Reinhold Elstner
I N April 1995, Reinhold Elstner , a WW2 army German veteran, poured gasoline over himself and committed suicide in Munich’s busy city-centre Lenbach Platz. He was a supporter of David Irving , had often written to him. He had left behind an open letter explaining the reason for his terrible action (which the cowardly German press largely ignored). Reinhold Elstner’s last letter, translated by Hans Schmidt Germans!
In Germany, in Austria, in Switzerland, and everywhere else in the world: Please awaken! 50 years of never-ending defamation, ugly lies and the demonization of an entire people are enough, 50 years of incredible insults to former German soldiers, of blackmail that costs billions, and of “democratic” hate, are more than one can take, 50 years of judicial Zionist revenge are sufficient, 50 years of trying to create rifts between generations of Germans by criminalizing the fathers and grandfathers
are too much. It is incredible what we have to take in this anniversary year. A Niagara-like flood of lies and defamations inundates us. Since I am now 75 years of age, I cannot do much anymore but I can still seek death by self-immolation; one last deed that may act as a signal to the Germans to regain their senses. Even if through my deed only one German will awaken, and because of it will find the way to the truth, then my sacrifice will not have been in vain.
I felt I had no other choice after I realized that now, after 50 years, there seems a little hope that reason would gain the upper hand. As someone who was driven from his home after the war, I always had one hope, that that which was granted the Israelis after 2,000 years, namely the right to