On Wednesday at the United Nations, UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer blasted the anti-Israel UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, for her vicious attack on Israel in which she called Israel’s attack on Hamas in Gaza a “genocide” and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
Albanese intoned to the UN, “Following nearly six months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of and to present my finding: ‘The Anatomy Of A Genocide.’ The colonial amnesia of the West has condoned Israel’s colonial settler project from the violent history of the very birth of the State of Israel.”
Albanese then tried to turn the Palestinian slogan that calls for the eradication of Israel into a demand for equal rights, saying, “People around the world are taking to the streets, gathering, protesting, and demanding equal rights of all &#8216;from the river to the sea.&#8217;”
She then likened Israel’s defense of the state and its attack on the terrorist group Hamas that perpetrated the horrific October 7 massacre of more than 1200 people on Israeli soil to the Holocaust in which the Nazis murdered six million Jews in an attempt to wipe the Jewish people from history.
“The Israeli project is not only apartheid but aims at a final solution,” she claimed.
Neuer then fired back:
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Ms. Albanese, your report accuses Israel of genocide. Now, at page 2, you say your report does not examine the Hamas crimes of October 7, because they are “Beyond the geographic scope of my mandate.” Now, you went on a recent official trip to Australia, all expenses paid by the U.N. Could you explain how Australia is within the geography of your mandate but not the mass murder, rape, torture committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, invading Israel from Gaza, kidnapping hundreds of hostages including babies and Holocaust survivors?  If you ignore the Hamas massacre that started the war, the 14,000 rockets fired against Israeli towns, 130 hostages now being tortured in Gaza, how can you possibly understand the war?
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He continued:
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Now, although you say it’s not in your mandate, you have commented. On February 10, you mocked the statement of President Macron that October 7 constituted the greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century. You said the victims were “not killed because of their Judaism,” but rather “in reaction to Israel’s oppression.”
In response, for the first time in history, both France and Germany condemned a U.N. rapporteur for anti-Semitism. France replied to you that “The October 7 massacre is the biggest anti-Semitic massacre of the 21st Century,” and “to deny it is wrong.” France said it was, “scandalous” and a “disgrace” for you to “appear to justify it” by “dragging in the name of the United Nations.” Germany, Madame Rapporteur, said it was “appalling” for you to “justify the horrific terror attacks” and to “deny their anti-Semitic nature.” Germany said, Madame Rapporteur, your remarks were as “disgrace.”
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“We agree,” he concluded.
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Never before in the history of the United Nations did France or Gemany condemn a rapporteur for antisemitism. Francesca Albanese is now the first. She says “the Jewish lobby” controls America, Israel commits genocide, and cries out “From the River to the Sea.” I took the floor: <a href="https://t.co/P4H53c4EFa">pic.twitter.com/P4H53c4EFa</a>
&mdash; Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1773060993746104727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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One German woman found herself and her family in the middle of what could have been a deadly skirmish, but even as the Battle of the Bulge raged just a few miles away, she demanded — and got — the Christmas truce that so many others had prayed for in vain.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/24/christmas-eve-truce-1944/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elisabeth Vincken</a> left her hometown of Aachen, Germany, after Allied bombs had put an end to the family&#8217;s bakery and their home in April of 1944. She and her 12-year-old son moved to a small cottage in the Hurtgen forest — which had previously been used by her husband Hubert when he went on long hunting trips. Hubert, who was drafted into the German army, was stationed nearby.
But Elisabeth and her son were alone when, on December 16th, the bloody campaign that would later be known as the Battle of the Bulge began — and it soon became clear that her husband would not be visiting for Christmas dinner as he had planned. The weather turned then as well, and brutally cold temperatures combined with low visibility resulted in a fair number of soldiers on both sides of the conflict becoming separated from their units during combat.
Still, Elisabeth and her son had saved a fat goose — nicknamed Hermann Goring because of his girth — for dinner.
The battle was close enough that the sounds of the guns could be heard even inside the cabin, so Vincken was <a href="https://battleofthebulge.org/2023/09/12/a-bulge-christmas-truce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">immediately on her guard</a> when she heard a knock on the door on Christmas Eve.
She opened the door to find three soldiers outside — two standing and one collapsed in the snow nearby — and when they began to speak, she and Fritz realized that they were Americans. All three were armed.
&#8220;I was almost paralyzed with fear, for though I was a child, I knew that harsh law of war: Anyone giving aid and comfort to the enemy would be shot,&#8221; Fritz recalled in a later interview, noting that his mother had also been well aware of the possible consequences but had been moved to compassion when she realized the wounded American was young enough to be her son as well.
&#8220;Go get Hermann,&#8221; she told her son, and he went to fetch the goose they&#8217;d been saving to share when Hubert was able to celebrate with them, along with some potatoes.
After some trial and error, they learned that both Elisabeth and one of the American soldiers spoke French — a discovery that made communication much easier among the group. The three said their names were Jim (who spoke French), Robin, and Harry.
Elisabeth had set about tending to Harry&#8217;s wounds when another knock came — and this time, Fritz opened the door to greet four German soldiers. After exchanging greetings, the soldiers informed the Vinckens that they were lost and looking for shelter from the cold.
&#8220;Of course,&#8221; Elisabeth replied. Knowing exactly what she was risking, Elisabeth invited them in as well — but told them that they must leave their weapons outside. &#8220;You can also have a fine, warm meal and eat till the pot is empty. But we have three other guests, whom you may not consider friends.&#8221;
One of the German soldiers objected: &#8220;Who is inside? Americans?&#8221;
&#8220;Listen, you could be my sons and they in there too. One of them is wounded and is fighting for his life and his two fellows are lost and hungry like you,&#8221; Elisabeth laid down the law. &#8220;It is the Holy Night and there will be no shooting here.&#8221;
Once all of the weapons were stowed and all seven men were inside, the tension was palpable — but Elisabeth went about preparing dinner anyway. &#8220;Quick, get more potatoes and some oats,&#8221; she told Fritz. &#8220;These boys are hungry, and a starving man is an angry one.&#8221;
As they waited for their meal, one of the German soldiers noticed the wounded American — and his own prior medical training kicked in, pushing aside any thoughts he had of animosity.
While Harry slept, the remaining six pooled their resources and came up with bread and wine to go with the chicken soup that Elisabeth was preparing. By the time she prayed over their meal, Fritz later recalled, she was moved to tears by the men and their willingness to set war aside on such a holy day.
By the time morning came, all seven of the men had to return to their respective places. Elisabeth gave the Americans a tablecloth to use as a stretcher for Harry, and the German soldiers gave them directions back to where they believed their units were located. And so on Christmas morning, the two groups set off from the Vinckens&#8217; cabin in opposite directions.
&#8220;Be careful, boys. I want you to get home someday where you belong. God bless you all!&#8221; Elisabeth said as they disappeared into the forest.
Years later, Fritz set out to find the men who had shared that Christmas Eve dinner with him and his mother — and through an appearance on &#8220;Unsolved Mysteries,&#8221; he was able to track down Ralph Blank.
Blank was one of the soldiers who had spent that night with the Vinckens in the Hurtgen Forest — and he was living in a nursing home in Frederick, Maryland.
&#8220;Your mother saved my life,&#8221; Blank told Fritz when they were reunited in 1996.
For Fritz, that meeting was everything he had hoped for: &#8220;Now I can die in peace. My mother’s courage won’t be forgotten and it shows what goodwill will do.&#8221;
&#8220;The inner strength of a single woman, who, by her wits and intuition, prevented potential bloodshed, taught me the practical meaning of the words &#8216;good will toward mankind,'&#8221; Fritz said in <a href="https://www.christianfamilynashville.com/index.php/spiritual/faith/1538-the-christmas-truce#:~:text=“Now%20and%20then%2C%20on%20a,the%20Battle%20of%20the%20Bulge.”" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another interview</a>. &#8220;I remember mother and those seven young soldiers, who met as enemies and parted as friends, right in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge.&#8221;

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‘There Will Be No Shooting Here’: How One Woman Demanded — And Got — A Christmas Truce In Germany, 1944

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a photograph this week of a Nazi propaganda book that denies the Holocaust found inside a school in Gaza.
The book, &#8220;The Big Lie: The burning of 6 million Jews in the gas chambers,&#8221; was located inside Al-Quds University, according to the IDF.
&#8220;Under Hamas’ rule, school curriculums promote extremist antisemitic practices—calling for genocide against the Jewish people,&#8221; the IDF said. &#8220;This is another example for Hamas’ true ideology—and another reason for us to dismantle it.&#8221;
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Under Hamas’ rule, school curriculums promote extremist antisemitic practices—calling for genocide against the Jewish people.
This is another example for Hamas’ true ideology—and another reason for us to dismantle it. <a href="https://t.co/1Bx804NApk">pic.twitter.com/1Bx804NApk</a>
&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1726936387168117244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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According to an Arabic <a href="https://archive2.libya-al-mostakbal.org/news/clicked/90769">website</a>, the book reportedly claims that Jews invented a lie claiming that Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler exterminated them in concentration camps. The book claims that Jews spread disinformation to pressure governments around the world and to shape public opinion in favor of Israel when, in fact, the Nazis systematically <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/holocaust">murdered</a> 6 million Jews in concentration camps.
The discovery comes after the IDF found an Arabic copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in a children’s room at a home in Gaza.
“IDF forces discovered a copy of Hitler’s infamous book ‘Mein Kampf’ — translated into Arabic — in a child’s bedroom used as a Hamas terrorist base in Gaza,” the IDF said on X. “The book was discovered among the personal belongings of one of the terrorists, featuring annotations and highlights.”
“Hamas embraces the ideology of Hitler, the one responsible for the annihilation of the Jewish people,” the IDF added.
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Never again is NOW.
IDF forces discovered a copy of Hitler&#39;s infamous book &quot;Mein Kampf&quot;—translated into Arabic—in a child’s bedroom used as a Hamas terrorist base in Gaza. 
The book was discovered among the personal belongings of one of the terrorists, featuring annotations and… <a href="https://t.co/XMOE3jgKmm">pic.twitter.com/XMOE3jgKmm</a>
&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1723665392525021439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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During World War II, Hitler met with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, whom Palestinians see as one of the fathers of Palestinian nationalism, on November 28, 1941, at the Reich Chancellory in Berlin.
During the meeting, al-Husseini conveyed to Hitler that he was “admired by the entire Arab world” because “of the sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially the Palestinian cause,” according to an official German <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-official-record-what-the-mufti-said-to-hitler/">record</a> of the meeting. He told Hitler that the Arabs were natural friends with Nazi Germany because they both hated Jews.
Hitler told al-Husseini that Germany’s war against the Jews was “uncompromising” and that he actively opposed “the Jewish national home in Palestine” because he claimed it was “nothing other than a center, in the form of a state, for the exercise of destructive influence by Jewish interests,” the record said.
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Tens of thousands of Muslims also fought for Germany during WWII as Nazi Germany “made significant attempts to promote an alliance with the ‘Muslim world’ against their alleged common enemies,” according to a <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/how-nazis-courted-the-islamic-world-during-wwii/a-41358387">report</a> from German public state-owned international broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
Today, there are multiple schools in the Palestinian-controlled territories — both in Gaza and in the Judea and Samaria Area — that have been named after Nazi collaborators, according to a <a href="https://palwatch.org/storage/special%20reports/pa%20ministry%20of%20education%20schools%20named%20after%20terrorists,%20sept%202017.pdf">report</a> from Palestinian Media Watch.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement has also posted the covers of anti-Semitic children’s books from Nazi Germany on their social media pages.
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Fatah posts Nazi children&#39;s book: Don’t trust a fox or a Jew <a href="https://t.co/bojDJ6FTdn">https://t.co/bojDJ6FTdn</a> <a href="https://t.co/dEck63Qvht">pic.twitter.com/dEck63Qvht</a>
&mdash; Pal Media Watch (@palwatch) <a href="https://twitter.com/palwatch/status/659725085582999553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-opens-up-about-telling-maria-shriver-hed-fathered-a-son-with-housekeeper-in-new-documentary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> received the Award of Courage from the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles and called on people to &#8220;confront&#8221; anti-Semitism following the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,400 people.
During the 15th annual gala on Monday night, the 76-year-old actor and former California governor was awarded the honor for his years of work combating anti-Semitism and bigotry amid a rise in anti-Jewish attacks across the world, according to the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/arnold-schwarzenegger-holocaust-museum-la-confront-antisemitism-1235638480/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Reporter</a>.
Schwarzenegger said as the son of a Nazi soldier, Gustav Schwarzenegger, he wanted to fight &#8220;for inclusion against hatred and speak out about hatred, and how wrong it is to not look at everyone&#8217;s life equally. And to attack each other because of someone&#8217;s religion and religious background or their color or their sex, whatever it is.&#8221;
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Honored By Holocaust Museum LA: &#8220;We Have to Speak Up and Confront&#8221; Antisemitism <a href="https://t.co/F8zbjhEvxS">https://t.co/F8zbjhEvxS</a>
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&#8220;I felt it was very important, especially since I come from a country that is known to be a big part of the Second World War and had the most vicious Nazis during the Second World War and beforehand,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I thought it is important to go out and to let people know that the next generation doesn&#8217;t have to be the same, that the next generation can change.&#8221;
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The &#8220;Terminator&#8221; star said he experienced anti-Semitism in his own home from his father, who slammed the Jewish publisher of a bodybuilding magazine Arnold was interested in. He said years later when he made it to America, it was that same publisher who set him up with housing and money, something he shared at the time with his father.
&#8220;From that moment on, I said to myself, &#8216;I have to go and fight that, I have to go and speak out about hatred, I have to go and get involved in this issue,'&#8221; Schwarzenegger said. &#8220;And the more I became a celebrity, the more I became a movie star and a bodybuilding star and all that, the more I felt like, &#8216;Oh, I have another power.'&#8221;
Schwarzenegger said, &#8220;[T]here&#8217;s all this chatter out there and all this stuff and all this negativity and hatred that we have to speak up and confront them. The more we speak out about that issue [anti-Semitism], the better it is.&#8221;
&#8220;So every day you have to talk about that, you have talked about it over and over again because we cannot let them get away with those lies and with this hatred,&#8221; he added. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to talk to them, and talk them down and let them know that the only way to go is through love… hatred you never ever win; love in the end always wins.&#8221;
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The German city of Tangerhütte has announced plans to rename a day care center after migrant parents reportedly expressed concerns that the current name does not accurately reflect the diversity of the community.
The day care center is currently named after Anne Frank, a Jewish girl whose diary was published after she died at the age of 15 in a Nazi concentration camp — and according to local reports, migrant parents have complained that it is &#8220;challenging&#8221; to explain to their children who Frank was and why her story mattered.
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After migrant parent pressure, Anne Frank daycare center to be renamed <a href="https://twitter.com/ZvikaKlein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ZvikaKlein</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Germany?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Germany</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AnneFrank?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AnneFrank</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Holocaust?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Holocaust</a> <a href="https://t.co/6FzEhRd7OW">https://t.co/6FzEhRd7OW</a>
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According to a <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-771852#771852" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Jerusalem Post, the daycare center&#8217;s director explained that &#8220;parents with migrant backgrounds feel uncertain about the name and find it challenging to explain to their children.&#8221;
An open society advocacy group, Miteinander eV, argued that there were certainly age-appropriate ways to discuss Frank&#8217;s story with younger children — and objected to the change, They said in a statement that especially as anti-semitism is on the rise in many areas, &#8220;renaming the daycare center sends the wrong signal.&#8221;
The city&#8217;s mayor, Andreas Brohm, has said the name change will go forward in spite of any concerns, noting that Anne Frank did not fit the parents&#8217; push to embrace a &#8220;new focus on diversity.&#8221;
&#8220;Ultimately, the parents and employees wanted a name that was more &#8216;child-friendly&#8217; and &#8216;better suited to their concept.&#8217; Their needs are more important than the global political situation,&#8221; the BILD newspaper reported.
&#8220;&#8216;Migrant parents&#8217; successfully got Anne Frank canceled in Germany? Seems a little on the nose,&#8221; Guy Benson responded to the news in a post on X.
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“Migrant parents” successfully got Anne Frank canceled in Germany? Seems a little on the nose. <a href="https://t.co/8XeGy0BuL4">https://t.co/8XeGy0BuL4</a>
&mdash; Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1721331314345861227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Imagine telling yourself in 2013 that in 10 years time, the Germans will be cancelling the &#8216;Anne Frank Kindergarten&#8217; because of &#8230;.. &#8216;Diversity,'&#8221; Gray Connolly <a href="https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1721655222123237884" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
&#8220;This is appalling. A German daycare center named after Anne Frank is changing its name,&#8221; said Aviva Klompas. &#8220;German media reports that parents want the center to push a message more focused on &#8216;international diversity.&#8217; Hear that? They are promoting diversity by erasing Jews.&#8221;
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This is appalling. A German daycare center named after Anne Frank is changing its name.
German media reports that parents want the center to push a message more focused on “international diversity.”
Hear that? They are promoting diversity by erasing Jews.
&mdash; Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1721535136490016972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Over the years, the United States has produced many remarkable generals and admirals, but only a few have stood out as world-class strategists and leaders of troops. As Veterans Day approaches on November 11, let’s remember and celebrate them. Here is my list of America’s finest 11 commanders.
<h2>George S. Patton Jr., 1885 &#8211; 1945 (World War II)</h2>
Much has been said and written about this American icon, and some of it is exaggeration to be sure. The Germans, for example, though they believed Patton the best Allied commander in the West, were not obsessing over his every move as depicted in the eponymous 1970 film. They did, however, expect him to lead the cross-channel invasion of Europe. Nevertheless, one of his most effective roles in the war was as a decoy to divert the German High Command’s attention away from the actual event in Normandy to prepare for Patton’s (fictional) First Army Group to land at Calais, which never happened.
But it was Patton’s exceptional skill, unrelenting drive to attack on the battlefield, and his unmatched understanding of highly mobile tank warfare that set him apart from the other ETO commanders. 
<div id="attachment_647771" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-647771" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-647771" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-541068933-490x576.jpg" alt="(Eingeschränkte Rechte für bestimmte redaktionelle Kunden in Deutschland. Limited rights for specific editorial clients in Germany.) GEORGE SMITH PATTON (1885-1945). American army officer. Photograph, 1944 (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)" width="490" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-541068933-490x576.jpg 490w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-541068933-255x300.jpg 255w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-541068933-768x903.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-541068933.jpg 871w" sizes="(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px" />GEORGE SMITH PATTON (1885-1945). American army officer. Photograph, 1944 (Photo by ullstein bild/via Getty Images)</div>
His first success was to breathe life back into the demoralized U.S. II Corps in North Africa after its severe mauling at the hands of Rommel’s Afrika Korps at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass (February 1943). After taking over command from the incompetent Gen. Lloyd Fredendall, Patton quickly initiated a regimen of strict discipline and training. By the next encounter with the Wehrmacht at El Guettar (March 1943), it was the Germans who ceded the field. 
<div id="attachment_647769" style="width: 635px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-647769" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-647769" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462729-625x576.jpg" alt="American military commander Lieutenant General George S. Patton (1885 - 1945) sits on the sand and watches a tank battle in Tunisia, 1943. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)" width="625" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462729-625x576.jpg 625w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462729-300x277.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462729-768x708.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462729.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px" />American military commander Lieutenant General George S. Patton (1885 &#8211; 1945) sits on the sand and watches a tank battle in Tunisia, 1943. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)</div>
Next, Gen. Patton landed in Gela in Sicily. To his chagrin, his troops were positioned to merely act as a covering force for his rival British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s drive north along the east coast to Messina. Montgomery’s forces were to cut off the retreating Axis from their only escape across the water to the Italian peninsula. The brash Patton, impatient with Montgomery’s plodding advance, effectively defied orders by detaching flying columns farther west through the Sicilian hills to fall upon the northern port city of Palermo. Showing grim determination to beat the British to Messina before the Germans could escape the island, the general even shot a farmer’s two mules when the stubborn animals held up a column under air attack, adding to the Patton legend. 
<div id="attachment_647763" style="width: 716px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-647763" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-647763" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462985-706x576.jpg" alt="American Generals George S. Patton (1885 - 1945) (left) and Omar Bradley (1893 - 1981) (center) speak with British General Bernard Law Montgomery (1887 - 1976), July 7, 1944. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)" width="706" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462985-706x576.jpg 706w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462985-300x245.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462985-768x627.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462985.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px" />American Generals George S. Patton (1885 &#8211; 1945) (left) and Omar Bradley (1893 &#8211; 1981) (center) speak with British General Bernard Law Montgomery (1887 &#8211; 1976), July 7, 1944. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)</div>
Once having taken Palermo, Patton whipped and drove his men as a jockey would a thoroughbred on the homestretch to Messina. His men arrived in the port city hours before Montgomery, satisfied that he’d proven to, what he believed to be, a condescending ally what properly led Americans could do. But by then the Germans had already made their escape across the Strait of Messina, promising years of bitter fighting on the rugged Italian mainland ahead. 
It was during the Sicily campaign that Patton infamously slapped two soldiers: One was suffering from “combat fatigue,” what we now would call PTSD, which Patton saw as cowardice, but the other most likely had malaria and was combat ineffective. These actions earned him public ridicule, a rebuke from General Eisenhower, and almost got him sent home. For a baffled Patton, who knew the Germans routinely executed their own men for showing cowardice in the field, this was a bewildering response.
<div id="attachment_647767" style="width: 829px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-647767" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-647767 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-515449222-819x576.jpg" alt="Dwight D. Eisenhower with General George S. Patton. Other military men are in the background. Getty Images." width="819" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-515449222-819x576.jpg 819w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-515449222-300x211.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-515449222-768x540.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-515449222.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px" />Dwight D. Eisenhower with General George S. Patton. Other military men are in the background. Getty Images.</div>
By the summer of 1944, with his decoy work done, and having paid enough for the slapping incidents, Patton was back where he was most effective — in command of an army in the field. Placed at the head of the Third Army, he was the right man to lead the Allied breakout from the Bocage and into the heart of France, inflicting heavy casualties on the Wehrmacht along the way. 
By December 1944, with France liberated and the Allies at the German border, the Allied high command was waiting out the winter while basking in the fruits of victory. They’d confidently deemed Germany incapable of offensive operations. But Patton was not so sanguine. Believing his own intelligence, which offered the Germans may try something desperate, he was already preparing his Third Army to pivot north to face just such an attack when Hitler launched his Ardennes offensive on 16 December 1944. Patton’s sudden and unexpected lurch ninety degrees to drive his entire army like a knife into the southern underbelly of the German salient was beyond the capacity of all but a few great commanders. The Third Army’s drive towards besieged Bastogne disrupted the German attack and liberated the town and its dogged paratrooper defenders on 26 December. 
<div id="attachment_647779" style="width: 721px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-647779" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-647779" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462242-711x576.jpg" alt="American military commander Lieutenant General George S. Patton (1885 - 1945) (center left) talks with Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe (1898 - 1975), Bastogne, France, December 28, 1944. McAuliff commanded the 101st Airborne Division, which was beseiged in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, until the seige was broken by troops under Patton shortly before this picture was taken. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)" width="711" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462242-711x576.jpg 711w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462242-300x243.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462242-768x622.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119462242.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px" />American military commander Lieutenant General George S. Patton (1885 &#8211; 1945) (center left) talks with Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe (1898 &#8211; 1975), Bastogne, France, December 28, 1944. McAuliffe commanded the 101st Airborne Division, which was beseiged in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, until the seige was broken by troops under Patton shortly before this picture was taken. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)</div>
However, Patton disagreed with his superiors Eisenhower and Gen. Omar Bradley on what to do next. The high command opted to gradually push the salient back with assaults along the entire front, rather than, as Patton recommended, cutting it off at its exposed base and killing or capturing those Germans trapped within. Patton fumed: “The Kraut’s stuck his head in a meat grinder and I’ve got hold of the handle!” In retrospect, given the heavy losses after Bastogne, Patton was probably right. 
Famously nicknamed “Old Blood And Guts” for his relentless determination to close with the enemy and destroy him, one can only speculate how the war in Europe might have played out if Patton, rather than the timid John Lucas, had been in command at Anzio, Italy.
Lucas allowed Allied landing forces to sit idle for five days allowing the initially surprised Germans to surround and besiege the exposed beachhead for months. Later on in Italy, rather than the self-promoting Mark Clark, Patton surely would have pursued and attempted to destroy the retreating Germans rather than allow them to escape just to take the symbolic but strategically irrelevant Rome. 
<div id="attachment_647789" style="width: 695px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-647789" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-647789" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119460600-685x576.jpg" alt="American military commander Lieutenant General George S. Patton (1885 - 1945) (center, in helmet with three stars), Commander of the 3rd Army, visits men of 1303rd Engineers, whose completed bridge across the Sauer River linked Luxembourg and Germany, February 20, 1945. The sign reads 'Gen. Patton Bridge; Built by the MIghty Midgets [obscured] 1303 Engr.' (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)" width="685" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119460600-685x576.jpg 685w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119460600-300x252.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119460600-768x646.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-119460600.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px" />American military commander Lieutenant General George S. Patton (1885 &#8211; 1945) (center, in helmet with three stars), Commander of the 3rd Army, visits men of 1303rd Engineers, whose completed bridge across the Sauer River linked Luxembourg and Germany, February 20, 1945. The sign reads &#8216;Gen. Patton Bridge; Built by the MIghty Midgets [obscured] 1303 Engr.&#8217; (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)</div>Patton also saw the true character of Stalin’s regime and pushed hard for the Western Allies to take Berlin. Eisenhower believed the casualties would be too extreme, and later pointed to the Soviets’ roughly 350,000 casualties taking the city as justification for leaving the prize to the Red Army. Patton, however, argued that the Germans would not have fought nearly so fiercely to defend their capital from the more humane Americans as they did resisting to the bitter end Stalin’s raping and pillaging Red Army hell bent on revenge.
As it turned out, Patton’s fears were correct. The end of Nazi Germany meant a new menace would take its place: Stalinist Russia. And so he protested that as little of Europe should be ceded to the Russians as possible, even if it meant military conflict. Interestingly, just seven months after V-E Day, while serving as military governor of Bavaria, the general was killed in a freak Jeep accident; speculation remains to this day whether it was a genuine mishap or a Russian hit. We may never know.
<div id="attachment_647795" style="width: 719px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-647795" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-647795" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-615318650-709x576.jpg" alt="Pall bearers carry the casket of General George Patton through a Luxemburg train station. Patton was killed in a post-war traffic accident. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)" width="709" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-615318650-709x576.jpg 709w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-615318650-300x244.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-615318650-768x624.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-615318650.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px" />Pall bearers carry the casket of General George Patton through a Luxemburg train station. Patton was killed in a post-war traffic accident. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)</div>
Although Patton lacked the tact necessary to be a modern general/bureaucrat (a skill at which Eisenhower excelled) he was a consummate military man who knew how to win battles and inspire men to do the same. 
Patton was one of the war’s most fascinating characters and a study in contradictions. He prayed like a nun yet cursed like a sailor. He loved the finer things and creature comforts, and yet the man relished and even drew his energy from the grime, filth, and blood of the battlefield. He kept his helmet mirror-shiny and sported two ivory-handled revolvers. He believed he had been reincarnated several times over; his past lives included one of Napoleon’s field marshals and Roman Legionnaire. Patton even designed a tankman’s uniform that, though gaudy, was also quite practical; the Army passed.
He was from one of the wealthiest families in California and married into more, which explained some of the resentment towards him among his peers from the heartland. And, although his mouth could be a more formidable enemy than the Wehrmacht, Patton was a fearless and bold leader whose drive from the Bocage to the heart of Central Europe took more territory in less time than any land army in U.S. history, was a model of how to use mobile armor to its utmost effectiveness.
One final thought on Patton’s oversized confidence. He actually participated in the 1912 Olympics as a competitive pentathlete. After coming in fourth in the shooting competition, the future American buzzsaw complained to the judges that he’d been wrongfully denied his medal. When it was pointed out he had only scored one bullseye, he insisted it was because he was such a good shot that he kept putting subsequent rounds through the same centered bullet hole. Who knows, he may have been right. 
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America’s Top 11 Generals: #8 George Patton

America's Top 11 Generals: #8 George Patton

American General

Europe

For days, pro-Palestinian and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-Hamas</a> activists have been tearing down the missing posters featuring the images of Israeli civilians who were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and taken into Gaza. But in New York City, they appear to have taken things a step further.
According to a photo shared on X by Inez Stepman, instead of ripping the posters down and throwing them on the ground or in the trash, activists in New York City have taken to adding &#8220;OCCUPIER&#8221; labels — creating the illusion that the person in the photo is wanted for some crime, as opposed to the victim of one.
&#8220;New tactic: slapping the label &#8216;occupier&#8217; over the posters of the women and children taken hostage to tell people that their lives don’t matter,&#8221; Stepman said of the move.
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New tactic: slapping the label “occupier” over the posters of the women and children taken hostage to tell people that their lives don’t matter <a href="https://t.co/wiiQYQeg6M">pic.twitter.com/wiiQYQeg6M</a>
&mdash; Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) <a href="https://twitter.com/InezFeltscher/status/1717591500437995825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Absolutely twisted,&#8221; Guy Benson said. &#8220;They’ve gone from ripping down hostage posters — which was disgusting enough — to basically turning them into wanted posters. Message: These Jews kidnapped by Hamas deserve it.&#8221;
Jarrett Stepman added, &#8220;Libs turned New York into 1930s Berlin.&#8221;
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Libs turned New York into 1930s Berlin. <a href="https://t.co/0VHMRXlVXu">https://t.co/0VHMRXlVXu</a>
&mdash; Jarrett Stepman (@JarrettStepman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JarrettStepman/status/1717618640894280073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;What this really says is &#8216;kill more Jews,'&#8221; David Marcus <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueBoxDave/status/1717613789451891109" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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&#8220;The logic here is that there is no such thing as an Israeli civilian — it doesn&#8217;t matter where you live, what your politics are, what kind of activism you&#8217;re involved with,&#8221; Arno Rosenfeld <a href="https://twitter.com/ArnoRosenfeld/status/1717624940092948801" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. &#8220;Any Jewish person in Israel is supposedly a legitimate target for violence.&#8221;
&#8220;Evil. There’s evil in our midst and it’s far more prevalent — especially on our college campuses — than anyone wants to admit,&#8221; Andrew Wagner, executive director of the Minnesota House GOP, pointed out.
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Evil. There’s evil in our midst and it’s far more prevalent &#8211; especially on our college campuses &#8211; than anyone wants to admit. <a href="https://t.co/aet1nqTxjk">https://t.co/aet1nqTxjk</a>
&mdash; Andrew Wagner (@andrewwagner) <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewwagner/status/1717605785813783012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Accusing the hostage of wrongdoing is more repulsive than tearing the poster down,&#8221; Jen Wright <a href="https://twitter.com/JenWEsq/status/1717637807928496337" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. &#8220;The people defacing these posters are nothing more than anti-Jew, antisemite, pro-Hamas, hate-filled terrorists. Thankfully vengeance is God’s. I pray for their souls. May they repent and be saved.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the most evil, disgusting, antisemitic act I’ve seen. These people do not care about Jewish lives. The first step is to dehumanize us so it makes our murder palatable,&#8221; Adam Weiss said.
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This is the most evil, disgusting, antisemitic act I’ve seen. These people do not care about Jewish lives. The first step is to dehumanize us so it makes our murder palatable <a href="https://t.co/UtzWtkk95G">https://t.co/UtzWtkk95G</a>
&mdash; Adam Weiss 🇮🇱 (@adamweiss14) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamweiss14/status/1717619387098705984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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According to the most recent reports, some 200 Israelis are still being held hostage by Hamas terrorists in the spiderweb-like network of tunnels beneath Gaza. Only a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-baghdad-bob-burnett-blasted-for-soft-report-on-hamas-hostage-takers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">small number</a> of those who were kidnapped on October 7 — during the brutal massacre Hamas carried out against Israeli civilians — have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/2-more-hostages-released-from-gaza-terror-expert-explains-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">returned</a> in the days since, and a few of them were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-american-hostages-are-released-from-inside-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American citizens</a>.

Activists Rally In New York’s Times Square For Release Of Israels Held By Hamas

Pro-Hamas Activists ‘Turned New York Into 1930s Berlin’ With Latest Stunt

Pro-Hamas Activists 'Turned New York Into 1930s Berlin' With Latest Stunt

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Terrorists

U.S.

Early Tuesday morning at the U.S. Open, a man in the stands was ejected after German star Alexander Zverev said someone in the crowd was yelling “the most famous Hitler phrase there is.”
Zverev, who ultimately <a href="//7B6B27B2-E50E-4E38-B207-C589E59F89BE/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won the match</a>, was battling Jannik Sinner in the fourth set of the quarterfinal match with the score tied at two games apiece when he approached umpire James Keothavong to protest, “He just said the most famous Hitler phrase there is. He just said the most famous Hitler phrase there is in this world. It’s unacceptable. This is unbelievable.”
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Video of Zverev telling the umpire someone in the crowd shouted the “most famous Hitler phrase in history” in match vs. Sinner <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#USOpen</a> <a href="https://t.co/XlWw7ktqjP">pic.twitter.com/XlWw7ktqjP</a>
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The prompted Keothavong to face the crowd behind him and ask who had yelled the remark, calling out, “Put your hands up. Who said that? &#8230; We’re gonna get him out.” He followed by asking the crowd to show respect for the players.
Security members went into the stands to find out who made the offensive remark. Several minutes later, cameras showed them speaking to a middle-aged man, then escorting him out of the stadium amid cheers and boos.
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They just escorted someone out. Unclear if this was the person who shouted “the most famous Hitler phrase” before <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USOpen2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#USOpen2023</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/zverev?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#zverev</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sinner?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#sinner</a> <a href="https://t.co/wbbUWAy2Vi">pic.twitter.com/wbbUWAy2Vi</a>
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After the five-set match was over, Zverev iterated what had happened. “He started singing the anthem of Hitler that was back in the day,” he said. “It was ‘Deutschland über alles’ and it was a bit too much. I think he was getting involved in the match for a long time, though. I don’t mind it, I love when fans are loud, I love when fans are emotional. But I think me being German and not really proud of that history, it’s not really a great thing to do and I think him sitting in one of the front rows, I think a lot of people heard it. So if I just don’t react, I think it’s bad from my side.”
“It’s his loss, to be honest, to not witness the final two sets of that match,” he concluded.
“There are some fans this late at night @usopen that are not good!” ESPN analyst Rennae Stubbs tweeted. “I ❤️ the fans but at this point there are some bad characters. I had a drink thrown on me last night by a drunk fan who was fighting with her boyfriend. Now we got someone yelling Hitler slurs! Wtf? Come on peeps.”
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There are some fans this late at night <a href="https://twitter.com/usopen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@usopen</a> that are not good! I ❤️ the fans but at this point there are some bad characters. I had a drink thrown on me last night by a drunk fan who was fighting with her boyfriend. Now we got someone yelling Hitler slurs! Wtf? Come on peeps.
&mdash; Rennae Stubbs 🟦👍🏼 (@rennaestubbs) <a href="https://twitter.com/rennaestubbs/status/1698914353402331413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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US Tennis Association spokesman Chris Widmaier later confirmed a “disparaging remark was directed toward Alexander Zverev.”
“Deutschland über alles” is the first stanza of the song “Deutschlandlied,&#8221; whose music came from the pen of the famed composer Joseph Haydn in 1797 for the birthday of Francis II, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Lyrics were added by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben in 1841.
But during the Nazi era, the Nazis used only the first stanza, then followed it with the Nazi stormtrooper “Horst Wessel Song.” At the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Hitler and his minions walked into the stadium as Germans sang “Deutschland über alles,” thus causing the song to be identified with the Nazi regime.

2023 US Open – Day 6

U.S. Open Fan Ejected After Allegedly Yelling ‘Most Famous Hitler Phrase There Is’

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Tennis

U.S. Open

Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> responded to his latest indictment on Tuesday afternoon by comparing the Biden administration to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
The 77-year-old former president was charged with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, and Conspiracy Against Rights.
&#8220;This is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which President Trump is the undisputed frontrunner, and leading by substantial margins,&#8221; the Trump Campaign said in a statement that Trump himself posted to his social media account.
The statement said that the indictment from the federal grand jury was &#8220;election interference.&#8221;
&#8220;The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;President Trump has always followed the law and the Constitution, with advice from many highly accomplished attorneys.&#8221;
The former president said that &#8220;these un-American witch hunts will fail&#8221; and he will return to the White House so he can &#8220;save our Country.&#8221;
The indictment says that Trump had every right to make false claims about the election and to challenge the results of the election. It says that the charges were related to specific actions that Trump took beyond making false claims and challenging the results in court.
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The indictment listed six co-conspirators who it says were engaged in “criminal efforts to overturn” the results of the election:
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<li>Co-Conspirator 1, an attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendant’s 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not.</li>
<li>Co-Conspirator 2, an attorney who devised and attempted to implement a strategy to leverage the Vice President’s ceremonial role overseeing the certification proceeding to obstruct the certification of the presidential election.</li>
<li>Co-Conspirator 3, an attorney whose unfounded claims of election fraud the Defendant privately acknowledged to others sounded “crazy.” Nonetheless, the Defendant embraced and publicly amplified Co-Conspirator 3&#8217;s disinformation.</li>
<li>Co-Conspirator 4, a Justice Department official who worked on civil matters and who, with the Defendant, attempted to use the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud.</li>
<li>Co-Conspirator 5, an attorney who assisted in devising and attempting to implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.</li>
<li>Co-Conspirator 6, a political consultant who helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.</li>
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Read the full indictment <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.1.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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In 1938, the main synagogue in the German city of Munich was demolished on direct orders from Adolf Hitler. Eighty-five years later, construction workers <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/world/europe/munich-synagogue-hitler-germany.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">came across</a> pieces of it in a river just a few miles away. 
The synagogue, built in 1887, was leveled by the Nazis because Hitler believed it was an “eyesore” for the city, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66107481" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. A construction crew uncovered columns from the synagogue as well as a partial stone tablet with the Ten Commandments inscribed on it while working on a dam. 
“I knew the imposing building as a child before it was torn down, and I never thought that parts of it could have survived the destruction, much less for them to resurface almost a century later,” 90-year-old Charlotte Knobloch, the president of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/world/europe/munich-synagogue-hitler-germany.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times in an email. 
The synagogue, one of two in Munich at the time, was one of the first synagogues in Germany that was destroyed by the Nazis, <a href="https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/this-month/april/1927.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The World Holocaust Remembrance Center. 
The construction crew <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/europe/munich-synagogue-discovery-scli-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered</a> the remnants of the synagogue on June 28 during a job to refurbish a small dam on the Isar River, according to the BBC. The artifacts were roughly five miles from where the building once stood. The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/world/europe/munich-synagogue-hitler-germany.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that the artifacts were 15 to 25 feet below the service. The crew immediately contacted German heritage officials to inform them of the find. 
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&#8220;[That was a] day which is very unusual in my professional career, because we don&#8217;t usually find a synagogue in a river,&#8221; Jewish Musem Munich director Bernhard Purin <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/06/1186049726/munich-synagogue-hitler-demolished-found-river" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NPR. Purin added that the discovery of the tablet with the Ten Commandments is “especially touching” because “all worshippers look to it” during services. 
The rubble from the synagogue was placed in the yard of the company that carried out the demolition, the Times reports. In 1956, it was used — along with other debris from bombed buildings — to reinforce a dam in the river. 
&#8220;These stones are part of Munich&#8217;s Jewish history,&#8221; Knobloch <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66107481" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;I really didn&#8217;t expect fragments to survive, let alone that we would see them.&#8221;
Upon learning of the orders to destroy the synagogue, the Jewish community in Munich worked through the night to preserve items, including Torah scrolls and ritual objects, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center says. Just a few hours later, the synagogue was demolished. 
Five months after the Munich synagogue’s destruction, the Nazi pogroms known as Kristallnacht occurred, also known as “the night of broken glass,” in which Jewish synagogues, homes, and businesses were destroyed. 
Today, a department store occupies the space where the &#8220;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66107481" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beautiful</a>&#8221; synagogue once stood. Authorities say the remains of the place of worship will be returned to the Jewish community. 
“The extermination of Jewish citizens during the Nazi era began with the destruction of Jewish culture,” Munich Deputy Mayor Katrin Habenschaden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/europe/munich-synagogue-discovery-scli-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “The demolition of the main synagogue on Hitler’s orders marked the beginning of exclusion, persecution and destruction. The fact that today we can find remains of the once cityscape-defining magnificent building is a stroke of luck and touches me deeply. Jewish life was and is an integral part of our city’s history, present and future.”

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Former California Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about his visit to Auschwitz during an interview on Sunday as he addressed his father being a Nazi.
&#8220;Auschwitz was a real mind-blower, I tell you, because it&#8217;s always one thing when you hear about it, when you read about it, but it&#8217;s never the same as when you&#8217;re actually there and then, all of a sudden, you see the realities of it, of where the people were shot every day, the wall with the target,&#8221; Schwarzenegger told CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash on &#8220;State of the Union.
&#8220;They were shot there. You look at the rooms where the suitcases are lying around of people that were told, make sure that exactly where you put your shoes and where you put your suitcase and your belongings, so, after the shower, you can find them right away, because we very quickly put you back on the train and take you back where you came from,&#8221; Schwarzenegger said. &#8220;Only, then they never came out of the showers because these were gas chambers. And so, when you see this stuff, it has such a profound impact that you totally understand why they say the slogan &#8216;Never again,&#8217; because this should never, ever happen again.&#8221;
Schwarzenegger then addressed the fact that his father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, was involved with the Nazi Party and fought for the Nazis during World War II.
&#8220;None of it was ever spoken about when I grew up,&#8221; Schwarzenegger&#8217;s said. &#8220;There was no one that ever talked about the war. I learned everything about the history in America.&#8221;
&#8220;My father was like so many other millions of men who were sucked into a hate system through lies and deceits,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And so we have seen where that leads. I mean, let&#8217;s just go and get along. And love is more powerful than hate.&#8221;
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Jonathan Pageau: I want to propose that there might be a very important narrative reason why the midwives are Hebrew in this case. And I think it is a good lesson for us today, which is that the tyrant is empowering women to kill their men. That is what the tyrant is doing, and he is doing it in order to feminize the Hebrews.
Dennis Prager: That is a fascinating take.
Jordan Peterson: It is no wonder you get in trouble all the time.
(laughter)
Jonathan Pageau: I think that it is important. And the reason why they won’t do it is because they fear God. It is because they are able to see beyond the power that the Pharaoh is handing them at this moment. When we think that that could not happen in a people, it is like, look around you. We are seeing it happen before our very eyes.
Jordan Peterson: It also implies that it is in the best interest of the tyrant to dispense with those figures who might pose a threat to the tyrannies, and those would be tough men because they are the ones who keep the real tyrants at bay.
Dennis Prager (to Pageau): That is such an intelligent point. It reinforces your reaction to what I said: Maybe the text is purposefully ambiguous about whether or not they were Hebrews or Egyptians. And you have swayed me.
Jordan Peterson: I have seen that purposeful ambiguity in other texts.
Dennis Prager: So let me just say, I identify a bias in me and I am very – I hope – self-aware.
Jordan Peterson: Good. So the first learning episode has actually occurred. 
(laughter)
Dennis Prager: Yes, exactly. The Torah goes out of its way – this is one of the fundamental beliefs of my life – to portray non-Jews positively and Jews negatively. It is one of the reasons I believe it is a divine author. If Jews had made up the Torah, they would have come across much more positively. They come across as awful, as a general rule.
Jordan Peterson:  So it is anti-propaganda.
Dennis Prager: Anti-propaganda, certainly. Noah is a non-Jew. Of course, there were no Jews at that time. But Moses’s father-in-law, who is the great adviser to Moses, is a Midianite priest. The daughter of Pharaoh is a non-Jew; she saves Moses. It is just a consistent pattern, and I thought that the midwives were part of that pattern. As I say, God is ethics-centered, not ethnic-centered.
Os Guinness: And this is taken as the first civil disobedience, isn’t it? 
Dennis Prager: That is right.
Os Guinness: It is the first example of someone standing against a crime against humanity.
Jordan Peterson: It implies that the relationship with God is actually what enables people to have the strength to stand up against the tyrant. 
Os Guinness: If you think of the Nuremberg trials, they did not actually have a basis for what they were saying. There is no international law. They were reaching, and maybe intuitively they knew.
Jordan Peterson: Well, that is certainly what Solzhenitsyn thought about the Nuremberg trials. He believed that the fact that the Nazi atrocities were regarded as wrong, independent of cultural context, was a signal achievement of the 20th century because it reestablished not so much the existence of good, but definitely the existence of evil. And that was something I found unbelievably convincing because I thought, you have a real conundrum here: Was what the Nazis did evil or not? Because those are the alternatives. And if it was not, you can move ahead on that presumption. Or you can accept that it was evil in a transcendent sense – because that is what the Nuremberg trials were about – and then the terrible implication of that, in some sense, is that if evil genuinely exists, then its opposite genuinely exists because it is not going to exist without its opposite. As soon as you accept the reality of the evil of Auschwitz, you are in a metaphysical world because you have to simultaneously posit the existence of a transcendent good that is at least the opposite of that. Part of what I have been striving for, for 40 years I would say, is to identify what is the opposite of this spirit that produced Auschwitz. And some of it Solzhenitsyn detailed out so nicely. It is the spirit of truth. And Frankl, it is the spirit of meaning. I think you can make a strong case that it is the spirit of love, and it is some amalgam of those three things, and that does not exhaust it. It is the spirit of play and voluntary association and freedom – all things that are stressed in the biblical narrative.
Douglas Hedley: ‘Where there is no vision, a people perish,’ as in Proverbs, and I think there that is very important — this notion of contemplation. We will come to that in particularly chapter three, this sense of a vision of goodness as having an inspiring quality.
Jordan Peterson: And it is a vision too and not just a mere verbal conceptualization, which is why the artistic endeavor is so important and the architectural endeavor, because it is not merely propositional, that vision. One of the things I learned with my students and with my clinical clients – and I helped them do this – was to develop a literal vision for their life. If you could have what you wanted to arm you against the slings and arrows of fate or to at least defend you against it, in principle, if you could have what you needed and wanted, what would that look like? That is a kind of prayer; it is like, knock and the door will open and ask and you will receive. You could conceivably have what you wanted, but you have to specify what it is and you have to have a vision of it. Part of what the humanities education should do and the religious education, certainly, is to flesh out a vision of a mode of being and a mode of perception that would justify suffering – or maybe even more than justify it.
James Orr: Well, you could say, I suppose, that if theists are faced with the problem of evil, atheists are confronted with the problem of good – how to make sense of goodness, how to make sense of what it is that drives their moral indignation and their great social revolutions. I think one of the most terrifying moments in the Nuremberg trials was when the Nazis advanced the defense that this was simply victor’s justice, that they had not really broken any laws. They were scrupulous legislators after all. 
Jordan Peterson: And following orders. 
James Orr: That’s right. Western notions of justice found themselves staring into the abyss. How is it that we are going to make sense of our deep intuition that this is evil of an absolute kind? And I think this is one of the great – as a matter of historical fact – one of the most important motivating factors behind the emergence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of course, in 1948, and with it, the entire sort of rights-based regime of morality that is with us still, that has proliferated and expanded.
Jordan Peterson: So the problem on the atheist front is: On what basis can these things be claimed as self-evident? What’s the grounding for that? And the postmodern critique of that in some sense is that, well, all that nonsense talk about rights and freedoms is just instrumental camouflage hiding a more fundamental will to power and desire to oppress.
James Orr: The worry is that the only answer available, in a purely sort of secular framework, would be because this document tells us that this is wrong or this document tells us that this is right.
Jordan Peterson: So that becomes part of the social contract, in which case the problem emerges immediately again. That’s just an arbitrary social contract.
James Orr: The solution sort of replicates the very problem that it was trying to solve.
<a href="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson</a> is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard. He is the international bestselling author of Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules For Life, and Beyond Order. You can now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast">listen</a> to or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson">watch</a> his popular lectures on DailyWire+.
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