Operation "Highjump"
In December 1946, a flotilla of US warships commanded by Admiral Byrd 'invaded' Antarctica. They were ostensibly on a routine reconnaissance/survey mission, yet after several mishaps and deaths, they 'fled' the south pole six months early, in Feb. 1947...4,700 soldiers took part.
Decades earlier, Germany laid claim to a patch of Antarctica they called 'New Swabia'...Nazi expeditions to the site continued into the war years (World War Two in Europe ended May 7-8, 1945).
There existed factions with Nazism- the Strasser brothers offered a socialist mass action labor program, to be contrasted with Hitlers alliance with Big business (after 1933).
The SA under Ernst Rohm openly talked about a "second revolution." Hitler had Rohm arrested and executed; the SA was either disbanded or merged into Himmler's SS.
Today, there are many descendants to these strains of far-right factions- the National Bolsheviks being just one. They want a racialist socialism and the destruction Usury and monopoly, with an orientation toward the east and protestantism, instead of the West and Catholicism. The National Bolsheviks are today only prominent in Russia- this is ironic, since Russia once bore the brunt of Nazi aggression.
An early proponent of a militant nationalist Germany was Ernst Junger. Junger was a real character- he studied philosophy, marine biology, botany and zoology, and joined the French Foreign Legion, just to see if he could escape from them. He fought in the Great War, and was wounded 14 times...
Ernst used cocaine, hashish, mescaline, and later, LSD, throughout his life, but never became addicted to any substance.
Just after World War One, he published "Storm of Steel," his war diary which seems to have glorified war and the second, and maybe the soon to come third, Reich. This book inspired the dispirited and defeated youth of Germany, helping to create the climate which Hitler used to rise to power. But Junger began to seriously disagree with Nazi doctrine and policy; by the time WW2 broke out, he was almost in Hitlers doghouse.
In 1939, he published "On the Marble Cliffs" a book that urged a unifying peace. Junger was relegated to backwater minor duties...Due to his opposition to Nazi militarism, his reputation survived the aftermath of his country's defeat. Ernst Junger died aged 101, in 1998. President Mitterrand of France eulogized the passing of this German patriot...
Junger today is considered to be Germany's greatest 20th century writer. His political views remain open for interpretation- he disliked democracy, and seems to have belonged to the tradition called "reactionary(radical?) conservatism". His ideal type- the worker/ scholar/ warrior individual,embedded within a wise collectivity... the "Anarch", at war with monolithic modernity, inspires us toward new heights.
Decades earlier, Germany laid claim to a patch of Antarctica they called 'New Swabia'...Nazi expeditions to the site continued into the war years (World War Two in Europe ended May 7-8, 1945).
There existed factions with Nazism- the Strasser brothers offered a socialist mass action labor program, to be contrasted with Hitlers alliance with Big business (after 1933).
The SA under Ernst Rohm openly talked about a "second revolution." Hitler had Rohm arrested and executed; the SA was either disbanded or merged into Himmler's SS.
Today, there are many descendants to these strains of far-right factions- the National Bolsheviks being just one. They want a racialist socialism and the destruction Usury and monopoly, with an orientation toward the east and protestantism, instead of the West and Catholicism. The National Bolsheviks are today only prominent in Russia- this is ironic, since Russia once bore the brunt of Nazi aggression.
An early proponent of a militant nationalist Germany was Ernst Junger. Junger was a real character- he studied philosophy, marine biology, botany and zoology, and joined the French Foreign Legion, just to see if he could escape from them. He fought in the Great War, and was wounded 14 times...
Ernst used cocaine, hashish, mescaline, and later, LSD, throughout his life, but never became addicted to any substance.
Just after World War One, he published "Storm of Steel," his war diary which seems to have glorified war and the second, and maybe the soon to come third, Reich. This book inspired the dispirited and defeated youth of Germany, helping to create the climate which Hitler used to rise to power. But Junger began to seriously disagree with Nazi doctrine and policy; by the time WW2 broke out, he was almost in Hitlers doghouse.
In 1939, he published "On the Marble Cliffs" a book that urged a unifying peace. Junger was relegated to backwater minor duties...Due to his opposition to Nazi militarism, his reputation survived the aftermath of his country's defeat. Ernst Junger died aged 101, in 1998. President Mitterrand of France eulogized the passing of this German patriot...
Junger today is considered to be Germany's greatest 20th century writer. His political views remain open for interpretation- he disliked democracy, and seems to have belonged to the tradition called "reactionary(radical?) conservatism". His ideal type- the worker/ scholar/ warrior individual,embedded within a wise collectivity... the "Anarch", at war with monolithic modernity, inspires us toward new heights.
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