Klarsfeld scum finally get Germany's highest honor on third try – thanks to traitor Gauck

By Carolyn Yeager

[Minor edits made on 5-17-15 -cy]

Germany pours shame on itself once again by awarding its Federal Cross of Merit* to a criminal husband and wife “Nazi hunting” team (pictured above). Beate Klarsfeld, a German-born Protestant and her greasy-looking Romanian-born Jewish husband can thank current German President Joachim Gauck for forcing her approval against the popular will and previous decisions by German ministers.  *Of course, it must be remembered that this award was created in 1951 under the occupation government, and therefore has no real meaning. It has already been awarded to such unworthies as Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Elizabeth II and Josip Broz Tito.

Die Linke, The Left Party (formerly the Communist Party of East Germany) had twice nominated Beate Klarsfeld for the Federal Cross of Merit, but the foreign ministers at the time, Joschka Fischer and Guido Westerwelle. did not approve her. Fischer said she was not worthy of the recognition; Westerwelle offered no reason for denying her the award. This time, Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor, pushed it through as “his own decision”. Thus, both she and her husband will now receive Germany's highest honor.

Left Party politician Gesine Lötzsch welcomed the news late on Wednesday after it was announced, calling it "overdue, 70 years after Germany was rid of Hitler's fascism.”

Serge Klarsfeld was born in 1935 in Bucharest, Romania to a family of Jews. They migrated to France before he was 4 years old. In 1943, his father was arrested in Nice and deported by the SS because he was a foreign, not French-born, Jew. Supposedly he died in Auschwitz, but this is not proven. Serge was cared for in an OSE home for Jewish children in France. His mother and sister also survived in France, it is stated. 

Serge had worked in an Israeli kibbutz in 1953 and had written a thesis on the “Cooperative Economy in Israel” (1959). In 1966 he visited Auschwitz (on a special Soviet permit?) and in 1967 served as a volunteer in the Six-Day War in Israel.

Beate Künzel was born in 1939, the daughter of a regular Wehrmacht soldier, and was brought up Protestant. That is all the background information I can find about her. She went to France at age 21 to work as a domestic with a host family in order to learn French. There, she also learned about the "Shoah" from the French perspective, became radicalized, and later went to work for the Franco-German Alliance for Youth (Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk), from which she was later fired.

Serge and Beate married in 1963 and made their home in Paris. At some point, she became a French citizen, thus enjoying dual citizenship. They had one child, Arno, who became a human rights attorney and worked for Nicolas Sarkozy when he was interior minister. Arno holds Israeli citizenship as well as French, and works today to combat anti-semitism in present-day France. But I thought Jewishness was only inherited from the mother, so how does Arno get his Israeli citizenship? I have not been able to find any explanation for it except that he probably applied for it: ["Arno Klarsfeld] fell out of favor with French leftists when he acquired Israeli citizenship in 2002 and joined the Border Police. He served at checkpoints around Bethlehem."]

Jewish sense of righteousness and dirty dealing

As often happens, Beate became more Jewish than many Jews and began a campaign in 1966 against West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger. Her reason was that he worked in the foreign ministry's radio propaganda department during WWII. She began calling him a Nazi and in 1968 she physically attacked him just as he was to give a speech at his party's convention. For this assault, she was criminally convicted in 1969 and sentenced to one year in prison (though her term was reduced to four months).

In 2012, it was revealed that the attack on the Chancellor had the support of the government of East Germany and the Stasi, which was conducting a campaign at the time (1968) against West German politicians. Both Serge and Beate Klarsfeld were revealed to have been regular Stasi contacts. According to the Saxony State Stasi Archives, the Klarsfelds cooperated during the 1960's in blackmailing West German politicians for their World War II activities.

In August 1970, Beate was arrested in Warsaw and deported by Polish authorities for having protested against what she called Polish state antisemitism. In 1971, the German Democratic Republic (soviet East Germany) prohibited her entry after she protested the Czechoslovak government for the same thing. In 1974, both Serge and Beate were convicted in West Germany on felony charges of the attempted kidnapping of former Gestapo chief Kurt Lischka, in order to transport him to France. They were sentenced to two months (!) in prison, but following international (Jewish?) protests, the sentence was suspended. Further activism by the Klarsfelds resulted in changes to the law, so that in 1980 Lischka was convicted of a felony and he was sentenced to prison!

Beate Klarsfeld resumed her contact with the Stasi in the 1980s while trying to track down “war criminals.” In addition to Poland and Czechoslovakia, she's been arrested in Bolivia, Chile and Syria.

Unpopular in Germany

Beate Klarsfeld has been both villified and ignored, and considered a traitor by some. Not everyone agrees that the wartime events should be prosecuted in the Klarsfeld manner. She's been disliked for her involvment with the East German Stasi during the years the nation was divided. In 2012, when this information was first revealed, Beate Klarsfeld admitted that she received 2000 DM from the SED after her confrontation with Kiesinger in the 1960's. The SED was the governing Marxist-Leninist party of the GDR.

The cooperation of both Beate and Serge Klarsfeld with the Stasi and their status as contacts was also documented in a 1993 book by former Stasi officers, Günter Bohnsack and Herbert Brehmer.

Poor Germany, under the boot of the American military occupation and the enforced Nuremberg declaration of guilt, continues to raise to distinction traitors, assassins, military deserters and enemies in general while it refuses recognition to its own World War II dead, its soldiers, heroes and martyrs. Poor, poor Germany.