WATCH: The Hike That Killed Five Schoolboys
In Ignorance of the Facts, Most People Remember Only the Myth
In April 1936, the bodies of five English schoolboys were found half-buried in the snow in the German Black Forest. The truth behind this appalling tragedy quickly became lost in a dense matrix of popular mythology and political expediency. It would take 80 years and the persistence of two men to reveal the simple but shocking facts.
In the post-covid, ‘post-reality’ age, we all need to remind ourselves of the fragility of our collective grip on truth. How quickly we can all willingly let go once a falsehood presents itself that flatters us or our prejudices. How easily we become invested in building complex fantasies of collective experience.
This film doesn’t just tell a shocking story of its own time, it reminds us that Truth has always been a minority interest, and that pursuing it can be hard and thankless work – but probably the most important thing any of us can ever do.
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Some good did come of this tragedy – at least as far as TPTB would have been concerned.
Five dead meant twelve survivors. Twelve strong, ultra-healthy young men who could be put to very good use in the name of God, King, and Country as soldiers to help fight yet another glorious war.
And Mr. Keast truly was a hero given the only scenario that matters to the ruling aristocracy: he produced twelve outstanding soldiers to help fight the good fight in the upcoming “good” war.
And really, isn’t proving one’s mettle the only worthwhile reason to be among the living?
So, as they say, All’s Well That Ends Well!
“Truth has always been a minority interest, and that pursuing it can be hard and thankless work – but probably the most important thing any of us can ever do.”
Hear! Hear!
I came across a new personality on Youtube to add to Alpha Male: Sigma Male, the oddball who quietly stands on the sidelines, surveying the scene and pursuing the truth.
Truly, lambs led to their slaughter. The leader had to be a psychopath and sadist. Sadly, this reminded me of the spiritual carnage left in the wake of religious leaders – Authoritarianism on parade.
My heart breaks for the father who died never seeing justice. Just enraging.
Seriously…
whoever put this comical ADL funded mockomentry up must have a low opinion of the Off G viewers.
Heartbreaking Doco.
Thank you.
Like the gays, lesbians and feminists, the ecoloons discover their place in the pecking order. No, you’re not allowed to disrupt the annual occultist meetup at Burning Man!
Not entirely sure how that fits into the big scheme of things, but would that be like the ‘Wicker Man’?
The Protesters are trying to save you and our planet from extinction, and then the police arrive with their brutal police violence.
This shows clearly we live in a police state, and not a democracy.
Your post is a good demonstration of this tragic story about people who put their self interest first, and costs people their lives. I hope you do not know what you do.
It was a sarcastic comment to the hypocrisy on the left.
The Father… may his soul rest in peace now that the truth is known.
I expected this story to venture off into being the cause of WWII or something like that.
I don’t know.
I find the drawing of a parallel between a few boys falling victim to a bad leader and the Covid scam weak. Not anything like the Mass Formation Psychosis discussions.
It was interesting how I personally perceived the old story in the same way I have perceived other old investigative stories from the same time period.
I felt nothing. No connection. No empathy. Slight interest at best.
Just another old insignificant tale that has surpassed the statute of limitations.
Sorry.
It made an impression to me. Its a sad story. Five small boys with summer clothes frozen to death in a snow storm is a sad sad story. Its close to be a too sad story
The father of one of the boys lost not only his son but all his family and ended up in a psychiatric hospital because he knew it was murder and wanted justice for his son.
The few good guys who did their job and found the factual circumstances, had all their evidences and approaches frozen in the political shit game.
The incompetent psycho who did the crime went through it all untouched and were protected by the middle class sheeple to his death.
First hereafter it became secure to open the file and reveal the true story. Keyword: Ignorance.
I agree with Off-G its an important story. We owe. We owe our past, and we owe those people who suffered from injustice, to be remembered.
You don’t see any parallel with Covid and vaccines?
Only 1 parent of the whole group tried to investigate even though their children either died or almost died?
Willing to believe the Authorities and Newspapers against their common sense and even though their children were placed in mortal danger?
No bells ringing for you?
No bells ringing here. There being little to investigate.
‘They’ (both teacher and pupils) took, what is commonly known in the trade as a ‘risk’. It simply went awry. Later becomes a political football, but so what.
Covid policy consists of taking zero risk. Staying at home cowering in fear of the irrational unknown. ‘Living’, by contrast, consists of taking a (rational) risk.
So yes these (snow blizzard) guys take a risk. It didn’t work out in their particular case, but in other scenarios such risks do work out. From which humankind generally benefits from discoveries, increased knowledge etc.
More importantly, the video is overtly linguistically manipulative. I do hope that you were sensitive to that
I don’t believe the story, I guess. Too much suspension of disbelief was required to get through it. The absence of parents demanding justice was part of it. The ignorance. The stupidity. The impossibility. Trudging through waist deep snow with bare skin for 5 minutes without water would be enough to kill you. So no, It is fiction as far as I am concerned. They must have been eating snow. Sweating profusely from the hard labor would have accelerated the process of hypothermia. And if they ate the snow….. The extreme exhaustion. I have personally experienced, as a boy, what it is like to trudge through deep snow on flat ground in winter clothing. Only a few minutes into the event you are sweating profusely and totally exhausted to the point where you start looking around to see if anyone is within earshot in case you can’t make it. My… Read more »
There are layer upon layer of falsehood, deflection and apparent revelation. — Cui Bono? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono In English “to whom is it a benefit?”, is a Latin phrase about identifying crime suspects. It depends on the fact that crimes are often committed to benefit their perpetrators, especially financially. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_League The competition was founded as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of First Division (top-tier league from 1888 until 1992) clubs to break away from the English Football League. . . . The Premier League takes advantage of a lucrative television rights sale to Sky: from 2019 to 2020, accumulated television rights were worth around £3.1 billion a year . . . Clubs were apportioned central payment revenues of £2.4 billion in 2016–17 . . . The Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and… Read more »
Who benefits isn’t necessarily the whole story. Opportunism also plays its role. Hillsborough was a disaster waiting to happen. Terraces (across the country, London included) *were* over-crowded in that era. As anyone who ever stood in them will know. Yet they were exciting. Worth the 3-4 quid for entrance fee. I recall learning survival techniques for one such terrace in maintaining breathing in the event of crowd crushes. Folding arms in front of you being one such useful tip (gleaned from the SAS Survival Manual). Nevertheless, it’s true that football subsequently became a sedate upper-middle-class-TV-or-not experience, with comfy seats, whilst prices quadrupled. And clubs became corporations, whereas previously they had at least some kinda local working class allegiance. So yes, the future wasn’t bright. It actually was Orange (in the Corporate sense). Sheffield Wednesday’s fortunes plummeted post-Hillsborough. Where are they now? From being the erstwhile Premier league club. To even… Read more »
A reply in pending if ever it survives the terraces…
Yeah, that’s right !
You should have the have the ‘linking events’ job at the bbc instead of, what’s his face, that documentary fucker, Adam Curtis.
A few more here could link the dots, but it’s the new soap.
Thanks to somebody who said a few days ago here, they have done the disclosure (duh ! OffG), now time to show, again, how easily they can shift the narrative.
Suck it up.
There’s been other people who spotted it before I did. I think it’s generally left alone because the families have already been through a thirty-year nightmare. Also, I’m not aware of there being any compelling proof and there’s no shortage of other stuff which can be exposed.
In the century prior to 1985, there had been three major, crowd disaster involving UK clubs. Then there were three in four years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_Ibrox_disaster The 1902 Ibrox disaster was the collapse of a stand at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Govan (now part of Glasgow), Scotland. The incident led to the deaths of 25 supporters and injuries to 500 more during an international association football match between Scotland and England on 5 April 1902 as part of the 1901–02 British Home Championship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnden_Park_disaster The Burnden Park disaster was a human crush that occurred on 9 March 1946 at Burnden Park football stadium, then the home of Bolton Wanderers. The crush resulted in the deaths of 33 people and injuries to hundreds of Bolton fans.[1] It was the deadliest stadium-related disaster in British history until the Ibrox Park disaster in 1971. The match, an FA Cup Sixth Round second-leg tie… Read more »
Wikipedia doesn’t have a page for “Disaster Capitalism”. Instead, it redirects to The Shock Doctrine. Consequently, it apparently doesn’t exist as a notable phenomenon outside of Klein’s book. Also, for the Premier League and Sky TV to be recorded as a beneficiary of disaster capitalism, the connection would presumably have to be reported in a “reliable source”. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of “shock therapy”. This centers on the exploitation of national crises (disasters or upheavals) to establish controversial and questionable policies, while citizens are too distracted (emotionally and physically) to engage and develop an adequate response and resist effectively. The book… Read more »
on-guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/sep/10/death-in-the-black-forest-how-a-historical-tragedy-became-a-play-for-today
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”, :-D.
An odd choice, since the quintessential Bigfoot “conspiracy theory” is the disappearance of nine Russian climbers on the Dyatlov Pass in the Urals in 1959.
The condition of their bodies, the tearing of their tent from the inside, and the apparent panic was the source of controversy.
Seems we can’t do Russians in the approved alt media, because, Russians.
Thankfully, the Smithsonian can: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-may-have-finally-unraveled-mystery-dyatlov-pass-incident-180976886/
Bigfoot is perhaps the only thing left that the Alt-Right has not definitively “proven” to be a hoax. Ergo, Bigfoot MUST be real – or the Alt-Right would have said so.
Trump derangement syndrome, better see a psych.
Ultra radical Alt-Left cant take it when Alt-Right is scientifically right.
I think you have commented without watching the video – which has absolutely nothing to do with Bigfoot. Rather than lurking and sniping because I told you off yesterday why not give the vid a watch – it’s actually pretty interesting and very relevant to our time.
PS – what on earth is Howard on about? 😄
It’s was nice listening for once to our lovely female voice from across the Atlantic Ocean that could well have been my darling sister.
One thing stands out about Alt-Right ideology: Everything that isn’t part of that ideology is automatically a hoax. Since Moneycircus introduced Bigfoot into the discussion, it seemed an appropriate hook on which to make the point about the absurd cult thinking of the Alt-Right.
“Alt-right” is just a mainstream media designation for literally any opinion, group, website, video game, social movement not approved by the Establishment. It’s a meaningless propaganda term. Why on earth would you be using it on this site?
Perhaps you haven’t read enough comments? No matter how much data someone out of step with certain ideas regarding hoaxes might present, the downvotes tell the tale.
Conversely, no matter how little data someone in step with these ideas presents, the upvotes tell that tale.
A large portion of your readers (as represented by this forum) already KNOW everything they need to know. They need not trouble themselves with further research.
Yet this site swoons over the concept of “Critical Thinking.” I would not call a one sentence statement of what purports to be absolute fact “Critical Thinking.”
You may well be correct in your summary, however the point is that by using the term “alt-right” to describe some generic collective attributes you don’t like you are employing a mainstream propaganda term that has no real world definition beyond being vaguely “other”.
Think about it for a moment, what is either “alt” or “right” about any of the things you just described? Let’s avoid such loaded and meaningless verbiage here.
Telford Taylor, prosecuting counsel, argued that: “In the sterilization experiments conducted by the defendants at Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, and other concentration camps, the destructive nature of the Nazi medical program comes out most forcibly.” “The Nazis were searching for methods of extermination, both by murder and sterilization, of large population groups by the most scientific and least conspicuous means.” Ideology. The ideology that some human beings are of a better race than others, or some human beings are inferior as useless eaters. A little out of range with the article, but an association from it, til today’s depopulation campaign. We could agree some people seems to only act as suckers and could provide the thought of why they are taking up space here from more contributing and intelligent people. But the problem is those who have these thoughts and want to erase others, are not and have not shown themselves capable of making this judgement. Saying idiots wants to… Read more »
Erik….Parties involvement not the blank whomever we witness on tv for Tom Dick Harry. Btw on that my dad ex. RAF would say ..” In Bank”. although he was never in one under the Luftwaffe…I know it’s a movie but still also remember the ’63 film. It’s also a good one for childern imo, the escape into the beautiful Countryside…
Snip it..remembering Pop…mum was Dot.
Cheers
Priorities
We have just lost at least 30 million to the clot shot.The neocons are up to no good in Eastern Europe. I personally would have thought there would be hundreds of stories more relevant than this distant and relatively insignificant tragedy.
And you can find hundreds of sites covering all that stuff – go to one of them to scratch your itch. You don’t really have any reason or right to demand we automatically adopt YOUR value system for what’s “relevant” do you.
Do tell more.
I suppose that if PM had put up a comment about Hitler bumming little boys, you would have left that up, wouldn’t you.
Based on the behavior of elites / banker boss puppets, he probably did.
With Churchill, it is real history.
If what you say is truth, in your world, then share a link that shows how “neocons” are “specifically” doing something in Eastern Europe.
They are all banker boss puppets anyway, and where they come from, at this point, really doesn’t matter.
No one in government power today is a good guy.
Government isn’t going to save you from government.
Covering up the cause of tens of millions killed and maimed would be good enough for me. How about you? I hate providing links myself and rarely do. Isn’t he just stating the obvious which, nowadays, is easy to do without having to provide documentation? Frustration is everywhere. Oddly, you do the exact same thing. Come on man…………
NEOCONS area controlled political party here in the USA. I am not questioning if they are good. They are not good.
I am questioning why a political faction would be up to no good in Eastern Europe when they are just puppets, as I understand the situation, of those that are mucking about in Eastern Europe.
It is akin to saying that the Zulu Tribe High Council is stirring up trouble in Detroit Michigan USA. On its face it sounds absurd, however I am not discounting the possibility it is true, given some context.
If we are going to be a truth movement, then we have to deal in truth, and not speculation driven by bias or inaccurate assertions.
I am with you. Does not sound like the Joe Biden news made it’s way to your home town yet.
Biden is asking Congress to fund a “brand new” Covid jab. And the Freudian slip: A vaccine that works. Biden indirectly admitted that the current jabs don’t work.
Mind blowing. And no one in the media (including the alt media) picked up on it.
A huge opening for a knock out blow and no one took it.
It’s all relevant, as it shows just how much tragedy and fraud is covered up if politics is involved, then and now.
Personally, I would welcome a deeper investigation here into what’s just happened in Maui. Those “wildfires” look mighty suspicious.
Weird isn’t it. Police closed the only evacuation route to “protect” residents from getting electrocuted by downed power lines as they were being cremated alive. At least a thousand people. Many were burned to ash.
30 million..? died from clotshot…. where is this figure from.?
Projections from VAERS data should fill in that mind gap for you. VAERS (Co-managed by the FDA and CDC) reporting was shut down this week. Imagine that. Fifty thousand actual reports of deaths by clot shot. By their own statistics, VAERS only captures about 1% of the actual adverse events. Move the decimal 2 places to the right and what do you get? Basic math. And 50K stands on its own. Typically, only 50 deaths from a new vaccine would force a review and the withdrawl of the new vaccine. 30 million is likely a conservative estimate. The real question is this: Why are we still questioning how deadly the vaccines are? It would make sense if you were one of those developing the next phase of mRNA clot shots.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/28/watch-covid-vaccines-and-all-cause-mortality/#comment-598711
I am reminded of the death of Scott and his chums, freezing to death on Antarctica some 25 years before the tragic and avoidable deaths featured in the video. As well as poor decisions and equipment problems, Scott and his team suffered from an unshakable belief that they were…well, how to characterise this? Perhaps a combination of powerful self belief, inability to conceive of or plan for failure, an “Empire builder” mentality with a bit of sadism and masochism in the mix and a belief that their suffering had value to others.
Keast was probably a sadist and may have derived pleasure from the suffering of the boys.
Many are attracted to the sweet feeling of Fame and Spotlights.
Indeed, the ‘Great White Silence’. ‘Moby Dick’ perhaps a forerunner and ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ a post-runner
That teacher, Keast, probably qualified as a psychopath – no empathy for his skimpily-dressed charge and lying through his teeth to make him look heroic.
The true hero of the story was that one parent who did his utmost to get at the truth and have Keast pay for his abuse of office. Sadly, to no avail.
The political exploitation of this tragedy by the Hitler regime and the British government, with the help of the weaselly mainstream media, as always, is just appalling. But today we know better than to believe the MSM or the government, don’t we?
Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2023-08-27. mRNA, modRNA, saRNA, etc- high risk, no idea what we are doing. Practice full of jab injuries, not free to talk (blog, gab, tweet).
I learned about this episode about 10 years ago when I stumbled across the Nazi memorial on the Schauinsland.
I was aware that the Nazis made a meal out it for propaganda purposes, and that the teacher got away with it.
This documentary does an excellent job of presenting the facts, pretty much as I understood them.
Credit is due to the German researcher who brought them to the light of day.
There is a case where we might have a chance to get the justice it derseve in time – not just 75 years later: The Wakefield Case: Where is The Real Fraud? – Massimo Mazzucco https://www.medicdebate.org/node/2710 — To it: The data is clear: the more vaccines you give your child, the more likely it is that they will develop chronic diseases including autism https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-data-is-clear-the-more-vaccines 31.05.2023 – Steve Kirsch — If vaccines don’t cause autism, then how do you explain all this evidence? https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/if-vaccines-dont-cause-autism-then 17.06.2023 — And The more early childhood vaccines, the higher the infant death rate https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-more-early-childhood-vaccines STEVE KIRSCH – July 31, 2023 … related to: Jikkyleaks *) https://twitter.com/Jikkyleaks/status/1685468279077244930 … and this article: Neonatal, Infant, and Under Age Five Vaccine Doses Routinely Given in Developed Nations and Their Association With Mortality Rates https://www.cureus.com/articles/164423-neonatal-infant-and-under-age-five-vaccine-doses-routinely-given-in-developed-nations-and-their-association-with-mortality-rates#!/ Miller N Z, Goldman G S (July 20, 2023) Neonatal, Infant, and Under Age Five Vaccine… Read more »
Thanks, the rise of autism was known in the UK in the nineties sorry I dont have any links.
Great newsletter. I go out of my way to follow Kirsch.
However, The Black Forest story, as I have already stated, is old. The psychology connection of this story and the Covid scam is weak.
The longer the story dragged on the more uninteresting it became.
My suspension of disbelief failed early on.
Well done.
Wakefield was a good man. Good men have to be taken out one way or the other.
Its becoming more and more obvious how corrupt this world really is. To control everything you need to control the money. The deep state is the banks. There is no government, no monarch, no media, no science, its all controlled by the Banks/Crown. Government is the illusion of democracy. The Monarch the illusion of respectability, The media the illusion of news, the science the illusion of knowledge. Everything that is happening today is being controlled by the banks and their poodle security services and injustice system.
Bank= Dad. Public= Child wanting pocket money
We are in 1936 – again…
We know what’s coming
Not believing it’s gonna happen
We know we’re right
We hope we’re wrong…
We dont know how to mount any resistance
The Enemy is a moving target
Shadowed by fear
Even denialism refuses us refuge…
We are in 1936 – again…
We in a US docudrama 1923.
But this time we know the enemy and they are not on foreign shores.
I would guess that many people will get stuck in pending with this one, as in a snow blizzard. As, unpredictable weather, so unpredictable trigger words.
And if so, then who might we be to judge?
Have you even watched the video? This tard was warned multiple times not to proceed and did it anyway. There is negligent and then there’s reckless.
I did… but weather forecasts rarely correspond to reality. Looking out the window, at the sky, is generally the better option as to whether to take an umbrella/raincoat.
Can someone really be blamed for that rare occasion when such a forecast does prove accurate?
Boys will be boys. Men will be men. Men take risks. Men teach boys how to take risks. Occasionally that schema goes awry. Nevertheless, it’s the essence of life.
Staying at home and cowering in the fear of Covid would be the alternative. And who would die satisfied, having adhered to that?
Seeking truth, is like seeking to become egoless. As soon as you think you are egoless, you are not. Many times, we think we know the truth, only to discover another truth, that alters the pervious truth. We don’t know, what we don’t know. Don’t allow yourself to be pulled in by the next “viral” subject. If it is viral, it is most likely because TPTB want it to be viral. Don’t allow yourself to be dragged through unverifiable details. While details matter, not all details matter. You don’t have to be first. When something important happens and you want to share it, wait a few days or a week, and allow the relevant details to reveal themselves. This way you can’t get sucked into meaningless or unverified details. It is ok to listen to people that mix truth with not truth or speculation. Take in the good and throw… Read more »
I think the point is to make the jobs of doctors, teachers, police so exhausting and dysfunctional that most quit, allowing them to implement their Hegelian “solution” to replace them with AI, another boardroom model that only works in theory.
Well said.
The ego is simply a fact.
It’s what we do with it that counts.
There’s no such thing as ‘egoless’, unless you’re a vegetable.
Could it be said that Keast and the media were misled by the sunk cost fallacy? It’s probably too indulgent, since he seems to have been a piece of work and they are very tolerant of lies.
Poor Eaton père, he succumbed to gaslighting.
The boys were jabbed before they started to hike. The British government denied everything, refused to talk about the vaxx and pointed at the clima change in the area.
After 80 years of research an archive report from the British government showed that the government had known all about the jab. The boys were jabbed before they took on to Germany.
This story shows that SADS can happen to everybody, and that the most important thing is the truth.