World War II

Nationalist marchers hemmed in by police in Dresden Germany, Feb. 12, 2013.

By Carolyn Yeager

Up to 2,000 nationalists and patriots from around Germany (far fewer than in previous years) gathered in Dresden today for their traditional silent torchlight march in memory of their murdered countrymen in the Feb. 1945 firebombing of the city by British and American air forces.

But the city was ready for them, ready, that is, to deny them the right to do what others of a different political persuasion are allowed to do. Nearly 6,000 police officers had been sent to Dresden, ostensibly to protect their march, but in reality to enforce the wishes of the Dresden city officials who this year decided to upstage the nationalist march with a demonstration of their own.

More than 10,000 people (according to the news) formed a human chain to prevent the nationalists from marching.

City wants emphasis on reconciliation

Ten thousand candles were provided by the city to the counter-demonstrators to be lit in front of the landmark Frauenkirche. This beloved old church was destroyed in the bombing and only rebuilt in recent years. The candles were arranged in front of the church to form a "candle of reconciliation."

Yet in London last year, Queen Elizabeth herself "cut the ribbon" on a large monument recognizing the "brave" British pilots who carried out the bombing on Dresden! No talk of reconciliation there.

Police cordoned off the nationalists - who are always called Neo-Nazis and extremists by everyone, even the Press - while the counter-demonstrators banged drums and shouted "Out with Nazis!" Is it any wonder that fewer marchers showed up this year when it is such a completely depressing experience?   

Commercial interests outweigh the truth of history

At a memorial service earlier in the day, Jewish leaders and church representatives mostly spoke against far-right extremism. Disgustingly, representatives from the UK and US were also in attendance, but not in penitence - no doubt quite self-righteously. There has never been even a hint of an apology from those nations - Germans are still doing all the apologizing. In fact, the city of Dresden calls it's event a commemoration for past war-time bombing victims in Dresden, England's Coventry and Japan's Hiroshima! God forbid that German suffering should stand out.

It does seem that the only thing post-unification Dresden wants to say to the world is "We don't want far-right extremism." Sure, and we know why - it hurts tourism, which is Dresden's number one industry.

It's painful to recognize that this is their only response to the devastating, sadistic two-day roasting of German women and children, both city residents and refugees, in 1945. The death toll is officially declared always to be 'up to 25,000' when, at the time following the bombing, it was widely known and stated to be over 100,000.  It sickens me too much to say anymore about it except Armes Deutschland.

German navy's successful Channel Dash

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This Monday, Feb. 11th marks the 71st anniversary of the German navy's successful Channel Dash from Brest Harbor in France to Wilhelmshaven. It was codenamed Operation Cerberus - the Roman name for the three-headed dog that guards the gates of the underworld, Hades.

Background: In 1941, with radar in its early stages, the giant ships could still operate in the open oceans and the German battleships were doing great damage to Allied shipping in the Atlantic. Twenty-two British merchant ships had been sunk by March of '41. This was not sustainable for the English and the battle of the Atlantic was under way.

After the German battleship “Bismarck” was sunk in May 1941, the rest of the fleet found refuge in the harbor at Brest, France. The RAF tried for months to destroy the German ships but they were well-protected by anti-aircraft. Finally, Hitler gave the order to bring the ships “Scharnhorst,” “Gneisenau” and “Prinz Eugen” back by the Channel route between England and France. The German Naval Commanders could not understand Hitler’s order – they had mostly been against that plan, but Hitler was right. The operation was successful.

The operation itself: The convoy, which included six destroyers, left Brest harbour at 22.45 hours on February 11, 1942, shortly after Britain's submarine “Sea Lion” ended its watch. Faulty radar in the British spotter planes combined with cloud cover to prevent the convoy from being discovered. By dawn on February 12th, the convoy was sailing off Barfleur, south of the Isle of Wight, in fog conditions. At Dover, the gun batteries based there engaged the Germans but their shells fell short. Torpedo-carrying Swordfish planes also failed; all six planes were lost in the attack thanks to the ferocious German fighters. More attacks were not successful, due partly to faulty communications at the RAF. One of the pilots flying a Spitfire was Canadian Barry Needham. At dawn on February 13th, the German convoy sailed into the port of Wilhelmshafen with a loss of just one of their minor escort ships and seventeen fighter planes.

This German “Channel Dash” remains the only occasion since the Spanish Armada in 1588 that ships belonging to an enemy of Great Britain have successfully traversed the English Channel. It was considered a disgrace for the British Admiralty that the German ships crossed in front of their eyes very near to the  south coast of England.

Lieutenant Leopold Wenger, [right] was one of the pilots of the “Jagdeschwader Richthofen” whose mission it was to escort and protect these very precious, giant battleships. The pilots were not allowed to use their radios; if they discovered any danger – for example, a British aircraft approaching – they could warn their wingman only by a short gun-shot in his direction. For Wenger and the other pilots of his unit, their mission was completed on Feb. 13 when the ships arrived at The Netherlands. They landed at Leeuwarden to fuel up and return to their airfield in France. Other German fighters from another unit took over the duty of escorting the armada to safe harbors.

Thanks to Willy Wenger of Austria for telling me of this anniversary and supplying the information about his older brother, Leopold, who, to his family, was always called “Bibi.” Leopold Wenger, a recipient of Germany's highest decoration, the Knights Cross, was shot down over Vienna in April 1945 at age 23.

Jan. 31, 2013

Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on Chapter 27:  Jewish Copper Kings Reap Rich War-Profits. 

 This chapter uses the example of the copper cartel during “Wilson’s War” to show us in some detail how Jews manage to take over whole areas of government-industry.  TIJ asks as a final question: How can such power be explained? …  to which Carolyn and Hadding offer an answer.  Other issues raised:

• Bernard Baruch went to the Peace Conference as an “economic adviser” and stayed til the end;
• Called the Kosher Conference by Frenchmen who were astounded to see the number of Jews there;
• Two Jewish companies, the Lewisohn and the Guggenheim, with the help of Baruch, divided between themselves the huge war-related copper sales to the U.S. and the Allies.

Pictured above right: Jew Daniel Guggenheim, one of seven sons of Meyer who immigrated to the U.S. from Switzerland in 1847. The family won a lead-silver price war with ASARCO in 1900 and took over the company. When war broke out in 1914, Daniel was ready to ramp up copper production worldwide to aid the Allied war effort—and the Guggenheim profits. He was a member of the National Security League, founded by Solomon ‘Stanwood’  Menken and Gen. Leonard Wood, a driving force for moving the then-neutral USA into the war.

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.

Wilhelm Ludwig Kriessmann, Luftwaffen bomber pilot on the Eastern Front during WWII died on Dec. 18, 2012 at his home in northern California. This picture was taken on May 10, 2012 while visiting friends in Austria. A little over one month later, back home again, he suffered a massive stroke. He was recovering well from it when, in December, more strokes occurred.  

Willi, as he liked to be called, managed to complete 93 years of very active life, which "coincidentally" was the same number of bombing missions he flew in support of major battles on the Eastern Front – exactly 93. He and his crew were awarded the Iron Cross First Class for a dangerous, wintry flight to drop severely-needed oil tanks to a group of encircled comrades. He also piloted top officers around the country from a home base in Berlin, and in the last months of the war ferried new airplanes from the factory to the airfield … including the Arado 234, the first operational JET bomber.

Another "coincidence": The initial stroke that was the beginning of the end for Willi occured on June 28, 2012 - the 93rd anniversary of the signing of the Versailles Treaty on June 28, 1919 (the year of his birth), which cemented the Jewish-engineered total 'defeat' of Austria-Hungary and Germany.

Youth in Austria

Born in the small Austrian village of Feistriz in the southern province of Kaernten (Carinthia) on Oct. 11, 1919, Willi grew up in a nationalist family and was already an “underground” National Socialist supporter when the 1938 Anchluss with Germany took place. One of his most cherished memories was attending the NSDAP Party Congress in Nuremberg in Sept.1938 with the Austrian youth delegation and marching past Adolf Hitler, looking right into his eyes.

Post-war life 

After the war, Willi spent a year and a half "detained" in British-run camps for "Nazis" - Wolfsberg and Wetzelsdorf near his home town. He tells about this in several The Heretics' Hour radio programs. You won't find it anywhere else. After release, he earned a Ph.D at Gratz Univ. and went to work for the Austrian Trade Ministry. He rather quickly moved up to become Trade Commissioner for the U.S. West Coast – which led him to relocate his family to California, where they remained. After many successes in the U.S. for the Austrian Trade Ministry, he tired of the continual political intriguing, left that post and formed his own import-export business. Following full retirement he traveled around the globe and regularly wrote articles in German-American periodicals. His topics ran the spectrum from anniversaries of significant historical events to German-American activities and personalities, such as the shameful treatment of some of the "Paperclip" scientists.   

Never forgetting his old comrades

In 2008 he began collaborating with Carolyn Yeager in the translation of selected chapters from Hermann Giesler's book, Ein Anderer Hitler. These appeared in The Barnes Review (TBR) magazine under his pseudonym, Wilhelm Mann, from late 2008 until mid-2011. This entire series can be found on this webpage, on the upper right. Yeager and (Kriess)Mann also teamed up to write “Who's found in WWII Mass Graves?” (TBR, Jan-Feb 2010). Wilhelm's original story "Kraigher vs. Kraigher - How Tito Escaped Hitler's Roesselsprung Snare" was translated into English in 2008 in collaboration with Yeager. His last work was to translate Maria Grüttner's story about Eisenhower's Death Camps that appeared in the July-Aug 2012 TBR.

Wilhelm Kriessmann leaves behind a wife, four children and 6 grandchildren. He touched hundreds of lives with his old-world gentlemanly charm, large and vivid personality, and loyalty to the inspirations of his youth. Keep flying high, Willi. It's a sure thing you are in great company.

[Since this was written, I have added the Wilhelm L Kriessmann Archive to this site. It can be found on the top index bar, under the banner.]

Oldies but Goodies

This early Heretics' Hour program from June 28, 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 Detention Camps

What was life like in the British-run Wolfsberg detention camp in Austria, where Wilhelm was detained soon after he found his way home from Northern Germany in September, 1945? How did it compare with the Auschwitz detention camp in Poland? Was it really any better ... or was it worse? After 9 months at Wolfsberg, he spent another 8 months detained at the similar, but much smaller Wetzelsdorf camp ... all without any charges ever laid against him.

Wikipedia writes: 
By the middle of June only Russian prisoners remained, these were eventually exchanged for British and American PoWs in Russian hands, near Graz. The camp then served as a British detention center for ex-Nazis, before finally closing in mid-1947.

Wilhelm Kriessmann was a soldier, not a "Nazi"; he was never a Party member. I had to appeal to him as a friend to come on the show and talk about his camp experience, as it is not something he normally did. He was one of those "too-decent and uncomplaining" Germans when it came to speaking about his own treatment by the English and Americans. He felt he had not suffered nearly what so many others did, and thus it was not worth telling. I am glad for the sake of the historical record that we have his story, brief as it is.

Program begins with an Elie Wiesel update. 54 min

Jan. 7, 2013

VERY extensive is the answer given by Carolyn and her guest Christine Miller. They look at many of the most famous images that allegedly represent “atrocities” that “prove” the sadism of the Germans and their allies, and explain that they are obvious photo montages, drawings/paintings or combinations, while some are simply mislabeled to purposely blame the wrong party.

Of the images discussed, some are found on Wikipedia’s The Holocaust page; others in mainstream books by Jews, like propagandist Daniel Goldhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners. A good source that debunks many of these photos is Udo Walendy‘s Forged War Crimes malign the German Nation. As Walendy says, anyone who uses falsified pictures in their work, without investigation, becomes suspect in all their statements.

Dec. 31, 2012

After a brief personal review of 2012, Carolyn gives examples of photo fakery used in photographs that “prove” the “Holocaust” happened. Some are on her website Elie Wiesel Cons The World (the three most recent posts). While many forgeries are known – mostly composite photos where unrelated images are combined in one photo – many more could probably be found, and should be found. Check out the bears of Treblinka at Scrapboolpages Blog. Carolyn discusses the difficulty of recognizing these things until they are pointed out.

Two French Jews have discovered the Elie Wiesel tattoo controversy and are saying Wiesel is harming the Holocaust Industry, just as Nicholas Grüner claims too, and that Jewish organizations should put a stop to Elie’s irresponsible behavior! But they will not get anywhere either.

There was no Wannsee Conference taking place on Jan. 20, 1942, and if some kind of conference did, Reinhard Heydrich (pictured at right) was not there. Wilf Heink, in a five-part article at Revisionist Blog, demonstrates conclusively that Heydrich was in Prague attending to important official business on the 19th and 20th of January, leaving no time to go to Berlin during snowy winter weather for an important meeting there from 12 noon until at least 3 p.m on the 20th. The Wannsee Protocol document is a forgery by Robert Kempner, Jewish prosecutor at the Nuremberg IMT and follow-up trials.

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

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.

Oct. 29, 2012

The Germans as a whole, and more especially the “Nazis” and nationalists, are expected to play the role of “bad guy” in world history, right from the time Germans became a modern nation in 1871 with the unification of independent German states  under Otto Bismarck. But the fact of the matter is that the Germans suffered more at the hands of the British during WWII than the other way around.  Pictured at right are four German men after being interned at the notorious Bad Nenndorf  secret prison set up by  the British during their occupation of north-west Germany in 1945. They are far from the worst of the cases discovered there.

In a new book not yet released, Cruel Britannia, investigative journalist Ian Cobain looks at torture carried out at the London Cage and Camp 020 on captured German soldiers and officers during and after WWII … from 1940 until 1949.

Carolyn Yeager and her guest Hadding Scott go over published extracts from the book and discuss why the White Nationalist community is so resistant to changing its perceptions about who were the good guys and who the bad guys in WWII.

Oct. 18, 2012

Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott take a short time to look into Peter Myer’s work on the “authenticity question” regarding the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Carolyn gives a synopsis of  Meyers’ main pro-authenticity arguments which can be found at http://mailstar.net/toolkit.html. Hadding disagrees with Meyers.

They then read and complete Chapter 14, “Did the Jews Foresee the World War?”  According to this chapter, the “Jewish plan” was to participate in some way in the events leading up to the war and the war itself  in order to gain a place at the “peace conference” following the  war.

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.