‘ fe i i THANKS TO massive Jewish influence in Hollywood and the American media, most people think Uiat only one race was persecuted in the course of Second ¥/orld War. But that is far from the trath. So much so that Winston Chur- chill once said, ‘‘We’ve killed the wrong pig’’ a dry com- ment on the fact that the Communists were every bit as bad as the Nazis, if not worse. An example was Tito’s wiping out of the Danube Swabians, a people of German descent, most of whom lived in Yugoslavia. Before the war, there were 650,000 of them. Their road to Calvary began in 1944, and by 1948 practically none were left. Many of them fied, ending up in Canada, the U.S, and Argentina. But at least 200,000 were finished off by Comrade Tito and his heroic comrununist partisans. They were hacked, hanged, shot or starved to death in concentration camps that Hitler and Stalin would have been proud of. N, Winds of War TV series tells the story of Swabians, any more than it tells the tragedy of the millions of Germans whe were thrown out of their ancient lands to please Stalin & Co. That sort of thing doesn’t fit.’ LEE SE EY IS There was nothing furtive about the deed. {t just didn’t make headlines in the West, any more than the continued use of Nazi concentration camps by the Rus- sians made news in the West (in conditions, too, that were no dif- ferent from those that existed under the origina! owners). One reason for our silence was that we weren't too interested. Wasn't Comrade Tito one of our best friends” ~ low could we sud- dently anno —_c that he, too, was a killer? That would be a bit like our media suddenly discovering that there are countries in Africa that are unimaginably worse than South Africa. So we knew little or nothing about the genocide directed against the Swabians. But the story is in a book entitled ‘‘in the Claws OF The Red Dragon: Ten years under Tito’s Heel,”’ written by a Catholic priest named Wendelin Gruber, a Swabian sentenced to 14 years’ hard labor for keeping a diary about what was happening to his people. : Thanks to the intervention of Konrad Adenauer, chancellor of West Germany, Gruber was released after suffering 10 years in hell, and I’m not going to describe that hell for you. It’s not the kind of thing that would brighten your Ardagh 986-4366 Free JANET CUNNINGHAM IMPAIRED DRIVING | Hunter Barristers & Solicitors #300-1401 Lonsdafe Ave., North Vancouver dzy. But the record is there if you want it. The book, and the literature that accompanied it, did renew my in- terest in the Swabians, one of the most luckless peoples on earth even though they were the most industrious in Middle Europe. They were no newcomers to Yugoslavia. They were there more than 203 years before Yugoslavia became a country, having been brought in by the Hapsburgs to populate and cultivate what was then a huge swamp. One-third of them died of malaria, but the rest went on to create a mini-paradise. There is nv evidence that they were atiracied by Hitler, who was always shouting about the “ Volksdeutsche’’ — Germans liv- ing beyond the borders of the Reich. in the Sudeteniand, for in- stance, the German minority was used to break up Czechoslovakia. The Swabians, however, were far from all that and minded their own business. As the war and Tito moved into their lands, that luxury soon disappeared. So did they. As Ca- nadian-Swabian Frank Schmid’ has put it, “‘this great atrocity was surely the most sweeping and cruci extermination of any European ethnic community within living memory.” Another Swabian, Franz von Kerney, has described what he saw when he returned to his birthplace. “Prior to the war,’’ he wrote, ‘‘it had 6,000 German-speaking inhab- itants. On my fast visit, only four still lived there ... An alien people has settled in the town.”’ No Winds of War TV series tells the story of the Swabians, any more than it tells the tragedy of the millions of Germans who were thrown out of their ancient lands to please Stalin & Co. That sort of thing doesn’t fit. In the case of the latter, it can at least be said that they shouldn’t have backed Adolf. in the case of the Swabians, no such rationaliza- tion can be made. In The Claws Of The Red Dragon costs $19.50 and can be obtained from Frank Schmidt, | Lyme Regis Crescent, Scar- borough, Ont. 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Also samed in the suit is pro- vincial Environment Minister Bruce Strachan, who the suit alleges exceeded his authority by approving a revised air pollution petmit that did not protect the en- vironment contrary to provincial legislation. Uader the terms of the revised permit, air emissions from the 80- year-old mill are measured under a “total loading’’ or ‘‘bubble’’ averaging sysiem. The permit replaced Port Mellon’s extended air pollution variance order that was scheduled to expire July 1, 1988 and will itself expire in 1991 when mill owners Canadian Forest Products Ltd. and the Oji Paper Co. Ltd. of Japan expect to have completed a massive plan to overhaul the mill and bring it up to stricter ‘A' pollution standards. Jacks maintains the permit allowed the mili to continue ex- ceeding provincial air pollution standards and was opposed in a 5,000-signature petition 10 days after. its application notice was published in local papers, well within the 30-day time limit allow- ed for registering opposition to the proposal. The petition was. signed by a number of prominent area residents. At these General Paint stores only. 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