MORE GERMAN BASHING: TAXPAYER FUNDED CBC’S IDEAS PROGRAMME DEFAMES MONIKA SCHAEFER’S FATHER

To the CBC Ombudsman,

2026 June 23

Defamatory statements were made about Dr. Otto Schaefer during a recent CBC radio program, for which there was a complete lack of hard data and evidence. I am asking that the CBC make a formal retraction and a public apology for slander. 

I happened to tune in to the tail end of the CBC radio program called IDEAS on May 12th, 2026. Imagine my surprise when I heard my father’s name Otto Schaefer being spoken, and then the shock when I realized that he was being smeared. I heard things being said about my father which I knew to be false and unfounded. As soon as the program finished, I searched online and found the show in the CBC radio archive for that day and was able to listen to the entire broadcast. It was called “How Canada forgot it once had a segregated health system”, and the host was Nahlah Ayed. The discussion revolved around a book written by the late Elaine Dewar called “Oblivious: Residential Schools, Segregated Hospitals, and the use of Indigenous People as Slaves of Race Science”. Elaine Dewar had been interviewed shortly before she died, and the voice of her daughter and others who attended the recent book launch (posthumously for the author) were heard as well.

Otto Schaefer worked for many years at the Charles Camsell Hospital in Edmonton, and he was the founding Director of the Northern Medical Research Unit of the Department of National Health and Welfare Canada during the nineteen-sixties, seventies and eighties. He dedicated his life to the health and wellbeing of the aboriginal peoples of the north, in particular the Inuit. But because of my father’s country of origin – Germany ‒ and because of the time during which he attained his medical degree ‒ WW2 ‒ Elaine Dewar made assumptions about his motivation and about his goals, none of which she could verify. In her own words, all her red flags went up when she saw his name and learned from where and whence he came, because she was “a Jewish girl”. The host had introduced her as a Holocaust survivor one generation removed. 

During the program the term “medical experiments” was used repeatedly, thus invoking rather sinister images. Conducting research on the health of the Inuit during a time of rapid changes in their lifestyle and nutrition is a very different thing from doing “medical experimentation”. 

Elaine Dewar characterized Otto Schaefer’s research as “nonsense studies”. For example, she scoffed at his study of differing alcohol metabolic rates in different peoples. It just so happens that my father’s motivation to study this came after he found that the Whitehorse police were consistently releasing Caucasians from the “drunk tank” sooner than the Indians, after collecting the drunks off the streets the night before. (Presumably they were being protected from violence or from freezing to death in case they passed out on a cold winter night.) Schaefer complained to the police that they were being racist, always letting the White guys out first. So the Police Chief invited him, “Otto, please come tomorrow morning, and you make the determination whom to let out, and when.” Lo and behold, Otto found that the Whites were completely sober, but the Indians were still drunk in the morning. My father, having a curious mind and being very scientifically oriented, then set out to determine why this was so. 

By coincidence some years later, a Swedish acquaintance of mine wrote to ask me if there was any connection between myself and Dr. Otto Schaefer, and I proudly told him that I was his daughter. This man had come across Schaefer’s ground-breaking research which explained the differences in metabolic processes between races on account of different enzymes which were either present or not. It seems to me this information is actually quite important. But according to Elaine Dewar, this was a “nonsense study”. And she called it racist. Ironically, it was my father’s concern about police racism which led him to conduct the study.

Elaine Dewar also spoke about the fact that Schaefer was the organizer of “so-called consent”, again, mocking him. She said that whichever language he was speaking [he spoke German, English, Inuktitut, and French], “everyone said it all sounded German anyway, so nobody could understand him.” Therefore she concluded that their informed consent was meaningless. 

I can surmise wherefrom Dewar got this idea. It so happens that our family donated all of Otto Schaefer’s papers, books, slides, and journals to the University of Alberta. We felt that his important life’s work would be of greater use there than in one of his children’s basements. [Would we do that if we had any doubt about his impeccable character and integrity?] Elaine Dewar had access to all those donated materials. So, what might she have found that led her to the above mockery?

My father was a very humble man, and he liked to tell a self-deprecating humorous story about one of his lectures which he had delivered in French. He had started his talk with an apology for his imperfect French. A colleague in the audience quipped in a joking manner, “that’s okay Otto, it all sounds German anyway!” and everyone laughed. My father kept detailed journals and I imagine this was in one of those journals which Dewar had read.

Otto worked very hard at learning Inuktitut, the native language of the Inuit. He also made use of interpreters, to be certain of clear communication. The very doctor who was responsible for and insistent upon the informed consent protocol was now being slandered by Elaine Dewar as having done exactly the opposite. She had no hard data for her defamation of a much-loved and respected doctor. I say much-loved, because I was astonished and moved by the volume of tributes and letters we received from the north, from the Inuit people themselves, after his death in 2009. It was clear that they dearly loved my father.

Otto Schaefer quarrelled many times with his boss, the Deputy Minister for Northern and Indian Affairs, because he was constantly advocating for the Inuit. He was a man of integrity and compassion. He had great respect for the Native people and their ability to survive and thrive in such a harsh environment. When he saw injustice, he sought to rectify the situation. 

In 2021 there were rumours and allegations about medical experiments and bodies buried on the grounds of the Charles Camsell hospital. The owner of the former hospital conducted an investigation. He excavated the grounds and found nothing. However, it leaves me to wonder if Dewar was still affected by those false rumours when she made her unsubstantiated remarks about “experiments”.

The Canadian government apology to the Inuit just over a year-and-a-half ago for the alleged slaughter of a thousand sled dogs during the 1950s and 60s has relevance to this current complaint. I wrote a letter at that time to the CBC but never received a response. Here is the link to the article I published, which includes my letter:  https://freespeechmonika.com/another-canadian-apology-for-alleged-wrongs-the-slaughter-of-inuit-sled-dogs/

The obituary which appeared in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health is far more indicative of my father’s work and character, than the speculative, biased and prejudiced characterizations made by Elaine Dewar.    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.3402/ijch.v68i5.17600?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

The IDEAS program “How Canada forgot it once had a segregated health system” has put a blot on the reputation of my father. That stain must be removed. The CBC must publicly retract the defamatory statements made on that program, and make a public apology for having allowed all those unsubstantiated statements and accusations against the late Dr. Otto Schaefer.

I look forward to a positive response about this serious matter. 

Sincerely, 

Monika Schaefer

P.O. Box 516

McBride, BC V0J 2E0

250-569-7024

Listen to Monika Schaefer Refute CBC’S German-Bashing & Defamation of Her Father Dr. Otto Schaefer

Listen to Monika Schaefer Refute CBC’S German-Bashing & Defamation of Her Father Dr. Otto Schaefer

For your information, I’ll be talking about something today on “the Flipside with Monika” which I want to tell you all about.
The CBC Ideas program on Tuesday May 12 the day after our TJGS meeting, I happened to hear the tail-end of it on the car radio while driving home, and shock of all shocks, they were talking about my dad, Dr. Otto Schaefer, and not in a nice way! I went home and found the archive of the program and listened to the whole show, and have spent this week reeling in a rage about it. Today I will tell the story about my dad and what is going on with this narrative being created, live at 5 pm Pacific, and that is at republicbroadcasting.org. If you miss it and still want to hear it, it will go into the archives. That one will be just me going solo (no guest as per usual), but I do invite callers in the second half.

And I’ll have a warm-up to that this afternoon on Eddie Miller’s Blood River Radio show, at 2 pm Pacific. That is the program which Paul Fromm has talked about in our meetings. Go to bloodriverradio.com for that one.

CAFE Supporters Urge National Post to Stop Censoring Frank Stronach

CAFE Supporters Urge National Post to Stop Censoring Frank Stronach

Anglo-Saxon legal principles all too often forgotten in the current diversity mess held that a man was presumed innocent UNTIL proven guilty.

Today all too often punishment, unemployment and defamation descend on a person the minute a mere accusation of wrong, especially if it politically incorrect, is hurled at him.

Frank Stronach is an Austrian immigrant to Canada. Starting in his garage in downtown Toronto, he began manufacturing auto parts in the 1950s. He grew his tiny business into the manufacturing colossus known as Magna.

Stronach has strong views on the economy and labour relations. He tirelessly campaigns for profit-sharing with employees. He writes, or did until recently, a regular column for the supposedly conservative National Post.

Recently he was charged with a number of sexual crimes, including touching and assault, some going back to the 1970s, the most recent allegation occurred in 2023. Frank Stronach is 91 years old!

The charges, most decades after the alleged events, seem fishy. Be that as it may, Frank Stronach deserves to be treated as INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty. Yet, the National Post immediately dropped his column.

Frank Stronach is an incredibly successful European and German. We wonder if these qualities may lay behind this prosecution late in life. And, yes, may there not be a touch of German-bashing in it all?

No, Frank doesn’t need the money, but there’s an important pinciple here. On JUly 17, supporters of the Canadian Association for Free Expression protested outside the Toronto offices of the National Post. The rally sparked a number of interesting conversations.

CAFE Director Paul Fromm explains the issue.

THE SHRINE TO GERMAN BASHING with Diane King

THE SHRINE TO GERMAN BASHING with Diane King
#4 – Intro – History is Written by the Victor (Intro)  and (Jim Rizoli Interview) or WWII from the German Point of View part 1/3 (Jul 2016) 
 
 

 

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Diane King
The Shrine to German Bashing (Intro) is a metaphoric depiction of the rotten structure erected to scold, castigate, misrepresent, prosecute, condemn and execute a people to the tune of upwards of 20 million killed. This rotten edifice (shrine) is constructed on a putrid foundation largely involving NINE BRICKS. This introduces the subsequent discussions. Also the forbidden (in his small town) interview with Jim Rizoli, perhaps the major revisionist in all of New England
 

 

GERMAN BASHER ELI WIESEL IS DEAD

GERMAN BASHER ELI WIESEL IS DEAD

Eli Wiesel was one of those high priests of the New Religion of Holocaust. He claims to have been in Auschwitz, yet would never show his tattoo. He hated Germans. Yet, when Auschwitz was evacuated, he chose to head west with the hated Germans, rather, as was his option, wait for the Soviets.

Nevertheless, he was able to parlay his stories into a fortune and a Nobel Prize and into a role as senior philosopher of this new religion.

He was an admitted German hater who, nevertheless, was seen as some moral prophet. He wrote: “”Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate — healthy, virile hate — for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German. To do otherwise would be a betrayal of the dead.

Elie the Wiesel is dead (32 seconds):
https://youtu.be/uhBB8RsPWJ0

and

Jim Rizoli, THE HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR (4:35)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvf0FY8NnHo

Preview YouTube video Elie Wiesel Tribute July 1 2016

Elie Wiesel Tribute July 1 2016
Preview YouTube video Holocaust Survivor Jim Rizoli June 2016

Holocaust Survivor Jim Rizoli June 2016

Let him rot in Hell……

THE FOURTH OF JULY (AND GERMAN BASHING)

THE FOURTH OF JULY (AND GERMAN BASHING)
by Diane King (1999)THE FOURTH OF JULY is a sentimental time which builds strength in the national soul. This is reinforced by the memorials – the Vietnam Memorial, though long overdue is of great comfort to the bereaved (were you in Vietnam?) I have a second cousin whose name is on that wall. And eventually there will be a D-Day Memorial (though I am somewhat
ambivalent about this prospect).
And the U.S. isn’t the only nation which enjoys the reaffirmation of their National Spirit by celebrating their nation’s holidays, remembering events of the past with festivities, parades, signs, banners, flags, music, memorials, and portraits. Others such as Canada whose citizenry just celebrated Dominion Day this weekend, enjoyed their holiday. But there is one nation which is prohibited from enjoying what every other nation enjoys. In fact, it is against the law for them to do so should they choose to celebrate it in the same fashion that we all enjoy and take for granted.

GERMANY has no such national holidays marking historic events. There is no Chancellor’s Day to remember the birthdays of former Chancellors. Or a day for remembering the Kaiser or any other of the royalty. There are no parades, no flags or banners. Men in military uniforms do not march before an adoring and appreciative citizenry which line the streets. There is no Veteran’s Day or Memorial Day or memorials to remember those who fought on behalf of the Fatherland. There is no Veteran’s Wall to touch the names of those who have fallen, no D-Day Memorial of those defending the shores of the Fatherland. And except for the National Anthem there are no songs reminiscent – no reminder of the years Germany ruled Europe. Well, that’s understandable you say, they don’t deserve it (?) When Germans did such things, they nearly conquered Europe.



And that’s supposed to be a bad thing. But if that’s the criteria for denying a people their national identity, then the Russians should not be allowed to express their communist sentiments or memories on May l with the huge banners of Lenin and Stalin and the Communist Flag (and that awful anthem that I can’t get out of my head) as they march in mass down various Russian streets in remembrance and celebration of the most vicious and barbaric system known to the history of man (so far). Nor should Red China be allowed to celebrate their tyranny and oppressive regime nor even those who might be considered renegade nations … or used to be.

Why the inequity? Why the oppression against one peoples and preference for another? (The victors write the history books. They also determine international agendas). You have probably observed how the enemies of free speech andthought attempt to associate – at every opportunity – the free thinkers and usually “right” with the dreaded “Nazis”. That’s supposed to be insulting and degrading, to demonize the motives and actions of conservative people who oppose those enemies in and out of political office. WELL, I OPPOSE THEM! They are vicious, malicious, and dangerous. And had theframers of the constitution been forced to live under them, you’d have heard a strong call to abolish the government that is run by them – to scrap it and start over, as is provided by the Constitution.

 




One of the tactics of the enemies of free speech and expression is to cover, obscure, attempt to destroy, color and otherwise misrepresent the truth. And one of these ways, first of all, though ranging from subtle to blatant attacks, is the attack on Germans with a clear anti-German bias in the media, the entertainment industry, and the literary world. For you see, because of German history, any Nazi-bashing is also German-bashing, so I reject both. I’ve boycotted the History Channel as the yellow journalism it is because of its ardent anti-Nazi (and consequently anti-German) position. Nearly every reference to Germans in the Media is with disrespect or hostility. It would be one thing if this posturing were accurate, but they are sorely lacking in the simple truths discovered since WWII. The Germans are still suffering from it as are we. No one wins in National character assassinations, especially on this scale.

So, what is at the foundation of this national mudslinging? This hostility? What is the one thing of which the Nazis areaccused and eternally found guilty? What is the one word that describes it all: THE HOLOCAUST: The alleged state-ordered, planned and executed extermination of European Jewry to the tune of 6 million – the most barbaric act in all humanity – that is the indictment. And maybe it would have been … IF IT WERE TRUE!


THE SHRINE TO GERMAN-BASHING illustrates this very point with the Jewish Holocaust as the foundation composed of 8 “bricks” (not in any order of significance) This information was gleaned from the Zundelsite, the Institute for Historical
Review, CODOH, the work of Germar Rudolf and many others who have availed much crucial information and truth in many forms to include the incredible work: DID SIX MILLION REALLY DIE? By Richard Harwood. These eight components of the foundation of the shrine are:

l. The number of 6 Million.
2. Mass murders/cremation
3. Death Camps-Auschwitz
4. The Hitler Order
5. Warsaw Ghetto
6. Wannsee Conference
7. Diary of Anne Frank
8. Einsatzgruppen

To study the “shrine” you have to study each of the integral parts – dare to go where few have thought to go? Ask the
questions, read the evidence. You too may never be the same. For me, it was the next step, the final conclusion to my
search and research and studies. Some questions remain unanswered, of course. If not “beyond all shadow of a doubt”
then “beyond a reasonable doubt” until we learn more and what is available out there. The consequences of finding these
discoveries … You will never be the same! But you will know, without apology, why you bristle at anti-German comments, and why you would and should love Germany, the people, and their history even more. And then you will KNOW without a shadow of a doubt what you had suspected all along about Germany and its history: A heritage of which to be proud.


Remember that not all nations have the privilege of enjoying their national heritage. That there is one nation for which it is illegal to do so and in fact suffer a national character crisis: GERMANY!


The future of any nation is in the nurturing and training of its children. German children are unclear and confused about
their history and their identity as Germans. Of course they are confused. They are born into a world universally hostile
towards their Germanness and their heritage.

In the LIFE WORLD LIBRARY book on GERMANY (1965), one statement was made: “Nazis personify the known power of evil ….” This is the prevailing international opinion. In another place, the author attempts to identify the cause of emotional unrest in Germany, especially among the young. He says: “The undercurrent of uneasiness in Germany … (in the mid 1960’s and still in the 1990’s) can be traced largely to the fact that while a great many Germans would like to forget the past, most are unable to do so. To them, the past means the uncertainty, the fear, the shame of the Nazi era. And that uncertainty, fear, and shame still intrude relentlessly into their comfortable presence …. difficulty of escaping the past.”

 


In another place, they say concerning Eichmann’s capture that no one spoke on his behalf in Western Germany (no doubt since sympathies with the “Nazis” was punished harshly — it is understandable in war-destroyed Germany). But the author
states that the trial and execution of Eichmann was helpful for the Germans:

“Indeed, (they) accelerated a national soul-searching and did much to bring home to the Germans the full horror of what the
Nazi’s had done.” (Really, that’s what they want us to believe because that’s what they’ve told us despite the contrary.)

They state that it is difficult for the German to evaluate this time period and all that was involved because it is still being thrown up in his face even though this matter should be settled.

“Even the great majority of Germans who agree that the holocaust (a major part of the reason for their problems) must never be forgotten must wonder whether they’ll be required to examine it from a fresh historical perspective with every publishing season (when books like HITLER’S WILLING EXECUTIONERS – about the German people – come out) … and how many times (do) Americans or their puppet masters plan to revisit the holocaust?”

These sentiments and all of these difficulties forced upon the Germans for time immemorial “… approach a kind of
reverse racism.” (Kind of!?)

“And to take it a step further since the end of WWII, it’s been open season on National Socialists specifically (or anyone who is “unfortunately” decried or labeled as “NAZIS”) and Germans in general. Anyone, no matter how disreputable, can and are encouraged to say whatever he wants to whomever whenever about the National Socialists of old, and byassociation, the Germans. This is malicious RACISM which often takes its form in hate crimes – institutional and otherwise – against Germans.


Now, the elderly and middle-aged Germans still suffer today from a guilt complex. They further state that “there is probably as much unhappiness of mind among millions of Germans who failed to oppose Hitler as among the millions who actively supported him: (because they couldn’t do anything to stop him).” It seems that this is what they are told and the guilt is how they are supposed to feel. It perpetuates the national guilt.

So, with all of these attacks from all sides, directed toward the German people, it is no wonder that the children along
with their parents are in a quandary about who they are. The editors/authors of LIFE’S GERMANY stated:

“Grave difficulties exist for German parents who are called on to answer their children’s questions about the country’s
past.” Parents avoid it. “Young Germans declare, “It’s no good asking Father about what happened under the Nazis. He
just says the subject is too complicated to discuss.”

The parents have lost faith and trust with their kids because the kids believe that (the parents) didn’t stop what they saw
happen to the Jews and others. (What did they actually see? The deportations? There is a great leap of logic without
evidence to move from the deportations to deportations for the purpose of extermination. But then that’s what they and
we have been told.)

School teachers suffer the same problems. “Better history books are being written today,” about the true perspective on
the holocaust. Now would be the time to inject some balance in this fact-finding and reporting and teaching mission about
the Third Reich. It is fairly certain how the Third Reich will be depicted. And in the attempt to re-educate and “help”
by giving the internationally accepted anti-Nazi, anti-German view, the authors and editors of these learning materials
will only succeed in confusing these children further.

But maybe it is too late. Maybe the new generations since the war have no interest in their German roots. Or maybe, again,
that’s what they have been told concerning how they should feel and how they should think. Again in LIFE’S GERMANY, “(The youth) are more internationally minded.” Perhaps they have already been programmed to think from a world view rather than as Germans. And yet there is a generation coming up that just might not accept this very old and badly preserved diet of hostility and hatred against their nation and against themselves.

Tragically, the children are affected by their history, their lack of understanding from not being taught, and they are
robbed of their perspective, even over two decades later. Again from LIFE’S GERMANY, (of the youth):

“There seems to be a lack of intellectual sparkle about them, a serious-mindedness conditioned by steady concentration on
material objectives. This is at least partly due to uncertainties of mind, which are due in turn to lack of candor on the part of the parents and to an uneasy awareness of the shadows of the past. One thing is certain about young people in West Germany – the vast majority of them reject the traditional ideas about German grandeur and glory, and about an overbearing German role in Europe, and they are skeptical about any “mission” other than the modest one of being a loyal partner to the western democracies.”

In essence, they are so concerned about saving their lives, what they have, that they are actually losing their lives. And this doesn’t sound too promising. Evidently, lack of knowledge and “correct” education have formed a vacuum. So the only opinion they hear, the only teaching they receive is from the international Weltanschauung which is the one which includes and even requires the typical German (Nazi) bashing curriculum. Whether or not this damage can be undone remains to be seen.

The Army evokes similar concern. Whereas before, the Wehrmacht historically represented and depicted the most powerful army in the world, now its successor, the Bundeswehr has resigned itself to a subservient position.

According to NEWSWEEK, July 25, 1994, “The Bundeswehr is back in business.” It sounds good, energetic, national, promising, a hint of its grandeur, strength, and discipline of times past. But that is not what this new army portends. The former allies cringe at the sight of a revived German army in spite of constant reassurances that the Bundeswehr has changed and is not the army it was in the past. And the powers that be need not be concerned with the new Germany Army; the new German Army has a different agenda, a different look. In the same article, “Now the military faces the challenge of training “good soldiers” instead of blind followers …. Germany has reinvented the concept of the military …. They have chafed under the country’s inability to play a wider international role.”

They want to participate on the international playing field. But can the German military compete or even participate and
should they? German soldiers aren’t required necessarily to obey orders. “Student officers aren’t required to train physically at all – or even wear their uniforms to class.”


Instead of classes entitled: Military Strategy or Great Battles in History or Great Field Marshals in German Military History being the most popular classroom topics, “Peace Ethics” rises to the top of the list of popular classes. That is shameful! Perhaps the current German Military is more interested in participating in international affairs than being militarily fit to do so. But perhaps playing on the international field doesn’t require the traditional discipline and skills of which the Germans of the past have been particularly skilled and famous.

Others have come to this same conclusion. Chile’s General Augusto Pinochet “irked Bonn by declaring the Bundeswehr an
army of ‘drug addicts, long-hairs, gays, and union members.'” He seems to suggest that the new German army is far from the ideal military tradition of the crack Prussian tradition of the past and is hardly prepared for the hardships of war.
Additionally, former East Germans whose army copied the Wehrmacht “right down to the goose step,” called the new
Bundeswehr a “second-class army.” Tough stuff!

And a final note on the new Army and how the new officers consider its function. They “look forward confidently to the
day when they can further demonstrate their mettle — by helping the UN defend democracy.” This is an ominous cloud on
the horizon of our future. That the German military rather than having an identity of its own will be assimilated into
the UN/NATO peace-keeping forces for their purposes and oppressive use.

Why??? – Why the confusion for the parents and the children of the Reich? Why is their history maligned? Their education
robbed of its power to teach and inspire from correct history, the animosity toward Germans in general, and their history in particular, and why is the German Army groveling and forfeiting their national honor and their very soul to serve at the despotic UN/NATO’s feet, stained with the blood of their victims. Is it worth this price in order to play on the international playing field? This is all very clear when one understands the foundation and structure of the SHRINE erected to GERMAN BASHING.

So, on the 4th of July, when we see the “rocket’s red glare” and “bombs bursting in air” the symbolism of our nation’s
struggle for nationhood in the past, the parades, the red, white and blue, the flag with the stars and stripes, the soul-
stirring music, we should remember that there is one nation that cannot enjoy such celebrations and who has been beaten
down and robbed of their national soul. Is not the American spirit to champion the cause of those oppressed? Can we not
export a freedom-loving spirit instead of our own brand of terrorism to the nations of the world? Should there not be a
call to arms, in a way, to fight the forces against free thought and expression so rampant now? Should we not renew ourown “declaration of independence”against such blatant hostility? For then we will have the right to have “the land of the free” because we are the “home of the brave.”