No Time For Silence: Pleas for a Just Peace Over Four Decades

156 Pages·1987·12.233 MB·English

by  Austin J. App

N O
TIME FOR
SILENCE
J.
Austin App
PLEAS FOR
A JUST PEACE
OVER FUUR DECADES
A COLLECTION OF
ESSAYS & PAMPHLETS
PUBLISHED FROM 1946TO1978
Introduction by Theodore J. O'Keefe

NO
TIME FOR
SILENCE
AUSTIN J. APP
PLEAS FOR
A JUST PEACE
OVER FOUR DECADES
A COLLECTION OF
ESSAYS & PAMPHLETS
PUBLISHED FROM 1946 TO 1978
Introduction by Theodore J. O'Keefe
No Time For Silence
Austin J. App
A Collection of Essays
and Pamphlets published
from 1946 to 1978
by Boniface Press
The Institute for
Historical Review
1822Yz Newport Blvd., Suite 191
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
First Institute for Historical
Review printing August 1987
Manufactured in the United States of America
ISBN 0-939484-24-2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
THE SIX MILLION SWINDLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A STRAIGHT LOOK AT THE THIRD REICH .................... 31
RAVISHING THE WOMEN OF CONQUERED EUROPE . . . . . . . . . . 75
THE BIG THREE DEPORTATION CRIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
THE CURSE OF ANGLO-AMERICAN POWER POLITICS . . . . . . . . 91
EXCERPTS FROM A SPEECH DELIVERED BY
GENERAL CHARLES A. WILLOUGHBY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
THE BOMBING ATROCITY OF DRESDEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
ANTI-SEMITISM, A PHONEY BOGEY .......................... 101
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT NIXON
URGING AN ATLANTIC CHARTER PEACE
FOR GERMANY A PRIORITY OBLIGATION .................. 109
RED GENOCIDE IN GERMAN VILLAGE ....................... 117
AMERICAN NUNCIO CARDINAL ALOISIUS MUENCH ......... 123
CAN CHRISTIANITY SURVIVE WHEN JEWS
CONTROL THE MEDIA AND THE MONEY? .................. 127
GYPSIES AND THE THIRD REICH ............................ 133
WILL THE ETHNICALLY POLISH POPE
JOHN PAUL II PROMOTE TRUTH AND JUSTICE
FOR THE GERMAN EXPELLEES? ........................... 139

INTRODUCTION
On Aprill, 1946 Professor Austin J. App of Incarnate Word College in
San Antonio, Texas published a brief pamphlet attacking the victors of the
Second World War for their unconscionable treatment of the women of
Germany and its allies at the war's end and during its aftermath. Ravishing
the Women of Conquered Europe was first and foremost an indictment of
the mass rapes carried out by the troops of the Red Army, but its author
didn't spare the United States government for propping up the beleagured
Soviet regime with lend-lease billions or for condoning the widespread
sexual exploitation of German womanhood by American occupation
troops.
While App's pamphlet probably would have been unwelcome reading for
the millions of his fellow Americans for whom the inebriation of VE-Day
had not yet been displaced by the decades-long hangover of the Cold War, a
small clique of determined and influential opponents hit back at its author
with tactics that have become characteristic of the enemies of Revisionism.
Within several months Ravishing the Women of Conquered Europe was
banned in Canada, a gloomy portent of the standing ban on Revisionist
literature north of the border today. In the United States a chorus of
journalists, most of them Jewish, smeared App as an "anti-Semite" and an
apologist for Nazism. They didn't shrink from falsifying and distorting the
content of App's piece, and they sought to bring subtle but intensifying
pressures on App's employers. Nevertheless, within three months of
publication App's bold call to conscience had sold more than 40,000 copies
and excerpts from it had been inserted into the Congressional Record.
Shortly thereafter Professor App would establish the Mission Press (later
the Boniface Press) and embark on a long and often lonely quest for justice
for the land of his forefathers. Throughout the ensuing four decades App
would speak out publicly against what he called "history's most terrifying
peace," a peace which has left a Damoclean sword of annihilation hanging,
not merely over a still-divided Europe, but over the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.,
the mighty victors in history's most terrible war. During a long career as a
publicist and pamphleteer, a career which ran parallel with his long service
as a professor of English literature, Austin App's keen sense of justice and
steadfast courage in his Western, Christian convictions impelled him to
challenge the historical blackout which has shrouded much of the truth
concerning the Second World War, a challenge embodied in his
membership on the Editorial Advisory Committee of The Journal of
Historical Review from its inception in 1980 to his death in 1984.
The man who devoted himself to being a "German-American voice for
truth and justice" was born on May 24, 1902 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His
parents were Catholics from Southern Germany; his Catholic upbringing as
well as his German heritage were decisive factors in his outlook. Early in his
childhood little August (he changed his first name to Austin in his thirties)
moved with his family to a farm in Mequon, Wisonsin. The district was
heavily German, and young App received a primary education that was
bilingual, both in public and Catholic schools.
Like many an apt Catholic pupil of those days, App was quickly
earmarked for the priesthood, and earned both his high school diploma and
B.A. at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee. Reluctantly deciding he had no
real priestly calling, the young man, who had manifested a strong literary
bent at the seminary, elected to continue the scholar's path, earning M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. He then
spent some forty years as a scholar and teacher at Catholic colleges and
universities, including Catholic University, Incarnate Word, the University
of Scranton, and LaSalle College in Philadelphia, from which he retired
after twenty years as a professor in 1968. During his career he contributed
poetry, fiction, and many articles and reviews to American periodicals. His
doctoral thesis, Lancelot in English Literature, received critical acclaim and
has become a standard work.
Although as a high-school student Austin App had boiled with anger at
the onerous and inequitable terms of the Treaty of Versailles, he avoided
political controversy until the eve of America's intervention into the Second
World War. At that time he began to defend America's traditional policy of
non-intervention in transoceanic quarrels, along with anti-interventionist
patriots such as Charles Lindbergh. In September 1941 Professor App
wrote his first open and circular letter, which was directed against a smear
of Lindbergh by left-wing columnist Dorothy Thompson. Professor App
kept up a drumfire of letters to the press throughout the war, courageously
presenting the case for a just peace and against the vindictive propaganda
with which the Roosevelt regime, Hollywood, and the press were paving the
road to Yalta and Potsdam, Dresden and Hiroshima, Nuremberg and the
Iron Curtain.
But it was the terrible Allied excesses of the war's last months and the
first years of the peace that brought Austin App's indignation to the
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incandescence which glows in each of the following fourteen pamphlets,
which have been gathered together here for the first time. The vengeful
attempt of Henry Morgenthau, America's Secretary of the Treasury, and
his henchmen to seal the doom of a beaten Germany by a Carthaginian
peace which would have resulted in starvation for tens of millions; the
expulsion of fifteen million Germans from the lands in which they had
dwelt peacefully and productively for centuries, under conditions in which
more than two million of them died miserable deaths; and the partition and
continuing political impotence of the German heart of Europe, justified by
the vilest atrocity slanders ever devised-all these crimes App excoriated in
a white-hot prose the fervor and forthrightness of which are unmatched in
the Revisonist writings of the postwar period.
These ardent pleas were written over a period of thirty years, during
which time Austin App never wavered in his insistence that a peace without
justice was no peace at all. If App's ardor for justice led him occasionally to
overstatement or emotionally charged rhetoric, his unflinching commitment
to making public the facts about the Second World War led him early on to
voice hard truths that more cautious Revisonists were for a long while prone
to avoid. App was one of the first to challenge openly the vast exaggeration
of Jewish losses during the war; his Six Million Swindle, published in 1973,
was the first writing authored and signed by an American to present, in its
essentials, the case for Holocaust Revisionism.
App, unlike many Americans who had been critical of their country's
wartime role, was not swayed to subordinate his crusade to right the wrongs
done Germany to the supposed exigencies of the Cold War. Offered
funding for the printing of a million and a half copies of his first pamphlet
on the condition that he delete references to the misbehavior of American
troops, he declined. Although a frequent visitor to West Germany after the
war, where he many times addressed German nationalist gatherings, in
particular those of the dispossessed Germans of the eastern territories and
the Sudetenland, he never accommodated himself to the kleindeutsch
makeshift of the Bundesrepublik.
Austin App was not to be cowed by the bogey of "anti-Semitism";
confronted with Jewish smears, he trenchantly analyzed and condemned the
tactics of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and other Jewish
pressure groups. A devout Catholic who could write that "The most loved
and revered personages in the world are Jews, Jews converted to
Christianity and Christian justice and charity," he hurled back a challenge
to his Jewish critics, a challenge to mend their ethics according to the stern
but loving precepts of the Sermon on the Mount.
Austin App deserves to be honored and remembered as one who
hungered and thirsted after truth and justice. In the writings that follow he
touched on almost every theme of World War II Revisionism with
frankness and sincerity, putting his pleas for a just peace for Germany and
Europe to the humble and the mighty, from the man on the street to popes
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and presidents. His pamphlets, here anthologized for the first time, will
serve as a memorial to his courage and decency and an admonition to
Revisionists to carry on his fight to final victory.
Theodore J. O'Keefe
August, 1987
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