Who is that Person? (also open for everyone)

[gunner-B]

It looks like a pre-war photo of Reinhard Ghehlen, a very well regarded war & post-war intelligence officer.

Paul

[Librarian]

yOU lIBRARIAN dUDEDONT SPEAK eNLGISH. i DONT KNOW WHAT YOU SAYING YOU DIG!..nOW QWRITE SOMTING ABOUT |bLACK PEOPLE SO i CAN PLAY YOU DIG!

Dear Sir,

In I am deeply thankful for that apparent linguistic incoherence of yours, obviously produced by the rapid movement of thought. In our common Lingua Franca – moderatly plain English – there is quite a large collection of gobbledygook, but your truly excellent adress represents a magnificent cloud of linguistic gas formed into paragraphs comparable only with those emitted by contemporary critics of painting and music, or perhaps the juicier pages of the Congressional Record. I mean open-and-above board, custom-tailored, recognized, universally admitted and admired nonsense.

This new linguistic fashion is truly existential without having developed any substantial existence. Alas, as the critic Ernst Gombrich have observed, the days have passed when you could shock the public, because the very nature of inarticulateness is too remote to shake anybody’s complacency, too obsure to give any profound shocks to the soul.

However, I wish to thank you for your truly magnificent manifestation of so called limited language, actually a coterie argot designed to exclude the common run of squares who don’t dig their message. For the hipster these are designed to initiate him not into the life of old-timers in Ozarks, with the cattle, sheep and dude, but into nothingness.

For just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I had always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadow, and wonderment at the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of civilization’s end kicking at my heel to move on.

Thank you for that from the bottom of my hart.

Sincerely yours,

Predrag Popovic - Librarian

[Rising_Sun]

@Librarian

Dear Sir,

In I am deeply thankful for that apparent linguistic incoherence of yours, obviously produced by the rapid movement of thought. In our common Lingua Franca – moderatly plain English – there is quite a large collection of gobbledygook, but your truly excellent adress represents a magnificent cloud of linguistic gas formed into paragraphs comparable only with those emitted by contemporary critics of painting and music, or perhaps the juicier pages of the Congressional Record. I mean open-and-above board, custom-tailored, recognized, universally admitted and admired nonsense.

This new linguistic fashion is truly existential without having developed any substantial existence. Alas, as the critic Ernst Gombrich have observed, the days have passed when you could shock the public, because the very nature of inarticulateness is too remote to shake anybody’s complacency, too obsure to give any profound shocks to the soul.

However, I wish to thank you for your truly magnificent manifestation of so called limited language, actually a coterie argot designed to exclude the common run of squares who don’t dig their message. For the hipster these are designed to initiate him not into the life of old-timers in Ozarks, with the cattle, sheep and dude, but into nothingness.

For just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I had always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadow, and wonderment at the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of civilization’s end kicking at my heel to move on.

Thank you for that from the bottom of my hart.

Sincerely yours,

Predrag Popovic - Librarian

BUBBA n aly j

lissen up dudes

dis is wot appens wen u reed buks n hang in liburies

peeps rite stuff wot u carnt reed cuz dey is torking smart werds wif funy speling n sht

dont hang wif da libury dudes cuz dey wil spin yer brain wif there eggistentshil nilism n filossofy sht

stik wif da reel peeps hoo speek da reel strete tork witch reveels there deep unnerstanning off da werld wore 2 n stuf

[navyson]

@Librarian

Dear Sir,

In I am deeply thankful for that apparent linguistic incoherence of yours, obviously produced by the rapid movement of thought. In our common Lingua Franca – moderatly plain English – there is quite a large collection of gobbledygook, but your truly excellent adress represents a magnificent cloud of linguistic gas formed into paragraphs comparable only with those emitted by contemporary critics of painting and music, or perhaps the juicier pages of the Congressional Record. I mean open-and-above board, custom-tailored, recognized, universally admitted and admired nonsense.

This new linguistic fashion is truly existential without having developed any substantial existence. Alas, as the critic Ernst Gombrich have observed, the days have passed when you could shock the public, because the very nature of inarticulateness is too remote to shake anybody’s complacency, too obsure to give any profound shocks to the soul.

However, I wish to thank you for your truly magnificent manifestation of so called limited language, actually a coterie argot designed to exclude the common run of squares who don’t dig their message. For the hipster these are designed to initiate him not into the life of old-timers in Ozarks, with the cattle, sheep and dude, but into nothingness.

For just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I had always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadow, and wonderment at the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of civilization’s end kicking at my heel to move on.

Thank you for that from the bottom of my hart.

Sincerely yours,

Predrag Popovic - Librarian

That was good reading!:D:mrgreen:

[Churchill]

That may have been one of the better posts here… I completely agree with you though.

[gunner-B]

Now you have got that off of your chest, can you please reply to my answer. Is it right or wrong?

Paul

[Major_Walter_Schmidt]

What does bubba mean when he says “You dig”?

[Churchill]

I believe it’s a synonym to “Do you understand?”.

[Major_Walter_Schmidt]

I thought he meant “do research”"… now I get it…:mrgreen:

[Major_Walter_Schmidt]

Its called sarsasm…

[flamethrowerguy]

@Librarian

No problem, my dear Mr. Herman - everything is now completely elucidated, therefore we will be able to concentrate our attention upon the game. So – here we go!

Without any doubt, this daredevelish personality represented one of the most prominent officers in active service during the WW2.

Being exceptionally brave, utterly devoted, intellectually gifted and morally adamant, this personality proved that even in modern, massive and collectively undertaken warfare, one man can make a difference!

No problem, my dear Mr. Flamethrowerguy. Our mysterious personality individually obtained various utterly important informations about one truly enormous enemy offensive, successfully and swiftly personally eliminated three enemy Generals, discovered and passed to further governmental examinations one previously absolutely unobserved type of a enemy firearm, and… received his well-deserved medal!

Please, lady and gents…could we return to the original topic. Above is Librarians mystery picture and the entire info.
gunner-b’s guess was Reinhard Gehlen.

[Librarian]

Alas, honorable ladies and gentlemen, general Reinhard Gehlen is not our mysterious wartime celebrity.

Keep up the good work!

[kamehouse]

Was he with the Brandenburgers?

[Librarian]

No my dear Mr. Kamehouse. Actually, he was within the NKVD.

[flamethrowerguy]

With that record, a Brandenburger was my first guess as well. I checked on all Knight’s Cross holders upon them but no similarity to the photo. But, honestly, somehow -because of Librarians hint with the well-deserved medal- I had a slight feeling that there was more to him…

[kamehouse]

So this guy is basically a Soviet spy shown in the picture with a German uniform?
I am a little slow.

[flamethrowerguy]

@aly_j

Any chance that this soviet spy in a german unifrom having a German name.

I’m just having a guess here.

Hans Jeschonnek or Hermann Fegelin.

Hm, Aly, allow me to anticipate here.

• Hermann Fegelein was actually Hitler’s brother-in-law since he was married to Eva Braun’s sister. He has always been an opportunist and a devoted national socialist…at least until April 27,1945 when he decided not to go down with his Führer/brother in law and tried to disappear from besieged Berlin. Well, Hitler’s human track hounds found him “in flagranti” means deserting in civil clothes. He was shot on April 29, 1945 in the garden of the Department for Foreign Affairs. BTW, the mystery man is wearing a “Heer” (army) uniform, Fegelein was in the Waffen-SS.
  -Hans Jeschonnek was a Colonel General in the Luftwaffe. He committed suicide after discrepances with Göring about the aerial protection of Germany.

[Librarian]

Exactly, my dear Mr. Flamethrowerguy. However, our mysterious personality actually possessed a truly meticulously prepared German nome de guerre.

[flamethrowerguy]

Somehow the photo shows a certain similarity to young Richard Sorge but I haven’t an explanation why he should have been in a Wehrmacht officers uniform.

[Librarian]

Oh, don’t worry, my dear Mr. Flamethrowerguy - even if there is certain physical resemblance I am assuring you that Mr. Sorge has nothing in common with this almost completely unknown hero of the Soviet intelligence.