Posted on 10/18/2008 7:28:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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What liberals do not want to acknowledge is that the Nazi and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) were all Socialist States. Their anger is what drives them to be socialists and they blind themselves to the truth, including the truth that Socialism is nothing but Marxism, driven by anger and enforced with that anger. It is brutal and destructive, but they hate free societies where people succeed and fail by their own effort. They are angry children and cheer when anything that remotely resembles the free world takes a blow. By the time they get over their anger they are the subject of it and then find it unfair. For many, this time surpasses their own lives with Marxism living decades past its prime.
Fighting Marxism is not just a selfish act of desire; it is saving the future generations from the brutality of Carl Marx, an angry child lashing out at perceived injustices that never existed.
"'That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator . . .'"
"May your prayers hasten the day when both men and nations will bring their lives into conformity with the teachings of Him, who is the Way, the Light, and the Truth."
Either of those quotes, if uttered today by a president with a democrat congress, would touch off impeachment hearings.
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Good background for the upcoming seizure of rabbis by Obama.
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Dreadful.
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 436
They will hold those consultations in a rail car in Paris. - Homer
On October 19, 1938, three weeks after Munich, [Charles] Lindbergh [was] awarded – and . . . accepted - the “Service Cross of the German Eagle with Star.” This was the second highest German decoration, usually conferred on distinguished foreigners who, in the official words of the citations, “deserved well of the Reich.”
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 750
Thank you! Those were the days, eh? Amazing to think of the NYT covering an event like this in such detail.
Even though we know the NYT was already in the tank at the time for Socialism/Communism/etc., they certainly were more circumspect about it, werent' they?
ON OCTOBER 24, 1938, less than a month after Munich, Ribbentrop was host to Jozef Lipski, the Polish ambassador in Berlin, at a three-hour lunch at the Grand Hotel in Berchtesgaden. Poland, like Germany and indeed in connivance with her, had just seized a strip of Czech territory. The luncheon talk proceeded, as a German Foreign Office memorandum stressed, "in a very friendly atmosphere."
Nevertheless, the Nazi Foreign Minister lost little time in getting down to business. The time had come, he said, for a general settlement between Poland and Germany. It was necessary, first of all, he continued, "to speak with Poland about Danzig." It should "revert" to Germany. Also, Ribbentrop said, the Reich wished to build a super motor highway and a double-track railroad across the Polish Corridor to connect Germany with Danzig and East Prussia. Both would have to enjoy extraterritorial rights. Finally, Hitler wished Poland to join the Anti-Comintern Pact against Russia. In return for all these concessions, Germany would be willing to extend the Polish-German treaty by from ten to twenty years and guarantee Poland's frontiers.
Ribbentrop emphasized he was broaching these problems "in strict confidence." He suggested that the ambassador make his report to Foreign Minister Beck "orally—since otherwise there was great danger of its leaking out, especially to the press." Lipski promised to report to Warsaw but warned Ribbentrop that personally he saw "no possibility" of the return of Danzig to Germany. He further reminded the German Foreign Minister of two recent occasions—November 5, 1937, and January 14, 1938—when Hitler had personally assured the Poles that he would not support any change in the Danzig Statute. Ribbentrop replied that he did not wish an answer now, but advised the Poles "to think it over."
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 455
In retrospect it almost amazes me that it took another 10 months (+ 1 week) for this to come to a head.
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Interesting. Kind of a combination Catholic/Archives WW2 ping.
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