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What have we gotten into after nine years of Anschluss to the FRG?
German planes are bombing Belgrade, German troops are on the Balkans and cover Yugoslavia with war. Greater Germany wages a war of aggression, without a U.N. mandate, and declares international law expired.
During its 40-year existence the GDR did not wage wars of aggression against other nations. Nine years under the FRG's yoke were however enough to lead us to the brink of disaster. The "peaceful" counter-revolution of 1989 shows its true colors in the war of 1999. Now, we are one people whose government and military attack sovereign Yugoslavia and drive the people of the Balkans into the air-raid protection bunkers.
What looked like a horrifying scenario ten years ago has now become bloody reality. The Bonn-invented slogan "We are one people" now means "We are one people of war-mongers." In quantum leaps, greater Germany drives all of Europe to the brink of a new world war. The fears of then U.S. Secretary of State Baker are now confirmed in a dreadful way. In May 1990, he confided to Soviet Foreign Secretary Shevardnadze: "We have learned our lessons of 1871, 1914, and 1939. We had to lead two wars on this continent, in this country. The most devastating [of them] we fought with you as an ally, side by side. We don't want to do that again." (James A. Baker, Memoirs, 1989-1992) That is why the FRG, in the so-called 2+4 Treaty of September 12, 1990, had to reassure the Four Powers and the GDR that "only peace would emanate from German soil, ... that unified Germany would never use any of its weapons, only in accordance with its constitution and with the United Nations Charter."
From the soil of greater Germany, however, peace couldn't emanate. In contrast to the GDR, the FRG never recognized the Potsdam Agreement, which could have lead to peace by exterminating German militarism and nazism.
Chancellor Kohl expressed the new marching route of greater Germany already in the first governmental address: "Germany has finally closed the book of its history; it may now openly stand to its role as a world power, and it should expand this role." (taz, 01/31/1991)
Then everything happened in quick succession: In summer 1991, German Foreign Secretary Genscher pursued the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Against the will of the E.U., the U.S., and the USSR, the FRG recognized Croatia and Slovenia, tore them out of Yugoslavia, and supplied the Croatian puppet regime with heaps of seized NVA weapons [Nationale Volksarmee - GDR's army]. Expulsions only then really began, with their disastrous consequences: want, misery, and death. So much for German "humanitarian" operations.
In 1995 "unified Germany" kicked its Basic Law [constitution] with combat boots and decided positively on worldwide unconstitutional operations of German troops.
In October 1998 the parliamentary majority of CDU/CSU/SPD/FDP/Grüne [German political parties: Christian Democratic Union, Christian Social Union, Socialdemocratic Party of Germany, Free Democratic Party, The Greens] completely demolished the U.N. Charter: they gave permission for German armies to operate in foreign countries-against all international law, and against the explicit will of the United Nations. Always adhering to the slogan: Germany against the rest of the world, until everything falls to pieces, again.
In March 1999 "unified Germany" marched into the first armed war of aggression since 1945. The United Nations didn't mandate this war. The U.N. collapsed under NATO's bombs, it was driven and blackmailed by the Fischers, Scharpings, and Schröders [then German Foreign Secretary, Defense Secretary, Chancellor].
The war cries of German journalists and government representatives about "humanitarian disasters" can't deceit anybody about the fact that the U.N. had once been founded against the biggest slaughterer of human beings of all times-against Germany. The U.N. was supposed to keep Germany from attacking other nations and peoples ever again. The international law, which restrained imperialism's jungle law for fifty years, has virtually been eliminated today. Why should a great power get the U.N.'s consent to a military intervention in the future if this intervention would also be possible without it?
While "in the past days, of all the people, the U.S. Americans [had] become strikingly hesitant about air-raids" (stated vice-chairman of the SPD parliamentary faction Erler, according to the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau of 03/23/1999), the War Secretary of the FRG, Scharping, announced Tuesday: "Our patience has come to an end," and claimed about NATO's attack: "The sooner, the better." (Junge Welt, 03/22/1999)
One evidence for the fact that the Federal Government is obviously not interested in a suspension of the bombing of Yugoslavia is the attempt to mediate by Russian Head of State Primakov. Yugoslavian President Milosevic had offered Primakov "to withdraw troops from Kosovo and reinstate negotiations, if NATO stopped bombing beforehand." (Frankfurter Rundschau, 03/31/1999) This offer was flatly and unilaterally rejected by the German Chancellor, without having confered with the other NATO nations (cf. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 03/31/1999).
The German media unanimously stigmatize the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as "warmonger" and declare the Albanian UCK to be the "Kosovo Liberation Army". Albanians, however, enjoyed rights in the multinational state of Yugoslavia that domestic national minorities can only dream of. And for many years, the peoples of that region lived together peacefully.
But who is that UCK? It was mainly set up and equipped by the government and the intelligence agencies of the FRG, as a fifth column for the further destruction of Yugoslavia. Thus wrote The European in September 1997 "that the German civilian and military intelligence agencies are involved in the rebels' training and armament in order to firmly establish German influence on the Balkans and to tackle the refugee problem" (cf. Konkret 3/1999). Only a year ago, U.S. special envoy Robert Gelbhard called the UCK terrorist and threatened to include it into the list of international terrorist organizations (cf. Spiegel, 03/09/1998). The UCK has committed 600 terrorist attacks against the Serbian and Albanian population as well as against the Yugoslavian police since October 1998 (cf. Unsere Zeit, 05/02/1999). Christian Ströbele, Rep. Coalition 90/The Greens, judges: "At the moment, the UCK is the reason for refugee movements." (Junge Welt, 03/24/1999)
In Rambouillet, the Yugoslavian side accepted the political part of the agreement which, among other things, provided for an autonomy status of Kosovo. Only the document's appendix, which provides for the stationing of 28,000 NATO troops in Kosovo to monitor the peace settlement, was rejected as a grave violation of Yugoslavian sovereignty and territorial integrity. The Yugoslavian side thus only may "choose between the plague and cholera," stated a Serbian member of cabinet (Spiegel, 03/22/1999). Either a signing, i.e. military occupation of parts of their national territory and establishment of a NATO protectorate for at least three years, or the bombing of Yugoslavia.
German troops had destructed Yugoslavia completely during the Second World War, and murdered hundreds of thousands of people. On the Easter holidays of 1941, the fascist Wehrmacht bombed Belgrade. On the Easter holidays of 1999, bombs are dropped onto the center of Belgrade again and annihilate the Department of the Interior, which is situated only a couple of feet from the university's birth clinic.
The annexation government of SPD/Greens and their accomplices violate international and German law (cf. the end of this leaflet).

A country of warmongers, who actually should be jailed, may never be our country!
Better out of the FRG than into the war!


The attack on Yugoslavia violates international law. The execution of military force may-according to the U.N. Charter-only be applied for self-defense (Article 51) or with a mandate of the U.N. Security Council (Chapter VII). Evidently, neither of both is the case. Thus the military attack is a war of aggression that violates international law, and it also violates the following federal German constitutional articles and laws:

Violation of Basic Law Article 25 (International law and federal law)
"The general rules of international law shall be an integral part of federal law. They shall take precedence over the laws and directly create rights and duties for the inhabitants of the federal territory."

Violation of Basic Law Article 26 (Ban on preparations for war of aggression)
"(1) Acts tending to and undertaken with intent to disturb the peaceful relations between nations, especially to prepare for a war of aggression, shall be unconstitutional. They shall be made a criminal offense.
(2) Weapons designed for warfare may be manufactured, transported, or marketed only with the permission of the Federal Government. Details shall be regulated by a federal law."

Violation of §80 Criminal Code (Preparations for war of aggression)
"He who prepares a war of aggression (Article 26, Paragraph 1, Basic Law) in which the Federal Republic of Germany shall participate, and by doing so causes the danger of war for the Federal Republic of Germany, will be sentenced to lifelong imprisonment or to imprisonment not shorter than ten years."

Violation of §11 Soldiers' Law (Obedience)
"(2) An order must not be followed if this would imply committing a criminal offense..."

Violation of §10 Soldiers' Law (Duties of superiors)
"(4) He [the superior] may only issue orders for official purposes and only issue them when minding the rules of international law, the [German] laws, and the service regulations."
 

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