> I tried to define maximal allowed characters count:
>
> EXECUTE BLOCK (""Description"" VARCHAR(10921) CHARACTER SET UNICODE_FSS
> = @Description) AS BEGIN END";
>
> and i've got an error: "arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or
> string truncation"
Ive thought about this - this is strange behavior. I've inserted into
database a text from American site. I'm not an expert in UNOCODE, but i
looked in that text hundred times and do not see a big amount of two- or
three- bytes characters. Most of all characters are 7-bit ANSI
characters, so my text should use ~280xx bytes for storing, but
VARCHAR(10921) CHARACTER SET UNICODE_FSS allows ~32763 single-byte
characters. I do not understand why "arithmetic exception, numeric
overflow, or string truncation" occurred :-(
About hanging. Maybe there are some special combination of characters
which some layer understand as some kind of signals or markers...
The text is here (maby some characters were replaced while copy/paste):
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBye Bye\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMiss American
Pie\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPart One\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n(Updated
Daily)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMy continuing
personal\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAutobiography here
online.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nExcerpts from my forthcoming
NOVEL\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nForeword\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFollow
me through my journey of self-discovery as I uncover my past, which had
defined my previous American life, and started me on a new road far
removed from American
shores.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAt 16, I began to
research the history of Germany after the war and the Dark Side of
American History. I began to uncover secrets kept from the American
people. What I uncovered gave me the incentive to relearn my German
Immigrant roots. The results of my discoveries are contained here
.....\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEllis
Island circa 1957 Immigration Point New York
City\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWhen I started this
work I knew most of my readers would be American. Americans just are not
interesting anymore to
Europeans.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe dollar
keeps loosing to the stronger Euro, and many can now afford to live the
party life. The middle class is strong. Union representation and work
contracts are the norm. Credit cards are 4%-5%. Most have six weeks paid
vacations, and universal health care, and numerous other social
benefits. Thousands of beers and wines and gourmet foods, and ongoing
festivals, and numerous holidays make most
content.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEuropeans know
Americans. They know our politics, and millions have traveled the USA
(90% have passports; *19% of Americans
do.)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAmerican movies, and
music, and culture have been part of the European scene for over 50
years; blues and jazz since the 1930's. Yet only 9% of Americans speak a
foreign language. In Germany, and Holland, in Denmark and Sweden, in
Austria and beyond, English is the second
language.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe truth is
that Americans since the 1970's have become less engaged with the world
in general. While the world was turning into a global village, the
average American was moving to the suburbs, and up to now had tuned the
world out.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBecause of
America's pre-eminent position in world affairs, and its role in
globalization, its foreign policy matters more than any other country.
How can America shape a responsible foreign policy with such an
uninformed
electorate?\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAre things
different now?\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAs the new Europe had emerged, I
started writing. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAmerica
is at war again, and the Republicans are taking from the poor and giving
to the rich again. The military budget is now over *710 billion dollars
a year. Medical benefits, school lunch programs, education, every
American *entitlement is being stripped to the bone to pay for
war.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHundreds of
thousands of Veterans no longer receive benefits - (reclassified), and
47 million Americans have no health care. The American *Savings Rate is
now lower than during the Great Depression of 1929. One illness, one
accident, one incident in court and most Americans will be history and
wiped out.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nYes, we are
pitied now and no longer held in high
esteem.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Military
Industrial Complex
Now\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBig
oil and the military industrial complex are profiting as never before.
The difference between what U.S. citizens think their rulers are doing
in the world and what these rulers actually are doing is one of the
great propaganda achievements of history. In reality, the overriding
goal of U.S. policy is to make the world ever safer and more profitable
for the Fortune 500 Corporations and international finance
capital.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSee the
Video\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*The Rise of the Military-Industrial
Complex -- Video Documentary\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOther
References\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*Militarism, Mayhem, and the Pursuit
of Profit\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*The Living Reality of
Military-Economic Fascism
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDulles-Bush
Dynasty helped fund \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nthe NAZI Military Industrial
complex\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nUncovered
government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress
reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush,
served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the
financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942, when
Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his \"enemy national\"
partners.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPrescott Bush
also led a group called the American Liberty League in a treasonous
conspiracy with JP Morgan and the DuPont family. He tried to overthrow
the U.S. government. Also involved in the Funding of the NAZI war
machine were Eugenics champions Ford...and Brown Brothers Harrimen. The
Dulles Bros. were international finance specialists for the powerful
Wall Street law firm of Sullivan Cromwell... Alan Dulles went on to
become head of the CIA... and John Foster Dulles went on to become
secretary of state!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nRead
more\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*Bush Family Links to the Third
Reich\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBack
To the Future\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis
generation of Americans are not mine of the 1960's. They are more easily
manipulated and fooled then we were during the ten years of Vietnam, and
now after 15 years of the Iraq War and an eventual war cost that will be
2 Trillion before its all over, they seem to be finally waking up after
most of the Constitution has been trashed, and the Bill of Rights is
just old paper.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe
*doomsday clock is again set at five minutes to midnight, just as it was
during the cold war.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIt is the 1960's again, or
worse.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nQueen Elizabeth
I\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI was six years old
when we left Germany back in the late 1950's. I remember my father
selling his worldly goods just to book passage on the Queen Elizabeth 1
back then, outbound from Hamburg, Germany to Ellis Island, New York *as
millions of Germans had done for
generations.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis is the
beginning of this autobiography and I will just hit some main points for
now ...\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHamburg, Germany
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI remember sleeping on restaurant floors in
Germany on our travel to Hamburg. I remember some stuffed ice bears in
Hamburg, and I remember being sea sick on the two week sea voyage to the
USA.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI remember my German
shepherd Hasso that used to pull my sister and me on the sled in winter,
and I remember him every breakfast morning going to the baker in the
village with a bread basket hung around his neck and bringing back to
the family table warm rolls for us to feast
on.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI also remember the
French officers that quartered in our 1920's home, since my part of
Germany was under French
occupation.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI
remember one day when one of these Frenchies slapped me for not getting
out of his way in time and Hasso attacked him and was about to be shot
but my grandmother stood in the
way.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBut all these
childhood memories remained buried as we reached New York and faced a
new life in a new world. America was just too big, and life was too
fast, and the people were all in such a
hurry.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBack then you had
to have a sponsor and a skilled trade that was in demand to immigrate to
the USA. Your health was checked, as was your family background, and you
had to have a job and
references.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nNothing was
left to chance, because the new country did not want
freeloaders.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAmerica
wanted people to assimilate and become part not apart of the society.
And then as now, Americans were not comfortable with a foreign language
spoken in their
midst.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n94% of
Americans\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nClassify Themselves
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nNot As A m e r i c a n
Only\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHowever, my young
eyes did not interpret the facts as they really were, for America is a
land of immigrants and the facts are not as they
seemed.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n(The various
ethnic and racial origins of the residents and immigrants remain
important sources of personal identity. Of the 224 million people
reporting their ancestry in the 1990 census, only 13 million, or 6
percent, identified themselves as Americans only. The rest chose one or
more broad racial or linguistic groupings (such as African American or
Hispanic) or national heritages (German, English, Irish, and Italian
were most common) to define their
origins.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMost Americans
possess varied national, ethnic, and racial identities that reflect both
the origins of their ancestors and their own affiliation to the United
States.)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nReference\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*United
States People\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAmerica was
more successful in expanding and winning wars and conquering territory.
America had never known defeat, and she was the big victor in the big
war. Everything was red, white and blue in every city, in every town, in
every state. It was
1957.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIt was
uncomfortable being a German kid not knowing English in an American
school. Especially living in a small American town where most of my
classmates were sons and daughters of farmers; the most conservative
group of
Americans.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLuckily
I was in a catholic school and my teachers were *Franciscan nuns. In
those days the classes were run by the iron fist of those nuns, and each
hand had a stick in it, and if you did not behave as expected you got
whacked.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI had a
significant advantage over my parents, because being a child and growing
up in America I never developed an accent and could speak American
English like a native - a fact that helped me tremendously in my
future.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn American
television all you could see were German war movies and German hate
films. That is really how I learned
English.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAmerican War
Crimes\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAgainst the German
People\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAt 16 I began to
research the history of Germany after the war and to uncover secrets
kept from the American people. What I uncovered gave me the incentive to
relearn my German language and my German culture
.....\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBetween 1 and 2
million German POWs \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\ndied in American captivity
after surrender
(1945)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\"Starting in
April 1945, the United States Army and the French Army casually
annihilated one million [German] men, (POW's - prisoners of war,) most
of them in American camps . . . Eisenhower's hatred, passed through the
lens of a compliant military bureaucracy, produced the horror of death
camps unequalled by anything in American history . . . an enormous war
crime.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n-- Col. Ernest F. Fisher, PhD
Lt.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n101 st Airborne Division, Senior Historian,
United States Army
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nReference\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*Eisenhower's
Holocaust: His Slaughter of 1.7 Million
Germans\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWhile German
soldiers from the British and Canadian zones were quickly regaining
strength and were helping rebuild Europe, Germans taken by the Americans
were dying by the hundreds of thousands - emaciated figures in diarrhea
smeared clothing, huddling pitifully in watery holes with perhaps a
scrap of cardboard over their heads and a rotten potato for supper. At
times many of them were reduced to drinking urine and eating
grass.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDid all this
happen because of one supremely unprincipled and influential man named
Eisenhower? Or was Ike in turn influenced by a small circle around him
or by his superiors in Washington? Historians will be probing this
question for decades to come.
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEisenhower, in his
personal letters, did not merely hate the Nazi Regime, and the few who
imposed its will down from the top, but HE HATED THE GERMAN PEOPLE AS A
RACE. It was his personal intent to destroy as many of them as he could,
and one way was to wipe out as many prisoners of war as
possible.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nReference\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*US
War Crimes in World War
II\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\"Since
the end of the war about 3,000,000 people, mostly women and children and
overaged men, have been killed in eastern Germany and south-eastern
Europe; about 15,000,000 (15 million) people have been deported or had
to flee from their homesteads and are on the
road.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nReference\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*History
and Forgetting\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAbout 25
per cent of these people, over 3,000,000 have perished. About 4,000,000
men and women have been deported to eastern Europe and Russia as slaves.
It seems that the elimination of the German population of eastern Europe
- at least 15,000,000 people \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n(15 million) - was
planned in accordance with decisions made at Yalta. Churchill had said
... \"Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to
them. You will have no trouble with them: they will cease to
exist.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nQuoted by Sen.
Homer Capehart in speech before U.S. Senate, Feb. 5,
1946.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nGerman children
released from detention camps in\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n1950; five years
after the end of the
war\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOf course, that was
illegal under International law, so he issued an order on March 10, 1945
and verified by his initials on a cable of that date, that German
Prisoners of War be predesignated as \"Disarmed Enemy Forces\" called in
these reports as DEF. He ordered that these Germans did not fall under
the Geneva Rules, and were not to be fed or given any water or medical
attention. The Swiss Red Cross was not to inspect the camps, for under
the DEF classification, they had no such authority or
jurisdiction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMonths
after the war was officially over, Eisenhower's special German DEF camps
were still in operation forcing the men into confinement, but denying
that they were prisoners. As soon as the war was over, General George
Patton simply turned his prisoners loose to fend for themselves and find
their way home as best they
could.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEisenhower was
furious, and issued a specific order to Patton, to turn these men over
to the DEF camps. Knowing Patton as we do from history, we know that
these orders were largely ignored, and it may well be that Patton's
untimely and curious death may have been a result of what he knew about
these wretched Eisenhower DEF
camps.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe book, OTHER
LOSSES, found its way into the hands of a Canadian news reporter, Peter
Worthington, of the OTTAWA SUN. He did his own research through contacts
he had in Canada, and reported in his column on September 12,1989 the
following, in
part:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\"...it is hard to
escape the conclusion that Dwight Eisenhower was a war criminal of epic
proportions. His (DEF) policy killed more Germans in peace than were
killed in the European Theater during
war.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\"For
years we have blamed the 1.7 million missing German POW's on the
Russians. Until now, no one dug too deeply ... Witnesses and survivors
have been interviewed by the author; one Allied officer compared the
American camps to
Buchenwald.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIt is
known, that the Allies had sufficient stockpiles of food and medicine to
care for these German soldiers. This was deliberately and intentionally
denied them. Many men died of gangrene from frostbite due to deliberate
exposure. Local German people who offered these men food, were denied.
General Patton's Third Army was the only command in the European Theater
to release significant numbers of
Germans.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOthers, such as
Omar Bradley and General J.C.H. Lee, Commander of Com Z, tried, and
ordered the release of prisoners within a week of the war's end.
However, a SHAEF Order, signed by Eisenhower, countermanded them on May
15th.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe
Air War \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nNo war in U.S.
history claimed more civilian lives than the war against Germany. The
death toll from both atomic bombs used against Japan does not equal the
death toll from the fire and phosphorous bombs used against Germany.
(These bombs created a firestorm that was so intense, German civilians
were baked alive in their basement bomb shelters.)
...\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe German civilians
who were burned alive in our bombing raids were no more likely to be
Nazis than the Afghani civilians who've been hit by U.S. missiles are
likely to be Taliban
sympathizers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn our
bombing of Germany, heavily populated civilian districts were
intentionally targeted. The idea was that by targeting the civilian
population, we would disrupt Germany's economy, destroy the morale of
its citizens and create chaos by rendering millions of people
homeless.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLow-income
areas were especially targeted for destruction because the population
was denser and the buildings closer together. In February 1942, Allied
bombers were specifically instructed to concentrate on built-up
residential areas instead of targets such as dockyards and
factories.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHamburg
on July 27, 1943--when 739 Allied bombers killed 50,000 people mostly
women, children and elderly people. High Capacity bombs were used and
accuracy was not important - these bombs were designed for blowing the
tiles off the roofs of buildings so that the smaller 4 lb (1.8 kg)
incendiary bombs could reach the building
interiors.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAccording to
historian Sven Lindquist, author of A History of Bombing, “The British
air attacks on Hamburg killed more people than all German air attacks
against English cities put
together.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIt was a
brutal way to win a war - and it worked like a charm. By the war's end,
more than 2.3 million German civilians were dead, about one-third of
them killed in air raids (60,000 of these air raid victims were not even
Germans; they were foreign laborers, including
Jews).\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAmerican
Attitude Towards Rescuing
Jews\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe attitude of the
U.S. government toward rescuing European Jews was best summed up by R.
Borden Reams of the State Department’s Division of European Affairs in
May 1943. “While in theory, any approach to the German government would
have met with blank refusal, there is always the danger that the German
government might turn over to the United States and to Great Britain a
large number of Jewish refugees,” Reams said. “In the event of our
admission of inability to take care of these people, the onus for
continued persecution would have been largely transferred from the
German government to [the
Allies.]”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis reflected
the anti-Semitism widespread within the U.S. and British
governments\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nReference\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*Allied
War Crimes\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAmerican
Refusal To Sign\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\"Laws of War\"
Treaties\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe United
States has been particularly reluctant to sign treaties addressing the
\"laws of war\". It has refused to sign The Declaration on the
Prohibition of the Use of Thermo-Nuclear Weapons (1961); The Resolution
on the Non-Use of Force in International Relations and Permanent Ban on
the Use of Nuclear Weapons (1972); The Resolution on the Definition of
Aggression (1974); Protocols Additional to the 1949 Geneva Convention
(1977); and the Declaration on the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons(1989)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEqually
disturbing was the U.S. refusal to sign the Convention on Rights of the
Child, introduced into the United Nations General assembly on November
20, 1989 and subsequently ratified by 191
countries.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSince World
War II the US has bombed twenty-three nations. Author William Blum
notes: \"It is sobering to reflect that in our era of instant world wide
communications, the United States has, on many occasions, been able to
mount a large or small scale military operation or undertake other
equally blatant forms of intervention without the American public being
aware of it until years later if
ever.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEarly
Years\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWhen I was born,
Germany had been divided into four occupation zones; the Soviets held
the eastern part, the British the northwestern, the Americans the
southeast, and the French held the southwest corridor. The occupation
would continue this way for about 50 years. I started life in the French
occupied (blue) zone in the Southwest across from
Switzerland.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAt
that time many of the French occupation troops were blacks from French
Africa.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMost
of my area was either heavily forested or had deep valleys and rolling
farm
land.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nGoing
Cuckoo\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFather
and grandfather had a cuckoo clock shop in the basement, and in those
early years after the war, making cuckoo clocks was the mainstay of the
family, that allowed us to survive and build up a business. The entire
family was involved.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEven
today, original Black Forest German cuckoo clocks are not manufactured
as a mass produced clock, but as hand-assembled masterpieces. To achieve
the highest quality is the goal. Wood-carvings and clock cases are
produced only in the Black Forest and thus are known around the world
for their quality
workmanship\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFirst step –
where everything starts – is the wood which is used for the clocks. Most
of the cuckoo clocks are made of Linden Tree. Those trees with their
heart-shaped leaves are quite common in Europe and their wood can be
used very well for carvings. After the trees are cut down the wood is
pilled up and needs years to rest. Then the chances that the wood will
move are
low.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe
wood will be cut into appropriate pieces corresponding to the size of
the clock. The basic pieces which are coming out of the sharper are
checked carefully to avoid cracks or irregularities within the wood.
Before the clock is assembled all pieces are finished in different
working steps.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn the
meantime the inner life of the cuckoo clocks will be assembled. The
different movements and the fine mechanics which will give live to the
cuckoo and the dancing figurines on the front side of the clock will be
put together. This requires a lot of subtle intuition due to the small
and fragile parts
used.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe
metal parts used within the clock are also done mostly by hand – for
sure there is some support by machines but the work needs really a lot
of experience.
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe
following link *Cuckoo Clock Manufacturing process shows how it was
done.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPropaganda
At the Top\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAmerican Foreign Aid
Myths\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI like most
Americans, have always been a sucker for government propaganda. My
research brought me to another example of one that the American people
have swallowed for over 50 years. This strategy was and is still being
used in the current Iraq
adventure.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe
Myth of the Marshall Plan\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nthat Saved Western
Europe\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHere is the
standard American Government propaganda
...\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSummer 1947 Europe,
still devastated by the war, had just survived one of the worst winters
on record. Something had to be done, both for humanitarian reasons and
also to stop the potential spread of communism westward. The United
States offered up to $20 billion for relief, but only if the European
nations could get together and draw up a rational plan on how they would
use the aid. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe
Marshall Plan benefited the American economy as well. The money would be
used to buy goods from the United States, and they had to be shipped
across the Atlantic on American merchant vessels. But it worked.
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBy 1953 the United
States had pumped in $13 billion, and Europe was standing on its feet
again. Moreover, the Plan included West Germany, which was thus
reintegrated into the European
community.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHere Are the
Standard Marshall Plan Propaganda sites ...\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*For
European Recovery:The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall
Plan\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*Marshall Plan Home
Page\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*The Marshall Plan
1947-1952\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe
Reality \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAs economist
Tyler Cowen has noted, the countries that received the most Marshall
Plan money (allies Britain, Sweden, and Greece) grew the slowest between
1947 and 1955, while those that received the least money (axis powers
Germany, Austria, and Italy) grew the most. In terms of post-war
prosperity, then, it eventually paid to be a political enemy of the U.S.
instead of a \"beneficiary\" of international
charity.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBut the real
upshot of the Marshall Plan was a political maneuver to loot American
taxpayers to keep influential American corporations on the government
dole. The Plan's legacy was the perpetual use of foreign aid for
domestic political and economic
purposes.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAfter the war
ended, Harry Truman's popularity in the polls began to plummet, as did
the prestige of government generally. The American people had made huge
sacrifices to fight the war and now wanted curbs in government, which
had been administering a centrally planned economy. Most of all, they
wanted the foreign policy recommended by George Washington and Thomas
Jefferson: trade with all, entanglements with
none.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn the mainstream
of thinking was Republican Senator Robert Taft, a hero of all
free-market activists at the time. He demanded tax cuts, spending cuts,
and an end to \"constantly increasing interference with family life and
with business by autocratic government bureaus and autocratic labor
leaders.\" The Republican party swept midterm elections in 1946, taking
back the Congress on a hard-core, anti-big government
platform.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTruman had to
do something big and he knew it. As Charles Mee reports, he needed
\"some large program that would let him recapture the initiative,
something big enough to enable him to gather in all the traditional
factions of the Democratic Party and also some middle-of-the-road
Republicans, and at the same time, something that would hamper the
Republican phalanx,\" and establish him as a world
leader.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe
issue was right before him: foreign aid, funneled through the corporate
establishment and cloaked in the rhetoric of opposition to foreign (but
not domestic) communism. Cynically, he would make good use of Russia,
which only the day before had been our gallant ally in the war, and
transform it into a monster that had to be destroyed. By stealing the
Republican's anti-socialist rhetoric, Truman hoped to frazzle his
opponents and make himself a hero on the world
stage.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nA little-known
business group, founded in 1942 and called the Committee for Economic
Development, was elevated into a think tank for a new international
order--the economic counterpart to the Council on Foreign Relations. The
Committee's founders were the heads of the top steel, automotive, and
electric industries who had benefited from the New Dea
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