World War II

"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 6

Published by carolyn on Thu, 2014-04-10 16:21
 
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April 10, 2014

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the Sept 22 to Sept. 25, 1941 dinner table monologues by the German Führer, as taken down by an adjutant and checked for accuracy by Martin Bormann. In this program:

  • The separate worlds of Europe and Asia are not marked by the Ural Mountains, but Asia penetrates into Europe without any sharp break;
  • Germany obtains the right to extend into the East by it’s awareness of what it represents – success justifies everything;
  • National-Socialism will never ape religion by establishing a form of worship;
  • The Russian soldier of the 1st World War was more good-natured than the cruel Bolshevik-led soldier of the current time;
  • The Four-Year Plan of 1936-40 with the aim of German self-sufficiency, not dependent on exports;
  • Russia as a source of raw materials for Germany and a consumer of simple German-made items such as cotton goods and household utensils.

Image: At the Obersalzberg, Adolf Hitler, accompanied by Reich Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop (right), receives the Prime Minister Zwetkowitsch of Yugoslavia for talks in February 1941 (click to enlarge)

The edition being used was translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, published by Enigma Books, New York, and can be found as a pdf here.

Saturday Afternoon: Roots of the myth of National-Socialism's "occult roots"

Published by carolyn on Sat, 2014-04-05 13:59
 
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April 5, 2014

Charles Krafft joins Carolyn as she explains from whence comes the idea that völkish/racial means the same thing as occultish/magical. Charles tells about the books and authors that have had a big influence in perpetuating the popular image of the “Supernatural Nazi.” Some highlights:

  • Adolf Hitler banned and suppressed esoteric organizations and individuals from having any connection to or influence on the NSDAP or his government from 1933-45;
  • The Thule Society emerged out of the Germanenorden (founded 1912), became a political organization in 1918, out of which Anton Drexler formed the German Worker’s Party (DAP) in 1919;
  • By Feb. 1920, Adolf Hitler had reconstituted the DAP into the NSDAP and severed all remaining links to the Thule Society;
  • An English fantasy novel “Vril, the Power of the Coming Race” was the source of the Vril idea, used by some, like Maria Orsic,  to engage in supposed communications with extraterrestrials;
  • Heinrich Himmler and two others established the Ahnenerbe institute within the SS to study “German Ancestral Heritage” through experiments and archaeological and cultural expeditions;
  • Since 1945, writers have produced a whole genre of “occult Nazi” books, comics and movies leading up to pornographic “stalags” featuring sadistic “Nazis” and their victims;
  • There has always been attraction to the fantastic and supernatural (and sexual!) and there always will be, but we should be aware it is also used to manipulate and fool us.

Image: Montage of supposed N-S "occult" figures and symbols includes Helena Blavatsky, Guido Von List and Heinrich Himmler across center; Dietrich Eckert & Karl Haushofer bottom. Click to enlarge.

"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 5

Published by carolyn on Thu, 2014-04-03 16:59
 
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April 3, 2014

Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the August 19 – Sept 21, 1941 dinner table monologues by the German Führer, as taken down by an adjutant and checked for accuracy by Martin Bormann. In this program:

  • Encouraging high level of births is more useful than preventing war – to kill a man before he is born is the worst;
  • The people of Europe should not be dependent upon England, but the Ukraine and Volga Basin will be the granaries for us;
  • Criminals and anarchists should be dealt with swiftly and harshly, not turned over to lawyers to get them light sentences;
  • The “spirit of decision” in deciding on Operation Barbarossa, and the quality of the German soldier as “best in the world”;
  • The industrious German nature compared to the indolent Slav nature is pointed out in several instances;
  • His dislike of the Habsburg monarchy and his gratitude to Social Democracy for sweeping all royalties away;
  • The duty of National-Socialism is to allow the best in the people to develop.

Image: Poster expressing "German thanks giving" for a good harvest. As the 30's wore on, Germany did not have enough agricultural land to feed it's growing population. But even in the 20's, Adolf Hitler saw the fertile land of Ukraine as perfect for Germany's needs. Click to enlarge.

The edition being used was translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, published by Enigma Books, New York, and can be found as a pdf here.

The 'Gas Chambers' not demonstrated at the Nuremberg Tribunal

Published by admin on Tue, 2014-04-01 02:08

This is a bi-lingual video from Vincent Reynouard. The narration is in French, with English sub-titles.

Argument #1 - At Nuremberg, the existence of the "gas chambers" was never demonstrated.

Comment from Richard Edmonds, who writes:

 
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"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 4

Published by carolyn on Thu, 2014-03-27 16:34
 
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March 27, 2014

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the August 1st-10th, 1941 dinner table monologues by the German Führer, as taken down by an adjutant and checked for accuracy by Martin Bormann. Some highlights from the program:

  • Even though German functionaries are incorruptible, too much uniformity and fear of initiative is not a good thing;
  • Hitler's sympathetic attitude toward workers, and his dislike of the bourgeoisie  and the plutocracy;
  • Hydro-electric and gas works - the future will depend on water, wind and natural gas;
  • The British method of ruling their empire was not to try to Anglicize the people, but to leave them to live according to their own ways;
  • Hitler sees the combined forces of Germany, England, the Nordic countries and Italy as greater than the USA.

Click image to enlarge: German troops march past a church as they move deeper into Russia in 1941.

The edition being used was translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, published by Enigma Books, New York, and can be found as a pdf here.

Saturday Afternoon: In Defense of National-Socialism

Published by carolyn on Sat, 2014-03-22 12:38
 
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March 22, 2014

Can one proclaim to be a National-Socialist and at the same time look to Russian President Vladimir Putin as the “new leader” that Whites can rally around? Carolyn doesn’t think so and says why, plus Bob from DC  calls in the 2nd hour with additional information and opinions. Some highlights:

  • How racially-minded is Putin – How much communist egalitarianism has stuck with him;
  • Can any Slavic nationalist ever deny the Holocaust, or even revise it, like non-Slavic Eastern nationalists, such as Hungary, do;
  • Michael Colhaze favors the Christian Slavs over the atheist West, even though bureaucratic corruption is a fact of life;
  • Putin’s father was a communist party true-believer and Putin joined the KGB directly upon university graduation;
  • Alexander Dugin, sometime advisor to Putin, heads a Eurasian Alliance that wants to assure the cultural diversity of all the peoples of the world;
  • Nat-Socialism’s “race eugenics” (sterilization law) was begun in 1933 to purify the German race from habitual criminal, feeble-minded and insane hereditary factors;
  • The U.S., Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland also had sterilization laws, while Hungary, UK, Switzerland, Poland, Japan, Latvia and Estonia were considering it.

"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 3

Published by carolyn on Thu, 2014-03-20 16:42
 
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March 20, 2014

Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the July 21st-28th, 1941 dinner table monologues by the German Fuehrer, as taken down by an adjutant and checked for accuracy by Martin Bormann. Some highlights from the program:

  •  Graditude to the Jesuits for the Counter-Reformation and its Baroque architecture, leaving the Gothic behind;
  • Admiration for Mussolini and the glory of Italian art-architecture, superior to the French;
  • Martin Luther credited with replacing the many regional dialects with  the great German language;
  • English-German industrial competition and their comparison in the arts and culture;
  • The merit of the German soldier, the prestige of the SS, and the weakness of the WWI command;
  • How to control the Eastern regions with soldier-farmers as colonists;
  • Wrong to exterminate the intelligentsia, but a class system is intolerable –cannot despise the man who sweeps the streets.

Image: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini walking in front of saluting military in Venice, as Hitler first arrives in Italy in 1934. (click to enlarge)

The edition being used was translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, published by Enigma Books, New York, and can be found as a pdf here.

Leopold Wenger's letters from the Eastern Front, Nov 1943-Feb 1944

Published by carolyn on Wed, 2014-03-19 17:20


Oberleutnant Poldi Wenger stands at his squadron's [13th/SG10] command bunker at Koskov, in Ukraine, in January 1944. Note their "red fox" insignia above the entrance.


copyright 2014 Wilhelm Wenger and Carolyn Yeager
Translated from the German by Carlos Whitlock Porter


VIENNA - Officers’ military hospital

3 October 1943: I had hardly gotten here when they stuck me in bed again, which didn’t hardly please me. I’m in a military hospital here, officers only. There are four of us to a room, all of them sick; there are no wounded, and it’s nowhere near as beautiful as Constance. Now, once again, I’ve got a thick bandage on my knee and once again, the famous black ointment “Ichtiol” on it.

A few days ago I travelled to Meersburg [on the other side of the Lake Constance], which Mom had described to me as being so beautiful. I’m very glad to have undertaken this short outing; I really didn’t regret it. [Poldi received a visit from a lady friend of some years standing, one of the Luftwaffe auxiliary personnel, whom he had met in France; they travelled together on the trip to Meersberg. -WW]

Here in Vienna, visits are only permitted three times a week; but I very much hope that Father and Mother will be able to make it here together. In other respects our superiors here are rather strict; nevertheless I hope [sentence cut off]

[I myself was in Linz an der Donau at this time, assigned to the anti-aircraft auxiliary personnel as an anti-aircraft gunner, where I also attended grammar school at the Humanities High School at Marburg an der Drau. I was supposed to go to Leoben on holiday in the next few days and wanted to spend the holiday with our parents there together with Bibi (Poldi). -WW]

"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 2

Published by carolyn on Thu, 2014-03-13 16:09
 
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March 13, 2013

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the Sat. July 5th through July 15th, 1941 dinner table monologues by the German Fuehrer, as taken down by an adjutant and checked for accuracy by Martin Bormann. 59m. Some highlights from the program:

  • Russians do not naturally incline toward a Western, Aryan type of organized state;
  • Expansion into the East will create new tourist destinations reachable by autobahn;
  • Moscow must disappear and Bolshevisim be exterminated;
  • The dominion of natural law, no education in atheism, Christianity less tolerant than the ancient world;
  • Moral law governs the actions of Germans, making them uniquely capable of a revolution in religion;
  • Racial migrations, and “way of eating” a typically racial characteristic;
  • Stalin an extraordinary figure in history.

Image: July 1941. A proud time: Hitler with Field Marshal Keitel and Reichsmarschall Goering (far right) in conversation with Knight's Cross winner Werner Mölders (left). [click on image to enlarge]

The edition being used was translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, published by Enigma Books, New York, and can be found as a pdf here.

New easy-to-read version: Dissenting opinion of Justice R.B Pal, Tokyo "war crimes" Tribunal

Published by carolyn on Wed, 2014-03-12 06:49

Carlos W. Porter has just completed the tedious task of reformating the entire Dissenting Judgement, in 11 parts, of Justice R.B. Pal from the Tokyo Tribunal of 1946-48, first published in 1999.

"Publication of Pal’s dissenting opinion at the Tribunal was prohibited during the Occupation years, and even after the allied Occupation was over and Japan had regained her independence, it failed to draw the attention of the Japanese except for a few who had special interest in the Tokyo Military Tribunal. In a word, it was almost forgotten among the Japanese.

Monument to Justice Radhabinod Pal in Japan

"One thing that Pal was especially concerned about regarding the war was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On visiting Hiroshima in November 1952, four years after the Tokyo trial ended, he was reportedly shocked to know the meaning of the monumental inscription dedicated to the A-bomb victims:  “Sleep peacefully, for we shall never repeat the mistake." [we = the Japanese leaders -cy]

“Why should the Japanese apologize to the Japanese?” he said with resentment, “It is not the Japanese who dropped the atomic bombs.” I would like to know what he would have said or, for that matter, what judgment the Tribunal would have passed on Japan if they had known at that time about the Emperor’s order to stop a project by the Japanese military to build an atomic weapon. The Emperor reportedly said that Japan should not be the first to make and use such an inhuman device, and thereupon the Japanese Army, by instructions from General Tojo, immediately gave up its A-bomb production project even at the cost of a possible final victory, while the U. S. decided to develop such a weapon and actually dropped two of them on Japanese cities just to shorten the war." -Akira Nakamura

To read the 11 sections of the Pal Dissenting Opinion, please begin here. At the bottom of each web page there is a link to the next section.

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