Posted on 04/30/2023 7:26:45 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A century ago today, seven hostages taken from the German pre-Nazi Thule Society were executed by the short-lived Munich Soviet just before it was crushed by right-wing militias. The Thule Society (logo at right) was a Bavarian volkisch club with a profound interest in stuff like crackpot race theory and Teutonic mythology; its very name alludes to a legendary territory hypothesized since antiquity to lie at the fringes of the world, often associated with Scandinavia and with the origins of the Aryan race.*
Society members figured in the founding of the German Workers’ Party (DAP), the party which became the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), better known as the Nazis. Former Thuler Hans Frank was among those eventually hanged via the postwar Nuremberg trial.....
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Wow, that’s quite a rabbit hole!
Germany would have been better off if the Kaiser had remained in charge.
Shame the commies and nazies didn’t wipe each other out.
Map of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Kingdom of Hungary (green) and the autonomous Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (red).These areas comprised the borders of the Kingdom of Hungary within the Habsburg monarchy.
Nazi Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland,
In green the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen (Transleithania), the Hungarian territories in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy consisting of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. Hungary also jointly governed the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina (blue) with Austria (Cisleithania).
Partition of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1541
Hungarian irredentism in the 1930s led Hungary to form an alliance with Nazi Germany.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Territorial_gains_of_Hungary_1938-41_en.svg/180px-Territorial_gains_of_Hungary_1938-41_en.svg.png
Map of Switzerland showing in purple the Italian-speaking areas, where Italian irredentism was strongest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_irredentism
A map of the 14th-century Serbian Empire
Expansion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire between the 14th and 20th centuries.
Russian expansion in Eurasia between 1533 and 1894
Map of territorial changes in Europe after World War I (as of 1923)
Regions of Ukraine annexed by Russia since 2014 (Crimea) and 2022 (Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia), with a red line marking the area of actual control by Russia on 30 September 2022.
Mexico 1824 (equirectangular projection).png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mexico_1824_(equirectangular_projection).png
Territorial Gains by the U.S. In less than 50 years, the western border of United States grew from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, starting with the Louisiana Purchase and ending with the territories gained from Mexico in the Mexican-American War. Spain gave up its claim to Florida and the northeastern Gulf Coast, and agreements with Great Britain established the boundary with Canada by 1846.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/territorial-gains/
United States land claims and cessions 1782-1802
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_land_claims_and_cessions_1782-1802.png
History books written in the late 1940s tell the truth, that conservatives were the last holdouts against the NAZIs.
I make the case the world would have been better off, had we just let the Kaiser and the Tsar fight it out against each other, and France and England (and thus, the US) stayed out of it.
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