With no way to surrender to the British or the Americans and knowing that the Russians had completely lost their sense of humor, many high ranking Germans were considering or had already done the "honorable thing." The rest were trying to arrange surrender to the Yanks and Brits or humming the Bosa Nova and casting long yearning glances toward Brazil and her neighbors.

Hitler, if memory serves, shared a cyanide Bon Bon and a post prandial bullet to the brain with his sweetie Eva Braun who, he had recently married in a lovely ceremony in the damp bunker fifty feet below the boots of the approaching Russians. I believe they married to avoid going to the great rathskellar in the sky in a state of sin. Such a finely tuned sense of morality and respect for the cultural niceties, much is expected of our great leaders.

Reports don't tell us whether refreshments were served.

It had all been a lie, the advancing danger of Bolshevism, the crimes and intrigues of the Jews, the genetic inferiority of the Slavs, the Gypsies, the mentally ill and disabled. Homosexuals and intellectuals also came in for special consideration in the new Germany. Some of the lies went back centuries, some were more recent.

The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" a phamplet that made the "Heinrich Himmler Book Club Selection of the Era" was a myth begun in Czarist Russia before the revolution in an attempt to divert anger away from the corruption of the royal court and cast the Jews as the source of the people's misery. The phamplet also played well with Henry Ford who distributed the filth in his dealerships in America. Jews weren't getting many breaks here either.

The Germans borrowed lies from everywhere, from the world of the occult and astrology, from harebrained religious cults, from twenty centuries of European superstition, they found what they needed to keep the German people docile and filled with fear.

Before they could set out on their holy crusade to cleanse Germany and the Aryan Race of sub human influence they first had to emasculate the German people and they did it well. When lies weren't enough to bring submission they turned to terror, to torture, and to murder.

By the time they were ready to move east and begin scarfing up the world, German spines and testicles were as common as Stegosaurs unless they were turned to the service of the Fuhrer.

Hitler and his gang of comic opera beer hall and bratwurst thugs rose to power on an overwhelming wave of fear and lies and held on to that power using the same tools against a docile populace for twelve years.

Now in April of 1945 the jig, as they say was up. The "Thousand Year Reich" had lasted twelve years and a few months. The mission Hitler accomplished in his time led to the deaths of so many millions that the numbers become meaningless. Who can conceive and grasp the idea of 75 million dead men, women and children in little more than the span of one of our presidential election cycles?

The mind that can calmly hold such a thought should probably be destroyed. The crushing weight of the horror and misery, the brutality and violence of Hitler's war will lie heavy on the soul of man for a thousand years, and therein is his resurrection and his "Mission Accomplished."

Hitler was dead, a lifeless hulk of a pathetic and insane man who wielded control over others who allowed him to do it. As I write this he remains dead but his legacy presses upon us, the hubris that leads men to lust for power over others for control of the Earth and it's bounty, is alive and well in many of our leaders with missions of their own yet to accomplish.

Bob Higgins
Worldwide Sawdust