1941
What could be more disastrous than leading us into a war of aggression and nuclear annihilation?
Letters from Vienna #41
1941
That a German chancellor should increase the military budget threefold[1] (to a whopping €100 billion!) somehow doesn’t surprise. That his Austrian counterpart should increase defence expenditure (from €2,7 to €3,4 billion or 0,74% of GDP to 1% of GDP)[2] and say Austria should join NATO leaves me no option but to seriously question his sanity. On whose behalf, exactly, he’s making his decisions isn’t clear; it’s certainly not on behalf of his people.
Austrians have long benefited from neutrality, which is anchored not only in their constitution but their very psyche. Given the current Russo-phobic climate however and appalling media-generated hysteria it remains to be seen whether they’ll defend neutrality as passionately today as they once did.
I don’t envy Chancellor Nehammer. The Minister of Health who I mentioned in my previous letters: Mückstein, has resigned (as was to be expected), ostensibly on account of “death threats” made against him but in reality, because he’s been made the scapegoat for the disastrous “Covid policies”. Yet, what could be more disastrous than leading Austria into a war of aggression and nuclear annihilation? How could such a chancellor escape hanging?
Some Austrians might have a certain yearning for the “good old days” of the Third Reich, when the government had a “proper employment policy” (“ordentliche Beschäftigungspolitik”), when they were able to get away with plundering the Jewish portion of the population (how many businesses, flats or houses once belonged to Jews?) and when many “saw the world” and benefited from the high wages paid to servicemen abroad but enough remember the horrors of war. 13% of the city of Vienna was destroyed and its scars are still self-evident.
The debate about whether Hitler was “right-wing” or “left-wing” rages on but the key point is: he was no “madman” or “genius” but rather an agent. There are those who say he was an agent of British[3] while others say he was an agent of the mysterious Thule Society, which was later transformed into the NSDAP[4]. Two things are beyond question: he was an agent working on behalf of German military intelligence and the Nazis were financed by Wall Street and the Bank of England[5].
According to Johnny Cirucci: “Adolf Hitler’s “tour de force”, “Mein Kampf” was so heavily edited by a vehemently anti-Semitic Jesuit priest it was practically ghost-written by him.”[6] E. R. Carmin on the other hand asserts that the ideas central to “Mein Kampf” came from Karl Haushofer rather than Hitler, Stempfle or Hess. “The theses that Germany must strive not only for economic self-sufficiency, but above all for the expansion of German “living space” – theses, which formed the strategic basis of the National Socialist economy and above all foreign policy – undoubtedly came from (Karl) Haushofer’s kitchen.”[7]
Perhaps the key sentence is: “We’ll stop the eternal Germanic march to the south and west of Europe and redirect our eyes to the lands of the east.”[8]
Who feared German encroachments in the West and South? London and Rome. When was Mein Kampf written? After Organisation Consul had murdered Walther Rathenau in 1922. Rathenau was, at the time he was murdered, following the only policy which has ever worked for Germany, the policy Bismarck favoured: allying Germany to Russia. This policy however has always been anathema to the Anglo-American establishment, which remains to this day profoundly influenced by Halford MacKinder (see letter #36).
“The really alarming aspect of the Rapallo Treaty (between Russia and Germany), for certain influential circles in London,” F. William Engdahl wrote “was the implications of its provisions. A major infusion of German machinery and equipment, steel and other technology was to be sold to Russia for the rebuilding and expansion of her Baku oilfields.”
“In return, Germany established a network of jointly owned German–Soviet oil and gasoline distribution centres in Germany to market the Soviet oil under the firm DEROP, the Deutsch–Russische Petroleumgesellschaft. This had the added advantage of allowing Germany to get out from under the iron grip of British and American oil interests, which had had a total monopoly on German petroleum sales since Versailles. Rathenau never refused the London Ultimatum reparations demands. But he insisted on a practical means of realising those demands.”
“The response to Rapallo was not long in arriving. Within two days of its formal announcement, on April 18 at Genoa, the German delegation was presented with an Allied note of protest that Germany had negotiated the Russian accord ‘behind the backs’ of the Reparations Committee.”
“Then, on June 22, 1922, little more than two months after the Rapallo Treaty had been made public, Walther Rathenau was assassinated while leaving his home in the Berlin Grünewald. Two right-wing extremists, later identified as members of a pro-monarchist ‘Organisation C,’ (Organisation Consul) were charged with the murder, and it was portrayed as part of the growing wave of extremism and anti-Semitism. But reports circulated in Germany pointing to ‘foreign interests,’ and some said Britain, or British interests, stood behind the two hitmen. In any event, the most prominent statesman and architect of Rapallo was gone, and the nation was shaken to the roots. But the murder of Rathenau was to be only the beginning of a horror to which few nations before or since have been subjected.”[9]
The murder of Rathenau and the Western support for the Nazis set Germany almost inevitably on collision course with Russia. Indeed: had the Nazis not invaded Russia: Britain and France would have done so themselves (see letter #40). When war between Russia and Germany came, in 1941, it should hardly surprise that it was unprecedented in its brutality.
“The slaughter that followed the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941” wrote Christopher Simpson “is without equal in world history. Next to the Nazis’ operation of the anti-Jewish extermination centres at Treblinka, Sobibor, Birkenau, and elsewhere, the most terrible crimes of the entire war took place in name of anticommunism in the German-occupied territories on the eastern front. Civilian casualties in these areas were so enormous, so continuous, and so extreme that even counting the dead has proved impossible. Scholars have attempted to deduce the numbers of fatalities from captured German records, reports of Einsatzgruppen (mobile execution squads). The evidence indicates that between 3 and 4 million captured Soviet soldiers were intentionally starved to death in German POW camps between 1941 and 1944. At least a million and a half Jews were exterminated inside Nazi-occupied Soviet territory, mainly through mass shootings but also through gassing, deportation to extermination camps, looting and destruction of villages, hangings, and torture. The generally accepted figure for all Soviet war dead is 20 million human beings—about 15 per cent of the population of the country at the time—but the destruction was so vast that even this number can be only an educated guess.”
“The Nazis deliberately used famine as a political weapon in the East, and it soon became the largest single killer. As the German invasion of the USSR began, General (later Field Marshal) Erich von Manstein ordered that “the Jewish-Bolshevist system must be exterminated. ... In hostile cities, a large part of the population will have to starve.” Nothing, Manstein continued, “may, out of a sense of mistaken humaneness, be distributed to prisoners or to the population—unless they are in the service of the German Wehrmacht.””
“This was a war not only of conquest but of extermination. Entire regions of the USSR were to be cleared of the existing Communist apparatus and of Slavic “subhumans” to make way for settlement by “Aryan pioneers.” Above all, it was believed necessary to con- duct an ideological war to wipe out the “Jewish-Bolshevist plague” and those who were its “carriers.””
“The Nazis’ mass killings at Lidice, Czechoslovakia, and Oradour, France—where the Germans rounded up the town’s population in retaliation for the assassination of a German official, murdered the captives, and shipped any survivors to concentration camps, then burned the place to the ground–are well remembered in the West today.”
“But inside the Nazi-occupied USSR there were not just one or two Lidices. There were hundreds. Mass killings of the Lidice type took place at Rasseta (372 dead), Vesniny (about 200 dead, mainly women and children), and Dolina (469 dead, again mainly women and children), to name only three.””[10]
That Russians aren’t happy about NATO’s encroachment eastward and aren’t willing to tolerate NATO in the Ukraine (see letter #25) should hardly surprise. They haven’t forgotten nor have they forgiven, rightfully so.
After all: the similarity between the Waffen-SS, which was made up of multi-national forces and NATO, hasn’t escaped Russian attention. Nor has the fact that NATO launched an illegal war of aggression against former Yugoslavia, much in the same way the Nazis attacked Yugoslavia as a prelude to war with Russia in 1941.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/ffc46030-51c6-4d87-b81b-457a31fbcdc9
[2] https://www.euractiv.de/section/europakompakt/news/oesterreich-will-militaerausgaben-deutlich-erhoehen/
[3] Hitler was a British Agent, Greg Hallett and the Spymaster
[4] Das schwarze Reich, E. R. Carmin
[5] Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Antony C. Sutton
[6] p.96 Illuminati Unmasked, Johnny Cirucci
[7] p.99 Das schwarze Reich, E. R. Carmin
[8] p.100 Ibid
[9] pp. 84-85 A Century of War, F. William Engdahl
[10] pp.13-15 Blowback, Christopher Simpson