Ghost town

Although I have read, and as of now am re-reading the Simms extract (as I need the details logged), I just don’t have the historical knowledge to accurately respond with facts on the war (and pre-war leadup). What springs to mind is something Savitri wrote, although I can’t remember where in The Lightning and The Sun.

Adolf Hitler was an almost pure Sun personality. I think that seems right, at least. A ‘God’ figure. From my own thoughts, perhaps he was simply too idealistic for his time, too sentimental on ancient lines towards the English (though, as you say, more realistic over America – he was a wise man after all).

I’d blame the Anglo-Saxons of that country the very most (although won’t recount what I said in a recent email just out of politeness). He wanted friendship more than could have been accepted by them. The US had the power. The English though… I suppose they had the mercantile (poor) aristocratic spite.

I gather his Holocaust (if not by fire) is accurate to the point that I too am an affirmer (of a Mark Weber sort – the exact figure doesn’t preoccupy me), but that the German elite were merely tactful about it, perhaps with long-term insight. Tactful perhaps so as not to damn further Germans to a horrible ‘retribution’ in the face of defeat, and increasingly so, judging the cruelty of their enemies.

Given their nature (and indeed The First World War, which I’d state – though am not going to currently argue for as I am tired today – Britain started), I’d say British machinations – with aligned American competence, if I could phrase it as such a thing – were indeed far more to blame, not that Jewish subterfuge could not browbeat them into further traitorous action also.

On the subject of the extermination, as Heydrich phrased in that lovely film you showed here, and better than me: if you’re going to start a job, finish it. A nice attitude, and sensible too. It is a shame it was impeded so ignorantly. Part of me wonders if they just picked the wrong order for their ideal response, but I don’t want to denigrate them too much. At my humble self-assessment, I think I am too much past the Lightning perspective psychologically, and I don’t think it’s a genuine accolade (although I try to reflect further with corrections, and re-evaluate). In a future time, I think he would have developed both, but the historical conditions of his zeitgeist did not allow for it.