BHR-110

Brit-Am Historical Reports (16 May, 2014, 16 Iyar, 5774)

Contents:
1. Ancient Greek Language Said to Reprogram The Brain  by Konstantinos Menzel 
[Brit-Am Comment: Similar claims have been made concerning the Study of Hebrew]
2. German Identification with Canaanites as a Motivation for Anti-Semitism?
3. WW2: Free French Forces.
Most of Escaped French Army from Dunkirk Voluntarily Returned to German Occupied France and Surrendered!
[Brit-Am Comment: Another case of Jews being sacrificed for Nothing?]
4. An Irish Revised Appreciation of Oliver Cromwell.
Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy by Tom  Reilly 
5. A Possible Research Source: Old English Chronicles

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1. Ancient Greek Language Said to Reprogram The Brain  by Konstantinos Menzel - May 7, 2014 -
See more at: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/05/07/ancient-greek-language-said-to-reprogram-the-brain/#sthash.S37UOOnJ.dpuf

Extract:
Another published scientific research by the team of Greek psychiatrist Ioannis Tsegos, showed that the measurable indicators of verbal intelligence and deductive thinking were accelerated across a group of 25 non-dyslexic children, who were taught Ancient Greek through accepted methods for two hours per week, between the ages of 8 and 12. In another equal group of children that weren't taught Ancient Greek, the study revealed that the respective indicators were decelerated. Both groups were taught similar lessons. Australian university researcher Kate Chanock, however, took Tsegos' study a step further in her work "Help for a dyslexic learner from an unlikely source: the study of Ancient Greek" (2006: Literacy), the Australian researcher describes how she cured an English-speaking person from dyslexia by using Ancient Greek.
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[Brit-Am Comment:
Similar claims have been made concerning the Study of Hebrew.
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2. German Identification with Canaanites as a Motivation for Anti-Semitism?

Johann Andreas Eisenmenger
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Andreas_Eisenmenger

Extract:
A further, if minor, element in his polemic consisted in an argument that Germans were a distinct people within Christianity, descended from the Canaanites, whom 'the Jews' were intent on destroying[12] in accordance with Deuteronomy 7:16.[13]
12. Pierre James, The Murderous Paradise: German Nationalism and the Holocaust, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001 p.72-3
13. Nils Roemer, 'Colliding Visions:Jewish Messianism and German Scholarship in the Eighteenth Century,', in Allison Coudert, Jeffrey S. Shoulson (eds.) Hebraica Veritas?: Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004 pp.266-284, p.271.
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3. WW2: Free French Forces.
Most of Escaped French Army from Dunkirk Voluntarily Returned to German Occupied France and Surrendered!

Free French Forces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_French_Forces
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Extracts:

Despite de Gaulle's call to continue the struggle, few French forces, at least initially, pledged their support. Of the tens of thousands of French soldiers evacuated fromDunkirk in June 1940, only about 3,000 chose to continue the fight by joining de Gaulle's Free French army in London.[11] Three-quarters of French servicemen in Britain requested repatriation.[12]

The fact was that France was bitterly divided by the conflict. Frenchmen everywhere were forced to choose sides, and often deeply resented those who had made a different choice.[13] One French Admiral, Rene Godfroy, voiced the opinion of many of those who decided not to join the Free French forces, when in June 1940 he explained to the exasperated British why he would not order his ships from their Alexandria harbour to join de Gaulle:
"For us Frenchmen the fact is that a government still exists in France, a government supported by a Parliament established in non-occupied territory and which in consequence cannot be considered irregular or deposed. The establishment elsewhere of another government, and all support for this other government, would clearly be rebellion".[13]

Equally, few Frenchmen believed that England could stand alone. In June 1940 Petain and his generals told Churchill that "in three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken".[14] Few in the summer of 1940 could foresee German defeat. Of France's far-flung empire, only a few distant African colonies rallied behind de Gaulle's initial call to arms.[15]

In the summer of 1940, as Britain fought for her survival during the Battle of Britain, around a dozen Free French pilots volunteered to help fight the Luftwaffe.[16] By contrast, 139 Polish pilots volunteered to join the RAF.[17]

France's surrender found her only aircraft carrier, Bearn, en route from the United States loaded with a precious cargo of American fighter and bomber aircraft. Unwilling to return to occupied France, but likewise reluctant to join de Gaulle, Bearn instead sought harbour in Martinique, her crew showing little inclination to side with the British in their continued fight against the Nazis. She would remain in Martinique for the next four years, her aircraft rusting in the tropical climate.[18]

However, following repeated broadcasts, by the end of July 1940, seven thousand people had volunteered for the Free French forces.[19] The Free French Navy manned some 50 ships with about 3,700 men operating as an auxiliary force to the British Royal Navy.

By the time of the Normandy Invasion, the Free French forces numbered more than 400,000 strong. 900 Free French paratroopers landed as part of the British Special Air Service (SAS) Brigade; the Free French 2nd Armored Division, under General Leclerc, landed at Utah Beach in Normandy on 1 August 1944, and eventually led the drive toward Paris, while the divisions which had been fighting in Italy became part of the French First Army, under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, and joined the US 7th Army in Operation Dragoon. This operation was the Allied invasion of southern France. The Allied forces advanced up the line of the Rhone River to liberate the Vosges and southern Alsace. The 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers-Marins Commandos formed from the Free French Navy Fusiliers-Marins landed on Sword Beach and were amongst the first members of the Free French forces to enter Paris
End of the war

By September 1944, the Free French forces stood at 550,000 (including 195,000 French from North-Africa and 295,000 Maghrebis).[48] This number rose to 1 million by the end of the year. French forces were fighting in Alsace, the Alps, and Brittany. In May 1945, by the end of the war in Europe, the Free French forces comprised 1,300,000 personnel, and included seven infantry divisions and three armoured divisions fighting in Germany making it the fourth largest allied army in Europe behind the Soviet Union, the US and Britain.
The French offered to send a division to the Pacific to help fight the Japanese toward the end of the war, but it ended before they could be sent.
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Brit-Am Comment:
There are reports of Jewish refugees begging to be taken aboard ship in the evacuation from Dunkirk. They were usually refused, sometimes with the compliment of hearing curses and crass anti-Jewish sentiment. If these Jews had have been saved they would have contributed to Allied victory.
As it was most of the French who were evacuated went back to German occupied France and indirectly (through their manpower etc) helped the German War effort!
Another case of Jews being sacrificed for Nothing?
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4. An Irish Revised Appreciation of Oliver  Cromwell.
Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy by Tom  Reilly
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cromwell-Honourable-Enemy-Tom-Reilly/dp/0863223907

Book Description
Publication Date: 9 Feb 2008
This controversial study of Cromwell's notorious Irish campaign is published on the 350th anniversary of Cromwell's death. The author's unique opinions are shaped by his home town of Drogheda, the site of one of Cromwell's most notorious alleged massacres.

Tom Reilly says: As author of this book, I feel that many historians in Ireland are not ready yet for 'an honourable' Cromwell - nor indeed are the people of Ireland. I thought that I would change the history books and public opinion about this much maligned historical figure by publishing the truth about Cromwell's Irish campaign. The reaction - among the under forties on the whole - was good, but among historians and the over forties it was bad. They can't seem to accept that an amateur could discover such a fundamental flaw in Irish history ie that neither Cromwell or his men ever engaged in the killing of any unarmed civilians throughout his entire nine month campaign. The facts are there for all to see. But God bless Ireland the past is still the present here and we MUST have our English hate figures - despite the truth. How sad is that?

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5. A Possible Research Source: Old English Chronicles
http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/o/44378-old-english-chronicles
BOHN'S ANTIQUARIAN LIBRARY.
Old English Chronicles.
ETHELWERD--ASSER'S LIFE OF ALFRED--GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH--GILDAS--NENNIUS--AND RICHARD OF CIRENCESTER.
EDITED, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES, BY J.A. GILES, D.C.L., LATE FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD.