Tag Archives: Unter den Linden

Diary Blog, 16 July 2025

Morning music

Tweets seen

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0zkg4g4zyo

Rassenschande.

Some of the wider background:

More music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Bortkiewicz]
[painting by Joyce Norwood]

More tweets seen

Lenin said “a revolution without firing squads is not worth much.” [Discuss].

[“NEW POST. This is how things fall apart. When you ask the hardworking British majority to pay billions in welfare for foreigners who do not work When you ask them to pay billions more for a policy of mass uncontrolled immigration they never voted for When you force them to do all this while even refusing to fix their broken borders and keep them safe And when you also cover-up the state importing thousands more people into their country This is how the social contract, the fragile relationship between the people and the state, starts to break down.”]

Indeed:

[Unter den Linden and Central Berlin in 1945. Devastated. Don’t go there again.]

It would be good if some of the Israeli (or American, for that matter) pilots were captured, and confronted with the consequences of the evil they do.

If only Assad had not been overthrown. Yes, he ran what was, in part, a brutal regime, but look at the enemies of Assad and the Alawites! Indeed, look at most of the other countries in the region.

[“In the last 24 hours it has become crystal clear to everybody in the UK that the reason the state took winter fuel payments from British pensioners, raided British family farms, and piled taxes on British businesses was so it could spend billions secretly importing dangerous Afghans into the country while funding welfare for people who are neither British nor even working. It a total violation of the British people’s sense of fairness and fair play. It is outrageous.“]

The MPs and ministers of the System parties are enemies of the people.

The Kiev regime deliberately targets and tries to terrorize civilians in Russia.

Conditions of service, and the overall s**t-state of the country in many respects mean that few want to volunteer, yet the woodentopped generals and retired senior officers are always talking in the newspapers or on TV about “preparing for war” and about conscription. I think that they may find themselves in that situation where “what would happen if there were a war, and no-one came?” (to the recruitment centres or to the war) (come to think of it, are there any “recruitment centres” anyway these days?).

Late talking point

History must always be open to analysis, debate, and revision. The mediaeval-style “holocaust” “denial” laws of quite a few countries (mostly in the EU), introduced at the demand of the international Jewish/Zionist lobby, make a mockery of both history and intellectual freedom, and are a modern form of the “heresy” laws of 600 years ago .

Late music

[Havana, Malecon]

Reminds me of Alexandria.

The 20th of July 2019: thoughts

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Today is the 75th anniversary of the attempt made to assassinate Adolf Hitler at his headquarters in East Prussia, the Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s Lair), now situated within the borders of post-1945 Poland.

I blogged last year about matters around the event and around those times more generally:

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/the-20th-of-july/

What is there to add? Perhaps a reminder that human manifestations on this Earth do not last forever. The film, below, shows what the sprawling headquarters of 1944 is like today: as abandoned and lost as the cities of the Aztecs or the Mayans.

On the other hand, the devastated cities of the Germany of 1944 and 1945 are today thriving governmental, commercial, cultural and residential centres, with populations again in the hundreds of thousands or even millions.

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[above, Dresden in 1945]

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[above, Berlin in 1945; area shown is the Unter den Linden boulevard in central Berlin]

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[above, Berlin in 1945; area shown is the Reichskanzlei or Reich Chancellery]

The above photographs show the devastation resulting from war. Today, those same areas are prosperous, busy, thronged with inhabitants. Some of the old has been replaced, some kept, adapted to contemporary usage.

The same is true of ideas. Both the practical and the spiritual-cultural achievements of National Socialism were huge, enormous, particularly when it is considered that they were achieved within only 6 years of peace, the years 1933-1939. SIX YEARS!

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We do not need to copy or indeed defend everything that was done by, or in the name of, the Reich. Indeed, many of the flaws of the Reich, or supposed flaws, existed and in fact were even more glaring in both the West and the Soviet Union of the 1930s. The Zeitgeist streamed over the world as a whole, like the jetstream.

In 2019, we honour what was good in the Reich, what worked for the German people and the peoples of all Europe. The rest, we do not need. Times move on. Some challenges remain; others, newly emerged, have to be faced for the first time.

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We honour the past and stand ready to create the future.

Notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%27s_Lair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gier%C5%82o%C5%BC,_K%C4%99trzyn_County

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Prussia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%99trzyn

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/