2020Monica Lowenberg

Cornelia Kerth Chair of the Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes-Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten (VVN-BdA, Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime)

Lowenberg introduces a VVN-BdA protest outside the Latvian embassy in Berlin:

Cornelia Kerth, chair of the VVN-BdA protesting outside the Latvian embassy in Berlin on 15 March 2016 after having been prevented from boarding a flight to Riga from Berlin with Baltic Air earlier that same day. The VVN-BdA demanded that her five fellow protesters, who had been allowed to leave the country, only to be arrested on arrival at Riga airport and placed into a Latvian jail, be immediately released.

followed by a link to an article about the VVN-BdA members detained in Latvia.

We conducted a multi-part analysis of the VVN-BdA detention at the time it occurred in 2016:

1. We started with the mainstream Jewish press news report by Sam Sokol, at the Jerusalem Post;
2. then analyzed the article by Frank Brendle, to which Lowenberg provides the link; and
3. lastly, investigated Frank Brendle to discover that he is an employee of the German far-left Die LINKE political party with ties to Vladimir Putin's World Without Nazism. The detention itself was planned from the start. Once the VVN-BdA members arrived in Latvia, they chose detention rather than simply return to Germany on their own, so Latvian authorities paid for their tickets and put them on a bus back to Berlin.

Regretfully, we must conclude that Putin's cynical hijacking of the anti-Nazism cause to denounce Russia's western borderlands as dens of fascists has effectively hijacked Monica Lowenberg's legitimate cause, albeit misguided regarding the Latvian Legion.