In "Not Guilty at Nuremberg" (1988), I wrote, "'Sonderbehandlung' is an example of the
ugly jargon used in all bureaucracies, and is probably best translated as
'treatment on a case-by-case basis'."
Evidence of the truth of this claim may be found in a public call for
tenders for an explosives detection system at Cologne-Bonn airport issued by
the Beschaffungsamt des BMI
[Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior] in February 2001,
containing the following sentence:
"Sollte
auch das Kontrollstrufe-3A-Gerät Sprengstoff im Gepäckstück erkennen, wird
das betroffene Gepäckstück einer Sonderbehandlung zugeführt (Polizeitaktische
Maßnahmen)."
Translation:
"If the Control Level 3A device detects explosives in the baggage,
the piece of baggage concerned is taken for special treatment (police tactical
measures)."
Just imagine what the Hoaxoco$t con-artists would say if it the above
sentence were found in a war-time German document relating to the deportation
of the Jews! Note that the sentence contains not just one -- but two -- highly
suspicious, yet totally undefined, terms: "Special treatment", and "police tactical measures".
Presumably this means that your luggage will be vaporized in a gas or
steam chamber, disappear without a trace, and then reappear in Israel or New
York under a different name tag some months or years later.
CARLOS W. PORTER
MARCH 20, 2001
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