Germany – Major Criminals Should Keep Quiet

Rather than accusing Russia of aggression, Germany’s leadership and media should ask for forgiveness and remain silent for centuries. Analysis of the single greatest genocide of all time.

Peter Hanseler

Introduction

The European aggression and hatred that is being stirred up towards Russia is objectionable, as it is factually untenable. The Ukraine war was not started by President Putin out of a desire for expansion, but was a foreseeable consequence of NATO’s eastward expansion and countless actions by the CIA and MI-6 since 1991. The war did not start in 2022 either, but in 2014 at the latest with the Maidan coup and the civil war in Ukraine that broke out immediately thereafter.

What is interesting in this context is the fact that these facts are slowly being accepted even in the West. Even the Russophobic hate preacher Eric Gujer, editor-in-chief of the flagship Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), is gradually shifting to the truth when he writes in his editorial on Saturday, May 10, 2025:

Nevertheless, Russia has already achieved one of its war aims. Since 1990, NATO has only known one direction: eastwards. First the Eastern European satellite states and the former Soviet republics in the Baltic joined, then membership of Ukraine and Georgia seemed conceivable. The West called it a victory for freedom, for Moscow it looked suspiciously like a quest for hegemony. The war put a definitive stop to this development.

Eric Gujer, NZZ editorial Saturday, May 10, 2025

Despite this de facto course correction, Gujer’s tone remains Russophobic and hateful towards President Putin. We will devote a separate article to this sad affair, after we already analyzed Mr. Gujer’s vile propaganda in December 2022 in the article “Resist the beginnings! – Propaganda of the NZZ” in which we proved Mr. Gujer’s malicious propaganda in an analysis.

The attitude of the German government is not only questionable, but out outrageous. No country has harmed Russia more in the last 100 years and has behaved so unspeakably towards its civilian population that even the Holocaust pales into comparison; you read that correctly. What the Germans did in Russia was worse than the Holocaust.

In this article, we show why Germany should simply keep quiet about Russia for many centuries to come. In terms of exports, Germany lost the world championship title to the Chinese a few years ago, but in terms of genocide, Germany has not lost the championship title and is still – and probably forever – in first place.

Background

The Holocaust is known and is labeled as atoned for

Although the Allies knew about the Holocaust as early as 1942 or 1943 at the latest, this industrialized genocide was only dealt with in the media from 1945 onwards. The last large-scale film was Schindler’s List from 1993. The fact that the Allies allowed the murders in the large death factories to continue for years until the end of the war, for example by not bombing the rail links to them and not informing the world about this monstrosity, is an extremely unsavory testament to political action.

6 million Jews were industrially slaughtered under the Nazi regime. This was carried out by Einsatzgruppen in the occupied territories in the east and by concentration and extermination camps, whose largest death factories were located in eastern Poland: Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Bezec, Maidanek were the best known.

I wrote above – “dealt with in the media”. That may sound crude, but it comes very close to the truth, because the atonement was by no means honest.

The Allies created a platform for atonement with the Nuremberg Trials. The international tribunal that judged the main war criminals between November 1945 and 1946 in Nuremberg is well known to the general public. It was here that the atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Jews were dealt with for the first time.

Fewer people are aware that a further 12 trials were held in Nuremberg, including a trial against the members of the so-called Einsatzgruppen, which systematically murdered Jews and other “sub-humans” behind the lines. 11 of the 24 defendants were rightly sentenced to death. What happened next, however, is the greatest insult to the victims: Only three were executed (including Ohlendorf), the rest went free between 1951 and 1958 – mass murderers. Shortly after the war, tens of thousands of serious criminals became friends of the new alliance, an alliance that needed a new enemy primarily for financial reasons, through which they could earn hundreds of billions.

The deep state discovered the new enemy and used its puppet Truman and his herald Churchill to demonize him. It was not the criminals in Germany who were demonized, but those who really won the war and at the same time made the greatest sacrifices: The Soviet Union.

We wrote about this in detail in our article “The unpunished crimes of the Holocaust”.

This is a scandalous coming to terms with the past of the Holocaust, driven by Western interests to whitewash the Germans in order to arm them as new partners in the fight against the newly created enemy, the Soviet Union.

The largest genocide in history is concealed in the West: 15.9 to 17.4 million victims

Personally, I consider the handling of the genocide against the Jews after the Second World War to be appallingly scandalous. Although there is still a lot of talk about this genocide today, most of the perpetrators got away with it. What’s more, they were comprehensively rehabilitated legally and financially in accordance with German civil service law, regulated in the “Law regulating the legal relationships of persons covered by Article 131 of the Basic Law”.

What remains is a carte blanche for the Israeli state – since its “foundation”, Israel has behaved in a way that is in no way compatible with human rights, which has culminated in genocide since October 2023. I refer you to our five-part series “Israel – from victim to perpetrator to victim – a back and forth for 80 years”.

However, the way the West handled an even more extensive genocide leaves us speechless. The fact is that, according to a study from 2020, the Germans slaughtered between 15.9 and 17.4 million civilians in Russia.

Most people will not believe this. With good reason, because in the West this crime was simply kept quiet.

Russian studies

The man who published the study – “Анатомия злая – Планы, директивы, приказы военно-политического руководства нацистской Германии по оккупации СССР” (Engl. “Anatomy of Evil – Plans, Guidelines and Orders of the Military-Political Leadership of Nazi Germany for the Occupation of the USSR.”) published in 2020 is Mikhail Meltyukhov, a Russian historian born in 1966.

This study – English translation here – shows that the aim was not only to conquer the Soviet Union in order to find “living space” for the German people, but that the aim was to liquidate the Soviet “subhumans”.

German Studies

There are also countless studies and books on this topic that have been published by German academics. The excellent book by Volker Ullrich “Adolf Hitler: The Years of Downfall 1939-1945” is a good example. Ullrich deals with this topic on pages 183-205 with many footnotes and references.

Anyone who doubts this monstrosity should refer to the General Plan East. In good German style, the ladies and gentlemen – at that time probably just gentlemen – wrote down their plans for the future living space in the East. In this plan, it was coolly revealed that in order to implement this colonization plan, it was necessary to liquidate or starve around 30 million Soviet citizens. They achieved half of this.

Orders from the German army command to exterminate the Soviet population

Commissar’s order

The Commissar Order of June 6, 1941 is probably the best-known order. The commissar directives obliged the German Eastern Army to segregate all captured political officers of the Red Army while still at the front and execute them on the spot.

War jurisdiction decree

The so-called War Jurisdiction Decree of May 13, 1941, however, was a free pass for all members of the German armed forces to slaughter the Soviet population.

The order is central to the genocide in several regards:

First, the order was not issued by Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, for example. This is important in the context that since the Second World War, attempts have been made to blame genocide and war crimes on the SS in order to whitewash the Wehrmacht. The order came from the head of the Wehrmacht High Command, Wilhelm Keitel. The addressee was therefore the Wehrmacht and not the SS.

One of the most unsavory figures of the Third Reich was Franz Halder, Chief of the Army General Staff from 1938 to 1942. He was closely associated with the plans to conquer Russia and thus also with the genocide and definitely deserved to be put up against the wall after the war. This did not happen, instead he was appointed by the US as head of the German section of the US Army’s Operational History (German) Section, with the task of writing the history of the Eastern Campaign. Halder glorified the Nazi Eastern Campaign as a pre-emptive strike and was the architect of the “Clean Wehrmacht” myth, a narrative that does not stand up to the facts, but is still fixed in the minds of Germans today, even though it is a lie, according to the motto: “SS bad – Wehrmacht good.”

Secondly, this order removed the decision to murder from the jurisdiction of the courts martial and summary courts.

Thirdly, collective measures of violence, i.e. genocide, were ordered against villages that resisted the occupation – which would probably have been any village that was attacked.

Fourthly, members of the army who carried out this genocide were not prosecuted, as it was formulated that “for acts committed by members of the Wehrmacht and its followers against enemy civilians, there is no obligation to prosecute, even if the act is also a military crime or offense.”

Consequences of these commands – they have been carried out

Words cannot describe what happened on the Eastern Front and the West has not dealt with these atrocities. How could it? – They did not take place in the minds of Western populations. If you read Western sources, you read about “ brutality” committed against the civilian population of the Soviet Union.

The Russian director Elem Klimov took on the subject and created a work in 1985 with the film “Come and See”, which is probably unique in its direct and unembellished depiction of the brutality of everyday war life and the anxiety it causes the viewer. Klimov captured in a film what cannot be put into words.

The fact that this film was concealed in the West is shocking, albeit logical. It doesn’t fit in at all with the image of the bloodthirsty Russians who want to realize their imperialist goals in the West.

The movie is long (144 minutes) and for many people difficult to endure. Nevertheless, we are presenting it here in Russian with English subtitles (to make the subtitles appear, you have to select them under Settings). We are not surprised that this movie with English subtitles is hard to find on the net, as it keeps getting removed.

If you don’t have time to watch the whole movie, we’ll show you the key scene where a German unit liquidates a Russian village. The way the Germans proceed and implement this plan is hard to bear. For those who doubt the atrocities, this clip is recommended – your thinking will change.

The guilt of the Germans is perpetuated in the present

Far be it from me to hold the current generations of Germans responsible for the crimes of their great-grandfathers. The Russians feel the same way. The Russians’ motto is simple and extremely fair: “We forgive, but we do not forget.”

If the victims of these indescribable acts do not forget, it would be the unconditional duty of the German government and media not to forget either. But that is exactly what they are doing. My German friend Dirk Pohlmann speaks of a “ritualized culture of remembrance”.

People “remember” exactly what is politically convenient. It fits very well that any criticism of the genocide against the Palestinians that has been going on in Gaza – and incidentally also on the West Bank – for almost two years is dismissed as anti-Semitism and those people who dare to speak the truth – “Israelis are committing genocide” – are punished, ostracized and described as brutes. This is a constant reminder of the Holocaust in order to nip criticism in the bud.

Netanyahu uses the Holocaust as an instrument to commit genocide with impunity. In doing so, he is actively supported in his actions by those who committed genocide against his people. The Germans are once again using Nazi propaganda to implement this undertaking. In our article ”ARD glossary justifies genocide – Dr. Goebbels would be proud“ we reported on how the largest German state broadcaster issues language rules to its staff in order to condition them with brainwashing so that they are then ready to brainwash the German people in turn, with the result that Palestinians are terrorists and the Israelis are our friends.

This approach exposes Germany to the accusation of being involved in the genocide in Gaza – whether as an accomplice or an accessory depends on which national law is applied.

At the same time, President Putin is being compared to Hitler, the person who ordered the greatest genocide in world history, nota bene against President Putin’s people.

The German leadership and media are thus showing that they have lost all cultural, human and moral orientation. I am ashamed of the German people, who are once again handing over the reins to leaders who can easily be compared to Mr. Goebbels and Mr. Hitler. I am writing this as a Swiss with German grandparents and I am by no means alone – all my German friends and acquaintances feel this way. And – unlike me – they suffer because they are ashamed of their own people.

What will Russia do?

President Putin and Sergei Lavrov are the people who make the important statements. Unlike many Western exponents, they don’t blabber so much and don’t change their minds every day, making it much easier for geopolitical analysts to interpret the statements of the Russian leadership.

President Putin has so far refrained from really attacking the Germans where it hurts. It is impressive how patiently the Russian president reacts to the primitive antagonism of the Europeans – he does not allow himself to be provoked. But that does not mean that he will not react if he comes to the conclusion that a Russian reaction against Germany is necessary for Russia.

The Russian attitude towards Germany was, as already stated, “forgive but don’t forget”.

Since the Germans are clearly not abiding by these rules, Germany is removing the basis for “forgiveness”. President Putin, who has always had a “soft spot” for Germany and speaks perfect German, could very quickly change the mood among his people. A mood which to this day does not allow a hint of Germanophobia. The Russians are very good at distinguishing between the German people and the ladies and gentlemen in the government and the Russians love German things – such as German cars. Are you surprised when I tell you that there are more Maybachs on the streets of Moscow than in the whole of Germany?

Donald Trump, who many call a fool, has already realized that you get better results if you go with Russia instead of against it. The Germans, on the other hand, are marching steadily towards their second Stalingrad, although everything they have used against Russia so far has turned out to be a complete failure (sanctions, financial aid to Ukraine, “wonder weapons” and rearmament). The actor who played Adolf Hitler, Bruno Ganz, is no longer available for the possible sequel film “Downfall II” – he has passed away. Who will play Friedrich Merz in the sequel, who would so much like to be a great man? At 1.95 m, he may be long – but that’s not enough to be great.

Germany still has time to change its attitude towards Russia. Only the Russian leadership knows how long. If the Russian leadership decides to stir up trouble against Germany and drag the German skeletons in the closet into the limelight, it will be uncomfortable for German companies and products, virtually all of which are still available in Russia. President Putin is postponing this decision and he should be given credit for that. Russia as a victim has more understanding of history, class and culture than the German leadership and media. How long will it take for the Germans to realize this?