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   e m butler

   May 12, 2005

   “weapons stolen from Poland”??

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   dearieme

   May 12, 2005

   No surprise: that sort of stuff – eugenics etc – was standard fare for Progressives from the late 19th century onwards. It would be perfectly natural if he had bought into it too. Good to think that the noses of modern progressives might be rubbed in it, though.

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   President Allende Foundation Spain

   May 23, 2005

   Madrid, May 23, 2005
   PRESIDENT ALLENDE FOUNDATION
   Tel. 34-91.531.19.89
   Fax 34-91.531.68.11
   E-mail: 100407.1303@compuserve.com
   Press Release
   Subjects:
   1. Forthcoming appearance of the complete unpublished thesis of Dr. Salvador Allende to qualify for the Doctor-Surgeon degree at the University of Chile, in May 1933, entitled Mental Health and Delinquency.
   2. Warning regarding a text in circulation which libels Salvador Allende.
   I
   Forthcoming publication of university thesis by Dr. Salvador Allende
   The complete text will be published in June (it’s available at http://www.elclarin.cl, Hemeroteca, from May 23rd). In his thesis Allende examined the schools of thought which were then current (in 1933) in legal and crimininalistic medicine regarding personalities of delinquents and methods to prevent crime and rehabilitate the delinquent..
   The purpose of publishing the complete 1933 thesis is to provide a link, not known until now, which forms part of Allende´s consistent approach to principles of social and cultural progress by means of the development of political and economic democracy, respect for humanistic values and condemnation of all forms of racial discrimination and anti-Semitism.
   In this thesis, the young Allende refers to the observations of Lombroso, the Italian criminologist, about the supposed relationship between Hindus, Arabs, Gypsies and Jews and certain kinds of crime. Allende concludes that Lombroso has not shown that race has any influence on delinquency (“there is no precise data showing any such influence in the civilized world,” Allende maintains).
   The young medical student refers to the theses of the then famous endocrinologist, Nicolas Pende, on the Southern Italians, the Spanish and English in relation to thyroid activity. He coincides with the Spaniards professors Suñer and Jiménez de Asúa, in describing as insufficient, simplistic and one-sided the doctrines of the endocrinologist schools such as those which, referring to the thyroid and the thymus, see internal glandular secretion as the only explanation of crime.
   Allende cites within the category of “collective crimes” the nascent Nazi-Fascist movements, which, without mentioning them by name, he describes in this way: “the world economic crisis and existing political instability have created in different countries armed institutions in the guise of political parties that use extreme violence “.
   In his thesis, Allende attributes a criminal nature to some leaders of the masses who use force “to impose their principles on all else” Without mentioning Hitler by name, he describes that contemporary phenomenon in the following words.
   “So it comes about that these collective crimes lead to truly tragic consequences, when a psychopathological phenomenon develops in the masses which eminent psychiatrists compare to an insidious virus. A pernicious influence can be exercised all too easily on the masses by an apparently normal person who, in reality, forms part of an identifiable category of the mentally disturbed.”
   Allende then condemns the use of terror as a method of government:
   “History is rife with these examples, so we see, and so we can understand, with the help of psychiatry, how collective deviation is motivated by the irrational impulses of a leader. So it is that Robespierre and Marat amongst others have been diagnosed as belonging to certain pathological categories”
   Allende brings his thesis to an end affirming his trust in free will and in the human conscience of mankind:
   “We are fully in agreement with Mariano Ruiz-Funes when he says: ‘ If Taine is correct in saying that every man carries within himself a Phidias capable of sculpting supreme works of art but also of creating monstrosities, it is equally true that each society creates criminals or shapes men of superior virtues and, in both cases, whether on an individual or social basis, an ethical imperative determines that all activity should be of a transcendental nature. If that is not the case, be assured that our conscience will be burdened with the knowledge that we are in the presence of a mediocre sculptor, one that deserves our disdain.”
   II
   Warning of the libelous text circulating by Victor Farias
   The defamatory intention is exemplified in the treatment of the case of the Nazi military criminal, Walter Rauff.
   1) Farías’s silence on the fact that the Allende Government made possible the questioning of Rauff on June 28, 1972 at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Santiago by a German judicial civil official
   The declaration was taken in relation to the trial that continued in Germany against the SS official Bruno Streckenbach. The complete text of the declaration is published in Nizkor en http://www2.ca.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/r/rauff.walter/Rauff-deposition-translation
   2) He distorts the way in which President Allende sympathized with Wiesenthal, at the time explaining to him that Chilean law obliged the President to follow the 1963 ruling of the Supreme Court 1963 related to Rauff
   Here is how Simon Wiesenthal describes it in his book, Justice Not Vengeance :
   “But Rauff was lucky: under the Chilean statute of limitations murder charges cannot be brought after fifteen years, and when the Supreme Court in Santiago dealt with the case eighteen years had elapsed. By three votes to two the application for extradition was rejected. A judge from Hanover, who went to Chile to interrogate Rauff in the action against Pradel, returned with the conviction that it would only be possible to get hold of the Obersturmbannführer if a different regime came to power in Chile.
   Eight years later just that happened: the Socialist Salvador Allende became head of state. On 21 August I handed over to the Chilean ambassador in Vienna, professor Benadava, a letter to Allende, drawing his attention to the Rauff case. Allende relied very cordially but pointed to the difficulty of reopening a case when the Supreme Court had already handed down a judgment. I requested Allende to examine the possibility of having Rauff, who was not yet a Chilean citizen, deported: we might be able to proceed against him in a country with a more favorable legislation. But before Allende could answer my second letter there was a coup and Allende lost his life”.
   These are Wiesenthal’s own words that refute the libelous statements of Farias’ undocumented text.
   There are reasons to suspect that Farías also had been able to falsify or to manipulate the text of the letter that he attributes to President Allende in answer to the one of Mr. Wiesenthal. He doesn’t publish a photocopy of the letter but rather a version that is re-typed by an unidentified person, without seal, date or registry number, with the heading “Ministry of Foreign Relations”, and, at the bottom, “President of Chile” after the name Salvador Allende Gossens. The three items are inconceivable in the correspondence of Head of State who wrote on “Presidency of the Republic” letterhead and always signed with his name only (without adding “President of Chile”). Letters all were sent with a date and a record number. Suspicion grows when Farías does not identify the source of documents, but claims that “I have found them in the file of the Dokumentationszentrum of Vienna”. A serious omission for an academic professional who does not identify the number of box and/or file where he claims to have found the document.
   3. Farías silence that Pinochet protected Rauff from those who wanted to put him on trial.
   Below you can read the letter from the Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Dr. Efraim Zuroff, sent on November 23, 1997 to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu :
   “Simon Wiesenthal Center
   23 Cheshvan 5758
   23 November 1997
   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
   Jerusalem
   Dear Prime Minister,
   We recently learned that the Chief of Staff of the Chilean army and the country’s former president General Augusto Pinochet is planning a visit to Israel. Although he was invited by ‘Machshirei Tenua’, a private company, the visit nonetheless has serious public implications which have prompted this letter.
   General Pinochet served for many years as a dictator who purposely and systematically ignored the principles of human rights and democracy. During his presidency, many of his political opponents were murdered, among them numerous Jews. These facts are, in my opinion, sufficient cause to prevent his visit to Israel, but allow me to add an additional dimension related to the activities of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
   For years, General Pinochet granted a safe haven to Nazi war criminals who escaped to Chile, among them SS officer Walter Rauff who invented the gas vans in which hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust in the Chelmno death camp, various parts of the Soviet Union and in Yugoslavia. Later Rauff served in Tunisia and in Italy, where he played an active role in the measures taken against the Jews.
   After the war, Rauff escaped from Europe and settled in Chile. I am well acquainted with the great efforts invested by the Wiesenthal Center and other Jewish organizations during the late seventies and early eighties to convince the Chilean government headed by Pinochet to extradite Rauff to the German authorities who sought to put him on trial. Pinochet, however, adamantly refused to accede to this request and defended the Nazi war criminals (who died in Chile in 1984).
   From a moral point of view, the State of Israel, as the national home of the Jewish people, cannot host individuals like Pinochet who caused so much damage, sorrow and pain to Jews. Your intervention is therefore requested regarding this painful subject in order to prevent the visit of the murderous dictator, defender of Nazi war criminals like Walter Rauff.
   Please spare us this embarrassment.
   Sincerely yours,
   Dr. Efraim Zuroff
   Director
   Simon Wiesenthal Center”
   4. Farías’ silence in the face of what is public and well-known, that Salvador Allende’s relationship as a youth and an adult, with all the creeds, beliefs and ethnic groups in Chile, without distinction, was always excellent.
   III
   Every one of Farias’ supposed “discoveries” and “findings” on Salvador Allende turn out to be a string of unsupported falsifications.
   *** ***
   For more information on the next publication you can refer to the President Allende Foundation (Spain).

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   Prada

   July 17, 2005

   Le texte intégral de la thèse universitaire de Salvador Allende “Hygiène mentale et délinquance” (1933) est accessible dans le site de CLARIN-Chile (www.elclarin.cl, section “hemeroteca”), ainsi que le télégramme de protestation que le jeune Député socialiste Allende avait adressé au Chancelier Hitler en novembre 1938, deux semaines après le massacre des juifs durant la Kristallnacht.
   Les documents originaux publiés on line dans CLARIN-Chili montrent combien sont fausses toutes et chacune des nouvelles forfaitures mises en circulation récemment à propos d’Allende.
   Par exemple, dans sa thèse universitaire de 1933 (page 115) on voit Allende rejeter les rapprochements entre certains types de crimes et certaines races établis par le célèbre criminologiste italien Lombroso dans “Le crime, ses causes et remèdes” (1899).
   En 1939, en sa qualité de Ministre de la Santé du Front Populaire, Allende avait rejeté la rédaction que lui avait été proposée par une Commission de médecins indépendants de son Ministère concernant la stérilisation des aliénés. Il n’a jamais existé un “projet de loi d’Allende” sur ce sujet, contrairement à ce que prétend la campagne diffamatoire en cours (qui, bien entendu, n’a jamais trouvé un pareil “projet de loi” portant la signature du Ministre Allende).
   Ignace Prada

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