IN 2011, Monika Schaefer, a violinist from Jasper, Canada and a former candidate for the liberal Green Party, began researching the events of 9/11. Her world was turned upside down when she discovered that the official narrative of that fateful day was not true and so troubled was she by the Green Party’s neglect of the issue she resigned.

A short time later, prompted by this discovery, she started researching the most famous event of World War II. The result was her video in the summer of 2016 titled, “Sorry, Mom, I Was Wrong about the Holocaust.” The video, a public apology to her deceased German mother for accusing her of being complicit in genocide, instantly went viral and was quickly censored on Youtube and social media.

The personal fallout was immense. The “inclusive” community of Jasper, where Schaefer had been well-liked and active as an artist and volunteer for over 30 years, turned out to be not that inclusive after all. She was harassed on the streets, barred from public venues and lost all of her private violin students. An unknown person wrote a wild, ranting letter in her name to all the businesses in town, portraying her as a disturbed bigot. The police refused to look into this forgery.

But things only got worse when Schaefer, 58, was arrested in January of 2018 while on a Christmas trip to Germany for making the video. She was formally charged with “incitement of the people.” She then spent ten months in a maximum security prison in Munich.

In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, readers might consider buying her engaging new book, which bears the same title as her video and in which she recounts these harrowing events.

After reading this book, I cannot think of a more charming, affectionate and gracious person than Monika Schaefer to be put on the world stage over this sordid business. She is forgiving and understanding of all who shunned her, even the relatives in Germany who reported her to the police.

Her book includes an absorbing account of life in modern Germany from the inside of a women’s prison, where half of the inmates are German and half are foreign immigrants. When she first arrived she was taunted. When she left, she was quite popular among the inmates, who enjoyed the soulful music she played on her violin in her cell everyday, the sound wafting out the window she cracked open as much as permissible.

Schaefer makes some interesting observations, such as that the German women overwhelmingly preferred immigrants as mates and said that German men were too emasculated.

Her account of her experience in the courts of the Federal Republic of Germany is astounding in its revelations of how few rights defendants have in this kind of case — and in all cases. For example, trials and hearings are not full transcribed in German courts as they are in this country. Only speeches formally read go into the public record go recorded. As a result, much of what transpires is never available to the public. In her cases, the judges were visibly uninterested in defense arguments. It was a show trial not the real thing.

Perhaps most astounding of all: if a defendant says something politically objectionable in the course of defending himself, he may be charged with more political crimes. For this reason, Schaefer made a harrowing trip out of Germany to avoid being possibly arrested again for things she said in her closing speech.

Schaefer’s brother, Alfred, a retired IBM engineer who also made a number of videos on the same subjects and lives in Germany, was left behind in jail when she left for Canada. He spent four years in maximum security prison for thought crimes, including over one year in solitary confinement for his defiance of masking rules. While I do not endorse everything the Schaefer siblings believe or say, I admire their courage and perseverance.

As for Monika: that this unimportant woman of no power or wealth has managed to irritate some of the most powerful people on earth should be a consolation to us. For it demonstrates at the very least that ideas matter and in itself is evidence of deception and fraud. She insists in her book that she is glad for her experience in prison.

It will be interesting to see if she is allowed to remain free in Canada. The concept of forgiveness does not exist when it comes to modern thought criminals. There is nothing they can say, nothing they can do, short of complete and total retraction, to expunge their crimes.

I did not find endorsement of Nazism per se in this book, although there is a photo of Adolph Hitler near the end. I do not know if in their many interviews, the Schaefer siblings have gone so far as to say Nazism, with its idolatry of the state, racial mysticism, occultism and personality cult, was good. That would be a serious mistake.  It’s not necessary to believe Germany of that time was without grave error or that it didn’t commit its own crimes to correct the falsehoods of history. Germany’s departure from its Catholic heritage is at the root of its sufferings. The Catholics of yesteryear bear much more responsibility for the state of Germany today than Jews do. That said, Holocaustianity is a religion that is more anti-Christian than Nazism. The entire impulse behind it is to demonize Christian civilization and to replace the Crucifixion with a dogmatic, virulently intolerant, state-enforced cult of Jewish suffering. It has caused insanity, poverty, the moral liberation of psychopathy, the centralization of inhuman power — and paved the way for other global scams, most notably 9/11 and the contrived pandemic. I reject emphatically all personal animosity or rancor toward ordinary Jews because of any of this. Unfortunately, that rejection is not, and never will be, reciprocated.

I liked Schaefer’s book because she shows that one can survive in a world of lies, indeed even prison, and still be happy. One can survive without losing a sense of charity, forgiveness or hope. Beauty, truth and virtue cannot be destroyed. They can only appear to be defeated.

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