Hans
Schmidt
German-American author,
* 1927 in Germany
Schm. was at the
end of the Second World War a twice wounded, 18 year old corporal in Hitler’s
SS Leibstandarte Panzer Division. On 6 May 1945, he surrendered to American troops
to end up in one of the stockades without shelter, little food and water that have been called ‘Eisenhower’s Death Camps’, where as many as a million German P.o.W.s may have perished after the cessation of the
hostilities. Thanks to the kindness of individual G.I.s, Schmidt avoided being turned over to the Red Army, or other prolonged imprisonment in Allied
custody. Schm. emigrated to the United States shortly after the end of the war and became a U.S. citizen many decades
ago.
Schm. worked
as a publicist in Pensacola, Florida, where he published a German- as well as an English-language newsletter
(GANPAC Brief and USA-Berichte). One topic which Schm. often discussed in his newsletters
was the Jews' propaganda campaign against Germany, especially their claim that the Germans gassed 6,000,000 of them to death during the Second World
War. In particular, Schm. criticized the anti-German film Schindler's List, pointing out a number of Jewish propaganda lies in the film.
In August of 1995,
Schm. was seized by the German police at the airport in Frankfurt as he was preparing to return to the United States after visiting his 93-year-old mother in
Germany. He was accused of mailing a copy of his newsletter to Germany in
November 1994, newsletter in which he had written about a "Jew- and Freemason
infested" oligarchy and media ruling today's Germany. He spent 5 months in prison. Released on bail and in ill
health, Schm. returned to the USA where he wrote a book about his experience in Germany, titled
"Jailed in Democratic Germany".
In 2004, Schm.
suffered a stroke, from which he recovered slowly.
Letzte Änderung / Last update: 10.09.2008
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