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World War II From Space
With tensions raging in Asia (and the Middle East) and the anniversary of the start of World War I drawing closer, we thought it contextually useful to look at World War II from a different (and more broad) perspective. This History Channel documentary shows - using an all-seeing CGI eye - a satellite view of the conflicts, allowing you to experience it in a way that places key events and tipping points in a global perspective. By re-creating groundbreaking moments that could never have been captured on camera and by illustrating the importance of simultaneity and the hidden effects of crucial incidents, the war's monumental moments in never- before-seen context. And with new information brought to the forefront, you'll better understand how a nation ranked 19th in the world's militaries in 1939 emerged six years later as the planet's only atomic superpower.
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@ toxic8
Preaching to the choir. Operation Paperclip which established the Criminal CIA run out the the then OSS as well as created NASA.
Prescott Bush, Standard Oil, Ford, Rockefeller, IBM etc.... All funded the NAZI War machine.
Criminals still at large.
Allen Dulles and his OSS cronies got their return on their investments, one way or another.
No mention on a certain cartel of bankers declaring war on Germany in 1933?
Ahh, but that could hardly be said to be relevant... right?
And another cartel of western bankers supporting 1930's Germany.
Interesting isn't it, the view behind the curtain. Two competing (cooperating in the Hegelian sense?) cabals financing both Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Members of both cabals appearing previously at Jekyll Island to plan what would become the FED. Interesting, to say the least.
My grandfather was a career intel officer in USAF Strategic Air Command. He told me more than once, that 80% of what I think I know about WWII is false.
He told me there are two jobs every intelligence agency on the planet is doing at all times: 1) discovering what your enemy is doing; 2) lying about what you're doing. He said a lot of these lies got cooked into the history books, there they stand, and you'd need at least Q Clearance to know it.
He said the real story is always buried under "the ice". A researcher walks along the ice, and occasions across little bits and pieces sticking out of it. Things that shouldn't be there. If a foot protrudes above the ice, you can bet there is a leg attached. But you have to dig.
He was a little senile by the time I was old enough to understand what he meant. But here I am, decades later, still chasing the phantoms under the ice, while the psyops squads try to run me down with the zamboni. It's been a wonderful ride. R.I.P., Grandpa. Thank you.
And I'm sure they didn't mention Russia, after invading Poland with Germany, starting the war in Europe, got to keep the part of Poland they invaded.
+100 for General Smedley Butler reference
Smedley was an American military hero in my eyes; they don't make em like they used to!
Need more wars , keep the momentum going. I hear Lockheed, Honeywell, Boeing and many more are having orgasms more often after the drone launch.
Don't forget that the Army bases are now hooker joints as well to supplement wages.
What a joke. Isn't today's tyranny much more relevent? An updated version would show an Israeli flag superimposed over a once-free Europe. Ditto the USA, just ask Stanley Fisher.
The global financial syndicate and their plans for our future is the only Totalitarianism the world needs to be focused on right now.
Why ask Stanley Fisher? Obama sold USA down the river in March 2009 when he handed over to Israel all the data collected by NSA on Americans without any legal requirements. That means all emails, phone calls, web history of every American That was an act of a traitor. Of course, no media in the USA would touch this story, not even Zero Hedge. No US politician has dared to comment on it. The New York Times scrupulously avoided that story clearly demonstrating who controls it.
A secret memo provided by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden to the British Guardian newspaper reveals that the US spy agency is funneling raw intelligence data, including information from intercepted communications of US citizens, to Israeli intelligence.
“The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens,” the Guardianarticle by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill reports.
While insisting that the Israelis operate with deference to the US Constitution and law, the memo adds, “This agreement is not intended to create any legally enforceable rights and shall not be construed to be either an international agreement or a legally binding instrument according to international law.” In other words, in practice ISNU and the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad are free to do as they please.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/13/surv-s13.html
But as part of the agreement they promised not to look at anyone in the U.S. Government, including the Congress, President, Supreme Court.
Honest, they promised.
"That means all emails, phone calls, web history of every American"
Don't forget about their electronic medical records.
I thought I had seen the data to Israel story at Zerohedge?
ZH carried a story by Pivotfarm on the Obama/Israel traitorous agreement of March 2009. But ZH did not cover it directly. It got 67 comments.
http://ads-dev.prod.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-09-11/nsa-and-israel
They never pinned it as a front page story. It received five minutes of exposure as a blog entry.
Early in his presidency, eh?
What is breathtaking is, you look at that {barely covered in the media}, and who his chief of staff and advisors were, and who he has appointed to the fed, irs, cftc, ftc and so forth and so on....
And yet the Faux news crowd has got millions believing he's a secret muslim who wants to help the MB take over the world and hates Israel.
The Israelis always had a lot of power, but Bill Clinton began the trend of absolutely selling his soul to them [and their 5th column] to get elected.
I mean, it is absolutely hopeless. All one can hope for is that the Israelis themselves elect a more moderate government so that the Israeli hijacking and stealing and media, de facto, control is at least not so dangerous as it is now. I can't see the Israel Lobby losing much power when they have so much money to buy politicians, can now presumably blackmail many of them, and if all else fails, can shriek "antisemite" and have one of the thousands of Jewish organizations writing letters, etc.
Apropos of little, I was link surfing at wiki the other day and was reading about Kevin Youkilis - always liked him as a player so read his entry. I am not aware of another race or religion which has all the organizations etc. related to baseball as Jews, and daresay there may be more books and films about "Jewish baseball players" than there were... Jewish baseball players.
Point is, a small minority with a lot of money and very high levels of ethnocentrism will always have more influence than a bunch of borderline alcoholics watching football and periodically bitching on a blog on a sunday.
Oh well, whaddayagonnado?
Good luck getting a moderate government in Israel.
Nearly 1 million Israelis attended the funeral of this gentile hating Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
That man is a freaking celebrity over there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovadia_Yosef#Gentiles.27_role
http://www.timesofisrael.com/over-800000-pack-jerusalem-to-mourn-yosefs-...
I read about that - I think I'm smart and savvy enough to not fall into the trap/nonsense of racism - but I have zero respect for western religion, including Judaism, which is a bizarre, ethnocentric compendium of genocide, warmongering, and racism- if we're going by the texts.
Naturally, people are fucking idiots, so they react to such a claim with the notion it is both untrue and "hate" - when it is absolutely true and easily verifiable {Koran too, btw} and if it is "hate" to hate... hate... then... maybe we're raping the language because we're employing double standards.
{shrug}
p.s. I just skimmed this, I'm familiar with the arguments:
http://www.meforum.org/2159/are-judaism-and-christianity-as-violent-as-i...
The apologetics for the OT's violence sound in the idea that, well, God commanded them to kill specific people, its not an ongoing marching order. Apart from being false on all counts, the very point is that non-Jewish life, throughout Torah and Talmud, simply has less value. This is reflected in the periodic embarrassing statements by {generally} Orthodox, i.e. fundamentalists rabbis - who merely honestly recite what their holy books say.
But if you claim Judaism is as fucked up as Islam for the same essential reason - why, you're an "anti-Semite" which also apparently means "factually wrong" even when obviously, painfully right.
Cute.
now this is close to discrimination. i demand some disparate impact up in here. oh the hugemanatee, we need immediate diversity.
What a great post, ArrestBobRubin.
toxic That would be 31mil russian lives and 68mil chinese lives lost. Never hear about any of the things you posted as that would be REAL HISTORY and we can't have that don't ya know.
Are you denying the "true holocast"? Might want to go to jail do you?
31 million russians? Are the russians trying to copy the Jews and get totally ridiculous numbers out of their ass?
A lot of those Russians were Jews. How did you think the Jews got to 6 million for their "Holocaust"?
The number 6M comes from the Kabbalah...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dda-0Q_XUhk
73 newspaper articles written before 1922 referring to 6 million dead or dying Jews:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=&date1=183...
Cool link!
ENOUGH HATE FACTS!
Considering how well Russians and Jews get along, I kind of doubt that Russians would try to copy Jews. I can't be sure of the exact numbers of Russians who died in the Great Patriotic War. No one will ever know for sure. One thing that I do know is that Russians not regale WWII as the be all end all war of all time. It is simply another war in their history albeit a very costly one. In fact, WWII is not over because Russia never signed a peace treaty with Japan. To this day, there is not much love for Japan in Russia.(recall the Kuril Islands kurfuffle a few years back)
Besides, the History Channel is run by Jews anyway. Fine with me, have your own TV channel but don't try to pass it off as actual history. Anything you might watch there has to be taken with a grain of salt. Pawn Stars? American Restorations? American Pickers? None of that shit is true. It's just bullshit entertainment for near death Boomers. Then you have Goldrush on both Discovery AND some Yukon Gold show on NatGeo in between 18 hours of cop shows and at least five more hours of infomercials. We've then got A&E where you can get rich buying storage lockers. Even Dave Hester has said it's pure bullshit but that might cost him. We have the NFL... oh yeah, that is real.(tackling is not allowed but taxpayer support for new stadiums is) PBS ran the movie Aliens last night.
I guess I had better tune in to 60 Minutes now because I think I need a laugh.
I suppose you can claim that Israelis and Jews don't get along very well either.
The Russian Bolsheviks/communists WERE Jews.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html
"Here's a particularly forlorn historical date: Almost 90 years ago [at the time of article publication], between the 19th and 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the Bolshevik revolution and civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, also known as Cheka.
Within a short period of time, Cheka became the largest and cruelest state security organization. Its organizational structure was changed every few years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD, and later to KGB.
We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number is surely at least 20 million, including victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at Gulags.
Whole population strata were eliminated: Independent farmers, ethnic minorities, members of the bourgeoisie, senior officers, intellectuals, artists, labor movement activists, "opposition members" who were defined completely randomly, and countless members of the Communist party itself.
In his new, highly praised book "The War of the World, "Historian Niall Ferguson writes that no revolution in the history of mankind devoured its children with the same unrestrained appetite as did the Soviet revolution. In his book on the Stalinist purges, Tel Aviv University's Dr. Igal Halfin writes that Stalinist violence was unique in that it was directed internally.
Lenin, Stalin, and their successors could not have carried out their deeds without wide-scale cooperation of disciplined "terror officials," cruel interrogators, snitches, executioners, guards, judges, perverts, and many bleeding hearts who were members of the progressive Western Left and were deceived by the Soviet regime of horror and even provided it with a kosher certificate.
All these things are well-known to some extent or another, even though the former Soviet Union's archives have not yet been fully openedto the public. But who knows about this? Within Russia itself, very few people have been brought to justice for their crimes in the NKVD's and KGB's service. The Russian public discourse today completely ignores the question of "How could it have happened to us?" As opposed to Eastern European nations, the Russians did not settle the score with their Stalinist past.
And us, the Jews? An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda," the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system. After Stalin no longer viewed him favorably, Yagoda was demoted and executed, and was replaced as chief hangman in 1936 by Yezhov, the "bloodthirsty dwarf."
Yezhov was not Jewish but was blessed with an active Jewish wife. In his Book "Stalin: Court of the Red Star", Jewish historian Sebag Montefiore writes that during the darkest period of terror, when the Communist killing machine worked in full force, Stalin was surrounded by beautiful, young Jewish women.
Stalin's close associates and loyalists included member of the Central Committee and Politburo Lazar Kaganovich. Montefiore characterizes him as the "first Stalinist" and adds that those starving to death in Ukraine, an unparalleled tragedy in the history of human kind aside from the Nazi horrors and Mao's terror in China, did not move Kaganovich.
Many Jews sold their soul to the devil of the Communist revolution and have blood on their hands for eternity. We'll mention just one more: Leonid Reichman, head of the NKVD's special department and the organization's chief interrogator, who was a particularly cruel sadist.
In 1934, according to published statistics, 38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated in the next purges. In a fascinating lecture at a Tel Aviv University convention this week, Dr. Halfin described the waves of soviet terror as a "carnival of mass murder," "fantasy of purges", and "essianism of evil." Turns out that Jews too, when they become captivated by messianic ideology, can become great murderers, among the greatest known by modern history.
The Jews active in official communist terror apparatuses (In the Soviet Union and abroad) and who at times led them, did not do this, obviously, as Jews, but rather, as Stalinists, communists, and "Soviet people." Therefore, we find it easy to ignore their origin and "play dumb": What do we have to do with them? But let's not forget them. My own view is different. I find it unacceptable that a person will be considered a member of the Jewish people when he does great things, but not considered part of our people when he does amazingly despicable things.
Even if we deny it, we cannot escape the Jewishness of "our hangmen," who served the Red Terror with loyalty and dedication from its establishment. After all, others will always remind us of their origin."
Brave and honest commentary. Were there only more Jews like you.......
Want some real history?
Fuck the Russians and the Chinese.
They did it to themselves.
Pretty sure the chinese peasants weren't on board with being starved to death, and the Bolsheviks would have lost were it not for western support.
And while the number of Jews in top positions of the early Bolshevik party is, by some, overstated, it is also the case that there were disproportionately enough of them {running the secret police and many of the camps, for e.g.} that one has to, if one is honest, wonder how much of the Bolshevik murders were motivated by ethnoreligious hate.
- at least as I am able to look at the thing based on what I've read.
But then, I grew up in a religion that doesn't have the equivalent of Purim or Passover... which is not, I've been assured, primarily about celebrating the death of innocent people outside one's tribe... even though it sure seems to be.... so perhaps the over-representation had no affect whatsoever on the deaths of Russian peasants who by and large did not support the Bolshevik's "reforms" as they unfolded and worsened.
History is written by the VICTORS
Napoleon Bonaparte — 'History is a set of lies agreed upon.'
Not just a cute quote - absolutely true. The control of the news in the present, and the content of the history books was a key feature of 1984 for good reason.
When you have something like 6 megacorporations controlling something like 90% of broadcast and print media, and when they all tell you basically the same story about everything.... you can bet that memory hole technology is highly advanced.
3rd time's a charm.
Patience is a virtue. Coming soon,
"History" Channel, LMAO!
ok...i thought it was a cool hour and a half. why all the snarky comments?
I must say, I was educated by the raw numbers of armaments employed and casualties suffered, and the aerial views of strategies employed in featured battles.
I also honor the sacrifice of all the brave men involved. Right or wrong, they fought like hell, and deserve remembrance of their valor.
The mainstream history of world war 2 is such a fucking sham it makes me sick. They called pearl harbour an "unprovoked attack". BULLSHIT!! The Nazi States of America had cut off Japans oil supply months before, the Japanese attacked because they were forced too, otherwise their whole country would have ground to a halt. America has been the biggest warmonger of the last 100 years.
I bet every now and then (the) Tyler(s) read(s) our comments and get tempted to just let this website go up in virtual flames.
Nut bags give off so much gas, quick, harness this shit.
Really.
Guess we should have given gas to the Japanese so they could drive while they were raping Nanking and Korea.
Well, America let the Soviets get away with worse.
they used our occupation of the phillipines as their "template" for what they did in china and korea. i know your not going to find out that info in any us history book. but the information is out their. particularly relevant are first hand accounts of us soldiers stationed in the phillipines writing home about the atrocities.
napoleon's quote about history is a set of lies agreed upon could not be more true.
you know what would be funny?
the site goes offline or at least comments are turned off.
You felt me. Aww shucks. Thanks.
Yes, must stick with the narrative that's been drilled into us. No HATE questioning. Obey! Obey!
HD version here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd7aJ7QSEmk
the type of tyranny in a world with telecommunications databases and massive surrveilance by way of sensor nets extending beyond mere cameras , to all sorts of other sensors ------this type of tyranny made possible by these technologies, far outpaces anything such as the nuclear bomb.
we have yet to experience the tyranny brought about by the next major war.
many globalists out there are playing up the possibility of world corporate government occuring without a full scale war such as ww3 being requried to occur.
others predict world war 3 would be so quick and so limited that its occurence would more or less constitute a consolidation of power by the major superpowers of those developing nations, a more formal decalartion of how to split up the booty of the developing world.
there's also the possibility for things simply to get 'out of control' and have a real full scale war with massive massive massive destruction. tactical nuclear weapons, massive drone smart fire-bomb campaigns. and all sorts of crazy biological and chemical weapons never seen in world war 2.
truly massive devasation! ..
The spying techniques become more dangerous than nuclear weapons and propaganda, such as this film demonstrates, becomes more powerful than guns or intelligience.
“Men build rules for a game and they name those rules law. And the man that breaks that law has got to pay.” Luke Short, Savage Range
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRLXeyyvXkI
Any-day now
China fishing restrictions in disputed region - South China Sea. Both sides are itching to set it off
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/12/us-japan-china-onodera-idUSBRE...
i can sees the sin bull of der swas ticka fore der horrible germ mens.
but where is der sin bull on the map for the rothschild jew bankers fundin all sides.
The words “documentary” and “History Channel” do not go together, as anyone who is familiar with accurate history has learned. One wonders why, on a quiet Sunday afternoon, Zero Hedge revisits with appalling drama, using space effects and NFL-like actor-talk, conflict in a way so misused by special interests these past seventy years.
As is its pattern, the History Channel tells all the facts from the winner’s perspective, be it a giant red swastika over Europe seen from space or a tale beginning with the Allies’ distorted version of Pearl Harbor.
The video includes many inaccuracies; below is the exposure of one, as told by Congressman Hamilton Fish:
“President Roosevelt’s responsibility for goading the Japanese into war by sending a war ultimatum on November 26, 1941, demanding that the Japanese withdraw all troops from Indo-china, and China (Manchuria) is an historic fact, although a closely-guarded secret.
“FDR’s war ultimatum was deliberately withheld from Congress until after Pearl Harbor... all agreed that the ultimatum left Japan no alternative but war...
“The Japanese would have done almost anything to avoid war with America...
“Prince Kenoye, the prime minister, who was very peacefully inclined, repeatedly requested to come to Washington or Honolulu to meet with President Roosevelt. He was willing to agree to our terms to keep out of war on a modus vivendi but FDR refused to talk with the Japanese prime minister simply because he was determined to get into war with Japan, and through that, with Germany. The American ambassador in Tokyo, Joseph Grew, knew how much the Japanese wanted to maintain peaceful relations and urged such a conference. But FDR and his fellow ardent interventionists used ruses, dodges and tricks to involve us in a totally unnecessary war. -- Hamilton Fish, FDR- The Other Side of the Coin, Vantage Press, pp. 132-134.
Said Fish, who believed that Roosevelt’s deception of the American people, i.e., assuring them as did Woodrow Wilson before WWI that their sons would not be going to war, was an immoral and infamous act:
“This shrewd and astute politician covered his tracks by shouting from the housetops and denouncing the attack on Pearl Harbor as a day of infamy, blaming it entirely on the Japanese. While Roosevelt was trying to bring America into war with Japan, he was telling Americans, ‘While I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, and I shall say it again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.’” -- ibid. p. 29.
The Pacific War has its roots in the Russo-Japanese War with American and Western bankers fingerprints all over it.
That's correct.
Thanks again, Jacob Schiff.
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"One wonders why, on a quiet Sunday afternoon, Zero Hedge revisits with appalling drama, using space effects and NFL-like actor-talk, conflict in a way so misused by special interests these past seventy years."
Will be remembered by The People Who Matter at IPO time for ZH.
"Unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbour"
Give me a break! They cut off Japan's oil and deliberately sought this war. They could read Japan's naval intelligence and knew very well where their fleets were and their objectives.
Roosevelt felt that he had to get America into the war - everything else is window-dressing.
Y'all know this is a hitpiece designed to direct your attention away from the banksters, right?
By controlling the nations’ money, the bankers control the nations. This is exactly what has happened in the US and the EU. It's as simple as that. The International Bankers financed the French Revolution; they financed the Bolshevik Revolution; they financed WWI; they financed WWII; and they are financing the current world "War on Terror"--with money created out of nothing but backed by the assets of the people.
For every dollar the United States goes into debt, ever since it relinquished its duty to coin the nation's money to the Fed's private owners, a dollar plus the interest goes into the private pockets of the International Bankers who own the Fed.
Wrote biographer Frederick Morton:
The Rothschilds “conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before or all the Hitlers after them.” – The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait
Abraham Lincoln feared for the survival of the United States under the onslaught of the International Bankers whose quest was to destroy America and the freedom that she offered mankind:
"The money power preys upon the nation in time of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of our country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed.” – Archer Shaw, editor, The Lincoln Encyclopedia, The Spoken and Written Words of Lincoln
It's so simple, yet so devious, that most can't perceive it. Thanks for being aware, JR. May the revolution begin!
IMHO the most interesting development of WWII is how Germany financed the war, something that is rarely discussed. Germany was pretty much broke in 1932 and technically that didn't change, but none-the-less the NAZIs opened up the factories and started rebuilding their war machine on pure fiat.
This is the *real* lesson of WWII - and one the Bankers that run the world learned well.
If you control the banks, the media, and the most important parts of means of production, that is ALL YOU NEED. Explains what is happening now to a T.
Germany financed the war? Rothschild financed the war. Both sides. Fiat money has many negative consequences.
"The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." - As quoted in The Money Masters (1995)
Attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte. Who are the bad guys, again?
I can't even leave this place for ten minutes and folks downvote me.
Just so y'all know, I don't give a fuck.
The point is that in fiat world, you can finance it yourself. The Rothschilds did NOT *directly* finance the Germans (the amount of capital flow would have been immense, and would stick out like a sore thumb - I'm sure there are a few capital flows here and there that might be candidates for your conjecture, but they are a pittance in the actual capital flows that were required).
The lesson, and the truly astonishing thing about WWII, is (perhaps as intended by the Rothschilds) German financed its war by pure fiat.
You're full of shit, and you know it. How is this different from the various undeclared wars waged by the US in (I assume you're an average dipshit American), in the years since WWII?
You presume to know Napoleon's mind and how he came to power? I just told you what his motivations were. I don't presume to know what future historians will say, but if they're honest, Napoleon may in fact be regarded as a great humanitarian.
You miss the essential point. The Fed is using exactly the same technique to finance the US as the Nazis used in WWII.
That is mindnumbing and earth shattering, and they seem to be gettin away with it save some relatively luke warm US bond selling by China/Russia/etc...
WTF are you talking about? I can't argue your point about China/Russia selling off, they are. However, the average US citizen is tapped out. So, it seems that deflation will rule the day, for awhile. And , if you think about it, the rest of the world will suffer, too.
The all powerful Fed can't fix this. It's structural.
Richard Edward Noble, author of The Hobo Philosopher – in a review of James Pool’s book on “Who Financed Hitler,” writes on Amazon:
After reading both of Mr. Pool's books on this subject (Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933, and Hitler and His Secret Partners), I felt that these books should be required reading for every World War II veteran...
Conclusions:
Fear of Communism or anti-Communism was the chief motivational concept behind the rise of Nazism and Adolf Hitler. From the man in the street to the captains of industry and the nobles and aristocrats the hatred, fear, and spirit of anti-Communism was common.
Patriotism and nationalism were the second strongest motivational characteristics of Hitler contributors inside Germany.
Industrialists, aristocrats, white Russian refugees and wealthy advocates of the capitalist system all around the world found cause in Hitler's anti-Communism…
The Aryan and the anti-Jewish attitudes seem to be a whole other study. This book would suggest to me that anti-Communism was a bigger motivation for the monetary support of Nazism or Hitlerism.
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Financed-Hitler-Funding-1919-1933/dp/0671760831
And, this, from Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Anthony C. Sutton:
[The] build-up for European war [WWII] both before and after 1933 was in great part due to Wall Street financial assistance in the 1920s to create the German cartel system, and to technical assistance from well-known American firms ... to build the German Wehrmach.
... The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations before 1940 can only be described as phenomenal. … Wall Street establishment financiers ... directed the activities of American I.G., the I.G. Farben affiliate in the United States promoting Nazi propaganda.
The board of American I.G. had three directors from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the most influential of the various Federal Reserve Banks. American I.G. also had interlocks with Standard Oil of New Jersey, Ford Motor Company, Bank of Manhattan (later to become the Chase Manhattan), and A.E.G. (German General Electric). Second, three members of the board of this American I.G. were found guilty at Nuremburg War Crimes Trials. These were the German, not the American, members. Among these Germans was Max Ligner, director of the I.G. Farben N. W. 7 office in Berlin, i.e., the Nazi pre-war intelligence office. If the directors of a corporation are collectively responsible for the activities of the corporation, then the American directors should also have been placed on trial at Nuremburg, along with the German directors - that is, if the purpose of the trials was to determine war guilt. Of course, if the purpose of the trials had been to divert attention away from the U.S. involvement in Hitler's rise to power, they succeeded very well in such an objective.
… Henry Ford, 1938 New York Times interview
If somebody would focus the spotlight on twenty-five persons who handle the nation's finances, the world's real warmakers would be brought into bold relief.
... if these financiers had their way we'd be in a war now. They want war because they make money out of such conflict - out of the human misery that wars bring.
…For most of the twentieth century the Federal Reserve System, particularly the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (which is outside the control of Congress, unaudited and uncontrolled, with the power to print money and create credit at will), has exercised a virtual monopoly over the direction of the American economy. In foreign affairs the Council on Foreign Relations, superficially an innocent forum for academics, businessmen, and politicians, contains within its shell, perhaps unknown to many of its members, a power center that unilaterally determines U.S. foreign policy. The major objective of this submerged - and obviously subversive - foreign policy is the acquisition of markets and economic power (profits, if you will), for a small group of giant multi-nationals under the virtual control of a few banking investment houses and controlling families.
…The total result of this manipulation of society by the Establishment elite has been four major wars in sixty years, a crippling national debt, abandonment of the Constitution, suppression of freedom and opportunity, and creation of a vast credibility gulf between the man in the street and Washington, D.C. While the transparent device of two major parties trumpeting artificial differences, circus-like conventions, and the cliché of "bipartisan foreign policy" no longer carries credibility, and the financial elite itself recognizes that its policies lack public acceptance, it is obviously prepared to go it alone without even nominal public support.
In brief, we now have to consider and debate whether this New York-based elitist Establishment is a subversive force operating with deliberation and knowledge to suppress the Constitution and a free society. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Wall_Street_Rise_Hitler.html
In short, the bankers were financing both the Communists who were overrunning Germany and the desperate response by the German people. At this point in history, you didn't do anything without money. and both sides had incredible resources... from the bankers.
Not to mention the sympathy in certain Eugenic circles in the US, the UK and other countries for Hitler's ideas about race etc.
One of the last facts in the documentary: The US owned 2/3 of the world's gold.
Oh how far we have fallen.
I'm so sick of this bullshit map that fails to show a defiant, neutral Switzerland in the middle of the Nazi held territory.
Sorry, man. This story is about the US of mutherfucking A. Putting a neutral Switzerland on the map would just confuse the undereducated American audience. And as we learned from Dan Rather, the lack of truth does not mean that the story is not accurate.
Or something...
Many plus thumbs from one who resides in USA, or something...
These documentaries all suck; with a little investigation you can shred 98% of the propaganda. One should always strive for the truth no matter what and have the ability to clear out the bullshit. The Germans became the patsy for the jews in both world wars (it was one war) Today, the blame has been conveniently shifted to any white male who questions the zog matrix.
There's plenty of bullshit coming from Nazi apologists.
While it's important to strive for the truth, I don't think you can do that without getting used to doubting everything you read.
This said, there were far more German and Irish Americans than Jews before WW1 - and they were vehemently opposed to entering that war. I do think that Jewish pressure, and internationally coordinated Jewish pressure, was an important factor in getting us into that war, although I would not necessarily claim it was the most important. British/WASP pressure as well. Bankers, zionists, and those who would profit seem to overcome the will of the American people by a deliberated effort.
Of course the facile answer has been the Zimmerman telegram...
When I retire, I want to spend some time reading all about how we got into WW1 - I've read a fair amount of history, and still feel uncertain about just how we got into it, politically. It's a fascinating topic.
"When I retire, I want to spend some time reading all about how we got into WW1 - I've read a fair amount of history, and still feel uncertain about just how we got into it, politically. It's a fascinating topic."
Here is the first of a great 10-part series on WW1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY3Sb8xiQ_c
wall street and the rise of hitler by anthony c sutton
anything by eustace mullins.
forget tv
history channel bbc are liars and child rapists
That would be ANTONY C Sutton. And you are absolutley correct.
http://www.antonysutton.com/
Why is this new? Every time I trounced the USSR as Germany in Axis and Allies, this was the point of view I had.
This so-called documentary looks like the cut scenes in Call of Duty World At War. Also, please History Channel documentary people-please dump the stupid "high tech" sound effects. If it's a documentary, quit trying to immitate a damn videogame. Not all the viewers are 8 year olds. Plus, the sound effects seem insanely silly for the pre-computer era depicted.
Does this mean that the History Channel is getting back into the history business? Or was this a mistake and someone will be fired over it?
I could not stand 10 minutes of this hyped and horrible shit.
David Irving, I suppose predictably, apparently claimed the Babi Yar massacre never happened. I never read any of his stuff but I'm aware of his 'reputation'.
http://www.fpp.co.uk/Auschwitz/BabiYar/Nikiforuk.html
Now, I wouldn't have given that much credit, at all, until I learned about the Katyn Forest massacre {committed by the Soviets, without any real doubt, and blamed on the Germans by the western press - recently in the news
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/01/08/historical-testimony-reveals-gru...
Lavrentiy Beria headed the NKVD at that time and was responsible for Katyn. Interesting guy. Huge cocksucker.
Now there was evidence, for all those years, that it had not been the Nazis - but of course, anyone claiming that the Nazis didn't do it would be dismissed as a "denier" presumably and perhaps {??} even face jail time.Because Nazis bad, m'kay?
So I'm not willing to claim that the BabiYar massacre didn't happen - but it certainly at least seems possible that Irving could be right. The only thing I feel adamantly about is people should be able to discuss it without fear of going to jail, which is not the case in many European nations. Absurd.
Youtube showed this link to me a half dozen times today. Guess I will give it a look after all.
Nice and dramatic cinema?
The latest historical surveys on basis of German and Russian archives are drawing an completely other picture about the outcome of the tank battle of Kursk. According to "Welt-Online" (http://www.welt.de/geschichte/zweiter-weltkrieg/article117976280/Legende...) the used version in that film is just an old "legend".
Translation (Part-1)
"Legends about the biggest tank-battle of all times.
The battle for Prochorowka south of Kursk is regarded as the most important "single victory" of second world war. Allegedly the German tank troups were destroyed here. As new surveys show it's just a myth."
Shortly after survivors had registered that they fought the biggest tank battles of all time at Kursk, memories changed in legends and myth. Battles were described which never took place, and victors were honored who suffered a defeat. Until today the failure of the German offensive "Zitadelle" is commonly regarded as the crucial victory of the Red Army over Hitlers new generation of tanks. Burning Tiger-tanks turned into a symbol of an armed encounter, in that only 128 of this new "Super-Tanks" took part - in relation of a total of over 10.000 combat vehicles alltogether.
Point of departure of many missconstructions is July 12th of 1943. This day tanks of the 4th Panzer-Army of Germann Hoth encountered the 5th guard army under command of Pawel Rotmistrow near the village of Prochorowka. The scenery described by the British historican Richard Overy has become "common property":
...follow-up....
Translation (Part-2): http://url9.de/Re5
Translation (Part-3): http://url9.de/Re6
Translation (Part-4): http://url9.de/Re7
Translation (Part-5): http://url9.de/Re9
It has been well known since the mid 1990s that the accepted history of Kursk was wrong: Daily tank strength records reveal no great defeat of the 1st SS Panzer Corps and that the loss of "hundreds of Tigers" as per Martin Caidan's much copied and flawed history
Prochorovka (your spelling is the Polish variation) was a tatactical victory for the Germans, however, the Germans could do nothing with it, moreover, the Northern front of the salient was a best a draw with Model's Army Group Center taking unaccetable casualties given the gains. Further exploitation in the south would require utilizing the last armored reserve of Army Group South with no guarentee of success. Don't forget that simultaneously, the Allies were landing in Sicily...
So the initiative slipped away to the Russians who still still had adequate reserves to counterattack in the Belgograd region. The cream of the 1st SS Pz Corps was bled dry in Mius River operations. Van Manstein knew the jig was up and was able to convince Hitler that retreat the Dnieper was the only viable alternative...
Kursk, on the whole, was an strategic defeat for the Germans as they no longer held the initiative on the Eastern Front...
Ah, the Hedge...
A beautiful melange of revisionist isolationists and NAZI apologistsa sprinkled with a few crackpot conspiracies and topped up with a couple of holocaust deniers...
Ah yes, I see YOU'VE arrived!
Self-knowledge is a beautiful thing.
The one thing that really should be learned from WWII or any other war for that matter is that humans are considered by their 'leaders' to be completely expendable and the cheapest commodity there is. So you know when WWIII breaks out.