Letters from Vienna #11
Who is afraid of Naomi Wolf?
In a series of essays published on Substack in January 2022 Naomi Wolf raised some extremely important points. One of her texts dealt with the obvious parallels between the past and the present, another with the “current evil” and a third with the need to address “spiritual matters”.
Many people get extremely upset when I compare the Nazi past with the increasingly fascistic present yet I have good reasons for doing so. Why, exactly, I ask, are concentration camps being constructed in America, Australia and England? Might not they be being built to imprison people or are they there to help the “infected” “isolate” themselves from society? And what is the true nature of this “infection”? Might it be “intellectual”, “spiritual” or “cultural”? A love perhaps of too much freedom? And why exactly are the rules of law being undermined, human rights infringed upon and constitutions suspended? Is the “emergency” which justifies these measures real or imagined and even if the former were the case, are these steps appropriate, efficient or proportionate? And why are monopolistic policies being followed by government? Fascism is, as Kai Moltke pointed out in the 1950s, not merely the merging of corporation with state but the political expression of monopolistic capitalism.
This debate is not new. After 9/11 occurred, I argued with an American friend about whether the draconian powers of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 were necessary or not. To the best of my knowledge the United States Constitution has been suspended ever since. Why should that be? And perhaps more interesting still are the anthrax attacks which preceded the passing of the act.
Naomi Wolf wrote: “No one sensible is talking about comparing what we are living through now to those years and those horrors (the death and extermination camps).”
“Rather, the vivid similarities between our moment in the West since 2020, and the earliest years of Nazi Germany’s civil society policies, are to the years 1931-33, when so many vicious norms and policies were set in place. But these were often culturally or professionally policed, rather than being policed by camp patrols. That’s the point that better-informed analysts of these similarities, are making.”
Perhaps the best place to start are the diaries of Victor Klemperer, the cousin of the conductor Otto Klemperer, who was a professor of Romance Languages at the Technical University of Dresden at the time the Nazis attained power on January 30th 1933.
Klemperer had fought in the First World War, which meant that he didn’t suffer the worst of the restrictions imposed upon other Jews. Nevertheless, he and his wife had difficulties completing their house (it was a bone of contention between the two that he’d put it in his name), they lost their housekeeper (Jews weren’t permitted to employ Aryan women), and the hold on his job and means of income became increasingly precarious.
Now, living in Vienna in 2022, I too am faced with irksome restrictions. Nearly every form of gainful employment currently involves criminal blackmail and serious breaches of the Nuremberg Code, I am under constant worry as to whether I can pay the rent or not, and I am only permitted to buy that which is “absolutely necessary” such as food. But are not clothes too necessary? My jeans are in a bad state and I need a new pair, yet I’m not permitted to buy them in a store. I have purchased two pairs online but neither of them fit. I feel, in short, very much like Victor Klemperer must have done.
Perhaps the worst part, an element touched upon in my second essay, is the social and psychological aspect of the current situation. Klemperer was shocked at how quickly so many of his circle abandoned any semblance of humane, liberal or democratic convictions or simply swam with the tide in ever more opportunistic fashion. Even Jews became passionate admirers of Hitler!
I too am shocked. For all of my life I have heard little other than the evils of Nazism and Fascism yet, all of a sudden, many of those I know are either adapting themselves to this toxic evil, gaining obnoxious convictions or resigning themselves to the “inevitable”. And at the same time the worst are accusing those opposed of being “right-wing extremists” and “anti-Semites”!
What is perhaps most extraordinary of all is the simple fact that so few can see the obvious: that “Covid-19” is a pretext for a fascistic agenda just as the Reichstag fire was on 27th of February 1933. What remains a matter of confusion for many commentators today was blindingly obvious then.
“There can be little doubt,” a reporter for the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung wrote to his editor “that the fire which is consuming the Reichstag was the work of hirelings of the Hitler government. It seems that the incendiaries have made their way to the Reichstag through an underground passage which connects the building with the palace of the Reichstag President.”[1]
Hans-Martin Lennings (1904-1962) stated in an affidavit that he drove Marinus van der Lubbe, the patsy, who appeared dazed, from a SA hospital to the Reichstag in a car. When he arrived there, he and his colleagues noticed “that there was a strange smell of burning and that faint clouds of smoke were drifting through the rooms.”
Later, the SA man explained that he and his comrades protested against van der Lubbe’s arrest, “because we were convinced that van der Lubbe could not possibly have been the arsonist, since according to our assessment the Reichstag must have already been set on fire when we delivered van der Lubbe there”.
He and his comrades were taken into custody “and had to sign an undertaking stating that we knew nothing.” Later, almost everyone who belonged to the inner circle of those involved in the Reichstag fire was shot. Lennings however was warned beforehand and fled to Czechoslovakia.[2]
What seems to confirm this account is the police report which indicated “that the incendiary material could not have been carried in by less than seven persons, and that the distribution and simultaneous lighting of the several fires in the gigantic building required the presence of at least ten persons.”[3] What other witnesses saw or claim to have seen, what Marinus van der Lubbe, the patsy, said or is claimed to have said, and what Hermann Göring purportedly said about his own guilt is ultimately irrelevant. It could only have been a group, a criminal conspiracy, and not a “lone wolf”. Yet only Marinus van der Lubbe was found guilty and only Marinus van der Lubbe was executed in January 1934.
On 10th March, 1933 Klemperer noted in his diary: “Eight days before the election the clumsy business of the Reichstag fire – cannot imagine that anyone really believes in Communist perpetrators instead of paid Nazi work. Then the wild prohibitions and acts of violence. And on top of that the never-ending propaganda in the street, on the radio etc.”
Similarly, we still, in February 2022, don’t know whether Covid-19 was a product of a lab, an act of nature or whether it even exists. Yet, in the same way that we can say with some degree of certainty that the Nazis were the guilty party then we can say, with some degree of certainty, that a handful of people are directly responsible for the “Covid pandemic” of 2019-22, now.
The first proof is that a guilty party claims a degree of certainty which it can’t possibly possess. It is extremely difficult for even Sherlock Holmes to solve a mystery but even he needs some time to do so. Sherlock Holmes might have a hunch at the very beginning but he only arrives at certainty at the very end of his deductions. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a novel or story to read.
Thus, in the autumn of 2019, authorities claimed to know, with extraordinary, nay supernatural certainty, that they knew exactly what was happening and that they knew exactly what to do.
Similarly, the authorities claimed to know, before any investigation had even taken place and on the day itself, that Osama Bin Laden was the guilty party on 9/11. Not only that, and more damningly still: they started clearing away the evidence and never actually investigated the incident as a crime per se. This is ultimately all one needs to know about 9/11: it was a crime which needed to be investigated but wasn’t. Similarly, the Reichstag fire was never, to the best of my knowledge, properly investigated by the authorities. A patsy was found, proclaimed guilty after a lengthy and convoluted trial and executed in January 1934.
Was there a thorough and independent investigation of what happened in Wuhan in the autumn of 2019? To the best of my knowledge: there wasn’t. Hasty, superficial and ridiculous conclusions were reached and hasty, ill-conceived and absurd measures implemented. This was all done with the aid of dubious models and in considerable haste in order to “save lives”.
In the same way: all one needs to know about the Scamdemic of 2019-2022 is the obscene haste with which the PCR protocol was approved: it was proposed on a Friday, studied on a Saturday and proclaimed on a Sunday. There couldn’t possibly have been “peer review” in such a short space of time.
“The construction of a world of evil,” Wolf wrote in January 2022 “out of what had been a modern civil society, if a fragile one, was also endorsed and even policed by doctors, by medical associations, by journalists, by famous composers and filmmakers, by universities; by neighbours, by teachers, by shopkeepers — for years before the death camp guards were tasked with their own far more heinous cruelty.”
This, too, is my experience of Vienna in 2022. Many Austrian neighbours, teachers, shopkeepers, universities, journalists and doctors currently support the fascistic narrative. Those most vehemently opposed are singers such as Elisabeth Kulman, actresses such as Nina Proll and Eva Herzig or visual artists such as Zenita Komad.
The echoes of the past are truly frightening. “Currently,” so Wolf “forty-seven US states are operating with emergency measures, which suspend or bypass normal legislative checks and balances, including New York, the state in which I am writing. Under emergency measures, pretty much anything can be done.”
Wolf “warned in The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, that democracies usually do not die with a cinematic scene of goose-stepping Brownshirts suddenly in the streets. They tend to die, rather…incrementally, day by day, collapsing grotesquely in some areas of society and in regards to some institutions, even as other aspects of society and other institutions look and feel, at least superficially, exactly the same as they did before.”
“Just because the settings are familiar to us now, does not mean that a 1931-like reality, if not yet a 1933-like reality, isn’t upon us.”
Many only believe that history is repeating itself if they witness men in brown shirts with Swastikas on their arms arresting women wearing yellow stars. They fail to realise that history rarely repeats itself on such a superficial level. The words, images and symbols are rarely the same. What is repeating itself is the eugenicist, depopulation agenda and the same technocratic oppression.
Although the similarities between the past and the present are truly frightening, although corporation and state are merging once more, although the herd instinct has turned to evil and although monopolistic capitalism is again ascendant there are, in Austria at least, signs of hope but these will be reserved for a later letter.
[1] https://www.berlinexperiences.com/who-was-really-responsible-for-the-reichstag-fire-mythbusting-berlin/
[2]https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/wissen/geschichte/2020295-NS-Beteiligung-am-Reichstagsbrand.html
[3] https://www.historicalblindness.com/blogandpodcast//firebrand-in-the-reichstag