Sunday, 9 March 2014

Never let an opportunity to let a 'Nazi' headline pass you by, even though apart from the fact that the property was allegedly used by 'Resistance' organisations (which I'm sure many French properties were, during occupation) they offer no real evidence of the claim (Apart from a few stock photo's allegedly of 'French resistance fighters')
Given the headline, you may be led to believe that scores of French people were 'slaughtered' by 'the Gerrie's', however, this is not the case. Over 68,000 French civilians: Men, Women AND CHILDREN were slaughtered during occupation, but they were slaughtered by the British & US via air raids. Link to Wikipedia

Chateau de Resistance: Five storeys, seven bedrooms - and yours for less than a Home Counties semi

Five-storey mansion in central France appeared on Grand Designs in 2004
It was the HQ for the local resistance during World War II
The seven-bedroom home is now on the market for £495,000

By Eve Mcgowan
PUBLISHED: 22:00, 8 March 2014 | UPDATED: 09:28, 9 March 2014

When Doug Ibbs and Deni Daniel appeared on Grand Designs back in 2004 after buying an enormous ruin in rural France, a sceptical Kevin McCloud proclaimed they’d got ‘carried away with the romance of it all’ – and wasn’t at all sure they’d ‘thought it through’.
The couple, both divorcees who had met five years previously, bought the tumble-down 19th Century manor house on a whim after stumbling across an advert for it online.
The odds didn’t look good – neither of them spoke French, they had no experience with building work and they hadn’t even been intending to move overseas when they bought the house just two days after spotting it. They sold their Dorset home and gave up steady jobs in Britain (Doug was an engineer and Deni worked in sales and marketing.)
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Transformed: The five-storey property in the Limousin region in central France appeared on Grand Designs in 2004 and is now on the market for £495,000

The five-storey property in the department of Creuse in the Limousin region in central France had been the headquarters of the local Resistance movement during the war. It was discovered and burnt down by the Germans in 1944, and since then it had not been touched.

But just a few months after first seeing the property, Kevin was forced to eat his words. ‘Every time I’ve visited I’ve been more and more blown away by Doug and Deni,’ he said on the show.
‘They’ve proved that through sheer dogged optimism, it’s possible to tackle almost anything.’
Fourteen months after buying the manor house, the couple, who lived in a caravan in the garden while the work was being done, opened their doors to paying guests.

Big plans on Grand Designs for the French manor house

Dilapidated: This is what the mansion looked like before the restoration 11 years ago, having not been touched since the German army destroyed it in 1944

Pride and glory: The property was the headquarters of the local Resistance movement during World War II and was left untouched for nearly 60 years

Big project: Doug Ibbs and Deni Daniel appeared on Grand Designs back in 2004 after buying the enormous ruin in rural France

Now, ten years after the show aired on Channel 4, they have put the property on the market for €599,960 – about £495,000. Both 64, they are keen to retire and spend more time with their children and grandchildren (they have five children and four grandchildren between them.) Their pensions won’t allow them to maintain a large property like Chez Jallot, which comes with four acres of land, without keeping it running as a business.
‘It breaks our hearts to have to sell and we’re doing so with a lot of regret,’ says Doug. ‘But it’s an experience we can look back on and say, wow, we did that.’
Something about the intrepid pair must have struck a chord with Grand Designs viewers. Since Chez Jallot opened its doors in November 2004, they have been inundated with bookings from viewers charmed by the couple’s French dream. Some guests have been from as far as Australia, where the show aired a couple of years after it did in Britain.

Converted: Kevin McCloud initially told the couple they had gotten 'carried away with the romance of it all' but was forced to eat his words

‘In the first few years all our guests were viewers of the show,’ says Deni. ‘We haven’t had to spend any money on marketing at all. Now we get a lot of word-of-mouth bookings and return visitors and people who’ve read the reviews online.’
Doug adds: ‘We’ve met people from every continent in the world. The international gatherings around our dining tables in the evenings have been really great.’
He says the couple often have house-hunters staying with them – perhaps hoping they’ll be able to pick up some advice.
The Limousin region has about 10,000 British residents and attractions include Lake Vassivière, France’s largest man-made lake (a 15-minute drive from Chez Jallot).
Since the show, the couple have carried on building. When they started having guests, only the first two storeys were habitable. They completed the rest of the house, which now has seven en suite bedrooms, in 2006. In 2009 they converted the derelict barn into two self-catering gites.
Doug and Deni bought Chez Jallot for £36,000 in 2003 and although they originally earmarked about £100,000 for doing it up, like most Grand Designers they far exceeded their budget. ‘The total must be about half a million euros,’ admits Deni.
The couple aren’t selling Chez Jallot as a business as they would have to pay capital gains tax, although they are happy to offer advice to buyers who want to run a similar concern. They plan to stay in the area and buy or even build something smaller.
According to Paul Haskett of Legget estate agents, who are selling the property, now is a tricky time to be selling as the market is depressed in France. Prices in the Limousin dropped by almost 16 per cent last year, compared to three to four per cent in the rest of France, and many homeowners are in negative equity. ‘Prices are set to drop further this year. So it’s definitely a buyers’ market,’ says Paul.

LA RESISTANCE: FRANCE'S WAR AGAINST THE NAZIS

The French Resistance was a collection of movements that fought against the Nazi occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II.
Résistance cells were small groups of men and women who carried out guerrilla warfare that helped Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind enemy lines.
The men and women of the Résistance came from all economic levels and political leanings of French society, including conservatives, liberals, anarchists, and communists.

Villiers Le Lac, World War II, Resistants of French Forces

The French Resistance played a significant role in facilitating the Allies' advance through France after the invasion of Normandy.
The Résistance also planned and executed acts of sabotage that hampered the Nazi occupation, such as destroying Nazi electricity grids and several other parts of the infrastructure.
The Résistance was coordinated in part by French Symbol Charles De Gaulle, the commander of French forces in Britain, who later went on to be elected President of France.

French resistance soldiers and Allied soldiers fighting together against the Nazi German occupation

Granted, the feature below isn't your usual subliminal 'You can never trust the Gerry's ya know! look what they did to the Jahooz' type feature (Which makes a refreshing change. However it still depicts them in the usual manner of Aggressive and the 'having their asses handed to them by us 'Brits', which is the usual British/US press propaganda 'line'.

How Germany was crucified in the First World War: Hidden for 100 years, the astonishing photos by 16-year-old soldier shows how his brothers-in-arms would forever be haunted by the spectre of defeat

Captivating photographs taken by German soldier Walter Kleinfeldt who fought at the Somme aged just 16
The teenage soldier captured the reality of the front line for the German army with his Contessa camera
Kleinfeldt's photographs are seen for the first time, having been found by his son Volkmar just three years ago

By Hannah Ellis-petersen
PUBLISHED: 22:00, 8 March 2014 | UPDATED: 04:22, 9 March 2014

They lay forgotten in a dank cellar for almost a century. But these remarkable photos, published for the first time, give a rare and uncensored view of the horrors of the First World War from behind enemy lines.
They were taken by Walter Kleinfeldt who joined a German gun crew in 1915 and fought at the Somme aged just 16. As his haunting pictures, taken with a Contessa camera, make all too clear, life in the trenches was a harrowing experience. The images provide an insight into the epic machinery of war – and capture the darkest moments of battle, with bodies strewn among the rubble.
Returning home in 1918, Walter set up a photography shop in the town of Tubingen, where he worked until his death in 1945. Walter’s son Volkmar discovered the pictures three years ago.
They are now the focus of a new BBC documentary. Director Nick Maddocks said: ‘It is rare to find such good-quality, honest and often beautiful photos that show us war through the eyes of the soldier, particularly from one so young.’
Hidden Histories: WW1’s Forgotten Photographs is on BBC4 on Thursday at 9pm.

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Carnage: Amid the appalling devastation and bodies of dead soldiers, a crucifix stands tall - miraculously preserved from the shell fire. The powerful image was captured after a bloody skirmish in 1917 - and Walter's son Volkmar says: 'This photograph is like an accusation - an accusation against war'

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Final moments: Walter was just 16 when he fought at the Somme but his photos soon took on dark tone. Here he captures a German army medic kneeling beside a dying colleague - but he can do no more than offer comfort

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'After the storm': Walter Kleinfeldt captions one of his images showing bodies strewn across the battlefield

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Young life: Walter Kleinfeldt, pictured carrying ammunition in a Somme trench, joined a German gun crew in 1915 and fought at the Somme aged just 16, taking pictures of life on the frontline with his Contessa camera

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Calm before the storm: A 16year old Walter Kleinfeldt photographed in the German city of Ulm in 1915. Just a few weeks later, he was on the Somme.

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Constantly under threat: Gas attacks were a frequent menace in the Somme during the war so this group wear masks as they load shells into their gun in 1916

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Two worlds: A studio portrait of 16 year old Walter Kleinfeldt, taken shortly after he volunteered in 1915, left on the Somme in 1916, right

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Eyes in the sky: A German observation balloon takes off to direct artillery fire at the Somme in 1916. Walter Kleinfeldt was fascinated with the latest machinery of war

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First day of horror: This photograph of members of Walter's gun crew was taken on the 1st of July 1916, the first day of the battle of the Somme

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Happy moment: Kleinfeldt photographed his comrades washing in a river while away from the front

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

The music of the Persian underground
Link redirects to feature that appears on BBC Website.

Just a little Propaganda for those who choose to avoid knowledge, but to be educated instead.

Rock, rap and most forms of pop music are banned in Iran, because the government there believes it pollutes young minds and lead them to an un-Islamic world. Women are not allowed to sing in public and all published music must be approved by officials in Tehran.

For the BBC World Service's Freedom2014 series, Behzad Bolour travelled to Sweden and Georgia to meet Iranian exiles who have found freedom of expression through music - which would be banned in their native country.

The piece is about 2 alleged Iranians (Although the Female sounds more Eastern European to me), the first clip is about the male subject whose name doesn't appear in text within the feature, but sounds something like Mare or Mayer when spoken by the Narrator.

This chap makes the claim that he walked from Iran to Sweden - now bear in mind here that presuming he lived in, or near Tehran, he crossed into Azerbaijan, then into Georgia, then into Russia, to Finland to ultimately arrive in Sweden.
According to timeanddate.com it would be 2215 miles from Tehran to Stockholm, and that's travelling in a straight line.
Now it is suggested that the average person could cover 90+ miles if they walked non stop in a 24 hour period, that is impossible as you would have to rest, eat and drink. If we use the basis of 90 miles a day it would have taken him around 23 days to travel that distance, with no stops or rest breaks = he would be dead!
The average 'fit' person is able to cover 20 miles per day which I would estimate would take nearly 111 days, travelling in a straight line for 20 miles a day continuously. not happening in my opinion, given this guy is alleged to be in his 30's (Certainly not in the early 30's anyway) which would have made him a teenager when he is alleged to have 'walked to Sweden'.

Apart from the likelihood of him actually doing this, is taking into account the environmental conditions (Weather etc.) and his need of Food and Water supplies on his journey. Not to mention the crossing of borders and encountering Civic areas along the way, which a 'Teenage Iranian' just appearing on the scene would raise eyebrows, and would likely be brought to the attention of local authorities.

It is my opinion that the rest of the 'tale' that is told on the BBC piece is complete and utter tosh, it is just another opportunity to convince the naive to hate the Iranian state and its people. Sad really given that this is aimed at Europeans, Europeans who have a lot of 'Aryan' blood running through their veigns, this has nothing to do with the claims that are made concerning 'Nazis' or Hitler.
Europeans are a part of the Caucasoid race, in which 'Aryans' are a 'Sub Race', and Iran in English means 'Aryan'.

Aside from the usual sensitivities, Iranians are Caucasians, but the Zionist media is implying that they are other (Arabs for instance) we all know how successful the US, UK et al has been in slaughtering innocent people in lands around the world, particularly in the Middle East.

Don't be taken in by their propaganda, it's bull***t, the only people to benefit from convincing anyone that 'we' should murder innocent people are the International Bankers and Elites.
And they use you and your families to do it, you won't find them anywhere near a battlefield.

Sunday, 23 February 2014

Daily Mail 24/02/14

Fair play to Alice!

The Mail reports the following:

World's oldest known holocaust survivor dies aged 110: Alice, who played piano in concentration camp, appeared in Oscar-nominated short film about her life

Alice Herz-Sommer was confined in the camp in Terezin, or Theresienstadt
Film about her life is up for best short documentary at Academy Awards
She died in a hospital Sunday morning after being admitted on Friday

By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 19:39, 23 February 2014 | UPDATED: 22:24, 23 February 2014

The world's oldest known Holocaust survivor has died aged 110.
Alice Herz-Sommer, who lived in London and was originally from Prague, survived two years in the Nazi camp in Terezin, or Theresienstadt, in Germany during the Second World War. (Come on now, was it Terezin or was it Theresienstadt? Make up your mind DM)
Ms Herz-Sommer was a talented musician and an adept pianist and a film about her life is nominated for an Academy Award.

Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor has died aged 110, her family have said

Ms Herz-Sommer,pictured with Caroline Stoessinger who compiled Herz-Sommers' memories in a book, A Century of Wisdom. Born in 1903 Prague to a family of Jewish intellectuals and musicians, Alice Herz-Sommer socialised with the likes of Kafka and Brod

She is said to have counted esteemed existentialist writer Franz Kafka among her family friends (Who said?) and, more recently, was the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary about her life.
The Lady In Number 6 (That number again): Music Saved My Life, (Wasn't 'the Allies' then?) a 38-minute film, is up for best short documentary at the Academy Awards to be handed out next weekend.
Her grandson, Ariel Sommer, said tonight: 'Alice Sommer passed away peacefully this morning with her family by her bedside.

'Much has been written about her (Where?), but to those of us who knew her best, she was our dear 'Gigi'.

'She loved us, laughed with us, and cherished music with us.
'She was an inspiration and our world will be significantly poorer without her by our side. We mourn her loss and ask for privacy in this very difficult moment (What you talking to the papers for then if you want privacy?).'
Ms Herz-Sommer's devotion to the piano and to her son sustained her through two years in the Nazi prison camp (Not Death or Concentration?), and a film about her has been nominated for best short documentary at next week's Academy Awards (Yeh, you mentioned that a few lines back-Geez!).
She died in a hospital Sunday morning after being admitted on Friday, daughter-in-law Genevieve Sommer said.

Ms Herz-Sommer, who lived in London and was originally from Prague, had been confined in the camp in Terezin, or Theresienstadt, in Germany during the Second World War

The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life, a 38-minute film, is up for best short documentary at the Academy Awards to be handed out next weekend (That again?)

Ms Herz-Sommer's devotion to the piano and to her son sustained her through two years in the Nazi prison camp

'We all came to believe that she would just never die,' said Frederic Bohbot, producer of the documentary 'The Lady in Number 6 (and again): Music Saved My Life.' 'There was no question in my mind, "would she ever see the Oscars." (Schindler?)'
An accomplished pianist, Ms Herz-Sommer, her husband and her son were sent from Prague in 1943 to a concentration camp in the Czech city of Terezin — Theresienstadt in German (Ahh, it's the same place, but spelt different, I get it now) — where inmates were allowed to stage concerts in which she frequently starred. (Oh thank goodness, for a moment there I thought that read 'starved')
An estimated 140,000 Jews were sent to Terezin and 33,430 died there.(List of names - official causes of deaths?)
About 88,000 were moved on to Auschwitz and other death camps, where most of them were killed.
Ms Herz-Sommer and her son, Stephan, were among fewer than 20,000 who were freed when the notorious camp was liberated by the Soviet army in May 1945.
Yet she remembered herself as 'always laughing' during her time in Terezin, (Interesting that, a lot of Survivors have stated they were treated OK in the 'Death Camps' but of course they are never published in the MSM are they?) where the joy of making music kept them going.
'These concerts, the people are sitting there, old people, desolated and ill (From Typhus maybe among other illnesses?), and they came to the concerts and this music was for them our food. Music was our food. Through making music we were kept alive,' she once recalled.
'When we can play it cannot be so terrible.' (I like honesty)

Ms Herz-Sommer was born on November 26, 1903, in Prague, and started learning the piano from her sister at age 5

Though she never learned where her mother died after being rounded up (Probably in Israel), and her husband died of typhus at Dachau, in her old age she expressed little bitterness.
'We are all the same,' she said. 'Good, and bad.'
Ms Herz-Sommer was born on November 26, 1903, in Prague, and started learning the piano from her sister at age 5.
As a girl, she met the author Franz Kafka, a friend of her brother-in-law, and delighted in the stories that he told. (Yeh you mentioned that already)
She also remembered Kafka saying, 'In this world to bring up children: in this world?'
Alice married Leopold Sommer in 1931. Their son was born in 1937, two years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia.
'This was especially for Jews a very, very hard time. I didn't mind, because I enjoyed to be a mother and I was full of enthusiasm about being a mother, so I didn't mind so much,' she said (In the face of adversity).
Jews were allowed to shop for only half an hour in the afternoon, by which time the shops were empty. (Was it Siesta time, or do you mean there was no stock left?) Most Jewish families were forced to leave their family apartments and were crammed into one apartment with other families, but her family was allowed to keep its home. (Its home?!, not there home?)

(Nice 'Fresh' painted sign their, all adds to the effect I suppose)
((Won't be long before Ian Dunkedin Shmidt adopts that as a new corporate tag line for JobCentre buildings))

An accomplished pianist, Ms Herz-Sommer, her husband and her son were sent from Prague in 1943 to a concentration camp in the Czech city of Terezin - Theresienstadt in German - where inmates were allowed to stage concerts in which she frequently starred

'We were poor, and we knew that they will send us away, and we knew already in this time that it was our end,' she said. (Given Alice survived I think this statement is a little silly, after all she didn't in fact know, but may have believed it at the time)

In 1942, her 73-year-old mother (Who did well giving birth to a child in 1904 when she was in her late 30's) was transported to Terezin, then a few months later to Treblinka, an extermination camp. (Missed that one-extermination)
'And I went with her of course till the last moment. This was the lowest point in my life. She was sent away. Till now I don't know where she was, till now I don't know when she died, nothing.
'When I went home from bringing her to this place I remember I had to stop in the middle of the street and I listened to a voice, an inner voice: "Now, nobody can help you, not your husband, not your little child, not the doctor."'
From then on, she took refuge in the 24 Etudes of Frederic Chopin, a dauntingly difficult monument of the repertoire. She labored at them for up to eight hours a day.
She recalled an awkward conversation on the night before her departure to the concentration camp (Hold on did I miss something, it was a 'Nazi Camp' earlier) with a Nazi who lived upstairs and called to say that he would miss her playing. (Vicious b'stards them Nazi's - he was probably taking the piss)
She remembered him saying: 'I hope you will come back. What I want to tell you is that I admire you, your playing, hours and hours, the patience and the beauty of the music.' (Then duly turned round, clicked his heels like Dorothy and shouted 'untermention' or some ol bol*ocks like that)
Other neighbours, she said, stopped by only to take whatever the family wasn't able to bring to the camp. (Her neighbours robbed them?)
'So the Nazi was a human, the only human. The Nazi, he thanked me,' she said.
The camp's artistic side was a blessing; young Stephan, then 6, was recruited to play a sparrow in an opera. ("I'm only a poor little sparrow"-sing along ya tight gits)

Alice married Leopold Sommer in 1931. Their son was born in 1937, two years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia

'My boy was full of enthusiasm,' she recalled. 'I was so happy because I knew my little boy was happy there.' (Huh!! Happy in an Extermination Camp?)
The opera was 'Brundibar,' a 40-minute piece for children composed by Hans Krasa, a Czech who was also imprisoned in the camp. It was first performed in Prague but got only one other performance before he was interned.
'Brundibar' became a showpiece for the camp, performed at least 55 times including once when Terezin, which had been extensively spruced up for the occasion, was inspected by a Red Cross delegation in June 1944. (Yehh, we all know about those Anti Semitic 'Red Cross' don't we, figure fiddlers!!)
The opera featured in a 1944 propaganda film which shows more than 40 young performers filling the small stage during the finale.
Herz-Sommer's life inspired two books: 'A Garden of Eden in Hell' (2006) by Melissa Mueller and Reinhard Piechocki, and 'A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor' (Will that require re-titling now?) (2012) by Caroline Stoessinger.
In 1949, she left Czechoslovakia to join her twin sister Mizzi in Jerusalem. She taught at the Jerusalem Conservatory until 1986, when she moved to London.
Her son, who changed his first name to Raphael after the war (A lot of that happening 'allegedly', after the war), made a career as a concert cellist. He died in 2001.
Funeral arrangements weren't immediately available. (Hope she doesn't decide to 'do a Mandela' for the Oscars)

Have a "Proper-Gander"