European History

Feb. 18, 2013

Two treaties from WWI that are overshadowed by the Treaty of Versailles, which the Germans of 1920 were forced to sign, were the Treaty of Saint-Germain between the Allied Powers and Austria, and the Treaty of Trianon between the Allies and Hungary. Some highlights:

• How the World War got started – it wasn’t German militarism;
• Monarchies were overturned in favor of Democratic Republics;
• Austrians were denied the right to name their smaller “rump” country German-Austria;
• Hungary’s new borders gave them 72% less territory and 64% less population than pre-war;
• Two new countries were created: Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes;
• The Allies (France, Britain, U.S.), in spite of their stated policy of self-determination for all people, hypocritically rejected the idea of plebiscites;
• Widespread unemployment and loss of exchange of goods in the entire region was the result of the harsh treaty provisions.

Map shows Austria and Hungary in their current size surrounded by all the territory that was taken from them and given to others post-WWI.

Hofbrauhaus interior where Hitler spoke

National Socialist German Workers Party

Public meeting in the Great Hall of the Hofbräuhaus

Friday 15 August 1920

 Adolf Hitler

~~Why We Are Antisemites~~

Translation from German by Hasso Castrup (Copenhagen, Denmark), January, 2013, exclusively for Carolyn Yeager.net from the original published in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 16. Jahrg., 4. H. (Oct., 1968), pp. 390-420. http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/heftarchiv/1968_4.pdf   Edited by Carolyn Yeager. English Translation Copyright 2013 Carolyn Yeager - No republication without written permission.

 My dear countrymen and women! We are quite used to being generally referred to as monsters. And we are considered particularly monstrous because, in a question that certain gentlemen in Germany are nervous about, we are marching at the head – namely in the question of the opposition to the Jews.

Jan. 28, 2013

A hard-to-locate speech that was found and translated for Carolyn by Hasso Castrup of Denmark is read and commented upon. Over 9000 words long, it makes clear Hitler’s intentions and who he saw as the major enemy as he embarked on an uphill battle to win the hearts and minds of the German masses for National Socialism. Some points made:

• Northern ice-age races – the Aryans – learned to work as a way of life and the weak did not survive, strengthening the race;
• Since the Jew is the destroyer of every state, as a pathogen he must be removed for the health of the state;
• Jewish destruction occurs in three main areas:  The ethical duty to work, the national (racial) purity, and the culture;
• Since every Jew is obligated to fight against antisemitism, it follows that every German will become an antisemite;
• Spreading scientific knowledge of the danger of Jewry or removing economic power from the Jews is insufficient … it’s necessary to penetrate into the common people and organize them.

This speech in it’s entirety will be posted at carolynyeager.net.

Image: Hitler and the “Old Fighters” meet on February 24, 1929  in the Hofbräuhaus to mark an anniversary. Left to right: Gregor Strasser, Karl Fiehler (back to camera), Christian Weber, Hitler, Julius Schaub (back to camera, Franz Schwarz, Max Amann.

Jan. 24, 2013

Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott read and comment on Chapter 26:  The Scope of Jewish Dictatorship in the U.S.

How Bernard Baruch exercised power as the  “Jewish High Governor  of the United States in war affairs” and how Jews got richer through his influence. At the beginning of the chapter we are told  that Baruch himself expressed that he ‘got into the war’ at Plattsburg and ‘out of the war’ when the Paris Peace Conference ended. What was Plattsburg? At the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914, some “elite” super-patriots, including Teddy Roosevelt and Elihu Root, instigated what was called the Preparedness Movement, to set up military training camps for civilians. Several organizations sponsored marches and demonstrations in major cities.  Training camps were operated in Plattsburg, N.Y. in 1915 and 1916 serving 40,000 men mostly from elite social classes. These men were destined to become officers.

Pictured at right is the July 22, 1916 parade in San Francisco protesting Woodrow Wilson’s policy to not prepare for war.  A bomb exploded during this parade, killing 10 and injuring many more. The motive was to work up war hysteria. What part did Jews play in this?

At the 17min to 17:09 mark, the number of men trained should be 400,000, not 4,000 as said by Carolyn.

Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of  The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.

Oldies but Goodies

This early Heretics' Hour program from June 14, 2010, with Carolyn's favorite guest of all time Wilhelm Kriessmann, is too good to be forgotten and left back in the archives.

Wilhelm Kriessmann - The War Years

Dr. Kriessmann gives his personal account of

• Life in Berlin as pilot for the general staff
• Ninety-three bomber missions on the Eastern Front
• How and why he was put in a British detention camp after returning home
• Conditions and companions in Wolfsberg and Wetzelsdorf camps

Picture: Pen & ink drawing from 1946 by Dr. Kriessmann’s father: Inside the Wolfsberg British-run detention camp near Klagenfurt, where both were held after WWII. enlarge

Originally recorded for Voice of Reason Network 13 MB / 32 kbps mono / 0 hour 55 min.

Wilhelm Kriessmann passed away on Dec. 18, one week before Christmas. He was 93 years old. I just now noticed that the years of his life correspond exactly to the number of missions he flew on the Russian front in WWII. Uncanny. Learn more about Wilhelm Kriessmann’s WWII experiences here and here, Until he suffered a stroke in late June of this year, he had remained a vigorous man, physically active and mentally sharp. He was making a valiant comeback with the help of intensive physical therapy when he was struck with a second stroke in mid-December which proved too much. It is with the greatest regard for this dear and esteemed friend that I re-present the programs he agreed to do with me exclusively on The Heretics' Hour, in this "Oldies but Goodies" format.

Oldies but Goodies

This early Heretics' Hour program from May 2010, with Carolyn's greatest guest of all time Wilhelm Kriessmann, is too good to be forgotten and left back in the archives.

Carolyn talks with Dr. Kriessmann about his book When I was a Schoolteacher’s Boy, a chronicle of his youth in Feistritz im Rosental (Austria) during the turbulent years between the World Wars. Topics include:

• A nationalist family
• School fraternities and the Hitler Youth
• The Austrian Anchluss, the culmination of hopes

This program was originally recorded for Voice of Reason Network at 13 MB / 32 kbps mono / 0 hour 56 min.

Wilhelm Kriessmann passed away on Dec. 18, 2012, one week before Christmas. He was 93 years old. Up until he suffered a stroke in late June of this year, he had remained a vigorous man, physically active and mentally sharp. He was making a valiant comeback with the help of intensive physical therapy when he was struck with a second stroke in mid-December which proved too much. It is with the greatest regard for this dear and esteemed friend that I re-present the programs he agreed to do with me exclusively on The Heretics' Hour, in this "Oldies but Goodies" format.