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I wonder how many of us could walk upright in that tunnel.  Granted, they don't show a scale, but I just get the impression somehow that it isn't very high.  Making those pyramids was FAR more complex than just laying blocks on blocks.

One can almost be forgiven thinking that space aliens had a hand in building them. That is a lot of rock to carve, move, and set in place…and with a fair amount of precision.

And although there were prior pyramids whose failures and flaws they could learn from, there was no real track record to go by, and certainly no computer modeling for testing concepts. But they must have tested things (one presumes) in some way before they went to the finished product. It’s a real shame almost nothing exists that shows how they were constructed.

They obviously had some very solid theory because they were successful. But when there has not been a long string of engineering evolution before you to learn from, it’s like building the Brooklyn Bridge having only ever managed a goat path across a creek before that.

The Democrats can't count vote in a small-state election. But these Egyptians more or less built the space shuttle first try and it worked.

There was an interesting documentary on Curiosity Stream (a documentary subscription channel) titled Hitler’s Gold.

The perspective of the documentary is “Who financed Hitler?” My one criticism is that you’re never going to find a series titled “Who Financed Stalin?” or “Who Financed Mao?” on these channels. So it’s basically taking all the hate at “fascists” and throwing it at Hitler and his regime.

And they are, of course, deserving of that and more. But I’m just saying that I’m sure these same libtard commentators who despise Hitler have little criticism for Mao or Stalin.

That said, the documentary is fairly detailed and mostly delivers on its promise of cataloging the financial aspects of The Third Reich. Clearly they understand that Nazism is an ideological movement. But they also recognize that at least part of the whole “Lebensraum” project is that they simply needed the plunder to keep financing their very expensive military machine.

And as much as we should scorn IBM, Ford, and other America companies for collaborating with the Nazis, will these same documentarians make a film about how the Western press, in particular, were in love with Stalin and willingly mislead by his propaganda?

Most of you already realize this and have this awareness as a backdrop. What I found particularly interesting (assuming the documentary provides a truthful account) is how most Nazis got off Scot free despite the show trials at Nuremberg. If it were me, I would have, day one, put all those who had served in the SS up against the wall and dispatched them.

But most Nazis got no or light sentences. And the documentary was either incomplete or just plain dishonest regarding why. I think the big “why” is that the Allies needed to get Germany up and running, if only as a hedge against Stalin.

And this isn’t about “Hitler’s Gold,” per se. As one supposed expert said, if you’re looking for Hitler’s gold, it’s most likely underneath the streets of Switzerland (meaning, in the vaults of a Swiss bank).

The one disappointing aspect in this series, despite all the talk of bankers and where the funds came from, is that there is almost no perspective on the amounts in relation to the whole. How much was the Nazi Party funded by its members and how much by bankers? How much did The Third Reich actually depending upon looting from other countries, including what they stole from the Jews that they murdered? There is no perspective. Perhaps they just don’t have these numbers. Even so, no attempt is made to give an overall picture, even if to say that they don't know.

The documentary supposes there is still a lot of loot out there (particularly art) in the hands of private collectors. And they go out of their way to suggest that most stories of Nazi gold caches are just myth. But it’s interesting that I ran across a current story: Hunt for 48 crates of Hitler’s gold worth $900 million hidden in Polish palace.

Myth or legend, the hunt goes on.