NAUGHTY NAZIS: Hitler Youth rallies an orgy of sexual hijinks

 

Hitler Youth rallies were an orgy of hormone-charged hijinks in addition to a heaping, helping of hate, a new exhibit reveals.

The project at the Nazi Documentation Centre in Cologne pulls back the curtain for the first time on Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls (BDM).

Both were established in 1936 and all German children aged 10 to 18 were obliged to participate. The idea was to provide wholesome activities to build character.

And also to brainwash the 9 million children involved, who made dictator Adolf Hitler their rock star.

But the exhibit reveals that the carnal capers at mixed-gender rallies were far from wholesome.

After the notorious Nuremberg Rally in 1938, the exhibit reveals that 900 teenaged girls became pregnant. The prudish Nazi poohbahs were not pleased by the Teutonic trysts and ordered the girls to have abortions.  (more...)

NAUGHTY NAZIS: Hitler Youth rallies an orgy of sexual hijinks

Canadian Fascists

 

Efforts to transform local movements into national political organizations have generally failed. Ideology provides much stronger glue than localized hostility toward some practice or group. Perhaps one of the hidden benefits of a divided Canadian dualism and pluralism is that it is difficult to muster a mass response to a putative scapegoat group. In times of crisis — like the Great Depression — it becomes possible to mobilize anger and xenophobia as a political movement.

One cannot, therefore, take too lightly the appearance of fascist movements and parties in Canada in the 1930s. Of these, there were three main examples: the Canadian Nationalist Party led by William Whittaker and based in Winnipeg, the Canadian Union of Fascists (a pro-Mosleyite, British fascist organization), and the Parti National Social Chrétien (PNSC). The PNSC was the largest and most successful of the three, the political wing of a Quebec-based fascist movement under the leadership of Adrien Arcand (1899-1967). Heavily influenced by the rise of anti-Semitic movements in Europe and especially by Adolf Hitler’s German National Socialist (Nazi) Party, Arcand was an enthusiastic promoter of an all-white, all-Christian vision of Canada. The PNSC looked beyond the borders of Quebec, seeking sympathizers among Anglo-Canadians under the umbrella of the National Unity Party of Canada (NUPC). The emergence of Ku Klux Klan chapters in Ontario and on the Prairies, as well as the deeply entrenched anti-Asian sentiment among Euro-British Columbians made fertile ground for Arcand’s message. Following on the example set by European fascists, Arcand’s group took to wearing distinctive uniforms festooned with swastikas. While Hitler had his “brown shirts,” Benito Mussolini in Italy his “black shirts,” and Oswald Mosley in Britain his “green shirts,” in Canada the fascists were “blue shirts.”  (more...)

Canadian Fascists

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The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz

 Jack Fairweather’s new book "The Volunteer" tells the little-known story of Witold Pilecki, who spent nearly three years in Auschwitz clandestinely working to undermine the Germans and inform the Allies of Nazi crimes. Pilecki’s exploits were suppressed for decades after the war by Poland’s Communist government, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 and the opening of the archives in Warsaw, the story of his heroic mission slowly emerged. Fairweather has drawn on Pilecki’s own accounts, including previously uncovered writings, hundreds of prisoners’ testimonies and exclusive interviews with those who knew him and fought beside him, to paint a compelling, nuanced portrait of a hero who risked everything to bring the horrors of Auschwitz to light. Fairweather was joined in conversation by the co-host of NPR’s "On Point" David Folkenflik.

Fashion tycoon Peter Nygard's two sons accuse him of paying his sex worker girlfriend to rape them when they were just 14 and 15

 

Canadian fashion tycoon Peter Nygard has been accused of hiring his sex worker girlfriend to rape two of his sons when they were teenagers in a bombshell new lawsuit.  

Nygard's biological sons made the stunning allegations against their father - who has been accused of sexually assaulting dozens of women in a decades-long sex trafficking scheme - in a complaint filed Sunday in Manhattan federal court. 

The men claim they were both statutorily raped by the same 'girlfriend' of their father, who was a 'known sex worker'. 

The alleged rapes took place 14 years apart at properties owned by 79-year-old Nygard, the complaint obtained by DailyMail.com states. 

In one case, Nygard, who has seven children in total, allegedly told the woman that he wanted her to 'make a man' out of one of the sons, who was 14 at the time.

'Each of the sons has experienced, first-hand, the destruction caused by Peter Nygard's sex trafficking venture and, through their truth, stand for accountability and justice,' the complaint obtained by DailyMail.com states.  (more...)

Fashion tycoon Peter Nygard's two sons accuse him of paying his sex worker girlfriend to rape them when they were just 14 and 15

Captain Witold Pilecki and the Resistance in Auschwitz

 Witold Pilecki was Auschwitz Prisoner 4859. He was also the only known individual in the world to enter the notorious death camp voluntarily - to gather intelligence for Poland's Underground and to form a Resistance Movement within the camp. He survived for nearly three years, then escaped. 

His mission in the notorious German Nazi concentration and death camp lasted almost three years, from 1940 to 1943. He was sent by Poland's Underground Resistance Movement to smuggle out information about the then-secret camp and to create a resistance organization within. After the war, he was arrested by communist authorities, tortured, given a show trial and executed - branded a traitor to his country. 

Before his death, Pilecki wrote a detailed report from his time in the camp. That report was recently translated into English, and published in 2012 by Aquila Polonica as The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery: Captain Witold Pilecki.

On Jan. 27, 2013 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day - the Embassy of Poland in the U.S. partnered with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on an event honoring Witold Pilecki.

New Yorker risks life as double agent in Nazi underground, brings down Duquesne Spy Ring

 

The day after Hitler declared war on the United States on Dec. 11, 1941, a Brooklyn jury returned convictions on a viperous nest of Nazi spies brought to justice by a humble but courageous Manhattan man.

William Sebold was the FBI's first double agent and the country's first hero of World War II.

In a fascinating new book, "Double Agent," Peter Duffy reveals the little-known story of the New Yorker who risked his life daily in the city's Nazi underground, ferreting out traitors sworn to arming the Führer's deadly Luftwaffe bombers and providing lethal assistance to German U-boats.

The Duquesne Spy Ring, as it was known, was brought down by Sebold in what still stands as the largest espionage case in American history. A femme fatale, a soldier of fortune and a gun-toting Sperry engineer were among the 33 spies, most naturalized citizens, eventually sentenced to a total of 300 years in prison.

Sebold, a German immigrant, was a naturalized American citizen when he returned to Germany to visit his mother in 1939. The Nazis, overly impressed with a low-level job Sebold once held in the aircraft industry, were determined to put a spymaster in place in Manhattan and informed him at the threat of death that he now worked for them.  (more...)

New Yorker risks life as double agent in Nazi underground, brings down Duquesne Spy Ring

Toronto's Grace Buchanan-Dineen's life of intrigue and espionage in Detroit

 

Countess Grace Buchanan-Dineen, child of a prominent Rosedale family, lived a glamorous life in Detroit during the Second World War. Beautiful and cosmopolitan, she rapidly “became a social favorite,” one observer recalled, as she regaled them with anecdotes about her decade spent in Europe as the continent descended into war. Then, in late August 1943, her high-profile arrest on espionage charges shocked Detroit and Toronto with the revelation that the countess had been a Nazi spy, gathering intelligence on U.S. war production and defence capabilities as head of a spy ring. Though she’d turned FBI informant, Buchanan-Dineen faced the possibility of trading her mink coats and jewels for a long term in prison clothes—or even the death penalty. One senior FBI official found the plot “so fantastic” that it sounded “like storybook reading.” But, in reality, it was something straight out of a Hitchcock film.

Returning home to Toronto after serving time for her crimes, Grace Buchanan-Dineen expressed her desire, as the Toronto Star paraphrased, to “begin working on a novel or a series of short stories on the last 10 years of her life,” detailing her exploits in espionage and intrigue. Although no such stories were ever published, it was a fitting ambition because Buchanan-Dineen’s life as a spy had been about crafting fictions.

She used her own name, but the version of her biography the FBI assembled for the press—presumably with her cooperation—was filled with half-truths and obfuscations. Buchanan was, in fact, her middle name—one she shared with her father, Frank Buchanan Dineen, in honour of his mother’s maiden name. But she hyphenated her name or, at least, she never seems to have corrected the countless FBI agents and reporters who did. She was commonly described as a Countess, whose great-grandfather had been the last Count De Neen of Brittany, and was said to be born to French-Canadian parents in Toronto. That she was born in Toronto was true—on May 23, 1909. But no one else in her family ever seems to have claimed roots in the French nobility—or, in fact, to be anything other than plain Irish. If the family had ancestors in the nobility, it was likely further back in her family tree. Her grandfather, William D. Dineen, was a self-made man, in the common telling of her family’s history.  (more...)

Toronto's Grace Buchanan-Dineen's life of intrigue and espionage in Detroit