Nov. 30, 2025 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Christmas season has begun.
Christmas season is upon us here now on TPC this first.
Hey, I love celebrating Christmas in November.
That's getting an early start.
My family and I, I took my parents, my wife, my kids, and others to the Botanic Gardens, the Memphis Botanic Gardens.
I will tell you that they do their holiday wonders exhibit with all the lights there, the entire botanical gardens decorated in lights.
And I mean, it is something, it's world-class.
You wouldn't even believe that it could have happened in Memphis.
It's as good as anything Disney could have produced.
It is wonderful.
It was cold last night.
It's supposed to snow this week in Memphis, if you can believe it already early this year and early in this winter season.
But great time last night.
We are getting into, I mean, as soon as we got done with the turkey, we started putting up the Christmas tree, decorating it with the lights and the ornaments.
And it's just, you can't get into it soon enough.
You can't keep it long enough.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
We say it to you in November.
We're going to have a wonderful time throughout the month of December, all the way through Christmas and beyond.
This is the Christmas.
It's cold weather.
Remember your furry friends and get your cats and dogs inside with the warmth and whatnot.
I thought you were going to do the Bob Barker thing and tell him to get spade neutered.
I know.
All right, all right, all right.
Well, anyway, but it is not the holiday season.
It is the Christmas season.
And with that being said, our first show during TPC's Christmas programming concludes tonight in our third hour with Taylor Young, our friend from Antelope Hill.
He'll be back with us one more time before the end of the year, but twice during this Christmas season tonight, November the 29th.
He's going to keep us on theme from that second hour while he details with us this hour a couple of stocking stuffers that are sure to delight members of our listening audience.
Welcome back, Taylor Young.
Hello, everyone.
Great to be here again.
Looking forward to talking to you guys.
As always, and so, you know, we, of course, have been talking with Kevin McDonald about the book, the third edition of The Culture of Critique, which Antelope Hill brought to life to great fanfare.
I mean, Kevin is still on the interview circuit, and it's just gotten so much recognition.
I've seen it everywhere.
I saw Joel Webbin with a copy of it in his hand, and it's just a wonderful thing to see how far and how wide that book has spread since Antelope Hill launched it in September.
That was the incentive for our fall fundraising drive here on TPC to great success for us as well.
But since then, Antelope Hill has a couple of new books that we want to bring to your attention tonight.
And the first is Rise and Fight, speeches from the 1943 through 1945 Italian Social Republic.
So we're talking about Mussolini here.
And interestingly, Taylor, we were talking earlier tonight, well, in the second hour, with Harry Cooper, who has all of these wonderful books through Shark Hunters with the German veterans of World War II.
And then we were talking with Jose Nino earlier about Bukele and some of the other fascist personalities, whether it be Pinochet or Franco.
But now, Mussolini, this is a guy, I think, through, with all of the interest in World War II, sometimes Mussolini sort of gets pushed aside.
He doesn't get the recognition maybe that some of the other players do.
There's something else about Mussolini.
I think that Hitler would have been better off if Mussolini had taken cue from Franco and just stayed out of the war because I think that he used German troops to protect the entire Italian peninsula, which was a great manpower cost that he certainly could have used in Operation Barbarossa against Russia.
Well, that may or may not be anything Germane to this particular book, but nevertheless, Mussolini is on deck.
So let's talk about it, Taylor.
It's a new release, brand new release, the latest release from AntelopeHillPublishing.com.
Let's talk about Rise and Fight.
Yeah, certainly.
So this book was actually brought to our attention by an Italian publishing company that I think we had previous contact with, I believe, and we're kind of friendly with.
And essentially, I guess it's a book from their own catalog, and they thought that it was important enough that they just reached out to offer us the rights for publishing and English translation.
So we had someone, a friend of the company who speaks Italian, gave it a review, gave it a readover, and decided that, yes, this is something that, so a little bit of a, one step back, so.
So it's speeches from 1943 to 1945.
So this is near the end of the war here.
And so this is the period of the Italian Social Republic, which is, you know, if you look at it, if you Google it, you look it up on Wikipedia, it's called a German puppet state.
So this was after Mussolini was deposed in 1943.
He was briefly imprisoned, and then he was rescued by German paratroopers and taken to northern Italy, where he then once again became the leader of a new Italian state, which governed northern Italy after southern Italy was occupied by the Allies, and that was the Italian Social Republic.
So this is speeches specifically from that era.
So we thought that it was kind of probably something that people don't really think about.
They don't probably know much about that era of history and how it happened in that era of Mussolini's life and politics.
So that was the main reason why we wanted to add it to our catalog because it's, again, something that people don't think about as much.
And there's some very interesting and important history that goes on there as well.
What impressed you about this book?
What insights did it give you that you didn't have before into the Italian campaign in Mussolini?
I would say that one thing is It was kind of clear at this point to a lot of people, including Mussolini, that it was pretty unlikely that they were going to be on the winning side of this war.
And he had a brief period of, shortly before he was deposed from his position in the Kingdom of Italy, which was the previous government.
He had a brief period of basically kind of apathy or just kind of disillusionment is the wrong word.
I'm not thinking of the right word right now, but there was this fortress island in the Mediterranean that had fallen to the Allies due to a bombing campaign and kind of took the wind out of his sails.
There were some other issues that also took place internally.
Yeah, there's some other issues that took place internally within the fascist organization.
And basically, the kind of aristocratic class, the pro-monarchy forces, some of the military took this moment to depose Mussolini and remove him from power.
And so then he was, again, he was rescued by the Germans and he kind of rediscovered his will and his energy at that point when he was back in the north.
And so you have this very interesting perspective from someone who essentially knows that he's fighting the losing battle, but he's going to give it his all anyway.
And the book talks about how the reception that the RSI, the new government, received in the North.
It was very positive.
Italians really rallied around it.
And even though, again, they were pretty much fighting a losing battle at this point, the Italians who adhered to the fascist ideology and Mussolini as a leader were nevertheless willing to step up and fight.
Just, I think he says, you know, I'm going to look up the exact quote, but it's like, you know, if Italy dies, then life isn't worth living anyway.
So, you know, we're going to fight to the end here.
So this is, again, the book Rise and Fight, the latest release from AnalopehillPublishing.com.
They do, of course, their own titles, new works.
They also do reprints and even translations.
Rise and Fight speeches from 1943 to 1945, Italian Social Republic and the Political Testament by Benito Mussolini.
A lot of people get a lot of play in World War II.
Mussolini is certainly very well known, but how much do you actually know about him?
Grant, this book can inform you.
We'll talk more about it when we come back.
Stay tuned.
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If you've been a good boy or girl this year, maybe when Santa comes down the chimney this year, he will leave in your stocking a copy of Rise and Fight.
Rise and Fight from 1943 to 1945, Italian Social Republic, and the political testament of Benito Mussolini.
So I'm going to read now from the back cover, Taylor, if I may.
In 1943, after three years of warfare, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy had hatched a conspiracy to capitulate the Allies and betray Italy's German allies in a desperate attempt to keep his throne.
The king orchestrated a dramatic vote of no confidence on July the 25th of 1943 in Mussolini's own Grand Council and shortly after ordered the arrest of Mussolini himself.
Hitler intervened, dispatching SS commandos.
We were just talking about the SS in the last hour with Harry Cooper, dispatching SS commandos to rescue Mussolini in a daring escapade and spirit him away to the north of the country, establishing a new fascist state with Mussolini as the head, the Italian Social Republic.
Did you know that, ladies and gentlemen?
Rise and Fight, this book we're talking about with Taylor Young of Antelope HillPublishing.com right now.
Rise and Fight traces the turbulent final chapter of Benito Mussolini's Mussolini's political life through his own words from 1943 to 1945, voiced in the midst of the collapsing fascist order.
In the shadow of German occupation, civil war, and Allied invasion, Mussolini attempted to redefine fascism through the lens of socialization, rallying loyalists around a vision of a rejuvenated revolutionary state.
From Mussolini's impassioned speeches during the first days of the Italian Social Republic to his somber political testament written just days before his execution, Rise and Fight, this book we're here to promote right now with Taylor Young, reflects both a latch-ditched ideological crusade and a leader grappling with betrayal, destiny, and defeat.
Ardent versions of a new Europe were mixed with a determined resistance in the war of a civilization, even as his world fell to ruin around him.
Analope Hill Publishing is proud to present, many of which appear for the first time in English, Mussolini's final words offering a rare insight into the propaganda, desperation, and enduring convictions of a regime on the brink.
More than a historical document, the records of these speeches are the voice of a movement fighting to reshape its legacy in the face of inevitable collapse.
I don't know, Taylor, who writes your copy, who writes your back page splurges.
That convinces me to buy the book, and I hope it does many others as well.
We're talking about the book Rise and Fight.
It's the most recent offering from AnalopeilPublishing.com.
You know what it talks about, Mussolini, Italy, World War II.
Continue on, Taylor.
Well, sometimes I write them, but I did not write this one, and it is a very good one.
I'll say.
I'll say.
So I also hope it motivates people to buy the book.
But yeah, so like we were talking about in the earlier segment, this is a, I think, probably little known and little appreciated period of fascist history and of the history of Mussolini's life.
And so it ends with Mussolini's testament, which is, I think, the last interview that I think he ever gave, possibly one of the last pieces of writing or of his recorded speech that we have.
And it was given to a journalist that was friendly with him on April 20th, 1945, which I think is just a few days before he was captured and killed.
So it is very interesting because he's kind of this journalist.
He's given this opportunity to come and talk to Mussolini.
He gives him a gift of some of the newspapers' copies.
They talk a little bit about the paper.
They talk a little bit about just propaganda and stuff.
And then he starts, you know, asks if he can ask him some questions.
And Mussolini kind of, you know, whether through foresight or whatever, he takes the opportunity to kind of make it into something a little bit more than just like a normal interview.
And he talks about a lot of stuff, like what led to this situation, in his view, his reflections on the decisions he took, on the criticisms that have been made of him, which he argues are, you know, it's easy to prophesy the past.
So, you know, you can say Mussolini shouldn't have done this or shouldn't have done that.
But at the time, it's what made sense.
Another thing that comes out is that he very much has a perspective of this not only having been an expedient path or a right path, the fascist path that he set Italy on, but also a moral path and a path that was morally necessary and was morally necessary from a lot of different angles.
It was morally necessary to uplift the Italian people.
It was morally necessary to make geopolitical decisions based on things like loyalty and honor.
It was morally necessary to confront the evils of capitalism and communism.
And so, you know, you kind of get the sense that he knows he's probably not long for this world, and he's reflecting on all of that.
So it makes for a very interesting reading, to be sure, and I think it is a very important piece of history.
I think that the fact that it begins in 1943 and ends, you know, just days before his death makes it even more remarkable.
I mean, you know, certainly anything prior to that would have been interesting as well.
But you get really real when you're at the end of things.
And this is what this book is here to document.
And, you know, interestingly about Mussolini is I believe that the last time that he met with Hitler in person was on the same day as the culmination of Operation Valkyrie, where they tried to assassinate Hitler by bomb at the Wolf's Layer.
That was the last time, if I'm not mistaken, that Mussolini and Hitler met in person, that the bomb went off prior to Mussolini's arrival, but they still had the meeting.
But now, Pat Buchanan had said on this show something that I had never heard before.
It was when Pat was on to talk about to promote Churchill Hitler and the Unnecessary War when it was first released back some years ago.
At the beginning of things, and certainly that they had a relationship, certainly that they had a partnership, they were allies.
But in the beginning, that Mussolini was very skeptical of Hitler, if not in opposition to him.
Do you know anything about that?
Yeah, I mean, there was a lot of history between Italy and Germany that was not necessarily friendly.
They were on opposite sides in the previous World War and kind of just going back earlier in history, for hundreds of years had tended to be rivals.
There were areas that would have been under dispute, areas in northern Italy and other places.
So there was a lot of reasons for them to have national interests that were not necessarily aligned.
But I think, and this also is something that comes through in his testament and in some of the speeches, is that it seems like they were both men who wanted to find ways to cooperate with each other and saw that there was much more to be gained from finding common cause than not.
This is actually interesting portion where Mussolini talks about what he kind of, his thoughts on what would have happened had the Axis won, and you could foresee kind of a German sphere of dominance in Northern Europe, Italian sphere of dominance in Southern Europe, and whether that would have been sustainable or how they could have continued to cooperate in that situation.
So yeah, so obviously it was certainly from a perspective of national interest, there was a lot of complications to the relationship, which I think kind of really highlights the importance of just these specific statesmen and their vision and their willingness to work together.
But they were able to work together and overcome those past grievances from years prior and even decades or generations prior.
Because of what, Keith?
Because of what you said before the show started tonight.
At the end of the day, it was that war.
That war on the side of the Axis was a war against communism.
That was what they were there to stamp out.
All of these people were allied in that mind.
Yeah, both Mussolini and Hitler were grassroots anti-communists, and that's where their animus lie.
That's who they wanted to fight.
They did not want to fight Britain or France or Norway or any of these other countries.
I think with the benefit of 2020 hindsight, we can see that Mussolini and Italy was basically a millstone around Hitler's neck.
He had to defend Greece and the Italian peninsula because the Italian army was famous for its ineptness in war.
You know, the old joke used to be, what's the thinnest book ever written, the Compendium of Italian War Heroes.
So that was a problem.
It would have been better probably for Mussolini and for Hitler if Mussolini had just done what Franco did and declared his neutrality and said that neither side of the war could use their land as a staging ground.
Well, you know, you go back to the age of the Romans.
It's hard to disparage the Italians, as they said in the Soprano, you know, where are the Romans, but you don't certainly read a lot of books about the war in Italy.
But, you know, that's not to say that there's not a lot to say about Mussolini, and a lot of it is said by him, transcribed into English for the first time by Analoco Publishing.
And we're going to talk a little bit more with Taylor Young about that when we come back.
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If not, you can always wrap it and put it under the old Christmas tree, however you need to do it.
Go to antelopehillpublishing.com and do it well.
Great gifts for friends and family members, maybe that conservative family member that needs that little tap on the velvet hammer, you know, a little bit of a push over that last full measure.
The latest offering is this book.
It is what Mussolini's speech is, his thoughts, his last political testament there.
In the 11th hour of his career.
Well, you want a deferred answer, though.
I mean, Taylor, Keith's question was, should Mussolini have played it like Franco did?
I think it's basically the question.
Well, basically, I think it would have been better for both Hitler and Mussolini.
Hitler would not have had to divert troops from Barbarossa to defend Italy.
And furthermore, Franco died peacefully in his own bed in 1975.
And if Mussolini had not been an active participant in the war, like Franco, he might have suffered a similar fate.
Well, you know, a lot of things could have turned out differently.
And if they had, in hindsight, all of these things.
What do you think about those observations?
I think it's difficult to tell.
I think, you know, if the kind of whole southern front had just not existed and been closed off, you know, maybe things would have been easier for the Germans.
You know, there's also an open question of whether, you know, if that is how things went, that the Allies would actually have respected the decision for neutrality by Italy, especially if Italy was supporting Germany and other substantive ways.
I certainly respected the neutrality of Spain, which had an equally long coastline.
That's true.
That's true.
Although, you know, Spain doesn't border Germany.
So, I mean, I think it's possible that Hitler himself kind of shared your view because, again, I think in Mussolini's testament, he notes that Hitler did not ask him to join the wars.
Mussolini, who decided that that was basically something that the honor of his pact with Germany kind of compelled him to, and that just made sense for other reasons of his kind of ideological vision of what was necessary for European civilization.
But imperial designs.
You know, he had imperial designs, but couldn't even defeat the Ethiopians.
Yeah, no, that's true.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
That was something that Pat brought up in the show.
That was something that Pat brought up in the show.
I'll find that.
Taylor, quickly.
Well, so let me, I got one word maybe here in the defense of the Italian soldier.
You know, say what you will about their military record, but there were some certainly exceptions to that, even in the 20th century.
And we've actually published a couple books that relate to those exceptions.
So the Ardidi formations that were formed during World War I that were used by the Italians in a lot of the mountain fighting in northern Italy were very successful.
And when after the war, the veterans from those formations also became one of the original building blocks of the fascist movement, and they were active in other radical movements.
And we have a couple books about that.
We've got The Death Company by Cristoforo Besseggio, which is about one of those original shock troop formations.
And then we've also got with Di Nunzio in Fiume, which is about the brief seizure of the city of Fiume on the Dalmatian coast, which again was something that was a futurist thing that a lot of the veterans from World War I, especially the RDD veterans, were very involved in.
And a lot of the people who were involved in that escapade, again, also ended up joining the fascist movement.
So, you know, just in a little defense of the Italian soldier, there are some shining lights there.
And again, you can read some of those stories in our catalog as well.
And previously with you, Taylor, we have promoted the book with Dinunzio in Fiume.
And it's a great book, another offering at Antelope Hill Publishing.
But this was what, to Keith's point on Ethiopia, again, going back to Buchanan on this show to promote Churchill Hitler and the Unnecessary War, he wrote that Mussolini was driven into Hitler's arms by a British and French decision to sanction them over a colonial war in Ethiopia.
It was a really good interview with Pat.
I mean, you know, you couldn't have a bad one with him, but that particular one, of all the times he appeared on this show, that one was very interesting to me because I think he knew he was coming into a home game, talking about that particular book, which he was always put on the defensive because he was looking at it objectively and perhaps even neutrally.
But honestly, I mean, honestly would really be the word.
That whole book, he didn't have to write Churchill Hitler and the Unnecessary War.
I mean, that title alone opened him up.
And he was still making a million dollars a year on NBC as a contributor at that time.
He does all this, comes on this show to promote it.
But he UNS, Ron Unz just actually transcribed that interview just last year, not even a year ago.
It was right before Christmas of 2024.
He took that interview and transcribed it, put it up on UNS.
But with that being said, we're going to skip the last break tonight.
We're going to skip the last break because I want to play this clip that was posted by Jake Shields, who is another friend of Antelope Hill Publishing.
If I'm not mistaken, Taylor, you can correct me if I'm wrong.
But Jake Shields is an AHP contemporary.
Yeah, we've got a good relationship with Jake.
We helped sponsor his show, and he's promoted a lot of our books.
And he, of course, is a celebrity in his own right, a former UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship Champion.
And just today, just this very day, just hours in advance of Taylor's appearance tonight on the show to talk about this particular topic, no other than Jake Shields posted this clip from Pat Buchanan just within days of his appearance on this show to talk about a similar topic, this C-SPAN book TV interview about Churchill Hitler and the Unnecessary War.
And we'll use this as a pivot point to move from our discussion about this book about Mussolini to another book that is of equal interest, no less interest, but there's only so much time.
Let's go all the way back to 2008.
This is a four-minute clip, and we'll toss it back to Taylor.
We're skipping the break to make up the time.
Jake Shields posted this today.
He wanted the Polish-Danzig question in the corridor settled not by force, he told his generals and diplomats.
And that's understandable given what he demanded.
What did he demand?
German flag over Danzig, a city of a town of 350,000.
Political control for the Germans, let the Poles keep economic control.
He didn't demand the Polish corridor back.
And if he wanted war with Poland, that's what he would have demanded.
He demanded a quarter-mile rail and road corridor across the Polish corridor between Prussia and Germany, which had been separated foolishly at Versailles by giving Poland this strip of German land between them.
On the 26th of March, he said, I don't want this issue settled by force with Poland.
Why?
He wanted Poland as an ally.
He had an agreement with Piłsutsky, who died in 1935.
He liked Piłsutsky.
These people were right-wing neo-fascists.
And Hitler liked the regime.
And what he wanted from the regime, he thought the regime was a natural ally, just like Mussolini, just like Admiral Horthy, just like General Franco, just like the Monsignor Tizo in Slovakia.
He thought our natural allies.
And in return for giving him Danzig back and a rail and road carter, he wanted them in the anti-common turn pact that he was pulling together of Germany, Italy, Japan against Moscow.
Brits gave the war guarantee on the 31st.
Hitler went berserk.
In two days, he ordered case wipe.
And that is preparations for an invasion of Poland as of September 1 at the latest.
But then he kept making offers to Poland.
He still wanted to deal with the Poles.
He didn't want war.
And then the British, of course, and the French are in Moscow trying to cut a deal with Stalin.
And so Hitler's watching this, and the Poles refuse even to talk to him about Danzig.
And Henderson, the British ambassador, says, why wasn't I told of the generosity of Hitler's offer of April 25th?
So Hitler is increasingly frustrated.
Poles have joined the West against me.
So he forms an alliance with Stalin.
Even that, I think, was not designed necessarily for war.
It was designed diplomatically to get the Brits out.
And what he did, that was on the 23rd or 24th of August.
And so Neville Chamberlain's still prime minister.
So Chamberlain, what does he do?
When Hitler announces this Hitler-Stalin pact, Hitler thinks that this brilliant pact, we've got the Soviets on our side and we're there and clearly Poland's going to be divided again and the Brits can't do anything about it.
They're not going to stand up behind their guarantee.
The 24th, Chamberlain reissues the guarantee to Poland and forms a military alliance with Poland.
What did Hitler do?
He backed down.
He called off the invasion for the 25th.
And he tried to find a way all during that week, that period, to get some kind of deal with the Poles, which would at least, or some kind of offer to the Poles, would convince the British to say, look, Poland, you've got to deal with Germany or we're not going to stand by the guarantee.
So ultimately, when you see Hitler in his own interpreter, when the British hand the ultimatum in and Henderson takes it into Ribbentrop, who takes it into Hitler, Hitler is, they just say his face was a mask of rage.
He looked at Ribbentrop and he said, what now?
And what he meant, I think, was our diplomacy has failed, because he never, never wanted war over the British Empire.
He, of all the leaders, take FDR, Churchill, Stalin, Mussolini, all the others, of all the leaders, Hitler was a greater admirer of the British Empire than any of them, except Winston Churchill.
He never wanted war with Britain, and he never wanted a world war.
That was something that he repeated on this radio program, and you have to, I will tell you, every day as I grow older, and I'm 45 now.
I was 19 when I served on that campaign.
I turned 20 in the year of 2000, that summer of 2000, when he was running for the president of the Reform Party nominee for president, I was there.
That is what started my career.
Four years later, I'm on the radio 21 years later.
We're talking to Taylor Young tonight.
It all started with Buchanan.
Every day as I grow older, I become more thankful that that is how I had my genesis because that is a man.
That was in 2008.
He had everything to lose by writing a book like that.
I mean, yes, he had made some money.
I mean, he was, you know, he could have lived well for the rest of his life.
He didn't have to write a book like that, though.
Not when he was still being invited.
He was not financially motivated, right?
He was motivated by the desire to tell the truth.
And so is Antelope Hill Publishing.
All right.
So that's it.
Thank you, Keith.
That was a great segue, by the way.
That was an unintentionally great segue.
Antelope Hill Publishing, the same thing.
So Taylor, back to you.
The Rise of the Reich.
This is another new book since the publication of Kevin McDonald's third edition of Culture of Critique in the Fall.
We have your Rise and Fight with Mussolini and now Rise of the Reich.
This is a pretty simple book in terms of the table of contents.
I mean, it doesn't take a lot to understand this.
You go through ancient German history.
You go through the First Reich, the Reich of the Middle Ages, the Second Reich, the coming of the NSDAP, that's the National Socialist German Workers' Party, the National Socialist Movement, and chapter eight is the Third Reich.
It is the rise of the Reich, and it has been talked about so much, but so little truth applied.
What is the rise of the Reich all about?
Why did you publish this book?
Sure.
So this is actually kind of the second in a series, not directly, but so it's published by the SS main office.
So that's the organization of the Schutzstaffel.
And it's published originally in 1941, I believe, shortly before the entry of the U.S. into the war.
And it's the second such book that we have in our catalog.
We also have The Rise of the NSDAP, also published by the SS main office.
And that is kind of their internal history of the NSDAP and their rise to political power in Germany.
So this one is much broader in scope, like you mentioned, and it's basically a run through German history from the very beginnings of ancient prehistory up until the National Socialist Movement and their coming to power.
And it's a review of German history that shows kind of how they saw themselves and their place in German history and how they justified their governance and their ideas and their policies.
So it's very interesting because you kind of get like that direct look into the SS's own mythology of their mission as they saw it and of German history.
So one thing that you get out of it is kind of just that, that like they very much saw this as a culmination of centuries of German attempts at a unified state.
You know, you had German tribes for a while, and then those were for a while unified by the Frankish kingdoms, and then you had the Holy Roman Empire, which was very weak and divided for much of its history.
Then you had Bismarck's attempts at unification, and finally you had Hitler, and they saw in Hitler like finally now for the first time in German history, we have all of the German people unified in one state.
This is where we've arrived at.
This is our destiny.
This is our purpose.
This is our mission is to be able to unify Germany and have it stand on its own two legs.
So it's a very, very interesting perspective in that sense, in that it shows you that they were really considering just thousands of years of German history as all leading up to this point and to this achievement.
Rise and Fight, this book released by Analope Publishing about the last couple of years of Mussolini's life, his speeches, his last political testament translated into English, analopeilpublishing.com.
Rise of the Reich is a rare National Socialist Era publication produced by the SS main office in 1941, portraying the justification of the SS's self-conception as heirs to centuries of German leadership, discipline, and statescraft through a sweeping ideological history of the German Reichs, the Holy Roman Reich, the Prussian Reich, and finally Hitler's own Third Reich.
With mythic grandeur and martial clarity, the book frames the National Socialist State as not a revolutionary break, but as a natural culmination of German destiny, a rebirth of order, hierarchy, and racial national purpose after the humiliation of Versailles and the chaos of Weimar.
The present Reich, the Third Reich, this present Reich as of the writing of this book, as conceived by its new elites, saw itself as part of a grand and unified historical mission with the SS as the vanguard of a new man of a regenerated Europe.
Analope Hill Publishing is proud to present Rise of the Reich in English for the first time.
Once again, two books in English for the first time.
This ideological artifact offers a valuable insight into the worldview that shaped National Socialist policy in its formative years.
If you want to understand, you know, not the History Channel worldview of what happened, but if you really want to understand why any of these things happened, this is it.
Reflecting the early war optimism of a state not yet tempered by looming defeat, this book is a vital resource for serious researchers of National Socialist Germany and historical enthusiasts alike.
Interesting about National Socialist Germany, Taylor, is the fact that the Confederacy, the Confederate States of America, their entire history was a war history.
Their entire run was a war year run.
With Hitler, it was a little bit different, but it was about equally split, about five and a half years pre-war, about five and a half years at war.
I mean, 1933 to 1945, war begins in 1939, so-called.
And then, you know, in 1945, it's all over.
So, you know, that 11, 12-year run was about equally split between war and pre-war, but this book covers it all and then some.
I mean, many, many, many years, hundreds of years even before the fact.
This is a special one.
Why'd you choose to produce it?
Well, I think it's a very interesting book.
And kind of like I was talking about later earlier, it's pretty much a unique and unprecedented look into National Socialist ideology and also even more specifically the SS, which sometimes actually differed from the official party line.
The SS sometimes had their own kind of independent ideas and ways of looking at things.
And so you get in this book, this is, you know, them telling the story in their own words and in the way that they saw it.
It also connects back to, I think, that Buchanan clip that you played.
He was talking about, you know, how it's pretty clear that Hitler never wanted like a world war.
He wasn't out to conquer the world or anything like that.
And again, with the history in the book, you really get the feeling that the German people, they would look at neighboring states, especially ones that they had often been in conflict with, like France and England, that had been cohesive states and countries for centuries, whereas they had spent so much of their history being divided, being at war with their neighbors, being at war with themselves.
And so I think you really get out of it this idea of just how conscious they were of the youth of the German state, that it was a very, very young country in its unified form.
And I think that probably gave them a lot of the impetus to fight as hard as they did.
They were like, you know, we just, we finally got here.
We've reached the unified German state.
And that's what they were fighting for.
So to your point, rise and fight, rise of the Reich.
This is my question to Pat Buchanan about Winston Churchill.
And we'll leave it with this.
Here's what he said.
There's another Churchill who in 1942, 43, 44 is slipping into Moscow, dividing Europe with Stalin.
I mean, groveling to Stalin in a way that would make Neville Chamberlain look like David Crockett writing off the Poles for whom the British had gone to war.
And then you go back all the way to 1913 and 1914.
He lusted for war far more than the Kaiser who was trying to avoid war.
And these are all myths that we've been raised on as kids.
And so this is one reason I wrote the book, At least the New Generation Coming Up that is not sort of, if you will, saturated or marinated in these myths, can understand how it was our grandfathers and fathers destroyed Western civilization.
That's what Pat Buchanan said on this radio program as I interviewed him.
And Keith, a final word to you.
He said, I wrote this book so that our kids and grandkids could understand why our fathers and grandfathers decided to destroy Western civilization.
That is a remarkable statement.
I went on, you know, we went on.
I went on and asked him about, of course, Colonel Lindbergh.
He said, nobody's asked me about Colonel Lindbergh.
Good for you.
I asked him, what did the wars of the future look like?
He said, James, the wars of the future are not about empire or ideology.
They are about race.
You can find it.
Ron Huns transcribed it.
Final word to you, Keith, and thank you, Taylor Young, tonight.
Well, I think we need to understand about World War II and World War I, that one of the big factors that led to it was the jealousy of England and France to this new juggernaut of Europe, Germany.
Germany had not been a unified nation until right after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871.
But they were bigger, they had smarter people, they were wealthier, and they deserved to be in the forefront of European history.
But the French and the British basically wanted things to be frozen as they were in 1815, right before the Battle of Waterloo.
They thought that France and England needed to be the premier nations of Europe, and they didn't like this new interloper coming along.
Keith, thank you so much.
Christmas season upon us.
I want to thank Jose Nino.
I want to thank Harry Cooper.
I want to thank, of course, Taylor Young.
Antelope Hill Publishing are partners.
We are so proud to partner with Antelope Hill Publishing.
And, well, what a great collection of works.
Taylor Young, with 10 seconds remaining, final word to you.
Happy Thanksgiving.
We'll talk to you again.
We'll talk to you again, I guess, the week after Christmas, the Saturday after Christmas.
But final word to you.
White Wednesday sale December 3rd, Wednesday.
Look for it.
We get a 15% discount.
And two new books coming out.
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