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Jan 27, 1997
U.S. criticizes Germany on Scientology — Washington PostMore: highbeam.com
Jan 27, 1997
U.S. to list Germany for abusing Scientologists — CNN
Jan 21, 1997
Letters to the editor / Scientology again — International Herald Tribune
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bertram Fields Source:
International Herald Tribune Regarding "An Open Letter to Helmut Kohl" (Advertisement, Jan. 9) and letters (Jan. 16) critical of the advertisement: As the author of the open letter to Chancellor Kohl, I feel entitled to a brief reply to some of the letters you received on that subject. First, our letter never compared modern Germany, as a whole, to the Nazi regime, and we certainly never compared the treatment of Scientologists to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. What we compared was the ...
Jan 17, 1997
'Mission' a German hit despite boycott — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Judy Brennan ,
Mary Williams Walsh Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Movies: The success of the film, targeted by conservatives because it stars Scientologist Tom Cruise, eases studio fears about releasing other films featuring members of the movement. Despite the much-publicized boycott in Germany of "Mission: Impossible" because its star, Tom Cruise, is a Scientologist, the film grossed about $24 million, considered a huge success for the important German market by Hollywood studios, and ranked eighth in Germany for 1996. The results could help assuage the Hollywood studios that are preparing for ...
Jan 15, 1997
German Party Replies To Scientology Backers — International Herald Tribune
Jan 15, 1997
U.S. celebrities defend Scientology in Germany — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Jan 11, 1997
German policy on Scientology attacked — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mary Williams Walsh Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Europe: Open letter to Kohl draws analogy to treatment of Jews before World War II. Politicians respond angrily. BERLIN — A running battle between German government officials and the Church of Scientology escalated this week, with 34 prominent Americans from the entertainment industry denouncing Germany for allegedly treating Scientologists as it treated the Jews in 1936, and the German foreign minister accusing the celebrities of "falsifying history." "It's out of the question that there's persecution of Scientology in Germany," Foreign Minister ...
Jan 4, 1997
Letters / Discrimination against Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 22, 1996
Scientology and Germany: Falling back into the past — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 13, 1996
[Advertisement] When teachers become "unfit" / Germany — New York Times
Dec 6, 1996
[Advertisement] Practicing artistic discrimination / Germany — New York Times
Nov 29, 1996
[Advertisement] Subverting education with "enlightenment" / Germany — New York Times
Nov 28, 1996
The Big Story: The S-Files — ITVMore: transcript , partial transcript
Type: TV
Author(s):
Dermot Murnaghan Source:
ITV Title "The S Files" [S as in Scientology Logo] [Presenter Dermot Murnaghan (DM henceforth) no relation to any other DM] Tonight we're going to expose serious financial crime in one of the Scientology cult's most successful operations in Britain. We show how they cooked the books, made false statements to obtain bank loans, and changed invoices to fiddle their VAT. [Extract from "Trust" ad] This advert for the Church of Scientology was recently shown on cable TV. It was a major ...
Nov 22, 1996
[Advertisement] Practicing religious persecution / Germany — New York Times
Nov 15, 1996
[Advertisement] Practicing economic ostracism / Germany — New York Times
Nov 8, 1996
[Advertisement] Practicing hate propaganda / Germany — New York Times
Nov 1, 1996
[Advertisement] Practicing social ostracism // Germany — New York Times
Oct 25, 1996
[Advertisement] Inciting religious paranoia // Germany — New York Times
Oct 17, 1996
The following is the text of the ad placed by the Scientologists in The New York Times — CNN
Oct 17, 1996
[Advertisement] Practicing religious intolerance // Germany — New York Times
Sep 1, 1996
Germany finds Scientology to have menacing mission — Indianapolis Star (Indiana)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barbara Demick Source:
Indianapolis Star (Indiana) Lawmakers are looking at barring its members from teaching, police work, other government jobs. HAMBURG, Germany — As the politicians see it, Germany, is being threatened by an evil plot to infiltrate business and government. "A giant octopus . . . that will stop at nothing in its desire to spread its blind ideology" is how Labor Secretary Norbert Blum has described the plot against Germany. Claudia Nolte, another member of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Cabinet, warns, "They aim at world domination ...
Aug 11, 1996
Scientologists face German boycott — Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia) THE Church of Scientology has attacked what it called "religious apartheid" in Germany after a Bavarian move to bar its members from public service and calls to boycott Tom Cruise's latest film because the star is a Scientologist. In a communique issued in Bonn, the church said "officially-sanctioned religious apartheid" was "the result of years of unsubstantiated emotional propaganda against the Church of Scientology and other religious minorities in Germany". It was "incredible" and "blatant hypocrisy" that the Christian Democratic Union, ...
Aug 11, 1996
Tom Cruise's religion may affect his pocketbook in Germany // Scientology isn't well received there — CNN
Type: Press
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CNN (CNN) — Actor Tom Cruise may have a movie blockbuster in the United States, but in Germany, the star of "Mission: Impossible" faces a controversy that could hit where it hurts: the pocketbook. Germany's problem is not with the movie plot or dialogue. It's with the star and his religious beliefs. Cruise is a member of the Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology, a credo that critics say is steeped in science fiction more bizarre than any cinema plot. Opponents of Cruise's ...
Aug 9, 1996
Movies // Mission: Stop Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) [...] Mission: Stop Scientology: Germans youths picketed cinemas throughout their country on Thursday to protest Tom Cruise's movie "Mission: Impossible" because the American actor is a member of the Scientology religion. The protests–organized by the normally placid youth wing of Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union–are a token of the growing political pressure against Scientology in Germany, where recruiting has been active. The pickets came after Paul Stefan Mauz, a Christian Democrat member of parliament, claimed that Cruise was a "high-ranking" Scientologist ...
Jul 21, 1996
Country battles to keep out Scientologists // They say it's no religion, it's a menace — Associated PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Colleen Barry Source:
Associated Press BERLIN — American musician Chick Corea was able to perform at the Burghausen Jazz Festival this spring only after a fight among Bavarian officials about whether the state should fund an event in which a Scientologist participated. In the past, Corea was kept out of German festivals because of such fund-withdrawal threats by government officials. This time the concert went on because Bavarian Culture Minister Hans Zehetmair made an argument rarely heard in Germany: "Chick Corea is appearing in Burghausen not ...
Jan 22, 1996
Opinion / Germany retaliates against Scientology — New York Times
Jan 11, 1996
German official calls for security surveillance of Scientologists — New York TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Cowell Source:
New York Times BONN, Jan. 10 — In the long-running duel between the German authorities and the Church of Scientology, a senior Government official urged today that it be placed under surveillance by the same internal security agency that tracks terrorists and political extremists. The official, Claudia Nolte, the Minister for Family Policy, described the church as "one of the most aggressive groups in our society" and said she would "oppose the Scientology organization with all the means at my disposal." The Church of ...
Aug 19, 1995
Church in cyberspace // Its scared writ is on the net, its lawyers are on the case — Washington PostMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Marc Fisher Source:
Washington Post It was 9:30 and Arnie Lerma was lounging in his living room in Arlington, drinking his Saturday morning coffee, hanging. Suddenly, a knock at the door — who could it be at this hour? — and boom, before he could force anything out of his mouth, they were pouring into his house: federal marshals, lawyers, computer technicians, cameramen. They stayed for three hours last Saturday. They inventoried and confiscated everything Lerma cherished: his computer, every disk in the place, his client ...
Apr 4, 1995
Secret behind cult's anti-Nazi campaign — The Argus (UK)More: cosmedia.freewinds.cx , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Bracchi Source:
The Argus (UK) The Scientologists have accused the German Government of acting like the Nazis. They claim their members in that country are being persecuted like the Jews under Hitler. That controversial message has been rammed home in full-page adverts in the American press funded by the Sussex-based International Association of Scientologists. Today we expose the hypocrisy behind the campaign. THE MESSAGE is blunt — "Don't let History Repeat". It is accompanied by a chilling photograph of a book burning session in Hitler's Germany. ...
Jan 30, 1995
Germany, Church of Scientology feuding in printand political arena — Washington Post
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