History Repeated When Suppressed
November 15, 2010
by Andrew Smithfor henrymakow.com
"It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can be done, and the other half are doing it." - Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill probably had first-hand knowledge of the above subject. More to his credit, i learned in James Bacque's book, Other Losses, that Churchill was outraged by plans to exterminate Germans after the war.
In fact, while the American and the French POW Camps were starving their German POWs in April and May 1945, the British were properly housing and feeding their prisoners.
I have been playing with another Churchill quote. "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Churchill's saying was actually plagiarized from George Santayana writings in 1905-06, The Life of Reason; "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.... When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
But how can we remember what we were never allowed to learn? History is intentionally misrepresented to us, so we are virtually doomed to repeat it.
No history that substantially deviates from the 'party line' reaches American mass media . Any deviating histories first get ignored. If the deviating historical ideas continue to gain attention, the author is usually smeared or otherwise discredited.
Consider the way Wikipedia smears James Bacque's book, Other Losses (1989). In this book, Bacque exposes the French and American extermination camps where surrendering WW II German forces were sent to slowly die of starvation, disease and exposure.
It wasn't easy reading Other Loses. Bacque methodically documents the intentional extermination of at least 750,000 and maybe as many as 1,000,000 German soldiers in April and May 1945.
Critics argue about the precise numbers of surrendering German soldiers who died in "temporary enclosures" but the inhuman treatment cannot be denied. The fact that Bacques puts Ike in a bad light for his role is actually a subsidiary issue. Like the Nazi War Criminal hung at Nuremberg, Ike was 'just following orders.'
Bacque's major contribution is proving that FDR, Stalin and Churchill openly discussed the issue of starving (and Stalin shooting) surrendering German soldiers long before the end of WW II.
The treatment of former members of the German army was not just happenstance but the execution of the 'Morgenthau plan' to render Germany harmless forever. The plan was not directed against the German leadership or Nazis, but the German people at large.
Germany's grim fate was sealed at Yalta. And all the arguments of the allied leaders in all the meetings leading up to Yalta, Feb 1945, Bacque covers in the opening nine pages of Chapter One of his book. THIS IS MUST READ MATERIAL.
Smearing Bacque's book, Wikipedia avoids the Allied executive decisions by claiming simply, "There is debate about the merits of Other Losses' claims. Several historians, such as Stephen Ambrose (Ike's biographer) and seven other historians examining the book soon after its publication, dispute it and consider it inaccurate and the product of conspiracy theory." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Losses
The Wiki article ducks the thrust of Other Losses and devotes 95% of its smear to the panel (of seven) assembled in New Orleans to discredit the book. Churchill and the British OPENLY condemned what the USSR, America and France did to their prisoners. The British POW camps sheltered and fed its prisoners. The Wiki article totally ignores the British protests at the time. Were the British part of Bacque's 'conspiracy' to distort the truth 45 years before Other Losses was published?
If we put Other Losses beside Julius Epstein's Operation Keelhaul,The Story of Forced Repatriation (1973) a very disturbing pattern slaps us in the face. Epstein's book explains how America returned hundreds of thousands of anti-communists fleeing the Iron Curtain. American forces returned these people after the beginning of the Cold War. MANY RETURNED ANTI-COMMUNISTS WERE HUNG in the presences of American soldiers.
This repatriation was unknown to the American public in the 1940s and remains unknown today. Obviously the same people running the USSR still run America. Like Epstein, Bacque just reported the facts. The 'conspiracy theory' lies not in what Bacque or Epstein wrote but in the conclusions you must reach when you see the big picture.
The best mental control is cultural control. This is not complicated stuff. The best culture control is history control. Humans learn best by imitation in order to 'please' and fit in.
But in school we are given fictional accounts of real events. This is history control. That is why writers like James Bacque and Julius Epstein are so dangerous. They bring the big picture into focus. Wiki is obviously just a fancy disinfo site. If Wiki doesn't piss on you, you are not very worthy or reliable. And if Wiki calls your work anti-Semitic or a 'conspiracy theory' it is a MUST READ.
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Andrew Smith is an historical sleuth and philanthropist who lives in Texas.
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See also "After the Reich- the Brutal History of Allied Occupation"
Kurt said (November 17, 2010):
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.†– George Orwell’s 1984
Wikipedia today serves the function Orwell was describing.