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The Effect of Humour on Insult Between Chesterton and Shaw
November 10, 2012 tvaraj	1 Comment
George Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc, and G.K. Chesterton
G.K Chesterton a Catholic and a Distributist, and George Bernard Shaw, an atheist and a socialist debated often. However, both could joke and to stay on as friends. Their ability to joke produced heated debates. Even some who disagreed with Chesterton well-known for his reasoned apologetics recognized the universal appeal in such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.
As a political thinker, he denigrated both progressivism and conservatism. In 1924 in the Illustrated London News of April 19th, he wrote: "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."
Once Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy," said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius".
Chesterton often associated with his close friend, the poet and essayist Hilaire Belloc. Chesterton's friendly enemy, George Bernard Shaw, coined the name "Chesterbelloc" for their partnership.
Chesterton loved to debate. He often engaged in friendly public disputes with such men as George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell and Clarence Darrow. Whenever Chesterton and Shaw debated it looked like they played cowboys in a never released silent movie.
During a debate between Chesterton and Bernard Shaw chaired by Hillaire Belloc, Shaw defending his wish to abolish private property, said:
If I own a large part of Scotland I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea, or across the sea. I can take women in childbearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it. They might frighten the deer.
But now compare that with the ownership of my umbrella. As a matter of fact the umbrella I have tonight belongs to my wife; but I think she will permit me to call it mine for the purpose of the debate. Now I have a very limited legal right to the use of that umbrella. I cannot do as I like with it. For instance, certain passages in Mr. Chesterton's speech tempted me to get up and smite him over the head with my umbrella. I may presently feel inclined to smite Mr. Belloc. But should I abuse my right to do what I like with my property–with my umbrella–in this way I should soon be made aware– possibly by Mr. Belloc's fist–that I cannot treat my umbrella as my own property in the way in which a landlord can treat his land. I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community. That, I think, is perfectly simple…
To this G.K. Chesterton responded:
Among the bewildering welter of fallacies which Mr. Shaw has just given us, I prefer to deal first with the simplest. When Mr. Shaw refrains from hitting me over the head with his umbrella, the real reason–apart from his real kindness of heart, which makes him tolerant of the humblest of the creatures of God–is not because he does not own his umbrella, but because he does not own my head. As I am still in possession of that imperfect organ, I will proceed to use it to the confutation of some of his other fallacies…
I fully agree with Mr. Shaw, and speak as strongly as he would speak, of the abomination and detestable foulness and sin of landlords who drove poor people from their land in Scotland and elsewhere. It is quite true that men in possession of land have committed these crimes; but I do not see why wicked officials under a socialistic state could not commit these crimes. But that has nothing to do with the principle of ownership of land. In fact these very Highland crofters, these very people thus abominably outraged and oppressed, if you asked them what they want would probably say, "I want to own my own croft; I want to own my own land."
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The two largest groups of prisoners in the camps, both numbering in the millions, were the Polish Jews and the Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held without trial or judicial process. There were also large numbers of Romani people, ethnic Poles, Serbs, political prisoners, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholic clergy, Eastern European intellectuals and others (including common criminals, as the Nazis declared). In addition, a small number of Western Allied aviators were sent to concentration camps as punishment for spying.[28] Western Allied POWs who were Jews, or who were suspected of being Jews by the Nazis, were usually sent to ordinary POW camps; however, a small number of them were sent to concentration camps because of antisemitic policies.[29]
For the preservation staff, the burden of remembrance informs every aspect of their restoration efforts. "If there's damage to an object as part of its history, we leave it that way," Banas says. She points to crates of shoes stacked in a hallway, most with worn insoles and uneven heels—signs of human use that will be left as they are. The International Auschwitz Council—museum officials and survivors from around the world dedicated to the conservation of Auschwitz—has decided that the mounds of hair will be allowed to decay naturally because they are human remains.
However, on August 4, 1944 the Germans stormed into the Frank's hideout. They took everyone captive and sent them to concentration camps. The men and women were separated. Eventually the girls were separated and sent to a camp. Both Anne and her sister died of the disease Typhus in March of 1945, only a month before Allied soldiers arrived at the camp.
When the victims arrived to the extermination camps in overcrowded trains, they were herded out onto the arrival ramp. Here, German SS-men and perhaps brutal Ukrainian guards forced them to hand over their belongings and their clothes. Most of the victims had been told that they were merely to be moved to the east for new jobs and living places, and most of them had brought their favourite belongings.
The Nazis, the far-right monarchists, the reactionary German National People's Party (DNVP) and others, such as monarchist officers in the German Army and several prominent industrialists, formed an alliance in opposition to the Weimar Republic on 11 October 1931 in Bad Harzburg, officially known as the "National Front", but commonly referred to as the Harzburg Front.[30] The Nazis stated that the alliance was purely tactical and they continued to have differences with the DNVP. The Nazis described the DNVP as a bourgeois party and they called themselves an anti-bourgeois party.[30] After the elections of July 1932, the alliance broke down when the DNVP lost many of its seats in the Reichstag. The Nazis denounced them as "an insignificant heap of reactionaries".[31] The DNVP responded by denouncing the Nazis for their socialism, their street violence and the "economic experiments" that would take place if the Nazis ever rose to power.[32] But amidst an inconclusive political situation in which conservative politicians Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher were unable to form stable governments without the Nazis, Papen proposed to President Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a government formed primarily of conservatives, with only three Nazi ministers.[33][34] Hindenburg did so, and contrary to the expectations of Papen and the DNVP, Hitler was soon able to establish a Nazi one-party dictatorship.[35]
Drexler's movement received attention and support from some influential figures. Supporter Dietrich Eckart, a well-to-do journalist, brought military figure Felix Graf von Bothmer, a prominent supporter of the concept of "national socialism", to address the movement.[27] Later in 1918, Karl Harrer (a journalist and member of the Thule Society) convinced Drexler and several others to form the Politischer Arbeiterzirkel (Political Workers' Circle).[23] The members met periodically for discussions with themes of nationalism and racism directed against the Jews.[23] In December 1918, Drexler decided that a new political party should be formed, based on the political principles that he endorsed, by combining his branch of the Workers' Committee for a good Peace with the Political Workers' Circle.[23][28]
Lunch was three quarters of a liter of watery soup at midday, reportedly foul-tasting, with meat in the soup four times a week and vegetables (mostly potatoes and rutabaga) three times. The evening meal was 300 grams of bread, often moldy, part of which the inmates were expected to keep for breakfast the next day, with a tablespoon of cheese or marmalade, or 25 grams of margarine or sausage. Prisoners engaged in hard labor were given extra rations.[114]
On 2 July 1947, the Polish government passed a law establishing a state memorial to remember "the martyrdom of the Polish nation and other nations in Oswiecim".[285] The museum established its exhibits at Auschwitz I; after the war, the barracks in Auschwitz II-Birkenau had been mostly dismantled and moved to Warsaw to be used on building sites. Dwork and van Pelt write that, in addition, Auschwitz I played a more central role in the persecution of the Polish people, in opposition to the importance of Auschwitz II to the Jews, including Polish Jews.[286] An exhibition opened in Auschwitz I in 1955, displaying prisoner mug shots; hair, suitcases, and shoes taken from murdered prisoners; canisters of Zyklon B pellets; and other objects related to the killings.[287] UNESCO added the camp to its list of World Heritage Sites in 1979.[288] All the museum's directors were, until 1990, former Auschwitz prisoners. Visitors to the site have increased from 492,500 in 2001, to over one million in 2009,[289] to two million in 2016.[290]
By plastering this sentence on Frank's book jackets, publishers have implied that her posthumous fame represented the fulfillment of the writer's dream. But when we consider the writer's actual ambitions, it is obvious that her dreams were in fact destroyed—and it is equally obvious that the writer who would have emerged from Frank's experience would not be anything like the writer Frank herself originally planned to become. Consider, if you will, the following imaginary obituary of a life unlived:
The destruction of valuable property, of irretrievable art treasures, as well as of valuable tapestries in Munich, of Rembrandt pictures in Hesse, was not enough. The decision was made to bring a great number of Jews into camps for protective custody. Rough estimate places the number of victims at about sixty thousand males. In the camp with which we are dealing there were probably about six to seven thousand men.
I was 20, about 1.7 metres (5ft 7in) tall, blond, not bad looking and, despite the beating, in pretty good shape. When my limit in the hospital was up, they sent me to the gas chambers. There I met Dr Mengele, who asked me what was wrong. I said: "You can see, I've been beaten up." Instead of sending me to the gas chambers, I was sent back to the hospital, presumably he saw the potential for labour in me. As I had trained as a tailor, he decided I had my uses there. The soldiers wanted to look nice, so they'd come to me in the hospital if they wanted their uniforms fixed up. The very fact that my new job meant I didn't have to get up in the morning in the harsh winter in thin clothes standing around for hours for the headcount was a big thing. It meant that being a tailor saved my life.
German doctors performed a variety of experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. SS doctors tested the efficacy of X-rays as a sterilization device by administering large doses to female prisoners. Carl Clauberg injected chemicals into women's uteruses in an effort to glue them shut. Prisoners were infected with spotted fever for vaccination research and exposed to toxic substances to study the effects.[125] In one experiment Bayer, then part of IG Farben, paid RM 150 each for 150 female inmates from Auschwitz (the camp had asked for RM 200 per woman), who were transferred to a Bayer facility to test an anesthetic. A Bayer employee wrote to Rudolf Höss: "The transport of 150 women arrived in good condition. However, we were unable to obtain conclusive results because they died during the experiments. We would kindly request that you send us another group of women to the same number and at the same price." The Bayer research was led at Auschwitz by Helmuth Vetter of Bayer/IG Farben, who was also an Auschwitz physician and SS captain, and by Auschwitz physicians Friedrich Entress and Eduard Wirths.[126]
[W]hen we refer to all Kurdish fighters synonymously, we simply blur the fact that they have very different politics. . . right now, yes, the people are facing the Islamic State threat, so it's very important to have a unified focus. But the truth is, ideologically and politically these are very, very different systems. Actually almost opposite to each other. —Dilar Dirik, "Rojava vs. the World," February 2015
Up to this point, though, Auschwitz-Birkenau accounted for "only" 11 percent of the victims of the "Final Solution." In August 1942, however, construction began on four large-scale gassing facilities. It appears from the plans that the first two gas chambers were adapted from mortuaries which, with the huge crematoria attached to them, were initially intended to cope with mortalities amongst the slave labor force in the camp, now approaching 100,000 and subject to a horrifying death rate. But from the autumn of 1942, it seems clear that the SS planners and civilian contractors were intending to build a mass-murder plant.
It was first published in Germany and France in 1950, and after being rejected by several publishers, was first published in the United Kingdom in 1952. The first American edition, published in 1952 under the title Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, was positively reviewed. The book was successful in France, Germany, and the United States, but in the United Kingdom it failed to attract an audience and by 1953 was out of print. Its most noteworthy success was in Japan, where it received critical acclaim and sold more than 100,000 copies in its first edition. In Japan, Anne Frank quickly was identified as an important cultural figure who represented the destruction of youth during the war.[72]
The trials began a public debate which in the 1990s led to explicit legislation against Holocaust denial in seven European countries. Around the time of Otto Frank's death, Ditlieb Felderer, a Holocaust denier from Sweden, published an obscene pornographic pamphlet depicting Anne as a mature seductress and the diary as a pedophilic publication. Evidently Otto Frank never saw the pamphlet and did not manage to sue its writer. At the beginning of the 1990s the Anne Frank Trust, with the aid of other Dutch organizations, sued Faurisson and Verbeke. Finally, in 1998, after the diary underwent extensive technical and graphological examinations for the third time, an Amsterdam court found unequivocally for its authenticity and made denying it a criminal offense.
A survey published last summer by the American Press Institute revealed that forty-two per cent of the public thinks that "most of the news reporting they see is opinion and commentary posing as news reporting." An additional seventeen per cent said that there was too much analysis. People wanted facts, they wanted them "verified," and, though they wanted some background and context, they mostly wanted to be allowed to come to their own conclusions. For many journalists reporting on the new right in the U.S. and Europe, it may be difficult to shake the feeling that this is somehow irresponsible. There is a strong argument to be made that anyone who professes bigotry and hatred doesn't deserve to be considered seriously, let alone objectively. But that could preclude us from understanding the social circumstances that led to someone such as Richard Spencer, a figurehead of the alt-right, attaining a platform in the first place. If reporters do engage, what is to be done about the strong desire to condemn their subjects?
To protect the supposed purity and strength of the Aryan race, the Nazis sought to exterminate Jews, Romani, Poles and most other Slavs, along with the physically and mentally handicapped. They disenfranchised and segregated homosexuals, Africans, Jehovah's Witnesses and political opponents.[10] The persecution reached its climax when the party-controlled German state set in motion the Final Solution–an industrial system of genocide which achieved the murder of an estimated 5.5 to 6 million Jews and millions of other targeted victims, in what has become known as the Holocaust.[11]
The K.L. was defined from the beginning by its legal ambiguity. The camps were outside ordinary law, answerable not to judges and courts but to the S.S. and Himmler. At the same time, they were governed by an extensive set of regulations, which covered everything from their layout (including decorative flower beds) to the whipping of prisoners, which in theory had to be approved on a case-by-case basis by Himmler personally. Yet these regulations were often ignored by the camp S.S.—physical violence, for instance, was endemic, and the idea that a guard would have to ask permission before beating or even killing a prisoner was laughable. Strangely, however, it was possible, in the prewar years, at least, for a guard to be prosecuted for such a killing. In 1937, Paul Zeidler was among a group of guards who strangled a prisoner who had been a prominent churchman and judge; when the case attracted publicity, the S.S. allowed Zeidler to be charged and convicted. (He was sentenced to a year in jail.)
Both in public and in private, Hitler expressed disdain for capitalism, arguing that it holds nations ransom in the interests of a parasitic cosmopolitan rentier class.[262] He opposed free market capitalism because it "could not be trusted to put national interests first," and he desired an economy that would direct resources "in ways that matched the many national goals of the regime," such as the buildup of the military, building programs for cities and roads, and economic self-sufficiency.[229] Hitler also distrusted capitalism for being unreliable due to its egotism and he preferred a state-directed economy that maintains private property and competition but subordinates them to the interests of the Volk.[262]
After the selection process was complete, those too ill or too young to walk to the crematoria were transported there on trucks or killed on the spot with a bullet to the head.[169][170] The belongings of the arrivals were seized by the SS and sorted in an area of the camp called "Canada", so called because Canada was seen as a land of plenty. Many of the SS at the camp enriched themselves by pilfering the confiscated property.[171]
After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, sparking World War II, the Germans converted Auschwitz I from an army barracks to hold Polish political prisoners.[3] The first prisoners, German criminals brought to the camp as functionaries, arrived in May 1940,[4] and the first gassing of prisoners took place in block 11 of Auschwitz I in September 1941. Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish Question. From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to the camp's gas chambers. Of the estimated 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, at least 1.1 million died,[5] around 90 percent of them Jews.[6] Approximately one in six Jews killed in the Holocaust died at the camp.[7] Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 non-Jewish Poles, 23,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, 400 Jehovah's Witnesses, tens of thousands of others of diverse nationalities, and an unknown number of gay men. Many of those not killed in the gas chambers died because of starvation, forced labor, infectious diseases, individual executions, and medical experiments.
In 1919, army veteran Adolf Hitler, frustrated by Germany's defeat in World War, which had left the nation economically depressed and politically unstable, joined a fledgling political organization called the German Workers' Party. Founded earlier that same year by a small group of men including locksmith Anton Drexler (1884-1942) and journalist Karl Harrer (1890-1926), the party promoted German nationalism and anti-Semitism, and felt that the Treaty of Versailles, the peace settlement that ended the war, was extremely unjust to Germany by burdening it with reparations it could never pay. Hitler soon emerged as a charismatic public speaker and began attracting new members with speeches blaming Jews and Marxists for Germany's problems and espousing extreme nationalism and the concept of an Aryan "master race." In July 1921, he assumed leadership of the organization, which by then had been renamed the Nationalist Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party.
What does Rivesaltes tell us about the current crisis in the United States? First, the problem with maintaining temporary facilities for holding large groups of people is that they often become permanent, without improvement, readily available for unknown future purposes. Second, Rivesaltes illustrates the dangers faced by interned populations: They remain unseen, isolated within a country, and subject to all manner of abuse with little oversight; children are, of course, the most vulnerable.
Sunday was not a work day, but prisoners were required to clean the barracks and take their weekly shower,[115] and were allowed to write (in German) to their families, although the SS censored the outgoing mail. Inmates who did not speak German would trade some of their bread for help composing their letters.[116] Observant Jews tried to keep track of the Hebrew calendar and Jewish holidays, including Shabbat, and the weekly Torah portion. No watches, calendars, or clocks were permitted in the camp. Jewish calendars were rare among prisoners; being in possession of one was dangerous. Only two Jewish calendars made in Auschwitz survived to the end of the war. Prisoners kept track of the days in other ways, such as obtaining information from newcomers.[117]
Stos said he survived by making himself useful. Prisoners had a better chance of staying alive if they worked under a roof—in a kitchen or an administration building—or had a skill, such as training in medicine or engineering, that made them hard to replace. "The hunger was hellish, and if you could work you could get something to eat," Stos said. Having grown up in the countryside, he could do a little bit of everything, from pouring concrete to cutting grass. I pressed him for details of his time in the camp, but he spoke only of the work. "I had eight different professions at Auschwitz," he said. "I knew how to take care of myself. I avoided the worst of it."
Adolf Hitler replaces elected officials in state governments with Nazi appointees. One of the first steps in establishing centralized Nazi control in Germany is the elimination of state governments. Hermann Goering, a leading Nazi, becomes minister-president of Prussia, the largest German state. By 1935, state administrations are transferred to the central government in Berlin.
While the Nazis maintained the nominal existence of state and regional governments in Germany itself, this policy was not extended to territories acquired after 1937. Even in German-speaking areas such as Austria, state and regional governments were formally disbanded as opposed to just being dis-empowered. After the Anschluss a new type of administrative unit was introduced called a Reichsgau. In these territories the Gauleiters also held the position of Reichsstatthalter, thereby formally combining the spheres of both party and state offices. The establishment of this type of district was subsequently carried out for any further territorial annexations of Germany both before and during World War II. Even the former territories of Prussia were never formally re-integrated into what was then Germany's largest state after being re-taken in the 1939 Polish campaign.
As early as February 1933, Hitler announced that rearmament must begin, albeit clandestinely at first, as to do so was in violation of the Versailles Treaty. On 17 May 1933, Hitler gave a speech before the Reichstag outlining his desire for world peace and accepted an offer from American President Franklin D. Roosevelt for military disarmament, provided the other nations of Europe did the same.[53] When the other European powers failed to accept this offer, Hitler pulled Germany out of the World Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations in October, claiming its disarmament clauses were unfair if they applied only to Germany.[54] In a referendum held in November, 95 percent of voters supported Germany's withdrawal.[55]
Auschwitz was considered a comfortable posting by many SS members, because of its many amenities.[84] SS personnel were initially allowed to bring partners, spouses, and children to live at the camp, but when the SS camp grew more crowded, Höss restricted further arrivals. Facilities for the SS personnel and their families included a library, swimming pool, coffee house, and a theater that hosted regular performances.[80]
Anne Frank was born Anneliese Marie Frank in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 12, 1929, to Edith Hollander Frank (1900-45) and Otto Frank (1889-1980), a prosperous businessman. Less than four years later, in January 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany and he and his Nazi government instituted a series of measures aimed at persecuting Germany's Jewish citizens.
Gradowski was not poetic; he was prophetic. He did not gaze into this inferno and ask why. He knew. Aware of both the long recurring arc of destruction in Jewish history, and of the universal fact of cruelty's origins in feelings of worthlessness, he writes: "This fire was ignited long ago by the barbarians and murderers of the world, who had hoped to drive darkness from their brutal lives with its light."
The Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS) functioned as the paramilitary organizations of the Nazi Party. Using the SS for the task, Hitler purged the party's more socially and economically radical factions in the mid-1934 Night of the Long Knives, including the leadership of the SA. After the death of President Hindenburg, political power was concentrated in Hitler's hands and he became Germany's head of state as well as the head of the government, with the title of Führer, meaning "leader". From that point, Hitler was effectively the dictator of Nazi Germany, which was also known as the "Third Reich", under which Jews, political opponents and other "undesirable" elements were marginalized, imprisoned or murdered. Many millions of people were eventually exterminated in a genocide which became known as the Holocaust during World War II, including around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe.
The metaphor of war encouraged the inhumanity of the S.S. officers, which they called toughness; licensed physical violence against prisoners; and accounted for the military discipline that made everyday life in the K.L. unbearable. Particularly hated was the roll call, or Appell, which forced inmates to wake before dawn and stand outside, in all weather, to be counted and recounted. The process could go on for hours, Wachsmann writes, during which the S.S. guards were constantly on the move, punishing "infractions such as poor posture and dirty shoes."
The Nazis' goal wasn't only to destroy evidence of the camp: They had plans to force the prisoners to serve as slave laborers for the Reich. Some prisoners were stuffed into train cars to complete their journey to Germany; others escaped into the sub-zero temperatures. Of those forced to walk, some died along the way, though it remains unclear how many were killed over the course of the marches.
On a nearby table sat the second horn part to Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien (Op. 45), which had been played by the death camp's orchestra. Ms. Jastrzebiowska would preserve the page as it was, she said, and keep the smudges showing that the pages had been turned. "The objects must show their own history," said Jolanta Banas-Maciaszczyk, 36, the leader of the preservation department.
By August 1944 there were 105,168 prisoners in Auschwitz whilst another 50,000 Jewish prisoners lived in Auschwitz's satellite camps. The camp's population grew constantly, despite the high mortality rate caused by exterminations, starvation, hard labor, and contagious diseases. Upon arrival at the platform in Birkenau, Jews were thrown out of their train cars without their belongings and forced to form two lines, men and women separately.
During the German invasion of the Soviet Union the Nazis began the first mass killings of Jews. Between June and September 1941, the Einsatzgruppen supported by local collaborators murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews across Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and the Soviet Union. Having observed the killings, Adolf Eichmann ordered a more efficient method of killing the Jews of Europe be developed.
Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, wrote a book called Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). The book said that all of Germany's problems happened because Jews were making plans to hurt the country. He also said that Jewish and communist politicians planned the Armistice of 1918 that ended World War I, and allowed Germany to agree to pay huge amounts of money and goods (reparations).
In 1931, Himmler organised an SS intelligence service which became known as the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service) under his deputy, Heydrich.[246] This organisation was tasked with locating and arresting communists and other political opponents.[247][248] Himmler established the beginnings of a parallel economy under the auspices of the SS Economy and Administration Head Office. This holding company owned housing corporations, factories, and publishing houses.[249][250]
Then, the marches began. The remaining prisoners deemed healthy enough to march were told to assemble into columns and leave Auschwitz. About 7,000 were left behind as 60,000 marched. Nazi guards led them through the forests and fields of southern Poland on their way to Germany. The Germans called the march an "evacuation"; prisoners immediately dubbed it the "death march."
Popular support for Hitler almost completely disappeared as the war drew to a close.[145] Suicide rates in Germany increased, particularly in areas where the Red Army was advancing. Among soldiers and party personnel, suicide was often deemed an honourable and heroic alternative to surrender. First-hand accounts and propaganda about the uncivilised behaviour of the advancing Soviet troops caused panic among civilians on the Eastern Front, especially women, who feared being raped.[146] More than a thousand people (out of a population of around 16,000) committed suicide in Demmin on and around 1 May 1945 as the 65th Army of 2nd Belorussian Front first broke into a distillery and then rampaged through the town, committing mass rapes, arbitrarily executing civilians, and setting fire to buildings. High numbers of suicides took place in many other locations, including Neubrandenburg (600 dead), Stolp in Pommern (1,000 dead),[147] and Berlin, where at least 7,057 people committed suicide in 1945.[148]
That same day, Gestapo official SS Sergeant Karl Silberbauer and two Dutch police collaborators arrested the Franks. The Gestapo sent them to Westerbork on Aug. 8. One month later, in September 1944, SS and police authorities placed the Franks, and the four others hiding with them, on a train transport from Westerbork to the Auschwitz camp complex in German-occupied Poland. Selected for labor due to their youth, Anne and her sister, Margot were transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Celle, in northern Germany, in late October 1944.
The Auschwitz complex was divided in three major camps: Auschwitz I main camp or Stammlager; Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, established on October 8th, 1941 as a 'Vernichtungslager' (extermination camp); Auschwitz III or Monowitz, established on May 31th, 1942 as an 'Arbeitslager' or work camp; also several sub-camps. There were up to seven gas chambers using Zyklon-B poison gas and three crematoria. Auschwitz II included a camp for new arrivals and those to be sent on to labor elsewhere; a Gypsy camp; a family camp; a camp for holding and sorting plundered goods and a women's camp. Auschwitz III provided slave labor for a major industrial plant run by I G Farben for producing synthetic rubber (see Blechhammer). Highest number of inmates, including sub-camps: 155,000. The estimated number of deaths: 2.1 to 2.5 million killed in gas chambers, of whom about 2 million were Jews, and Poles, Gypsies and Soviet POWs. About 330,000 deaths from other causes.
During June and July 1933, all competing parties were either outlawed or dissolved themselves and subsequently the Law against the founding of new parties of 14 July 1933 legally established the Nazi Party's monopoly. On 1 December 1933, the Law to secure the unity of party and state entered into force, which was the base for a progressive intertwining of party structures and state apparatus.[82] By this law, the SA—actually a party division—was given quasi-governmental authority and their leader was co-opted as an ex officio cabinet member. By virtue of a 30 January 1934 Law concerning the reorganisation of the Reich, the Länder (states) lost their statehood and were demoted to administrative divisions of the Reich's government (Gleichschaltung). Effectively, they lost most of their power to the Gaue that were originally just regional divisions of the party, but took over most competencies of the state administration in their respective sectors.[83]
In November 2015 the Swiss foundation which owns the rights to The Diary of Anne Frank, the Anne Frank Fonds, added Frank's father, Otto, as a co-author. Otto was added as an author to extend the copyright of the work, which would have expired on December 31, 2015, 70 years after Anne's death. If the authorship change goes unchallenged, the new copyright will allow Anne Frank Fonds to retain control of publication of the diary until 2050. Legal experts advised officials at the Anne Frank Fonds that adding Frank's father Otto as a co-author was justified, because he helped put together the final draft of the diary and "created new work" by editing and reshaping it.
The train wasn't headed to Germany. Stos was on the first transport of Polish prisoners to Auschwitz. There to greet them were 30 hardened German convicts, brought by the SS from a prison near Berlin. Guards confiscated Stos' belongings and issued him a number. Sixty-nine years later, he slid a business card across the dining room table as his daughter brought us cups of tea. It read "Jozef Stos, former Auschwitz Concentration Camp Prisoner No. 752." "I was there on the first day," he said. "They had me for five years and five days."
The atrocities of Nazi Germany began well before the first shots of World War II were fired in 1939. Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, and five weeks later, the Nazis established their first concentration camp. In 1935, the Nazis issued the Nuremberg Laws: "racial purity" laws that stripped German Jews of their citizenship. Violence broke out in November 1938, when Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses, homes, hospitals, and synagogues, killed nearly 100 and arrested some 30,000 Jewish men in what came to be known as Kristallnacht. By 1939, 300,000 Jewish refugees had fled Nazi controlled territories. By the war's end in 1945, six million Jews and millions of other victims had died in the Holocaust.
The racialists were not capable of drawing the practical conclusions from correct theoretical judgements, especially in the Jewish Question. In this way, the German racialist movement developed a similar pattern to that of the 1880s and 1890s. As in those days, its leadership gradually fell into the hands of highly honourable, but fantastically naïve men of learning, professors, district counsellors, schoolmasters, and lawyers—in short a bourgeois, idealistic, and refined class. It lacked the warm breath of the nation's youthful vigour.[175]
The term "National Socialism" arose out of attempts to create a nationalist redefinition of "socialism", as an alternative to both international socialism and free market capitalism. Nazism rejected the Marxist concept of class conflict, opposed cosmopolitan internationalism, and sought to convince all parts of the new German society to subordinate their personal interests to the "common good", accepting political interests as the main priority of economic organization.[4]
Röhm hoped to assume command of the army and absorb it into the ranks of the SA.[230] Hindenburg and Defence Minister Werner von Blomberg threatened to impose martial law if the activities of the SA were not curtailed.[231] Therefore, less than a year and a half after seizing power, Hitler ordered the deaths of the SA leadership, including Rohm. After the purge of 1934, the SA was no longer a major force.[38]
No one knows better than you yourself, my Führer, that you were never the seventh member of the party, but at best the seventh member of the committee... And a few years ago I had to complain to a party office that your first proper membership card of the DAP, bearing the signatures of Schüssler and myself, was falsified, with the number 555 being erased and number 7 entered.[42]
Wilhelm Stapel, an antisemitic German intellectual, utilised Spengler's thesis on the cultural confrontation between Jews as whom Spengler described as a Magian people versus Europeans as a Faustian people.[117] Stapel described Jews as a landless nomadic people in pursuit of an international culture whereby they can integrate into Western civilisation.[117] As such, Stapel claims that Jews have been attracted to "international" versions of socialism, pacifism or capitalism because as a landless people the Jews have transgressed various national cultural boundaries.[117]
The preservation lab, with high-end technology, opened in 2003. One afternoon last week, Nel Jastrzebiowska, 37, a paper conservator, was using a rubber eraser to clean a row of papers in files. They were letters on Auschwitz stationery, written in German in rosy prose intended to slip past the censors. "I'm in good health," one read, adding, "Send me money."
After examining several sites for a new plant to manufacture Buna-N, a type of synthetic rubber essential to the war effort, the German chemical cartel IG Farben chose a site near the towns of Dwory and Monowice (Monowitz in German), about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) east of Auschwitz I.[50] Tax exemptions were available to corporations prepared to develop industries in the frontier regions under the Eastern Fiscal Assistance Law, passed in December 1940. The site had good railway connections and access to raw materials.[51] In February 1941, Himmler ordered that the Jewish population of Oświęcim be expelled to make way for skilled laborers; that all Poles able to work remain in the town and work on building the factory; and that Auschwitz prisoners be used in the construction work.[52]
Hitler's first DAP speech was held in the Hofbräukeller on 16 October 1919. He was the second speaker of the evening, and spoke to 111 people.[43] Hitler later declared that this was when he realised he could really "make a good speech".[30] At first, Hitler spoke only to relatively small groups, but his considerable oratory and propaganda skills were appreciated by the party leadership. With the support of Anton Drexler, Hitler became chief of propaganda for the party in early 1920.[44] Hitler began to make the party more public, and organised its biggest meeting yet of 2,000 people on 24 February 1920 in the Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München. Such was the significance of this particular move in publicity that Karl Harrer resigned from the party in disagreement.[45] It was in this speech that Hitler enunciated the twenty-five points of the German Workers' Party manifesto that had been drawn up by Drexler, Feder and himself.[46] Through these points he gave the organisation a much bolder stratagem[44] with a clear foreign policy (abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles, a Greater Germany, Eastern expansion and exclusion of Jews from citizenship) and among his specific points were: confiscation of war profits, abolition of unearned incomes, the State to share profits of land and land for national needs to be taken away without compensation.[47] In general, the manifesto was antisemitic, anti-capitalist, anti-democratic, anti-Marxist and anti-liberal.[48] To increase its appeal to larger segments of the population, on the same day as Hitler's Hofbräuhaus speech on 24 February 1920, the DAP changed its name to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ("National Socialist German Workers' Party", or Nazi Party).[49][50] The word "Socialist" was added by the party's executive committee, over Hitler's objections, in order to help appeal to left-wing workers.[51]
A parallel system to the main camp in Auschwitz began to operate at the Birkenau camp by 1942. The exception, though, was that the majority of "showers" used to delouse the incoming prisoners proved to be gas chambers. At Birkenau, only about 10 percent of Jewish transports were registered, disinfected, shaven and showered in the "central sauna" before being assigned barracks as opposed to being sent directly to the death chambers.
The first "bunker," with two sealed rooms, operated from January 1942 to the end of that year. The second, with four air tight rooms, became redundant in the spring of 1943, but remained standing and was used again in the autumn of 1944 when extra "capacity" was needed for the murder of Hungarian Jews and the liquidation of the ghettos. The second measured about 1.134 square feet. The victims murdered in the "bunkers" were first obliged to undress in temporary wooden barracks erected nearby. Their bodies were taken out of the gas chambers and pushed to pits where they were burned in the open.
A Jewish skeleton collection was obtained from among a pool of 115 Jewish Auschwitz inmates, chosen for their perceived stereotypical racial characteristics.[b] Rudolf Brandt and Wolfram Sievers, general manager of the Ahnenerbe (a Nazi research institute), delivered the skeletons to the collection of the Anatomy Institute at the Reichsuniversität Straßburg in Occupied France. The collection was sanctioned by Himmler and under the direction of August Hirt. Ultimately 87 of the inmates were shipped to Natzweiler-Struthof and killed in August 1943.[135] Brandt and Sievers were executed in 1948 after being convicted during the Doctors' trial, part of the Subsequent Nuremberg trials.[136]
This intellectual preparation would probably not have been sufficient for the growth of Nazism in Germany but for that country's defeat in World War I. The defeat and the resulting disillusionment, pauperization, and frustration—particularly among the lower middle classes—paved the way for the success of the propaganda of Hitler and the Nazis. The Treaty of Versailles (1919), the formal settlement of World War I drafted without German participation, alienated many Germans with its imposition of harsh monetary and territorial reparations. The significant resentment expressed toward the peace treaty gave Hitler a starting point. Because German representatives (branded the "November criminals" by National Socialists) agreed to cease hostilities and did not unconditionally surrender in the armistice of November 11, 1918, there was a widespread feeling—particularly in the military—that Germany's defeat had been orchestrated by diplomats at the Versailles meetings. From the beginning, Hitler's propaganda of revenge for this "traitorous" act, through which the German people had been "stabbed in the back," and his call for rearmament had strong appeal within military circles, which regarded the peace only as a temporary setback in Germany's expansionist program. The ruinous inflation of the German currency in 1923 wiped out the savings of many middle-class households and led to further public alienation and dissatisfaction.
When Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 1, 1933, conditions for Jews like the Franks and other so-called undesirables in Germany immediately deteriorated. By summer, freedom of speech and assembly were suspended for everyone in Germany, the Gestapo was formed, Jewish businesses—including medical and legal practices—were boycotted, and a law excluding non-Aryans from government removed Jews from government and teaching positions.
On 26 June 1933, Himmler appointed Theodor Eicke commandant of Dachau, who in 1934 was also appointed the first Inspector of Concentration Camps (CCI). In addition, the remaining SA-run camps were taken over by the SS.[14][15][16] Dachau served as both a prototype and a model for the other Nazi concentration camps. Almost every community in Germany had members who were taken there. The newspapers continuously reported on "the removal of the enemies of the Reich to concentration camps" making the general population more aware of their presence. There were jingles warning as early as 1935: "Dear God, make me dumb, that I may not come to Dachau."[17]

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Responding to a report that the Indonesian forestry giant is working with The Forest Trust, a Switzerland-based NGO, to clean up its supply chain, Bustar Maitar of Greenpeace Southeast Asia told mongabay.com that APP must make a firm commitment on its sourcing practices.
"APP must immediately stop accepting timber from natural forest clearance and confirm that no expansion will take place unless that expansion and the rest of APP's production is wholly reliant on plantation fiber," Maitar said. "It's only through this action, not through it's PR campaign or choice of NGO partner, that APP can start to build any credibility with stakeholders and its many ex customers around the world."
"APP continues to rely on natural forest clearance in Indonesia to feed its existing pulp mills and also now plans to build one of the world's largest pulp mills in South Sumatra," he added. "It is within this context that APP's work with TFT must be seen."
While APP has publicly downplayed any connection with the new mill in South Sumatra, media reports indicate that the project is backed by Sinar Mas Group, the conglomerate that owns APP. The pulp mill will allegedly have a capacity of 2 million tons per year and cost some $3 billion. Sinar Mas recently secured a $250 million loan from an unspecified bank in Indonesia, according to the Investor Daily, a sign that the conglomerate may be overcoming investor concerns tied to its $13.9 billion default in 2001.
Environmentalists are concerned that the new mill will put added pressure on natural forests in South Sumatra and adjacent provinces where there aren't enough plantations to supply fiber to meet projected capacity. However APP says that any future mill expansion would have to be in line with its new "Sustainability Roadmap" for protecting high conservation value forest and rely only on "sustainable" plantation timber. APP also maintains that after 2015, new plantations will be subject to high carbon stock criteria, which should exclude peatlands and most forests from conversion.
APP has been dogged for years by environmentalists over its forest management practices. It, together with Asian Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL), have been blamed for clearing vast swathes of carbon-dense tiger and orangutan habitat in Jambi and Riau Provinces on the island of Sumatra.
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Industry experts say solar is one of the next potential changes in the energy field.
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For nearly 15 years, Dennis Latendresse has been running Wind and Solar World, the small Upham, North Dakota outfit that specializes in small-scale, renewable power – perfect, to hear him tell it, for the remote rural home or the farm.
The job requires a fair amount of travel. He took a call as he drove down the highway toward Colorado, where he had to pick up materials for his next job, he said. But that's OK – nowadays, solar panel prices are falling, customer interest is up and business is good.
Some of his customers, Latendresse said, are doomsday preppers, getting ready for nuclear winter. Others might be worried about government overreach and want more independence from the grid. Others, he said, are set on doing their part to slow down climate change.
"I just want more people to have solar," he said. "I'll put more solar power out there and I'll give a few people a job."
The upper Midwest's power grid – and likely beyond – is on the cusp of enormous change. While renewables like solar power are on the rise, so too is the shift toward electric cars, both of which promise to rearrange how regulators and power providers manage energy.
"The energy industry is changing faster now than ever before," said Ben Fladhammer, a spokesperson for Minnkota Power Cooperative. "It's exciting, and at the same time it's daunting. Energy mixes of different utilities, different states, are changing very quickly."
Fladhammer mentioned the winter storm that struck Texas during February 2021, which knocked out power around the state for days , freezing and bursting pipes. The ensuing blackout contributed to the death toll, which soared past 100 – and left in its wake a political and logistical headache for Texas regulators, who faced questions for months about the future of the state's energy grid.
"(That) caused great concern for the utility industry," he said. "How do we make sure that we're building a system that stays as reliable and resilient as it possibly can be?"
Michelle Rosier is an analyst with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. She points out that planning ahead for electricity needs looks vastly different than it used to – what was once a more straightforward weighting of power output, electrical grid and consumer need is now complicated by rooftop solar panels, power sources that rely on daylight or wind and the like.
"It's now a much more comprehensive view," Rosier said. "And that's something that's in progress around the country, figuring out how exactly to do that, as the grid evolves and our generation sources change."
Solar is one of the next potential changes, especially in the upper Midwest, where both South Dakota and North Dakota lag in solar production. The Solar Energy Industries Association ranks both states 50th and 51st in solar energy production among the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Part of the disparity, the Fargo Forum reported in August, is a more friendly Minnesota attitude toward solar power (SEIA ranks its output at 15th). One of Minnesota's successes is its community solar garden program , which encourages smaller groups of consumers to buy shares in local solar arrays; the state has also spent on subsidies to boost the solar power industry.
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Attitudes elsewhere are more laissez-faire.
"When you subsidize something, that means money has to come out of somebody else's pocket. Our philosophy here is that we shouldn't be raising rates on other utility ratepayers to subsidize those that might want to put solar on their home or business," said Chris Nelson, the chairman of South Dakota's Public Utilities Commission.
But the future's still bright for solar in the upper Midwest. Jonathan Adelman, Xcel Energy's vice president of strategy and planning, said that his company currently has about 3.5 million customers across eight states – with a view to "decarbonize" completely by 2050.
"Personally, I'm quite bullish (on solar)," Adelman said, pointing out not just the long-term drop in the cost of solar power but also likely incentives in the "Build Back Better" Act – which as of this writing was still a matter of debate in Washington, D.C. That's helpful as the company looks to add thousands of megawatts of solar generation to its portfolio during the next decade. "I think it's safe to say that solar is going to play a growing role in the system."
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Sustainability is fully integrated into FrieslandCampina's strategy Our Purpose, Our Plan.
Sustainability Organisation
FrieslandCampina's Executive Board has final responsibility for FrieslandCampina's Sustainability policy. The development and coordination of this policy are the responsibility of the Corporate Sustainability department. The Sustainability Council is responsible for assessment and consultation.
In order to chart stakeholder expectations and keep up to date with all current and relevant developments, FrieslandCampina maintains regular contact with its key stakeholders. This concerns member dairy farmers, employees, customers, suppliers, government bodies, financiers, NGOs and society in general. A detailed overview of the stakeholders, discussion topics and actions can be found in the Annual Report 2018.
Sustainable development through partnerships (SDG 17)
FrieslandCampina understands that many sustainable development goals can only be achieved through cooperation with partners. Within the dairy sector, such as the Dairy Sustainability Framework, but also beyond this.
Dairy Sustainability Framework
The Dairy Sustainability Framework (DSF) was launched by the international dairy sector in 2013. It is a methodology for dairy producers and dairy processors to demonstrate the increasing sustainability of the international dairy sector. Dairy companies use a performance ladder to provide insight into the level at which the sustainability policy has been implemented as part of their management system on the basis of the DSF. As a DSF member, FrieslandCampina has committed to integrate the sustainability policy into its business strategy, which will demonstrably result in making the dairy products it produces continuously more sustainable. Apart from the obligation of implementing sustainability, the Company has also committed to take all eleven DFS sustainability themes into consideration. For additional information visit the DSF-website.
Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam
In Rotterdam, during the World Dairy Summit in October 2016, the Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam was signed by the International Dairy Federation and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). At year-end 2017, milk producers
that collectively are responsible for approximately half of the global milk production had signed this declaration. This declaration recognises the important role of dairy as part of a balanced nutritional diet, as an engine for employment and as a source of income for approximately 1 billion people throughout the world. As such, the declaration supports the role of the dairy sector in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. FrieslandCampina is a signatory to the Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam. FrieslandCampina's strategy is fully aligned with the agreements formulated within the international dairy sector.
Employee engagement and involvement of member dairy farmers
FrieslandCampina employees and member dairy farmers are cooperating in the implementation of the Sustainability policy. They play a key role in embedding the Sustainability policy within the organisation. FrieslandCampina is fully committed to employee participation in the implementation of its purpose – nourishing by nature. FrieslandCampina aims to be and remain an attractive employer.
Production processes that use less energy; the development of sustainable packaging; creating insight into solutions for lowering the ecological footprint of the dairy farming sector: employees at the FrieslandCampina Innovation Centre in Wageningen are making a key contribution to creating a sustainable dairy chain. In addition, they work together with business group employees on new products
or product variations: with the best possible match to consumer and customer wishes and needs. The areas of focus in the new Company strategy are key in this regard.
Milkubator
The innovation process will be as much as possible accelerated: this past year a great deal of attention was focused on shortening the lead time required to bring a product to market. The 'Milkubator', a platform for working just like a start-up and that makes it possible to bring innovations to market quickly, was introduced in 2017. In the mean time some of the recent innovations have bean included in our product range. All kinds of different ways to accelerate the innovation process are also assessed for investigations that require a longer lead time. 'Open innovation' plays an important role in this and involves cooperation with many different knowledge institutes and other organisations. At FrieslandCampina experts are working in the field of nutrition, milk components, process technology, products, packaging, sustainability and dairy farming. Thanks to its knowledge and expertise, FrieslandCampina is able to continuously improve and renew the supply chain. In 2018, FrieslandCampina invested 80 million euros in its research & development activities.
Key innovations 2018
Human-like Milk Oligosaccharide, ingredient for infant nutrition
Friso Comfort Next, new recipe for infant nutrition
Whey Protein Isolate, pure protein ingredient for products such as sports nutrition
Dutch Lady/Foremost Protein Plus, milk with a long shelf life and high-quality proteins
Landliebe quark
Statutory requirements form the basis for monitoring quality. Furthermore, additional requirements must be met. Various international standards, such as GMP+, HACCP, ISO 9001, ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, OSHAS 18000 and ISO 14000 have been integrated into Foqus planet. This way FrieslandCampina's customers, as well as consumers, can rely on the fact that products are safe and of high quality, and that they are produced in responsible ways. Each year FrieslandCampina reviews the Foqus requirements and makes adjustments as necessary, so that the system is always in line with legislation and the latest knowledge and insights.
FrieslandCampina's Sustainability policy is based on the ISO 26000 guideline. This is an international Sustainability guideline assisting companies and other organisations in implementing sustainability in business processes.
Apart from ISO 26000, all FrieslandCampina production locations have environment and health and safety management systems in place, which comply with the ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 requirements. Additionally, FrieslandCampina has developed its own internal standard for this, being the Foqus SHE management system. This standardised risk analysis gives an overview of the environmental and health and safety risks at all locations and all locations annually report on this. The environmental and health and safety management system is guaranteed by means of internal and external audits.
Guidelines for suppliers
FrieslandCampina makes strict demands on suppliers of basic materials, such as fruit concentrates, fruit, sugar, coagulant and many other ingredients used in the products of FrieslandCampina. FrieslandCampina believes that a good and open relationship with its suppliers is essential for obtaining a good overview of the safety risks and how these are monitored in the chain.
In 2015, FrieslandCampina updated its code for correct business conduct, Compass. This code of conduct and the corresponding policies provide the basic principles for respectful and transparent business behaviour of FrieslandCampina employees and third parties that FrieslandCampina cooperates with. Compliance with this code of conduct and the policies is supported by training, globally appointed confidential officers, an integrity committee and a 24/7 available reporting platform where employees can express their worries about a suspected violation of the code of conduct or policy on a confidential basis.
In 2018, FrieslandCampina once again focused the attention of its employees on Compass, its Code of Conduct for good business behaviour, and the Speak UP procedure. New employees attend an introduction session and must complete mandatory e-learning about Compass and Speak Up.
More information on all the above components , can be found in the Annual Report 2018.
CSR is fully integrated into FrieslandCampina's strategy Our Purpose, Our Plan
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There's been much speculation as to what happened to Lyle since there have been no website updates for a few years. Well, we can point the blame at the legal battle that he was in with Walmart. He specifically asked us not to post anything about this because apparently all publicity is good publicity and he doesn't want to promote that company in any way. However, this situation has had a huge impact on his life and career so we thought we'd throw this in at the end of this News Update if anyone wants to hear some of the horror he's gone through so they can learn from his experience.
Despite Walmart's employee assaulting him in 2011 on their property and causing permanent damage to his lower back and sacrum by driving a train of shopping carts directly into him while he was in an isle, he had to "give
up" the legal battle in order to save his house and years of his life that it would take to continue. "They played dirty from the start. Right after I was assaulted by their employee, I was told to expect I was under surveillance by Walmart's people. I did absolutely nothing wrong, yet I've been looking over my back for over five years. To go through years more of this BS was ridiculous. Never mind the chronic pain, wondering if I'm being watched, especially when I'm with my kids is an awful way to go about your day. The entire experience was beyond an invasion of privacy and not at all conducive to healing."
He continued after a long awkward break, "It should have been over years ago and they even agreed to judicially assisted dispute resolution, however, after they got all my proof, I believe they knew they would have no choice but to pay up when it got in front of a judge. So these ____ ____ (unintelligible) strategically changed their mind and demanded this now go to trial because they likely knew it would cost me and my family everything and there would be no way we could afford to continue. It would cost us nearly 75k to continue for this to go to the trial that they demanded, and if they got off on a technicality, I would also have to pay another 100k or more for their legal fees."
Style told us "off the record" (which we think is a music reference?) during a phone interview (that had poor cell reception quality) that "They hire the ____ _____ (unintelligible) lawyers on the planet. These _____ _____ (unintelligible) had hundreds of documents of my personal files so they knew my financial status and they used this to their advantage. For every page they had, they started to demand what seemed like five more. Despite them having ten years of my medical history and me never having a lower back injury, they demanded all medical records since I was born. And, I believe they were trying to make me commit career suicide by demanding time consuming letters and documents from production companies and people I worked with that would do nothing but cost me future work with them. They also implied they would cause legal problems for the people in my life that helped me medically with my pain because they treated me outside their medical offices and didn't charge me, which they implied, was a violation to their respective professional associations. So continuing would not only make us have to take out a second mortgage on our house, it would likely cause legal problems for people who were kind by trying to help me get better. I would hang my head in profound shame if I did what they did, it's unbelievable how a major corporation could do something so wrong when they were clearly at fault and admitted so, which I have on tape. The only saving grace is the employee drove those carts into me instead of my three year old son who was with me that evening, because that impact would have likely killed him. ____ _____ (unintelligible) are _____ (unintelligible) corporate bullies that would rather spend money on their lawyers fighting against their innocent victims than using that money to do the right thing. Just because a person may not be super successful in their career doesn't give Walmart the right to take it away from that person. I have their representatives on tape saying they would reimburse me for all my expenses, they lied. They also admitted they were liable as they had the assault on video, but then, it all of a sudden didn't exist once it came to presenting it to my lawyer. And me recording the very same conversation that they were recording was apparently illegal of me, because I didn't say that, I, too, was recording the conversation. This according to their _____ _____ (unintelligible) made their admitting guilt and them saying they would look after expenses inadmissible. Remember Jennifer, I know you're new here, this is all off the record." [In an effort to be off the record, it should be mentioned that not once did Style ever actually say the word "Walmart" in these interviews, instead of "wal", a variety of four letter words were used.]
Style continued, "I sold off ten grand of music gear to pay for doctors letters and medical treatment and it got me nowhere. Walmart dragged each step of this out for ____ (unintelligible) years to the point that we could not cover the expenses of legal representation for a trial that would take years to hit the courts. All this because I took my son for rubber boots to Walmart. I hope people learn from my mistake and make better informed decisions on where they shop. If you end up in the same boat I did, you may learn, like I did, that it appears that Canadian lawyers are afraid of Walmart so they will demand $375 an hour plus taxes like mine did when it came to going to trial. My lawyers were _____ _______ (unintelligible) and weren't even able to get the money back that they, themselves, advised me to spend on the case. The Canadian judicial system is unlike anything I've ever seen, set up to help the perpetrator and all the lawyers, not the victim who gets victimized over and over by the process."
We had some staff leave due to financial reasons over the last few years and we would like to thank them for all their great work. We also welcome Jennifer Wesmax to the Electric Recordings team who is currently interning.
Style continues to be in ongoing medical treatment stating that "after hundreds of related medical appointments to the Walmart assault, I'm seeing some improvement by osteopathic therapy which gives me hope for the future."
Style is in pre-pre-production for his next album "Behind Of His Time". "I almost lost everything because of the Walmart fiasco so I am not recording the album yet. I have written a bunch of new songs for it but need an angel to descend from heaven to help get back in the studio." Release date is TBA. "Hopefully it'll be in my lifetime" he added.
To end on a happy note, Style went to the Smithsonian to get up close to the roots of his raising and what helped make him the man he is today.
Thanks for your interest in the life and times of Mr. E Style, we hope good things come your way right now and always!
Since the last update, a new Roy Orbison album has been released called "One Of The Lonely Ones", a lost album featuring six songs written/co- written by Lyle's late friend/mentor. "I miss Bill Dees every day, he had a huge impact on my life. He must have sung me a few hundred songs over the years but I never heard him mention these tracks to me, so naturally I was blown away to see a lost album released. Even more so, the song 'Little Girl (In The Big City)', I believe, is the first song out of the sixty plus that Roy Orbison recorded that was all credited to Bill. It's a great album, I hope there are more in the vaults! Roy Orbison's estate is doing an awesome job keeping his memory alive. I really hope more estates like Roger Miller, Lee Hazlewood and Merle Haggard's have similar surprises for the fans coming soon."
Style has recently come to terms with the death of his hero, the great Merle Haggard. "Mr. Haggard and I seemed to hit it off when I first met him, he even gave me his cell phone number, invited me to his home studio and told me to keep in touch. I called him up once and felt sort of bad, like I was bothering him. Then I called one more time and realized he was just being nice about the keeping in touch. Since that day I've always let the celebrity phone calls be incoming. Often, I ask my wife if she changed our phone number. I love Merle Haggard though, I'm so thankful I had the opportunity to spend time with him on multiple occasions, to interview him, see many of his phenomenal concerts and got to know his management and crew a little. We also lost his exceptionally cool sax player, Don Markham who was in The Strangers. It's sad not being able to plan another trip around catching a Merle Haggard concert."
Lyle E Style's photo of Alice Cooper that premiered on this site in 2010 (which was soon after stolen) is still in the top spots in search engines worldwide for "Alice Cooper Hat".
He took some more pics of Alice recently so he said he'd allow us to put a few up. Enjoy!
Style was spotted at the Grand Canyon with his boychildren. While in Arizona, Style also met up with Robert Shields at his home. "Mr. Shields is an unreal talent. He was Entertainer Of The Year in Las Vegas for two years in a row back in the day. I wish he were still out there performing because the world is really missing out. He still has it! He really blows me away with his art, talent, stories and point of view. He has an amazing perspective on the entertainment business. I'd encourage anyone to get to know the works of Robert Shields."
Be sure to follow Lyle E Style on Twitter: @mrestyle so you can read great things like:
"I admire people who have careers that go nowhere fast versus mine that has gone nowhere so slowly."
"Often I wonder if my life would have been different if I waited a second before I took my first breath."
"As we approach #mosquitoseason I worry yet again that I may unknowingly kill the most talented #mosquito who ever lived."
"I refuse to Facebook because I see it suck the life out of people."
"I haven't experienced the sensation of #boredom for decades but I've had the sensation of 'what the hell am I doing with my life' many times."
Style got to spend an afternoon with Mickey Gilley recently. "It's always great to spend one on one time with a legend. I'd love to follow him around for a week with a tape recorder and listen to his stories. He's seen some stuff in his day and has an unbelievable career. I've been blessed to hear some behind the scenes stories that few get to hear. Some of the stuff he has experienced is unreal and would make a hell of a book if told raw. The thing is, he has the most positive image with his fans that I've ever seen, he's a very grateful and gracious man but the stories I want to capture could make him look somewhat bitter which is the last thing he is. The fact remains that he never got the recognition he deserves yet he's one of the coolest guys still standing, on tour and he sings better than ever. Maybe someday he'll agree to a book about the darker side of the music business that he's seen first hand. And Jennifer, please don't put that photo of me and Mr. Gilley up, I look like a nut."
OLD NEWS 2017
We invite the world to follow the ranting of Lyle E Style on Twitter: @mrestyle
If you're looking to get married in Manitoba, consider doing it with Style. He's been helping people live happily forever after for more than two decades. Besides music, writing and working in film/television, Lyle is a marriage commissioner based in Winnipeg and can accommodate weddings of all sizes (even at short notice). Email mrestyle@shaw.ca for more info.
Lyle got a chance to meet up with one of his heroes Kris Kristofferson at a rare acoustic performance this past Spring of 2017. "It was an amazing opportunity to meet up with him and I'm very grateful for it. On top of that, I got to see his memorable performance right up front and center, it was unreal." said Style.
Style has bought out all remaining inventory of his book "Ain't Got No Cigarettes - Memories of Music Legend Roger Miller". There is still some time to get your signed copy on this site. Rumor has it he hasn't been feeling good lately so your purchase will become an investment when he inevitably kicks the bucket.
After 25 years working in the film industry, Style has finally made it to the big screen with a speaking role. "Most of the work I've done in Film and Television has been as a stand-in, the odd commercial, a blur in the background or a role that ended up on the cutting room floor. It's nice to have a speaking role in Tempus Tormentum and I'm grateful for it."
Style has completed his script "Don't Bend For Coppers: The Life and Deaths of Johnny Kitsalano" and is working on getting it in to the right hands. "I only wish I knew who the right hands were and how to get it into them" said Style explaining that the script is about guy raised in a politically incorrect time who loved three things: music, his girlfriend and miserable old men. "Wouldn't it be great to end up just like the person you admired most?" he asked me. I told him that I didn't know and he said something like "hopefully we will all find out someday when this dark comedic drama gets made."
Memory Lane:
Style at his failed ET2 audition
WINTER NEWS 2020
Style has a new website! It's not as nice as the great original design by Billy Smith but it'll likely be updated more regularly. A huge thank you to Billy Smith of Cyberdog Media for the last 20 years of being a master webmaster and friend!
As for what's the new since the last update…
Style was named the "new voice of MTS" which was his most exciting gig to date as the last person to do it was with them for many years doing many TV commercials and radio ads. As his luck would have it, less than a week after getting the gig, MTS was sold to Bell Canada and he's never heard from them since. He did one ad though which was on TV, web ads and played at movie theaters for a few months.
It's been said that if Style isn't humming the Waylon Jennings lyrics "Look at me, you can see I've seen my better days, hoping for better days to come", he can be found in mourning for the loss of friends, heroes and people he interviewed and highly respected in the music industry including Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, Fred Foster, Paul English, Reggie Young, Don Williams, Harold Bradley, Tony Joe White, Donnie Fritts, Ralph Murphy, Billy Ray Reynolds, Hazel Smith, DJ Fontana, Don Markham, Norro Wilson, Glen Campbell and more. Some people claim he also often mumbles to himself "country music is dead" with three fingers of scotch in hand.
Style started writing a 2020 re-release of his book on Roger Miller called "Ain't Got No Cigarettes – Memories of Music Legend Roger Miller 20/20 - Now Featuring The Profound Failures That Followed!". It was meant to be funny but it came off more bitter than anything. It had a few stories and interviews that were originally cut from the book, updates on each artist, a few new interviews and after nearly each interview, it would share a story of how things blew up in Lyle's face since the original book release. The update also included profound things that happened in his personal life that has affected him the last few years (surprisingly, things that have never been shared on this "TMI" website) but in the end, it was ill-received and despite hundreds of hours of work, the idea was laid to rest.
On that note, Style quit Facebook! We overheard him tell a friend confidentially: "Things were being thrown in my face on Facebook by some people that pulled off things so dirty, selfish and lowdown that I can't comprehend, so I needed to delete my account for my mental health."
Style is still feeling the aftereffects of him being physically assaulted by an employee while shopping at Walmart. "I'm still in physical therapy and despite seeing some improvements, the physical pain, the profound financial impact and psychological warfare that they and their lawyers used is something I deal with daily." We've gone through the details in the last news update however the aftermath is something family, friends and acquaintances now feel as well. "My wife and kids and relatives are all upset at me because I went through the house and threw out every single item in the house that was bought at Walmart, be it a gift or something we bought many years ago. I'm not popular at birthday parties because my kid's gifts go directly in the trash if there is a gift receipt from Walmart or any hint that it was bought there. I also throw out any food that people bring into our home that was bought at Walmart. They have all been warned that anything bought from that company is not welcome in my home." When asked if he donates the toys and food that were bought there, Style answered "Everything that comes out of that evil store is cursed as far as I'm concerned, and I would never want anyone to have something cursed, no matter their life situation. The garbage can is too good for anything from Walmart, it should all be flushed down the toilet where it belongs. I'd rather starve than give a penny of support to that immoral outfit."
It's rumored that due to the above issues, not the COVID Pandemic,
he cancelled his 200 city "Lyle E Style 'Farewell World'
Tour 2020".
Style is still working on getting his "Don't Bend For Coppers" Script in the right hands. He left us this voicemail to comment for the News: "My script features people and stories from an un-woke, politically incorrect time. Much of it was taken verbatim by grumpy old men I'd love to hang around. Despite it being factual, it seems all the production companies I've been in touch with are not into taking risks on things that aren't adapted to today's politically correct society. If anyone knows of how to get this in the right hands, I'd be eternally grateful as I don't know what the fu"… (Voicemail cut off at this point).
Style was seen playing guitar on the Grand Ole Opry with his teenage crush Alicia Witt on the Hallmark Movie "Our Christmas Love Song".
Style has been doing his best to be a good parent and to learn from the mistakes his parents made raising him. "My parents would encourage me to live each day as if it were my last, and so I did. Unbeknownst to them, every morning I would look in the mirror and tell myself 'I am going to die later today' and I found myself persistently worrying about it. I was constantly adjusting my will and after decades of living each day as though it were my last, I realized it was actually making me quite depressed, very quick to startle and anxious. So, I decided to tell my kids to expect good things to come their way every day and to enjoy life as they choose."
There's a new Sheb Wooley biography written by Suzanne Gould which features some stories from Lyle "East L..A" about his time spent with the great Sheb Wooley.
Style has lost popularity even among those in his house thanks to his parenting skills. From mid-March, his two boychildren (7 & 11) were home-schooled, (predominantly by their mother after both boys wanted to drop out of school with their Dad as their teacher). As the school year was coming to an end, Style went to his kid's school's websites and took the letter head and then created his own report cards for his kids. On Father's Day, they "arrived in the mail" and the kids opened them up to find out that their schools "called home" and their Dad was the one who provided feedback on everything from chores to life lessons. Father's Day quickly turned to tears and profound anger. Style told us "I stand behind what I did, I believe it was the parents' responsibility to do report cards for this term and I believe my comments, despite being blunt and borderline vulgar, were accurate."
It has been documented that as Style experiences what's left of his life in his 40s that he's been worrying about the fact that he had a mid-life crisis in his mid-twenties. We wish him luck with that.
Style has been in isolation for the COVID Pandemic since mid-March (arguably years longer). In a phone interview he said: "I could be locked up in my house for five years and I wouldn't run out of things to do or be bored for a moment. In fact, if I had things my way, I'd self-isolate for a few more years after the pandemic just to be on the safe side."
The same day COVID was announced as Pandemic, Style wrote a song called "COVID Blues #19" (a hat's off to Jimmie Rodgers and Merle Haggard). Style did a rare video for Twitter but it was his most ill-received song since "Cut & Paste", he was being messaged about it being too soon, insensitive and him having an awful sense of humor. Style clarified the line is "Got them COVID Blues", not "God Damn COVID Blues". People also misunderstood "Cut & Paste", there was no F-words in that track, the line was "If I could".
Style was excited with the recent release of Bob Dylan's new 17 minute song "Murder Most Foul". Style lectured us: "As a young man I was told Bob Dylan was the voice of a generation and was the wisest of them all. I believed and still believe what I was told although if I think about it, I've never found there to be any comfort or wisdom in anything he's ever said or done. He doesn't even talk to his audience or show any appreciation whatsoever for people that pay to come see them. His new song 'Murder Most Foul' is about an event that happened before I was even born and is unrelatable to even a life-long Dylan fanatic like me. I love references to Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton in songs but I know very few people who even know who they were. The best part about the song is that it has the most anticipated bridge in any song ever written and Bob Dylan delivers that bridge to his fans the way he does best. It's a hypnotic track, in fact, I'm concerned for anyone's safety if they are driving and listening to that song."
Style along with the majority of people was sad to hear of Kenny Rogers' passing. Style was overheard saying "I admire Kenny Rogers career and respect that he had a legitimate 'goodbye tour' because he meant it. It really bothers me when people go out on tour like Garth Brooks and promote the idea that they are on their last tour and then a year later, they are headlining in Vegas or on another tour acting as though they didn't just announce their retirement a year or two earlier. My favorite show I saw of Kenny Rogers was in Brandon, Manitoba. He was in a real foul mood. Women were coming up to the stage with flowers, gifts and signs and he would walk to the other end of the stage and waved them to go away or just said "no!" As soon as someone would come toward the stage, he'd shoo them away and not accept anything they put on the stage. I was also fascinated because he also told the crowd they were 'brutal' as I recall and when people started singing, he told them to please not sing along with him because they were awful [set list from that show below]. I still remained a fan though after that concert and I was honored to be part of a concert package show where Kenny Rogers was the main attraction, in fact, I was the only person out that whole package show I never heard of."
We asked Style if we should tell people to "stay safe" on his behalf in closing to this news update and we were reprimanded "If people need to be told to 'stay safe' by me in the midst of a pandemic, there's something wrong with them. Who in the hell am I to tell people to 'stay safe'? Just tell them to 'take care' otherwise I look like an a--hole."
So on behalf of Lyle, take care!
Style recently performed a Live From The Lounge acoustic performance on Russell Hill's Country Music Show on Express FM in Portsmouth, UK. You can listen to it by clicking HERE.
Style took his nine year old boychild to see Alice Cooper in concert in Winnipeg. He told us "I first saw Alice Cooper 35 years ago and got in major trouble for it as I was enrolled in a Minor Seminary in Roblin at the time. I lied and snuck out to Winnipeg to catch the show, I was nearly expelled when I got back. Luckily a friend's parent stuck up for me and saved me from getting the boot however I was told by the priest that ran the school that I would definitely go to hell for it. He confiscated my tour program after he went through all the photos telling me Alice was the devil. I saw Alice over a dozen times over the years but this last one was my favourite one because I took my 9 year old with me and we had front row seats. Alice even gave him his cane! What an introduction to live music: seeing the greatest showman on the planet, front row seats and getting a stage used prop from the Master."
When we asked if his son was a fan, he said "Yes, he knew all the songs, he loves Alice." We asked what the favourite song is of his 9 year old son and Style said "The first haf of I'm Eighteen".
Despite rumors, Style is still alive. It's his career that is questionable.
Style has been getting slack for the name of his "Farewell World Tour 2020" (that was cancelled prior to COVID) being blamed for bringing a bad energy to 2020. Had he not cancelled the world tour just days before Canada shut down, he would have been eligible for all sorts of compensation for the lost tour by the Government and various organizations. He confirmed he got "SFA" for the cancelled tour but he did not clarify what "SFA" means. We did hear a rumor that he donated hundreds of hats, shirts, sweatshirts, tour jackets and pillow cases to a homeless shelter but later found out that when they saw they all said "Farewell World", they apparently dumped it all in the trash bin.
The one thing he has been not getting slack for has been his amazing observation regarding video conferencing which has become so popular because of COVID. He suggests that if companies like Zoom, Skype or Teams could go back in time, they would likely name their companies "COVID" as in "co-vid" because it so aptly captures the essence of what their service does. He suggested that Zoom and COVID should swap names because people who hear about a "Zoom Pandemic" are more likely to take it seriously.
Despite playing music daily, writing music and working on a new screenplay called "Birthmas" (all projects not by special request), Style has been focused on if his guardian angel (who he assumed abandoned him long, long ago) has been giving him a clear message daily on his computer but he never noticed it until now (as per the photo below).
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Kadokawa Games CEO Yoshimi Yasuda has confirmed in an interview with Japanese website Impress Watch that he is collaborating with Grasshopper Manufacture CEO Goichi Suda (better known as Suda 51) to collect player feedback from the recently released title Lollipop Chainsaw. The pair will use the information to help tune the development of the upcoming game Killer is Dead.
Fans were mixed about the amount of sparkles in Lollipop Chainsaw's kills.
Yasuda confessed that Lollipop Chainsaw's reception was mixed at best, ranging from comments such as "This is bad" to suggestions of how to best fix certain elements for a potential sequel. The majority of feedback being collected has been from both local and international fans.
The PlayStation 3 version of Lollipop Chainsaw was among the top 10 games in Japan for the week of June 18-24. For more information, check out GameSpot's full review.


WILSON, N.C. – Marin Felsoci scored early and often to lead the Belmont Abbey women's lacrosse team to an 18-7 victory this afternoon at Barton College. With the victory, Belmont Abbey now stands at 9-7 on the year, and 7-2 in Conference Carolinas play. They also clinched a home game in the first round of the Conference Carolinas Tournament on April 22. Barton is now 9-6, with a 6-4 conference record.
Belmont Abbey will close out its regular season on Wednesday, April 17 as it hosts Southern Wesleyan for a 4:30 p.m. contest.