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Werwolf!: The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement, 1944–1946
(Perry Biddiscombe)
Werwolf (German for "werewolf") was a Nazi plan, which began development in 1944, to create a resistance force which would operate behind enemy lines as the Allies advanced through Germany. However Werwolf's propaganda value far outweighed its actual achievements.
The name was chosen after the title of Hermann Löns' novel, Der Wehrwolf, first published in 1910. Set in the Celle region (Lower Saxony) during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), the novel concerns a peasant named Harm Wulf. After marauding soldiers kill his family, Wulf organises his neighbours into a militia who pursue the soldiers mercilessly and execute any they capture, while referring to themselves as Wehrwölfe. Löns wrote that the title was a dual reference to the fact that the peasants put up a fighting defence (sich wehren, see "Bundeswehr" – Federal Defense) and to the protagonist's surname of Wulf, but it also had obvious connotations with the word Werwölfe in that Wulf's men came to enjoy killing. While Löns was not himself a Nazi (he died in 1914), his work became popular with the German far right, and the Nazis celebrated it. Indeed, Celle's local newspaper began serialising Der Wehrwolf in January 1945.
Note that in 1942 Adolf Hitler named the OKW and OKH field headquarters at Vinnitsa in Ukraine "Werwolf", and Hitler on a number of occasions had used "Wolf" as a pseudonym for himself. (The etymology of the name "Adolf" itself carries connotations of noble (adal; Modern German Adel) wolf, while Hitler's first World War II Eastern Front military headquarters were labeled[by whom?] Wolfsschanze - commonly rendered in English as "Wolf's Lair", literally "Wolf's Sconce".)
In late summer/early autumn 1944, Heinrich Himmler initiated Unternehmen Werwolf (Operation Werwolf), ordering SS Obergruppenführer Hans-Adolf Prützmann to begin organising an elite troop of volunteer forces to operate secretly behind enemy lines. As originally conceived, these Werwolf units were intended to be legitimate uniformed military formations trained to engage in clandestine operations behind enemy lines in the same manner as Allied Special Forces such as Commandos. Prützmann was named Generalinspekteur für Spezialabwehr (General Inspector of Special Defence) and assigned the task of setting up the force's headquarters in Berlin and organising and instructing the force. Prützmann had studied the guerrilla tactics used by Soviet partisans while stationed in the occupied territories of Ukraine, and the idea was to teach these tactics to the members of Operation Werwolf.
On March 23, 1945, Goebbels gave a speech known as the "Werwolf speech", in which he urged every German to fight to the death. The partial dismantling of the organised Werwolf, combined with the effects of the Werwolf speech, caused considerable confusion about which subsequent attacks were actually carried out by Werwolf members, as opposed to solo acts by fanatical Nazis or small groups of SS.
The tactics available to the organisation included sniping attacks, arson, sabotage, and assassination. Training was to include such topics as the production of home-made explosives, manufacturing detonators from common articles such as pencils and "a can of soup", and every member was to be trained in how to jump into a guard tower and strangle a sentry in one swift movement, using only a metre of string.
In the early months of 1945, SS Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny was involved in training recruits for the Werwolfs, but he soon discovered that the number of Werwolf cells had been greatly exaggerated and that they would be ineffective as a fighting force.
Biddiscombe concludes that the only significant achievement of the Werwolfs was to spark distrust of the German populace in the Allies as they occupied Germany, which caused them in some cases to act more repressively than they might have done otherwise, which in turn fostered resentments that helped to enable far right ideas to survive in Germany, at least in pockets, into the post-war era.
Nevertheless, says Biddiscombe, ""The Werewolves were no bit players"; they caused tens of millions of dollars of property damage at a time when the European economies were in an already desperate state, and they were responsible for the killing of thousands of people.
On 5 August 1946, Soviet minister for internal affairs Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov reported that in the Soviet occupation zone, 332 "terrorist diversion groups and underground organizations" had been disclosed and "liquidated".
Within Germany
From 1946 onward, Allied intelligence officials noted resistance activities by an organisation which had appropriated the name of the anti-Nazi resistance group, the Edelweiss Piraten (Edelweiss Pirates). The group was reported to be composed mainly of former members and officers of Hitler Youth units, ex-soldiers and drifters, and was described by an intelligence report as "a sentimental, adventurous, and romantically anti-social [movement]". It was regarded as a more serious menace to order than the Werwolf by US officials.
A raid in March 1946 captured 80 former German officers who were members, and who possessed a list of 400 persons to be liquidated, including Wilhelm Hoegner, the prime minister of Bavaria. Further members of the group were seized with caches of ammunition and even anti-tank rockets. In late 1946 reports of activities gradually died away.
Within Yugoslavia
The remains of some military organizations which collaborated with Axis forces continued with raid activities like Crusaders (guerrilla) (until 1950), Balli Kombëtar (until 1947) and Chetniks (until 1946).
Werwolf!: The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement, 1944–1946
(Perry Biddiscombe)
Werwolf (German for "werewolf") was a Nazi plan, which began development in 1944, to create a resistance force which would operate behind enemy lines as the Allies advanced through Germany. However Werwolf's propaganda value far outweighed its actual achievements.
The name was chosen after the title of Hermann Löns' novel, Der Wehrwolf, first published in 1910. Set in the Celle region (Lower Saxony) during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), the novel concerns a peasant named Harm Wulf. After marauding soldiers kill his family, Wulf organises his neighbours into a militia who pursue the soldiers mercilessly and execute any they capture, while referring to themselves as Wehrwölfe. Löns wrote that the title was a dual reference to the fact that the peasants put up a fighting defence (sich wehren, see "Bundeswehr" – Federal Defense) and to the protagonist's surname of Wulf, but it also had obvious connotations with the word Werwölfe in that Wulf's men came to enjoy killing. While Löns was not himself a Nazi (he died in 1914), his work became popular with the German far right, and the Nazis celebrated it. Indeed, Celle's local newspaper began serialising Der Wehrwolf in January 1945.
Note that in 1942 Adolf Hitler named the OKW and OKH field headquarters at Vinnitsa in Ukraine "Werwolf", and Hitler on a number of occasions had used "Wolf" as a pseudonym for himself. (The etymology of the name "Adolf" itself carries connotations of noble (adal; Modern German Adel) wolf, while Hitler's first World War II Eastern Front military headquarters were labeled[by whom?] Wolfsschanze - commonly rendered in English as "Wolf's Lair", literally "Wolf's Sconce".)
In late summer/early autumn 1944, Heinrich Himmler initiated Unternehmen Werwolf (Operation Werwolf), ordering SS Obergruppenführer Hans-Adolf Prützmann to begin organising an elite troop of volunteer forces to operate secretly behind enemy lines. As originally conceived, these Werwolf units were intended to be legitimate uniformed military formations trained to engage in clandestine operations behind enemy lines in the same manner as Allied Special Forces such as Commandos. Prützmann was named Generalinspekteur für Spezialabwehr (General Inspector of Special Defence) and assigned the task of setting up the force's headquarters in Berlin and organising and instructing the force. Prützmann had studied the guerrilla tactics used by Soviet partisans while stationed in the occupied territories of Ukraine, and the idea was to teach these tactics to the members of Operation Werwolf.
On March 23, 1945, Goebbels gave a speech known as the "Werwolf speech", in which he urged every German to fight to the death. The partial dismantling of the organised Werwolf, combined with the effects of the Werwolf speech, caused considerable confusion about which subsequent attacks were actually carried out by Werwolf members, as opposed to solo acts by fanatical Nazis or small groups of SS.
The tactics available to the organisation included sniping attacks, arson, sabotage, and assassination. Training was to include such topics as the production of home-made explosives, manufacturing detonators from common articles such as pencils and "a can of soup", and every member was to be trained in how to jump into a guard tower and strangle a sentry in one swift movement, using only a metre of string.
In the early months of 1945, SS Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny was involved in training recruits for the Werwolfs, but he soon discovered that the number of Werwolf cells had been greatly exaggerated and that they would be ineffective as a fighting force.
Biddiscombe concludes that the only significant achievement of the Werwolfs was to spark distrust of the German populace in the Allies as they occupied Germany, which caused them in some cases to act more repressively than they might have done otherwise, which in turn fostered resentments that helped to enable far right ideas to survive in Germany, at least in pockets, into the post-war era.
Nevertheless, says Biddiscombe, ""The Werewolves were no bit players"; they caused tens of millions of dollars of property damage at a time when the European economies were in an already desperate state, and they were responsible for the killing of thousands of people.
On 5 August 1946, Soviet minister for internal affairs Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov reported that in the Soviet occupation zone, 332 "terrorist diversion groups and underground organizations" had been disclosed and "liquidated".
Within Germany
From 1946 onward, Allied intelligence officials noted resistance activities by an organisation which had appropriated the name of the anti-Nazi resistance group, the Edelweiss Piraten (Edelweiss Pirates). The group was reported to be composed mainly of former members and officers of Hitler Youth units, ex-soldiers and drifters, and was described by an intelligence report as "a sentimental, adventurous, and romantically anti-social [movement]". It was regarded as a more serious menace to order than the Werwolf by US officials.
A raid in March 1946 captured 80 former German officers who were members, and who possessed a list of 400 persons to be liquidated, including Wilhelm Hoegner, the prime minister of Bavaria. Further members of the group were seized with caches of ammunition and even anti-tank rockets. In late 1946 reports of activities gradually died away.
Within Yugoslavia
The remains of some military organizations which collaborated with Axis forces continued with raid activities like Crusaders (guerrilla) (until 1950), Balli Kombëtar (until 1947) and Chetniks (until 1946).
"mum's the word."
Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, Act 1, Scene 2:
“Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.”
Henry VI, Part 2 (often written as 2 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Whereas 1 Henry VI deals primarily with the loss of England's French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of the Roses, and 3 Henry VI deals with the horrors of that conflict, 2 Henry VI focuses on the King's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles, the death of his trusted adviser Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, the rise of the Duke of York and the inevitability of armed conflict. As such, the play culminates with the opening battle of the War, the First Battle of St Albans.
Henry VI, Part 2 is seen by many critics as the best of the Henry VI trilogy.[1]
The play begins with the marriage of King Henry VI of England to the young Margaret of Anjou. Margaret is the protégée and lover of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk, who aims to influence the king through her. The major obstacle to Suffolk and Margaret's plan is the Lord Protector; Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, who is extremely popular with the common people and deeply trusted by the King. Gloucester's wife, however, has designs on the throne, and has been led by an agent of Suffolk to dabble in necromancy. She summons a spirit and demands it reveal the future to her, but its prophecies are vague and before the ritual is finished, she is interrupted and arrested. At court she is then banished, greatly to the embarrassment of Gloucester. Suffolk then conspires with Cardinal Beaufort and the Duke of Somerset to bring about Gloucester's ruin. Suffolk accuses Gloucester of treason and has him imprisoned, but before Gloucester can be tried, Suffolk sends two assassins to kill him.........
Religion is a fundamental fact of life to Henry, who is presented as truly pious....Hearing later of the false miracle, even before meeting Simpcox, Henry exclaims, "Now God be praised, that to believing souls/Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair" (2.1.64–65). Henry accepts the authenticity of the event without evidence, trusting in his faith that it is true and that God has performed a miracle.
After the fight between Horner and Thump, Henry announces,
For by his death we do perceive his guilt.
And God in justice hath revealed to us
The truth and innocence of this poor fellow,
Which he had thought to have murdered wrongfully.
(2.3.101-104)
Ideas of justice are paramount throughout the play, especially the notion of where justice comes from, who determines it. When Thump first meets Henry, and Henry asks Gloucester's opinion. Gloucester says,
And let these have a day appointed them
For single combat in convenient place,
For he hath witness of his servant's malice.
This is the law, and this Duke Humphrey's doom.
(1.3.208-211)
He returns to this notion later, again arguing that truth is a defence against death and defeat:
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just;
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
(3.2.232-235)
Gloucester assures Eleanor that as long as he has truth on his side, his enemies cannot destroy him: "I must offend before I be attainted,/And had I twenty times so many foes,/And each of them had twenty times their power,/All these could not procure me any scathe/So long as I am loyal, true, and crimeless" (2.4.60–64). His claims prove false, however, as he is arrested on false charges and then assassinated before his trial.
The nobles disdain for justice is revealed more forcibly when Henry, unaware that Gloucester is dead, asks the court to treat him fairly, and Margaret, knowing he is both innocent and dead, responds, "God forbid any malice should prevail/That faultless may condemn a noble man" (3.2.23–24). As Hattaway points out "In England under Henry, law bears little relation to divinity and stands divorced from equity. The regal and judicial roles of the king's court are hopelessly confused, so that the status of the institution itself is compromised."
The lords' failure to understand the need for an impartial and functioning judiciary is echoed in the rebellion; "The virulent ambition and hostility to law that characterised the barons equally characterise the workmen,"[25] suggesting there is no difference between the old order and the new. This is evident in Cade's speech after ordering the execution of Lord Saye; "The proudest peer in the realm shall not wear a head on his shoulders unless he pay me tribute. There shall not a maid be married but she shall pay to me her maidenhead ere they have it. Men shall hold of me in capite. And we charge and command that their wives be as free as heart can wish or tongue can tell" (4.7.112–117). In this proposed new world order, Cade envisions establishing an autocracy where all will pay fealty to him, and where his laws, which he can make arbitrarily, stand for everyone. As such, in this political system, as in the old, law and justice seem to have little relevance.
Gloucester's death in particular is associated with the physical, as seen in Warwick's detailed description of the body;
See how the blood is settled in his face.
Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost,
Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless,
Being all descended to the labouring heart,
Who in the conflict that it holds with death
Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy,
Which with the heart there cools, and ne'er returneth
To blush and beautify the cheek again.
But see, his face is black and full of blood;
His eyeballs further out than when he lived,
Staring full ghastly like a strangled man;
His hair upreared, his nostrils stretched with struggling,
His hands abroad displayed, as one that grasped
And tugged for life and was by strength subdued.
Look on the sheets: his hair, you see, is sticking;
His well-proportioned beard made rough and rugged,
Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodged.
It cannot be but he was murdered here.
The least of all these signs were probable.
(3.2.160-178)
The first recorded performance after Shakespeare's day was on 23 April 1864 (Shakespeare's tercentenary) at the Surrey Theatre in London, as a stand-alone performance.
2 Henry VI has not been performed as a stand-alone play since then, although Seale's production was so successful that 3 Henry VI followed in 1952, and 1 Henry VI in 1953.
Two more adaptations followed in 1723. The first was Humfrey Duke of Gloucester by Ambrose Philips, which used about thirty lines from Acts 1–3 of 2 Henry VI and was performed at Drury Lane. In a possible comment on the politics of Crowne's adaptation, Phillips dedicated his version to William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, a leading Whig politician. The second 1723 adaptation, also performed at Drury Lane, was Theophilus Cibber's King Henry VI: A Tragedy.
In 1817, Edmund Kean appeared in J.H. Merivale's Richard Duke of York; or the Contention of York and Lancaster, which used material from all three Henry VI plays, but removed everything not directly related to York.
Following Merivale's example, Robert Atkins adapted all three plays into a single piece for a performance at The Old Vic in 1923 as part of the celebrations for the tercentenary of the First Folio.
Another adaptation of the tetralogy by the Royal Shakespeare Company followed in 1988, performed at the Barbican. Adapted by Charles Wood and directed by Adrian Noble, the Barton/Hall structure was again followed, reducing the trilogy to two plays by dividing 2 Henry VI in the middle.
Michael Bogdanov and the English Shakespeare Company presented a different adaptation at the Swansea Grand Theatre in 1991, using the same cast as on the touring production.
In 1923, extracts from all three Henry VI plays were broadcast on BBC Radio, performed by the Cardiff Station Repertory Company as the third episode of a series of programs showcasing Shakespeare's plays, entitled Shakespeare Night. In 1947, BBC Third Programme aired a one-hundred-and-fifty-minute adaptation of the trilogy as part of their Shakespeare's Historical Plays series.
In 1971, BBC Radio 3 presented a two-part adaptation of the trilogy by Raymond Raikes. Part 1 contained an abridged 1 Henry VI and an abridged version of the first three acts of 2 Henry VI. Part 2 presented Acts 4 and 5 and an abridged 3 Henry VI. Nigel Lambert played Henry, Barbara Jefford played Margaret and Ian McKellen played both York and Richard III. In 1977, BBC Radio 4 presented a 26-part serialisation of the eight sequential history plays under the general title Vivat Rex (Long live the King). Adapted by Martin Jenkins as part of the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, 2 Henry VI comprised episodes 17 ("Witchcraft") and 18 ("Jack Cade").
In America, in 1936, a heavily edited adaptation of the trilogy was broadcast as part of NBC Blue's Radio Guild series comprising of three sixty-minute episodes aired a week apart.
In 1985, German radio channel Sender Freies Berlin broadcast a heavily edited seventy-six-minute two-part adaptation of the octology adapted by Rolf Schneider.
Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, Act 1, Scene 2:
“Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.”
Henry VI, Part 2 (often written as 2 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Whereas 1 Henry VI deals primarily with the loss of England's French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of the Roses, and 3 Henry VI deals with the horrors of that conflict, 2 Henry VI focuses on the King's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles, the death of his trusted adviser Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, the rise of the Duke of York and the inevitability of armed conflict. As such, the play culminates with the opening battle of the War, the First Battle of St Albans.
Henry VI, Part 2 is seen by many critics as the best of the Henry VI trilogy.[1]
The play begins with the marriage of King Henry VI of England to the young Margaret of Anjou. Margaret is the protégée and lover of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk, who aims to influence the king through her. The major obstacle to Suffolk and Margaret's plan is the Lord Protector; Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, who is extremely popular with the common people and deeply trusted by the King. Gloucester's wife, however, has designs on the throne, and has been led by an agent of Suffolk to dabble in necromancy. She summons a spirit and demands it reveal the future to her, but its prophecies are vague and before the ritual is finished, she is interrupted and arrested. At court she is then banished, greatly to the embarrassment of Gloucester. Suffolk then conspires with Cardinal Beaufort and the Duke of Somerset to bring about Gloucester's ruin. Suffolk accuses Gloucester of treason and has him imprisoned, but before Gloucester can be tried, Suffolk sends two assassins to kill him.........
Religion is a fundamental fact of life to Henry, who is presented as truly pious....Hearing later of the false miracle, even before meeting Simpcox, Henry exclaims, "Now God be praised, that to believing souls/Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair" (2.1.64–65). Henry accepts the authenticity of the event without evidence, trusting in his faith that it is true and that God has performed a miracle.
After the fight between Horner and Thump, Henry announces,
For by his death we do perceive his guilt.
And God in justice hath revealed to us
The truth and innocence of this poor fellow,
Which he had thought to have murdered wrongfully.
(2.3.101-104)
Ideas of justice are paramount throughout the play, especially the notion of where justice comes from, who determines it. When Thump first meets Henry, and Henry asks Gloucester's opinion. Gloucester says,
And let these have a day appointed them
For single combat in convenient place,
For he hath witness of his servant's malice.
This is the law, and this Duke Humphrey's doom.
(1.3.208-211)
He returns to this notion later, again arguing that truth is a defence against death and defeat:
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just;
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
(3.2.232-235)
Gloucester assures Eleanor that as long as he has truth on his side, his enemies cannot destroy him: "I must offend before I be attainted,/And had I twenty times so many foes,/And each of them had twenty times their power,/All these could not procure me any scathe/So long as I am loyal, true, and crimeless" (2.4.60–64). His claims prove false, however, as he is arrested on false charges and then assassinated before his trial.
The nobles disdain for justice is revealed more forcibly when Henry, unaware that Gloucester is dead, asks the court to treat him fairly, and Margaret, knowing he is both innocent and dead, responds, "God forbid any malice should prevail/That faultless may condemn a noble man" (3.2.23–24). As Hattaway points out "In England under Henry, law bears little relation to divinity and stands divorced from equity. The regal and judicial roles of the king's court are hopelessly confused, so that the status of the institution itself is compromised."
The lords' failure to understand the need for an impartial and functioning judiciary is echoed in the rebellion; "The virulent ambition and hostility to law that characterised the barons equally characterise the workmen,"[25] suggesting there is no difference between the old order and the new. This is evident in Cade's speech after ordering the execution of Lord Saye; "The proudest peer in the realm shall not wear a head on his shoulders unless he pay me tribute. There shall not a maid be married but she shall pay to me her maidenhead ere they have it. Men shall hold of me in capite. And we charge and command that their wives be as free as heart can wish or tongue can tell" (4.7.112–117). In this proposed new world order, Cade envisions establishing an autocracy where all will pay fealty to him, and where his laws, which he can make arbitrarily, stand for everyone. As such, in this political system, as in the old, law and justice seem to have little relevance.
Gloucester's death in particular is associated with the physical, as seen in Warwick's detailed description of the body;
See how the blood is settled in his face.
Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost,
Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless,
Being all descended to the labouring heart,
Who in the conflict that it holds with death
Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy,
Which with the heart there cools, and ne'er returneth
To blush and beautify the cheek again.
But see, his face is black and full of blood;
His eyeballs further out than when he lived,
Staring full ghastly like a strangled man;
His hair upreared, his nostrils stretched with struggling,
His hands abroad displayed, as one that grasped
And tugged for life and was by strength subdued.
Look on the sheets: his hair, you see, is sticking;
His well-proportioned beard made rough and rugged,
Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodged.
It cannot be but he was murdered here.
The least of all these signs were probable.
(3.2.160-178)
The first recorded performance after Shakespeare's day was on 23 April 1864 (Shakespeare's tercentenary) at the Surrey Theatre in London, as a stand-alone performance.
2 Henry VI has not been performed as a stand-alone play since then, although Seale's production was so successful that 3 Henry VI followed in 1952, and 1 Henry VI in 1953.
Two more adaptations followed in 1723. The first was Humfrey Duke of Gloucester by Ambrose Philips, which used about thirty lines from Acts 1–3 of 2 Henry VI and was performed at Drury Lane. In a possible comment on the politics of Crowne's adaptation, Phillips dedicated his version to William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, a leading Whig politician. The second 1723 adaptation, also performed at Drury Lane, was Theophilus Cibber's King Henry VI: A Tragedy.
In 1817, Edmund Kean appeared in J.H. Merivale's Richard Duke of York; or the Contention of York and Lancaster, which used material from all three Henry VI plays, but removed everything not directly related to York.
Following Merivale's example, Robert Atkins adapted all three plays into a single piece for a performance at The Old Vic in 1923 as part of the celebrations for the tercentenary of the First Folio.
Another adaptation of the tetralogy by the Royal Shakespeare Company followed in 1988, performed at the Barbican. Adapted by Charles Wood and directed by Adrian Noble, the Barton/Hall structure was again followed, reducing the trilogy to two plays by dividing 2 Henry VI in the middle.
Michael Bogdanov and the English Shakespeare Company presented a different adaptation at the Swansea Grand Theatre in 1991, using the same cast as on the touring production.
In 1923, extracts from all three Henry VI plays were broadcast on BBC Radio, performed by the Cardiff Station Repertory Company as the third episode of a series of programs showcasing Shakespeare's plays, entitled Shakespeare Night. In 1947, BBC Third Programme aired a one-hundred-and-fifty-minute adaptation of the trilogy as part of their Shakespeare's Historical Plays series.
In 1971, BBC Radio 3 presented a two-part adaptation of the trilogy by Raymond Raikes. Part 1 contained an abridged 1 Henry VI and an abridged version of the first three acts of 2 Henry VI. Part 2 presented Acts 4 and 5 and an abridged 3 Henry VI. Nigel Lambert played Henry, Barbara Jefford played Margaret and Ian McKellen played both York and Richard III. In 1977, BBC Radio 4 presented a 26-part serialisation of the eight sequential history plays under the general title Vivat Rex (Long live the King). Adapted by Martin Jenkins as part of the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, 2 Henry VI comprised episodes 17 ("Witchcraft") and 18 ("Jack Cade").
In America, in 1936, a heavily edited adaptation of the trilogy was broadcast as part of NBC Blue's Radio Guild series comprising of three sixty-minute episodes aired a week apart.
In 1985, German radio channel Sender Freies Berlin broadcast a heavily edited seventy-six-minute two-part adaptation of the octology adapted by Rolf Schneider.
What a coincidence:
Battlefield Vegas theme park lets you have blast – Las Vegas Review-Journal
Published Oct 1, 2012
"Damn. I wish I could have had this at Outpost Harry," he said, recalling a battle at the end of the Korean War in 1953.
Battlefield Vegas theme park lets you have blast – Las Vegas Review-Journal
Published Oct 1, 2012
"Damn. I wish I could have had this at Outpost Harry," he said, recalling a battle at the end of the Korean War in 1953.
Anyone smell that fish yet? No? How about this coincidence:
Co-Owner of Battlefield Vegas? David Famiglietti
Just so happens to be this David Famiglietti
“I Sell Tools”: A Las Vegas Firearms Dealer Who Sold Guns to Stephen Paddock | The New Yorker
Co-Owner of Battlefield Vegas? David Famiglietti
Just so happens to be this David Famiglietti
“I Sell Tools”: A Las Vegas Firearms Dealer Who Sold Guns to Stephen Paddock | The New Yorker
Wonder if any relation to:
E.P. Famiglietti, Editor, Was War Correspondent - The Washington Post
May 28, 1980
Eugene Paul Famiglietti, 48, editor of the Army Times and a former war correspondent in Vietnam, died Monday at Suburban Hospital after a heart attack. He was stricken while attending a church picnic in Bethesda.
Mr. Famiglietti was chief Army correspondent for the Army Times for more than a decade before being named assistant editor of the publication in 1971. He also was a war correspondent in Vietnam for both the Navy Times and the Air Froce Times, in addition to the Army Times, and Specialized in helicopters and military hardware. He was named editor of the Army Times in 1973.
He was coauthor of "Ramparts We Watch," a college textbook on U.S., Soviet and Chinese military resources and edited a report on helicopters called "Hovergram." He frequently lectured at the Army and National War Colleges.
Born and reared in Washington, Mr. Famiglietti graduated from Gonzaga College High School, where he was a member of the 1949 parochial-public high school championship football team.
He attended Devitt Prep School here and then served in the Marine Corps during the Korean conflict.
A 1958 graduate of the University of Maryland, he worked for the National Catholic Welfare Conference and the Catholic Standard newspaper while attending the College of Business and Public Administration there.
Mr. Famiglietti lived in Bethesda and had been active in the Catholic Youth Organization and the Merrick Boys Club.
Survivors include his wife, the former Patricia Higgins, three sons, Brian, Gene and Guy, and three sons, daughters, Mary Pat, Julie and Beth, all of Bethesda; two daughters, Cara Burke of Woodbridge, Va., and Laura Famiglietti of Towson; his mother, Lenora, and a brother, Leonard, both of Washington; and a grandchild.
........
Maybe it's just another coincidence
E.P. Famiglietti, Editor, Was War Correspondent - The Washington Post
May 28, 1980
Eugene Paul Famiglietti, 48, editor of the Army Times and a former war correspondent in Vietnam, died Monday at Suburban Hospital after a heart attack. He was stricken while attending a church picnic in Bethesda.
Mr. Famiglietti was chief Army correspondent for the Army Times for more than a decade before being named assistant editor of the publication in 1971. He also was a war correspondent in Vietnam for both the Navy Times and the Air Froce Times, in addition to the Army Times, and Specialized in helicopters and military hardware. He was named editor of the Army Times in 1973.
He was coauthor of "Ramparts We Watch," a college textbook on U.S., Soviet and Chinese military resources and edited a report on helicopters called "Hovergram." He frequently lectured at the Army and National War Colleges.
Born and reared in Washington, Mr. Famiglietti graduated from Gonzaga College High School, where he was a member of the 1949 parochial-public high school championship football team.
He attended Devitt Prep School here and then served in the Marine Corps during the Korean conflict.
A 1958 graduate of the University of Maryland, he worked for the National Catholic Welfare Conference and the Catholic Standard newspaper while attending the College of Business and Public Administration there.
Mr. Famiglietti lived in Bethesda and had been active in the Catholic Youth Organization and the Merrick Boys Club.
Survivors include his wife, the former Patricia Higgins, three sons, Brian, Gene and Guy, and three sons, daughters, Mary Pat, Julie and Beth, all of Bethesda; two daughters, Cara Burke of Woodbridge, Va., and Laura Famiglietti of Towson; his mother, Lenora, and a brother, Leonard, both of Washington; and a grandchild.
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Maybe it's just another coincidence
I believe all conspiracy theorists and media accounts to be wrong in the aspect of the so called initial single shots. Would it not make more sense that those noises are the windows being broken, if we are to believe the official story? No one in any video from State sponsored media to YouTuber that I have seen accounts for that. That would raise another suspicion, however, because 1 guy cannot break out two windows that fast in two different rooms, if those initial single sounds are the breaking of the windows. Also, if Paddock committed suicide after shooting all of these people, where is the sound of that gunshot? I believe these things aren't being accounted for properly on purpose by some and foolishly by many, but that is only an opinion.
Where is the so called hammer that was used to break out the windows? Did someone forget to bring it from the evidence room? How late after the time of death was the suicide photo taken?
Also, that video you are posting is lying since they have stated Campos (mind you a security guard with no registration in the government database) was shot before he fired on the crowd (allegedly).
Where is the so called hammer that was used to break out the windows? Did someone forget to bring it from the evidence room? How late after the time of death was the suicide photo taken?
Also, that video you are posting is lying since they have stated Campos (mind you a security guard with no registration in the government database) was shot before he fired on the crowd (allegedly).
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I would like to know if Campos was an employee of MGM, Mandalay Bay, or another company contracted by MGM International. For instance, G4S offers contracted security at various casinos (I do not know if they hold any contracts with MGM or any of their properties). G4S also happened to be who the Orlando Night Club Shooter worked for. Regardless of who Campos actually worked for, he did not have legal paperwork (not talking citizenship, just employment) to be a security guard in the State of Nevada. Not one state sponsored media outlet will even touch that, even though it is 100% verifiable by utilizing the public database (link in this thread).
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The truth never has to be made up and never changes from the first second it is told. Lies on the other hand... People misspeak, that's being human, but with something of this proportion, with public servants who are paid and experienced professionals, there is no valid excuse for the fumbles they have made (and seem to make with various events throughout the course of time). Agenda slanted websites like snopes don't touch these types of things because they are only out to prove right wingers wrong and keep their own agendas in tact, instead of actually being unbiased truth seekers.
Good questions. As far as him killing himself goes, did they say what kind of gun he shot himself with yet? If it was just a handgun and he was away from the window, you might not hear that over the ground level background noise (people talking, moving, etc.) in those videos. Plus some of the sound of the gunshot would be absorbed and muffled since it was in his mouth or against his head.
The weapon in the suicide pic is a revolver, I didn't take a close enough look to determine the caliber and haven't looked at the pic more than once. Your explanation is valid, I would like them to give us a timeline that includes his suicide though. I mean the LEO's in the hall should have heard it even if we didn't, if they were present when it occurred.
Now they are saying Campos fled to Mexico for a period of time after the shooting with Cali plates instead of his Nevada vehicle. Now we have an answer for when Geezus went missing,we just will never know why he actually did (of course controlled interviewer Ellen didn't ask any real questions).
Do we have proof of an actual wound to this guy who was not even authorized to provide security for any business entity in the State of Nevada?
Now they are saying Campos fled to Mexico for a period of time after the shooting with Cali plates instead of his Nevada vehicle. Now we have an answer for when Geezus went missing,we just will never know why he actually did (of course controlled interviewer Ellen didn't ask any real questions).
Do we have proof of an actual wound to this guy who was not even authorized to provide security for any business entity in the State of Nevada?
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CIA's MK-Ultra LSD mind control experiment has lingering legacy - Washington Times
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CIA’s top-secret MK-Ultra mind control research program
The blockbuster hearings that summer, chaired by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and aided by a timely dump of intelligence documents, touched some of the country’s rawest nerves: the assassination of Kennedy’s brothers, the possibility of mind-controlled “Manchurian candidates” and the increasing prominence of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs across Western culture.
Although the CIA program officially ran from 1953 to 1964, its dark and fertile legacy stretches to today, living on in modern conspiracy theories about U.S. intelligence agencies’ ability and willingness to manipulate society through surveillance, disinformation, celebrity culture and strategic news leaks.
The August 1977 MK-Ultra hearings specifically explored what seemed like an outlandish idea straight out of science fiction: the possibility of government mind control.
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Kennedy, whose reputation had been severely tainted by the Chappaquiddick scandal, also had a complex relationship with the CIA, given what the agency knew about the assassinations of his brothers Robert and John in the 1960s. To begin the inquiry, Kennedy told Stansfield Turner, President Carter’s pick to head the CIA in the wake of the Church Committee revelations, that he “hoped the hearings would close the book on this chapter of the CIA’s life.”
The program became part of the larger American culture it once tried to shape. Scores of films and TV programs explored MK-Ultra and its offshoots, including “The Manchurian Candidate,” books by Stephen King and Robert Ludlum, whose “Jason Bourne” books became popular films starring Matt Damon. The massively popular video game “Call of Duty” also shows clear and direct influences from MK-Ultra.
Excerpts:
CIA’s top-secret MK-Ultra mind control research program
The blockbuster hearings that summer, chaired by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and aided by a timely dump of intelligence documents, touched some of the country’s rawest nerves: the assassination of Kennedy’s brothers, the possibility of mind-controlled “Manchurian candidates” and the increasing prominence of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs across Western culture.
Although the CIA program officially ran from 1953 to 1964, its dark and fertile legacy stretches to today, living on in modern conspiracy theories about U.S. intelligence agencies’ ability and willingness to manipulate society through surveillance, disinformation, celebrity culture and strategic news leaks.
The August 1977 MK-Ultra hearings specifically explored what seemed like an outlandish idea straight out of science fiction: the possibility of government mind control.
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Kennedy, whose reputation had been severely tainted by the Chappaquiddick scandal, also had a complex relationship with the CIA, given what the agency knew about the assassinations of his brothers Robert and John in the 1960s. To begin the inquiry, Kennedy told Stansfield Turner, President Carter’s pick to head the CIA in the wake of the Church Committee revelations, that he “hoped the hearings would close the book on this chapter of the CIA’s life.”
The program became part of the larger American culture it once tried to shape. Scores of films and TV programs explored MK-Ultra and its offshoots, including “The Manchurian Candidate,” books by Stephen King and Robert Ludlum, whose “Jason Bourne” books became popular films starring Matt Damon. The massively popular video game “Call of Duty” also shows clear and direct influences from MK-Ultra.