Germany’s Nazi Trial What is It

The Neo Nazi trial ,postponed ,begins on 14 May,2013.

Zschäpe, 38, dubbed the “Nazi bride” in the German media, is believed to be the sole surviving member of theNational Socialist Undergroundterrorist group that claimed responsibility in 2011 for murdering nine immigrants, eight of them of Turkish descent and one Greek man, as well as a German policewoman between 2000 and 2007.

Zschäpe, 38, the “Nazi bride”

The other two members, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, committed suicide in November 2011 after a botched bank robbery. Only after that did their involvement in the killings come to light.

Shortly after the trial started, Zschäpe’s lawyers filed a motion claiming that judge Manfred Götzl was unfit to run proceedings because the weapons searches placed them under suspicion of “being involved in forbidden and criminal actions.”

The judge then ordered the adjournment to consider their motion, along with another motion brought by a co-defendant.

The case has alarmed the country’s 3 million people of Turkish descent and has been a huge embarrassment to Germany because of the catalogue of errors made by the police and security authorities that exposed them to accusations of institutional racism and of having been blind to the threat of right-wing extremism.

Victims of Neo Nazi attacks.

Last month, Germany apologized for those errors at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, describing the murders as “without a doubt one of the worst human rights violations in Germany in the last decade.”

The accused remained silent but defiant.

Authorities Botched Investigation,

rosecutors investigating German neo-Nazi Beate Zschäpe, arrested last November for alleged membership of a terror cell that killed nine mostly Turkish immigrants and a policewoman, may extend their charges against her to include abetment to murder, SPIEGEL has learned.

Zschäpe was initially accused of founding and being a member of a terrorist group in addition to being charged with first-degree arson. Those charges still apply, but the Federal Prosecutor‘s Office will likely also charge the 37-year-old with complicity in the 10 murders and in 14 bank robberies, as well as with attempted murder for setting on fire the apartment in Zwickau where she and the two other members of the terrorist trio, which called itself theNational Socialist Underground, had lived.

Info-graphic of the case at .

http://www.spiegel.de/flash/flash-27425.html

Source:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-nsu-neo-nazi-trial-starts-in-munich-a-898287.html

Banks May Seize Your Small Savings

Most of us are aware of the Financial Crisis, when the Government seized amounts from the Bank account of small investors to manage its financial crisis, which triggered of a run on Banks . by people rushing to ATMs to withdraw their cash.

To defuse the situation the EU ,along with the creditors mainly Germany, made out a Bail plan and since it was suggested as being unworkable, a new package was devised.

Under this dispensation,Deposits under 100,000 euros will be protected.

The reasoning behind this is that these amount are (small amounts) are protected by Insurance!

I fail to understand that the Government will be losing the money appropriated ((or Misappropriated) by way of  the payment by the Insurers.

Even if the Insurance firms belong to private Sector, it will drive inflation further.

I do not know which Economic Genius thought out this plan!

More than this  is an interesting perspective from the ‘Business Insider“

Now banks in EU may tap and seize your savings!

How long will it take to reach India?

I have been voicing about the inefficacy of the Keynesian Economics in my columns for quite some time.

First came Argentina,then Greece, Ireland,now Cyprus.

Western countries rm down an economic system which is not savings oriented, but spending oriented  on unsuspecting Nations by way of lending and squeeze when the Note is due, like Germany has done now to Cyprus.

Story:

Cyprus Crisis

As expected, Cyprus and the EU reached a new late-night bailout deal last night that will reduce the chance that Cyprus’s financial system and economy will completely implode.

The new deal is better than the last deal in one key respect:

• Deposits under 100,000 euros will be protected

That’s very important. Those deposits were ostensibly “insured.” To seize them, the way the last bailout deal would have, would have been grossly unfair and would have set a truly alarming precedent.

Now, small depositors in European banks can breathe more easily. At least in this case of gross malpractice on the part of reckless bank managers, their life savings have been preserved.

Alas, the good news ends there.

Although deposits under 100,000 euros will be spared, deposits over 100,000 euros will be seized and subjected to an as-yet undetermined haircut–with the confiscated money going to bail out the gambling losses of the aforementioned reckless idiots who run some of Cyprus’s banks.

This seizure, needless to say, will dampen the enthusiasm of rich depositors for keeping money in banks that get themselves into financial trouble.

And because many, many banks in Europe have gotten themselves into financial trouble, this will create a general state of unease among rich depositors throughout the Eurozone.

And it should wig out some bank lenders, as well.

After all, never before in the history of this global financial crisis has a major banking system allowed depositors to lose money, no matter how reckless and stupid and greedy their bank managers have been. And only rarely have bank lenders–those who hold bank bonds–been asked to pony up.

In this case, however, the depositors will lose money. Perhaps a lot of money. And if there had been big bank debtholders in Cyprus, they probably would have been socked with losses, too.

It’s possible that everyone will just laugh off Cyprus, viewing it as an exceptional one-off. After all, the Cyprus banking system was notorious for being the offshore money-laundering arm of many Russian oligarchs, so many folks will likely view this asset seizure as a case of “just desserts.”

But this optimistic view of the Cyprus horrorshow overlooks one key fact:

The main reason that Cyprus depositors will lose their cash is because it has become politically difficult (impossible?) for leaders in Germany and other rich European countries to bail out their brethren in the “periphery” without taking many pounds of flesh.

And it is that precedent, in addition to the fate of big depositors in Cyprus, that should spook Europe’s big bank depositors and lenders.

If Germany is done bailing out countries and banks without having those countries and banks cover some of the cost, it’s not clear why Germany will relent next time Spain, Italy, Greece, and other countries in near-desperately bad financial shape come rushing to the EU with their hands out.

Unlike Cyprus, the banking systems in these countries do have bondholders that can get haircut before the depositors get haircut, but the effect will be the same.

For the first time since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, those who lend their money to banks or keep their money in banks are at risk.

Because the neighborhood loan shark (Germany) is now extracting much more onerous terms.

http://www.reddit.com/tb/1az48w

Shadow World Of Arms 1 Major Suppliers Reasons

Next to Drugs trafficking,Illegal Arms trafficking is the Highest Industry in The World.

Facts;

Drugs,Arms and Human Trafficking.

Drug Trafficking.  $ 32 Billion

Arms Trafficking     $15.5 Billion

As early as in 1970 there existed one fire arms for every man , woman and child living n the planet.

Let’s see how the illegal Arms Trade operates.

Every nation has an Arms industry for its Defense.

The Investment for a normal Rifles, Machine Guns ,  Hand Guns,Ammunition for both and Grenades is not relatively high.

Every Country has them,barring a few.

But mere Guns and ammunition for them will no be enough to defend one country.

One has to have Tanks,Artillery, Armored Cars, and Warships.

In addition one has to have Research facilities  as well.

One should have technology and the Investment capacity to produce them.

Smaller countries do not manufacture them and they import from the Countries that develop these arms.

How do these smaller get them?

In Theory there is a ban on export of Arms.

At the practical level, as the investment is huge for these Industries and you can not afford to keep them idle, they are continued to be manufactured.

But the requirement for the Country’s consumption is limited.

Continuous production implies additional investments, that too ,on a large-scale is required.

So the countries that manufacture Arms, export, though paying lip service to” Ban of Arms exports’.

Main Arms Suppliers are :US,Canada,Britain,France,Italy,West Germany(with certain banned manufactures under 1954 Paris Treaty,Sweden,Switzerland, Spain,Belgium, Israel and South Africa.

Of these Western nations, Sweden and Switzerland are neutral Countries, bu still they make finest Weapons.

Israel and South Africa, unsure of their stand in the world of Importing Arms because of their peculiar political situations , have their own Industries.

The other countries are linked by NATO Treaty.

The mutual export and Import is not a problem for them.

Smaller countries requiring import from any of these countries have to get cleared by the War Office and the foreign Office of the respective countries they want to import from.

 

Major West European Suppliers.
The four major West European suppliers (France, United Kingdom, Germany,
and Italy), as a group, registered a significant increase in their collective share of all
arms transfer agreements with developing nations between 2003 and 2004. This
group’s share rose from 5.5% in 2003 to 22% in 2004. The collective value of this
group’s arms transfer agreements with developing nations in 2004 was $4.8 billion
compared with a total of $830 million in 2003. Of these four nations, the United
Kingdom was the leading supplier with $3.2 billion in agreements in 2004, a
substantial increase from essentially no agreements in 2003. An important portion
of the United Kingdom’s total in 2004 was attributable to a $1.8 billion agreement
with India for 66 Hawk advanced jet trainers, and a large agreement totaling in
excess of $1 billion with Saudi Arabia under the Al Yamamah military procurement
arrangement. France increased its agreements total to $1 billion in 2004from $519
million in 2003, aided by a contract to provide support for Saudi Arabia’s Crotale air
defense systems, and Shahine ground-to-air missiles for about $410 million. Italy

increased its arms transfer agreements with the developing world from $311 million
in 2003 to $600 million in 2004. Germany registered effectively no new developing
world arms orders in 2004. (charts 3 and 4)(tables 1A and 1B).

http://www.fas.org/asmp/resources/govern/109th/CRSRL33051.pdf

 

 

Contiues.

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The Third Reich, Hitler’s Germany Photo Essay

Adolf Hitler salutes troops of the Condor Legion who fought alongside Spanish Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, during a rally upon their return to Germany, 1939.

Nazi Rally 1937

Crowds Cheering Hitler

Adolf Hitler at the swearing-in of SS standard bearers at the Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg

Reich Party Congress, Nuremburg, Germany, 1938

League of German Girls dancing during the 1938 Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany

Berlin illuminated at midnight in honor of Hitler’s 50th birthday, April 1939

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels (in box) at Charlottenburg Theatre, Berlin, 1939

Adolf Hitler makes keynote address at Reichstag session, Kroll Opera House, Berlin, 1939

Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany, 1938.

It is difficult to believe, after viewing this, that none of the Germans had anything to do with Hitler and they were ‘just following orders!’

Source:

http://life.time.com/world-war-ii/nazi-propaganda-and-the-myth-of-aryan-invincibility/?iid=lf%7Cmostpop#21

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Unseen Photos of Hitler’s Death Scene

As Allied forces closed in on Berlin in April 1945, the man who once thought all of Europe was within his grasp drove a bullet through his head.

LIFE.com released previously unseen images of the Adolf Hitler’s underground bunker and the bloodstained coach where he and his mistress, Eva Braun, committed suicide.

War correspondents examining arm of sofa stained with blood which might have been Eva Braun’s, as one of them uses a candle to search the floor for evidence of suicide in Adolf Hitler’s underground shelter beneath the Reichschancellery.

 

Burned and scattered papers on desk inside Adolf Hitler’s command bunker where he and his mistress Eva Braun were said to have committed suicide, under the Reichschancellery building.

 

Mold covered Nazi SS officers cap (w. Death Skull insignia) on floor inside Adolf Hitler’s command bunker where he and mistress Eva Braun allegedly committed suicide.

German fuhrer Adolf Hitler looking dapper in double-breasted suit and hat, standing w. Eva Braun.

 

William Vandivert was the first Western photographer on the scene after the battle for Berlin ended. The 33-year-old’s photos speak of death and destruction. During the course of the war, American, British, and Soviet forces launched more than 350 air strikes on Germany’s capital. Thousands of civilian men, women and children were killed, and the city’s famous landmarks were indistinguishable from the rubble.

  Vandivert “found almost every famous building (in Berlin) a shambles. In the center of town GIs could walk for blocks and see no living thing, hear nothing but the stillness of death, smell nothing but the stench of death,” LIFE reported.

Underneath the Reich Chancellery, the seat of the German government, Vandivert and other journalists found Hitler’s Fuhrerbunker, or “shelter for the leader.” They used candles to illuminate the dark, sordid room, searching for clues about Hitler’s last moments.

They found desks, newspapers and dust. It was evident that the Russian combat engineers who first burned through Hitler’s door had looted his hiding place.

Vandivert wrote to his editors in New York, describing the grisly scene.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/newly-unveiled-photos-hitler-death-scene-article-1.1241562#ixzz2IVxQKPGt