Would Killing Hitler Save the Earth?
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Jacob Newman is ready to return home to his ailing wife and family.  He is approached by two men that slip him something that appears to be his grandfather's journal and a photo taken of his grandparents taken in the 1920's.  He is called in by the government agency to look at something they found.  Seems to be an alien artifact about three times the size of Yankee Stadium.  Jacob is reluctant because his wife is so sick and he wants to see her.  His boss Malcom tells him that it is a national security emergency and he needs to go to Chile, where he will be transported to the artifact.

He reluctantly goes and the artifact is a type of underwater floating vessel with eight floating screens inside.  Each screen seems to be a window into a "violent" event of Earth's past.  Jacob and Malcom theorize that the Earth may be on the verge of being judged by an alien race for all its violence.

Also in the vessel is a weird device that they call the Kronos device.  While experimenting with the device, Jacob is transported briefly back in time to the Dachau Concentration camp and sees his grandmother dead.  After this vision he reads in his grandfather's journal that he had a chance to kill Hitler in 1924 and failed to follow through.  Jacob takes all of this as a sign, that is, if he can go back and help his grandfather actually kill Hitler he will save his grandmother and the mass killing of millions and somehow "please" the aliens who "may" be judging the human race.

Malcom warns him that he should not mess with the past because doing so could have catastrophic effects on the present.  Of course Jacob doesn't listen and uses the Kronos device to go back and make sure the deed his grandfather failed to do, is carried out.

The book is hard to put down and the author does a good job at making the reader care for Jacob and his predicament.  The book also does a good job of showing the world what was inside the mind of Hitler.  But as any reader can guess, you should not mess with the past.  Outside of films like Back to the Future, all stories involving messing with the past only leads to worse consequences and this story is no different.  Jacob should have realized this up front and listened to Malcom but just on a "flimsy" notion decides to go against common sense and for that I could not give this book the full five stars.
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Although disturbing,this is a must-read for information about the terrifying way the tyranic ruler Hitler and his followers can take over a country (and ultimately the world in a sense)without people seeing what is coming until it is too late. Brutality in the days and months before the world enters a war go unseen or are ignored in the midst of partying and frivolity. One thinks this should be a novel with made-up characters; unfortunately, it is not.
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For the skeptics: the obvious fact that Hitler chose the swastika and reversed (italics) it as his central symbol proves his significant interest in and attachment to occult influences. Aside from the speculations, there is direct material evidence which points to the generally accepted conclusion that Rudolf Steiner was murdered by the brownshirts. He was poisoned.  The original Goetheneum (the building which housed Steiner's school)in Stuttgart had been destroyed by arson widely attributed to the brownshirts a few years before.  Hitler had at least registered as a student there and is presumed to have attended lectures given by Steiner before the arson.  The arson was followed by a number of assassination attempts until he was finally murdered by a poisoned sandwich.  Steiner lived for about a year after being poisoned and wrote an autobiography.  The reason neither Steiner nor his followers ever pointed fingers at the nascent Nazis are two: 1)they are devout Christians, who turn the other cheek in all conditions; 2) fear and suppression.

Ravenscroft's tale of the fateful conflict between Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Steiner  is a masterpiece of its kind, a riveting read. Both men worked toward manifesting a vision of reality.  Both were doomed.  The question which is raised is important.  How much can we know of the motives behind the central events in history?  Intentionality is incredibly diverse. Appearances often belie reality.  Ravenscroft attempts to penetrate the hidden reality, the workings of the engine which drives history, and the results are, at the least, interesting, if not edifying.
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Very well documented account of Pius XII's extraordinary efforts to prevent and end WWII once it started.  The pope took great risks in his futile to do an honorable service to mankind, even to assassinate Hitler and bring an end to the war.  to The book brings to light facts that contradict the erroneous accounts of Pius' collaboration with the Nazi's and his failure to speak out for the Jews.  Proves that shocking lies sell newspapers and books.  This account  would make a great movie.
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This is an incredible description of one of the greatest battles of WWII.  The suffering of the Russian people, the sacrifices of their army, and the battle for which the quick victories of 1940 and 1941 did not prepare the German army are all described in great detail.  Had Hitler given full control of his army to von Paulus and had permitted a retreat of the German army, the outcome might have been much different.  A strategic retreat would have enabled von Paulus to lick his wounds and to have come back en force the following spring.  Or, Hitler could have concluded that it would be to his advantage to save his army for the ultimate conflict on the western front.  Fortunately, he did not.  But he sacrificed several hundred thousand soldiers who died with the belief that the Fuhrer would save time.
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It is so hard to imagine the atrocities that people will go to, to satisfy what they believe to be, the will of a whole nation of people- or at least a large segment of a population; who have unwittingly pledged their allegiance to a monster.

When doctors would give up their practice and abandon their Hippocratic oath to "do no harm" and actually kill people that they termed as "subhuman", it is beyond reproachable behavior.  Included in this group were other madmen, and members of society, who would murder a whole populace of people; many of whom were considered intellectuals by their peers.  In many instances a one degree difference in your skull index size would determine if you were of the "master race" or "subhuman".  If you came out on the wrong end of the measurement you were sent to your death in a gas chamber or other form of eradication to satisfy the "German question" and Hitler's "Final Solution".  Even the common citizens of Germany met a terrible fate if they happened to be disabled.  If they were, they were labeled as "worthless" and were either killed or made sterile- to preserve the master race.  Babies were taken and thrown into rivers and told to "boil there, you offspring of the devil!"

Jonathan Maxwell presents another interesting look at the Holocaust- where he looks into the mindset of the murderous intellectuals and attempts to make some sense of it all by examining the behavioral histories of those involved. In this book you will learn that Hitler, as a young boy, was an introvert and a poor student and we are given insight into what may have influenced him to become one of the evilest men in history.

The author also gives us pause to consider that we are still living in times of great human suffering- at the hands of world leaders- and that history, in the case of the Nazi's and the Holocaust, may well someday repeat itself.
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destruction of everything so he and a few of his friends can return to the Garden of Eden. Let's not even think about the unlucky 6+ billions that will die in the process and that is exactly what would happen - but as long a mother earth doesn't mind!

Most of his good works (written on a computer, near a pond and walking distance to this mom's house and driving distance to Wal-mart) seem well researched and articulately constructed but this conclusion (in this book) is a betrayal of not only his intellect, but his species and his, and our, real world where his little bunnies, bears, dragonflies, swans, trees, dirt, rocks etc. play happily together and join forces to rip the throats of undeniably evil beings and people. No evolutionary jump here, just a endless rerun of the violence and bloodletting of the last 10,000 years - so that other "evil" beings can start it all over again.
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What if Hitler's experimental doctors succeeded in creating an Aryan superman - and he was a killer - and still alive?

The Consortium brought Hitler to power; their goals were the same - to create a super Aryan race - only the Consortium has peopled the major governments, their power stretches worldwide - and they have a plan to kill off most of humanity while preserving those who will become their dream of a super Aryan race.

Will they succeed? Their most successful experiment is out to see that they fail - and a beautiful CIA agent and an innocent but depressed Wall Street guy are along for the ride.

Grab a ride on this one and you won't get off till the final page!
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An article  and book which alleged that Pope Pius XII  as being allied with Nazi Germany compelled me to conduct my own research.
Accusers of crimes should prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. I do not believe any such credible evidence exists against Pope Pius XII. My research seems to indicate the opposite.  He was a friend of the Jewish people and although officially neutral, he fought Hitler  in whatever way possible. See Gary Krupp's The Documented Truth on sale as a book. And see on You Tube  "The Documented Truth on Pope Pius XII and the holocaust. Dr. Francesco Paolo Oliver reveals his studies which at this point is I believe incontrovertible.

.Updated Research\
In their book Max and Linda Ciampoli  CHURCHILL'S SECRET AGENT  write how Max got 3000 baptismal certificates to  save the lives of over  2000 Jewish children held in a camp outside of Paris.directly from Pope Pius XII
The current book by  Mark Riebling CHURCH OF SPIES reveals the true hostility between Hitler and Pope Pius XII.
 T he Pope's Secret  War Against Hitler  reports that Pope Pius XII was part of a three sided attack on Nazism. He was the connecting link between the anti-Hitler underground in Germany and the allies including England. Surface neutrality enabled him to accomplish what would have been impossible if an official participan t..

Facts are more interesting than fiction. Truth more exciting  and more interesting than fabricated disinformation. What really happened far more interesting than revisionist history. See Disinformation by General Pachepo  and  Dr.  Rychlak..

Churchill described Pope Pius XII as the greatest man of the era. He was right and I believe more than that. Congratulations Mark  Riebling..
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I always knew that Hitler and his men were evil and crazy and dabbling in the occult. This is a really heart pounding read about some of the things Hitler was after in order to put himself as overlord of the world. Thank God he was stopped.
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Kerr has yet to figure out what caused Hitler's rise, so he blames every German living at the time except for his hero Bernie Gunther.  His Gunther novels are otherwise fun reading.  Just don't mistake them for historical novels.
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This book could save the world from horrible german philosophers, those bad ideas causing such damage currently. She is THE antidote to the evil ideas of Marx, Hegel and Kant.
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Take scientific brilliance, mix it with greed, ego, thirst for power and evil, you get this man made disaster that just keeps going and going. What is horrifying is that I can see this as a feasible event that could happen. Biological weapons exist and are used! How far are we going to let things go before we as humanity say enough!
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this book is about how Max and the others save the world from global warming and have another mission and meet people who were trying to kill them but end up in reverse
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The author accuses we humans of inflicting an environmental holocaust that started some 40 thousand years ago, is presently accelerating, and will climax within the new century.  He alleges that in our past we murdered all  the Neanderthals and hunted to extinction most of the big mammals and other  large animals that roamed in our path.  Other extinctions were caused or  encouraged by the pests (i.e. rats) that were spread as we expanded  worldwide.  The trend will supposedly continue since environmental  destruction is a human hallmark.  While this message may seem unsurprising  to we cynics, a great deal of information and speculation is provided that  is fresh and provocative.
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This is a great series about nazi Germany and Hitler. It shows how easy it's is to be fooled by evil monsters.
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This story has its basis in that the Germans had considered pulling back to a mountainous region in Austria and southeastern Germany if their country was overrun and bleed the allies fighting defensively from behind difficult terrain.  The plan was rejected by Hitler who didn't believe defeat should be considered.  Also, as in this novel, it would only have prolonged the agony by a short interval at best.  As a result, this is not the most exciting of alternate history novels, but it's OK