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BrandonD » Sat Aug 15, 2015 5:06 am wrote:Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I do recall reading that 6 million is a number of significance in the Judaic religion. According to Judaic scriptures/Judaic authorities/some "official" religious source, the Jewish people cannot reclaim a nation of their own until 6 million of them have been killed, or something to that effect.
Once again, someone please correct me if I'm in error here.
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Guess who just issued a FOIA for the 76 pictures the dancing Israelis took the day they became available.
Im getting paper photo copies. Best I could get after fighting about it since 2002
Nordic » Mon Sep 07, 2015 4:52 pm wrote:I unfollowed him after he used the N word.
Joao » Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:32 am wrote:Nordic » Mon Sep 07, 2015 4:52 pm wrote:I unfollowed him after he used the N word.
Goddamn it. Another one bites the dust. Thanks for making me aware.
At this point, the only non-douchebag critic of the WWII Allies I know of is Kurt Vonnegut. Anybody wanna broaden my horizons?
tapitsbo » Tue Sep 08, 2015 6:07 am wrote:I don't understand - much of this board reads like criticism of the WWII Allies (w/o supporting the Axis)
Wikipedia wrote:The Gleiwitz incident was a false flag operation by Nazi forces posing as Poles on 31 August 1939, against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany (since 1945: Gliwice, Poland) on the eve of World War II in Europe. The goal was to use the staged attack as a pretext for invading Poland. This provocation was the best-known of several actions in Operation Himmler, a series of unconventional operations undertaken by the SS in order to serve specific propaganda goals of Nazi Germany at the outbreak of the war. It was intended to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany in order to justify the subsequent invasion of Poland.
Google wrote:Your search - gleiwitz site:rigorousintuiton.ca - did not match any documents.
Joao wrote:Nordic » Mon Sep 07, 2015 4:52 pm wrote:I unfollowed him after he used the N word.
Goddamn it. Another one bites the dust. Thanks for making me aware.
At this point, the only non-douchebag critic of the WWII Allies I know of is Kurt Vonnegut. Anybody wanna broaden my horizons?
tapitsbo wrote:How is anyone going to pull off a supposedly neutral or scholarly investigation of these topics, given their explosive nature and the control over archives? This isn't a rhetorical question - I really don't understand how this could happen.
Harvey » Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:18 am wrote:I don't know about WWII but you can go back a little further for a critical look at WWI history.
New Books in History wrote:Catherine Epstein
Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland
Oxford University Press, 2010
The term "totalitarian" is useful as it well describes the aspirations of polities such as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (at least under Stalin). Yet it can also be misleading, for it suggests that totalitarian ambitions were in fact achieved. But they were not, as we can see in Catherine Epstein's remarkably detailed, thoroughly researched, and clearly presented Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland.
Greiser was a totalitarian if ever there were one. He believed in the Nazi cause with his heart and soul. He wanted to create a new Germany, and indeed a new Europe dominated by Germans. As the Gauleiter of Wartheland (an area of Western Poland annexed to the Reich), he was given the opportunity to help realize the Nazi nightmare in the conquered Eastern territories. But, as Epstein shows, he was often hindered both by his own personality and the chaos that characterized Nazi occupation of the East. Grieser emerges from Epstein's book as someone who wanted to be a "model Nazi," but couldn't really manage it because he was a crooked timber working in a crooked system. His personal life was an embarrassing tangle of marriages, affairs, and break-ups that at points threatened his career. His professional life was marked by ambition, ego-mania, and fawning, none of which endeared him to most of his colleagues and superiors. And his murderous attempts to "work toward the Führer" in the Wartheland–by displacing Poles, murdering Jews and other "undesirables," and populating the East with Germans–were stymied by the cross-cutting jurisdictions, conflicting agendas, and professional jealousies that were one of the hallmarks of Nazi rule. Grieser did his best (or his worst, depending on how you look at it) to Germanize the Wartheland. He improvised, maneuvered, and "worked the system" such as it was in pursuit of the Nazi totalitarian project. Thankfully, he failed, demonstrating again that totalitarian dreams, though they can be horribly distructive, are a far reach from totalitarian realities.
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