The idea of Tukhachevsky leading thousands of T-34s into Manchuria is incredibly arousing.
Rosenberg's Reich: The Myth of The Twentieth Century
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The idea of Tukhachevsky leading thousands of T-34s into Manchuria is incredibly arousing.
Ordem e Progresso
“Within the brutal Northeast there was many a danger: the frigid cold, disease, and even brown bears and Siberian Tigers took lives of both Russians and Japanese. In this deathly taiga soldiers unfortunate to be ambushed by their foes fought to kill far above their own wellbeing, after all the harsh landscape would soon and likely provide death for any man who ventured to this desolate land for his country. It was not uncommon for a man to kill himself out of fear of being captured by enemies and tortured. The winter forests were quick to have blood-stained snow.”
-Excerpt from Gingko and Cherry Blossom: Japan in the 20th Century
“We do what we do to preserve our rights, as is being done in Spain right now by the Republican rebels. Vargas seeks to become a total dictator and squash the opposition like bugs under cheats. If you want a king to bully and abuse you then you sit down. If you want a voice for the people, a Brazil with a million heartbeats rather than Vargas’s cold reptilian one, then you follow me!”
-Plínio Salgado
“The Brazilian uprisers had the support of both the Italians and Germans and largely composed of those who could track their ancestry back to either country. The goal was to kill what they saw as the overbearing power Vargas had over his country and his crackdowns on political extremists. With one bullet to the head of the President, however, they might soon come to regret their decision. Little was accomplished that day beyond Vargas’ assassination and a few buildings being burnt in Rio. The established government for the most part survived and the army took a quick approach to the rebels.”
-Excerpt from The Weeping Colossus: A History of South America
“MILLIONS MOURN DEATH OF VARGAS AFTER FAILED COUP”
-New York Times Headline May 20, 1938
“These tyrants tried to do what was done in Italy, Germany, and Spain. Their weird, pathetic coup failed to kill Estado Novo, but the dangers they present are clear! They butchered Vargas in cold blood, put out the fire of this country. But we shall go on. As I speak, we are capturing Salgado! Eight years ago, our revolution created a greater Brazil. And we shall continue! Long live Vargas! Hang the fascists!”
- Luís Carlos Prestes
“After that funeral speech, which might I add the worm begged and pleaded to do for hours for his dear "Comrade"... after he said that it was then that everybody knew, no matter if they liked it or not, that he would be the new Brazilian President. The fact that he didn’t even like Vargas didn’t matter. You speak well enough of the dead after a tragedy you can breeze your way to becoming the Pope.”
- Evandro Lins e Silva
-Excerpt from Gingko and Cherry Blossom: Japan in the 20th Century
“We do what we do to preserve our rights, as is being done in Spain right now by the Republican rebels. Vargas seeks to become a total dictator and squash the opposition like bugs under cheats. If you want a king to bully and abuse you then you sit down. If you want a voice for the people, a Brazil with a million heartbeats rather than Vargas’s cold reptilian one, then you follow me!”
-Plínio Salgado
“The Brazilian uprisers had the support of both the Italians and Germans and largely composed of those who could track their ancestry back to either country. The goal was to kill what they saw as the overbearing power Vargas had over his country and his crackdowns on political extremists. With one bullet to the head of the President, however, they might soon come to regret their decision. Little was accomplished that day beyond Vargas’ assassination and a few buildings being burnt in Rio. The established government for the most part survived and the army took a quick approach to the rebels.”
-Excerpt from The Weeping Colossus: A History of South America
“MILLIONS MOURN DEATH OF VARGAS AFTER FAILED COUP”
-New York Times Headline May 20, 1938
“These tyrants tried to do what was done in Italy, Germany, and Spain. Their weird, pathetic coup failed to kill Estado Novo, but the dangers they present are clear! They butchered Vargas in cold blood, put out the fire of this country. But we shall go on. As I speak, we are capturing Salgado! Eight years ago, our revolution created a greater Brazil. And we shall continue! Long live Vargas! Hang the fascists!”
- Luís Carlos Prestes
“After that funeral speech, which might I add the worm begged and pleaded to do for hours for his dear "Comrade"... after he said that it was then that everybody knew, no matter if they liked it or not, that he would be the new Brazilian President. The fact that he didn’t even like Vargas didn’t matter. You speak well enough of the dead after a tragedy you can breeze your way to becoming the Pope.”
- Evandro Lins e Silva
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The Marxist Anaconda
“Prestes, ever a Stalinist, spent his first few months in power “reforming”; communists now got bigger roles in government, often in place of potential Vargas holdovers. The previous crackdowns on the far-right intensified greatly, with thousands of members of the Integralism movement killed by the state. Several other ideologues in the country were purged as well, including the banished ex-Nazi Strasser (who was never in fact linked to the movement, though the state media would have you believe otherwise). Following this, Prestes followed his idol Stalin in the crushing of religious freedom and expression. “Radical Clergy” were the new targets of the Prestres regime and their mock trials threw outcry throughout Latin America.”
-Excerpt from The Weeping Colossus: A History of South America
“I call for peace above all else in this difficult hour for Brazil. These priests were not involved in the uprising. They do not deserve death. Please show mercy upon them.”
-Pope Pius XI
“I comprehend the issues raised about the Monroe Doctrine and the events of these past few days. However, at this point, I have no reason to believe that Brazil’s violent Communist revolution has any bearing upon the safety of the United States nor any other sovereign nation on the Western Hemisphere. Therefore, all actions taken against the new Brazilian government will aggressive but never incursive. As I’ve said before this country will not go to war while I am president of this great land.”
-Franklin Roosevelt
“Eleanor Roosevelt’s antics are pure insanity. She is elevating Negros under her delusion that they are equals to Americans rather than vessels of savage jungle blood. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.”
-Theodore Bilbo
“It is critical we explore the possibilities of space travel in our scientific funding, I mean what will happen if we let America or the Soviets get the edge? Jews in space?!”
-Alfred Rosenberg on the Aggregat program
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Pope Francis
“The tragedy of tennis star Gottfried von Cramm perhaps best demonstrates the power of propaganda in Nazi Germany. One day a hero, an icon of Aryanism, next another Jew-loving degenerate. Von Cramm named the world’s best in 1937, and two-time winner of the French Open was arrested for a sexual relationship with a Jewish man. This caused a stir, a man whom the media had set up as the peak of German supremacy and physical power (though he in fact never cared for Rosenberg) was involved in “a sordid subhuman tryst”. Soon the stories had mutated throughout the press beyond the facts: von Cramm was portrayed as a murderer, a rapist, a pedophile. These fabrications were believed by many readers, but regardless von Cramm’s true actions, breaking Nazi taboos about homosexuality and inter-ethnic relations, were indeed enough to cause deadly penalties. Prison wasn’t enough, and after a few months he was made an example of by the state, a demonstration of the mercilessness of the authoritarian “racial hygiene and anti-degeneracy laws”. Gottfried von Cramm, at age 29, was executed for the “crime of homosexuality”, to the thunderous praise of the government-owned media.”
-Excerpt from The Continent of Blood: The History of War, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in 20th Century Europe
“Had a brief conversation with Göring over the telephone today. Obviously, the topic of von Cramm came up. He brought up the article published in Der Stürmer, about the supposed cannibalism involved. “He partakes with his Jewish sodomite lover the kosher fresh of the gentile” or some such thing. He was half amused: “You don’t really think Streicher believes this stuff now do you?” To which I laughed and replied: “Why wouldn’t he disbelieve it?” He gave me a pause and then obviously befuddled asked: “So I should start listening to the bastard more or what?”
-Excerpt from The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels
“The Catholic is sympathetic to a foreign state, a foreign figurehead and yes a foreign God. He is a sandbag, an anchor keeping us down, keeping Germany from reaching its full potential. If you do not worship German blood over all else, what are you but a traitor? They’re thieves and parasites in league with the Jews. The state of the country has improved in no small part by the destruction of Catholic influence in politics and we shall continue with will these extraordinary new policies…”
-Radio Address by Alfred Rosenberg
“The restrictions towards Catholic-owned businesses, alongside mass arrests of Catholic clergy and nuns under trumped-up charges of “conspiracy”, were a sharp warning sign. Rosenberg saw Christianity as a large a vice as Communism or Judaism, and he was now starting to be open about his intentions. In a few decades, he had a vision of a German in which the Bible was banned, neopaganism was the state theology, and early Nazi figures were to be worshiped as though they were saints.”
-Excerpt from The Continent of Blood: The History of War, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in 20th Century Europe
“AUSTRIA WANTS TO BE PART OF GERMANY, REFERENDUM STATES, MERGER EXPECTED LATER THIS YEAR”
-New York Times
“POPE DEAD, MILLIONS MOURN HERO PUIS XI”
-Washington Post
“WHO WILL BE THE NEXT HEAD OF VATICAN CITY?”
-London Times
"International Affairs were at the forefront of the conclave, with concerns about the status and safety of Catholics worldwide. From men like Prestes, Rosenberg, and Stalin it was clear that the authoritarians, be they Communist or Nazi, posed a great danger to the established Catholic hierarchy. Some were considered about the very future of Christianity surviving. With this in mind, it was little wonder they picked the first non-Italian in centuries. Following the increased discrimination towards Catholics ("Papist is the new Jew") Cardinal Pacelli’s Reichskonkordat was now seen as a failed disaster, and while he had his fans, he was no longer in the running. Poland’s August Hlond was accused of anti-Semitism, Ildefonso was seen as a Mussolini lackey, and Quebec’s Villeneuve was conservative to the point of being regressive. It seemed that like his two precursors, the next Pope was to come from a darkhorse “candidacy”.
"Pope Francis, born Eugène Tisserant, was the first French Pope since Gregory XI. Born in Nancy in Lorraine, Tisserant was a student of religion and language in his youth, becoming a Priest in 1907 and later a Cardinal in 1936, just a few years before his ascension to the papacy. During the First World War, he actively supported France and was an intelligence officer and solider. Tisserant was as well the head of the Vatican’s behemoth library and was perhaps at any time the smartest man in the room when it came to the history of the religion. He was as well a vicious anti-authoritarian; in his first encyclical, he called upon a resistance by Catholics who lived in countries ruled by those who oppressed the church. It was not enough for Catholics to merely think about resistance. According to the Pope himself, they had guns to pick up.
"In Spain, Italy, and Croatia, the fascists initially hoped they had founded an ally, impressed by his call for a pious militant culture. But they would find circumstances out of their control would prove that he was not interested in being an enabler for the likes of Pavelić. These events would play a part in forming a permanent schism in European Fascism."
-Excerpt from The Continent of Blood: The History of War, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in 20th Century Europe
-Excerpt from The Continent of Blood: The History of War, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in 20th Century Europe
“Had a brief conversation with Göring over the telephone today. Obviously, the topic of von Cramm came up. He brought up the article published in Der Stürmer, about the supposed cannibalism involved. “He partakes with his Jewish sodomite lover the kosher fresh of the gentile” or some such thing. He was half amused: “You don’t really think Streicher believes this stuff now do you?” To which I laughed and replied: “Why wouldn’t he disbelieve it?” He gave me a pause and then obviously befuddled asked: “So I should start listening to the bastard more or what?”
-Excerpt from The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels
“The Catholic is sympathetic to a foreign state, a foreign figurehead and yes a foreign God. He is a sandbag, an anchor keeping us down, keeping Germany from reaching its full potential. If you do not worship German blood over all else, what are you but a traitor? They’re thieves and parasites in league with the Jews. The state of the country has improved in no small part by the destruction of Catholic influence in politics and we shall continue with will these extraordinary new policies…”
-Radio Address by Alfred Rosenberg
“The restrictions towards Catholic-owned businesses, alongside mass arrests of Catholic clergy and nuns under trumped-up charges of “conspiracy”, were a sharp warning sign. Rosenberg saw Christianity as a large a vice as Communism or Judaism, and he was now starting to be open about his intentions. In a few decades, he had a vision of a German in which the Bible was banned, neopaganism was the state theology, and early Nazi figures were to be worshiped as though they were saints.”
-Excerpt from The Continent of Blood: The History of War, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in 20th Century Europe
“AUSTRIA WANTS TO BE PART OF GERMANY, REFERENDUM STATES, MERGER EXPECTED LATER THIS YEAR”
-New York Times
“POPE DEAD, MILLIONS MOURN HERO PUIS XI”
-Washington Post
“WHO WILL BE THE NEXT HEAD OF VATICAN CITY?”
-London Times
"International Affairs were at the forefront of the conclave, with concerns about the status and safety of Catholics worldwide. From men like Prestes, Rosenberg, and Stalin it was clear that the authoritarians, be they Communist or Nazi, posed a great danger to the established Catholic hierarchy. Some were considered about the very future of Christianity surviving. With this in mind, it was little wonder they picked the first non-Italian in centuries. Following the increased discrimination towards Catholics ("Papist is the new Jew") Cardinal Pacelli’s Reichskonkordat was now seen as a failed disaster, and while he had his fans, he was no longer in the running. Poland’s August Hlond was accused of anti-Semitism, Ildefonso was seen as a Mussolini lackey, and Quebec’s Villeneuve was conservative to the point of being regressive. It seemed that like his two precursors, the next Pope was to come from a darkhorse “candidacy”.
"Pope Francis, born Eugène Tisserant, was the first French Pope since Gregory XI. Born in Nancy in Lorraine, Tisserant was a student of religion and language in his youth, becoming a Priest in 1907 and later a Cardinal in 1936, just a few years before his ascension to the papacy. During the First World War, he actively supported France and was an intelligence officer and solider. Tisserant was as well the head of the Vatican’s behemoth library and was perhaps at any time the smartest man in the room when it came to the history of the religion. He was as well a vicious anti-authoritarian; in his first encyclical, he called upon a resistance by Catholics who lived in countries ruled by those who oppressed the church. It was not enough for Catholics to merely think about resistance. According to the Pope himself, they had guns to pick up.
"In Spain, Italy, and Croatia, the fascists initially hoped they had founded an ally, impressed by his call for a pious militant culture. But they would find circumstances out of their control would prove that he was not interested in being an enabler for the likes of Pavelić. These events would play a part in forming a permanent schism in European Fascism."
-Excerpt from The Continent of Blood: The History of War, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in 20th Century Europe
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Sins of the Spainiards
“By 1939, Francisco Franco was victorious. The rest of Europe now recognized his regime, and powerful allies in Italy and Portugal would sign forth defense pacts with Spain to defend the newborn far-right authoritarian state. Surviving generals: Sanjurjo, Mola, Yagüe, Goded, would help him rebuilt his country over the coming years, ensuring it to be the longest surviving of the European fascist states.”
--Excerpt from The Continent of Blood: The History of War, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in 20th Century Europe
“I was completely jubilant we had won. I thought that this was when my story in Europe would end. But stories coming out of Chile were not good, there was an increased “red tide” as a result of the events in Brazil. The socialists in Chile were acting out and there was talk of them starting their own communist revolution. My appreciation of Mediterranean fascism placed a target upon my head. I was paranoid of being killed in South America, thus I applied for Spanish citizenship. That’s when I began to work as an aide to General Sanjurjo.”
-Excerpt from an interview with Caudillo of Spain Augusto Pinochet, 1977
“Interviewee: To them, the British, it’s just another thing to happen. Just another backwater country cannibalizing itself. But to me you see, it was everything. It’s what haunted me my whole life. The blood and gore. The flies, however, stood out to me the most. Those awful devilish insects. I’ve had thousands of nightmares based upon what I saw during those years. I’ve tried to kill myself multiple times because of it, you can see the scars on my arms… I never had children… I couldn’t imagine seeing them grow up in the environment. I didn’t want my blood to see Franco’s face on the television and, not knowing who he was smile, it would break me.
Interviewer: What did you think of the recent American-led invasion that liberated your country following The North African War?
Interviewee: My friend said it was like seeing angels descended from heaven, those pale-faced Americans. Me, however, the sounds of bombings though here in Madrid… I just got in bed and cried. I didn’t drink or eat for days. They had to drag me out to the hospital when they found me. I was crying and thrashing like an infant when they touched me… I just can’t trust a soldier.”
-Excerpt from the BBC documentary “Survivors of Franco”
“PUBLIC BRAWL IN MADRID OVER STATUS OF FRANCO STATUE. “FASCISTS DON’T REPRESENT US”, CRY LIBERAL PROTESTERS”
-New York Times, 2017
“MASS GRAVES DENIED FOR DECADES NOW BEING UNDUG BY SPANISH HISTORIANS: SCALE OF DEATH “MAY PARALLEL CROATIA” STATES RESEARCHER”
-London Times, 2018
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stirlingdraka
Donor
Those updates show more of the horrific regimes of Germany and Spain. I`m glad Franco`s Spain ended earlier in OTL and much less horrifically without the use of biological and chemical weapons in North Africa.
The Death of Stalin
“And we have surprising news coming from the Soviet Union. It appears that Joseph Stalin has suffered some sort of a stroke-like incident and is currently in the hospital. News of what exactly is occurring is scarce and we may not have further information anytime soon.” -ABC News Excerpt
“STALIN DEAD AT AGE 61” -London Times
“WAS IT MURDER? MOLOTOV IMPLIES THE STATE BELIEVES SO” -Chicago Tribune
(Dec 17 1878-Aug 23 1939)
“I want to weep. Comrade Stalin was a hero, a role model to the current implementation of my own economic and social policies. He shall be remembered for centuries as a man who stood up against the capitalist system and ushered in an international eon of communism which I shall intent to be the Brazilian fashion until the day humanity has died.”
-Luís Carlos Prestes
“Before anybody asks, the German state had nothing to do with his death. We are proud to say we wouldn’t lift a finger against such an insignificant cockroach. Regardless this is a wonderful blow to the Jewish-infatuated Communism that threatens every corner of the earth. Stalin, my heart does not ache for you.”
-Alfred Rosenberg
“This demonstrates the physical and mental weakness of the Slavic man. We will continue to reclaim what is ours from their barbaric ways. I said earlier this month that I believed in twenty years, all the East will be entirely Japanese, in culture and blood. Following the Soviet figurehead’s death, we may get it done in ten.”
-Sadao Araki
“Stalin’s death was a boost to Japanese morale, but it could not fix the foolishness of Araki’s increasingly ill-conceived and suicidal campaign in Siberia. In several years he, the man who was now the representation of Japan’s crazed jingoistic spirit, would begin to regret his actions. Until then he was perhaps viewed by his people as godlier than even the lame, crippled Emperor.”
-Excerpt from Gingko and Cherry Blossom: Japan in the 20th Century
“At this point, there is little question of the circumstances of his death: Joseph Stalin was poisoned. By whom exactly is the question. Molotov was quick to suspect his rival to the title of the dictatorship, Beria to be the killer. A highly publicized and controversial trial followed afterward, “The Georgian Judas” as he was deemed by the Soviet press was quickly found guilty for the poisoning, alongside other unconnected charges of various sexual debaucheries.
“Decades later however conspiracies theories still swirl in the imagination of the public. Their authenticity remains in doubt, but reportedly deathbed notes written by Zhdanov claim that the assassination and following frame-up was engendered by Molotov himself in a power-grab. If this controversial notion is indeed true, then Molotov’s plan was indeed a successful one…”
-Excerpt from the New York Times Article: “50 Years After Stalin: Why the Soviets Can’t Get Enough of Their Strongman”, 1989
“Today, Time magazine defends giving Molotov the title of Man of the Century. The editorial board has stated that the title is not an honor and simply refers to the person they believe to be most influential in 20th Century History.”
-CBS News Report, January 14, 2000
“The fact of the matter is this: all of the Western interpretations of that enigma of figure, Joseph Stalin, perhaps do not capture him, as this book does not try to attempt. He has been called a sadist, a despot, a neo-tsar, a puppet, and an ideologue. All seems true and false at the same time. His actions, causing the avoidable deaths of millions through his purges and famines, are not forgotten, though frequently whitewashed. His true impact, always debated, is still being studied to this very day. The most important ruler of the Russians since Alexander II, perhaps had it not been for future authoritarians in other countries, he would possess the monopoly as the symbol of deathly totalitarianism in the eye of the American peoples.”
-Excerpt from The Continent of Blood: The History of War, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in 20th Century Europe
“STALIN DEAD AT AGE 61” -London Times
“WAS IT MURDER? MOLOTOV IMPLIES THE STATE BELIEVES SO” -Chicago Tribune
(Dec 17 1878-Aug 23 1939)
“I want to weep. Comrade Stalin was a hero, a role model to the current implementation of my own economic and social policies. He shall be remembered for centuries as a man who stood up against the capitalist system and ushered in an international eon of communism which I shall intent to be the Brazilian fashion until the day humanity has died.”
-Luís Carlos Prestes
“Before anybody asks, the German state had nothing to do with his death. We are proud to say we wouldn’t lift a finger against such an insignificant cockroach. Regardless this is a wonderful blow to the Jewish-infatuated Communism that threatens every corner of the earth. Stalin, my heart does not ache for you.”
-Alfred Rosenberg
“This demonstrates the physical and mental weakness of the Slavic man. We will continue to reclaim what is ours from their barbaric ways. I said earlier this month that I believed in twenty years, all the East will be entirely Japanese, in culture and blood. Following the Soviet figurehead’s death, we may get it done in ten.”
-Sadao Araki
“Stalin’s death was a boost to Japanese morale, but it could not fix the foolishness of Araki’s increasingly ill-conceived and suicidal campaign in Siberia. In several years he, the man who was now the representation of Japan’s crazed jingoistic spirit, would begin to regret his actions. Until then he was perhaps viewed by his people as godlier than even the lame, crippled Emperor.”
-Excerpt from Gingko and Cherry Blossom: Japan in the 20th Century
“At this point, there is little question of the circumstances of his death: Joseph Stalin was poisoned. By whom exactly is the question. Molotov was quick to suspect his rival to the title of the dictatorship, Beria to be the killer. A highly publicized and controversial trial followed afterward, “The Georgian Judas” as he was deemed by the Soviet press was quickly found guilty for the poisoning, alongside other unconnected charges of various sexual debaucheries.
“Decades later however conspiracies theories still swirl in the imagination of the public. Their authenticity remains in doubt, but reportedly deathbed notes written by Zhdanov claim that the assassination and following frame-up was engendered by Molotov himself in a power-grab. If this controversial notion is indeed true, then Molotov’s plan was indeed a successful one…”
-Excerpt from the New York Times Article: “50 Years After Stalin: Why the Soviets Can’t Get Enough of Their Strongman”, 1989
“Today, Time magazine defends giving Molotov the title of Man of the Century. The editorial board has stated that the title is not an honor and simply refers to the person they believe to be most influential in 20th Century History.”
-CBS News Report, January 14, 2000
“The fact of the matter is this: all of the Western interpretations of that enigma of figure, Joseph Stalin, perhaps do not capture him, as this book does not try to attempt. He has been called a sadist, a despot, a neo-tsar, a puppet, and an ideologue. All seems true and false at the same time. His actions, causing the avoidable deaths of millions through his purges and famines, are not forgotten, though frequently whitewashed. His true impact, always debated, is still being studied to this very day. The most important ruler of the Russians since Alexander II, perhaps had it not been for future authoritarians in other countries, he would possess the monopoly as the symbol of deathly totalitarianism in the eye of the American peoples.”
-Excerpt from The Continent of Blood: The History of War, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in 20th Century Europe
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stirlingdraka
Donor
Wow so Stalin` dead earlier under even more suspicious circumstances and Molotov framed Beria and took control this is going to be interesting. And that gif is terrifying.
I'd take it that Molotov's 47 year rule of the USSR is what gave him said title (historically, he died in 1986).
At IG Farben
“It was an air of mild excitement yesterday upon the surprise news that Mr. Rosenberg would arrive tomorrow, practically unannounced. He came today, and I was a tad surprised to see that his wife, Hedwig Kramer, had joined him to Schkopau just to tour the plant. I had written to him a few weeks ago about the military possibilities that came with recent discoveries that had occurred here. He showed up shortly after lunch hour and I began giving him a tour, unsure of my ability to keep his interest. Ten minutes in we came to the part of my facilities where we worked on gases that affected the nervous system.
‘And this here, my fuhrer is where we produce the new chemicals I had written you about.’ His face lit up with integument like a child’s on Christmas morning.
‘I recall reading about that’ he replied. ‘What is the name of the most powerful one again?’
‘That would be sarin, sir. A nerve agent. There’s nothing like it used back in the Great War. I’d be happy to send you further results.’
‘I’d like that very much, very much indeed. If we are to fully realize the concept of Lebensraum, to reach the shores of the Arctic and the mountains of the Caucuses, we’ll need everything we can get. You said this is similar to pesticides.’
‘Yes, it is.’
‘Well we’ll be using this soon to kill the largest insects of them all…’”
-From The Diaries of Otto Ambros
‘And this here, my fuhrer is where we produce the new chemicals I had written you about.’ His face lit up with integument like a child’s on Christmas morning.
‘I recall reading about that’ he replied. ‘What is the name of the most powerful one again?’
‘That would be sarin, sir. A nerve agent. There’s nothing like it used back in the Great War. I’d be happy to send you further results.’
‘I’d like that very much, very much indeed. If we are to fully realize the concept of Lebensraum, to reach the shores of the Arctic and the mountains of the Caucuses, we’ll need everything we can get. You said this is similar to pesticides.’
‘Yes, it is.’
‘Well we’ll be using this soon to kill the largest insects of them all…’”
-From The Diaries of Otto Ambros
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Does that mean Japan will be like north korea? or maybe a north-south divide like entirety of the korean penninsula?
Nathuram Godse
“In India during the 1940s the issues of partition would come to the forefront of the dilemma of religious tensions and representations. The Hindu far-right would have a period of great growth here, rising as tough critics of the Indian National Congress. Early concerns within the moment about the issue of terrorism were legitimate, yet the moment’s leaders understood to achieve the success they wanted they had appeared “softer” whist still pushing for their cultural revolution in this great new nation. As Nathuram Godse, one of the moment’s early charismatic leaders would joke in an interview late in his life: “You can’t just shoot people to expect a revolution, we are the world’s largest democracy. You get elected, then you threaten violence (laughs).”
Post-independence India had much in store for him.”
-Excerpt from The History of Hindutva
“And today we are proud to announce that Nathuram Godse has been elected to be the first member of RSS to be the Chief Minister of Gujarat, part of an impressive wave of Hindu nationalists being elected, which as you know has placed our party in the official opposition. Hindutva will be attained in India under leaders such as Godse, who will place true Indians above Muslims and Sikhs…”
-Excerpt from a weekly newsletter published by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, 1962
“Concerns About Increased Police Patrols in Muslim Neighborhoods in Gujarat” -New York Times, 1964
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Prelude to War
“The Czech situation was boiling over in the autumn of 1939. I was requested to go over there to figure how a conclusion could be reached without destabilizing the region. But that was like getting camels through needles. Roosevelt wanted to be seen as one who stopped wars before they occurred. But during that time in that place, it would be easier to turn earth into gold. At first, I was to just speak to several representatives of German international affairs, but I was informed that Rosenberg himself wanted to see me after I had done that. It was on my mind throughout the earlier talks, but I tried not to let it distract me.
“I met directly with Rosenberg in Berlin and tried to be friendly, during the conversation I had convinced myself that things were going well despite expecting little results. Quite a bit through into small talk before our prepared more serious talk, he brought up a case that occurred recently in America. In New York City a Jewish man had killed his wife and children, later I discovered this was being availed in Nazi propaganda. Rosenberg asked me what I thought of it, I actually did not expect such an irrelevant topic to be brought up, he assumed it would be of great interest to me because I was American. I said I didn’t know what to think of it, as I had not read the details in the paper. “Your country is weak,” he responded, “but you are of no consequence to us.” He continued: “What I think, what I really think of this story, I’m happy that there are three fewer of them. I think Americans should be too.” I was quietly enraged, I knew the children in that story were just babies. It was the most off-guard comment, I’d ever heard at one of these things and I left the room at once in protest. Unprofessional, yes, but I realized this was a conversation he had set me up to lose. I would take no part in it.
I called the President at the hotel later that evening: “Franklin… he is entirely beyond reason… and if he had his way the entire world would be as well…”
-Excerpt from An Honest Statesman: The Autobiography of Cordell Hull
“The occupation of Bohemia by the Germans would set up the deadlier further invasion of Poland. The plan of German domination was as such: Invade all land as deemed part of the Lebensraum, working entirely on the Eastern campaigns first long before attempts in Western Europe and the North. Kill all imminent dissenters. Over the decades sterilize, starve, kill, and enslave all preexisting populations to be replaced by Germans. Thus, setting up a race of Supermen to rule Europe for a thousand years.
On January 1st, 1940, the new decade would begin in a most shocking way…”
-Excerpt from The Continent of Blood: The History of War, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in 20th Century Europe
“The age of utopia is upon us…”
-Alfred Rosenberg
“I met directly with Rosenberg in Berlin and tried to be friendly, during the conversation I had convinced myself that things were going well despite expecting little results. Quite a bit through into small talk before our prepared more serious talk, he brought up a case that occurred recently in America. In New York City a Jewish man had killed his wife and children, later I discovered this was being availed in Nazi propaganda. Rosenberg asked me what I thought of it, I actually did not expect such an irrelevant topic to be brought up, he assumed it would be of great interest to me because I was American. I said I didn’t know what to think of it, as I had not read the details in the paper. “Your country is weak,” he responded, “but you are of no consequence to us.” He continued: “What I think, what I really think of this story, I’m happy that there are three fewer of them. I think Americans should be too.” I was quietly enraged, I knew the children in that story were just babies. It was the most off-guard comment, I’d ever heard at one of these things and I left the room at once in protest. Unprofessional, yes, but I realized this was a conversation he had set me up to lose. I would take no part in it.
I called the President at the hotel later that evening: “Franklin… he is entirely beyond reason… and if he had his way the entire world would be as well…”
-Excerpt from An Honest Statesman: The Autobiography of Cordell Hull
“The occupation of Bohemia by the Germans would set up the deadlier further invasion of Poland. The plan of German domination was as such: Invade all land as deemed part of the Lebensraum, working entirely on the Eastern campaigns first long before attempts in Western Europe and the North. Kill all imminent dissenters. Over the decades sterilize, starve, kill, and enslave all preexisting populations to be replaced by Germans. Thus, setting up a race of Supermen to rule Europe for a thousand years.
On January 1st, 1940, the new decade would begin in a most shocking way…”
-Excerpt from The Continent of Blood: The History of War, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in 20th Century Europe
“The age of utopia is upon us…”
-Alfred Rosenberg
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