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That's an insult!
for the chicken
I humbly apologize to all chickens.My words were taken out of context and in no way did I intend to insult the Gallus Domesticus by comparing them to Nazi goons.
That's an insult!
for the chicken
I humbly apologize to all chickens.My words were taken out of context and in no way did I intend to insult the Gallus Domesticus by comparing them to Nazi goons.
"Chicken" would be appropriate if it was the first word of a two-word description of them, no?
This thread has gone a little off topic and I'd like to share an awful anecdote about the end of the 39-45 war from a recent book "The Storm of War". In this book the author claims that; when the last of Hitler and his followers were trapped in the bunker during the battle for Berlin, they needed to know what parts of the city had fallen to the Russians. As the phone exchange was automated they simply telephoned random phone numbers in Berlin suburbs and noted if the person answered in German, Russian or not at all.
I thought this was very odd but logical.
Seems 9/11 Investigator has retreated all the way back to his bunker.
That's what Nazis do when they've been defeated.
That's what Nazis do when they've been defeated.
That's what Nazis do when they've been defeated.
Seems 9/11 Investigator has retreated all the way back to his bunker.
Let me just remind everyone that Dr. Adequate was banned for injudicious remarks about the other thing Nazis do when they've been defeated.
Dave
I recommend the German film "The Downfall" for a detailed look at how the Nazis behaved in defeat. It ain't pretty, and sure as hell ain't heroic.
As somone said the end of Nazi Germany was not a heroic Gotterdamerung, but a bunch of rats trying to scurry to safety.
Let me just remind everyone that Dr. Adequate was banned for injudicious remarks about the other thing Nazis do when they've been defeated.
Dave
As it happens, another book from the 1970s entitled "When Money Dies: the Nightmare of The Weimar Hyper-Inflation" has just been reprinted. Written by former Tory MEP Adam Fergusson -- endorsed by Warren Buffett as a must-read -- it is a vivid account drawn from the diaries of those who lived through the turmoil in Germany, Austria, and Hungary as the empires were broken up.
Near civil war between town and country was a pervasive feature of this break-down in social order. Large mobs of half-starved and vindictive townsmen descended on villages to seize food from farmers accused of hoarding...
A conspiracy theory took root that the inflation was a Jewish plot to ruin Germany. The currency became known as "Judefetzen" (Jew- confetti), hinting at the chain of events that would lead to Kristallnacht a decade later...
The final trigger for the 1923 collapse was the French occupation of the Ruhr, which ripped a great chunk out of German industry and set off mass resistance.
Lloyd George suspected that the French were trying to precipitate the disintegration of Germany by sponsoring a break-away Rhineland state (as indeed they were)...
The Carthaginian peace of Versailles had by then poisoned everything. It was a patriotic duty not to pay taxes that would be sequestered for reparation payments to the enemy. Influenced by the Bolsheviks, Germany had become a Communist cauldron. Spartakists tried to take Berlin. Worker `soviets' proliferated. Dockers and shipworkers occupied police stations and set up barricades in Hamburg. Communist Red Centuries fought deadly street battles with right-wing militia.
.And guess who constituted the leadership of these Bolshevik uprisings?
For people who don't have the time to read Buchanan's book we are discussing here (that is you), here a short 2 page summary of the great revisionist Master himself:
Did Hitler Want War?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
We had a ball with that one in historiography class at Purdue.
.Today this article in a large Dutch magazine:
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Well, according to "The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust" by Jeffrey Herf, Jeffrey (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. P 96,) out of 21 members of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party in April 1917, there were three "ethnic" Jews: Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev, and Yakov Sverdlov.
Your point?
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"Anyone who had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Cheka," wrote Jewish historian Leonard Schapiro, "stood a very good chance of finding himself confronted with, and possibly shot by, a Jewish investigator."20 In Ukraine, "Jews made up nearly 80 percent of the rank-and-file Cheka agents," reports W. Bruce Lincoln, an American professor of Russian history...
In light of all this, it should not be surprising that Yakov M. Yurovksy, the leader of the Bolshevik squad that carried out the murder of the Tsar and his family, was Jewish, as was Sverdlov, the Soviet chief who co-signed Lenin's execution order.
In his 1920 book, British veteran journalist Robert Wilton offered a similarly harsh assessment:24
The whole record of Bolshevism in Russia is indelibly impressed with the stamp of alien invasion. The murder of the Tsar, deliberately planned by the Jew Sverdlov (who came to Russia as a paid agent of Germany) and carried out by the Jews Goloshchekin, Syromolotov, Safarov, Voikov and Yurovsky, is the act not of the Russian people, but of this hostile invader.
From the Headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces, Siberia on March 1, 1919, comes this telegram from Omsk by Chief of Staff, Capt. Montgomey Shuyler: "It is probably unwise to say this loudly in the United States but the Bolshevik movement is and has been since it's beginning guided and controlled by Russian Jews of the greasiest type." A second Schuyler telegram, dated June 9, 1919 from Vladivostok, reports on the make-up of the presiding Soviet government: "...(T)here were 384 `commissars' including 2 Negroes, 13 Russians, 15 Chinamen, 22 Armenians, AND MORE THAN 300 JEWS. Of the latter number, 264 had come to Russia from the United States since the downfall of the Imperial Government."