It was at Berghof, Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat in the spring of 1942.
Gathered for consultation, Generals Mussolini, Chaudel, Hitler, Keitel and Grime had the look of anticipated victory on their faces.
Two years later at Berghof, Hitler, his generals and Mussolini met again.
But this time, minus their former bravado, things were going badly.
To the east, Russia, after retaking Crimea, was advancing toward Romania.
To the west, Allied forces planted a beachhead in Normandy in the invasion they called D-Day.
Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower prepares to invade Europe during World War II. Even with their support, the Allies know a leech invasion of Europe is nearly impossible.
By 1944, Nazi Germany knows the Allies are coming.
But they don't know where or when.
Worse still, nursing a premonition that some ill event was about to happen to him, Hitler's hunch saw that famous briefcase bomb aimed to assassinate, engulfing him in a yellow fiery flame.
The accused included Erwin Rommel, the desert fox, who failing to erect the Atlantic wall along the French coast, much to Hitler's vexation, now added insult to injury.
He met with a bad end by popping a cyanide capsule into his mouth in a forced suicide.
In love and war, timing is everything.
What suitor ever slighted his lover?
What soldier ever turned his guns on himself?
What war hero ever died in denial?
Yet Hitler was warned not to bring Germany into any military conflict whatsoever by Oswald Spangler in his 1933 book, The Hour of Decision.
Although Hitler made several offers of peace to all the nations of Europe, albeit decline, Spangler still cautioned Hitler that any provocation would endanger Germany.
After months of preparation and deception, Eisenhower launches his attack against German-occupied France.
150,000 ground troops jammed onto hundreds of small landing craft leave England and cross the English Channel.
They'll land at five different beaches in France, codenamed Juno, Sword, Gold, Utah, and Omaha.
As the landing craft approach the beaches, 15,000 aircraft and 7,000 ships provide a coordinated aerial assault on the beaches.
You'll bring the entire world against us, Spangler warned.
That's what happened.
And the catalyst for the onslaught was lit by Hitler's antagonists.
It was U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, who related to Defense Secretary James Forrestal that Neville Chamberlain told him that world Jewry forced England into war.
Well, do a search. It's on Google.
At least last time I looked.
So as the Jewish forwards, did Jews win the Second World War?
Reviewed by the forward, Benjamin Ginsburg's book, How the Jews Defeated Hitler, gives one reason how.
Quote, Jews were crucial in sending destroyers to Great Britain.
And besides trying to shift public opinion in an anti-German direction, Benjamin Cohen, at Felix Frankfurter's insistence, told Roosevelt he had the legal authority to release the destroyers without consulting Congress." Congress keeps dropping the ball, even today, when the same people are pushing us into war with Iran and now Russia and China.
We all have to die sometime.
Some while standing, others in their sleep.
Some while crash landing, and others at war with nothing to gain from peace.
Take a look again at those stalwart warriors.
Mussolini, Giotto, Hitler, Keitel, and Grime, planning their strategy with soldierly pluck.
But the deuce will be lynched.
Joddle dangling from a noose.
The Fuhrer shot by his own hand.
Keitelhang and Grimes suffering Hitler's fate.
It all looks so promising on that spring day in 1942.