Editor N.H. 3/6/96:
Nobody stinks to himself. This thought came to my mind while reading Dr. G.'s letter "Holocaust was witnessed;" (Jan. 27). Otherwise he would have smelled the sickening, sweet smell of the decaying bodies covered by rubble which were once German cities. I cannot fault Dr. G.'s description of the horrible conditions at Buchenwald. Toward the end of the war, the inmates of...
Letters to the Marshfield News-Herald
Editor MNH: (9/22/05)
In the children story Heinrich von Eichenfeld by Christoph von Schmid, the baby Heinrich is abducted by robbers who take him to their cave where a hermit becomes his father and mother. One day, Heinrich, now a young boy, and the hermit escape. For the first time Heinrich sees the sun and wonders who can reach so high to fill the lamp with oil. He is distraught over the...
In the children story Heinrich von Eichenfeld by Christoph von Schmid, the baby Heinrich is abducted by robbers who take him to their cave where a hermit becomes his father and mother. One day, Heinrich, now a young boy, and the hermit escape. For the first time Heinrich sees the sun and wonders who can reach so high to fill the lamp with oil. He is distraught over the...
MNH: 4/8/03
Seeing “shock and awe” on TV maybe made your heart swell with patriotic pride. Mine constricted in despair. I have too many memories and too many images imprinted which I can’t erase. While watching the “fireworks” (so named by a high school student) an image of the past superimposed itself on the screen. About five years ago I took our dog, Jaeger, on my daily walk through our...
Seeing “shock and awe” on TV maybe made your heart swell with patriotic pride. Mine constricted in despair. I have too many memories and too many images imprinted which I can’t erase. While watching the “fireworks” (so named by a high school student) an image of the past superimposed itself on the screen. About five years ago I took our dog, Jaeger, on my daily walk through our...
To Editor MNH: 10/26/05
“The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven …”
With these words Portia tries to persuade Shylock to forgo the bond which gives him the right to cut a pound of flesh from Antonio’s body. When Shakespeare wrote the “Merchant of Venice” he did not give Shylock a good press. The mentality has changed! Simon Wiesenthal, a modern Shylock,...
“The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven …”
With these words Portia tries to persuade Shylock to forgo the bond which gives him the right to cut a pound of flesh from Antonio’s body. When Shakespeare wrote the “Merchant of Venice” he did not give Shylock a good press. The mentality has changed! Simon Wiesenthal, a modern Shylock,...
Editor MNH: 8/26/05
Beware of using collective nouns. You might be accused of profiling and profiling is politically incorrect. But since I have squandered my reputation in regard to political correctness some time ago I live rather unencumbered by feelings of what people might think. Therefore I profile and call the smokers slobs and the dog owners good citizens. Driving down Fifth Street I ...
Beware of using collective nouns. You might be accused of profiling and profiling is politically incorrect. But since I have squandered my reputation in regard to political correctness some time ago I live rather unencumbered by feelings of what people might think. Therefore I profile and call the smokers slobs and the dog owners good citizens. Driving down Fifth Street I ...
Editor MNH: (5/7/04)
The Social Justice Advisory Committee met 3/22/04. The purpose of the meeting was to prevent me from getting elected to the school board. Various proposals were suggested. One was by Dr. Me. who recommended that one of the other two women candidates should be persuaded to withdraw, which would cut into my votes. Also the importance of three votes should be publicized.
Dr...
The Social Justice Advisory Committee met 3/22/04. The purpose of the meeting was to prevent me from getting elected to the school board. Various proposals were suggested. One was by Dr. Me. who recommended that one of the other two women candidates should be persuaded to withdraw, which would cut into my votes. Also the importance of three votes should be publicized.
Dr...
Editor MNH: 7/13/02
Reverend Sondtheimer, priest of Muensterhausen, was not a personable man. But in spite of the fact that we made fun of his foibles he suited us just fine. He baptized the children, witnessed the marital troth of the couples, brought the Viaticum to the dying and dignified rich and poor alike with a Christian burial. During his Sunday sermons he expounded how we should live...
Reverend Sondtheimer, priest of Muensterhausen, was not a personable man. But in spite of the fact that we made fun of his foibles he suited us just fine. He baptized the children, witnessed the marital troth of the couples, brought the Viaticum to the dying and dignified rich and poor alike with a Christian burial. During his Sunday sermons he expounded how we should live...
Editor MNH: (6-5-04)
After a long trip from Krumbach/Bavaria to Marshfield/Wisconsin my mother was tired and thirsty and wanted a pick-me-up, a coke. Since pop is never on my shopping list (except when we have company) she and I made a special trip to Karaus and bought a cold coke from the refrigerator. At home she took one sip, indignantly said “phew” and poured the can down the kitchen sink....
After a long trip from Krumbach/Bavaria to Marshfield/Wisconsin my mother was tired and thirsty and wanted a pick-me-up, a coke. Since pop is never on my shopping list (except when we have company) she and I made a special trip to Karaus and bought a cold coke from the refrigerator. At home she took one sip, indignantly said “phew” and poured the can down the kitchen sink....
Editor: MNH (7/4/06)
The Jews controlling the public opinion shaping businesses (see Alan Dershowitz : The Vanishing American Jew, p. 51) use this control like a funhouse mirror which they put in front of the Nazi period. When we look into that mirror we only see a grotesque reflection of what that period was really like. People therefore react not to reality, but to the hideous distortions...
The Jews controlling the public opinion shaping businesses (see Alan Dershowitz : The Vanishing American Jew, p. 51) use this control like a funhouse mirror which they put in front of the Nazi period. When we look into that mirror we only see a grotesque reflection of what that period was really like. People therefore react not to reality, but to the hideous distortions...
Editor MNH: 2/5/05
The Mindeltal where I was born is a wide valley ground out by a glacier which left high ground to either side. Nestled along the bottom of these two ranges are the villages. Each village has its church and in its tower a clock similar to the clock in the tower of our old city hall. But unlike the non-functioning clock in Marshfield, all the clocks in the Mindeltal tell and...
The Mindeltal where I was born is a wide valley ground out by a glacier which left high ground to either side. Nestled along the bottom of these two ranges are the villages. Each village has its church and in its tower a clock similar to the clock in the tower of our old city hall. But unlike the non-functioning clock in Marshfield, all the clocks in the Mindeltal tell and...
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