May 10th Rudolf Hess Day
by James Buchanan
Rudolf Hess was imprisoned for 46 years, half of his long life, for the “crime” of trying to bring peace between Britain and Germany. On May 10th, 1941, Hess flew an Me110 aircraft over Britain parachuting out over Scotland. Hess wanted to bring peace to Western Europe before war broke out between Germany and the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was a monstrous regime in which 30 million Christians were mass murdered in the 1920s and 1930s. Virtually all of Europe in 1941 saw the Soviet Union as an evil empire that needed to be destroyed. Only the governments of Britain and the United States saw Germany as a “threat.” Britain had a long history of making war against any nation in Europe which economically challenged it. This unfortunate, fratricidal policy was still in force during World War Two.
Add to this the extremely biased news media in England and the United States at the time. The English and US press made almost no mention of the daily oppressions and mass murders in the Soviet Union. Instead they maintained a steady drumbeat of hatred against Germany. When a German ambassador in Paris was murdered just for being German by a Zionist fanatic (a crime which modern law would call a “hate crime”), crowds of angry Germans smashed the windows of Jewish shopkeepers in retaliation. The press in England and America couldn’t care less that a German ambassador was murdered; no one in the West condemned Zionism for advocating hatred and murder. Instead, the press focused on the petty vandalism that followed. (more…)