Brit-Am Historical Reports (9 December, 2012. 25 Kislev, 5773)
Contents:
1. Report: Did the BBC Purposely Fail to Warn Hungarian Jews of Nazi Threat?
2. William Rubinstein: Soviet Deaths in WW2
3. Amnon Goldberg: Winston Churchill in Torah
4. Tudor Longbowmen from Wales and Southwest England
5. Traditional surnames are becoming extinct: farewell to the Footheads and Pauncefoots
6. Telegraph: A person's surname can influence their career, experts claim
and Important Brit-Am Comment.
7. Steven Collins: Was there a Chance for an Early End to WW2?
1. Report: Did the BBC Purposely Fail to Warn Hungarian Jews of Nazi Threat?
Extracts:
At the time of the Second World War Hungary was home to one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe, tallying somewhere between 750,000-800,000 people. By 1944 two-thirds of them had been murdered.
During the Second World War the BBC broadcast to several European countries. It was overseen by the Political Warfare Executive (PWE), which was at the forefront of the British propaganda machine. The BBC Hungarian service broadcast everyday, giving updates on the war. Yet as far back as 1942 a memo had been issued that read: 'We shouldn't mention the Jews at all.' It was written by Carlile Macartney, the Foreign Office's top adviser on Hungary at the time. According to Professor Lob 'Macartney believed that to champion the Jews would alienate the majority of the Hungarian population who at that time, he argued, were anti-Semitic. Given that British propaganda directors wanted to draw German troops into Hungary as an occupying force, the argument was that anti-Semitic Hungarians wouldn't help the Allies if they seemed too pro-Jewish.'
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2. William Rubinstein: Soviet Deaths in WW2
Probably the best place to look for information about the deaths of Soviet
POWs at the hands of the Nazis is in histories of Operation Barbarossa,
where the topic is generally covered, or in statistical accounts of the
military and civilian losses in the Second World War. Offhand, I don't
know of any books on the subject, although there may well by now be one or
more in English. Up to 3 million Soviet POWs died in captivity at the
hands of the Nazis, generally by being starved to death. This was probably
the greatest loss of life engineered by the Nazis during the War, apart
from the Holocaust. Around 8.7 million Soviet soldiers died in World War
II, it has now been ascertained with post-Communist previously secret
statistics. To put this in its context, Britain lost around 720,000
soldiers in World War One, with their deaths known as the "lost
generation." This was around one-twelfth of the number of losses in the
Soviet army. America was brought to a near-civil war situation over
Vietnam, when around 55,000 US soldiers were killed- less than one per
cent of the Soviet losses in WWII. This figure of 8.7 million does not
include civilian deaths, for instance the c. 2 million Soviet Jews
murdered by the Nazis, the 900,000 who perished in
the Siege of Leningrad, etc.
Bill Rubinstein
Wales-Aberystwyth University
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3. Amnon Goldberg: Winston Churchill in Torah
My letter on Churchill in this week's Hamodia:
Dear Sir
"Righting a historic wrong?" (23 Cheshvan) brought to mind the Talmud's statement (Chullin 92) that in addition to the 36 Hidden Jewish Tzaddikim in whose merit the Am Yisrael continues to exist, there must also be at any one time at least 30 Pious Gentiles on Earth in whose merit the nations endure: the shloshim hakesef - "the thirty pieces of silver" of Zecharya 11.
Although claims have been made for possible Jewish ancestry on his American mother Jennie
Jerome's side, Winston Churchill seems to personify the gentile who is destined for the Afterlife (Bava Basra 10). Throught his life he made many positive speeches about Jews and Judaism eg. "No thoughtful man can doubt that the Jews are the most formidable and remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world" (1920).
On the veracity of the Tenach, Churchill stated: "We reject with scorn all those learned and laboured myths that Moses was but a legendary figure upon whom the priesthood and the people hung their essential social, moral and religious ordinances. We believe that the most scientific view, the most up-to-date and rationalistic conception, will find its fullest satisfaction in taking the Bible story literally, and in identifying one of the greatest human beings with the most decisive leaps forward ever discernible in the human story. We remain unmoved by the tomes of Professor Gradgrind and Dr. Dryasdust. We may be sure that all these things happened just as they are set out in the Holy Writ." (1932). "There is no art or science which has not been enriched by Jewish achievements" (1941).
Although Churchill's support for Zionism cooled dramatically after Zionist fanatics assassinated his best friend Lord Moyne in 1944, he stated in 1961 that "There is a deep truth in the saying that the Lord deals with nations as the nations deal with the Jews".
It is no exaggeration to say that there was a critical juncture in WW2 where the continued existence of "Hebrew-Christian" civilisation devolved on this one man, and as he walked through the ruins of the Reichstag in 1945, Churchill rightly exulted: "I have have tracked the Nazi blood-beast back to his lair!". See "Winston Churchill - Man of Destiny", Rabbi Baruch Horovitz 1965
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4. Tudor Longbowmen from Wales and Southwest England
Telegraph.co.uk
Sunday 18 November 2012
Mary Rose: scientists identify shipwreck's elite archers by RSI
By Andrew Hough
Extracts:
Researchers have identified the elite archers who died alongside sailors on Henry VIII's flagship, due to evidence of repetitive strain in their shoulders and spines.
The ship sank off Spithead in The Solent in 1545, while leading an attack on a French invasion fleet in 1545 and stayed on the seabed until it was raised in 1982 and put on public display.
Over the past two years, scientists from the University of Swansea have been working to identify almost 100 skeletons kept at the Mary Rose Museum, in Portsmouth.
DNA identification has been difficult because they have been contaminated by cockles, molluscs and algae.
But new DNA extraction technology has been developed to identify a skeleton's origin and other personal features such as eye and hair colour.
Scientists say they have uncovered evidence of repetitive stress injuries among the bowmen, the elite soldiers of their day, which they believe came from hours of longbow practice.
Nick Owen, a sport and exercise biochemist who is leading the work, said yesterday that the developments would help uncover more about the individuals who died with their ship.
The DNA breakthrough had enabled his team to embark on more detailed profiling.
"The archers were the elite but the longbows they used took a toll of their bodies and you can see signs of repetitive stress in the shoulders and lower spine."
At the time, many archers were thought to have travelled from Wales and other areas in the south west of England and were considered the elite warriors of their day.
'They were 6ft 2in or 6ft 3in, and strapping individuals,'Mr Owen said.
'A longbow was 6ft 6in and made from a particular part of a yew tree to generate incredibly efficient 'spring'.
'It was mega hi-tech, and it gave England and Wales military superiority. These archers were the elite athletes of their day.'
"It took years for these Archers to train to get to a level where they could use these very heavy bows."
Alexzandra Hildred, the curator of ordnance at the Mary Rose Trust, has said the injuries could be the result of shooting heavy longbows regularly'.
"Many of the skeletons recovered show evidence of repetitive stress injuries of the shoulder and lower spine,' she said.
Named for Henry VIII's favourite sister, Mary Tudor, later queen of France, the ship was part of a large build-up of naval force by the new king between 1510 and 1515.
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5. Traditional surnames are becoming extinct: farewell to the Footheads and Pauncefoots
Extracts:
They are names that have been passed down through generations of Britons.
But many traditional surnames ' some of which date back to the Domesday Book ' are becoming extinct.
Names such as Mackmain, Bythewood, Foothead and Pauncefoot are among those thought to have died out in Britain, and researchers believe thousands more have vanished.
Others are on the brink of extinction, used by just a handful of individuals.
Debbie Kennett, from the guild, said: 'There is a continual process by which some names thrive and some don't. The inheritance of surnames is purely random.
"Some die out and some increase exponentially. At the same time we have many more being introduced, including new hybrid, hyphenated names.'
An analysis by Mrs Kennett in her new book, The Surnames Handbook, has put the number of names now in use in Britain and Ireland at up to half a million, half of which have been introduced in the past century as a result of immigration.
The figures are estimated from studying analyses of the electoral register and other sources. The exact number is not known, as no comprehensive database of Britain's surnames exists.
Totals indicated by censuses and electoral registers are inflated by large numbers of incorrectly-entered names.
The stock of names includes a core of about 400 'high frequency' ones, shared by at least 10,000 individuals.
After that, there is a range from the more common to less common names, down to endangered ones used by just a handful of people.
Four ways surnames were chosen:
Place-names or landscape features, such as Hill, Wood, Bridges, Rivers, Green, and names ending in -brook, -ford, -land, -well, or -dun/-don (hill)
Father's given name, such as Roberts, Rogers or Johnson. More rarely, from the female line, such as Emmett (from Emma) and Magson (from Margaret). Sometimes from shortened forms, such as Rix or Dixon, which derive from the name Richard.
'Occupational names describing trades, such as Smith, Taylor, Wright, Walker, Turner, Cooper, Ward, Parker, and Carter. Other names are derived from status or office: Abbot, Burgess, Chamberlain, Freeman, Reeve and Squire.
Nicknames, which may describe characteristics such as Long or Little; qualities, such as Faithful or Smart; or family relationships, such as Brothers, or Bastard.
6. Telegraph: A person's surname can influence their career, experts claim
and Important Brit-Am Comment.
Extracts:
Scientists are exploring the theory that people are drawn to certain trades
and professions based on the connotations of their surnames.
The phenomenon can be observed among famous figures such as the World champion
sprinter Usain Bolt or the 18th century poet William Wordsworth.
However, serious research is now being dedicated to the concept known as
nominative determinism to explain why it occurs.
New Scientist magazine coined the term after observing that the subject matter
of a series of science books and articles bore relevance to the authors surnames.
Research is now being undertaken in search of an explanation for the
phenomenon. A paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology has
concluded that people are disproportionately likely to choose careers whose
labels resemble their names
Authors Brett Pelham, Matthew Mirenberg and John Jones concluded that the
phenomenon occurs because people 'prefer things that are connected to the
self (for example, the letters in one's name)'.
However, New Scientist points out that it is more difficult to explain
examples of people who have unfortunate surnames in relation to their jobs
such as doctors called Pain or consultant urologist named Nicholas Burns-Cox.
Brit-Am Comment:
Upon reading the full article one sees that there is a correspondence between surnames and professions. This may partially be explained by deliberate choice based on the bearers of these names internalizing the message bore by these name. It is not however the entire explanation.
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7. Steven Collins: Was there a Chance for an Early End to WW2?
Shalom Yair,
I recently did a book review on a very well-documented and very disturbing book. The book came out last year with no fanfare. It really embarrasses the western world's nations if this is true. The authors make a very good case.
Steve
Book Review: Grey Wolf- The Escape of Adolph Hitler
http://stevenmcollins.com/WordPress/?p=5909
Book Name: Grey Wolf- The Escape of Adolph Hitler
Authors: Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams
Year Released: 2011
Extracts:
Some of you are thinking: 'Everyone 'knows' Hitler and Eva Braun died in a Berlin bunker at the end of the war.' That is exactly what we were all led to believe. That is what not only the Nazis but also the allies wanted the world to believe. However, the bodies of 'Hitler and Eva Braun' proved to be the bodies of their real-life doubles and a portion of Hitler's supposed skull, taken from the Berlin bunker but stored in Russia, was proven to be the skull of a woman when it was forensically tested long after the war ended.
I'm putting this post in the ten tribes blog as the life of Adolph Hitler affected virtually all the tribes of Israel in a very damaging way. The most damaged of all was the tribe of Judah, millions of whose members perished or endured the Nazi Holocaust. Since Genesis 49:5-7 prophesies that the tribes of Levi and Simeon will be scattered among the other tribes in the latter days, some of their members had to perish with the Jews in the death camps. The tribe of Levi would be especially intermingled with the tribe of Judah due to the prominence of the names Levi, Levine, Levinson, etc. and Cohen, Kahn, Kahane, etc. (which derive from the Hebrew word, Kohan, which means 'priest') among Jewish names. However, the modern nations of Ephraim and Manasseh (the British nations and the USA, respectively), were heavily involved in fighting Adolph Hitler's Nazi regime, and Reuben (France), Zebulon (Holland), Benjamin (Norway), part of Dan (Denmark), etc. were occupied by the Germans in World War II. Issachar (Finland) was caught between Germany and Russia in the fighting; however, Naphtali (neutral Sweden) actually profited from its extensive iron ore trade with the Nazis throughout the war, as the book reveals. Since my own books identify the tribe of Gad as being part of the overall German nation, its members were also devastated by the Nazi rule of Germany.
The exact air and sea escape route of Hitler, Eva Braun and Martin Bormann out of Europe and into Argentina is detailed in the book. Indeed, Martin Bormann felt so safe in post-war Europe that he didn't leave for Argentina until 1947, two years after the war ended. Spain's Fascist dictator, Francisco Franco, and Argentina's leader Juan Peron, were indispensable to the escape of many Nazis, as were some Vatican leaders.
Martin Bormann saw the war was lost as early as 1943 and began to prepare a hiding place in remote Patagonia for the escaping Fuhrer and many top Nazis. The plundered wealth, artwork and gold bullion of occupied Europe made this possible. It was laundered, stored and routed to front companies in neutral nations via very-willing Swiss banks. The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is particularly singled out in the book as the bank most helpful to the Nazis. ...internal FBI documents about Hitler sightings in Argentina until 1962 when he died. As some small comfort to readers, Hitler died in ignominy and great pain.
The book also documents that many top German leaders (Himmler, Bormann, Kaltenbrunner, etc.) tried to arrange a deal with the Allies up to two years before the war ended, offering to kill Hitler and his top loyalists and join the Allies in fighting Russia's communists. According to the book, Churchill, Eisenhower, Patton and others were receptive to the German offer, but FDR, ever-loyal to Joe Stalin, refused to consider it. Oddly, if the Allies had accepted this offer, the war in the West would have been reached far earlier and the death camps would have been exposed and shut down perhaps during the last 18 months of their operations. If the Allies had agreed to an early deal that would have had German and SS leaders kill Hitler, perhaps two million Jews who died in the last two years of the war would have lived.
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