Path of Totality

Into the Chambers of Hell: The Schutzstaffel in the Congo (2 of 3) “These Africans, alone with the unarmed prisoners in the burning solitude, made it a pastime of firing at them under the slightest pretexts or even under no pretext at all. The French had perhaps taught them to look upon Nazis [sic] as the natural enemies of all dark-skinned people — as British propaganda has quite a number of silly Indians. And that, along with an inborn propensity to murder, possibly prompted them. Many of the prisoners who were not killed off in this fashion died nevertheless on the way of malignant fevers. They had no medicine, no opportunity, for medical aid, whatsoever; no care, save for their comrades.”

Into the Chambers of Hell: The Schutzstaffel in the Congo (1 of 3) “France is one of the countries where the young SS men, easy to recognize, were deliberately subjected to the greatest hardships: made to lie for weeks upon the cold, damp earth; starved; beaten; tortured. Many were sent to slave labour camps in the French (or Belgian) equatorial colonies, that they might die there of exhaustion coupled with malnutrition, ill-treatment, and tropical diseases. I met one — Herr W — who, in 1945, after his capture by the French, was sent from Marseilles to Sidi-bel-Abbes with 18,000 others, and from there through the Sahara desert under the escort of half-wild Moroccan auxiliaries, to the Belgian Congo.”

This always hits

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (1944) by Judy Garland

Something About December, 2012 by Christina Perry

Ed Odyssey Confessional I love Christmas music! That is all.

Do You Hear What I Hear?, 1965 by Andy Williams

Do you hear what I hear? A song, a song high above the trees With a voice as big as the sea, With a voice as big as the sea.

Sleigh Ride, 1976 by Vera Lynn

#ScienceSaturday No. 76 Uranus with its rings and moons, showcasing storms and a polar ice cap on the planet. The new Webb image was produced by combining longer and shorter exposures. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-james-webb-telescopes-new-image-of-uranus-with-its-rings-and-moons-180983488/

The Origin of the NSDAP Swastika Flag (2 of 2) “The new flag appeared in public for the first time in midsummer 1920. No one had seen it before; it had the effect of a blazing torch. And what a symbol it truly is! As National Socialists, we see our program in our flag. In red, we see the social ideal of the movement; in white, nationalism; in the swastika, the mission of Aryan humanity to fight for victory, and at the same time, for victory of the idea of creative work, which has always been anti-Semitic and will always be anti-Semitic.” — from Mein Kampf (1926) by Adolf Hitler [The Clemens & Blair Dual English-German Edition, translated by Dr. Thomas Dalton, 2017, Vol. II, Chap. 7, pgs. 245-247] Video clip provided by… https://thegreateststorynevertold.tv/