Lebensraum
A Trilogy by Ingrid Rimland
10 December 1997; slightly revised 06 January 2008
Ingrid Rimland has taken the light of reason and understanding and clarified some previously murky history of World War II. After decades of the daily media campaign to portray German ""Gentiles"" as evil incarnate, it is a relief to read Lebensraum.
Even though I was born after WWII, the pounding of the Anti-German propaganda in school and media during my life has been relentless. The propaganda was insidiously successful. There seems to be some general agreement that everyone knows that Germans are prone to unprovoked violence and must be irretrievably corrupt. Aren't Nazi's and blonde-haired, blue-eyed villains the staple of television and film? Nazi is the universal character assassination tool-of-choice epithet.
It makes me very sad to remember that as a young teenager, I had been so propagandized that Germans were evil I was shocked when I found out that my mother had studied the German language. German became synonymous with that which must be excised from the behaviors of White "Gentiles". Blonde-haired, blue-eyed would forever be suspect, even if that is part of my genetic heritage. How could I love my race if those evil Nazi's were part of it? In everything from school to "The Sound of Music" to the daily fare of television, I was given a finger-wagging reminder of those incomprehensibly evil German "Gentiles". Sixty-three years after the war, everyone from travel video hosts visiting the Anne Frank museum to politicians chastising the tax-weary still beat the Bad "Gentile" Drum. Daily. Ad nauseum.
Finally life experience grossly contradicted and outweighed the propaganda and I started wondering:
"Why were the Germans so angry? What happened to the Germans to make them react with war? Why did an industrious, inventive people "go crazy" and do things that supposedly horrified Americans enough for the U.S. military to enter a war on another continent? What am I not being told about the events of World War II? Where do I find information about the mysterious side of World War II? Why do I only hear one version over and over again? Where is the truth?"
Ingrid Rimland has written the intricacies of truth in a way that is engaging. She has chronicled a multi-generational family of German pioneers to the Ukraine, German emigrants to the U.S.A., and Germans who struggled to keep body and pride whole in post-WWI bankrupted Germany. The beautifully drawn complexities of the culture and value systems clashes and shifts in power in Europe, Russia and the U.S.A. sent me to reference books to do more research. Ingrid's skill includes this: she leads me to care about her characters and to want to know more about the conveniently forgotten stories of German "Gentiles" in WWII.
She also tells me the stories of the women who were courted and won and shared love and faced hardships with their men, until the men were taken away. It is a rich and instructive telling. Family by family, we follow the human connections brought by marriage and many times, the unintended consequences of tolerance. There are so many descriptions that parallel what citizens of the U.S.A. are undergoing now. Phrases that I have used to describe my experience as a White "Gentile" American are found in the descriptions of what happened to the German pioneers and their descendents.The reading of Lebensraum brought disquieting recognition of patterns that are not new, by any means.
One of the most valuable passages of Lebensraum is in Book III, when young Erika, menstruating for the first time, is counseled by Heidi on the sacredness of her body and genetic heritage and her responsibility in the bloodlines of a healthy, proud people. These are the words young White "Gentile" women should be hearing instead of the Media Meatpuppets/MTV race-mixing poison.
This book kept me up reading till the wee hours of the morning. You also may benefit by freeing time to read Lebensraum.
The Prologue begins in Mennotown, Kansas during a visit home by the narrator, Erika. Many characters are introduced. Small town America is "still stuck in time...yet sensing dimly that a fiendish and nefarious thing is gnawing at the edges of their heritage with sharp and even teeth". We see the German refugee Mimi trying to tell what really happened in WWII to her extended family clan of pacifists. The Prologue ends going back in time to the ruins of Berlin with young Erika enduring rape by the Russians and the smug presence of a distant family member from America who is frustrated that the Germans do not grovel and show no remorse.
Lebensraum I is about the emigrations of the pacifist Mennonite Germans in order to keep their sons from being conscripted and to make a bountiful life for their families. By invitation of a Russian ruler who was looking for a stable, productive citizenry, they went to the lands by the Black Sea and Caspian Sea.
What was advertised to be fertile soil in Russia turned out to be poor soil that carried the dangers of attack by Tartars. The Mennonites endured years of severe hardships, and eventually built prosperous farming towns that were the envy of the Russians. Beautiful, bounteous Apanlee is a focal point of the story.
As the Mennonite population grew, splinter groups of the Mennonites went east across the steppes or west to Kansas in the U.S.A. The story spans over a century. Patterns are described:
"The New World Order? Listen. Much older than Methuselah."
The aspect of democracy as "rule by collective ignorance" has effect on family members on both continents.
While reading the second book of the trilogy, I found a pot of soup a welcome complement to the experience. A large pot of fragrant soup will bring warmth to your stomach and remind you of the Apanlee and Kansas farm fare.
Suggested ingredients:
A pot of filtered water, a chicken (or turkey carcass and thank you to the chickens and turkeys), celery, onions, carrots, chicken stock, salt, pepper, and seasoning such as Bell's Seasoning with rosemary, oregano, sage, ginger, marjoram, thyme and whatever other seasoning you enjoy, and big flat noodles. Instructions for the benefit of inexperienced cooks: Cut the vegetables in large pieces, add to water with poultry and stock. Bring to a boil and then simmer the meat and vegetables together until the meat falls off the bone. Strain the meat and vegetables out. Bring the broth to a boil. Cook the noodles in the broth. Cut the vegetables in small pieces and add back to the broth. Take the meat off the bones of the carcass and add back to the soup.
You can have a bowl of hot, fragrant soup while enjoying the comforts of being warm and dry and the joy of not having the Bolsheviks tell you what your mandatory work quota is, smash in your door or drag your beloved family out to be killed in the middle of the night.
The Mennonite pacifists are unable to comprehend the war between the kaisar and the tsar. "You don't make war on family" and "You don't hit back, no matter what" combine disbelief and refusal to fight to make them the targets of evil. Apanlee and the Russian-German towns are caught in the progressively more horrific schemes of the Bolsheviks. Young Mimi grows up torn between family and Party. The pioneers' belief that "one's conscience did all the policing" is diametrically opposed to the Bolsheviks' scrutiny for "hate crimes" and crimes against the state such as keeping aside a handful of grain to feed your hungry family.
While reading about the Bolsheviks' treatment of the Mennonites, I keep asking "Why don't they leave?". Of course, they couldn't. In order to travel you had to get travel papers and permissions. For the farming heritage of the Mennonites, leaving meant abandoning generations of work to make the farmland fertile and the crops abundant.
The family members in Kansas have to cope with drought and the depression. The inducements of credit bring very hard times to those who cannot keep up with payments.
Book II ends with a farm auction in reverse and a stirring reminder of what is important.
Lebensraum III: Short Summary
In Russia, "all through the countryside, decay and beggary ruled, though the slogans were braver than ever". In the Ukraine, you could be killed for having suspicious relatives or having a bible. Hitler inspires the German people to pride again. The German army marches through the Ukraine in pursuit of the Russian Communist army, and Apanlee is freed from the Bolsheviks. "In Mennotown, this is a source of gall to Archie even now: The Fuhrer's soldiers came to Apanlee as liberators and as brothers."
With massive infusions of money and aid from outside Russia, the war turns against the Germans. The women of Apanlee are forced to join the Great Trek of refugees. The brutal cold and starvation forces animals to "devour their own excement". The Communists "strapped small bags of dynamite to dogs and chased them underneath the trek, where it was warm" to blow up the refugees and animals.
"Americans, trusting and gullible as children...took enormous pride in fighting other people's wars..." and delivered the Germans into the hands of the Communist Russians. Cousin against Cousin, the descendents of the German immigrants from both continents engage in a "brother war".
Conclusion
Here is a wish. I wish Lebensraum would be made into a mini-series for television. I further wish for producers and writers and production crew that would be true to the book and would not warp the characters and incidents into Anti-German "Gentile" propaganda smears. I wish for high ratings. And then I wish for talk shows everywhere to turn to the subject of why Japan was treated to a U.S.A. financed rebuild while possibly millions of German "Gentile" citizens were turned over to Communist Russians to be raped, starved, tortured and murdered.
Isn't it time to shine the light on WWII from the German "Gentile" point-of-view? Yes, I have seen footage of Hitler making agreements with the Japanese. I have also seen credible information that the citizens of the U.S.A. were repeatedly deceived in order to provoke them into entering the war.
It is time to know all of what happened. Apparently, the White Race is only 8-10% of the world's population. We have lost too many of our strong and too much of our genetic heritage by being propagandized into wars with each other for the financial benefit and amusement of "hidden forces".
How To Order Lebensraum
As of January 2008, the best source of information about how to order Lebensraum is by query at Ingrid Rimland's Zundelsite.org site:
http://www.zundelsite.org/ir.html
For more about Ingrid Rimland Zundel and her work to free her husband, Ernst Zundel:
Related References
Griffin, G. Edward. The Creature from Jekyll Island:A Second Look at the Federal Reserve. ©1994. American Opinion Publishing. 800.237.7568
Chapter 13, "Masquerade in Moscow" begins with:
One of the greatest myths of contemporary history is that the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was a popular uprising of the downtrodden masses against the hated ruling class of the Tsars.As we shall see...the planning, the leadership, and especially the financing came entirely from outside Russia, mostly from financiers in Germany, Britain and the United States...
This amazing story begins with the war between Russia and Japan in 1904. Jacob Schiff, who was head of the New York investment firm of Kuhn, Loeb, and Company, had raised the capital for large war loans to Japan...
The next chapter, "The Best Enemy Money Can Buy", goes on to detail how the murders of the Russian-Germans in Lebensraum were enabled by the actions of international bankers.
Perloff, James. The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and The American Decline. ©1988. Published by Western Islands. 414.749.3783 (number not verified yet).
Page 39:
Jacob Schiff, the head of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., heavily bankrolled the revolution. This was reported by the White Russian General Arsene de Goulevitch in his book Czarism and the Revolution. The "New York Journal-American" stated on February 3, 1949:
"Today it is estimated even by Jacob's grandson, John Schiff, a prominent member of New York Society, that the old man sank about $20,000,000 for the final triumph of Bolshevism in Russia. Other New York banking firms also contributed."
Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia. A Princess In Exile. ©1932. The Viking Press.
Page 37:
The news from Russia was far from reassuring; a regime of terror was sweeping over the country; reports of imprisonments, tortures, and executions were reaching us every day. Many of our friends, men and women alike, had been swallowed by the Bolshevik prisons, never to reappear. In the north the situation was particularly terrible. I was continually obsessed with the danger that threatened my father...
Page114:
Exactly ten days after my husband and I had started on our perilous journey towards freedom, in the night of August 12, 1918, the house at Tsarskoie-Selo where my father was then living was visited by a detachment of Red soldiers. After raiding the house and confiscating all the food and alcohol they could lay hands on, they arrested my father. The order of arrest was duly signed by Uritsky, chief of the Cheka. This organization (the word Che-Ka is made up of the initials of the Russian words meaning Extraordinary Commission) was formed in December 1917 for the purpose of dealing with "sabotage" and so-called counter-revolutionary manifestations. The Extraordinary Commission's activities were tremendous and mysterious, its power far-reaching, its sentences arbitrary and swift. The executions were carried out without trials or the decisions of a tribunal. Subsequently the Cheka headed the Red terror; the word itself became a synonym for horror and desolation.
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