June 23, 2014

Carolyn goes for a three-hour show because Speer is such an interesting character! Some highlights:

• How Architect Speer found work with the NS Party, came to the attention of Hitler and designed the Zeppelin Field Stadium;
• After the death of Fritz Todt; Speer becomes Reich Minister of Armaments in 1942;
• Speer's Final Statement at the Nuremberg Tribunal reveals his strategy of total cooperation with his captors
• Former assistant and friend Rudolf Wolters disapproves of Speer's increasing harshness toward Hitler and insistence on piling guilt upon himself, and breaks the relationship;
• Speer goes out of his way [scroll to June 15, 1977] to support the Jewish fable of extermination of Jews in concentration camps;
  
• Hermann Giesler points out lies and/or total contadictions told by Speer about Adolf Hitler in times when he (Giesler) was present;
• Speer seemed totally bent on regaining the respect of the world by professing total disrespect for everything about the Third Reich he had served.

Image: Albert Speer enjoys the confidence of Adolf Hitler during a walk at Wolf's Lair military headquarters in East Prussia. Enlarge

June 9, 2014

Carolyn looks at the members of the anti-Hitler faction in Germany, dominated by high-level military officers, and asks how they got away with their assassination plots for so long. She also asks: Can a consensus of opinion ever be reached, even among similar people? Some ideas covered:

• What makes a traitor?
• Of 30 top leaders, 20 held high military rank (Colonel or above) and 10 were diplomats and Chiefs of Police;
• It's all in how you view it -to them, they were the loyalists and Hitler was the traitor;
• While they didn't want the Jews around, they also didn't want to harm them;
• They believed Germany's enemies were only against Hitler, and wanted the same things they, as Germans, did;
• Their efforts to remain undetected may have hampered their success in achieving their goal.

Image: At Rastenburg on 15 July 1944. Stauffenberg at left, Hitler center, Keitel on right. The person shaking hands with Hitler is General Karl Bodenschatz, who was seriously wounded five days later, by Stauffenberg's bomb. Enlarge

May 26, 2014

Carolyn relates some strong prejudices and inaccuracies she has come across mainly on the "White Media" pages at Metapedia and describes the very open process that produces these pages. The end result is that much of what is presented about pro-White and "patriotic" websites and networks is written by very few people, and some pages are totally the work of a single person (called a User). Some of the reasons for this:

• Necessary but problematic anonymity of all Users at Metapedia;
• Volunteer nature of the work means very few are willing to do it;
• Favoritism based on in-group thinking, for example among homosexuals or among different "alternative" factions;
• Users without the necessary research and writing skills;
• Tolerance of misinformation, disinformation, use of rumors, second and third-hand information, and even lies;
  
• A true, healthy Anglo-Saxon based nationalism for the U.S. needs to be developed.
  

May 12, 2014

On a stormy night, Carolyn starts out with some discussion about her latest experiences with Metapedia and, separately, Alexa website rankings, then settles down to a detailed overview of what took place in the German Reich during the month of May 1945. Included:

• Differences over how the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Reichs are designated;
• May 1st, new Reichspraesident Karl Doenitz gives his first nationwide radio address, vowing to continue the war "to save Germany from the advancing Bolshevik enemy";
• Donitz' government moved to Flensburg in far Northern Germany because it was still under German control;
• May 7th, Eisenhower threatened to close the front for retreating soldiers and civilians if a general unconditional surrender was not signed immediately;
• May 12th, last battle of the war (Battle of Slivice) by FM Schoerner's troops trying to cross over the American line to surrender;
• May 23rd, the entire Flensburg Gov't is arrested (about 300 officers and civilians in all) and designated as prisoners of war;
• June 5th, the four Allied powers declare their supreme authority over Germany at state, municipal and local levels;
• Nashi (Ours!) is Putin's anti-fascist youth movement formed in 2005 to demonstrate against what he saw as the growing power of "Nazism" in Russia;
• It is funded by the Russian state budget to the tune of 200 million rubles a year and contributions from pro-government business owners;
• The new political party "Smart Russia" is associated with Nashi, whose interest is to foster a more modern, competitive Russia.

Image: Well-known photo of the arrest of the Flensburg Goverment on May 23, 1945. Walking in front is Reichspraesident Karl Doenitz, followed by Col General Alfred Jodl (left) and Economics Minister Albert Speer (right). Click to enlarge.