The King and the Duke Play Kansas City
The King and the Duke Play Kansas City
How a traveling Holocaust show fleeced the rubes in Kansas City and Reddit censors helped them do it
It had everything a white, culturally Christian American could want. Somber music, hushed tones, and dim lighting. There was a pile of old shoes, an actual German train car from the 1940s parked out front, and actual soup bowls with their actual spoons from an actual Nazi death camp. There was even an especially moving, actual death camp uniform on display in an actual glass case.
The show, called “Auschwitz,” was presented a couple of years back in the basement of Kansas City’s glorious Union Station—a beautiful train station completed in 1914 and located on a gentle incline between downtown and the national memorial to the war completed just a few years later.
According to the organizers of the Auschwitz show, 315,000 Kansas Citians viewed it during its run, which had to be extended due to demand. The price of entrance to the show was 25 dollars for adults (students got a discounted price of, as I recall, [edit: $17.50]). In all, the organizers grossed somewhere north of seven million dollars from their Kansas City engagement.
I’d seen the billboards all over town advertising the event. “Auschwitz,” the billboards proclaimed over a grayish photo of train tracks leading ominously into a brick building of that name, “Not long ago. Not far away.” Well, that’s probably true in perpetuity, I remember thinking to myself, and gave it no more thought until I happened to notice, as I was driving by Union Station one morning, the long line of school buses out front. I parked and stood beside the front entrance to Union Station and watched for a while—white kids from elementary schools in Olathe and Overland Park and middle schools in Lee’s Summit and Raytown and high schools in Topeka and St Joseph and Lenexa disgorged by the busload at $17.50 per tax-paid head.
I asked a uniformed employee of Union Station, who was standing there, “Do you get this many school kids coming to this show every morning?”
“Yeah, pretty much,” he replied.
“I see,” I murmured and the whole business suddenly took on a sinister aspect. I followed along the stream of school kids descending the escalators to the entrance to the show and read the informational pamphlets they had displayed at the ticket booth. There were two women stationed there and I asked the one who seemed to be the senior of the two, pointing at a line in the brochure mentioning genocide, whether their show included material about the Bolshevik genocide of 66 million Russian Christians that began 25 years before Hitler came to power in Germany, intensified during WWII, and continued long after Germany had surrendered.
“It’s on the website,” she croaked, without missing a beat, and I suddenly realized that the show that had managed to install itself in the basement of this beautiful old railway station was The Royal Nonesuch, the show The King and The Duke performed for the rubes downriver from Kansas City in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn.
I went home and made a graphic, then posted it to the r/kansascity subreddit:
Well, one does not poke fun of grifters if their grift is a Grift. I was immediately and permanently banned by the Reddit censors from r/kansascity (which was full of effusive—effusive—praise for Auschwitz).
Someone who believes they have the right to tell you what you may or may not say also necessarily believes they have the right to tell you what you may or may not hear—that is to say, what you may or may not believe or think. They, therefore, believe they have the right to remove your humanity itself to serve their own ends. They are the genocidalists and there is no creature on the planet more vile than this one.
I really hate censorship, so I made another graphic, blew it up, and spent several mornings posted at the entrance to Union Station with my poster displayed:
Any students who expressed an interest as they filed past my poster received an informational brochure, which included the graphic depicted above. I have no doubt the organizers of the Auschwitz show demanded my removal, but the employees at Union Station let me be. Perhaps, among those students who saw my graphic, there were some who will let the information start them on a path to a deeper, truer understanding of the world in which we live. I don’t know. But I do know we need more people like me. (Share this substack, please, to help people like me!)
And, finally, here is a picture I took in December, 2017 of the St Louis train station. I include it here for its sheer beauty. This is what our ancestors built. Not Auschwitz. Not the gulags. This is what our young people should be learning about, for crying out loud.
Germany has been saddled with its own “Stockholm Syndrome” ever since the summation of the Second World War.
There are some brave Germans who have gone against the “official narrative” of WW2 with Germany seen as being on “the wrong side of history” and as such are (still) considered to be “the bad guys”, but they are either too few or afraid of being “outed” as “holocaust™ deniers”, subject to severe punishment, and yes, Nazis (which is unfairly still a pejorative term in Germany and in much of the rest of the civilized world).
This is especially bolstered by the (in)famous “jewish holocaust™” which was created by the Allies in order to keep Germany permanently demonized.
In fact, it was Russian jews who “rebuilt” Auschwitz after the war in its own propagandistic way, creating and amplifying engineering errors that the Germans would have never done.
From non-sealed “gas chambers” with wooden doors that “swing the wrong way” to no means for inserting and ventilating the poison gases, using a delousing agent as an ineffective “poison gas”, anyone with an engineering background can easily poke holes in all of the claims made by holocaust™ promoters.
Let’s not forget that jewish “holocaustianity™” has been deemed to be a state religion in many countries from which no deviation of belief is permitted.
Prosecution, fines and imprisonment await those who seek the truth about this false, contrived event in history.
Even Canada has criminalized any criticism of this “event”.
Recently, Florida Governor DeSantis traveled to israel where he signed legislation to outlaw and prosecute (certain) “hate speech”. He signed this legislation while in israel and made it known that it was to outlaw criticism of the “holocaust™”. Now, who does DeSantis work for?
It is only a matter of time before “holocaustianity™” becomes the “official state religion” here in the USA.
If the “holocaust™” is based on “truth” why not encourage a full impartial investigation into this “event”? What are “holocaust™” promoters afraid of?
Jews have always been excellent propaganda agents, tugging at heartstrings by always showing jews as being “downtrodden” victims and always being marginalized and victimized. This is a “feature” and not a “bug” as it has been successful in keeping the holocaust™ fable alive to the present day.
Jewish “holocaust™ museums” (actually jewish freak shows) display piles of shoes, glasses, clothing, and other piles of “who knows what” in order to claim that 6,000,000 jews were “gassed out of existence”.
These jewish freaks shows get massive amounts of taxpayer-funded dollars despite being totally out of place in American society. Schoolchildren are brainwashed and propagandized in these freak shows, which is actually child abuse.
Florida Governor DeSantis mandated that ALL Florida school children will visit these “holocaust™ museums” (jewish freak shows) under penalty of law. Gotta keep the fraud alive.
It could be safely argued that even Americans have been unwitting victims of “Stockholm Syndrome” especially when it comes to “all things holocaust™”.
It is long overdue to conduct a full, impartial, honest of all holocaust™ claims and to “let the chips fall where they may” and finally expose it as the fraud that it is.
This is the only way out of the Stockholm Syndrome for Germany, the USA and the rest of the world.
That is brilliant what you did with your poster graphic and the pamphlets you gave out to the interested students. Planting seeds is the way to go on this one.
Not sure where we saw this, but the other day my husband was reading a post by a teacher who was complaining about the (grade 8?) students in her classroom making fun of her holocaust lesson. The kids were saying "upsetting" things like "Hitler was a great guy!" If I come across the link, I'll post it for you.