{"id":404,"date":"2008-07-18T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/2008\/07\/18\/letter-from-munich-373\/"},"modified":"2008-07-24T03:39:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T07:39:24","slug":"letter-from-munich-373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/2008\/07\/18\/letter-from-munich-373\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Munich 373"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Letter from Munich &#8211; the Joseph Affair \u2013 373<\/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, 18 July 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. Second Report &#8211; Guener Balci und Reinhard Laska, Gefaehrliche Zivilcourage &#8211; Kein Schutz fuer mutige Buerger, ZDF, Frontal 21, Broadcast of 4 September 2007. Third Report \u2013 Caroline Walter und Alexander Kobylinski, \u201eMuegeln \u2013 eine Stadt waescht sich rein,\u201c Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg, Kontraste, Broadcast of 20 September 2007.<\/p>\n<p>PART 26:<\/p>\n<p>THIRD REPORT<\/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>\u201c(Moderator:) \u2018More than a month after the men from India were hunted down and attacked, people in the town of Muegeln in Saxony want to hear nothing more about the scandal. Instead, they\u2019ve turned the victims themselves into criminals. In other words, it was the men from India who were to blame for the brawl, and people in Muegeln are now accusing them of injuring Germans. What really happened that night, though? Who injured whom, and when? Confronted with all sorts of inconsistencies and apparent attempts at a cover-up, our reporters Caroline Walter and Alexander Kobylinski went after the facts\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued )<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely yours,<\/p>\n<p>Robert John Bennett<\/p>\n<p>Ernst-Gnoss-Strasse 22<br \/>\n40219 Dusseldorf<br \/>\nGermany<\/p>\n<p>Telephone: +49 211 586 4847<br \/>\nMobile: +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 18. Juli 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. Zweiter Bericht &#8211; G\u00fcner Balci und Reinhard Laska, Gef\u00e4hrliche Zivilcourage &#8211; Kein Schutz f\u00fcr mutige B\u00fcrger, ZDF, Frontal 21, Sendung vom 4. September 2007. Dritter Bericht \u2013 Caroline Walter und Alexander Kobylinski, \u201eM\u00fcgeln \u2013 eine Stadt w\u00e4scht sich rein,\u201c Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg, Kontraste-Sendung vom 20.September 2007<\/p>\n<p>TEIL 26:<\/p>\n<p>DRITTER BERICHT<\/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> \u201e(Moderatorin:) \u201a\u00dcber einen Monat nach der Hetzjagd auf Inder will man im s\u00e4chsischen M\u00fcgeln nichts mehr von dem Skandal h\u00f6ren. Stattdessen macht man inzwischen die Opfer zu T\u00e4tern. Es hei\u00dft, die Inder w\u00e4ren selbst Schuld an der Schl\u00e4gerei gewesen. Sie h\u00e4tten Deutsche verletzt. Doch was passierte wirklich in der Nacht? Wer hat wann wen verletzt? Angesichts vieler Merkw\u00fcrdigkeiten und Vertuschungsversuche haben sich Caroline Walter und Alexander Kobylinski auf Spurensuche begeben\u2019.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n<p>Mit freundlichen Gr\u00fc\u00dfen<\/p>\n<p>Robert John Bennett<\/p>\n<p>Ernst-Gnoss-Strasse 22<br \/>\n40219 Dusseldorf<br \/>\nGermany<\/p>\n<p>Telephone: +49 211 586 4847<br \/>\nMobile: +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 373 EINE DEUTSCHE FASSUNG STEHT WEITER UNTEN. (German translation below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.) Dusseldorf, 18 July 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-404","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\/404","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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}