Letters from Vienna #162
Letter to Horst von Wächter V
The Anglo-American Empire and the Rise of Fascism II
Dear Horst,
Many thanks for your response to my missives. Although I understand the anger and anguish of Niklas Frank (Hans Frank doesn’t seem to have been terribly nice, neither resigned nor rebelled and was deeply implicated in helping facilitate the Holocaust) I fear that Niklas is wholly ignorant of the results of Sönke Neitzel’s research, which is profoundly regrettable. Please convey to him the information contained in “Abgehört”, which seems to clear his father’s name.
I wasn’t too surprised when you wrote that you can’t possibly agree with the following:
Given that Himmler was in the pay of the Americans and Hitler was most probably working for the British (which is why he was able to escape to Argentina) it is fair to assume that the real object of the murderous policy was two-fold: old fashioned (eugenics driven) depopulation and the creation of Israel (by extermination of all the Jews who were suspected of being anti-Zionist).
This statement needs to be unpacked.
Himmler, the Third Reich, and the Americans
If you take time to read E.R. Carmin (Das Schwarze Reich) you’ll find the following passage: “Der okkulte und esoterische Ursprung und Hintergrund des deutschen Nationalsozialismus, das magisch-mythische Wesen des Dritten Reiches Adolf Hitlers und Heinrich Himmlers ist der Schlüssel zum Verständnis dieser Vorgänge: Denn niemals zuvor und niemals danach traten die bestimmenden okkult-esoterischen Kräfte dermaßen in den Vordergrund der »politischen Exoterik«. Zu keinem anderen Zeitpunkt der neueren Geschichte wurde in diesem Ausmaß deutlich, wie sehr okkulte Kräfte das äußerlich sichtbare politische Geschehen dirigieren und, andererseits, in welchem Ausmaß die Politik sich magisch-mythischer Tricks und Symbolik, okkulter Riten und der Faszination pseudoreligiöser Inhalte bedient, um den metaphysischen Hunger der Menschen zu manipulieren, zu nutzen, zu mißbrauchen.“[1]
“The occult and esoteric origin and background of German National Socialism, the magical-mythical nature of Adolf Hitler’s and Heinrich Himmler’s Third Reich is the key to understanding these events. Never before and never since have the determining occult-esoteric forces been so clearly in the foreground of “political exotericism”. At no other time in recent history has it become so clear to what extent occult forces have been behind externally visible political events and, on the other hand, to what extent politics has embraced magical-mythical tricks and symbolism, occult rites and the fascination of pseudo-religious content, which has served to manipulate, use and abuse people’s metaphysical hunger.”
Antony C. Sutton, who was one of the few historians who actually had access to the original documents (if they have nothing to hide, why are they so secretive?), confirms this:
“Angebert reveals the 1933 crusade of Schutzstaffel member Otto Rahn in search of the Holy Grail, which was supposedly located in the Cathar stronghold in Southern France. The early Nazi hierarchy (Hitler and Himmler, as well as Rudolph Hess and Rosenberg) was steeped in a neo-pagan theology, in part associated with the Thule Society, whose ideals were close to those of the Bavarian Illuminati. This was a submerged driving force behind Naziism, with a powerful mystical hold over the hard-core S.S. faithful. Our contemporary establishment historians barely mention, let alone explore, these occult origins; consequently, they miss an element equally as important as the financial origins of National Socialism.”[2]
Sutton, like any clever detective, followed the money:
“Osram Gesellschaft, in which International General Electric had a 16 2/3rds direct interest, also had two directors on the A.E.G. board: Paul Mamroth and Heinrich Pferls. Osram contributed 40,000 RM directly to the Hitler fund. The Otto Wolff concern, Vereinigte Stahlwerke A-G, recipient of substantial New York loans in the 1920s, had three directors on the A.E.G. board: Otto Wolff, Henry Nathan and Jakob Goldschmidt. Alfred Krupp yon Bohlen, sole owner of the Krupp organization and an early supporter of Hitler, was a member of the Aufsichsrat of A.E.G. Robert Pferdmenges, a member of Himmler's Circle of Friends, was also a director of A, E.G.”
“In other words, almost all of the German directors of German General Electric were financial supporters of Hitler and associated not only with A.E.G. but with other companies financing Hitler.”[3]
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“Regrettably, the Congressional committees did not explore an even more ominous aspect of this Standard Oil — I.G. Farben collusion: that at this time directors of Standard Oil of New Jersey had not only strategic warfare affiliations to I.G. Farben but had other links with Hitler’s Germany — even to the extent of contributing, through German subsidiary companies, to Heinrich Himmler’s personal fund and with membership in Himmler’s Circle of Friends as late as 1944.”
“During World War II Standard Oil of New Jersey was accused of treason for this pre-war alliance with Farben, even while its continuing wartime activities within Himmler’s Circle of Friends were unknown. The accusations of treason were vehemently denied by Standard Oil. One of the more prominent of these defenses was published by R.T. Haslam, a director of Standard Oil of New Jersey, in The Petroleum Times (December 25, 1943), and entitled “Secrets Turned into Mighty War Weapons Through I.G. Farben Agreement.” This was an attempt to turn the tables and present the pre-war collusion as advantageous to the United States.”[4]
“The Standard Oil subsidiary in Germany, Deutsche-Amerikanische Petroleum A.G. (DAPAG), was 94-percent owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey. DAPAG had branches throughout Germany, a refinery at Bremen, and a head office in Hamburg. Through DAPAG, Standard Oil of New Jersey was represented in the inner circles of Naziism — the Keppler Circle and Himmler’s Circle of Friends.”[5]
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“On the other hand, numerous payments were made to Heinrich Himmler in the late 1930s and in World War II itself through I.T.T. German subsidiaries. The first meeting between Hitler and I.T.T. officials — so far as we know — was reported in August 1933, when Sosthenes Behn and I.T.T. German representative Henry Manne met with Hitler in Berchesgaden. Subsequently, Behn made contact with the Keppler circle…and, through Keppler’s influence, Nazi Baron Kurt von Schröder became the guardian of I.T.T. interests in Germany. Schröder acted as the conduit for I.T.T. money funneled to Heinrich Himmler’s S.S. organization in 1944, while World War II was in progress, and the United states was at war with Germany.”[6]
Having established beyond any reasonable doubt that the Americans financed Himmler one has to ask: why? The answer is an unhappy one: “Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a co-called “Master Race.”” Edwin Black tells us. “But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn’t originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little known, role in the American eugenics movement’s campaign for ethnic cleansing.
Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed “unfit,” preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in twenty-seven states.”
“In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in “colonies,” and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries.”
“California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. During the Twentieth Century's first decades, California’s eugenicists included potent but little-known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate and Polytechnic benefactor Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles M. Goethe, as well as members of the California State Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents.”
“Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They were all in league with some of America's most respected scientists hailing from such prestigious universities as Stamford, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics’ racist aims.”
“Stanford president David Starr Jordan originated the notion of “race and blood” in his 1902 racial epistle “Blood of a Nation,” in which the university scholar declared that human qualities and conditions such as talent and poverty were passed through the blood.”
“In 1904, the Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, as researchers carefully plotted the removal of families, bloodlines and whole peoples. From Cold Spring Harbor, eugenics advocates agitated in the legislatures of America, as well as the nation’s social service agencies and associations.”
“The Harriman railroad fortune paid local charities, such as the New York Bureau of Industries and Immigration, to seek out Jewish, Italian and other immigrants in New York and other crowded cities and subject them to deportation, trumped up confinement or forced sterilization.”
“The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.”
“Much of the spiritual guidance and political agitation for the American eugenics movement came from California’s quasi-autonomous eugenic societies, such as the Pasadena-based Human Betterment Foundation and the California branch of the American Eugenics Society, which coordinated much of their activity with the Eugenics Research Society in Long Island. These organizations – which functioned as part of a closely-knit network – published racist eugenic newsletters and pseudoscientific journals, such as Eugenical News and Eugenics, and propagandized for the Nazis.”[7]
To read more about eugenics I’d recommend that you read letter #102.[8]
This letter is far too long so I’ll have to continue at a later date…
Best,
Michael
[1] p.23 Das Schwarze Reich, E.R. Carmin
[2] p.8 Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Antony C. Sutton
[3] p.43 Ibid
[4] pp.51-52 Ibid
[5] p.57 Ibid
[6] p.60 Ibid
[7] https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/josef-mengele
[8] https://lettersfromvienna.substack.com/p/eugenics-and-the-genocide-by-jab