https://freerepublic.com/tag/19190430/ en-us Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:26:45 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4149527/posts 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... ExecutedToday.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4149527/posts#comment Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:26:45 GMT