I just finished reading an older Helen MacInnes book called The Salzburg Connection that takes place twenty one years after WW11. It talks about the hunt for a treasure trove of Nazi documents hidden in the mountains of Austria that contains the former memoirs of Nazi officials that if found, could compromise the politics and policy of the US government.
(Of course, why that would be a worry I am not sure. It is well documented that the National Security Council, the CIA and others recruited thousands of former Nazis, Waffen Secret Service and Nazi collaborators after the war, whose "sins were forgiven" if they agreed to enter into the willing complicity of the US government. There is an excellent book on Amazon that meticulously describes this (and was hushed up) called Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and its Destructive Impact on our Domestic and Foreign Policy by Christopher Simpson.)
There is a particularly poignant passage towards the end of this novel about "hope" spoken by a former Nazi collaborator:
"There is such an emptiness, a frightening void when we do stop hoping. As if life has stopped too, no meaning left. No more choices, no more decisions; they are all out of our hands. We just wait. Hopelessly."
You would be forgiven for thinking that this could have come straight out of an article in today's newspapers. The present day propagandists are using methods upon us that were tried and true for Hitler and the Nazis and other regimes that sought control over the minds of their people.
It is important to remember that "they" have no power, unless you give this power to them. If you lose hope, that means the darkness has won.
Hope, and the constant breathing of that light into our lives and our hearts, can only come from within.
(Of course, why that would be a worry I am not sure. It is well documented that the National Security Council, the CIA and others recruited thousands of former Nazis, Waffen Secret Service and Nazi collaborators after the war, whose "sins were forgiven" if they agreed to enter into the willing complicity of the US government. There is an excellent book on Amazon that meticulously describes this (and was hushed up) called Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and its Destructive Impact on our Domestic and Foreign Policy by Christopher Simpson.)
There is a particularly poignant passage towards the end of this novel about "hope" spoken by a former Nazi collaborator:
"There is such an emptiness, a frightening void when we do stop hoping. As if life has stopped too, no meaning left. No more choices, no more decisions; they are all out of our hands. We just wait. Hopelessly."
You would be forgiven for thinking that this could have come straight out of an article in today's newspapers. The present day propagandists are using methods upon us that were tried and true for Hitler and the Nazis and other regimes that sought control over the minds of their people.
It is important to remember that "they" have no power, unless you give this power to them. If you lose hope, that means the darkness has won.
Hope, and the constant breathing of that light into our lives and our hearts, can only come from within.