Frankfurt, May 19 - Political magazine Panorama of the German state television station ARD first program gave last night a significant contribution to the revealing of the propaganda war which was waged against Yugoslavia during the NATO aggression against our country.

The oldest and most respectable political TV magazine, which has been broadcasted since 1961, showed with arguments that the western propaganda machinery has fabricated lies about mass graves in Kosovo, covered up the real reasons for humanitarian catastrophe, invented alleged plans for ethnic cleansing…

Panorama has presented to million viewers the authentic documents from different German ministries announcing a vast propaganda fraud carried out during the aggression.

One of the key arguments of the western "hawks" in justifying the aggression was the thesis on the alleged humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo and Metohija. On the occasion, Panorama has presented two documents: from the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Defense, shedding a different light on the situation in Kosovo and Metohija just a couple of days before the bombardment started.

"Serbs are still incapable of taking some big military action in Kosovo", says the report by the Ministry of Defense dated March 23 1999, only a day before the aggression started. "They are only performing local and time-limited actions against the KLA".

Panorama also presents a document by the Foreign Ministry dated March 19 last year, containing this assessment: "Serbs warn civilian ethnic Albanian population before their military actions. After the retreat of the Serb security forces the population in refuge returns to their homes. There is no mass flight to the woods, no supply catastrophe".

After reading these documents, professor Duter Luc from the Institute for Research of Peace and Security says: "One must be worried when reading these reports, particularly the parts saying the KLA commanders forced their people to the places which were the targets of the NATO attacks".

On the basis of new discoveries Panorama concludes: "There was no humanitarian catastrophe which was an excuse for Germany to take part in the NATO attack at Yugoslavia, there is no trace of it in the German state bodies' documents. However, the bombardment has begun".

Developing a story about the brutal NATO military intervention in the Balkans, Panorama warns that "the humanitarian catastrophe began immediately after the attack had been launched".

"The public then started asking if the negotiations were better solution after all", ARD political magazine concludes. Defense Minister Rudolph Sharping was in tough position, forced to the wall. Panorama then presents chapters from the German Military Minister war diary. "I was very upset by the news that the Yugoslav authorities act according to the plan which had been made much earlier", Panorama conveys Sharping's note dated March 31 1999.

That was just a denomination, but at a press conference less than two weeks later, Sharping triumphantly tells a story about "Horseshoe", a plan for the expulsion of the entire ethnic Albanian population from Kosovo and Metohija. This was a key argument for the Defense Minister: participation of Germany in the aggression was justified.

"Finally we have evidence that systematic expulsion and ethnic cleansing is a part of the plan which was made in December 1998", Sharping wrote down in his diary on April 7.

Panorama has only one question - has the "Horseshoe" plan ever really existed? Retired German General Heintz Lokvai, OSCE military adviser, has the answer to this question.

"The German Defense Ministry did not show me the plan", the General says. "What they showed me were the action plans of the Yugoslav Army and Serb security forces. As I was told, the accompanying graphics were made in the German Defense Ministry".

Panorama presents another document by the Defense Ministry which says: "Details of the "Horseshoe" plan are not known".

General Lokvai concludes: "I have made a detailed study on the "Horseshoe" plan in which I wanted to include the reports by the German Embassy in Belgrade. I was rejected with explanation the documents were "too delicate". On the basis of my research I can say that German Minister was not telling truth when speaking about the "Horseshoe" plan.

After all is said Panorama concludes: "We are faced with the worst doubt that the "Horseshoe" plan was not made in Belgrade, but in Bonn.

However, the supplement of the ARD political magazine had a sequel. The show host has informed the viewers that the Defense Ministry has issued a statement denying the contents of the supplement even before it was broadcasted.

Her comment was very short: "Why did not Defense Minister Sharping accept our invitation to participate in Panorama and give answers to the questions in connection with the "Horseshoe"?