1943 Wireless Map of Nazi “Wolf’s Lair” Communications

By 1942 it was abundantly clear that the technologically lesser Nazi Germany would lose WWII.

And yet Hitler and his minions, connected through a hiding hole in Poland (“Wolf’s Lair” — Adolf is a derivative of wolf), remained delusional and genocidal.

Nowhere did Adolf Hitler spend as much time during the Second World War — the dictator passed around 830 days in the bunkers at Wolf’s Lair. […] Hitler lived in this tomb, he worked and slept there. “It seemed as if the seven-meter-thick concrete walls that surrounded him figuratively, separated him from the outside world and imprisoned him in his madness,” said Polubinski. …where Hitler, his generals and marshals not only planned campaigns but also discussed the genocide of the Jews in detail.

Here’s a map of the connections and communications, which used the broken Lorenz encryption system (when they weren’t using Siemens).

The highest and most sensitive Nazi communication ran on Lorenz, a cipher machine broken so badly that Allied intelligence built a 1943 map of the entire command structure heirarchy. Source: GCHQ

On the very far left is Rommel’s HQ (Army Group B), for example, which communicated through layers to Army HQ in the center-right.

The British labeled Lorenz machine communication channels as “fish”, which you can see here in detail.

Decryption of the Nazi Army leadership allegedly was like shooting “fish” in a barrel.

After the war the Polish turned the Nazi HQ buildings at the heart of this map into a strangely “grotesque Disneyland” where locals would admire the concrete, fire toy German guns and play… things you rarely hear about.

All food for thought to those who ask me 1) can Putin avoid assassination and 2) when will he quit. The bigger question is how many generations will be lost for each month his delusions run in front of watchful eyes.

It’s no coincidence the extremist militant criminal partner of the Russian Army has been genocidally kidnapping children from occupied territory for indoctrination and servitude, after naming itself for the infamous Nazi “Wagner“.

…Wagner was the deputy commandant of the Sobibor extermination camp in eastern Poland. It was not a conventional concentration camp, because there was no work for those who arrived.

Sobibor was a killing center. Its production line was as sophisticated as a complex modern factory. In just 15 months, 250,000 men, women and children stepped off the train in the morning, were gassed by lunchtime and their corpses burnt before dawn the next day. By then their luggage had been sorted and packed for shipment to Germany. […]

He didn’t kill the same way as the other Germans. He didn’t shoot, he tortured…when he killed he smiled. Murdering was his pleasure — you could see it in his face. He didn’t consider it a duty, it was more his private matter.

Russia’s Wagner has always been a private criminal matter of ethnic cleansing by design and name, not like a duty-bound Army. It’s all in the communications with Putin, which someday may be exposed.

Basically the Nazi children (Hitler jugend) were indoctrinated with fear and hate. Then they were forced into the unjust war their fathers already had lost, told they would be killed if they refused or surrendered.

If you didn’t know, now you do.

Delays in stopping a dictatorship’s known war crimes and ignoring ethnic cleansing has a clear precedent.

Russian Men Use Women As Shelter From Putin

More and more I’ve seen evidence of Russian women stepping into power as Putin loses his grip.

Women in Russia make up a rising proportion of those being detained in protests against President Vladimir Putin’s mobilisation for the war in Ukraine, data show, as many Russian men fear being sent to the frontlines if they demonstrate.

That helps explains the decades of Putin undermining women, as if he knew his abject cruelty would never last if more women had a say. His completely botched invasion of Ukraine, impossible to cover up, has highlighted the problem.

The following story is a perfect example.

The BBC tries to report with a straight face that a hardy young Russian man has gone “off-grid” during winter to save himself from serving in Putin’s suicide squads.

Someone literally titled this “Ukraine war: Hiding from Putin’s call-up by living off-grid in a freezing forest

“Leaving would have been a difficult step out of my comfort zone,” Kalinin, who is in his thirties, told the BBC. “It isn’t exactly comfortable here either but nevertheless, psychologically, it would be really hard to leave.” And so he took the unusual step of saying goodbye to his wife and heading for the forest, where he has lived in a tent for nearly four months. He uses an antenna tied to a tree for internet access and solar panels for energy.

Man, that sounds sort of rough, although not really off the grid… and then you get to the giant buried BBC lede.

He has endured temperatures as low as -11C (12F) and exists on food supplies brought to him regularly by his wife.

Giant record scratch.

Hold on…

You’re telling me a Russian guy focused on staying comfortable is hanging out in a forest tent with Internet while his wife preps meals for him?

That? That is “hiding” and “off grid”? If I read that again it almost sounds like he is complaining about his wife’s cooking. “Hey, how about some more fruit?!”

Dear BBC that is called a remote man cave, garden, or even a basement and pretty much the opposite of getting off-grid.

He could be sitting in his backyard for this story, a really really big backyard. We can’t be sure. But he’s clearly still very connected while being barely hidden.

I won’t get into the obvious security issues here as much as stick to the main point: his primary line of defense against authority is to have his wife open the front door while he sits outside a back one.

That inversion of Russia says a lot, especially with a dictatorship that has been furiously trying for decades to block women from having any authority at all.

The story title really should have credited her more, and the bulk of the story should have been about her rise into prominence and power.

More Russian Soldiers Have Died Invading Ukraine Than Americans Died in WWI

WWI Russian Sister of Mercy. Source: Klimbim

I’ve seen several people make comparison between current Russian military tactics and WWI. Here’s a new one.

Waves of young under-equipped Russian soldiers were driven to their death in barren battlefields devoid of life or purpose.

…the total number of deaths since February 24, when Russia launched its invasion, [increased] to 116,950. If these figures are accurate, Russia has now lost more troops in Ukraine than the U.S. lost during its involvement in World War I.

Three differences.

One: America in WWI saw a casualty rate of approximately 10%, and many of its dead were not from combat (e.g. disease). Russia at the same time, however, recorded a whopping 1,700,000 dead and a casualty rate closer to 80%. That alone should put any American perspective in different context.

Two: The article goes on to say that Russian propaganda today blames all deaths on the soldiers themselves, or their targets. There’s no discussion allowed in Russia of its leaders failing at invasion, because there is only lies about defending something, anything. That really changes the framing for dying in a war. Ethnic cleansing and genocide of Ukrainians has been couched in bogus language of “defense”, which intends to mobilize every Russian into dying starved and alone in a muddy trench.

Three: Many Russian casualties are from shooting each other to achieve some criminal form of power, avoid accountability, and force direction… within a flaccid masculinity system that runs on graft and corruption. Russian cemeteries quickly are filling up today from a 20th century suicidal grind, by design.

Those three big points make it hard to say the historic American WWI experience or perspective, let alone 100K dead, are going to motivate anyone in Russia to listen. It’s perhaps safe to say instead that Russia is engaged in antiquated/primitive strategies of mass mobilization, leaning on heavy artillery and human waves of frontal assaults to reduce target areas into rubble without any meaningful gains (huge waste, which leads to weakness and then destabilization). That’s the better comparison to WWI.

Update January 25: Estimates for Russian soldiers killed are already much higher, closer to 200K.

Tesla Crashes Now Being Reported as Suicidal Drivers


Source: VVNG

I couldn’t help but notice local news wrote their headline with a clearly suicidal tone: “Driver takes his own life in BVR Tesla crash

A 26-year-old man has been killed in a crash on Bear Valley Road. Victorville Police say the man, who was driving a 2015 Tesla Model S, slammed into the back of a semi-truck. The accident occurred in the slow lane, going westbound toward the 15 Freeway.

Who in the slow lane is prepared for any Tesla to slam into them at 100MPH like a VBIED?

Or should I ask this another way… is there a better explanation than suicide for why someone would still be driving a Tesla, after so many have slammed at high speed into the back of a truck?

Sheriff’s spokeswoman Tricia Blake told VVNG that based on recent statements made by the victim, his last conversations, and the evidence at the scene the deputy and coroner investigator determined it to be intentional. […] The coroner’s office recorded Vieira’s cause of death as suicide on a city street.

Driving into a truck is definitely a uniquely Tesla designed way to die.

  • 2016: Tesla Autopilot slammed at high speed into back of truck
  • 2016: Tesla Autopilot slammed high speed into side of truck
  • 2018: Tesla Autopilot slammed into the back of a truck
  • 2019: Tesla Autopilot slammed into a semi truck
  • 2019: Tesla Autopilot slammed into side of truck
  • 2020: Horrifying moment Tesla crashes into truck
  • 2021: Tesla slammed into back of bus
  • 2021: Tesla slammed into back of another truck
  • 2021: Tesla slammed into back of yet another truck
  • 2021: Tesla slammed into side of truck… again
  • 2022: Tesla slams into rear of a parked semi truck
  • 2022: Mother drives Tesla into truck, killing herself and three children

And I’m saying all this as someone who has spent decades researching vehicular suicide investigations and theory (including of course the 1930s Tatra T87).

It raises the serious question of whether mentally disturbed — angry, violent, hateful — people are being lured by “free speed extremist” branding to cause damage to themselves and society. Witnesses said there were no brakes applied, which is exactly what I was writing about recently here and here… and here.

…ethics questions of whether and when it’s justified to shoot at Teslas.

Or, perhaps even more importantly, a Kamikaze news story is why I’ve been warning since at least 2016 that any Tesla should be considered a loitering munition.

Update January 23: Police in Florida investigating multiple crashes describe Tesla as a catastrophic threat.

This is our third catastrophic crash with Teslas in just the last couple weeks,” Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said Saturday. “We’re seeing an overall pattern here in Martin County of more aggressive driving, greater speeds and just a general cavalier sense towards their fellow motorists’ safety.”

The third crash Snyder is referring to was a Tesla driver intentionally running a red light, which I’ve also written about before.