Tuesday 23 June 2009

As if things couldn't get any worse - ENTER THE U.S. PACIFIC FLEET!

Paul Harker - in the terms so beloved of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Hawaii throughout the 20th Century - you are "Screwed, Blue'd and Tattoo'd"

Absolutely EVERY single detail of your pathetic pretence is now revealed. Even things you thought were SO lost in the mists of time and the destruction of Nazi Germany in 1945 that YOU could make a quick buck out of it has been revealed. There's absolutely NO aspect of your books and your fraud that hasn't now been shown up for what it is.

In the end, when you get right down to it - it was plain shoddy work. Your plain shoddy work...

Like ALL the other failures in your life - you couldn't even be crooked properly.

Paul K. Harker - slain by the man who destroyed the Roman Empire!!!...?

...so phylo_roadking lifted the book, scoped out the index, found the correct page - and...

Once Upon A Tyme...

In late 1942, when the Americans and British invaded North Africa - French Algeria and Morrocco - the Germans actioned a longstanding plan to occupy Vichy France in Europe. As Wikipedia describes it...

"During World War II, Operation Attila was a plan for the Nazi occupation of Vichy France. This plan was drawn up in 1940 in case the French rejoined the Allies or in case of an Allied threat to the south of France.

An important aspect was the capture of the
French Navy.

The original plan was never executed, but a version (
Case Anton) which included Italian forces was executed on 11 November 1942 in response to the Torch landings in North Africa."

Operation Attila....the ORIGINAL plan...was drawn up at Hitler's order in 1940. And there, buried in Hugh Trevor-Roper's list garnered from Nazi archives, was the Directive issued by Adolf Hitler for his generals to draw up plans for Operation Attila...

Directive 19.

The order to begin planning Operation ATTILA. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the Holocaust or the SS....



Harker encounters the Greatest Third Reich Expert Of All...

Hey there, people! Don't worry, I haven't forgotten you all - ANY of you! I've been working hard these last few months, earning an HONEST crust...something Paul Harker isn't too familiar with!

But I'm back for a few minutes with a new discovery by phylo_roadking! Something he found out entirely by accident in recent days, and he gave me the gold by email...

Sometimes things just happen at the right time. Some folks call it Serendipity. Phylo tells me he calls it Small-World-Itis...a strange and frigthening malady that affects him regularly. That strange feeling that the world really IS a truly small place! It's that strange combination of luck a, good fortune....and a major dash or predestination that he says has haunted him all his life...you all know the feeling -

You spend good money on an old movie on Ebay, and the minute you pay for the bugger...it's on the telly for the first time in DECADES!

You remember someone for the first time in years...and who's the VERY next person you walk into when you turn the next corner???

That's the sort of thing he says has happened to him daily for years now.

Well - the other day he walked into a local cheapo bookshop he frequents among many others, a UK chainstore bookshop called "Bargain Books". You all know them - the sort of place that fills its higgledy-piggledy shelves with kid's books, last year's greetings cards at discount, cheapo reprints of various "classics" on this year's school syllabus, big coffee-table books full of black-and-white pictures about the American Civil War or the Second World War or F1 racing cars, lots of U.S-market paperbacks with the edges notched so they can be discounted as "damaged"...

In the UK there's another trend; many publishers are churning out reprints of 1950's titles, memoirs and history books about the recent global conflict of the '40s that maybe got to a second or third edition...then disappeared; and most importantly - books that the 25-year copyright has lapsed on....!

Some of you might be familiar with the name Hugh Trevor-Roper. He was a WWII British Military Intelligence officer, and after the war wrote a number of definitive histories...including the now-legendary The Last Days of Hitler, published in 1947, and long regarded as the definitive story of the last days in Hitler's Bunker and what happened to the meglomaniac...Trevor-Roper isn't without controversy, but there - sitting on the shelf in "Bargain Books" was something VERY germaine to our tale....

Blitzkrieg to Defeat: Hitler's War Directives, 1939-1945 (1965)

No investigation here; no hypothesising, or debating, or theorizing. Just a straight plundering of the archive of Nazi Germany, to produce a definitive list IN ONE PLACE of all the Directives issued by Hitler during the war years.

THE vital lynchpin of Paul Harker's fraud, right from it's very first moments, was that Directive 19 was never accounted for. It was a blank file in the list, a Directive number with no details against it in ANY source....

ONE HE COULD INVENT SOMETHING AGAINST!!!

Or....was it really blank???