Posted on 06/28/2015 9:20:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When he was 5 years old, Kevin Wheatcroft received an unusual birthday present from his parents: a bullet-pocked SS stormtrooper’s helmet, lightning bolts on the ear-flaps. He had requested it especially.
The next year, at a car auction in Monte Carlo, he asked his multimillionaire father for a Mercedes: the G4 that Hitler rode into the Sudetenland in 1938.
Tom Wheatcroft refused to buy it and his son cried all the way home.
When Wheatcroft was 15, he spent birthday money from his grandmother on three WWII Jeeps recovered from the Shetlands, which he restored himself and sold for a tidy profit. He invested the proceeds in four more vehicles, then a tank.
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Back then it sure wasn’t old clothes and some gas masks like it is today, it was the real war stuff.
Not to defend Soros in what he did do, but that is entirely incorrect. Don't exaggerate. What he did was as a fourteen year old boy, his Jewish family was split up by his father in 1944 and he was placed with a Hungarian official whose job it was to confiscate the possessions of Jews in Budapest and sometimes arrest them. As part of the masquerade to save Soros' life, he swore that he was the official's Christian nephew, as did the official that he was Soros' Uncle. Soros occasionally accompanied his "uncle" in his duties but did not speak out against the oppression of his people and expose his opposition and his Jewishness. In the eyes of some people the fourteen year old should have spoken up, betrayed the "uncle" as a traitor to being shot, and gone with his people to a concentration camp, instead of remaining silent. He did not "name" other Jews in hiding as some people claim. It was not in any concentration camp. That is the extent of his "collaboration."
I, like Glenn Beck, will not condemn a thirteen to fourteen year old boy for doing what was necessary to save his life in a time of insanity.
As I stated, I condemn him for his later choices in life to back and even foster the current crop of socialists who would do similar things. He is so stupid that he cannot learn from his early life experiences that History will repeat itself.
OTOH, by Jewish law, he was an adult. I believe that his earlier actions made him the person he is today.
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