In my book Not Guilty at Nuremberg I wrote: “Telford Taylor was incapable of repeating the simplest statement truthfully. (See IMT XX, 626, the statements of General Manstein, compared with Taylor’s ‘quotation’ from Manstein (IMT XXII, 276).”
Γαλλική επισκόπισητων επικαίρων της εποχής, που αναφέρεται στην συγκλονιστική διάσωση του Ιταλού ηγέτη Μπενίτο Μουσολίνι στον Δεύτερο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο από μία Γερμανική μονάδα των ειδικών δυνάμεων. Σε μία τολμηρή καταδρομική επιχείρηση, που διενεργήθη στις 12 Σεπτεμβρίου 1943, Μία ομάδα με επικεφαλήςτον Συνταγματάρχη των SS, Ότο Σκορτσένυ, απελευθέρωσε τον Φασίστα ηγέτη, ο οποίος κρατείτο αιχμάλωτος στο Όρος Gran Sasso στο Abruzzo. Ο Σκορτσένυ, συστήθηκε στον Μουσολίνι με τις λέξεις, “Ντούτσε, ο Φύρερ με έστειλε! Είσθε ελεύθερος!“, ο Μουσολίνι αγκάλιασε τον Σκορτσένυ και είπε, “ήξερα ότι ο Φίλος μου Αδόλφος δεν θα με εγκατέλειπε.” Χρονική διάρκεια 1:19 λεπτά.
Contemporary French newsreel report on the sensational World War II rescue of Italian leader Benito Mussolini by a German commando team. In a daring raid on Sept. 12, 1943, a glider-borne team led by the colorful SS officer Otto Skorzeny liberated the fascist leader, who was being held prisoner on Mount Gran Sasso in Abruzzo. Skorzeny introduced himself to Mussolini with the words: “Duce, the Fuhrer sent me! You’re free!” Mussolini embraced Skorzeny and said, “I knew my friend Adolf wouldn’t desert me.” Runtime: 1:19 mins.
Loot and Plunder: The Ignored Cultural Rape of Germany
It is fitting to begin with a tale of rape. With Tarquin the Proud’s tyrannical reign as the last Roman monarch, Romans were eager to explore a new form of government: the republic. The ‘Rape of Lucretia’ was a popular tale which detailed the downfall of Tarquinius: Roman soldiers away at war decided to return and surprise their wives. Only Lucretia, wife to Collatinus, had been loyal and chaste while her husband was gone, but Tarquin’s son, Sextus, returned and raped her. She told her husband what had happened, then took her own life.
One of the great mysteries of life is that despite the evidence to the contrary millions of otherwise intelligent people still believe that Germany was the all powerful aggressor during the 2nd World War. Nothing better than these myths illustrate the mind-bending power of propaganda. The provable facts suggest that Germany was the victim and not the perpetrator of naked neighboring aggression. The subsequent allied military triumph was followed by the triumph of the propagandists whose pressing need was to depict the victor nations as being the victim.