May 7, 2020
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
As I Viewed This I Was
Shaken to My Core—You Will be Also
Friends,
It begins
in muddied black and white, no voices over until about two minutes into the
film. At first it may seem a bit unclear what is happening. But soon, with the
first interview of a British officer, it becomes all too apparent—too graphic,
too unsettling, too horrific for our minds so accustomed to the cushy prosperity
and relative peace of contemporary America to fully grasp. And it is only the
beginning. The online Youtube is titled “Forgotten History of World War II:
Operation Keelhaul,” although the initial title in the film reads “Orders from
Above.”
At the
end of it we find in the credits that it was originally produced with much
research by the BBC in 1975. To my knowledge it has never been screened on
American television, never released in a VHS or DVD format of any kind. But it
cries out, with the voices of millions of men, women and children cruelly and barbarously murdered, for acknowledgement…and for justice, even if seventy-five years too
late.
It left a
profound impression on me, as I think it will on you as you watch it.
In 1974-1975
many of the sealed World War II records and archives of the British Foreign
Office were finally unsealed, and, in particular, the files of how our English
allies forcibly shipped back to the Soviet Union and to our supposed friend in
the war against Adolf Hitler, “Uncle” Joe Stalin (as he was affectionately
called in the Anglo-American press), some two million plus Russians who existed
within Western Europe at the end of the Second World War.
And if
other nationalities that were sent to the Soviets are counted the figures mount
to around five or six millions: all to become victims of Stalin’s revenge.
Not just
the thousands Russians (mainly Cossacks) who had actually volunteered to fight
with the Germans against Communism and for their homeland (which was their
object, not really for Naziism), but hundreds of thousands of civilians, who
had been forced at gunpoint to work for the Nazis as part of their war effort.
And including thousands of innocent women and children, again many inducted
forcibly into labor battalions. Not only that, Stalin also requested—and many
times got—any Russians the Westerns powers could round up or find who had taken
refuge in Western Europe prior to
1939…in other words, the many anti-Communist Russians who had left Russia after the Revolution of 1918-1920 and
had been living peaceably in the West since then.
For
Stalin there were no POWS: a Red Army soldier was either victorious or died for
Communism (either at the hands of the enemy or by his own suicide!). Capture by
the enemy was unacceptable, not acknowledged by the Soviet military. A Soviet
POW was already sentenced to death if
he was captured alive or surrendered. Almost certain execution, either
immediately or in a gulag, lay ahead for any returned comrade.
All
this—all of the forced and many times very brutal and inexpressibly horrific
repatriation at the point of a bayonet or facing British machine guns took
place in almost total secrecy. The English—Anthony Eden, Patrick Dean and, yes,
Winston Churchill (and Franklin D. Roosevelt)—were eager to placate “Uncle Joe”
and keep him happy, even if it meant the cruel death (or at the least a slow death
in a gulag in Siberia) for more than two million living, breathing men and
their families. “Collateral losses” was an antiseptic term used, “unfortunate
necessities” is another fancy word expression…an expression to evoke just one
aspect of official Allied policy at the end of the War, a policy that continued
for several years, and then details about which were locked away for another
thirty years.
For three
decades the policy of Britain and America was to keep a rigid silence about
these actions, mostly deny the existence of such incredible barbarity…at least
until 1974-1975. Then English journalist, Nicholas Bethel (in his riveting
volume The
Last Secret: The Delivery to Stalin of Over Two Million Russians)
and Count Nikolai Tolstoy in The
Secret Betrayal, 1944-1947 tore back the curtain, employing the finally
opened archives. And later Tolstoy, a
British citizen and distant cousin of the famous Russian novelist, authored a
shattering sequel, The
Minister and the Massacres (1985), which traces in a straight line
who gave the orders, who were responsible for what in many ways rivalled in
barbarity the crimes of our enemies in the late war.
Those millions of Russian victims of the war do not take into
account approximately maybe ten to
fifteen million Eastern European German civilians (Volksdeutsche) living outside Germany forcibly moved back to the
fatherland, with only clothes on their backs, as many as 2.5 million of whom
perished during the frigid winter of 1945-1946, as Alfred de Zayas has
documented in his scholarly yet stunning volume Nemesis
at Potsdam: The Anglo-Americans and the Expulsion of the Germans: Background:
Execution, Consequences (1979).
Nor do
they measure the actions of us Americans after the war—documented by Canadian
journalist, James Bacque in his book, Other
Losses
(1989).
Bacque’s incredible, nearly unbelievable findings: that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower intentionally caused the deaths by starvation or exposure
of around a million German prisoners of war held
in Western internment camps briefly
after the Second World War.
How do
victorious powers in a righteous war against an Evil Power responsible for immense
cruelty and criminality, then establish peace, justice, and liberty after that
war when they engage in similar practices of cruelty and criminality against
that Evil Power, or more specifically against millions of subjects in occupied
lands under that Power’s control forced into its service?
Do we not
still suffer the effects of our, in many ways, continuing dalliance with
Communism, and more so today, of its bastard step-children, the progressivist
“woke” post-Marxist Left that so defiles and despoils our culture, denies our
history, and despises and bans our heritage?
****
I pass on
to you the Youtube, “Forgotten History of World War II: Operation Keelhaul.” It
lasts for about one hour and a half, which I recognize is long for such a
video. When I first began watching I thought only to view bits and small parts
of it. But I could not stop—I could not stop listening to and seeing the
still-shaken British soldiers and officers recounting how they had been ordered
to bayonet soldiers and civilians and force them into blinded box cars or
herded into over-crowded ships to Odessa, only to watch them brutally murdered
dockside upon arrival. I could not stop viewing the searing images, the
reminiscences of the few Russians who somehow managed to escape or survive.
If you
don’t have a full hour and a half to watch this film immediately, just begin
with a few excerpts—at about 23:00 into the film, then at about 56:00 for the
next few minutes, and then finally at around 1:05:00 until the end when
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, from his monumental Gulag
Archipelago is quoted. Sadly, some of the books I’ve cited are now priced
terribly high (and one must wonder why that is?), but I recommend also
purchasing some of them and sharing them with your family and friends. In the
scheme of eternity, it’s important.
Like the
British officers and the clergyman interviewed, I too am haunted by all this, I
am haunted by the complicity of “civilized” nations, by people raised and
annealed in the principles of our Christian faith. This film makes it all too
real.
If I had
a time machine for our society and culture, I would immediately send us all
back prior to the First World War
(for that is where the Second originated)…and I would frantically warn the
Archduke Franz Ferdinand not to go to Sarajevo. I would scream from the
rooftops, as in Holy Writ, that irredentism and unbridled, headless nationalism
could only lead to devastation. And I would plead that all men—English
Victorians, the Russian tsarists, the French republicans, the Serbian extremists—spend
more time in Church asking for God’s grace and forgiveness, than on the
battlefield or hurtling blood-soaked threats at their neighbors….
Here we
are now in 2020, after by far the bloodiest and most unimaginably vicious
century—the 20th—in human history. And in our insouciance and
worldliness we pretend that the most important things are material, and we act
as if God does not exist. In fact, most people probably believe in Satan more,
at least in the way they act, than in Our Heavenly Father.
It cannot
last…indefinitely. And we should begin, we should prepare by arming ourselves
with knowledge and Faith.
You are shaken to the core? Why don´t you watch ´HELLSTORM¨ . uNTIL THAT YOY HAVE SEEN NOTHING YET
ReplyDeleteYou vile replsive christ-crawlers are o so shocked! What are you shocked about? Your disgusting worls has murdered, tortured to death and robbed every continent known to mankind, you have the unmitigated gall nto accusse us Germans of perfidy, when in rerality all we did was to defend ourseives. You phony, dishonest to ypour bones scum have apparently never read your own historians, suuch as Basil Liddell Hart or JVC Fuller ot how about David Irving. You keep on accussing ¨The Nazis¨ when in reality they threatened noone, did nothing wrong, rid Germany of the hostile parasites and tried their level best to defend all of Europe against the bolshevk beasts --- YOUR allies. Fuck off you miserable, dishonorable clowns and drown in your muslim shit on your rotten island.
Just curious, if, as you believe the Nazis threatened no one, then what you to say about Jews being rounded up and perishing in the crematoriums?
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ReplyDeleteDiscovered your blog after reading your article (and thereupon watching the entire video) at LewRockwell.com. I see several articles here I want to read. I was especially moved by your last two paragraphs, because I know that directly ahead of us is "a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation." Daniel 12:1.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I believe the book, The Great Controversy by Ellen White (http://www.blessedword.com/library/gccontents.html) tells the truth about how the future will go down. In my freshman year of high school at a boarding academy I got a D in algebra because I was so enthralled with this book instead of listening to the teacher like I should have.
This book, written well over 100 years ago, foretold the apostasy of Protestants in unifying with Rome (the great ecumenical movement). Read chapter 25 and you will know exactly what the Mark of the Beast is and how it will come about. Then the last 8 chapters describe the issues that will result in national ruin and the aftermath.
I'm not a minister and do not even attend church, but I know this book is the truth about what is rapidly approaching - in my life any time I get close to anyone, I look for an opportunity to mention this book because I believe when it all goes down, people are going say, you mean to tell me you knew this was coming and didn't say a word to me? I don't want that guilt when I know beyond doubt what's coming.
Poor delusional Zack, you are a certified imbecile. Now, aftwer watching your nigger ball game and screeching with delight at your favorite humanoid as he ¨slam dunk de baskitbaaaaawl¨ go to your local holohoax museum and cry bitter tears looking at all the hair, shoes and photos of train stations filled with people. Better yet are the staged photos by Hollywood filmakers, you know the ones with all that smoke emenating from those chimneys. First of all, don´t ask questions, just accept what your local rabbi tells you. Afterward you can eat yoyr gefillte fish.
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