The Ruling Elite

by Deanna Spingola

  Germans began fleeing from Pomerania, Silesia, and East Prussia in the spring of 1945 to escape the brutality of the approaching Soviet Army. Millions remained behind and would become part of the forced expulsion of Germans. After World War II and unknown to the majority of the world outside of Germany, politicians, using military force drove roughly 16.6 million Germans from their homes in central and Eastern Europe, per an agreement signed by Stalin, Truman, and Churchill. Out of that 16.6 million, about 2.1 million died during the expulsion, some twelve million arrived in a diminished Germany while 2.5 million avoided expulsion but perished during the process of trying to survive. 2054 In 1947, Polish authorities admitted that there were only 400,000 Germans still remaining in an area that was once home to about eight million Germans. We know very little about the fate of those Germans who, for whatever reason, remained behind. 2055

  Victor Gollancz wrote, “It is true that the decisions of Yalta and Potsdam, the alienation of territory, the expulsion of populations, the division into zones, above all the criminal policy of deindustrialization, had already made the creation of a genuine democracy anywhere in Germany infinitely difficult. In so far as our statesmen sponsored or willingly acquiesced in these policies they bear a responsibility for which history will find it hard to forgive them.” 2056

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  1William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960), 29-31

  2Ibid. 29-31

  3Alan Bullock, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), 61. Though Bullock writes an anti-Hitler book, he does not claim, as some writers do, that Hitler was complicit with the communists in their overthrow of the government in Munich

  4Charles Bracelen Flood, Hitler, the Path to Power (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989), 3.

  5Alan Bullock, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper Collins, 1971), 34-35.

  6Dietrich Eckart, Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin: A Dialogue Between Adolf Hitler and Me, trans. by William Pierce (1923), 3

  7James Pool and Suzanne Pool, Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power 1919-1933 (New York: The Dial Press, 1978), 6-7

  8Timothy W. Ryback, Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life (New York: Vintage Books, 2010), 126

  9Alan Bullock, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper Collins, 1971), 34-35

  10Charles Bracelen Flood, Hitler: The Path to Power (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989), 3

  11Alan Bullock, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper Collins, 1971), 34-35

  12Ibid. 34-35

  13Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (London, New York: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1939), 132, 134

  14Stephen A. Zarlenga, The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money, the Story of Power (Valatie, New York: American Monetary Institute, 2002). 590-91

  15Gottfried Feder, The Programme of the N.S.D.A.P., trans. by E. T. S. Dugdale and Frz. Eher Nachf (Munich, Germany, 1932), 4-5

  16Holocaust Encyclopedia, “Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch),” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007884; viewed 4/10/2014

  17Election to the Reichstag December 7, 1924, http://www.axishistory.com/whats-new/174-germany-unsorted/elections/4856-election-to-the-reichstag-7-december-1924; viewed 10/24/2013

  18Francis Neilson, The Makers of War (Appleton, Wisconsin: C. C. Nelson Publishing Company, 1950), 125

  19Gottfried Feder, The Programme of the N.S.D.A.P., trans. by E. T. S. Dugdale and Frz. Eher Nachf (Munich, Germany, 1932), 6-9

  20Ibid. 6-7

  21Ibid. 6-9

  22Ibid. 10-11

  23Ibid.

  24Ibid. 12-13

  25Ibid. 17-19

  26Ibid. 10-11

  27Ibid. 18-20

  28Gottfried Feder, The Programme of the N.S.D.A.P., trans. by E. T. S. Dugdale and Frz. Eher Nachf (Munich, Germany, 1932), 18-20

  29Emergency Economic Program of the NSDAP, http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/sofortprogramm.htm#jobs; viewed 10/24/2013

  30Hannsjoachim Wolfgang Koch, ed., Aspects of the Third Reich (London: Macmillan Publishers, LTD, 1985), 44-45

  31Ibid. 44-45

  32Ibid. 49-51

  33Ibid. 49-51

  34Ibid. 51-54

  35Ibid.

  36Ibid.

  37Ibid.

  38Michael Newland, “The Life and Influence of Willi Münzenberg,” http://heretical.com/miscella/munzen.html; viewed May 5, 2013

  39Edwin Black, The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine (Washington, D.C.: Dialog Press, 2009), 7-8

  40Fritz Tobias, The Reichstag Fire (London: Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1964), 3-4

  41Hannsjoachim Wolfgang Koch, ed., Aspects of the Third Reich (London: Macmillan Publishers, LTD, 1985), 55-58

  42Ibid.

  43Ibid.

  44Udo Walendy, The Transfer Agreement and the Boycott Fever 1933, Historical Facts #26 (Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichtsforschung, 1987), 10

  45Münchener Neueste Nachrichten, The Munich Latest News, March 21, 1933

  46Ingrid Weckert, Flashpoint: Kristallnacht, 1938, Instigators, Victims and Beneficiaries (Costa Mesa, California: Institute for Historical Review, 1991), 85-88

  47Hannsjoachim Wolfgang Koch, ed., Aspects of the Third Reich (London: Macmillan Publishers, LTD, 1985), 55-58

  48“German Trust to Oppose Standard Oil,” New York Times, November 11, 1906

  49Harold James, The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 92-94

  50San Jose Mercury News, September 25, 1982 as cited in Sidney Warburg, Hitler’s Secret Backers, introduction

  51Text of Samuel Untermeyer’s address broadcast by station WABC on August 6, 1933, New York Times, August 7, 1933, Audio file: http://archive.org/details/SamuelUntermyerAugust71933

  52Don Nicoloff, “A Little History: Cyrus I. Scofield and the Tribulation,” Idaho Observer, May 2009, http://proliberty.com/observer/20090507.htm; viewed 9/3/2013

  53Ibid.

  54Text of Samuel Untermeyer’s address broadcast by station WABC on August 6, 1933, New York Times, August 7, 1933, Audio file: http://archive.org/details/SamuelUntermyerAugust71933

  55Hannsjoachim Wolfgang Koch, ed., Aspects of the Third Reich (London: Macmillan Publishers, LTD, 1985), 58-61

  56Marquis Childs, “Reporter Tells What He Saw; Marquis Childs Covers Wide Front in Newest Opus,” Write from Washington, October 25, 1942

  57Jüri Lina, Architects of Deception (Stockholm, Sweden: Referent Publishing, 2004), 134

  58Andrew Carrington Hitchcock, The Synagogue of Satan: Updated, Expanded, and Uncensored, 2012, Kindle Locations 4535-37

  59Ibid. Kindle Locations 1166-67

  60Guido Giacomo Preparata, Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich (London/Ann Arbor, Michigan: Pluto Press, 2005), 160

  61Dieter Schwarz, Freemasonry: Ideology, Organization and Policy (Berlin: Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, 1944), 9

  62Ibid. 34-35

  63James Pool and Suzanne Pool, Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power 1919-1933 (New York: The Dial Press, 1978), 7-8

  64Dieter Schwarz, Freemasonry: Ideology, Organization and Policy (Berlin: C
entral Publishing House of the NSDAP, 1944), 62-63

  65Ibid. 63-64

  66Jüri Lina, Architects of Deception (Stockholm, Sweden: Referent Publishing, 2004), 261-62.

  67Dieter Schwarz, Freemasonry: Ideology, Organization and Policy (Berlin: Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, 1944), 60-61

  68Ibid.

  69John Coleman, Conspirator’s Hierarchy: The Committee of 300 (Carson City, Nevada: World in Review, 1991), 118

  70Dieter Schwarz, Freemasonry: Ideology, Organization and Policy (Berlin: Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, 1944), 64-65

  71Ibid.

  72Ibid. 65-66

  73Ibid. 66-67

  74Andrew Carrington Hitchcock, The Synagogue of Satan: Updated, Expanded, and Uncensored, 2012, Kindle Locations 3158-63

  75Ibid. Kindle Locations 3209-10

  76Dieter Schwarz, Freemasonry: Ideology, Organization and Policy (Berlin: Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, 1944), 63-64

  77Ibid. 66-67

  78Ibid.

  79Ibid.

  80Ibid. 67-68

  81Ibid. 66-67

  82Ibid. 67-68

  83Ibid.

  84Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson, Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992), 9-10

  85Thomas A. Breslin, “Mystifying the Past: Establishment Historians and the Origins of the Pacific War,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 8., Issue 4, 1976, 18-35

  86James Pool and Suzanne Pool, Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power 1919-1933 (New York: The Dial Press, 1978), 4-5

  87Office of Strategic Services, Hitler Source Book, “Comic Aspects of Hitler’s Career,” Literary Digest, August 26, 1933, http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/oss-sb-comic.html; viewed 8//11/2013

  88“Herman Rauschning’s Talks with Hitler,” review of The Voice of Destruction, by Herman Rauschning, New York Times, February 18, 1940

  89Hermann Rauschning, The Voice of Destruction (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1940), 256

  90Office of Strategic Services, Hitler Source Book, http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/oss-sb-ahitler.html; viewed 8/11/2013

  91Thomas A. Breslin, Mystifying the Past: Establishment Historians and the Origins of the Pacific War, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 1976, 18-35

  92Ibid. 18-35

  93Walter C. Langer, The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report (New York: Basic Books, 1972), v.

  94Ibid. 19, 140

  95Udo Walendy, Truth for Germany: The Guilt Question of the Second World War (Washington, D.C.: The Barnes Review Books, 2003), 4

  96“Says Jews Must Conquer, Dr. Wolffsohn Delivers Closing Speech at Zionist Congress,” New York Times, August 22, 1907

  97Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity (New York: New York University Press, 2002), 110-11

  98Walter C. Langer, The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report (New York: Basic Books, 1972), 154

  99Alfred Konder, Adolf Hitler’s Family Tree, the Untold Story of the Hitler Family (Salt Lake City, 2000), 7, Konder is a professional genealogist living and working in Salt Lake City.

  100Ibid. 7

  101Ibid.

  102Reading Eagle, September 21, 1950, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955_and_dat=19500921_and_id=TxgrAAAAIBAJ_and_sjid=Q50FAAAAIBAJ_and_pg=58150003173858; viewed 8/11/2013

  103One Hundred and Eighty-Fifth Day, Wednesday, 24 July 1946, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/07-24-46.asp; viewed 8/10/2013

  104Eric Leif Davin, Pittsburgh, April 20, 1990, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/06/opinion/l-hitler-never-really-was-schicklgruber-016390.html; viewed 8/10/2013

  105Walter C. Langer, The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report (New York: Basic Books, 1972), 156

  106Ibid. 83-84

  107Ibid. 195

  108Ibid. 103, 149; taken from Hermann Rauschning’s The Voice of Destruction, 256-57

  109Francis Neilson, The Makers of War (Appleton, Wisconsin: C. C. Nelson Publishing Company, 1950), 136-37

  110Ibid. 104-05

  111Ibid. 104-113

  112Ibid. 104-113

  113Louis Marschalko, The World Conquerors, the Real War Criminals, trans. from Hungarian by A. Suranyi (London: Joseph Sueli Publications,1958), 72-75

  114Adolf Hitler, “My New World Order: Proclamation to the German Nation at Berlin,” February 1, 1933

  115Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (London/New York: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1939), 393

  116Francis Neilson, The Makers of War (Appleton, Wisconsin: C. C. Nelson Publishing Company, 1950), 104-113

  117Ibid. 100-02

  118Ibid. 104-05

  119Ellen Hodgson Brown, Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Third Millennium Press, 2008), 233-38

  120Ibid.

  121Lothrop Stoddard, Into the Darkness: An Uncensored Report from Inside the Third Reich at War, A Sympathetic Report from Hitler’s Wartime Reich (Neport Beach, California: The Noontide Press, 2000), 109-113.

  122Ibid.

  123Ibid.

  124Francis Neilson, The Makers of War (Appleton, Wisconsin: C. C. Nelson Publishing Company, 1950), 124-28

  125Ellen Hodgson Brown, Web of Debt; The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Third Millennium Press, 2008), 233-38

  126Stephen A. Zarlenga, The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money, the Story of Power (Valatie, New York: American Monetary Institute, 2002), 594-98

  127C. C. Veith, “Thinking Outside the Box: How a Bankrupt Germany Solved Its Infrastructure Problems,” Citadels of Chaos, Meador, 1949, http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/bankrupt-germany.php, viewed 4/12/2014

  128Stephen A. Zarlenga, The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money, the Story of Power (Valatie, New York: American Monetary Institute, 2002), 596-97

  129Ellen Hodgson Brown, Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Third Millennium Press, 2008), 233-38

  130Rev. Sheldon Emry, Billions for the Bankers and Debts for the People (Sandpoint, Idaho: America’s Promise Ministries, 1984), 21-22

  131Francis Neilson, The Makers of War (Appleton, Wisconsin: C. C. Nelson Publishing Company, 1950), 202-06

  132Ibid. 202-06

  133Louis Marschalko, The World Conquerors: The Real War Criminals, trans. from Hungarian by A. Suranyi (London: Joseph Sueli Publications, 1958), 68-69

  134Ibid. 65

  135Ibid. 77-81

  136John Remington Graham, Blood Money: The Civil War and the Federal Reserve (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 2006), 45-46

  137Bernard M. Baruch, Baruch: The Public Years (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960), 347

  138Francis Neilson, The Makers of War (Appleton, Wisconsin: C. C. Nelson Publishing Company, 1950), 98.