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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:32:57 +0100
Subject: [zzzzteana] Hitler-style applicant welcomed by parties
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The Times
 
 
 September 06, 2002
 
 Hitler-style applicant welcomed by parties
 By Roger Boyes
 
 
 
 MANAGERS of Germany�s political parties are having difficulty explaining their
 enthusiastic reaction to a man who applied for membership with letters cribbed
 largely from Mein Kampf, Hitler�s personal manifesto. The incident illustrates
 how indiscriminate parties have become in taking on new members during an
 election campaign, even when their sentiments bear a suspicious resemblance to
 those of the F�hrer. 
 
 �Edmund Stoiber is a thousand times more suited to leading Germany than the
 present Chancellor,� said one letter sent to the Christian Social Union
 headquarters in Ingolstadt. �Chancellor Schr�der is doing nothing to stop the
 flood of foreigners who are spreading around our Fatherland,� said the letter,
 signed by a certain Rudolph Lewald. 
 
 The CSU immediately spotted a potential member. �Many thanks for your nice
 thoughts,� replied the local party manager, who enclosed an application for
 membership. 
 
 The letter used chunks of Hitler�s book, which is still banned in Germany.
 History students have to apply for access to the book in university libraries.
 
 
 �The strongest, the brave and the hardworking will receive the birthright of
 existence, only those who are born weaklings could regard this as offensive,�
 the letter-writer said. �So-called humanity is melting like snow in the March
 sun.� Such phrases were lifted from Mein Kampf, which was written while Hitler
 was in jail after the failed Munich putsch of 1923. 
 
 Similar letters, also using the Nazi leader�s words, were sent to the other
 political parties and drew sympathetic responses. �I read your letter with
 great interest and pleasure,� the manager of the Christian Democratic Union in
 Cologne, said. 
 
 �Great that you want to join us!� enthused the Green Party headquarters. The
 Free Democrats invited the aspiring party member to a fundraising charity ball
 at which Hans- Dietrich Genscher, the former Foreign Minister, would be the
 star guest. The Social Democrats sent a list of rallies to be attended by
 Gerhard Schr�der, the Chancellor. 
 
 �I wanted to test how serious parties are about combating right-wing
 extremism,� said the letter-writer, who was in fact the Cologne novelist
 Rainer Popp. �I had no idea that they would be so enthusiastic. 
 
 �For the first few days I expected two men in leather coats from the Special
 Branch to knock on my door. Instead only the postman called � with packets of
 election material from zealous political headquarters,� Herr Popp said. 
 
 �I was stunned that political parties could react in this way � I reckon I
 would have had the same response if I had signed the letter �Adolf Hitler�.�
 
 
 


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