The man with an iron hand from the 16th.century Götz von Berlichingen

Kimmo Huosionmaa

I always wonder, how the ancient mechanic prosthesis was working, because of the swords from the 16th. century was quite heavy. Also, men who used them were very strong, and the hits were also very powerful, what makes the problems with the prosthesis. If the touch were not strong enough the sword would fly away, and that means that the prosthesis must be made also by using strong material. The machinery inside the prosthesis should also be strong, and when we are thinking, that the hand and fingers have been amputated, would there be some other way to use the fingers than grip and winch, what would use the fingers like pliers. In modern prosthesis is a computer, servo-motors and Bluetooth connection to the human nervous system, and that makes possible to use machine prosthesis, but those equipment have not existed in the 16th. century. So how those men used their prosthesis is an interesting question.

German knight Götz von Berlichingen (c.1480-1562), from 16th. century used iron hand prosthesis. He was born in 15th. century, but here I'm writing about the man, who was born in 15th. century, as the "man from 16th. century", because most of his career was done at 16th. century.  This prosthesis made that man famous, and he also invented the phrase "kiss my ass".  This is not writing about the life of that knight, what is a very interesting tale. The life story is in the link below the text, and here I'm going to write about this mechanic prosthesis, what is a very interesting part of his life. When we are thinking about the prosthesis, what allowed to use swords, we must realize, that most of those prostheses were only the iron sleeve, what was pulled over the arm for protecting it. With those iron made sleeves were used swords, what was connecting to it by using welding.

Those iron sleeves were used wealthy and handicapped persons, and if the user was a wealthy man, there was grip inside the tube, what allowed the man keep better touch for this equipment. Those iron sleeves were simply, and they were allowed to use only the sword. But the hand, what was made for Götz von Berlichingen was more advanced and complicated. There was one little thing, what is creating an interesting question about this technical equipment. How this knight closed the fingers of this mechanical prosthesis?

Modern intelligent prosthesis operates with BlueTooth or some other wireless connection, what would communicate with the microchips, what are implanted to the nerves of the hand. Or in other version is, that the prosthesis is connected straight to the brains by using microchips, what is installed on the brain core in the area, what controls the movement of the arms and legs. Those microchips operate by using wireless technology, and they can also deliver the feelings of the sense of touch.  The prosthesis is equipped with piezo-crystals, what would send the touch to the computer, what decodes it to the chip, what would stimulate the brain core.

But this equipment is brand new technology and this kind of stuff was not able to get in the 16th. century. This prosthesis is very interesting because they were not manufactured even in the Second World war, and I haven't heard that even colonel Claus von Stauffenberg's class officers had that kind of things in use. Stauffenberg was the man, who bought the bomb in the room, where Hitler stayed in 1944, and that officer was very famous because he had the arm prosthesis. And there were not mentioned, that this man had the mechanical prosthesis. But I always wonder, where the knowledge to make this kind of mechanical arms forgot, what  Götz von Berlichingen used in 16th. century. Those things are a very interesting part of history, and they are causing many questions, like what other technical miracles we have forgotten in history.

Sources:

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/german-knight-who-survived-50-years-of-war-with-a-mechanical-arm.html

Why the color has meaning in some ideologies?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Here I must say, that Nazis and other authoritative governments are basically similar.  They would believe the high power military, and the patriotism, what bases the gun and force. When we are thinking about Nazis, they have not invented their system. It was in use in ancient Egypt and other historical nations. The system bases two lines, the other lines mission is to collect the information and the other line would be used in the use of force. A purpose of this system would be, that it will protect the rulers, and makes people afraid, that if they are speaking some negative things about the ruler, would that person hear those things. And the thing, what would happen could be very painful when Pharaoh would serve that person as lunch for his pet crocodile.

Why somebody would highlight the color when they are talking about their society? This is the thing, what people normally don't think. When Nazis talk about the "White Arian race", we might think, that this term meant society, of the persons, who were secured. In this case, the term would also mean the Nazi-frontmen, persons who talked to the people in public, and was public position in the Nazi-society. But then we must think, that there could also be "black Arian race".  The term would mean the people, who secretly supported the Nazi-empire, and worked for it secretly.

This term is actually modified from the terminology, what comes from the Holy Bible, or other religious texts, what have been written for supporting the leaders in their work, and as you might see, this thing is written as the code, because nobody wanted to tell people, that the magic, what the controlling class uses bases actually the denunciation. The people who are in the controlling system were "upper water", and people who secretly worked for the secret police or whatever we are calling those persons are "downed water". When we are thinking about the situation in Europe where all began, the nations were led by noblemen.

Those persons were ruling class, and they had many secrets, what normal people would not want to know, and that's why they must be very careful when they took spouses. If the spouse was not anchored in the system, that would mean rebellion. In this system, what was ruled by men and women, who were totally separated from the nation the main element was, that the usual leader of the area was kind for the people. And when the people would need to punish, the punishment came from the assistant count.

Nobody made massacres in the own areas, and this meant, that another person called to keep the areas feared. This system was complicated, and the knights, who called to punish some area came from another country. In Germany, the English Knights had the very brutal reputation, because their mission was to end the rebels. Those knights were called by the king and the idea of this system was, that the king was kept clean, and the genocide could be rolled to the neck of some person, who was coming from other countries.

The system was common in the old European and Roman controlling system, where normal people worked for the ruling class, and the prize for good service would be the place in the ruling system, what guaranteed easy jobs for the person, who just forward the orders. They must just sit on the table and tell other people, what they have to do, and if they were done that job perfectly, they could get more power, and higher rank in the tower, what was called the ruling class.

The idea of that system was that the rulers ever make mistakes. All mistakes are made by henchmen because they didn't have the ability to follow the orders, what was read them by some person, who sat on the horse. Maybe they didn't speak loud enough, but because the order was given to henchman, would the mistake made by this person, who was working in the field. The higher-rank man was not responsible, because he sat in the office, and wait for the report from the henchman. In the court of Nuremberg, the line was, that ruler was responsible for the orders, what were given by them, and also henchman had the responsibility to think, what kind of orders he followed.

But the system, what Nazis or NKVD used in genocide was similar, what the knights used in old Europe. And when we are thinking about the actions like they were done by police, we must think about the situation, that the local police would call other police from another county to make them "dirty job", what means to write the speeding tickets for drivers, if the local cops don't want to do that thing.

When the system worked perfectly, the highest rank members of it trained as the separated place, and they were not communicated with the ordinary people. The language, what those people used was normally Latin, and that made normal people unable to understand the words, what they used. The problem was, that persons, who were members of the highest controlling level of the society couldn't understand the words, what ordinary people used.

They couldn't communicate with normal people without translators, and that made them addicted by the supporting system, what mission was to report disorders and other things to them. The idea of the system was, that the persons, who seemed like suitable took in the custody in very young age. And that's why they couldn't learn ordinary languages. When the child took in custody, the persons normally claimed, that the child was dead because that made things easier, and the parents didn't look for them. And then the Pope introduced as the father of those people. The word "Pope" meant the father and this is the position, what transferred to the king, and in the palace guards, the king introduced as the "father of those men". This guaranteed the loyalty to the monarch.

This is the methodology, what was used in the training of the most fanatic military units in history. There is claiming, that the "Janissaries", sultans personal soldiers claimed, that they were actually children of Christians, who gave them to Sultan, that he would kill them. And this made them hate against Europeans. The similar methodology used in the selection process of the Terror-units of the Waffen-SS, what mission was to slaughter the enemies of the Nazi-government.

Methodology what used in the making the fanatics was very brutal, and the punisher claimed in the case of Turkish, that he was Christian, and in the Nazi-case that punisher was Jew. This guaranteed the hate against those people. The codename for that program was "Monarch". The purpose was to make people, who were worked for leaders, and ever excused, what the leaders told them to do. The blind obedience connected with hardcore militarism was the thing, what made the fanaticism of those troops.