It's no secret the Central Intelligence Agency has an investment firm that funds startups that could have a big impact for the Agency.
If there is a company out there doing intelligence research, it's likely that In-Q-Tel, the CIA's personal investor, either looked them up or made a check out to them.
It's all to ensure that the Agency remains on the forefront of tech. Not long ago, In-Q-Tel invested heavily in a company called Keyhole. Never heard of them? Maybe you know their work, a little project eventually known as Google Earth.
So, want to know what's next for technology? Keep an eye on these 25 companies.
3VR is a video surveillance company that is changing the game
The company 3VR Inc develops software enabling organizations to mine data from video.
In-Q-Tel first invested in the company in 2005. 3VR works with leading banks, governments, law enforcement and retailers at the moment.
They also own CrimeDex, which is basically the place where loss prevention and law enforcement professionals hang out online.
Adaptx creates digital pens that speed up field data collection.
Of course the CIA invested in this company. They make pens with gadgets hidden in them.
Adaptx first received In-Q-Tel funding in 2008. They design special digital pens that expedite data entry. For instance, handwritten markup on maps would be automatically integrated into the CIA's system. Field journal notes can be automatically backed up digitally. That data can be sent over a cellphone connection.
This is on of many gadget companies the CIA has bought into.
Basis Technology synthesizes the foreign chatter
The CIA is obviously extremely interested in what is going on in the rest of the world.
They are one of the largest employers of talented linguists, but that gets very expensive. So it's no surprised they're interested in Basis Technology, which provides software for text analytics in over twenty languages.
They work primarily in applied natural language processing, deriving meaning from the ways people actually use language. In-Q-Tel has been invested in the firm since 2004.
Biomatrica works with preserving biological materials
Biometric identification is an important way to confirm the identity of an individual. For clandestine services, confirming identities is crucial.
Biomatrica works on ways to make DNA, RNA, and proteins have a longer shelf life. Short and long-term storage of this information is important for the CIA.
In-Q-Tel has been invested in Biomatrica since 2011.
Cloudera helps organizations do large-scale data storage
The CIA has massive databases of information. Controlling and sustaining these digital archives is just as important for the CIA as it is for technology companies.
Cloudera Enterprises is one of the most cost-effective ways for companies to securely carry out large-scale data analysis and storage.
The group specializes in helping groups use Google, Facebook, and Yahoo! software. In-Q-Tel has been invested in Cloudera since 2010.
DSSP makes safe rockets that are controlled by electricity
Rocket engines are simple: ignite explosives, direct exhaust, liftoff. That's what happens.
But there are still some issues with that. A rocket can't be un-ignited. Lighting explosives on fire remains dangerous.
Digital Solid State Propulsion has vastly improved the control of highly energetic combustion using electrical power. Their technology is use in several sectors of missile defense and rocketry, and the CIA is very interested in the results.
In-Q-Tel has been invested in DSSP since 2011.
FireEye is one of the most advanced cybersecurity firms out there
A botnet is a network of computers that can be coordinated to assault a target by obeying commands from a central hub. Sometimes, computers are added to the botnet after a virus infection.
FireEye specializes in protecting against botnet attacks and also works to combat the malware that brings computers into the network.
Cybersecurity is a major national security issue. In-Q-Tel has been invested in FireEye since 2009.
Gainspan makes WiFi sensors that can run for years on a AA battery
Why would America's spy organization need to push out a WiFi signal for years with a small, compact battery?
Who knows!
But still, GainSpan is a very cool company with an even cooler product. They focus on connecting devices to the internet with ultra-low power WiFi. The company sees use for their devices in healthcare, smart energy, automation, and, yes, monitoring.
In-Q-Tel has been invested in GainSpan since March, 2009.
GATR technologies makes inflatable satellite antennae
With an unknown number of field agents in a likewise unknown number of countries, it makes sense that the CIA might want a quick, discreet way to get a satellite connection where there isn't one in an easily deployable manner.
GATR Technologies develops and manufactures inflatable satellite communications terminals. They say that they're perfect for the first wave of deployments to a country to get something ready on the go and for remote locations,
In-Q-Tel has been invested in the company since 2008.
The Ember corporation makes low-power wireless products
In-Q-Tel
The CIA's portfolio is heavily weighted on companies that improve electric efficiency.
Ember Corporation focuses on developing networking systems that simplify wirelessly networking low-power products. They're focused on smart energy, remote monitoring, and remote control uses of their tech.
In-Q-Tel first invested in Ember in 2005.
Infinite Power Solutions makes flexible, thin-film batteries
In-Q-Tel
The CIA loves the idea of compact, discreet power systems. Infinite Power Solutions is just one of several advanced battery companies that In-Q-Tel has funded, but it's probably the coolest.
IPS manufactures rechargeable, thin as film batteries that are used in advanced electronics. They can power RFID cards, medical devices, and aerospace products.
In-Q-Tel first invested in Infinite Power Solutions in 2006
Infinite Z makes virtual-holographic simulation a reality
Infinite Z has developed an interactive 3D environment. It's really cool.
The company has been developing its 3-dimensional software for some time, and now the system is recruiting apps and developers to continue improving the system.
In-Q-Tel first invested in the company in 2007.
Looxcie makes hands free wearable video cameras.
This product is really cool. Looxcie has invented a wearable camera that can hold up to 10 hours of video and can stream it as well. It goes for under $200.
It's about as obvious as a Bluetooth earpiece and it makes a lot of sense that the CIA would be interested in this kind of hardware. Looxcie has apps and the ability to stream live, which could be a boon for reconnaissance missions.
In-Q-Tel first invested in Looxcie in 2011.
MiserWare makes intelligent power management software
Computing requires a lot of electricity. That can get taxing, especially for large organizations with growing electricity bills or groups operating in areas on the electric fringe.
Basically, the CIA.
MiserWare has developed software that makes a computer use less power. While there are many, many groups working on this problem on the hardware side — increasing the efficiency of circuits and such — MiserWare is focused on software, which is rather novel.
If that interests you, the software is free for personal use at this point.
In-Q-Tel first invested in MiserWare in 2010.
MotionDSP offers "unrivaled" video enhancement tech
While shows like CSI have often been mocked for the characters' ability to "enhance!" a still frame far beyond what is even conceivable, there is tech out there that aims to accomplish just that.
MotionDSP — and their Ikena products — reliably improves the quality of video. This video can come from a drone, or a surveillance camera, or a web cam.
Motion DSP's customers include, yes, some of the nation's leading forensic labs.
In-Q-Tel has been invested in MotionDSP since 2007.
Oculis Labs tackles the hacking liability that really matters
One of the most common ways to lose control of password protections isn't a hack or a virus, it's just someone looking over your shoulder and reading private data.
Oculis Labs manufactures products that protect from "over-the-shoulder" eavesdroppers. The project secures a computer screen in the space between the monitor and the user, fuzzing the screen to any onlookers.
One of their products, Chameleon, tracks user eye movement and encrypts words that are not being read by the user.
In-Q-Tel first invested in Oculis Labs in 2011.
OpenSpan makes businesses more productive using analytics
The CIA is very similar to a corporation in the sense that they, too want to work as efficiently as possible.
That could inform the investment in OpenSpan, which makes software that enables organizations to see exactly what employees are doing on their computer: what programs they're using, what progress they're making, etc.
OpenSpan then uses automation tools to streamline workflow.
In-Q-Tel first invested in OpenSpan in 2010.
Palantir is a Peter Thiel company that is changing the game of intelligence
We've talked about Palantir before and the impact it is having on the Army intelligence community.
What we didn't go into as much was the fact that In-Q-Tel was an early investor in the technology on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Palantir makes software that integrates data together from a wide array of resources and databases.
It's one of the best programs at coordinating the vast databases accumulated by the U.S. intelligence apparatus. It assembles comprehensive dossiers on objects of interest, collated from the sprawling databases of intelligence agencies.
Perceptive Pixel makes advanced multi-touch displays, like the one on CNN
You know CNN's large, interactive touch screen that premiered during the 2008 election? The one Wolf Blitzer is obsessed with?
That was brought to you by Perceptive Pixel, which makes screens like that for media, energy companies, intelligence groups, defense, and medical imaging.
The software allows users to manipulate huge data sets with intuitive interface technologies.
In-Q-Tel initially invested in the company in 2009.
Recorded Future is a temporal analysis program
Although it is in the early stages, Recorded Future is extremely ambitious as a company. The goal is to use information pulled from the 24/7 media flow to extract time-related information. The idea is to organize the media into a temporal experience, giving the user an accurate sense of relationships over time.
The point? Use the web as a predictive mechanism. Use the chatter online as a forecasting tool.
In-Q-Tel first invested in Recorded Future in 2010.
Seventh Sense is developing health monitoring products that interface with human skin
Running health diagnostic exams takes time and personnel. Seventh Sense is designing a new generation of products that integrate directly with the human body to monitor the health situation on the inside.
Seventh Sense sees their products being used in the clinic, at home, or on the move. That last one probably piques the CIA's interest the most.
In-Q-Tel first invested in Seventh Sense in 2008.
Sonitus Medical makes a hearing system that transmits sound imperceptibly through the mouth
This product has "spy gear" written all over it.
Sonitus Medical Inc. has developed the SoundBite hearing system which plays off the principle of bone conduction to transmit audial messages. A nearly invisible in-the-mouth hearing and communication platform is non invasive and connects directly to the inner ear, allowing the user to hear transmitted messages through their skull.
This could mean that agents can drop bulky and obvious ear pieces when needing to keep in contact with home command.
In-Q-Tel first invested in Sonitus Medical in 2009.
Spotter RF makes super-powerful radars in a handheld form
The radar system made by SpotterRF can track a person walking anywhere within a 148 acre space, and it's handheld.
SpotterRF is mostly aiming for military uses, but it makes sense that the CIA would be interested in that kind of technology.
One of their products has a range of half a kilometer and is the size of a trade paperback novel.
In-Q-Tel first invested in SpotterRF in 2010.
Visible Technologies extracts business solutions from social media chatter
The CIA would love to mine the vast amount of tweets sent out all over the world for important intelligence.
That's where a company like Visible Technologies comes in. Their software allows users to extract business value from social communities, and also give customer insights for brands online.
In-Q-Tel first invested in the company in 2009.
Walleye makes handheld devices that can see into and through solid objects
When it comes to spy gear in the popular imagination, x-ray vision is up there among the Aston Martin and the Walther PPK as de rigour gear for any respectable secret agent.
While it's not exactly to that point yet, Walleye Technologies has developed handheld portable imaging systems that can see into and through solid objects. The imaging system generates high-quality pictures and the company is excited for the possibility of taking the consumer and security imaging markets by storm.
Just look at this
It's a flipping Nazi controlled holocaust museum
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007106
Says he died in 1945
Don't even entertain the possibility of the truth!
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
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Dear all,
The experience of two world wars combined with Paul Manning's revelations about the Bormann Network laundering wealth looted by the Nazis in World War II means totalitarian Nazi forces are alive, well and wealthy today. Bormann created 750 corporations in the late 1940s and early 1950s and these dominate the diabolical transatlantic arms, food, energy, banking and technology ... armys, corps', divisions and brigades of predatory cult-capitalism which are killing the poor and destroying humanity today. The up-shot of their Orwellian anarcho-capitalism is they are laying out a red carpet both for the far-right and despotic leaders here in Britain and of course an open world war III, what Kissinger calls the war on terror phase 2.
http://bilderberg.org/endtimes.htm#September
Combine this with last week's Hillsborough revelations about unpunished criminality in the judicial system and South Yorkshire police perverting the course of justice and then with Cressida Dick's promotion for murdering Jean-Charles De Menezes in 2005 and also the present growing numbers of criminals in Cameron's cabinet led by Mexican drug cartel treasurer while he was at HSBC, Lord Green.
David Cameron: Entrusting economic policy to ex-investment bankers
http://www.ianfraser.org/dear-david-cameron-entrusting-economic-policy -to-ex-investment-bankers-is-no-solution/
Alongside the monstrosities of NATO's Operation Gladio, 9/11 & 7/7, along with the total non reporting of this major international news story.
President of Italy’s Supreme Court To Refer 9/11 Crimes To International Criminal Court
http://www.globalresearch.ca/president-of-italys-supreme-court-to-refe r-911-crimes-to-international-criminal-court/
You get a pretty bleak picture of widespread evil in the mainstream media and at the top of society.
It's time to push to address the question of exposing the hidden networks of power that have allowed this Nazi continuity network to flourish without being exposed despite it's dominance of the Western world.
So here is the interview with Tim transmitted last night, followed by his book, two other Biblcal reference books and two excellent sources of real internet radio news.
all the best to one and all
Tony
Anticipating the defeat of the Third Reich, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann set up 750 corporations in neutral countries, primed as vehicles to receive the liquid wealth of Germany in addition to patents and other proprietary industrial information. An organizational genius and the real power behind Hitler, Bormann, known as the "Brown Eminence", successfully fled Europe for South America and administered a "Reich in Exile" in the years following the war. With remnants of the SS as an enforcement arm, former Gestapo chief General Heinrich Mueller as security director, the 750 corporations as a base of economic power and the willing silence and cooperation of the Western Allies, Bormann guided his organization to a position of consummate power. One banker quoted by Manning termed the Bormann Organization, the "world's most important accumulation of money power under one control in history". Controlling Germany's major corporations, the Federal Republic itself and much of Latin America, the Bormann Organization also maintained a formidable circle of influence in the United States. Paul Manning has written the definitive text on the Bormann Organization.
Having plundered, pooled and secreted away the liquid wealth of Europe, the network was in excellent position to realize the von Clausewitz gambit of the post-war, explained below.
Beyond that, the Bormann capital network is more than just the fruit of World War II plunder. The organization’s vast wealth derives from corporate power and the business and political brokers that administer that influence. Heavily invested in major corporations (especially American “blue chip” corporations) the group can exert great pressure with little effort.
Of course, when that doesn’t work, the Underground Reich will not hesitate to use deadly force.
The end of battle in 1945 had signalled the start of a new kind of war–a post-war. Germany’s classical military theorist, von Clausewitz, is famous for having declared that “war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means.” In dealing with a Germany which had gone to school with von Clausewitz for generations, we knew that, conversely, a post-war is the continuation of war by other means. Since Bismarck, wars and post-wars have formed a continuous series, changing the quality of the events only slightly from year to year, with no such thing as a clear distinction between heat of battle and calm of peace. This post-war of the German occupation was different from the “cold war” between the United States and Russia, which broke out at about the same time. The latter complicated the diagnosis, like a man getting typhoid fever and pneumonia at the same time. . . .
The European Monetary Union is, as we have seen in many programs and articles, the realization of the stratagem of Pan-German theoretician Friedrich List.
Writing in 1943, Paul Winkler foresaw that Germany would realize its goals through the creation and domination of a German-dominated central European economic union (bearing a striking resemblance to today’s European Monetary Union.) One of the principal influences on List’s thinking was the “continental” concept of Napoleon, who attempted to economically unite Europe under French influence.
A Listian model was put into effect by the Third Reich, as can be gleaned by reading Dorothy Thompson’s analysis of Germany’s plans for world domination by a centralised European economic union. Ms. Thompson was writing in The New York Herald Tribune on May 31, 1940! Her comments are reproduced by author T. H. Tetens.
. . . . The Germans have a clear plan of what they intend to do in case of victory. I believe that I know the essential details of that plan. I have heard it from a sufficient number of important Germans to credit its authenticity . . . Germany’s plan is to make a customs union of Europe, with complete financial and economic control centred in Berlin. This will create at once the largest free trade area and the largest planned economy in the world. In Western Europe alone . . . there will be an economic unity of 400 million persons . . . To these will be added the resources of the British, French, Dutch and Belgian empires. These will be pooled in the name of Europa Germanica
http://spitfirelist.com/books/martin-bormann-nazi-in-exile/ _________________ www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org www.rethink911.org www.patriotsquestion911.com www.actorsandartistsfor911truth.org www.mediafor911truth.org www.pilotsfor911truth.org www.mp911truth.org www.ae911truth.org www.rl911truth.org www.stj911.org www.v911t.org www.thisweek.org.uk www.abolishwar.org.uk www.elementary.org.uk www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/2149 http://utangente.free.fr/2003/media2003.pdf
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The Nazis Were Never Defeated, How Their Poisonous Legacy Haunts Britain
Wow Tony Tony, you could have have mentioned.
Benjamin H. Freedman (1961)
Which explains so much more. And other works too.
It seems from your video that Zionism and Nazism are totally separate.
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70 years ago, SS armoured divisions, today Western Corporations but the cult & hatred of Biblical peoples remains the same http://tinyurl.com/bqe2zt9 _________________ --
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
The Nazi/Jews Were Never Defeated, How Their Poisonous Legacy Haunts Britain
Any info on Jaac van Harten and other high ranking Jewish Nazis?
This Nazi is of particular interest because of his involvement in Operation Bernhard and the Jewish Underground money launderers that helped fund the creation of Israel.
Jaac (Jacques) van Harten
Alternative transliteration(s) and/or alias(es):
Either because of alternative transliterations from Hebrew/Arabic/Cyrillic into English
or for some other reason, this person is also known by the following names:
Yaakov Levy
Julius Lewy
Jaac van Harten (1902-1973) was a German Jew, born as Julius (Julian) Lewy in Gleiwitz (now Gliwice), Upper Silesia, and up in Breslau (Wroclaw).
In 1937, according to his account, he established a business of his own in Berlin, only to be ordered out of the city a year later in the wake of the Nazis' anti-Jewish drive. In early September 1938, he, with his wife and stepson entered Switzerland in possession of a Gestapo-supplied Dutch passport bearing the name Jaac van Harten. Living near Montreux, he was identified by the Swiss authorities as a Nazi agent, and he and his family were expelled from Switzerland and ended up in Budapest in September 1940, where lived until late December 1944.
He emigrated to Palestine in 1947 and lived in Savyon, a wealthy suburb of Tel Aviv, until his death in 1973.
He was a collaborator, who, among other things, was in the employ of the Abwehr, the Nazi intelligence service, and played a significant role in the Nazis' wartime scheme to undermine the British economy through the production and wholesale distribution of counterfeit British currency. He was shown to have been more than just a successful wholesale peddler of counter feit banknotes - he was Friedrich Schwend's money-launderer in Hungary. In possession of a Gestapo-supplied passport, van Harten also played a questionable role as a bogus "Plenipotentiary of the International Red Cross." A Budapest resident between September 1940 and late December 1944, van Harten apparently played this role with such conviction that he acquired the absolute confidence of the top leadership of the Hungarian pro-Nazi Arrow Cross (Nyilas) party and government. By 1944, the Nyilas leaders were most probably also aware of van Harten's dealings with SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer (later SS-Standartenfuhrer) Kurt Becher, Heinrich Himmler's personal economic representative in Hungary. A few weeks before the Soviet conquest of Western Hungary early in 1945, Hungarian Foreign Minister Gabor Kemeny, acting in the name of Ferenc Szfilasi, the head of the Nazi-type Hungarist puppet state, entrusted van Harten, the IRC "official" then in Merano, with the protection, in Germany, of the wealth and treasures of the Hungarian nation, including the Royal Crown and the Coronation Cloak.
Nazi fingerprints all over the first gulf war, 'Desert Fox', Rommel's nickname of course, notorious 'decent Nazi' of the world war two desert campaign!
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A TRAIL OF NEO-CONSERVATISM by retired oil worker Alf Mendes
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a very influential lobby group set up in early 1997 by Robert Kagan and William Kristol. The latter was founder/editor of Murdoch’s “Weekly Standard”, and his father, Irving Kristol, had been an avid Reaganite neo-con. Furthermore, the younger Kristol had also, from 1989 to 1992, been Chief of Staff to G.H.W.Bush’s Vice-President, Dan Quayle. The group considered itself “a non-profit, educational organisation whose goal is to promote American global leadership”, and on January 26th 1997, eighteen members of the PNAC (including such as: John Bolton, Robert Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, William Kristol, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wofowitz, James Woolsey, and Robert Zoellich) sent a letter to the then President, Clinton, advising him that he “should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power”, adding that “American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council”. (shades of what was to come later!). On cue, in December of that same year, Clinton launched Operation Desert Fox, whereby the American air force heavily bombed Iraq - but did not occupy it, much to the chagrin of the PNAC.
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'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
As the world falls silent in memory of the Holocaust, a new book reveals how many of its architects were helped to live out their days in South America
Tony Paterson
Sunday 27 January 2013
The innocuous-looking vans he helped to develop began arriving at the Third Reich’s mental hospitals in 1940.
Doctors in white coats herded patients, officially dubbed “ useless eaters”, into the hermetically sealed compartments in the back. The revs of engine could not conceal the screams. But within 20 minutes all those locked inside were poisoned to death by exhaust fumes.
Walther Rauff, the notorious SS colonel who was instrumental in creating the Nazis’ infamous “mobile gas chamber” was held personally responsible for murdering at least 100,000 people during the Second World War. His victims included Communists, Jews, Roma and the physically and mentally ill.
Yet Rauff escaped to South America after the war. From there he travelled with impunity to Germany as a company representative until the late 1950s. Germany only issued a warrant for his arrest in 1961 and he was never brought to trial. Rauff died in Chile in 1984 and hundreds of old Nazis flocked to his funeral in the capital, Santiago.
As the world today remembered the horrors of the concentration camps, a new book has laid bare how many of its architects were able to escape justice for decades, and in many cases until death. Rauff, and dozens of other top Nazis who fled to South America after the Second World War, were sheltered by a “coalition of the unwilling” on both sides of the Atlantic.
German historian Daniel Stahl’s book, Nazi Hunt: South America’s Dictatorships and the Avenging of Nazi Crimes, published just as Germany remembers this week’s 80th anniversary of the Nazis’ accession to power and the world marks Holocaust Day, is based on extensive research in European and South American archives. It comes to the shameful conclusion that key officials on both continents, including the courts, police and governments, were reluctant to track down Nazi war criminals and even spent decades actively preventing their prosecution.
Rauff’s case was typical. His address in Santiago was known to post-war West Germany’s foreign ministry, and Hans Strack, the German ambassador to Chile, was ordered to request his extradition. But Stahl shows how Strack sympathised with war criminals in exile and delayed applying for Rauff’s extradition for 14 months. When he finally did so in 1962, Chile was able to refuse extradition request because his murders had by then occurred too long ago under the country’s statute of limitations.
Official reluctance also prevented the arrest of one of the world’s worst Nazi war criminals, the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele who carried out hundreds of brutal medical experiments on patients at Auschwitz concentration camp. Attempts were made to track Mengele down in 1960 following rumours that he was hiding in Brazil or Chile. Yet he was never found.
Stahl concludes in his book that Mengele was never caught because French police officers employed by Interpol refused to conduct searches for war criminals because they were implicated as Nazi collaborators.
“As henchmen of the Vichy regime, they collaborated with the Nazis until 1944,” he writes.
Interpol’s secretary general in 1962, Marcel Sicot, is unmasked by Stahl as regarding the prosecution of war criminals as “victor’s justice”.
The Brazilian government’s concerns about its own moral legitimacy are singled out by Stahl as the reason why Gustav Wagner, an SS officer accused of complicity in the murder of 152,00 Jews at the Sobibor extermination camp, was never sent to Germany to stand trial. In the late 1970s judges at Brazil’s supreme federal court refused a request from the then West German government for Wagner’s extradition, citing alleged inaccuracies in the application.
According to Stahl, West Germany’s ambassador to Brazil at the time explained the Brazilian authorities were worried Wagner’s extradition would encourage opponents of the government to make demands that could compromise their authority. He said they feared opponents would demand all crimes in Brazil should be prosecuted, “including those committed by the military and the police”.
Stahl writes that the reluctance of German and French authorities to prosecute Nazi war criminals began to wane in the early 1980s when a new generation was entering the government, police and the judiciary. He cites the arrest and trial of Klaus Barbie, the infamous Gestapo chief in France known as the “Butcher of Lyon”. Germany and France, he points out, jointly pursued Barbie and obtained his extradition from Bolivia. He was finally deported to France in 1983 to stand trial for offences he committed 40 years earlier.
Yet evidence revealing how a “coalition of the unwilling” prevented Hitler’s henchmen from facing justice continues to emerge. Just two years ago, leaked German intelligence files revealed that for a decade before he was caught, the West German government knew that Adolf Eichmann – the Nazi SS officer responsible for organising the Holocaust – was hiding in South America. Mossad eventually tracked down and kidnapped him in Argentina in 1960. He was flown to Israel where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1962.
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'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
"I studied Bormann's technique with Hitler and realized he controlled the Fuehrer!"
Chief of Nazi foreign intelligence
Walter Schellenberg
Bormann was "the secret master of a despot."
Hitler courtesan Hans Frank.
"Everything had to be done through this sinister guttersnipe (Bormann)."
Hitler's General Chief of Staff
Heinz Guderian
"Bormann stayed with Hitler night and day and gradually brought him
under his will so that he ruled Hitler's whole existence."
Herman Goering
Hitler's heir-apparent until war's-end
Beneath the city of Berlin, under the Reischstag building, burrowed in a hole like a frightened rabbit seeking desperately to avoid being torn apart by hungry, angry wolves, quivered the once invincible Adolf Hitler. By the last days of April 1945, the Russians had pressed their advance to the outskirts of Berlin, almost completely surrounding it, and, with the winking approval of the Americans and English, had begun pummeling the symbolic center of Nazism under a steady, 24-hour-a-day, barrage of artillery fire. The war-wearied, ghost-faced resident survivors huddled forlorn and resigned in the subway tunnels as the constant thunder of shells rattled whatever structure was left overhead that separated the destitute and despairing from destruction.
The warren-like underground bunker that constituted the Fuehrer Headquarters seemed little more than a living tomb. To make matters worse, in the claustrophobic confines of the caverns Hitler's moods swung desperately between raging paranoiac psychopath and drugged derelict.
Numb from the imposing reality of abysmal failure, exhausted by unremitting pressure, partially paralyzed from a minor stroke suffered while in the bunker, though still officially in command, the Fuehrer was far from the commanding figure he once had been. Holed up almost continuously in his private quarters inside the bunker, the inner sanctum of the warren - actually a cell within this self-induced prison - he alternately snarled at and viciously attacked what remained of his loyal commanders and staff, and drifted in and out of exhausted and drug-induced stupors.
The former great ones - ministers, generals and admirals, territorial governors - shuttled in and out, putting on the faces of devout supporters sacrificing their all to sustain their leader. Actually, behind his back they were planning to flee the terminal tomb at the first opportunity and slide silently from the heinous history they had helped write into some foreign backwater where they would be forgotten.
Those who remained were the ill-fated, lower-level staffers who shuffled quietly up and down the dimly lit concrete corridors in support of their beleaguered Fuehrer and a few of his closest high-ranking courtesans. Most of them were there under orders, but they were loyal to the last. The atmosphere, emotionally as well as physically, was hardly breathable. News was never good. In the final stand for Nazism, the old men, young boys and walking wounded who defended the city were experiencing few successes but massive desertions. The city was being given up inch by inch at great cost - half a million people would eventually die in the battle.
Reports of Russian atrocities, rape and torture of the captured were legion. The inevitable - the unspeakable - was morosely moving toward these doomed dependents of Hitler and there was little one could do to halt the inescapable. Everyone despaired.
Everyone except Martin Bormann. This Machiavellian minister to the Fuehrer - hardly known outside the close cortege of Hitler's inner circle - with characteristic energy, focus and determination, in contrast to and quite unconcerned about those around him, was constantly sending and receiving radio transmissions from the bunker communications center. In addition to, or as part of, working out his escape, he is known to have been undermining or negotiating with others of Hitler's henchmen for control of the Reich - apparently confident there would be a Reich to control despite the bleak outlook for Germany.
Most students of these events have considered Bormann's machinations as madness, given the Reich was in its death throws. But upon closer scrutiny of his actions and review of the evidence, it appears Martin Bormann was working a master plan, with Hitler's consent - and within which U-234 played an important part.
Understanding the low-profile Martin Bormann and his unequaled power in Hitler's court is a vital key to understanding Hitler and his power over the masses, not to mention the Nazi Party and the Third Reich. Bormann's post-war activities - for the evidence is very strong that he did survive the war, with American help - and the impact they had on the Nuclear Age must also be considered against the history of his prior behavior, as well, to provide context to our chronicle.
British historian Trevor Roper-Smith calls Martin Bormann, "Hitler's Mephistopheles," his "alter ego," his "evil genius." Bormann was known in Hitler's inner circle as "The Brown Eminence" behind the Fuehrer's throne," [ccclii (author's note: he is as often called "The Gray Eminence"). The very fact that this one-time farm supervisor should, with Hitler's approval, climb to manage the barbarous Nazis' affairs of state speaks volumes of the exceptional political and financial acumen and skullduggery this sinister Shylock possessed. Hitler eventually came to rely on and appreciate his most trusted lieutenant's talents so much that Bormann - despite almost no military experience - was not only made an honorary major general of the SS but he was awarded SS number 555 - Hitler's own original SS number. [cccliii
Bormann in return fawned on his Fuehrer embarrassingly yet unapologetically; writing Hitler's nearly every word on small white cards he carried at all times. He seldom took vacations or trips of any kind that would separate him from the Fuehrer for more than just a few days, for fear of losing court status.
"Bormann stayed with Hitler night and day," Herman Goering later recounted, [cccliv "and gradually brought him under his will so that he ruled Hitler's whole existence."
Even though serving as his master's slavish lap dog - in fact, because of it - Bormann came to wield complete authority over the Reich. He accomplished this accumulation of power in a variety of ways, virtually all of them stemming from his position with Hitler. He had access to and kept copious files of evidence and materials aimed at exposing for some misdeed or another, if needed, almost every person of authority in the government, military or the party - including Hitler himself. He also discreetly distributed low-interest or no-interest loans from party coffers, [ccclv some that did not require repayment, to those whom he felt it would be advantageous to have indebted to him, such as SS leader Heinrich Himmler, who accepted from Bormann millions of reichsmarks per year. [ccclvi
The powerful group of 41 Gauleiters, the 'governors' - actually virtual dictators - of the Reich's various 'states' or 'provinces,' reported directly to Bormann as head of the Nazi Party. He cultivated and maintained a strong relationship with this group collectively and many of its most powerful members individually, throughout his tenure until the end of the war.
Bormann's position as Reichsleiter of the Nazi Party also made him, in theory at least, the second most powerful man in the Reich. At party rallies as early as 1934, Hitler had declared that the party gave orders to the government, not the other way round. [ccclvii Later interrogations that were part of the Nuremberg Trials verified this relationship. [ccclviii The party, therefore, controlled the government, and Bormann controlled the party.
The Reichsleiter underpinned his power-base by duplicating within the party almost every function required and operated by the viable government. In essence, Bormann created and held the strings to a very powerful "shadow bureaucracy," [ccclix complete with its own police force - the Gestapo - and its own armies - the Wehrmacht SS - both under the direction of one of Bormann's chief accomplices, Heinrich Himmler - and the 1 million-man-strong Volksturm. [ccclx
Bormann was ruthless in his quest for power, to the point that his one-time boss, Nazi Party Treasurer Schwartz, compared him to Joseph Stalin lurking behind Lenin, saying, "Bormann was the most pernicious egotist around.... He would kill, like Stalin." [ccclxi Author William Stevenson echoed that sentiment in his book, The Bormann Brotherhood, also comparing Bormann to Stalin, [ccclxii as have many authors and historians since. [ccclxiii
In truth, Hitler and Bormann were complementary pieces to the same perverted puzzle. Their personalities and psyches fully understood and intermeshed with one another across the complete spectrum of power-over-the-masses leadership they practiced - and recognized in each other the exceptional counterbalances of their strengths and weaknesses. Where Hitler's political acumen and charisma failed, Bormann would use his web of intrigue and bureaucratic power to achieve the desired end, explains Bormann biographer Joachen von Lang. [ccclxiv Whether Bormann on his climb to the top astutely identified Hitler's deficiencies and determined consciously to fill them himself, or whether the marriage was simply a fortuitous match of fate personality-wise, will probably never be known.
Eventually this symbiotic compact - whether spoken or unspoken nobody knows, either - gave Bormann the confidence he needed to take the bold step of cordoning off the Fuehrer from all others, to be accessed only through him who would become "the dictator of the ante-room" [ccclxv - Bormann himself. In 1943, Bormann successfully convinced Hitler - based on their co-dependent relationship and the fact that Hitler, who had appointed himself Supreme Commander of the Army and was spending all of his time and energy personally running the German war effort - to sign a decree appointing a Committee of Three, [ccclxvi composed of Bormann and two others, to oversee the everyday operations of the Reich and to screen the Fuehrer from unwanted distractions.
All communications, reports and requests intended for Hitler had to pass through the Committee of Three first. In typical Bormann fashion, he then subjugated the other two committee members and controlled all information coming to and going from the Fuehrer. [ccclxvii Combined with his position as head of the Nazi Party, which was already operating in proxy for the federal government, which in turn was now nothing more than a shell, Martin Bormann had solidified his hold as the second most - some said the most - powerful man in Germany.
"I studied Bormann's technique with Hitler and realized he controlled the Fuehrer!" recorded the chief of the Nazi foreign intelligence service Walter Schellenberg. [ccclxviii Bormann was "the secret master of a despot," according to Hitler courtesan Hans Frank. [ccclxix "Everything had to be done through this sinister guttersnipe (Bormann)," complained Hitler's own General Chief of Staff Heinz Guderian. [ccclxx
Following years of careful conniving and sinister strategies, Bormann had realized his dream - he was, many who were there at the time and some later historians agree, in substance if not in title, the leader of the Third Reich. [ccclxxi
While Martin Bormann's name, position and the profound power he wielded in Nazi Germany are almost unknown to the average person - and such was the case even when Bormann was enjoying unequaled fraternity with Hitler as his Nazi Party chief, administrative right-hand man and personal paladin - those close to the Fuehrer at the time, to a man, understood that the key to Hitler during the mid- to late-war years, and possibly earlier, was clenched firmly in Bormann's fist.
To understand how Martin Bormann possessed the power at the end of the war to negotiate away Nazi Germany's developing nuclear arsenal in order to sustain himself and the Nazi cause after the war, one must understand the symbiotic relationship between him and Hitler. The defining elements of their lives, sometimes detailed in mirror-like reflections and then sometimes balanced by what seem like polar opposites, while at other times punctuated with bizarre and unequaled uniqueness, are as striking as the surprisingly complementary nature of their beings. That two men could be so well fitted for forwarding the rare ambitions of one another hardly seems probable. Yet the peculiarities they shared and the differences that filled the holes where each was lacking resulted in two remarkably compatible counterparts - although not psychologically healthy ones.
Adolf Hitler was born the son of a low-ranking Austrian bureaucrat, a customs official who was a drunken sadist, already 52 years old when Adolf was born, and who beat his son and wife, squandered the family money on alcohol, and taught through his actions that "right" is always in the hands of the most powerful. Adolf Hitler learned this lesson - and how to hate - from his father, for whom he grew great loathing and animosity.
Martin Bormann was the son of a civil servant, too, a German postal worker. [ccclxxii But while Hitler hated his father and had only one sister, younger than he, Bormann adored his father and paid homage to him, often to the point of heaping upon his memory blatant and unearned exaggeration of his achievements. Holding his father in such reverence was undoubtedly the result of Martin not really having known his father, who died when Martin was less than three years old. [ccclxxiii
The elder Bormann had actually lived a simple, ordinary life, had been married once previous to his marriage to Martin's mother and had sired three children (one died in infancy) from that early union. Upon his death his widow, to support her two natural children and the two step-children she had inherited from her husband's previous marriage, quickly remarried her own dead sister's widowed husband. Bormann's new step-father brought five children of his own, Martin's cousins, into the now hodgepodge family. Martin immediately disliked this intruder, and his gaggle, whom he considered was trying to take his father's place.
The feeling was later exacerbated when, during the hardships caused to all Germans during World War One, rather than serving in the armed forces, his step-father the town banker gloated over the money he was making from war lending. Martin's enmity for the man and his unseemly behavior, however, did not keep Bormann during the next world war from indiscriminately emulating similar war profiteering conduct, but on a much grander scale. The two men remained distant throughout their lives.
The lack of a respected father figure, the eclectic and tangled family tree and the distorted relationships these conditions fostered must have been the source of much unusual and perverse psychological programming for the young Martin Bormann. Thus in the petrie dish of dysfunctional families and flawed fatherhood were the psychotic psyches of Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann born.
Both Hitler and Bormann, in a society that valued highly the Germanic ideals of education and intellectual achievement, dropped out of high school, neither one achieving consistently good performances in their matriculations but both showing flashes of real genius in the disciplines they personally enjoyed. Hitler, molded by the heavy hand of his abusive father, extended the unmitigated malice resulting from this excessive behavior to all authority figures he faced, which caused him trouble in the classroom.
He was ejected from a catholic school for defying a no-smoking rule, overbearingly insisted on being the leader among his classmates despite any hint of trying to earn such a position or the respect that goes with it, and openly "sabotaged completely," in his own words, any school endeavor not to his liking. [ccclxxiv He later vilified or otherwise repudiated as stupid or crazy educators in general, making exception only for Dr. Leopold Poetsch, a fervent German nationalist, among all the teachers of his childhood.
German pre-World War One schools, most particularly in the Weimar region where Bormann grew up, were teaching a searing brand of nationalism, pan-Germanism and German cultural superiority, too. [ccclxxv Like every other youngster in Germany at the time, Martin Bormann was seeped in this doctrine whose spirit swept the German nation right up and into the first world wide conflict. Bormann absorbed the nationalistic fervor and carried it within him throughout his life, though in his case, as in Hitler's, it would grow in a monstrous, mutated form.
A patriotic appreciation, in whatever form and however important to his later life, was one of the few benefits Bormann would receive from his schooling. While later events proved he was anything but stupid, in the classroom, for whatever reason, he appears to have struggled. Using dates he later provided in government documents and applications, it appears Martin Bormann took eight years to complete seven grades, apparently also sabotaging his own education; and he exited high school ungraduated, as had Hitler before him, after the eleventh grade. [ccclxxvi
Driven by visions of grandeur and a staunch belief in his own genius, at the age of 18 years Hitler left his widowed, incurably ill mother in the town of his childhood and moved to Vienna to become an artist. He wandered the streets of the metropolitan city, painted, dreamed and starved. He was rejected for acceptance at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts when he failed the entrance examination, a rejection he never forgave, and for the next half-decade he wandered the streets, took small jobs, painted and sold his artwork in the streets when he could, and panhandled for food and shelter when he could not.
His "genius" unrecognized and expectations of riding his talent to easy wealth and fame thus unfulfilled, Hitler looked outside himself for the reasons for his failure. The blame, he decided, lay in a weak government, in this case a parliamentary democracy, that allowed Jews to control and therefore own its economy and thus disenfranchise the rightful heirs of the fruits of that government, those of Germanic blood. Because so many Jews at the time supported Marxist ideals, he deduced that the two parties were colluding on a grand scale to control the world. Communism joined Jewry and democracy as a cause for his failings and, in his mind, the failings of the Germanic race. Where his father taught him to hate, and disemboweled dreams magnified this malevolence, Hitler now had a focus upon which to aim his virulence.
Wallowing in his misery, penniless, often homeless and usually sick, his life was in an unpromising, spiraling descent when "The War To End All Wars," World War One, erupted to send much of the civilized world into the depths of hell - and to save Adolf Hitler.
On the crucible of the battlefield he found the vehicle to vent his rage - war. Serving in no less than 47 battles in a four-year span, Hitler was wounded twice, for which he spent several months in recuperation and earned the Iron Cross, both First and Second Classes. [ccclxxvii Although never rising above the rank of corporal during the four war years in which he served, he showed an inkling of the boldness for which he would later become known when he captured an enemy officer and 15 of his men.
During the war, a new vision began to form in Hitler's fevered head. The images that once he placed on canvas were now being replaced with a skewed vision of how the world should be ordered. Soon his brushes, pencils and painter's palette would be replaced by a more formidable media - death and destruction: grenades and guns and tanks, with which he would paint a new and very real picture of what he thought the world should be. "Might is right!"
If there is an opposite of living the daring, Bohemian, but inspired existence of the artist, as had Adolf Hitler, it is living the structured, precise, but ample life of a bureaucrat. So it was with Martin Bormann.
Leaving school during the closing months of the war, Bormann joined the army and spent what few months remained of the already-lost conflict avoiding a useless death from bullet or grenade by serving as an officer's orderly. Here he learned not only how to evade placing himself in harm's way but, enamored with his proximity to important people - in fact, tutored by them - he began his lifelong avocation, which migrated into a vocation, of licking the boots of those higher than he in order to get ahead. The instinct was one that Hitler, who as a school boy had insisted all others follow him in the game of Follow the Leader, would later enthusiastically acknowledge was the most essential characteristic of his most valued and trusted lieutenant, Martin Bormann.
One should not consider Bormann's position that of weakness. The power that flowed through him from his master and protected him by virtue of his slavish alignment with his master's wishes was unequivocal and untouchable by all others save the source of that power. As long as Bormann remained unquestionably attentive, the powerful host would continue to feed the parasite. And the parasite would continue to feed on the throng that was drawn to his master while at the same time forcing that throng to do their master's bidding. Bormann's parasitic behavior was toward the throng, not his master; the relationship with the master was symbiotic, each benefiting from the behavior of the other.
Bormann's innate and infallible instincts for survival served him well after World War One. With the country in ruins, the economy in chaos and the populace impoverished and starving, Martin Bormann, revealing a latent predilection for always incisively cutting to the kernel of an issue, quickly divined that if lack of food is the problem he faced, going to the source of food is the solution.
His instincts drove him not only to get work on a farm but also to achieve a position of control on the farm. Immediately upon being mustered out of the army he found work as an estate manager trainee in Meklemburg, North Germany. [ccclxxviii He appears to have done well, for he recorded that less than two years later he had worked his way up to general manager of the von Treuenfels estates, which, combined, totaled almost 8,000 acres.
Some historians question Bormann's assertion he became general manager in two years based on the idea that he could not have learned the entire farm business in 18 months, and the fact he was still a minor. But such a rise does not stretch the imagination given Bormann's later proven and remarkable skills of administration - and the tell-tale lapdog relationship he quickly cultivated with the lady of the estate, Ehrengard von Treuenfels, the Baroness von Maltzahn.
Indeed, the friendship was maintained at least until his escape from bombed-out Berlin a quarter-century later and his disappearance into the back alleys of history; and Martin even named a daughter Ehrengard after the Baroness. In any case, Bormann honed and further integrated the skills of administration and vassalage into a potent power base while serving the Treuenfels at Mecklemburg.
The experience of the victors of the war placing the reckoning of accounts at the vanquished's door caught crosswise in both Hitler's and Bormann's throats. Consumed by hate and inspired by the power of carnage, Hitler took bitter umbrage to the mountainous war reparations the Allies demanded of the German people despite the country's then non-existent economy and starving population. In the act of demanding such onerous reparations alone did the Allies incite World War Two.
For had the reparations been less burdensome it is doubtful Hitler would have had the fuel he needed to ignite with his private rancor the fires of vengeance in the German people that would propel the Nazi cause. Bormann shared Hitler's convictions, although he probably had not actually heard of Hitler by then; but for this cause both Hitler and Bormann, during their early political activism, spent time in prison. Hitler for his part in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 that would serve as a catalyst to bring the Nazi party to power (he wrote Mein Kampf while in prison serving time for the crime); and Bormann for his part in the murder of a man who had betrayed the nationalist cause.
During his time as a land agent, Martin Bormann became involved in political activism. In 1923, the year of the Beer Hall Putsch, Bormann joined the Nazi's predecessor and early competitor, the Freikorps Rossbach, where he quickly rose to become one of the leaders of the Mecklemburg chapter's organization. While functioning in this position, Bormann was an accomplice in the murder of another member of the organization, Walther Kadow, a former elementary school teacher of his. [ccclxxix
Kadow had been suspected of betraying a third party member, the soon-to-be Nazi martyr Albert Leo Schlageter, to the French during the occupation of the Ruhr. Bormann and others recruited a gang to execute Kadow - a mob that included Rudolf Franz Hoess, the future commandant of Auschwitz. Kadow was dragged into a forest and beaten with clubs and heavy branches before having his throat cut and being shot twice. [ccclxxx
There is no evidence that Bormann had a hand in the actual killing; the mob of members under his direction performed the deed, but Bormann was tried and condemned to a year in prison for providing the weapons and leadership for the act. Years later, Adolf Hitler would award Bormann the Blutorden (Blood Order) for his part in the murder and the time he paid in prison because of it. [ccclxxxi
Hitler, too, was implicated for murder when he was a young man, long before he made cold-blooded killing a component of official government policy. Hitler's suspected homicidal action, unlike Bormann's calculated, pragmatic act, was the result of jealous and unthinking rage. According to one version, he appears to have viciously murdered his niece, with whom he was having an incestuous, turbid relationship, following a violent, jealousy-driven argument. The niece, Angela "Geli" Raubal, was trying to break off their relationship. [ccclxxxii
"He's a monster. Nobody can imagine the things he wants me to do," she once confided.
She disclosed that he had forced her to urinate on him and to perform other heinous obscenities. He also reportedly completed a number of artistic renderings of Geli executed with questionable taste and of detestable subject matter. Bormann is said to have later located all of these pictures and quietly bought them back to avoid future controversy.
As Geli tried to extricate herself from the affair ( she not only detested her relationship with Hitler but she was interested in another man ) Hitler is thought to have confronted her in his apartment in Munich during one of their forced liaisons. Possibly she threatened to reveal his perverted predilections but it is not known for certain what led up to the killing or how it was committed. According to William Stevenson in The Bormann Brotherhood, there were witnesses to the crime - Gerhard Rossbach and Dr. Otto Strasser - but they were close Hitler cronies who refused to reveal what they knew. All that is known is that Geli's dead body was found naked on the floor, her nose broken, killed by a bullet from Adolf Hitler's pistol. [ccclxxxiii
For Hitler, the murder was a disaster about to be unleashed that would not only ruin his career but probably his life as well. While he had consolidated his position as leader of the Nazi Party, he was not yet a citizen of Germany much less its uncontested leader. Three more years would pass before he could protect his murderous madness with that shield. By now, September 1931, Bormann had been released from prison, joined the Nazi Party, and in six short years had burrowed his way into the party leadership and was looking for opportunities to demonstrate devotion to his demigod, Adolf Hitler. In the murder of Geli Raubal he recognized an opportunity to prove to his murderous master his allegiance and his shrewd, if immoral, penchants.
Stevenson goes on to describe how Munich's intelligent, hard-working chief inspector, Heinrich Mueller, who up to that point had been working hard to eliminate the Nazi Party, had begun investigating the apparently open-and-shut case. Bormann stepped in. When he stepped back again the chief inspector dropped the case, Hitler walked free, and Mueller was soon on a train to Moscow to learn the black art and septic science of running a secret police department, all at Nazi Party expense.
The net result of Bormann's arbitration? Adolf Hitler escaped that most desperate personal and political predicament to eventually become arguably the most powerful man in the world. Heinrich Mueller was installed on a career track that would propel him to the pinnacle of the German police state - the police state of all police states - as chief of the vaunted and feared Gestapo. In fact, Mueller would eventually carry to his grave the nickname "Gestapo" Mueller.
And Martin Bormann would grasp Hitler's attention and allegiance in a way that would create a mechanism for perpetual expansion of Bormann's power base through the Master's increasing trust and appreciation. Add to this the power that would flow to Bormann from Bormann's co-opting of Heinrich Mueller and the massive intelligence and control mechanism that would soon be supplied to him through the Gestapo, and Bormann's position had, indeed, increased by several orders of magnitude as a result of this single affair.
According to some Hitler biographers, the story of Hitler's murder of Geli Raubal is anecdotal and has been proven to be false. Their account says Hitler was booked in a hotel far from Munich on the day Geli was killed. This in fact may be true, but if Stevenson's version that Bormann and Mueller "fixed" the outcome is true, this evidence may be part of the cover-up rather than the true account of events. Perhaps what actually occurred will never be known.
During the six years between Bormann's release from prison in 1925, when he joined the Nazi Party, and his alleged bold intercession on Hitler's behalf in Geli Raubal's murder, Martin Bormann had already climbed a considerable distance within the Nazi party hierarchy. Presumably his stature was elevated upon his very entrance into the party as a result of his already-proven commitment to the ideals and operational methods of the Nazi Party as confirmed by time spent in prison for the Kadow murder. Within two years he was the regional press officer for the Nazi Party in Thuringia and the following year was elevated to chief business manager in the same regional party chapter, as well as being made Gauleiter (Nazi Party governor) of Thuringia. [ccclxxxiv He was also promoted to the supreme command of the party's military arm, the S.A. (Sturmabteilung).
By the end of that same year, 1928, Bormann was working for Hitler's personal secretary and right-hand man, Rudolf Hess. [ccclxxxv Bormann had been referred to Hess by Nazi Party Treasurer Franz Xavier Schwarz, [ccclxxxvi who recognized in Bormann a shrewd and astute financial manager and efficient commissar who could bring the party's business dealings into control, which Hess had been unable to accomplish.
Because of Bormann's penchant for working quietly in the background, throughout his career his versatile nature went largely unnoticed despite his latent genius for finance - magnified and unbridled by a complete lack of moral or ethical circumspection. His versatility revitalized the party. It made Hitler a rich man. And it made Bormann a rich man.
The following year, Bormann married the daughter of another ardent party member who would soon become the top judge in Nazi Germany, Reichstag Deputy Walther Buch, who enjoyed Hitler's respect (Hitler was a witness to the Bormann wedding, being friend of both bride and groom).
With his new wife Gerda, Bormann began a family that would eventually include ten children and would, if possible, in some respects be even more perverse than the family in which he grew up. He openly and with Gerda's blessing, and, in fact, with her encouragement, carried on multiple sexual relationships simultaneously with a bevy of other women, despite universal agreement that Bormann, in the "looks" department, had little to offer women. Physical attraction not withstanding, his oily charm and powerful position made him an attractive coup to many ladies.
Between these liaisons and his official duties he was seldom home, and when he was he ruled his wife and family with an iron fist. Yet he wrote Gerda lovingly almost every day, ensured she was always well taken care of, and, despite his otherwise secretive nature, he entrusted her in writing with his innermost thoughts and feelings on almost every subject. The Bormann's relationship is an enigmatic paradox that makes a fascinating study in and of itself of the man and the Machiavellian manner in which he operated.
Hitler continued with his convoluted relationships, too. Bormann, as Hess' deputy responsible for Hitler's safety including command of his bodyguard, [ccclxxxvii and for the management of his personal business affairs, found yet another opportunity to wrap his sticky tentacles around his misguided messiah. Shortly after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he was threatened with the knowledge being spread that he had been performing and having performed upon him perverted sex acts. [ccclxxxviii Henny Hoffman, the daughter of photographer Heinrich Hoffman, had told her father about her twisted trysts with the Fuehrer.
The elder Hoffman, understandably, was at first enraged. Threatening to prosecute or otherwise make public the accusations, Hoffman demanded that justice be done. At this point in Hitler's career his carefully-crafted image of a humble and morally incorruptible leader of the downtrodden masses - upon which his power was founded - would not stand the scrutiny of such a disclosure. Furthermore, at this time, neither Hitler nor the Party were sufficiently entrenched to employ traditional Nazi strong-arm tactics to resolve what was a personal problem. Those tactics were reserved and 'acceptable' only for resolving political issues, such as communism or "the Jewish problem."
Bormann again stepped into the breach. He suggested that Hoffman be made the Fuehrer's personal photographer, a position that promised fame, further exposure for his photography business, and a resulting increase of income from royalties received from every copy of the photographs he took of his famous potential client. Upon hearing the proposal, Hoffman's righteous indignation over his daughter's barbarous abuse melted away into pragmatic profiteering, and the deal was consummated.
What really made Hitler take notice, however, was that Bormann had at the same time negotiated with Wilhelm Ohnesorge, the Minister of Posts, a royalty to be paid to Hitler as well as to Hoffman, whenever the Fuehrer's likeness was used - as it was on stamps. [ccclxxxix Bormann again had turned Hitler's career-threatening, possibly life-threatening, problem into a public relations and financial coup, while at the same time once again proving his unquestioned allegiance. While the income per transaction was small (the cost of a stamp, after all, is minimal), the volume of transactions was huge.
The resulting income from this clever contrivance alone made Hitler a wealthy man. More important, Bormann's negotiations with Posts Minister Richard Ohnesorge appears to have opened a long relationship between the two men that culminated in an alliance that contributed to the political fortunes of both; and that was central to Bormann's later escape from Berlin and his post-war survival.
Hitler, who enjoyed his new-found wealth but disliked the details of accumulating it, and who in fact, for political purposes carefully promoted an image of austerity, quickly recognized and appreciated Bormann's astute perceptions; taciturn, confidential nature; and "fiscal" talents. Bormann would go on to devise and execute a great many other schemes through the years, legal and otherwise, that lined the Fuehrer's pockets - as well as his own.
Shortly after the Henny Hoffman affair, Hitler appointed Bormann to be Hess's chief of staff. The appointment came, no doubt, not only as a reward for Bormann's assistance with the Henny Hoffmann and Geli Raubal incidents and other past accomplishments, such as the Kadow murder, but because Bormann was also piling up a body of work that aided Hitler in a wide variety of other functions. In 1930, for example, recognizing party coffers were in dire straits, Bormann created the Hilfskasse, a compulsory "accident insurance" fund for party members who were injured while brawling with communists. [cccxc All party members had to pay into the fund. This capital not only supported the wounded but also generated a substantial surplus that allowed the party to fulfill significant financial obligations and still provide funding for future operations.
Shortly after Hitler took office, Bormann also founded the Adolf Hitler Endowment Fund of German Industry. [cccxci The endowment "strong-armed" companies that enjoyed success as a result of Hitler's economic policies into making contributions to his government. The funds were then hoarded in Hitler accounts managed by Bormann or dispersed according to Hitler's and Bormann's directions.
By the end of 1934, Hitler had been in power a year, Bormann was serving as his personal secretary and business manager, and considerable advances had been made in Bormann's efforts to weld himself to the man he could now, with the rest of the nation, call his Fuehrer. Bormann had become inseparable from the Fuehrer, following him night and day and writing nearly his every word on little white sheets of paper, to be acted upon immediately or to be treasured up for a future history that he was certain would one day be chronicled in a tome that would glorify his Master. [cccxcii
In 1935, leaning on his old estate management experience, Martin Bormann initiated construction of and oversaw the management and building of the immense, now nearly mythical, multi-million reichsmark Bavarian complex at Berchtesgaden that Hitler would come to regard as his home and sanctuary from the demands and pressures of public office.
In May 1941, Bormann's position rose again when Rudolf Hess, Bormann's direct superior, in an act that stunned the world, secretly flew his personal Messerschmidt airplane to Scotland. His self-appointed purpose - which he hoped would bring him back into the good graces of Hitler, with whom he felt a rift was forming - ostensibly was to sue for peace and a united German/British front against Bolchevism. He was immediately rewarded with imprisonment in the United Kingdom. As a result, Bormann was given on a silver platter exactly what he was prepared to work - and conspire - hard for: the chancellorship of the Nazi Party.
Some have suggested that Bormann may have been responsible for inspiring Hess's deranged attempt [cccxciii - may have, in fact, suggested it to his superior with foreknowledge of the results - in order to remove Hess from blocking Bormann's path to greater power. Whether true or not, Bormann did ascend to the position of Nazi Party Chancellor by Hitler's command, which was added to his responsibilities of personal secretary and manager to the Fuehrer that he had already held before Hess's defection.
Hitler also discovered in 1941, through one of the greatest spy coups ever, that Roosevelt and Churchill had established a secret transatlantic telephone connection. [cccxciv Charles Howard Ellis, possibly one of the Nazis most valued undercover agents as second-in-command to the remarkable Sir William Stephenson (who ran the combined intelligence efforts of Britain and the United States, reporting directly to Winston Churchill) had received information about the hotline and passed it to Heinrich 'Gestapo' Mueller, his Nazi controller. "Gestapo" Mueller was the same Heinrich Mueller who was chief inspector for the city of Munich with whom Martin Bormann had allegedly negotiated a resolution of the Geli Raubal murder case. Mueller was now, perhaps as a result of those negotiations and the path Bormann had put him on, the head of Germany's feared secret police, the Gestapo.
On hearing of the Roosevelt/Churchill hotline, Hitler quickly passed an order to Bormann to break into it and have the "confidential" conversations decrypted, at whatever cost necessary. Bormann turned again to another of his former conspirators, Richard Ohnesorge, the postal minister.
The Minister of Posts maintained a research and development institute inside the ministry that worked on an eclectic assortment of scientific problems. The work was well-funded from the regular postal service. When, several months later Ohnesorge's program successfully decrypted its first transatlantic conversation, Hitler was delighted, and, from then until the end of the war, he gleefully read the transcriptions of these conversations only hours after the words had been breathed from the mouths of his two great enemies.
The research institute of the Ministry of Posts was not working on cryptology only. Great amounts of reichsmarks were being invested in nuclear bomb development, [cccxcv as well, of which Ohnesorge - who, as a doctor of physics and mathematics, was on the Reich Research Presidential Council, [cccxcvi the organization that oversaw nuclear development for Hitler - was a great proponent.
As noted previously, at least twice Ohnesorge personally reported before Hitler the progress and merits of the German atomic bomb programs. Undoubtedly Bormann, in his position as Hitler's secretary and personal manager, and later as his secret overseer as well as through his relationship with Ohnesorge, was privy to these meetings and information. True to his shrewd nature, Bormann must have divined its worth.
Hitler's admiration and dependence on Bormann grew to immense proportions - noticed, but with little concern until too late, by the court elite. None of them appeared to see in the crude, bulbous, smarmy Martin Bormann the cunning and dangerous threat he represented to them.
The men Bormann considered his competition for Hitler's attention and as the Fuehrer's possible eventual successor, Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Speer, and at one time even Hess, were men, like Hitler, who championed the grand design of Nazism in overblown speeches, sweeping dramatic demonstrations of their power, and open adulation of their Fuehrer, for which they enjoyed in return the adulation of the crowds over which he lorded. They echoed Hitler but, with the possible exception of Speer, added little to him and therefore they added little to their own potential as well.
Bormann was an altogether different animal. Instead of assuming the voice of Hitler, which after all was Hitler's greatest strength and needed little assistance, Bormann was Hitler's hands and feet, his eyes and ears. He did the details and dirty work Hitler detested with an eye dedicated to the same purposes the Fuehrer espoused. Bormann did the Fuehrer's bidding, anticipating his wants and requirements without being told , and then fulfilling them with force and power without having to be directed; so much so that years later, when Bormann started to plant in Hitler's mind his own ideas and then act upon them, Hitler did not perceive the transition. As a result, Bormann to a large degree eventually became Hitler's heart and mind as well as his eyes, ears, hands and feet; controlling him and the empire he governed without the master ever suspecting control had slipped from his hands.
Bormann had positioned himself specifically for this task. Not only had he catered to Hitler slavishly to create an unbreakable bond of appreciation, trust, and dependence - it is important to note here that Bormann's allegiance to the Fuehrer was always genuine and total - but Bormann continually cultivated and expanded his resources to forever widen his web of control on behalf of himself and the Fuehrer.
According to biographer William Stephenson, Bormann's great talent was a genius for "what really mattered in a bureaucracy." [cccxcvii Stephenson goes on to explain how Bormann dredged police, military and political organizations to form alliances, either by force or by finesse, that he would later manipulate to fill his purposes. Add to this his great propensity for navigating in and, in fact, forming, molding and operating bureaucracies, and one sees a master who controlled all the strings that ran the party and the government. His mind "thrived upon this kind of nutrition," [cccxcviii Stephenson wrote. "Where the Fuehrer's genius and aura failed to work, (Bormann) would step in and exert power," [cccxcix wrote Joachen von Lang in his biography of Bormann, The Secretary.
Bormann used the bureaucracies around him to consolidate his position and control the forces - pro and con -against and within which he had to operate. These bureaucracies were his source of all control through the currencies they commanded, hard currencies such as the millions of reichsmarks cached in his, Hitler's and the party's various funds and business operations, and soft currencies, like the personal intelligence collected on various leaders inside and outside the party and the country.
The constitutional government of Germany controlled the country's legal administration; in the early years of Hitler's chancellorship the party, on paper, held little power. Bormann, as primarily a functionary of the party, therefore, could only administer in party matters, not government policy. To circumvent this inconvenience Bormann created and constantly grew a "shadow bureaucracy" [cd over the ensuing years that duplicated each crucial government function and then allowed him to control the strings he desired to pull: The state police was shadowed by the Gestapo, with Bormann's alleged protégé Mueller at its head.
The province chiefs and mayors were shadowed by Nazi Party Gauleiters (district governors), and their administrative regional structures, who vied for control of their jurisdictions. Bormann would usually side with the Gauleiters, or convince Hitler to do so, thus empowering them over their counterparts and expanding the influence of Bormann, leaving Gauleiters and other party officials in his debt [cdi - officials who would eventually virtually run the country when Hitler later placed the Nazi Party in control.
Bormann also placed large numbers of key officials under his bondage through bald-faced bribery, providing "discrete distributions of loans" from party coffers to whoever he deemed would be a valuable leader to own. [cdii "Almost all the top party functionaries received gifts from this fund," [cdiii wrote Speer, who added that such gift giving, though innocuous, had the very real effect of conferring more power upon Bormann than almost any other person in the land.
Himmler approached Bormann for one such loan of 80,000 reichsmarks so he could buy a house near Berchtesgaden for his mistress and their illegitimate child. [cdiv Bormann not only produced the loan but he encouraged Gerda to befriend Himmler's mistress. The women would share cozy conversation and children's clothing in the years ahead, until Bormann severed Himmler's relationship with the Fuehrer in the waning days of the war.
But the Bormanns' and Himmlers' "pseudo-friendship," [cdv and Bormann's ongoing contributions to Himmler's personal cache thereafter - totaling millions [cdvi - was a valuable protection for Bormann later when the real extent of his power became apparent among Hitler's coterie and envious courtesans tried to destroy him. "Again and again I have come to terms with Bormann although it is my duty really to get him out," [cdvii complained Himmler. Knowing Bormann had "the goods" on him, there was little Himmler could do to dethrone the Fuehrer's Iago. In fact, it is doubtful Himmler really wanted to topple Bormann, since much of his personal income would be lost if Bormann fell.
Bormann, using Mueller and his Gestapo, as well as other vehicles, had access to a comprehensive collection of files, reports and dossiers that provided a solid engine of power by blackmail [cdviii to drive Bormann's schemes. The files included virtually every ranking member of the Nazi Party, including possibly Hitler himself, if Hitler's murder of Geli Raubal and the Henny Hoffmann incident are true.
As Hitler pushed his foreign policy toward war with the rest of the world during the mid- to late-thirties, Bormann increasingly and on his own volition dominated domestic affairs. By the time the war actually broke out in 1939, the party was firmly in control of the government.
The official mantel of Nazi power now placed upon Bormann, combined with the very real puissance he practiced through bureaucracy, blackmail and bribery, placed Bormann at the pinnacle of power. Only Goering, Goebbels and Himmler could hope to unseat him; and Himmler, as has been described, was in a poor position to do so.
Bormann did not stop. He continued to increase and fortify his position throughout the next year. In the winter of 1942, the others distracted by the war and Hitler increasingly relying on Bormann to manage administrative affairs while he pontificated military strategy, Bormann slapped his fellow courtesans with a most revealing, direct and jolting blow that for the first time unveiled him openly as a contender for the throne. In an alliance with General Keitel, Hitler's military second-in-charge, and Hans Heinrich Lammers, Chief of the Reich Chancery, in other words the government's chief legal minister, Bormann created the Committee of Three through which all business directed for Hitler must pass, effectively cordoning off Hitler from all others. [cdix Hitler, appreciative as always that distracting details were being lifted from his busy schedule, supported the arrangement.
Barely half a year later, in July 1943, Bormann again redefined his role as secretary to the Fuehrer, again with Hitler's consent, to proclaim himself the sole mediator between the government, the party and the Fuehrer, [cdx thus eliminating even Keitel and Lammers from the picture. Bormann was now the sole link between Hitler and his chiefs. Speer noted with disgust how important issues and programs could not reach Hitler without first going through Bormann's hands and first having his blessing before even being considered by the Fuehrer. [cdxi
With Hitler insulated from opposing views on critical affairs, Bormann could now set and execute agendas, needing Hitler only to rubberstamp his plans. Speer asserts that, as an important military minister, he was not among those excluded from Hitler's presence, but in reality even Hitler's most favored associates were dealt the indignities of having to crawl to Bormann for access to the Fuehrer. Often an audience was denied and Bormann responded alone. For example, it was Bormann, not Hitler, who answered in the negative Speer's request of Hitler that he be awarded jurisdiction over the important V-1 and V-2 rocket projects and other research and development programs based at Peenemunde. [cdxii
Simon Weissenthal wrote that many orders bearing Hitler's signature showed obvious evidence of being the product of Bormann's mind. And Goering stated flatly that many documents issued from Hitler bore the unmistakable stamp of Martin Bormann's heavy hand. [cdxiii
Bormann now controlled Hitler and guided from him the decisions that were running the country. According to biographer Paul Manning, "Martin Bormann was now the leader in fact of Germany." [cdxiv William Stephenson agrees that Bormann covertly governed the Third Reich, adding that historians have consistently misunderstood both "Bormann's role and his character." Bormann was not interested in the fame and glory the rest of Hitler's courtesans desired, according to Stephenson, he craved the real power. [cdxv Bormann was "the secret master of a despot," [cdxvi said Gauleiter Hans Frank. Joachen von Lang, another of Bormann's biographers, asserted, "Bormann now considered himself the actual heir of the Third Reich," [cdxvii if not the one so stated in Hitler's will. Bormann now was looking down from the top of the heap, and carefully watching his quibbling cohorts.
"Those who were Bormann's rivals and even enemies always underestimated his abilities," [cdxviii lamented one of those enemies, Walter Schellenberg. "They spoke about (Bormann), calling him a bootlicker and often a pig," described Hitler Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, continuing, "If cartoonists had drawn his picture, his shape, bulk, short legs, mug - it actually would have turned out to be a pig." [cdxix Schellenberg, too, likened him to a wild pig digging for potatoes. [cdxx Most of Hitler's retinue simply called him "Hitler's evil spirit" [cdxxi, or "The Gray (or sometimes "Brown") Eminence" [cdxxii - behind his back, of course.
By now Bormann was a general in the SS commanding a 1 million man army; he controlled vast sums of money that he used freely for his own legal and illegal purposes; he had at his fingertips enough information to pull down any party or government leader in the Reich; and he held in his hands the strings that controlled Adolf Hitler. At the end of the war, nobody in Nazi Germany had more power than Martin Bormann.
Notes:
ccclii Trevor Roper-Smith, The Letters of Martin Bormann, p. IX
cccliii Joachen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 285
cccliv William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 39
ccclv William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 28
ccclvi U.S. National Archives II, War Crimes Records, Interrogation Summary #1739, of General Karl Wolff interrogation, Nuremberg, p. 2, 8 April, 1947, RG 238 - M1019 Roll 80; also Interrogation Summary #2797, of General Karl Wolff interrogation, Nuremberg, p. 2, 25 June, 1947, RG 238 - M1019 Roll 80
ccclvii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 28; Joachen von Lang, The Secretary, p. p. 109
ccclviii U.S. National Archives II, War Crimes Records, Interrogation Summary of General Karl Wolff interrogation, Nuremberg, 5 September, 1945, pp. 1, 2, RG 238 1270 Roll 22
ccclix Joachen von Lang, The Secretary, pp. 87, 107
ccclx Joachen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 271
ccclxi Joachen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 86
ccclxii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 285
ccclxiii Paul Manning, Martin Bormann: Nazi In Exile, pp. 38, 46
ccclxiv Joachen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 297
ccclxv Joachen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 176
ccclxvi Albert Speer, Inside The Third Reich, pp. 300, 301
ccclxvii Joachen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 238
ccclxviii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 23
ccclxix Joachen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 108
ccclxx William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 65
ccclxxi Paul Manning, Martin Bormann: Nazi In Exile, pp. 29, 46; Joachen von Lang, The Secretary, pp. 108, 109, 328; H.R. Trevor-Roper, The Letters of Martin Bormann, p. ix; William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 18
ccclxxii Dr. Louis L. Snyder, Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, p. 36; Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 16
ccclxxiii Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, pp. 16-18
ccclxxiv Dr. Louis L. Snyder, Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, p. 151
ccclxxv Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 19
ccclxxvi Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 20
ccclxxvii Dr. Louis L. Snyder, Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, p. 152
ccclxxviii H.R. Trevor-Roper, The Letters of Martin Bormann, p. ix, x; Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, p.22
ccclxxix H.R. Trevor-Roper, The Letters of Martin Bormann, p. x; Dr. Louis L. Snyder, Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, p. 36
ccclxxx Alan Levy, The Weisenthal Files, pp. 212, 213
ccclxxxi Alan Levy, The Weisenthal Files, p. 319
ccclxxxii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 30
ccclxxxiii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 31
ccclxxxiv Dr. Louis L. Snyder, Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, p. 36
ccclxxxv Alan Levy, The Weisenthal Files, p. 319; Dr. Louis L. Snyder, Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, p. 36
ccclxxxvi Ladislas Farago, Aftermath, p.218, 219
ccclxxxvii Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 239
ccclxxxviii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 37
ccclxxxix Albert Speer, Inside The Third Reich, pp. 103, 104; Joachen
von Lang, The Secretary, p. 51
cccxc Dr. Louis L. Snyder, Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, p. 36; Albert Speer, Inside The Third Reich, p.103
cccxci Albert Speer, Inside The Third Reich, p.104
cccxcii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 39; Albert Speer, Inside The Third Reich, pp. 104, 114
cccxciii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, pp. 50-55
cccxciv Paul Manning, Martin Bormann: Nazi In Exile, pp. 76, 77; David Irving, The German Atomic Bomb, p. 150
cccxcv David Irving, The German Atomic Bomb, pp. 77, 78; Albert Speer, Inside The Third Reich, p. 271
cccxcvi David Irving, The German Atomic Bomb, p. 256
cccxcvii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 49
cccxcviii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 45
cccxcix Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 297
cd Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 107
cdi Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 109
cdii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 28
cdiii Albert Speer, Inside The Third Reich, p. 104
cdiv Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 273
cdv Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 256
cdvi U.S. National Archives II, War Crimes Records, Interrogation Summary #1739, of General Karl Wolff interrogation, Nuremberg, p. 2, 8 April, 1947, RG 238 - M1019 Roll 80; also Interrogation Summary #2797, of General Karl Wolff interrogation, Nuremberg, p. 2, 25 June, 1947, RG 238 - M1019 Roll 80
cdvii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 50
cdviii William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 45
cdix Albert Speer, Inside The Third Reich, p. 301
cdx Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, p. 238
cdxi Albert Speer, Inside The Third Reich, p. 301
cdxii Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 64
cdxiii Simon Weissenthal, The Murderers Among Us, p. 319
cdxiv Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 29
cdxv William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 18
"Bury your treasure, for you will need it to begin a Fourth Reich." [cdxxiii
Adolf Hitler
To Martin Bormann in 1943
"When the story of Martin Bormann is written it will reveal him to be the man largely responsible for West Germany's postwar recovery...." [cdxxiv
The New York Times
March 3, 1973
The turning point against Germany during World War Two was not the loss of the Battle of Britain or the mounting of D-Day on Normandy's shores. While the air battle over London was an important German defeat that allowed Britain to fight on - alone at the time - other than as a moral victory, taking the islands of the United Kingdom would have had little strategic value to Germany before the United States joined the conflict. And by the time Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of northern France, the tide of war had already turned against the Nazi horde. D-Day, while imperative and impressive, was actually the beginning of massive mop-up operations.
During the autumn and winter of 1942, Germany suffered the most pivotal defeat of the war at the Battle of Stalingrad. From that day on, the outcome of the war was almost fixed. And almost everybody knew it. Until the moment when Hitler looked up from the strategic objective he was pursuing in The Soviet Union, the oilfields and refineries of Ukraine to fuel his war machine, Germany was winning the war. But the Fuehrer could not resist the moral victory that taking "Stalin's City," now so close, would be. Planning a quick campaign that would take mere weeks, he swung his Sixth Army from its course southward toward the oilfields and refineries, turned them to the northeast, and attacked. The bold move was at first successful and Stalingrad was captured. But in the frozen winter months of 1942-43, a four million-man Russian army surrounded the 330,000-man force of General Friederich von Paulus.
The Soviets laid siege. They starved the Germans. They ran them out of ammunition. They ran them over on the rock-hard frozen snow under the treads of their heavy tanks, the Wehrmacht infantry unable to dig foxholes into the steely ice to avoid being crushed. By the time Paulus surrendered, SS forces had barely been able to break through and rescue only 5,000 survivors. The rest were force-marched to Siberia and most never heard from again. After the moral loss at Stalingrad and the tactical loss of oil to feed the hungry Nazi war machine, ultimate surrender for Germany was just a matter of time, barring an unforeseen miracle.
Martin Bormann, true to his proven, pragmatic ways, was uniquely prepared to deal with the former eventuality, and possibly capable of providing the latter. Through his old friend at the Reichspost, Richard Ohnesorge, it appears likely he was supporting a program that could furnish the miracle needed - Manfred von Ardenne's uranium enrichment program. The program just required enough time.
On the other hand, if time should run out, the last thing that Martin Bormann would allow his Fatherland to endure was another rapacious war reparations assessment like that forced upon it after World War One. The Allies could kill the people, plunder the land, rape the women, and level the cities, but in his shrewdly insightful way, Bormann knew that they could not own Germany itself if they did not own Germany's wealth. In the spring of 1943, Bormann began to look for ways to conserve the Reich's riches if the war was lost.
He started with Aktion Feuerland, "Operation Fireland." As German forces had overrun country after country, stormtroopers would follow behind advance waves and plunder each nation's valuables [cdxxv while the Gestapo gathered its Jews into ghettos and concentration camps, relieving them of every gram of valuable property they owned; including the gold and platinum in their teeth.
The treasure consisted of hundreds of millions of reichsmarks; boxes and boxes of gold and platinum, pearls and diamonds; crates full of the priceless art of Europe; and billionaire bundles of stocks and other securities. [cdxxvi The loot was amassed in a series of bank safes and underground vaults throughout the Reich - until Martin Bormann was made aware of its existence by one of his many internal intelligence conduits. In late 1943 he took control of much, though not all, of this booty and informed Hitler of its existence and a plan he had formulated for its conservation.
"Bury your treasure, for you will need it to begin a Fourth Reich," Hitler had responded. With that blessing, Bormann took control of at least six U-boats, [cdxxvii some of them unmarked, from Gross Admiral Karl Doenitz, and garnered the support of Generalisimo Francisco Franco to headquarter the U-boats in the Spanish port cities of Cadiz and Vigo. The U-boats for the next two years, supplied by cargo planes from Germany that transported the treasures to the coastal towns on the Atlantic, began a non-stop circuit transporting the treasure to the far southern reaches of Argentina - the region known as Tierra del Fuego, or Land of Fire. At their destinations they were unloaded by Bormann's mysterious minions and deposited into a variety of international bank accounts controlled by a cryptic cabal of Bormann partners. This was Operation Fireland.
But Bormann was not satisfied just to rob the SS of the treasure trove it had stolen from murdered Jews, plundered citizens and overrun countries. Earlier in 1943, he had recognized for himself the value of masterpieces hung in museums and those owned by Catholic and other churches and held in cathedrals, monasteries and convents throughout the Reich. He initiated a program to collect all that could be gathered and even ordered high-ranking members of the party who had already assimilated such artwork into their own collections to turn them over to the Party Chancellery. [cdxxviii From this time to the end of the war, one-third of Italy's great art treasures, and much of the rest of Europe's masterworks collections, were lost to the Nazis; a fair share of it going into Bormann's South American hideaway.
Bormann appears to have laundered some questionable treasures of his own through Operation Fireland, as well. For example, in 1942 Bormann started heading a Nazi project designed to weaken the British war economy while providing currency to pay for German armaments production. The British currency-counterfeiting program overseen by Bormann was printing 400,000 notes a month, which eventually totaled $600 million. [cdxxix Bormann deposited the money into foreign banks through his mysterious partners. Later he exchanged the funds into a more stable currency, often dollars, and then, instead of using the funds for the munitions for which they were intended, he would often hold them in one of his "ghost" accounts for his own future use. Of the $600 million of counterfeit currency processed, approximately $300 million has never been accounted for, presumably lost to Bormann's enigmatic interchange.
Bormann also generated huge sums of money through a vehicle that he had already utilized at least twice before to the benefit of the Fuehrer and the party - the creation of a fund designed to finance a specific task and to which all able Germans were compelled to contribute. In this case, the "Winterfund" was established ostensibly for the welfare of the soldiers and civilians impoverished by the war. [cdxxx
Besides mandatory donations, the fund was also supported by wealthy industrialists who were wined and dined at concerts they were expected to attend, all the while being coerced into contributing huge amounts of money, sometimes as much as 100,000 reichsmarks in a single donation. [cdxxxi Eventually the fund accumulated over 3 billion reichsmarks but little of it was used for the support of the needy. Presumably, at least part, if not a great percentage, of these funds may have been included in Operation Fireland.
Estimates of the value of Operation Fireland range from the unbelievably low $17 million, considering the sheer volume of non-stop transport voyages of the six U-boats over two years, and subsequent value of the treasures, into the more probable hundreds of millions and possibly even billions of dollars. But Operation Fireland was small change compared to the blockbuster business venture Bormann would soon unveil.
As the Thousand Year Reich began to crumble barely a decade after its inception, memories of Germany's World War One failure were still fresh in Martin Bormann's mind. A devastated citizenry impoverished by the war had been saddled with yet even more hefty burdens than what the country had already lost in the conflict. From the scant assets that had survived, the Germans were forced to pay the costs of the losses of the victors, as well; to replace their burnt out cities and towns, the sunken ships and shot down airplanes, their industries and lost revenues.
Because the conquered had so few resources left that there were insufficient assets with which to make recompense, their futures were mortgaged - a whole generation was indignantly indentured to its mortal enemy of yesterday. While the fighting had ended, the war smoldered on in the angry hearts of the vanquished, to erupt two decades later in World War Two. Now the pattern was repeating itself. But the bitter gall of the last defeat was not going to be repeated in this one. Not while Martin Bormann had a hand in the outcome.
Reichminister Hermann Goering was responsible for the Reich's economic Four-year Plan and, as a result, the economic heads of all the occupied countries (and surreptitiously, many of the neutral nations, also) reported to him. These countries included France, Belgium, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Norway, Yugoslavia, Austria, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Portugal, Finland, Bulgaria, and Romania - virtually all of Europe except Russia - and also included many Latin American countries. What is little known, however, according to Nazi In Exile author Paul Manning, is that Martin Bormann was the Party Minister of Economics [cdxxxii and therefore he oversaw all economic issues for the entire Reich, even outranking Hitler's then-chosen heir, Goering, in financial matters.
In this role, on the heels of the Stalingrad defeat, Bormann had already begun to plan for the economic protection and resurgence of Germany following the war. Wall Street Journal reporter Greg Steinmetz writes of how top Nazis prepared for German post-war emergence by calling together a meeting of many of Germany's top companies in August 1944. The meeting, held in a hotel in Strasbourg, France, was convened expressly "to discuss financing plans for the Fourth Reich," [cdxxxiii according to Steinmetz.
Steinmetz's article also included information about Operation Fireland. By the time the Steinmetz article ran in April 1997, however, it was very old news. Decades before, Bormann biographers Paul Manning, William Stevenson and Ladislas Farago had already written in detail about Nazi exporting of plundered treasure and the secret economic summit in Strasbourg. What was new was the fact no rebuff of Steinmetz or the Journal appears to have followed for revealing the information. In the past, accounts printed about Operation Fireland and the Strasbourg Conference had been squashed or quickly debunked.
For example, when this author initially proposed Critical Mass to a publisher using only Operation Fireland documentation cited by Farago in his book Aftermath, I was told Farago had forged and planted the documents within the top secret files of foreign governments in order to support his "fictitious" claims. Apparently there had been quite an international row in the publishing world over this deception, which occurred when I was too young to have taken notice. At any rate, Farago and his book had been publicly and acrimoniously denounced and Farago died unvindicated a few years later.
The publisher's initial assertions convinced me of the correctness of the dismissal of Farago's claims, thus stopping me from pursuing this book further - at least for a time. I later came across Paul Manning's treatise of the despoiled Nazi loot and the Strasbourg meeting in his book, Nazi In Exile and again in William Stevenson's book, The Bormann Brotherhood. The same events that Farago had revealed in his book were proven in these accounts, as well as some very important new information, but in many cases using different documentation.
I contacted a member of the intelligence community with whom I had connections and whom I was told had researched the subject matter of these Nazi business dealings. Without mentioning Manning or Stevenson by name, he asserted that what they had written about Nazi involvement in post-war international business preparations was true and that United States government intelligence agencies - he mentioned the CIA and its predecessor the OSS by name - had conducted a full inquiry into the issue.
He asserted that these agencies had identified all of the relevant business dealings, had broken up the German cartels and stripped the Nazi owners of their financial properties and placed those instruments in the hands of the United States Alien Property Custodian program. He "shared" this information with me in the spirit of proving that, while certain German businessmen and high-ranking Nazis- he mentioned Bormann specifically - tried to survive the war supported by Nazi funds invested by clandestine means, the United States had found and uprooted the deception. Therefore, he insisted, there was no story and no need for me to research further.
But if what Paul Manning and William Stevenson had written about Nazi international business activity is true, then the same assertions that Ladislas Farago had earlier written about it are likewise true, as is other very essential information about who they all agreed initiated the Strasbourg Conference. The effort to vilify Farago therefore was a smokescreen. With the knowledge my original premise was intact and there was now an effort being put forth to fog the truth, I put forth, more carefully, once again on this book.
The fact that the Nazi scheme had supposedly been put down was of no account to me, the mere affirmation that the Strasbourg plan was made and initially carried out is the cogent point for the premise of this volume. In later research I discovered, however, that the story about the financial properties being expropriated once and for all by the United States government, while true in form, was not true in reality. It was yet another effort to create a fog behind which the truth could be hidden. I fully expect that when Critical Mass is published, it, too, will be countered in a similar way, or possibly in a different manner.
In any case, the fact that Steinmetz was allowed to run his article unchecked was an important event that begins to blow the haze away from the central truth of these events. Perhaps the reason the article ran unassailed was the irreproachable reputation for integrity of The Wall Street Journal and its sheer stature in the world of journalism. Perhaps the article was allowed to run because it was triggered by a United States Senate investigation initiated in response to Nazi victims who are now United States citizens trying to retrieve personal property originally looted from them by the Nazis. Probably both reasons are true to some degree.
But it is likely the most important reason the Steinmetz article was allowed to run uncontested was that it still hid the issues at heart, which are what the United States government is really protecting. What are those issues? The first is that Martin Bormann was the central player in the Strasbourg Conference. The second is that Bormann escaped Germany at the end of the war and lived for many years rebuilding and controlling the economy of West Germany and much of Europe and Latin America, and that he did this all with the protection, support and collusion of the United States government.
While Steinmetz's article does not say so, Manning's and Stevenson's stories both have a central point in common regarding the Strasbourg Conference; and Farago's work, illustrated by other events, although not detailed in the specifics of the conference itself, supports the point: Martin Bormann initiated the conference, controlled it and oversaw its results for many years following the war. Bormann's yet unborn Fourth Reich, by war's end, had already ratholed $800 million plus 95 tons of gold. [cdxxxiv And that was just by war's end.
The Strasbourg Conference where Bormann introduced a new economic initiative, was convened under the highest secrecy and security in August 1944, to discuss post-war preparations between the Nazi government and the major German industrialists, as was so often the pattern with other issues since the end of World War One. [cdxxxv Bormann assigned Dr. Bosse, of the Ministry of Armaments, and Lieutenant General Sheid to conduct the conference in his behalf. [cdxxxvi
"German industry must realize that the war cannot now be won," Bormann told Sheid, continuing, "and (Germany) must take steps to prepare for a postwar commercial campaign which will in time insure the economic resurgence of Germany." [cdxxxvii
What Bormann was proposing was devious, conspiratorial and illegal, even within Nazi Germany. To avoid security breaches, therefore, he ensured in every possible way that the strictest secrecy was maintained. The meeting was held in a hotel conference room insulated from visual or audio surveillance by having rented all the rooms above, below and on all sides of the chamber. All attendees and their personal possessions were thoroughly inspected physically and electronically by SS technicians. [cdxxxviii
High-ranking industrialists from a spectrum of German firms listened intently to the amazing proposal: All corporations that agreed with Bormann's plan to conserve their businesses for post-war operations and to share post-war revenues with selected underground Nazi operations would, until such time as the Third Reich failed, be protected by Bormann from the "Treason Against The Nation" law. [cdxxxix This law required death for all those who subverted currency regulations, traded in foreign currency or concealed ownership of foreign currency. The law also precluded firms from being involved in almost any type of partnership, joint venture or licensing agreement with any country outside of the Reich or the boundaries of its allies.
In reality, many of Germany's largest companies were already engaged in relationships with businesses neutral to or hostile to the Reich, including Germany's largest conglomerate, I.G. Farben, but the government had been turning a blind eye in order to keep the huge amount of capital these companies generated rolling in. The waiver of the Treason Against the Nation law proposed at Strasbourg was therefore not only an incentive to those German companies that desired to survive the war but were not yet participating in such activities, but it was a veiled threat to those that were already circumventing the law. To them Bormann was saying, in essence, if you do not share the wealth you are already gaining, we will have your heads by enforcing the law. The Strasbourg announcement, for these companies, amounted to a form of blackmail; which they were glad to pay not only to save themselves but to save their companies from the post-war commercial blood bath that was sure to come.
According to Dr. Bosse, participating companies' and Nazi funds were to be invested in foreign financial institutions while the Party maintained access to them, "in order that a strong German empire can be created after defeat." [cdxl Bosse went on to explain: "Industrialists with government assistance [meaning with Bormann as their mentor and protector - author's note] will export as much of their capital as possible, capital meaning money, bonds, patents, scientists and administrators."[ [cdxli] While hard currency was valuable, the currency with real potential was the "soft capital" the industrialist firms held: the trade agreements, patents and braintrusts that generated colossal revenues in perpetuity.
The potential income of such intellectual and proprietary properties as international licenses sold to use the patents on stainless steel, synthetic fuels and rubbers and other commercial advances, and control of the braintrusts who created them was huge, generating millions, possible tens or hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Many international companies, such as Bayer, Winthrop Chemical, AGFA-ANSCO, Hoescht and DuPont to a large degree owed their existence and continuing prosperity to exclusive use of I.G. Farben patents and licenses alone. [cdxlii
In addition to exporting technologies, the German firms were directed to borrow against these and other assets to obtain more hard capital and thus be able to more quickly export additional hard currency [cdxliii into what was now being called Bormann's "Flight Capital" program. Technical and business bureaus were to be established for each industry and in each foreign office of each company, with a covert Nazi liaison officer in each office to oversee and, where possible, personally manage the operations. [cdxliv From among these liaisons German economic specialists successfully penetrated 11 nations' economies, in addition to Germany's, and eventually controlled them in the post-war period. [cdxlv
Bosse reported to Bormann after the meeting that the terms of the Strasbourg conference had been agreed to by all involved and therefore the new Flight Capital Program had been successfully initiated. [cdxlvi Bormann in turn established 750 camouflaged corporations under the names of companies or individuals for which he held power of attorney, and therefore over which he had total control, [cdxlvii as vehicles for managing the income of the Flight Capital Program. These businesses were scattered across countries throughout Europe, the Mid-east and Latin America. Holdings were even kept in bank accounts in the United States of America, [cdxlviii some of which eventually were in his own name, including accounts with Manufacturers Hanover Trust, The Chase Manhattan Bank, and First National City Bank, according to author Paul Manning.
Although not listed as a company represented at the Strasbourg conference, Germany's largest industrial cartel, the chemical concern I.G. Farben, was active in the Flight Capital Program as well. In fact, it had not been necessary for Farben representatives to attend the program's introduction at all because it's leader, chairman and president Hermann Schmitz, had been integrally involved in the Flight Capital Program's creation. I.G. Farben had supported the Nazi cause from the beginning of the its climb to power, having donated generously through Farben's intelligence, propaganda and political economic operations, known as I.G. NW7. [cdxlix
In his Wall Street Journal article, Steinmetz unwittingly hints at this involvement - and particularly at the Flight Capital Program - in a portion of the article that reviews reports that Germany's Bosch AG company during the war allied with the wealthy Wallenberg family of Sweden to camouflage German funds. Robert Bosch, the founder of Bosch AG, was the uncle of Carl Bosch, [cdl the founder of I.G. Farben. Close relationships were maintained between the companies.
Before taking Carl Bosch's place at the head of I.G. Farben, Schmitz had been Bosch's top lieutenant and handpicked successor. [cdli He had overseen all of I.G. Farben's international business, and, between the wars, was responsible for concealing Farben's huge global income from German tax administrators through the use of foreign "blinds" he had created. These camouflage devices operated remarkably like the alleged arrangement between Bosch A.G. and the Wallenberg's. [cdlii
Before the war, Schmitz took over the helm of I.G. Farben and had become a close "confidant and advisor to Martin Bormann," [cdliii writes Paul Manning in his book Martin Bormann: Nazi In Exile. Manning adds that Bormann was a student in a sort of personal, and confidential, tutelage under Schmitz. [cdliv Bormann, in fact, surreptitiously gave the title of "Secret Councilor to the Nazi Party and Martin Bormann," to Hermann Schmitz, [cdlv in return for the latter's intellectual contributions and mentoring. Under Schmitz's direction and with the complicity of Bormann, I.G. Farben looted the chemical properties of the nations Germany had conquered: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway and France. [cdlvi
By the end of the war, Farben had interests in over 700 companies, not including operations within its own corporate structure that stretched across 93 countries. [cdlvii In all, Schmitz, in league with Bormann, who cleared the path of government constraints, expanded Farben's foreign investment to at least 7 billion reichsmarks during the war. [cdlviii As the two men weaved their web they made many pacts; among them one that ensured all Farben leaders overseas were Nazi Party members accountable to Martin Bormann - a precursor to the Flight Capital Program. Working together, the two men expanded this relationship to other German firms in the form of the Flight Capital Program.
The objective of the Flight Capital Program was not to make money in and of itself. The objective - Bormann's master plan - was to save and protect Germany's industries and economy from being looted at the hands of the conquerors as had happened at the end of the First World War. After the war, the Flight Capital Program would control and direct not only the German economy, but also other economies linked to the underground Fatherland, in an effort to produce a quick German rebirth and eventual European economic domination.
Bormann and Schmitz met on multiple occasions while developing the Flight Capital Program. [cdlix So thoroughly did Bormann capture all of the funds transferred out of the Reich that when Hermann Schmitz died in 1960, at the age of 79, he was nearly a pauper. [cdlx "To this day no one has been able to explain what happened to his fortune. Few who knew him can believe it doesn't exist," wrote Joseph Borkin, author of The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben.
Strategies for covertly redeploying the economy included the implementation of a "foreign trade offensive," according to Peter Hayes' book Industry and Technology: I.G. Farben in the Nazi Era. [cdlxi
They also included a "'European economic community'" that positioned Germany as the hub and "flag bearer" of a confederated Europe that would "predominate by 'elastic political methods'... not with brutal force."
These elements are certainly recognizable in the history of post-war Europe as it actually unfolded, and, in fact, continues with a high profile in the European economic model of today. The evidence reflects that the Flight Capital Program and Bormann's partnership with I.G.Farben not only paid off as planned, but it set the foundation for the European economy of today, and by extension that of the world.
But in April 1945, with Berlin succumbing to the Russian siege, a hysterical Hitler visibly crumbling in front of him, and the Reich reeling in its death throws, Bormann, true to his brutish, realistic, pragmatic nature and leaning heavily on his incomparable bureaucratic proclivities, was focused on escaping.
Bormann was willing, able and self-authorized to negotiate any agreement that secured his - and presumably, at one time, the Fuehrer's - escape. Signals from "The Brown Eminence's" radios bounced to and from various German generals authorized to negotiate with Russian and United States military leaders. The Allies, in complete control and determined to achieve nothing but total and unconditional surrender - outwardly at least - would not negotiate. Escape was the only option.
Notes:
cdxxiii Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 29
cdxxiv Paul Manning, New York Times, March 3, 1973, p. 31, column 2
cdxxv Ladislas Farago, Aftermath, pp. 201-203; Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 207, 208; Alan Levy, The Weisenthal File, p. 222
cdxxvi Greg Steinmetz, The Wall Street Journal, 28 April, 1997; Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 207; Ladislas Farago, Aftermath, pp. 201-203; Alan Levy, The Weisenthal File, p. 222
cdxxvii Greg Steinmetz, The Wall Street Journal, 28 April, 1997; Harry Cooper, Sharkhunters KTB 104, p. 8; Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 207; Ladislas Farago, Aftermath, p. 202
cdxxviii Jochen von Lang, The Secretary, pp. 172, 173, 183
cdxxix William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, pp. 150-152
cdxxx Ladislas Farago, Aftermath, pp. 220. 221
cdxxxi Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 44
cdxxxii Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 114
cdxxxiii Greg Steinmetz, The Wall Street Journal, 28 April, 1997
cdxxxiv William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 66
cdxxxv Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 23; William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 67
cdxxxvi Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 23
cdxxxvii Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 24
cdxxxviii Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 24
cdxxxix Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 25
cdxl Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 26
cdxli Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 27
cdxlii Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 117
cdxliii Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 25
cdxliv Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 26, 27
cdxlv Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 114
cdxlvi Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 27
cdxlvii Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 11; William Stevenson, The Bormann Brotherhood, p. 68
cdxlviii Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, pp. 139, 205
cdxlix Raymond G. Stokes, Divide and Prosper, p. 24
cdl Joseph Borkin, The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, p. 56
cdli Joseph Borkin, The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, p. 165
cdlii Joseph Borkin, The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, p. 180
cdliii Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, caption, second photo section
cdliv Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 114
cdlv Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 114
cdlvi Joseph Borkin, The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, p. 2
cdlvii Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 153
cdlviii Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, p. 28
cdlix Paul Manning, Nazi In Exile, pp. 157-162; Peter Hayes, Industry and Technology: I.G. Farben in the Nazi Era, p. 368
cdlx Joseph Borkin, The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, p. 166
What a fascinating journey this has been. It has everything. Linked with the Arnhem/Market Garden thread and the Operation Paperclip thread paints what is, for me, a pretty full picture of the historical context to the forces that made 9/11 possible.
So we have a 1992 BBC Horizon documentary, Hitler's Bomb, which proves in a way The Heroes Of Telemark never quite could, that Hitler was way ahead in developing atomic weapons and with the infamous V2 may have been able to deliver devastation to London
Shocking stuff, no wonder Churchill threatened him with mass gas attacks on German cities.
The deal then struck with the US enabled the two live tests of Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
The quid pro quo being operation paperclip and the incorporation of Nazi techniques into the US at the highest level turning the US government into a secretive cult from the relatively open & idealistic pre war America.
The three key pieces of this dark jigsaw being Carter Hydrick's book Critical Mass; Paul Manning's book, Martin Bormann, Nazi In Exile which explains this cult now controls the financial institutions, industry, media & politics; and the BBC Horizon doc, Hitler's Bomb.
Maybe one evening a tv channel will do a special on all three but I wonder if I will ever live to see that day?
starting a new thread on this tangent here
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The year after the Nazis approved of American Thomas McKittrick being head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), on January 25, 1943 Hearst newspapers reporter Burnet Hershey described the Nazis’ escape route via Spain as follows: “Every talk I had with the Germans in Lisbon made that fact clear. They may be defeated on the battlefield, as they were in 1918, but they expect to win again at the peace table as they did in 1919. Of course, they will sacrifice Hitler as they sacrificed the Kaiser; but the old gang—the generals, big industrialists, phony professors of mis-education about German race superiority—will try to go underground again to lay the eggs for another war of German conquest.” There are two very important points about this quote. First, it shows that over 2-1/2 years before they lost WWII, the Nazis were going underground. And secondly, Hitler was unimportant in this whole effort.
Who was important in the secret Nazi plan?It was Heinrich Himmler! About two years after Hershey’s report, on January 15, 1945 Newsweek reported: “Many of the men Himmler sent to Spain and Argentina, to carry out Nazi plans for postwar survival, carried passports under false names and later were reported dead in Germany. All have had training in Nazi political methods and experience abroad in commercial and other posts.” In T.H. Tetens’ Germany Plots With the Kremlin (1953), one finds that seven months after Hearst reporter Hershey’s description of the Nazis’ escape routes, on July 27, 1943 the German Foreign Office expert on the U.S., Dr. Colin Ross, wrote “Plan For An Ideological Campaign in the United States,” describing the need for all-out psychological warfare carried out by an underground organization in the U.S. (and in every country under “enemy” occupation).
Also important in the secret Nazi plan was Martin Bormann. Beginning in 1943 until June 1944, he transferred large amounts of gold across France to Spain and then on to Argentina, where his deposits were safe under the sympathetic Peron government. CBS World War II journalist Paul Manning in Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile (1981) related that Bormann’s organization controlled Germany’s big business, and via its investments controlled much of the rest of the world’s economy. It was the repository for the stolen wealth of Europe, estimated by British intelligence to have been more than $180 billion by the end of 1943. Then, relating information he found in the FBI’s file on Bormann, Manning wrote: “…the file revealed that he had been banking under his own name from his office in Germany in Deutsche Bank of Buenos Aires since 1941; that he held one joint account with Argentinian dictator Juan Peron; and on August 4, 5 and 14, 1967, he had written checks on demand accounts in first National City Bank (Overseas Division) of New York, The Chase Manhattan Bank, and Manufacturer’s Hanover Trust Co., all cleared through Deutsche Bank of Buenos Aires….”
Following what Sumner Welles revealed about the secret Nazi plan reaching fulfillment “in perhaps two generations,” Manning explained: “Bormann today may be likened to the classic chairman of the board of a vast international business complex, of an organization holding greater assets than any private investment house on Wall Street. Bormann,aged though he is (he was 80 on June 17, 1980), continues to guide the destiny of his financial empire. But he is sufficiently prudent and farsighted to realize that the assets he controls must be placed in younger hands, and today the leadership council of the senior NSDAP [National Socialist German Workers’ Party, Nazi Party] group is reflected in a younger generation, comprising professional managers, lawyers, and financiers, who are calling the shots as money and the trade are moved among the markets of the Americas and Europe. Their organization holds the bearer bonds that give him a voice in banks and industries of Germany, and likewise they hold blue chip stocks in U.S. heavy industries and chemical companies. They are represented too on the boards of corporations in France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, as well as in a myriad of other countries, including those in their bastion, Latin America.”
Relevant to how the Power Elite (PE) uses the secret Nazi plan to bring Israel under its control via economic coercion, Manning wrote: “It has drawn many of the brightest Jewish businessmen into a participatory role in the development of many of its corporations, and many of these Jews share their prosperity most generously with Israel…. This has taken place in many other instances across America and demonstrates how Bormann’s people operate in the contemporary commercial world, in contrast to the fanciful nonsense with which Nazis are described in so much ‘literature.’ So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish participation in Bormann companies that when Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires. Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities in no uncertain terms that this must never happen again because a repetition would permanently rupture relations with the Germans of Latin America, as well as with the Bormann organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish money to Israel. It never happened again, and the pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of Jewish leaders. He is residing in an Argentine safe haven, protected by the most efficient German infrastructure in history as well as by all those whose prosperity depends on his well-being.”
In a related story, John Buchanan and Stacey Michael in “Bush/Nazi Link Continued” (The New Hampshire Gazette, November 7, 2003) revealed that “after the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen ‘enemy nation’ relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal…. The records also show that Bush and the Harrimans conducted business after the War with related concerns doing business in or moving assets into Switzerland, Panama, Argentina and Brazil—all critical outposts for the flight of Nazi capital after Germany’s surrender in 1945.”
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In 1944, Nazi Gen. Karl-Heinrich von Stuepnagel in the French newspaper Combat, was very clear about the Nazis’ perspective, stating: “Our defeat in the present war need not be considered except as an incident in the triumphal march of Germany towards the conquest of the world…. What does a temporary defeat matter if, through the destruction of people and material wealth in enemy countries, we are able to secure a margin of economic and demographic superiority even greater than before 1939?... We shall have to organize a campaign of pity designed to induce [our enemies] to send us needed supplies at the earliest possible moment. Above all we must hold on to the assets we have deposited in neutral countries. The present war will thus have been victorious, in spite of our temporary military defeat, because it will have been a march forward towards our supremacy.”
On March 30, 1945 the U.S. State Department indicated that in 1944, German patent registrations in foreign countries reached an all-time high. This was part of the secret Nazi plan for control after WWII. By the end of the year, in November 1944 the U.S. Senate Military Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on War Mobilization issued a report on Cartels and National Security that indicated the Nazis “are already deploying their economic reserves throughout the world in preparation for a third attempt at world domination,” according to Sen. Harley Kilgore.
Martin Bormann’s success in spreading the Nazis’ assets around the world was heralded at the Nuremberg Trials by Hermann Schmitz, head of I.G. Farben and a director of the BIS. Farben’s N.W.7 division was, of course, close to Himmler’s SS and the Gestapo, and in Paul Manning’s Martin Bormann: Nazi In Exile,one reads that Schmitz at Nuremberg testified: “We can continue. We have an operational plan. However, I don’t believe our board members will be detained long. Nor will I. But we must go through a procedure of investigation before release, so I have been told by our N.W.7 people who have excellent contacts in Washington.” Incidentally, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands who formed the Bilderberg Group in 1954 was a Nazi SS officer who also worked for N.W.7.
Before in this series, I’ve mentioned the Nazis’ Gehlen Organization (GO) and Nazi Otto Skorzeny’s ODESSA network and how they worked together after WWII. In Martin Lee’s The Beast Reawakens (2000), one learns that former U.S. intelligence officer William Corson revealed: “Gehlen’s Organization was designed to protect the ODESSA Nazis. It amounts to an exceptionally well-orchestrated diversion,” so that the Nazis could continue their plan for world domination. Relevant to this, Martin Lee in The Beast Reawakens (2000) revealed that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Otto Skorzeny struck up a relationship that lasted many years. “Arafat would have done anything for Otto!” remarked Ilse Skorzeny (Otto’s widow).
I have also previously mentioned Operation Bloodstone, which brought Nazis to the U.S. and was originally approved on June 10, 1948 by the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee (SWNCC). One of the original sponsors of Operation Bloodstone was Robert Lovett of the War Department, who was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the secret Skull & Bones Society. According to Christopher Simpson in Blowback (1988), one month after Operation Bloodstone was approved, it was expanded to include covert operations including sabotage and assassinations.
John D. Rockefeller III was a senior Navy staff member of SWNCC, which approved of Operation Bloodstone. As member of the Power Elite (PE), he also founded the Population Council in 1953 and later (1973) wrote The Second American Revolution,applauding sexual liberation and the “humanistic revolution” while disparaging “old-fashioned nationalism.”
The president at the time Operation Bloodstone was approved and executed was Harry Truman, whom most believe to have been a patriotic nationalist. However, he carried in his pocket that part of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall” (1842) which called for “the parliament of man in the Federation of the world,” and he explained “that’s what I have been working for.” On June 28, 1945 Truman stated: “It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for us to get along in the republic of the United States.”
Truman was an agent of the PE, nominated for the position of Vice-President under F.D.R. in 1944 by Oscar Ewing and others. Ewing was Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and also a lawyer for Standard Oil, CBS, Fox Films, and others. Among the others was Alcoa, for which Ewing facilitated agreements with the Nazis. In George Seldes’ Facts and Fascism,he reveals that “some of our biggest monopolies entered into secret agreements with the Nazis’ cartels and divided the world up among them. Most notorious of all was Alcoa, the Mellon-Davis-Duke monopoly which is largely responsible for the fact America did not have the aluminum with which to build airplanes before and after Pearl Harbor, while Germany had an unlimited supply.”
Today, the federal government is taking control over more and more (e.g., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, General Motors, etc.). To the extent it has complete control over business entities, we are moving toward National Socialism. To the extent the federal government’s control is exercised via rules and regulations, it is Fascism.
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This is part of the PE’s secret Nazi plan beginning in the 1930s. From Ambassador Dodd’s Diary (1941), George Seldes in Facts and Fascism quotes U.S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd in 1937 as saying: “A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime…. Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there
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By the time President Kennedy was murdered in 1963, Mae was married with five kids. Hardly satisfied with the Warren Commission Report on the assassination, Mae bought herself as a Christmas present the 26 volume Warren Commission testimonies and began reading, filing and cross-indexing. Not only did she find connections to high level government officials, the CIA, Germany, the Hughes organization, and organized crime (to name a few), but began to see relationships to many other current and past events throughout the world.
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Every year, the spring rains fall hard and heavy to a parched and hungry earth. Life is reborn from the long slumber of winter. For me the beauty in this annual transformation stings as if I caught my finger on a thorn from a rose. These lengthening days remind me of another time, when I was a young man. Back then the sun's rays were just as warm and sensuous but the splendour of nature being reborn was tainted with death. It was 1945, and Europe was still caught in the dying grasps of a cruel and unforgiving world war.
It was a conflict that consumed tens of millions of lives through military battles, air bombardment and pure and simple mass murder. For five years of war, through defeat and bitter struggle, the calendar changed from humid summers to crisp fall days, to the bitterness of winter and then back to the optimism of spring. As clocks in every household and in every town square moved forward, day by day, marking our mortal time through this struggle between good and evil, soldiers were maimed or killed on all our military fronts, convoys sunk in the cold North Atlantic, cities reduced to rubble and children left hungry orphans.
Across the world death moved, for too many years in lock step with both the season for sowing and for reaping. We were a world at war, and for those of us in Britain the cost was enormous in lost and ruined lives. But it didn't matter because we believed that the cause was just and that, whether we came from humble or refined stock, we were all in this war together. It was that common and shared faith in ourselves and in the notion that everyone's contribution, large or small, was important to the war effort that saw us through those dark hours. It was what kept us buggering on until our fortunes turned and the war against Nazi Germany reached its bloody end in the spring of 1945.
In those heady days leading to peace, I was just twenty-two and as green as the grass that had started to shoot up across the silenced killing fields. As I travelled from liberated Holland to the crumbling remnants of Nazi Germany, I was sure of one thing: I was a lucky man. I had what was called back then a good war and I was not disappointed by my survival. I had done my bit and I never shirked my paymaster's orders, but I was one of the fortunate few; death had eluded me while I served in the RAF.
I felt blessed by luck because so many others – friends, neighbours, acquaintances and complete strangers – had not been so lucky. They were never going to see twenty-five or be able to put down roots and raise a family and enjoy the fruits of peace. I knew like the rest of my compatriots knew, the dead had reluctantly sacrificed their existence to preserve civilisation for the living.
Perhaps that is why even though I am now 90, I still go every spring to my local cenotaph and commune with unfamiliar names etched in stone. I read out their simple epitaphs, their age and wonder, what if these young men had lived? What would their lives have been like? Would they have found true love, happiness, a rewarding profession and had healthy children? Would they have felt content with the democracy they had fought so selflessly to preserve? It has been almost 70 years since the guns of the second world war fell silent and I am no longer sure if the dead would agree that their lives were worth the price of today's society.
To me, this brave new world feels all wrong, out of tune with what the men and women of World War Two accomplished with our "blood, sweat and tears". It just seems too flippant, too easy, too profane in this present world; for our politicians, our media pundits, and our industrial military complex to intone the beaches of D-Day, Sword, Juno, Gold and Omaha as if it were the catechism for freedom, when our individual and collective liberty is more at risk now than it has ever been since the end of Nazism.
We have somehow broken our solemn bond with those warriors of yesterday and forgotten that when the survivors of the Second World War returned to their homes, they were like a tide that raised all boats. My generation's shared experience of suffering, of witnessing genocide, ethnic cleansing, and enduring unspeakable privations as both soldiers and civilians made us vigilant when it came to demanding our peace dividend. We knew what we deserved and that was a future that didn't resemble our hard-scrabble past. The Green and Pleasant land was for everyone after the war because we had bled for it and died for it. We demanded a truly democratic society where merit was rewarded and no one would be left behind because of poverty, poor health or an inadequate education.
After the war we revolutionized the western world and introduced the notion that all human beings deserved dignity, freedom of movement, due process before the law, and social safety nets to protect those affected by economic uncertainties. We knew the cost of not creating a just society was the end for democracy, and a life sentence of misery for too many people in our country. We knew the price of failing to create and maintain universal health care was a return to a two-tier society where the few held dominion over the many.
Today, however, in a world where our reservoirs of wealth are as deep and enormous as all the mighty rivers of the world combined, our politicians, financial institutions and megalithic industries tell us we can no longer afford these human rights that men sacrificed their lives for: the freedom to live with dignity in a compassionate society. We are told by those in charge that we can no longer live with luxuries like healthcare, proper state funded pensions, decent wages, trade unions and most aspects of our social safety network.
At 90, I am too old to take up the fight, too old to stand in demonstrations with a placard denouncing this madness. All I can do is bear witness to my times and our heroic struggle fought so long ago against Hitler and against men who would wreck the foundations that made civilisation tolerable and decent for its inhabitants.
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Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 1:15 am Post subject:
Did Bond save Bormann? Publishers prepare to be shaken, but not stirred
Peter Muller on claims that Hitler's lieutenant was rescued by Tommies ... led by Ian Fleming
Sunday 04 August 1996
The forces are massed on either side. The preparations are almost complete and zero hour approaches. The last great propaganda battle of the Second World War is about to explode ... around the fate of Martin Bormann, Hitler's lieutenant.
With a publicity build-up of military proportions, the publisher Simon & Schuster is about to invade the book market with the story that Bormann, far from dying in the Berlin bunker or escaping to South America as previous legends have suggested, was secretly brought to England in 1945 on the personal instructions of Winston Churchill to help release Nazi gold stored in Swiss banks.
Not only that: the man in charge of the commando raid that captured him in Berlin on the last day of the war was none other than Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, according to the man telling the tale, John Ainsworth-Davis, a colourful and imaginative character who claims he was second-in-command.
Far-fetched? The military author Charles Whiting certainly thinks so and, in a "spoiling" operation more common to rival newspapers than to publishing houses, he has written his own account of Bormann's end, which firmly puts him dead in the ruins of Berlin. His book is timed to hit the bookshops first.
There is a lot to spoil. Simon & Schuster has paid a pounds 500,000 advance for Ainsworth-Davis's story, modestly titled Op J.B. - The Last Great Secret of The Second World War, which appears on 2 September, and the company is laying down a thunderous barrage of hype. The initial print run is between 50,000 and 100,000 copies, the film rights have already been sold for pounds 1m, a nationwide publicity campaign is being orchestrated, the wholesalers have named it their book of the month, and it already features in at least two Christmas book catalogues.
But then, there is a lot to hype. It is the seemingly fantastic aspects of Op J.B. which Simon & Schuster hopes will overcome reader resistance to yet another "Bormann did not die in the bunker" story (The Daily Express once briefly found him alive in Argentina).
Ainsworth-Davis, who writes under the pen-name Christopher Creighton, asks us to believe that Hitler's private secretary and head of the Nazi administrative machine, who was sentenced to death in his absence by the Nuremburg War Crimes tribunal in 1946, was saved from the gallows by a secret agreement between Churchill, Roosevelt and King George VI.
This was done, he says, by a British commando raid of unequalled derring- do on Berlin itself as the Red Army closed in, code-named "Operation James Bond" and led by the future creator of the eponymous agent; its purpose was to facilitate Bormann's signature on documents which alone could release the many millions of pounds worth of Nazi gold held by Swiss banks.
Britain's alleged dealings with this booty are the subject of a Government inquiry announced only last week by the Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkind; Ainsworth-Davis's contention is that much was indeed recovered and restored to the governments which were its rightful owners.
Finally, Ainsworth-Davis talks of Bormann's ultimate fate. Contrary to a number of press reports over the past year, he does not believe that the leading Nazi metamorphosed into one Peter Broderick Hartley and lived with a Danish mistress in Reigate, Surrey, until his death in 1989. This story, which has had a wide circulation, is left on one side.
His contention is, if anything, even more fantastic: that once he had helped supply the gold, Bormann did indeed end up in South America, but Britain and the US helped him get there.
"This is the last and greatest revelation from World War II," says Simon & Schuster's advance publicity. "An astonishing true story, which will cause history to be rewritten."
"It's ludicrous," says Charles Whiting, whose The Hunt for Martin Bormann - The Truth is published by Pen and Sword Books on 14 August, openly intended as a refutation of Op J.B.
Whiting is a prolific author of military history who has written extensively about the Second World War and the fate of the leading Nazis. "This book is a real c*** and bull story," he said. "In 1975 I interviewed Gunther Keyser, a retired postal worker, in Berlin, and he knew that Bormann was dead because he and his friend buried him. He told me in great detail how Bormann and other Nazis had been in hiding in the Berlin underground railway stations. They were desperately afraid that they would be captured by the Russians. They were terrified they would be tortured and executed by the Red Army as vengeance for Nazi atrocities on the Russian civilian population.
"Bormann's hope was that this particular station - the Lehrerstrasse - was outside the Russian ring of steel around the centre of Berlin - so that when he at last risked coming above ground he thought he would be in the clear. But he emerged from the subway into machine gun crossfire and was killed.
"Bormann's exhumed skull was taken to Frankfurt where it was identified by the same forensic experts who had identified Hitler's skull.
"I met all Bormann's surviving relatives - his brother, brother-in-law. I met his mistress Elsa Kruger. They all said the same: Martin Bormann is dead. Are they all lying? The idea is preposterous.
"Yes, I agree, Martin Bormann did come to England - before the First World War. When he was a boy he visited England with his father who was a trumpeter in a brass band."
Mr Whiting says he would relish a TV confrontation with Mr Ainsworth- Davis, who was in Berlin last week and unavailable for comment.
"There have been many ridiculous stories about the survival of principal Nazis in the West after the war, and I can tell you their origin," he said. "In the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s it suited the Russians to claim that the West was giving sanctuary to leading Nazis.
"And of course they were taken up as novelties by a gullible public, egged on by sensationalising elements in the mass media."
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 10:47 am Post subject:
Latest research on this seminal gold seam of modern banking cult Nazidom puzzle pieces....
see the book Op JB by Christopher Creighton which has evidence Churchill, Mountbatten and Ian Fleming under orders of King George VI helped senior Nazis including Hitler and Martin Boorman to escape in 1945.
Check the historical record you'll see Stalin kicked off about it at the time so Hugh Trevor Roper (who has just died recently) was sent to Berlin and concocted the present Hitler Eva Braun suicide story.
The Final Mountbatten Report
Christopher Robin was one of the many WWII code names of Christopher Creighton, whose real name is John Ainsworth-Davis. From the age of 15, he worked directly under Winston Churchill, Ian Fleming, Lord Louis Mountbatten and Desmond Morton whom he called uncle.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/098522780X/
In 1996, he published OPJB: The Last Great Secret of the Second World War where he and Ian Fleming rescued Martin Bormann (Hitler's financial secretary) out of Berlin on 1 May 1945.
This, the last Mountbatten Report, was written between 1976 and 2006, taking longer due to the theft and sabotage of reference material amounting to tampered evidence, by what is today our Counter-Intelligence . Their role is to keep us ignorant longer . . . and to fail doing so.
Chris borders on a psychic detective-warrior-spy and has proved himself highly intuitive when it comes to protecting himself and his own. When this manuscript was seconded anonymously and without attachments, it was stored in a bank vault in Buenos Aires for four years and then published very rapidly.
The publishers agree that both Hitler and Bormann got out of Berlin, with the assistance of Chris Creighton, Ian Fleming, Winston Churchill and King George VI. They remain divided as to whether Hitler went to Spain, or to Spain then Argentina.
This book relates firsthand the UKUSA missions to sabotage Pearl Harbor, Dieppe, Donegal and for the first time, solves a series of assassinations done by Christopher Robin on the orders of Winston Churchill, Desmond Morton, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Ian Fleming & KGVI.
Chris is a great lover of music, women and life. He is both the anti-hero and the hero. He is the villain to those who don t understand enough, and the hero to those who wish they could. Without question this book is written from firsthand experience of the pain, nuance and treachery of war.
--Text on the back of the cover
John Ainsworth-Davis, post-2003, pre-2008:
As I had been involved in many things, my records have never been released, indeed every effort was made to wipe them from the face of the earth shredding, burning, sometimes skilfully changing the original typescripts or replacing them with forged files that tell a different story . . . photographs were obliterated and the negatives hunted down to oblivion.
--mountbattenreport.com
First of all, 'The Final Mountbatten Report' is the confessions of the sins of a James Bond agent. It includes all of his training, which bounced from training camp to operation to sex to training camp - which is the Intelligence way.
John Ainsworth-Davis was an orphan in that his parents divorced and his mother made the mistake, misfortune, or opportunity to live on Churchill's estate - Chartwell. From here he played with Winston Churchill who was apparently in his Wilderness Years, but it was more like Churchill was training young children to be the war heroes he dreamed of.
Churchill's friend & Intelligence chief Desmond Morton became his uncle and the two of them, Morton and Churchill became the Mind Control agents of a young, tall and extremely athletic and trusting boy. Having gone to Ampleforth College, he had an adulation for authority, and this was to place him in the most dangerous situations - as one of the youngest to be the meat in the sandwich of the Secret War that was fought during World War Two.
From today's point of view, it's unclear what the goal of the Secret War was, but then, there was lots of Double Agent and Triple Agent activity, and sometimes even they didn't know which they were playing. At some point, in the well-recorded fear of it all, there was the Two-and-a half Agent who just wanted to get out. --Greg Hallett's review on Henry Makow's Website Save The Males
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 3:36 am Post subject: John Ainsworth-Davies & Desmond Morton - WW2 last secret
for legal reasons the full report can not be published here, but this will set the background for future posts on topic.
first section of M.R.
THE MOUNTBATTEN REPORT
MOST SECRET
REPORT CODE NAME:
‘CHRISTOPHER-ROBIN GOES TO WAR’
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‘CHRISTOPHER-ROBIN’ to ‘CHARLEMAGNE’
This is a re-write of the Second Report commissioned in 1977 by Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma into the World War Two activities of the Special Secret Operational Royal Navy Intelligence officer known as ‘Christopher-Robin’. In efforts to prevent publication, the First Report was badly damaged although some pages still survive. Other original documents from Sir Winston Churchill, Earl Mountbatten, Ian Fleming et seq were stolen. Later, when some of these documents were seruptiously returned, it was discovered that an attempt had been made to ‘forgerise ‘ them. All seems well now, but eyes should be kept open for errors.
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For: ‘CHARLEMAGNE’,
Code name in Royal Navy Secret Operational Intelligence
(the ‘M’ Section) for:-
Admiral-of-the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma KG.
SIR,
As you know, this report is an account of part my life, the part that took place from 1932 just before the beginning of the Second World War to the months shortly after D-Day. The principles of the country at the time were very different from those of today, for in the early part of the war we were in mortal danger of being overrun and conquered by Adolph Hitler’s National Socialist Workers Party – the Nazis. I was in utter terror of that possibility; and so, alongside the aura and ethos of the British people, which changed diametrically in their task of defending themselves and then defeating our enemies, our moral standards had to adapt themselves to the vile regime we fought. We thought we might lose the war; my own heart, and that of many of my peers, was full of terror. We would do anything to win; desperate days require desperate deeds.
This Report tells of some of those awful things - and if we do not take on board how we were then and how we thought, then my report will make no sense.
I have written before about the end of the war, and my part in operations that took place in the final days of the Third Reich, and some of what follows in these pages was touched upon then. What follows here, though, is the complete picture. ‘Christopher Robin Goes To War’ reports the complete truth, and, although in accordance with your wishes, it has been dramatised in places for easy reading, it is never fictionalised. Indeed you briefed me as follows:
‘Relive your story as it was. Get right to the heart of it. Tell us of your relationships particularly with Winston Churchill and Desmond Morton, and your gallant comrade-in arms ‘Patricia’. I don’t want you to produce the usual ineffectual boring Royal Navy report, but rather wake your ideas up. Dig deep for the vibrant truth – and the soul of the matter. Let’s hear about your thoughts and beliefs – and what powered you on’.
In this report, some names have been changed; including certain place names. The reasons for these will become obvious. There are times when I describe events which I could not have seen clearly, if at all, and places and people, whom I did not know. This was because I had been fortunate enough to witness the interrogation and evidence of German service personnel, men and women, who appeared before Allied War Crime Tribunals at the end of World War Two. All I ask, Sir, is that you judge for yourself on the basis of the evidence submitted in this Report, as to the veracity of what I have to say. For those who are concerned with such things, there are some further details at the end of this submission.
You ordered me, Sir, that if you died before my report was completed, I was to withhold publication for at least twenty-five years, and then present it for inclusion in your archives which I now know to be The Mountbatten Library at Southampton. I apologise for being a little late.
For now, I would like to begin by drawing upon Sir Winston Churchill, who as you know wrote to me these inspiring words in October 1954:
‘If your conscience so allows – tell your story – for you have given and suffered much for England. But if you do speak, then speak nothing but the truth. Do not seek to protect me – for I am content to be judged by history’
SECTION ONE
At school, where it all started -
My school – at the College and Abbey of St Benedict and St Laurence, sat half way up a great sweeping hill leading to the North Yorkshire moors at the village of Ampleforth overlooking a vast valley that led to lakes hidden in woods at the far side. In snow laden winter this terrain served as spectacular ski or toboggan run, but in the warmth of summer with thick foliage on the trees, the whole area, all owned by the College and Abbey, turned into a glorious playground for almost any game or sport to which the minds of boys from twelve to eighteen might set themselves. Beyond the well set-out rugby pitches and cricket and athletic facilities were acres of empty fields that ran five miles up to Gilling, the preparatory school on a hill beyond. Close to that were the lakes which received almost unlimited atten¬tion from the College Sea Scout Troop navigating their ancient naval whalers, and at Whitby on the coast, we scouts had the use of a first rate fifty seven foot ketch.
The College and Abbey had been designed by Sir Gilbert Scott at the turn of the nineteenth century to permanently accommodate some of the Benedictine monks who had returned to England from France after their long exile since the reformation. They were the order that had built the Abbey of St Peter at Westminster in the 10th Century and had lived and taught there in the first of the great abbey schools with the authority of Edward the Confessor, England's saint and king. With the coming of the reformation, they had been persecuted and martyred by Henry VIII. But just before they died, the last two of these martyrs were able to pass on the vows of the order to two young novices who visited them in disguise. Thus the English Benedictine order was saved from extinction and allowed to start again and prosper in France. Returning to England in the early 19th Century, Ampleforth, in company with the other Benedictine schools, Downside, Worth, Douai, St. Benedict’s and the rest, had prospered. They were different from the run of the mill secular public schools; there, the first basic tenet rammed into the boys was that they were elite upper class individuals of a far higher status than the ordinary man in the street, and certainly far above the section of society described by that abomination of phrases ‘the working classes’ - who were merely to be trodden under foot.
At Ampleforth in the thirties, priorities were somewhat different. Love, respect, loyalty and service to everyone, particular those who might not have the same advantages as we did, were the first of the principles instilled into the boys, hotly followed by the belief that all men were equal before God. Sadism, bullying, self importance, arrogance, selfishness and the perversions that were part of the unwritten charters of many of the well known public schools were not tolerated at Ampleforth for a single second. The Benedictines were a teaching order and they taught, not for the secular lining of pockets, but for the love of God; a vocation, not a career. And these precepts became the character foundation stone for the average Ampleforth boy.
But it wasn’t all so heavy and serious. Indeed I have many memories of those fabulous days of a much lighter nature – and on this particular day we had sporting matters to attend to.
The boys, some five hundred of them, were surrounding the First Fifteen rugby football pitch where a friendly match was in progress, The First XV v The Rest. We were all well aware that we weren’t supposed to play Rugby in the summer, but this special affair was left over from the previous season. With war inevitably coming the game was scheduled for July. There was, though, nothing very friendly about this match. It was like the Roman gladiators without the lions, but the baying, roaring and screaming of the spectators more than made up for them.
Certainly in the arena of the Rugby battle, no quarter was being asked or given. Time and again, I found myself in fierce partisan opposition with a senior boy called George Hume and the Captain of School Rugby. With the scores level and with only a minute to go, it seemed that Hume's team must win as he ran fast up the field almost unopposed to our team’s goal-line. I was diagonally away on the other side of the field and didn’t think I had much chance, but I had to try, and I had an advantage. The side of the pitch where Hume was running was somewhat muddy from overnight rain, but diagonally across the field there was a strip of earth reasonably unaffected by moisture. There lay my possibilities. I took off across the pitch at full speed, utterly tearing out my heart and my soul, and launched myself at Hume just as he was about to touch down. The speed and weight of my impact caught Hume amidships and both of us crashed violently into touch. We rolled over and over each other and finished up in a particularly muddy spot. The referee's whistle went for ‘no side’. The match was a draw. The school spectators invaded the pitch. I managed to get on my feet first and George Hume in the mud looked none too happy with himself. Then he saw my outstretched hand and allowed himself to be pulled up on his feet. There was a long pause, and as the screaming of the spectators died down, George Hume, seemed who very enthusiastic about my humble efforts.
‘First class tackle,’ said Hume, graciously. ‘That's the best yet. Bravo. Well, done, John.’
We had a quick hug, and then walked off back up to the school. Barely had we walked five yards, when a school monitor ran up.
‘Davis!’ he said. ‘The Headmaster wants to see you.’
Hume laughed. ‘There you are, John. The Headmaster’s going to tan your backside and save me the trouble.’
George Hume was later to enter the Abbey and become a priest, taking the name of ‘Father Basil’. Today we mourn him as the late Cardinal Basil Hume Archbishop of Westminster. This makes me particularly sad, because I also had a family relationship with Father Basil. Our fathers were surgeons and friends, his ophthalmic, mine urological, and our sisters were at school together, at the convent of St. Mary’s Ascot, where Mother Ignatius and her dedicated nuns held strict but benevolent sway. From that day, I didn’t see George Hume, Father Basil, until about thirty-five years later when I went to him to confess my sins – and exorcise the horrors and excesses of my war – and feel his heeling hand on my head.
On this Saturday, in the late summer of 1939, I couldn't think of anything I had done that warranted the Headmaster's wrath. Nevertheless I had considerable misgivings as ten minutes later I knocked on the door of Father Paul Nevill OSB, the Headmaster of Ampleforth College.
Father Paul's nickname was ‘Posh Paul’ and indeed he was an extremely distinguished man. He understood everybody and everything and, without doubt, was the leading headmaster in Britain. But legend had it that he also flogged the hardest, and I had seen some unbelievable welts on boys’ butts to prove this point. Thus when his deep ‘Come in’ echoed through the corridors of the first floor of the new block, I rubbed my rear portions just to make sure they realised what might be coming their way. But I needn't have worried. Posh Paul greeted me as an old friend and wrung my hand vigorously.
‘John! You have a visitor,’ he said.
I must have looked surprised. Saturday was not a visiting day; it was a day for having fun on the lakes and generally making a bloody nuisance of ourselves. Sunday was the day for visits when we had sweet fanny all to do and were glad to be taken out and stuffed up with good food and drink, school food was only for cretins. Who then would be idiotic enough to visit me on a Saturday? I had only to look up to see the answer. It was Uncle Desmond - Major Desmond Morton. He wasn't a real uncle, but it was the fashion of those days to call close male friends of your parents ‘Uncle’. So it was with Uncle Desmond, and we liked him very much, my two sisters and I. He was great fun and let me drive his car when I was years under the lawful age. He had a font of ghost stories which he would relate on dark nights to our utter terror and delight. But from this moment on, this quasi-uncle and family friend was to exert a very strong influence over my life, for he was one of the most effective intelligence officers ever to have served his country.
Major Desmond John Falkiner Morton, born in 1891, was sent to Eton and then to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. During the First World War he served with the Royal Horse and Field Artillery and received a bullet in the heart which remained in situ for the rest of his life. He was frequently in action and won a Military Cross, a Croix de Guerre and a mention in dispatches. During this service, he came to know Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Winston S. Churchill who was commanding a battalion of the line, and they became close friends. After the war he was officially seconded to the Foreign Office; in fact he entered the Secret Intelligence Service. In 1930 he formed the Industrial Intelligence Centre, an allegedly commercial body which was in reality a cover for his major preoccupation, the founding and running of the M [for Morton] Section, an ultra-secret intelligence organisation, financed and protected outside government control by successive monarchs; George V, Edward VIII and George VI.
In the early days Morton directed the Section from an office in London and from his home on Crockham Hill near Westerham in Kent, with the enthusiastic support of his friend and ally Winston Churchill who lived just below him in the Vale of Chartwell. In 1932, when the M Section began operating, Churchill was out of office; but it was from Morton and his contacts in Europe that Churchill obtained much of the information about German rearmament which eventually convinced the governments of Baldwin and Chamberlain that Britain and other Western democracies were in deadly peril. When Churchill became Prime Minister in May 1940, it was generally considered that Morton had become ‘The Cardinal’ at Churchill's ‘Papal Court’, a sinister character straight out of spy fiction. From what happened that day, and the adventures that followed, it became plain to me that Morton had a considerable influence on Churchill.
Morton was a tall brawny man dark haired man with huge ears, who sported a thick but tightly clipped moustache. His piercing black eyes missed nothing, but he had bad irregular teeth; perhaps that was one reason why he rarely smiled. Austere and patrician in manner, he cultivated an exaggeratedly upper class English voice, although he was a Scot: he could be bombastic and overpowering, especially when proselytising for his chosen religion, Roman Catholicism. Certainly he converted my parents to Catholicism in the early thirties and he stood godfather at my second christening, when the name James was added to my existing names. In 1932, when my parents divorced, he also became my guardian and my ‘Uncle’.
On this occasion in late July 1939, Morton was quick to explain that he had Headmaster’s permission to take me out and he hoped I didn't mind. I didn't and some time later, dutifully changed into tight white collared going out clothes and, after three platefuls or so of bacon, eggs, chips and tomato ketchup at the local hostelry, I found out the reason for his visit. It was to be soul shattering.
‘I can trust you, can't I, young John?’ He asked.
Everybody called me ‘young John’ and I nodded vacantly as he went on to explain that it was vital he be sure of my trust and that I be sure of his. This settled to our mutual satisfaction, he asked me what I might be willing to do and sacrifice for our country. Self-discipline, learned at this tough school, was paramount in my character and the answer came naturally.
‘Whatever, you say,’’ I replied.
Satisfied with my answer, Uncle Desmond said he had a job for me, and his superiors in London. He already had the Headmaster's permission for me to go with him on the night train to London to see the man in charge. Naturally I agreed to go, anything to get away from school. But although I plied Uncle Desmond with questions, he would tell me no more. His chief in London would explain everything.
Later as the train thundered through the night to King's Cross, I little knew that every beat of the wheels on the track was taking me inexorably further and further away from my childhood and before very long it would be ripped brutally away. All too prematurely I would become a man, without the unique joys of growing up, joys about which I would only hear and never taste. Don’t forget, though I was tall and sturdy for my age, at that moment in time, I was just fifteen and a half.
Later the next morning, after a hurried breakfast, I was hustled into an official car and driven across Trafalgar Square. For a moment we were delayed by the band of the Royal Marines marching past playing ‘Hearts of Oak’, the official march of the Royal Navy. As I watched them march past in absolute precision, the stirring drums and moving musicianship, it seemed to me that I was entering into a new domain, the world of the Royal Navy. I glanced up one hundred and fifty feet above me to where Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, the victor of Trafalgar, appeared to glow down on me from a great height, and I sensed a strange approval.
We were escorted out of the car into a huge building adjoining an archway that straddled The Mall, the magnificent tree lined thoroughfare which led to Buckingham Palace at the far end. Inside the building, uniformed officials led us hither and thither, though Uncle Desmond appeared to know his way around very well. Eventually I was ushered into a large grandiosely furnished room into which Uncle Desmond had ventured some minutes before and where a smallish pink-cheeked, round faced man sat behind an enormous desk. He got up smiling and took my hand in friendly greeting. He was, Uncle Desmond had told me, about to be appointed the First Lord of The Admiralty, the Political Head of the British Royal Navy which, at that moment in time, was the biggest and most powerful in the world.
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King George VI & Winston Churchill yes both a bit iffy through freemasonry etc but who was their gofer?
Reading this it's quite clear the Crowleyite figure Desmond Morton was a, if not THE KEY player
Borrow this from your local library or buy a second hand copy for a few quid, you will not be disappointed. It has the real inside story that so many FAKE histories of the end of the war have tried to smother.
Brilliant in every dimension.
Borrow it!
Buy it!
But read it if you want to understand the economic psycho strangle hold we live in in the West.
Latest research on this seminal gold seam of modern banking cult Nazidom puzzle pieces....
see the book Op JB by Christopher Creighton which has evidence Churchill, Mountbatten and Ian Fleming under orders of King George VI helped senior Nazis including Hitler and Martin Boorman to escape in 1945.
Check the historical record you'll see Stalin kicked off about it at the time so Hugh Trevor Roper (who has just died recently) was sent to Berlin and concocted the present Hitler Eva Braun suicide story.
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Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 5:53 pm Post subject:
According to the book
Martin Bormann stayed in the UK, close to Portsmouth, possibly in the village of Birdham, Hampshire, from 1945 until the mid 1950s when it was considered his cover could be blown so he was shipped off to South America around 1956.
HMS Sea Serpent
http://www.combinedops.com/Training%20EST%20UK.htm#HMS Sea Serpent
Function - training & special ops.
Address and commissioning history - the base was located in two areas... Bracklesham Bay and Birdham near Chichester. It was commissioned on 20/10/42 and paid off on 30/6/45 leaving Birdham as tender to Victory III. Birdham was paid off on 30/11/45.
Other information - it was a Combined Ops 'suspense base' prior to commissioning. Used the Sussex Ideal Holiday Camp and Gibson's Camp in Bracklesham Bay, the Brackleshan Bay Hotel and various properties at Birdham.
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Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 10:25 pm Post subject:
another unique extract from this book
In general, he said, his aim was to recreate the old Nazi movement in the form of a National Socialist Union in Europe. This could be achieved only if the other countries surrendered their identities and agreed to be ruled by Germans. First Europe, then the whole world, would be administered by a Nazi government in Berlin, where there would be an Upper House of German politicians, and a Lower House for representatives of other nationalities. In this new world-empire only German would be spoken, 'but people would soon get used to that', even in America. For all the obvious flaws in his character, Hanne saw him as 'a most brilliant man', with the ability to put Germany back on its feet.
Op.JB- Final Twists
Extract from Op. JB
by Christopher Creighton
Pub Simon and Schuster, 1996
pp. 230-239
Andrew Lycett made the ludicrously naive remark that when, on 30 May 1945, Fleming wrote to a girlfriend complaining that he had had 'no devilry for too long', this proved he could have taken no part in 'the hunt' for Martin Bormann. On the contrary: that kind of flippant answer was Fleming's normal means of deflecting tiresome inquiries. He knew full well that during the war a serious breach of the Official Secrets Act could have carried the death penalty, and that even in peacetime he could have been arrested, court-martialled, cashiered and sentenced to at least five years' imprisonment for talking out of turn. His career and life would have been ruined. Small wonder that a man of such professionalism and discipline never blabbed.
For me, one major regret has always been that my father never knew the truth about my wartime service. He died at the beginning of January 1976, still believing I had been a renegade and traitor with a criminal background - for he was so indiscreet that nobody in authority had dared to enlighten him about my secret operations. After the war the M Section did nothing to improve my character references: on the contrary, they went out of their way to enhance my supposed villainy, adding psychopathic tendencies, gambling, bad debts and finally bankruptcy to my list of failings. This policy paid off on several occasions, not least in 1967 at the Barrendov Studios in Prague, where, under cover of an international film production, I was on an intelligence operation. When the KGB and the Czech SSS (secret police of the notorious Eighth Department) opened my mail - as they always did - and read threatening demands from creditors, they dropped their well-founded 'suspicions of me, and I was able to continue my undercover work.
The fact that my father and stepmother were kept in ignorance caused much grief to my mother and my sister Jennie; but post-war events proved that it was just as well. On three potentially dangerous occasions Britons working for the KGB, the SSS and Odessa (the secret society of former members of the SS) came digging for information about my background; but my stepmother's scathing reports - apparently confirming every word of myoid records - persuaded the inquirers that I could not possibly be a secret agent: the British Intelligence Services did not employ bankrupt, psychopathic, criminal traitors. It helped that, by then, my father vehemently denied that he had ever known Ribbentrop: if the former ambassador's name ever came up in conversation, he would exclaim, 'If ever I'd got anywhere near that b******, I'd have killed him!'
The fact that my father could not know the truth about me remained a source of embarrassment and sorrow to Mountbatten. Years earlier, when my father appealed to him for help over my career, Lord Louis had written back a cover letter saying that, alas, my character was so bad that there was nothing he could do. When my father died, the long-term deception was evidently still weighing on Mountbatten's mind, for he wrote two more letters, the first to me, the second about me.
In the first, a personal note, he reminisced about my father. The second letter was to Susan Kemp, who had devoted her entire' career to the M Section and moved steadily up through its ranks, becoming an Assistant Deputy Director in 1951, Deputy Director in 1955, and Director - M in person - from 1965 until her retirement in 1980. So secret was it, in Mountbatten's view, that on 21 January 1976 he drove over from Broadlands to her home and declared that he intended to set the record straight. Using our original code-names from A. A. Milne - Owl for Morton, Tigger for Churchill, Kanga for Susan and Christopher Robin for me - he dictated a five-page memorandum headed MOST SECRET, in which he outlined my career in covert operations.
'I shall certainly recommend that it's time for the curtain to be lifted on C. R.'s intelligence career,' he began. 'For some time I have wanted to confirm in writing his service in the Royal Navy under a cover name, and the various operations in which he was involved with the Morton Section.'
Having stated that he had known my father, Jack, at Christ's, Cambridge, Mountbatten recalled how he had cheered him on at the Antwerp Olympics, together with the Duke of York and Prince Henry. He said that he himself had several times met Ribbentrop at our house at 69 Harley Street, and that he had 'assisted' my entry into the Royal Navy under a cover-name. He then gave brief resumes of my earlier operations, before coming to Op JB:
In January 1945, C R was promoted Acting Lieutenant-Commander and appointed in Command of Operation James Bond, under the executive command of Commander Ian Fleming, RNVR (Sp). With Operational WRNS 'Wrens', Royal Marine Commandos and German patriot fighters, he abducted 'Piglet' from Berlin and using the German waterways brought him safely down the Spree and Havel to the Elbe and the British Forces on the North West bank.
Piglet had the key to the vast Nazi wealth held in Switzerland. Operation James Bond made possible the subsequent release of those assets for the people to whom it belonged or for the general good of the occupied territories from where it had been plundered.
At the end of the memorandum Mountbatten gave me permission to publish anything he had written, but only after he himself had, as he put it, 'gorn off'. As things turned out, he died in 1979, rimrdered by the IRA; but another twelve years passed before I saw this document again. The reason was that he gave it to Susan Kemp, instructing her that it should be held in safe-keeping along with other secret records of the M Section. He also asked her not to let me have it unless she thought I really needed it, and she in her wisdom withheld it.
For me, M Section documents had long been a matter of concern and controversy. One day in the late 1960s I went to see Morton at his home, told him I wanted to write a book about my career, and asked if I could have access to some of his papers - whereupon he completely lost control. Jabbing a finger in my direction from across the drawing-room, he damned me as an ignominious traitor and a son of Satan. He disowned me, and, in his own phrase, 'retired' from being my godfather. If I were to publish any such book, he boomed, he would tear the First World War bullet from his heart and hurl it at me with all the force that God had employed in destroying the Philistines.
I never saw him again; but a little later he burnt all his papers. Historians and politicians bewailed the loss of this priceless intelligence archive, covering the years 1920-60, and including details of Operation James Bond. When Morton died in 1971, the world assumed that he had ~aken his secrets to the grave.
That was certainly my impression - until 18 April 1991. That morning Susan Kemp telephoned for a chat about how I was getting on with the draft of my book, records or no records. We had scarcely begun talking when she came out with the startling but welcome news that she and the M Section's photographic experts had copied everyone of Morton's records long before he had his bonfire, and had placed the copies in the safety of the Section's security control. (A doctor who gave him a routine check-up claimed that he had detected a dangerous irregularity in his heartbeat, and while Morton was in hospital for three days of tests his people raided his archive). Susan told me that I could have restricted access to some naval reports, but that I might not take any away or make copies: handwritten notes only. She also reminded me about Mountbatten's letter and memorandum.
A week later she picked me up and we drove into the Surrey countryside. In the course of a walk she confirmed that security control had agreed to provide me with further information about Bormann's final years. Then, after lunch in a pub, she drove me to a country town and parked outside the cemetery. We walked up a path to the Roman Catholic section and stopped by a patch of mown grass.
'Do you like conjuring tricks?' she asked. 'In a graveyard?'
'Why not? You're standing at Piglet's grave.'
She told me that, far from dying in 1956, Bormann had lived on in England until 1989, and then had been buried here. For a moment I was so startled that I did not believe her. But then I looked at her and decided that she was not joking. After a while we returned to the car and drove back to her house, where she showed me Mountbatten's letter, and I read again how concerned he had been that the true story of my naval service had never been told.
What I did not realise was that, even after all those years of service, I myself was still being used by the M Section in their schemes of disinformation. It was not until the spring of 1996 that Susan at last revealed to me the truth about Bormann's final years - and highly disconcerting it was to find that It.-who had been involved in the preparation of disinformation schemes for much of my life, had myself fallen for one, and had been actively encouraged to follow a planted trail.
In July 1960, somewhere in the south of England, a man who called himself Peter Broderick-Hartley jumped on to a moving bus just after it had come round a corner, and so by chance met Johanne Nelson (generally known as Hanne), a Danish woman whose British husband had died a year earlier. He sat down beside her and they fell into conversation. He said he was a civil engineer; in fact he was a con-man and fantasist with a criminal record and a known propensity for fastening on to vulnerable women. Unknown to his new contact, for the past eight years he had been employed, trained and supervised by the M Section, which had cultivated him as another Bormann double.
The two began an affair. One evening, after a few drinks, Broderick-Hartley suddenly began speaking German, and carried on for half an hour, 'revealing' that he was Martin Bormann. He spoke passionately about Hitler, about Eva Braun and Goebbels, and about his own life in Germany. When at last he stopped, Hanne asked in English, 'Why are you telling me all this?' He seemed surprised, and said, 'Oh, I thought you were German.'
No Nazi herself - her family had Jewish antecedents - Hanne was at first alarmed by this outburst, because she believed that her lover really was Bormann: certainly he bore an extraordinary resemblance to Hitler's former secretary, and he had the same powerful, squat build. Yet by the time that Broderick-Hartley claimed to have played a major role in the Third Reich, she was so much in love with him that she suppressed her feelings of anxiety and guilt.
The two never cohabited, because Broderick-Hartley was living with a housekeeper, Hilda (whom he also referred to as Amy Gant). Nevertheless, he and Hanne spent much time together, and on 1 August 1961 she bore him a daughter, Vanessa. Soon afterwards he again told her he was Martin Bormann; when she said she did not believe it, he took a used envelope, rapidly scribbled a signature, and said, 'After all, you are now part of the Bormann family.' Although the signature was not a perfect match, it convinced Hanne.
For years Hanne wore an engagement ring, and naturally she would have much liked to live with the father of her child; but
this was never possible because Hilda had such a hold over him - something that Hanne could never quite understand. As she soon discovered, her lover held extreme political ideas. He claimed that all Germans, not only himself, were Nazis at heart, whatever they professed outwardly.
In general, he said, his aim was to recreate the old Nazi movement in the form of a National Socialist Union in Europe. This could be achieved only if the other countries surrendered their identities and agreed to be ruled by Germans. First Europe, then the whole world, would be administered by a Nazi government in Berlin, where there would be an Upper House of German politicians, and a Lower House for representatives of other nationalities. In this new world-empire only German would be spoken, 'but people would soon get used to that', even in America. For all the obvious flaws in his character, Hanne saw him as 'a most brilliant man', with the ability to put Germany back on its feet.
In spite of his grandiose claims, his own behaviour was frequently puerile. On visits to London he pointed out Jews and made loud, derisive comments about them, saying that they should have been eliminated years ago, and that they would not escape next time round, as their names were all in the computer: 'They shall be liquidated one and all.' When he and Hanne walked along London streets, he would often barge a person of Semitic appearance off the pavement, saying 'You bloody Jews! Hitler should have exterminated the lot of you.'
This unreconstituted Nazi was a good rider, and often went to the races; he also enjoyed other typical English pastimes, and liked to dress in tweeds as a country squire, although he despised the British in general. He typed well, and kept a powerful radio transmitter 'as big as a table-top', according to Hanne - which was frequently in use, sending and receiving messages.
He had a taste for caviare and champagne, and indulged his sybaritic tendencies as far as he could while ostensibly living a middle-class existence. His long-term frustration emerged in his claim that he 'owned a first-class ticket for life, but was unable to use it'. Referring to himself as 'the Third Man', he complained that he was always under surveillance - and this was certainly true, as M Section personnel were permanently on hand to keep an eye on him.
He and Hanne continued to meet intermittently over the years, and in 1984, five years before his death, they drank champagne and had dinner 'in a fine Chinese restaurant near Hyde Park'. Again he asked Hanne to marry him, and, she, still admiring him, was sorely tempted to accept. But, thinking of her own Jewish antecedents, she declined his offer. When he died on 20 June 1989, he was buried in the unmarked grave I had seen, and she did not attend his funeral.
It was work on this book that put me in touch with Hanne. I met her in May 1995, when we had lunch at a small hotel in Sussex. Because one aim of the meeting was to make sure that she was genuine, I had arranged for M Section's security control to vet the venue and put full security in place. During drinks, holding it cleanly at the base, I picked up a glass my guest had been using, and passed it to a waitress, who in fact was one of our girls, so that the fingerprints could be checked. Twice more during the meal we repeated the procedure, and some thirty photographs were taken, several of them close-ups. Within twenty-four hours security control confirmed beyond any doubt that this was the woman with whom Broderick-Hartley had been associated.
Still - though I did not know it - my own section was playing me along. For several months thereafter I was greatly excited by my belief that I had at last stumbled on the truth about Bormann's latter years.
I knew that during the early 1950s suspicion and rum our about Bormann had been rife throughout Europe, with many fingers pointing at England. I also knew that after the end of the war several Doppelgangers had performed well in Italy, Germany and other countries. What I did not know was that in 1952 the M Section had found a strikingly good replica of Bormann, in the form of Peter Broderick-Hartley, on their own doorstep, and had decided to make use of him also. The idea was that, if ever anyone seemed to be coming uncomfortably close to the truth, the British authorities could produce the resident double and say, 'There you are. Of course he looks like Bormann, but in fact he's got nothing to do with him.'
As I say, I knew nothing of this when Hanne showed me letters, written by her lover in English, and numerous photographs of him in England. His resemblance to Bormann was astonishing: the same broad cheekbones, the same hairline. But neither Hanne nor I - at that stage - realised that, to achieve the likeness, he had undergone extensive plastic surgery. Nor did either of us know that he had received long training in his role as Bormann's Doppelganger, and that most of the letters apparently from him had been forged by M Section experts.
But the more I thought about Hanne's story the more I believed that her lover really was Bormann. She herself certainly did, and I do not blame her. Nevertheless, I was never totally convinced. There was something about the photographs which jarred: even given the fact that Bormann also had undergone plastic surgery, I could not quite reconcile the appearance of Broderick-Hartley with the image of Hitler's secretary stamped on my mind during our journey downriver fifty years earlier. .
It was not until the spring of 1996 that Susan Kemp at last felt able to revel the truth to me. Even after retiring from the M Section, she had some access to its records, and so was able to help. Belatedly I learnt that in 1989, when I started work on this book, the Section had deliberately led me to believe that Bormann died in Hampshire in April 1956, in the hope that I would publish the date and so get it generally accepted. What they had not bargained for, however, was that Hanne Nelson would come forward with her story in the hope of getting it published. At first they told me they supported her version of events, and confirmed to me that she was who she claimed to be, at and after our meeting in the Sussex restaurant. Only when they realised I was adamant that Hartley was not Bormann did they at last decide to come clean.
The truth was that between 1945 and 1956 Bormann was based (as I have shown) in England. During those years, however, he made several trips to Brazil, Argentina, other countries in South America, and elsewhere, always under the control and surveillance of the M Section and the CIA (successors of the OSS). The leader of the CIA's control and protection team in South America was none other than Barbara Brabenov, who reported that when Bormann first set eyes on her again both of them were overcome by emotion, and tough CIA operatives watched in amazement as their star agent embraced the world's most wanted war criminal. According to Susan, the results of their partnership were 'superlative': wanted Nazis were run to earth, hoards of cash, jewellery and gold were recovered, and other important things accomplished, among them the containment of attempts to rebuild the Third Reich in exile through financial and economic domination of the free world.
Nevertheless, the government was still nervous about having the convicted war criminal in England, and early in April 1956, just before the official visit of the Soviet leaders Bulganin and Khrushchev, Susan was sent for by the Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, who launched into a diatribe about the problems caused by all the suspicion that we were harbouring Bormann. Before she could say anything, Eden lost control- as I also had seen him do and began to bang on the desk as he screamed obscenities: 'We're cosseting him like a f****ing VIP!' he yelled. 'I want him out of the country before these bloody Russians get here. Why don't you just cut the bloody man's head off and throw him in the sea?'
As usual, with the tantrum over, Eden abruptly reverted to his normal, suave self, giving Susan a big smile and saying with the utmost courtesy, 'Be so good, my dear Miss Kemp, as to escort him out of the country by April 25th'.
Susan did almost exactly that. In Hampshire, as I have recorded, it was announced that Herr Schuler had died, and a coffin bearing his name was buried in the village graveyard near the riding school. On 29 April 1956 Bormann was flown under escort to Argentina, and there once again joined forces with Brabenov. By then, however, his health was failing: he was still only fifty five, but he wanted somewhere to settle down in obscurity. He found his haven in Paraguay, where he lived quietly until, after a long illness, he died in February 1959. He was buried in the local cemetery, but some time later, in a deal concluded by the CIA, the Paraguayan government and German intelligence, his remains were exhumed and taken back to Berlin. They were reburied in the sand beneath the Ulap Fairground, where they were conveniently found in 1972. I say 'some time later' because Susan could not give me details of this operation, which she heard of only at second hand. All the same, her account of Bormann's last years is strikingly similar to that of Hugh Thomas, who reached much the same conclusion by means of acute detective work.
Early in 1996 I travelled to Bavaria and met Gerhardt Bormann, one of Martin's sons, in the company of the family lawyer, Dr Florian Besold, and a first-class interpreter, Dr G.K. Kindermann. The meeting took place in the Bormanns' house on the outskirts of Freising, near Munich. Also present were Gerhardt's wife and son,
In 1945, as I have said, the ethics of Operation James Bond did not concern us. As naval officers, we merely carried out orders and the atmosphere was thoroughly cordial. Conditioned as they were by years of belief that Martin Bormann had died in 1945, the family received the story of Operation James Bond with a good deal of scepticism. Nevertheless, I think they were shaken when I showed them copies ofthe letter from Ian Fleming and the memorandum from Mountbatten, confirming that the rescue of Piglet had taken place. There was also one point, trivial yet telling, at which the truth suddenly struck home. Through the interpreter I asked Gerhardt (who speaks practically no English) whether, as a boy, he had owned a pony. The answer was, 'No, that was my brother Martin.'
'And when the family had to move,' I went on, 'he was upset because he couldn't keep the pony any longer.'
Until then Gerhardt had remained impassive, reminding me strongly of his father, ,with his broad features and wary eyes. But now he suddenly came alive. With a startled look he said to the interpreter,-'How on earth could he have known that?'
The answer was simple. Martin Bormann senior had told this sad little story to the girls at the riding school in Hampshire.
Our interview in Freising ended amicably, if indecisively. I made a point of emphasising that my book would not harp on Bormann's war record: on the contrary, I described how in 1945, when I knew nothing of his recent past, I had formed an emotional bond with him during our journey down the waterways, and everyone in the party had become fond of him.
The family said they would like time to think about what I had told them, but Gerhardt reiterated his conviction that the bones and skull dug up in Berlin, and now preserved in a vault in Wiesbaden, are those of his father. As I was leaving, Dr Besold remarked that the way to settle the issue once and for all would be to arrange a DNA test, comparing a sample from the bones
with hair or blood from a surviving member of the family. I myself very much hope that such a test will be carried out; if it is, I .am confident that it will confirm the authenticity of the remains, and that it will show that the bones were brought back from Paraguay.
Since the founding of Israel, the Federal Republic of Germany had paid out 85.3 billion marks, by the end of 1977, to survivors of the Holocaust. East Germany ignores any such liability. From South America, where payment must be made with subtlety, the Bormann organization has made a substantial contribution. It has drawn many of the brightest Jewish businessmen into a participatory role in the development of many of its corporations, and many of these Jews share their prosperity most generously with Israel. If their proposals are sound, they are even provided with a specially dispensed venture capital fund. I spoke with one Jewish businessmen in Hartford, Connecticut. He had arrived there quite unknown several years before our conversation, but with Bormann money as his leverage. Today he is more than a millionaire, a quiet leader in the community with a certain share of his profits earmarked as always for his venture capital benefactors. This has taken place in many other instances across America and demonstrates how Bormann's people operate in the contemporary commercial world, in contrast to the fanciful nonsense with which Nazis are described in so much "literature." So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish participation in Bormann companies that when Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires. Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities in no uncertain terms that this must never happen again because a repetition would permanently rupture relations with the Germans of Latin America, as well as with the Bormann organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish money to Israel. It never happened again, and the pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of these Jewish leaders. He is residing in an Argentinian safe haven, protected by the most efficient German infrastructure in history as well as by all those whose prosperity depends on his well-being. Personal invitation is the only way to reach him.
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King George VI & Winston Churchill yes both a bit iffy through freemasonry etc but who was their gofer?
Reading this it's quite clear the Crowleyite figure Desmond Morton was a, if not THE KEY player
Borrow this from your local library or buy a second hand copy for a few quid, you will not be disappointed. It has the real inside story that so many FAKE histories of the end of the war have tried to smother.
Brilliant in every dimension.
Borrow it!
Buy it!
But read it if you want to understand the economic psycho strangle hold we live in in the West.
TonyGosling wrote:
Latest research on this seminal gold seam of modern banking cult Nazidom puzzle pieces....
see the book Op JB by Christopher Creighton which has evidence Churchill, Mountbatten and Ian Fleming under orders of King George VI helped senior Nazis including Hitler and Martin Boorman to escape in 1945.
Check the historical record you'll see Stalin kicked off about it at the time so Hugh Trevor Roper (who has just died recently) was sent to Berlin and concocted the present Hitler Eva Braun suicide story.
The classic book on all this is FREE DOWNLOAD Martin Bormann Nazi in Exile by Paul Manning.
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Looks like a possible relative of the author of Op JB may be on the Forum; I let the poster know that the issue is covered here:
'The man that knew - the greatest secret of WWII':
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