Nazism: The blond beast Part 3
FDR was deeply fascinated by the geography and
history of Inner Asia, from Tibet to the Siberian border, what he called “the
chess board of international politics.” This attitude is reflected in the series of eight letters addressed to him at the instigation of “the Masters,” and written
by Helena Roerich between late 1934 and
early 1936. The “Master” had instructed Helena to “speak about the meaning of
the potential of Asia” and that “the New Russia could be the best friend of
America.” In her letters, Helena addressed
FDR as “not only the Ruler but the true great Leader” whose responsibility
it was to accept “the Highest Help and the Fiery Messages” “at the threshold of
reconstruction” of the entire world, when “the fate of many countries is being
weighed on the Cosmic Scales.” The
“Master” communicated to the President that:
…a Great State will be created in the East.
This beginning will bring that equilibrium, which is so urgently needed for the
construction of the great Future. America was since long linked with Asia. […]
Thus one must accept that the peoples occupying the larger part of Asia are destined
to respond to the friendship of America. […] The alliance of the nations of
Asia is decided, the union of tribes and peoples will take place gradually,
there will be a kind of Federation of countries. Mongolia, China and the
Kalmuks will constitute the counterbalance of Japan and in this alliance of
peoples, Your Good Will is needed, Mr. President. 126
Although ostensibly organized to research
drought-resistant grasses, Roerich’s true ambition was to prepare the coming of
a New Age which would be ushered in by
the earthly manifestation of Maitreya,
the Buddha of the Future, who according to
Theosophists is one of the “Lords of the Flame” who accompanied Sanat Kumara from Venus. While in Tibet,
Roerich witnessed a UFO sighting,
describing it as “something big
andshiny reflecting the sun, like
a huge oval moving at great speed,” which his Tibetan
guide identified as a sign of protection from Rigden-jyepo. In the Roerichs’
books, Rigdenjyepo is the prophesied
Lord of the New Era of Shambhala, who
is currently preparing an invisible army. He is the “Ruler of the World,” and Maitreya himself, the Last Avatar who brings the Kali Yugato an end and
opens the new Ktriaor Satya Yuga, and whose representative on Earth is the
Dalai Lama. The Roerichs did not expect to wait long to witness these events.
Helena Roerich, channeling “Josephine
Saint-Hilaire,” gave the heralds of Northern
Shambhala five years to arrive, and a lama predicted to them “someone of
greatness will come” in 1936. 127 Tenzin Gyatso was
born in 1935, and identified as the incarnation of the Dalai Lama in 1937, becoming the current Dalai Lama XIV.
Although he collected some grasses, Roerich seemed more concerned with visiting
Buddhist monasteries and speaking with monks about Rigdenjyepo and the coming “War of
Shambhala.” Wallace initially defended
Roerich’s actions, but Roerich’s
ulterior motives became more apparent when he entered Inner Mongolia. The
Soviets became concerned that the Americans, through the support of Roerich’s expedition, were backing the start
of a holy war against Communist rule. When Louis Horch, one of
Roerich’s staunchest patrons informed Wallace that Roerich had guaranteed American support for a
Mongolian uprising, Wallace ordered him to withdraw from the area. Roerich either never received or ignored the
directive, and continued his efforts to recruit Mongols and former White Russians.
Wallace immediately cabled Roerich that “the Plan” was terminated, and forbade
him from making any public statements.
Wallace’s political career was later adversely
affected by his association with
Roerich, then widely denounced as a mystic and charlatan, when letters in
which he referred to Roerich as “dear
Guru” were published, sinking his chances when he ran for president as the
Progressive Party’s candidate.
The Fourth Reich Part 1
As Guido Preparata explained in Conjuring
Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich, “To annihilate the German
threat, the British ruling elites had gambled
for high stakes; for over 30 years (1914–45) they had woven a web of financial machinations, international complicities,
intelligence conspiracies,diplomatic devilry,
military savvy, and inhuman mendacity, and they finally succeeded.” He adds:
So the West
has to think again – to think, in
fact, that there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the
Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to
war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims. 1
The Nazis received the support of what Charles
Higham in Trading With the Enemy: The Nazi American Money Plot 1933-1949,
called “the Fraternity,” which was a network of the Rockefeller-controlled
Standard Oil and First National City Bank, or the Chase National Bank. The
director of Standard Oil was William Avery Rockefeller Jr, who was a co-founder
with his older brother John D. Rockefeller of the prominent United States Rockefeller
family. He married the daughter of First National City Bank president James
Jewett Stillman. William was also a member of the notorious Skull and Bones
secret society of Yale. The society was founded after William H. Russell travelled
to Germany in the early 1830s and befriended the leader of an insidious German
secret society that hailed the death’s head as its logo, and derived from
eighteenth-century society the Illuminati. When he returned to the United
States, he and Alphonso Taft, the father of US President William Howard Taft,
founded the society which they called the Brotherhood of Death, or the Order of
the Skull and Bones.
The Skull and Bones was the dominant American
chapter of the international Brotherhood of Death secret societies, that
included the Nazi’s Thule Society. The society’s alumni organization, which
owns the society’s real property and oversees the organization, is the Russell
Trust Association. The Russell Trust was founded by Russell and Daniel Coit
Gilman, member of Skull and Bones
and later president of the University of
California, first president of Johns Hopkins University, and the founding
president of the Carnegie Institution. Alexandra Robbins describes the Skull
and Bones as “the most powerful secret society the United States has ever
known,” and that the society has been dominated by about two dozen of the
country’s most influential families, including the Bush,
Bundy, Harriman, Lord,
Phelps, Rockefeller, Taft, and Whitney families, who are encouraged to
intermarry amongst themselves. 2
The
Nazis and the Bonesmen were joined together through Synarchism, which US Army, State Department,
and FBI files
from the World War II period labeled
“Synarchist/ Nazi-Communist,” because of their use simultaneously of both
purportedly opposing ideologies, pro- communism and the extreme right, towards
the encroachment of a targeted government. 3 Saint-Yves’ followers had finally decided to use more stealthy means, by infiltrating their members into key positions in political and
economic institutions intending on creating, in the words of Richard F. Kuisel,
a specialist in twentieth-century French political history, “a world government
by an initiated elite.” 4 According to Gérard Galtier, synarchism influenced all the
Martinists and occultists of the beginning of the century, and “Without doubt,
the Martinist directors such as Papus… had
the ambition to secretly influence the course of political events, notably the diffusion of synarchic ideals.” 5
Papus’ death in 1916, however, resulted in a schism in the Martinist Order over its involvement in
politics. The activists, under Victor
Blanchard, who was head of the secretariat of the Chamber of Deputies of the French Parliament, formed a breakaway
group, the Martinist and Synarchic
Order, which established the Synarchic Central Committee in 1922, designed to
pull in promising young civil servants and “younger members of great business
families.” 6 The Committee soon became the Synarchic Empire Movement ( MSE) in
1930, with the aim of abolishing parliamentarianism and replacing it with
synarchy.
The
MSE was headed by Vivien Postel
du Mas and Jeanne Canudo, remembered as
an energetic campaigner for European unity.
Postel du Mas was a member of the
Watchers, founded by a French occultist René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz. De Lubicz was also a student
of Theosophy and SaintYves d’Alveydre’s synarchy. De Lubicz,
was the son of a Baltic baron with links to the “Mad Baron” von
Ungern-Sternberg, who established a short-lived regime in the Outer Mongolian,
and for whom Ferdinand Ossendowsky was a key advisor. Despite being born of a
Jewish mother, de Lubicz with other members
of the Theosophical Society broke away
to form an occult right-wing and anti-Semitic organization, which he called Les
Veilleurs, “the Watchers,” to which the
young Rudolf Hess also belonged. 7 Still
another member of de Lubicz’
Watchers was Julien Champagne, who some believe was the true identity
of Fulcanelli, the mysterious French
alchemist and author of Le Mystère des Cathédrales,about the sacred architecture
of the Templars. Fulcanelli was a confidant of de Lubicz and
collaborated with him in several
alchemical experiments. It has also been suspected that de Lubicz himself was Fulcanelli.
Postel du Mas and Canudo, along with René Guénon, had belonged
to the Brotherhood of the Polaires, which claimed to have a direct channel
through an “Oracle of Astral Energy” to the
“Rosicrucian Initiatic Center” of
Agartha.8 The Grand Master of the Fraternity was at one time Victor Blanchard.
Postel du Mas was also a member of the French Theosophical Society. Around 1936, Postel du
Mas founded the Theosophical branch Kurukshétra.
It is this branch that supposedly gave birth in 1937 to the Synarchist Empire
Movement. Postel du Mas and Canudo both pursued the aims of Saint-Yves for France and a united Europe. Postel du Mas
also wrote the Synarchist Pact, which argued, based on the “four orders that
correspond to the Hindu caste system,” that a “division of people into order is
natural and conforms with tradition,” and set out a program for “invisible
revolution” or “revolution from above,” meaning taking over a state from within
by infiltrating high offices. The first step was to take control of France, before creating the “ European
Union.” 9
Canudo began in 1933 by founding the journal
Ter r e d’Eur ope(“Land of Europe”), subtitled the Review of the Builders of
the United Europe, and setting up the European Team to produce the journal and
to create a network of other proEuropean organizations. A leading investigator of synarchism, Raoul Hussan, related that, “the
majority were found, after July 1940, either in the corridors of power in Vichy, or in the collaborationist circles of
Paris.”10 In 1934, Canudo also founded
what later expanded into the Estates General of European Youth, to mobilize
European youth in support of a United States of Europe.
An important witness to their synarchism was the Parisian publisher Maurice Girodias.
Girodias was born Maurice Kahane in Paris, the son of a Jewish father
and Catholic mother. Girodias was the
founder of the Olympia Press which published erotica as well as works by Henry
Miller, Samuel Beckett, John Glassco and Christopher Logue. Girodias described Canudo as the “occult brain behind the
radical and socialist parties, a militant adventuress of feminine Freemasonry and the cause of women in
general.” 11 Girodias was involved with an esoteric society that met at Postel du Mas’ apartment to hear the “secret
masters” speaking through a trance medium.
Girodias said of the magical salons: “I saw at his feet men of science,
company directors, and bankers.” 12 Girodias first became intrigued at lectures by Krishnamurti at the Theosophical Society in 1935, where Postel du Mas and Canudo led a group dressed as Templar knights wearing red capes and riding
boots. Girodias was told they were
“schismatic theosophists with political designs, and they are linked to
Count Coudenhove-Kalergi… who is a
champion of the United States of Europe… Their aim is to launch a pan-European
political party and to institute in the entire world, commencing with Europe, a
society obedient to a spiritualist idea.” 13
Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi was Austrian politician and
philosopher, a pioneer of European integration, and also a member of de Lubicz’
Les VeilleursIn conversation with Girodias, Postel du Mas named Coudenhove-Kalergi as one
of the two major promoters of his and
Canudo’s plans. Canudo’s Estates
General of European Youth was made possible largely through his backing. 14 In their
1968 Synarchy and Power, André Ulmann and Henri Azeau interviewed one of the
members of the MSE who claimed it had
“inspired the action of Coudenhove-Kalergi
and his pan-Europeanism.” 15
Coudenhove-Kalergi’s father was also a close
friend of Theordor Herzl, founder
of Zionism. Coudenhove-Kalergi writes in his Memoirs:
At the beginning of 1924, we received a call from
Baron Louis de Rothschild; one of his friends,
Max Warburg from Hamburg, had read my book and wanted to get to know us.
To my great surprise, Warburg spontaneously offered us 60,000 gold marks, to
tide the movement over for its first three
years… Max Warburg, who was one of the most distinguished and wisest men that I
have ever come into contact with, had
a principle of financing these movements. He remained sincerely interested in Pan-Europe for his entire life. Max Warburg arranged his 1925 trip to the
United States to introduce me to Paul
Warburg and financier Bernard Baruch. 16
Coudenhove-Kalergi strove to replace the
nationalist German ideal of racial community with the goal of an ethnically
heterogeneous and inclusive European nation based on a communality of culture,
a nation whose geniuses were, in
Nietzschean terms, the “great Europeans,” such as Abbé de SaintPierre, Kant,
Napoleon, Giuseppe Mazzini, Victor Hugo, and Nietzsche himself, who also cited Napoleon frequently as an example of the Superman.” 17
In addition to Nietzsche,
Coudenhove-Kalergi’s
intellectual influences included the fascist theories of German historian and
philosopher Oswald Spengler (1880-1936).
Spengler’s most famous work, The Decline of the West (1918), which drew
on the influence of Nietzsche, but mostly Goethe, outlined the notion of societal decay
that became commonplace in fascist thought.
Spengler’s thesis was that all civilizations are subject to an organic
cycle of birth, maturity, aging and death. All civilizations eventually reach
an apex, followed by irreversible decadence, until the emergence of barbarism
once again heralds the beginning of a new epoch.
Typical to the cynicism of fascist thought,
for Spengler man is not “good” but
survives as a “predator” through aggression and destruction. Spengler believed
that the Europe of his time was already in decline, but that the German nation
would be the main player in the dawning of a new imperialist era, and would
revive “Caesarism,” the glory of Ancient Rome, where “blood” and instinct would
regain their status as virtues. According to
Spengler, the infection the West was suffering came from certain
elements, and he wrote: “I will list them: liberalism, democracy,
socialism, Free-masonry. The organism of the West has been weakened,
debilitated by these ideologies. Well, there is in existence only one movement
existing at the present time which has the courage possessing the power of a
great nation to be fundamentally, openly, ferociously anti-liberal,
anti-democratic, anti-Freemason:
fascism.” 18
It was through Coudenhove-Kalergi that Saint-Yves’s vision of a synarchist European Union achieved serious
political force when he co-founded the
PanEuropean Union ( PEU) with Archduke Otto von
Habsburg. Otto’s father was Charles I of Austria, the last ruler of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the nephew to Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose
assassination in 1914 precipitated World War I. Although he was not in direct
line to the Jacobite pretenders, which passed into the House of Bavaria, his
mother was the great-granddaughter of Jacobite pretender King Victor Emmanuel I
of Sardinia. Otto, also known by his
royal name as Archduke Otto of Austria, was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary
from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in 1918. He subsequently became
the pretender to the former thrones, Head of the Imperial House of Habsburg,
and Sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
Aristocratic in his origins and elitist in his
ideas, Coudenhove-Kalergi identified
and collaborated also with such
politicians as Engelbert Dollfuss, Kurt
Schuschnigg, Winston Churchill and
Charles de Gaulle. At its founding convention
in Vienna in 1922, attended by more than 6,000 delegates, the PEU called for the dissolution of all the
nation-states of Western Europe and the creation of a single European state,
modeled on the Roman and Napoleonic empires. Tellingly, the backdrop behind the
podium was adorned with portraits of
Napoleon, Mazzini, and Nietzsche.19 Coudenhove-Kalergi’s movement
held its first Congress in Vienna in 1926. In 1927, Aristide Briand, who served eleven terms as Prime Minister
of France during the French Third
Republic, was elected honorary president. Personalities attending included:
Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Sigmund
Freud, Konrad Adenauer and Georges Pompidou. 20
The first
person to join the PEU was Hjalmar Schacht, later Hitler’s Reich Minister of Economics, a
member of the Round Table and the actual
author of Hitler’s slave labor
programs.21 His full name was Hjalmar Horace Greely Schacht, and although born
in Germany, he spent part of his early upbringing in Brooklyn and maintained powerful Wall
Street connections. 22 Schacht was a close friend of Montagu Norman, Chairman of the Bank of England, who was the godfather to
one of Schacht’s grandchildren. Montagu Norman from 1933 through 1939 met repeatedly
with Hjalmar Schacht to plan the financing of the Nazi regime, and guided the strategies of Hitler’s primary supporters, the Rockefellers,
Warburgs, and Harrimans. 23
Schacht, along with Norman, was one of the
main actors in the establishment of the Bank for International Settlements (
BIS). Formed in 1930, the BIS was an
intergovernmental organization of central banks which “fosters international
monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks.” BIS was formed with funding by the central
banks of six nations, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. In addition,
three private international banks from the United States also assisted in
financing the establishment of the BIS.
The US Federal Reserve did not join the BIS, but the three US banks did, representing
three times the shares of any other nation. They were, J.P. Morgan & Company, First National Bank of
Chicago and First National City Bank of
New York, which later became Chase Manhattan
Bank when it merged with the Rockefeller-dominated Chase City Bank, and
eventually Citibank.
Even before
Hitler rose to power in the Reichstag,
Schacht pushed for the creation of an institution that would retain
channels of communication and
cooperation between the
world’s financial leaders,
even in
the event of war. It was written into the
Bank’s charter, with the consent of the respective governments, that in the
event of war the BIS would be immune
from seizure,
closure, or
censure. And by the outbreak of WWII,
the BIS was completely under Hitler’s
control. Among the directors under BIS’s
American president Thomas H. McKittrick were Hermann Schmitz, head of the
colossal Nazi industrial trust IG Farben, Baron Kurt von Schroder, head of the J. H. Stein Bank of
Cologne and a leading officer
and financier of the Gestapo. They also
included Dr. Walther Funk of the Reichsbank, and the Reichsbank’s vice-president Emil Puhl, who were Hitler’s personal appointees to the board.
Though the BIS was an instrument of Hitler, its operations were approved by Great
Britain, and the British director Sir Otto Niemeyer, and chairman and
devoted Hitler supporter Montagu Norman,
remained in office throughout the war.24
In Trading With the Enemy: The Nazi American Money Plot 1933-1949 Charles Higham documented the role in the BIS of
Standard Oil of New Jersey. As detailed
by Antony Sutton in Wall Street and the Rise of
Hitler, it was Standard Oil
and its network
of German subsidiaries who created
the financial circumstances that
allowed the Nazis to build up their war
machine. Higham refers to this international network as the “Fraternity” which,
as he describes, were all represented internationally by the National City Bank or by the Chase National Bank, which conducted business
with the Nazi High Command in Paris
until the war’s end. As Higham explains, the ostensible purpose of the BIS,
established under the so-called Young Plan,
was to provide the Allies with reparations to be paid by Germany for World War I, but “the Bank soon turned out
to be the instrument of an opposite function. It was to be a money funnel for American and British funds to
flow into Hitler’s coffers and to help
Hitler build up his war machine.”25
After
Hitler lost a popular election to von Hindenburg in 1932, thirty-nine business
leaders like Alfred Krupp, Siemens, Fritz
Thyssen, and Robert Bosch, sent a petition to von Hindenburg urging that Hitler be appointed chancellor of Germany.
This deal to bring Hitler into the
government was settled at the home of banker Baron Kurt von Schroeder on
January 4, 1933. They agreed to fund
Hitler in return for his pledge to break the trade unions. Also
attending this meeting were John Foster
and Allen Dulles of the New York law firm Sullivan and Cromwell, which represented
the Schroeder Bank. After serving a
stint in Constantinople, Dulles became
the first new director of the
Council on Foreign Relations in 1927, and joined his brother as a lawyer in the
prestigious firm of Sullivan and Cromwell. As Dulles’ biographer Peter Grose
notes, Sullivan and Cromwell, “constituted a strategic nexus of international finance, the operating core of a web of
relationships that constituted power, carefully crafted to accrue and endure across
sovereign borders.” 26 Prior to the war, Dulles was a director of the J. Henry
Schroeder bank in London, a prime instrument employed by Montagu Norman in his support of Nazi Germany.
While at
Sullivan Cromwell, Dulles helped
Standard Oil gain Saudi Arabian concessions through the
assistance of Jack Philby in 1933.
According to Loftus and Aarons, Dulles and
Philby, together with Ibn Saud “were
the secret source of oil, wealth, and international influence that worked behind the scenes to put Hitler onto the world stage.”27 Dulles had
met Philby while he served in the Division of Near Eastern Affairs. A large
part of the concerns of the division was competition among the great powers
over unexplored oil reserves. Already in Constantinople, Dulles met regularly
with visiting managers of Standard Oil,
Shell, or Socony, where he was able to discuss various political realities. As Peter
Grose also noted, “Next to missionaries, Allen discovered, there were no better
sources of international gossip than the oil men.” 28 Therefore, in 1924,
Dulles had spelled out in an official State
Department communication his interest
in making use of oil exploration as a cover for intelligence gathering.
As partners
in the firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, Allen and
John Foster also represented the giant German chemical firm
IG Farben, which partly owned
Standard Oil of New Jersey along with the Chase National Bank. IG Farben was founded in 1925 by Hermann
Schmitz as a merger of the following six companies, which included, among others,
BASF, Bayer and Agfa. It became the largest chemical company in the world and
the fourth largest overall industrial corporation, after General Motors, US
Steel and Standard Oil. IG Paul Manning,
a CBS news correspondent in Europe during
World War II, wrote that Schmitz once “held as much stock in Standard Oil of New Jersey as did the
Rockefellers.” 29 IG Farben and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil of New Jersey were effectively a single firm, having been merged in hundreds of cartel arrangements. It was led up until
1937 by Rockefeller’s partners, the Warburgs. Beginning in 1933, Max Warburg also served directly under
Hjalmar Schacht on the board of the Reichsbank under the Nazi regime, before emigrating to the US in
1938. Two executives of Standard Oil’s
German subsidiary were Karl Lindemann
and Emil Helfferich,
prominent figures in Himmler’s Circle of Friends of the Gestapo, its
chief financiers and close friends and colleagues
of the BIS’s Baron von Schroder. 30
Farben, which was indispensable to the German
war effort, was also a Nazi agency for worldwide military and economic
espionage and a spearhead of the Nazi
psychological and economic warfare program. It was IG Farben’s task to make Germany
self-sufficient in those crucial raw materials
which are indispensable to modern warfare. While Hitler cynically denounced the company as an
“international Jewish organization,” Schacht
nevertheless awarded huge contracts to produce munitions and chemicals for the
German military buildup to IG Farben.
The Farben complex both in Germany and the United States then developed into an
integral part of the formation and operation of the Nazi state machine, the Wehrmacht and
the SS. Hermann Schmitz became a
prominent early Nazi and supporter
of Hitler. IG
Farben also provided
direct financial assistance to the
formation of the Nazi regime when it
contributed 400,000 RM to Hitler’s political “slush fund” used to fi nance the Nazi seizure of control in March 1933.31 Between 1927 and the beginning
of World War II, IG Farben doubled in size, an expansion made
possible in great part by American technical assistance and by American bond
issues, such as the one for $30 million offered by National City Bank. There were over two
thousand cartel agreements between IG Farben and foreign firms, including
Standard Oil of New Jersey, DuPont, Alcoa, Dow Chemical, and others in the
United States. Dr. von Schnitzler, member of
IG Farben’s Managing Board of Directors and Chairman of its all-powerful
Commercial Committee stated in 1943, “The development of IG during the last 12
years can’t be separated from the government’s foreign policy.” 32 However, the full extent of IG Farben activities before WWII will never be known, as the relevant
German records were destroyed in 1945 in anticipation of Allied victory. 33
At the 1933 meeting with Hitler at the
Schroeder Bank, Schacht and John Foster Dulles agreed to coordinate all
trade between Germany and America in a syndicate of 150 firms set up by the
Harr imans. 34 It was Jacob Schiff who
financed the purchase of the Union
Pacific for robber baron Edward H.
Harriman, who would play a key role in the rise of Bolshevism in Russia. Harriman was the father of later
world statesman W. Averell Harriman, a
member of the infamous Skull and Bones society of Yale University. In 1919, Averell Harriman founded W. A. Harriman &
Co with fellow Bonesman George Herbert
Walker, the grandfather of George H. W.
Bush, which led the way in directing American money to German companies. Averell Harriman had made contact with the powerful
Thyssen family of steel magnates. August Thyssen had created a network of
private banks, including the Union Banking
Corporation, founded in New York in 1924 with
George Herbert Walker as president. August Thyssen’s son and successor
Fritz Thyssen was an enthusiastic supporter of
Hitler and had been funding the
Nazi Party since 1923. In 1926, Walker made his son-inlaw, another
Bonesman, Prescott Bush, vice president
of W. A. Harriman. In 1931, W. A. Harriman merged with Brown Brothers
creating Brown Brothers, Harriman &
Company, where more than a third of partners were Bonesmen. As Alexandra
Robbins explains, “Through these companies,
Skull and Bones provided financial
backing to Adolf Hitler because the
society then followed a Nazi—and now follows a neo- Nazi—doctrine.”35
Montagu Norman was also partner in Brown Brothers
and a close friend of Prescott Bush, and Union Banking became a Nazi money-laundering machine. Walker helped
take over North American operations of Hamburg-Amerika Line, a shipping line and
cover for IG Farben’s Nazi espionage
unit in the United States. Hamburg-Amerika smuggled in German agents, and
brought in money for bribing American politicians to support Hitler, and a 1934 congressional
investigation showed that Hamburg-Amerika was subsidizing Nazi propaganda
efforts in the US. Finally, the US government investigated both Walker and Prescott Bush, and under the Trading with the
Enemy Act, seized all shares of Union Banking, including shares held by Prescott Bush, because “huge sections of Prescott Bush’s empire had been operated on
behalf of Nazi Germany and had greatly
assisted the German war effort.”36 In the late 1930’s Fritz Thyssen, concerned
about the potential economic impact of the coming war, started concealing his
assets, placing many of them with the Union Banking Corporation in New York. He
was aided in his transactions by Prescott Bush,
Walker, and Allen Dulles.37
Referring to the support of American
corporations in the rise of the Nazi
regime, Sutton said, “whereas this financial and technical assistance is referred to as ‘accidental’ or due to the
‘short-sightedness’ of American businessmen, the evidence… strongly suggests
some degree of premeditation on the part of
these American financiers.” 38 The American government did sanction such
suspect interactions, either before or after
Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. A presidential edict was issued by
President Roosevelt six days after the
attack, which instead set up the legislation to supersede restrictions against
licensing arrangements for trading with enemy industries. As Higham details:
The government smothered everything, during
and even (inexcusably) after the war. What would have happened if millions of
American and British people, struggling with coupons and lines at the gas
stations, had learned that in 1942
Standard Oil of New Jersey managers shipped the enemy’s fuel through
neutral Switzerland and that the enemy was shipping Allied fuel? Suppose the
public had discovered that the Chase Bank
in Nazi-occupied Paris after Pearl Harbor was doing millions of dollars’
worth of business with the enemy with the full knowledge of the head office in Manhattan? Or that Ford trucks were being built for the German
occupation troops in France with authorization
from Dearborn, Michigan? Or that Colonel Sosthenes Behn, the head of the
international American telephone conglomerate
ITT, flew from New York to Madrid to Berne during the war to help
improve Hitler’s communications systems and
improve the robot bombs that devastated London? Or that ITT built the Focke Wulfs that dropped bombs
on British and American troops? Or that crucial ball bearings were shipped
to Nazi-associated customers in Latin
America with the collusion of the vice-chairman of the US War Production Board
in partnership with Goring’s cousin in Philadelphia when American forces were
desperately short of them? Or that such arrangements were known about in Washington
and either sanctioned or deliberately
ignored? 39
Ultimately, worldwide condemnation that
followed revelations of the horrors of the Holocaust were so forceful that there was
little opposition to a resolution put forward
by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947, recommending the adoption and
implementation of the plan to partition Palestine by the newly created United
Nations, which is basically an American invention, to serve American interests,
and situated in New York on land donated by John D. Rockefeller. On 14 May
1948, David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head
of the World Zionist Organization and
president of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel, a state independent from the British
Mandate for Palestine.
But the
Nazis were not expended with after serving their purpose. On the
contrary, they seem to have deliberately feigned defeat and to have gone underground
to assist the Americans in their Cold
War against communism. Prior to the end of the war, the Nazis, recognizing the inevitability of their
mpending defeat, developed a contingency plan by which they would be able to reorganize
themselves and continue their political projects beyond their loss to the
Allies in 1945. In other words, a Fourth Reich. Despite being presented as a
diabolical
aberration, and responsible for the horrors of the Holocaust, the Nazis
would be
assisted in their secret resurgence by the very nation responsible for
their
defeat: the United States. Moreover, the US and ex- Nazis would continue a covert collaboration that would be behind
not only much of the terror of the late twentieth century, but which would also
be responsible for the bizarre racial theories that would persist under the
guise of the New Age movement.
As later discovered by United States army
counter-intelligence, a meeting was held in great secrecy on August 10, 1944,
at the Hotel Maison Rouge in Strasbourg,
at which were present the most powerful industrial, political and commercial
interests of the Nazi regime. The meeting
was the culmination of a year’s preparation by Deputy Fuhrer Martin Bormann, following the crushing defeat of
the Nazis at Stalingrad. The conference
chairman, Dr. Scheid, who held one of
the highest ranks in the SS, declared:
Germany has already lost the battle for France. Henceforth German industry must
prepare itself for the economic campaign which will follow the end of the war.
All industrialists must strengthen their contacts and companies abroad, each on
his own account and without drawing attention to himself. And that is not all.
We must be ready to finance the Nazi
party which is going to be driven underground for some time. 40
The plot was outlined in the Red House Reportproduced
by a French spy who was at the meeting. Scheid ordered the industrialists to make
contacts and alliances with foreign firms. They
were especially to exploit the finances of German firms that had already been used as
fronts for economic penetration
in foreign countries, such as the steel giant
Krupp, and the Hamburg-America Line
shipping company, whose American operations were taken over by George Herbert Walker. But a further smaller meeting ensued,
reserved for only the elite, to whom it was explained how, even though the industrialists
had been informed that war was lost, resistance against the Allies would
continue until a guarantee of German
unity could be confirmed. He then
laid out the secret three-stage strategy for the Fourth Reich. They were then
informed of a three-staged plan. In stage one, the industrialists were to
“prepare themselves to finance
the Nazi Party, which would be forced to go underground as a Marquis,” using
the term for the French resistance. Stage two would involve the government
allocating large sums to German industrialists to establish a “secure post-war
foundation in foreign countries,” while “existing
financial reserves must be placed at the disposal of the party so that
a strong German empire can be created after the defeat.” In stage three, German
businesses would set up a “sleeper” network of agents abroad through front
companies, which were to act as covers for military research and intelligence,
until the Nazis could eventually return
to power.41
The conference agreed on a plan for the
transfer to neutral or non-belligerent countries of a
significant portion of the funds of
the major companies of the Third Reich. The
Nazis had executed a policy of looting the assets of its victims to
finance the war, collecting
them in central depositories. By that time, the
SS had become the head of a huge economic empire, and in addition to enormous
financial and industrial assets, it
was running gigantic slave labor projects
with concentration camp prisoners, while also enriching itself with the seized
assets of persecuted Jews. It is
estimated that at their disposal was some $800 million. This treasure was
apparently divided into several caches, of which the one at the Reichsbank in Berlin included almost three
tons of gold (much of it the so-called tooth-gold from the slaughter camps) as
well as silver, platinum, tens of thousands of carats of precious stones, and
perhaps a billion dollars in various currencies. 42 750 companies were set up
throughout the world using Nazi funds: 112 in
Spain, 58 in Portugal, 35 in Turkey,
98 in Argentina, 214 in Switzerland and
253 in various other countries.
There were allegations that Schacht’s International Bank of Settlements (
BIS) had helped the Germans loot assets from occupied countries during World War II. During the period of 1933–45, the board of
directors of the BIS included Walter Funk, a prominent Nazi offi cial, and Emil Puhl, who were both convicted at
the Nuremberg trials after World War II, as well as Hermann Schmitz the director
of IG Farben and Baron von Schroeder,
the owner of the J. H. Stein Bank, that held the deposits of the Gestapo. As a result of these allegations,
the Bretton Woods Conference in July 1944 proposed the liquidation of BIS. Though initially approved, the
liquidation of the bank was never undertaken, and the decision to liquidate
the BIS was offi cially
reversed in 1948.
Organizing the physical removal of the Nazis’ wealth and the escape of SS personnel
were the tasks of Otto Skorzeny, Hitler’s “favorite commando,” who was simultaneously
an officer of the SS, the Gestapo and the Waffen SS. 43 Skorzeny achieved infamy during the
war for his many daring exploits, including
the rescue of the deposed
Mussolini from captivity; leading Operation Greif, In which German soldiers were to infiltrate
through enemy lines, using their enemy’s uniforms; and the
kidnapping of the son of Hungarian Regent, Admiral Horthy, to force him to
resign. Skorzeny’s last task of the war,
he claimed, was to create a corps to defend
Hitler’s alpine hideout at the Eagle’s Nest on the Austro-Hungarian
border. In actual fact, his task was to coordinate the escape networks of
leading Nazis. Instead, as Stuart Christie explained:
The stories
of a fortified zone in the Austrian Alps
were part of a disinformation exercise
connived at by US intelligence chief Allan
Dulles and elements of the Nazi
party and Wehrmacht to provide the latter with an orderly breathing space to
ensure the German political and social infrastructure remained intact as a
“cordon sanitaire” against Bolshevism. 44
Skorzeny worked closely with Bormann and
Skorzeny’s father-in-law Hjalmar
Schacht in transporting the Nazi
assets to safety outside Europe and in creating the infamous ODESSA network. Soon after the war’s end,
there is evidence that Skorzeny was
organizing former members of the SS into
an underground movement, known as the “ Skorzeny Movement.” 45 Also known as the Bruderschaft, it eventually became
known as ODESSA (Organization of
Former SS Members), which maintained escape
routes called “ratlines,” to shuttle ex- Nazis to various safe havens around
the world. Using the cover names of Robert Steinbacher and Otto Steinbauer, and
supported by Nazi funds, Skorzeny set up a secret organization named Die Spinne, to assist in the escape of
former Nazis. As Skorzeny’s biographer notes, “There was an
ironic similarity between the Die
Spinneescape routes and those used by Bricha, the Jewish refugee organization
that transported Jews to Palestine illegally. It wasn’t unusual for
the two organizations to have escapees and refugees in the same ‘safe house’ at
the same time!” 46
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta ( SMOM) was also responsible for helping
thousands of ex- Nazi SS members to escape
through the ratlines. The Knights of
Malta descend from the Knights Hospitaller,
also known as the Knights of St John, founded around 1023, who were bequeathed
the Templar s assets after their
disbanding. The order is a unique papal entity which, although the order has no
landmass other than a small headquarters in Rome, holds the status of
nation-state. It mints coins, prints stamps, has its own constitution and
issues passports to an accredited diplomatic corps. The Grand Master of the
order holds a rank in the Church equal to a cardinal and is recognized as a
sovereign chief of state by 41 nations. “The Knights of Malta comprise what is perhaps the most
exclusive club on earth,” Stephen Birmingharn, the social historian, wrote.
“They are more than the Catholic aristocracy… [they] can pick up a telephone
and chat with the pope.” 47 According to Russ Bellant, “Although it poses as a
Catholic organization, the Order of St. John of
Jerusalem is a Masonic group that
claims to be the real Knights of Malta.
It’s Grand Master for fifty years until his
death several years ago was Charles Pichel,
and adviser… to Hitler aide Ernst
Hanfstaengl.”48
William
Donovan who was head of the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS),
the predecessor of the Central
Intelligence Agency ( CIA), during World
War II, was also a Knight of Malta.
The OSS, according to John Coleman, was
a Round Table creation. 49 On July 11, 1941,
Donovan was named Coordinator of Information (COI), and organized its
New York headquarters in the Rockefeller Center in 1941 and asked Allen
Dulles to head it. The offices Dulles took over had been the location of the
operations of Britain’s MI6. In 1942,
the COI became the Office of Strategic Services
( OSS). In 1944, Pope Pius XII decorated Donovan with the Grand Cross of the
Order of Saint Sylvester, the oldest and most prestigious of papal knighthoods,
given to only a hundred other men in history, who “by feat of arms, or
writings, or outstanding deeds, have spread the Faith, and have safeguarded and
championed the Church.” 50
ODESSA also assisted in Operation Paperclip, through which numerous Nazi
scientists were brought to the US, such as
Wernher von Braun, who was recruited to
NASA. Operation Paperclip was a
project of the OSS, whose contacts
with Nazis inside the Third Reich were initiated by Allen Dulles, who had been stationed in
Berne, Switzerland, where he was the organization’s Swiss Director.
Investigative authors John Loftus and Mark Aarons described Dulles “as one of the worst traitors in
American history, an economic version of Benedict Arnold.” 51 They revealed
that, together with his brother John Foster
Dulles and St. John Philby, Dulles
established an international financial
network among Nazi corporations, such
as IG Farben, American oil interests,
like Standard Oil, and Saudi Arabia for the benefit of the Third Reich. 52
