{"id":4585,"date":"2020-10-08T05:17:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2020-10-08T05:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:18:25","slug":"lady-michele-renouf-to-face-trial-in-dresden-for-criticizing-allied-firebombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4585","title":{"rendered":"Lady Michele Renouf to Face Trial in Dresden for Criticizing Allied Firebombing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LADY-MICHELE-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LADY-MICHELE-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LADY-MICHELE-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LADY-MICHELE.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\nRole Model on Trial\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Lady Mich\u00e8le Renouf faces trial in Dresden,\n Germany on 16th October 2020. This blog will explain the reasons for \nher trial, with regular updates on the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wednesday, October 7, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/10\/model-on-trial-background.html\">Model on Trial \u2013 the background<\/a>\n<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-E39Lhaq0w34\/X32J3oXVsbI\/AAAAAAAAAII\/ZLoGG5HiQZAgX-sHWm1UxA1tofYWc4GhQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1565\/cover%2Bpic%2B2.jpg\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cMich\u00e8le,\n your fearless and direct utterances in Dresden, unfortunately forbidden\n to all Germans, blew open the window of truth in one blast.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><strong>said Gerard Menuhin, son of legendary violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin, in February 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On\n 16th October 2020 an Australian-born Briton goes on trial in Dresden \nfor \u201cincitement\u201d \u2013 not for terrorism or threats, but because of a \n10-minute speech given to 300 mourners at a commemoration of the Allied \nterror bombing of Dresden in 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The charges have been brought under Germany\u2019s draconian <em>volksverhetzung<\/em>\n law \u2013 Para 130 of the criminal code, against Lady Mich\u00e8le Renouf, \nformer wife of New Zealand banking tycoon Sir Francis (\u2018Frank the Bank\u2019)\n Renouf who was honoured with the <em>Verdienstkreuz<\/em> by the then West\n German government. In 1990 the engaged couple travelled to Bonn for the\n award of Sir Frank\u2019s medal, and as his fianc\u00e9e Lady Renouf was given a <em>Verdienstkreuz<\/em>\n lapel ribbon. This honour related to Sir Frank\u2019s pioneering role in \npersuading the German federal government to relax its conservative \npolicies and invest its financial surplus on world markets. (For similar\n reasons he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n February 2018 Lady Renouf attended a public commemoration in central \nDresden, marking the anniversary of the 1945 terror bombing by the Royal\n Air Force and the USAAF. Responding to an anti-British comment by \nsomeone in the crowd, Lady Renouf was invited to give a brief \nspontaneous speech in which she acknowledged Britain\u2019s shame for its \ndeliberate wartime policy of targeting civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this speech she referred to the following facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a)\n Many influential Britons at the time condemned Churchill\u2019s barbaric \nterror bombing policy and the associated demand for unconditional \nsurrender \u2013 such people included Lord Hankey (formerly Sir Maurice \nHankey, founder of the modern civil service); the Rt Rev George Bell, \nBishop of Chichester; Labour MP and future minister Richard Stokes; and \ngovernment scientist and future bestselling novelist C.P. Snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-lDNqm5zbUe8\/X32KdsTZbRI\/AAAAAAAAAIQ\/bLcWlAJEIYU09lOczq3ps7gXl0cxV6ARACLcBGAsYHQ\/s355\/Bishop%2BBell.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-lDNqm5zbUe8\/X32KdsTZbRI\/AAAAAAAAAIQ\/bLcWlAJEIYU09lOczq3ps7gXl0cxV6ARACLcBGAsYHQ\/w320-h231\/Bishop%2BBell.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>George Bell, Bishop of Chichester was one of several<br>high-profile British critics of terror bombing<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b)\n The terror bombing of Dresden was a literal Holocaust in which tens of \nthousands of civilians were burned alive. We shall never know the \natrocity\u2019s exact death toll, because the city was packed with refugees \u2013\n uncounted and undocumented \u2013 fleeing from the advancing Soviet Red \nArmy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>c)\n The wider relevance of the Dresden war crime \u2013 Renouf emphasised \u2013 is \nthat so-called \u2018moral bombing\u2019 of Dresden by the Second World War allies\n has effectively acted as a precedent for postwar crimes against \ncivilians including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which in turn has \nprompted unprecedented floods of refugees into Western Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>d)\n The Allied justification for this targeting of civilians was that \nBritain and America were at war with Germany, yet this factor is ignored\n when discussing what has become known as the \u2018Holocaust\u2019, an \nunchallengeable dogma taking the place of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>e)\n The simple fact that Jewish civilians were interned in camps is today \nregarded as a \u2018war crime\u2019 and part of \u2018genocide\u2019, regardless of what did\n or did not happen in the camps themselves, a topic which Lady Renouf \ndid not address, knowing that it is illegal in Germany to debate such \nmatters. It is odd to condemn internment itself\n as criminal, bearing in mind that both Britain and America interned \nenemy aliens. It is scarcely surprising that European Jews were placed \nin this \u201cenemy alien\u201d category, given the actions of the self-styled \nleaders of World Jewry who had as early as 1933 declared economic war on\n Germany. Moreover the future founders of Israel such as Chaim Weizmann \nwere actively engaged in a campaign of covert warfare, some of it \ncontrary to international law, in collaboration with Britain\u2019s Special \nOperations Executive. In itself it was not unreasonable for the German \nauthorities to intern large numbers of European Jews as potential \ncollaborators in this covert war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IlNaVHUK8CI\/X32LNA2pGOI\/AAAAAAAAAIc\/mcaNsNOtMQo8oikQFp-cZttyt4imUINHgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s782\/Weizmann%2Bwith%2BTruman.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IlNaVHUK8CI\/X32LNA2pGOI\/AAAAAAAAAIc\/mcaNsNOtMQo8oikQFp-cZttyt4imUINHgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/Weizmann%2Bwith%2BTruman.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Chaim Weizmann (above right with<br>US President Harry Truman) openly<br>aligned World Jewry with the Allied war effort.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\n is for making these points in her brief impromptu February 2018 speech \nthat Lady Renouf was arrested and now faces trial in Dresden on 15th May\n 2020 for offences which carry a maximum prison sentence of five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her\n trial will focus press and public attention on the extraordinary German\n laws that deny normal historical debate and rational argument. These \nand similar laws in many other European countries (though not so far in \nthe UK) were condemned more than a decade ago by a coalition of eminent \nhistorians and other academics writing under the label \u2018Appel de Blois\u2019:\n these critics included the late Eric Hobsbawm; Jewish journalist and \nauthor Geoffrey Alderman; Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg; and the \nOxford professor Timothy Garton Ash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lady\n Renouf\u2019s own background is not as an historian, scientist, lawyer or \npolitician. So how did someone whose lifelong career since early \nchildhood was as a model and advertising actress come to be on trial in \nGermany charged with having expressed forbidden opinions and having \nuttered forbidden historical facts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born\n in 1946, Mich\u00e8le Mainwaring was directed mainly to classical ballet \nstudies from the age of 3 to 23, eventually for a licentiateship at the \nRoyal Academy of Dancing in London. Her earlier four years of \nundergraduate art studies at the National Art School were partly \nfinanced by her parallel modelling career (beginning at age 7) and \nprizes in beauty contests, including winning Radio 2HD\u2019s Miss Beach \nGirl, Miss Newcastle &amp; Hunter Valley, and Miss Zhivago. (The latter \ntitle, twenty years later was to bemuse <em>Dr Zhivago<\/em>\u2019s co-star Omar Sharif, when he and Lady Renouf enjoyed gaming at London\u2019s Ritz Hotel casino.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At age 14 Mich\u00e8le Mainwaring was performing as Gretel in <em>Hansel and Gretel<\/em>\n at the Sydney Conservatorium when the world-famous former Ballets \nRusses dancer and choreographer Kiril Vassilkovsky came backstage \nseeking to recruit her \u201cethereal quality\u201d for the role as Clara in his \nproduction of <em>The Nutcracker<\/em>. However her mother would not allow her to leave school to joint the company!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n young Mich\u00e8le performed as Radio 2HD\u2019s Shirley Temple, singing and tap \ndancing for the station\u2019s famous children\u2019s radio presenter Twink Storey\n as an infant performer and symbol of innocence in the postwar years. \nWhile the actual Shirley Temple became a US Ambassador, Lady Renouf in \nlater life was to have a rather different involvement with diplomacy and\n politics \u2013 considered by some to have an \u2018ambassadorial\u2019 role as a \nchampion for the rights of historical revisionism without \nexceptionalism!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n future Lady Renouf came to England in the late 1960s shortly before her\n marriage to the late Daniel Griaznoff, descendent of a Russian noble \nfamily. During the 1970s and 1980s she used her marital title of \nCountess Griaznoff in association with many charitable activities and \nbecame well-known in London society. Prolific romantic novelist and \nsocialite Barbara Cartland delighted in entertaining Count and Countess \nGriaznoff at her country home. Actors Edward Fox and his wife Joanna \nDavid generously contributed their celebrated artistry to charity \nsoirees and balls hosted by the Griaznoffs at their Hampstead home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Dg9p1QuWzV8\/X32LmZGnPaI\/AAAAAAAAAIk\/l8oShtSomLI5to0kPwdKKVDxVgesEzi0wCLcBGAsYHQ\/s727\/Tchibo%2Bwith%2Blogo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Dg9p1QuWzV8\/X32LmZGnPaI\/AAAAAAAAAIk\/l8oShtSomLI5to0kPwdKKVDxVgesEzi0wCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/Tchibo%2Bwith%2Blogo.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Lady Renouf&#8217;s many appearances in international<br>advertising campaigns included this German<br>television ad for Tchibo coffee.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile\n from age 15 Lady Renouf had been recruited into an international career\n as an advertising actress in television commercials alongside her \nmodelling career. This led to magazine and television advertisements \nworldwide for products and companies as diverse as Deutsche Post, Tchibo\n coffee, British Airways, Cable &amp; Wireless, Nissan cars, Lenth\u00e9ric \nperfume, and hundreds more.&nbsp; On screen she appeared with such legends as the Muppets and Dick Emery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n the mid-1990s Lady Renouf become a member of the fundraising advisory \nboard for the reconstruction of Shakespeare\u2019s Globe on Bankside, \nchairing the principal fundraising event. As a professional designer of \ngarden mazes and knot gardens, she had also designed an Elizabethan knot\n garden and labyrinth for the Globe approved by the project\u2019s head Sam \nWanamaker, intended as part of the re-education of the general public in\n the coded poetic messages of flowers, familiar to a Tudor mindset but \nnow lost: her knot garden project was featured in a major article for \nthe <em>Sunday Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n this invited role Lady Renouf mobilised a range of contacts among \nLondon\u2019s diplomatic corps (built up as a longstanding member of the \nLadies\u2019 Committee of the European-Atlantic Group) to assist in the \nShakespeare\u2019s Globe project, including Adm. William Crowe, US Ambassador\n and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who became a family \nfriend; and Australian High Commissioner Neal Blewett. After completing \nraising funds for the construction of the Wardrobe of Robes room, behind\n the Globe\u2019s stage (marked today by a bronze plaque) \u2013 Lady Renouf\u2019s \nprivate tribute to her mother, who was a designer of ballet costumes \u2013 \nshe also invited another family friend Buzz Aldrin, second man on the \nMoon, to include his contribution to a time capsule buried beneath the \nreconstructed theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oddly\n the first steps towards Lady Renouf\u2019s involvement with \u201cpolitical\u201d \nquestions came as the result of a Jewish member of her Shakespeare\u2019s \nGlobe committee insisting on the entire menu at a fundraising dinner \nbeing kosher. Merely the appearance of a non-kosher item on the menu \nsent this woman into a rant about \u201ctyranny\u201d and \u201canti-semitism\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understandably\n Lady Renouf was puzzled by this inexplicable reaction, and this led her\n into further investigations of the taboo subject of \u201canti-semitism\u201d. \nShe carried out extensive research into the composer Richard Wagner\u2019s \nattitude to the Jewish question, and in 1997 published the monograph <em>Richard Wagner&#8217;s Art-works of the Future and Judaism: Inspirational or Conspiratorial<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At\n the end of the 1990s Lady Renouf visited Palestine with her high \nsociety chum the Bey of Haifa, Jeannot Khayat, who informed her for the \nfirst time about the outrageous \u201cabsentee law\u201d whereby Palestinian homes\n can be confiscated by the Israeli state if their owners leave the \ncountry even for a holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early\n in the 2000s she met and recorded interviews with British veterans of \nthe war against Zionist terrorism in Palestine, 1945-48. These included \nunique interviews by the late Phillip Knightley with British Army \nveteran and author Eric Lowe \u2013 now archived at St Antony\u2019s College, \nOxford. Some of these landmark interviews (in cooperation with \nanti-Zionist Neturei Karta rabbis, Palestinian diplomats, and \ncommentators including Israel Shamir and Gilad Atzmon) appeared in Lady \nRenouf\u2019s first documentary film projects, <em>Palestine Scrapbook<\/em> and <em>Israel in Flagrante: Caught in Acts of Twistspeak<\/em>, screened at the House of Lords and House of Commons, under the auspices of Dr James Thring and Lord Stoddart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/46yjTEdGal8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BL-xnicGB8g\/X32MHhl-xII\/AAAAAAAAAIw\/lSPXwycgjzM7w1YcutD_W1xN-yQWOB2cgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/vlcsnap-2020-10-05-17h25m43s094.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n 2000 Lady Renouf attended the London trial of a libel case brought by \nthe British historian David Irving against the Jewish-American author \nDeborah Lipstadt: this was the first she had heard of debates around the\n \u201cHolocaust\u201d, but she later became aware of a worldwide campaign of \npersecution against historical sceptics, notably the jailing of Ernst \nZ\u00fcndel, Germar Rudolf, Wolfgang Fr\u00f6hlich, Gerd Honsik, Monika and Alfred\n Schaefer, and Ursula Haverbeck \u2013 including their lawyers Horst Mahler \nand Sylvia Stolz.&nbsp; In 2006 \nshe attended David Irving\u2019s trial in Austria, where he was sentenced to \nthree years imprisonment, eventually being released after one year \nthanks to an appeal filed by celebrated Viennese attorney Dr Herbert \nSchaller. (In the recent film <em>Denial<\/em>, an actress plays the part \nof Lady Renouf, seated on the court bench as the sole observer on \nIrving\u2019s side of the court throughout the hearings.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>During\n the summer of 2001 Lady Renouf arranged a meeting between Irving and \nPrince Fahd bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, eldest son of the present King \nSalman. Prince Fahd was owner of many racehorses including the 1991 \nDerby winner Generous, who was celebrated in a hillside maze garden \ndesigned by Lady Renouf, a friend of the Prince and Princess, at their \nHarewood estate in Surrey where Queen Elizabeth II had planted a tree. \nIn a telephone call from Riyadh following their meeting, Prince Fahd \nconfirmed his intention to purchase the entire property including \nIrving\u2019s flat in Duke Street, Mayfair, and turn it into a \u201cReal History \nInstitute\u201d, but he died suddenly a day later aged only 46.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One\n consequence of Lady Renouf\u2019s defence of Irving was that a cabal of \nopponents engineered her expulsion from the Reform Club in 2003, \nfollowing an earlier unsuccessful attempt to expel her in 2002 (when she\n was defended by eminent pollster Sir Bob Worcester). Lady Renouf had \ninvited Irving to an event at the Reform Club (alongside family friend \nCount Nikolai Tolstoy) in the week of the Lipstadt trial verdict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since\n 2006 Lady Renouf\u2019s Telling Films has produced many DVDs on the stifling\n of historical debate and the persecution of revisionist historians, \nscientists, authors, publishers, and latterly even their lawyers. These \ndocumentaries include <em>Jailing Opinions<\/em>, focused on the \nprosecutions of Irving in Vienna (Austria), Ernst Z\u00fcndel in Toronto \n(Canada), and Robert Faurisson in Paris (France), and later documentary \nfilms such as <em>Dresden Holocaust 1945 \u2013 An Apology to Germany is Due<\/em>; <em>Out and Unbowed<\/em>, about Ernst Z\u00fcndel\u2019s trials and imprisonment; <em>Mourning the Victims, Naming the Culprits<\/em> about the British torture centre at Bad Nenndorf (Germany); and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n 2006 Lady Renouf attended and spoke at the International Conference to \nReview the Global Vision of the Holocaust, hosted in Tehran at the \ninstigation of Iran\u2019s then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The topic of \nher conference address was \u201cPsychology of Holocaustianity\u201d \u2013 an echo of \nher postgraduate studies in Psychology of Religion a few years earlier \nat London University\u2019s Heythrop College. Veteran revisionist scholar and\n literary document analyst Professor Robert Faurisson said that he gave \nLady Renouf\u2019s speech \u201c20 out of 20\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nominated\n by Prof. Faurisson, Lady Renouf was elected to serve on a five-member \ninternational fact-finding committee created at the end of the Tehran \nconference to advance research and support informed historical debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between\n 2006 and 2020 Lady Renouf has been interviewed in many television and \nradio debates and discussions opposite (for example) Prof. Norman \nFinkelstein; former CIA officer Dr George Lambrakis; Dr Nicholas \nKollerstrom; the Rev. Stephen Sizer; and Dmitry Shimelfarb, former \nadviser and press spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin \nNetanyahu. In 2005 she was honoured with the George Orwell Award by the \nCanadian Free Speech League, and has spoken at conferences in Canada, \nthe USA and Mexico. Several of these speeches, films and interviews have\n focused on Lady Renouf\u2019s campaign to raise awareness about the first, \npre-Israel Jewish Homeland option in Birobidjan \u2013 the Jewish Autonomous \nRegion created in 1928 in the former Soviet Union and still flourishing \nto this day in Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--H9PH0l6HVE\/X32MXxzQAuI\/AAAAAAAAAI4\/dN2PJtXNRV0w4iNuZ4lzZNdxVXRgbeXzACLcBGAsYHQ\/s297\/TobenRenouf21nov08b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--H9PH0l6HVE\/X32MXxzQAuI\/AAAAAAAAAI4\/dN2PJtXNRV0w4iNuZ4lzZNdxVXRgbeXzACLcBGAsYHQ\/s0\/TobenRenouf21nov08b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Lady Renouf with the late Dr Fredrick T\u00f6ben<br>after the defeat of German government<br>efforts to extradite Dr T\u00f6ben in 2008<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When\n the Australian revisionist Dr Fredrick T\u00f6ben was arrested at London\u2019s \nHeathrow Airport in October 2008 and subjected to a European Arrest \nWarrant seeking his extradition to face criminal opinion charges in \nGermany, Lady Renouf mobilised a defence team that successfully opposed \nthe warrant as invalid, forcing the German authorities to back down and \naccept his release. The T\u00f6ben case proved an important precedent in \nrelation to the traditional Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson, who was \nconvicted in Germany for answers he gave to a Swedish television crew in\n November 2008, but who as a consequence of the success in T\u00f6ben\u2019s case,\n could not be subjected to a European Arrest Warrant. On Bishop \nWilliamson\u2019s return to London in 2009 he was met at the airport by Lady \nRenouf, who gave interviews to BBC Radio 4 and the World Service later \nthat day, in which she debated the issues involved with Deborah Lipstadt\n and the late Greville Janner of the World Jewish Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now\n those same German authorities are seeking revenge in a wholly \nunwarranted prosecution of a British citizen for a perfectly normal and \nreasonable (though unplanned and unprepared) speech in Dresden two years\n ago, a speech intended as a humble acknowledgment of British guilt and \ncontrition for a terrible crime against German civilians committed 75 \nyears ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\n this politically-motivated prosecution, the moribund Merkel \ngovernment\u2019s servants in the German state apparatus dishonour their own \ndead, and discredit themselves before the world\u2019s media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lady\n Renouf\u2019s former husband Sir Frank Renouf was a prisoner-of-war in \nGermany for four years following his capture after parachuting into \nGreece on 26th April 1941.&nbsp; His\n time in an officers\u2019 prisoner-of-war camp in Bavaria was well spent \nlearning German from a friendly guard with the aid of Schiller\u2019s poetry,\n building a tennis court, enjoying Red Cross food parcels, and \nconducting a correspondence course with Worcester College, Oxford, where\n he was admitted for a postwar degree.&nbsp; His\n German connections were strengthened after the war as a friend of \nBritish Prime Minister Edward Heath and eminent figures in European \nbanking including the British Lord Kindersley (a director of the Bank of\n England) and the German Hermann Abs (a director of Deutsche Bank). The \nRenoufs\u2019 matrimonial home at 37 Eaton Square, Belgravia, had during the \n1930s been the home of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who \nimmediately before the Second World War rented out this same property as\n the home of German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop \u2013 the first \nprisoner executed by the Allies at Nuremberg in 1946.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\n remains to be seen whether 21st century Germany will be as hospitable \nto Lady Renouf as wartime Germany was to her former husband!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n&#8211;\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/10\/model-on-trial-background.html\"><abbr title=\"2020-10-07T02:39:00-07:00\">October 07, 2020<\/abbr><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/10\/model-on-trial-background.html#comment-form\">\nNo comments:\n  <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tuesday, October 6, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/10\/renouf-trial-to-go-ahead-on-16th.html\">Renouf trial to go ahead on 16th October in Dresden<\/a>\n<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0PENi6dbgYg\/X3yDxXKsj9I\/AAAAAAAAAH8\/USmMkiBONvUfELAJutp5ylQ-6f-LJ9PcwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s727\/Tchibo%2Bwith%2Blogo.jpg\"><\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><em><strong>Lady\n Renouf&#8217;s lifelong career as an advertising actress and model included \nGerman TV ads for Tchibo coffee \u2013 now she will appear as defendant in a \nDresden criminal trial<\/strong><\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p>Lady Mich\u00e8le Renouf&#8217;s trial will take place next week \u2013 Friday 16th October \u2013 at the Dresden <em>Amtsgericht<\/em> (district court).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is accused under Germany&#8217;s notorious \u00a7130 which defines as criminal <em>Volksverhetzung<\/em>&nbsp;(public incitement) a wide range of activity that would be perfectly normal in other democracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On\n this occasion the &#8216;criminal conduct&#8217; was an impromptu speech by Lady \nRenouf at a memorial event in Dresden in 2018, commemorating the RAF and\n USAAF terror bombing of the city and the incineration of countless \ncivilians in February 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RAF Wing Commander Hubert Raymond Allen wrote:<br>&#8220;The\n final phase of Bomber Command&#8217;s operations was far and away the worst. \nTraditional British chivalry and the use of minimum force in war was to \nbecome a mockery and the outrages perpetrated by the bombers will be \nremembered a thousand years hence.&#8221;<br>(H.R. Allen, <em>The Legacy of Lord Trenchard<\/em>&nbsp;(Cassell, 1972), p. 168)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German\n prosecutors now seek to criminalise memory of that outrage, and have \nbrought a British citizen to trial for the &#8216;crime&#8217; of paying tribute to \nthe memory of the dead and for acknowledging the crimes of her own \ncountry&#8217;s leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s one reason why the trial on 16th October\n 2020 is so remarkable. Further news and reflections about this case \nwill appear here and on associated social media sites throughout the \nnext fortnight and during the weeks and months to come.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n&#8211;\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/10\/renouf-trial-to-go-ahead-on-16th.html\"><abbr title=\"2020-10-06T07:55:00-07:00\">October 06, 2020<\/abbr><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/10\/renouf-trial-to-go-ahead-on-16th.html#comment-form\">\nNo comments:\n  <\/a>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLabels:\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Dresden%20bombing\">Dresden bombing<\/a>,\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/press%20statements\">press statements<\/a>,\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/RAF\">RAF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thursday, May 7, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/lady-michele-renoufs-trial-in-dresden.html\">Renouf trial postponed due to Covid pandemic<\/a>\n<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WOQ9kJELZJ4\/XrPmTz7fbII\/AAAAAAAAAGY\/L9POiac0eZg0UjQyHWnUQOBdKJyKi-ObwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/LMR%2Bjpg%2Bre%2Btrial%2Bupdate%2B2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WOQ9kJELZJ4\/XrPmTz7fbII\/AAAAAAAAAGY\/L9POiac0eZg0UjQyHWnUQOBdKJyKi-ObwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/LMR%2Bjpg%2Bre%2Btrial%2Bupdate%2B2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\nLady Mich\u00e8le Renouf&#8217;s trial in Dresden \u2013 due to begin on 15th May \u2013 has been postponed due to the impact of Covid-19.<br><br>\nThe trial is now rescheduled to begin on 16th October 2020 \u2013 again in Dresden&#8217;s District Court (Amtsgericht).<br><br>\nCharges relate to Lady Renouf&#8217;s impromptu speech on 17th February 2018 \nat a commemoration of the 1945 British and American terror bombing of \nDresden.<br><br>\nLady Renouf&#8217;s attorney Wolfram Nahrath is continuing to build a detailed\n rebuttal of these charges with the help of witnesses from several \ncountries. Further details will be released closer to the trial date, \nand will appear on this blog and related social media accounts.<br><br>\nThe defence team thank all correspondents for their kind messages of support.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n&#8211;\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/lady-michele-renoufs-trial-in-dresden.html\"><abbr title=\"2020-05-07T03:43:00-07:00\">May 07, 2020<\/abbr><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/lady-michele-renoufs-trial-in-dresden.html#comment-form\">\n1 comment:\n  <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Friday, March 13, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/lady-michele-renouf-faces-trial-in.html\">Trial Date Set<\/a>\n<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_9JF0Xq9g2E\/Xmv4Wb0k-tI\/AAAAAAAAAF0\/TSfLBTmQ0bwgA2VZV6VGD-1amhQQr9E1QCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/1c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_9JF0Xq9g2E\/Xmv4Wb0k-tI\/AAAAAAAAAF0\/TSfLBTmQ0bwgA2VZV6VGD-1amhQQr9E1QCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/1c.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\nLady Mich\u00e8le Renouf faces trial in Dresden, Germany on 15th May 2020. \nThis account will explain the reasons for her trial, with regular \nupdates on the case.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n&#8211;\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/lady-michele-renouf-faces-trial-in.html\"><abbr title=\"2020-03-13T14:17:00-07:00\">March 13, 2020<\/abbr><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/lady-michele-renouf-faces-trial-in.html#comment-form\">\nNo comments:\n  <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thursday, March 12, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modeltrial.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/press-enquiries-regarding-lady-renoufs.html\">Press enquiries<\/a>\n<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press enquiries regarding Lady Renouf&#8217;s Dresden trial should be sent to press@jailingopinions.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Role Model on Trial Lady Mich\u00e8le Renouf faces trial in Dresden, Germany on 16th October 2020. 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