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Friedrich Nieland, How Many World (Money) Wars Must the Peoples of the World Lose? Open Letter to all Government Ministers and Members of Parliament of the Federal Republic, pp. 3–4, Hamburg 1957
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Friedrich Nieland
Institute for the History of the German Jews
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In early 1957, Hamburg timber merchant Friedrich Nieland distributed a
39-page brochure titled “How Many World (Money) Wars Must the
Peoples of the World Lose? Open Letter to All Government Ministers and
Members of Parliament of the Federal Republic.” The brochure was
published with a print run of 2,000 copies by nationalist publisher
Adolf Ernst Peter Heimberg (printer: W.-Heimberg) of Stade and
subsequently mailed to the addressees mentioned in the title.
Nieland’s pamphlet includes a compilation of letters Nieland had
addressed to the Federal Chancellor, the President of the German
Bundestag, and the Minister of the Interior since the negotiations on
compensation had begun between Israel and the Federal Republic in 1952
as well as brief confirmations of receipt. His “open letter”
consists of a collage of quotes and illustrations taken from
publications by various authors, some of them obscure, some serious.
Nieland joins these together by passages of his own writing in which
he declares the Holocaust the work of Jews and characterizes “the
international Jews” as some sort of secret government steering world
politics. According to him, they had instigated “World (Money)
Wars” with the ultimate aim of destroying Germany. Nieland
criticizes politicians’ silence on the matter (p. 5) and explains
his motive for writing this pamphlet was to expose the truth about the
Holocaust. Both Nieland and Heimberg were charged with
anti-constitutional acts and libel, but a full trial was never held.
In 1959, the brochure was confiscated by the Federal Court of Justice
(BGH) due to its seditious content.
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