#Roman Fuhrer

[gamereporter]

Após sete anos de trabalho, "Leif’s Adventure: Netherworld Hero" chega em 19 de dezembro!

A tão aguardada aventura “Leif’s Adventure: Netherworld Hero” será lançada no próximo dia 19 de dezembro para Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 e Steam. Desenvolvido ao longo de sete anos por Roman Fuhrer, o jogo é um projeto solo que promete encantar os fãs de ação cooperativa com uma narrativa imersiva e visuais desenhados à mão. Inspirado pelo folclore nórdico, o jogo combina exploração, combate…

[chuzhezemnyi]

Vukasin of Klepci was a Serbian Orthodox Christian from Herzegovina who was martyred by fascists during World War II for refusing to acknowledge the Ustashi leader.

Little is known about the life of Vukasin Mandrapa before his martyrdom, except that he was a farmer and merchant. What is known about him is from the events resulting in his martyrdom. He was born in the village of Klepci, in Herzegovina, towards the end of the nineteenth century. He and his family lived in Sarajevo and then returned to Klepci. At the beginning of World War II, in 1942, members of the Croatian fascist Ustasas arrested him and transported him, together with other Serbs of that region, into the notorious concentration camp of Jasenovac (the number of victims at this camp have been estimated to be 700,000), for both their Serbian ethnicity and for refusing to convert from Serbian Orthodox Christianity to Roman Catholicism. At least two nephews of his are said to have died in Jasenovac before he did.



After horrible days full of hard labor, in January of 1943 Vukasin was brought before an Ustashi soldier, Josep "Zile" Friganovic, who threatened to execute him due to his stoic behavior during the forced labor days and a contest of four soldiers one night as to who could slaughter the most prisoners, but who said he would spare his life if Vukasin cried loudly: "Long live Ante Pavelic!" Ante Pavelic was the leader of the Ustashi. Vukasin, who saw a knife in the hands of the soldier, replied calmly: "My child, you do what you must,"* and refused to obey the soldier`s request. The Ustashi soldier brandished his knife and cut off Vukasin's ear. The soldier then repeated his request. Vukasin repeated his answer. The soldier then cut off Vukasin's other ear, followed by his nose, and then scarred Vukasin's face. Next his tongue was cut. After repeating the request to Vukasin to utter the vicious words and hail the leader of the Ustashi (Ante Pavelic), Vukasin once again calmly replied: "My child, you do what you must." After gouging out his heart and slitting his throat, Friganovic is said to have been unable to kill more people that night, fallen into alcoholism, and years later he confessed this to a doctor named Nedelko Nedo Zets, who wrote it down. This testimony would be used later to make Vukasin Mandrapa a saint:

"Franciscans Pero Brzica, Ante Zrinusic-Sipka and me, made a bet on who will kill more inmates in one night. The slaughter began and after one hour I was well ahead of all the rest by the number of the slaughtered.

Some unusual delirium came over me that night, I felt like in seventh heaven. I never felt such bliss in my whole life. After several hours, I managed to kill 1.100 people, while others killed only 300-400 people. By chance, at the hight of my delirium, I took one glance on the side, and I saw one peasant man who was rather old.

He watched me slaughter my victims and witnessing them dying in pain, with some incomprehensible peace. His look struck me, I felt like I was petrified, and I lost the delirium feeling. I couldn’t move couple of seconds. Then I approached him, and he told me that his name is Vukashin, from Klepci village near Capljina, and ustashe killed all his family. He was sent to Jasenovac death camp, for some forest works.

He was saying that with some inconceivable peace that struck me more than all horrifying cries around me. Suddenly, I got the flaming desire to break his peace and serenity by fiercest torture, and to restore my bliss in killing people by watching his pain. I singled him out and sat him down on one stump. I ordered him to yell “Long live fuhrer Pavelic” or I will cut off his ear.

Vukashin was silent. I cut off his ear. He didn’t say a word. I told him again, yell “Long live to fuhrer Pavelic” or I will cut off the other ear. He was silent again. I cut the other ear. “Yell “Long live Pavelic, or I will cut off your nose. When I ordered him to yell “long live Pavelic” for the fourth time or I will rip his heart out, he looked at me, as if he looked trough me into uncertainty, and said calmly and clearly:

”Just do your job, child”.

These words of his made me go completely wild. I jumped at him, gouged out his eyes, rip his heart out, slashed his throat all the way from one ear to another, and pushed him into the whole by my legs. But, then something broke inside of me, and I couldn’t kill anyone else that night. Franciscan Pero Brzica won, by killing 1.350 camp inmates. I paid the agreed bet, without a word”.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.5

823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his army. 1242 – During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights. 1536 – Charles V makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a Roman triumph. 1566 – Two hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Seventeen Provinces. 1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. 1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England. 1792 – United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States. 1795 – Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made. 1818 – In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín, win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead. 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins. 1879 – Bolivia declares war on Chile, and Chile declares war on Peru, starting the War of the Pacific. 1902 – A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland, which led to the deaths of 25 and injuries to more than 500 supporters during an international association football match between Scotland and England. 1910 – The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated. 1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated. 1932 – Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government. 1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens. 1933 – Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold democratic elections with universal male suffrage. 1936 – Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi. 1942 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing Case Blue, including the German Sixth Army's planned assault on Stalingrad. 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island. 1943 – World War II: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit. 1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory". 1946 – Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm. 1946 – A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground. 1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States. 1951 – Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union. 1956 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. 1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time. 1966 – During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down. 1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities. 1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike. 1976 – In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident. 1977 – The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip. 1991 – An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter. 1992 – Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force. 1992 – Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War. 1998 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world. 1999 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands. 2007 – The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead. 2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks. 2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. 2018 – Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States. 2021 – Nguyễn Xuân Phúc took office as President of Vietnam after dismissing the title of Prime Minister.

[vagabondageautourdesoi]

@editionsgrasset @netgalleyfrance Jean-Noël Orengo présente son nouveau #roman « Vous êtes l’amour malheureux du Fuhrer », qui reprend le récit d’Albert Speer et l’ausculte à la lumière de l’Histoire. Mythe ou réalité ❤️

#booktreat #booklover #booktread #booklovers #bookrecommendations #booksragram #bookstragram #bookthreads #Rl2024

#avis de #lecture ici https://vagabondageautourdesoi.com/2024/09/16/jean-noel-orengo-vous-etes/

[heretekadept]

In my reading, the "I have personally experienced" caveat at the front of the post in question joined to the explicit statement that you're seeking a wider sample size tell me what you're doing here.

It scans as vicious and unnecessary to extract multiple rounds of apologies from someone who's very explicitly trying to expand their horizons for making that attempt in a somewhat clumsy way. I'm going to recommend that OP look at some of the old threads @glumshoe on here used to get into where they (I don't know their current pronouns) would repeatedly extend good faith to critics who, from everyone else's perspective, were very clearly just exercising power and delighted to find someone who'd play along. That would sometimes go 5-7 rounds and it gave me a very similar feeling to the exchange here.

To paraphrase some Twitter discourse I've seen going around, "Is it more important to do something right or to avoid doing anything wrong?"

To respond generally to the actual question, I think a lot of what you'll encounter around this issue is fundamentally the same problem we contend with when we try to dig the Harry Potter out of people's heads now that JKR has fallen to the dark side: For a lot of people this isn't a set of conceptual ideas they think of themselves as using or interacting with, it's a system of identity formation that they either see as part of themselves or see as something they were pressured to conform to and have pushed away from.

Neither of these perspectives is conducive to mellow exchange of ideas. The chill people you'll find around this stuff are the ones whose communities and families weren't particularly interested AND who themselves chose different systems for self-definition when they were young.

Globally, that one two punch is relatively unusual.

Finally, my personal perspective on astrology is basically Carl Sagan's:

1) The inverse square law means that the only real force the planets could exert on you from solar orbital distances (gravity), by virtue of being so much closer, the body of the midwife or doctor delivering you would be exerting a stronger pull by virtue of being so, so, so much closer.

2) The night sky has been slowly drifting since the heyday of the Roman Empire when what we think of as the sun signs were first laid down, and has by now actually "drifted" everyone more than halfway into the "next" sign from where the Romans would have put them. If astrology actually had any basis in reality, you'd expect practitioners to have noticed the changes in personality/destiny that this was causing, looked at the actual sky, and updated their birthdate ranges to follow along with the actual constellations the sun is rising and falling in during different parts of the year.

Since this hasn't happened, we can infer that Astrology is primarily a human ideological construct rather than something that actually relates to the stars and/or universe at large.

...but again, just because something is a social construct doesn't mean it isn't "real".

Finally, you may benefit from some one on one dialogue with @cryptotheism or intro resources they might point you towards if you're interested in exploring further. He's a really solid scholar of the history of the occult with what is IMO the most important quality in an intro teacher: an extremely sharp eye for any whiff of later revisionism in general and Esoteric Hitlerism in particular.

Speaking of traps you can blunder into, the historical facts around the state-sponsored project in the mid 20th century to turn this stuff into a state religion for the Third Reich, including most of the people involved having fallen out of favor with the Fuhrer by the end of the war and therefore getting off pretty light in the ensuing crime and punishment era (leaving them free to spew exactly that nonsense all over the post-war zeitgeist) is ASTONISHINGLY under-discussed.

Sorry for the novel. This thread seems to have touched a couple of nerves.

a lot of queer people i know in real life are either into or open to talking about astrology but online i think ive noticed a lot more people who dislike astrology and im super curious to see if that holds up.

please reblog for sample size and elaborate in the tags if you want!

[mitchipedia]

Michael Brian Protzman, known to tens of thousands of cult followers as Negative48, ran a failed demolition business before launching a new career as a Qanon influencer. He’s a Holocaust-denier who promotes claims that “Jews created Communism and deliberately started both world wars as part of a plot to found Israel by provoking the innocent Nazis, who were only defending themselves.” He also praises Adolf Hitler and compares Trump to the fuhrer. He denies Jews even exist, and says Jewish leadership is “basically the British empire, the Roman empire, it’s just the criminals.”

He pushes shady financial advice, urging them to buy foreign currency on a website he promotes.

Among the occult beliefs he promotes: “Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and had four children with her. This gave rise to a bloodline that went on to create many famous people today, notably the Kennedys.”

JFK didn’t show up in Texas this week, but many of Protzman’s followers claimed to have met Michael Jackson.

[mariacallous]

roman’s about to make it theystar royco: wir queer fuhrer

[tuscanwalker]

August 30, 2021: And Now For Something Completely Different

As well as having some great medieval history, Nuremberg has a darker side. Partly as a result of Carol Jackson’s “great” recommendation (Wow, has everybody been here but me?) I visited the Nazi Documentation Centre in Nazi Party Congress Hall. The centre attempts to explain, but never justify, how a highly civilized people can apparently abandon all reason in the face of demagoguery. This is still a timely lesson and my visit took on new meaning given the number of increasingly autocratic leaders who foster a cult of personality these days (I won’t name any names but . . . ). Unfortunately the Centre is taking advantage of the pandemic to renovate its main building, but has set up an excellent smaller exhibition in the interim.

As the exhibition explained, Nuremberg was the spiritual home of National Socialism (Nazism) and a place near and dear to the Fuhrer’s heart. In part, this was an attempt to link the Fuhrer’s 3rd Reich to the 1st Reich of the Holy Roman Emperors. It also did not hurt that Nuremberg was a working class town badly hurt by the Depression and highly anti-Semitic.

From 1923 to 1938, the Nazis held huge outdoor political rallies here to drum up support and propagandize their members. The local government and police were strong supporters and abetted them taking over a large city park (over 1000 acres) and building huge structures to support these rallies and the party in general.

Hitler’s architect, Albert Speer, was in charge and he had two guiding principals, bigger is better and biggest is best. He built immense granite and concrete structures in a neoclassical style often associated with autocratic regimes (Stalin, Mussolini). The most impressive of these is the Congress Hall, which was modelled on the Coliseum in Rome and was meant to seat 50,000 spectators. It’s primary purpose was to host Hitler’s annual speech to the party faithful on a day and time at which a sunbeam from the single skylight in the domed ceiling would shine down on the Fuhrer at his podium. Work was halted at the start of the war, but is still an impressive monument Nazi hubris. I take some pleasure in how silly it looks beside the fun fair that held here each year. The even larger stadium (400,000 spectators) only had its foundations dug and a lake now fills the excavation.

From the Congress Hall I walked around the adjoining lake to see the remains of the Grande Highway, built to impress those approaching the Rally Grounds. Speer made it completely from granite slabs and it was long enough and wide enough that the Americans used it as a runway for transport aircraft after the war. Further along was Zeppelin Field. Modelled on the ancient Greco-Roman Alter of Pergamon (now in a museum in Berlin), it was where the huge (70,000 strong) 1934 Rally was held. This rally was immortalized in Leni Riefenstahl’s film “The Triumph of the Will” from which I expect many of you have seen clips. Today, the structure is still impressive despite the fact that much of it has been demolished and it is used for rock concerts and car races. I must say that it was very sobering and a little creepy to stand on the exact spot where Hitler gave his speeches and look out over the field and grandstands.

After a leisurely lunch and pint of dunkles bier at the Gutmann Beer Garden overlooking he lake, I walked the 5 km back to my hotel. I often like to wander through residential neighbourhoods away from the historic centre when I travel. You get to see a different perspective on how people live and to wear off a few more of those excess calories. Oh yes, even the beer garden (which sat about 350 outdoors) was very family oriented, with a kiddies playground on one side so you can keep an eye on the little ones during Oktoberfest.

Back in the old town centre I wandered a while and the settled back for some people watching in Albrecht Durer Platz with a glass of very nice weissweine. I sat next to a rather intimidating rabbit (no, it was my first glass) that was a take on Drurer’s very famous painting of same.

On the way back to my hotel I stopped at the city museum for one more geek fix. Oh well, museums today, art galleries tomorrow. Does it get any better than this?

[esleep]

lol. just in case anyone thinks the connection between fascism and a pathetic fixation on idealized ancient greco-roman aesthetics is a modern-internet-weirdo thing: here’s this Nazi propaganda photobook.

"These are such exquisite, such transcendentally beautiful images of athletes, that one almost forgets their context. And it's all Greek temples and hardbodies [sic] until page 54, when the German team enters the stadium in their immaculate white uniforms, their right arms raised in salute across the page to Der Fuhrer." (source)

Selections from Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf (Beauty in the Olympic Games) by Leni Riefenstahl (1937)

[glennk56]

Chub actors who got caught up in Nazi Germany

Kurt Gerron

He worked on stage and in silent films in Germany starting in 1920. He did well and transitioned easily to talkies. He also started directed films in 1930. His biggest picture as an actor was The Blue Angel in 1930 with Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich. (worth watching even with the subtitles). After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Gerron, being Jewish, fled to France, then to the Netherlands. He was offered employment in the US, but wouldn’t leave Europe.

After the Nazi forces occupied the Netherlands in 1943, Gerron was sent to a concentration camp and forced by the SS to stage a cabaret review with others in the camp. In 1944, Gerron was coerced into directing a “staged documentary” Nazi propaganda film intended to be viewed in "neutral" nations, showing how "humane" conditions were at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Once the film, "The Fuhrer Donates a City to the Jews" was finished, Gerron and members of the Jazz pianist Martin Roman's Ghetto Swingers were deported on the camp's final train transport to Auschwitz. Gerron and his wife were gassed immediately upon arrival. The next day, the gas chambers were closed.

[alexsmitposts]

"Witness Paulus": the main sensation of the Nuremberg trials at the Nuremberg trials, Friedrich Paulus was one of the main witnesses for the prosecution. No one expected him to appear in the courtroom: some believed that it was impossible to get the field Marshal to Nuremberg, others were sure that Paulus was dead. However, on February 11, 1946, Paulus "resurrected" and confirmed his testimony given back in the USSR. As you know, the German military commander Friedrich Paulus commanded the 6th army, which was blocked by Soviet troops in the ruins of Stalingrad. According to the materials provided in the publication " Main documents of the great Patriotic War. 1941-1945 " (2015), Paulus, while under siege, tried to convince Adolf Hitler that it would be better to leave the city and try to reunite with the main forces of the Wehrmacht. However, the Fuhrer assured Paulus that the supply of the blocked army would soon be established and categorically forbade him to leave Stalingrad. In order to raise the morale of the commander, Hitler promoted him to field Marshal, but in a telegram mentioned that "no German field Marshal has ever been captured." In this way, Hitler hinted that Friedrich Paulus would commit suicide in case of danger. On February 3, 1943, the death of the 6th army and Friedrich Paulus was announced throughout Germany. The country was plunged into mourning, and in honor of the "fallen soldiers" staged celebrations. In particular, according to Alexander Zvyagintsev, author of the book "the Nuremberg alarm", a "funeral" of the field Marshal was organized, which was attended by all representatives of the German generals. Moreover, a coffin was made for the memorial service, which, however, remained empty, but on which Adolf Hitler himself laid a field Marshal's baton decorated with diamonds. An important witness in fact, Friedrich Paulus was alive. He did not heed Hitler's hint and surrendered to the Soviet troops. As Vyacheslav Zvyagintsev writes in his book "The war on the scales of Themis: the war of 1941-1945 in the materials of investigative and judicial cases", in February 1943, when his "funeral" was held in Germany, Paulus was transported from Stalingrad to the Krasnogorsk prison camp near Moscow. In August of the following year, the German field Marshal, via radio, called on his countrymen to eliminate Hitler and establish a new state leadership. After that, Paulus ' son was arrested, and his wife, daughter, daughter-in-law, and grandson were sent to Dachau concentration camp. They were released in 1945. In the following year, 1946, Friedrich Paulus himself was "resurrected", whom many still considered dead. Paulus proved to be a very important witness at the Nuremberg trials, especially for the Soviet prosecution. The fact is that, as mentioned in the publication "Aggression. Declassified documents of the foreign intelligence service of the Russian Federation. 1939-1941 " Lev Sotskov, Paulus was the direct developer of the Barbarossa plan, the essence of which was to prepare for an attack on the Soviet Union, despite the non-aggression Pact. The plan was ready by the beginning of November 1940, which refuted the statements of the Germans that they invaded the territory of the USSR only to prevent its attack. A sensational appearance on this occasion, Friedrich Paulus gave exhaustive testimony. They were presented in writing at Nuremberg. However, according to the author of the book "the Nuremberg epilogue" Anatoly Poltorak, who also participated in the Nuremberg trial, this state of Affairs did not suit the Nazi lawyers, who demanded the personal presence of Paulus at the trial. The defenders were sure that the field Marshal could not be taken to Nuremberg, even if he was still alive. But the chief Prosecutor from the USSR, Roman Rudenko, did not object to the presence of Paulus in court. Moreover, when judge Lawrence asked another Soviet representative, Prosecutor Nikolai Zori, how long it would take to bring Paulus to the city, the latter replied that the witness could be questioned "tonight". It turns out that by that time Paulus was already in Germany. Secretly, the German commander was brought to the American occupation zone, which included Nuremberg, by the intelligence officer Enver Mammadov. On February 11, 1946, Friedrich Paulus appeared in the hall where the trial of Nazi criminals was taking place. He confirmed the testimony given earlier, for which he was called a "traitor"by some of the defendants. Nevertheless, the fate of Paulus was much better than those who thought so. He lived near Moscow for several years and returned to Germany in 1953. Paulus settled in Dresden, lectured on military history, and used a company car and personal driver. However, his life was short: 4 years after returning home, Paulus died.

[mrclinical]

Jojo Rabbit (2019)

Directed by Taiki Waititi 

Rating: 86/100

Taika Waititi’s latest picture has sparked that age old debate concerning the evocation of traumatic events in fiction. It comes as no surprise when you consider the execution of his subject matter. Jojo Rabbit is a fantasy film that is set in Nazi Germany (or some other undisclosed occupied state). However, in this Nazi state, its Fuhrer Waititi glues on a toothbrush moustache, sticks on an SS uniform and prances around as an uber-camp manifestation of Adolf Hitler. I use the term manifestation quite deliberately, because this Hitler is merely the imaginary friend of Hitler Youth hopeful, Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis): a young boy who is blinded by the farrago of national socialistic jingoism and propaganda. He loves nothing more than donning a swastika, discussing the Jewish Question and, moreover, running around the woods playing soldier with the rest of the Hitler Youth, under the tutelage of failed Valkyrie, Captain Klezendorf (Sam Rockwell). The problem is, Jojo is a hapless little soldier. Unable to kill a rabbit to authorise his Aryan ruthlessness - hence the title of the film- Jojo becomes a social pariah. Friendless, aside from the affable Yorki (Archie Yates), and after a “disfiguring” grenade injury, Jojo ends up a bit part player in the movement.

Too much of an invalid and liability for the battlefield, Jojo soon discovers that his biggest battle is in the domestic sphere. His Mother (Scarlett Johanson) seems less than enthused about the Nazi Party. This is further compounded when Jojo discovers a Jewish Girl, Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie) hiding in his house. It is here where most of the comedy ensues. For Waititi’s comedy is not exploitative, but a tool to demonstrate the preposterousness of anti-semtic rhetoric and nazism. Through the myopic lens of Jojo, the war and its trauma takes on a quality of fantasy and unrealism only achievable through a child’s eyes. As the twists and turns of the Nazi regime take a more sombre personal turn for Jojo, his inherent Blakein innocence and goodness, starts to dilute the poison that he has been drinking in. His strained relationship with his projection of Hitler starts to show an onscreen cognitive dissonance - for Waititi’s Hitler, is not Hitler from the history books and rallies, but, rather, a silly, gesticulating springboard for Jojo to work through his inner-conflicts. 

For the film’s good intentions, it does struggle to remain on the precarious tonal tightrope. Waititi shifts between pathos and comedy can often be little to fine, leading to a sense of confusion. Take the most pivotal death scene in the film. Waititi use of juxtaposition is so heartbreaking, it seems almost criminal that the emotional wrench is neutered by a bathos arising because we are still reeling from the comedy of the previous scene. However, there are times when a complex range of emotions are pulled off with an impressive aplomb. Take the scene stealing cameo by Stephen Merchant, for example, as a Gestapo officer. It is a scene which manages to be awkwardly funny and staggeringly intense at the same time. Waititi jumps between the two with polymathic ease: he drags the audience from one conflicting sensation to the other.

For Waititi’s film is all about conflict: the conflict between the warped mind and the everlasting purity of the heart.

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Events 4.5 (before 1950)

823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his army. 1242 – During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights. 1536 – Charles V makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a Roman triumph. 1566 – Two hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Seventeen Provinces. 1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. 1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England. 1792 – United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States. 1795 – Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made. 1818 – In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín, win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead. 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins. 1879 – Bolivia declares war on Chile, and Chile declares war on Peru, starting the War of the Pacific. 1902 – A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland, which led to the deaths of 25 and injuries to more than 500 supporters during an international association football match between Scotland and England. 1910 – The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated. 1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated. 1932 – Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government. 1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens. 1933 – Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold democratic elections with universal male suffrage. 1936 – Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi. 1938 – Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat (the autonomous governement of Catalonia), the self-governement granted by the Republic and the official status of the Catalan language. 1942 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing Case Blue, including the German Sixth Army's planned assault on Stalingrad. 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island. 1943 – World War II: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit. 1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory". 1946 – Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm. 1946 – A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground. 1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.

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Jean-Noël Orengo - ''Vous êtes

Rentrée littéraire 2024 Jean-Noël Orengo propose son nouveau roman "Vous êtes l'amour malheureux du Fuhrer" qui reprend le récit d'Albert Speer pour l'ausculter

L’amour malheureux du Führer” Rentrée littéraire 2024 Albert Speer, mythe ou réalité ? Jean-Noël Orengo présente son nouveau roman “Vous êtes l’amour malheureux du Fuhrer”, qui reprend le récit d’Albert Speer et l’ausculte à la lumière de l’Histoire. L‘architecte Albert Speer (1905 -1981) fut un proche d’Hitler même si sa biographie, parue en 1969, a complètement minimisé ses liens. Il ne…

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The Rise of an Empire

Everyone be out here comparing the rise of the Galactic Empire under Palpatine to the Roman Empire under Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus. Yet, I find myself conflicted, because while in some ways it is accurate, the largest difference between was that the Republic was in a relative stable position at the time of Sidious’ declaration, and the position of the Senate in the series.

The Roman Republic was on it’s last few legs after the century of civil wars between aspiring senators and generals, and even one of the largest slave revolts in Roman history, namely Marius, Sulla, finally Julius Caesar, until the empire was truly awoken in 27 B.C., by Augustus, after the civil war between his fellow triumvir Marcus Antonius and Queen Cleopatra of Ptolemaic Egypt. The Roman Senate was slowly losing its power during the last century of B.C, and Augustus, regardless on your feelings on monarchy and/or dicatorship, help stabilize the Mediterran region and help incorporated new lands to help restore order to the empire. And if you had asked Augustus, he as not “creating” an empire, but restoring the dignity of the Republic. He was the Princeps, not a rex; he was the First Citizen, not a king. It can be argue that the subsequent golden age of Pax Romana that was started by Augustus, would not have occurred since the Roman Republic would had been splintered and destroyed by at least in another century, or became too distablized for any sense of unity for the Mediterranean, and it would slowly splinter off. The Empire was necessary for Rome to continue to climb as one of the greatest civilization in Antiquity, Europe, and around the world.

The closest thing we get that is more attune to Palpatine’s grasp for power was, of course and I know we are all tired of the similarity because it has been nearly run to death at this point, Germany under the Nazis and Hitler. The Nazis did come at a time of instability in Germany - with the presence of the Great Depression, as it is always in society, being so catastrophic that morality and ideals dwindled slowly away at the face of hunger and desperation. However, and like Augustus, Hitler used the political system and the breakdown of normal societal life to his advantage, but winning as the largest party in the Riechstag legitimately - in an election that was hurriedly called by President Paul von Hindenburg at the insistence of Hitler, and after a fire occurred that burned down the Riechstag building, which Hitler dutifully blamed on the Communists. Like Palpatine, Hitler did rise to the station of chancellor in legal means - they both were voted in - but to secure their powers, they took measures to stomp out any opposition to their rule, the Communists with Hitler and the Jedi Order with Palpatiine. And yet, the measures taken by the Nazis were slowly reviving the economy with public work efforts, such as the Reichsautobahn, and helping stabilized the nation. Hitler’s rise as Fuhrer of Germany was one based on the fears of a communist takeover and outrage over the lost of the First World War, and Palpatine’s was based on societal discontent between the actions of the Jedi Order and that of the everyday people on Coruscant. The Jedi were slowly becoming removed from society, being accustomed to their militaristic power and influence, and Palpatine knew this. The so-called takeover of the Jedi with the attempt on his life, similar to the burning of the Riechstag in 1933, help consolidate his power, and in that same year the Nazis proclaimed the “Deutches Riech” or German Riech. This is extraordinarily similar to Palpatine who declared the formation and reorganization of the empire from the republic. 

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What do you think about the argument that the first fascist in known history was Jesus? Well, he was a leader/founder of homophobic and misogynistic cult who wanted slaves to be obedient to their masters, and, like all strongmen, demanded worship from his followers and was unable to tolerate any dissent?

So you think that the first fascists was a Jewish pacifist religious leader from a country occupied by a military dictatorship who invented the term fascist?  Oh and then was tortured to death publicly by said dictatorship?  Yeah that checks outs

It is saying something that I am living in the age of Trump during the Covid virus in New York, and that was the stupidest argument I have heard in weeks.  Like this portrays not only shocking ignorance of the definition of fascism, Christianity and Rome.  It goes further, I think it shows ignorance of every subject relating to those subjects, like how utterly uninformed must somebody be to get this world view?  

ugg, lets do this 

There is no universally agreed upon definition of fascism, but the general list of terms involve the following

An authoritarian, ultra nationalist, hyper militaristic regime founded on racist notions “the Volk” in competition with everybody else in the world.  Fascist regimes tend to have a semi populist edge, combining top down dictatorship with a sort of “Chosen by the people” prestige.  Its also a distinctly modern movement, since Fascists tend to engage in popular politics in a similar way to Communist movements, just Right wing rather than Left Wing.   The most famous fascist states include 

Nazi Germany

Mussolini Italy

And Imperial Japan 

Now I think the term fascist tends to be overused a great deal already, but all of that pales compared to calling a Jewish pacifist from an occupied country the first fascist.   Like if you were going to claim a pre modern figure to be the “First Fascist”, Julius Caesar would be a far better choice than Jesus since he you know

Was the leader of a military autocracy 

Overthrew a democratic goverment through appeals to the people and military force

committed multiple genocides

Justified his regime through war abroad

is the person who modern fascists draw most of their iconography from, including the literal term fascist, which used to mean “A bundle of sticks”  

Like, I wouldn’t agree with that view, since an Emperor is different from a Fuhrer, but it is at least an argument.  

Yeshua ben Yosef or Yeshua ben Nazareth (In Greek translated as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus of Galilee) was one of many preachers in the province of Judea, then occupied by the Roman Empire, living a century before Rome would inflict a horrific genocide on the Jewish peoples in the Second Diaspora.  In contrast to many anti roman Preachers, Yeshua actively opposed war with Rome, and as far as anybody knows, he never killed anyone which is kinda important for you know...a fascist leader.   He never commanded any armies, he never ran a state, and was tortured to death by the Roman Empire, specifically in a method reserved for criminals. The religious sect he founded was most popular among women and slaves, and woulds be horrificaly persecuted by the Roman Empire until the rise of the Emperor Constantine I, aka Constantine the Great, in 306 AD.  Constantine the Great who was a Christian and started the process converting the Roman Empire to Christianity.  LIke if you wanted to point to a Christian figure and say “That is a fascist” i’d still be objecting, but Constantine is a far better choice than Jesus, since Constantine was you know...a military dictator who ruled over an Imperialist Empire and justified his reign through victory in battle.  Its still fucking stupid, but at least Constantine was a dictator.  

Now I think that the notion calling any pre modern figure a fascist is pretty fucked up on the face of it.  The Ancient World was rift with autocracy, militarism, genocide, and of course, homophobia misogyny, and slavery.  I mean Rome at the time of Jesus death is a literal slave state, with as much as 1/4th of the population living in bondage.  Like the Neo-Ayssrian Empire is far more fascist than any pre Modern Christian state, and I still would want to call that fascist.  

Also...Jesus never said that slaves should be obedient to their masters, that is a deeply manipulative misreading of Saint Paul, who is in fact a different person than Yeshua of Nazareth.  Like I get the confusion, because it was Saint Paul who took what was then a minor sect of Judaism and turned it into a distinct religion and most of what we consider Christian is owned to him, but I really want to make this clear, they are different figures and Jesus didn’t speak about the treatment of slaves.  In fact we know very little about what Yeshua said, no written account of his writings (if there were any) exist, and almost everything we know about him comes from Roman sources or Christian sources written a century later (the Gospels).  Saint Paul meanwhile, has a bunch of letters (though some of them like Letter to Timothy are faked).  

Saint Paul meanwhile, asks for Christian slave owners to free their slaves, and says 

“There is no Jew nor gentile, no slave or free, no male or female, for we are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28)

Christianity’s relationship to slavery is deeply complicated, contradictory, and varies dramatically from time and place, and it is deeply dishonest to say that Christianity was pro slavery, especially when you take into account in the world when Christianity emerged was one where slavery was both widespread and normalized.  “Slaves be loyal to their masters” was a strictly enforced part of Roman law, to the point where slaves were often expected to die with their masters.  During the Sullan Proscriptions, there was a case where a slave turned his master, who was declared a traitor, over to the state in exchange for reward money. Sulla paid them and then had him executed for betraying his master.  Slavery is not something invented by Christianity and with its focus on universal equality, it is understandable why so many slaves found Christianity appealing.  

Now Christianity as a more complicated relationship to misogyny, and most forms of modern Christianity have some degree of a sexist legacy they have to address.  however by the standards of the time in the First Century AD, Christianity had at least some advances for women.  For example, the notion of female chastity is pretty sexist, but in the time when it was established, it actually confirmed that women had some degree of choice over marriage, which wasn’t true under Roman law.  The story of Thecla provides an interesting example.  

As for homosexuality, that wasn’t understood as it is today, and while Christianity does in fact have a long history with homophobia, it is important to understand that in the context of the discussion of homosexuality at the time, which was linked to the larger spread of Hellenism.  

now one critique you can 100% make of Christianity is it is sex negative attitudes, but again....being sex negative does not make you a fascist automatically. 

Christianity also has an international focus which makes it actually pretty ill suited to fascism, this is why most of Hitler’s inner circle were actually pretty contemptuous of Christianity since they were ultra nationalists.  

Again, this is probably one of the least informed takes i’ve seen and that is saying a lot in the age of Trump.  If you extend the definition of fascism to include Jesus, then you should probably just call every figure in the pre modern world.  Like was this question asked as a joke to annoy me?