Nigel Jones
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first heard Sep 2026
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He disappeared from his crib and horror, where the hell was this baby, this much beloved little child?
And Lindbergh found on the windowsill of the boy's room, the baby's room, a note demanding a ransom, I think of something like seventy.
And they realized to their horror at once that hi their child had been kidnapped.
People remember where they were when they heard the news that the Lindbergh baby had been kidnapped.
Not many people know that it in fact it was the basis of Agatha Christa's famous novel Murder on the Orange Express.
The fame or infamy of that particular crime spread around the world immediately and added to the fame that Lindbergh and this dream couple already had, redoubled the
By this time, Lindbergh and his wife had left America.
They just couldn't take the absolute onrush of mad publicity that accompanied the kidnap and murder of their child.
On top of the original publicity for the flight, the publicity for the murder of the kid just too much for them, overwhelmed them, and they hated newspaper men, they hated the press, they hated all the publicity
in the development of a pump, which has now fallen out of use, but it was a feasible it was a recognized medical device that he
It's thought that Alexis Carrell, the surgeon with whom he developed this tongue, believed, as did many people at the time in the science of eugenics, that the human stock could be actually improved.
And more than that, that anyone who fell short of the perfect human being, i.e., mentally and physically handicapped and disabled people, were not worthy of life and
He became very much persuaded of eugenics and became not only a racist, thinking that some races were more superior to others, but also a eugenicist, thinking that some people were not worthy of life and others were, and that it was necessary to preserve the super race, if you like, you know, and to advance the good characteristics, the good racial characteristics, and to get
Have one eye, always one eye out for people in the West who could be seduced into sympathizing with their regime.
For example, the ex-King of Britain, King Edward VIII, became the Duke of Windsor and abdicated in 1936.
He visited Hitler in Germany and was definitely sympathetic to the Nazis.
And, you know, a number of people made tracks to Hitler's door and
And made sympathetic noises about him.
So Lindbergh was especially valuable to the Nazis because of his worldwide fame and popularity.
Made sure they gave him an absolute rolling out the ribbed carpet for him.
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