The story that I posted yesterday is something that I dredged from the depths of my old graduate work, and it is from a time stream that our intellectual community here considers a curiosity, but a solved one.
I imagine, though, that it's something new to all of you and so I will give it at least a little more attention. One of the first works I translated, actually, was a release from the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), shortly after the moon mission that is featured in yesterday's story.
I must mention, however, that I do not in any way wish to glorify the Reich of that or any other time stream. I have yet to find a time stream where they were led by anything other than genocidal megalomaniacs, and I doubt I will ever find such a place. Across the many time streams, there are many variations. Hitler's evil is not something that changes much, though the targets of his madness do change. He and his compatriots were deeply troubled men.
Still, below, you will find something as deeply chilling as any of his works in your time stream. Be glad your lives were spared the menace of an enduring Nazi German Empire:
A PROCLAMATION
TO THE VARIOUS PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
FROM JOSEPH GOEBBELS
MINISTER FOR PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT
ON THIS MOMENTOUS OCCASION
8 NOVEMBER 1963
PEOPLE OF GREATER GERMANY AND THE WORLD AT LARGE, The Reich has this day spread its glory to the very heavens. As part of the greater mission to spread the enlightenment of NSDAP's vision for the planet, the successful Ministry for Wunderwaffen mission to Earth's Moon has just been completed.
NO MISSION LIKE THIS was ever attempted before. FOR THE GLORY OF THE THOUSAND YEAR REICH, we have TURNED THE VERY SKY into the flag of our Great Empire. Our Allies, the Great and Noble Empire of Japan, claim the Rising Sun as their emblem, and so at each sunrise, we see their red sun on its field of white. Now, all people of Earth can see the great symbol of the Reich at both dawn and dusk: The Swastika of the Aryan People, in a white circle, on the orange background of the sky. It is our gift to the world.
TO THE VARIOUS PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
FROM JOSEPH GOEBBELS
MINISTER FOR PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT
ON THIS MOMENTOUS OCCASION
8 NOVEMBER 1963
PEOPLE OF GREATER GERMANY AND THE WORLD AT LARGE, The Reich has this day spread its glory to the very heavens. As part of the greater mission to spread the enlightenment of NSDAP's vision for the planet, the successful Ministry for Wunderwaffen mission to Earth's Moon has just been completed.
NO MISSION LIKE THIS was ever attempted before. FOR THE GLORY OF THE THOUSAND YEAR REICH, we have TURNED THE VERY SKY into the flag of our Great Empire. Our Allies, the Great and Noble Empire of Japan, claim the Rising Sun as their emblem, and so at each sunrise, we see their red sun on its field of white. Now, all people of Earth can see the great symbol of the Reich at both dawn and dusk: The Swastika of the Aryan People, in a white circle, on the orange background of the sky. It is our gift to the world.
...And so you can imagine why Major Lovell, in my story, would be so terrified to bring a child into the world. The very sky of his time stream flies a Nazi flag.
Always,
Dr. John Skylar
Chairman
Department of Anachronism
University of Constantinople
Always,
Dr. John Skylar
Chairman
Department of Anachronism
University of Constantinople
The formatting on this will not work correctly, but you get the idea.
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