bounds of the law.
Occasionally there were stirrings in the German press, too: The articles of the Germania
and of the Deutsches Volksblatt were already cited.
In the year 1902, the gang of Jews fell upon the Staatsbürgerzeitung [Citizen
Times]; its publisher Bruhn and the editor Böttger were sentenced to
imprisonment due to "offensive articles" which appeared in connection with the "Winter
murder case" -- but both nonetheless entered the Reichstag in 1903 and worked against Jewish
interests.
Willi Buch, in his notes which have already been cited above, gives the following
vivid picture out of the times around the turn of the century: "The ritual-murder of
Konitz had caused fierce reactions. . .The anti-Semitic movement had become a genuine
people's movement, with all its merits and weaknesses. The Jewish Question was the
subject of conversations and kept emotions stirred up. There was no meeting which wasn't
filled up, even to the last seat. . .Things were very lively, for the most part, due to the
almost never absent opponents. . ." And in another passage: "It is very much typical that
there was no reform movement since around 1900, which didn't have some sort of relationship
to anti-Semitism." --It was the time when Edouard Drumont's Verjudetes
Frankreich [Judaized France] appeared in the 142nd edition, after the attempt was
made in vain to remove the author in a duel, and Henri Desportes published his
Geheimnis des Blutes bei den Juden aller Zeiten [Mystery of the Blood of the Jews
in all Times] in Paris! (326)
There were always
incidents which were suited for shaking the feeling of an absolute certainty of the Jewish
control: Judah became more cautious on German soil -- which did not mean, however, that it
renounced the further carrying out of the slaughtering of human beings! For, that among the
disproportionately large number of inhabitants designated as "missing" every year, victims
of such a crime also could be found, is not out of the question for anyone who has
recognized this Jewish fanaticism as historic fact(15)
.
Thus the Hammer of Theodor Fritsch reported, under the headlines: "Puzzling Murders
and Disappearances of Persons" over and over again about the cases whose solution and further
pursuit never was undertaken. From the notes of the Hammer, we shall select only those
which at least allow the strong suspicion of a ritual crime to arise.
1910 On December 29, Helene Brix, who was in service with the Jewish
riding equipment proprietor Salomons in Nassenheide near Stettin, vanished without a
trace on the day before the final day of her service there. On 22 January 1913,
therefore only after more than three years, her mutilated corpse was discovered in the bog at
the Neuendorfer Lake. Head and arms of the body were missing; the father of the girl, who
recognized the body as that of his daughter after the examination,
(327) asserted that the underclothes were missing, although the parents
still knew with certainty that their daughter had been wearing them. Subsequently, the
circumstance was recalled that on the day after the disappearance of his daughter, the father
Brix wanted to arrange a search with a police dog, but was prevented since Salomons
assured him that a telegram had arrived according to which Helene was in Altdamm.
This statement, whose verification demanded much precious time, subsequently proved to be
untrue. Salomons sold his business soon after this event and went to ground in
Berlin(16).
1911 The farmer's daughter Olga Hagel from Radolin was a servant of the
Jewish factory owner Hirsekorn in Schönlanke. At the beginning of September
of this year, she visited her parents and complained in bitter words about the behavior of
the Jew toward her. She asked her mother to have her taken away again from this position. Her
mother thought it proper that her daughter at least hold out until the end of the year; with
this answer, the girl returned -- a few days later she "vanished" without her parents being
informed! On 8 September the Jew finally brought himself to inform the police; on
12 September the body of the servant girl was pulled by an owner out of the
Breitensteiner Lake, lying 18 kilometers distant. Her skirts were rolled over her head, on
the left temple a finger-long wound gaped. The forensic autopsy took place
only on the seventh day after the discovery of the body. The body contained not one drop
of blood, the medical expert opinion found in the negative for suicide. Nevertheless, the
state attorney's office of Schneidemühl presumed -- despite the finger-long wound -- despite
the skirts rolled up and despite the body being empty of blood -- suicide and did not
pursue the "matter" further.
1912 On the first day of Pentecost, early, at three-thirty in
(328) Posen in front of the door of the house at 3/4 Schulstraße, the body
of the sixteen-year-old merchant's apprentice Stanislaus Musial was discovered. The
skull was smashed. The left temple had been drilled through by several knife piercings,
both wrists were cut through on the inner side, and one hand was almost completely severed.
The body was empty of blood and washed off with extreme care. Also, the clothes
showed only insignificant traces of blood. It was further determined that the murdered youth
had been slaughtered in an unclothed condition, then carelessly dressed and set down in the
place of discovery. Musial had had a position with the ready-made clothing Jew Max
Hirsch in Posen. The Posen Jewish paper, the Posener Neuesten Nachrichten
filed the following scandalous report about his disappearance: That the young apprentice had
received over 500 Marks from his master on the day before Pentecost, in order to make a
payment. That Musial had presumably (!) had a good time with the money and had then
fallen into the hands of a prostitute and had been slaughtered with the help of a pimp! --
Only a Jewish hack could actually spatter out that sort of garbage! The inquiries immediately
initiated showed that the murdered youth had not received a penny from his superior, the Jew
Hirsch, but on the contrary merely got handed a letter with the instructions to bring
it to Wilda, a suburb of Posen. After our experiences to this point, we are hardly
allowed to go wrong with the assumption that the victim was sent into a prepared trap in the
observance of his task! In fact, in connection with this, the Jewish couple Szafranski
was gravely accused and taken into investigative custody. The prosecution soon released the
couple again, however, since "the investigation has yielded nothing incriminating."
The non-Jewish populace, after decades-long experiences, had their own opinions about this,
in that they proceeded to the most effective means of struggle, the boycott of Jewish
businesses. This latent anti-Semitism had, in the (329) course
of two generations, continually received new impetus due to a whole chain of extremely
suspicious murder cases which remained unsolved, so that the Jewish segment of the
population in the province of Posen gradually diminished from the year 1835
until approximately 1912 from 54 to 15 per thousand(17)
.
1913 On January 27, in Preußisch-Holland, a stranger lured the five-year-old
boy Walter Schikowski to so-called Lindenberg; toward six o'clock in the evening an
accountant in Weeskenhof on the Crossener road found the unconscious child, nearly
frozen from the cold, in the gutter with serious wounds, and brought him immediately to the
doctor. Having regained consciousness, the little boy told that a strange man had first
uncovered his upper body, then, when he got set to defend himself, he was thrown to the
ground and stabbed with a knife. From then on, the child knew nothing more. His neck and
lower body showed several wounds from cuts. All signs indicated that blood had been removed
from the victim. The investigations of the authorities petered out.
1913 On 31 March (!), at the fair at Lobsens (Wirsitz district), an
approximately 45-year-old Jewish dealer lured a six-year-old girl, Agnes Kador, to
himself and vanished with her. On 22 April the body, emptied of blood, with the
neck cut through, was found in the meadows near Lobsens. The populace which was
present, in the state of greatest excitement, spoke openly of a new blood-murder. On the day
of the kidnapping, numerous foreign, mostly Polish-speaking Jews had been noticed in the
near vicinity of the place. The newspapers were cautious in their suggestions, any traces for
the presumption of a crime were lacking. . .They explained that there could be no question of
a blood-murder, since no serious wounds had been found on the body (in spite of the cut
neck!). The authorities took no steps to clear up the incident. The first public announcement
of the state attorney's office of (330) Schneidemühl
concerning the disappearance of the child first ensued fourteen days after the
incident(18). A "letter to the editor" relating to the
Lobsens case (Hammer, Nr. 264, page 335) told that at the beginning of the
eighties, on the Stubbenwiese at Ascherbude on the Ostbahn, between Filehne
and Schoenlanke, the shepherd girl of the forester Bohne was found lying on her belly
with her neck cut through and completely emptied of blood. Then, a poacher was wrongly
accused of the terrible crime.
In the first half of the year 1913, the Hanover newspapers alone brought up perhaps a
dozen ominous reports of the disappearance without a trace of youths and children; with that,
these "cases" were done with: "One hears and reads no more of it. . .It seems to be a matter
here, too, of events about which the public needs to know as little as possible. One
asks oneself: Where is the state attorney's office? One almost never hears of the punishment
for such bloody acts or of further solutions of the occurrences. Is there not something
rotten in the State?"(19)
In the first half of April (!) 1913 the servant Luise Schmidt of Hanover, the
boy Waßmann of Elze (Hildesheim) and the worker Julius Schiefelbein of Niederfinow
disappeared. The body of the latter was recovered in the Finow Canal at Eberswalde. The
medical examination determined that there were not less than fifteen knife cuts. The affair
became all the more mysterious when four masked men made an attempt to steal the body of
Schiefelbein, in order, perhaps, to remove the traces of the crime. Also in this case
nothing became known about the further results of the investigation!
Furthermore, on the first day of the Pentecost holiday 1913 in Berlin, the
dismembered body of the twelve-and-a-half-year-old boy Klähn was discovered.
The servant Josef Ritter, who had been in service with the Jew Guttmann,
had made himself suspected of the crime. It was striking that also this crime, like that
(331) which happened to the apprentice Musial,
occurred in the night of the first day of the Pentecost holiday!
In the morning of 14 July 1913, in Ludwigshafen, on the ground located behind
the hospital, a sack with the dismembered corpse of a girl was discovered. The head was
separated from the trunk, the legs from the body; the body itself was totally cut up, so
that heart, lungs and liver were visible. The parts of the body had been skillfully cut
apart, so that it had the appearance as if an operating surgeon had been at work. The victim
had to have been dismembered in a closed space. Traces of blood were totally absent. The
murder victim was later identified as the twelve-year-old Elma Kelchner from
Ludwigshafen.
These few cases allow us to recognize sufficiently that up until the most recent times
sinister powers were at work, which could make bold to still demand, as before, a blood-toll
from non-Jewish humanity without they themselves ever having been called to account. Jewry
had so far "emancipated" itself, that it placed itself outside of valid law by virtue of its
own secret laws and in this officially recognized exceptional position understood how to
evade the workings of universal law; consciousness of law and State were thereby certainly
afflicted in their vital nerves!
But once all accompanying circumstances were so positioned that the Jewish murder pestilence
absolutely had to be understood in order to avoid people taking steps for self-help, then
all those machinations repeated themselves in concentrated form, as we have gotten to know
them in the preceding ritual-murder trials.
On Russian soil a drama unrolled for the last time before the outbreak of the World War,
which, as a bloody, fateful sign still in the final hour, had been able to open the eyes
of the statesmen responsible for its people to a enormous threatening peril; they wanted to
or were allowed to see nothing -- and thereby delivered themselves up even to the Jewish
ritual-slaughterers!
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