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Honourable men, honourable soldiers
I happened to read the Wikipedia piece about Hermann-Eberhard Wildermuth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann-Eberhard_Wildermuth.
“On 12 August 1944 Wildermuth became “Fortress Commandant” of Le Havre in France. This came as a disappointment; he had hoped for a corps. Before taking his new command, however, he swore the ‘customary oath’ to Hitler: to defend the fortress to the last man, and only to surrender with the authorisation of his superiors.[3] This oath to Hitler was, broadly speaking, respected by Wildermuth. At his interrogation by the British in January 1945, he stated that his aim had been to deny the Allies the use of the port, and to tie down as many Allied troops as possible, and that this had been achieved to his own satisfaction, since two British infantry divisions and about 150 tanks were assigned to the siege of Le Havre for almost fourteen days. Furthermore, while Wildermuth personally surrendered to British troops on 12 September, after being wounded in the thigh, he refused to order the surrender of the garrison on the ground that as a prisoner of war he no longer had any authority to do so.[4]
Prior to the early September launch of the British-led Operation Astonia to take the port city Wildermuth had requested that French citizens be evacuated before heavy pre-assault naval and air bombardment commenced. His offer was rebuffed by Lt-General John Crocker, in command of the 1st British Corps which had laid siege to the city. Crocker would later argue that if Wildermuth cared about the civilian population, he could have surrendered the garrison before the bombing began, and that acceding to Wildermuth’s request would have served only the German interest, by gaining time and removing potentially disruptive French civilians from the defended fortress.[5]“
[Wikipedia]
Another, but far more junior officer, Lieutenant William Douglas-Home (whose elder brother later became a Conservative Party prime minister), was also at Le Havre at the material time:
“Despite his opposition to the policy of requiring the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany he was conscripted into the Army in July 1940 and joined the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).[7] He went to 161 Officer Cadet Training Unit (161 OCTU) in the buildings of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where one of his colleagues was David Fraser. At Sandhurst, he was critical of the war, which he said had been unnecessary.[8] Douglas-Home was commissioned in the Buffs in March 1941.[9] While an officer he stood in the three parliamentary by-elections.
Douglas-Home was assigned to the 7th Battalion of the Buffs, which was converted to tanks as the 141 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (141 RAC). In the Normandy campaign, 141 RAC was assigned to I Corps, a British formation within the First Canadian Army. In August, First Canadian Army was directed to mop up the German forces cut off in various sea ports in Normandy and Pas de Calais. In the first week of September 1944, the Allies moved against the port of Le Havre. A German garrison under Colonel Hermann-Eberhard Wildermuth was dug in on the hill overlooking the city. Wildermuth had been ordered by Hitler to defend Fortress Le Havre to the last man, and not to surrender.
When the Allied forces invested the city in advance of the planned aerial bombardment and subsequent assault, Wildermuth asked the British commander if the French civilians could be evacuated from the city, but that request was refused. Lieutenant (acting Captain) Douglas-Home was near Le Havre, awaiting the completion of the aerial bombardment. He was to serve as a liaison officer in Operation Astonia, the Allied attack on Le Havre. On the second day after the aerial bombardment had started, he learned of the German request to evacuate the civilians and the Allied refusal. The consequences of the bombardment were apparent to the waiting Allied forces and Douglas-Home refused to participate in the attack. He gave two reasons:[citation needed]
- The unconditional surrender policy, which he thought compelled the enemy to fight to the end.
- The refusal of civilian evacuation was morally unacceptable to him.
which created a moral obligation for Douglas-Home and he declined to participate.
The aerial bombardment of Le Havre lasted four nights, killed over 2,000 French civilians, 19 German soldiers and levelled the city. The Germans surrendered after two-days’ fighting and I Corps moved on to Boulogne, which was also subjected to a heavy aerial bombardment. At that time Douglas-Home, who had been placed under supervision (he did not consider himself at that time to have been “arrested”) wrote to the Maidenhead Advertiser and the publication of his letter in the newspaper prompted his formal arrest and detention.
Because of the article in the Maidenhead Advertiser, the Allied forces besieging Calais allowed the civilians to be evacuated from the town before it was subjected to a heavy aerial bombardment and final assault. Dunkirk was allowed to remain in German hands, with the besieged force bottled up, until Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945. In the wake of the publication, the British became sensitive to indiscriminate bombing of occupied cities and towns, although that consideration was not extended to towns and cities in Germany.
[Douglas-Home] served 8 months, initially in Wormwood Scrubs, then completing his term in Wakefield Prison.[11]
Captain Andrew Wilson, M.C. also served in 141 RAC. In his autobiography Flame Thrower, published in 1956, he recounts this incident and its consequences. Wilson wrote his story deliberately in the third person:
Even when he sailed with the regiment to Normandy, William had continued his private war-against-war. While headquarters were near Bayeux, he had written to the newspapers about some German ambulances shot up by British fighters. And what he had written was true. Wilson had seen the ambulances, riddled with bullets on the Tilly road.”
[Wikipedia]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Douglas_Home
Worth remembering at the present time.
Saturday quiz
Well, not so good this week: 3/10 (or 3 “and a third” out of 10 if using the same calculation as political journalist John Rentoul, who claims 2 “and a third”). I knew the answers only to questions 4, 8, and 10 and (like Rentoul) also guessed one word of no. 1. On a few other questions, I came close “but no cigar”…
The policy even fails on its own terms, because of problems of definition and determination.
Good God. Even worse than I had thought. Equivalent to Hiroshima, Dresden etc in WW2. The (Israeli) Jews, as well as (((those))) in the UK, USA etc supporting the devastation/genocide/ethnic cleansing, surely stand guilty of war crimes by any reasonable definition.
Wall. Squad. End.
[“NEW PIECE In my latest essay in @TheSun I ask –what holds a civilisation together? In Ancient Greece, Pericles warned they only survive if leaders maintain the trust of the people In Ancient Rome, Cicero warned states will soon collapse if they don’t put their own people first In Britain today? We are witnessing the very opposite of all this. An out-of-touch ruling class that’s imposing an extreme policy of mass uncontrolled immigration and broken borders on everybody else, prioritising foreigners and pushing its own citizens to openly revolt.”]
Only lunatics are now volunteering to be sent to the crumbling front-lines of the Kiev regime. A death sentence.
…and the half-Jewess and Israeli agent Ghislaine “Maxwell” has apparently been moved from a high-security prison to a “Club Fed” in Texas. Is that the prelude to a Presidential pardon? Looks as if the (((usual))) fix is in.
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More about Jew-Zionist fanatic “Mark Lewis Lawyer”, Patron Law, Jewish barrister Beth Grossman etc
A pack of Jews, abusing the English legal system (yet again).
For background about previous Mark Lewis defaults, see also:
Lewis is both incompetent and dishonest. Anyone who employs him as a solicitor (if anyone still does) is an idiot.
Incidentally, and for those unaware of the matter, the above tweets refer mostly to the libel case Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor. Wilson, an academic from the North of England, won his case despite a whole battery of Jews giving, in effect, perjured or tainted testimony. The witnesses (all Jews, all Israel fanatics) disbelieved by the trial judge included vituperative barrister Simon Myerson (dismissed, in effect, as part-time judge in 2024, because he was unable or unwilling to stop harassing people online), Daily Star scribbler Adam Cailler, one Joanne Bell (prolific on Twitter/X as “@jobellerina”), and Nathan Comiskey (another keyboard “warrior” for Israel) as well as the defendants.
Pete Newbon, one of the defendants, a sadistic and crazed Israel fanatic who trolled people mercilessly online, as well as committing various (other) crimes (his employer, a university, had already disciplined him for his appalling behaviour), committed suicide during the trial because he had not told his wife that their house was on the line. It appears that Mark Lewis and/or other Jewish lawyers had misled one or more of the defendants as to their downside risk. Dishonest, or simply incompetent? The Solicitors’ Regulation Authority is going to pronounce upon that soon.
Now, it seems that “Mark Lewis Lawyer” (solicitor) and Beth Grossman (Counsel, of Doughty Street Chambers in London) are refusing to disclose evidence about their behaviour during the course of the proceedings. It could lead to serious consequences for them, though Lewis is so washed-up now that it might not make much difference to him. Well, time will tell.
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Something really has to be done about “the situation” in this country.
Late tweets seen
Order must be restored.
[“In case you’re not from the UK, this weekend there are yet more public protests against broken borders and mass immigration —in Islington, Manchester, Newcastle, Cannock, Portsmouth, Southampton. The mainstream media barely report on them. Politicians ignore them. But such is the level of public disillusionment with what is happening to our country that these protests are now becoming a persistent feature of our national life, which in itself shows both how out-of-touch the political system, and how febrile our once unified and stable society, have become.“]
[“Bookmark this tweet. And trust me. What Labour are about to do is approve ALL asylum claims so they can make it look like they are dealing with the backlog, while taking illegal migrants out of hotels and putting them in private housing to try and hide the costs. This is not dealing with the backlog. It will only incentivise many more to come. It will end up being a total disaster, much like their hapless “smash the gangs” strategy which I said in May 2024 would also be a total disaster.“]
As I have been predicting for a couple of years now on the blog…
As if that ridiculous monkey knows anything. Still, for once he is right, probably. The war may continue for another year. The Kiev-regime frontlines may last out that long, but in the end will crumble and collapse. Russia can take and should take all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper.
Historical video with music
Late talking point
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 
‘E Company’ of the Hertfordshire Regiment leaving Letchworth train station, Hertfordshire in August 1914.
https://x.com/colour_history/status/1951601651803934790
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American women; unhinged, entitled, low impulse control, tantrums and shouting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aReOBMVreQs
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Yes, the utter devastation of Gaza by the Zionist ACTUAL ‘far right’ coalition government of ‘Bibi’ Netanhayu’s government is worse than what we and the Americans done at Dresden, the Americans in Tokyo and the Yanks again at Hiroshima and Nagasaki as, unlike us then, the Israeli airforce has some very advanced warplanes and precision bombing equipment.
Yet total ghouls such as ‘Sir’Two Tier Kier Starmer, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy and Zionist Daily Tory FAIL ‘journalists’ STILL try and defend the regime in Tel Aviv. They have no consciences and the Shekels from the Zionist Lobby are probably at a decent level.
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perhaps things have changed, but the last I heard, the half-witted scribbler, Alison Pearson, still retains the services of Mark Lewis. I hope that he provides her with his usual level of competence and probity.
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John:
Ha ha. Allison Pearson is probably the only person stupid enough to retain him (if she does). Her funeral…
Speaking of which, Lewis can hardly walk now, and is very disordered in his thinking.
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That the Zionist Daily Tory FAIL pays good money to employ seriously unkempt Worzel Gummidge/Boris The Buffoon who is not generally regarded as one of Britain’s best ex-PMs says it all really about that rag.
Starmer’s potential recognition of Palestine (but only when more Palestinians have been starved to death or subjected to atrocities) is the right thing to do but it should occur NOW. Also, all British military aid to the Zionist entity should cease immediately. We do not want to be yet more complicit in Israel’s brutality ect.
It may well be more motivated by regaining muslim votes (it probably is since it has occured too late) but it is still the right policy.
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John:
I find it hard to believe that anyone would pay for the random and unintelligent opinions of Boris-idiot, but then I could hardly believe that he was selected as an MP. His elevation to Cabinet seemed absurd to me, and his then further elevation to Prime Minister some kind of divine bad joke.
Still, there it is. Another symptom of the sickness of this country.
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I remember showing a photo of Boris to a friend of mine and saying, “This is the new British PM”. He laughed and asked me, “Are you joking? From where did they get him?”
Looking at Boris, you could be forgiven for thinking that things couldn’t get any worse, and then… BANG! Lis Truss and Rishi Sunak! 🤮🤮🤮
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Claudius:
…and now Starmer-stein. Incidentally, the Jew fanatics are now turning even on their puppet, Starmer, because he has very slightly moved from his 100% pro-Jew/pro-Israel stance since the “reduction of the Gaza ghetto” has been ?(recently) more publicized etc.
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Indeed, people are utter morons to listen or read that cretin who looks as if he has not owned a hairbrush in at least a decade or more and especially are if they pay good money to do it.
What is more is that Boris does not even seem to know his own mind. On the eve of the EU referendum he wrote TWO articles for a Tory rag expressing a pro-EU remain position and another saying we should leave. Consistency and principles are not Boris’s strongpoints!
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John:
Boris-idiot has no real views on anything, no principles, no ideas, and certainly no ideals. He is like a “gas planet”, looking very real from a distance, but more nebulous the nearer you get, until you understand that there is no core, no centre, just a ball of gas.
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Well, he was a candidate for the quaint, posh, ‘Hooray Henry’ and Pimm’s drinking town of Henley-On-Thames! Pretty much any monkey on a stick wearing a blue rosette would win there. Mind you, after he was the MP, the constituency which had been solidly Tory blue since 1910 has now elected a Lib Dem!😂😂😂😂
It is a lovely town with a superb setting on the River Thames. I have been fortunate enough to visit it.
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John:
I know Henley pretty well, or did, 50 years ago. I have steered small motor boats there, and rowed there (not at the Regatta, though!).
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Henley-on-Thames is the epitome of a small, posh, English town. When I visited it, it had a Waitrose (surely a good indicator of whether a town is truly posh or not?) and even a bigger sign of poshness in that there was a branch of upmarket estate agents Savilles.
I very nearly fell into the river. That is what drinking too many Pimm’s Cup cocktails tends to do in Henley!😂😂😂😂
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John:
“Hooray!”
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It’s Pimms o’ Clock!:
https://www.roamingrequired.com/how-to-make-the-perfect-pimms-cup
Hic!😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍
https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henley_Royal_Regatta
https://www.hrr.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/henleyroyalregatta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooray_Henry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henley_Royal_Regatta
https://en.wikipedia.org/Eton_Mess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo
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Interesting observations from a Russian friend:
“The Jews already now successfully dismantle their holy status. Their way of war in Gaza makes laughable all their tearful stories about Nazi atrocious fighting methods against the Warsaw ghetto. What is the difference? This question will be asked ever more frequently, and the Jewish special status will become ever more nebulous and shaky.
The non-white crowds are not eager to take at face value all those tearful Holocaust stories. The non-whites are generally less emotionally impressionable than Europeans; they are less prone to be psychologically manipulated; they have much less ability to feel guilty about anything.
Modern Jews have primarily evolved within European societies. They learnt how to operate there, how to exploit the weak points of those particular nations. They try to use the same methods with non-whites, and they miserably fail. When they actively promoted mass immigration into Europe, they imagined that those non-white crowds would become obedient sidekicks for the Jewish agenda; instead, those savage hordes have become a breeding ground for the most militant hate of Jews. The pet-viper has bitten its benefactor.”
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Claudius:
I agree with that.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henley-on-Thames
https://visit-henley.com
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When Britain was a serious country, we had serious people as Her Majesty’s/His Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs like Lord Carrington, Douglas Hurd, even Labour people such as Robin Cook.
Now, any old idiot is seemingly taken off the streets and put in the Foreign Office. Does anyone really believe other countries take us seriously with Lammy as Foreign Secretary? Russia’s Foreign Minister can speak Russian, French and English fluently. Is Lammy that talented at languages? I do not think so.
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John:
Lammy can scarcely speak English.
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In principle, it is funny, but you you think about it, it is not.
That a clown like Lammy was able to become Foreign Secretary means that the UK is no longer a respectable sovereign nation. George Canning and Palmerston must be rolling in their graves.
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Claudius:
Yes, it says something about a country, who is the Foreign Secretary, the Chancellor of the Exchequer/Finance MInister/Prime Minister etc.
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I am sure you know this, but, just in case, here it is:
Ukraine War: British Officers Captured in Russian Special Forces Raid
The cynicism of the British Foreign Office is legendary, but this time it has reached new and higher levels; according to the FO, the captured officers were there as tourists… 😁😁😁
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Claudius:
No, I did not know that.
The story seems doubtful, as are those photos. The lower photo seems to show someone wearing a strange mixed British-style uniform: the shoulder insignia of what might be either a captain or a colonel, presumably the latter (looking at his red tabs), but also wearing a sergeant’s chevrons (but British ones are usually straight in style). The background of both photos, some sort of prison, does not look like a typical Russian one; more like American-style bars. I think the photos must be fake.
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Good morning. Thank you for the information. You are right. I should have realised that the first photo shows a man wearing a ridiculous cap without a visor. Such a thing only existed in the British army before WW1, when the horrible (and hated) Brodrick cap was introduced.
Brodrick Cap – The Green Howards Museum
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