Posted on 07/06/2017 12:20:27 AM PDT by beaversmom
Swiss journalist Sacha Batthyany knew he belonged to an aristocratic family, centered around his respected aunt. He didnt know about the murderous ball held in 1945, that led to a personal quest, threats from relatives and a book
One morning in April 2007 journalist Sacha Batthyany was approached by an elderly colleague at the Swiss daily where they both worked at the time. The colleague waved a newspaper clipping in front of him. It was an investigative report entitled, The Hostess from Hell, published by a German daily.
Glancing at the headline, Batthyany didnt understand why he was being shown this article, but then he looked at the picture of the hostess and recognized it immediately. It was Margit, his fathers aunt someone to whom the family demonstrated the utmost respect and also around whom they tended to tread carefully. So he started to read the piece.
In March 1945, it said, just before the end of World War II, Margit held a large party in the town of Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border to fete her Nazi friends. She, the daughter and heiress of European baron and tycoon Heinrich Thyssen, and her friends drank and danced the night away.
At the height of the evening, just for fun, 12 of the guests boarded trucks or walked to a nearby field, where 180 Jewish slave laborers who had been building fortifications were assembled. They had already been forced to dig a large pit, strip, and get down on their knees. The guests took turns shooting them to death before returning to the party. The organizer of this operation was Margits lover Hans Joachim Oldenberg. Margits husband, Count Ivan Batthyany, Sachas grandfathers brother, was also at the party.
It was the first time that Batthyany, then 34, had heard about this...
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Further proof that in fact, in many cases the Austrians were even more cruel than the Germans towards the Jews. After all, Hitler was one of them.
PIAPS = Pig In A Pants-Suit (for those not around here when Bill was inserting cigars into interns in the oval office)
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Through a combination of sinful weakness, fear, and base reward, people can be led to do some pretty atrocious things. The weakness is internal, the fear and base reward external. Only God sees how these combinations occur, or understands the full plan in which they are either permitted or prevented.
she kinda looks like Rose Kennedy.
“Europeans are sick. Our ancestors came here for a reason.”
Sadly, I believe the disease did not stay in Europe. I firmly believe vile things are occurring in our country by so called elites. Read “Franklin The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska” by John De Camp. The crimes took place in the 1980 and ‘90’s and were covered up for national security reasons.
Ping
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I remember reading about a wealthy woman in New Orleans in the early 19th c. Same behavior with slaves.
“I cannot imagine discovering something so horrible in my familys history.”
Two men are talking. One says, “I was trying to research my family history. I can’t find a single one of them.” The other man said, “Run for mayor as a Republican. The Democrats will trace them all the way to the Stone Age.”
They were killing the last witnesses to earlier atrocities.
bkmk
“Margit held a large party in the town of Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border to fete her Nazi friends. She, the daughter and heiress of European baron and tycoon Heinrich Thyssen.”
The Theissen family continues to thrive. Its spawn have purchased landholdings from as far away as Arizona and Paraguay. In fact, the family never paid the price that was owed for its involvement in WWII.
“One of his ancestors was a psychopath. Not much he can do about that.”
Actually, it’s pretty awesome what he’s done. Sad that others would instead simply ‘forget’ about it.
I do not know if it is true or not. I have read so much that is not true and this has made me skeptical.
Hmm.
I read just the wiki article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations
This story reminds me much of Pizza Gate. It could be true. But probably not.
> This is one case where I wished the Russians would have captured her. <
I was thinking that same thing. After the war, the Russians delivered justice to those criminals. It was a rough justice, and in many cases a kangaroo-court justice, but it was justice.
Brings to mind Balzac's adage: “Behind every great fortune is a great crime,” or something very similar. The more we learn about life, the more it seems to be true.
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