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   Bobbie Sellers to Thomas Koenig   
   Re: A House of Dynamite (2025)   
   23 Nov 25 13:13:32   
   
   XPost: sci.physics.relativity, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, sci.math   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 11/23/25 12:57, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > Thomas Heger  schrieb:   
   >> Am Donnerstag000013, 13.11.2025 um 17:55 schrieb Thomas Koenig:   
   >>> Thomas Heger  schrieb:   
   >>>> Am Donnerstag000013, 13.11.2025 um 08:35 schrieb Thomas Koenig:   
   >>>>> Bobbie Sellers  schrieb:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> 	Hitler was a failed Artist and not a British agent   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Shortly after the war, there was a joke going round in Germany:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> In May 1945, In the headquarters of the British secret serivce,   
   >>>>> a man turns up, takes off his glued-on moustache and says: "Agent   
   >>>>> number seven: Mission accomplished, Germany is totally destroyed."   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Wrong, because the name was 'zero zero seven'.   
   >>>   
   >>> Could have been "agent number five", it has been some time since   
   >>> I read this.   
   >>>   
   >>>> And 'headquarters of the British secret serivce' wasn't in Germany.   
   >>>   
   >>> Who says the headquarters was in Germany in the joke?   
   >>   
   >> Germans didn't speak English at that time and your   
   >> " joke going round in Germany" suggested, that you meant Germany.   
   >>   
   >> But I guessed, that this was a British joke, told by British agents to   
   >> other British agents.   
   >   
   > No, it was a German joke, considering the end result of Hitler's   
   > works on Germany.  He did manage to destroy Germany, totally,   
   > after all (his famous "Nero order" being the last act).   
   >   
   > (For the life of me, I cannot understand anybody admiring him.   
   > Apart from certainly ranking in the top three of all mass murderers   
   > in history, he is arguably the biggest failure ever, considering   
   > what he set out to do and what the result of his actions were,   
   > including the growth in power of the Soviet Union and the creation   
   > of Israel.  As for his effect on Germany, see above.)   
   >   
      
   	I concur.  Hitler is the biggest loser every and i hope he is never   
   surpassed   
   as the amount of suffering in this world is quite enough. Netanyahu is   
   working   
   on it though.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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