Signs of the times
I have been writing some of the final chapters of Viper II, but in the process I realised, how much that book is relevant even today, as some of the history of the main character in the series reflects personal expeiences of my own youth.
Afterword
As I am finishing Viper II, that I started already in 2019, we have December 2020 and I find myself, again, forced into dealing with the aftermath of WWII. I am looking at another attempt at installing a fascist dictatorship in not only Germany but, like Hitler tried, in all of Europe and beyond.
It was my own personal experience, being born in 1953, that there still were a lot of old Nazis (Members of Hitler’s Nationalsozialistische Partei), whom the occupying forces, Brits and Americans especially, had left in place. That in itself should in my opinion actually have been brought to court as a war crime! The behaviour of Churchill in Greece (look it up in UK sources), that led to a fascist dictatorship there, and that of the American puppet government in Germany, that led to Germany being split, have led to the past of Germany never having been properly digested by the German population and that led to the possibility of the things happening, that the pseudo democratic regime there is doing now.
Frightened by Hiroshima and Nagasaki a much less confident Stalin developed the plan of creating a neutral belt between him and the western allies by re-uniting Germany under the condition of neutrality. He actually sent three written offers in the year of my birth: 1953. They can be found in the Bundesarchiv. It would have given him safety in the respect, that between the Nato on one side and hist communist block on the other, there would have been Sweden, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, all neutral, as a buffer. But the supposedly democratic government under Adenauer, that should have had the well being of ALL Germans at heart, refused, being already too corrupted by the lure of wealth, that blossomed out of proportion under the overweight cigar smoking Ludwig Erhard with his “Wirtschaftswunder”.
All that helped to forget about the fact, that there had been a lot of people all over Europe resisting the fascist powers. And among them were a not negligible amount of courageous women. Whether they hid Jews from discovery and or helped them get out of the country, spied for the allied forces or actively fought the SS and the Gestapo like my fictional Viper, they and their husbands, children and families risked their freedom and even lives for a better future and not only for material well being! They were fighting for a better world for all, just like the French, Italian or Greek resistance or the later “dictator” Tito in what became Jugoslawia.
Yes, just like the “Queerdenker” movement in Germany now there were people from all walks of life, religious beliefs or political persuasions and yes, some of them were and are Socialists or even Communists. But the paranoid fear of Communism of the American president and the British Prime Minister rather had a split Germany and the lack of a peace treaty, than the possibility of Socialist or Communist states in Europe. So Churchill helped the fascists who supported Hitler in Greece by disarming the Greek resistance and giving the arms back to the fascists. The resistance had refrained from occupying Athens, giving the Brits the honour of occupying it in return for their help with arms and ammunition, even though not one British soldier other than some seamen, who helped deliver the supplies, had ever fought on Greek soil. As a reward Churchill disarmed the resistance and then freed and armed the Greek fascists. The result was a fascist dictatorship that lasted into the eighties.
In Germany my generation had to fight with having teachers, policemen, judges and even former Nazi-party members in the Bundestag (a certain Eugen Gerstenmaier) sat there receiving a pension as a member of the resistance, when in fact he had been a loyal member of Hitler’s Nazi-party. But that, just like the knowledge about the notes by Stalin in 1953, was kept under wraps in the Bundesarchiv for a long time. What all that led to was what is now falsely called the student revolution, since there was a lot more to that movement than just disgruntled kids. In my home town Hamburg, after all, had been the last bastion of armed workers resisting Hitler's SA before the war.
So all that history was never properly discussed and resolved among the Germans and that has lain the foundation for a GDR trained propaganda specialist by the name of Angela Merkel, whom Helmut Kohl clutched to his bosom after the wall came down to ensure his victory in the elections that followed. She filled, during her time as German chancellor a lot of positions with other former GDR functionaries and today tries to install a fascist regime under the cover of a fake virus crisis. Unfortunately most western governments have failed to properly acknowledge her past and now more or less do her bidding or, like Boris Johnson, compete with her for notoriety. Brave new world indeed!
So writing Viper is my way of bowing to all those people in the past, who upheld natural human values and fought the oppressors at the risk of their freedom and lives. Now it is up to the people again, to do the same and forget the deceptive narrative of a global pandemic, that doesn’t really exist, as so far nobody has actual proof of having isolated and bred the respective virus and followed the scientific rules for identifying actual infections.
Monique.
Afterword
As I am finishing Viper II, that I started already in 2019, we have December 2020 and I find myself, again, forced into dealing with the aftermath of WWII. I am looking at another attempt at installing a fascist dictatorship in not only Germany but, like Hitler tried, in all of Europe and beyond.
It was my own personal experience, being born in 1953, that there still were a lot of old Nazis (Members of Hitler’s Nationalsozialistische Partei), whom the occupying forces, Brits and Americans especially, had left in place. That in itself should in my opinion actually have been brought to court as a war crime! The behaviour of Churchill in Greece (look it up in UK sources), that led to a fascist dictatorship there, and that of the American puppet government in Germany, that led to Germany being split, have led to the past of Germany never having been properly digested by the German population and that led to the possibility of the things happening, that the pseudo democratic regime there is doing now.
Frightened by Hiroshima and Nagasaki a much less confident Stalin developed the plan of creating a neutral belt between him and the western allies by re-uniting Germany under the condition of neutrality. He actually sent three written offers in the year of my birth: 1953. They can be found in the Bundesarchiv. It would have given him safety in the respect, that between the Nato on one side and hist communist block on the other, there would have been Sweden, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, all neutral, as a buffer. But the supposedly democratic government under Adenauer, that should have had the well being of ALL Germans at heart, refused, being already too corrupted by the lure of wealth, that blossomed out of proportion under the overweight cigar smoking Ludwig Erhard with his “Wirtschaftswunder”.
All that helped to forget about the fact, that there had been a lot of people all over Europe resisting the fascist powers. And among them were a not negligible amount of courageous women. Whether they hid Jews from discovery and or helped them get out of the country, spied for the allied forces or actively fought the SS and the Gestapo like my fictional Viper, they and their husbands, children and families risked their freedom and even lives for a better future and not only for material well being! They were fighting for a better world for all, just like the French, Italian or Greek resistance or the later “dictator” Tito in what became Jugoslawia.
Yes, just like the “Queerdenker” movement in Germany now there were people from all walks of life, religious beliefs or political persuasions and yes, some of them were and are Socialists or even Communists. But the paranoid fear of Communism of the American president and the British Prime Minister rather had a split Germany and the lack of a peace treaty, than the possibility of Socialist or Communist states in Europe. So Churchill helped the fascists who supported Hitler in Greece by disarming the Greek resistance and giving the arms back to the fascists. The resistance had refrained from occupying Athens, giving the Brits the honour of occupying it in return for their help with arms and ammunition, even though not one British soldier other than some seamen, who helped deliver the supplies, had ever fought on Greek soil. As a reward Churchill disarmed the resistance and then freed and armed the Greek fascists. The result was a fascist dictatorship that lasted into the eighties.
In Germany my generation had to fight with having teachers, policemen, judges and even former Nazi-party members in the Bundestag (a certain Eugen Gerstenmaier) sat there receiving a pension as a member of the resistance, when in fact he had been a loyal member of Hitler’s Nazi-party. But that, just like the knowledge about the notes by Stalin in 1953, was kept under wraps in the Bundesarchiv for a long time. What all that led to was what is now falsely called the student revolution, since there was a lot more to that movement than just disgruntled kids. In my home town Hamburg, after all, had been the last bastion of armed workers resisting Hitler's SA before the war.
So all that history was never properly discussed and resolved among the Germans and that has lain the foundation for a GDR trained propaganda specialist by the name of Angela Merkel, whom Helmut Kohl clutched to his bosom after the wall came down to ensure his victory in the elections that followed. She filled, during her time as German chancellor a lot of positions with other former GDR functionaries and today tries to install a fascist regime under the cover of a fake virus crisis. Unfortunately most western governments have failed to properly acknowledge her past and now more or less do her bidding or, like Boris Johnson, compete with her for notoriety. Brave new world indeed!
So writing Viper is my way of bowing to all those people in the past, who upheld natural human values and fought the oppressors at the risk of their freedom and lives. Now it is up to the people again, to do the same and forget the deceptive narrative of a global pandemic, that doesn’t really exist, as so far nobody has actual proof of having isolated and bred the respective virus and followed the scientific rules for identifying actual infections.
Monique.
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