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Table of Contents
Important Facts
Chapter 1 - Robert Johnson Prays For His Son’s Death - Part I
Chapter 2 - Karl Müller
Chapter 3 - Trench Warfare, World War I
Chapter 4 - 1914 German Weapons Lab
Chapter 5 - The End of World War I, Or Was It?
Chapter 6 - 1921, Excess Deaths Amongst American Children
Chapter 7 - Karl Müller And His Team Review Their Projections
Chapter 8 - Allied Response To Excess Child Death
Chapter 9 - Robert Johnson Prays For His Son’s Death - Part II
Chapter 10 - The Morning of Timmy Johnson’s Sixth Birthday
Chapter 11 - The Paternity Fraud & Cuckoldry Commission
Epilogue
Important Facts
Germany enters WW1 on August 3, 1914 by declaring war on France.
Robert Johnson, U.S. Army
Served March 1915 through the Armistice on November 11, 1918.
Mostly served in the trenches.
Married when he entered the war but with no children.
He was home by New Year’s Day 1918 and began his delayed married life, like so many servicemen who were / are deployed.
Children Birthday 6 year Bdays
Timothy (Timmy) 12/25/1919 12/25/1925
Ruth 11/01/1920 11/01/1926
Maximus 06/04/1922 06/04/1928
Mary 07/04/1923 07/04/1929
Robert shares a house with his sister Pamela’s family. Her husband Joshua was unable to serve in the war due to being deaf in his right ear, which was hereditary.
Chapter 1 - Robert Johnson Prays For His Son’s Death - Part I
It is 10pm, 12/24/1925, Christmas Eve and the eve of Timmy Johnson’s sixth birthday. Timmy was Robert Johnson’s first born.
We find ourselves at the altar kneeler at The Old Cathedral, The Basilica of St. Louis, King of France.
Midnight mass will be starting in two hours. The church is empty, dark, quiet and still.
A lone candle illuminates the altar with eerie moving shadows as it flickers.
Robert Johnson, the sole parishioner in the church, is kneeling at the altar.
A crucifix complete with a wooden Jesus, over 1 story tall, hangs in front of him. Jesus’ face is just barely visible in the flickering candle light.
Robert is crying so deeply his entire body and face are shaking.
He is praying in a whisper as tears flow over his mouth.
He is saying over and over and over again:
“Jesus, my savior, I beseech thee to take my son Timmy’s life before sunrise.
Jesus, my savior, I beseech thee to take my son Timmy’s life before sunrise.
Jesus, my savior, I beseech thee to take my son Timmy’s life before sunrise.
Jesus, my savior, I beseech thee….”
Suddenly the interior lights come on and Monsignor Rudden says from the back of the church.
“Robert, you will need to come back at midnight, we need to ready the church for mass now.”
Robert Johnson stands, eyes still closed, and wipes the tears from his face with a handkerchief. He heads home and checks in on his sleeping children, going to Timmy’s room last.
Timmy is sound asleep. Mr. Johnson silently watches the blankets rise and fall with Timmy’s respirations.
He closes his eyes and brings his hands together in a praying motion, and prays one last time:
“Jesus, my savior, I beseech thee to take my son Timmy’s life before sunrise.”
He hopes to come back to this spot in the morning, in Timmy’s bedroom doorway, and see his blanket still and unmoving.
His greatest fears and suspicions tell him Timmy will wake up just as he has done since he was born.
If so, there will be hell to pay.
Chapter 2 - Karl Müller
Karl Müller was born in Berlin in 1890, and had a knack for science from the first, and became obsessed with the nature of gasses. Both of his parents were of below-average intelligence, but they were smart enough to nurture their son’s gift.
In Germany during the early 1900s, post-secondary education started after grade 10. But unlike the University System in the U.S., post-secondary education is designed for individuals to learn advanced skills for a specific profession and is not liberal arts based.
Karl, two years ahead of his peers, was accepted to Heidelberg University, which had been established in 1386. He majored in Biology and minored in Gas Science. He graduated at age 20 in 1910 with a PHD.
His genius led him to become an expert in the manufacture of gasses for commercial purposes even before graduating.
During his time at Heidelberg, Karl had 30 papers published, more than any teacher on staff, and had received 4 patents.
His favorite paper was “Auswirkungen von Toxinen in der Luft auf die menschliche Fortpflanzung” (Airborne Toxins Impact On Human Reproduction).
It was this paper that had officials of The Reichswehr (Rike-Swear) (lit. 'Reich Defense'), better known as the German Army, make a housecall to the Müller home.
Bright young Karl Müller had been watched and nurtured behind the scenes by the German government unbeknownst to his parents. They always took a great interest in prodigies of all kinds, especially those gifted in the sciences. Just like they were doing with Einstein, they covertly guided Karl’s academic career.
Einstein’s academic path would seem disjointed and littered with failures to most, but that was all part of the German government’s plan to properly nurture his special gifts, just like they had done for Karl.
In 1910, Einstein was still five years away from publishing his first major breakthrough in “The Field Equations of Gravitation.” Einstein was a slow simmer, but the Germans knew Karl would not be.
Young Karl had job offers from all over the world upon graduation, but none of these jobs offered Karl the ability to serve his country in the dark years that were predicted to be on the horizon. Those predictions would prove correct for 30 years where, not one, but two world wars would besiege his country.
Although the pay was half of the lowest offer he received from the private sector, he started working for The Reichswehr on December 1, 1910.
Chapter 3 - Trench Warfare, World War I
Trench warfare reached its highest development on the Western Front during World War I (1914–18), when armies of millions of men faced each other in a line of trenches extending from the Belgian coast through northeastern France to Switzerland. These trenches arose within the first few months of the war’s outbreak, after the great offensives launched by Germany and France had shattered against the deadly, withering fire of the machine gun and the rapid-firing artillery piece. The sheer quantity of bullets and shells flying through the air in the battle conditions of that war compelled soldiers to burrow into the soil to obtain shelter and survive.
The typical trench system in World War I consisted of a series of two, three, four, or more trench lines running parallel to each other and being at least 1 mile (1.6 km) in width. Each trench was dug in a type of zigzag so that no enemy, standing at one end, could fire for more than a few yards down its length. Each of the main lines of trenches was connected to each other and to the rear by a series of communications trenches that were dug roughly perpendicular to them. Food, ammunition, fresh troops, mail, and orders were delivered through these trenches. The intricate network of trenches contained command posts, forward supply dumps, first-aid stations, kitchens, and latrines. Most importantly, it had machine-gun emplacements to defend against an assault, and it had dugouts deep enough to shelter large numbers of defending troops during an enemy bombardment.
The trench systems on the Western Front were roughly 475 miles long, although not in a continuous line. Though trenches offered some protection, they were still incredibly dangerous, as soldiers easily became trapped or killed because of direct hits from artillery fire and mustard and chlorine gas.
Chapter 4 - 1914 German Weapons Lab
German Biological Weapons Lab, Spandau Arsenal, Germany 4/1/1914
After 1910, the German government increased its research on chemical weapons. Karl, although only 20 at the time, was the most sought after candidate to work in this secret program.
He was given one directive. Develop a gas that would alter the reproductive genetics of any man breathing it in a very specific way..
Now on his 24th birthday, on der erste April (April Fool’s Day) Karl was standing in the most secret biological weapons laboratories in the world located in the German Spandau Arsenald.
He had just come in to start his day and turned on the lab lights and was immediately beaming from ear to ear.
He was looking into a sealed lab room with a large observation window.
Hanging to the right of the window was a clipboard with his research notes.
Those notes were simply counting the days elapsed on the current iteration of his experiment.
Written on the pad was the following:
Experiment 78H6, 30th iteration
Tomorrow will be day:
Day Subjects Still Alive
---1-- 6
---2-- 6
---3-- 6
---4-- 6
---5-- 6
6 0
The only thing in the sealed lab room was a 2 x 4 foot cage and it was filled with 10 dead baby mice with the mother and father mice still alive.
He was elated. He triple checked his hanging pad to make sure that today was in fact day 6. He also checked his calendar again. Yesterday was indeed day 5.
Yes! On the 30th iteration, Karl had done it. He had fulfilled the mission he had been enlisted to do.
He had forever genetically altered the sperm of the father mouse with a simple odorless, colorless and tasteless gas.
On the sixth morning exactly, all of the recently born baby mice were all deceased.
This meant he could continue on to human studies.
He asked his superiors if he could name his invention and they agreed.
He named it:
In Der Luft Männlicher Gamet Chromosomal Ersatz-IDLMGCE or
(Airborne Male Gamete Chromosomal Replacement-AMGCR in English)
A few months earlier, he had perfected his formula for Chlorine gas which would become so deadly to Allied soldiers in the trenches in just a few short months.
On April 22, 1915 at 5 p.m. a wave of Karls’ asphyxiating chlorine gas released from cylinders embedded in the ground by German specialist troops smothered the Allied line on the northern end of the Ypres salient, causing panic and a struggle to survive a new form of weapon.
Karl’s new invention, AMGCR, would be much more effective without immediately killing anyone. It was being administered out of compressed gas cylinders, just as his chlorine was. But the enemy would not feel any ill effects or to detect they were breathing it in.
AMGCR had been deployed along the entire length of the Allied trench lines.
Unbeknownst to the Allied leaders, AMGCR was being inhaled by a million or more of their men. They seemed, by all outward appearance, to have come out of the war unscathed. This was far from the truth. It would take years, almost six to be exact, for the world to understand the extent of the German’s evil intention.
By the time of the armistice on November 11, 1918, the use of chemical weapons such as chlorine, phosgene, and mustard gas had resulted in more than 1.3 million casualties and approximately 90,000 deaths. AMGCR would lie dormant for many years.
Chapter 5 - The End of World War I, Or Was It?
The Treaty of Versailles, which officially ended World War I, was signed on June 28, 1919. The main authors of the treaty were the leaders of France, England, Italy and the United States. Germany and its former allies were not allowed to participate in the negotiations. The resulting treaty was a compromise that fully pleased no one—least of all, Germany.
The terms were very harsh toward Germany, stating that it was solely responsible for starting the war and requiring it to disarm, to surrender its overseas colonies and to pay massive reparations for the losses suffered by the Allies. Germany also relinquished sizable areas of territory to France, Belgium, the newly formed Poland and to other new countries created as the Allies redrew the map of Europe.
The Allies also redrew the map of the Middle East, dividing the area into spheres of French and British influence and sowing the seeds for future discord and strife. The peace terms forced upon Germany caused lingering resentment and humiliation, setting the stage for many of its citizens to search for national leadership which would make Germany a world power once more. They would ultimately turn to the Nazi Party and its leader, Adolf Hitler.
But the World War I casualties caused by the Germans were not over.
Chapter 6 - 1921, Excess Deaths Amongst American Children
Judy Gibbons worked at The Public Health Service (PHS). PHS is the second oldest uniformed service of the United States; its tradition commenced with the establishment of the Marine Hospital Service in 1798. Congress, in 1889, established the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps under the aegis of the Treasury.
Judy was a statistician and covered mortality for the most part.
From a young age she had been encouraged by her family and especially her male teachers to follow her love for math and numbers as far it would take her.
Judy was comparing Quarter 2 1921 death rates in the age group 0 through 10 years, with the previous 5 years. She had adjusted her findings for the impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
By her rough calculations, it seemed that the mortality rate for children ten and under had increased tenfold.
She called these excess deaths, the first time the term was used.
As there were no computers, it took Judy and her team a few months to verify the data. By that time Quarter 3 1921 data was in and it showed the same pattern.
Judy requested and was granted permission to start a deeper study on this anomaly.
Her initial sampling of these excess deaths brought something more perplexing. All of the excess deaths were of six year olds, who died the morning of their sixth birthdays.
By this time, greater society and the general populace were all asking the same questions, and it all came to a head as the government research and the population’s anecdotal experience came to the same conclusion at the same time.
This was no anomaly.
This was not a natural phenomena, whatever this was had been created in a laboratory.
American children were under attack.
Chapter 7 - Karl Müller And His Team Review Their Projections
Karl Müller was smart enough to not marry his inventions. He took the alternate approach and put the results of his experiments and ultimate deployment of his inventions through the most rigorous post-deployment analysis. Karl and his German colleagues called it what it really was, a literal post-mortem.
He was a few years ahead of Judy Gibbons, at least in gathering Allied country mortality data.
Karl had become Judy’s biggest fan. He had a picture of her on his desk, her face ever facing and watching him. He could feel her excitement at her latest discoveries, all based on his work.
Spies in the Public Health Service (PHS) were updating Karl on even the smallest happening in Judy’s personal and professional lives and were providing copies of her research before they were published.
These spies were known to Judy, but she used them to transfer only the information she wanted disseminated to Karl. She signed those specific papers with three initials, J. K. G. Her middle name was Anne.
Judy was proving all of his predictions correct.
Unbeknownst to Karl, the U.S. government knew exactly who he was and eventually they would realize he was responsible.
Karl had placed bets with his colleagues that the wave of excess six year old child deaths would start quarter 2 1921. He won all of those bets.
He had deployed his IDLMGCE or as it would be called once translated to English, AMGCR, in April 2015.
His mouse studies had seen the baby mice die six days after birth, but Karl predicted this would translate to six years for humans.
Starting in April 1921, any baby that had been conceived of a man exposed to AMGCR would die on the morning of their sixth birthday.
This was close to one million allied troops.
Karl’s team predicted 4 million allied children would die, or were scheduled to die, before the allied governments knew what was happening and could warn the public.
Most of those children were already born before the evil plan was understood.
Chapter 8 - Allied Response To Excess Child Death
The allied governments quickly realized who was at risk, but not exactly why. They knew that all of the fathers of the deceased children had fought in the trenches in World War I. They realized they must have been exposed to an unknown biological weapon.
As soon as they thought their findings were irrefutable, they told all men who could be impacted to stop fathering children immediately.
They converted many hospitals and military barracks into insane asylums to house the parents, mostly mothers, who could not live with knowing the exact moment their children were going to die.
This was during Quarter 1 1922.
Judy calculated there were still three million children whose parents now knew the exact moment of their deaths.
She sobbed at her desk daily as she thought of the millions of parents waiting for their children to die, but were helpless to stop it.
All AMGCR exposed fathers thought they knew the exact day of their children’s death, but some were wrong. How could this be?
This led to the “The Paternity Fraud & Cuckoldry Scandal” of the 1920s
The AMGCR exposed fathers who fell victim to this fraud, would wake up the morning their child turned six, and find them alive and well.
That could only mean one thing…. The ultimate betrayal.
Chapter 9 - Robert Johnson Prays For His Son’s Death - Part II
It is 11pm, 12/24/1925, Christmas Eve and the eve of Timmy Johnson’s sixth birthday. Timmy was Robert Johnson’s first born.
Robert stands in the doorway of his son Timmy’s room. He spent the last two hours kneeling at the altar and praying for Timmy’s demise.
Timmy is sound asleep. Mr. Johnson silently watches the blankets rise and fall with Timmy’s respirations.
He closes his eyes and brings his hands together in a praying motion:
“Jesus, my savior, I beseech thee to take my son Timmy’s life before sunrise.”
He hopes to come back to this spot in the morning, in Timmy’s bedroom doorway, and see his blanket still and unmoving, Timmy’s body stiff from rigor mortis.
That would make him most proud and prove his marriage hasn’t been a complete sham and his wife had been faithful all along.
He had silently questioned Timmy's paternity for many years though, and his greatest fears tell him Timmy will be very much alive in the morning.
Then there will be hell to pay.
You see, Timmy was deaf in his right ear, which was most likely hereditary.
Chapter 10 - The Morning of Timmy Johnson’s Sixth Birthday
Robert Johnson lies in bed and awaits the first beam of sunrise to come over his east facing window sill.
He wasn’t sure how AMGCR worked exactly. Did the children die at the stroke of midnight? Or upon sunrise? He wasn’t sure so he waited until the crack of dawn which he thought was the last possible moment that Timmy could die, if he had fathered him.
He left his marital bed, his wife still asleep, and walked tentatively down the hall and slowly opened Timmy’s bedroom door.
Timmy was sitting up and almost dressed.
He said: “Morning dad, aren’t you going to wish me a happy birthday? I’m six today! Can’t wait to see my presents!”
Robert Johnson could not speak.
He went to his closet and got his revolver. He had recently cleaned it and test fired it in case he needed to use it.
Today he did. There were six fresh bullets in the chambers, but he wouldn’t need all of them.
He then walked to his marital bed, put a pillow over his wife’s sleeping face, put the revolver deep into it, and pulled the trigger, its blast muffled by the pillow.
As he pulled the trigger, he whispered “Whore.”
He then went to his brother in law’s room and did the same.
Their death certificates would simply show,
“Paternity Fraud & Cuckoldry due to AMGCR” as the cause of death.
The actual cause of death was not listed.
These killings were globally thought to be justified, and so the men were never put on trial.
Also, so many able bodied men were lost during the war, the country could not afford to lose anymore.
Being victims of paternity fraud, the government felt the men had already been punished enough with complete emasculation, betrayal, public shame and embarrassment. The cuckolded men were the true victims.
The men seeking capital retribution were thought to be acting in self-defense. Therefore there was no need to charge them with a crime.
The vast majority of the population agreed with this.
Chapter 11 - The Paternity Fraud & Cuckoldry Commission
In 1935 the U.S. government convened The Paternity Fraud & Cuckoldry Commission.
Findings:
5.41 million six year old children had died from their fathers being exposed to AMGCR.
473,214 wives died from justified homicides for engaging in paternity fraud.
385,332 men died from justified homicides for engaging in cuckoldry leading to pregnancy.
Epilogue
Judy wrote a bestselling book and gave lectures around the world just prior to World War II.
She was signing her book after a lecture in Stockholm when a bright eyed, German looking man, walked up, and presented her book he had just bought.
He said in broken English, “Would sign mind you with only initials, JKG? What stand for does the K?”
Judy responded: “It stands for you Karl. That’s how the government knew which fake documents to let your spy ‘discover’ and forward along to you. You didn't believe the documents the spy delivered to you contained real information, did you?"
She handed back his book, but held it tight just long enough for Karl to slightly struggle.
Their eyes locked in an extreme visceral moment of unwanted connection but also of understanding how their lives had been inextricably linked and codependent for over a decade, although they had never met.
She looked into the eyes of the man who killed millions with no remorse but also made her very wealthy.
She thought, “Wait, what does that say about me? I am profiting off the death of millions."
Karl savored his eyes locking with hers. He wanted to reach out and hug her as she was the woman who documented his genius, all, at the U.S. taxpayer’s expense.
She went back to signing books. The line was very long.
Karl watched pride from the back of the room until the last book was signed. Their eyes locked again, he smiled, waved and then he returned home to Germany to live his remaining years as the living legend he was.
You see, he had single handedly killed more enemies and enemies’ children than any other German in recorded history. By this point he held a special place in the Führer’s heart.
Wars and their related genocides always make for bestsellers, strange bedfellows, and perfect propaganda for isolationism and war mongering for decades hence.
Mostly though, genocides are quickly forgotten and rarely learned from.
