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MAR 04 2005

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Dear Mr. Kissinger:

We, the Hoferichter & Jacobs film + TV production GmbH are currently preparing the production of a three-part documentary film series with the title "Places of Justice" which is concerned with the historical development of law associated with the political architecture.

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Jessee Incao

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Many thanks for your fax requesting an interview with Dr. Kissinger for the documentary film series, "Places of Justice". Unfortunately, due to a full schedule over the course of the coming months, he must decline his participation. However, Dr. Kissinger appreciates your consideration and sends his good wishes.

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3/21/2005

DR. HUBERTUS HOFFMANN

MAY 11 2005.

To
Dr. Henry Kissinger
350 Park Ave
New York City, NY 10022
U.S.A.

Gruenwald/Munich, May 8th, 2005

Dear Hein:

you may be interested in the speeches at the book parties of Fritz Kraemer On Excellence, which I have printed out from our special web site www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer. As you can see his ideas and analysis are very lively as one could see in the last speech of than Cardinal Ratzinger criticizing "relativism" which Fritz mentioned in the book as "the greatest threat to the world" (page 131) and gave a splendid analysis in the chapter "Relativism in Modern Societies" (page 74ff).

It would honor our mentor if we could give his ideas a wider distribution, which is not so easy in the U.S. as most publishers do not like to distribute a ready printed book. On the other side I had promised Fritz Kraemer to have every word of him controlled and not allow publishers changes at all. If you have an idea which distribution partner fits for the book, please let me know.

I add as well a summary of my World Security Network Foundation project, which reaches now 165,000 in the young global info elite "Networking a Safer World".

With my business partner Ehud Barak, I will be in New York June 7-9. Maybe we have a chance to see us again.

With best regards from Germany to you and Nancy

Dr.-Engelsperger-Strasse 4 • D-82031 Grünwald

Telefon: +49.89.64 91 55 89 • Telefax: +49.89.64 91 55 86

E-Mail: hubertushoffmann@gmx.de

The World Security Network: "Elite Network for a Safer World"

The World Security Network Foundation—an independent, nonprofit organization—is building a new elite global network for foreign and security policy with the purpose of “Networking a Safer World.” It was founded and funded in New York by German business-man and successful investor Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann, former advisor in the European Parliament, the German Bundestag and U.S. Senate and foreign and defense affairs specialist and activist for over 25 years, member of YPO and IISS.

The goal is the networking of a young elite—those twenty to forty years of age—in America, Europe, Africa, and Asia using the new medium of the Internet, as well as the promotion of an international discussion of new solutions in security policy. Young authors can publish their own analyses worldwide. A network of young editors reports from Washington D.C., London, Rome, Moscow, Singapore, Beirut, New Delhi, Germany, China, and Eastern Europe led by WSN Global-Editor-in-Chief BrigGen (Ret.) Dieter Farwick, former Director of Germany's "Federal Armed Forces Intelligence Office" and close aid to former German Defense Minister and later NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner.

An International Advisory Board consisting of 28 well-known experts from 13 countries - the USA, Germany, Russia, the UK, Turkey, France, Switzerland, Estonia, Kosovo, Hungary, Lebanon, Pakistan and Greece- including seven generals and admirals (Klaus Naumann; Ed Rowny, Bill Odom; Götz Gliemeroth, Lord Peter Inge, Sebastian Roberts, Chuck Saffell), journalists (Herbert Kremp, Henning von Steuben), professors and scholars (Mensur Akgün; Ron Asmus; Robert Dujaric; Peter Forster, Amin Hashwani, Christian Hacke, Robert Hunter, Michael Inacker, Joachim Krause, Ludger Kühnhardt, Holger Mey, John Nomikos, Arben Qirezi, Sergey Rogov) and politicians (Samy Gemayel, Geza Jeszenszky; Tunne Kelam, Peter Kurt Würzbach) advises WSN.

165,000 members of the international information elite including 65,000 business executives and lawyers; more than 50,000 professors, assistants, and alumni of elite universities such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, and INSEAD; 32,000 journalists; 15,000 foreign and defense experts; and more than 3,000 members and staff of parliaments, receive a weekly electronic newsletter with new analyses of foreign and security policy—the largest of its kind worldwide.

www.worldsecuritynetwork.com reports daily on new developments around the globe and receives more than 1.5 million hits monthly. With the “proposals” we publish, WSN makes a contribution to the discussion of all of the “hot topics” in world politics.

80 media partners (including CNN, UPI and Newsweek) and 51 institutes (including RAND and IISS) cooperate with WSN and make use of the analyses.

WSN supports the young elite with a Scholarship program. In 2004, Dmitry Udalov, the nineteen-year-old President of the Student's Association in Moscow, received an invitation for his first visit to New York and Washington D.C. He is now Editor Russia. In 2005, Manuela Paraipan, from Romania was awarded the WSN Scholarship to visit Beirut as Editor Broader Middle East.

In 2004 WSN President Hubertus Hoffmann published a WSN book on his mentor *Fritz Kraemer on Excellence. Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist* with contributions by Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, and Donald Rumsfeld. (more in www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer)

WSN is also working together with seven research institutes on the international *Codes of Tolerance*, designed to promote cooperation between diverse cultures.

More in www.worldsecuritynetwork.com

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FRITZ KRAEMER ON EXCELLENCE

Book parties in Berlin, Munich, Washington DC and New York

Fritz Kraemer book parties in Washington and New York: Wolfowitz, Schmitz, Rowny and more

written by: Hubertus Hoffmann, 12-Dec-04

Only a year after the funeral of American hero Fritz Kraemer at Arlington National Cemetery, more than 100 friends and admirers, officers and journalists gathered at the Army Navy Club in the heart of Washington D.C. at the invitation of Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann, author and President of the World Security Network, for the presentation of the book *Fritz Kraemer on Excellence. Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist*.

The evening began with an outstandingly delivered speech by his daughter, Madeleine. Sometimes emotional, sometimes light-hearted, she told of how Old Fritz came across in her childhood from the viewpoint of his only daughter.

Sven Kraemer, who followed in the footsteps of his father as a Pentagon advisor, stressed the value system and the call for an elite committed to responsibility instead of privileges.

They both wrote important contributions for the book about their father.

Deputy U.S. Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (left) at the Washington book party of Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann. The surprise guest of honor spoke about the values of former Pentagon strategist Fritz Kraemer.

The guests were greatly impressed by Lieutenant General (Ret.) and former Ambassador Ed Rowny who, in spite of his visual handicap, offered an engaging, dynamic, and entertaining description of his encounters with Fritz Kraemer in the fifties, which are recorded in his imminently readable contribution to the book.

The surprise guest of the evening was Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, who at first eavesdropped on the speeches at the entryway and toward the end of the evening honored the importance of Fritz Kraemer's work in the defense of America's values.

A completely different crowd came together at the invitation of Sharon Handler, Mark Robinow, Hans Janitschek and Hubertus Hoffmann in New York City. More than 100 bankers, diplomats, movers and shakers from Manhattan celebrated Fritz! The book on Fifth Avenue with a view of Central Park by night. Everyone agreed: it is precisely in today's materialistic times that his calls for values, intellectual goals, and an elite to take on responsibility are more important and more current than ever.

Encounter the ideas of Fritz Kraemer along with contributions by Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Kraemer Bryant, Sven Kraemer, Wilhelm- Karl Prinz von Preussen, Edward Rowny, and Donald Rumsfeld in the limited first edition of *Fritz Kraemer on Excellence*.

**Order your own personal copy at the special WSN price now!**

Fritz Kraemer's World of Values, Principles, and Ideals

Speech by Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann, President of the

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World Security Network Foundation and author of Fritz Kraemer On Excellence, at the book parties in Berlin, Munich, Washington DC and New York

Ladies and gentlemen, please let me welcome you to the presentation of Fritz Kraemer on Excellence !

Today, and later while reading this book in the comfort of your
home, I invite you to join me on a journey to an almost
forgotten world—a world of values, principles, and ideals.

The world of a missionary, a gifted mentor, and a Pentagon
strategist!

The re-election of George Bush, so surprising for many, shows just how great the desire of millions of people actually is for orientation and moral values.

And it also shows that elections can be won on this basis.

For the next 30 minutes let us forget about Michael Moore!

Enter the world of a last Prussian who demanded passion,
sacrifice, honor, and duty.

The most significant messages of Fritz Kraemer for all of us
are:

* Which code of honor one pursues is important, not material riches.

* Character counts, not position and title.

* What is important is not pure power and career, but inner independence and personal courage.

* Voters aren't only driven by their wallets; they also long for absolute—non-material—values.

* Being overly intellectual and overly educated leads to a loss of reality.

* Be an independent person and say what you think, work to form reality and take on tasks for society.

* The individual has a soul; he is not merely a "homo-economicus."

Fritz Kraemer observed a spiritual vacuum in our highly developed democracies—a soulless society, which is rich and fat, and has therefore become soulless and unwilling to sacrifice for the community.

Fritz's children Madeleine and Sven (left) both delivered brilliant and emotional speeches at the book party in memory of their father. There, they met Alain Blaikley for the first time, who arrived for the reception from London and was a longtime friend of Fritz Kraemer's brother who lived in the U.K.

Madeleine (left) greets American hero, Ambassador, and Lieutenant General (Ret.) Ed Rowny (center) and his wife, who spoke about Old Fritz and contributed to the new book. He is a Member of the International Advisory Board of World Security Network.

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Kraemer's central concern was urging people to "look for men and women of excellence." Encourage, develop, and support young people so that they will become a responsible elite in all aspects of life and do great things for society.

The Fritz Kraemer book party in New York City attracted bankers, diplomats, journalists, and elite movers and shakers of the Big Apple to the Fifth Avenue Apartment of WSN Vice President Hans Janitschek

This is the motto and goal to which this new book *Fritz Kraemer on Excellence* is dedicated, which you can purchase only here as a limited first edition.

The World Security Network Foundation, which I founded in New York, is also dedicated to this goal. It is a network of the info-elite in foreign and security policy.

Each week our newsletter, the largest of its kind dealing with analyses of foreign and security policy in the world, goes out to 160,000 readers, of which 45,000 are professors and alumni of elite universities; 36,000 businessmen and women; 32,000 journalists; and 15,000 experts and politicians.

With its scholarship program, WSN supports young people, who get to know decision makers in American politics in New York and Washington.

The recipient of this year's scholarship was **Dmitry Udalov**, a nineteen-year-old whiz kid from Moscow.

Together with 8 research institutions, we are developing "Codes of Tolerance" to support a cooperative partnership of the cultures of the world.

Tonight, I would kindly ask you to support our work by purchasing the book *Fritz Kraemer on Excellence*.

## There is Evil in the World and You Have to Struggle Against It: People Who Worship Death Not Life

written by: Paul Wolfowitz, 20-Jan-05

### Speech by Deputy U.S. Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz at the Book Party of Hubertus Hoffmann Fritz Kraemer on Excellence

I am pretty certain that I first met Fritz Kraemer at Sven's house, but I don't think he paid me a whole lot of attention. My recollection of the first serious conversation with him is when I went to work in the Defense Department. I had one of those experiences like Ed Rowny described when somebody said, "You had better go talk to Fritz Kraemer!" And I went to that little office, and I became a recipient of his incredible, copious reading of intelligence. I only recall that it always seemed to me that he was one or two steps ahead, if not more than that, of the kinds of products coming out of our official intelligence community. And Fritz was almost invariably right. I was a great beneficiary of that.

And I am sure there are many people in this room—and many people outside of this room—who have benefited from his inveterate teaching, because Fritz was a teacher—he was constantly teaching.

The other thing I remember, he was never interested in being

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an upper-grade. I think he considered it dangerous to accept any higher commissions.

And the third thing which I remember vividly, though I never saw it, but only heard Sven and Fritz describe it, is that image of the young Fritz Kraemer with his Imperial flag and cross going out in the middle of swastika-bearing, and hammer and sickle-bearing fascists and communists and getting himself beaten up—and doing it over and over again. That is what he was about. That is what his life was about—a recognition that there is evil in the world and you have to struggle against it.

I don't think it is doing him an injustice to say he seemed always to be a prophet of gloom. He was, I think, a pessimistic man. And it is remarkable, given that outlook, how much of what he spoke for, fought for, and defended ultimately triumphed. I suppose he would say that is because, "I was always thinking about how things could go wrong. And I'm not sure that they didn't."

The other day, I stumbled by accident on an article from 1984 that appeared in *Foreign Affairs*. It talks about how, apparently, judging from opinion polls, the Americans think their President is doing a great job and is reasserting American leadership in the face of aggressive Soviet expansion. But what they don't understand is that he is an idiot and 70 percent of Europeans recognize that he is. And that it is difficult to describe to Americans just how low they have sunk in the esteem of Europeans. If you didn't know that it was written about Ronald Reagan, you would have said how little things change.

The thing that hasn't changed, unfortunately, is that there still is evil in the world.

It is a fascist totalitarianism not fundamentally different from the way it was in the last century—no more God fearing than they were.

They are people who worship death frankly, and not life.

People who worship the devil, I believe, and not God.

They are an evil that has to be confronted.

And fortunately, we do have a president that is prepared to see it the way I think Fritz Kraemer would have seen it, and I am prepared to confront it. I believe his spirit still lives.

In the Talmud, I think somewhere it says that those who have passed away still live among us in the deeds that they have done and in the hearts of those who have cherished their memories. I know that there are hundreds and hundreds of people who have been touched by Fritz Kraemer and who not only still cherish his memory, but I believe have had their lives effected by his ideas and his example. It is a privilege to be counted among them.

Army and Navy Club, Washington DC, November 15th, 2004

## Fritz Kraemer: Spiritual faith, vision and principles

written by: Joseph Schmitz, 12-Dec-04

## Remarks by Joseph Schmitz, Inspector General U.S. Department of Defense

Like many others, Fritz Kraemer has had a profound influence on my life. It is an honor to play a small role in this celebration of both the man and, as he would have preferred, the principles for which he fought to the very end.

A year to the day after the terrorist attack on the Pentagon, immediately after the Pentagon ceremony honoring "America's Heroes Lost September 11, 2001," I had another unique honor associated with Fritz Kraemer. As I escorted Dr. Henry Kissinger through the Pentagon to his waiting car, I mentioned

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to Dr. Kissinger that I had recently queried one of his mentors, Fritz Kraemer, about what he thought was the most dangerous "domestic enemy to the United States Constitution." Fritz had unhesitatingly answered, "Relativism"; and upon hearing this, Dr. Kissinger unhesitatingly replied, "I agree."

This past Summer, when I informed Secretary Rumsfeld about the Fritz Kraemer book project, he enthusiastically offered a letter he had written to Sven Kraemer after his father's passing the year before. The text of that letter is reproduced in the book we celebrate tonight. It's classic Rumsfeld: "His courageous and brilliant career was an example to us all. I had the highest respect for him and valued my relationship with him greatly. I feel fortunate that I was able to benefit from his insight."

I too feel fortunate to have benefited from the insight of Fritz Kraemer. Having inspected the book that we celebrate tonight, I am pleased to report that it captures not only the greatness of the man, but the profound spiritual faith, vision, and the principles behind the man. That is how old Fritz would have wanted it.

Joseph Schmitz (center), Inspector General in the U.S. Defense Department, is one of the new men in the Pentagon Fritz Kraemer identified as "the responsible elite" in America with high moral values to prevent "provocative weakness" by America and the Free World

## Fritz Kraemer bookparties in Berlin and Munich

written by: Hubertus Hoffmann, 08-Dec-04

The new book *Fritz Kraemer on Excellence. Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist* was presented for the first time to an interested and enthusiastic public in Berlin, Munich, Washington D.C. and New York.

In the venerable Parliamentary Society across from the Reichstag (the House of Parliament) in Berlin, **General (Ret.) Klaus Naumann**, former Chief of Staff of the German Federal Armed Forces and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, presented his thoughts on patriotism and the Kraemer aphorism of „provocative weakness“ in Europe to more than 100 guests - including ambassadors, members of the German Parliament and the Federal Ministry of Defense.

**Friedrich Merz**, Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU opposition party in the German Parliament, one of the most prominent and popular politicians in Germany, added his thoughts on the Kraemer book and on moral values in politics.

In Munich, more than 200 guests attended the book presentation at the private home of the author and World Security Network founder Hubertus Hoffmann. In attendance was a colorful mix of military officials such as former KFOR Commanding General (Ret.) Klaus Reinhardt; representatives of industry including Dr. Thomas Enders, Member of the Board of EADS; members of the academic community represented by Prof. Werner Weidenfeld CAP Institute and Prof. James W. Davis Jr., of the Geschwister Scholl Institute at Munich University; as well as journalists and prominent actors such as Uschi Glas.

Those who attended complimented both the elegant appearance of the book and its outstanding contents. The newspapers *Münchner Merkur* and *Passauer Neue Presse* spoke of a successful "homage to a great Pentagon strategist" and "a book whose optical elegance is matched by its excellent content."

**Order Fritz Kraemer on Excellence now as a Christmas gift at the preferential price here! You will receive delivery within a few days.**

Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann presenting his new book *Fritz Kraemer on Excellence* in the Parliamentary Society at the Reichstag in Berlin

Enhance Patriotism and Overcome "Provocative Weakness" in Europe Now!

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coin, namely the instruments. Let's think of Fritz Kraemer's assertion: "Nothing is possible without power." That is not an appeal for a one-sided orientation towards military power; rather, it is a stimulus to think whether we can meet our political demands in Europe and in the world if we continue to disregard the military power of Germany as seen since 1992. If we do so and do not help the Defense Minister in the realization of his reforms, then we will consciously produce provocative weakness. If we manage in a condition of such strategic weakness to offend the only power able to help us in our time of need, then if things should ever again become unpleasant, we should not be surprised if Germany initially without political influence and perhaps suddenly finds itself standing alone in the rain.

I think it is high time to remember Fritz Kraemer and to take this book to heart. We have to consider how one can repair the transatlantic relationship not by simply and unconditionally agreeing to everything that is concluded in Washington, but by finding ways where one can or must act together for the protection of common interests.

I think Europe should try to use America's power in order to balance its provocative weakness. In this way, Europe could gain time to take long overdue steps in pursuing the elimination of the most urgent weaknesses, thereby gaining time to consider how one could restore the balance between hard and soft politics in the thinking of the transatlantic partners. Once these steps have been taken, we would then be able to and indeed would have to consider how to defy the tempests of the restless years ahead of us together with the U.S.A.

Fritz Kraemer knew the situation: "To fanatics, heroism means a fight they know they will lose." But he also had the answer, an answer that he formulated following 9/11: "May we develop the spirit, the will, the courage, and the lasting tenacity to make it obvious to the destructionists that we are no paper tigers."

It is well worth it to read "Fritz Kraemer On Excellence", which I hope will find broad circulation. Hubertus, you have brought an important book to the market at the right time and for that again, congratulations!

## Preview and Order Fritz Kraemer On Excellence here

Tatjana Hoffmann (right) with friends in Munich discussing Fritz Kraemer's demand for an elite to take on responsibilities in our society.

## Fritz Kraemer: a Man of the Performance Elite

written by: Friedrich Merz, 08-Dec-04

## A speech by Friedrich Merz, Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU in the German Parliament, for the Berlin book presentation *Fritz Kraemer on Excellence*

Even today, in some quarters of Berlin, one can still see the extent of the wounds and destruction left behind by the Nazi regime and the extent of the losses to lament, in particular of Jewish families and of splendid personalities.

I would like to congratulate my friend of many years, Hubertus Hoffmann, on his book *Fritz Kraemer on Excellence*. Kraemer was a man who would certainly have become one of the new democratic intellectual elite in Germany following the Hitler regime. This fact is what that impressed and occupied me most during the reading of the book.

Even in the first paragraph of the contribution by Henry Kissinger, the word "values" occurs. Values are precisely what characterize this book from the first page to the last—a book about a man with values, and about a man who lived them. He did not belong to an ancestral elite, but to a performance elite. His grounding consisted of three terms: substance, excellence, and character. We find

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this in all of the stations of his life. And out of this arose the conflict with his pupil Henry Kissinger. Fritz Kraemer lived the role of a moral ethicist, his pupil the role of a practical politician with an ethic of responsibility who had to accept essential compromises, the judgment of which must be left to history. Both of them, however, are distinguished by independence of thought and action.

Friedrich Merz, Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU in the German Parliament: "Values are precisely what characterize this book from the first page to the last"

There are indeed some parallels to today's world in the contents of this book:

First of all, there is Kraemer's commitment to serving both the state and society—the demand not to first consider one's own needs, but to first think of the democratic community and to be of service to it.

Weakness provokes, only strength stabilizes peace. That was certainly the most important and pragmatic thinking to shape American postwar politics and the transatlantic relationship.

Had this American policy—inspired by Fritz Kraemer in the Pentagon—not been persistently maintained and held on to for four decades, we would not be standing here today in the historic building of the Parliamentary Society in Berlin, which stood exactly at the wall in East Berlin. After 1989, we would have stayed in Bonn with the German Bundestag because Germany would still be divided. The 9th of November, the day of the fall of the Berlin wall, should also be a day of gratitude to our French, British, and American friends who never let themselves be distracted from this course.

## Pentagon Strategist Dr. Fritz Kraemer on "Provocative Weakness" and the Necessity of a new Responsible Elite

In Berlin, Munich, Washington D.C. and New York the nonprofit World Security Network Foundation (New York) presented the latest book by its founder and president, the German businessman Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann, on the legendary Pentagon strategist Dr. Fritz Kraemer: *Fritz Kraemer On Excellence.Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist*. The book includes contributions from Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, and Donald Rumsfeld (USD 99,-; exclusive first limited edition, online orders and preview at www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer).

Fritz Kraemer was for thirty years the éminence grise in the Pentagon. He discovered and mentored over decades the American Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig. They have provided outstanding descriptions for this book detailing the extent of the positive influence and impressions this German emigrant made on them.

Henry Kissinger: "Fritz Kraemer was the greatest single influence of my formative years. He shaped my reading and thinking, awakened my interest in political philosophy and history. An extraordinary man who will be part of my life as long as I draw breath."

Alexander Haig said of him: "I can think of no individual before or since whose patient tutelage made a more meaningful contribution to the shaping of my own worldview"

Dr. Fritz Kraemer: Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist.

And the U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld praised Kraemer as, "The true keeper of the Holy Flame at the Pentagon. His courageous and brilliant career was an example for us all."

Hubertus Hoffmann—protégé of Fritz Kraemer for twenty-five years—conducted numerous background conversations with his mentor during the last decades in Washington and molded the wisdom of this "philosopher at the Potomac" following his death last year into this outstanding book.

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Fritz Kraemer on Excellence is the antithesis in book form of Michael Moore's satire *Fahrenheit 9/11*, as it explains the necessity, based on decades of experience, for America to be strong and vigilant, and not to reveal "provocative weakness" in the face of fanatics. Diplomacy is impossible without the power to back it up; weakness aggravates and therefore leads to war.

Author and protégé of Dr. Fritz Kraemer for 25 years: Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann, Founder and President of the World Security Network Foundation in New York.

Kraemer pleads vehemently for a new elite of young people to take on responsibility in the world and in society, people who aren't driven by privilege but by carrying the burden of responsibility.

This exclusive first edition, limited to 2,000 copies, impresses through its unconventional and progressive design, which one normally finds only in expensive art books. Bound in luxurious grey linen with a real monocle on the cover (Kraemer's distinguishing trademark), it is elaborately laid out in black-and-white and contains on its 204 pages more than 300 photos, most of which have never been published. These bring Fritz Kraemer and his world of ideals into the living room.

Please, have a look at the preview of the exclusive first edition of "Fritz Kraemer On Excellence. Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist" here!

Feature: Remembering Fritz Kraemer

written by: Lou Marano, 04-Feb-05

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- At a time when the Bush administration is trying to repair relations with Europe, it's fitting that the European who applied the highest virtues of the Old Continent to the service of U.S. foreign policy is being memorialized in a new book.

I met Fritz Kraemer (1908-2003) only twice. But, like for so many others -- most notably, Henry Kissinger -- this was a life-changing experience. In an age of hyperbole, how do you describe the most remarkable man you have ever met?

Brains and talent? Common and overrated, as Kraemer would have been the first to tell you. An encyclopedic command of information? Useless without moral principles to guide one's actions. All of the above plus physical courage? Now we're getting somewhere. Add selflessness, intuitive brilliance, plus moral courage of the highest order, and you will begin to know who Fritz Kraemer was.

My first encounter with Kraemer came in the mid-1980s, when I worked on the foreign desk of The Washington Times and Kraemer had been invited to address a lunch meeting of reporters and editors. Who was this Kraemer, staffers wondered before the event. The word filtered through that he was an anti-Nazi German Christian monarchist who had fle the Third Reich and served in the U.S. Army during World War II -- when he "discovered" the talents of a young soldier named Henry Kissinger -- and subsequently had a career as a senior civilian Pentagon analyst.

Time has dimmed the details of that meeting, but not the electrifying effect it had on me. Two things stick in my mind. The first was that Kraemer used his obvious flair for the dramatic not for self-aggrandizement or ego gratification, but rather as a teaching tool. Picture a Prussian aristocrat with a monocle and a sonorous voice who half unsheathes a sword cane and places it with determination on the table in front of him. You WILL pay attention to what he says.

The second was what Kraemer had to say about diplomats. Never trust a diplomat, he warned, because by training and inclination they are people who believe every dispute can be settled by negotiation and compromise -- and that's simply not true. If two men want to marry the same woman, for example, no compromise is possible.

I left the meeting hoping our paths would cross again. That did not happen, but I thought about him from time to time

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over the years. After Sept. 11, 2001, it occurred to me that if anyone had anything sensible to say about the attacks, it would be Kraemer. By that time, he was 93. Was he still alive? I found a phone listing in Northwest Washington, but became sidetracked for some reason and did not call for an interview until June of 2003, shortly before his 95th birthday.

By that time the urgency of 9/11 had faded, and I was interested in doing a feature profile of Kraemer the man -- moral exemplar, geo-strategist and counselor to generations of U.S. foreign policymakers.

The task proved more complicated than I anticipated. I identified myself as a UPI reporter, explained my purpose, and told him I remembered him and his sword cane vividly from the Washington Times luncheon. He was skeptical, put me through a series of general questions, and finally said he could see no reason to talk with me since I had mentioned only the trivial detail of the sword cane. I reminded him of what he had said about diplomats and told him that I had repeated his warning to others.

It's hard to say when a man like Kraemer is impressed, especially over the phone, but he seemed to be. In any case, I passed the test and he agreed to be interviewed.

But not over the phone. He would have none of that. I must come to his house. He was a night person. Could I come over around 8? And no tape recorders. I could take notes.

On the appointed evening, I parked in the driveway behind Kraemer's ancient Cadillac and left the tape recorder in the car, hoping he would relent. My hopes were dashed when the old man summoned me to his chair and patted me down under my jacket for a wire.

Despite the heat and the domestic setting, I had put on a suit and tie. Another test passed. A previous interviewer had shown up in flip-flops, shirttail out. Bad move.

Before allowing me to interview him, Kraemer interviewed me. Through questioning, he learned that I had served in Vietnam. One more test passed. Kraemer was explicit about this.

For the next four hours, Kraemer held forth, speaking in publishable paragraphs. I was spellbound, deeply regretting the absence of a tape recorder, for I am someone who finds it hard to listen intently and write and the same time. At the end of the session, the only words of Kraemer on my legal pad were: "I have a natural mistrust of people who are very intelligent." The idea was that the very intelligent can come up with high-order rationalizations for craven behavior, and only the truly brilliant recognize that brilliance is nothing.

Fortunately, much of what Kraemer had to say is now recoverable in the book "Fritz Kraemer on Excellence: Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist," by Hubertus Hoffmann, head of the World Security Network. Hoffmann, a German businessman, put the book together from correspondence and recorded conversations with Kraemer going back to 1979. It's a book I can recommend to everyone, but unfortunately, it's available now only in a limited memorial edition that costs $99 (worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer). It is to be hoped that a reasonably priced mass-market edition will follow.

I was determined not to mention Kissinger's name because mentor and protégé, once so close, had been estranged for some 30 years. Nevertheless, Kraemer told me the story of their meeting. In 1943, at age 35, Kraemer had been drafted and was assigned to Gen. Alexander Bolling's 84th Infantry Division. In 1944 the "Railsplitters" were training at Camp Claiborne, La. Although only a private, by this time Kraemer had earned two doctorates: one in jurisprudence from the University of Frankfurt, and another in political science from the University of Rome. For most of the 1930s, Kraemer had been senior legal adviser to the League of Nations at the league's Legal Institute in Rome.

So Bolling agreed to Kraemer's request to address the division about the importance of fighting Naziism. Among the thousands assembled was another refugee from Germany, a 19-year-old private who wrote Kraemer a brief note saying that Kraemer was right and asking if he -- Kissinger -- could help.

In later years, Kraemer was to say: "My role was not discovering Kissinger. My role was getting Kissinger to discover himself. (At 19) Kissinger knew nothing, but understood everything." Others, Kraemer said, know everything but understand nothing.

The 84th Division arrived in continental Europe in November 1944, where it suffered almost 70 percent casualties -- battle and non-battle -- in less than seven months. To me Kraemer said, unbidden: "Kissinger was a good soldier who faced danger bravely."

But Kissinger was only one of many topics on which Kraemer expounded. It wasn't quite a monologue. He answered my

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questions thoughtfully, but he seemed eager to give me the full Kraemer curriculum, now available in Hofmann's book: for example, that man is not simply an economic animal with material wants and needs, but a spiritual one.

By 1 a.m. I started to fade. He showed disappointment when I excused myself, saying I had to work the next day. As we said goodbye, I wondered if I would see him again.

"The Lord God keep you," he said as I was at the door about to leave.

I found my hand inscribing a cross in the air, returning his blessing.

Shortly thereafter, on July 3, 2003, I called to wish him well on his 95th birthday. Three months later, I read that he was dead. He had passed away on Sept. 8, some six weeks after our meeting -- about 17 years after the Washington Times luncheon. I thanked God for having prompted my call for an interview.

Kraemer's son, Sven, graciously agreed to my request to attend the memorial service at the Chapel at Fort Meyer, Va., and the interment at Arlington National Cemetery on Oct. 8, but he denied my request to write a story about what was, after all, a family funeral. Now, however, Sven Kraemer's eulogy -- as well as Kissinger's -- is published in Hoffman's book.

Sven said his father, as a young man, had "publicly denounced Hitler's National Socialists as barbarian pagans and their communist rivals as proletarian thugs. He sometimes carried his small German imperial flag with its Christian cross of Malta into their street demonstrations as a provocative alternative to both swastika and hammer and sickle. Both sides would beat him bloody."

He talked about how his father had gone into combat as a 36-year-old infantryman, and that what Fritz Kraemer most remembered about the Battle of Bulge was the bitter cold and the mortally wounded young men of both sides calling out to their mothers in English and German.

Kraemer's New York Times obituary states that he was captured in the Battle of the Bulge. "Soon after he was taken, he convinced his German captors that an Allied victory was imminent and persuaded them to surrender themselves and the town to him. For this he received a Bronze Star and a battlefield commission."

A 1975 Washington Post profile states that Kraemer was made occupation officer of Oberammergau after the war. There he overheard neo-Nazis boasting of how they would return to power. He "seized one by the throat and forced him to discard his symbolic 'Edelweiss' boutonniere." Can you imagine the fuss if an American officer was filmed doing something similar in Iraq today?

Kissinger, obviously deeply affected, spoke movingly at the memorial service.

"Fritz Kraemer was the greatest single influence of my formative years," Kissinger said. "His inspiration remained with me even during the last 30 years, when he would not speak to me."

Kissinger said after the 84th Division reached Europe, Kraemer arranged for him to be transferred to the intelligence section. "We worked together and, after work, we walked the streets of battle-scarred towns at night during total blackouts while Kraemer spoke of history and postwar challenges in his stentorian voice -- sometimes in German, tempting nervous sentries."

Kissinger said the source of their later estrangement was the natural tension between the prophet and the policymaker. "For the prophet, values are eternal, independent of time. For the policymaker, absolute values must be approached in stages, each of which is by definition imperfect."

But was this a high-order rationalization by the very intelligent Kissinger? After the funeral, a source close to both men told me the real reason for the estrangement was Kissinger's habit of saying one thing to one person and another thing to someone else.

Oct. 8, 2003, was a perfect early autumn day. After the memorial service, we assembled outside the chapel for the long walk to the gravesite. Kissinger and his wife stood directly behind the caisson. Should I? I hesitated, then decided it was the right thing to do.

"Dr. Kissinger?"

"Yes."

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"I spoke to Kraemer this summer. I didn't mention your name, but he said you were a good soldier who faced danger bravely."

Kissinger's face, and that of his wife, showed profound emotion.

"Thank you," he said.

## Inside the Ring

written by: Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough, 04-Mar-05

### Provocative weakness

WASHINGTON TIMES. March 4, 2005. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is fond of telling reporters that "weakness is provocative" in explaining the administration's Ronald Reagan-esque policy of peace through strength.

A new book shows where the defense secretary may have borrowed the phrase. "Fritz Kraemer on Excellence," by Hubertus Hoffmann, is a celebration of work of the World War II combat veteran and noted defense strategist who died in 2003 at age 95.

The book quotes Mr. Kraemer as warning American leaders against the "provocative weakness" embodied in the Munich deal between British leader Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler that "was the first step on the road toward World War II.

Mr. Kraemer also noted that "brilliant fools" in international foreign policy circles "never understood the devastating effect of provocative weakness on a totalitarian dictatorship like the U.S.S.R."

After the September 11 attacks, Mr. Kraemer stated that he had been warning for years that military and diplomatic "provocative weakness" in the West encouraged "aggressors and fanatics to venture forward further and further, due to their growing conviction that they did not have to fear any hard reaction from the U.S. and its allies, all absolutely deficient in willpower, all seemingly paper tigers rather than fighting entities."

"May we develop now the spirit, the will, the courage and the lasting tenacity to make it obvious to the destructionists that we are not paper tigers," he said.

When Mr. Kraemer met Mr. Rumsfeld at a 2002 swearing-in ceremony, he told the defense secretary: "No provocative weakness, please."

The book, which comes with a replica of Mr. Kraemer's trademark monocle embedded in its book cover, quotes a note from Mr. Rumsfeld as saying Mr. Kraemer was "an example to us all."

"I feel fortunate I was able to benefit from his insights," Mr. Rumsfeld said.

The book was published by the World Security Network Foundation in New York and is available at www.worldsecuritynetwork.com.

Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough are Pentagon reporters. Mr. Gertz can be reached at 202/636-3274 or by e-mail at bgertz@washingtontimes.com. Mr. Scarborough can be reached at 202/636-3208 or by e-mail at rscarborough@washingtontimes.com.

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