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Dear Sirs:
The article mentioning the Nazi family connections of Karl Rove is journalistic sham, and you ought to be ashamed of publishing a piece in which you rely on such sources as Al Martin, who, if it is a real person, has no idea what he is talking about. First, he wrote that Karl Heinz Roverer was the Gauleiter of Mecklenburg, which is not so. The Gauleiter of Mecklenburg was SS Obergruppenfuhrer Friedrich Hildebrandt, who was sentenced to hang by the United States War Crimes court at Dachau in 1947, according to the History of the United Naitons War Crimes Commision and the Development of the Laws of War, London, HMSO, 1948, pp.521-524 (Many other sources confirm this). So Al Martin changed it (also incorrectly) to Gauleiter of Oldenburg. In fact, there was a Karl Roever von Oldenburg (and not Karl Heinz Roeverer as you report, perhaps to link him to the Roeverer's who help contruct the instruments of death at Birkenau?) who was Gauleiter of Wesen-Ems, and not of Oldenburg, which didn't have a Gauleiter. He had nothing to do with Birkenau and was not a war -criminal. In fact, he was likely assassinated by the Nazi's themselves because of his unwanted efforts to make peace with the British. I have no idea whether the Karl Rove we all know bears any relation to this Roever, and apparently neither do the authors of the flimsy piece you published.
I would like to make a general point concerning this type of publishing behavior. The people who are orchestrating the distressing "war on terrorism" are sinister enough. Journalists who, in attempting to expose them, have so little regard for truth that they prefer to repeat obviously suspicious "information" in the hopes of scoring an easy hit (this matter was easily checked as part of public record, and relying, in such cases, on internet crackpots is no substitute for that checking) cannot be anything but counter-productive.
Thank you for your time
Peter Tanzer
Formerly Professor of Philosophy, Long Island University
The article mentioning the Nazi family connections of Karl Rove is journalistic sham, and you ought to be ashamed of publishing a piece in which you rely on such sources as Al Martin, who, if it is a real person, has no idea what he is talking about. First, he wrote that Karl Heinz Roverer was the Gauleiter of Mecklenburg, which is not so. The Gauleiter of Mecklenburg was SS Obergruppenfuhrer Friedrich Hildebrandt, who was sentenced to hang by the United States War Crimes court at Dachau in 1947, according to the History of the United Naitons War Crimes Commision and the Development of the Laws of War, London, HMSO, 1948, pp.521-524 (Many other sources confirm this). So Al Martin changed it (also incorrectly) to Gauleiter of Oldenburg. In fact, there was a Karl Roever von Oldenburg (and not Karl Heinz Roeverer as you report, perhaps to link him to the Roeverer's who help contruct the instruments of death at Birkenau?) who was Gauleiter of Wesen-Ems, and not of Oldenburg, which didn't have a Gauleiter. He had nothing to do with Birkenau and was not a war -criminal. In fact, he was likely assassinated by the Nazi's themselves because of his unwanted efforts to make peace with the British. I have no idea whether the Karl Rove we all know bears any relation to this Roever, and apparently neither do the authors of the flimsy piece you published.
I would like to make a general point concerning this type of publishing behavior. The people who are orchestrating the distressing "war on terrorism" are sinister enough. Journalists who, in attempting to expose them, have so little regard for truth that they prefer to repeat obviously suspicious "information" in the hopes of scoring an easy hit (this matter was easily checked as part of public record, and relying, in such cases, on internet crackpots is no substitute for that checking) cannot be anything but counter-productive.
Thank you for your time
Peter Tanzer
Formerly Professor of Philosophy, Long Island University