From: weberwu@inf.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff)
Subject: Violence update 30.09.92
Reply-To: dww@inf.fu-berlin.de
Organization: Free University of Berlin
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:15:09 GMT

Frankfurt/Oder (Brandenburg): 500 persons participated in a demonstration
against the violence against foreigners.

Bornim (Brand., near Potsdam): Firebombs were thrown at the archives of
the Treuhandanstalt, which is right next to a refugee shelter. It is
supposed that the buildings were mixed up, as it is very dark there nights.

Eberswalde (Brand.): A bomb threat was telephoned into the police, there
was supposed to be a bomb in a refugee shelter, but none was found.

Luebben (Brand.): Three monuments were defaced with Nazi graffiti and
symbols.

Erfurt: The leader of the DNP party Dienel was arrested on charges of
having formed a terroristic group.

Sachsenhausen: Klaus Kinkel (the foreign minister) was at a ceremony
here yesterday and laid down a wreath at the burned down barracks. He
bemoaned to the journalists that the image of the Germans in foreign
countries was being tarnished because people were hearing about all
this violence. A journalist asked if the violence would not be so
terrible if no one heard about it then. No, no, he said, but it
distresses him to have to explain to so many people why this violence
does not mean that the Third Reich is returning [paraphrase by me -dww].

Max Willner, 86, who was a prisoner in Sachsenhausen and Auschwitz was
also present at the ceremony. He said: "I am concerned. I was a
grown man already, as the whole thing began back then. And the 
signs are very similar to the ones we had in the Weimar Republic.
It begins with the small incidents."

Berlin: An explosion of a hand-made bomb tore some fingers off a man
in Wedding. Police had searched his appartment in connection with the
bombing of the Jewish memorial here in Berlin (the man is a friend of
one of the confessed perpertrators), but apparently oversaw some items.

On page 3 of the Tagesspiegel there is a shocking report from a German
reporter who visited Rostock "one month later" to get a feel for the
atmosphere there. He was given a big pile of color glossy pictures by
the PR-types for the city, and then drove off to look at a refugee
shelter. There are guards in military uniforms posted there, and the
refugees have a 22-6 hour curfew. He did not enter the shelter, but
drove on the a youth club from the AWO (Arbeiterwohlfahrt is an organization
connected with the trade unions and normally quite liberal). He had
just entered the room when a youth came up to him and asked "Alles klar?"
He answered "Ja", and was immediately slapped on the face by the youth.
"This is my club, no one comes in here with out me allowing it." He was
struck hard several times, even as he and his companion beat a retreat.
She called out to the onlookers to intervene, but one just answered that
he'd like to f*** her. She ran to the car, started it, and the reporter
managed to get in and lock the doors. They roared off, only to
find that they had turned off into a cul-de-sac. As they returned, they found 
the street blocked with a big garbage container. The woman slowed
down and nudged the container out of the way with her bumper, and then
sped off in a rain of stones and bottles, that did not break wondows,
only dented the car. They then went from police station to hospital to
dentist to clinic to police station... only to hear that there's a lot
of fighting, but that Germans aren't normally attacked. One police officer
suggested that the youth had felt provoked by the size of the reporter.
Deutschland in Herbst.

In other news, the official party for the V2 rocket has been cancelled.
But there will be an "inoffical" party, including talks by important
people and "a talk on the tragic uses of the first V2's". Complain
to your governmental officers! Other countries *must* protest this
completely insensitive behavior of the German government!
-- 
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