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So, I've been reading articles on Wikipedia all day, and this is one of the chains of articles that I ended up with:
Milan Kundera >> The Joke >> Czechoslovakia >> Communist Party of Czechoslovakia >> Show trial >> Nuremberg Trials >> Nuremberg Race Laws >> JCS 1067 >> Blohm + Voss >> M/V Explorer
I never would have guessed that something I'm actually somewhat acquainted with would come up while primarily reading about Commies and Nazis.
Milan Kundera wrote The Joke, based in Czechoslovakia, under the rule of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, which, in 1952, subjected Rudolf Slánský and several other senior Communists to a show trial, a highly-publicized trial under which the accused is being used as an example and an instrument of warning, such as the Nuremberg Trials, during which time notable members of Nazi Germany were prosecuted, including Wilhelm Frick, the author of the Nuremberg Race Laws, of which one known original copy, signed by Hitler himself, exists in the Skirball Cultural Center, which received the document on June 26, 1999, when the Huntington Library revealed General George S. Patton had secretly handed it over to them, having appropriated it, in violation of JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) 1067, the U.S. occupation directive through which Henry Morgenthau Jr. pushed his plans of Allied "industrial disarmament," which sought to destroy Germany's ability to wage war, in part by dismantling/exploding factories, like the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, a German shipbuilding and engineering works that was established in 1877, and during its existence, has produced such ships as the Wilhelm Gustloff (sunk during wartime in what is to this day the world's worst maritime disaster), and the M/V Explorer, which is currently in use as the vessel for Semester at Sea, a study abroad program that my friend Brian participated in this winter/spring.
Milan Kundera >> The Joke >> Czechoslovakia >> Communist Party of Czechoslovakia >> Show trial >> Nuremberg Trials >> Nuremberg Race Laws >> JCS 1067 >> Blohm + Voss >> M/V Explorer
I never would have guessed that something I'm actually somewhat acquainted with would come up while primarily reading about Commies and Nazis.
Milan Kundera wrote The Joke, based in Czechoslovakia, under the rule of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, which, in 1952, subjected Rudolf Slánský and several other senior Communists to a show trial, a highly-publicized trial under which the accused is being used as an example and an instrument of warning, such as the Nuremberg Trials, during which time notable members of Nazi Germany were prosecuted, including Wilhelm Frick, the author of the Nuremberg Race Laws, of which one known original copy, signed by Hitler himself, exists in the Skirball Cultural Center, which received the document on June 26, 1999, when the Huntington Library revealed General George S. Patton had secretly handed it over to them, having appropriated it, in violation of JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) 1067, the U.S. occupation directive through which Henry Morgenthau Jr. pushed his plans of Allied "industrial disarmament," which sought to destroy Germany's ability to wage war, in part by dismantling/exploding factories, like the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, a German shipbuilding and engineering works that was established in 1877, and during its existence, has produced such ships as the Wilhelm Gustloff (sunk during wartime in what is to this day the world's worst maritime disaster), and the M/V Explorer, which is currently in use as the vessel for Semester at Sea, a study abroad program that my friend Brian participated in this winter/spring.
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