Dr. Alfred De Zayas, a UN Human Rights Council member, is unfortunately under attack from a campaign to remove him from his United Nations position. Knowledgeable people opposed to racism should take action to keep this renown legal and historical scholar and human rights activist as a UN Human Rights Council member. The campaign against him led by Canadian Hillel Neuer of the groupoid U.N. Watch should be sternly resisted.
Dr. De Zayas is targeted for his exposure of the brutal expulsion of fifteen million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe after World War II, a postwar atrocity from which 2.1 million ethnic Germans perished from execution, starvation, and disease. Ethnic Germans in the expulsion process suffered from planned starvation, outrageous discrimination, internment in concentration camps, forced labor, and eventual brutal expulsion to a starving and war torn Germany in unheated and unventilated boxcars. The appalling details of this episode of ethnic cleansing are found not only in Alfred De Zayas’s book A Terrible Revenge, but also in the recently published Ulrich Merten Forgotten Voices, and R.M. Douglas Orderly And Humane, as well many autobiographical accounts. Dr. De Zayas was one of the first non German authors to expose this terrible episode of ethnic cleansing.
Dr. De Zayas is also targeted for his exposure of and criticism of the racist Morgenthau plan which was to a great extent inflicted upon Germany from 1945 to 1948 via the occupation policy ordered by JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff order) 1067. This policy and its application is discussed in detail in Nicholas Balabkins Germany Under Direct Controls. Under this plan Germany languished at starvation rations. Patents of German firms were taken without compensation. In the early occupation excess food from the military bases was destroyed rather than provided to the starving population. Such nations as Turkey and Italy wanted to exchange their food for German industrial items but were refused by the Occupation authorities. German coal, needed at home, was instead the lead export, sold at prices well below those of other coal producing nations. Germany was turned from a manufactured goods exporter to an overcrowded raw material single export (coal) exporter. Occupation authorities continued the Nazi wartime practice of compulsory labor registration for males 14 to 65 and females from 16 to 45. All such persons who did not have a job or an exemption from work (new mothers) were conscripted to labor. In particular labor was conscripted for the coal mines. Pay in Deutschmarks only enabled workers to buy allowed rations of food that were often inadequate and a few other products. This is what racism looks like.
Moreover in his attack on Dr. De Zayas the UN Watch website in its introduction to Mr. Neuer’s attack repeats the canard: “His many books on World War II portray Germans as victims and the Allies as perpetrators of ‘genocide‘", This cliché is ridiculous. It assumes there is only one type of German with very similar experiences, conduct, and actions during World War II. It is much more accurate to state that many Jews and many Germans as well many people from other nationalities were victims of World War II, while some Germans, Henry Morgenthau Jr., and some others were perpetrators of atrocity.
Plainly Dr. Zayas is a heroic scholar who is an immeasurable asset to the United Nations. Dr. De Zayas must be kept in office.
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Ambassador Susan E. Rice
United States Mission To The United Nations
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