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Book Watch On My Night Table

March 3, 2021 by Robert J. Avrech 1 Comment

A Life of Contrasts: An Autobiography by Diana Mitford Mosley

I continue my literary march through the extremely weird Mitford family with the autobiography of Diana Mitford Mosley, an aristocratic beauty who insisted that her BFF, Adolph Hitler, was a most charming and well mannered man.

“Diana Mitford is doubtless one of the most exceptional women of the twentieth century. Perhaps the only person adored by both Churchill and Hitler, she grew up at the heart of the glamorous literary and aristocratic set surrounding the Mitfords – Evelyn Waugh was but one to fall in love with her. Divorcing her wealthy husband for the married Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, she notoriously became friends with Magda and Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf Hitler. As a result she was detained during the war for three years at Holloway Prison. She has now revised her exceptional autobiography with new photographs. In five new chapters, she writes about the secret purpose of her visits to Nazi Germany, the surprise recovery from serious illness and new friends, including the Duchess of Windsor and A.N. Wilson.”

The Elgin pocket watch belonged to my maternal grandmother, Genia Keiler, z’l.

The Iran Deal and the Problem of Conjecture

July 27, 2015 by Robert J. Avrech 5 Comments

Iran's supreme IslamoNazi tweeted a picture of Obama with a gun to his head. This is Iran's official comment on the nuclear deal. — On July 25, 2015, Iran’s supreme IslamoNazi tweeted a picture of Obama with a gun to his head. This is Iran’s official comment on America’s suicidal nuclear deal.

Over the weekend, the distinguished historian Niall Ferguson published a clear-eyed essay in the WSJ about the Obama-Kerry surrender to the IslamoNazis of Iran.

In making the case for his nuclear-arms-control deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, President Obama has confronted Congress with a stark choice. “There really are only two alternatives here,” he declared at last week’s press conference. “Either the issue of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is resolved diplomatically through a negotiation or it’s resolved through force, through war.”

This binary argument is so central to his administration’s case that the president provided a second formulation: Without the deal, he said, “we risk even more war in the Middle East, and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.”

Magda Goebbels: Downfall Beyond Imagination

March 25, 2015 by Robert J. Avrech 16 Comments

Corinna Harfouch as Magda Goebbels as she poisons one of her six children in “Downfall.”

Over the past few years, YouTube viewers are regularly entertained by a short portion of the German movie Downfall (’04).

Using a single clip from the film, these ubiquitous and frequently clever shorts show Hitler ranting at his generals as Russian troops encircle Berlin and seek out the bunker. The thousand year Reich has lasted but twelve years.

The YouTube videos substitute English subtitles that have no relation to the German dialogue being spoken in the film.

The comedy lies in the juxtaposition of Hitler shrieking in German about Jews, troop movements, traitors, and Germany’s destiny. And yet the subtitles have Hitler going postal over Obamacare or Benjamin Netanyahu — whatever subject is the target du jour.

For those who have seen the entire film, it is anything but funny. Instead, it is a powerful drama, multi-dimensional portraits of human monsters, some of whom are more monstrous than others.

Child Abuse: Where Jihadists and Democrats Converge

October 30, 2012 by Robert J. Avrech 13 Comments

damned — “Village of the Damned,” 1960, role models for post-modern Democrat offspring.

Seraphic Secret is struck, but not surprised, at the way Islamists use and abuse their children in the endless war against Western civilization. Here’s a clip of a child preacher from Egyptian TV.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og7amt6dfBM[/youtube]

The kid has no idea what he’s saying. He’s just repeating what he’s been taught, regurgitating hate like a robot. In a few years, he’ll strap on a suicide belt and kill dozens of innocent men, women and children.

Seraphic Secret is also struck, but not surprised, that Democrats also use and abuse their children in their jihad against Conservatives. Democrats, like Islamists, draft innocent children into their vulgar propaganda efforts. Here’s the latest child abuse in service to the cult of Barack Hussein Obama, a truly creepy Village of the Damned effort. Again, the children have little idea what the lyrics mean. But they have been indoctrinated into an ideology based on hatred of infidels, in this case, non-Democrats.

Their parents should be arrested for child abuse.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwlW4lx6TTo[/youtube]

Totalitarian regimes have always enshrined policies whereby children are brainwashed into becoming true believers. The goal of tyrannies is to make obsolete family and religion by replacing these foundations of a civil society with a single political ideology, under the rule of one man, who is invariably deified.