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March 31, 2002

Steven Plaut

This Just In!!


News Flash!!

This just in. Israel’s government is about to finance the production in Hollywood of a new World War II make pretend "what-if" film classic. A number of prominet Israelis are even expected to play roles in the film. In the script for this film, Harvard University historians uncover an amazing document from the year 1943. The rest of the film is an interpretive recreation of those astounding events.

According to the film, in 1943 and months before D-Day, Allied military units managed to catch Hitler by surprise while he was in the Nazi headquarters in Normandy meeting with a handful of senior Nazi officials planning Gestapo atrocities. They surrounded his headquarters with tanks and blasted open holes in the sides of the small fortress. After Mirandizing and arresting the small contingent of SS guards, the troops commanded by Patton leave Hitler in a second story two-room office in the complex. Patton wishes to blow the bastards to Kingdom Come and tells that to Ike.

But the command comes down direct from Washington. Patton is to leave Hitler untouched. He must not fire anywhere into or even near Hitler’s offices. He must provide food and refreshments to the group in the offices. Eva Braun and two German Shepherds are allowed to enter the compound for conjugal visits with the Fuhrer.

Meanwhile, the French take to the streets in protest against Patton and Eisenhower. Paris is clogged with protesters holding banners denouncing Ike as an Assassin. The League of Nations meets in emergency session and denounces American aggression. It demands that the American end their illegal occupation of Sicily and southern Italy at once. Mussolini hosts a session of the Fascist League in which the Saudi Arabians offer a peace plan.

Roosevelt gives a fireside chat and urges Hitler to take steps to rein in the commanders who invaded Poland and Czechoslovakia and to arrest all those who are firing buzz bombs at London. Hitler claims there is nothing he can do to control the commanders of the concentration camps because the Allies are interfering with his attempts to impose law and order on the Continent.

Campuses around the world are filled with protesters showing solidarity with the German victims of the US aggression in Normandy. Adolf is my friend, shout poets and authors. Leftist professors make pilgrimage to visit the trapped Fuhrer in the compound and together they sing We Shall Overcome.

Hitler’s electricity is left on and Patton is ordered to do nothing to interfere with his satellite broadcasts. Hitler calls on the world to help him achieve a Peace of the Brave by forcing Patton’s troops to go back to Biloxi. The Japanese bomb Pearl harbor a second time to show their solidarity with the human rights of the Germans.

Roosevelt is convinced. It is important to take chances for peace. He agrees to release Hitler and the SS officers trapped in the compound. They are sent back to Berlin where they will be given a new chance to prove their commitment to the peace process.

The original film ended with massive nuclear explosions over US cities, but the Israeli governmental financiers of the film decided that should be edited out as they wanted it to be a family film.

Steven Plaut
University of Haifa


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