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Schwab Family Values<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Is the real Klaus Schwab a kindly old uncle figure wishing to do good for humanity, or is he really the son of a Nazi collaborator who used slave labour and aided Nazi efforts to obtain the first atomic bomb? Johnny Vedmore investigates.<\/h3>\n

by Johnny Vedmore
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On the morning of 11 September 2001, Klaus Schwab sat having breakfast<\/a> in the Park East Synagogue in New York City with Rabbi Arthur Schneier, former Vice President for the World Jewish Congress and closely associate of the Bronfman and Lauder families<\/a>. Together, the two men watched one of the most impactful events of the next twenty years unfold as planes struck the World Trade Center buildings. Now, two decades on, Klaus Schwab again sits in a front row seat of yet a generation-defining moment in modern human history.<\/p>\n

Always seeming to have a front row seat when tragedy approaches, Schwab\u2019s proximity to world-altering events likely owes to his being one of the most well-connected men on Earth. As the driving force behind the World Economic Forum, \u201cthe international organization for public-private cooperation,\u201d Schwab has courted heads of state, leading business executives, and the elite of academic and scientific circles into the Davos fold for over 50 years. More recently, he has also courted the ire of many due to his more recent role as the frontman of the Great Reset, a sweeping effort to remake civilization globally for the express benefit of the elite of the World Economic Forum and their allies.<\/p>\n

Schwab, during the Forum\u2019s annual meeting in January 2021, stressed that the building of trust would be integral to the success of the Great Reset, signalling a subsequent expansion of the initiative\u2019s already massive public relations campaign. Though Schwab called for the building of trust through unspecified \u201cprogress,\u201d trust is normally facilitated through transparency. Perhaps that is why so many have declined to trust Mr. Schwab and his motives, as so little is known about the man\u2019s history and background prior to his founding of the World Economic Forum in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n

Like many prominent frontmen for elite-sponsored agendas, the online record of Schwab has been well-sanitized, making it difficult to come across information on his early history as well as information on his family. Yet, having been born in Ravensburg, Germany in 1938, many have speculated in recent months that Schwab\u2019s family may have had some tie to Axis war efforts, ties that, if exposed, could threaten the reputation of the World Economic Forum and bring unwanted scrutiny to its professed missions and motives.<\/p>\n

In this Unlimited Hangout<\/em> investigation, the past that Klaus Schwab has worked to hide is explored in detail, revealing the involvement of the Schwab family, not only in the Nazi quest for an atomic bomb, but apartheid South Africa\u2019s illegal nuclear programme. Especially revealing is the history of Klaus\u2019 father, Eugen Schwab, who led the Nazi-supported German branch of a Swiss engineering firm into the war as a prominent military contractor. That company, Escher-Wyss, would use slave labor to produce machinery critical to the Nazi war effort as well as the Nazi\u2019s effort to produce heavy water for its nuclear program. Years later, at the same company, a young Klaus Schwab served on the board of directors when the decision was made to furnish the racist apartheid regime of South Africa with the necessary equipment to further its quest to become a nuclear power.<\/p>\n

With the World Economic Forum now a prominent advocate for nuclear non-proliferation and \u201cclean\u201d nuclear energy<\/a>, Klaus Schwab\u2019s past makes him a poor spokesperson for his professed agenda for the present and the future. Yet, digging even deeper into his activities, it becomes clear that Schwab\u2019s real role has long been to \u201cshape global, regional and industry agendas\u201d of the present in order to ensure the continuity of larger, much older agendas that came into disrepute after World War II, not just nuclear technology, but also eugenics-influenced population control policies.<\/p>\n

A Swabian Story<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On 10 July 1870, Klaus Schwab\u2019s grandfather<\/a> Jakob Wilhelm Gottfried Schwab, referred to later as simply Gottfried, was born in a Germany at war with<\/a> its French neighbours. Karlsruhe, the town where Gottfried Schwab was born, was located in the Grand Duchy of Baden, ruled in 1870 by the 43 year old Grand Duke of Baden, Frederick I. The following year, the aforementioned Duke would be present at the proclamation of the German Empire which took place in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. He was the only son-in-law of the incumbent Emperor Wilhelm I and, as Frederick I, was one of the reigning sovereigns of Germany. By the time Gottfried Schwab turned 18 years old, Germany would see Wilhelm II take the throne upon the death of his father, Frederick III.<\/p>\n

In 1893, a 23 year old Gottfried Schwab would officially depart from Germany giving up his German citizenship and leaving Karlsruhe in order to emigrate to Switzerland. At the time, his occupation was noted as being that of a simple baker<\/a>. Here, Gottfried would meet Marie Lappert<\/a> who was from Kirchberg near Bern, Switzerland and who was five years his junior. They would marry in Roggwil, Bern, on 27 May 1898 and the following year, on 27 April 1899, their child Eugen Schwab was born. At the time of his birth, Gottfried Schwab had moved up in the world, having become a Machine Engineer. When Eugen was around one year old, Gottfried and Marie Schwab decided to return to live in Karlsruhe and Gottfried reapplied for German citizenship again.<\/p>\n

Eugen Schwab would follow in the footsteps of his father and also become a Machine Engineer and in future years, he would advise his children to do the same. Eugen Schwab would eventually begin working at a factory in a town in Upper Swabia in Southern Germany, capital of the district of Ravensburg, Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg.<\/p>\n

The factory where he would forge his career was the German branch of a Swiss company named Escher Wyss. Switzerland had many long standing economic ties<\/a> to the Ravensburg area, with Swiss traders in the early 19th<\/sup> century bringing in yarn and weaving products. In the same period, Ravensburg delivered grain to Rorschach until 1870, alongside breeding animals and various cheeses, deep within the Swiss Alps. Between 1809 and 1837, there were 375 Swiss people living in Ravensburg, though the Swiss population had dropped to 133 by 1910.<\/p>\n

In the 1830s, skilled Swiss workers set up a cotton factory with an incorporated bleaching and finishing plant owned and maintained by the Erpf brothers. The Ravensburg horse market, created in around 1840, also attracted many people from Switzerland, especially after the 1847 opening of the railway line<\/a> from Ravensburg to Friedrichshafen, a town situated on nearby Lake Constance on the borderlands of Switzerland and Germany.<\/p>\n

Rorsach grain traders would make regular visits to the Ravensburger Kornhaus and eventually this cross-border cooperation and trade also led to a branch of the Zurich machine factory, Escher-Wyss & Cie, opening in the city. This feat was made plausible once a train line connecting the Swiss to the German route network was completed between 1850 and 1853. The factory was set up by Walter Zuppinger<\/a> between 1856 to 1859 and would begin production in 1860. In 1861<\/a>, we can see the first official patent of the manufacturers Escher-Wyss in Ravensburg of \u201cpeculiar facilities on mechanical looms for ribbon weaving\u201d. At this time, the Ravensburg branch of Escher Wyss would be directed by Walter Zuppinger, and would be where he developed his tangential turbine and where he gained a number of additional patents. In 1870, Zuppinger along with others would also founded a paper mill works in Baienfurt close to Ravensburg. He retired in 1875 and devoted all his energies to the further advance of turbines.<\/p>\n

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Founding Document of the Escher-Wyss Ravensburg Factory, dated\u00a01860.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the turn of the new century, Escher-Wyss had put the ribbon weaving to one side and begun to concentrate on much bigger projects like the production of large industrial turbines and, in 1907, they sought an \u201capproval and concession procedure\u201d for the construction of a hydropower<\/a> plant near Dogern am Rhein, which was reported in a Basel brochure from 1925.<\/p>\n

By 1920, Escher-Wyss found themselves embroiled in serious <\/a>financial <\/a>difficulties<\/a>. The treaty of Versailles had restricted the military and economic growth of Germany following the Great War, and the Swiss Company found the downturn in neighbouring national civil engineering projects too much to bear. The parent branch of Escher-Wyss was located in Zurich and dated back to 1805 and the company, which still benefited from a good reputation and a history lasting more than a century, was deemed too important to lose. In December 1920, a reorganization was carried out by writing down the share capital from 11.5 to 4.015 million French Francs and which was later increased again to 5.515 million Swiss Francs. By the end of the financial year of 1931, Escher-Wyss was still losing money.<\/p>\n

Yet, the plucky company continued to deliver large scale civil engineering contracts throughout the 1920s as noted in the official correspondence written in 1924<\/a> from Wilhelm III Prince of Urach to the company Escher-Wyss and to the asset manager of the House of Urach, accountant Julius Heller. This document discusses the \u201cGeneral Terms and Conditions of the Association of German Water Turbine Manufacturers for the Delivery of Machines and Other Equipment for Hydropower Plants\u201d. This is also confirmed in a brochure on the \u201cConditions of the Association of German Water Turbine Manufacturers for the Installation of Turbines and Machine Parts within the German Reich\u201d, printed on March 20, 1923 in an advertising brochure from Escher-Wyss for a universal oil pressure regulator.<\/p>\n

After the Great Depression in the early 1930s had laid waste to the global economy, Escher-Wyss announced, \u201cas the catastrophic development of the economic situation in connection with the currency declines; The company [Escher-Wyss] is temporarily unable to continue its current liabilities in various customer countries.\u201d The company also revealed that they would apply for a court deferral to the Swiss newspaper Neue Z\u00fcrcher Nachrichten<\/em>, which r<\/a>eport<\/a>ed<\/a> on 1 December 1931<\/a> that, \u201cthe company Escher-Wyss has been granted a stay of bankruptcy until the end of March 1932 and, acting as curator in Switzerland, a trust company has been appointed.\u201d The article stated optimistically that, \u201cthere should be a prospect of continuing operations.\u201d In 1931, Escher-Wyss employed around 1,300 non-contracted workers and 550 salaried employees.<\/p>\n

By the mid-1930s, Escher-Wyss had again found itself in financial trouble. In order to rescue the company this time, a consortium was brought on board to save the ailing engineering firm. The consortium was partly formed by the Federal Bank of Switzerland (which was coincidently headed by a Max Schwab, who is of no relation to Klaus Schwab) and further restructuring took place. In 1938, it was announced<\/a> that an engineer at the firm, Colonel Jacob Schmidheiny would become the new President of the Board of Directors at Escher-Wyss. Soon after the outbreak of war in 1939, Schmidheiny was<\/a> quoted<\/a> as saying, \u201cThe outbreak of war does not necessarily mean unemployment for the machine industry in a neutral country, on the contrary.\u201d Escher-Wyss, and its new management, were apparently looking forward to profiting off the war, paving the way for their transformation into a major Nazi military contractor.<\/p>\n

A Brief History of Jewish Persecution in Ravensburg<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When Adolf Hitler came to power, many things changed in Germany, and the story of the Jewish population of Ravensburg during that era is a sad one to tell. Yet, it was hardly the first time that anti-Semitism had first been recorded as having reared its ugly head in the region.<\/p>\n

In the Middle Ages, a synagogue<\/a>, mentioned as far back as 1345 was located at the centre of Ravensburg, serving a small Jewish community which can be traced from 1330 to 1429. At the end of 1429 and through 1430, the Jews of Ravensburg were targeted and a horrific massacre<\/a> ensued. In the nearby settlements of Lindau, \u00dcberlingen, Buchhorn (later renamed Friedrichshafen), Meersburg and Konstanz, there were mass arrests of Jewish residents. The Jews of Lindau were burnt alive during the 1429\/1430 Ravensburg blood libel<\/a>, in which members of the Jewish community were accused of ritually sacrificing babies. In August 1430, in \u00dcberlingen, the Jewish community was forced to convert, 11 of them did so and the 12 who refused were killed. The massacres which took place in Lindau, \u00dcberlingen and Ravensburg happened with the direct approval of the ruling King Sigmund and any remaining Jews were soon expelled from the region.<\/p>\n

Ravensburg had this ban confirmed by Emperor Ferdinand I in 1559 and it was upheld, for example, in an 1804 instruction issued for the city guard, which read: \u201cSince the Jews are not allowed to engage in any trade or business here, no one else is allowed to enter the city by post or by carriage, The rest, however, if they have not received a permit for a longer or shorter stay from the police office, are to be removed from the city by the police station.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not until the 19th century were Jews able to settle legally in Ravensburg again and, even by then, their number remained so small that a synagogue was not rebuilt. In 1858, there were only 3 Jews recorded in Ravensburg and, in 1895, this number peaked at 57. From the turn of the century until 1933, the numbers of Jews living in Ravensburg had steadily decreased until the community was only made up of 23 people.<\/p>\n

By the start of the 1930s, there were seven main Jewish families living in Ravensburg, including the Adler, Erlanger, Harburger, Herrmann, Landauer, Rose and Sondermann families. After the National Socialists seized power, some of the Ravensburg Jews were initially forced to emigrate, while others would later be murdered in Nazi concentration camps. Leading up to World War II, there were many public displays of hatred towards the small community of Jews in and around Ravensburg.<\/p>\n

As early as March 13, 1933, about three weeks before the nationwide Nazi boycott of all Jewish shops in Germany, SA guards posted themselves in front of two of the five Jewish shops in Ravensburg and tried to prevent potential buyers from entering, putting up signs on one shop stating<\/a> \u201cWohlwert closed until Aryanization\u201d. Wohlwert\u2019s would soon become \u201cAryanised\u201d and would be the only Jewish-owned shop to survive the Nazi pogrom. The other owners of the four large Jewish department stores in Ravensburg; Knopf; Merkur; Landauer and Wallersteiner were all forced to sell their properties to non-Jewish merchants between 1935 and 1938. During this period, many of the Ravensburg Jews were able to flee abroad before the worst of the National Socialist persecution began. While at least eight died violently, it was reported that three Jewish citizens who lived in Ravensburg survived because of their \u201cAryan\u201d spouses. Some of the Jews who were arrested in Ravensburg during Kristallnacht were forced to march through the streets of Baden-Baden under SS guard supervision the following day and were later deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.<\/p>\n

Horrific Nazi crimes against humanity took place in Ravensburg. On 1 January 1934, the \u201cLaw for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases<\/a>\u201d came into force in Nazi Germany, meaning people with diagnosed illnesses such as dementia, schizophrenia, epilepsy, hereditary deafness, and various other mental disorders, could be legally forcibly sterilised<\/a>. In the Ravensburg City Hospital, today called Heilig-Geist Hospital, forced sterilisations were carried out beginning in April 1934. By 1936, sterilisation was the most performed medical procedure in the municipal hospital.<\/p>\n

In the pre-war years of the 1930s leading up to the German annexation of Poland, Ravensburg\u2019s Escher-Wyss factory, now managed directly by Klaus Schwab\u2019s father, Eugen Schwab<\/a>, continued to be the biggest employer in Ravensburg. Not only was the factory a major employer in the town, but Hitler\u2019s own Nazi party awarded<\/a> the Escher-Wyss Ravensburg branch the title of \u201cNational Socialist Model Company<\/a>\u201d while Schwab was at the helm. The Nazis were potentially wooing the Swiss company for cooperation in the coming war, and their advances were eventually reciprocated.<\/p>\n

Escher-Wyss Ravensburg and the War<\/h2>\n

Ravensburg was an anomaly in wartime Germany, as it was never targeted by any Allied airstrikes. The presence of the Red Cross<\/a>, and a rumoured agreement<\/a> with various companies including Escher-Wyss, saw the allied forces publicly agree to not target the Southern German town. It was not classified as a significant military target throughout the war and, for that reason, the town still maintains many of its original features. However, much darker things were afoot in Ravensburg once the war began.<\/p>\n

Eugen Schwab continued to manage the \u201cNational Socialist Model Company\u201d for Escher-Wyss, and the Swiss company would aid the Nazi Wermacht produce significant weapons of war as well as more basic armaments. The Escher-Wyss company was a leader in large turbine technology for hydroelectric dams and power plants, but they also manufactured parts for German fighter planes. They were also intimately involved in much more sinister projects happening behind the scenes which, if completed, could have changed the outcome of World War II.<\/p>\n

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Nazi officials in front of the Ravensburg Town Hall in 1938, Source: Haus der Stadtgeschichte\u00a0Ravensburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Western military intelligence were already aware of Escher-Wyss\u2019 complicity and collaboration with the Nazis. There are records available from western military intelligence at the time, specifically Record Group 226<\/a> (RG 226) from the data compiled by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which shows the Allied forces were aware of some of the Escher-Wyss\u2019 business dealings with the Nazis.<\/p>\n

Within RG 226, there are three specific mentions of Escher-Wyss including:<\/p>\n