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Biden might turn out to be even worse than Hitler.

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Eric Zuesse

One of the reasons why the Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward Public Broadcasting System (PBS) documentary series The U.S. and the Holocaust stands out from, and stands above (both more comprehensive, and deeper, than) all other Holocaust documentaries, is that it is the first one to place that historical event into the broader Western cultural perspective, of which the Holocaust was a part, which is the same tradition that was the most comprehensively described and documented in the 1976 history-book, Anti-Semitism: The Causes and Effects of a Prejudice, which traces Hitler’s Nuremberg laws back to the devout Roman Emperor Constantius in 339 AD (his Codex Theodosianus XVI.8.6), saying that any Jewish man who marries a Christian woman “shall suffer the death penalty.” (Hitler constantly raged against “miscegenation,” or “race-mixing,” which he called “the blood-poisoning of the Jews.”) Then, that book lists and documents hundreds of pogroms, all by Christians against Jews, starting in 1009 A.D. in France, and then 1011 A.D starting also in Germany. (A flaw in this otherwise masterful book is that it fails to note that, on 27 November 1095, Pope Urban II officially announced The Crusades to kill Moslems. Europe, from that point on, was to be free not only of Jews, but of Muslims.) The Christian mobs, inspired by their preachers’ sermons that were quoting from the New Testament, already had started The Crusades unofficially against Jews in Europe, even before it officially began in 1095, to the south, against Muslims. The documentary isn’t ONLY about America and the Holocaust, but about the entire cultural West, or Europe (that is, the Christian or New-Testament realm), and the Holocaust. This broader focus always has been needed, because (despite Daniel Goldhagen’s writings to the contrary, which blame “Germans” only — as-if other Christians were inconsequential in it — which the Burns-Ward documentary proves to be massively false) so many non-Germans were eagerly assisting the Nazis and many other Germans, to punish, and ultimately kill, Jews, for being (or allegedly being) Jews. The essence of the Nuremberg laws had actually started by no later than the year 339, and were clearly based upon the Bible. In my 2000 book, WHY the Holocaust Happened, I documented that the Holocaust had been inspired by the Bible, which Hitler considered to be “the Monumental History of Mankind” (no mere myth) — and which likewise had poisoned the minds of millions of other Europeans. As I documented there, Hitler was so obsessed to exterminate all Jews, as to have even turned down the urgings from his generals, late in the conflict, to stop the trains to the mass-killing centers such as Auschwitz, in order for there to be enough trains made available to bring more soldiers and weapons to the battle-fronts. To Hitler, the prerequisite to his personal success would be exterminating all Jews. I got this from reading everything from Hitler. Finishing the Holocaust was more important than anything else in order for him to feel vindicated. He really believed that the Bible is “the Monumental History of Mankind.” He even rejected Darwin’s theory of the descent of Man. He had been brought up believing that “the Jews” (via John 8:44 and other New Testament passages) had been descended from the snake in Genesis 3 — Satan. By “Aryans” he meant pure-blooded Christians, descended from Adam and Eve. The idea of the Thousand-Year Reich came from Revelation 20:7-10. Thus, he told Bishop Berning on 26 April 1933, “I am doing what the Church has done for 1,500 years. I am simply finishing the job.” On 18 December 1926, he told a group of followers, “The teachings of Christ have laid the foundations for the battle against Christ as the enemy of Mankind; the work that Christ began, I shall finish.” He insisted that Jesus was no Jew, and had not descended from any. Moreover, to Hitler, “race” was in the blood, NOT in any genes. However, one didn’t need to hear Hitler’s speeches, nor read Mein Kampf, etc., in order to be able to believe that, as Matthew 23:33-36, John 8:43-47, Thessalonians 2:14-16, and other biblical passages, argued, Jews are the worst of the worst, which Hitler was persuaded of, by his private readings of that “Monumental History of Mankind.” The Burns-Ward documentary makes the case that the Holocaust very definitely was a Christian event, and not ONLY a German event. The evidence that it presents includes not ONLY German, but ALSO European and American Christianity. Without that outside support, Hitler could not have done it. That, too, is clear from their The U.S. and the Holocaust. The documentarians could achieve this only by means of opening the scope of their investigation wide enough so as to see what has been ignored for way too long by other ‘historians’ — that the guilt in it wasn’t ONLY German. The allegations that it was only German are lies; it was Christian. And it was the most evil act in all of human history. It was done by “us,” not ONLY by Germans. The documentary makes clear that though there also were a minority of Christians who opposed the Holocaust, that was ONLY a minority.

How, then, might Joe Biden turn out to be even worse than was Adolf Hitler? 

Originally, the Cold War had been alleged to be ideological, “capitalism versus communism,” but, after George Herbert Walker Bush secretly informed America’s allied heads-of-states, starting on 24 February 1990, that they were secretly to move forward with the Cold War even after Gorbachev would soon end both the Soviet Union and its communism and its Warsaw Pact military alliance, until Russia itself ultimately will itself become conquered by the U.S. alliance (NATO), the U.S. regime made clear only by its actions, and not by any words, that its supreme goal is regime-change in Moscow. It has proceeded along this path systematically by overthrowing, first, all national leaders — such as Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar al-Assad, and Viktor Yanukovych — who are not hostile toward Russia. And, now, it is focusing increasingly upon regime-change in Moscow itself. This is where Biden comes in, because he is trying everything short of actually invading Russia itself — which would mean the final global nuclear war phase of WW III — in order to achieve that objective. If he goes all the way to it, then regardless of whether the first side to employ nuclear weapons will be Russia or instead America, the blame will be entirely upon Biden, and not upon Putin; and here is why:

What is at stake for the U.S. regime is only the continuation of — and increase to universal — hegemony, of its status, as being the dominant world-power, so as to become the international rule-maker for the entire world, replacing the United Nations as being the international-law-maker for the entire world. It is status. But what is at stake for Russia now is instead existential; it is its sovereignty over its own territory, its own national independence, its avoiding to become ‘an ally’ — another vassal-nation — of the U.S. global-imperial regime. America’s takeover of Ukraine in 2014 was the start of the war there, and it has placed Putin into a corner, to which he responded on 24 February 2022, and to which response Biden is responding.

If the U.S. regime, under Biden, now forces the Russian Government to choose between either initiating the nuclear phase of WW III, or else surrendering its own national independence to the U.S. imperial regime, then Putin will almost certainly go nuclear, which I believe would be the correct choice; and here is why I do:

What is the correct response to an obsessively evil bully who offers you the option either to become a slave of his, or else to continue fighting him even if it might mean the death of both of you? Even if the opportunistic response would be to capitulate and become an evil person’s slave, would you not choose instead to fight, even if that might mean the end of you?

But what about if choosing to fight might result in the end of the entire world? Is that a world that you would want to be a part of? Who would? I suspect that most people would instead choose death. Some would not, but what would it actually mean to become a slave of an evil person? It means to do evil things. That then is what surrendering would mean. I would therefore advise Putin (or his successor) to say no, even if it would mean my own death. A chance for freedom from an evil force is worth the risk of death. So: whatever the outcome of this would be, the blame must go to the bully — not to his victim.

If Biden goes all the way, he’ll be even worse than Hitler. Fewer than 100 million people were killed in WW II. At least 6 billion probably would be killed from WW III and its aftermath. And if that happens, then Biden — and all U.S. Presidents ever since 1990, and even extending back to 25 July 1945 — would be to blame for it. Because, what’s really needed is instead a U.S. President who condemns and repudiates the decision that Truman made on 25 July 1945, and that Bush continued on 24 February 1990, for the U.S. Government to take over the entire world. That’s what an honorable U.S. President would do. Will America, ever again have (as we did have in both FDR and Lincoln), an honorable President? We need it (and so does the entire world) — and soon.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.

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The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.

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Dan Baron
Dan Baron
October 10, 2022

I thought about life and death, generally. I think if there is nothing worth dying for, then there is nothing worth living for.

zleo99
zleo99
Reply to  Dan Baron
October 10, 2022

About 5 years ago, I had the same thought, and came to the same conclusion: for something to be worth living for, it must be worth dying for.
How f___d up is that!!

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Martin Donohoe
Martin Donohoe
Reply to  zleo99
October 10, 2022

I ain’t dying in no brother wars for Israel.

Eddy
Eddy
Reply to  Dan Baron
October 10, 2022

Clearly, you need to distance yourself from the corruption imposed upon you with City life. Leave it all behind, find yourself a nice natural enclave, with an abundance of natural greenery, bubbling brook with REAL crystal clean water flowing, and the cleanest, freshest air to breath, with the most silent ambience, other than the sounds of nature. Sit back, take a deep breathe, and simply be one with the environment, you will then discover, what your bodies been missing all this time. I don’t believe we are on this planet to live the lives we are living, which is an… Read more »

Vera Gottlieb
Vera Gottlieb
Reply to  Dan Baron
October 10, 2022

Yeah…but dying because some idiots think they can do with us as they wish? No thanks.

Martin Donohoe
Martin Donohoe
October 10, 2022

More Holohoax propaganda from Jud Zuesse. Biden is completely in the hands of the Jews….just as Trump was. Two sides of the same shekel. Look who is running the Jewish war in Jewkraine. Answer… The Jewnited States.

Sarge
Sarge
Reply to  Martin Donohoe
October 10, 2022

Exactly

Jarno P
Jarno P
Reply to  Martin Donohoe
October 10, 2022

“Biden is completely in the hands of the Jews” – ABSOLUTELY !! LESS THAN 2% OF AMERICAN CITICENS ARE JEW, SO WHAT THE HECK IS THIS ?!! – 70+% BIDEN’S REGIME IS JEWS !! Jews who Joe Biden has tapped for top roles in his administration 1) Doug Emhoff (JEW), Husband of Kamala Devil Harris 2) Janet Yellin (JEW), Secretary Treasury 3) Anthony Blinken (JEW), Secretary of State  4) Robert Klain (JEW), Chief of Staff 5) David Cohen (JEW), Deputy Director CIA 6) Merrick Garland (JEW), Attorney General 7) Alejandro Mayorkas (JEW), Secretary Homeland Security 8) Avril Haines (JEW), Director… Read more »

esrastar11@iinet.net.au
Reply to  Jarno P
October 11, 2022

Good research. & to the point. pretty obvious huh ?
Peace…

Martin Donohoe
Martin Donohoe
October 10, 2022

There were no homicidal “gas-chambers” at Auschwitz. The only parasites “gassed” there were of the insect variety. Human hair and body LICE, disinfested from clothing and bedding. Zyklon B was an insecticide and was not used to kill human beings. I am heartily sick of this lying Jewish plot to discredit White Europeans while elevating the Negro to demigod status, just below that of the Chosen People.

Sarge
Sarge
Reply to  Martin Donohoe
October 10, 2022

Well said.

Martin Donohoe
Martin Donohoe
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 10, 2022

Yes I saw that fantastical rubbish.

Martin Donohoe
Martin Donohoe
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 10, 2022

You probably think that Schindler’s List was a historical documentary rather than a Jewish work of fiction.

Eddy
Eddy
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 10, 2022

Hollywood at it’s finest.

Martin Donohoe
Martin Donohoe
October 10, 2022

To be, or not to be….censored or not by the lying Judenpresse. Will my comments be “exterminated” or not. That is the question.

Martin Donohoe
Martin Donohoe
October 10, 2022

awaiting for approval……??? WTF?

Helga Fellay
Helga Fellay
Reply to  Martin Donohoe
October 11, 2022

It’s also bad English. It should be either “Awaiting approval” or “Waiting for approval.” The censors need to go back to grammar school.

Jarno P
Jarno P
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 10, 2022

Hitler was like a choirboy compared to those you’re defending here, Khazarians, Jews, Bolsheviks.

Bolshevik revolution (1905 – 1917) led to the genocide of 66 million Gulag victims. Victims were largely Christians.

Bolsheviks planned, build and were the dominants over Gulags.

But WHO WERE those Bolsheviks ?

Bolshevik State was lead and ruled by 556 men. There do was few women too.

457 or 82.2% of those 556 were … see the picture.

CENTRAL COMMITTEE of Bolshevik Party had 12 members, whom 9 (3/4) were Jew or Jewish origin, including main leaders Lenin and Trotsky.

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esrastar11@iinet.net.au
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 11, 2022

You are “WRONG” stop labeling people who simply search for “THE TRUTH” ! Here,s a label for “YOU” a Hasbara Troll !

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Martin Donohoe
Martin Donohoe
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 10, 2022

If Hitler wanted to exterminate Jews why did he set up the HaAvara transfer agreement with the Zionists in order to transfer Jews to Israel?

Martin Donohoe
Martin Donohoe
Reply to  Martin Donohoe
October 10, 2022

Then….Palestine….later Israel

esrastar11@iinet.net.au
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 11, 2022

Please show source & evidence, links to this …….

Jim
Jim
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 13, 2022

Typicle Bullsit linkis, Like Fact ? Crapfinder, give me a break & Where where where where are my Previous comments ? ? Can,t handle the TRUTH ?

Helga Fellay
Helga Fellay
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 11, 2022

The term “Hitlerites” for everybody who doesn’t join the Zion Choir is about as accurate as the term “Russian bot” is for everybody who doesn’t chime in with the MSM propaganda.

G george
G george
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 12, 2022

Some people live in fantasy world. If it wasn’t for the USSR the Germans may well have conquered the world. Hitler was supported by Henry Ford and many other Jew hating Americans. Stalin helped finish of Japan after he conquered Berlin. Yet the British and the Americans wanted war with the USSR. The US needs to be constantly at war to feed billions to the military industrial complex. They will continue, even at the risk of a nuclear holocaust. I firmly believe Putin wants to avoid that as he is a man of compassion and honor. Americans are not such… Read more »

Skip Cook
Skip Cook
October 10, 2022

You’re pretty foolish if you thing Lincoln was an honorable president. Speaking of killing, he presided over the deaths of 800,000 of his own citizens. Not for the freedom of the slaves, but for the health of the empire we have come to know today–the EVIL empire. I am sad he was murdered. Better he was indicted, charged with treason, convicted and hung in public.

Martin Donohoe
Martin Donohoe
Reply to  Skip Cook
October 10, 2022

I feel the same way about that Jew-puppet and drunkard Winston Churchill. Baruch’s little pet.

Martin Donohoe
Martin Donohoe
Reply to  Martin Donohoe
October 10, 2022

Not to mention the other Jew-puppet….the cripple. FDR.

Jim
Jim
Reply to  Martin Donohoe
October 13, 2022

Most of my comments are deleted by our Resident Hasbara troll. Zuesse!

Martin Donohoe
Martin Donohoe
October 10, 2022

By the way…. Just for the record, I am supporting nationalist Russia in its honorable fight against Jewkraine and Jewmurica. The Jew-led Banderistas of Jewkraine are simply gormless tools of the Jews Igor Kolomoysky, Volodymir Zelensky, Victoria Nuland, Wendy Sherman and Anthony Blinken. Make no mistake. This is a Jewish regime-change operation by the US and NATO to topple Putin and tear Russia limb from limb and gobble up all its natural resources and enslave its people to Jewish subversion, faggotry, trannyism and race-replacement with black Africans.

Jarno P
Jarno P
Reply to  Martin Donohoe
October 10, 2022

Won’t happen, now it’s really time jews to go, be wiped out of face of the earth !! WHO THE HECK Khazars ?! The only reason to what happen in Ukraine. European Jews are in fact Khazars. In 2012, Israeli researcher Eran Elhaik published a study claiming to prove that Khazar ancestry is the single largest element in the Ashkenazi gene pool. – ASHKENAZI JEWS ARE KHAZARS !! “West Bank settlers would be encouraged to relocate to Ukraine, as well. After Ukraine, bolstered by this support, reestablishes control over all its territory, the current Autonomous Republic of Crimea would once… Read more »

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esrastar11@iinet.net.au
Reply to  Martin Donohoe
October 11, 2022

The Bosheviks tried that, after Murdering the Romanovs, Russia, & Putin are Jew wise, he knows there underhanded deceiving ways & lies.
God speed Putin & “EVERY” nation on earths sovereignty & reserve banks owned by the rightful owners “WE THE PEOPLE” 🙂

zleo99
zleo99
October 10, 2022

I am shocked by some of the comments made here.

Eddy
Eddy
October 10, 2022

Quote, “o Hitler, the prerequisite to his personal success would be exterminating all Jews.” Unquote. Just imagine if he had been successful in the claimed ambitions, would the far in excess 6 million deaths, have occurred since WW 2 ended, and the U.S.’s wars of choice has murdered a hell of a lot more people than Hitler ever did. Worse, the plan is to murder even more with their WW 3 ambitions to enslave the whole World. Would any of this have been possible, if Hitler had achived his “ALLEGED” aims ????

Bob Valdez
Bob Valdez
October 10, 2022

All this is assuming the Holo-Hoax actually DID happen.

esrastar11@iinet.net.au
Reply to  Bob Valdez
October 11, 2022

You mean “STILL” happening LOL

Jim
Jim
October 10, 2022

Ken Burns reminds me that even documentaries and essays are affected by subjectivity. Evolution is unproven and has never had to be since it was enforced.

Vera Gottlieb
Vera Gottlieb
October 10, 2022

I think this comparison goes too far. For all Biden’s faults but compare him to Hitler? Hitler rose because Germans (too many of them) wanted him to rise. And the disastrous financial situation at that time also contributed.

esrastar11@iinet.net.au
Reply to  Vera Gottlieb
October 11, 2022

Yes you are right, to compare Biden to Hiltler is an Insult!

esrastar11@iinet.net.au
October 10, 2022

Hitler was so obsessed to exterminate all jews, ? Please show your source, where was this quoted by Hitler ? Red cross records have “NO” evidence of anyone being gassed to death! Zyclon B, was a delousing agent, the work camps were destroyed by allied bombing, they starved & died of the result from this & Typhoid, “YOU” are projecting ! The Jew bolsheviks murdered millions of Russians, Stalin & the Holodomor, then went on to rape & pillage hundreds of thousands of Germans, Including the starvation of German soldiers at the Rhine Meadows,American, General George Patten even said “WE… Read more »

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Christo Heiberg
October 11, 2022

I am really thankful that the statements expressed by Eric Zuesse are solely his and not those of this site, or else I would have abandoned The Duran with no avail. Mr. Zuesse is not an honest scholar. He is not careful with words or with history. He makes sweeping statements from beginning to end and sounds like someone who has an axe to grind… To begin with, his title is utterly misleading. The first 50% of his article has nothing to do with Biden being worse than Hitler. It is all about caricaturing and smearing “Christianity”. Thats what he… Read more »

charles smith
charles smith
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 12, 2022

Hi Eric. I believe you are conversing with Professor Emeritus Walter Veith. At least I hope so. I have mentioned him. It is very worth while watching his videos “Total Onslaught” He has a continuing series- “What’s Up Prof” on YouTube that I relish.for it’s appreciation of subsurface malevolence (Dr. Veith,, is this too strong a word?) of the Papacy and the Jesuits throughout history with emphasis as related to modern times. I would love to sit down with the two of you.

Christo Heiberg
Reply to  charles smith
October 13, 2022

Dear Charles, no, it is not Prof. Veith here. I respect the man and believe he is a great scholar.

I am who I am… and very much an ordinary fellow. Christo is my name, a worshipper of the great I Am, and saved by the grace of the One who said seven times… I AM… the Light of the world, … the Bread of life, …the Good Shepherd, etc.

Shalom!

charles smith
charles smith
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 12, 2022

Why do you not bring-up the influence of John is altering what Jesus taught?

Christo Heiberg
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
October 13, 2022

Hello again Eric, Now it gets really interesting! Okay so the whole NT is a piece of fraud. I would love to see the evidence for that, and of Saul of Tarsus being an enemy of Jesus’ Jewish sect. I would want to see that from first century sources, not third century Gnostic forgeries. I know the Da Vinci Code popularized these ideas, but that does not make them true. Bring the hard evidence Eric. Again, not claims two centuries later, or ten centuries later, from groups that tried to change the Gospel and deceive Christians, but from the earliest… Read more »

charles smith
charles smith
Reply to  Christo Heiberg
October 12, 2022

Hello Walter.I was hoping you would contribute here. I have recommended you to the members of this comment section. Please help ,us move on from the tangled, incomplete and inappropriate knot of blaming the Jews to shining a light on the underlying malevolent influence really responsible. Be brave, Walter.

Christo Heiberg
Reply to  charles smith
October 13, 2022

Christo here. Sorry Charles, maybe Prof Veith is capable of doing that. I don’t feel myself qualified. Why blame the Jews for everything? They are like us all, capable of good and evil. I really do believe there is an underlying malevolent influence messing up things most of the time. But at the end of the day, the line between good and evil runs thru every heart, as Solzhenitsyn said. The reason why evil is so rampant, is because God is forgotten, said the same Russian. He must have had a good God in mind, the one of Psalm 145.… Read more »

charles smith
charles smith
Reply to  Christo Heiberg
October 12, 2022

My reading of the article led me to believe the Eric was calling attention to the role of certain Biblical verses and the inaction of most ‘Christians’ – not Christianity. I do not believe that the Biblical verses cited are necessarily true Christianity. I have listened to many of your sermons and I sympathize with the difficulty of maintaining that everything extant in today’s Bible is the word of God. Is it possible that the power of the Roman State, Roman Church with the aid of “Holy Roman Emperors” could have forced corrupted versions of Yeshua’s teachings and portions of… Read more »

Christo Heiberg
Reply to  charles smith
October 13, 2022

Wow, a lot to talk about here. Please check out “Canon Revisited – Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books” by Michael J Kruger, for the absolute reliability of the New Testament. Of course the original teachings of Jesus and his apostles got corrupted as the church got mixed up with Roman power and culture after 313 AD. But it happened slowly and gradually. Most of what was written until that time by the early fathers was great. From then one must read with discernment. The Reformation only brought a partial correction. True Christianity though always existed,… Read more »

charles smith
charles smith
Reply to  Christo Heiberg
October 13, 2022

Thank you, Christo, for answering so completely and so kindly. I actually looked up your name and found that I was mistaken in thinking you were Walter. However, both of you are South African, both of you now are active in Canada and you both have been in the Ministry for about 30 years. I hope you weren’t offended in any way by my mistaking you and with any of my opinions. My best wishes to you Sir

Christo Heiberg
Reply to  charles smith
October 14, 2022

Not offended at all Charles. I felt honoured to be mistaken for a prof. I only have a masters degree! Best wishes to you also.

Jim
Jim
Reply to  Christo Heiberg
October 13, 2022

Can you please, tell me”YOUR” view on the BOER wars since you are from Africa, do not mix words as I know, Cecil Rhodes, a JEW who convinced the English to suppy troops to Rape the soil right under the farmers lands, still to this day.

would you confirm this ? or are my studies wrong?

charles smith
charles smith
Reply to  Jim
October 13, 2022

Rhodes was born in 1853 in Hertfordshire, England, the fifth son of the Reverend Francis William Rhodes (1807–1878) and his wife, Louisa Peacock. Francis was a Church of England clergyman

Christo Heiberg
Reply to  Jim
October 14, 2022

Sorry, Jim, I tried twice to write a reply, it was not “approved”. I hope The Duran is not becoming like Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. All I did was supplying resources. Strange. Wonder what is going on.

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