{"id":378,"date":"2008-01-11T04:24:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T08:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/2008\/01\/11\/letter-from-munich-348\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T07:23:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T11:23:56","slug":"letter-from-munich-348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/2008\/01\/11\/letter-from-munich-348\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Munich 348"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Letter from Munich &#8211; the Joseph Affair \u2013 348<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EINE DEUTSCHE FASSUNG STEHT WEITER UNTEN. (German translation below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>Dusseldorf, 11 January 2008<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. Graf, dear friends,<\/p>\n<p>First Report &#8211; Steffen Judzikowski, Wolfgang Kramer, Joe Sperling, \u201eMuegeln unter Verdacht \u2013 Deutsche jagen Auslaender,\u201c ZDF, Frontal 21, Broadcast of 21 August 2007.<\/p>\n<p>PART 1.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: The relevance of this article lies in the fact that what happens in a town like Muegeln can also happen in Saxony, in Sebnitz. It can have happened, at the time of Joseph\u2019s death.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModerator: Was it a surprise \u2013 the things that happened in the town of Muegeln, in Saxony, over the weekend? Was it a surprise that around fifty Germans threatened, hunted down, and finally beat up a few men from India? Was it a surprise that passers-by just looked on and did nothing to help? No, not at all. And this absence of surprise is almost as bad as the events themselves. For a long time we\u2019ve considered it a sort of normal abnormality, simply the moral \u2013 or rather, immoral \u2013 norms of a small town that a mob should suddenly go after foreigners. Of course that kind of thing can happen anywhere in Germany, but it happens especially in the eastern part of the country. Only a fifth of the German population lives in eastern Germany, but it is home to half of the 40,000 German neo-Nazis. Our reporters Steffen Judzikowski, Wolfgang Kramer, and Joe  Sperling visited Muegeln.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(First Report &#8211; to be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely yours,<\/p>\n<p>Robert John Bennett<\/p>\n<p>Ernst-Gnoss-Strasse 22<\/p>\n<p>40219 Dusseldorf<\/p>\n<p>Germany<\/p>\n<p>Telephone: +49 211 586 4847<\/p>\n<p>Mobile: +49 152 0285 4626<\/p>\n<p>E-Mail: rjbennett@post.harvard.edu<\/p>\n<p>Kantelberg-Abdulla E-Mail: majoskant@t-online.de<\/p>\n<p>Websites: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/MunichLetters<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Since many recipients of this letter may read German more easily than they read English, the following is the author\u2019s translation of the above letter. Please note that word-processing programs outside of German-speaking countries may not display all of the letters of the German alphabet correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Alle Briefe aus M\u00fcnchen sind abrufbar:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/MunichLetters<\/p>\n<p>D\u00fcsseldorf, den 11. Januar 2008<\/p>\n<p>Sehr geehrter Herr Graf, sehr geehrte Freunde,<\/p>\n<p>:Erster Bericht &#8211; Steffen Judzikowski, Wolfgang Kramer, Joe Sperling, \u201eM\u00fcgeln unter Verdacht \u2013 Deutsche jagen Ausl\u00e4nder,\u201c ZDF, Frontal 21, Sendung vom 21. August 2007.<\/p>\n<p>TEIL 1<\/p>\n<p>(Bemerkung: Die Relevanz dieses Artikels liegt darin, dass das, was in Berlin passiert, kann auch in Sachsen, in Sebnitz, passieren. Es kann passiert sein, zur Zeit des Todes Josephs.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201eAnmoderation: Hat es uns \u00fcberrascht, was da am Wochenende im s\u00e4chsischen M\u00fcgeln passiert ist? Hat es uns \u00fcberrascht, dass ein halbes Hundert Deutsche einige Inder bedroht, gejagt und verpr\u00fcgelt hat, dass Passanten nur zugeschaut und nicht geholfen haben? Nein hat  es nicht. Und das ist fast so schlimm wie das Geschehen  selbst. L\u00e4ngst halten wir es f\u00fcr normale Un-Normalit\u00e4t, f\u00fcr das Sitten-oder genauer Un-Sittengem\u00e4lde einer Kleinstadt, in der ein Mob pl\u00f6tzlich Jagd auf Ausl\u00e4nder macht. Nat\u00fcrlich sind solche Ausschreitungen ein gesamtdeutsches Ph\u00e4nomen, aber den Osten betrifft und trifft es ganz besonders. Im Osten lebt nur ein F\u00fcnftel der Bev\u00f6lkerung, aber die H\u00e4lfte aller 40.000 deutschen Rechtsextremen. Steffen Judzikowski, Wolfgang Kramer und Joe  Sperling waren in M\u00fcgeln und Umgebung.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>(Erster Bericht &#8211; Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n<p>Mit freundlichen Gr\u00fc\u00dfen<\/p>\n<p>Robert John Bennett<\/p>\n<p>Ernst-Gnoss-Strasse 22<\/p>\n<p>40219 Dusseldorf<\/p>\n<p>Germany<\/p>\n<p>Telephone: +49 211 586 4847<\/p>\n<p>Mobile: +49 152 0285 4626<\/p>\n<p>E-Mail: rjbennett@post.harvard.edu<\/p>\n<p>Kantelberg-Abdulla E-Mail: majoskant@t-online.de<\/p>\n<p>Websites: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/MunichLetters<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<\/p>\n<p>============================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter from Munich &#8211; the Joseph Affair \u2013 348 EINE DEUTSCHE FASSUNG STEHT WEITER UNTEN. (German translation below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.) Dusseldorf, 11 January 2008 Dear Mr. Graf, dear friends, First Report &#8211; Steffen Judzikowski, Wolfgang Kramer, Joe Sperling, \u201eMuegeln unter Verdacht \u2013 Deutsche jagen Auslaender,\u201c ZDF, Frontal 21, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}