Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1136-W766

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1136-W766

Release Date: August 31, 2018

发布日：2018年8月31日

Topic: Huang Ciping's Letter to the Staff of the Topography of Terror Exhibition in Berlin

标题：黄慈萍在波兰写给柏林“恐怖地形图”展览工作人员的建议书

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Huang Ciping's Letter to the Staff of the Topography of Terror Exhibition in Berlin

August 29, 2018

Dear friends at the Topography of Terror,

My name is Ciping Huang. I am the executive director of the Wei Jingsheng Foundation and Secretary-General of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition.

I visited your memorial in Berlin that was built on the site of the former SS headquarters during Nazi Germany on August 27 and 28 with great interest and appreciation of your exhibitions. On August 28, I talked and discussed with your staff Eva and Matthew about my thoughts of your exhibition. I also talked to your staff at the information desk and left my message on your guest book. Here, I want to present my thoughts related to your exhibition and hope to get your attention.

I felt that your exhibition tried to reflect honestly a chapter of a darkest period in history when human rights were exploited and innocent people, especially the Jewish, were terrorized and murdered. I also was lifted to see the depiction of the resistance movement under the Nazi terror, including "the White Rose". All these dimensions must be learned and considered to avoid a repeat of such terrible human tragedy.

However, I did regret that, in your exhibition, I did not see materials on the SS association with Interpol. From 1938 to 1945, with four SS leaders as heads of the Interpol, SS expanded Nazi terror beyond Germany and persecuted even more people including Jews and those who resisted, but managed to escape Germany or its occupied countries. When we pointed this out to the Interpol Headquarters, they simply took those four presidents' names off the list on their website. This is not an honest attitude towards history; to erase the history may only result the likelihood of a repeat of that history. Such is true with Interpol - its current president Meng Hongwei is the Vice Minister of Chinese Public Security, and the Chinese Communist regime has been expanding its state terrorism to the world through institutions like Interpol to prosecute their enemies, include dissidents and writers, etc.

Hereby, I sincerely ask you to add a chapter of the Interpol's association with the SS to your exhibition, or even have a special exhibition regarding this subject. If we avoid the history of terror, we may just repeat that terror. In the case of Interpol, the terror is continuing.

Finally, I want to express the gratitude to see that you have kept a good section of the Berlin Wall, another reminder of history. In 1989, although the democracy movement in China was cracked down on by the Chinese Communist regime in June, the Eastern Europeans, especially those in East Germany, learned a lesson in a positive way that finally resulted in the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Communist regimes in East Europe, and the final unification of Germany. As China has reached its own turning point now with the light of democracy shining ahead, we hope people in the democratic world will not only remember the history, but also give us the support and help us to succeed, to expand democracy and freedom that every human being yearns for. In this progress of human society, you may not just simply preserve the history but also to engage with the history to push it for the better direction by honest record and exhibit of what had happened for the earlier people.

Hope to hear your responses. I could be called at: 001-202-270-6980, or through e-mail at: HCP@WeiJingSheng.org or HCP0411WJS@AOL.com to reach me.

Thank you very much for your attention on this matter,

-- Ciping HUANG

Written in Wroclaw, Poland

Sent from Krakow, Poland

Related photos:

Huang Ciping visits the Berlin Wall and Topography of Terror Exhibition:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2018/newsletters2018-3/HuangCP180828inBerlinDE-c-4.jpg

Huang Ciping visits Auschwitz in Poland:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2018/newsletters2018-3/HuangCP180831inAuschwitzPL-c-5.jpg

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1136-W766

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1136-W766

Release Date: August 31, 2018

发布日：2018年8月31日

Topic: Huang Ciping's Letter to the Staff of the Topography of Terror Exhibition in Berlin

标题：黄慈萍在波兰写给柏林“恐怖地形图”展览工作人员的建议书

Original Language Version: English (Chinese version at the end)

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黄慈萍在波兰写给柏林“恐怖地形图”展览工作人员的建议书

尊敬的柏林“恐怖地形图”展览的工作人员，

我是黄慈萍，任魏京生基金会执行主任，中国民主运动海外联席会议的秘书长。

我于2018年8月27日与28日两天以浓厚的兴趣参观了你们的展览，并与你们的工作人员伊娃和马修及前台信息处的人员进行了交流与讨论，并在来客簿上留言。在此，我将我的意见归纳如下，请你们予以考虑。

首先，我对你们在纳粹德国期间主要的镇压机构党卫军以及秘密警察盖世太保的总部建筑遗址上建立的这个展览表示赞赏。你们的展览诚实地反映了人权被剥夺的历史上最黑暗时期的一个篇章。在此期间，无辜的人们，尤其是犹太人，遭受恐吓和谋杀。在展览中我也看到了有关德国人民抵抗纳粹恐怖的努力，包括“白玫瑰”运动，并为之而感到鼓舞。我们必须学习和考虑所有这些，来避免可怕的人类悲剧的重演。

然而，令人遗憾的是，我没有在展览中看到当年纳粹秘密警察与国际刑警组织的相关材料。从1938年到1945年，四名党卫军及秘密警察领导人担任国际刑警组织负责人，并将纳粹恐怖活动扩大到德国之外，迫害了包括犹太人和抵抗者在内的更多人。当我们向国际刑警组织总部指出这一点时，他们只是将他们的这四个纳粹头目的主席的名字从他们网站上的名单中删除而已。这不是对历史的诚实态度。抹杀历史只可能导致历史的重复。国际刑警组织也是如此 -- 其现任主席孟宏伟是中国公安部副部长，而中共政权则通过国际刑警组织等机构向全世界扩大其国家恐怖主义活动，迫害他们的敌人，包括持不同政见者和作家等。

在此，我诚挚地希望您们在展览中添加有关纳粹党卫军及其秘密警察与国际刑警组织的章节，甚至就有关内容举办一个专题展。如果我们避开恐怖的历史，恐怖的历史就可能会重复。而国际刑警组织所造成的恐怖仍在继续。

最后，我感谢你们保留了柏林墙的一部分，作为历史的另一个提醒。 1989年，虽然中国的民主运动在六月间被中共所镇压，但东欧人，尤其是东德人，却以积极的方式吸取了教训，最终导致了柏林墙倒塌，东欧共产党政权的终结，以及东西德国的统一。现在，中国已经进入转折点，民主的曙光开始出现，我们希望民主世界的人们不仅记住历史，更给予我们成功所需的支持和帮助，在世界上扩大人人都渴望的民主和自由。在人类社会的这一进步中，你们不仅可以简单地保存历史，还可以通过诚实的记录和对早期人民所发生的历史的启示来积极推动世界向更好的方向发展。

我的电话是：001-202-270-6980。电子邮件：HCP@WeiJingSheng.org或HCP0411WJS@AOL.com。

非常感谢您（你）们的关注，

-- 黄慈萍

2018年8月29日

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