Pope Sixtus VI An Inglorious Guide To Hitler’s Doubles A Biometric Reconstruction by Peter Fotis Kapnistos ( Athens © 2013) * * * This is dedicated to the remote exploration initiatives of the Stargate Project from the 1970s through 1995. * * * All images and items are copyright by their respective copyright owners and are displayed only for historical, analytical, scholarship, or review purposes. Any use by this report is done so in good faith and with respect to the “Fair Use” doctrine of U.S. Copyright law. The research, opinions, and views expressed herein are the personal viewpoints of the original writers. You are free to share, copy, distribute and transmit this PDF document in its electronic form, but you must attribute the work to the author. You are not allowed to put printed copies of this PDF document up for sale. FOT K KAPNISTOS, ICARIAN SEA, GR, 83300 Copyright © 2013 Athens, Greece ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Pope Sixtus VI: An Inglorious Guide To Hitler’s Doubles Pope Sixtus VI An Inglorious Guide To Hitler’s Doubles A Biometric Reconstruction by Peter Fotis Kapnistos Who were Adolf Hitler’s look-alikes and political decoys? Fraught with stories of Nazi rituals and German flying saucers, World War II gave rise to the atomic era and caused over 70 million deaths. Was the brutal dictator of the 20th century the masked instrument of a double image delusion? As global safeguards call for biometric security, scientists and engineers will be using more face-recognition technology. Computerized facial recognition identifies individuals by measuring unique features of a human face’s surface. Face-recognition algorithms can perform more accurately than humans. Graphs of face shapes will be mapped out from shared photo archives to enhance our understanding of urbanized communities. Pasewalk: Miracle or Stage-Managed Double-Talk? The 1973 film “Sleeper,” is an all-time classic and one of Woody Allen’s best movies. Loosely based on the H. G. Wells novel “The Sleeper Awakes,” its amusing high point involves a dictator’s nose. A dreary hero is cryonically frozen after going to the hospital for a routine operation. He is revived 200 years later in a futuristic police state ruled by a dictatorship at war with rebels of an underground movement. Secret information shows that a bomb killed the dictator, and all that survives is his nose. The nose has been preserved, and doctors want to clone the leader from his single remaining part. * * * 1 Pope Sixtus VI: An Inglorious Guide To Hitler’s Doubles A noteworthy 1942 Time magazine article about Adolf Hitler went to press when critics noticed a shift in the German National Socialist leader’s facial features –– especially his nose. The “before and after” alteration outwardly arose in 1918, when Hitler was a soldier in the Pasewalk military hospital, after being blinded by mustard gas at the end of World War I. Following his release from the Pasewalk medical center in northern Germany, Hitler’s nose appeared in some photos to be wider than before. Adolf Hitler’s face particularity was mentioned by the United Press Central European manager Frederick C. Oechsner, and also noted in the Office of Strategic Services’ “Hitler Source Book.” The Germans without ado released an official press dispatch saying that Adolf Hitler’s blocked-up nasal passage had been fixed by a plastic surgeon. That did not, however, frankly explain why the originally thin, straight nose of Corporal Hitler gave way to the larger, puffed up nostrils of the Fuhrer. From time to time, it is said that the biggest deception of Nazism was its very first propaganda exploit –– the “miracle cure” of a lance corporal in the Pasewalk military medical wing. After Germany’s surrender on November 11, 1918, Hitler wrote that he experienced “a supernatural vision… A miracle came to pass” and his eyes could see once more. His instant recovery from mustard gas blindness was the whispered occult indicator of Hitler’s distorted mission to guide Germany. Manifestly overnight, Adolf Hitler achieved elegant powers of speech and debated with fluent manners about world politics, international finance, and other things that never crossed his mind before. The untrained bumpkin who never had a girlfriend abruptly hatched from a few weeks in hospital as a seasoned diplomatic leader and spy. He even shamelessly seduced his niece Geli Raubal, later found dead in his apartment. Sardonically, more than just Hitler’s nose changed. After 1918, Adolf Hitler abruptly lost much of his artistic ability. Out of awkwardness, he abandoned the art of applying paint 2 Pope Sixtus VI: An Inglorious Guide To Hitler’s Doubles to canvas, even as a pastime. All at once, the nimble illustrator who made a living by selling landscape paintings in Vienna couldn’t draw a straight line anymore. Even his signature’s handwriting didn’t look the same after his mustard gas blindness. Modern studies suggest that the sham miracle evidence and new signature style were due to the use of a “political decoy” (doppelganger or body-double) –– a look-alike trained to impersonate Hitler in order to draw attention away from him or to “deal with risks” on his behalf. It is now known that the Nazi Fuhrer vetted at least four doubles. While in the Pasewalk military hospital, Adolf Hitler was under the care of the eminent neuropsychologist Edmund Robert Forster. It’s unclear if “hysterical blindness” therapy was performed on Hitler, because years later, in 1933, the Gestapo confiscated all records related to his treatment and destroyed them. Dr. Forster reportedly committed suicide. According to modern medical studies, spontaneous healing after contact with deadly mustard gas is a baseless folk tale. At face value, Corporal Hitler certainly should not have swiftly recovered from the lethal World War I toxin. Believably, he could have stayed in a sickbed for the rest of his life. But devotion to false miracles and a young-looking Hitler, with his nose larger than before, seemed promising to the Nazi political party. A well-known handout photo of Hitler wearing the Iron Cross acknowledged in World War I appeared to be a little retouched –– to widen his nose. As if to say to a sleeper: “Get used to it. Take for granted a broad-nosed dictator.” 3 Pope Sixtus VI: An Inglorious Guide To Hitler’s Doubles Political Exposé: Double Gangsters “The Beast does not look what he is. He may even have a comic moustache.” (Vladimir Soloviev, “The Antichrist,” 1897, quoted by Trevor Ravenscroft, “Spear of Destiny.”) * * * Those unfamiliar with the deployment of political decoys in the Nazi war effort tend to reject the scrutiny of “Hitler’s doubles” as a half-baked hypothesis. One observer recently wrote, “It would be difficult for him to have pulled this off throughout WWII without anyone noticing.” Another disbeliever commented, “I don’t think it would ever work, someone would be sure to find out.” In actual fact, some influential people “did notice” Adolf Hitler’s doubles. They “found out” and exposed his doppelganger scheme on big screens throughout the world. Sadly, not too many viewers are still alive to remember. In the global media, Charlie Chaplin’s famous 1940 film “The Great Dictator” gave its audience a powerful hint that Adolf Hitler had a look-alike and political decoy. It was the first Hollywood film that denounced Hitler directly. For millions of viewers it created a convincing perception of “Hitler’s double” with the look-alike character of a common barber who mimicked the dictator’s identity and made a victory speech: “The clouds are lifting. The sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light.” In order to expose the decoy-politics of Nazism, Charlie Chaplin became Adolf Hitler’s most famous doppelganger. “The Great Dictator” was Chaplin’s first film with a soundtrack, and his most commercially successful movie. * * * “Rumors started to circulate about a double for Hitler. He was supposed to be a total look-alike, and he was trained to ‘be’ Hitler and was supposedly going to die a martyr’s death on the battlefield so that Hitler could be glorified without dying.” (New York Times, April 19, 1945) 4 Pope Sixtus VI: An Inglorious Guide To Hitler’s Doubles Doppelganger 1: Julius Schreck As told by Time magazine: “When Hitler drove out in his huge Mercedes-Benz, the man at the wheel was usually Julius Schreck, muscular, slit-eyed sub-commander of the Schutzstaffel, who wore an imitation Hitler mustache.” Schreck was an early Nazi chief organizer who played his part in the 1923 Munich Beer Hall Putsch and was sent to Landsberg Prison, along with other top Nazi leaders. Schreck periodically acted as Hitler’s double and on occasion was assaulted because of their resemblance. Julius Schreck was the first commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a special police force that originated as a strict bodyguard company for Hitler. After the SS began to expand under Heinrich Himmler, Schreck remained on the SS payrolls and worked as Hitler’s private chauffeur and political decoy. Time magazine reported that Julius Schreck developed “meningitis” and died on May 16, 1936: “White-faced and shaking, Adolf Hitler last week stood beside an open grave in Grafelfing cemetery near Munich. Massed behind him were most of Germany’s Nazi bigwigs. The Realmleader had come to bury his chauffeur, Julius Schreck, 32, dead of inflammation of the brain.” (“Germany: Chauffeur to Valhalla,” Time, Jun 01, 1936) In contrast, The Pittsburgh Press published a dreadfully different story about Julius Schreck: