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Kantzveldt
I think in terms of the bigger picture that Reinhard Gehlan would have played the leading role, already In 1945 he was acting with the Americans against Communists in the OSS.
Following the end of World War II, the NSDAP went far underground for five years. In 1950, the international national Socialist movement re-emerged with the reformation of the Thule-Vril-Gesellschaft (Thule-Vril Society). This society was founded in Vienna by German SS veteran Wilhelm Landig under the authority of Reinhard Gehlen, former Major General of the German Wehrmacht and head of military intelligence.
Priester joined the Deutsche Reichspartei around the time of its formation and became associated with the hard-line neo-Nazi tendency of the party.[2] He was in attendance at the 1951 conference in Malmö that saw the foundation of the European Social Movement.[1] Priester, who by that time was leading his own Deutsch-Soziale Bewegung group, initially had problems attending after his visa was refused but ultimately he was appointed to the four man council of leadership alongside chairman Per Engdahl, Maurice Bardèche and Augusto De Marsanich.[3] Priester was an enthusiastic supporter of the idea of a united Europe[4] although his co-operation with another leading light of that position, Oswald Mosley, was hamstrung by the stormy nature of their persoanl relations.[5]
Priester was a featured essayist for Nation Europa from the journal's foundation in 1951.[6] Working closely with Otto Skorzeny, Priester attempted to utilise the magazine as a rallying point for his dream of European unity and travelled widely promoting this aim, including meetings in London with his rival Mosley.[7] The two even worked together on their shared aim of exporting the idea to South Africa, where Mosely had already secured an alliance with former cabinet minister Oswald Pirow.[8]
He controlled his own publishing house, the Verlag Karl-Heinz Priester, which produced the works of a number of authors including Paul Rassinier.[9] The Verlag also published Advance to Barbarism, an attack on the validity of the Nuremberg Trials by British Union of Fascists and Union Movement activist F.J.P. Veale, with an introduction written by another prominent critic of the trials Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey.[10]
The novel centres on a young, independently wealthy traveller (the narrator), who accidentally finds his way into a subterranean world occupied by beings who seem to resemble angels and call themselves Vril-ya.
The hero soon discovers that the Vril-ya are descendants of an antediluvian civilisation who live in networks of subterranean caverns linked by tunnels. It is a technologically supported Utopia, chief among their tools being the "all-permeating fluid" called "Vril", a latent source of energy which its spiritually elevated hosts are able to master through training of their will, to a degree which depends upon their hereditary constitution, giving them access to an extraordinary force that can be controlled at will. The powers of the will include the ability to heal, change, and destroy beings and things; the destructive powers in particular are awesomely powerful, allowing a few young Vril-ya children to wipe out entire cities if necessary. It is also suggested that the Vril-ya are fully telepathic
The book was quite popular in the late 19th century, and for a time the word "Vril" came to be associated with "life-giving elixirs". The best known use of "Vril" in this context is in the name of Bovril (a blend of Bovine and Vril)
I did not mean Vril for mesmerism, but for electricity, developed into uses as yet only dimly guessed, and including whatever there may be genuine in mesmerism, which I hold to be a mere branch current of the one great fluid pervading all nature. I am by no means, however, wedded to Vril, if you can suggest anything else to carry out this meaning namely, that the coming race, though akin to us, has nevertheless acquired by hereditary transmission, etc., certain distinctions which make it a different species, and contains powers which we could not attain to through a slow growth of time ; so that this race would not amalgamate with, but destroy us. [...]
Now, as some bodies are charged with electricity like the torpedo or electric eel, and never can communicate that power to other bodies, so I suppose the existence of a race charged with that electricity and having acquired the art to concentre and direct it in a word, to be conductors of its lightnings. If you can suggest any other idea of carrying out that idea of a destroying race, I should be glad. Probably even the notion of Vril might be more cleared from mysticism or mesmerism by being simply defined to be electricity and conducted by those staves or rods, omitting all about mesmeric passes, etc
Kantzveldt
Perhaps as you say, it is all murky and i'm no expert in such areas. The Vril tradition though of course dates back to the publication of 'The Coming Race' in 1871, and is interesting in terms of it's broader considerations of an Underground tradition rather than any specific group.
A Vril staff is an object in the shape of a wand or a staff which is used as a channel for Vril. The narrator describes it as hollow with 'stops', 'keys', or 'springs' in which Vril can be altered, modified or directed to either destroy or heal. The staff is about the size of a walking stick but can be lengthened or shortened according to the user's preferences. The appearance and function of the Vril staff differs according to gender, age, etc. Some staves are more potent for destruction, others for healing. The staves of children are said to be much simpler than those of sages; in those of wives and mothers the destructive part is removed while the healing aspects are emphasised.
The uses of Vril in the novel amongst the Vril-ya vary from an agent of destruction to a healing substance. According to Zee, the daughter of the narrator's host, Vril can be changed into the mightiest agency over all types of matter, both animate and inanimate. It can destroy like lightning or replenish life, heal, or cure. It is used to rend ways through solid matter. Its light is said to be steadier, softer and healthier than that from any flammable material. It can also be used as a power source for animating mechanisms. Vril can be harnessed by use of the Vril staff or mental concentration.
Expelliarmus!
Kantzveldt
All of this does occur in conjunction with theories and practical development of electricity, but also there is the Theosophical interest in Eastern mysticism and attempt to compare the one in light of the other, as it were.
It appears that the orbs or Manisolas are compared directly with the Holy Grail, at least in the writings of Miguel Seranno, and that these represent a developed spiritual or astral body of the mystic, or that which is aspired to, which is born from the Earthly body.
The development then toward nurturing this spiritual phenomena within and also interaction with such Celestial types that have not fallen into Earthly form, as far as i can make out.
Kantzveldt
It all seems entirely reactionary to me, they merely attempt to play, and beat, the Jews at their own game, which is one based upon race, Divine justification toward any means and ends, manipulation and control of the masses.
Kantzveldt
I don't accept the 'goodies and baddies' scenario we are conditioned toward, the ever innocent Jews and the evil Nazi's/Indo-Europeans/racists of the modern mythos, it's a question of what 'progression' is toward and whether reaction of some kind is justified.
Kantzveldt
Of course the nature of the reaction of the Third Reich and their absolute defeat created the caricatures that are the bogeymen that keep the masses inline to the present, so marginalized adherents to such hopeless cause are allowed their ridiculous antics, Hitler is the ultimate scarecrow and the fear mongering that suggests they are in some way going to make a comeback or have infiltrated Western Governments...not a chance.
How do you figure that? And, if it is about beating people at their own game, how does that apply to others who are targeted, such as mixed race couples, homosexuals, Slavs etc, etc, etc, etc? Judaism is a religion, not a race, in fact, the term 'race' has no real basis, it is archaic terminology, even so, to the best of my understanding, the Jews, collectively or otherwise, have not attempted to control the masses, they have simply been accused of doing so, or such ideas have been utilised as a means of manufacturing consent for the persecution of the Jews. So what 'game' is it that you propose the 'Jews' to be playing?
Could you please expand on what you mean by 'progression' and in that context, what 'reaction' is therefore justified? Thanks.
I agree, in part, but then the people that installed Hitler in power were not actually defeated, they pocketed the money and moved onto to other things. The masses chose to believe what Hitler et al was marketing, as they choose to believe what is being marketed now, until it impinges upon their way of life, then they look for someone to blame. The people that put Hitler in power have infiltrated Western governments, at the time, many of them were in Western government. That those 'bogeymen' as you call them, are able to keep the masses in line, I beg to differ, by creating the concept of them as 'monsters', detaching them from their obvious humanity, it permitted many to seperate themselves from the very real presence in all to follow the herd, succumb to group-think and fail to accept responsibility for our own actions, and in actions. If anything, rather than the 'ultimate scarecrow', Hitler was the ultimate parent. His people did what they were told, or what they thought would bring them favour with that parent. By labelling Hitler as a monster, we allow ourselves the luxury of believing that it was all about him, and had nothing to do with our own complicity as individuals in turning a blind eye and failing to stand up for, and protect every member of society, and to instead label others (and any difference) as the problem, who's removal will usher in change.
Kantzveldt
I didn't use the term 'race', i would consider the Jews an ethnic group with basis in Judaism, try telling the atheistic Jews they aren't Jewish. Historically they have always maintained strong group identity and understood the need for collective behaviour within potentially hostile Nations.
Kantzveldt
It all seems entirely reactionary to me, they merely attempt to play, and beat, the Jews at their own game, which is one based upon race, Divine justification toward any means and ends, manipulation and control of the masses.
Kantzveldt
Most societies have seen mixed-race couples and homosexuality as detrimental to them to differing degrees, but such generally also took place with little uproar, this only becomes a real issue when it is actively promoted and there is thus a reaction against such.
Kantzveldt
The game i would consider the Jews to have been playing is the absolute consolidation of their own position within Western Nations, from the time of their alliance with Protestantism through the Masonic Lodges, this was always tenuous when the Catholic Church was influential.
This game involves undermining any position that could be discriminatory against the Jews, equality therefore of all religions and ethnic groups within the Nation as the ideal, undermining all traditions particular to the indigenous ethnic group which reinforce their sense of a singular identity, undermining also any sense that they are of any particular value or significance, in short creating an aimless and degenerate society that believes in nothing especially themselves.
All this seems to have passed you by, but the Bolshevik Revolution is the classic example, and while it is generally passed off that the reaction of the likes of the Latvians and Ukranians against the Jews when the Soviets lost control of those regions was based on groundless anti-semitism and false accusations i consider that denial and ignorance of the horrors that had been inflicted on those people by the predominantly Jewish Bolsheviks and Commissars.
Kantzveldt
The Italian Fascist Movement certainly pre-dates the Third Reich, but i find it hard to take them seriously, they were just an extension of the Futurist Modernist Arts movement, all style and little substance, the ideology behind Modernism is more interesting as it applied to the Bolsheviks.
The 1935-36 Italian fascist invasion and subsequent occupation of Ethiopia were accompanied by numerous atrocities: the use of mustard gas, the bombing of Red Cross hospitals and ambulances, the execution of captured prisoners without trial, the Graziani massacre, the killings at Däbrä Libanos monastery, and the shooting of "witch-doctors" accused of prophesying the end of fascist rule. These acts are historically interesting, not only in themselves, but also in that they were brought to the international community's attention on two separate occasions: to the League of Nations, when they were committed, and later, to the United Nations.
For the rest of that day, through Saturday and Sunday, Italians killed Ethiopians with daggers and truncheons to the shouts of "Duce! Duce!" and "Civiltà Italiana!" They doused native houses with gasoline and set them on fire. They broke into the homes of local Greeks and Armenians and lynched their servants. Some even posed on the corpses of their victims to have their photographs taken.[4] In three days, the Italians had killed 30,000 Ethiopians in Addis Ababa only. The first day is commemorated as "Yekatit 12" (Ethiopian February 19) till now. There is a monument called by the same name in Addis Ababa in memory of those Ethiopian victims of Italian aggression.
Thousands of Ethiopians of all classes were sent to detention camps at Danan in the Ogaden and Nokra in the Dahlak Archipelago. Conditions at Danan were inhospitable, and Graziani had given orders that the prisoners would receive only the bare minimum of food and water. As Sbacchi notes, "Poor facilities, including latrines, the humid climate, malaria, stomach infections, and venereal disease took many lives, especially among those compelled to work on the irrigation canal or on the banana and sugar-cane plantations." Between ten percent and half of the prisoners died at Danan.[8]
Conditions at Nokra were even worse than at Danan, according to Sbacchi. The detainees sent there joined 500 prisoners serving life sentences for serious political crimes, increasing the total number incarcerated to 1,500. These inmates suffered from lack of fresh water, sunstroke, marsh fever, and dysentery.[9]
The final reprisal struck in May. Investigators found that Abraha and Mogus had stayed a while at Debra Libanos, and slight circumstantial evidence suggested that the monks had foreknowledge of their plans. Graziani, mindful of his misadventure at Jijiga, believed they were complicit and 19 May cabled the local commander, "Therefore execute summarily all monks without distinction including the Vice-Prior." The following day, a feast day of their patron saint Tekle Haymanot, 297 monks plus 23 laymen were shot—the entire population of the monastery.[4]
The distortion can partly be blamed on British prejudices about Italian soldiers being soft and essentially harmless, says Nic Fields, a military historian at the University of Edinburgh: "Many British historians liked to focus on the luxury items found in Italian barracks. It reinforced the image of opera buffoons. Your average Tommy tended to caricature the Italians as poor sods caught up in the war."
Kantzveldt
The game is to a large extent that of Monopoly, control of the board and all resources, including the human, but i also consider agenda beyond that and only one winner.
The main grievance of Hitler and his supporters against the Jews was that they had switched sides in the First World war, initially supporting Germany and her allies through finance up until 1916, then supporting the opposition after Britain's promise of the Jewish state in Palestine, and then extending the Communist subversion into Germany to cause collapse from within, this resentment leading on to them becoming a rogue player within the game.
Kantzveldt
Conspiracy aspects i do think are often over simplified and stated, generally this is just about people following their natural inclinations...
Location of the Nazi expedition to the Elder Things’ City in Antarctica. The only surviving records of the Karotechia’s Operation ICE PALACE state that the city was thought to be Ancient Thule.
Access to Point 103 was by U-boat via a 6 kilometre wide ice cavern known as “The Harbour”. There was also a tunnel to the surface and aircraft including Focke-Wulf Condors but these were rarely used.
Point 103 was abandoned in June 1945 when the “Thulian Generator” (most probably a Shoggoth) malfunctioned and killed most of the remaining personnel.
The Planned Counter-Attack by I. SS-Panzer-Korps
However, Panzer-Lehr was still a full day’s march away from its start-line between Bretteville-
Orgueilleuse and Brouay and the plan was already starting to unravel: 12th SS had encountered
the 3rd Canadian Division advancing in force to cut the N13 Caen-Bayeux highway. The SS had
beaten back the first Canadian advance, but had themselves been beaten off when they
attempted to resume their attack toward the beaches. As more Canadian brigades came south,
the 12th SS had been forced to switch from an offensive to a defensive posture along the line of
the N13. To make matters worse, the 12th SS Recce Battalion had reported that
Panzer-Lehr’s planned start-line was already firmly in Canadian hands and that British troops were already south of the N13 at St Leger and were now advancing south along the Seulles valley and toward the
high ground at Audrieu.
Panzer-Lehr was now ordered to mount a single-division attack down the Villers-Bocage to Bayeux axis, thereby outflanking the British and Canadian formations that had so far been detected along the N13.
On the morning of 9th June, despite considerable harassment by Allied fighter-bombers during
their march, a sizeable battlegroup from Panzer-Lehr was finally in position at Juaye-Mondaye,
only a few kilometres south of Bayeux and ready to strike at the city. However, other elements of
the division had been engaged between Tilly-sur-Seulles and Fontenay-le-Pesnel by the forward
elements of 50th (Northumbrian) Division and 8th Armoured Brigade, who had side-stepped the
12th SS Recce Battalion at Audrieu to take the high ground at Point 103 and the village of St
Pierre. The attack on Bayeux was soon called off and the division’s offensive efforts were re-
directed to re-taking St Pierre and Point 103. The attack on Bayeux had in any case, run into 56th
Independent Infantry Brigade at Ellon and was about to encounter the 22nd Armoured Brigade
(7th Armoured Division), which was marching through Bayeux with the intention of driving through
Tilly-sur-Seulles and driving on to Villers-Bocage.