Ingrid Weckert

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Ingrid Weckert

Ingrid Maria Weckert (born 1927) was a German theologist, historian, author and historical revisionist.

Life

After Abitur and studying Catholic theology, she worked as a librarian. She wrote both under her own name and under the pseudonym Hugo Rauschke. Weckert was Manfred Roeder's private secretary (she wrote for Roeder's Deutscher Jahrweiser from 1984 to 1998) and a confidant of Michael Kühnen, with whom she founded the organisation "Anti-Zionist Action" (AZA). She was a member of the German Alternative party (Deutsche Alternative), which was outlawed by FRG authorities on 10 December 1992. She was a author in the academic nationalist magazines "Deutschland in Geschichte und Gegenwart" (Grabert-Verlags) and "Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung". Her brochure Emigration of Jews from the Third Reich was published in July 1994 by Thies Christophersen's publishing house "Kritik-Verlag".

One of the best-known German historical researchers and writers, Weckert is best known for her book on the events leading up to Kristallnacht.

Miss Weckert's book raises many questions about the tragic, portentous events of 9 November 1938, to which she does not claim to know all of the answers with absolute certainty, even if she effectively disputes a number of widely held, erroneous opinions about these events. Who were the real instigators of the riots? What were their real motives? Who was behind the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat in Paris, on the morning of 7 November 1938? What were the objectives of the people who must have supported the young Jewish assassin, Herschel Grynszpan? What happened to him after the assassination? What was the extent of property damage caused by riots and what were the results of physical attacks on Jews? How did such German leaders as Hitler, Goebbels and Göring react to the riots and to what extent, if any, were they themselves instigators of the riots? What had been the policies of the German government with regard to the small but wealthy and influential Jewish minority in Germany before the riots (i.e., during 1933-1938)? How did the riots change these policies? To what extent did the objectives of the National Socialists and of the Zionists coincide? To what extent did Zionists and National Socialist Germany collaborate in achieving these objectives on the basis of formal agreements? How did the policies of the German and Polish governments clash? What characteristics of the relation of Jews to their host populations could have contributed to causing the riots?

Other topics include Jewish emigration. In 1985, Weckert took part in the 6th IHR conference (Sixth International Revisionist Conference). David Irving often used Weckert's essays and books for his depictions without disclosing this in the text. She has been subjected to police raids, during one of which Ernst Zündel was arrested in her apartment in Munich. A former tourist guide for travel agencies and owner of an advertising agency, she read and spoke Hebrew. She knew Menachim Begin and other Jewish leaders personally and frequently visited Israel. Her article, published under the pseudonym Hugo Rauschke in the magazine "Sleipnir", led to a police search of the editorial office. The responsible Berlin-Tiergarten district court sentenced her in 1998 to a fine of 3,200 DM for sedition because of the article in which she described everyday life in the Auschwitz concentration camp as a kind of convalescent treatment.

Writings (excerpt)

• Feuerzeichen – Die Reichskristallnacht. Anstifter und Brandstifter, Opfer und Nutznießer, German original, Grabert-Verlag, Tübingen 1981
  • further editions in 1989, 1997, 2009 and 2016 (read Edition 2016, Castle Hill Publishers)
  • Flashpoint – Kristallnacht 1938. Instigators, Victims and Beneficiaries, Institute for Historical Review, Costa Mesa, California 1991 (foreword by Wilfred von Oven)
• Massentötung oder Desinformation, in: "Historische Tatsachen", No. 24, Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichtsforschung, Vlotho 1985
• The Bizarre Story of Kristallnacht. “Crystal Night” 1938 – The great Anti-German Spectacle, Paper Presented to the Sixth International Revisionist Conference, 1985 (archive.org)
  • La "Noche de los Cristales" de 1938: El Gran Espectáculo Anti-Alemán, Spanish Edition, Ojeda, 2015
• Anmerkungen zum Wannseeprotokoll, in: "Deutschland in Geschichte und Gegenwart", No. 40, 1992, pp. 32–34
• Auswanderung der Juden aus dem Dritten Reich, Nordwind-Verlag, Kollund 1994 (read Edition 2018)
  • The Emigration Of The Jews From the Third Reich, 1994 (Archive)
  • later as Jewish Emigration from the Third Reich, Theses & Dissertations Press, 2004
• The Gas Vans – A Critical Assessment of the Evidence, 1993
• Die Gaswagen – Kritische Würdigung der Beweislage in Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte. Ein Handbuch über strittige Zeitfragen, published by Germar Rudolf, 1994
• Zweimal Dachau, in: "Sleipnir", 1997, 2nd Issue, pp. 14–27 (as Hugo Rauschke)
  • Two Times Dachau – A Review, Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, 2004

External links

• Revisionists.com
• Jewish Emigration from the Third Reich
• CODOH: Ingrid Weckert