Path of Totality

FRITZ KLIMSCH Design of a monument for the “Röchlingwerke” Picture by Linkhorst - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Non-political!

Source of The Improvement Era article: https://archive.org/details/improvementera3501unse

Adolf the Orator (2 of 2) “It is said that the prison officials [at Landsberg] wanted to give Hitler deaf prison guards for fear he would make a speech to them and gain his freedom.” — from Adolf Hitler: The Man and His Ideas (1931) by Wendell C. Irvine [The Improvement Era, Vol. 25, No. 1, November 1931 Issue, p. 55]

Festungshaft [Pictured: Adolf Hitler, Emil Maurice, Hermann Kriebel, Rudolf Hess, and Friedrich Weber at Landsberg Prison] After the Beer Hall Putsch Hitler and Hess were both sentenced to five years in Festungshaft, ('fortress confinement') for treason. Festungshaft was the mildest of the three types of jail sentence available in German law at the time; it excluded forced labour, provided reasonably comfortable cells, and allowed the prisoner to receive visitors almost daily for many hours. This was the customary sentence for those whom the judge believed to have had honourable but misguided motives, and it did not carry the stigma of a sentence of Gefängnis (common prison), or Zuchthaus (disciplinary prison). In the end, Hitler served just over eight months of this sentence before his early release for good behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch

Adolf the Orator (1 of 2) “I cannot remember in my entire life such a change in the attitude of a crowd in a few minutes, almost a few seconds ... Hitler had turned them inside out, as one turns a glove inside out, with a few sentences. It had almost something of hocus-pocus, or magic about it.” — the testimony of Dr. Karl Alexander von Mueller, who was a witness to the beginning of the Beer Hall Putsch on November 8, 1923 [Hitler: A Biography (2008) by Ian Kershaw, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, p. 129]

Incoming A Century of Martyrdom The 100th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch is fast approaching. I’ve been working so many massive amounts of overtime at work lately that I almost forgot about it. I have nothing prepared (posting wise) for that day. It’s a big deal in our community, because these were the first martyrs of the Movement. The Beer Hall Putsch ended the first phase of the National Socialist movement, and it naturally planted the seeds for the next phase. Der Führer would take some time to reflect at Landsberg, and continue his mission afterwards. A lot has changed in the world since then, but the principles of National Socialism are eternal, so they ring true just as much today as they did back then. And during this occasion we should take a solemn moment to remember the First Martyrs, and the ultimate sacrifice they made. Hail Victory! 🙋🏼‍♂️

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Associations of the Mind (2 of 2) I have always associated the photograph of the gigantic mountains of Bavaria from the view of the Berghof, with this Bladerunner movie scene. I don’t know why. It just is.

Associations of the Mind (1 of 2) A majestic view of the Bavarian mountains from the view of the Berghof.

The Light of the Black Sun “When this earth has passed, ‘Only the Resurrected Heroes shall remain, beyond the stars…’ (quoting Serrano) This is the light of the Black Sun, emergent and concealed, projecting and revealing itself, loyally lighting the dark across time for those who once again take up the struggle… The light beyond the stars — the morning of a day that has ended, the morning of a day that has yet to come; it is the light from the eyes of those born with eyes open. It is the light that reaches us nonetheless.” — from Hitler Avatāra (2023) by Martin Friedrich [Clemens & Blair Edition, p. 108]

Rudolf von Ribbentrop in 1943. He joined an SS infantry regiment shortly after the war began in 1939 He served in military units in Czechoslovakia, France, and the Soviet Union, and was a tank commander during the Battle of the Bulge. In his book, Mr. von Ribbentrop wrote that he and his father had anticipated the guilty verdict [at Nuremberg], and that the court “had been so structured as to make unequivocally sure that the process taken was directed to capital punishment.” Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/obituaries/rudolf-von-ribbentrop-dead.html

Rudolf Von Ribbentrop in London in 1936, shortly after his father, Joachim, was named Germany’s ambassador to Britain. He attended the Westminster School there, where one classmate said he dressed “like the rest of us, but with the Nazi party youth badge — swastika, eagle and all — prominently and incongruously displayed in his lapel.” Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/obituaries/rudolf-von-ribbentrop-dead.html

German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop holding his son Barthold Henkell Von Ribbentrop, circa 1942.

Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, Iceland

Skógafoss waterfall in Iceland, with the surrounding area covered in volcanic ash.