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What a guy. WHAT. A. GUY.

Saints do indeed come in all shapes and sizes. Mr Winton is a true, living example -- of the most humble and decent kind: a silent, "Let's just get on with it now" sort of philanthrope.

Praise him, and God, Who made him so very, very well.

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there were a few who tried to bring as many children out of Germany and other dangerous places to England and to Canada, Winton was one of them. The Windermere Children is another of these stories.

Wilfrid Israel is another and his story has been much overlooked. His family owned a department store in Berlin which was an entire city block, it was like the Macy's or Bloomindale's or Selfridge's of its time. He was able to save around 1,000 Jewish children.

On June 1 1943, the English actor Leslie Howard, whom you would know as Ashley in Gone With The Wind, and The Scarlet Pimpernel, among many other famous roles, he and his family left Hollywood and returned to England in Sept 1939, giving up a lucrative contract from David O. Selznick.

He was Jewish of Hungarian descent.

The BBC gave him a radio show to combat the propaganda of Goebbels.

In the spring of 1943 he was sent as a "Goodwill Ambassador" to Spain and Portugal but really was a spy for the British govt, being fluent in German and French. I know all this because I wrote a screenplay about it.

On June 1, 1943, Leslie and 12 other passengers boarded a DC3 which was among several which had escaped the bombing of Rotterdam earlier in the war. It was flown as a commercial aircraft with diplomatic immunity and a hands off attitude by the Germans.

However, it was blown to bits over the Bay of Biscay en route from Lisbon to England. Wilfrid Israel was one of the passengers on that plane. The loss of these two men is immeasurable due to the work they were doing.

I had help piecing together this story from interesting sources including the late Sir Martin Gilbert, who himself was sent to Canada with his brother from England during the war. He was the official historian for the Winston Churchill archives. His family came from the same town in Poland as my paternal grandfather's family, and I met him once in Toronto in 2002 when he came there as part of a book tour.

Then California Senator Barbara Boxer, whom I now know is part of the deep state, had someone from her staff go to the National Archives where the manifest and other documents relating to the crash were stored. There were children on board as well. I researched all the passengers but the only ones who stood out were Leslie and Wilfrid.

The question is why did the Luftwaffe suddenly appear and shoot down the plane? Who gave the orders, who told them where the plane was, and who was/were the target(s)?

I believe Winston Churchill was behind it. The question is why would he do such a terrible thing?

He did many terrible things throughout his career and lifetime.

I still hope to get the answers someday.

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Wow, fascinating. Our heroes are falling off their pedestals one by one. New ones arise…I never knew that about Leslie Howard. Thanks for your comment, so enlightening.

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2nd video "not available in" my country. (Canada?)

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Try installing the Opera browser and turn on its built-in VPN. By default, it will make it look like you are in Oslo, Norway, but if you can't get it from there, set your location to somewhere in the US, and it should play for you!

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Same in Australia. The message of s the “uploaded” has made it unavailable and n your country

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Thrilled to hear you mention Nicholas Winton. A close friend discovered when she herself was a grandmother that her Jewish father was saved by Winton when he was six years old. She was raised Anglican and never knew her father was Jewish. Her grandmother died of Typhoid in the camps, but her grandfather survived. My friend returned to Prague with a book where the family’s art collection was authenticated and tracked down some of what the Nazi’s had stolen. She had an amazing story to tell.

The video is not showing up in Canada, but Winston was a true hero of the day!

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Bless your heart Sir , you are a hero to many children, and their families etc .... ✡️ may you be Blessed

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GOD BLESS SIR WINTON = HERO

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Roosevelt was guilty of not lifting a finger to help these victims

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LMAO are you kidding he sent our best Aryan men to slaughter their best Aryan men based on lies by the children of the Beast - perpetrators of communism and ALL THE WARS! Khazarian Luciferian crime syndicate still peddling their lyin so stories to the gullible goys.

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The US was absolutely hostile at saving people. It was just another example of the core callousness of this country. Any country that thought a major industry based on kidnapping people and selling them as chattel property, and it was a founding experience that defined this country, is not one with a heart. And that is core to the history of this country. It has no pause for thought at causing impovrishment in other nations and then abusing them when they come here for survival.

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As bad as it's been now and then and certainly is today, it could still be a helluva lot worse.

Try Nicaragua or Venezuela, if you're that picky and choosey. And, if you like it in either place, well, you'll just love Cuba.

Just feel free to leave if you'd like. And, hey, you know what? That's essentially the point -- at least for the time being and the somewhat foreseeable future. if the original Blessing lasts as wished through 2024.

Maybe you wanna stay instead and help out in the fight to preserve the liberty worth keeping, and even restoring? We could use your passionate nature, and probably much more.

Difference matters in our heritage-based kind of unity, an E Pluribus Unum. Become a true American, you might just learn to love it

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Holohoax - the perps paint themselves as victims, incessantly! holohoax101.org

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I forgot to mention the late Bob Simon was an excellent reporter and journalist.

He was investigating something quite serious, I can't recall what at the moment, when he was killed in a strange accident on the West Side Highway in Manhattan, it was a car service, not a taxi, nor his own car that was being driven, and crashed.

It always seemed suspicious to me.

Bob was one of a number of Brandeis University alums who worked at "60 Minutes" for many years (my alma mater).

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I can't even imagine

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