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Chapter 15
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Chapter 24
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Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
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Chapter 32
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Chapter 39
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Chapter 44
Chapter 45
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Chapter 48
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Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
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Chapter 58
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Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
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Chapter 70
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CHAPTER 27  



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THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER
Arte-TV, 9. April; 2004, 20:45
Documentary by Alex Gibney & Eugene Jarecki
Release Date: August 19, 2003

Is Henry Kissinger, Nobel Laureate and the most famous diplomat of his generation, also a war criminal? Provoked by the Christopher Hitchens book (The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Verso, 2001), filmmakers Eugene Jarecki and Alex Gibney construct a documentary that is both brilliant legal brief and chilling psycho-drama. Confronting the charges that Kissinger undermined LBJ’s Vietnam peace talks (in order that Nixon be elected), engineered the secret bombing of Cambodia, orchestrated the coup that toppled Chilean President Allende, and approved Indonesia’s use of U.S. arms to massacre 100,000 East Timorese, The Trials of Henry Kissinger explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful men in U.S. history. The Trials of Henry Kissinger also tackles the question of whether principles of international law applied by Americans to their enemies are also applicable to Americans ¾ or whether such laws are only written for the losers of conflicts. The film caused a sensation when it played at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in 2002 and was a national hit in its 2003 theatrical run.
Featuring previously unseen footage, newly declassified government documents, and revealing interviews with both ardent Kissinger supporters such as Alexander Haig, Brent Scowcroft and William Safire, and detractors like Seymour Hersh, William Shawcross, and
Christopher Hitchens, The Trials of Henry Kissinger is “a movie that informs and fascinates – truly stranger than fiction.” (Newsday)

— ratenco — ratenco — ratenco ...

„Leave poor Henry alone — he’s such a nice dinner guest!”

Oh, Mr. Rockefeller is with us again ... You are quoting what the WASHINGTON POST wrote when research with regard to Kissinger’s crimes still took place in niches.

In niches! —
Although his misdeeds caused misfortune to millions of people around the world when he operated as:
• teachable adjutant and confidant of your son Nelson, Mr. Rockefeller, well versed in conspiratorial pushing of economic and political agendas within several U.S.-administrations
• planner of covered American operations from Indochina to Iran, from Chile to Rhodesia
• partner of politicians and executives who — at home and in other parts of the world — ended up as lawbreakers behind bars …

In niches? —
The self-assessed „Sturmgeschütz der Demokratie” — the „Assault Gun of Democracy”, the German news magazine DER SPIEGEL — found in „60 Years of Contemporary History” space for Henry Kissinger ... as a congratulant!

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„Der Spiegel - 60 Jahre Zeitgeschichte” / DVD
2007 - Spiegel TV - Hamburg

>Kissinger talking in German with regard to the significance of the magazine:
„Niemand kann ignorieren, daß der SPIEGEL einen wichtigen Beitrag macht, ohne den man sich die Entwicklung in Deutschland nicht vorstellen kann.“
>Translation:
„No one can ignore that the SPIEGEL has provided an important contribution; without it there is no way to understand Germany’s development.“

>Kissinger talking in German about the significance of the founder and late publisher Rudolf Augstein:
„Ich habe nicht immer mit all seinen Kriegen übereingestimmt, mit allen Schlachten, die er geführt hat, aber ich habe immer großen Respekt für seine Werte gehabt und ihn menschlich besonders geschätzt, denn das war ein Freund, auf den man sich verlassen konnte.“
>Translation:
„I did not always agree with all his wars, with all battles he did lead, but I had always great respect for his values and I have treasured him as a human being because this was a friend you could rely on.“


Out of one’s wits’ would be someone who had expected that the good friend Rudolf Augstein would have allowed more than a niche in DER SPIEGEL to have the deeds of Kissinger investigated in „60 Years of Contemporary History”.
Different experiences made Augstein’s former comrade-in-booze Franz Josef Strauss. His Chile-trip in 1977 made headlines: he received a honorary doctor-title by the faculty of law, he found praising words for Pinochet’s military dictatorship and he spent a night in the Colonia Dignidad of sectarian Paul Schäfer who faced in Germany a warrant of arrest for abuse of children.
Fifteen years earlier, Strauss had stumbled over the SPIEGEL-Affair …
What caused Augstein — and now the editor of this SPIEGEL-DVD — to adapt the one as a friend and the other one as an enemy?

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„Der Spiegel - 60 Jahre Zeitgeschichte” / DVD
2007 - Spiegel TV - Hamburg

>Translation of German commentary and of Augstein’s filmed statement:
The fact that Strauss advanced as Augstein’s most liked enemy has a long history.
(Rudolf Augstein:) „In 1957 it was unanimous opinion: This one not! … I had invited to my home, and there, as almost everywhere when Strauss and I would meet, it was an occasion to tipple. And, ump … this Strauss behaved very filthy.“
The wine-consuming editorial meeting at Augstein‘s residence establishes the SPIEGEL-opinion, that this man who is comparing the Soviets with indecent assaulters does not only lack manners but can become dangerous in his drive for power. Strauss should never become chancellor, that is the password issued by Augstein.


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AUGSTEIN
Author: Dieter Schröder
Publisher: Siedler, ISBN-13: 978-3-88680-782-6
September 2004

CHAPTER 15 (Excerpts)
Multiple Personality

Asked what values of friends would mean most to him, Augstein answered in a FAZ-questionnaire „that there are not many”. He had only a few. Most were mentioned by him as just-friends because nothing much connected him with them unless he found them interesting momentarily or he would find it decorating to be connected with their names ...
There were exceptions like Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who was the only politician he kept permanent contact with right to the end, or Henry Kissinger whose judgement and sympathy was important to him. He was confounded when Kissinger was cross with him because of a massive critique of his memoirs and would not make contact for quite some time. That was unusual because he would never consider what others were thinking of him …
He admired people whom he considered as originals, half-good, half-bad; the abysmal fascinated him. And he deplored it that they were dying out.
The enlightener and truth-seeker Augstein liked the game of disguise:
„Someone who calls me a cynic honours me, I like to be a cynic.” ...
... If they are fair, then his editors will remember the good and the bad sides of the man Augstein; if they feel deeply hurt, they will mostly think of his negative ones.
Jacobi whose memories are friendly says, he was „a wicked defender of his interests”; „he decided for himself what is good and what evil, what is wrong and what right.” ...


„Friendship between men as a pointer to the perception what is good and what is evil?”

Yes, Señor Galeano — and religious search for reason!

When Rudolf Augstein died important scenes of his life were replayed: his arrest in October 1962 and his release at the beginning of 1963. In-between there had been one hundred and three days of remanding-custody for suspicion of alleged high treason. Hundred and three days provided Augstein with much time to read. One book he did read in prison captivated him: Albert Schweitzers’ ‚Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung‘ — ‚History of Research into the Life of Jesus‘. Schweitzers’ negative consideration of all attempts to write a biography of Jesus triggered with him the question: „Who, actually, was this Jesus?”
He went on to search for ‚Jesus Menschensohn‘ — ‚Jesus Son of Humankind‘, a book he was about to write, and he discovered: without Emperor Constantine and without the distribution channels of the Roman Empire Christianity would have remained as a tiny sect. In classical Rome, astrologers and chess-clubs were much run after than those couple of Christians with their curious cult.
In Constantine, who introduced Christianity as state religion of the Roman Empire, Augstein saw someone ‚unscrupulous‘, who choose from the available teaching about gods this Christianity as cement for the endangered world power. This alliance, says Augstein, went along with the betrayal of the original teachings of Early Christianity.
Augstein had left the Catholic Church already in 1968. In early 2000, he was convinced that no one needed the church anymore: „In the society of the twenty-first century there is no role left for the church.”, he said. However, one had to differentiate between church and Christians: „Without Christians the world would be poorer”.
He respected that Christians choose relevant professions and would spend pastime and money, some even their lives …


We have heard: „the abysmal fascinated Augstein”, „people whom he considered as originals, half-good, half-bad”. One of John Le Carrés façon? One like Kissinger? One like Judas?
During his bible-studies, he must have come across the contradictory figure of this traitor — and of the consequence: without Judas — no crucifixion! Without crucifixion — no resurrection!


„The evil as tool to carry through the good? — Or vice versa? Was it good or evil when U.S.-president William H. Taft declared in 1912:
4 ‚The day is not far when three star-spangled banners will mark our territory in three equal distances: one at the North Pole, the other one at the Panama Channel and the third one at the South Pole. It will be turned into a fact that the whole hemisphere belongs to us as it belongs to us in a moral sense already thanks to our racial superiority.‘
You know what comes to my mind? The accusers of Henry Kissinger should learn from American law-history: you can get at big shark even with a tiny fish knife!
Al Capone, called scarface — a countryman and contemporary of Mr. Rockefeller — was the boss of a gangster-syndicate in Chicago. He was accused to have participated in countless gang-murders and in 1931 he was sentenced to eleven years imprisonment, and for what? For proven tax-offences!
Now, a petitesse of the constitution of the United States of America is the fact that personalities of public service are prohibited to accept a foreign patent of nobility without consent of the congress.
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatsoever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
In addition, no public servant of the United States of America is allowed to be of service for a foreign country …
Perhaps, this hint may help once you continue your search for tracks left by Sir Heinz Alfred Kissinger within the rail-system of contemporary world history.“

Señor Galeano, we thank you for this hint … And, perhaps, the question may also play a role why Queen Elizabeth II., Head of the Commonwealth, has provided so many noble titles to powerful American citizens, for example to Norman Schwarzkopf, Colin Powell, Casper Weinberger, Ronald Reagan, George Bush (Senior), Rudy Giullani, Alan Greenspan ...


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