Mr Ambassador,
You have offended many Dutch, and so you owe the Dutch people, especially the victims of WWII and their descendants, an apology. This is because your embassay has wrongly, very wrongly participated in the honoring of a Nazi pilot.
How is it possible that an employee of your German embassy, Volker Eden, could participate in the commemoration of a Nazi pilot in Hallum, Frisia at his exhumation with a wreath of honor and a minute of silence? And does the Dutch Ministry of Defense, the organizer of this excavation and remembrance, is so stupid it still doesn't understand?
The Nazis, i.e. the friends of this pilot, his colleagues, murdered 544 Jews from the province of Friesland and are responsible for the deaths of about as many other Frisian civilians. That is why Nazi's and their military can never be honoured. Not in Frisia, nor elsewhere in the Netherlands - nor in the world, for that matter
I find this shocking and an insult to all war victims and their descendants, including the small surviving Jewish community in Frisia.
It concerns Georg Wilhelm, a Nazi fighter pilot who died in 1943 in the criminal Nazi army, the Wehrmacht, and that is certainly not the 'German' army. But how many Dutch civilians has he killed or injured? Did he ever protest the Holocaust? And have the swastikas on his uniform or plane been found yet? Georg Wilhelm must have carried at least four on his uniform, his plane some ten.
During the commemoration 'Germany' sas incorrectly mentioned - but that state did not exist from 1933 to 1945, but was hijacked by the murderous Austrian criminal Hitler, snd his terrorist state is known as 'Nazi Germany'. These mistakes are serious, especially when a German official is involved.
That is why, mr. ambaasador, you owe the Dutch people an apology.
We are publishing this letter, sending it to the press and also forwarding it to the Jewish community in Frisia and the association of decsendants of resistance members (VvKV) the Féd. Int. des Résistants and our German network.
On behalf of the working group 'Herdenk nazi's niet' (Do not commemorate Nazis),
Arthur Graaff, son of a decorated resistance member and former Nazi-prisoner.
fpamsterdam@yahoo.com