Friends, this week's Newsmaker Show is replete with insights on the current predicament and future prospects of Liz Cheney, as well as the political fallout from the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid. That is ample reason to tune in, but, in addition, Brian and I added some historical analysis of two WWII luminaries: George S. Patton and Rudolf Hess, Nazi Germany's Deputy Fuhrer. Both men's careers took some mighty surprising twists and turns, as you'll find out (if you didn't know already). I'd love to hear your thoughts on how history has judged, and misjudged, Patton and Hess...
https://wlea.net/newsmaker-august-18-2022-dr-nick-waddy/
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In other news, there is very significant overlap between the FBI officials who brought you the Trump-Russia hoax and the Mueller inquiry, and those who were involved with the recent raid on Mar-a-Lago. It's the Deep State in action, people! Far from being held accountable for their misdeeds, Trump's original accusers are up to their old tricks.
I'm not generally impressed or interested in anti-vaxxer claims, but even I had to sit up and take notice of this story. It requires further scrutiny, if you ask me. The corners that were cut during the pandemic, and the lack of transparency about the vaccines, are greatly troubling.
Finally, public attitudes towards immigration and illegal immigration have grown more critical in recent years. Gee, I wonder why? Democrats are under the impression that everything is hunky-dory at the border, but everyone else sees the situation for the crisis that it is. And NPR, needless to say, sees a racist behind every bush.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/southern-border-invasion-immigration/2022/08/18/id/1083616/
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I've always wondered how Hess became "Deputy Fuhrer"; he appears to have been a factotum who garnered Hitler's favor by his loyalty to the monster, commencing with his secretarial services to Hitler during their prison terms. Goering, Goebbels and Himmler each exercised far more power I think. Perhaps Hitler thought of a "Deputy Fuhrer "much as Adams and Garner thought of our Vice Presidency. He wasn't very smart, although his Quixotic mission to Britain may have saved his life, for what it was worth. Patton was a SOLDIER!
ReplyDeleteI must confess, I know virtually nothing about Hess, but that's saying something in itself, because I count myself fairly knowledgeable about most Nazi bigwigs. What makes you say he wasn't very smart?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I too know little about Hess. I did some cursory
ReplyDeletereading and came thereby to the following tentative conclusions: his power, as it were ,derived entirely from his enthusiastic loyalty to Hitler,dating to the very earliest days of the party's rise to appreciable influence, to some administrative and oratorical skills and to his intense antisemitism. He neither sought nor acquired a personal power base and probably would have been badly handled by such as Himmler or Goering had Hitler passed before Germany's defeat. He was mentally and emotionally unstable and was very serious about the occult. I think that he was proven not very smart by the lunacy of his mission to Britain. He completely underestimated Churchill despite Churchill's resolute standing during the Battle of Britain, and the Blitz and during Britain's harrowing ordeal in 1941.
Hmm. All that is certainly plausible, except that most of it could equally well be said of someone like Himmler (especially the unstable part), but it didn't seem to hold him back... Hess's mission to Britain, from what I read, was a very well-planned and meticulously executed brand of "lunacy", and you would have to remember that virtually every leading German believed in the fantasy that, somehow or other, the Western Allies could be reconciled to Germany and a war exclusively against the USSR could be finagled. I dunno. What I've read doesn't answer the critical question: was there any chance that the British might have been receptive to Hess's overtures? And, if not, why have some of the records not been unsealed? The mystery lives on!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/will-we-ever-know-why-nazi-leader-rudolf-hess-flew-scotland-middle-world-war-ii-180959040/
Dr. Waddy from Jack: You have supported your points above better than I did mine.
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