Fifty years since the founding of the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter as the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International wsws.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wsws.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
PREFACE: The term âconspiracy theory (CT) is often used to attack the credibility of an explanation of a key event. If, for example, a conservative says the 2020 Presidential election was decided by widespread, fraudulent, voter manipulation, a liberal will call the conservative a “conspiracy theorist”.  But a âconspiracy theorist’ can be a critical thinker who applies knowledge, wisdom and proven instinct in the search for truth beyond and beneath conventional wisdom.  Â
The subtitle of a relatively recent book tells the history of understanding a key event in Nazi Germany: “
Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery,” by Benjamin Carter Hett, Oxford Press, 2014. Â
Disturbing historical parallels in how the Democrat party s going lately americanthinker.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from americanthinker.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In popular culture, perhaps the most enduring image of the German aristocracy in the Third Reich is embodied by Tom Cruise in
Valkyrie, the Hollywood version of the plot that failed to kill Adolf Hitler in July 1944. At the end of the film, the man who planted the bomb, Count Claus von Stauffenberg, played by Cruise, stands, his head held high in front of an SS firing squad, and declares ‘Long live Secret Germany!’ Exhibiting aristocratic
Haltung (‘bearing’), Stauffenberg paid tribute, so it is said, to the self-proclaimed aristocrat Stefan George, who preached of a secret realm accessible only to a privileged few. As Stauffenberg fell dead, a cabal of conspirators was being ruthlessly hunted down by the ‘new nobility’ of the SS.
Let me tell you a bit about Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler.
The terror machinery of Nazi Germany and its attempt to implement the
Endlösung led to the deaths of six million Jews and ten million Slavs. This systematic slaughter was paralleled only by Mao Zedong and Josef Stalin and led to the coining of the term genocide (
genos means race in Greek,
cide means killer in Latin). The Jews call it simply Destruction ; the Romas Devouring . It was undoubtedly one of the most evil acts perpetrated by man and the Lord willing he shall never forget it.
It came from a regime which was, in many ways, evil made solid and put in charge of a nation. In the period 1933-37 the NSDAP (