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Torture, Brainwashing and Murder in Germany 1 Martin Bott Kantstraße 8 75334 Straubenhardt Germany Tel. (++49) 0157 777 16523 [email protected] www.totalitaer.de www.wuala.com/taranto/Der%20Totalitäre%20Staat%20CD%20Januar%202007 youtube: wwwtotalitaerde MartinBottD75334 Torture, Brainwashing and Murder in Germany In the years between 2000 and 2005 I and my brother Markus Bott operated the Web page www.totalitaer.de. In January 2004 we additionally published the contents of this Web page as the book „Der Totalitäre Staat“, ISBN 3-00-013321-6. This book comes with a CD or DVD containing the web page, the book as word document and PDF and since January 2008 with ca. 14 hours of film material showing and explaining the torturing, brainwashing and steering techniques used by the German Bundesnachrichtendienst ( BND ) against me and my family, filmed with hidden cameras in our house. The Web page as well as the book informs the public on techniques and operational principles used by the German secret services. The German Bundesnachrichtendienst ( BND ) is a direct successor of GESTAPO and SS. From the very beginning in 1946, then termed Organisation Gehlen, the BND operated according to the same principles. These principles are published with regard to the GESTAPO. The GESTAPO ( Geheime Staatspolizei, Secret State Police ) being the political secret service of the third Reich persecuted all political activities regarded as illegal by the state. Additionally the GESTAPO fought preventively against real or alleged dissidents of the third Reich. The GESTAPO operated within the Reich and the occupied territories without being submitted to law and justice and without being effectively controlled in any way by a superior organization of the state. The GESTAPO used “preventive arrest” ( Schutzhaft ) in prisons and concentration 2 camps, torture termed “severe interrogation” ( Verschärfte Vernehmung ), of course without seeking any information and execution termed “special treatment” ( Sonderbehandlung ). The GESTAPO was charged with the guarding of foreign workers and prisoners of war. The GESTAPO operated forced labour camps for reeducation and took part in the deportation and assassination of the Jews and Gipsies. The notorious Einsatzgruppen had been organized by the GESTAPO and killed approximately 2 000 000 persons in eastern Europe on the spot, without referring them to concentration camps. The GESTAPO, today renamed BND, after only one year of pause continued their violent suppression of any opposition in 1946. Today the BND operates according to the same principles, not being submitted to law and justice or being controlled in another suitable way. This must not be forgotten while reading this text and watching the films documenting torture, brainwashing and steering by the BND. During the 5 years our web page was operated we also made public its existence through a large number of publications in the world wide web as well as by being personally present in public where we often showed the measurement of radar pulses as is documented on numerous photographs. The web page as well as the book are included on this DVD ( 2 Internetseite und Buch ) as well. During this time I and my brother were continually victims of violence and threats which my brother mentioned in his large numbers of publications of which some are still available today. ( 3 Internetbeiträge Markus Bott on the DVD ). In 2003 a criminal procedure against my brother Markus Bott was opened on charge of Widerstand gegen die Staatsgewalt ( Resistance against state power ) which was suspended later. During this procedure Markus as well as I had made written declarations that we both had been tortured by the BND which is actually the continued Gestapo of Nazi Germany. These declarations should still be in the records. Within the first days of February 2004 my brother ordered the ISBN number for our book „Der Totalitäre Staat“ which includes listing of the book in the register of available books. Since the day the ISBN number was granted in mid February 2004 my brother Markus Bott was no longer able to continue his work on our web page and our book due to torture. As result I was forced to end a trip to Berlin. During the first weeks and months these acts of torture took place in public, visible to hundreds of persons in the cities of Pforzheim and Karlsruhe. After Markus already had been tortured continuously for almost two years, as a result of 3 which he was not able to live his life in any way, I decided to document these atrocities committed by the German BND on video beginning with December 2005. Aim was to show that Markus obviously is being steered by members of the BND, which makes them responsible for any offence being committed. At this time I had already been victim of violent attacks during several months similar to those numerously documented in the videos. More than 100 Videotapes have been confiscated in January 2008 after I published the DVD. The films on the DVD show the following crimes against me and members of my family. Only approximately the first 40 tapes have been used. The 65 not used video tapes show similar atrocities against me and my family continuing till January 2008. After having been tortured during five and a half years, my brother Markus Bott was asassinated by the Bundesnachrichtendienst ( BND ) on July, 11th 2009 in Karlsruhe, Germany. The scientific foundation of torture Electromagnetic fields such as radio frequency and laser radiations always cause an electric current if they are acting on conducting materials such as metals and the human body. To have an effect on the nerves or the muscles this current needs to imitate the currents used by the body, as is the case with the commercially available muscle trainers or other bioelectric apparatus. The currents used by the nerves have a low frequency in the order between several hertz to several kilohertz. To produce such low frequency currents through high frequency microwave or laser radiation several methods are used. One technique is to use beats between two high frequency electromagnetic radiations with slightly different frequencies. These beats are actually a low frequency electromagnetic field which then causes a low frequency current. The frequency of the beats is actually the frequency difference between the two high frequency fields. If an electromagnetic field of 1 Ghz and another of 1 Ghz plus 100 hertz are interacting, the resulting beats have a frequency of 100 hertz. These electromagnetic beats cause a current with a frequency of 100 hertz which then contracts muscles. If the frequency of the beats is in the audible range, one would hear a sound or voice depending on the signal being used for modulation. Technically spoken one would overlay two high frequency electromagnetic radiations of 4 equal frequency. To one of these microwave or laser radiations the desired low frequency signal, for example recorded nerve pulses or voice is added in a way that leads to an addition of the high frequency and the low frequency signal. The resulting beats between the two high frequency signals consist of a low frequency electromagnetic field which has the characteristics of the added nerve pulses or voice. This electromagnetic Field then causes an electrical current similar to the nerve pulses or voice added to the high frequency signal. And such an artificial nerve current has the same effect as the nerve currents used by the body. Another possibility is to use an asymmetric electromagnetic field where the positive component has a different frequency from the negative component. Electric currents in the body are not caused by moving electrons as in metals but are mainly ionic currents. That is, they consist of moving electrically charged Atoms. These Atoms have a certain mass and size. Their relative size causes them to have, additional to their electrical resistance, a mechanical resistance in the body fluid. If the ion is moved faster, its mechanical resistance rises even faster. The mechanical resistance rises as the square of the speed. This means that if the speed is doubled, the resistance is 2x2 which gives a value of 4. And if the speed rises by a factor of 3 the mechanical resistance rises by 3x3 which is 9. This effect can be felt if one moves the hand slow and fast through water. As a consequence the ions conducting the current in the body experience a higher mechanical resistance if moved at higher frequencies as compared to lower frequencies. If the high frequency signal is asymmetric, meaning that the positive component of the sine wave has a different frequency as the negative component, the ion experiences two different mechanical resistances as well. Since the energies of both components of the signal are equal, the ions are moved back and forth by the asymmetric field. But because of the lower mechanical resistance during slow movement they move a bit further in the direction enforced by of the lower frequency component. This is illustrated with a DVD being moved through water in the Film 4 Strahlenwaffen. Such an asymmetric electromagnetic field can be generated with frequencies up to many Ghz by fast synthesizers. These asymmetric high frequency fields are causing ionic electric currents which can simulate nerve pulses in the body. This techniques are used for brainwashing as well. If the parts of the brain which are passing the nerve signal from the ear to the brain are irradiated with such a speech modulated signal, the resulting voice is not being heard, as it is not coming from the ear. But it is not being thought either as it is not coming from inside the brain. That can make it difficult to decide whether specific thoughts or opinions are the result of brainwashing.
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