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It is plain to see…..
That Ursula has truly become a trusted and valued member of the crew. It sis also apparent that her background escaping from an oppressive regime, as well as her previous military training, has uniquely qualified her for the intrigue portion of the operation. She has become not just someone Eriana is physically and emotionally attracted to, but also someone she can trust and rely on for information and advice.
D. Eden
“Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.”
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
And Appendices work completed!
Yet another chapter so swiftly. Congratulations on an ever-intriguing saga.
hope
This Fuhrer doesn't sport a stupid half size mustache!
alissa
tracing the old man
hopefully she can find him, and learn more.
Fueher
It just happens over and over again with people.
Somehow they get convinced that somehow THEIR group is somehow so inherently superior that other people are beneath their notice.
Make Ascendency Great Again.
Sure.
Interesting you should say 'THEIR group'
During the rise of the Nazi Regime, the perfect Arian Race was: blonde, blue eyed, tall, chiseled features, well endowed... and the Fuhrer is none of the preceding? That during Hitler's rise to power, they rescinded the cultural acceptance of the LGBTQ community to fall in line with the prevalent culture in the Americas of the time? Not that I support his methodology nor morals, he did manage to take a bankrupt, war-torn country (WWI) and rebuild it to the status of world power in under 20 years. His build back better program seems to have been a tad more successful than in recent years.
Then you have the 'people ... beneath their notice.' Invariably these self same people ~rebel~ and transform into the very THEIR types, either migrating and displacing locals by force (usually accompanied by enslavement or genocide) or deposing the 'ruling body' by force. Thus they create a 'new' or rebuilt country, making them great again.
Can you think of one country that didn't follow this pattern?
Aryans
The Nazi leaders were hardly textbook examples of the Aryan superman - Hitler was neither tall, nor blonde, nor athletic. Goering was an overweight drug addict. Goebbels had a club foot. Baldur von Schirach was half-American and on his father's side was descended from Sorb (Slavic) nobility. Himmler had a weak chin and his eyes were too close together. I could go on, but contemporary German commentators made the point better than I can. I think their reputation for economic competence and ruthless efficiency is greatly overrated, too. However my opinion is not based on thorough historical research; it's based on being a fluent German and Italian speaker who had the chance to talk to older friends and family who'd lived through or fled from Hitler and Musso's rule.
Speaker
economics
probably not as much of a boon as propaganda and myth would have you believe, consider all the art and property that was stolen from the predominantly middle class "undesirables" when they sent those groups to camps. that's what largely funded the war machine
Most of the art and property
Most of the art and property went into 'private' hands. Very little 'paid' for the war machine. Much did leave the country, but not being sold, it was simply transported elsewhere by those in power. I wouldn't be surprised to find that much of _that_ ended up in the hands of the military higher-ups of the various military forces during the overthrow of NAZI Germany, and THEN sold.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
the state "sold" it to those
the state "sold" it to those officials, but really it's not just art, the actual money those people had as well. art is just the more culturally significant of what was stolen,
_Property_. Most of those
_Property_. Most of those people didn't have that much actual _money_. They had things and land. They were suffering from the same privation as the rest of the country, to a greater or lesser degree. You've fallen for the same rhetoric that the "Rich Jews" were to blame, by assuming that they were rich enough Jews to pay for an entire country to go to war. 523,000 estimated Jews in Germany in 1933. That's out of 67 million Germans. According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, one in five of those still lived in small towns - so unlikely to be very wealthy.
They were tradespeople, not bankers, on the whole, and the bankers didn't have a lot of their own money - they had other people's. I had customers in the past that escaped that mess (and their children/family).
(BTW, as a side note, the Holocaust is often cited as being genocide. While absolutely hideous, and massively impacting European Jews, it could not be a genocide, as roughly 3.3 million Jews lived in the US in 1930. I'm being pedantic, but I REALLY detest people misusing words. They were ATTEMPTING genocide, yes - but unless they'd managed to cross to the US, it would simply be butchery. "Half" is not "almost all". Before you go off on me, I have a lot of Jewish customers and friends; many are long-term families in Houston, but others were from the immigration waves from Europe, and later South Africa. )
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
The biggest 'boon' to their
The biggest 'boon' to their economy was stopping the endless flow of money to France - which they protested, but the rest of the Allies weren't inclined to back France on it, not having been in favor of it in the first place, as everyone was equally exhausted. That greed on the part of the French was the -reason- for WW-II. Without it, the NAZI party wouldn't have had the backing to be able to be more than an afterthought.
(An interesting thing is that it was Bosnian separatists that were responsible for WW-I, but yet it was Germany/Hungary/Austria that were blamed for it. Even our 'modern' schools teach it, when any minor research will show the fallacy.)
France then tried to demand it _again_ after WW-II, and were basically slapped down. Nobody wanted to set the stage for another round 20 years on - and the split up of Germany between East and West complicated things.
Keep in mind that the Aryans were _Iranians_. The Persian Empire (Farsian), the Empire of Iran and non-Iran. Which makes the whole blonde hair, blue eyed vision even more absurd. It was simply a symbol to rally people around. Tribes need a symbol - leaders have known this for untold centuries, which is why military groups (and raiders) carried banners, and even our modern military groups carry patches or badges. Look at the symbols for family trees (yes, my family technically has one, from about the 800's, maybe earlier). Look at the badge for the 143rd Infantry Regiment of Texas. Symbols. Hitler and his disturbingly insane subordinates used them heavily - both in giving people a target for their fear (Romany/Gypsies as their test bed, then the Jews), and positive images (the clean cut Aryan ideal, and the Parteiadler. The Reichsadler predates the NAZI party by centuries. It just got linked to them.)
In _this_ case, however, it appears to have been someone who grew up in relative privation, but is probably old enough to remember how the country was 'saved' from the rapacious French by their fearless leader with the toothbrush mustache. (For those making fun of it, it wasn't that uncommon of a mustache. Charlie Chaplin had the same type. It's easy to maintain for people that shave regularly - a habit brought up by gas masks in WW-I. Shaving immediately under the chin, and under the nose, are the two hardest places to do well with any razor. Thus the toothbrush and goatee. )
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
WW1
the separatists may have lit the fuse, but the tensions across the major European powers were at an all time high, it was going to happen one way or another, if it wasn't an assassination it would have been something else or a different assassination. The war reparations were an outmoded concept, at least the extent at which they were called for in WW1.
The Nazis Were Gangsters
They managed to subvert a weak democracy and fan the resentments of a defeated nation. The Allies had planted the seeds of their rise with the punitive conditions of the Versailles Agreement which imposed penalties on Germany that could never be met.
They financed their state with the proceeds of requisitions and the robbery of Jews and other minorities and anyone who opposed them, enriching themselves in the process. There was no "economic miracle" , it was all a con-job. Make Germany Great Again, based on The Big Lie and continual deception. Hitler and Goebbels were the masters of radio, just as the current crop of would-be dictators are the masters of so-called social media.
The ordinary people of Yod were just stooges.
I agree with the first
I agree with the first paragraph, I disagree with most of the second paragraph.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
consider
Jews were often your doctors, bankers and lawyers, while that doesn't account for all the finances, it was a significant enough portion that they continued to confiscate private property to fund their war effort as they invaded,
Hitler used his rhetoric to
Hitler used his rhetoric to brainwash his rabid followers and rebuilt the country on the backs of those he bullied and enslaved.
All in all
A very productive day.