Gebhard Heilscher actively talked about Germany's "overcoming the past" and criticized Japan's efforts by "looking down on Japan."　
May 28, 2021
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When I was still a subscriber to the Japanese edition of Newsweek, it carried the results of a public opinion poll on German attitudes toward Japan and the Japanese.
When I read the results, I was astonished and dismayed.
I was surprised and dismayed when I read the results, which showed that about half of the German people held anti-Japanese beliefs.
I have written several times about my anger and disdain for the German people.
This book shows in every detail what a lowlife the Germans are who hold anti-Japanese views toward Japan.
It was only natural that such vile people should be sympathetic to the Nazis.
They put all the blame on Hitler alone and are now condemning Japan with the same attitude as the Asahi Shimbun.
About half of the German people who say they harbor anti-Japanese ideology are probably still essentially Nazis.
South Korea has been practicing Nazism in the name of anti-Japanese education since the Syngman Rhee regime immediately after the war and continues to do so.
In China, Jiang Zemin started Nazism in the name of anti-Japanese education to divert the public's attention from the Tiananmen Square incident, which continues to this day.
It is why about half of the German people are sympathetic to the anti-Japanese propaganda of China and South Korea, whose essence is "abysmal evil" and "plausible lies" of the true nature.
Read this authentic book, and you will know all about it.
It will be an eye-opener for the Japanese people and people worldwide.
Almost all Japanese will be stunned to learn that the Germans are such a vile people.
The Japanese media, which has failed to inform the Japanese people of the realities of the German people, is not even a fraction of a journalist,
They and their sympathizers, academics, and so-called cultural figures have been saying nonsense like "Learn from the Germans" and so on.
They are the worst idiots in the history of humankind.
This book also proves 100% correct my "transcendence" in abusing those who have been saying, "Learn from Germany."

Preface　
The "Great Germany, Bad Japan" Stereotype is Deceptive
Germany fears large-scale terrorist attacks, armed insurrections, and possibly a coup d'etat to overthrow the democratic system by far-right neo-Nazi forces after the middle of 2020.
Members of these forces are said to have a nationwide network. They hide in various organizations, including the federal military's special forces "KSK," security agencies, and police forces.
The militants have been uncovered, though only a tiny number, and many weapons, including plastic bombs and automatic weapons, as well as Nazi artifacts, such as SS war songbooks, have been seized.
It has also come to light that approximately 48,000 bullets and 62 kg of explosives are unaccounted for in the KSK alone.
So far, more than 600 soldiers, police officers, and others have been interrogated on suspicion of complicity in the plot, and one KSK company has been ordered to disband, a highly unusual step.
However, the forces network is much more extensive, and the whole picture could be more transparent (based on investigative reporting by the New York Times and German media).　
A German poll (First Public Broadcasting ARD, July 4, 2019) has the following data.　
67% fear that the far right will change our country.　
Far-right neo-Nazis, 66%, too often dominate the country.
The far-right has become more socially acceptable, 65%.
Security services should monitor the Internet and social networking sites more.　
It should be noted that the timing of this survey was one year before the aforementioned grand conspiracy came to light.　
In the international community, Germany is seen as having settled its "Nazi past.
Successive heads of state, beginning with the first president, Heus, have used the phrase "overcoming the past" to restore the nation's honor.
However, the revelation of a far-right neo-Nazi conspiracy, the tip of the iceberg, shows that "overcoming the past" is nothing more than an empty slogan.
For more details, see Chapter 4 of this book, "Germany is a Victim of the Nazis," which deceives the world.　　
On the other hand, in recent years, Germany, whether in the mass media, the Bundestag, academia, or the private sector, has made Japan the scapegoat for its war responsibility.
To offset the guilt of the "Nazi past," they forcefully contrast it with the "misdeeds of the former Japanese military.
It is a distorted mechanism of the deep psyche.
In psychology, the scapegoat is, for example, the infected people slandered on social networking sites against the stress of self-restraint caused by the new coronavirus disaster.
The international community blamed Germany, defeated in World War II, for the Holocaust (genocide of Jews and others) and other crimes.
The "war of world view" conducted by Germany under Hitler was a "war of extermination = the struggle to kill everyone.　
Although Japan was also a defeated nation, the wars waged by Germany and Japan were completely different in terms of objectives, methods of fighting, and atrocities.
However, since the end of the 20th century, Germany has created the impression that "the Japanese army committed atrocities equal to or greater than those of the Germans" and blames our country by name.　
The international community has a persistent view of Germany as "good Germany and Japan as bad Japan.
While Germany has faced its history seriously and worked to "overcome the past," Japan has not done enough to reflect on its past and apologize for it and is still in severe disputes with neighboring countries.　
In particular, in September 2020, an anti-Japanese group from South Korea installed a statue of a young girl symbolizing the comfort women of the former Japanese army in a public place in the capital, Berlin, and this became an issue at the level of German and Japanese foreign ministers.
While the Japanese government has called for the removal of the statue, there are not a few intellectuals and ordinary citizens in Germany who support its continued installation.
The image of Japan as a country that does not reflect on its past has become evil, while the image of Germany as a country that does reflect on its past has become righteous.
The negative image of Japan is spreading in the international community from Germany.　
This view is based on preconceptions and stereotypes without knowing the facts and is referred to in this book as the "German-Japanese stereotype."　
In 2001, the author published a book entitled "What is 'War Responsibility'?
As the subtitle suggests, Germany, which claims to have cleared its past, has deceived itself and the international community by using two national tricks to make Hitler and the Nazis scapegoat as if it had removed its history.
This fact was proven based on various historical data and field interviews in the countries that perpetrated the war and those that suffered from it.　
Weizsaecker's famous 1985 speech culminated these two tricks and established the national myth of postwar Germany (the Federal Republic).
This speech was a significant catalyst for the spread of the German-Japanese stereotype in the international community.　
However, after the trick collapsed in the late 1990s, Germany lost its scapegoat and soon began to point the finger at Japan, as the anti-Japanese groups in South Korea had been trying to seduce it to do.　
Gebhard Hirscher, the Far East correspondent of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, a leading German newspaper, used to talk about Germany's "overcoming the past" and criticize Japan's efforts "looking down on Japan" on TV Asahi's late-night discussion program "Live TV until the morning! He also criticized Japan's actions in "looking down on Japan."　
However, after reading my book, Heilscher became silent about Germany and disappeared from TV.
People who knew him very closely took the trouble to tell the author the inside story.
His discourse was cynical and based on "German-Japanese stereotypes."
And because he had a certain amount of knowledge about the war and post-war process in both countries, he apparently realized that he could not refute my book.　
After my book was mentioned in the review section of a paper magazine and Heilscher was silenced, the German-Japanese stereotype was almost never mentioned in the Japanese media.　
However, this stereotype did not originate in Germany but in Japan, from the leftist media, progressive cultural figures, and their affiliates in Japan.
They spread the domestic and international discourse that "Japan's attitude toward the war- and colonial-affected countries and its postwar compensation efforts are not up to par.
They put aside their responsibility for the war and criticized the nation of Japan and the Japanese people out of a distorted sense of narcissism.　
Because of this undercurrent, the "German-Japanese stereotype" has resurged like a zombie.
The Korean media, in particular, repeatedly say that "Japan should emulate Germany," using the famous photo of German Chancellor Brandt kneeling in front of the Monument to Heroes in the Polish Ghetto in 1970.
In the summer of 2020, a statue of then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kneeling before a comfort woman became an issue.
The creator used Brandt's kneeling as a hint (see [Chapter 2: Delusions of Anti-Japanese Japanese Poisoned by the "Tokyo Trial Historical View"]).　

The Japanese responsible for spreading the German-Japanese stereotype are, for example, the following people.
・In fact, he is only half-intelligible, but journalist Akira Ikegami gave an explanatory commentary on a TV special saying that Germany's approach to the past is admirable.
・Yoichi Masuzoe, a former governor of Tokyo, has high praise for postwar Germany, even though he calls himself a European-savvy international political scientist, without knowing the actual thoughts and behind-the-scenes circumstances of Germans.
・Shigeru Ishiba, a member of the House of Representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who is considered a "know-it-all" in political circles and is one of the candidates for the prime minister's postwar post, but declares that Germany's postwar treatment is a model for him based on what he has heard.
・Kiyohiko Nagai, an international political scientist who highly praised Weizsäcker's speech and published Japanese translations, such as "40 Years in the Wilderness'', became a preacher of the Weizsäcker myth.
・Mari Akasaka, a writer who praised Weizsäcker's speech in her novel "The Emperor in the Box."
・In the postwar period, Japan had a strict view of the history of the Tokyo Trials, while Germany had no idea of the history of the Nuremberg Trials. In addition, Weizsaecker's successor, President Herzog, gave a landmark speech that overturned the German perception of history. Professor Yuji Ishida of the University of Tokyo, who published a significant book, "Overcoming the Past: Germany after Hitler" (Hakusuisha), ignoring at least six critical events in postwar Germany, is regarded as Japan's leading expert on modern and contemporary German history.　
Compared to these six, there was, for example, Yasuaki Onuma, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, as an intellectual who viewed postwar Germany with a more balanced sense of perspective.
However, such persons are in the minority, and the German-Japanese stereotype has taken root, especially in Japan, and has been transmitted to China and Korea.　
The international community is increasingly undermining our country's image (perception).
What cannot be overlooked is the momentum of anti-Japanese groups of Korean descent that have erected comfort woman dens in the U.S., Europe, and Oceania, as was the case in Berlin.　
Even in Europe, the comfort women issue is quite well known in the wrong way due to biased media coverage.
When I explained to intellectuals in Germany, Poland, and other countries that the fire's epicenter was not South Korea but anti-Japanese forces in Japan, who started the fire and set it ablaze, they were all surprised.
What would the motive or purpose be for such a thing?
They were all astonished.　
Especially in the last few years, anti-Japanese forces from Korea and Japan have been involved in Germany, and propaganda activities to have a low opinion of our country's image have been developed.
South Korea has been developing an impression campaign to equate the former Japanese army with the Nazis in recent years.
It is on the same wavelength as Germany, which has always regarded the Nazis as an absolute evil.　
In particular, since 2016, anti-Japanese groups from South Korea in Germany have been trying to erect a statue of a comfort woman.
Germans are actively involved in this movement, and anti-Japanese forces in our country are behind it.　
As for Germany, researchers have revealed the fact that the Wehrmacht and Nazi organizations used to forcibly take women to occupied territories and other places and turn them into sex slaves.
Nevertheless, the German media ignore or taboo their country's past, and the general public is unaware of it and denounces Japan from a self-righteous standpoint.　
The poor image of Japan can be attributed mainly to the following two points.　
(1) Leftist media and activists in our country have continued disseminating false and misleading information critical of our government.　
(2) South Korea has been fabricating history, conducting unreasonable anti-Japanese activities at home and abroad, and spreading them to Germany and other third countries.　
However, many Japanese people and the international community are hardly aware that the German-Japanese stereotype is being expanded and reproduced even today through the activities of such insane people.
Why have the national images of Germany and Japan become so far apart?
It is not only because Germany is very concerned about its external image and its leaders are skillful in their speeches and other performances.
In conclusion, I want to make the following two points.　
☆There are no countries in Germany's vicinity that have anti-German as their national policy, just as there are no countries in Japan that have anti-Japanese policy, just as there are no countries in Korea.　
☆There are no "anti-German Germans" in Germany who are motivated by self-righteousness to undermine their mother country, just like the "anti-Japanese" in Japan. It includes the media.　

Germany accepted the propaganda of anti-Japanese forces in Korea and Japan and condemned Japan without checking the facts.　
So why is there no "anti-German German'' in Germany but "anti-Japanese'' in Japan?
This book reveals the reality of the unjustified accusations against Japan in Germany and the originators of German-Japanese stereotypes originating in Japan.
It also exposes the trick of the German state and its disintegration process.　　
On the other hand, this book analyzes the psychological mechanisms of the "anti-Japanese" in Japan from the viewpoints of brain science, folklore, and psychology.　
Gerald Horne, an African-American historian, has written a book titled "Racial War: Another Truth about the Pacific War" (originally published in English in 2004, translated into Japanese by Shodensha). In his book, "Racial War in the Pacific: Another Truth about the Pacific War," Gerald Horne, an African American historian, places the Japanese war in the context of world history as a catalyst for the overthrow of colonial rule by so-called people of color in Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world.
Third parties have confirmed that the historical significance of the German and Japanese wars is entirely different.　
We must know what is happening in the world today, and we must break the German-Japanese stereotype of Japan by participating in international information warfare.
It is the only way to restore Japan's national image and honor and to solidify its position for tomorrow.　
(In the text, "Germany" refers to the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly known as the former West Germany and then the reunified Germany, unless otherwise noted. The characters' titles are as they were then, and honorific headers are omitted. (Bold and bylined text is by the author unless otherwise noted.)