WILL KEEP SHRINE

 

SS veteran cancels
opening of Hitler memorial

While America was allied with the Soviets during the Second World War in a campaign to make the world safe for Communism, Theodor Junker was one of thousands of European volunteers who fought to rid the world of this terrible scourge. In four years of frontline fighting right up to the end, this valiant old soldier was wounded six times—three times seriously—only to be placed in a death camp for his bravery after the war, a REAL death camp in which thousands died under the most cruel and barbaric Allied sadism. Theo Junker was one of the few to survive. By creating a memorial to his fallen comrades and to his immortal Leader, he has now reaffirmed the oath of allegiance he once took and given living testimony to the meaning of the old SS watchword: Meine Ehre heisst Treue—My Honor Is Loyalty! The following is a somewhat skewed media account of his devoted efforts.

 

Farmer Won't Open Hitler Memorial After All
CBS Thursday, 15 June / 2:53 pm US/CST

By MIKE PARKER

MILLARD, Wis. — A man who claims he was an SS soldier during World War II says he won't open his Hitler memorial in Walworth County [to the public].

Theo Junker, 87, attracted national media attention when reports surfaced he had built a shrine to Germany's infamous leader on his farm near Millard. Junker had planned to open the shrine on June 25.

But Walworth County officials said Thursday they've talked him out of it, warning him the shrine might violate zoning ordinances and would attract groups of people that could cause trouble.

Graves says his deputies will patrol the area on the 25th and will arrest anyone caught trespassing on Junker's property.

The memorial caused quite a stir in Wisconsin and beyond.

Junker said he served in a unit [of the Waffen-SS] in World War II. He hoped his memorial would clear up inaccuracies about the war and the role of Adolf Hitler.

"Adolf Hitler is the greatest guy — you don't know the other side," Junker said.

Junker spent $200,000 and five years building this shrine.

"They told everybody like me were monsters. They thought, 'The SS, they are bad guys,'" Junker said.

Jews unhappy

An inscribed plaque accuses the Allies of atrocities during the war.

"Not a single person in the Third Reich was gassed," Junker said.

Junker doesn't accept that Hitler was to blame for starting the war in which 50 million people died, including [an alleged] 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

"The underpinning of all this is pure anti-Semitism, that the Jews and others have fabricated this lie for 60 years," said Lonnie Nasatir with the Chicago Anti-Defamation League.

The ADL says news of the shrine is all over the Internet on neo-Nazi Web sites, some calling Junker a hero and suggesting that racists from all over travel to the Wisconsin memorial.

"Perpetuating all kinds of bigotry and discrimination. It's just one example of how hate can really spread," Nasatir.

Milwaukee Jewish Council spokeswoman Kathy Heilbronner said Junker is a classic Holocaust denier, choosing to ignore the overwhelming volume of material about the Holocaust.

Sugar Creek Town Chairman Loren Waite said he doesn't like the notoriety the memorial is bringing to the town.

Meanwhile, those still on the hunt for Nazi war criminals may be taking a close look at the past of the 87-year-old man who says he was a proud member of the dreaded Waffen SS.