Category: English
Head of UK Diplomatic Service goes to Amritsar Golden ‘Mosque’ (TW-antho 12)
Tweet anthology March-May 18 English/Français
Scientific Papers on Subliminality
(a selection)
“subliminal stimuli—because they are outside a human’s ability to perceive them—can have no effect on humans” (W. James Potter, Media Literacy, 2013)
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“Mere exposure enhances positive evaluation, independent of stimulus recognition” A replication study in Japan and the U.S. by Keiko Ishii 2005
“Subliminally activating the concept of trust (vs. distrust) leads participants to judge a series of strangers as more (vs. less) trustworthy.” (Posten, Ockenfels & Mussweiler, Journal of Economic Psychology 2013)
“subliminally presented hint stimuli cause better solution performance and greater relaxation of constraints when actually solving the problem later” (Miyata, Otagiri, Suzuki)
“increasing perceptual fluency during mere exposure modulates autonomic nervous responses, such as pupil diameter, and eventually leads to preference.” (Pupil Response and the Subliminal Mere Exposure Effect [SMEE], Yoshimoto et al. 2014)
“negative emotion induced by unconscious stimuli (subliminal fear priming) enhances rejection of unfair offers” in the ultimatum game (Takagishi et al. 2016)
Subliminal Mere Exposure Effect & Preferences: “massed exposure has an instantaneous effect on likability, whereas accumulative exposure has a long-term persistence effect” (Japanese Journal of Psychology 2011)
“The results provide the first evidence for subliminal emotion-specific cognitive effects. They show that cognitive functions such as appraisals can be affected by subliminal emotional stimuli of the same valence.” (Zixu Yang & Eddie Wong 2016)
“Participants were instructed to rate how much they like images after being subliminally exposed to masked lexical prime words that exhibit positive, negative, & neutral connotations … The consistent results confirmed the overall priming effect on participants’ explicit ratings.” (Dhanya M. Mohan et al. 2016)
“The processes which allow novel information to shape subsequent decisions are generally thought to depend on consciousness … However, growing evidence indicates that the human unconscious can perform various high-level cognitive functions that might allow decision processes to benefit from subliminal messages (Ruch et al., Subliminal messages exert long-term effects on decision-making, Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2016)
“Two recent studies have found that subliminal visual cues can improve athletic performance, as well as, physical functioning in older individuals” (Subliminal cues impact motivation, endurance, and longevity, C. Bergland, Psychology Today 2014)
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You vote for politicians but they don’t do what you want, they do what media wants and you don’t vote for media.
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To United Black Books: I’ll buy any book by late President Idi Amin Dada, for instance his Middle East Crisis (1974). Your price will be mine.
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Please take a look at this tweet (pic) by Afro-American Eric and the number of likes and retweets. I followed him. After this tweet he said he was shadowbanned, and it was true, then his account was shut down.
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I would like to be sure freemasons do not use the state apparatus to oppose peaceful conversions to islam, because that would be a violation of the tenets of the secular state. That people convert to islam, in prison or elsewhere, is none of the secular state’s business. Any opposition of the secular state to peaceful conversions to islam is illegal.
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Mark Anthony Conditt, Austin Bomber, explained on Reddit how he made his bombs, and that his favorite authors are John Grisham and Tom Clancy: his inspiration for Austin bombings? Why not? Also, Conditt was reading the Bible when he went on rampage. If you can bring legal charges against a Muslim cleric or intellectual for inciting terrorism, then be consistent and bring charges against novelists admired by Mark Conditt, like John Grisham, so a judge or jury can examine their writings carefully.
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Books in the public domain won’t be what their authors made them any longer. For example, Austrian youth novel Hatshi Bratschis Luftballon by F.K. Ginzkey: “Dort gelangt er auf eine Insel, wo „Menschenfresser“ (bzw. in neueren Ausgaben Affen)…” “…alle Hinweise auf Türken in der Ausgabe von 1968 ersetzt.” (Wkpd) That is, in a recent edition, instead of colored cannibals the character now meets apes, and all references to Turks have been removed. You have no right to rewrite the books of your culture. You’ve no right to rewrite a book and leave the author’s name on the cover. You’ve no right to make believe your writers and intellectuals were nice people when they were not.
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Terrorism alarm in Rome. Authorities are looking for Mathlouthi Atef, a 42-year-old Tunisian national who might be willing to carry out an attack. The manhunt was launched after the Italian embassy in Tunisi received an anonymous letter. (ISPI Terrorism, March 25)
Ridiculous. Now they launch manhunt on receiving anonymous letters and even advertise it. Can they get any lower? [Read further for more remarks on anonymous denunciations.]
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Un problème avec Twitter : tous les détritus à étiquette bleue y vont de leur larme de crocodile, pour des retweets, quand un gendarme se fait tuer par un djihadiste, de sorte que, au hashtag #ArnaudBeltrame, zéro analyse, on est obligé de demander ce qui s’est passé à ceux qui regardent la télé.
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Stéphane Poussier, du parti Les Insoumis, condamné à un an de prison avec sursis et privé de droits civiques pour son tweet sur #ArnaudBeltrame. Une question aux soixante-huitards qui nous gouvernent : peut-on dire que les CRS sont des SS ? – Hier les CRS étaient des SS, aujourd’hui ils sont le rempart contre les SS islamofascistes et le SS Stéphane Poussier.
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Après l’attaque de Trèbes, la jeunesse en colère manifeste dans la rue : « Fichés S : SS ! Fichés S : SS ! »
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#ArnaudBeltrame broke all rules, acted on impulse with no proper training for what he intended, was shot dead. End of story.
How can you break rules in a situation where no rule is left?
Rules and procedures for hostage-taking situations involve elite corps with elite training. Do not ask countryside gendarmes what you ask the RAID or have them trained at the same level.
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Alors que le caractère antisémite du meurtre de Mireille Knoll n’avait de prime abord rien d’évident (“Investigators say no apparent anti-Semitic motive”), on en vient à se poser la question du timing : est-ce que cela a été déclaré antisémite avant ou après la Marche blanche ? Que l’Assemblée nationale interrompe ses travaux dans ce contexte incertain (les autorités de poursuites délibérant sur le caractère antisémite de l’acte) et invite les députés à la Marche blanche, a un petit côté grosse pression sur le gouvernement (j’allais dire sur le pouvoir judiciaire mais la Cour EDH nous avertit de ne pas prendre le parquet pour une autorité judiciaire, même si nos gouvernants prétendent que les procureurs sont indépendants). Quid de la séparation des pouvoirs ?
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La Marseillaise ? Toute cette publicité subliminale pour l’Olympique de Marseille me rend malade.
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To the Spokesman of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Zabihullah Mujahid (Talibans): I don’t know why but, from France, access to http://shahamat1.com is ok but access to http://alemarah-dari.com [both websites are run by the Talibans] isn’t allowed and I get a warning from the ministry of interior. Any idea what they are doing?
I can visit http://shahamat1.com any time, in any language (English and all), but when I click on http://alemarah-dari.com I get this bla bla (see picture). Any idea why?
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If you have been aggrieved by YouTube, I’m not sure there’s anything you can do other than what Nasim Aghdam did [she went on a shooting rampage at YouTube’s headquarters in San Diego]. Just let me know.
One user assumes Nasim Aghdam went on rampage for the sake of the “2 cents” she was making from her YouTube videos, but others say her videos were viral so more likely it’s her livelihood she lost overnight, with no credible recourse against Google. I don’t really know how making money on YouTube works but I fancy 1000s, 10.000s, 100.000s, millions of views will attract companies eager to advertise, so the prejudice to Nasim Aghdam may have been quite significant. I hope her relatives will sue YouTube/Google. The prejudice she suffered from Google is on the record. The harm resulted from a unilateral breach of contract upon which terms Nasim Aghdam had made financial expectations.
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“Elon Musk warns about the coming of an immortal dictator [an AI dictator].” Anybody with a boss bossing him every day of the week will hardly see what’s so wrong with a dictator.
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#Münster [Attaque à la voiture bélier à Münster, le 7 avril] Make no mistake: Europe will convert to islam peacefully. I hope freemasons won’t try to prevent it with violence because then they’ll have to be stopped. People are free to convert to islam. People’s motivations for converting is their own business provided there is no violence involved.
#Münster « Rien n’indique pour le moment qu’on ait affaire à des motivations islamistes » (Ministère) devient dans la bouche des journalistes « La piste islamiste écartée » (letelegramme/fr). Clairement, quand on maîtrise la langue française, la piste islamiste n’est pas écartée.
#Münster “The attacker is German and no refugee” (authorities). The refugees of today are the Germans of tomorrow.
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This is how blockchain might solve the internet privacy problem.
Does blockchain solve the internet privacy problem by cancelling privacy or by making it impossible for governments to track criminals?
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J’ai toujours pensé que le café du commerce avait plus de couilles que les médias.
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Germany: 6 people detained over plot to carry attack during half marathon in Berlin have been released. (ESISC)
Clear indication that these individuals plotted no attack and that the elements the police used to detain them hardly qualified, such as anonymous denunciations.
France: All the suspects, detained on April 9 in connection to the Magnanville attack, liberated due to the lack of incriminating evidence. (ESISC)
So what was the “evidence” used to detain them in the first place? Anonymous denunciations?
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Germany: Reichsbürger committed more than 10,500 criminal offences between 2015 and 2017. (ESISC)
While jihadists only stab or vehicle-ram every other day, German neo-Nazis have committed 3,500 criminal offences PER DAY these last 3 years and you had no idea! Treading on protected lawns? Governments really take us for pinheads.
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[Émeutes urbaines à La Reynerie, Toulouse, après un contrôle policier sur une femme portant le voile islamique ayant mal tourné] #LaReynerie « Nous avons beaucoup trop de contrôles d’identité, avec de la vraie discrimination. » Emmanuel Macron, 2 mars 2017, pendant la campagne présidentielle. Un candidat devenu président dit qu’il y a de la « vraie discrimination » dans les contrôles d’identité, et les victimes de cette discrimination devraient rester sans réagir ? Qu’attend le président Macron pour corriger la situation? À moins qu’il ne déclare avoir eu tort de tenir ces propos, tant qu’aucune mesure n’est prise les contrôles d’identité doivent être considérés comme discriminatoires et contraires à la Déclaration des droits de l’homme. Toute résistance à un contrôle d’identité est légitime et se justifie par les paroles du magistrat suprême de la République, le président Macron.
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“Ask not what the jihad can do for you – ask what you can do for the jihad.” J.F. Kennedji
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Evolutionary psychologists, after Jack London [several utterances along these lines in The People of the Abyss], say Europeans who migrated to America were a fitter breed than those who stayed “behind.” Ridiculous: They left Europe because here in Europe they were outbred in the struggle for life.
To a land of opportunities… If, say as workers, migrants to America could find no opportunities in Europe, it wasn’t that workers weren’t needed in Europe, mark you.
America’s industrial might depended on the same cause that is now seeing China rising: It was American workers scabbing on European workers (longer workdays, fewer vacations &c).
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Evolutionary Psychology (EP) and Sociobiology hold, after Jack London, that the strong outbreed the weak. Yet from Western falling birth rates they fail to conclude to the weakness of the white race. Is it because most EP scholars are whites? Twopence question. Given that the strong outbreed the weak, who are the strong: Christians or Muslims?
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[Attaque à la voiture bélier à Toronto, le 23 avril ; Twitter bruissait de rumeurs sur la nature djihadiste supposée de l’attaque et donc en même temps d’appels à la tolérance] #TorontoAttack What if the solution weren’t inclusiveness but islam? Think about it.
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British “Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service” visits Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar and then tweets he is glad to have visited the “mosque.” European elites in a nutshell.
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Sexes being in the ratio of 1:1, in monogamous societies a voluntary celibate of one sex means an involuntary celibate or incel of the other sex, unless the number of voluntary celibates is equal for both sexes.
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Deux jeunes femmes victimes d’une agression islamophobe : la police refuse la plainte et leur dit « arracher le voile, ça n’existe pas dans la loi française. » (Nacéra, 24 avril)
Les voies de fait, comme l’acte d’arracher une partie du vêtement de quelqu’un, sont condamnées en droit français.
Pas si le vêtement est interdit (avec un lien vers la circulaire du 2 mars 2011).
La circulaire du 2 mars 2011 [relative à la mise en œuvre de la loi du 11 octobre 2010 interdisant la dissimulation du visage dans l’espace public] concerne le voile intégral, et même une personne en contravention victime d’une voie de fait est fondée à porter plainte car le droit français n’admet pas le lynchage. De plus, une voie de fait motivée par le port du voile islamique comporte un facteur aggravant.
Citation de la circulaire : « Les tenues destinées à dissimuler le visage sont celles qui rendent impossible l’identification de la personne. Il n’est pas nécessaire, à cet effet, que le visage soit intégralement dissimulé. Sont notamment interdits, sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité, le port de cagoules, de voiles intégraux (burqa, niqab…), de masques ou de tout autre accessoire ou vêtement ayant pour effet, pris isolément ou associé avec d’autres, de dissimuler le visage. »
Le voile islamique est certes mentionné dans la liste : il s’agit du voile intégral, et la liste donne deux noms de voile intégral. Ce qui signifie que le voile islamique non intégral ne fait pas partie de la liste.
La précision qu’il « n’est pas nécessaire…que le visage soit intégralement dissimulé » concerne des masques ne couvrant qu’une partie du visage, tels que dominos, loups…, qui rendent de fait l’identification de la personne impossible sans cependant couvrir tout le visage.
La liste n’est bien sûr pas exhaustive (« sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité ») car quelqu’un pourrait se mettre une boîte en carton autour de la tête et dire que la loi ne l’interdit pas, mais cela n’autorise pas à mettre dans cette liste le voile islamique non intégral.
Si la circulaire cite les cagoules, elle n’interdit pas les cagoules qui ne cachent pas le visage, pas plus que les chapeaux, qui recouvrent les cheveux (utiles pour identifier une personne), que les lunettes noires (qui cachent les yeux), ni de porter la barbe, de se maquiller, de changer de coupe de cheveux, etc.
La cagoule est donnée comme un exemple parmi d’autres de la définition. Une cagoule qui ne cache pas le visage ne correspondant pas à la définition, ce type de cagoule n’est pas concerné.
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« Le Conseil d’État dit qu’un chef d’établissement peut recommander aux mères de ne pas porter le voile dans les sorties scolaires. Je recommande donc aux chefs d’établissement de recommander cela aux accompagnatrices. » (Ministre de l’éducation nationale)
Une recommandation n’étant pas une injonction, les accompagnatrices qui ne souhaitent pas ôter leur voile ne sont susceptibles d’aucune sanction en droit. Je leur recommande donc de garder leur voile si c’est ce qu’elles souhaitent.
Le Conseil d’Etat a dit quelque chose d’inutile et de futile, alors qu’il dénonce en général le « droit non normatif ». Une recommandation, en droit (normatif), ce n’est rien du tout. Le ministre a répété une chose inutile et futile, et en même temps blessante pour les Musulmans.
Selon moi, le droit dit que : si un chef d’établissement recommande à une femme de retirer son voile pour une sortie scolaire et celle-ci refuse, il n’a pas le droit de l’empêcher de participer à la sortie pour ce motif. S’il avait le droit, ce serait en effet plus qu’une « recommandation ».
Ce qu’il y a de 👎 dans la réponse du ministre, même si l’instrument juridique auquel il se réfère est dépourvu de caractère normatif, c’est qu’il veut intimider les femmes voilées, les décourager de participer à la vie de la collectivité, alors que le voile est légal. Les mères voilées ont le droit de participer à la vie de la collectivité et il est franchement 👎 que le ministre cherche à les décourager de le faire.
Si vous laissez faire, ils empêcheront les mères voilées de participer aux sorties scolaires, puis à ci puis à ça, puis à tout, puis ils diront : « On vous l’avait dit, les femmes musulmanes, c’est des fatmas qui ne sortent jamais de la maison. »
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Today they wax indignant about fake news. Tomorrow they’ll tell you fake news is a necessary weapon in war (it’s already stated in their history books) and don’t you dare rectify fake news, it’s a betrayal of your country.
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Try to write “melancholy Taiwan turtle swinging on a swing provoked a flock of dirty, mutant snapping tortoises” in Chinese and good luck: 憂鬱的臺灣烏龜蕩鞦韆尋釁幾羣骯髒變態囓齒鱷龞 Millions of pen strokes! (Traditional vs simplified Chinese writing: The nonsensical sentence is a textbook example of the intricacy of traditional Chinese writing.)
To my Uyghur friends, next time they compel you to renounce Uyghur alphabet, tell them: “Melancholy Taiwan turtle swinging on a swing provoked a flock of dirty, mutant snapping tortoises.”
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Le Canard enchaîné du 2 mai, n° 5088, écrit à propos du compte Twitter d’Al-Jazeera (français) une fausseté qui peut être facilement démontrée : « la notion de race [y est] utilisée comme critère fondamental dans la lecture du moindre événement » (P.1: AlJazeera se la joue cool) et lui reproche sa position antiraciste. Bien sûr, ces journalistes ne sont pas racistes, vous diront-ils, ils sont même antiracistes ; c’est seulement qu’ils ne supportent pas les antiracistes musulmans.
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Un militaire ne peut appartenir à un syndicat, ne peut faire grève, ne peut participer à des élections ni se faire élire… Notre société a donc besoin d’esclaves ?
In modern societies, soldiers choose to enlist. They know what to expect. Slaves, on the other hand, don’t quite have the same level of choice.
As they agree to live without basic rights, they are scabs who drag down the citizenry.
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Un président des riches est toujours élu par les pauvres, car il faut une majorité pour être élu. J’emm… la démocratie.
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Sur le site web du ministère français des affaires étrangères : « Tous les déplacements à Gaza sont formellement déconseillés. Les ressortissants français doivent être conscients qu’ils s’exposent à des risques particulièremt élevés (attentats, enlèvements ou bombardement israélien). » Attentats ? Enlèvements ?
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Editorial du Monde, 18 février 2017 : « Si qualifier de ‘crime contre l’humanité’ ce chapitre de notre histoire [la colonisation] est maladroit, cela a permis d’engager la discussion sur une question sensible. »
Quel maladroit, ce Macron, ah la la!
Macron : « La colonisation fait partie de l’histoire française. C’est un crime, un crime contre l’humanité, c’est une vraie barbarie. Et ça fait partie de ce passé que nous devons regarder en face, en présentant nos excuses à l’égard de ceux envers lesquels nous avons commis ces gestes. »
Mais quel maladroit, ce Macron !
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Discrimination pratiquée au sommet de l’État : « La secrétaire d’Etat M.S., en visite à Trappes, ne s’est pas arrêtée dans un café ‘tenu par des musulmans’ afin ‘d’éviter un incident’. »
[« En cause, selon Le Canard enchaîné, le préfet des Yvelines, Jean-Jacques Brot, qui a ‘invité prestement’ M.S. à poursuivre son chemin ‘afin d’éviter un incident’. » (Valeurs actuelles en ligne, 10 mai) Le préfet discriminatoire doit être évidemment révoqué mais cela ne risque évidemment pas d’arriver puisque, par exemple, le journal Valeurs actuelles (les valeurs en question sont évidemment les valeurs boursières), là où je titre « Discrimination pratiquée au sommet de l’État », titre quant à lui : « M.S. persona non grata dans un café tenu par des musulmans. » Alors que personne n’a demandé leur avis aux tenanciers du café !… Quelques sources bien islamophobes sont allées jusqu’à dire que le café, tenu par Mme Zoulika Zehrdi, était « interdit aux femmes » !… Tout cela à cause d’un préfet véreux.]
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#WorkHard so you can have debts! “Thrift negates thrift.” (When people spare on minimum wage they lower the standard of living and thus depress wage levels) Jack London, one of those American classics Americans don’t know.
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France: Close associate of Khamzat Azimov arrested in Strasbourg and transferred to DGSI headquarters. (ESISC)
Close associate to a lone wolf? or just a friend of his? Tomorrow, when they talk of having arrested the mastermind of the operation, know that it is his Alzheimer grandmother. You don’t need a close associate to take a knife in your kitchen, go out and stab people. What was the close associate’s role in so intricate an operation?
France: 2 young women arrested in connection to Paris May 12 stabbing; another suspect indicted and imprisoned; investigation does not confirm the version of the lone wolf attack. (ESISC)
Summum of ridicule [or, rather, infamy]: A man stabs people on the street and is shot dead, and police imprison scores of people. These people didn’t hold the knife, didn’t shelter the attacker after the attack. Imprisoned for being acquainted with a guilty man!
L’ami de Khamzat Azimov, Abdoul Hakim A., sera « lui aussi » jugé pour « assassinat et tentative d’assassinats en lien avec une entreprise terroriste » (lefigaro/fr) car on a trouvé une photo d’un drapeau de Daesh sur son ordinateur… La France sur le chemin de la dictature policière et militaire. (Mais ne vous inquiétez pas : il y aura toujours des députés pour vous dire que la France est un pays libre. La place de député est trop bonne pour qu’on s’en passe, même en dictature.) Connaître un assassin et télécharger de la propagande djihadiste n’a jamais été et ne sera jamais un « assassinat », sauf peut-être dans une dictature bien française de chez nous à vomir.
Comme pour les politicards, un attentat=>une nouvelle loi sécuritaire, maintenant pour les flics, c’est un Tchétchène fait une attaque au couteau=>une ratonnade chez les Tchétchènes. Bravo, quelles méthodes !
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We’re told only 20% (1/5) of American Jews support American embassy move to Jerusalem and that Trump acts on behalf of Millenarists waiting for Armageddon. Yet Obama made the same promise and he wasn’t supported by Millenarists. So? So Millenarists are straw men! I see no future in Western countries for Christian Zionists who base their politics on Armageddon.
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Il me semble, mais c’est une hypothèse, que si j’étais un antisioniste notoire, j’aurais tendance à vouloir un chirurgien arabe plutôt qu’un chirurgien juif pour une opération délicate… Ce qui pourrait être interprété. À qualifications égales, et même inégales jusqu’à une certaine limite, je prends le chirurgien arabe, dans le modèle mathématique théorie des jeux, théorème n°14.
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There’s just a lot of wrong in the world, but there is so much right.
Scientists have found there are two and a half wrongs for every right in the world.
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Quand un ministre ou député parle de « guerre contre le terrorisme », il viole la séparation des pouvoirs car il demande implicitement le dessaisissement du juge et l’application de la « justice » militaire.
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#SantaFeHighSchool [shooting] 2-digit toll attained (10 dead). Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, kinda kept his cool, wasn’t even shot. [To be continued in TW13]
Sci Fi in the Third Reich
When in 2005 I started to look for sci-fi novels from the Third Reich, there were not many documents on the internet, which seemed to bode well for the pioneering character of my project. Since then, things have changed and some may say I now publish this bibliography late. Be that as it may, I believe the list I made remains the most comprehensive so far.
Sources I relied on are:
1/ Online and paper essays, which dealt with only a few titles, and “who’s whos” on German literature.
2/ data mining from German libraries in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Köln. In Berlin (it was the city library, if I remember well), where they have some of the books on my list, for a good deal of them, however, they don’t know if the books are still available (!). On their digital catalogue they make the comment “prewar book, may have been destroyed during the war.” It refers to the Allied bombings on Berlin; the library must have been hit, and lost items. Since then, nobody asked for these books, so apparently the librarians don’t know if they’re still available. I didn’t stay long enough to ask for membership, so I couldn’t check if the books were available or not.
3/ data mining on ZVAB (Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher) and Abebooks’s websites.
4/ and last but not least, data mining from the catalogue of Versandantiquariat Hans-Jürgen Lange (,,wir sind zu allen Themen der Grenz- und Geheimwissenschaften sowie Utopie und Phantastik interessiert”), which I have been receiving since #4 (the latter issue being now #18). Herr Lange does tremendously good work at describing the content of the books in his catalogue.
The following bibliography is made of three parts.
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Part one is the main part and deals with first editions of science fiction published during the Third Reich, that is, since 1933 in Germany and 1938 in Austria. If sci-fi short stories have been published in collections of miscellaneous stories, then it is quite possible they have escaped my attention. As to the definition of “science fiction,” I tried not to include fantasy when it was obvious that it wasn’t “science fiction,” but you’re probably aware that the demarcation line between the two is not always easily drawn. In fact, in one case (one of the books I have read from this list [see Hermann Barthel]), even though the book is dealt with in an essay on science fiction, I personally would have classified it as pure fantasy; as at least one scholar, the author of the essay in question, thought otherwise, I have left the item in the bibliography.
I said this is a comprehensive list but as at least one of the authors on it is a serial writer with overabundant output, in sci fi as well as fantasy and other genres [see Lok Myler], I invite you to visit Wkpd for a list of all his titles, of which only a selection is to be found here.
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The second part is dedicated to sci-fi films from the Third Reich and contains four titles (plus a short film and a short animated cartoon). For good measure, I also included westerns from the Third Reich, to make sure you know that such a thing as westerns from the Third Reich exist. I made rather extensive research on German cinema and could find no more than these films – again, excluding fantasy works, like the well-known Münchhausen by Josef von Baky (1943).
The third part, which I present in no way as a comprehensive work, and only as a sketch, deals with three different things: A/ sci-fi works from German Nazis or supporters who wrote some sci-fi books, yet not during the Reich years but a little earlier or a little later; B/ sci-fi works from Fascist Italy and from Germany and Italy’s ally in the Antikomintern Pact, namely Japan, from about the same period; & C/ sci-fi works from pro-Nazi or pro-fascist writers outside these countries, that is, from writers whom we know were members in such organizations or expressed their support in any other way. These limits on the research are rather arbitrary and one may ask why not, for instance, writers and others who worked in fascist Italy and made science fiction later on, like Mario Bava, who, with films like Terrore nello spazio (1965), known in English as Planet of the Vampires, is a pioneer of Italian sci-fi cinema, and began as an assistant and cameraman at the Istituto Luce in the thirties… That’s a good point, thank you.
For all languages that I master, I provide an English translation of my own beside the original title (more precisely, after the date of publication or release), being a matter of fact that few of these books have ever been translated. For other languages, I give only the titles as I found them in English. I sometimes add my own comments, they’re to be found in [ ].
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SCI-FI LITERATURE
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ALEXANDER Arno, Das geheimnisvolle Gas: ,,Gas LM 387‘‘, 1933 (The mysterious LM 387 Gaz)
ARNOLDT Johannes, Vor Götterdämmerung. Phantastischer Roman aus nordische Frühzeit, 1934 (Before twilight of the gods: A fantasy novel about Nordic early times) [From a writer inspired by Hörbiger’s cosmological Welteislehre, World Ice Theory; with an afterword by “Welteislehrer” Georg Hinzpeter.]
BADE Wilfrid, Gloria über der Welt, 1937 (Gloria over the world)
BARTEL Hermann, Der weiße Elefant. Ein Atlantis-Roman, 1937 (The white elephant: An Atlantis novel)
BARTHEL Max, Im Land der sieben Krater, 1937 (In the land of the seven craters)
BEHM Bill, Anafur! Die Stadt der Verlorenen, 1938 (Anafur! City of the lost)
BERGMANN Ernst, Deutschland, das Bildungsland der Menscheit, 1933 (Germany, the country where the new mankind is shaped) [A visionary essay by the founder of the Deutsche Glaubensbewegung, German Faith Movement.]
BERGNER Bernd, Die Blitzfall am Monte Santo. Kriminalroman um eine Erfindung, Köln 1938 (Lightning falls on Monte Santo: A thriller about an invention)
BERNDT Maximilian, d.i. Bernd Engel, Der rote Pfeilring, 1933 (Red Pfeilring)
BERNHARDY Werner, eig. Werner Tummely, Sacara. Unter zehntausend Amazonen, 1934 (Sacara: Amidst ten thousand Amazons)
BIALKOWSKI Stanislau, Leuchtfeuer im Mond, 1934 (Signal lights on the moon); Krieg im All, 1935 (War in space); Die Macht des unsichtbaren Sterns, 1936 (Power of the invisible star); Der Radiumkrieg, 1937 (Radium war); Start ins Weltall, 1941 (Launched in space); Der Stratosphärenflieger, 1938 (Stratosphere aircraft)
BIERBOWSKI Heinz, Der Mann ohne Gesicht, 1938 (The man without a face); Der Welt ohne Schlaf, 1940 (The world with no sleep)
BOETTICHER Hans, Unterseeboot Ganymed, 1942 (Submarine Ganymed)
BRAUN Hans-Fried, Die Expedition der SENTA II, 1934 (Expedition of SENTA 2)
BRUGGER Wolfgang, Kampf um „EA 1“, 1936 (Battle for EA 1)
BRUHL Leo am, Lebendiges Licht, 1933 (Living light)
BRUNNGRABER Rudolf, Die Engel in Atlantis,1938 (The angels in Atlantis)
BÜRGEL Bruno Hans, Sterne über den Gassen, 1936 (Stars above alleys), Der Stern von Afrika. Ein phantastischer Roman aus dem Jahre 3000, 1937 (The star of Africa: A fantasy novel from year 3000)
BURMESTER Albert K. (various pseudos: Geo Barring, Axel Berger…); Panzerfort Nova Atlantis meutert, 1935 (Panzer-Fort Nova Atlantis mutinies); Erdball in Ketten, 1935 (Earth globe in chains); Der Damm von Amazonis. Zukunftsroman, 1936 (Dam of Amazonis); Die Stadt im Krater. Technischer Zukunfts-Roman, 1937 (City in the crater); Der Erde reißt, 1938 (The Earth rips); Die Sonne Sixa, 1938 (Sun Sixa)
CHOMTON Werner, Weltbrand von morgen, 1934 (Tomorrow’s world blaze)
CONTROL Adolf, Vor Weltraumfahrt und Planetenkolonisation erst vom äthronischen Lebensschlag zum werdenden Menschenschlag, Leipzig 1937 (With space travel and planet colonization, from aethronic twist of fate to man in becoming [Tentative translation of this obscure title with a neologism apparently formed on the Greek mythological name Aethra (Äthra), a princess who became a slave.])
CORRINTH Curth, Die unheimliche Wandlung des Alex Roscher, 1941 (Alex Roscher’s uncanny transformation)
DAUMANN Rudolf Heinrich, Dünn wie eine Eierschale. Ein utopistischer Roman, Berlin 1937 (Thin as an eggshell); Macht aus der Sonne, 1937 (Power from the sun); Das Ende des Goldes, 1938 (End of gold); Gefahr aus dem Weltall, 1939 (Danger from space); Patrouille gegen den Tod, 1939 (Patrol against death); Die Insel der tausend Wunder. Ein utopischer Roman, 1940 (The island of thousand wonders); Abenteuer mit der Venus, 1940 (Adventure with Venus); Protuberanzen, 1940 (Protuberances) [Daumann got Schreibverbot, that is, was forbidden to publish anything more, in 1943, for a reason I don’t know.]
DELMONT Joseph, pseudo of Karl Pick, Der Fels im Meer, Leipzig 1934 (The rock on the sea) / From before 1933: Die Stadt unter dem Meer, 1925 (City under the sea); Der Ritt auf fem Funken. Phantastischer Zukunftsroman (The ride on sparks), 1928
DOHM Batti, Stielauge der Urkrebs, 1933 (Popping-Eye the Trilobite) [Written by a geologist and owner of a rich scientific collection of trilobites influenced by Welteislehre.]
DOLEZAL Erich, Grenzen über uns, 1940 (Boundaries above us)
DOMINIK Hans, Der Befehl aus dem Dunkel, 1933 (Command from darkness); Der Wettflug der Nationen, 1933 (Competition flight of the nations); Das stählerne Geheimnis, 1934 (The iron mystery); Ein Stern fiel vom Himmel, 1934 (A star has fallen from the sky); Atomgewicht 500, 1935 (Atomic weight 500); Himmelskraft, 1937 (Sky power); Land aus Feuer und Wasser, 1939 (Land of fire and water); Lebensstrahlen, 1938 (Life rays), Treibstoff SR, 1939/40 (Fuel SR) [Hans Dominik is the major German sci-fi author of the period. He also wrote essays, such as Vistra, das weiße Gold Deutschlands, 1936 (Vistra, Germany’s white gold) on a super-light alloy.]
EICKERMANN Wilhelm Friedrich, Großmacht Saturn, 1938 (Arch-Power Saturn)
EIGK Claus, eig. Hartmut Bastian, Das Vermächtnis des Ingenieurs Eigk, 1943 (Engineer Eigk’s legacy)
ENSKAT Fritz, pseudo of Freder Catsen, Weltraumschiff Unimos. Ein technish-phantastischer Zukunftsroman, 1936 (Spaceship Unimo)
ERBER Richard, Welt ohne Tod, 1937 (World without death)
FEHR Frank, pseudo of Rassenforscher (racial anthropologist) Otto Hauser (not the paleontologist), also known as Otto Hauser-Wien, sometimes using the pseudonym Ferdinand Büttner, Das Blut, 1935 (The blood)
FICHTE Werner v., Der Spukflieger, 1940 (Ghost aircraft)
FLECHTNER Hans-Joachim, Front gegen Europa, 1935 (Front against Europe); Europa siegt…? 1937 (Europe wins?…)
FRIELING Heinrich, Begegnung mit Sauriern. Eine wunderbare Reise ans Kreidemeer, 1940 (Encounter with saurians: A wonderful travel to the Cretaceous Sea)
FUSCHLBERGER Hans, Der Flug in die Zukunft, 1937 (Flight into the future) [The author was a representant of the so-called „Odal“ movement.)
GERMAN Günther, d.i. Anton Mehl, Schatten der aufgehenden Sonne, 1935 (Shadows of the rising sun); Der rote Habicht, 1936 (The red hawk)
GRILLMAYER Georg, Kurt und Jörg erobern die Welt. Aus Gegenwart und Zukunft, 1943 (Kurt und Jörg conquer the world: From past and future)
GROSSER Reinhold Fritz Asaka Fu mobilisiert den Osten, 1940 (Asaka Fu mobilizes the East) [In 1925 Ferdinand Grautoff (pseudos: Parabellum, Seestern…) wrote a Fu der Gebieter der Welt, Fu Master of the World, a Zukunfstkriegsroman depicting Germany’s alliance with Japan and China. Same writer under different names – same character?]
GÜNTER Herbert, Magisches Schicksal, 1942 (Magic fate)
GURK Paul, Tuzub 37. Der Mythos von der grauen Menscheit oder von der Zahl 1, 1935 (Tuzub 37: The myth of grey mankind or of Number 1) [The author had some trouble publishing in the Third Reich – some of his books were forbidden. He was an „Odal” follower.)
HAUSWIRTH Werner, Republik Europa. Eine Vision, 1937 (Republic Europe: A vision)
HEICHEN Walter, Jenseits der Stratosphäre, 1937 (Beyond the stratosphere); Luftschiff im Weltenraum, 1941 (Spacecraft in cosmos); Der U-Boot-Pirat, 1941 (Pirate submarine)
HERMANN Franz, Die Erde in Flammen. Ein Zukunftsroman aus den Jahren 1937/38, 1933 (World ablaze: An anticipation novel of the years 1937-38)
HOFF Harry, d.i. Hans Heidsieck, Das stählerne Antlitz. Phantastischer Kriminalroman, 1938 (The iron face: A fantasy thriller)
HUBER Armin Otto, Das Paradies im Eis, 1937 (Icebound paradise)
HUNDEIKER Egon, Alumnit, 1934
JÜNGER Ernst, Auf den Marmor-Klippen, 1939 (On the marble cliffs)
KÄMPFER Adolf, Das erste Jahre, 1941 (The first year)
KARLIN Alma Maximiliane, Isolanthis. Roman vom Sinken eines Erdteils, Leipzig 1936, Atlantis-Roman (Isolanthis: The drowning of a continent)
KÄRRNER Dietrich, d.i. Artur Mahraun, Verschollen im Weltall, 1938 (Lost in space); Gösta Ring entdeckt Värnimöki, 1938 (Gösta Ring discovers Värnimöki); Per Krag and sein Stern, 1939 (Per Krag and his star) [Mahraun was the founder of the Jungdeutsche Orden.]
KEGEL Walther, Rakete 33, 1934 (Rocket 33); Tiefsee. Tauchtank 9200 Meter unterm Meeresspiegel, 1934 mit Hans Heuer (Deep Sea: Water-ballast 9.200 meters under sea level); Tod im Strahlenring, 1937 (Death in the beam-circle); Dämme im Mittelmeer, 1937 (Dams in the Mediterranean); Feuer über dem Atlantik, 1939 (Fire over the Atlantic)
KIRCHHOFER Fritz, Piraten im Äther, 1934 (Pirates in the ether)
KIß Edmund, [Nicknamed the “Poet of Atlantis,” his Atlantis and Welteislehre-tetralogy is well-known. A member of the SS-Ahnenerbe involved in several archaeological missions – South America (Tiahuanacu), Africa (Abyssinia) –, his writings inspired Wilhelm Landig’s postwar sci-fi novels about German flying saucers and UFO bases in Antarctic (Neuschwabenland).] Tetralogy: Die gläserne Meer, 1930 (The sea of glass); Die letzte Königin von Atlantis, 1931 (Last queen of Atlantis); Frühling in Atlantis, 1933 (Spring in Atlantis); Die Singschwane aus Thule, 1937 (Singing swans of Thule)
KLOTZ Karl, Die letzte Schlacht am Birkenbaum. Der Schicksalsroman der Menschheit, Düsseldorf 1933 (Last battle at the birch tree: Fate novel of mankind)
KOLBENHEYER Erwin Guido, Klaas Y der grosse Neutrale, 1936 (Klaas Y the Big Neutral)
KOSSAK-RAYTENAU Karl L., Lermontow vernichtet die Welt, 1936 (Lermontow destroys the world); Die Welt am laufenden Band, 1937 (The Earth on the conveying belt); Der Stoß in den Himmel, 1940 (Thrust into the sky)
KUBIE Wilhelm, Professor Frauenschuhs zweite Erdenfahrt, 1939 (Professor Frauenschuh’s second Earth trip)
KÜCHLER Luise, Wider Meer und Menschen, 1934 (Against sea and men)
KÜHLMAN Richard von, Saturnische Sendung, 1935 (Transmission from Saturn)
KUNZE Karl H., …und abermals nach Jahrhunderten… Kämpfe um Kräfte. Technisch-Phantastischer Roman, 1934 (Once again after centuries… Fights for forces)
LAAR Clemens, eig. Eberhard Koebsell, U-31. Das Schiff aus dem Jenseits, Verlag der Wehrmacht 1937 (U31 the boat from beyond); Das Geister U-Boot, 1937 (Ghost submarine)
LAMBERTY Paul, Die Sage vom Weltreich der Arier, 1937 (Epic of the Aryans’ world empire) [A cosmic essay, whose author is influenced by both Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels’s ariosophy and Hörbiger’s Welteislehre: the great periods of world history coincide with ebbs and flows of Nordic blood, these ‘tide’ cycles being of cosmic origin.]
LANGHANSKI Viktor, Urkraft. Der Roman einer großen Idee, 1937 (First power: The novel of a great idea)
LERCH Hans, Sintflut über Europa. Der Roman einer Erdkatastrophe, 1933 (Deluge over Europe: The novel of a world catastrophe); Ein Volk wandert ins Meer, 1934 (A people wanders on the seas); Der rasende Tod, 1935 (Raging death)
LERNET-HOLENIA Alexander, Die neue Atlantis, 1935 (poetry) (The new Atlantis) [Lernet-Holenia was a prolific scriptwriter for the movie industry; he wrote Die große Liebe, directed by Rolf Hansen, the biggest film success in the Third Reich.)
LINDRODER Wolfgang, Die Brücke des Schicksals, 1936 (The bridge of fate)
LORENZ Helmut, Das Echo von Meganta. Nie wieder Friede? 1935 (The echo from Meganta: No more peace ever?)
LÖWENTHAL Josef Frh. v., Die unsterbliche Stadt. Eine utopische Erzählung aus dem Jahre 2000, 1936 (The immortal city: A utopian tale from year 2000)
MANN Alfred Theodor, Pax Mundi (Die Weltfriede).Volkstümlicher Roman, 1934 (World peace)
MARSCHALL Hanns, d.i. Johannes Ickes, Der Mann, den die Welt nich sah, 1935 (The man whom the world was not seeing)
MATTHIEßEN Wilhelm, Karl Mays Wunderbare Himmelfahrt, 1942 (Karl May’s wonderful voyage to the sky)
MASOVIUS Werner, eig. W. Mialki, Gefesselte Stürme. Roman um Energiequellen der Zukunft, 1942 (Chained streams: A novel on energy sources of the future); Neotherm C, 1943
MAY K. Eduard, Der Plan des Ingenieurs Dekker, 1938 (Engineer Dekker’s plan)
MAYER Theodor Heinrich, Ärzte, 1936 (Doctors); Vom Gedanken zur Tat. Novellen aus der Geschichte werktätigen Schaffens, 1941 darunter die utopische Novelle „Weltkongreß der Techniker, Wien 1960“ (From thought to action: Short stories from the history of striving; among which the utopian story „Technicians World Congress Wien 1960“)
MEIXNER Fritz, Bevor es zu spät ist, 1940 (Before it is too late); Wettlauf mit der Zeit, 1942 (The race against time)
MUNGO, Die Marsbewohner sind da! Politische Satiren, 1939 (The Martians are here! Political satires)
MYLER Lok, eig. Paul Alfred Müller, Sun Koh, der Erbe von Atlantis (Sun Koh, heir of Atlantis) [a fantasy series 1933-36]; Jan Mayen, der Herr der Atomkraft (Jan Mayen, master of the atomic power) [a sci-fi series 1936-38) Das hypnotisierte Unterseeboot, 1933 (The hypnotised submarine); Ein Mann fällt vom himmel, 1933 (A man falls from the sky); Der fressende Kreis, 1937 (The eating circle); Atlantis steigt auf, 1938 (Atlantis rises); Blaue Kugel, 1938 (Blue orb); Die Tarnkappe, 1938 (The invisibility cloak); Die Seifenblasen des Herrn Vandenberg, 1939 (Mr Vandenberg’s soap bubbles); Trommeln der Hölle, 1939 (Hell’s ruins); 40.000 Meter unter dem Meeresspiegel, 1939 (40.000 meters under sea level); Sonnenmotor Nr. 1. Roman eines phantastischen Abenteuers, 1940 (Sun-Engine Nb.1) [Paul Alfred Müller, whose post-war pseudonym was Freder van Holk, was in the Third Reich a proponent of the Hohlwelt-Theorie, Hollow Earth theory (according to which we would be living on the concave side of ‘the Earth’): see his essay Und sie bewegt sie doch nicht! 1939 (And yet it moves not!)]
NAUNDORF Gerhard, Stern in not, 1938 (Star in emergency); Welt ohne Sonne, 1939 (World with no sun)
OHLIGER Ernst, Bomben auf Kohlenstadt. Ein Roman, der Wirklichkeit sein könnte, 1935 (Bombs upon the coal city: A novel that could be reality)
OPRÉE Arthur, Der Unirdische, 1937 (The unworldly); Unter glühender Doppelsonne, 1938 (Under glowing double sun)
OSTEN Ludwig, eig. Fritz Mardicke, Die große Flut, 1934 (The great Deluge)
PAATZ Herbert, Doktor Kleinermacher führt Dieter in die Welt, 1938 (Dr Shrinker introduces Dieter to the world); Doktor Kleinermachers Erlebnisse zwischen Keller und Dach, 1939 (Dr Shrinker’s experiences between cellar and roof); Abenteuer in Doktor Kleinermachers Garten, 1940 (Adventures in Dr Shrinker’s garden) [An early, Teutonic version of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids in three installments.]
PAETZOLD Kurt, Der Apparat des Dr. Junghans. Kriminalroman, 1936. Kriminalroman mit phantastischen Elementen (Dr Junghans’s apparatus)
PAGILL (pseudo for Paul Gille), Gletscher über Europa, 1940 (Glaciers over Europe)
PEIL Fritz, Der Kupferdoktor, 1939 (The copper doctor)
PELZ V. FELINAU Josef, Dämon Mensch. Der Roman eines Weltzeitalters, 1940 (Demon man: Novel of an era)
REIMANN Hans, under pseudo Andreas Zeltner, Des Teufels Phiole, 1939 (The Devil’s flask)
REINHART E.W.A, Das kalte Licht. Ein Kriminalroman aus der Lüneberg Heide, 1939 frühe Erwähnung eines „Robot“ (The cold light)
REISSE Kurt, Der Yokh der Elmo. Nach dem Bordbuch des Planetenkreuzers RAK I, 1936 (Der Yokh of Elmo: After the logbook of planet cruiser RAK 1)
REITTER Nikolaus, Planetenflieger. Ein astronomischer Abenteuer, 1935 (Planetary flight)
RENKER Gustav, Ein Schiff steuert in die Urzeit. Ein Tiefsee-Roman, 1934 (A boat sails to prehistory: A deep sea novel); Der Stadt in der Wüste, 1938 (City in the desert); Das Geheimnis des Simon Hard, 1943 (Simon Hard’s mystery)
RHEIN Eduard, Wunder der Wellen. Rundfunk und Fernsehen dargestellt für jedermann, 1935 (Wonder of the waves: radio and television for dummies) [in sci-fi mode due to anticipations of future developments: “chronovision”, time machine…]
RICHTER Georg, Reichstag 1975, 1933 (Parliament 1975)
ROBER Karl, d.i. Kurt Martin, Die Experimente des Dr. Wan-schi-tin, 1936 (Dr Wan-schi-tin’s experiments)
ROHA Franz, Stiller Ozean – Insel X, 1939 (Pacific Ocean – Island X)
ROCK C. V. (real name: Kurt Walter Röcken), Experiment im All, 1936 (Experiment in space); Die glühenden Türme, 1936 (The glowing towers); Der Flug in die Erde, 1937 (Flight into the Earth) [a Hollow-Earth theory book?]; Rückkehr aus dem All, 1939 (Back from space)
ROHDEN Ernst, d.i. Ernst Willi Ebel, Der Kaiser von Südafrika, 1936 (The emperor of South Africa)
ROLAND Siegfried, Suggestion. Kriminalroman, 1934
ROSSMANN Hermann, Flügel 1934 (Wings)
RUDOLPH Axel, Die Eisfrau, Berlin 1933 (Ice woman); Gebt uns ehrliche Waffen! 1933, Spionageroman um die Erfindung eines neuartigen Gases (Give us noble weapons!)
SCHICHT Eleonore, Sonnenfünkchens Abenteuer. Ein Buch für Kinder, 1943 Mischung aus Märchen und SF (Sun-spark’s adventure)
SCHMID Edmund, Im Jahre 2000 im Dritten Reich, 1933 (The Third Reich in Year 2000) [They say the book was forbidden because it was too racialist!]
SCHMIDT Wilhelm Der kleine Wunderbaum, 1941 (The little wonder-tree)
SCHUBERT August, Weltenwende durch Gas, 1939 (World revolutions through gas)
SEIDEL Willy, Die Nacht der Würde, München 1941 (enthält: Die Nacht der Würde. Der neue Gott. Utku) (Night of dignity)
SEXAU Richard, Denkmal einer Freundschaft. Das geheimnis der verhüllten Hände und andere Erzählungen, 1934 Sammlung aus phantastischen und utopischen Texten (Monument to a friendship: The mystery of the gloved hand and other tales)
SIEG Paul Eugen, Detatom, 1936; Südöstlich Venus, 1940 (South-west of Venus)
SIXTUS Albert, Das Geheimnis des Riesenhügels, 1941 Jugend-SF-Roman (Mystery of Giants’ Hill)
SPATZ Albert, Die Herren des Feuers. Ein Roman im Innern der Erde, 1936 (Lords of the fire: A novel inside the Earth)
STRATZ Heinz, Der Regenmacher von Turkestan, 1938 (Rainmaker of Turkestan)
STROBL Karl Hans, Feuer im Nachbarhaus. Roman von übermorgen, 1938 (Fire in the neighboring house: A novel of the day after tomorrow); auch Od. Die Entdeckung des magischen Menschen, 1930 (Od, discovery of the magic man) [Strobl was, with Alfons von Czibulka, the publisher of Der Orchideengarten, the world’s first literary journal entirely devoted to fantasy literature: „Der Orchideengarten (1919-1921), die de facto noch vor den Magazinen in den USA die erste rein der phantastischen Literatur gewidmete Zeitschrift der Welt war.“ In the Third Reich he become „Landesleiter Wien der Reichsschriftumskammer.“]
TAESCHNER Titus, Eurofrika. Die Macht der Zukunft 1938 (Eurafrica, the power of the future) [about Germany colonizing Africa with the help of a jumbo dam on the Mediterranean: (real) Atlantropa Project]; Der Mars greift ein, 1935 (Mars steps in)
TROPPENZ Walter, pseudo: Bruno S. Wiek, Phantasten. Roman einer naher Zukunft, 1935 (Phantasts, novel of a near future); LPR 1600 – Das Geheimniss mikrokurzer Wellen, 1938 (Mystery of the microwaves); Der Schlüssel des Meeres, 1939 (Key of the sea); Ave-Brunonia. Die Stadt in der Erde, 1940 (City inside the Earth)
ULLER T., Chefingenieur Hansen, 1944 (Chief engineer Hansen)
VAN WEHRT Rudolf (eig. Hans Rudolf Berndorf, Freikorpskämpfer und SS-Standarte), Der Libellen-Krieg, 1936 (War of the dragonflies); Das Mädchen aus den Jenseits, 1943 (Maiden from beyond); Ein Wal – gespenstisch anzusehen! Ein utopischer Roman, 1943 (A whale – ghostly)
VIVIAN Karl, Dunkle Gewalten, 1933 Kriminalroman, in dem Menschen mittels einer Hypnose-Maschine manipuliert werden (Dark powers)
WEHNER Joseph Magnus, Die Wallfahrt nach Paris. Eine patriotische Phantasie, 1933, „völkische Utopie“ (Pilgrimage to Paris: A patriotic fantasy)
WIDEMANN Nora, Das gläserne Unterseeboot, 1940 (The glass submarine); Von China bis Kiel im gläsernen Unterseeboot, 1941 (From China to Kiel in the glass submarine)
WIECHERT Alfred, Laore. Ein Erlöserschicksal, 1934 (Laore, the fate of a savior)
WITTE Viktor, Bharpami, das Tal der lebenden Toten, 1936 (Bharpami, the valley of the living dead)
WITTKOP Justus Franz, Gullivers letzte Reise. Die Insel der Vergänglichkeit, 1941 (Gulliver’s last Travel: The island of transitoriness)
ZIESE Maxim, Der Film des Dr. Wharton. Roman einer Weltkatastrophe, 1938 (Dr Wharton’s film: Novel of a world catastrophe)
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SCI-FI MOVIES
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Science fiction was also handled by filmmakers. Harry PIEL, a major film director in the Third Reich, made two “humor” sci-fi films: Ein Unsichtbarer geht durch die Stadt, 1933 (Invisible man in town), and Die Welt ohne Mask, 1934 (World without a mask).
BERNHARDT Kurt, Der Tunnel, 1933
HARTL Karl, Gold, 1934
KUTTER Anton, Weltraumschiff I startet, 1940 (Spacecraft 1 starts) [short film, from the material of two long-film sci-fi projects that were cancelled due to the war, Zwischenfall im Weltraum (Incident in space) under Robert Adolf Stemmle’s direction, and Weltraumschiff 18 (Spacecraft 18) under Eduard von Borsody’s]
PEROFF Paul, or Pavel Perov, Ein astronomisches Abenteuer, 1936 (An astronomical adventure) [short animated cartoon by Russian émigré Peroff who settled in Germany from 1929 to 1943 and created there animation Atelier Peroff]
On the topic of sci fi, the name of Thea von HARBOU should be mentioned. She was film director Fritz Lang’s wife, known for SF films like Metropolis and The Woman in the Moon. Thea von Harbou was Lang‘s script and wrote the scripts of all his Weimar films. Moreover, Metropolis and Frau im Mond are novels written and published by her, in 1926 and 1928 respectively, as she was a novelist as well. She divorced Fritz Lang, when he was about to leave Germany, and embraced National-Socialism instead. She kept writing during the Third Reich, although not science fiction. Therefore, she belongs with other writers in III-A (below).
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While I am dealing with cinema, I draw the attention of Western fans on the fact that even this genre was handled in German films of the time, as the following titles show (surely among the first examples of sauerkraut westerns):
TRENKER Luis Der Kaiser von Kalifornien, 1935-36 (The emperor of California)
VERHOEVEN Paul Gold in New Frisco, 1939
WASCHNECK Erich Frauen für Golden Hill, 1939 (Women for Golden Hill)
To which filmography may be added what is doubtless one of the first spaghetti westerns, Una donna dell’ovest, 1942 (A lady of the West), with French legend actor Michel Simon, by German director Carl KOCH, who directed two films in fascist Italy, this one included.
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„NEW ORDER“ SCI FI
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A/ Nazi or Nazi-supporting writers whose sci-fi works were published before or after Third Reich years
BALL Kurt Erwarth, Nsdap and collaborator of Theodor Fritsch’s Der Hammer, wrote several sci-fi novels with Lothar Weise in the DDR.
BETSCH Roland, Leiter des Verbands Westmark der Organisation Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur (Alfred Rosenberg), Das Experiment des Dr Tintelott, 1931 (Dr Tintelott’s experiment)
BOCHOW Walter, V-Mann (liaison agent) for the SD (Sicherheitsdienst) of the SS, Hansgeorg ererbt ein Wunder, 1931 (Hansgeorg inherits a marvel)
COLERUS Egmont, Austrian, Nsdap, Antarktis, 1920 (Antarctica); Der dritte Weg, 1921 (The third way); Die neue Rasse, 1928 (The new race)
FREKSA Friedrich, Druso oder: Die gestohlene Menschenwelt, 1931 (Druso or the stolen world of man) is a sci-fi novel, while his biography of Boer president Paul Kruger, Ohm Krüger. Sein Leben – ein Kampf gegen England, 1941 (Kruger, his life, a fight against England), published during the war, served German war propaganda (a film was made of it the same year by director Hans Steinhoff).
HANSTEIN Otfried v., his writings from the Third Reich were put on DDR’s blacklist of undesirable literature (List der auszusondernden Literatur), which indicates National-Socialist tendencies, Der Telefunken-Teufel, 1924 (Tele-sparks devil); Elektropolis. Die Stadt der technischen Wunder. Ein Zukunftsroman, 1928 (Elektropolis, city of technical marvels); Mond-Rak 1. Ein Fahrt ins Weltall, 1929 (Moon-Rak 1, a travel in space); Nova Terra, 1930
HARBOU Thea v., Nsdap, Metropolis, 1926; Frau im Mond, 1928 [See Sci-Fi Movies]
HARDER Hermann, Nsdap, Die versunkene Stadt. Ein Roman aus der kommende Urzeit, 1932 (The sunken city: A novel about the prehistory to come)
HEYCK Hans, Nsdap, Deutschland ohne Deutsche. Ein Roman von übermorgen, 1929 (Germany without Germans: A novel of the day after tomorrow)
LAFFERT Karl-August v., Nsdap and SS, Untergang der Luna, 1921 (End of the moon); Feuer am Nordpol, 1924 (Fire on the north pole); Fanale am Himmel (Signals in the sky), 1925; Flammen aus dem Weltenraum, 1927 (Flames from space)
PÜRINGER Rudolf, Austrian, among the contributors of Monument Dichterstein Offenhausen, Hans Trapps zweites Leben, 1937 (Hans Trapps’s second life)
WEBER Fritz, Austrian, collaborator and ghost writer of Luis Trenker, Nsdap and SA, Die Toten der Svea, 1930 (The Dead of Svea)
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B/ Italy and Japan (sketch)
Fascist Italy
ALVARO Corrado, L’uomo è forte, 1938 (Man is strong)
BENEDETTO Enzo, Viaggio al pianeta Marte, 1930 (Travel to the planet Mars)
BERTINETTI Giovanni, Ipergenio il disinventore, 1925 (Hypergenius the desinventor); Il gigante dell’apocalisse, 1930 (Giant of the apocalypse); Il rotoplano “3bis”, 1930 (Rotoplane 3bis) ; Fumettino – Storia del monello di fumo, 1938 (Fumettino: Story of the smoke brat)
BUZZI Paolo, Jungla di Barba Blu, 1933 (Bluebeard’s jungle) [A short story. In 1915 Buzzi had written the Futurist novel L’ellisse e la spirale. Film + parole in libertà (The propeller and the spiral. Film + words in freedom) with sci-fi elements in it.]
CHIOSSO Renzo, I navigatori del cielo, 1925 (Pilots through the sky); La città sottomarina, 1940 (Underwater city)
CIANCIMINO Calogero, Il prosciugamento del Mediterraneo, 1931 with Luigi Motta (The drying-up of the Mediterranean); La nave senza nome, 1932 (The ship without name); Come si fermò la Terra, 1932 (How the Earth stopped); Il mistero della sfinge gialla, 1935 (Mystery of the yellow sphinx) [inspired by Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu series, with sci-fi elements]; Le bare di granito, 1935 (The granite coffins); Il corsaro dell’aria, 1935 (Corsair of the air)
CICOGNA Giorgio, I ciechi e le stelle, 1931 (The blind and the stars) [a collection of sci-fi short stories]
COSSIO Carlo, La macchina del tempo, 1937 (Time machine) [an animated cartoon after H.G.Wells’s story]
DELLA CASA Nino, Domani ameremo così, 1924 (Tomorrow we will love that way)
DE PALMAS Mauro, La donna senza sesso, 1926 (The woman without sex)
FELISARI Dora, Materia solare, 1934 con copertina di Fortunato Depero (Solar matter)
FILLIA (Luigi Colombo), La morte della donna, 1925 (Death of woman)
FRATTINI Angelo, La donna su misura, 1926 (The tailored woman)
KHAN Ciro, Gli astronauti del polline, 1931 (Astronauts of the pollen); L’uomo di fil di ferro, 1932 (Iron-wire man)
LO DUCA Giuseppe, La sfera di platino, 1927 (The platinum sphere, preface by F.T. Marinetti)
MAGGI Luigi, La bambola vivente, 1924 (The living doll [a gynoid]) [45 minutes motion picture]
MOTTA Luigi, Il sommergibile fiammeggiante, 1924 (The flaming submarine); I giganti dell’infinito, 1934 (Giants of infinity); La battaglia dei ciclopi, 1935 (Battle of the cyclops); Il covo dei predoni, 1935 (Lair of the marauders) [see also Calogero Ciancimino for one book written together]
PAPINI Giovanni, Gog, 1931
PARSI-BASTOGI Carla, La leggenda del mare, 1922 (Legend of the sea); Estrema umanità, 1922 (Last mankind)
PEDROCCHI Federico, Virus, il mago della foresta morta, 1939-40 (Virus, magus of the dead forest) [a comic-book series, designers: first Walter Molino, then Antonio Canale]; Saturno contro la Terra, 1936-46 (Saturn against the Earth) [comic-book series, designer: Giovanni Scolari]
PELLACANI Ada Maria, Il sogno di un pazzo, 1940 (A madman’s dream)
PRANDI Eugenio, Il sentiero delle ombre, 1933 (Path of the shadows); Il cimitero die giganti (Cemetery of the giants)
REISOLI Gustavo, La disfatta dei mostri, 1940 (Defeat of the monsters) [Zukunftskriegsroman]
SCERBANENCO Giorgio, Il paese senza cielo, 1939 (Land with no sky); Fine del mondo, 1942 (End of the world)
SCATASTA Gino, Il quarto evo (2001-2032), 1939 (The fourth era)
SILVESTRI Armando, La meravigliosa avventura, 1927 (The wonderful adventure); Il signore della folgore, 1941 (The lightning master)
SIMONI Gastone, La casa nel cielo, 1928 (House in the sky), La barriera invisibile, 1929 (The invisible fence), L’isola del Gran Tabù, 1931 (Island of the Great Taboo), Il richiamo dal fondo, 1931 (Call from the deep), L’ultimo degli Atlantidi, 1932 (Last of the Atlanteans), La prigioniera dell’abisso, 1932 (Prisoner of the abyss), Il re del mistero, 1934 (King of mystery)
SOLDATI Mario, La verità sul caso Motta, 1937 (The truth on case Motta)
STOCCO Guglielmo, Il riformatore del mondo, 1927 (Reformer of the world)
TALARICO Elio, Il morbo di Talarico, 1929 (Talarico’s disease) [a play based on the discovery of the germ of love]
VASARI Ruggero, L’angoscia delle macchine, 1925 (Angst of the machines); Raun, 1932 [these titles are two plays]
VISCARDINI Mario, Ciclo di Ardo l’Entusiasta (Cycle of Ardo the Enthusiast [a trilogy]): La casa del genere umano, 1927 (House of the human species); La piramide capovolta, 1932 (The upside-down pyramid); La vita senza cielo, 1933 (Life without sky)
YAMBO, that is, Enrico Novelli, L’uovo di pterodattilo o L’allevatore di dinosauri, 1926 (The pterodactyl egg, or The breeder of dinosaurs); Viaggi e avventure attraverso el tempo e lo spazio, 1930 (Travels and adventures through time and space); Gli uomini verde, 1935 (Green men) [a comic book]
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Dai Nippon
SAKAMOTO Gajo, mangaka, creator in 1934 of the robot character Tanku Tankuro [Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar: American influences on Japanese sci fi, like that of Star Wars on early Japanese space-opera films and series such as Message from Space, are often stressed while we never hear of the reverse, and yet Darth Vader is said by some specialists to bear a resemblance to the villain in Tanku Tankuro manga, Kuro-Kabuto or “Black Hat” – the manga might be a secret, unacknowledged influence.]
SUZUKI Ichiro, author of Ôgon Batto superhero serial cartoon (since 1930, that is, eight years before Superman was created in the U.S.) (designer: Takeo Nagamatsu)
UNNO Jûza, The case of the mysterious death in the electric bath, 1928; The demon of vibration, 1931; The music bath at 18:00 hours, 1937; Mars Corps, 1940; Patent for a multi-armed man, 1941; Miracle of the dawdling bullet, 1941; Conjugated ricochet, 1944 [among other titles from this prolific pioneer of Japanese sci fi]
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C/ Nazi-supporting sci-fi writers from outside Germany (sketch)
BARJAVEL René, France, published his sci-fi novels Ravage, 1943, and Le Voyageur imprudent (The uncautious traveller), same year, in the collaborationist journal Je Suis Partout, and was blacklisted after the war.
BURDECKI Feliks, Poland, sci-fi writer who collaborated with pro-Nazi Polish journals and was condemned to prison for life after the war, later lived in South Africa: Perkuna’s fire hand, 1934; Rocket to Mercury, 1934; Safety TV, 1936; Fight for the atom 1938.
D’ESPIE Adolphe, pseudonym: Jean de La Hire, France, prolific pulp writer, member of the collaborationist party RNP (Rassemblement national populaire) founded by Marcel Déat, creator of superhero Le Nyctalope.
GHILINI Hector, France, editor-in-chief of collaborationist journal L’Appel, blacklisted after the war, author of various sci-fi novels before, during, and after the war, such as Selskar Fils de la Bête, 1943 (Selskar son of the beast) and La Troisième Guerre mondiale durera six heures, 1950 (The Third World War will last 6 hours).
GUDMUNSSON Kristmann, Iceland, wrote in Icelandic and Norwegian, including sci fi, collaborated in Mjölnir, periodical of the Flokkur þjóðernissinna (Nationalist Party, inspired by National-Socialism and using the Swastika as emblem).
HARTLEY Kelver, Australia, professor of French language at Sydney University in the fifties, he had converted to fascism while in Paris in the thirties and took part in the right-wing antiparliamentary riots in the capital of France; author of various sci-fi stories. (Although he adhered to a Ligue or to Ligue ideology, that does not make him a Nazi supporter eo ipso, as French right-wingers are usually hostile to everything German, but you get my point, I think.)
LÖNNERSTRAND Sture, Sweden, fantasy and sci-fi writer, father of superheroine Dotty Virvelvind (Dotty Whirlwind) appearing in a dozen short stories and serialized in cartoons 1944-45 (designers: Lennart Elf and Björn Karlström). Lönnerstrand was a member of pro-Nazi party Svensk Opposition founded by Per Engdahl (see tobiashubinette.se: Swedish scholar Tobias Hubinette has posted on his website the membership lists of all major Swedish Fascist parties of the thirties and forties).
MEYN Niels, Denmark, prolific writer of pulp fiction, including sci fi, under various pseudonyms. Member of DNSPA (Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Arbejderparti).
