The "Myriad
Chronicles"
Reviewed
By Dr. Rudolf Pueschel
"The victor writes the history of the vanquished. The killer defaces the slain.
The feebler one leaves this world; what he leaves behind are lies". That's how
the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht formulated the intellectual
state of affirs after a war.
World War II is no
exception. The victorious
allies afforded an intense
re-education process
(aka character or brain
washing) of the German
people through propaganda which in "Propaganda
and Persuasion" is
defined as "the deliberate,
systematic attempt to shape
perception, manipulate
cognition, and direct
behavior to achieve a
response that furthers the
desired intent of the
propagandist".The majority
of historians and politicians,
of the media and the
entertainment industry became the propagandist's willing helpers to create a
worldwide perception that in 1945 Germany was liberated by the victors, that 6
million Jews were gassed in German concentration camps, that Germans could
only have been perpetrators but never victims......
The American Johannes Rammund De Balliel-Lawrora opposes this notion in his
book The Myriad Chronicles. The book has been put together from many
sources, not the least
important of which are
eyewitness accounts of
people who survived the
war and its aftermath to
tell their stories, covering
the period from the
beginning of World War I
to the horrifying
anti-German atrocities
committed after World
War II had ended. In
contrast to mainstream
propagamdists, De Balliel-
Lawrora does identify
with the vanquished. Thus
he doesn't deny the
existence of concentration
camps with all their
brutality in Hitler's
Germany. But he places those
German camps in context with the state of affairs in Indian reservations in
America in the nineteenth century; with British concentration camps in South
Africa during the Boer war; with Stalin's gulag; with internment camps for
Americans, German and Italian heritage in USA; with post-World War II
concentration camps in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia; and with
the incredible post-war massacres of Germans by the peoples of those
countries.
De Balliel-Lawrora doesn't shy away from documenting allied war crimes. Thus
he describes the fire bombing of Dresden on
February 13-14, 1945, completely destroying 39 square kilometers (15 square
miles) of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. (But it did take Churchhill
and Bomber Command to task for this atrocity, making them two of the most
hated men in the United Kingdom.) Fellow author Kurt Vonnegut, who was in
Dresden as a POW at the time lived to write a book about it, calling it "the
largest massacre in European history." What is remarkable about this event is
that an "open city" without war-strategic significance had been leveled at a
time when allied victory in World War II was assured. Undoubtedly, it was one
of the actions that Robert MacNamara, then a colonel in the US Strategic Air
Command (SAC) and later defense secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson
Administrations caused to utter "Had we lost World War II we would have
been tried and probably convicted as war criminals" in the documentary The
Fog of War.
When writing his book, De Balliel-Lawrora coudn't have known that 65 years
on a vice-president of the German parliament (Bundestag) would lead a sit-in
to thwart a commemorative march of Dresden's destruction. and that today's
follow-on German communist party known as Die Linke would request the
fastest possible removal of a commemorative pillar at the cemetery
Heidefriedhof in Dresden. Those are consequences of the allied post World War
II "re-education" that today is continued by Germany. As stated before,
mainstream historiography and politics allow Germans to play a role in history
as villains and perpetrators, but never as victims. De Balliel-Lawrora opposes
such an one-sided approach to writing history.
De Balliel-Lawrora doubts the findings of a city-government appointed
Commission of Historians that the attack on Dresden caused no more than
25,000 deaths. One survivor of the inferno explains: "The Commission
documents a survival rate of 10 percent and a death rate of 20 percent in
selected streets. The missing undocumented 70 percent are considered survivors
by design. - The Commission did not know the casualties either from the number
of refugees fleeing the advancing Red Army, or the number of wounded in 40
field hospitals in Dresden at the time of the assault. - A Dresden museum displays
partly melted metal alloys with a melting point of 2000 centigrades; at such a
high temperature human bodies would vaporize". The government-appointed
Commission rejected such testimonies of survivors because they were
"traumatized". Nevertheless, the official death rate of the Dresden firestorm is
25,0 00; that's what history books teach mankind the world over. To state
anything different would be politically incorrect. "Politically incorrect! You'd
have to be a moron to believe their logic?"
Regrettably, the book makes no reference to the Nuremberg trials with their
undoubted flaws, where many of the anti-German perceptions in today's world.
One of those is the creation of paragraph 130 in Germany's penal code
(Strafgesetzbach) that makes any unfavorable discussion of Israel and the
holocaust a crime, in violation of the guarantee of free speech in the Basic Law
(Grundgesetz), Germany's pseudo-constitution.
Nevertheless, mankind owes Mr. De Balliel-Lawrora thanks and praise for his
courage to tell the "politically incorrect" truth in a very convincing manner. As
far as the German expellees are concerned, the book brings their fate one step
closer to the British Jew, philosopher and philanthropist Victor Gollancz's
expectation that he articulated 1947 in his book Our Threaded Values: "If the
conscience of men ever again becomes sensitive, these expulsions will be
remembered to the undying shame of all who committed or connived them." De
Balliel-Lawrora's The Myriad Chronicles is a wake-up call of the conscience of
men.
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Danzig
The murder of thousands of
women & children after WW II
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Dresden
"The massacre of several
hundreds of Thousand
Germans towards the
end of World War II. A
massacre that should have
never happened!!!
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"THE MYRIAD CHRONICLES"
can be ordered at the following internet outlets!
AMAZON.COM
BARNES & NOBLES.COM
SOFT COVER BOOK - $19.99 EACH
HARD COVER BOOK - $29.99 EACH
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