Christmas morning music
Merry Christmas to all well-intentioned readers of the blog.
A finely-made semi-dramatized documentary about M.R. James
German Christmas 1942
[The thoughts below were first published in 2023. I think they still stand up well]
Stray thoughts
You often hear or see the statement “The Third Reich was terrible because [whatever].” Often cited is euthanasia of the terribly mentally or even physically disabled etc. Few consider that that or similar happened also in the USA, UK etc in the 1930s, though not often admitted to.
When people today say that they are, say, Roman Catholic, do other people say “so you support the Inquisition?!” or “so you support the torture and genocide of the Cathars?!” No…yet the same or similar questioners might say to someone who is social-national politically, “so you support euthanasia of the badly-disabled?!” or “you support gassing Jews?!” (leaving aside the doubtful proposition about whether the fabled “gas chambers” even existed). They might as well demand an answer to the question “so you want to invade Poland?!“.
Point made, I think.
I happened to see the above when looking at old blog posts recently hit from some country or other; words I published nearly 3 years ago.
Tweets seen
Not the most aesthetically pleasing, but no worse than much of what one sees in the UK.
Ian Robert Millard 
Frohe Weihnachten, Ian and Claudius
https://odysee.com/@WaltherMauser:b/NatSocChristmas1938-Frohe-Weihnachten:8?lc=8bfe793d3d8ef61600d7445a943d68d3b78f05f3e76cc4de05149a5ff6f0a534
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Julius Skoolafish:
Thank you. Merry Christmas.
Let us hope that 2026 will see breakthroughs.
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“Sometimes when I see shabbily dressed girls, shivering with cold themselves, collecting with infinite patience for others who are cold, then I have the feeling that they are all apostles of a certain Christianity! This is a Christianity which can claim for itself as no other can: this is the Christianity of a sincere profession of faith, because behind it stands not the word, but the deed! With the aid of this tremendous society, countless people are being relieved of the feeling of social abandonment and isolation. Many are thus regaining the firm belief that they are not completely lost and alone in this world, but sheltered in their Volksgemeinschaft; that they, too, are being cared for, that they, too, are being thought of and remembered. And beyond that: there is a difference between the theoretical knowledge of socialism and the practical life of socialism. People are not born socialists, but must first be taught how to become them.”
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Julius Skoolafish:
Very good.
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