I have updates, dear reader, about both my father and my brother.
Elders first – about my father having been slandered posthumously on the Communist Broadcast Network, the CBC. In a nutshell: in her interview, the author Elaine Dewar made all kinds of assumptions about Dr. Otto Schaefer being an evil man, simply because he came from Germany, was trained as a medical doctor in “nazi Germany” at a university which had “the worst of the worst” of the allegedly evil “nazi ideology”. (See my article here).
The response which I received from the executive producer of the CBC IDEAS program is rather lame. But in the upside-down world in which we find ourselves now, where good is bad and bad is good, I suppose we can rest assured that the bad characterization of my father on that IDEAS program can be taken as a compliment. Here is that lame response from the CBC, with my brief comments in [italics in square brackets]:
2026-07-20
Dear Ms. Schaefer,
I’m the executive producer of IDEAS, and am responding to your email of June 23, which was forwarded to me from the Office of the General Manager and Editor-in-Chief. Your email centres on the IDEAS episode CBC aired on May 12, 2026, “How Canada forgot it once had a segregated health system”, featuring the now-deceased investigative journalist, Elaine Dewar.
Our episode focussed on her life in journalism, her experiences conducting journalistic research, her reflections on her impending death from MAID — she was interviewed very shortly before she died – and her findings posthumously published in her book, Oblivious. [They are really pushing this “MAiD” Medical Assistance in Dying program hard in Canada. During the one-hour program, they mentioned it three(!) times that Dewar took the MAiD, and made her out to be a hero for having finished her work first ~ Monika]
To clarify our context, this episode was part memoir, part investigation, and drew on Dewar’s personal history as someone one generation removed from the Holocaust discovering how oblivious many Canadians today are to the history of mistreatment of Indigenous people in our medical system.
To these ends, the episode features conversations conducted by the host Nahlah Ayed with: Elaine Dewar herself in hospital awaiting MAID; an academic expert on residential schools; and a Métis woman with firsthand experience within our medical system.
I’ve discussed your complaint with the production team regarding the three references made in the second half of the episode to your father, Otto Schaefer. I’m satisfied that the episode is fair and accurate, and meets CBC’s Journalism Standards and Practices. [All the defamatory statements which Elaine Dewar made about my father were based on assumptions and conjecture, and were vague characterizations. Even though she all but admitted that she was making unproven assumptions, the listener would be left with the impression that Otto Schaefer was a bad man, according to this program. ~ Monika] So we will not be making any changes to it.
Sincerely,
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Now, about my brother Alfred Schaefer, who was moved back to the Stadelheim prison on July 7th, 2026. It is, unfortunately, a serious down-grade in living conditions. The reason for the move is that he is now a prisoner on 
remand, and the Bernau prison is only for prisoners who have been sentenced already. Alfred’s 10-month sentence which he had been serving for the Augsburg episode where a group of German truth-tellers at a peaceful gathering were unceremoniously “interrupted” by a gang of about 100 police officers, after which Alfred was charged with forbidden words.
He now has a new 53-page document containing 22 new charges facing him, and no trial date has been set yet. These new charges are for the peaceful expression of ideas and words – simply noticing patterns – on videos which he has appeared in since 2022. While rape-fugees roam free in Germany, political dissidents are locked into cages.
Please write Alfred. I recommend keeping it short and encouraging. Postcards or other nice cards are great! There is no need to “educate” Alfred, as these things can be used as “evidence” against Alfred. Just a short note of encouragement, and to let him know that he is NOT forgotten. Thank you!
Alfred Schaefer
JVA Stadelheim
Stadelheimerstr. 12
81549 Munich
Germany
