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"Zeitungsblitz", Special Edition on Groening´s Success Edition No. 1, Sept. 1949

"The night of the great healings"

In the following lines, we bring you an objective report of the facts from our special correspondent, who, as representative of the press was able to stick to the heels of the great healer, Bruno Groening, for 15 hours during the healing attempts witnessed by many hundreds of people in the Traberhof on August 27 and 28.

The first healings of the day

Our correspondent reports:

Even the morning brought the many seekers of healing - who at noon called out in chorus for "their Groening" - the good fortune, that he addressed himself to those waiting in a short speech. But I don´t want to report about that, but rather about the unprecedented and unforgettable hours of the late afternoon and evening:

Somehow the air is especially loaded with suspense, and for some reason or other many suffering and curious people have come together today, Saturday, in front of the Traberhof and in the garden, and this suspense grows from hour to hour after it became known that Mr. Groening will speak again this evening to those waiting. Film equipment is already being set up on balcony, terrasse and parking lot, and more and more people flock in.

I meanwhile inquire about the most recent healing successes, and regard myself as obligated to give a sober report free of sensationalism to the reader and Groening´s circle.

Then Mrs. Würstl of Rosenheim, Münchnerstr. 42, reports to me credibly that until noon today she couldn´t bend over nor lift her feet from the floor because of her paralysis. Beaming with happiness after Groening´s speech, she had walked toward her husband for the first time without help from others, and can bend over again like all healthy people.

Then, just like Mr. Haas from Munich, a woman from Endorf whom we had only known in a lying position got up out of her wheelchair and made her first attempts at walking.

I sit down at the table of an acquaintance whose wife is the film actress Karin

L E M B E C K , from Munich-Laim, a striking brunette known to all "permanent guests". She tells me of her healing from a months-long nerve paralysis of her left arm by Groening through remote healing over the telephone one morning at 10 o´clock. From the moment of his arrival at the Traberhof, Groening´s "circle of radiation" became suddenly and so abruptly effective that Mrs. L. was overcome with hot and cold shivers which caused her to cry out, "For heaven´s sake, what has happened to my arm? I can´t feel it any more!"  - and with the same "missing" and paralysed arm which she had before not even been able to move to the top of a table, she reaches automatically to her face and a few moments later up and over her very large summer hat. Then she breaks into tears of joy and gratitude out of inner emotion, tears that had to make up for lack of words. Only hours later is it possible for her to shake hands with overflowing and grateful heart, but the great helper Mr. Groening stops her humbly, saying, "Your gratitude is not for me, but rather for the Creater above, who gave me the power this morning on the telephone with your husband to initiate this healing, which God completed on your arrival, madam, without any help from me!

A second lady, Mrs. Wagner from Munich-Laim, from the same district as Mrs. Lemback and who suffered for four years from a brain embolism with left-sided nerve paralysis - meanwhile better - is "detected" by Groening, who works with her from the rooms above. We follow the actions intently, but with all the turbulence the lady could not effect the necessary concentration. For the same reason, a later attempt face to face with the master that night brought no satisfactory result, since the inner readiness, the concentration of the mind and the additional introduction only a few hours after the remote treatment were very obstructive.

Here, as in two further cases, the striking proof was furnished that her additional entrance into Mr. Groening´s private quarters - on the assumption that the telepathic treatment had not been effective - was a sign of mistrust toward the great healer.

And now the time has come. Many hundreds of people stand closely packed together. It is 7:30 p.m. The evening shadows spread. The horses have long since disappeared from the paddocks, and the sun gilds our magnificent blue mountains. The suspense becomes greater and greater, becomes unbearable. Then Groening steps for a moment onto the balcony accompanied by shouts of joy and asks for a few minutes patience to allow him to tune in silently to the many people, whom he is also trying to bring into concentration. Mr. S., from his group of assistants, directs the sick toward the front into the field of vision, gives quiet instructions on what they should do: hands flat on the knees, no physical contact with others, thoughts turned away from the sickness - so is the advice. Just this suspense-filled, silent expectation, this inner, spiritual preparation for the moment when Groening´s healing power takes effect is what brings the greatest possible healing success. There is hardly a whisper in the crowd of people. It is impossible to describe the situation and the mood, the stirring, faith-filled atmosphere in which these poor, tormented people, with all their visible and invisible ailments, wait, more or less firm in faith, for the moment of their healing.

Meanwhile, 15 minutes have been taken up by the preparation for the shooting of a documentary film - minutes which one feels he will experience only once, so full of energy-filled expectation that one can hear his own heartbeat and that of his neighbor as well. An assistant of Groening asks individual persons at intervals where they are from. Place names from all parts and zones of Germany are represented - from the Allgäu and the Swabian area, from Cologne and Frankfurt, from Upper and Lower Bavaria, from Lake Constance and the North Sea - yes, even from Berlin, and then naturally many locals. It gave Mr. Groening later a special, personal pleasure when an old fellow-soldier present among those waiting came up to him and had to share with him the hard lot of Russian imprisonment in Karelien and Finland. The crowd is asked again to ask Mr. Groening no questions, and to focus completely on what Groening will say.

Groening speaks to those waiting

It is now dusk. The klieg lights flare up on all sides, and the film equipment starts to get under way softly. All other sounds cease, and all eyes are directed to the balcony, onto which Mr. Groening steps along with his host, assistants and healed persons. There follow minutes of very deep silence in which the great helper of humanity folds his hands and looks toward heaven. Then he establishes complete contact with his f a i t h f u l seekers of healing by looking into each of their excited faces.

Groening begins now to speak simple, measured words of deep faith with that warm, sympathetic voice that is able of captivating so many:

"My dear seekers of healing! Just as every day, people are gathering here today, poor and tormented people who seek healing and will also find it. But there are also those, driven here out of pure curiosity, individuals who know themselves that they are skeptics. I feel that very certainly, and I ask you to please cover over your thoughts and let yourselves be convinced by the facts. It is not a matter of entertainment and cheap demonstrations of miracles - time is too short for that, and the suffering of the people around me too great.

I have called no one here; on the contrary, I have asked them to wait until the day when they can receive help under orderly circumstances.

He who doesn´t believe in me doesn´t need to come any more!

I know that many among you are on the way to a healing! I intend to remain here in U p p e r B a v a ra i a and ask you to have patience until I receive the permission for public healing and the healing centers are set up. But only he has a right to healing who carries within him the divine faith. Unfortunately, there are people who have lost this years ago or have carried it through the mud.

I say unto you: the only doctor, the doctor of all people is, and remains, our

Lord God! He alone can help. But he only helps believers who are willing to throw off their old ailment. You don´t have to believe in the little Groening, but you must have trust in me. I do not want your thanks - it belongs to God alone; I am only doing my duty!

Since you are not enlightened, I inform you that can leave fear and money at home, but must always bring your illness and much time with you - of which I then rob you. You should all be human with one another - not hateful, not false, never treat anyone badly, never be envious. The best and greatest gift in this life on earth is not riches, not money, but health, which is worth more than all the possessions on earth. You have heard from my assistant what you should do in order to achieve the greatest possible effect. I do not want to perform a public healing here! I must first know for certain that I can help publicly. However, up until now it has always been the case that people in proximity to me were already restored to health. They do not have to specify their illnesses - I see through them and know everything about them.

Mr. Groening now gives a few simple examples of the power of his influence, which were confirmed by shouting, and then continued:

Each has now received what he wanted; but only h e , who felt connected to his Lord God.

If everything goes well, I want to set up my healing centers with this place as the nucleus, in close cooperation with the doctors, in order to help all of you. To all of you who have come to me for your sick relations, I want to say:

‚I am already with them!'

When you go home, you will see that the sick person is no longer exactly the same as when you left him!"

The selfless man was thanked for his words with a long applause.

Two government representatives for Groening

Then, fully unexpectedly, the Chief Constable of Munich stepped spontaneously from out of the background:

"My dear people of Rosenheim! I speak to you here today out of personal experience. I have come here primarily as a sick person, but also as Bavarian official and observer. I have never in my life received such an outstanding diagnosis - not even from the most famous professors - as here from Mr. Groening in a few moments, without his even touching my body. I myself firmly believe in my healing, and I carry the responsibility for that which happens here up to the h i g h e s t g o v e r n m e n t a g e n c i e s, whether it suits certain gentlemen - you already know whom I mean - or not. The crucial thing is that the sick are helped. I was in action day and night for four years, and in the process acquired a severe ailment for the healing of which I have already sacrificed half a fortune in vain. I speak for myself and for all of you - and it should be heard everywhere, because I must stay healthy for all upright people. I thank you, Mr. Groening, for your help. May the Lord God grant you the power to help all the many people who come to you with firm belief and open hearts.

Continue having total trust in Groening´s healing ability. and help, all of you, to overcome the final difficulties. My friend in the state parliament will see to it that one day, perhaps even soon, Mr. Groening will receive the licence to heal."

At this point, Mr. Hagn, representative of the state parliament, spoke:

I really didn´t want to speak, because I was very skeptical in the matter of Mr. Groening and wanted to convince myself personally of what happens here. I have experienced today such moving things that I haven´t the words to describe them. That is all I can say to you. I ask you all to believe in the

calling of Mr. Groening!"

Again uproarious applause surged forth from the excited crowd.

The nocturnal healings in the Traberhof

Now Groening addressed himself from the balcony to several severe and pitiable cases of paralysis.

Mrs. Monika Baumgärtner of Bad Aibling, who had waited for days in the Traberhof, and who three years before had suffered in a fall from Watzmann a spinal injury with complete lesion of the entire lower body, struggles with great effort and tremendous perspiration to stand again - if only for a short time - for the first time in years. Now, Groening exhorts other invalids with lame and stiff limbs to move or bend them. I can only with effort push through to the pitiably disabled Mr.Georg

A i g n e r , of Rosenheim-Thallerbräu, who, beaming with joy, doggedly demonstrates for me with loud crackling how he can bend the dried-out joints and proudly puts his left ankle on his right knee and vice-versa. That was the second case for the skeptics, and all present were able to convince themselves. Finally, a baker from Bad Aibling got rid of a nervous shock that had lasted for years in but a few minutes, with the exception of a few remaining signs from which Groening promises to free him from in a few weeks.

Now Groening speaks again to the astonished crowd:

If an improvement has taken place with your acquaintances and relatives at home, inform me here as soon as possible with t o d a y ´s d a t e a s k e y d a t e, so that I know how many healings were accomplished today.

I wish you all a really good night and complete recovery in the name of God."

Then the great healer went back with his assistants into the living quarters in order to further prove his healing ability with success on cases brought to him without pause from early morning on by doctors and the press.

Since I until now had stayed exclusively near the sick in order to have the closest contact with them, I was now able - on the invitation of the H a w a r t family - to be directly present at the treatment of the most severe cases. I entered the private quarters through the long line of those waiting in the anteroom. In spite of all my objectivity, I could already on entering not help perceiving a certain aura. Then Mr. Groening came up to me and shook my hand firmly. I had for a moment the feeling as if his strong, but extremely friendly gaze would go through me. His first words to me testified to the great disappointment he had already experienced with the press.

During a few interesting treatments of infantile paralysis with visible success, a circle was prepared around midnight in the exotically furnished winter garden. Under the beams of four klieg lights, 24 persons came together, among them the doctor attending two patients, Dr. Meyer from the hospital for the disabled in Bad Tölz, as well as a lady doctor, a medical student and the people accompanying those who could not walk. The rain beats a continuous rhythm on the glass roof, and three film technicians adjust their cameras on the paatients. Each individual case is filmed before, during and after the treatment for a documentary film for the enlightenment of the masses. As always, Groening prepares himself for the treatment in the adjacent room. His assistant, Mr. Schmidt, appears and also asks those present here to to concentrate themselves both inwardly and outwardly on the upcoming healing attempts. Then he makes the amazing announcement, probably from Groening, that among those present there is a gentleman who should either inwardly change his unwarranted skepticism or leave the room - in order not to disrupt the psychic connections with the seekers of healing. No one, however, leaves the room.

Then Groening appears in the doorway and asks those present to concentrate only on what is happening in each individual body.

Groening steps into the circle and busies himself intensively with Mrs. Baumgärtner from Bad Aibling, who is personally introduced to him again up here. Expectant silence sets in. The pieces of film equipment begin to take turns humming. Suddenly Groening turns around and asks the patient under discussion, "And what do you feel now?" Usually the answer is a tingling in the feet, a twinge in the calves, a piercing pain in area of the kidney or bladder, a viiolent rumbling in the bowels, a pressure in the pit of the stomach - or a violent shaking of the entire body manifests itself for all to see. The treatment symptoms reveal themselves like this or in a similar manner with almost all of the patients. Now the master fixes his gaze to the millimetre on the exact spot which has brought about the paralysis. He has Mrs. B. take three deep breaths. Then the patient suddenly cries out, "T h r o u g h !" Turned away from the patient and for her not visible, Mr. Groening demonstrates to the doctors in an amazing finger-language how one can sever a particular nerve and sew it together again without an operation - during which the patient feels all the pain of this operation. As the treatment progresses, the patient feels "light," hardly senses her body any more, and manifests increasingly euphoric sensations; she lifts unsteadily her left arm, supports herself on the backs of chairs and makes her second attempt at walking:

"She will walk again before long!" is Groening´s diagnosis.

The treatment of difficult cases

Evelyn G s c h w i n d from M u n i c h, An eight-year-old girl who was almost totally blind for years and had severe damage of the cornea und five operations, already sees w i t h o u t glasses after several treatments on the same day more than she has ever seen - for example, the train going by at a distance of 500 metres. Groening has little Evelyn take away the blur before her left eye by putting her left hand over her eye socket, and then on his command taking it away, after which she can, relieved, describe every detail of the room.

Now Groening requests that three gentlemen from among the attendants of patients be brought forth and asked to step onto the balcony, since they are distracting their wards. Now he distributes little paper balls from cigarette packets which he rolled himself, and which apparently contain a deposit of magnetic force. They are in such demand that they are already sold on the black market in Munich and are of course fakes.

These "power carriers" are supposed to bring about contact of patients to Groening over spatial distance and facilitate the concentration absolutely necessary for remote treatments.

Meanwhile, day begins to break, and the master still shows no signs of tiredness. He obviously transfers his staying power onto his visitors, for no one among them wants to leave the "place of miracles" either. The concept of "sleep" is for Groening a foreign word. A quick movement of his hand from his forehead over his distinctive cranium to the back of his head takes away the slightest sign of fatigue. However, the cigarettes glow incessantly in his hand, and his nourishment consists only of small portions.

Then the man in continual demand is brought to a very severe case in the back yard, where the 35-year-old Mr. Fischhaber from Bad Tölz has already waited for days as his last hope. As a result of bobsled and motorcycle accidents, Mr. F. incurred paralysis of parts of his body which has continually worsened since May, 1949. Three medical opinions from prominent Munich professors vary from petrol poisoning, spinal injury, tumours of the main nerve trunk and - the latest finding of the doctor who brought him to Groening today - injury of the interbrain. Two months ago, Mr. F. had already sought out Groening in Herford, where he promised him healing. While the kidney disease caused by many years of drug treatment completely disappeared after the Herford visit, a partial success with the other symptoms of illness failed to occur. Groening already did the preparation for this morning consultation through his assistant, at which time Mr. F. could feel an intense tingling in his left hand, as well as feelings similar to a charley horse in his left calf and the front of his foot.

Mr. Groening gives a downright sensational, "clairvoyant" reason for the previous failure of an obvious healing or improvement to appear, and says, quote:

"Beware of a married couple with whom you are friends, and who are not well-disposed toward you. The woman has black hair, the man dark blond with a part, and is about 1,70 m. tall.This man will - if you want to know exactly - step into your house two days after your return from here, at six o´clock in the evening. You will recognize him by the fact that, before closing the door, he cleans his nose with a handkerchief. This man has prevented your healing through me up until today, since he has already spoken disparagingly about it in public. This person stands between you and me and cuts off the necessary contact. Avoid this man, and you will be healed in a short time."

The healer´s last words, which he gave me on the way home, and which indicate the way of his future work, were:

"I want to heal my patients in a few minutes with the following words:

"Good day! You were ill! Goodbye!"

A. Stecher

Note from the Editor:

That is the report of our correspondent, which we reproduce without comment.

Our readers can now form their own opinion on the basis of these factual descriptions of Mr. Groening´s "healing art" and of whether immediate licencing from the responsible state ministry for him to act as "doctor of natural healing" is necessary.

Since Groening intends to continue staying for the time being at the Traberhof near Rosenheim, we will bring out further "special editions" at the appropriate time.

It is not possible for us to forward letters or mediate in any way with Mr. Groening. Of course t h o s e i n t e r e s t e d may direct letters (without photos) or other messages to his address:

Mr. Bruno Groening, Rosenheim-Land, Traberhof.

Other addresses that may be circulating on the black market are false. Mr. Groening asks that you refrain from personal visits until his official licencing.