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The Ghost Army was a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. [2] [3] The 1,100-man unit was given a unique mission: to deceive Hitler's forces and mislead them as to the size and location of Allied forces, while giving the actual units elsewhere time to maneuver. [4]
Aliapoulos is mentioned in a film and numerous books: in the documentary, The Ghost Army directed by Rick Beyer, pictured and mentioned in page 29 of the book Ghosts of the ETO - American Tactical Deception Units in the European Theatre 1944-1945 [11] written by the author Jonathan Gawne [12] and pictured and mentioned in the book The Ghost ...
The Ghost Army Official Web Site; The Ghost Army at IMDb; on YouTube (producer's YouTube Channel) Garber, Megan. "Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler", The Atlantic, May 22, 2013. The Ghost Army of World War II, Princeton Architectural Press, 2015. (ISBN 978-1616893187
After dedicating himself to the Christian Identity movement, a racist offshoot of British Israelism, Butler founded the National Socialist Aryan Nations and would become the "spiritual godfather" [1] to the white separatist movement, in which he was a leading figure. [2]
On 14 October 1941, in an entry concerning the fate of Christianity, Hitler says: "Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself."
In public speeches, he portrayed himself and the Nazi movement as faithful Christians. [43] [44] In 1928 Hitler said in a speech: "We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity... in fact our movement is Christian." [45] But according to the Goebbels Diaries, Hitler hated Christianity. In an 8 April 1941 entry, Goebbels ...
In Hitler's eyes, Christianity was a religion fit only for slaves; he detested its ethics in particular. Its teaching, he declared, was a rebellion against the natural law of selection by struggle and the survival of the fittest. Though he was born as a Catholic, Hitler came to reject the Judeo-Christian conception of God and religion. [15]
The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS. Martin Secker & Warburg. (in English) Eric Kurlander. Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017 ISBN 978-0-300-18945-2; Richard Steigmann-Gall. 2003: The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945. Cambridge ...