Professor Antony Sutton: Wall Street and the rise of Hitler

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Series of videos with a great interview of Dr. Antony Sutton.


Dr. Antony Sutton was a research scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Through his scientific historical research he saw the bigger picture of how the secret US establishment (largely operating through the Skull & Bones secret society) uses the Hegelian dialectic (create thesis & antithesis, bring them into conflict, control synthesis) to create, manage and perpetuate conflict.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_C._Sutton

From the Guardian, an article on how Prescott Bush (Skull & Bones, W's grandfather) financed Nazism in Germany:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/se ... ndworldwar

Dr. Sutton's book on 'the Order' (Skull and Bones):
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119639.pdf

To understand Dr. Sutton, it is essential to forget the illusory paradigms of communism vs. capitalism and left vs. right, for they are just smokescreens.

More sources:
http://www.4shared.com/account/dir/3270 ... tml?rnd=52


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[acrobat74]

This has been posted before, but I'm also putting it here for completeness:


Prescott Bush (W's grandfather) was a S&B patriarch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sk ... es_members

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/se ... ndworldwar

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president

* Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
* The Guardian,
* Saturday September 25 2004

This article appeared in the Guardian on Saturday September 25 2004 . It was last updated at 23:59 on September 24 2004.

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.

Remarkably, little of Bush's dealings with Germany has received public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the documentation involving him. But now the multibillion dollar legal action for damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush family, and the imminent publication of three books on the subject are threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W, as he seeks re-election.

While there is no suggestion that Prescott Bush was sympathetic to the Nazi cause, the documents reveal that the firm he worked for, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), acted as a US base for the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler in the 1930s before falling out with him at the end of the decade. The Guardian has seen evidence that shows Bush was the director of the New York-based Union Banking Corporation (UBC) that represented Thyssen's US interests and he continued to work for the bank after America entered the war.

Tantalising

Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow Thyssen to move assets around the world.

Thyssen owned the largest steel and coal company in Germany and grew rich from Hitler's efforts to re-arm between the two world wars. One of the pillars in Thyssen's international corporate web, UBC, worked exclusively for, and was owned by, a Thyssen-controlled bank in the Netherlands. More tantalising are Bush's links to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC), based in mineral rich Silesia on the German-Polish border. During the war, the company made use of Nazi slave labour from the concentration camps, including Auschwitz. The ownership of CSSC changed hands several times in the 1930s, but documents from the US National Archive declassified last year link Bush to CSSC, although it is not clear if he and UBC were still involved in the company when Thyssen's American assets were seized in 1942.

Three sets of archives spell out Prescott Bush's involvement. All three are readily available, thanks to the efficient US archive system and a helpful and dedicated staff at both the Library of Congress in Washington and the National Archives at the University of Maryland.

The first set of files, the Harriman papers in the Library of Congress, show that Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a number of companies involved with Thyssen.

The second set of papers, which are in the National Archives, are contained in vesting order number 248 which records the seizure of the company assets. What these files show is that on October 20 1942 the alien property custodian seized the assets of the UBC, of which Prescott Bush was a director. Having gone through the books of the bank, further seizures were made against two affiliates, the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. By November, the Silesian-American Company, another of Prescott Bush's ventures, had also been seized.

The third set of documents, also at the National Archives, are contained in the files on IG Farben, who was prosecuted for war crimes.

A report issued by the Office of Alien Property Custodian in 1942 stated of the companies that "since 1939, these (steel and mining) properties have been in possession of and have been operated by the German government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance to that country's war effort".

Prescott Bush, a 6ft 4in charmer with a rich singing voice, was the founder of the Bush political dynasty and was once considered a potential presidential candidate himself. Like his son, George, and grandson, George W, he went to Yale where he was, again like his descendants, a member of the secretive and influential Skull and Bones student society. He was an artillery captain in the first world war and married Dorothy Walker, the daughter of George Herbert Walker, in 1921.

In 1924, his father-in-law, a well-known St Louis investment banker, helped set him up in business in New York with Averill Harriman, the wealthy son of railroad magnate E H Harriman in New York, who had gone into banking.

One of the first jobs Walker gave Bush was to manage UBC. Bush was a founding member of the bank and the incorporation documents, which list him as one of seven directors, show he owned one share in UBC worth $125.

The bank was set up by Harriman and Bush's father-in-law to provide a US bank for the Thyssens, Germany's most powerful industrial family.

August Thyssen, the founder of the dynasty had been a major contributor to Germany's first world war effort and in the 1920s, he and his sons Fritz and Heinrich established a network of overseas banks and companies so their assets and money could be whisked offshore if threatened again.

By the time Fritz Thyssen inherited the business empire in 1926, Germany's economic recovery was faltering. After hearing Adolf Hitler speak, Thyssen became mesmerised by the young firebrand. He joined the Nazi party in December 1931 and admits backing Hitler in his autobiography, I Paid Hitler, when the National Socialists were still a radical fringe party. He stepped in several times to bail out the struggling party: in 1928 Thyssen had bought the Barlow Palace on Briennerstrasse, in Munich, which Hitler converted into the Brown House, the headquarters of the Nazi party. The money came from another Thyssen overseas institution, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvarrt in Rotterdam.

By the late 1930s, Brown Brothers Harriman, which claimed to be the world's largest private investment bank, and UBC had bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, fuel, steel, coal and US treasury bonds to Germany, both feeding and financing Hitler's build-up to war.

Between 1931 and 1933 UBC bought more than $8m worth of gold, of which $3m was shipped abroad. According to documents seen by the Guardian, after UBC was set up it transferred $2m to BBH accounts and between 1924 and 1940 the assets of UBC hovered around $3m, dropping to $1m only on a few occasions.

In 1941, Thyssen fled Germany after falling out with Hitler but he was captured in France and detained for the remainder of the war.

There was nothing illegal in doing business with the Thyssens throughout the 1930s and many of America's best-known business names invested heavily in the German economic recovery. However, everything changed after Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Even then it could be argued that BBH was within its rights continuing business relations with the Thyssens until the end of 1941 as the US was still technically neutral until the attack on Pearl Harbor. The trouble started on July 30 1942 when the New York Herald-Tribune ran an article entitled "Hitler's Angel Has $3m in US Bank". UBC's huge gold purchases had raised suspicions that the bank was in fact a "secret nest egg" hidden in New York for Thyssen and other Nazi bigwigs. The Alien Property Commission (APC) launched an investigation.

There is no dispute over the fact that the US government seized a string of assets controlled by BBH - including UBC and SAC - in the autumn of 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy act. What is in dispute is if Harriman, Walker and Bush did more than own these companies on paper.

Erwin May, a treasury attache and officer for the department of investigation in the APC, was assigned to look into UBC's business. The first fact to emerge was that Roland Harriman, Prescott Bush and the other directors didn't actually own their shares in UBC but merely held them on behalf of Bank voor Handel. Strangely, no one seemed to know who owned the Rotterdam-based bank, including UBC's president.

May wrote in his report of August 16 1941: "Union Banking Corporation, incorporated August 4 1924, is wholly owned by the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. My investigation has produced no evidence as to the ownership of the Dutch bank. Mr Cornelis [sic] Lievense, president of UBC, claims no knowledge as to the ownership of the Bank voor Handel but believes it possible that Baron Heinrich Thyssen, brother of Fritz Thyssen, may own a substantial interest."

May cleared the bank of holding a golden nest egg for the Nazi leaders but went on to describe a network of companies spreading out from UBC across Europe, America and Canada, and how money from voor Handel travelled to these companies through UBC.

By September May had traced the origins of the non-American board members and found that Dutchman HJ Kouwenhoven - who met with Harriman in 1924 to set up UBC - had several other jobs: in addition to being the managing director of voor Handel he was also the director of the August Thyssen bank in Berlin and a director of Fritz Thyssen's Union Steel Works, the holding company that controlled Thyssen's steel and coal mine empire in Germany.

Within a few weeks, Homer Jones, the chief of the APC investigation and research division sent a memo to the executive committee of APC recommending the US government vest UBC and its assets. Jones named the directors of the bank in the memo, including Prescott Bush's name, and wrote: "Said stock is held by the above named individuals, however, solely as nominees for the Bank voor Handel, Rotterdam, Holland, which is owned by one or more of the Thyssen family, nationals of Germany and Hungary. The 4,000 shares hereinbefore set out are therefore beneficially owned and help for the interests of enemy nationals, and are vestible by the APC," according to the memo from the National Archives seen by the Guardian.

Red-handed

Jones recommended that the assets be liquidated for the benefit of the government, but instead UBC was maintained intact and eventually returned to the American shareholders after the war. Some claim that Bush sold his share in UBC after the war for $1.5m - a huge amount of money at the time - but there is no documentary evidence to support this claim. No further action was ever taken nor was the investigation continued, despite the fact UBC was caught red-handed operating a American shell company for the Thyssen family eight months after America had entered the war and that this was the bank that had partly financed Hitler's rise to power.

The most tantalising part of the story remains shrouded in mystery: the connection, if any, between Prescott Bush, Thyssen, Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC) and Auschwitz.

Thyssen's partner in United Steel Works, which had coal mines and steel plants across the region, was Friedrich Flick, another steel magnate who also owned part of IG Farben, the powerful German chemical company.

Flick's plants in Poland made heavy use of slave labour from the concentration camps in Poland. According to a New York Times article published in March 18 1934 Flick owned two-thirds of CSSC while "American interests" held the rest.

The US National Archive documents show that BBH's involvement with CSSC was more than simply holding the shares in the mid-1930s. Bush's friend and fellow "bonesman" Knight Woolley, another partner at BBH, wrote to Averill Harriman in January 1933 warning of problems with CSSC after the Poles started their drive to nationalise the plant. "The Consolidated Silesian Steel Company situation has become increasingly complicated, and I have accordingly brought in Sullivan and Cromwell, in order to be sure that our interests are protected," wrote Knight. "After studying the situation Foster Dulles is insisting that their man in Berlin get into the picture and obtain the information which the directors here should have. You will recall that Foster is a director and he is particularly anxious to be certain that there is no liability attaching to the American directors."

But the ownership of the CSSC between 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland and 1942 when the US government vested UBC and SAC is not clear.

"SAC held coal mines and definitely owned CSSC between 1934 and 1935, but when SAC was vested there was no trace of CSSC. All concrete evidence of its ownership disappears after 1935 and there are only a few traces in 1938 and 1939," says Eva Schweitzer, the journalist and author whose book, America and the Holocaust, is published next month.

Silesia was quickly made part of the German Reich after the invasion, but while Polish factories were seized by the Nazis, those belonging to the still neutral Americans (and some other nationals) were treated more carefully as Hitler was still hoping to persuade the US to at least sit out the war as a neutral country. Schweitzer says American interests were dealt with on a case-by-case basis. The Nazis bought some out, but not others.

The two Holocaust survivors suing the US government and the Bush family for a total of $40bn in compensation claim both materially benefited from Auschwitz slave labour during the second world war.

Kurt Julius Goldstein, 87, and Peter Gingold, 85, began a class action in America in 2001, but the case was thrown out by Judge Rosemary Collier on the grounds that the government cannot be held liable under the principle of "state sovereignty".

Jan Lissmann, one of the lawyers for the survivors, said: "President Bush withdrew President Bill Clinton's signature from the treaty [that founded the court] not only to protect Americans, but also to protect himself and his family."

Lissmann argues that genocide-related cases are covered by international law, which does hold governments accountable for their actions. He claims the ruling was invalid as no hearing took place.

In their claims, Mr Goldstein and Mr Gingold, honorary chairman of the League of Anti-fascists, suggest the Americans were aware of what was happening at Auschwitz and should have bombed the camp.

The lawyers also filed a motion in The Hague asking for an opinion on whether state sovereignty is a valid reason for refusing to hear their case. A ruling is expected within a month.

The petition to The Hague states: "From April 1944 on, the American Air Force could have destroyed the camp with air raids, as well as the railway bridges and railway lines from Hungary to Auschwitz. The murder of about 400,000 Hungarian Holocaust victims could have been prevented."

The case is built around a January 22 1944 executive order signed by President Franklin Roosevelt calling on the government to take all measures to rescue the European Jews. The lawyers claim the order was ignored because of pressure brought by a group of big American companies, including BBH, where Prescott Bush was a director.

Lissmann said: "If we have a positive ruling from the court it will cause [president] Bush huge problems and make him personally liable to pay compensation."

The US government and the Bush family deny all the claims against them.

In addition to Eva Schweitzer's book, two other books are about to be published that raise the subject of Prescott Bush's business history. The author of the second book, to be published next year, John Loftus, is a former US attorney who prosecuted Nazi war criminals in the 70s. Now living in St Petersburg, Florida and earning his living as a security commentator for Fox News and ABC radio, Loftus is working on a novel which uses some of the material he has uncovered on Bush. Loftus stressed that what Prescott Bush was involved in was just what many other American and British businessmen were doing at the time.

"You can't blame Bush for what his grandfather did any more than you can blame Jack Kennedy for what his father did - bought Nazi stocks - but what is important is the cover-up, how it could have gone on so successfully for half a century, and does that have implications for us today?" he said.

"This was the mechanism by which Hitler was funded to come to power, this was the mechanism by which the Third Reich's defence industry was re-armed, this was the mechanism by which Nazi profits were repatriated back to the American owners, this was the mechanism by which investigations into the financial laundering of the Third Reich were blunted," said Loftus, who is vice-chairman of the Holocaust Museum in St Petersburg.

"The Union Banking Corporation was a holding company for the Nazis, for Fritz Thyssen," said Loftus. "At various times, the Bush family has tried to spin it, saying they were owned by a Dutch bank and it wasn't until the Nazis took over Holland that they realised that now the Nazis controlled the apparent company and that is why the Bush supporters claim when the war was over they got their money back. Both the American treasury investigations and the intelligence investigations in Europe completely bely that, it's absolute horseshit. They always knew who the ultimate beneficiaries were."

"There is no one left alive who could be prosecuted but they did get away with it," said Loftus. "As a former federal prosecutor, I would make a case for Prescott Bush, his father-in-law (George Walker) and Averill Harriman [to be prosecuted] for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. They remained on the boards of these companies knowing that they were of financial benefit to the nation of Germany."

Loftus said Prescott Bush must have been aware of what was happening in Germany at the time. "My take on him was that he was a not terribly successful in-law who did what Herbert Walker told him to. Walker and Harriman were the two evil geniuses, they didn't care about the Nazis any more than they cared about their investments with the Bolsheviks."

What is also at issue is how much money Bush made from his involvement. His supporters suggest that he had one token share. Loftus disputes this, citing sources in "the banking and intelligence communities" and suggesting that the Bush family, through George Herbert Walker and Prescott, got $1.5m out of the involvement. There is, however, no paper trail to this sum.

The third person going into print on the subject is John Buchanan, 54, a Miami-based magazine journalist who started examining the files while working on a screenplay. Last year, Buchanan published his findings in the venerable but small-circulation New Hampshire Gazette under the headline "Documents in National Archives Prove George Bush's Grandfather Traded With the Nazis - Even After Pearl Harbor". He expands on this in his book to be published next month - Fixing America: Breaking the Stranglehold of Corporate Rule, Big Media and the Religious Right.

In the article, Buchanan, who has worked mainly in the trade and music press with a spell as a muckraking reporter in Miami, claimed that "the essential facts have appeared on the internet and in relatively obscure books but were dismissed by the media and Bush family as undocumented diatribes".

Buchanan suffers from hypermania, a form of manic depression, and when he found himself rebuffed in his initial efforts to interest the media, he responded with a series of threats against the journalists and media outlets that had spurned him. The threats, contained in e-mails, suggested that he would expose the journalists as "traitors to the truth".

Unsurprisingly, he soon had difficulty getting his calls returned. Most seriously, he faced aggravated stalking charges in Miami, in connection with a man with whom he had fallen out over the best way to publicise his findings. The charges were dropped last month.

Biography

Buchanan said he regretted his behaviour had damaged his credibility but his main aim was to secure publicity for the story. Both Loftus and Schweitzer say Buchanan has come up with previously undisclosed documentation.

The Bush family have largely responded with no comment to any reference to Prescott Bush. Brown Brothers Harriman also declined to comment.

The Bush family recently approved a flattering biography of Prescott Bush entitled Duty, Honour, Country by Mickey Herskowitz. The publishers, Rutledge Hill Press, promised the book would "deal honestly with Prescott Bush's alleged business relationships with Nazi industrialists and other accusations".

In fact, the allegations are dealt with in less than two pages. The book refers to the Herald-Tribune story by saying that "a person of less established ethics would have panicked ... Bush and his partners at Brown Brothers Harriman informed the government regulators that the account, opened in the late 1930s, was 'an unpaid courtesy for a client' ... Prescott Bush acted quickly and openly on behalf of the firm, served well by a reputation that had never been compromised. He made available all records and all documents. Viewed six decades later in the era of serial corporate scandals and shattered careers, he received what can be viewed as the ultimate clean bill."

The Prescott Bush story has been condemned by both conservatives and some liberals as having nothing to do with the current president. It has also been suggested that Prescott Bush had little to do with Averill Harriman and that the two men opposed each other politically.

However, documents from the Harriman papers include a flattering wartime profile of Harriman in the New York Journal American and next to it in the files is a letter to the financial editor of that paper from Prescott Bush congratulating the paper for running the profile. He added that Harriman's "performance and his whole attitude has been a source of inspiration and pride to his partners and his friends".

The Anti-Defamation League in the US is supportive of Prescott Bush and the Bush family. In a statement last year they said that "rumours about the alleged Nazi 'ties' of the late Prescott Bush ... have circulated widely through the internet in recent years. These charges are untenable and politically motivated ... Prescott Bush was neither a Nazi nor a Nazi sympathiser."

However, one of the country's oldest Jewish publications, the Jewish Advocate, has aired the controversy in detail.

More than 60 years after Prescott Bush came briefly under scrutiny at the time of a faraway war, his grandson is facing a different kind of scrutiny but one underpinned by the same perception that, for some people, war can be a profitable business.

[TonyGosling]

Eerie and timely
You can save it as an mp4 to your hard drive here if you wish
http://www.keepvid.com

WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER: Stan Monteith interviews Anthony Sutton - 39 min - Jun 3, 2006
[GVideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9954264539[/GVideo]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9954264539

full length version with worse picture and sound quality
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8075230852

Unexplored Facets of Naziism Since the early 1920s unsubstantiated reports have circulated to the effect that not only German industrialists, but also Wall Street financiers, had some role — possibly a substantial role — in the rise of Hitler and Naziism. This book presents previously unpublished evidence, a great deal from files of the Nuremburg Military Tribunals, to support this hypothesis. However, the full impact and suggestiveness of the evidence cannot be found from reading this volume alone. Two previous books in this series, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution1 and Wall Street and FDR,2 described the roles of the same firms, and often the same individuals and their fellow directors, hard at work manipulating and assisting the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917, backing Franklin D. Roosevelt for President in the United States in 1933, as well as aiding the rise of Hitler in pre-war Germany. in brief, this book is part of a more extensive study of the rise of modern socialism and the corporate socialists. This politically active Wall Street group is more or less the same elitist circle known generally among Conservatives as the "Liberal Establishment," by liberals (for instance G. William Domhoff) as "the ruling class,"3 and by conspiratorial theorists Gary Allen4 and Dan Smoot5 as the "Insiders." But whatever we call this self-perpetuating elitist group, it is apparently fundamentally significant in the determination of world affairs, at a level far behind and above that of the elected politicians. The influence and work of this same group in the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany is the topic of this book. This is an area of historical research almost totally unexplored by the academic world. It is an historical minefield for the unwary and the careless not aware of the intricacies of research procedures. The Soviets have long accused Wall Street bankers of backing international fascism, but their own record of historical accuracy hardly lends their accusations much credence in the West, and they do not of course criticize support of their own brand of fascism. This author falls into a different camp. Previously accused of being overly critical of Sovietism and domestic socialism, while ignoring Wall Street and the rise of Hitler, this book hopefully will redress an assumed and quite inaccurate philosophical imbalance and emphasize the real point at issue: Whatever you call the collectivist system — Soviet socialism, New Deal socialism, corporate socialism, or National socialism — it is the average citizen, the guy in the street, that ultimately loses out to the boys running the operation at the top. Each system in its own way is a system of plunder, an organizational device to get everyone living (or attempting to live) at the expense of everyone else, while the elitist leaders, the rulers and the politicians, scalp the cream off the top... read the whole book here http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/b ... index.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8075230852

[Leiff]

Nice find Tony, it saves me some reading (Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution - Antony Sutton.pdf and Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler - Antony Sutton.pdf) Cheers.

[TonyGosling]

This is what YouTube was made for

[TonyGosling]

America's Nazi Secret
Fully revised and expanded, this stirring account reveals how the U.S. government permitted the illegal entry of Nazis into North America in the years following World War II. This extraordinary investigation exposes the secret section of the State Department that began, starting in 1948 and unbeknownst to Congress and the public until recently, to hire members of the puppet wartime government of Byelorussia - a region of the Soviet Union occupied by Nazi Germany. A former Justice Department investigator uncovered this stunning story in the files of several government agencies, and it is now available with a chapter previously banned from release by authorities and a foreword and afterword with recently declassified materials
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1936296047/

MONDAY NIGHTS
11:00 – 12:00 AM The Loftus Report - with John Loftus and John Batchelor

TUESDAY NIGHTS
11:00 – 12:00 AM The Loftus Report with John Loftus and Greg Allen

http://www.talklinecommunications.com/
http://www.johnloftusreport.com/

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haiTXyyfm9o[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haiTXyyfm9o
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kojak-The-Belar ... 001APX10A/

[Thermate911]

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/socio ... hood03.htm

“I stumbled across some Nazi files I wasn’t supposed to see. No one was supposed to see them until the year 2015. The British Secret Service convinced American intelligence that the Nazis would be indispensable as “freedom fighters” in preparing for the next major war, which was anticipated against the Soviet Union.

His new book could be a whole lot more interesting and useful, if somewhat biased*, than John Farmer's limited hangout!

Now maybe more people will be able to grasp the mechanisms of the Zion vs Nazism (Thule) 'grand illusion'?

* https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... ust_Museum

[Thermate911]

Okay, I see where this new Loftus book is coming from now: Damage Control and Deflection from the 'other' organised psychotics.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB331/index.htm

The National Security Archive submitted its FOIA request for the history of the Office of Special Investigations in November 2009, only to be denied by the Justice Department on grounds that the document – although completed in 2006 and never revised since then – was only a draft and was "predecisional" and therefore withholdable under the 5th exemption to the FOIA.

and

Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: November 13, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html?_r=1 - published on a weekend, of course...

Yet even the NYT manages to mention Paperclip in passing and gives a link to the most content-free online version - no mention of Gehlen whatsoever.

This one does:-
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/ha ... erclip.htm

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

Wow - several conspiracy facts ahead of us all

Antony Sutton-1976 Lecture
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEipMmxSlGU[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEipMmxSlGU
http://conspiracyscope.blogspot.com/

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

Yesterday's Mail On Sunday
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rs-US.html

Today, we can reveal the untold story of how
British agents went to war on Wall Street, a
story pieced together from a remarkable
collection of secret intelligence reports lying
untouched for decades.
Uncovered by the MoS, the documents show
how British agents took on Nazi sympathisers in
the US with a masterful campaign of dirty tricks
and disinformation, how they outmanoeuvred
Hitler’s network of American allies and how
they, ultimately, destroyed the Third Reich’s
powerful business and intelligence empire across
the water.
Today, amid talk of special relationships and
historic links, few remember that a sizeable part
of American opinion was pro-German, even as
Europe burned – or that many well-placed
Americans were virulently anti-British.
There was a strongly held belief, particularly in
corporate and financial life, that the Nazis were
the best bulwark against the advance of
Communism.
In fact, America and its vast industrial output
were vital for the Nazi war effort. German
companies ran extensive US subsidiaries and
supplied the Third Reich with pharmaceuticals,
chemicals and the latest technology, directly or
through South American subsidiaries.
The Third Reich needed information, too. Long
before the outbreak of war, German firms had
placed networks of deep-penetration agents
across the American business world.
There was open sympathy for the German cause
and it extended to the very top of American
society.
Sullivan & Cromwell, a powerful New York law
firm, brokered numerous deals between American
business and the German companies that helped
bring Hitler to power.

[acrobat74]

Today, we can reveal the untold story of how
British agents went to war on Wall Street, a
story pieced together from a remarkable
collection of secret intelligence reports lying
untouched for decades.
Uncovered by the MoS, the documents show
how British agents took on Nazi sympathisers in
the US with a masterful campaign of dirty tricks
and disinformation, how they outmanoeuvred
Hitler’s network of American allies and how
they, ultimately, destroyed the Third Reich’s
powerful business and intelligence empire across
the water.

This seems like misinformation.
If Churchill wanted to shut down the Wall Street interests that financed and abetted the Nazis he could very well have used the official channels of government to do so.

[TonyGosling]

That would have been seen by many Americans as simply the bad old Brits lording it over them again.
This, I feel, was a more subtle approach.
And probably genuine.
Bringing the US into the war on the right side was a delicate matter.

Today, we can reveal the untold story of how
British agents went to war on Wall Street, a
story pieced together from a remarkable
collection of secret intelligence reports lying
untouched for decades.
Uncovered by the MoS, the documents show
how British agents took on Nazi sympathisers in
the US with a masterful campaign of dirty tricks
and disinformation, how they outmanoeuvred
Hitler’s network of American allies and how
they, ultimately, destroyed the Third Reich’s
powerful business and intelligence empire across
the water.

This seems like misinformation.
If Churchill wanted to shut down the Wall Street interests that financed and abetted the Nazis he could very well have used the official channels of government to do so.

[acrobat74]

Maybe, but I'm not convinced.

Firstly, Churchill, owing to his background, must have had personal access to the US banking circles that financed the Nazis - on top of having official access to the highest echelons of the US government.

Secondly, I do not believe that the 'hidden' Anglo-American establishment operated out of synch on the two sides of the pond.
We have some evidence from Carroll Quigley that the All Souls round table group in Oxford strove to build up Nazi Germany in the mid 1920's.

Listen to this interview of Quigley from 5:45 onwards:

(Alfred Zimmern said:)
I resigned (All Souls) in 1923 because they were determined ... to build up Germany ... against France.

I wouldn't stand for it so I resigned.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icRq4LsOVu0[/youtube]


Another interesting figure of the 'hidden' Anglo-American establishment in the above interview is of course the founder of RIIA, Lionel Curtis:

Curtis was born at Coddington, Herefordshire in 1872, the youngest of the four children of an Anglican rector.[2] He was educated at Haileybury College and then at New College, Oxford, where he read law.

He fought in the Second Boer War with the City Imperial Volunteers and served as secretary to Lord Milner (a position that had also been held by adventure-novelist John Buchan), during which time he dedicated himself to working for a united self-governing South Africa.

Following Milner's death in 1925, he became the second leader of Milner's Kindergarten until his own death in 1955.

His experience led him to conceptualize his version of a Federal World Government, which became his life work.

In pursuit of this goal, he founded (1910) the quarterly Round Table.

He was appointed (1912) Beit lecturer in colonial history at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College.

In 1919 Curtis led a delegation of British and American experts to organize the Royal Institute of International Affairs during the Peace Conference of Paris.[3]

That would have been seen by many Americans as simply the bad old Brits lording it over them again.
This, I feel, was a more subtle approach.
And probably genuine.
Bringing the US into the war on the right side was a delicate matter.

Today, we can reveal the untold story of how
British agents went to war on Wall Street, a
story pieced together from a remarkable
collection of secret intelligence reports lying
untouched for decades.
Uncovered by the MoS, the documents show
how British agents took on Nazi sympathisers in
the US with a masterful campaign of dirty tricks
and disinformation, how they outmanoeuvred
Hitler’s network of American allies and how
they, ultimately, destroyed the Third Reich’s
powerful business and intelligence empire across
the water.

This seems like misinformation.
If Churchill wanted to shut down the Wall Street interests that financed and abetted the Nazis he could very well have used the official channels of government to do so.

[TonyGosling]

Leon Trotsky, Father of German Nazism
Tue, Dec 28, 2010
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By Nikolay STARIKOV (Russia)

Episode 6. Leon Trotsky, Father of German Nazism (IV)

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About a year before Hitler organized the Beer Hall Putsch, some curious personalities appeared in his entourage, and historians have still been unable to determine the origin of the sums of money that they brought with them. The cash flowed in from many sides. In addition to the French and English “Swiss” money, American money also fell into Adolf Hitler’s pockets. All the same, the powers were searching for political figures in Germany in 1922, someone who could be used depending on the situation: to change objectionable politicians, carry out assassinations and provocations. No one was thinking of putting Hitler in power yet. Before Munich, hardly anyone had heard of him.

Therefore, U.S. Military Attaché in Germany Capt. Truman-Smith initially met with others – retired General Ludendorff, who had commanded the Wermacht in WWI and Crown Prince Ruprecht. They told the American about the new rising star. On November 20, 1922, the captain met with the future Fuhrer in his skuzzy second-floor apartment[William Shearer “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”]. Hitler was quite candid with the American. Obviously, if the military attaché was getting into politics – not cannons and rifles – then his range of duties was wider than to handle simple military matters. The still unknown leader of the small local Bavarian party spoke about his intention to “eliminate Bolshevism,” “throw off the shackles of Versailles,” establish a dictatorship, create a strong government. In fact, taking advantage of the rare occasion when American intelligence would come to him in person, Hitler offered himself as the “sword of civilization” in the fight against Marxism – meaning against Russia!

The proposal was timely – these fanatics could come in handy anytime. For now, of course, it was not the time to fight the Russians, but this guy was worth a look. Returning from Berlin, Truman-Smith gave a detailed report, which the embassy sent back to Washington on November 25, 1922. But, the trouble was that the official military attaché of the United States could not engage so actively with a German politician in accordance with his diplomatic status. The Yankees, however, found Hitler so promising that they put the future Fuhrer in touch with a contact in American intelligence on the spot. The Nazi leader invited the diplomat to his next rally, but Truman-Smith did not go himself. He instead sent his “buddy” Ernst Sedgwick Hanfstaengl. Hanfstaengl was the son of a successful art dealer and had dual U.S. – German citizenship. He was born in Bavaria, and graduated from Harvard University in 1909. The half-German tranquilly spent the whole of WWI in America. Not only was he, as a German citizen, not arrested – even after the United States declared war on Germany – but after promising “not to engage in any anti-American activities,” he was left alone. Why? Because his lawyer, was U.S. Secretary of State Theodore Roosevelt! [Hanfstaengl: “Hitler: The lost years”]

But, when Germany lost the war, Hanfstaengl immediately hurried to his native country. In a devastated Germany caught in the grips of violent inflation, the life of Ernst “the American” was an island of prosperity and abundance. He always had money, but the income sources were not completely transparent: the cursed inflation had totally destroyed his father’s business. The “official” version attributes his well being to some art gallery in America. A convincing explanation that was totally unverified, which means it was very convenient…

Having received the invitation to take part in Hitler’s rally. Hanfstaengl immediately “was filled with sympathy for him” and the two became fast friends. He even wrote his last two memoirs entitled My Friend Adolf, My Enemy Hitler and Hitler: the Lost Years. I recommend everyone reads these books. Why? Not due their particular literary style, but for the sake of the significant facts they put forth. It turns out that vanity is not only a characteristic of poets and artists, generals and writers. Intelligence officials also commit this sin. Therefore, they take their time as they get older to write a modest little book, in which, of course they do not tell the whole truth. Instead, they sprinkle it with well known facts and obscure details in order to show the “thoughtful reader” that the author had secretly made history without anyone previously noticing – helping the strange fanatic called Adolf Hitler.

And he had stuff to write about. At a towering two-meters tall, Ernst earned the nickname “Putzi” among the Nazis, meaning “kid” (and “funny” and “amusing”). Under this name he entered German history books in the Nazi movement. Historians remember nothing, and paint Hanfstaengl as a joker, forgetting that such a role is the most convenient for the hidden influence of a puppet master.

Putzi’s true value in forming the Nazi’s into a party and Hitler into a leader is still not fully appreciated. The pianist, Hanfstaengl, brought the uncouth corporal into Munich’s elite, as well as its artistic and literary circles. Contacts like Hanfstaengl’s family gave Hitler much needed respectability and helped him to establish important relationships. In essence, Putzi and his wife Helen were the first well-to-do family that opened their doors to him. Above all, they were his first branding and image-making team. Hitler learned how to act in high society and acquired the proper manners.

The Hanfstaengl villa was always open to him, and there, the future fuehrer not only played the piano of his beloved Wagner, but also picked up some money. Putzi Hanfstaengl was rich and could afford to help out a novice politician – to direct, and put on the right path. In this memoirs, Hanfstaengl openly and honestly states the ideas he engrained into the evolving fuehrer: “If there’s another war, whoever has America on their side will win. The only sensible policy that you should follow is friendship with the United States. If they Americans end up on your enemy’s side, you will lose any war…” [Hanfstaengl: “Hitler: The lost years”]

It should be noted that this sermon was not addressed to a head of state or governmental leader, but rather to a still totally unknown chief of a fringe organization. Thanks to the editor who wrote the introduction to Hanfstaengl’s book, he formulated the “buffoon”’s thoughts effectively in brief: “His thesis was that Germany would never find balance and greatness again without rapprochement with Britain and especially the United States. The fundamental point that he tried to affix in Hitler’s brain was that all thoughts of settling scores in Europe would be illusory if the two maritime powers join the opposing side.”[ibid]

Good thinking. And if you develop these ideas further, we end up with the following: you have to befriend England and the U.S and fight Russia. Where else have we heard this sound reasoning … somewhere … But where? From Hitler himself in Mein Kampf! The result is quite interesting: in 1923, Hanfstaengl holds a series of geopolitical discussions with Hitler, enlightening the future fuehrer and expanding his horizons. And already in 1924, “the student” writes his own book, word for word repeating the thesis of his friend. So who is the real author of Mein Kampf? It turns out it was an American spy.

If anyone still doubts why and for what Adolf Hitler met Ernst Hanfstaengl “by chance”, just read his book, and all the doubts will erase themselves. Far too much in it hints to just for whom the Nazi’s wealthy American “friend” was working. Hitler was no doubt a gifted orator. But this gift had to be developed and tweaked, and Ernst Hanfstaengl inspired confidence in his friend, Adolf, raising his oratorical talents to even greater heights: “I told him about the effectiveness of expressive sayings in American political life, and explained how it strengthened and sharpened headlines, churning out ideas with a phonetic, alliterative effect.” [Hanfstaengl: “Hitler: The lost years”]

Hitler agreed. He absorbed it all like a sponge. “In many ways, Hitler was still malleable and obedient,”[ibid] Hanfstaengl wrote. But, in developing his oratorical talent, Hitler asked his teacher a reasonable question:
“You are absolutely right. But how can I get through to the German people, without the press? The newspapers totally ignore me. How can build on my success as an orator with our pitiful Volkischer Beobachter, which comes out with my speeches only once a week? We will not achieve anything until it prints daily.”[ibid]

And in the square, November 1923, Hitler would attempt a coup. But to gain support among the masses, you need propaganda. And to propagandize, you need money. But, alas, money was nowhere to be found. It might have never been found, as the future fuehrer stepped forward to speak during the beer festival in Munich, had he not remembered the saying “a friend in the market is better than money in the chest.”
Adolf Hitler did not have a friend in the market, but he did have one truly rich pal named Ernst Hanfstaengl, and that was enough, for it was him who provided the propaganda money! “In March 1923, Hanfstaengl gave Hitler a loan of $1,000 ­ crazy money in those days.”[Konrad Heiden: “Der Führer”]

Don’t be deceived by the word loan. There are plenty of reasons to believe that Hitler was in no hurry to pay Putzi back, and $1,000 at that time really was crazy money! In fact, one thousand, or even one dollar, according to Hanfstaengl was a fortune! [Hanfstaengl: “Hitler: The lost years”]

With the money from their American benefactor, the Nazis bought a new printing machine for their newspaper, the Volkischer Beobachter. Hitler’s paper was no longer a little bulletin – it was a normally formatted newspaper and was running every day! But Hanfstaengl did not stop with the creation of the Nazis’ primary mouthpiece. He personally attracted the cartoonist Schwartzer to work on a new header and caps, and also suggested a new motto for the paper – “Work and Bread.”[ibid]

Having put the Nazi press in motion, Hanfstaengl turned to helping Hitler with small, but very important matters. It was he that explained to his friend Adolf how important it was to have the right type of music to energize the crowd and pump up their enthusiasm. As an example, Putzi played Harvard fight songs for the fuehrer and Hitler even “made the Storm trooper orchestra rehearse the melody.” Hanfstaengl then personally composed a dozen new tunes for Storm trooper marches![ibid] And it was to the tune of these “triumphant marches,” written for Americans, that Stormtroopers would march under the Brandenburg Gates on the day that Hitler became chancellor.

On this matter, Hanfstaengl concealed the fact that he aided the Nazis by transferring them money. He wrote about this a few times in his memoirs: “I decided that I would secretly support the National Socialist Party”; “I … understood that any assistance I give, must be done in secret”; “I still kept my aid to the Nazis entirely secret and could not afford any rumblings about it.”[ibid]

Why did he have to hide it? His explanation was very unconvincing: “I was a member of the family business.” What was Hanfstaengl doing in Germany that was so important that could walk the streets with Adolf Hitler, but not help him with money? What else was Hanfstaengl up to, other than teaching Hitler, sponsoring him, and accompanying him on business trips? It’s difficult to tell from his memoirs. The author was mum on his commercial dealings.

However, he did not forget to tell us how, on his first visit to his friend Adolf’s apartment, he became acquainted with his bookshelf. Would you be interested to know what the head of a political party was reading in his spare time? Probably so. If you looked at his shelf, would you remember the titles? You probably would have recognized and remembered a few. But, in writing your memoirs 20 years later, an exact list would be difficult to recollect. But, Ernst Hanfstaengl was such a great friend of the Nazi leader, than he did something rather unusual for most. “The books were so diverse. Finding the time, I made an inventory,” [Hanfstaengl: “Hitler: The lost years”] wrote the American. Such behavior is strange for the average person, natural for an intelligence officer.

One is left with the distinct impression, that contact with Hitler, and gathering information about him was Hanfstaengl’s full-time job, and all his other activities appear to be nothing more than a cover. Indeed, for example, Hanfstaengl was supposedly spent an entire year writing a screenplay, but this film was never shot. Why? Because Putzi was not working a screenplay at all. He was meticulously and systematically engaged in one thing – preparing Germany’s future fuehrer. A story about filmmaking would easily fend off potential questions about his occupation. After all, such a profession didn’t exist at the time – helping Hitler.

“The party was always short of money,”[ibid] Hanfstaengl wrote. So why did not the six-foot friend and sponsor give two, or three, or ten thousand dollars, if his ulterior motive was to prop up the novice Hitler? Very simple: he was rich, but by no means the millionaire that his “legend” suggested, and he could not sacrifice more than what a rich bourgeois could afford “for the cause.” One thousand dollars, no problem. Ten thousand – no. But he could making important introductions and advise. On the eve of the putsch, Hitler went to Switzerland – long a nest of spies from every country of the world – for money. I wonder if it was his kind friend who sent him there?

That remains unknown, but another fact is demonstrably true: after the failure of the putsch, Hitler came running to Hanfstaengl’s house in the village of Uffing about 60 km from Munich.[Desmond Seward: :Napoleon and Hitler”] In desperation, his hysterical nature came to its limits. Seeing no other alternative, Adolf Hitler decided to kill himself and put a revolver to his temple. As we know, he didn’t go through with it. To whom do we owe our sincerest thanks for rescuing the life of the most abominable monster in history? ­ Hanfstaengl’s wife. She knocked the revolver out of Hitler’s hand. Hitler was later arrested at Hanfstaengl’s house and taken to prison where he began to work Hanfstaengl’s thoughts into a book. The Fuhrer’s first act of freedom after leaving prison was to go not to Hering or Rosenberg, but to the Hanfstaengl’s new house across the Isar River…

The Hanfstaengl couple managed to save Hitler’s life twice. The first time was in the spring of 1923 during a road trip to Berlin. The road went through Saxony, and Communists had in effect taken over the region. Therefore, in this part of Germany, there was warrant for Hitler’s arrest and “even a price on his head.” The Communist police stopped their car, and the Fuhrer’s life held in the balance. At that moment, Hanfstaengl extended his Swiss passport (which he used to return to Germany from the U.S.) and explained that he was a foreigner heading to the Leipzig market escorted by a chauffer and lackey. “You saved my life,” Hitler said at the time. In the following years, he always recalled that day with great appreciation. However, Hanfstaengl himself wrote that “he was nevertheless offended that I called him my lackey.”

The grateful Hitler would not forget his friend and subsequently appointed him to the key post of foreign press secretary of the party. Furthermore, Putzi headed the foreign press division in the Fuhrer’s deputy’s office. In trips abroad, he heavily promoted the new German political class.

A skeptic would say that proves nothing and he would be right! But there are much more interesting facts in Hanfstaengl’s biography. For a modest press secretary, Hanfstaengl had some truly unbelievable contacts and acquaintances.

In the summer of 1932, an extremely influential British politician came on a personal visit – Winston Churchill. One curious episode emerged later in Sir Winston’s memoirs: “In the hotel, Regina, a gentleman introduced himself to someone in my entourage. His surname was Hanfstaengl and he spoke at length about the Fuhrer, with whom he was apparently very close. Since he seemed a jovial and talkative person, and moreover spoke impeccable English, I invited him to lunch. He was exceptionally interesting in talking about Hitler’s activities and views; he seemed totally enthralled by him. In all likelihood, he was assigned to make contact with me and clearly tried to make a good impression. After lunch, we took great pleasure as he sat at the piano and deftly played through so many theatre numbers and songs. It seemed he knew all of my favorite English songs, and he was adept at keeping everyone entertained. As it turned out, he was the Fuhrer’s closest confidante. He told me I should meet Hitler and to arrange it, nothing would be easier[Winston Churchill: “Second World War”].”

Sir Winston presented the episode as if a random acquaintance tried to introduce him to the Fuhrer. Hanfstaengl’s side of the story reads quite differently: “I spent a good deal of time in the company of his son Randolph (son of Churchill – N.S.) over the course of our pre-election trips. I even arranged for him to fly with us one or two times. He brought to my attention that his father would soon arrive in Germany and that we should organize a meeting. [Hanfstaengl: “Hitler: The lost years”]”

You will agree that after this fraternization with his son, who took a few flights organized by Hitler and Hanfstaengl, that Putzi to him was something more than “a gentleman who introduced himself to someone in my entourage.” But, one way or another, the Churchill agreed to the meeting: “At the time I did not have any national prejudice against Hitler. I knew little of his doctrine or personal qualities. I am enthralled by people who rise to the defense of their defeated native lands, even if I myself am on the other side. He had the total right to be a German patriot, if he so desired. [Winston Churchill: “Second World War”]”

But who charged Hanfstaengl with “making contact” with the British politician? Who ordered him to organize a meeting between the two great leaders? Hitler himself? No. The Fuehrer did not ask him to establish this connection because he didn’t even go to the meeting with Churchill, in spite of Ernst Hanfstaengl’s many persuasions! “Thus, Hitler missed his only opportunity to meet me,”[ibid] Churchill lamented. A serious politician cannot act that way – first request a meeting with one of the leading politicians of the most powerful country in the world and not show up. That’s childish and foolish. Half of a year later, Hitler would seize power, and he would never make Churchill’s personal acquaintance. It turns out that it was not the Nazis who ordered Hanfstaengl to introduce Hitler to Churchill, but rather the same intelligence service that so deftly turned Adolf Hitler into the rising star of German politics. Otherwise, why would he know Churchill’s son, and why would they drag him along for the pre-election flights?

There is only one answer: all of Hanfstaengl’s activities were meant to convince Hitler of the necessity of friendship with England and the United States, and in order to do so, he pushed Hitler towards the strongest men on God’s green Earth. Indeed, even the Fuhrer’s absence did not prevent the British lord from discussing several very sensitive subjects. With whom? With Hanfstaengl. “Say, what does your boss think about an alliance between France, England and your country?”[Hanfstaengl: “Hitler: The lost years”] Churchill asked.

And why did the old fox Winston come to Germany in the first place, if not to personally have a look at the man that would in six months become Germany’s head of state?

Hitler’s friend still did a lot of good for him. For example, in February 1934, he left without the Fuhrer’s consent to meet with … Benito Mussolini. The modest press secretary’s mission was to nudge El Duce to normalize relations. It is just not right, Hanfstaengl told him, that “such difficulties can exist between our two Fascist states[ibid].” As we know from history, it was at precisely at that moment that the rapprochement between the two dictators began. It is worthwhile to pause and ask another question here: how in the world did Hanfstaengl know how to get an appointment with the head of Italy? Really any German who arrives in Italy is immediately welcomed with Chianti and an invitation to speak with Mussolini? Our hero’s title was not nearly high enough to receive such treatment.

But Hanfstaengl’s connections were truly fantastical. If, while leafing through Putzi’s gripping memoirs your thoughts stray to the adventures of Baron von Munchausen and his tall tales, you are mistaken. Because even if the account of Putzi’s visit to Mussolini is difficult to believe, there is concrete evidence of Hanfstaengl’s improbable powers. After having done so much for the Reich, he left Germany in March 1937. More precisely, snuck out, supposedly after getting into conflict with some in Hitler’s inner circle and felt his life was threatened.

And where did our hero run off to? – to his native America. There, it seems he had one more good friend, a Harvard classmate – U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt! What would become of our German protagonist who worked for Hitler as the party’s secretary to the foreign press? What of the fact that in that post, he laid wreaths in the United States at memoirs adorned with the eagle and swastika?

During the Second World War, Hanfstaengl would work … as an advisor to President Roosevelt! [William Shearer “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”]

Officially, he was an expert on Nazi Germany. He worked under arrest – meaning under guard. Ernst Hanfstaengl was guarded by American Army Sergeant Egon Hanfstaengl. Odd coincidence? No, it was his son, who was whisked away from Germany at just the right time to guard Daddy by personal order of the president! What a friendship, which lasted until the Nazis were strong and in power. It was not necessary to help, direct or advise any further. They had the war thanks to those who sought out Hitler, thanks to Hanfstaengl’s labors, who was also at hand. But perhaps, the “contract” simply expired? This portion of history remains dark, along with all of Hitler’s rise to power.

To be continued…

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