{"id":392,"date":"2008-04-11T03:16:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T07:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/2008\/04\/11\/letter-from-munich-%e2%80%93-36"},"modified":"2008-04-17T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T12:42:00","slug":"letter-from-munich-%e2%80%93-361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/2008\/04\/11\/letter-from-munich-%e2%80%93-361\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Munich 361"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Letter from Munich &#8211; the Joseph Affair &#8211; 361<\/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 April 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>PARTS 13 and 14:<\/p>\n<p>(Note: The relevance of this article lies in the fact that a cover-up 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> \u201cAn overview of right-wing crimes in recent years in Torgau-Oschatz \u2013 the county where Muegeln is situated \u2013 indicates that such crimes have not decreased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKerstin Koeditz of the Left Party, member of the Saxony state legislature: \u2018How often are such incidents described as a fight among young people or a kind of bar-room brawl? People simply play down the political, xenophobic, and racist elements in these events and say something like, \u201cWell, things like that happen when alcohol is involved, and we used to be like that too, when we were young.\u201d I don\u2019t think we should make it so easy for ourselves, because you can see a pattern here: local celebrations in the provinces are no-go areas for foreigners\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Journalist:) The police are still looking for perpetrators and witnesses, but no one here wants to speak openly. A lot of people think that having the courage of their convictions could be dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProgram Moderator: And the moaning and groaning from us in the media will quickly die away without having changed anything \u2013 unless economic conditions improve for many in Germany, together with their future prospects.\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. April 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 13 und 14:<\/p>\n<p>(Bemerkung: Die Relevanz dieses Artikels liegt darin, dass eine Vertuschung in einer Kleinstadt wie M\u00fcgeln auch in Sachsen, in Sebnitz, passieren kann. Es ist m\u00f6glich, dass das passierte, zur Zeit des Todes Josephs.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201eEine \u00dcbersicht \u00fcber rechtsextremistische Straftaten der letzten Jahre allein hier im Landkreis Torgau-Oschatz \u2013 der Landkreis, in dem M\u00fcgeln liegt. <\/p>\n<p>O-Ton Kerstin K\u00f6ditz, Die Linke, MdL: Bei wie vielen anderen Vorf\u00e4llen sagt man: ist ne Streiterei unter Jugendlichen gewesen oder h\u00e4ufig dieses Wort eben \u2019Wirtshausschl\u00e4gerei\u2019. Man spielt den politischen, den fremdenfeindlichen, den rassistischen Hintergrund gerne einfach runter und sagt \u2013 na ja, der Alkohol, und so was passiert mal, wie waren wir denn fr\u00fcher. Ich glaube, so einfach d\u00fcrfen wir es uns nicht machen, weil man kann auch ein Konzept dahinter sehen, Volksfeste im l\u00e4ndlichen Raum \u2013 Nogo-Area f\u00fcr Fremde.<\/p>\n<p>Die Polizei ist noch auf der Suche nach den T\u00e4tern und Augenzeugen. Offen will hier kaum einer reden. Zivilcourage, denken viele, k\u00f6nnte gef\u00e4hrlich werden. <\/p>\n<p>Abmoderation: Das Jammern auch von uns Medien wird schnell verpuffen und nichts \u00e4ndern -solange sich die wirtschaftlichen Verh\u00e4ltnisse und Perspektiven nicht verbessern.\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 &#8211; 361 EINE DEUTSCHE FASSUNG STEHT WEITER UNTEN. (German translation below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.) Dusseldorf, 11 April 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-392","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\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}