Title: Victory At Sea - The Battle For Leyte Gulf - Episode 19 Source:
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The Japanese fleet is disintegrating, and the Imperial Navy conducts its last major operation in the Philippines Islands. It ends with debacle: The risen battleships of Pearl Harbor avenge the attack in Surigao Strait, the Center Force is defeated in Sibuyan Sea, the jeep carriers and destroyers fend off a stronger Japanese force near Samar and the remaining Japanese aircraft carriers are sunk. This Victory at Sea segment marked the near inevitability that the Japanese would accept defeat and surrender to the Allies.
I think the Pike letter is fake for number of concrete reasons,
Many learned people also considered Pikes letter to be a fraud, especially since his WWIII prediction centered on the nation of Israel, which did not exist until 1947.
In 1947 the Allies "created Israel" angering the Muslim world. Since that time, Israel has been a powder keg waiting to explode. In 1956 Israel invaded Egypt, dragging France and Britain with them, Russia threatened to intervene. Eisenhower kept his cool, told Russia to stay out, told Jews and France and Brits to go home.
I thot I was going to go for another foreign tour.
At that time Pikes fake letter sure seemed authentic.
Seems to have been an adaptation of the clericalist, anti-Masonic hoaxery of Leo Taxil as presented in the work of William Guy Carr (Satan: Prince of This World).
I haven't seen anybody trace these paragraphs back farther than that.
The diagnostic thing is the word "Nazism", reproduced in some quotations as "Naziism". This word did not exist in 1871, the year that this letter from Pike to Mazzini was supposedly written.
The etymological works note the work "nazi" in the 1880s in the southern German-speaking area where it meant a country bumpkin - an "Ignaz". (Rhymes with red-hots.) This expression is not otherwise attested to until the 1920s in Germany when nationalism and socialism became welded together as a political force in response to defeat, economic catastrophe and bolshevism.
In 1926, Goebbels published a pamphlet titled "Nazi-Sozi" in which compared and contrasted conventional Marxism and National Socialism. This seems to be the earliest attested use of the term "Nazi" as a political expression in print. Anyone might correct me if I'm wrong. Anywho, this word dropped out of favor as National Socialists came to power. The term became derogatory and National Socialists referred to themselves or each others as "party members".
It is a strange word to see in a document written in 1871. Just wouldn't be there. It's like seeing a reference to the Ku Klux Klan in a letter by Daniel Webster or to read Ralph Waldo Emerson complaining about the Bull Moose Party in an essay of his. It is just not on.