Marco Bonafede

Black War proiect

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Summary

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Fiction Fiction The world of Black War Historical characters Black War part one Black War part two - The island of the dead The conspirators Hollywood and the Nazis

Game Black Air War Flight simulators The comic

Fantasy The Red Baron and Francesco Baracca Captain Nakamura Partisans The red centaurs The deserter Hans The witches of the East The Battle of England Crowley in Egypt Colonel Popof The Troll Uku Frau Hildegard The Führer's balloon Dinosaurs from Antarctica Area 51 Red Tails zombies Anja toothless

Media The hidden protagonist Lucas, Eisenstein, and the comics Star Wars and World War II WW2: adventure, fantasy and horror Hitlerson

Copyright Marco Bonafede 2019

On the cover: The Island of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

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This book is intended for publishers of novels and comics, television and film productions, writers, designers, directors, animators, video game developers, musicians, modellers. The Balck War project is at the same time a subject for a film, for a TV series, for a comic book series, for novels, for a video game, for action figures. No type of realization excludes the other. Black War is a set of stories set in the Second World War that can be grouped into two categories: The first, historical adventurous, is a subject for novels or for a TV series that includes several references to Hollywood cinema during the Second World War. The second is more markedly fantasy and is still fragmentary and composed of some independent minor stories. it is more suited to the development of comics, video games and children's novels. In this latest version there are werewolves, vampires and aliens. Already seen? Of course, but you can look at old characters from a different point of view and invent some characters with new aspects. What matters is the whole, creating a fantastic universe that has its own coherence, that is recognizable and original. Various stories and characters can be integrated into a single narrative: the operation I propose resembles that of Once Upon a Time, the TV series that used fairy-tale characters. The adventurous and the fantasy category can be separated or integrated, you will see. This is just version 1.02 of the project.

The basic idea of Black War is to build a saga on the Second World War. By now almost all those who have lived through that conflict, which ended 74 years ago, are gone and the Second World War can become a legend. Perhaps it is the best way not to lose its historical memory. At the end of the book there are chapters on the relationship between the Second World War and the fantastic in literature, comics and cinema; the Star Wars saga is treated with particular attention because it represents a creative model capable of absorbing and reworking stories and images, an omnivorous narrative sponge. Some of the chapters of the book are present in my blog: http://marcobonafede.blogspot.com/ The text is identical but there are more illustrations and there will be further updates. Images for which I do not own the copyright are used for explanatory purposes only.

Today a work of imagination goes beyond the individual author. This is due to various factors: - The public prefers countless episodes of a single story with the same characters. The comic book series and the television series satisfy this need for stability, but except in very rare cases (Harry Potter by Rowling, The Throne of Swords by George RR Martin) a work can no longer derive from the mind of a single author. - Television has adopted the typical production pattern of comics, in which the creator of a series coordinates the action of many screenwriters and designers.

- The TV series are based on the work of various screenwriters coordinated by a showrunner, the project manager. This allows you to take advantage of the capabilities of many screenwriters. Generally someone is good at writing dialogues, another at devising action scenes, others developing characters: mixing the various creatives is the job of the showrunner.

The world of Black War

Black War originates from other things I wrote:

- The comic strip The revolt of Kronstdat (1979) on an anti-Bolshevist anarchist revolt in 1922. One of the leaders of the revolt was the sailor Stepan Maksimovič Petricenko: In Black War his nephew Vania (fictional), amateur magician, is one of the two protagonists of the novel. - The novel Crowley's Last Night (1993) on the expulsion of Crowley from Cefalù from Cefalù in 1923 by the fascists. Crowley is developed as a comic and dramatic character. - The first chapters of Black War (2001) published in 2013. The two protagonists of the saga are Vania Petricenko and Aleister Crowley. In Black War Crowley is the head of an allied magical organization that fights Nazism. When my daughter was a little girl, she wanted me to tell her stories. Having exhausted the fairy tales, I started telling her about a children's version of Black War with funny characters, dinosaurs, monsters and planes.

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Historical characters

Of all the characters I mention, you find extensive documentation on the internet on Wikipedia. I will limit myself to a few notes on the reasons why they should be used.

- Aleister Crowley is a scandalous poet and esotericist, expert in sexual magic, well known in the Anglo-Saxon world. An. He is a complex character, entangled in spy plots and with comic aspects. It is said that the character of Uncle Fester of the Addams family is inspired by him. His face is on the cover of a Beatles record and the demon of the television series Good Omens (Amazon Prime 2019) is called Crowley. In Black War (as in Good Omens) Crowley's role is that of the good devil, embarrassing but likeable, a sort of Long John Silver. The Crowley of Black War is, in appearance, a sixty-year-old in good health, while the real Crowley in 1944 was 69 years old and was in bad shape.

Crowley, Hitler and esotericism

Good Omens - Crowley

Aleister Crowley – Uncle Fester

- Marlene Dietrich German anti-Nazi actress, brilliant woman: "If God exists he is crazy". Dietrich in the Second World War: http://lastgoddess.blogspot.com/search/label/World%20War%20II - Leni Riefenstahl (antagonist of Dietrich) director, great friend of Hitler. She is a decisive character where talent, cynicism and hypocrisy coexist. There is a picture that captures her as she witnesses the shooting of some civilians. Her face is upset but this did not diminish her support for Nazism. The character allows us to develop the theme of "willing executioners", the mass consensus and the participation by millions of ordinary people in the crimes of Nazism, Fascism and Japanese nationalism. - Ernest Hemigway writer, journalist, adventurer. - Winston Churchill great statesman, witty, funny. - Harold Adrian Russell Philby Russian spy. - Hedy Lamarr Austrian, Jewish, anti-Nazi actress. - Orson Welles anti-Nazi actor and director. - Fritz Mandl husband of Hedy Lamarr, arms dealer. - Margherita Sarfatti writer, former lover of Benito Mussolini. - Geobbles Nazi minister of propaganda, "goat foot ". - Goering "The Führer's balloon". - Walther Wüst director of Ahnenerbe. - Himmler Reichsführer SS. - Anna Mae Wong American actress of Chinese origin, she was very active in raising funds to help China against the Japanese. . - Charlie Chaplin – He was not Jewish, but he did not deny the Nazis who called him a Jew. - Donald Richardsson OSS agent.

Marlene Dietrich - Anna Mae Wong - Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl witnesses the shooting of civilians

Ribbentrop – Wüst – Goebbles

Ernest Hemingway –Marlene Dietrich

Hedy Lamarr - Eye of Horus

Churchill – Wally Simpson – Edward VIII

Chaplin in 1940

Black War part one

In December 1943 the Russian fighter pilot Vania Petricenko shoots down his first Nazi plane. Upon landing it is taken by some men of the NKDV, the Soviet military secret service, who take it to Moscow where it is expected at the Lubianka. Petricenko is informed that he will be sent to England to be integrated into a secret magic group charged with fighting the Nazis. The Soviets do not believe in magic but decide to send Petricenko, who is an amateur magician, to meet the demands of the allies. Petricenko receives a summary training from the NKDV and is received by Stalin himself. In early 1944 Petricenko left for England. In London Winston Churchill discusses with Maxwell Knight, chief of the British counter-espionage, of the magical war against the Nazis. Churchill is skeptical but supports the plan. In England Petricenko is taken into custody by Jan Fleming who accompanies him to a villa in the English countryside where the magic group directed by Aleister Crowley is based. Meanwhile in the Bahamas a Nazi submarine lands an agent in charge of contacting Wallis Simpson and her husband Edward the Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) who had abdicated the throne to marry her. The Nazi would like to convince Edward to reach Germany and become the pontiff of a new Arian religion, but Wallis Simpson and her husband prefer to report him to the British authorities.

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Stalin - Stepan Maksimovič Petricenko

Black War part two - The island of the dead

Vania Petricenko integrates into the group and participates in some rites. He also becomes a friend of a group of American pilots who fly the B17s at a nearby air base. Petricenko cheats at poker but then spends all the money he won with those he cheated. Aleister Crowley encourages him to train in the driving of bombers, because he wants to launch talismans on Germany. One of the talismans is called the "eye of Horus" and should increase the accuracy of the bombs. Churchill is skeptical but an air fleet commander tells him that this increases the morale of the pilots and therefore the accuracy of the bombing. Knight and Jasper Maskeline (an illusionist working with the British army) convince Churchill that there may be an important role for Crowley's group. In Switzerland the agent of the American secret service Donald Richardsson is contacted by a woman who introduces herself as Leni Reifensthal, Hitler's favorite director. Reifensthal reports that a group of generals wants to break with Nazism and that she herself is disgusted by the persecution of the Jews. He says the Nazis are organizing a new Aryan religion and will hold a founding ceremony in Norway. The new religion is considered a secret spiritual weapon. Hitler despised Christianity, considered it the first communist invasion of Europe.

The ceremony will take place in a fjord, on an island reminiscent of Hitler's favorite picture, The Island of the Dead, specially recreated by scientists from the Anherbe, the Nazi study center on ancestral heritage.

However, the rebel generals demand proof of American involvement at the highest level. They believe that all the evidence is falsifiable and the only guarantee is the arrival of a trustee who identified Marlene Dietrich, living proof of Roosevelt's interest.

Marlene Dietrich is anti-Nazi, escaped from Germany and encourages American soldiers with her shows. Actually Goebbles has promised the Reifensthal an award if it will help him capture Dietrich. In fact the diva is still very popular in Germany. Capturing Dietrich is forcing her to declare that she wanted to return home would be a huge propaganda blow for the Nazis. The Reifensthal will be awarded with the conclusion of its film "Low Lands" and directed by the film "Kolberg", already largely realized but of which Goebbles is not satisfied. Goebbles has repeatedly tried to sexually blackmail the Reifensthal and their relationship is marked by strong hostility. Marlene Dietrich agrees to help Crowley's group. British intelligence agent Harold Adrian Russell Philby takes Crowley to interrogate Rudolf Hess, a prisoner of the English, to learn more about the plans for a new religion. Dietrich, writer Ernest Hemingway, French actor Jean Gabin (Dietrich's boyfriend) arrive at the institution that houses Crowley's group. The mission plan is prepared which consists in making the Nazi ceremony fail. Jean Gabin is jealous of Dietrich, who does not want to be involved in Crowley's orgiastic rites. Philby tries to enlist Vania, asking him to become an English spy when he returns to Russia. Petricenko refuses. Philby is actually a Russian spy and he just put him to the test. The group of magical raiders leaves for Norway, but at the last moment Jean Gabin is not from the group composed of Crowley, Petricenko, Donald Richardsson and Marlene Dietrich, who painted his hair black and wears the Luftwaffe auxiliary uniform. They fly with a Westland Lysander piloted by Petricenko, they land in Norway and are greeted by a resistance group, which hides the plane. Crowley and Petricenko go to the appointment with the Reifensthal and ask her to participate in a ritual that proves her anti-Nazi faith: it is a sexual rite in which the Nazi insignia must be insulted. The Reifensthal accepts and performs the ritual but realizes that Dietrich is a double, which at the last moment replaced the actress. In fact, one of Crowley's collaborators in England is a Nazi spy and was used to make believe that the mission would be attended by Dietrich, whose Americans could not risk capture. The Reifensthal together with her troupe is imprisoned by the Norwegian resistance, Crowley promises to free her if she collaborates and informs the Nazis that a setback will delay her and Dietrich, but that the film crew will arrive first to organize the filming. Crowley and Petricenko enter the island of the dead as videographers and attend the Nazi rite. Crowley places the eye of Horus (a radio transmitter hidden in a camera) in the temple while Petricenko communicates the coordinates to the Allied bombers. They flee by boat while the allied air raid is carried out on the island. At the request of the Allied command they steal two small amulets from the many present in the temple. The Germans hunt down the magic raiders and discover their plane. Petricenko, Crowley, Richardsson and the fake Marlene, who meanwhile released the Reifensthal as promised, sneak into a German air base and flee to Arado Ar 96

(unarmed training aircraft) and are chased by two German fighters. Petricenko performs a Taran (breaking the tail planes of an enemy aircraft with the propeller) and knocks one down despite being unarmed. Petricenko had already spoken of the Taran, a desperate maneuver accomplished by the Soviet pilots to shoot down technically superior German planes. Magical raiders end up in the sea due to running out of fuel but are recovered by an allied seaplane. Churchill and Maxwell Knight comment on the mission. The stolen amulets represent Calais and Norway, the Germans are led to think that the Allied landing will take place in Calais and that there will be a contemporary landing in Norway. The Germans will be surprised by the landing in Normandy and until the end of the war 100,000 German soldiers will remain in vain to guard Norway. Crowley's magical incursion was part of a red herring against the Germans. At the end of the war, Petricenko returned to Russia, was initially welcomed as a hero, but was later arrested and sent to Siberia because he was suspected of being an English spy.

The novel focuses on film characters. If you were to make a feature film, you could use software to overlay the faces of the actors with characters and famous actors. It would be a deepfake for artistic purposes. The best choice for the soundtrack is Lili Marleen sung by Dietrich.

Maxwell - Philby - Fleming - Maskeline

The change of aircraft in history (they arrive in Norway with a Westland Lysander and start with L 'Arado Ar 96) is due to the fact that probably the first one did not have the acrobatic performances necessary to perform a Taran.

The conspirators

In 1944 Hedy Lamarr played in Los Angeles studios the film The conspirators a spy story set in Lisbon: during the filming of the Nazi agents trying to steal the secret of his patent (number 2.292.387) usable for military purposes that will be used only several decades later for mobile telephony. The patent was applicable to a radio guidance system for torpedoes. Torpedoes were launched by submarines and planes at a considerable distance from the target (about 1 km), they were quite slow and proceeded in a straight line, so often ships could avoid them with appropriate evasive maneuvers. It would have been useful to be able to remotely control them so as to enormously increase the launch distance, but the ship could have intercepted the signal, disturbed it and rendered the radio guide ineffective. The system of Hedy Lamarr, conceived together with the composer George Antheil, allowed to continuously vary the frequency of transmission of the signal and this made it impossible to intercept it and disturb it. Hedy Lamarr knew the problem of torpedo guidance because she had been married to Fritz Mandl, a great arms dealer, Jewish but a personal friend of Mussolini, and who had even had business dealings with Goering. Mandl had fled to Argentina where he had come into contact (fictional) with Margherita Sarfatti, Benito Mussolini's historical lover until his breakup in 1936. Sarfatti was also Jewish and had moved to Argentina in 1938, while the racial laws were promulgated in Italy. Sarfatti was furious with Mussolini, who sent Jews to concentration camps after having been many years the lover of a Jewish woman who had contributed to his success. A German spy kidnaps Mandl to find out where the research on radio-guided torpedoes is and learns that Lamarr has found the solution and that she is starring in the movie The Conspirators in Hollywood. The Nazis try to blackmail Lamarr but thanks to a private investigator, Anna Mae Wong, Charlie Chaplin (marginally) and Orson Welles (friend of the Lamarr) the Nazi plot is foiled. A prototype of the radio-controlled torpedo is used by the British aviation in the attack on the Island of the dead in Finland (in case you want to integrate the two stories).

Orson Welles and Hedy Lamarr

Hollywood and the Nazis

The Nazis imposed several cuts on American films that were shown in Germany and almost all American film producers (MGM, FOX, Paraumount, Universal, Columbia) agreed to German requests. The film All Quiet on the Western Front was heavily censored. A real Nazi lobby operated in Hollywood, led by German consul in Los Angeles, Georg Gyssling (from 1933 to 1941, when he was expelled and returned to Germany). Several movie house executives were Jews but initially sold for Nazi reasons for commercial reasons. Personal History, a film that told of the suffering of Jews in Europe, was blocked in 1938 and subsequently completed in 1940, omitting the parts referring to the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Charlie Chaplin was the only one who had the courage in 1940 to shoot a film against Hitler: The Great Dictator. There seems to have been a Nazi plot to kill Chaplin. Hitler loved Greta Garbo, Mickey Mouse, and Laurel & Hardy; Goebbles wanted to create a large Nazi film industry in Germany. Georg Gyssling probably played the double game for the Americans. Hollywood is the real protagonist of The Conspirators.

Georg Gyssling and Leni Riefenstahl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Anti-Nazi_League https://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Los-Angeles-Against-Hollywood/dp/1620405628 https://www.amazon.it/Collaboration-English-Ben-Urwand-ebook/dp/B00EJW7NUK https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi- studies/studies/vol-62-no-2/hollywoods-spies-and-hitler-in-los-angeles.html https://www.amazon.com/Hollywoods-Spies-Undercover-Surveillance-Goldstein- Goren/dp/1479855170

Black Air War

Air video game project on the European air war model. The game must allow you to choose all the possible combinations of planes (2 types for the Germans and 2 for the alleats) in single missions and must allow the respawn (die and rise) and the change of aircraft during the action. Present career and multiplayer modes.

German planes

- Pterodactyls for bombardment (behave like Stuka) - Flying circus with the ghost of the Red Baron - Captain Nakamura (Japanese aviation) on Zero - Phantom of Francesco Baracca - Zeppellin - Valkyries on V1 - Teutonic knights on V2 - Stuka - BF109 - Me109 - BF110 - FW 180 - Ju88a - Ju88c - He111 - Me262 - Heinkel 219 'Uhu' - Gotha 229 Flying wing - Great airship of Goering "The Fuhrer's balloon"

Allied planes

- Spitfire - Hurricane -Tempest - Lancaster - B17 - P47 - P38J - Mosquito - Lysander - Polikarpov Po-2 (supplied to the witches of the night)

Secret Allied Squadron: - Flying carpets - Wizards and witches on broom - Red Tails zombie P51

- Flying saucer from Area 51 - Spitfire (with magic bullets) - Hurricane (with magic bullets)

Allied special ammunition: Horus eye beetle to attract bombs (you must put it in the site to bomb)

Author's illustrations from EAW screenshots

Air combat flight simulators

The air combat flight simulators had a great popularity at the beginning of the history of videogames because a small computing capacity allowed to obtain spectacular effects. The illusion of realism was easy to achieve because the software can easily manage a 3d (or false 3d) environment at a great distance like the sky and the ground and because planes are rigid figures, not like men and animals that move parts of their body. The planes just need to add transparencies (for example the propellers) and few other effects when they are fired or hit. Air video games have benefited from the contribution of many enthusiasts who have added more planes and countless liveries to existing planes in the basic versions of the game. This phenomenon started with Red Baron3d and European Air War and continued with Combat Flight Simulator 3, First Eagles and Il2. A further development was to allow online gaming with virtual aerial duels. However, this development was also the beginning of the decline of this type of video game, which ended up involving only history buffs and made the simulation increasingly realistic and difficult. Today for air combat simulators remains only a marginal fraction of the videogame market. I think the reason was this: why should a player learn dozens of commands to fly on an old plane when he can become a warrior or a wizard in a fantasy world with very few commands? Even easier is to play with "shoot and kill" (first person shotter). The latest generation of flight simulators do not even look like games, they are so realistic. For this reason I continue to play with the old simulators. A simulator is a game and we might as well minimize realism and have fun. If photorealism served something, people wouldn't play Candy Crush! As for Black Air War, Mods can be created at least starting from the videogames I mentioned. However, to be sure you can use the images and videos that can be made from a Mod Black Air War, you need to clarify the legal aspects. With images from Mods anyone can put a short movie on You Tube, but maybe different to make a comic or a movie and then sell it. Probably for historical titles it would not be difficult, if needed, to reach agreements for free use.

Comic

Made from EAW screenshots

Red Baron and Francesco Baracca

On Goering's orders the corpses of the pilots of the Flying Circus, nickname of the Jagdstaffel 11, the squadron of the Red Baron, Manfred von Richtofen are exhumed. Together with other World War I axes they are revived through Runic Magic. "You will fight for the homeland and no mortal will be able to kill you. You will not be able to kill those who fight for your country". But the Red Baron does not want to continue fighting and despises Goering. Other ghost pilots of the flying circus are unhappy and would like to die. Even the Italian pilots at the service of fascism are unhappy. The ghost of the Italian ace Francesco Baracca says: "There are two Italys, I can be faithful to the Republic of Salò or the Badoglio government and the king. I have two homelands, I can choose! " Francesco Baracca, with the consent of the Red Baron, machine-guns one of the pilots of the flying circus and kills him. They understand that magic (or curse) has been circumvented. Francesco Baracca and the Red Baron exterminate their comrades (Baracca the Germans, the Red Baron the Italians) and finally kill each other in an air crash by strafing frontally.

Francesco Baracca and Red Baron

Jagdstaffel 11 - https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdstaffel_11

Captain Nakamura

Nakamura is engaged to a girl who is a witch: she asks him to survive and makes a spell for which he is invulnerable to the bullets of enemy fighters and enemy airspace. The girl has a magic cat. Nakamura goes to see the girl and tells her she will become a suicide bomber. The girl knows he will die by crashing, because his magic only protects him from bullets. Nakamura leaves her and she decides to die and at the same time to save him (the cat will explain that she was sick but lived by the love of Nakamura) and makes a spell for which Nakamura cannot be killed but his body will take on the lives of the enemies killed and his plane of energy of planes shot down. She calls it the magic of the divine wind because Nakamura was his wind. Nakamura throws himself on an aircraft carrier and rises immediately. His superiors do not believe him accusing him of not wanting to die and being a coward, only with difficulty do they realize the magic. They hope he dies because they can't explain his survival to superiors. Nakamura is disgusted. He goes to see the girl but she is dead. The cat reveals to him what happened. Nakamura cries and wants to die but cannot kill himself (he cannot do karakiri because the wounds heal immediately). They arrest him as a deserter and take him to his commander, Nakamura cuts his fingers to prove that he is not a coward, his commander mocks him and he is furious and kills him and threatens to kill the emperor as well. He is immobilized and put in prison, his fingers grow back. They shoot him but he doesn't die. They can't kill him (maybe they could do it by cutting off his head), the Japanese realize that he's a magic weapon. However, he is dangerous and is sent to Germany to fight for the Germans, warning him that his family will pay for his betrayal with his life. Nakamura detests Nazism and kills a Nazi who beats a Jew. Nakamura is often drunk. He treats his unhappiness with prostitutes, attending the Salon Kitty, a luxury brothel used by the SS to control army officers. All the girls were agents of the political police (historical). Drunk Nakamura hopes that the emperor of Japan is hanged, the Germans tell him that only the Russians would do it. Nakamura becomes, even if he doesn't want to, the scourge of the B17s, the American strategic bombers. Crowley learns of the magic that keeps Nakamura alive. Petricenko devises a method to eliminate Nakamura. It must be attracted to a single bomber, then use the reference one. The large formations of hundreds of bombers used a brightly colored one, generally white and red, as a reference point for training (historical). Petricenko pilots it and replaces the crew with dummies. The machine guns of the reference plane fire blanks and unmanned tracer. Vania pilots the bomber on the sleeve and throws herself with his parachute as soon as he sees Nakamura. Nakamura destroys the plane but cannot regenerate immediately because he does not kill anyone, its plane regenerates itself but falls and ends up in the sea. Nakamura remains trapped at the bottom of the sea. Every day it resurrects only for the time necessary to drown again.

Nakamura every time she resurrects in the last flashes of consciousness meets the girl and every time she turns her back on him.

Kitty Schmidt (la tenutaria), Walter Schellenberg (responsabile organizzativo del Salon Kitty), Reinhard Heydrich capo del SD ( controspionaggo delle SS)

Partisans

The partisan leader Karl disguises himself as a priest and assaults the Nazi headquarters launching the bomb sprinkler, the other partisans are disguised as altar boys. Karl disguises himself as a woman and a Nazi captain is pampered by the big woman and asks her to get in the car. Karl turns into a gorilla to free the nazi monkeys and puts on a fake "conditioning helmet": Karl pretends it works (crashes as if receiving the shock when the Nazi presses the remote control button) then says "No shock, it doesn't work" he takes off his helmet and beats up the Nazis. The animals are trained and controlled by the Nazis through a conditioning helmet that transmits electric shocks. The English send to the partisans: - magicians specializing in luciferin magic to blow up dynamite wirelessly from the detonator. - very good cinematographic makeup artists who transform the partisans into old ladies. - magicians transformers who transform partisans into dogs and cows. - Sopor magicians who put the German sentries to sleep.

Red centaurs

On the morning of June 30, 1908, in the Siberian region of Tunguska, an explosion occurred about 5-10 km above the ground, devastating an area of 2000 square kilometers and cutting down 80 million trees (historical). In Black War it was a spaceship that had crashed and carried exotic species or the accidental opening of a dimensional gap with a parallel dimension (better). A Siberian hunter who visited the site of the disaster among the first to discover some extraordinary characters, such as Dwarf-boars, orcs, elves and a tribe of centaurs. These creatures hid in the forests of Siberia, but ten years later they participated in the Russian civil war on the side of the Bolsheviks, except for the black elves who lined up with white armies. A group of 20 centaurs became the 3rd company of the second Red Cavalry Brigade under the direct control of Trostky. The red centaurs became legendary but their existence is officially denied because it would give rise to controversy from the international press that would take advantage of it to accuse the revolution of using demonic forces. In fact often the Bolsheviks were represented as orcs who eat children.

When Stalin took power over the centaurs, the repression broke down and all the red centaurs were killed because they were considered Trostkites. Only political commissar Fedorin, a centaur himself, was saved, consumed with remorse for being the only survivor. The female and child centaurs took refuge in the woods, Dwarf-boars and orcs lived in the woods barely tolerated by Soviet power. At the outbreak of World War II, Fedorin organized a group of Dwarf-boars who become sabotage specialists behind the German lines. They were trained in Novosibirsk. Fedorin died driving a locomotive and hurling it at a German supply train. The orcs were enrolled in the Red Army and formed the Siberian Reserve which was used in the Moscow counteroffensive in 1942. Mark Smith, an English soldier who was part of the Expeditionary Corps sent to fight the Bolsheviks, was captured by the red centaurs; during his imprisonment he learned many details about fantastic creatures and their world. He finally managed to escape and returned to England. No one believed his stories, but a few years later two scholars from Oxford, a town where he lived and worked as a watchmaker, interviewed him and collected his stories in a volume, which, however, the rector of the University did not consider worthy of publication.

They were John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (future author of The Lord of the Rings) and Clive Staples Lewis (future author of The Chronicles of Narnia) who will use Smith's tales as a basis for their novels. Both participate in the group of Inklings (which deals with literature and myths), including Charles Williams, an esotericist and consultant to the British government for the magical war that puts them in contact with Crowley. Williams and Crowley had disagreements in 1910 at the time of the break-up of the esoteric group of the Golden Dawn, but these contrasts are overcome to combat Nazism.

Drawings and photomontages made by the author

Russian partisans with Dwarf-boar (ww2)

The political commissar Fedorin (center)

Drawings by Gianni Ballistreri

Bolshevik Centaur (modification by the author)

The deserter Hans

Hans Muller is a mathematician, he leaves the university because he is called back to the Wermatch. Attends a massacre of civilians in Russia and desert. He find a Russian girl in an isolated house and stay with her. A German patrol arrives on a halftrack, Hans hides. The Germans want to rape the girl but he comes out and kills them. Hans becomes a deciphering expert and works for the Russians after seeing the mass graves where the Nazis buried the Jews. A damaged u-boat in the North Sea is reported. The Russians send a seaplane with food supplies, beer with sleeping pills and a commando composed of Hans Muller and two raiders disguised as Germans to retrieve the enigma machine; they succeed and sink the submarine.

Hans is inspired by a research on Alfred Liskow and German deserters during World War II, published on my blog. Here is the link of the first of 6 posts: http://marcobonafede.blogspot.com/p/liskof.html

The witches of the east

The soldiers of Alexander the Great kidnap the priestesses of Bashet (the goddess with the head of a cat) and rape them. They deport them to the Caucasus during a war against the Scythians. Some flee and continue to worship Bashet. They have the property of becoming cat, tiger or panther. They are feminists and theirs is a form of resistance to men. Some of them have become pilots and are among the best night pilots (they see like cats) with light aircraft. The pilot cat women are called witches of the night. They are specialists in night bombardment and transportation. Cat women have pupils like cats, showing normal human eyes is a voluntary act that involves effort; they often pretend to be Islamic and wear a veil. Even Hans's girlfriend is a cat woman. He will reveal it after Hans killed the Nazis: "I have never really been in danger". In Finland, Jewish children are disguised as dwarves and work in a circus with the partisan Snow White. During a play a child stumbles and takes off his beard, the Nazis understand that they are wanted Jews and chase them. Snow White and the children take refuge in an abandoned farm. The cat woman Irina joins them. The Nazis arrive but Irina kills them, turning into a panther. As he moves away, he asks the children to keep their eyes closed but they all look in secret between their fingers and see the bloody bodies of the Nazis. Then a night witch arrives on an airplane and takes them to Russia.

Battle of Britain

The British are in trouble because they have few fighters, Churchill would like more and Crowley offers to solve the problem. It cannot create new fighters but can significantly increase the firepower of existing ones. Churchill is so worried that he asks him to try, even if he considers him a fool. Crowley gets some Thora leaflets blessed by the rabbis that puts ammunition in place (one bullet and one no) in the planes. A rabbi has found in the history of Israel the history of the magic quivers of archers lined with sacred quotations in which the arrows never ended. To accomplish the magic we need a rabbi in prayer for each plane. This method is used to arm a hundred Hurricane and Spitfire planes with unlimited ammunition. From that moment on, Churchill provides all the necessary economic and logistic support to the magic group. Autistic Jewish children use "calculation magic" to help Turing decipher Enigma: the first biocomputer.

Crowley in Egypt

Crowley discovers that the Nazis fly the pyramids at night. A Nazi scientist from Anherbe woke up a mummy of extraterrestrials (the pyramids are spaceships). To enter the flying pyramid Crowley is helped by a magician who has a flying carpet. Crowley sneaks into a flying pyramid and plunges the Nazi and the alien into the void. A flying carpet can only fly if it is guided by the one who wove it with his hands, if bought it does not work. Crowley enlists a squadron of Egyptian magicians on flying carpets.

Colonell Popof

The Nazis try to use the farts of cows to make gas for the airships, but the factory is bombed, the biofuel explodes and the SS on guard become smelly. A unit of Stink SS is formed that attacks the Russians and puts them on the run with their stink (the Stink SS do not smell their own stink, but they are so smelly that they have to find gas masks from the First World War for their horses).

picture from the film Fräulein Doktor

The Russians seek a solution and consult Grigory Popof, a Caucasian shepherd, famous for his farts. This proposes the Popof Formula, and makes the soldiers eat a soup made with: broccoli ricotta expired, bitter and a little bad onion sausage spinach poor quality vodka some drops of oil

The soldiers eat and make the farts that put the Stink SS in flight. Political commissioner Nikita Cruscev has the idea of making Popof bottles, bottling the farts into glass bottles, which when they break the stench comes out. A further development is the compressed Popof capsules. Popof becomes colonel and hero of the Soviet Union.

the troll Uku

In Transylvania the Nazis hunt down trolls at the instigation of Count Vrokull (a Romanian fascist who claims to be a vampire but is only a sadist) and of Werwolf SS (Werewolf). The Nazis massacre the trolls, but a troll boy (three meters tall) escapes and tries to take refuge in a camp of partisans. The partisans send him away but some boys have pity and bring him food. Uku realizes that the Nazis are coming and warns the partisans who are preparing an ambush and put them to flight. Uku eats the corpses of the Nazis, the partisans are horrified and want to kill it or drive it away. After a dramatic assembly we arrive at this solution: Uku will remain with the partisans but will no longer be able to eat the Nazis, but will only eat soup and cheese. Uku accepts but asks to be a full-fledged partisan. The partisans take a red flag and put it around their necks as a badge.

Frau Hildegard

Hildegard Strasser, Bavarian, personal assistant to the director of Ahnenerbe Walther Wüst, 195 cm tall, boasts of having repeatedly served Hitler when he worked in the Munich Brewery. Nazi fanatic, dominates the hierarchs and is a tireless organizer: it was she who conceived Salon Kitty. Champion of weight-throwing and javelin throwing at the Berlin Olympics, she hates Reifensthal because she didn't appreciate it enough in her film on the Olympics. The Nazi hierarchs (especially Geobbles) make a lot of fantasies about her and her blonde braids.

The Führer’s balloon

Hermann Goering was fat and was nicknamed Hitler's balloon. In Black War he is so fat that he has to use a walker or compressed air mechanisms to move. Remember fat Vladimir Harkonnen, one of the villains in the movie Dune, or maybe Harkonnen is inspired by Goering. Goering despises Goebbles (insignificant gnat) and Himmler (foolish wanker). He is haunted by the fear that his huge Zeppelin is shot down and he fears falling into the sea and being devoured by sharks. Goering hopes to become Hitler's successor.

Dinosaurs from Antarctica

Anhenerbe's Nazi scientists find frozen dinosaur eggs in a cave in Antarctica. The Neapolitan fascist professor Alberto De Cuius, known as de Culus or De Culis (ass in Italian language) by envious colleagues, deals with opening the eggs and raising the first dinosaurs. He becomes attached to a small T-Rex called Gennaro. "Gennarì, daddy's handsome son, eat!" Gennaro grows, a female egg also opens and breeding begins: Gennaro father, Carmelina wife and Pepè son.

The armored divisions Duce and Führer are formed. Ai T-rex and spinosaurs are implanted with a conditioning helmet: a radio receiver implanted in the skull of animals makes them docile to the orders of the Nazis. Triceratops with armored plates are used as halftrak, brachiosaurs are used to tow guns. The Russians shoot the antennas of the conditioning helmets to make the dinosaurs unusable. The Nazis use assault velociraptor instead of dogs against partisans: they are called Saurophile Units. The Nazi commander mistreats the raptors, a raptor rebels, frees his companions and massacres the Nazis. The surviving raptors reach the Yugoslav partisans and join them (a prisoner they have freed accompanying them).

Area 51

Extraterrestrials are small bipedal reptiles that do not come to earth in Roswell in 1953, but in 1937: Uru, Aru, Eru are captured (Aru is a female and is pregnant). First scene: A dilapidated service station in the Nevada desert near area 51, the old owner pretends to fall asleep, then takes the rifle and shoots towards the shed, goes to the phone and dials a number: - I'm Sam, come and get it. The reptile tries to melt away but the old man with a rifle starts shooting shotguns and says: "They still give me the reward even if I fill you with dots, stay where you are! I know you understand me, son of the devil! " American soldiers arrive and capture Uru who returns to prison in area 51. He is put in a cell and like Steve Mc Queen in The Great Escape he enjoys playing with a baseball. Uru and Eru join the secret squadron, Aru remains hostage. An alien spaceship fights against the Nazi prototypes. In 1953 Uru, Aru, Eru and the small Gru (born of Aru after 36 months of gestation) flee from Roswell and the legend spreads that the aliens have landed (instead they were fleeing).

There are many crazy theories about Eisenhower and the aliens on the internet

Red Tails zombies

Tom Washington and Laurell King are two young blacks from Louisiana who enlist as pilots in American aviation. It is the beginning of the story of the Red Tails, the squadron formed by black pilots, equipped with the p51 mustang fighters with their tail painted red. Initially the American air force (USAF) tried to obstruct the experiment and not make the squadron operational, until Eleanor Roosevelt, President Roosevelt's wife, presented herself at Tuskegee's training base and asked to fly on an airplane piloted by an aviator black. Tom Washington is piloting and the first lady tells him: - Do you promise you will knock down some nazis for me? - I'll cut him to pieces! - It is not necessary, as long as you drop your plane, he can also save himself. Eleanor Roosevelt put the aviation with its back to the wall: if black pilots could fly with the first lady on board, then they could also fight. The squadron became operational.

Tom Washington and Laurell King are on leave in Louisiana and meet a devil at a crossroads (the Lord of the crossroads). The devil looks just like an old black with white hair, but it's disturbing. King expresses a wish, wants to fight the Nazis and in return is willing to do anything, even to surrender his soul to the old. They sign the contract as if it were a joke. The next day Tom Washington and Laurell King meet a group of white racists who kill them because they are wearing uniforms. King is dying and reminds the devil, who has reached him with the appearance of the old black, his promise. He asks him to resurrect Laurell too, but Laurell had not signed any contract. The devil says he already has his soul but Laurell's ghost promises that of everyone he will kill "I will kill them so fast that they will not have time to repent of their sins." The devil accepts. Tom Washington and Laurell King resurrect and massacre the racists. Then on a stolen car they return to their base, but the commander realizes that they are zombies. They call the command and federal agents are sent who enlist them to fight in the secret squadron.

Image from EAW

Anja toothless

Anja Muller is a German chieftain's daughter who dies fighting the Red Army. The mother, from whom the father had separated, however, dies in an aerial bombardment. The girl is 8 years old and is taken to a school for orphans in a small town near Krefeld (North Rhine-Westphalia) in 1944. Dr Krugher, who collaborates with a Transylvanian vampire, carries out his experiments there. The vampire is old and debilitated and cannot infect. The doctor is convinced that vampirism is actually a rare viral disease. Children are trained to be cruel. They have to kill a piglet, but some refuse and are punished. After several doubts it is decided to infect the females too, which generally the Nazis did not want to involve in the war. Anja is undernourished because her aunt who gave her little food and has difficulty in changing her baby teeth: for this reason she is called Anja toothless (in German zahnlos - zahnloslein - zahnloschen) and teased by older boys of Hitlerjudgen. Children are infected with vampiric serum which should contain the unidentified virus. No one can develop vampirism except Anja, but she turns into a vampire only when she feels fear. The doctor is convinced that vampirism has taken root on her because her body was in the course of a slow transformation of the milk teeth. To teach her to be ruthless the Nazis who want to force her to kill a kitten, but she refuses. The Nazis still kill the kitten and Anja begins to hate them. The Nazis breed from Jewish children to have them killed by Aryan vampire children. A Nazi threatens Anja who transforms and kills him. Nazism is now collapsing and the Americans have invaded Germany. The Nazis are about to attack an American convoy, but Anja warns them and they are saved. Germany surrenders in May 1945. An American soldier of German Jewish origin, Samuel Kramer (inspired by the true story of Henry Kissinger, who, being still alive, I do not believe can be used as a character) becomes director of Krefeld occupied by the American army and restores order to the region full of displaced persons. The Germans pretend not to know what was happening in the concentration camps. Kramer helps Anja become mayor of the village. It imposes itself on traders by showing its skills as a vampire (trick or treat and turns). The children do propaganda for Sgangulè (trick or treat). Become mayor of the town even if he is only 10 years old (no law prevents him). Anja disappears when they come to look for American scientists who found Dr. Krugher, gets in touch with the Jews and becomes a Nazi slayer with Simon Wisental. In the following years Anja is engaged to a photographer, John, who knows her secret. They go to Caracas in bad bars looking for Nazis. In Amsterdam in 1970 they are attacked by neonazi bullies but Anja turns into a vampire and the bullies shit themselves and Anja doesn't kill them. Anja grows very slowly and cannot have children. He is still young when the boyfriend has aged.

The hidden protagonist

Books and films must be interpreted as Freud interpreted dreams, going beyond their manifest content, that is what they tell, to arrive at their latent content, that is what they really mean. What wishes do they represent, what fears do they exorcise? After the Second World War the three greatest global narratives were Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. All three tell of the resistance against the leader of absolute evil. Voldermort, Emperor Palpatine and Sauron are the masks under which there is a single character: Adolf Hitler.

Voldelmort, Palpatine, Sauron, Hitler

Sauron is the evil that returns and against which men, elves, dwarves and Hobbit (half-men) must make a common front to fight him. Frodo is a Halfling and this recalls the term untermenschen, the definition used by the Nazis to refer to the inferior peoples. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, the author of the Lord of the Rings, published in 1955, fought in World War I and his sons fought in the second. Voldermort of the Harry Potter saga is a racist leader who preaches the superiority of magicians over Muggles and half-bloods, as Hitler proclaimed the superiority of the Aryans over the non-Aryans. The final battle of the Harry Potter saga has the epic dimension of the Battle of Stalingrad. Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, with his saga erected a monument to the role of the United States in the Second World War. The forces of evil are nothing more than a revival of the Nazi-fascist armies that seemed to be on the verge of conquering the world. The forces of good represent the variegated anti-fascist alliance.

Lucas, Eisenstein and the comics

Aleksandr Nevskij is a 1938 Soviet film by Sergei Eisenstein. The film is a representation of the impending clash between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, symbolized by the battle of the Pepius lake, in which the Russian prince Nevsky defeated the Teutonic knights in the Middle Ages. Eisenstein is the most important Soviet filmmaker, author of Battleship Potemkin. A biography of Lucas, written by Dana White, tells that the director, while preparing the script for Star Wars, worked in a room where on one wall there was a portrait of Eisenstein, on the other a poster of his own film THX 1138. Eisenstein was the only Soviet director to work in Hollywood in the 1930s, a true myth for all filmmakers.

Lucas, Eisenstein

In the film Aleksandr Nevskij, apart from the references to Nazism (the decoration on the tiara of the Teutonic bishop) there are many visual and narrative elements that will be taken up in the Star Wars saga: the warriors dressed in white, the monks, the knights, the amorous competition , the comic character, the ice battle.

Lucas is a great image recycler: C3PO is clearly inspired by the android robot from Metropolis, while R2-D2 is inspired by Rosie, the domestic robot in The Jetsons.

Darth Vader the villain with the scarred face is picked up by Red Skull, the Nazi scientist of Captain America.

Star Wars was presented to film production as inspired by Flash Gordon, but other comics have played a greater role. Luc Orient is a Franco-Belgian science fiction comic series written by Greg and designed by Eddy Paape. The main adventures came out between 1967 and 1970. Here too, comic book heroes fight against an emperor-dictator. Star Wars stormtrooppers look a lot like Luc Orient's alien soldiers.

Another comic to quote is Valerian written by Pierre Christin and designed by Jean-Claude Mézières. In Dark Worlds magazine and in several websites and blogs I found some examples of how Lucas drew on the Valerian comic strip for many elements of the Star Wars saga.

Finally, we must not forget, in identifying the roots of the world of Star Wars, the role of Isaac Asimov's novels, which dominated science fiction in the last century. The cycle of the Foundation has included political processes and conflicts in the space opera.

Star Wars and World War II

Star Wars is a celebration of the role of the United States in the Second World War, fought by the Americans in Europe and the Pacific. Darth Vader is a perfect Nazi hierarch.

The Dark Side of the Force as a representation of totalitarianism is taken from the American propaganda documentary "Why we figth". The officers of the imperial fleet have uniforms almost identical to those of the Japanese fleet and imperial army.

The most precious war memory that a marine could capture in the bloody battles for the conquest of the Pacific islands was the sword of a Japanese officer. The katanas have become the lightsabers of Star Wars. The jedi are the samurai of space.

Jedi - The 7 samurai

The space battles are inspired by the Midway battle, in which American pilots triumphed after the first waves of assault had been destroyed by the enemy flak.

Aircraft carrier – Space cruiser

Cockpit of the Millennium Falcon and of the B29

Defensive station of the Millennium Falcon - Gunner of a B17

WW2: adventure, fantasy and horror

World War II inspired an immense amount of books, movies, comics, video games. Even just trying to select those of fantastic inspiration is impossible. What follows is an absolutely personal selection. The United States immediately mobilized the imagination during the Second World War: the Captain America comic strip is from 1941 and the cartoon Der Fuehrer's Face is from 1943.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) directed by Spielberg on a script by Lucas is a masterpiece. World War II is combined with fantasy and adventure.

The Nazi resembles Himmler

Spielberg and Lucas have shown an extraordinary ability to draw ideas from comics. The film's German aircraft is clearly inspired by the prototype Mickey Mouse pilot in a 1942 comic-book adventure.

The first major videogame on the Second World War is Wolfestein 3D (1992) from Id Software, the same one that will later produce Doom. Wolfenstein has had many sequels, sometimes even boring and repetitive, showing over a period of more than 20 years the enormous graphic progress of video games.

One of the classics of fantasy and horror in the Second World War are the Nazi zombies: below in a Creepy comic adventure.

One of the first films to include horror elements in World War II is Michael Mann's Fortress (1983). Three recent films in which the Second World War is revisited as horror, fantasy and science fiction are Dead Snow, BloodRayne, Iron Sky. None of the three is in any way comparable to the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Below an image of Dead Snow, a 2009 horror movie with some comic aspects and an image taken from a bonus horror chapter Nacht der untoten of the game Call of Duty, one of the best first person shotter.

Another recurring theme is the mix between the Nazis and the werewolves and the dinosaurs; there is for example the Dino D-day videogame. The relationship between Nazis and vampires is not much exploited except for an episode of the comic strip "American Vampire".

Eureka Miniatures - Jurassic Reich painted by Steve Dean (http://www.steve-dean.co.uk/)

In my opinion the most beautiful saga of alternative history and science fiction on the Second World War is the Cycle of the Invasion by Harry Turtledove. In the middle of the war an alien race of lizards invades the earth, upsetting the plans of all the nations in conflict. It is an authentic masterpiece.

The war of the magicians of Trillo, Dal Pra and Mandafrina is a comic story set in the Second World War; unfortunately it is incomplete, only the first two volumes have been published.

All these works draw on a historical background: the relations between Nazism and esotericism. The main texts on the subject are Hitler and the magical Nazism of Giorgio Galli and The Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels e Bergier. Another important book, which has no relation to magic, is "Hitler's Willing Executioners by Goldhagen. The title says it all.

Hitlerson

Although Hitlerson is not part of the Black War project, it is still connected. The ideas behind this novel are two, a politics and an aesthetic: 1) Right-wing populism, or national populism is a reissue of Nazism, against which the strong disapproval following the Second World War has fallen. The great mass consensus has long been concealed from Nazism, fascism and nationalism. 2) The novel imitates a television documentary consisting of interviews and period films. Bearing in mind the enormous television success of the documentaries on Nazism, it would be a good idea to make the novel a fake documentary.

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