stock here: I stole this from the comment section:
I find it very odd that in John Leake’s presentation of Ursula’s family history, along with his analogy to Hitler that he didn’t make the most glaring and obvious link of all between them! Nor has any other commenter.
I suppose a Fox is going have to connect the most important and relevant dots in this story. Like her grandfather being a high-ranking German official who helped negotiate the Pact between Hitler and Stalin (later broken).
And her husband’s family who oversaw the massacre of Ukrainians in Galicia.
You cannot tell this story, John, without telling the most meaningful and poignant part of it! Relations to crazy kings in the much longer ago are interesting, but not the most compelling ancestry story to tell. Especially not about a eugenicist, who’s entire world view is through the prism of her “superior” genetics! Eugenicists don’t get to stake a claim to privilege based on the best genes they inherit without carrying the burden of the worst genes they inherit!
Who is Ursula von der Leyen?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen
FF – A gilded life, a blueblood and filled with aggrandizing self-importance.
Who is Ursula’s father, Ernst Albrecht?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Albrecht_(politician,_born_1930)
“Albrecht made Hans Puvogel his minister of justice. During his tenure, Puvogel was particularly active in combatting notions of more liberal penal and rehabilitation systems. He had already set out justification for his stance in a 1935-1936 doctoral thesis. There, he wrote of the “inheritance of criminal tendencies”, of “constitutionally predisposed criminals” and “inferior people”, who would have to be “eliminated from the community”. “Only a person of value to the race” would have “a right to exist within the national community”.
The state government under Ernst Albrecht used every opportunity to court former Nazis. In a 1978 speech, Deputy Premier Wilfried Hasselmann (CDU) greeted the Association of Knight’s Cross Recipients, a league of former Wehrmacht (Hitler’s army) officers and SS men, certifying that they had “shown courage and given an example to others”. Hasselmann declared he was “deeply impressed by the solidarity of your order. You have fulfilled your duty as soldiers in an exemplary manner. This will continue to be evident to a younger generation.”
FF – Ursula’s father’s values included eugenics as described above, the elimination of “inferior people” from the human gene pool. And Ursula’s father recruited former Nazi’s to support his administration, his agenda. These are the family values of a leading global politician who embraces totalitarian governing models. Inherited. It’s in her genes. Ursula, proponent of eugenics, must own the harms of her genes she inherited, not just the benefits.
More interesting tidbits about Ursula’s and her father, Ernst, that provide insights as to what makes her tick:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/09/29/warm-s29.html
FF – But, what about Ursula’s grandfather, Carl Eduard Albrecht?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Albrecht_(psychologist)
FF – Ursula von der Leyen’s Nazi grandfather worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Adolf Hitler and arranged the economic aspects of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939.
(not authoritative source, though the contributor seems to have good credentials. Nonetheless a good summary of information that is available elsewhere)
FF – A Nazi German psychologist and psychotherapist PsyOps pro, and medical doctor. Actively practicing during the 1930’s…when more doctors were early members of the Nazi party, not just the late arrivals who were followers or coerced:
Why did so many German doctors join the Nazi Party early?
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, October 3, 2012
https://sci-hub.se/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2012.09.022,
“During the Weimar Republic in the mid-twentieth century, more than half of all German physicians became early joiners of the Nazi Party, surpassing the party enrollments of all other professions. From early on, the German Medical Society played the most instrumental role in the Nazi medical program, beginning with the marginalization of Jewish physicians, proceeding to coerced “experimentation,” “euthanization,” and sterilization, and culminating in genocide via the medicalization of mass murder of Jews and others caricatured and demonized by Nazi ideology. Given the medical oath to “do no harm,” many postwar ethical analyses have strained to make sense of these seemingly paradoxical atrocities. Why did physicians act in such a manner? Yet few have tried to explain the self-selected Nazi enrollment of such an overwhelming proportion of the German Medical Society in the first place.”
FF – This is who Ursual von der Leyen is.
Now for her husband, the von der Leyen family, his gene pool inherited inhumanity that accompanies his privilege. Heiko von der Leyen, Ursula’s husband, is a doctor and scientific director of the US biotech company Orgenesis, which specialises in cell and gene therapies and is a frontrunner in the development of RNA COVID vaccines.
His family was full of Nazi murderers in WWII. Joachim Freiherr von der Leyen ruled Galicia Ukraine…*Ukraine!*…in a civil capacity for the Nazis during WWII. He oversaw the village where Ukrainians were massacred:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_der_Leyen_(family_from_Krefeld)
“Joachim Freiherr von der Leyen
Friedrich Ludwig’s son, Joachim Freiherr von der Leyen (September 28, 1897 – 1945) was a German jurist and civil servant who worked as a district administrator during the Third Reich in occupied Czechoslovakia and Poland, and was involved in perpetrating the Holocaust as Kreishauptmann (district chief) of Lemberg-Land in the District of Galicia.”
“Von der Leyen was informed about, and participated in, the Holocaust; as were, and did, numerous other district administrators, chiefs, and miscellaneous officials in the District of Galicia. Von der Leyen was the “highest civilian ruler” of Lviv during the Holocaust – he oversaw forced labour camps, extermination camps, and the Lviv Ghetto, where approximately 540,000 people were murdered. Joachim’s widow, Huberta, would manage the Haus Meer Estate until its inheritance by his son, Friedrich Heinrich von der Leyen II in 1970″
The Von der Leyen family also ran a Euthanasia Program called “The Institute for Typhus and Virus Research.” Euthanasia is a eugenicist’s favorite way to kill off “useless eaters” from the gene pool.
Nazi’s all the way down in Ursula Von der Leyen’s ideas and blood, genetics.