What really happened at the Rhine Meadows Camps? In the world of "narratives," how do we figure that out?
Here are 2 utterly different accounts of what happened in the American-run prisoner of war camps for German soldiers. In one account, about one million German soldiers (out of about 5 million) died of starvation, dehydration, lack of shelter and consequent illnesses. In the other account, a few thousand (out of about 3 million) German prisoners of war died.
The author of the first account, James Bacque, comes across as completely sincere. His book, Other Losses, was published in 1989. The film based on the book was released 25 years after the publication of the book - in 2015, several years before Bacque’s death. Clearly Bacque held to what he wrote in his book, cared about Other Losses enough to make this film, so the story stood a better chance of not being completely lost. The film is complete with interviews with German survivors of the POW camps, plus an interview with an American soldier who was a guard at one of the camps. All these people corroborate Bacque’s claims about the horrific conditions in the camps and the high death rate.
OTHER LOSSES: EISENHOWER'S DEATH CAMPS - A FILM BY JAMES BACQUE
https://www.bitchute.com/video/vHtj5uVHd98w/
But that does not prove Bacque’s claims about the high death rate are accurate.
A radically different account is presented in The Rhine Meadows Camps - What Really Happened:
The video is from Mark Felton, someone with major credentials:
Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries.
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=icFKdMw7nT8
So, was James Bacque deluded? Or is it that Mark Felton has been taken in by seeming evidence? Or could Felton even be a minor member of the so-called Elite, those out to deceive us?
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I have learned that I cannot trust supposed authorities - like about 9/11 - where there is a dominant narrative, a main counter-narrative, and a further counter-narrative starting from facts and more facts. That is just one of many examples.
But that does not mean that all mainstream voices are telling false narratives.
More people have seen Felton’s video (over 2 million) than have seen all the many postings of Other Losses on alternative video sites - where I noticed numbers like 4500 views per posting. Not bad, but way way lower.
Again, this establishes nothing about the accuracy of the very different accounts.
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Here is one thing I know, having lived it.
There has been a powerful shame blame game - the shaming of the Germans (and to a lesser degree, the Austrians) for the Holocaust, combined with the glorification of the Allied soldiers: “They gave their lives for freedom.”
And what did the German soldiers and civilians give their lives for, I would ask.
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But here the question isn’t, What did they give their lives for? but What happened?
And then the next question can be: How do we find that out, in this world where there is mass deception - including around the recent plandemic and the dangerous injections?
I will, here, stay with one reality I know. That shaming and blaming of the losers - for instance the overwhelming mainstream lies (narrative) about what Germans and Austrians knew during the war about what was happening to the Jews.
I will go on to: What does this instilled shame do to people? And what does it do to people to be on the other side, the side of the shamers?
We have just lived through another massive divide and conquer experience: the injected against the uninjected.
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So what do we do? How do we live, so we are not caught in the frenzy while finding and standing strong for facts?
I do not have a nice complete answer. I know one thing that matters is hearing many other voices with a commitment to finding and then going further with the facts. Whether we know these people or not, they are part of our Community-of-the-Like-Minded.
Posted Nov 13, 2023
I have just spoken with my friend and one-time colleague, born 1933. She remembers being on a balcony in Weimar at the beginning of the war, so a child, with her mother and a (female) cousin of her mother, who said that over there in the distance you can see Buchenwald, whereupon there was an exchange of funny glances between the two, which, remarkably, she seems to remember, altho as a child she could have no inkling of what Buchenwald was.
Annecdote, but derived from responses from my late mother (1928-2014) to my questioning of her about that time, she had quite the experience back then, perhaps unique. She was born in Vienna in 1928, her parents divorced in 1929 and she and her mother (a Slav) returned to the family home in what is now Croatia. Her father was an Austrian veteran of WW1, a chemist by training and an early and enthusiastic member of the NSDAP. He was very well-connected throughout the war and seconded to the SS. He remarried and my mother's brother stayed with him in the Reich.
With the onset of war he invited my mother and grandmother to return to the 'Greater Reich', he would protect them, pay their bills and facilitate my mothers schooling. My grandmother was not a fan of the 'New Reich' and I suspect that her ex-husband's early enthusiasm for the NSDAP played a significant part in their divorce. Born a Slav, both she and my mother were "Untermenschen". However, she accepted the invitation; they moved to Lepzig and then to Vienna. My grandmother stubbornly refused to take Reich citizenship yet she and my mother lived comfortably simply because "everyone knew who her father was".
Despite the divorce and the separation of the siblings my mother remained close to her brother, he was a Flugzugfurher in the Luftwaffe, served on the Russian front and MIA in 1942. He was twenty years old.
My mother and grandmother had no papers, grandma was famously 'not a fan' of the status quo but due to her well-connected ex-husband they lived an almost unimpeded life in the heart of things in the Reich. So:
When I was old enough for the narrative I asked her "how could this happen?' You were there, throughout the war, people must have known, they must have known - how could this be allowed to happen? How was this possible? You must have known, someone must have known., someone must have said something."
She told me that no-one knew. Not even rumours of 'death camps' No-one said a word, no-one, nothing. Not a whisper. She told me that both in Leipzig and Vienna, they had Jewish neighbours, friends, who 'disappeared'. The agents of the government would turn up and then they were escorted away. Another empty flat. They were told that these people were being sent to be "resettled in the East" until the war was over and no-one said a word to the contrary, not a whisper of dissent or contradiction.
And please understand that my mother and grandmother were in quite the unique position: grandma was famously 'anti' it all, not signed-up, refused their papers. So they both occupied this 'liminal' status and would likely be trusted with 'counter-narrative' views - they knew everyone and everyone would talk to them, everyone. My mother attended a prestigious school, likely alongside the children of the zealots. Her brother was a serving Lufftwaffe officer. He would, of course, have had many friends and yet no-one said a word, not him, not his friends, no-one, not a whisper.
At the close of the war my mother and grandmother found themselves in what became the Russian Sector of Vienna. They spent the last days of the war in basements, they literally ate rats. They survived the initial onslaught of widespread rape and murder because the first Russian who layed hands on my mother got a mouthfull of angry "Russian" - they both were of course fluent in Serbo-Croat. So they went straight to headquarters - who were these people - they had no papers, they were fluent in Russian and German. They ended-up working for the Russians who had a city to administer and here were two bi-lingual and eminently employable women, the older of whom really didn't like the Nazis at all. They ate, they lived. One night in 1947 they escaped to the British sector.
However, my mother also told me this: In the weeks or months after the war and whilst employed by the Russian administration my mother, with a Russian officer as a boyfriend, they and everyone else who wanted to use their ration card were obliged to attend a cinema presentation of the ghastly films of the Aftermath: the piles of corpses, the bodies moved by bulldozers into pits, the emaciated survivors. You likely have also seen that footage.
She told me that the audience sat in stunned silence, you weren't allowed to leave. She told me that a few voices would mutter that 'this is propaganda' or suchlike. But if there were sounds at all it was mostly the sound of weeping. She told me that both men and women were in tears, audibly, as the films were played, that they were stunned, that they left the cinemas in silence, in tears, in disbelief, in shock.
You will make of that anecdote what you will.