The Worker's Dead End

Practiced some new music this morning. My playing comes so naturally to me that I feel no need to practice it. But it is important to note that I make the guitar sound with my thumb and with the ends of my fingers. Remember how that band had to sample it, so they could pretend to have my warm sound with their picks? I wonder if there's even a GarageBand sound made out of it by now. I wrote that 2012 parody A Plane is Born out of an old propaganda reel from World War 2 called the Worker's Weekend about a zealous team of assemblers at a bomber plant, sacrificing their time off to break the record for the fastest production of a Wellington bomber. Something I read in my current library loan, Oxford Professor Nicholas Stargardt's The German War, got me cross referencing with it. When I heard the film's narrator say that 'the workers have donated their bonus money to the Red Cross Relief for Russia campaign' I had to laugh. Stalin didn't trust the Red Cross and refused their trucks passage across Soviet lines. So where did that bonus money end up? Someone must have collected it somewhere down the line. I wonder who. Someone got rich, eh? This thought came from reading about the speed of Patton's advance in Stargardt's book. Of course, it speeds up your campaign when your enemy wants to surrender to you. The Germans knew they'd get the best treatment from Americans or, perhaps, Canadians, whose homelands had not been bombed. They expected the Western allies to side with them against the 'Asian hordes.' Besides rejecting the Red Cross, Stalin had refused to sign on to the Geneva Accord that protected prisoners of war, which had made the earlier German assault through Russia in 1941 merciless, and the Red Army determined to exact a most brutal revenge. I like how the author words things, especially in describing the mood swings of the crowd and how they were exploited by the German regime. The fake Polish assault on a German radio station was not authentic enough for world leaders '-and would only be believed by the German public.' Naturally. All the public ever needs is a simple story and a few shots to back it up, as our current broadcasters know well. German anger over the aerial bombing was also spun to fuel the holocaust, according to this source. I never stop learning new things about that war. I didn't know, for instance, that German plumbers fitted women with special pipes to punish prospective rapists. This professor really knows his stuff. Lucky for us, we didn't have to fight that war; we only had to study it.
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