Germany: "Let Me Take Off My Hat to You!"

On October 31, 2009, Falun Dafa practitioners from Germany and Switzerland went to Lindau, a beautiful town sitting next to Lake Bodensee. The practitioners were there to tell the local residents about the beauty of Falun Dafa and the brutal persecution taking place in China.

Several practitioners went to the centre of Lindau to pass out fliers. Many who learned the facts of the persecution condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and expressed their support for Falun Gong practitioners.

A practitioner came across two men in their 50s and explained the tortures the CCP used on practitioners to try and force them to renounce their beliefs. After the practitioner told them about the illegal organ removal from living practitioners by the CCP, one of them exclaimed, "What you are doing is terrific! Please allow me to take off my hat to you!" "I am from East Germany and I know what the Communist Party is about. It's the worst thing in the world, worse than Hitler."

A couple told a practitioner that they had learned about the persecution of Falun Gong in China when they were in Munich. "We know that besides Falun Gong, the CCP suppresses many other groups in Xinjiang and Tibet," said the man. The wife added, "A few days ago I watched a movie about Mao Zedong. I couldn't believe there could be someone so evil in the world. I was speechless. Mao was worse than Stalin and Hitler. The Chinese people suffered so much because of him!"