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Monday, February 7, 2011 - Volume 1 - Release 1
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Introductory Letter:

As we begin the new year of 2011, we will note that a new book has been published by Johannes Rammund De
Balliel-Lawrora entitled "THE MYRIAD CHRONICLES".  This book reveals the stunning truth as to what happened to the
German people and the German Soldiers after the war had ended.   If the reader wants to know the truth as to what actually
happemed, it is suggested that you purchase the book from Amazon.com or Barnes and Nobles.com.

             The Soft Cover book is available at  $19.99
             The Hard Cover book is available at $29.99

This documentary is available to the general public, and points out the truth
about the after war murders of innocent civilians and POW's.

A review of the book  by
Dr. Rudolf Pueschel, was a child when he was
expelled from the Sudetenland.

          The Myriad Chronicles
                    Reviewed By
          Doctor Rudolf Pueschel

"The victor writes the history of the vanquished.  The killer defaces the slain.  The feebler
one leaves this world; what he leaves behind are lies".  That's how the German poet and
playwright Bertolt Brecht formulated the intellectual state of affairs after the war.  
World\War II is no exception.  The victorious allies afforded an intense re-education
process (ska character or brain washing) of the German people through "Propaganda and
Persuasion" is definded as "the deliberate, systematic attempt to
shape perception, manipulate cognition, and direct behavior to
achieve a response that furthers the desire intent of the
propagandist".  The majority of historians and politicians, of the
media and the entertainment industry became the propagandist's
willing helpers to create a worldwide perception that in 1945
German was liverated by the victors, that 6 million Jews were
gassed in German concentration camps, that Germans could only
have been perpetrators but never victims.

The American Johannes Rammund De Balliel-Lawrora opposes
this notion in his book
The Myriad Chronicles.  The book has been
put together from many sources, not the least important of which
are eyewitness accounts of people who survived the war and its aftermath to tell their
stories, covering the period from the beginning of World War I to the horrifying
anti-German atrocities committed after World War II had ended.  In contrast to
mainstream propagandists, De Balliel-Lawrora does identify with the vanquished.  Thus he
doesn't deny the existence of concentration camps with all their brutality in Hitler's
Germany.  But he places those German camps in context with the state of affairs in Indian
reservations in America in the nineteenth century; with British concentration camps in
South Africa during the Boer War; with Stalin's gulag; with internment camps for
Americans of Japanese, German and Italian heritage in the USA; with post-World War II
concentration camps in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia; and with the incredible
post-war massacres of Germans by the peoples of those countries.

De Balliel-Lawrora doesn't shy away from documenting allied war crimes.  Thus he
describes the fire bombing of Dresden on February 13-14, 1945, completely destroying 39
square kilometers (15 square miles) of one of the most
beautiful cities in the world.  Fellow author Kurt
Vonnegut, wo was in Dresden as a POW at the time
and lived to write a book about it, called it "the largest
massacre in European history."  What is remarkable
about this event is that an "open city" without war-
strategic significance had been leveled at a time when
allied victory in World War II was assured.  
Undoubtedly, it was one of the actions that Robert
MacNamara, then a colonel in the US Strategic Air
Command (SAC) and later defense secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations,
caused to utter "Had we lost World War II we would have been tried and probably
convicted as war criminals" in the documentary
The Fog of War.

When writing his book, De Balliel-Lawrora couldn't
have known that 65 years on a vice-president of the
German parliament (Bundestag) would lead a sit-in
to thwart a commemorative march of Dresden's
destruction, and that today's follow-on German
communist party known as Die Linke would request
the fastest possible removal of a commemorative
pillar at the cemetery
Heidefriedhof in Dresden.  
Those are consequences of the allied post World War
II "re-education" that today is continued by Germans.  
As stated before, mainstream historiography and politics allow Germans to play a role in
history as villains and perpetrators, but never as victims.  De Balliel-Lawrora opposes such
an one-sided approach to writing history.

De Balliel-Lawrora doubts the findings of a city government-appointed Commission of
Historians that the attack on Dresden caused no more than 25,000 deaths.  One survivot of
the inferno explains:  "The Commission documents a survival rate of 10 percent and a
death rate of 20 percent in selected streets.  The missing undocumented 70 percent are
considered survivors by design.  - The  Commission did not know the casualties either from
the number of refugees fleeing the advancing Red Army, or the number of wounded in 40
field hospitals in Dresden at the time of the assault.  -  A Dresden museum displays partly
melted metal alloys with a melting point of 2000 centigrades; at such a high temperature
human bodies can vaporize".  The government-appointed Commission rejected such
testimonies of survivors because they were "traumatized".  Nevertheless, the official
death rate of the Dresden firestorm is 25,000; that's what history books teach mankind the
world over.  To state anything different would be politically incorrect.

Regrettably, the book makes no reference to the Nuremberg trials with their undoubted
flaws, where many of the anti-German perceptions in today's world.  One of those is the
creation of paragraph 130 in Germany's penal code (Strafgesetzbuch) that makes any
unfavorable discussion of Israel and the holocaust a crime, in violation of the guarantee of
free speech in the
Basic Law (Grundgesetz), Germany's pseudo-constitution.

Nevertheless, mankind owes Mr. De Balliel-Lawrora thanks and praise for his courage to
tell the "politically incorrect" truth in a very convincing manner.  As far as the German
expellees are concerned, the book brings their fate one step closer to the British Jew,
philosopher and philanthropist Victor Gollancz's expectation that he articulated 1947 in his
book
Our Threaded Values:  "If the conscience of men ever again becomes sensitive, these
expulsions will be remembered to the undying shame of all who committed or connived
them."  De Balliel-Lawrora's
The Myriad Chronicles is a wake-up call of the conscience of
men.

            The Myriad Chronicle
         Reviewed & Proofread by
         Janice & Joanne Rueckert

Countless books and articles have been written about the events of World War II,
describing the circumstances leading up to it, the battles themselves, and the aftermath of
the hostilities.  This book approaches this period in history from a different perspective.

In Part One the author highlights some root causes familiar to any student of history
(World War I and its aftermath, the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Republic).  The
Second Part describes the internment camps in which POW's were kept, in Europe as well
as in the USA, and features many eyewitness accounts of the treatment people received in
the camps.  The bombing raids on the city of Dresden are also described in detail  by people
who experienced them.  Part Three of the book is devoted to personal accounts of the war,
as written by people who lived in parts of Germany, Austria, the former Czechoslovakia,
and other eastern European countries.

The author, Johannes Rammund De Balliel-Lawrora, has done careful, extensive research,
and many facts and figures are cited.  For the person who is interested in lesser-known
stories and the personal experiencezs of people who describe events from their unique
perspectives, this book would be interested reading.  It will certainly change the way you
had previously looked at this time in history and gives you a lot to think about.


Letters to Members and Non-Members (shortened)

Dear friends,

Even though this winter seems to be a horrid to behold, I am writing this letter to upgrade  
the intentions of the German-American World Historical Society, Inc. relative to the
intended meeting for this year, which will be on Wednesdays in the Community Room of the
Fritz Reuter Altenheim and the dates will be March 16th, May 18th, October 19th, and a
Christmas Social on December 14th.  As previously noted all meetings and the Christmas
Social will commence at 7:00 P.M., unless otherwise changed by the President, Mr.
Frederick H. W. Hansen.

This letter is intended for members, possible members, non-members, tour passengers, and
friends, and the letter is designed to upgrade our mailing list, collect dues, accept new
members, acquaintances and friends, and also donations, so that we may continue our social
and charitable programs which will be outlined as the year progresses, and which will also
include cultural movies on various nations along with a lecture for our friends and residents
in the Fritz Reuter Altenheim.

Having been associated with the expulsions of the Germans after World War II, the writer
authored a book on the treatment of innocent women, children and the elderly from 1945 to
1950.  The book,
"The Myriad Chronicles" is available through the internet from
Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com and is sold with a soft cover for $19.99 or a hard
cover for $29.99.

Please assist us if you can so that we may be able to continue our work, which will include
our website and newsletters that will always have a religious, cultural, historical or
education theme.

In closing, I remain your devoted friend.

Sinceerely yours,

Johannes Rammund De Balliel-Lawrora
Executive Director