HIAG-Treffen in Hamburg verhindert

I was born in Germany in 1926 the third son of German Parents. The legal German Government of the time in the name of "Deutschland". controlled every aspect of our lives and dealt harshly with any dissent, even suspicion of dissent.
It was forbidden to listen to radio transmissions from outside Germany, read books by certain authors, criticize German policies and God help us to be critical of our leaders. We were told what to do, what to think and at our peril to deviate from the official party line.
I should know, my parents were Jehovah's Witnesses and as such suffered the full brunt of a repressive, dictatorial regime enforced by zealots which unfortunately resemble many enforcing the so called Thought Laws in Germany today. I had many problems at school due to my parents belief but was far too interested in Chemistry to be anything but a youngster hoping to become a Chemical Engineer sometime in my future. Then came the war all my friends and I were told to go to do our duty and defend the Fatherland. We all did as was expected and demanded of us.
As soldier and when taken Prisoner of War at wars end I saw that the victorious Allies were certainly no better or honorable then my comrades and myself. In fact I was repeatedly beaten as well robbed of all my personal property. For just turned 19 years old and of low rank with minimal decorations I was subjected to brutality and starvation for several years and finally shipped to England where much later I was discharged from the POW camp. Because I told a interrogator Germany's Concentration camps could not have been much worse then the Allied Prisoner of War camps I experienced, I was classed a Nazi and treated as such. The fact that I was 13 years old in 1939 and only a luke warm member of the Jungvolk and later Hitler Jugend did not make any difference.
It started in the POW camp already, older men, the one's who elected Hitler, who told us what to do and set the example made a about turn blaming us for all the happenings during the war and the vengeance driven treatment we received.
Unfortunately the same zealots who enforced Hitler's and his henchmen's orders very much resemble many in Germany today, fully supported by a compliant media extolling the politically correct version of History and Heaven forbid anybody dares to dispute or even question such - then it's called a "Hate-Crime" punishable by fines or imprisonment,
just like the Germany of my youth.
A good example among many others is Mr. E. Zundel and Mr. G. Rudolf, like in Hitler Germany accused and jailed because they have a different opinion and are asking unpopular questions.
It seems judges like the Roland Freisler who was presiding over the Volksgericht for the 20th May plotters are still busy in Germany today. They may not use piano wire and meat hooks anymore (as we are told) but keep people in solitary confinement for years and destroy their families.
When someone questions the character and dimension of the politically correct version, he is thrown into jail, tried and convicted. That's "hate speech" because it offends some people and the "accepted historically correct version". Of course to shame and vilify your own veterans is OK but when someone publishes cartoons that incense all Muslims and touch off demonstrations world wide, that's "free speech."
Perhaps you could learn from Japan, they also lost the war but unlike Germany, Japanese people remained honorable and are not besmirching their veterans..
General DeGaulle's remarks are very fitting -
"A people's character is shown how they the treat their veterans even after a lost war".

At 80 years of age I am ashamed having been born and raised in Germany under heartless, inhuman leaders. But now Gemany has become a spineless, honorless people who call themselves democratic and civilized.
You never were - not during my youth and not now.