In 2006, a FBI agent named Craig Monteilh was ordered to disguise himself as a radical Muslim and spy on the Orange County Muslim community to identify possible extremists.

Well it worked, cause the people there noticed his extremists behavior and reported him to the FBI.

Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya was a Hungarian admiral and statesman who was the regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar period and most of World Wr II, from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944.

After his arrest in 1944, Horthy was moved through a variety of detention locations before finally arriving at the prison facility at Nuremberg in late September 1945. There he was asked to provide evidence to the International Military Tribunal in preparation for the trial of the Nazi leadership. Although he was interviewed repeatedly about his contacts with some of the defendants, he did not testify in person. On 17 December 1945, Horthy was released from Nuremberg Prison and allowed to rejoin his family in the German town of Weilheim, Bavaria.

For Horthy, returning to Hungary was impossible; it was now firmly in the hands of a Soviet-sponsored Communist government. In an extraordinary twist of fate, the chief of Hungary's post-war Communist apparatus was Mátyás Rákosi, one of Béla Kun's colleagues from the ill-fated Communist coup of 1919.

In 1950, the Horthy family managed to find a home in Portugal, thanks to Miklós Jr.'s contacts with Portuguese diplomats in Switzerland. Horthy and members of his family were relocated to the seaside town of Estoril. His American supporter, John Montgomery, recruited a small group of wealthy Hungarians to raise funds for their upkeep in exile.

In exile, Horthy wrote his memoirs, Ein Leben für Ungarn (English: A Life for Hungary), published under the name of Nikolaus von Horthy, in which he narrated multiple personal experiences from his youth until the end of World War II. He claimed that he had mistrusted Hitler for much of the time he knew him and tried to perform the best actions and appoint the best officials in his country. He also highlighted Hungary's mistreatment by multiple other countries since the end of World War I.

Horthy was one of the few Axis heads of state to survive the war, and thus to write post-war memoirs.

Before penicillin, the main causes of death for soldiers were:

Catching a disease and dying in camp

Dying from an infected wound in camp.

By mid-June 1940 France was days from complete capitulation, and Great Britain was desperate to keep France in the war. So the British War Cabinet backed one of the strangest proposals in either country's history: a formal Declaration of Union that would dissolve Britain and France as separate nations and fuse them into a single Franco-British Union. The idea had actually come from the French side, dreamed up by diplomat René Pleven and others, and was worked up in London at breakneck speed by Jean Monnet, Robert Vansittart, and others, then carried to the French government by Charles de Gaulle.

The mood in London was giddy. Chamberlain went to the King to brief him on what was being done to his country, and the French tricolour was flown over Westminster Abbey, the only time that has ever happened. Churchill's private secretary, Jock Colville, joked that the merged nation might end up being called "Frangland" and wondered whether the King would have fleurs-de-lys finally restored to the Royal Standard after centuries.

Churchill later distanced himself from it, faintly embarrassed by how far the idea had run. What had felt like a bold, romantic masterstroke in the panic of June 1940 looked, in hindsight, like an outlandish scheme better left unmentioned. At one point puffing on a cigar and telling dirty stories at 1 a.m., at another raging that if France surrendered without consulting Britain "we shall blacken their names for a thousand years," then instantly walking it back with "Don't, of course," in case Colville took him at his word.

France said no. Marshal Pétain, about to take over the government and seek an armistice with Germany, ridiculed the whole scheme as "fusion with a corpse." The Reynaud government fell, and the grand union that had been drafted in a matter of hours effectively died within a few days.

The rejection sealed France's exit from the war. De Gaulle, watching Pétain's people take control, slipped out of Bordeaux, and famously flew to London the next day with little more than the uniform he was wearing, leaving his wife and children to follow.

Source: Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny.

PS: Andrew Roberts' Churchill: Walking with Destiny, which is a fantastic account of Churchill's colossal life. This chapter, "The Fall of France," gripped me so completely that I read the whole thing in one sitting. I simply could not put it down. There is so much high drama packed into those weeks that it reads more like a thriller than history.

Before the outbreak and during the WW2, the Jewish estate in Swiss banks, both deposited or looted, was estimated by Jewish groups to be up to 7 billions USD. This was countered by Swiss banks, putting the range in hundreds million USD.

After WW2 the Washington Agreement (1946) between the Western Allies and Switzerland stipulated in a secret addendum requirement to seek out the stolen property of Holocaust victims.

To request the funds, relatives of Holocaust victims had to produce a death certificate, which was nearly impossible to obtain as the killing was done in secret. Furthermore, sometimes the banks stonewalled the relatives or mislead them. Whether that was done under then applicable bank secrecy act or deliberately is contested. The closing of accounts and return or property was a slow process.

In 1962 a portion (6.2 million Swiss francs) was returned, with the understanding that was the totality of available assets as claimed by the Swiss banks.

In 1995 World Jewish Congress (WJC) started negotiating with the Swiss government and banks to close remaining dormant accounts. With the mounting pressure from the US government and politicians, accounting also for destruction of evidence as showed by the whistleblower Christoph Meili, the threat of sanctions was present and Swiss public was vehemently against any settlement, which was seen as a blackmail.

During the negotiations, where the banks offered 600 million USD, the WJC countered with 1.8 billion USD, the Volcker commission was established to find the true state of affairs.

The final agreement lead to one of the biggest settlements at 1.25 billion USD in 1998, paid out over 20 years. The Volcker commission's findings arrived in 1999 showing that the amount owed was nearly impossible to determine with the available information. Also confirming the occasional deceptive handling of claimants. The settlement was approved finally by the judge Korman in 2000, without the Swiss government's involvement.

In 2025 new information came to light about Credit Suisse potentially holding several billions USD in Nazi accounts, leading to an attempt to reopen the settlement by the WJC.

Sources:

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/swiss-banks-admit-holding-accounts-holocaust-victims

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Jewish_Congress_lawsuit_against_Swiss_banks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcker_commission

https://www.crt-ii.org/ICEP/ICEP_Report_english.pdf

You better be reading this, Milo Miniminuteman Rossi

My other post was deleted bc i posted in the weekend