The Germans invaded Poland on 1 Sept 1939 despite guarantees by France and England to the Polish Government. This was the first step in Hitler’s grand vision for ‘lebrensum’ or living space in the East as mentioned in his biographical book ‘Mien Kampf.”
Simon Lewenberg is the Jewish, Polish, aging, kind-hearted and intelligent survivor of the most extreme conditions known to humanity. In the 1940s, he made it alive through seven slave labor camps in the abysmally anti-Semitic countries of Germany and Poland, while the Nazis were completing the process of totally annihilating Europe’s entire Jewish and Polish populations. This is remarkable in itself, but…
The amount of sound and fury expended on Ballistic Missile defense Shields is sometimes mind boggling. And there are Think Tank academics who have spent entire careers just studying who said what, who did what, and estimating what could happen while determining what it all means. Not long ago, I was discussing the Ballistic Missile Defense Shield plans and the Russian anxiety over the whole issue with Jesse Giraldo, a scholar of Russian-US post cold war relations.