Matthew Ehret<\/p>\n
77 years ago Germany surrendered to allied forces finally ending the ravages of the Second World War.<\/p>\n
Today, as the world celebrates the 77th anniversary of this victory, why not think very seriously about finally winning that war once and for all?<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re confused by this statement, then you might want to sit down and take a deep breath before reading on. Within the next 12 minutes, you will likely discover a disturbing fact which may frighten you a little bit: The allies never actually won World War II\u2026<\/p>\n
Now please don\u2019t get me wrong. I am eternally thankful for the immortal souls who gave their lives to put down the fascist machine during those bleak years\u2026 but the fact is that a certain something wasn\u2019t resolved on the 9th of May, 1945 which has a lot to do with the slow re-emergence of a new form of fascism during the second half of the 20th century and the renewed danger of a global dictatorship which the world faces again today.<\/p>\n
It is my contention that it is only when we find the courage to really look at this problem with sober eyes, that we will be able to truly honor our courageous forebears who devoted their lives to winning a peace for their children, grandchildren and humanity more broadly.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll stop beating around the bush now and just say it: Adolph Hitler or Benito Mussolini were never \u201ctheir own men\u201d.<\/p>\n
The machines they led were never fully under their sovereign control and the financing they used as fuel in their effort to dominate the world did not come from the Banks of Italy or Germany. The technologies they used in petrochemicals, rubber, and computing didn\u2019t come from Germany or Italy, and the governing scientific ideology of eugenics that drove so many of the horrors of Germany\u2019s racial purification practices never originated in the minds of German thinkers or from German institutions.<\/p>\n
Were it not for a powerful network of financiers and industrialists of the 1920s-1940s with names such as Rockefeller, Warburg, Montague Norman, Osborn, Morgan, Harriman or Dulles, then it can safely be said that fascism would never have been possible as a \u201csolution\u201d to the economic woes of the post-WWI order. To prove this point, let us take the strange case of Prescott Bush as a useful entry point.<\/p>\n
The patriarch of the same Bush dynasty that gave the world two disastrous American presidents made a name for himself funding Nazism alongside his business partners Averell Harrimen and Averell\u2019s younger brother E. Roland Harriman (the latter who was to recruit Prescott to Skull and Bones while both were studying at Yale). Not only did Prescott, acting as director of Brown Brothers Harriman, provide valuable loans to keep the bankrupt Nazi party afloat during Hitler\u2019s loss of support in 1932 when the German population voted into office the anti-Fascist General Kurt von Schleicher as Chancellor, but was even found guilty for \u201ctrading with the enemy\u201d as director of Union Banking Corporation in 1942!<\/p>\n
That\u2019s right! Eleven months after America entered WWII, the Federal Government naturally conducted an investigation of all Nazi banking operations in the USA and wondered why Prescott continued to direct a bank which was so deeply enmeshed with Fritz Thyssen\u2019s Bank voor Handel en Scheepvart of the Netherlands. Thyssen for those who are unaware is the German industrial magnate famous for writing the book\u00a0\u201cI Paid Hitler\u201d.<\/a>\u00a0The bank itself was tied to a German combine called Steel Works of the German Steel Trust which controlled 50.8% of Nazi Germany\u2019s pig iron, 41.4% of its universal plate, 38.5% of its galvanized steel, 45.5% of its pipes and 35% of its explosives. Under Vesting Order 248,\u00a0the U.S. federal government seized all of Prescott\u2019s properties<\/a>\u00a0on October 22, 1942.<\/p>\n The U.S.-German Steel combine was only one small part of a broader operation as Rockefeller\u2019s Standard Oil had created a new international cartel alongside IG Farben (the fourth largest company in the world) in 1929 under the\u00a0Young Plan<\/a>. Owen Young was a JP Morgan asset who headed General Electric and instituted a German debt repayment plan in 1928 that gave rise to the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and consolidated an international cartel of industrialists and financiers on behalf of the City of London and Wall Street. The largest of these cartels saw Henry Ford\u2019s German operations merging with IG Farben, Dupont industries, Britain\u2019s Shell and Rockefeller\u2019s Standard Oil. The 1928 cartel agreement also made it possible for Standard Oil to pass off all patents and technologies for the creation of synthetic gasoline from coal to IG Farben thus allowing Germany to rise from producing merely 300 000 tons of natural petroleum in 1934 to an incredible 6.5 million tons (85% of its total) during WWII! Had this patent\/technology transfer not taken place, it is a fact that the modern mechanized warfare that characterized WWII could never have occurred.<\/p>\n Two years before the Young Plan began, JP Morgan had already\u00a0given a $100 million loan<\/a>\u00a0to Mussolini\u2019s newly established fascist regime in Italy- with Democratic Party kingmaker Thomas Lamont playing the role of Prescott Bush in Wall Street\u2019s Italian operation. It wasn\u2019t only JP Morgan who loved Mussolini\u2019s brand of corporate fascism, but Time Magazine\u2019s Henry Luce\u00a0unapologetically gushed<\/a>\u00a0over Il Duce putting Mussolini on the cover of Time eight times between 1923 and 1943 while relentlessly promoting fascism as the \u201ceconomic miracle solution for America\u201d (which he also did in his other two magazines Fortune and Life). Many desperate Americans, still traumatized from the long and painful depression begun in 1929, had increasingly embraced the poisonous idea that an American fascism would put food on the table and finally help them find work.<\/p>\n A few words should be said of Brown Brothers Harriman.<\/p>\n Bush\u2019s Nazi bank itself was the product of an earlier 1931 merger which took place between Montagu Norman\u2019s family bank (Brown Brothers) and Harriman, Bush and Co. Montague Norman was the Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944, leader of the Anglo-German Fellowship Trust and controller of Germany\u2019s Hjalmar Schacht (Reichsbank president from 1923-1930 and Minister of Economy from 1934-1937). Norman was also the primary controller of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) from its creation in 1930 throughout the entirety of WWII.<\/p>\n Although the BIS was established under the Young Plan and nominally steered by Schacht as a mechanism for debt repayments from WWI, the Swiss-based \u201cCentral Bank of Central Banks\u201d was the key mechanism for international financiers to fund the Nazi machine. The fact that the BIS was under the total control of Montagu Norman was revealed by Dutch Central Banker Johan Beyen\u00a0who said<\/a>\u00a0\u201cNorman\u2019s prestige was overwhelming. As the apostle of central bank cooperation, he made the central banker into a kind of arch-priest of monetary religion. The BIS was, in fact, his creation.\u201d<\/p>\n The founding members of the Board included the private central banks of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium as well as a coterie of 3 private American banks (JP Morgan, First National of Chicago, and First National of New York). The three American banks merged after the war and are today known as Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase.<\/p>\n In its founding constitution, the BIS, its directors and staff were given immunity from all sovereign national laws and not even authorities in Switzerland were permitted to enter its premises.<\/p>\n This story was conveyed powerfully in\u00a0the 2013 book Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World.<\/em><\/p>\n Nazi support in the build up to, and during WWII didn\u2019t end with finance and industrial might, but extended to the governing scientific ideology of the third Reich: Eugenics (aka: the science of Social Darwinism as developed by Thomas Huxley\u2019s X Club associate Herbert Spencer and Darwin\u2019s cousin sir Francis Galton decades earlier). In 1932, New York hosted the Third Eugenics Conference co-sponsored by William Draper Jr (JP Morgan banker, head of General Motors and leading figure of Dillon Read and co) and the Harriman family. This conference brought together leading eugenicists from around the world who came to study America\u2019s successful application of eugenics laws which had begun in 1907 under the enthusiastic patronage of Theodore Roosevelt. Hiding behind the respectable veneer of \u201cscience\u201d these high priests of science discussed the new age of \u201cdirected evolution of man\u201d which would soon be made possible under a global scientific dictatorship.<\/p>\n Speaking at the conference, leading British Fascist Fairfield Osborn said that eugenics:<\/p>\n \u201caids and encourages the survival and multiplication of the fittest; indirectly, it would check and discourage the multiplication of the unfitted. As to the latter, in the United States alone, it is widely recognized that there are millions of people who are acting as dragnets or sheet anchors on the progress of the ship of state\u2026While some highly competent people are unemployed, the mass of unemployment is among the less competent, who are first selected for suspension, while the few highly competent people are retained because they are still indispensable. In nature, these less-fitted individuals would gradually disappear, but in civilization, we are keeping them in the community in the hopes that in brighter days, they may all find employment. This is only another instance of humane civilization going directly against the order of nature and encouraging the survival of the un-fittest\u201d.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The dark days of the great depression were good years for bigotry and ignorance as eugenics laws were applied to\u00a0two Canadian provinces<\/a>, and widely spread across Europe and America with\u00a030 U.S. states applying eugenics laws<\/a>\u00a0to sterilize the unfit.\u00a0The Rockefeller Foundation<\/a>\u00a0went onto fund German eugenics and most specifically the rising star of human improvement Joseph Mengele.<\/p>\n Describing his January 29, 1935 meeting with Hitler, Round Table controller Lord Lothian quoted the Fuhrer\u2019s vision for Aryan co-direction of the New World Order saying:<\/p>\n \u201cGermany, England, France, Italy, America and Scandinavia \u2026 should arrive at some agreement whereby they would prevent their nationals from assisting in the industrializing of countries such as China, and India. It is suicidal to promote the establishment in the agricultural countries of Asia of manufacturing industries\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n While it is obvious that much more can be said on the topic, the Fascist machine didn\u2019t fully behave the way the Dr. Frankensteins in London wished, as Hitler began to realize that his powerful military machine gave Germany the power to lead the New World Order rather than play second fiddle as mere enforcers on behalf of their Anglo masters in Britain. While many London and Wall Street oligarchs were willing to adapt to this new reality, a decision was made to abort the plan, and try to fight another day.<\/p>\n To accomplish this, a scandal was concocted to justify the abdication of\u00a0pro-Nazi King Edward VIII<\/a>\u00a0in 1936 and an appeasing Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was replaced with Winston Churchill in 1940. While Sir Winston was a life long\u00a0racist, eugenicist<\/a>\u00a0and even\u00a0Mussolini-admirer,<\/a>\u00a0he was first and foremost a devout British Imperialist and as such would fight tooth and nail to save the prestige of the Empire if it were threatened. Which he did.<\/p>\n Within America itself, the pro-fascist Wall Street establishment had been loosing a war that began the day anti-fascist President Franklin Roosevelt was elected in 1932. Not only had their attempted February\u00a01933 assassination failed<\/a>, their 1934 coup d\u2019etat plans\u00a0were also thwarted<\/a>\u00a0by a patriotic General named Smedley Butler. To make matters worse, their efforts to keep America out of the war in the hopes of co-leading the New World Order alongside Germany, France and Italy was also falling apart. As I outlined in my recent article\u00a0How to Crush a Bankers\u2019 Dictatorship<\/a>, between 1933-1939, FDR had imposed sweeping reforms on the banking sector, thwarted a major attempt to create a global Bankers\u2019 dictatorship under the Bank of International Settlements, and mobilized a broad recovery under the New Deal.<\/p>\n By 1941, Japan\u2019s attack on Pearl Harbor polarized the American psyche so deeply that resisting America\u2019s entry into WWII as Wall Street\u2019s American Liberty League had been doing up until then, became political suicide. Wall Street\u2019s corporatist organizations were called out by FDR during a powerful\u00a01938 speech<\/a>\u00a0as the president reminded the Congress of the true nature of fascism:<\/p>\n \u201cThe first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism \u2013 ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power\u2026 Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing. This concentration is seriously impairing the economic effectiveness of private enterprise as a way of providing employment for labor and capital and as a way of assuring a more equitable distribution of income and earnings among the people of the nation as a whole.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n While America\u2019s entry into WWII proved a decisive factor in the destruction of the fascist machine,\u00a0the dream shared<\/a>\u00a0by Franklin Roosevelt, Henry Wallace and many of FDR\u2019s closest allies across America, Canada, Europe, China and Russia for a world governed by large-scale development, and win-win cooperation did not come to pass.<\/p>\n Even though FDR\u2019s ally Harry Dexter White led in the fight to shut down the Bank of International Settlements during the July 1944 Bretton Woods conference, the passage of White\u2019s\u00a0resolutions to dissolve BIS<\/a>\u00a0and audit its books were never put into action. While White, who was to become the first head of the IMF, defended FDR\u2019s program to create a new anti-imperial system of finance,\u00a0Fabian Society<\/a>\u00a0leader, and\u00a0devout eugenicist<\/a>\u00a0John Maynard Keynes defended the Bank and pushed instead to redefine the post-war system around a one world currency called the Bancor, controlled by the Bank of England and BIS.<\/p>\n By the end of 1945, the Truman Doctrine and\u00a0Anglo-American \u201cspecial relationship\u201d<\/a>\u00a0replaced\u00a0\u00a0FDR\u2019s anti-colonial vision,<\/a>\u00a0while an anti-communist witch hunt turned America into a fascist police state under FBI surveillance. Everyone friendly to Russia was targeted for destruction and the first to feel that targeting were FDR\u2019s close allies Henry Wallace and Harry Dexter White whose 1948 death while campaigning for Wallace\u2019s presidential bid put an end to anti-colonialists running the IMF.<\/p>\n In the decades after WWII, those same financiers who brought the world fascism went straight back to work infiltrating FDR\u2019s Bretton Woods Institutions such as the IMF and World Bank, turning them from tools of development, into tools of enslavement. This process was fully exposed in the 2004 book\u00a0Confessions of an Economic Hit man by John Perkins.<\/a><\/p>\n The European banking houses representing the old nobility of the empire continued through this reconquering of the west without punishment. By 1971, the man whom Perkins exposed as the chief economic hit man George Schultz, orchestrated the removal of the U.S. dollar from the Gold-reserve, fixed exchange rate system director of the Office of Management of Budget and in the same year, the\u00a0Rothschild Inter-Alpha Group of banks<\/a>\u00a0was created to usher in a new age of globalization. This 1971 floating of the dollar ushered in a new paradigm of consumerism, post-industrialism, and de-regulation which transformed the once productive western nations into speculative \u201cpost-truth\u201d basket cases convinced that casino principles, bubbles and windmills were substitutes for agro-industrial economic practices.<\/p>\n So here we are in 2022 celebrating victory over fascism.<\/p>\n The children and grandchildren of those heroes of 1945 now find themselves attached to the biggest financial collapse in history with $1.5 quadrillion of fictitious capital ripe to explode under a new global hyperinflation akin to that which destroyed\u00a0Weimar in 1923<\/a>, but this time global. The Bank of International Settlements that should have been dissolved in 1945 today controls the Financial Stability Board and thus regulates the world derivatives trade which has become the weapon of mass destruction that has been triggered to unleash more chaos upon the world than Hitler could have ever dreamed.<\/p>\n The saving grace today is that the anti-fascist spirit of Franklin Roosevelt is alive in the form of modern anti-imperialists Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and a growing array of nations united under the umbrella of the\u00a0New Deal of the 21st Century<\/a>\u00a0which has come to be called the \u201cBelt and Road Initiative\u201d.<\/p>\n And thus a chance still exists today to take the types of emergency actions needed at this moment of existential crisis and finally accomplish what FDR had always intended: to win World War II.<\/p>\n Matthew Ehret<\/a>\u00a0is the Editor-in-Chief of\u00a0the Canadian Patriot Review\u00a0<\/a>,\u00a0and Senior Fellow at the American University in Moscow. He is author of the\u00a0\u2018Untold History of Canada\u2019 book series<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Clash of the Two Americas<\/a>\u00a0trilogy. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based\u00a0Rising Tide Foundation\u00a0<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nThe Central Bank of Central Banks<\/strong><\/h2>\n
A Word on Eugenics<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The Nazi Frankenstein Monster is Aborted<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The Fascists vs Franklin Roosevelt<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The Fascist Resurgence in the Post-War World<\/strong><\/h2>\n