Seventy-one years ago today, on 11/9/38, the horrifying event that the Nazi party called Kristallnacht occurred.

It could be said, that the events of 11/9/38 were the official start of Adolf Hitler’s overt and “endless war” against the Jews, but the methods used to justify that war were not an aberration. Rather, the Night of the Shattering Glass, which saw many synagogues destroyed, all the plate glass windows of a thousand Jewish businesses in Germany shattered and the first 26,000 Jewish men, of many millions more to come, sent off to concentration camps, was simply another example of an all-too-common historical reality that has been going on ever since the first tyrant orchestrated the first false flag operation, allowing him to “innocently” and patriotically declare the first “retaliatory” war. And then, by repeatedly using cunning propaganda techniques, that tyrant could plausibly deny responsibility for the coming violence because the enemy was, after all, the one who drew “first blood.”

Because of the assassination of a mid-level Nazi party bureaucrat in Paris (by a justifiably angry young Polish Jew) two days earlier, many patriotic Germans, knowing absolutely nothing about the details of the assassination, were successfully inflamed and angered by the right-wing radio and mainstream media propaganda machine of Joseph Goebbels. The thugs who went on the rampage that night justified their anti-Semitic outburst of violence by asking the question: “We had to do something, didn’t we?”

Likewise, soon after 9/11/01, in the high-energy confusion after the implosion of the three World Trade Center towers (towers 1, 2 and 7 -- see ae911truth.org, 911scholars.org, loosechange.org or 911mysteries.com for more on that issue), there was generated the reflex desire for patriotic Americans for “doing something,” including some act of blind retaliation against whomever was fingered by the propaganda machinery of the White House and endlessly parroted by the mainstream media. None of the counter-balancing evidence that could have refuted the false propaganda was allowed to be heard and so the angry citizenry, who knew nothing about the real agenda, said, “We had to do something, didn’t we?”

In retrospect however, the events of 11/9/38 and 9/11/01 have the irrefutable marks of false flag operations, where pre-planned actions, intended to provoke a conflict, are carried out by the aggressor so as to make it look like the intended victim is the perpetrator of the deed. Indeed the events of 9/11/01 fulfilled the criteria for an expressly desired “New Pearl Harbor” for the neo-conservative think tank, the Project for the New American Century. In both 11/9 and 9/11, the wars that resulted were far out of proportion to the initiating event and were a direct violation of the Just War principles -- even if the declarations of war had been legitimate, which they were not. And in both cases, the dogs of war were released, never to be reigned in until it was probably too late to save the crumbling empires involved.

Brutal tyrants and their hidden and well-financed supporters, which include the war-profiteering corporations that appear to rule the world (referred to in the New Testament as the “Principalities and Powers”) have been behind every aggressive war in recent history, with, ironically, the baptized and confirmed sons and daughters of Christian churches doing much of the killing.

The realities of Kristallnacht and classical war-mongering need to be examined. 11/9 and 9/11 have many commonalities and offer many lessons that must be learned if people of good will are going to be able to stop the wholesale disasters for the nations and people who have already been destroyed by American militarism or avert what may be a coming catastrophe for the American empire, the planet and its creatures.

In 1955, Milton Mayer’s book, They Thought They Were Free, was published. The book chronicles the lives of 10 men, all German Christians from a small town in Germany. Each of the men had been directly involved, in their roles as patriots, Nazi party functionaries or militia members, in the acts of arson and terrorism against the local Jewish synagogue and Jewish businesses in their town on the night of Nov. 9, 1938.

Each of the 10 that Mayer interviewed had eagerly joined the Nazi party while Hitler was gaining power, and when Mayer interviewed them eight years after the German empire had ended up in ashes, they still felt strongly that what Hitler had done for Germany (i.e., Caucasian Christians) proved to them that the Fuhrer was their savior -- a political genius who had fashioned an economic miracle. They had never known such prosperity (albeit temporary) or feelings of communal warmth, security and prideful patriotism, a patriotism that increasingly united the nation whenever there were any threats from anti-fascist foreigners (aka left-wing communist “terrorists”) outside their borders or threats from the anti-fascist freedom-fighters (aka socialist “terrorists”) within their borders. The feeling that the right-wing Nazi party cared for all true Germans was genuinely felt.

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