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The shadows of the Scientologists

Wherever Scientology building a stand they are not far: the anonymous people fight against the organization which has opened its German branch in Charlottenburg - with masks and false names and information.

F Photo: Dirk Laessig / Daily Mirror

(Tagesspiegel, 16.08 .08)

short 16 clock search is over. Robert Tonlein *, 27 years old, black suit, tie knotted accurately, his face hidden behind a carnival mask, the Scientologists has finally discovered. Am Kurfürstendamm or Potsdamer Platz, where they have so far every Saturday, he has not seen. The supporters have now established an exception at Alexanderplatz their information booth. There they try to convince passersby from making a "stress test". The ends with the diagnosis of weakness - and the offer that Scientology could help with courses.

This assistance provides the organization that sees itself as a "religion", it's not entirely altruistic. Several thousand individual courses cost € - Dropouts complain that the organization financially followers plunder. "We consider Scientology a psycho-sect that severely violate human rights," says Tonlein. "We want to protect potential victims, By educating about Scientology -. by peaceful means, "Together with three colleagues, she also refers in black suits and masks before their faces, he close of the prior position. In a loud voice to warn the passers-mask carrier about to take a stress test or up to the brightly colored flyer. The passers-by look amused and irritated. The state in which there are two stress-testing equipment - simple "lie detectors" - remains vacant.
















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Since February 2008, fighting the global protest group "Anonymous" Scientology. At that time the internet appeared on a video that showed the actor and professed Scientologist Tom Cruise in front of fanatical followers. As the rhetoric reminiscent of the Hollywood Idols to Reich propaganda chief Goebbels, the sect was trying to censor the video and remove it from the Internet. "Anonymous" was founded spontaneously in an Internet forum and put a little later shut the homepage of the organization.

illegal actions by the group but has now passed. An action days taking place globally, the mask carrier to take instead demonstrations - mostly directly from the respective headquarters of Scientology. Today, Saturday finds the protest taking place for the seventh time. In Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart, the "Men in Black" will protest. In Berlin, about 100 supporters belonging to "Anonymous". The name belongs to the sect opponents speak to the program. Concerned about the true infiltration attempts, the activists namely strict anonymity - even among themselves. They have special phone numbers to talk only with nicknames and arrange to meet only through anonymous e-mail list.

Tonlein, who works as a webmaster is in the beginning. He says that he committed, because he will refuse any kind of censorship - like his colleagues. A personal reason was also an uncle: the once fell into the clutches of the organization. . So I have witnessed first hand how Scientology destroys family bonds and destroys people mentally "That's why it takes one to two times per week on so-called" flash raids "in part: Actions for which promotional efforts are hampered by the Scientologists in the street. As heute.Scientology

takes the mask carrier obviously serious. Only 20 minutes after they have adopted a position goes back a police car. The officer spoke briefly with the head of the state. The complain about the massive "advertising effect" activists through the mask, and that this would come about 70 percent less interested. The policeman nods go, then Tonlein and has him pointing you out to keep more distance from the information booth.

"Legally, we are moving in a gray area, but the police have, fortunately, some discretion," says Tonlein later, while a young mother expresses an information paper in his hand. Even an old lady now wants an information sheet and knocks him sympathetically on the shoulder, young people have their pictures taken with him and want to know where to get the "cool masks.

this case, the no gimmick, but pure self-protection. Scientology is for to combat known opponent by means such as character assassination. Therefore Tonlein has made friends at work and in his commitment public. He wants to counter rumors of possible dissemination. A Scientologist have tried to follow him to his car. His mask is chosen deliberately. She comes from the science-fiction film "V for Vendetta", where a lone hero fighting against a totalitarian system.

Today's struggle elucidation of the four masked seems to be successful. An hour to pack after their arrival, the Scientologists their information stand together. "Today's action was a real success," says Robert Tonlein and a cigarette under the Mask. "Normally, the three hours to stay longer."

* Name changed

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one man for special moments

Henry Ries is leaving his native Berlin in 1938. Ten years later, the photographer documented the air bridge. He loved the city, says his widow. An encounter.

(Jewish General, June 19, 2008)

Photo: Henry Ries / DHM

Before she goes up, it pauses for a moment. She sits on the marble bench, which is embedded on the side wall and looks at white pillars, which lost in the six meters in height in the semi-darkness. Her right arm is on the back, the hand sweeps fondly on the marble. "Nice, no? Something precious is built today are no longer so, "says Wanda Ries, 62 "On the bench, Henry has picked a little boy, the roller skates. I think of often. "

Wanda Ries, the" R "the native of Munich rolls with an American accent, sitting in the lobby of an apartment building not far from Berlin's Kurfürstendamm. Here, Henry Ries, the "Photographer of the air bridge", born in 1917 as Heinz Ries. Up on the fourth floor had his father, a liberal Jew and linen manufacturer, a spacious apartment. The impressive Art Nouveau building survived the second world war almost unscathed. resided since 1987 in the 15-room apartment in Berlin AIDS Help.

is the former parlor of Ries' there events in the former children of Henry Ries HIV sufferers seek help. "He was very happy that his former home serves a charitable purpose," says Wanda Ries, as it is available later on the bright lime floor of the former smoking room. Today Sitting here, visitors to the counseling center at tables, drinking coffee or leaf through magazines.

Wanda Ries lives in New York. There she spent 29 years at the side of Henry Ries. Died in 2004, the photographer. His urn is on the Forest Cemetery in Berlin-Zehlendorf. Therefore, it is a regular on the Spree. Often they will search for the former apartment. "I feel very strongly his presence here," she says as she strolls through the rooms. "What draws me here is the idea, as Henry's romp through the house as a teenager. He was a very athletic man, actually to the last. "Often, they then think of the anecdotes he her told of his youth. "For example, he has played in the spacious corridors with his brother football. This once a precious vase was destroyed. There was no trouble, he recalls a tolerant home and a happy childhood. "

mind a little photo documentation that has organized Wanda Ries in the rooms of the AIDS Help. The exhibition spans the arc of his life. Since a picture showing the little Henry with the two siblings, another mother with pearl necklace and a fashionable 20's short hair cut. And the father is sitting with a cigar and fly on a garden chair. A normal German family, a Christmas tree with tinsel lined up in the salon, but also celebrated Passover.

The cultural symbiosis takes its end in 1933. Henry Ries, who played the piano well, has wanted to become a conductor. Nothing will come after the takeover by the Nazis. Like so many German Jews lived Henry the creeping marginalization and deprivation in their own homeland. Since 1937, he therefore attempted to leave Germany with the family. The entry to the U.S. succeeds but until 1938.

There beats Henry Ries by with odd jobs. When the U.S. declared the "Third Reich" the war, he wants to join the American army. But Ries is considered an enemy alien. In the end he will prevail, however. Ries fights but not in Europe but in the South Pacific - and without a weapon. He is the photo reconnaissance and bomb damage documented.

end of the war experience Ries in Calcutta. Soon he is ordered to Europe and gets a special order. In an Austrian salt mine 36 wooden boxes are displayed. The "secret archives" of SS chief Heinrich Himmler Henry Ries to sift with a team of translators to the Fund and travels to London in all cases, the reports of the SS doctors, Himmler on the. progress of their experiments on concentration camp prisoners informed. "This has upset him very much," Wanda says Ries. "It was inconceivable to him that there could be such a morass of moral depravity at all. "As Ries discovers that his grandmother deported to Theresienstadt and murdered his aunt in Auschwitz, is set for him, never go back to Germany.

But in the fall of 1945, added the soldier Ries to Berlin. "He had to come back then. When he saw the full extent of the destruction, all the wretched figures, he got sympathy. Henry was essentially a committed humanist, believed in the goodness of man. "And he realized that not all Germans were collaborators and conviction, says his widow. Himself I always felt it as a favor to be a Jew: "He could not be a perpetrator."

Henry Ries also had feelings of guilt. "He wondered why he had survived, even though so many millions were murdered." Really he had dealt with this issue but only in his final years. Ries travels to Auschwitz and Theresienstadt, seeking traces of his murdered relatives and documents that will be remembered as the Holocaust (Auschwitz, 1997). In another photo book (Farewell my generation, 1992) he portrayed the generation to which he belongs. Ries travels through Germany, meets former Wehrmacht soldiers, incorrigible Nazis and victims of the Nazi regime. With the camera, he records how the story has dug in their faces.

These photographs are still in the shadow of the images he created during the Berlin Blockade: In June 1948 the Soviets blocked access to the western sectors. Stalin wants to force the ruined city behind the Iron Curtain. The Americans respond with the airlift: Eleven months they fly, with British support, more than two million tons of food and fuels (see box).

Henry Ries, who works in April 1946 as a photo journalist for a news magazine of the U.S. Army rushes, between different locations the blockade back and forth. It scans takeoff and landing aircraft and friendly waving pilot. The large format images appear on the covers of magazines. He documented the construction of the airport Tegel, the wreckage of crashed planes shows the midst of ruined houses, and how the West Berlin to live with the blockade.

The air-bridge pictures substantiated Ries' fame as a press photographer. They found their way into the collective memory on both sides of the Atlantic. The German-American fraternity Myth: Henry Ries, the exiled German Jew, gave him his face. 2008, the year of the 60th Anniversary of the airlift, is thus also "Henry Ries year." Whenever something is being reminded of the airlift, there is Ries' image of the raisin bomber flying over a group of merrily waving children. Reproduced millions of times, it became an icon.

The image itself is like all his recordings have been a conscious snapshot says Wanda Ries. "He has never drauflosgeknipst simple, but long observed a situation and then composed. He was inspired by the moment, unique looking in the everyday. His goal was to identify the individual from the crowd. "On the raisin bomber picture is Henry was particularly proud of. He was the only one who climbed up on the piles of rubble around Tempelhof and have included such a motive. "When the candy bomber was served, he asked the children not to look in his direction. Only one man turns and looks directly at the viewer. This closes a circle. Maybe that makes the uniqueness of the image. "

1955, Ries pulls back from the Journalism and opened a studio in Manhattan for advertising photography. About 20 years will it take till he comes back to Berlin. He had actually signed with Germany, says Wanda Ries. "He felt as Americans, no longer spoke German." But in 1973 a letter arrives from Berlin. The 25th Anniversary of the blockade is planning an exhibition of State Image his photos, Henry Ries is invited. For the first time he sees the wall for him, an absurd, Kafkaesque monstrosity. Sun upfront numerous pictures of the "anti-fascist protective wall" that have drawn the SED Upper across Berlin.

For an exhibition of his wall-looking photos of the photographer as an assistant. Friends provide him with Wanda Ries. They eloquently today from Henry Ries' life reported as discrete as it is, when it comes to their private lives. "I do not like to stand in the center," she says gently but firmly. Everything she says is that her grandfather was an opponent of the Nazi regime in Dachau, and that she is not Jewish. It has art education studied art and later again in New York. Today it against the backdrop of the estate of her husband. The soon to be retained intact in the German capital. "It was Henry's wish. He wanted to know everything in Berlin. He loved this city. "

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The Airlift 1948/49

few days after the currency reform in western zones of occupation, the D-Mark introduced in the Western sectors of Berlin. In the night of 24th June 1948 Soviet troops then blocked all access roads to West Berlin. But at the initiative of Military Governor Lucius D. Clay The USA and UK, via an air bridge to supply the city. With more than 270,000 flights, 2.3 million tons of cargo are transported. Every two to three minutes ends up a machine in Berlin. "Candy Bomber" is the name of the vernacular of the aircraft. The blockade ended on 12 May 1949.

Exhibitions:

"Focus on Berlin: The blockade of 1948-49. The photojournalist Henry Ries. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin. Until 21 September, daily 10 - 18 clock

photo exhibition of Henry Ries in the rooms of the Berlin AIDS Help, Meineke Strasse 12, 10719 Berlin. Monday to Thursday 10-18 clock, Friday 10-15 clock

The autobiography

Henry Ries: "I was a Berliner. Memories of a New York photojournalist. Partha Publishing, 220 pages, 35 €

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The last sausage

butcher Hermann Görlitz has to close after forty years. He can not implement a new EU directive. Report from the last day

This morning everything was as usual. Hermann Görlitz (56) has risen by 4 clock 30, has eaten bread with jam, drank a coffee and leaf through the newspaper. Then he went to his butcher shop. At 6 clock comes the ice cream truck and brings fresh butchered pork. It will be the last time today. Tomorrow will close the shop Görlitz. The EU wants it.

Görlitz is now on the driveway at Rosenthaler Platz in Berlin-Mitte. He is gaunt, his hair is still full. He wears a white coat and a brown glasses with a thick edge. Left is his butcher shop. In the window sticks a quote: ". 1 kilo beef, € 5.99" A good price, will Görlitz. "And the quality is right, too. Can you ask my customers. "

Since Görlitz 30 years working in the shop. In GDR times, it belonged to Trade Organization (HO). Görlitz was only an employee, but worked like that, "As if my butcher dit," he says, while his companions and the apprentice who have pig halves. "I'm passionate about meat." After the turn he took over the shop. The customers were still.

This will tomorrow be the end. Then Görlitz will have to move. A new EU directive, who took the Eurocrats in Brussels thought stipulates that butchers, who process more than 600 kilos of meat a month, a minimum standard of refrigeration need.

the expensive conversion work can not afford Görlitz. While buzzing in his cold store modern technology, but the rooms themselves are not made of aluminum, but verkachelt. To unsanitary, says Brussels. "Rubbish," said Goerlitz. "In 30 years, yet no one died in our flesh."

For a long conversation, he has no time now he has to be processed pork sausage. "The fresher the meat is processed, the better it tastes," he says and disappears into the work rooms.

where it smells sour after iron - the smell of raw meat and fresh blood. Also, a spicy smell of pepper and garlic in the air. It's the spice mixture until the sausage is the right "kick". Görlitz mixing them to ourselves. "After a secret recipe - I have from my master." Görlitz keeps tradition.

The work areas are white tiled on the walls. Silvery metal devices, the size of refrigerators, stand in the middle. The butcher cut the pork into thumb large pieces, which are then rotated through a meat grinder.

Görlitz likes to watch at work. "I've nüscht hide. For me, only quality comes into the sausage, "he says. He now faces a barrel cauldron in which lies a stirring hook. There comes into the sausage mixture and is mixed for one hour. "I work without a maturing agent and Fertigwürzmischungen." That was on-consuming - and will therefore made only rarely. "But after you taste this"

Because he knows that here, the sausage tastes, Manfred is Herbell the front of the sales counter. The 62-year-old retiree living on a few houses here and buys for years. Behind the counter is Monika Görlitz (45), small and with dyed blond perm. It acts depressed. "That is somehow a close," she says as she weighs 150 gr hunting sausage. "For years, we are here and now is just closing."

The customer takes drastic words. Manfred Herbell, a stocky man with a bald patch and mustache excited about "in Brussels", which ruin "the German middle class." "It can not be true that a Shop has to close only because of such Heinis desk. "

Hermann Görlitz has a similar view, but will not comment. "Because otherwise cook up the emotions." All he is left with nothing but: It is now located in Berlin-Pankow, about 15 km, take a butcher's shop, whose owner is retiring. Therefore, he looks "really confident professional in the future."

If not for Mrs. Dammenhayn. The 84-year-old living on the street. "An old customer of ours." The pensioner can not go well. Görlitzs also have a hot counter and bring you a hot meal every afternoon. "Sometimes it's pea soup, then pork knuckle with sauerkraut," says Görlitz. This is now final. Time he is concerned no longer create.

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The undiscovered mass grave

On a site in Brandenburg historians suspect a mass grave from the Nazi era. The owner for years prevented the exploration. Been successful.

(Jewish General, February 21, 2008)















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The Red Trabi, which is rotten to the neighboring site behind chain-link fence, Bernd Boschan long been a thorn in the side. "This is hardly the dignity of the site appropriate," says the 50-year-old can roam and disapproving views of the East German gammlige vehicle. Bosch

with graying hair and a manicured mustache and is the official director of the 611 community Jamlitz in the Upper Spreewald. More trouble than the red Trabbi makes him for many years a neglected plot of land on which it now stands. Here are historians According to the remains of 750 Jewish concentration camp prisoners are - the biggest yet undiscovered mass grave from the Nazi era.

Boschan tried for years to clarify the suspicion, the owner of the land successfully thwarting all attempts education. Back in April 2007, the district court turned to Boschan Guben to obtain interim excavation disposal - the Judge refused.

contrast Boschan filed a complaint with the court in Cottbus - which has now pointed back. The court stressed that there was a "high moral and sentimental value" to rescue the victims, but made it clear that no legal Give a basis to have to dig on the property against the will of the owner. Boschan will appeal the verdict, which is not yet final, "probably begin" at the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court.

Why is the owner defends against awareness of mass murder can Boschan not say it. "Sometimes he referred to the fact that excavations would be mitigated by the recovery value of his property. Then he wanted a commitment that will be established in any case, no memorial, "said the official director and shakes his head helplessly.

Hans Hirtinger is even on this spring day not to be found on his property. No chance - The 50-year-old has been living for years in Bavaria. In the building materials Jamlitz representative is seen only rarely. His house, which stands out as a dark spot against the dark sky is uninhabited. From the window frame of the paint flakes off, the glass sheets are dirty, missing bell and name tag.

Jamlitz The mass grave also involved the Central Council of Jews. "It is certain that there are Jamlitz in a mass grave. But the research is prevented. It's incredible, "says Peter Fisher, in charge of memorials and remembrance. Fischer surprised the vehemence with which the property owner off against digs: "It is really just anti-Semitism . Suspect "

Whether Hans Hirtinger is an anti-Semite, it will not speculate Boschan. "For this I know the man enough." He once phoned him and describes him as "cautious." Telling neighbors that Hirtinger "strange" was. Otherwise, a lot of rumors: As Hirtinger-senior in the 50's built the house, he had encountered when creating the foundations on the ruins of the concentration camp prisoners and had the whole thing hushed up. Such rumors will not comment Boschan.

That actually could find a mass grave on the property is at least plausible. Hirtingers house, as well as the entire settlement stand on a former satellite camp of Sachsenhausen. Between 1943 and 1945, about 8,000 prisoners were interned. Where today are well-maintained bungalows and rose bushes, where paths wind around themselves neatly raked garden gnomes, once stood the wooden barracks of the concentration camp prisoners.

In the spring of 1945, the camp was closed. Prisoners capable of marching, about 1,600 men, had to go on a 100-kilometer-long death march towards Sachsenhausen. Weakened and sick were left behind in the camp. Immediately after leaving the column of prisoners SS troops began their murder.

massacre and history of the satellite camp today on information boards documented since 2003 in Jamlitz educate about what is happening. To date, in the village remembered nothing of the concentration camp, the camp's history was ousted in GDR times. After 1945, namely, used the Soviet occupation, the former concentration camp for the internment of Nazi criminals and alleged "spies." Thousands perished in the camp.

A proper search for the SS victims begins in November 1970. Former prisoners of concentration camps to go to Jamlitz to explore whether we could set up a memorial here. They come across a rumor in the area, perhaps even on the grounds of the satellite camp, there was a mass grave.

is now a major Search. In an old gravel pit where in 1959 some skeletons were found, dug again. Soon be exposed hundreds of skeletons - 577th overall Bullet holes in the back of their heads and remains of striped concentration camp clothes show that it is the murdered prisoners.

A report by Gunter Morsch, director of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, comes to the conclusion that in February 1945 a total of 1342 prisoners were murdered. So far, 589 bodies were found. The remaining 758 presumed dead in Hirtingers Morsch Mark Brandenburg grass steppe. Where Boschan not be dug.

If, after Heinz stamp (name changed) would, it could be dug today. "Then would 'the last clear," he calls over the fence. The 70-year-old retiree with a gray work jacket and working in his garden. His house is at the point where there were once the barracks of the SS block leader.

actually speaks of retired not with journalists who have already interviewed many of the settlement. "Recently an American was there. He wanted to know if we are all anti-Semites! "Outraged stamp. Heinz stamp itself would not mind if the remains of concentration camp prisoners were dug up, he says again and again. "Then would 'put to rest here."

If he is not even as deceptive: Official Director Boschan wants to a find a memorial tombs Create Hirtingers property. "We want to honor the victims by a visible sign." If he would dig for.

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4 years pregnancy

Sure, 4 years, because the fetus is asleep in between times.

fatwa of 20.09.2007 agree on the length of a pregnancy

all Sunni schools of Islamic law agree that a pregnancy can go over 9 months

Imam Malik Ibn Anas [the founder of the Maliki school of law of Sunni Islam] said, a pregnancy can take up to 4 years. It was in the history of pregnancies that lasted up to 4 years ... Al-Bayhaqi reported: 'al-Walid ibn Muslim said: I quoted a statement by Aisha [one of Muhammad's wives] that the longest pregnancy is not more than 2 years might take. Imam Malik said, 'Who can say such a thing. Our neighbor, the wife of Ibn Ajlan is an honest woman. Her husband is also honest. She was three times within 12 years pregnant. Each of her pregnancies lasted 4 years. '"(Sunan al-Baihaq. Chapter 7 / 443).

Umar Ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph after Muhammad, took the view that the duration could be pregnant 4 years.

The Koran verses that speak of gestation including waiting time of 30 months want to set a minimum duration of a pregnancy "

comment. Based on the assumption of long-lasting pregnancies are authoritative Muslim authorities of the Islamic Early it in criminal justice processes to Sharia Rules in charge of widowed mothers for alleged adultery, the ability to rely on these "dormant" pregnancies [that is to say that the fetus in the womb, for example, two rested for years had been born and therefore only three years after the death of the husband was]. In this way death sentences are avoided [..].

source quoted here: PI