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This week, the same score as political journalist John Rentoul— 5/10. I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 5, 8, and 10.
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…and now the Israeli Jews, apparently backed by most Zionist Jews from other parts of the world, are, literally, deliberately starving to death the Arab Palestinians of Gaza, including the children. The same Jew-Zionists who are always whining about the alleged treatment of their ancestors by Germans (and Poles, and Ukrainians, and French etc) during WW2, a conflict which ended 80 years ago.
Interesting.
…thus proving that 64% of the UK population in 2020 were unthinking, panicked, deliberately-stampeded idiots.
Immigration, on the scale seen by the UK for half a century, impacts everything, and every other issue.
Migration invasion. Migration occupation. Utterly disastrous.
Incidentally, only people whose great-grandparents were born in the UK (or in northern Europe, and to properly-European parents) should be entitled to vote in elections here.
Ostalgie
As blogged in the past, I found my couple of days in the southern part of the DDR (in 1988) quite interesting.
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Some things go beyond politics. The bond between human and cat passeth all understanding…
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Ian Robert Millard 
Execution of son of English Lord, prostitute & Nazi collaborator: Hitler’s British idiot John Amery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4p1gg2hAl8
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I have just watched the video about John Amery. What a pathetic fellow! He clearly was mentally ill and had no integrity. Had he been a decent fellow, he would have joined the Waffen-SS and fought on the Russian front, as dozens of thousands of idealistic, honourable young Europeans did. Instead, he led a decadent, meaningless and despicable life in Paris and later in Berlin. He wasn´t even a useful idiot!
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Claudius:
You are probably right, though reports were that he met his death with dignity. Also, it is speculated that he pleaded guilty to treason to spare his family further opprobrium, though I doubt that that would have been the case anyway, his trial already being front-page news in the UK.
My own feeling is that, seeing no future for himself, he effectively committed “suicide by judge”, pleading guilty in the full knowledge that the only possible penalty under English law would be the death penalty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Amery
His paternal grandmother was Jewish, by the way.
I was interested by his epitaph:
[An epitaph by his father appears in The Empire at Bay. The Leo Amery Diaries. 1929–1945]
At end of wayward days he found a cause –
‘Twas not his Country’s – Only time can tell
If that defiance of our ancient laws
Was treason or foreknowledge. He sleeps well.
Looking at the state of Europe, esp. the UK, now, that epitaph seems prescient.
As you may know, various writers have examined the John Amery case, not least Rebecca West in her compilation The Meaning of Treason.
The case does make me wonder whether the Germans could have built up a pro-NS equivalent of the Comintern that might have been attractive to disaffected Brits, but also an effective politico-military initiative in WW2, esp. in the middle and early stages of that conflict. The Germans were never very good at that sort of thing, as witness the way in which they mishandled the Vlasov Army in WW2.
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I believe John Amery was mentally imbalanced or ill, if you prefer. There was no pattern to his actions. According to the narrator, he was happy when he was handed over to the British army by the partisans, which means he was in fear for his life. He also said that he did not believe he would be executed. Why did he suddenly change and plead guilty to all the charges?
Anyway, going back to the Germans and their incredible incompetence, I fully agree with you. A friend of mine told me once that the Germans were useless as diplomats because it is something alien to their nature, and I believe it to be true. In fact, I wonder if there is a German equivalent to the word “subtelty” 😁😁
I am following on YT an English woman who specialises in teaching English to foreigners. She and some commentators mentioned, among other nations, the Germans as people who tend to take things literally and very seriously. No wonder the British (and quite rightly so) make fun of the Germans´ lack of sense of humour.
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Claudius:
I wonder whether that Germanic earnestness, or literality, rubbed off on Americans who, of course, have a fairly strong German ancestry, especially strong in Texas and around the Great Lakes.
Hitler once remarked that Italians loved the show and pageantry of Catholicism, but it was all skin-deep, and that they would be as happy were the show and pageantry pagan, but that the Germans were a serious people, who wanted to be either serious Christians or serious pagans.
Of course, the English are also a Germanic people, but separated from the Germanic root-stock long before what we now think of as German character, in Germany, developed.
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I am inclined to agree with you with regard to the Americans and their lack of subtelty. I have heard many British actors and comedians mentioning the fact that the subtlety and sarcasm so prevalent in British humor is not appreciated/understood by a great part of the American public.
My ancestors the Italians have a fantastic sense of humour and, like the Brits, tend to not take things very seriously. I am all for that! 😁😁😁
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That picture of the beautiful white cat who has just passed away, looking upwards, is heartbreaking. We lost our five cats between 2008 and 2024. On average, they lived for 13 years, but looking back, it seems like 13 months. We miss them terribly. Every pet that dies becomes a wound that never heals completely.
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Claudius:
I can only agree. The little creatures stay with us all our lives, but not in the flesh.
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