The Explorers' Club, № CDXXXIII

Joel Brand (1906-1964) & the "blood for goods" scheme, which might have been a ploy by Heinrich Himmler & Adolf Eichmann to split the United Nations (the "Allies") & negotiate a separate peace without the U.S.S.R. or might have saved the lives of up to 1,000,000 Jews from the Holocaust.







Operation AXIOM
Two hundred years ago to the day, 26 February 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte—A.K.A. Napoleon I, Emperor of the French—escaped from exile on the isle of Elba, setting the stage for the Hundred Days & his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815). Bonaparte was a monster who tried to bend all of Europe to his megalomanical will, & almost from the beginning a certain strain of Western thought has worshiped him as the Übermensch, the superior man, a hero beyond such petty conceptions as good & evil. This strain of thought gave us the bloodletting of the Twentieth Century, & might yet prove the undoing of Western civilization. If there is no truth but what we decide for ourselves, no right or wrong but that dictated by the whim of the strongest or the most vicious, what recourse have the weak to justice? What hope have we as a culture? But I digress. Napoleon escaped from Elba, 26 February 1815, two hundred years ago today.