Seventy years ago, thousands of young men died to beat back the murderous monster which had laid waste to Europe and killed millions.
That monster, of course, was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party..
Now the beast is back. In a slightly different form, wearing different labels, but the same beast nonetheless. The different form and the shiny new labels are sufficient to fool generations schooled but not educated, propagandized but not informed.
Our fathers – the fathers of the generations now old and dying off – fought a magnificent delaying action.
May God forgive us, because I doubt they would.
Both my father-in-law before he died, and my father before he lost interest in things like this, seemed paradoxically very content with the way British government and social attitudes had gone in the whole period since the war. Neither of them were claiming to have been betrayed, just the same as the vast majority of the British population cannot see where we are headed now. It is a crying shame, because those who died have been betrayed. But the betrayal started almost as soon as the bullets stopped flying.
PS: Both had been engaged in the war, one in North Africa, the other in Intelligence.
Another thought: We use the title “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” as a straight translation of NSDAP. Given that one of the bunches of virulent lefties in Britain calls itself the Socialist Workers Party, I wonder if we should refer to it as the “National Socialist Workers Party of Germany”. Such a change might help some to make the connection and understand that the NSDAP was actually a SOCIALIST construct not the “extreme right” that it is always presented as. Might help some to understand that the Nazis and the AntiFa (so called anti fascists) are actually both eggs out of the same basket.
My father claimed that the night before the invasion commanding officers lectured them in no uncertain terms that the underlying thrust of D Day was not only to mop up the Germans who they knew were close to being spent, but to prevent the Soviet advance through to the Atlantic Ocean. Whether that may have eventuated is moot but with a series of socialist governments in France in recent decades; perhaps the socialists did get to the Atlantic? This factor does nothing to dilute the courage and sacrifice of those who fought and died on this day.
I suppose there’ll not be anything like it again as wars are now essentially remote-controlled which means wimps like Obama can view it all safely on a screen yet wallow in their personal bravery…wanker!
It’s human nature unfortunately.
Collectivists seek the means to collect while non-collectivists simply do their best to be left alone.
One will always gain ground until the other throws it off violently. The cycle has repeated itself millions of times in thousands of places on different scales.
We don’t get a free pass from history, we just get our own personal tyranny-phase to generation ratio.
Exactly.
A real President commemorating D-Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgDZdFQY3iM
Thanks, Mawm. It’s now a post.
Some really well done “then and now” photographs.
#5 is pretty haunting. (They all are really)
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/06/scenes-from-d-day-then-and-now/100752/
Great pics, MvL.
Awesome.
Excellent post, KG.
I agree with Wombat too. The weasels gain ground until the patriots throw them off.
This time, both Islam and the left need to be eliminated. Thrown onto the bonfire of history.
Thanks, Thor. Even at 0330, when I wrote it, the post seemed gloomy. But I meant every word of it.
“The proximity of the English mother country and thus also of all the embarkation and supply bases afforded to the Anglo-Saxons in their first great land attack against the Western Bay of the Seine and against the peninsula of the Cotentin ………..”
Thus wrote German Commander-in-Chief West, Field Marshal Karl R. Gerd von Rundstedt.
In his Report on the Allied Invasion of Normandy.
I noticed his report is dated 20th June and he doesn’t sound very happy.
Germans fought Germans on D Day – The Anglo-Saxons (From America, Canada and Britain who were in the majority and whose ancestors were originally German tribes), the French (Franks – originally a German tribe) and others allied under the command of EISENHOWER (German-American)…
Also, English is a Teutonic language cousin to German.
WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US