The “Tomb of the Unknown Rapist” in Berlin
There is a difficult reality that is often unreported in the history of The Second World War. We know of the savagery of the war in Eastern Europe. What is often unreported is what happened after the surrender of Germany in May 1945.
Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Tiergarten
As we watch the savagery of the Israel-Hamas War going int 2024, we often forget that by its very nature, war is a terrible act of mankind. There is no good war.
Unfortunately in today’s ultra-connected world, the tragedies of war can be reported moment-by-moment, death-by-death.
Joseph Stalin once coldly remarked, “When one man dies it is a tragedy. When thousands die it’s statistics.”
There is a difficult reality that is often unreported in the history of The Second World War. We know of the savagery of the war in Eastern Europe. What is often unreported is what happened after the surrender of Germany in May 1945.
The war in Eastern Europe was a racial war as much as it was a war for territory. The Germans saw the people of Eastern Europe as untermensch, sub-human. Consequently, the Germans treated the people of Eastern Europe with a savagery that was unparalleled in the West. While Jews from Western Europe died in the Holocaust, the number of Western European Jews pale in comparison to the number of people from the East who died at one of several German extermination camps.
For example, there were an estimated 90,000 French Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Great Britain shows 130 Jews killed in the Holocaust. Denmark saw 60 Jews killed and Norway 870 Jews killed. Compare this to the countries in Eastern Europe:
Romania = 270,000 Jews killed
Hungary = 450,000 Jews killed
Ukraine = 900,000 Jews killed
Poland = 2.9 million Jews killed
Those are just the Jews. The Nazis also targeted many other ethnic groups and sub-cultures for extermination including homosexuals, the mentally ill, Jehovah Witnesses, intellectuals, communists, Gypsies, and more than 3.5 million Soviet prisoners of war. While we often hear of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, we often fail to mention these other victims, which combined with Jewish deaths, raises the total killed to an estimated 20 million people.
These are not war victims killed in combat or by the bombing of cities and towns. These are men, women, and children who were rounded up and systematically murdered as part of the Nazi plan to ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe to make room for a pure, Aryan race of Germanic people who would rule the world for a thousand years.
Once the war was over, the people of Eastern Europe did not want peace, they wanted revenge against the Germans. Unfortunately, the mad men who perpetrated the crimes of the Holocaust were either dead (Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, and other top Nazi officials), on the run, or being held prisoner by the Western Allies. This left innocent Germans to bear the brunt of the revenge.
In a sadistic fulfillment, the Bible verse from Exodus 20:5, which describes the sins of the fathers being visited upon their children, became reality in post-war Germany.
As millions of Red Army soldiers flooded into Eastern Germany, eventually capturing the capital of Berlin, the order was passed down from Stalin himself that German women should pay for the sins their fathers, husbands, and brothers had committed in the East. Few German women and girls escaped the savagery of the Red Army.
Historians report today that nearly every German woman between the ages of 8-years to 80-years that lived in the Eastern part of Germany controlled by the Red Army was raped as many as a dozen or more times. It was not until the winter of 1946/47, more than 18 months following the surrender, that the Soviet authorities began to crack down on soldiers committing rape and start to reinforce discipline within their ranks. To this day, German women refer to the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin as the “Tomb to the Unknown Rapist.”
Election Fraud Is Not New
Election fraud is not new to American politics. In Passage of Power, LBJ biographer Robert Caro describes how the Democratic political machine in Texas delivered the state for Kennedy-Johnson in 1960. As you read, you will see many of the same tactics at work in 1960 that are at work today: slowing the counting, mysterious ballots appearing out of nowhere, little accountability, strong party bosses in control. There's nothing new under the sun.
From the Passage of Power, Chapter 5: The "LBJ Special":
In the Valley border counties, the results were even more dramatic. For decades, as I wrote in Means of Ascent, the results reported from the “ethnic” towns had little to do with the preferences of the Mexican-Americans. The overwhelming majority of their votes had been cast at the orders of the Anglo-Saxon border dictators called patrones or jefes, orders often enforced by armed pistoleros who herded Mexican-Americans to the polls, told them how to vote, and then accompanied them into the voting cubbyholes to make sure the instructions were followed—if indeed the votes had been actually “cast” at all; in some of the Mexican-American areas, the local border dictators, in Texas political parlance, didn’t “vote ’em,” but rather just “counted ’em.” In those areas, most of the voters didn’t even go to the polls: the jefes’ men would, as one observer put it, simply “go around to the Mexicans’ homes. Get the numbers of their (poll tax) receipts. Tell them not to go to the polls. Just write in a hundred numbers, and cast the hundred votes yourself,” or, after the polls closed, would simply take the tally sheets and add to the recorded total whatever number was needed to give their favored candidate the margin he desired. “You get down on the border, and it didn’t matter how people (the Mexican-Americans) felt,” Ed Clark would explain. “The leaders did it all. They could vote ’em or count ’em, either one.”
Between 1948 and 1960, little had changed. In the latter election as in the former, George Parr counted them for Lyndon Johnson. The first sign was the pace of the counting. By the evening of election day, several hours after polls had closed, veteran reporters had noticed what one called the “slow-motion count of votes” in Duval—they knew what that meant; that the Duke was holding back a final tally until he saw whether the race was close, so that if it was, he could give his allies the votes they needed. At midnight, only one of Duval’s ten precincts had reported a final tally. Then, finally, came the count itself. The Duke controlled not only Duval County but Starr County as well as a personal fiefdom. Duval voted for Kennedy-Johnson by a margin of 3,803 to 808, Starr by 4,051 to 284. In a petition for a recount filed with the state canvassing board three days after the election, Republicans charged that pistols were carried by “election judges and others in Duval County so that voters were intimidated and coerced.”
Then there was Jim Wells County, or to be precise, the county’s Precinct Thirteen: “Box 13,” the precinct, already legendary in Texas political history, that in 1948 had provided the decisive margin for Lyndon Johnson by giving him two hundred new votes—the votes that were cast in alphabetical order and all in the same handwriting six days after the polls had closed. The Mexican-American reform movement had taken control of most of Jim Wells from Parr, but not the thirteenth precinct, the poorest Mexican district in the county seat of Alice. In 1960, that box gave Lyndon Johnson’s ticket a margin of 1,144 to 45, or twenty-five to one, so the ticket came out of the heart of the Duke’s Rio Grande domain with more than 88 percent of the vote—and a plurality of more than 7,800 votes.
The results were almost as lopsided in the counties controlled by Parr’s allies, who followed his lead. In Webb County, it was 10,059 to 1,802, more than five to one; in Jim Hogg County, 1,255 to 244, more than five to one; in Brooks, 1,934 to 540, almost four to one. The nine counties controlled by Parr and his allies reported a total of 37,063 votes to the Texas Election Bureau. Almost 30,000 of them—29,377, or 79 percent—were for Kennedy-Johnson. The Democratic ticket therefore came out of those counties with a plurality of 21,691.
Source: Caro, Robert A.. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
How does a nation go from a democratic republic to a dictatorship? The answer: quickly.
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. The intention was to control him. As this article states, that was a fatal underestimation.
By the end of March 1933, the Nazis used a national crisis (the burning of the Reichstag Building) to pass legislation that would give Hitler the authority needed to deal with the crisis. This law, known as The Enabling Act, became the legal basis for the Nazi dictatorship that would govern Germany until the end of the war in 1945.
By mid-1933 (less than six months after gaining power), the Nazi government began a process called Gleichschaltung which systematically removed from civil service anyone who was Jewish or disagreed with them. (NOTE: Dachau, the first German Concentration Camp, was opened in March 1933. The first prisoners at Dachau were political enemies of the Reich.)
The average German voter never intended to take their first step as a nation towards what would become the atrocities of the Third Reich. In early 1933, they just wanted the turmoil to end and they wanted a government that could provide what every one of us desires: peace and security. By the time the average German realized that the Nazis were carrying out the threats they had been publicly advocating for since 1923 (10 years), it was too late. Nazi control was complete. You either fell in line and openly agreed with the party policies, or you were arrested and imprisoned.
Why is this relevant to today? We have a similar threat standing at our door. The Socialists that have taken over the Democrat party of 2020 have made their plans clear. They will follow Hitler's plan: gain power, create a crisis, implement legislation to give them full legal authority, destroy their enemies. This legal process to turn a democratic republic like the United States into a Socialist authoritarian state could happen within months.
All the pieces are in plain view.
Let's pray the American voters do not make the same mistake the Germans made in 1933 and fatally underestimate the truly evil intentions of a political party. Not unlike the Democrat Party in 2020, the Nazis did not hide their political agenda. Hitler published his political manifesto, Mein Kampf, in 1924. It was all there in plain view. The German voters simply did not believe him.
PS: One of the things that has perplexed me most in 2020 is the selection of Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee. I don't believe we have seen a more inept and unqualified candidate for president in the two-party era.
Moreover, with Biden's weakness as a candidate, the clear objective would be to put a running-mate on the ticket who is without question a person of great competency and political skill. That didn't happen. Of all the candidates running for the Democratic nomination in 2020 (I think there were 24 at first), Kamala Harris is one of the weakest. She dropped out of the race prior to the Iowa caucuses and even performed badly with African-American voters. She comes from the state of California, which the Democrats will carry regardless of who is on the ticket, and she is declared "the most liberal senator in the US Senate" by GovTrack, a non-partisan organization. She brings zero political advantage to the Democrat ticket, and, instead, brings a lot of political baggage with her.
As I have thought about this, I want to believe the best about the leaders of the Democrat party in 2020. Knowing that the radical left was surging and they were unable to control the rise of Socialism in the Democrat party, they nominated Joe Biden with Kamala Harris as his running mate as a poison pill. Yes, he will carry the party banner in 2020, but they will do as little as possible to get him elected. Their hope is that Americans will reject Biden as a candidate and thus put an end to the rise of Socialism within the Democrat party.
Of course, if you want to believe the worst about the Democrat party leadership in 2020, you have to argue that they put likeable, old "Uncle Joe" up as their candidate to serve as a trojan horse, and once he gets elected, they will push him aside and the radicals will quickly take over the government. In that case, re-read the first part of this article to understand their playbook.
God help us.
Is America Systemically Racist?
Is America systemically racist? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. vehemently renounced such a notion. He would vehemently disagree with the false history presented in the New York Times “1619 Project.”
Listen to his words:
Speaking of Abraham Lincoln, Dr. King began his “I Have A Dream” speech with the following words:
“Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.”
The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation was a giant step forward for racial equality in America, but it was by no means the final step. There was much work still to do.
Talking about the founding of America, Dr. King observed,
“In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Dr. King continued by recognizing that even though 100 years had passed since the end of slavery, segregation in America still left much of Black America isolated from the hope and opportunity many white Americans enjoyed.
Speaking to his fellow blacks who were advocating for violence to progress civil rights, Dr. King stated,
“But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
“The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.”
As Americans, we cannot lose the hope found in Martin Luther King’s dream. Are we a perfect nation? No, of course not. Are we making progress towards the goal of racial equality and opportunity? Absolutely. The realization that America elected its first African-American President, Barack Obama, is fundamental evidence of the continued progression towards the reality of Dr. King’s dream for America.
America is not systemically racist. Anyone living today who lived through the 1950s and early 1960s will testify to the progress America has made and is making.
As we celebrate Independence Day in 2020, take a few minutes to read or listen to Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream Speech.” You can find both the text and a recording here:
The War over America’s Past Is Really about Its Future
In an effort to scrub American History of anything that is not considered politically correct by today's snowflake brigade, the leftists are systematically destroying our nation's foundation and collective memory. The leftist narrative states that America is a racist, no-good, misogynist, paternalistic, capitalist wasteland founded by crooks and scoundrels. Instead, the leftists offer Americans the hope of a new socialist utopia. In destroying our past, the leftists are dooming America to repeating the mistakes of previous socialist/totalitarian "utopias" that are now on the trash heap of history. It was George Santayana (1863-1952), who stated, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."Victor Davis Hanson takes aim at the atrocities being committed by leftists revisionists:
In their radical progressive view — shared by billionaires from Silicon Valley, recent immigrants, and the new Democratic party — America was flawed, perhaps fatally, at its origins. Things have not gotten much better in the country’s subsequent 243 years, nor will they get any better — at least not until America as we know it is dismantled and replaced by a new nation predicated on race, class, and gender identity-politics agendas.In this view, an “okay” America is no better than other countries. As Barack Obama once bluntly put it, America is exceptional only in relative terms, given that citizens of Greece and the United Kingdom believe that their own countries are just as exceptional. In other words, there is no absolute standard by which to judge a nation’s excellence.About half the country disagrees. It insists that America’s sins, past and present, are those of mankind. But only in America were human failings constantly critiqued and addressed.America does not have be perfect to be good. As the world’s wealthiest democracy, it certainly has given people from all over the world greater security and affluence than any other nation in history — with the largest economy, largest military, greatest energy production, and most top-ranked universities in the world.The traditionalists see American history as a unique effort to overcome human weakness, bias, and sin. That effort is unmatched by other cultures and nations, and it explains why millions of foreign nationals swarm into the United States, both legally and illegally.These arguments over our past are really over the present — and especially the future.If progressives and socialists can at last convince the American public that their country was always hopelessly flawed, they can gain power to remake it based on their own interests. These elites see Americans not as unique individuals but as race, class, and gender collectives, with shared grievances from the past that must be paid out in the present and the future.We’ve seen something like this fight before, in 1861 — and it didn’t end well.