Richard Stanley
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I've been binge watching the numerous documentaries produced in the last few years. The latest, for me, is a 5 part 2010 series, Hitler and the Nazis, and besides all the video footage it includes a lot of interviews with people who were supposedly eyewitness to aspects of it all. In the segment covering the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, one German soldier states that the Soviets were indeed caught off guard, and ... that it appeared that the Germans had beat them to the punch by days. According to Suvorov, it was by two weeks.
One of the other interesting details mentioned in the various docus that cover the road up to the beginning of WWII, is the impact that the Wall Street Crash of 1929 played. Economic conditions had been improving in Weimar Germany for several years, and thus there was not as much for the Nazis to rally around. But in the period after the Wall Street crash, and its subsequent spread to Europe, the Nazis took full advantage of this in their propaganda and recruiting.
And to digress somewhat: In the Depression years after the 29 Crash, Joseph Kennedy Sr., the former liquor bootlegger, was made the first chairman of the SEC (1934). Later FDR would make him ambassador to England in the pre-(American involvement)-War years. Kennedy's ambassadorial career ended, during the 1940 aerial Battle of Britain when he declared that "Democracy is finished in England".
Kennedy had some strange associations with Father Coughlin, the Nazi agitator, and Kennedy would later be made a Knight of Malta (Templar/Hospitaler) for his various efforts. In addition to his association with Father Coughlin, Kennedy had a close relationship to Sen. Joe McCarthy, and thus with Roy Cohn, an interesting nexus with Fred and Donald Trump. Back in the McCarthy days, the Kennedy boys also had their interesting relationships with McCarthy. The Wikipedia link also mentions Joseph Kennedy Jr.'s 'terminal' association with a WWII effort, Operation Anvil, to use remote control to fly bombers into enemy targets in France.
All of these factoids are even more interesting in regards to Miles Mathis's theories about such as the Kennedys. In any case, the common thread with Kennedy Sr. is the traditionalist Catholic antipathy to liberal democracy, ... and the Jews (except for such as Roy Cohn).
One of the other interesting details mentioned in the various docus that cover the road up to the beginning of WWII, is the impact that the Wall Street Crash of 1929 played. Economic conditions had been improving in Weimar Germany for several years, and thus there was not as much for the Nazis to rally around. But in the period after the Wall Street crash, and its subsequent spread to Europe, the Nazis took full advantage of this in their propaganda and recruiting.
And to digress somewhat: In the Depression years after the 29 Crash, Joseph Kennedy Sr., the former liquor bootlegger, was made the first chairman of the SEC (1934). Later FDR would make him ambassador to England in the pre-(American involvement)-War years. Kennedy's ambassadorial career ended, during the 1940 aerial Battle of Britain when he declared that "Democracy is finished in England".
Kennedy had some strange associations with Father Coughlin, the Nazi agitator, and Kennedy would later be made a Knight of Malta (Templar/Hospitaler) for his various efforts. In addition to his association with Father Coughlin, Kennedy had a close relationship to Sen. Joe McCarthy, and thus with Roy Cohn, an interesting nexus with Fred and Donald Trump. Back in the McCarthy days, the Kennedy boys also had their interesting relationships with McCarthy. The Wikipedia link also mentions Joseph Kennedy Jr.'s 'terminal' association with a WWII effort, Operation Anvil, to use remote control to fly bombers into enemy targets in France.
All of these factoids are even more interesting in regards to Miles Mathis's theories about such as the Kennedys. In any case, the common thread with Kennedy Sr. is the traditionalist Catholic antipathy to liberal democracy, ... and the Jews (except for such as Roy Cohn).
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