Friedrich Griesendorf, who died in 1958, was a very educated man. He was, at one time, a court clergyman for the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II (1888-1918).
After World War II, he was a pastor in the Eversburg church parish where a camp of Serbian prisoners of war was located. Before retiring, he delivered these lines to his German parishioners:
"Our country lost the War. The English, Americans, and Russians won. Maybe they had much better equipment, larger armies, better leadership. In reality, it was an explicit material victory. They took that victory.
However, here among us is one nation that won another much more beautiful victory, a victory of the soul, a victory of the heart and honesty, a victory of peace and Christian love. They are the Serbs.
We knew them earlier, some a little and some not at all. But we all knew what we did in their homeland. We killed hundreds of the Serbs, who defended their country, for one of our soldiers who represented the occupier- the oppressor. And not only that, we looked favourably when others shot at the Serbs from all sides: the Croatians, the Italians, Albanians, Bulgarians, and Hungarians.
Yet we knew that among us in the prisoner of war camps were 5000 Serbian officers, who earlier were the elite of the society and who now resembled living skeletons, exhausted and spent from hunger.
We knew that among the Serbs smoldered the belief, 'He who does not revenge is not sanctified.'
We were truly afraid of the revenge by these Serbian martyrs. We were afraid that after our capitulation they would do what we did to them.
We imagined that tragedy and visualized our children floating dead in canals, or being roasted in the local bakery. We imagined murder, plunder, rape, demolition and destruction of our homes.
However, what happened? When the barbed wires were torn down and 5000 living Serbian skeletons found themselves free in our midst, those skeletons caressed our children.
Only now can we understand why our greatest poet, Goethe, studied the Serbian language.
Only now can we comprehend why the last word for Bismarck, on his deathbed, was - Serbia.
That kind of victory is more sublime than a material victory. It seems to me that only the Serbs could win such a victory, being brought up in their St. Sava's spirit and epic poetry, which our Goethe loved so much.
This victory will live for centuries in the souls of us Germans. I wanted to dedicate my last clergyman's sermon to that victory and the Serbs who won it."
Mr. Milosovic was said to have killed tens of thousands and put them in mass graves. We never did find those mass graves.
Shame on Clinton and shame on the media for passing on those lies.