Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil

by Tell the Truth

  Among the sub-headings in this newspaper was “The Same old Lies.” Journalists, like politicians, were not forced to risk their lives in the trenches and thus were free to follow, not the dictates of their consciences if they had any, but the requirements of their employers.

  The German Note to the neutral Powers says: “The most terrific war in history, which has been raging for two and a half years, has been a catastrophe, which 2,000 years of civilisation was unable to prevent....”

  The German Note to the Pope states: “Unlimited treasures of civilisation have been destroyed, and extensive areas have been soaked in the blood of millions of brave soldiers, who have fallen, while millions have been invalided. There is grief in every house. The destructive consequences of the war weigh heavily on both beligerants and neutrals. Trade has been depressed, and Europe, which was formerly devoted to the propagation of religion and civilisation, is now an immense war camp. Germany, seized with pity at the unspeakable misery which has befallen humanity, is ready to give peace to the world....”

  “Peace on the basis of a draw lay in the air. There were numerous peace initiatives: with its serious peace offer of December 1916” (historian George-Henri Soutou), the German government hoped for sincere peace discussions. It was rejected, because only the first aim of international finance had been achieved: the defeat of Russia. While Russia did not collapse until 1917, its forces had effectively ceded to Germany’s by mid-1915. Germany’s role was thus eliminated and other considerations took its place. With the entrance of the U.S., victory for Britain and France (which had been almost reduced to penury by its war expense) could be assured, and the goal of securing Palestine, advanced.

  1914-18 was one of the great watersheds in financial history. The United States emerged for the first time as the rival to Great Britain as a financial super power. Possibly even in some respects, the United States overtook Britain. ... It’s the point at which the United States firmly ceases to be a debtor and becomes a creditor nation -- the world’s banker. (Niall Ferguson, historian)

  It was only a matter of shifting geographical emphasis on the part of international capital from support of Germany, as the weapon against Russia, to Britain and France, and America, as the conduits necessary to fulfil the next step.

  In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press. … They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers. (Congressional Record of February 9, 1917, page 2947, as entered by Representative Oscar Callaway of Texas)

  So public opinion could be influenced to back America’s entry into the war. Of course there was still much more money to be made by perpetuating the war. (“The J.P. Morgan interests” were Rothschilds. On his death, Morgan was found to have owned only 19% of “his” bank.)

  In fact, long term goals which prolonged the war had already been agreed by the Allies at a conference in Paris in 1916:

  The Paris Economy Pact was an international economic agreement reached at the Paris Economic Conference held in June 1916 in Paris, France. The meeting, held at the height of World War I, included representatives of the Allied Powers: Great Britain, France, Italy, and Russia. The pact was intended to isolate the Central Powers, the German Empire, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Bulgaria. The Allied Powers envisioned isolating the Central Powers through trade sanctions after the war. A standing body, the Comité Permanent International d’Action Économique, based in Paris, was established to monitor the implementation of the pact. The issue of central concern to the United States was that this pact included schemes for subsidization and government ownership of manufacturing enterprises and the division of European markets for the pact participants. (Wikipedia)

  A short digression may be instructive in demonstrating the lengths to which speculators will go to ensure that war is profitable. From 1914 onwards Britain imposed an impenetrable blockade in the North Sea, which prevented war materiel but also all manner of foodstuffs from reaching Germany. (In the Adriatic, a French blockade performed the same task against Austria-Hungary.) By January 1915, conditions in Germany were already severe. Rationing required the population to subsist on 1,000 calories per day. However, the blockade was also preventing food from reaching Belgians trapped behind German lines, so a committee was established to provide food for Belgium. In charge of this committee was Herbert Hoover. “He achieved American and international prominence in humanitarian relief efforts in war-time Belgium and served as head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I“ (Wikipedia).

  Independent observers came to quite other conclusions however:

  The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, March 13, 1915 noted that large quantities of food were now arriving from Belgium by rail. Schmoller’s Yearbook for Legislation, Administration and Political Economy for 1916, shows that one billion pounds of meat...had been shipped from Belgium to Germany in that year. A patriotic British woman who had operated a small hospital in Belgium for several years, Edith Cavell, wrote to the Nursing Mirror in London, April 15, 1915, complaining that the “Belgian Relief” supplies were being shipped to Germany to feed the German army. The Germans considered Miss Cavell to be of no importance, and paid no attention to her, but the British Intelligence Service in London was appalled by Miss Cavell’s discovery, and demanded that Germany arrest her as a spy. Sir William Wiseman, head of British Intelligence in the US and a partner of Kuhn Loeb Company, feared that the continuance of the war was at stake, and secretly notified the Germans that Miss Cavell must be executed. The Germans reluctantly arrested her and charged her with aiding prisoners of war to escape. The usual penalty for this offense was three months imprisonment, but the Germans bowed to Sir William Wiseman’s demands, and shot Edith Cavell. With her out of the way, the “Belgian Relief” operation continued, although in 1916, German emissaries again approached London officials with the information that they did not believe Germany could continue military operations, not only because of food shortages, but because of financial problems. More “emergency relief” was sent, and Germany continued in the war until 1918. (The Secrets of the Federal Reserve, 1991, Eustace Mullins, pp72/73) Hoover’s activities in connection with the Belgian Relief are exhaustively discussed in The Strange Career of Herbert Hoover by John Hamill (W. Faro Inc., 1931).

  Germany did not lose the First World War, any more than it started it. Germany had already won the war against Russia and concluded the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March, 1918). In the West, Germany had come close to winning the war with the spring offensive in early 1918. No enemy troops crossed into German territory. When Germany surrendered in November 1918, its armies were still on French and Belgian territory, Berlin remained 450 miles (720km.) from the nearest front, and the German armies (2.5million men) retired from the field of battle in good order. However, as the Communist miasma from the February, 1917 revolution drifted west, the work of defeatists and revolutionaries inspired strikes at armaments factories and reduced the supply of essential equipment to the troops:

  “Words cannot suffice to express the outrage and the pain ...The achievements which our fathers fought for with their precious blood – wiped away through treason in the ranks of their own people! Germany, which yesterday was still unconquered, surrendered to its foes by men who carry German names, reduced by guilt and shame through felony in their own ranks! The German socialists knew that peace was in any case in the mak
ing and that it was only a question of showing the enemy a united front for a few weeks, perhaps only days, in order to wrest bearable terms from him. In this situation they raised the white flag. That is a fault which can never be forgiven and will never be forgiven. That is treason, not only against the monarchy and the army, but against the German people themselves, which will have to bear the results of this defeat and this calamity through centuries.” The “stab in the back,” to which Hitler was often to refer, was thus no “legend.” (Die Deutsche Tageszeitung, November 10, 1918)

  Postcard, 1919, shows a Jewish fugure stabbing a German soldier in the back.

  “The Stab in the Back”: Portion of a propaganda poster depicts a masked character with a dagger threatening a German flag bearer.

  Already on 2 August 1917, 350 crewmen of the battleship Prinzregent Luitpold staged a protest demonstration in Wilhelmshaven. On 29th October, 1918 a naval mutiny broke out in the same port. Unrest soon spread to another German port city, Kiel, where on November 3rd some 3,000 German sailors and workers rose in revolt, taking over ships and buildings and brandishing the red flag of communism. A rumour spread that Germany’s naval command at Kiel had decided to take on the might of the British Navy and break the blockade of Germany’s northern ports. British submarines patrolled off the north German coast. The sailors of Kiel mutinied rather than go on such a suicidal mission. On November 4th, the rebels at Kiel formed the first Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council in Germany, defying the national government and seeking to act in the spirit of the Russian Soviet Republic. Many cities had been taken over by workers’ and soldiers’ councils, in a repeat of what had occurred in Russia. Many civilians were on the brink of starvation. Politicians feared a communist takeover of Germany.

  In fact, a Bavarian Soviet Republic (“Räterepublik”) was proclaimed on 7 April 1919. It was in part a response to the shooting by nationalist Count Arco Valley on February 21 of Jewish freemason and Social Democratic Party-member Kurt Eisner (Salomon Kosmaowski) , leader of the so-called “November Revolution,” who had nominated himself “prime minister of the Bavarian Republic” on November 1, 1918. “Initially, it was ruled by SPD members such as Ernst Toller, and anarchists like Gustav Landauer, Silvio Gesell and Erich Mühsam. Toller, a playwright, described the revolution as the “Bavarian Revolution of Love.” The members of his government were not always well-chosen. For instance, the Foreign Affairs Deputy Dr. Franz Lipp (who had been admitted several times to psychiatric hospitals), declared war on Switzerland over the Swiss refusal to lend 60 locomotives to the delete Soviet Republic. He also claimed to be well acquainted with Pope Benedict XV and he informed Vladimir Lenin via cable that the ousted former Minister-President Hoffmann had fled to Bamberg and taken the key to the ministry toilet with him.” (Wikipedia)

  The regime collapsed within six days and was replaced by the Communist Party which began to enact Communist reforms, including expropriating luxurious apartments and giving them to the homeless, and placing factories under the ownership and control of their workers.

  The confusion and disorientation in Germany after the war allowed the so-called “Second Räterepublik” (Soviet government) to be announced in Munich, on April 13, under the dictatorship of two Jews, Eugen Leviné (a professional revolutionary, sometimes characterized as a “potential German Lenin”) and Max Levien. After the Soviet-Bolshevik example, Leviné founded a “Red Army,” which consisted of Russian prisoners of war who happened to be still in Germany. This troop, mainly a marauding gang, led by locally known criminals, terrorised the inhabitants with robberies, murder and rape and endless wilful measures. However, the Second Räterepublik could not gain a footing outside Munich, so that already in April the state capital was surrounded by volunteers of the Freikorps formations, which had been called up by the government in Berlin. In their general panic, the Bolsheviks proposed to drive together and execute all the members of the Munich middle-class. This proposal was turned down by one vote only. Thereupon, on April 30, ten defenceless hostages were ferociously maimed and murdered. (Metapedia)

  The Communist governments lasted 29 days. On May 3, the German army and the Freikorps purged Munich of this rabble and Leviné was condemned to death for treason.

  It should be emphasized at this point (N.B. 1919) that nearly all the leaders of the Communist terrorists were foreign Jews. During the accelerating inflation certain businessmen and well connected financiers, again the majority being Jewish, were able to amass fortunes, which helped the rise of anti-Semitism in the country suffering from defeat and incredible hunger, thanks to the continuing British blockade, which was prolonged for one year after the armistice and caused the deaths of approximately 800,000 Germans, mostly women and infants.

  When the populace observed newly-rich Jewesses in their fancy fur coats, bedecked with jewelry, entering expensive nightclubs with their escorts while veterans with missing arms or legs are sitting on the sidewalks, shivering in their worn uniforms and trying to sell some pencils or whatnot to earn a few pennies for their modest needs, it did not go over too well with them, even if the majority of the professional Jews, professors, engineers, doctors, government employees, etc., shared the misery with the rest of the people...A further boost to the rising anti-Semitism was given by a rash of large scale financial scandals caused by recent Jewish arrivals. Names like Barmat, Sklarek, Kutisker, Levy, Lewin were as well recognized by the public of those days as Boesky and Milken are today. Most of them wound up in jail and did not become lecturers on financial operations after short stints of incarceration as seems fashionable in our day. But massive damage had been done, not only to the tottering finances of the Reich but also to the standing of the Jewish community in Germany. (Heinz Weichardt, Under Two Flags)

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  The German revolution is the achievement of the Jews; the Liberal Democratic parties have a great number of Jews as their leaders, and the Jews play a predominant role in the high government offices. (The Jewish Tribune, July 5, 1920)

  Memo from today: As if further evidence of our deluded, degraded and re-educated society were necessary, this criminal government and stain on Germany’s history was commemorated in May 2011, when a memorial in Munich was unveiled to Eisner, whom the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung respectfully called “the first prime minister of Bavaria” (June 1, 2011).

  Mental instability may have played a useful part in the rise of Communism, an adducible fact being Lenin’s brain, which, on examination after his death, was found to be discoloured, shrunken and soft—so he really was “soft in the head.” “It is also known that there is a very much larger proportion of mental defectives, insane, idiots, congenitally deformed, and physically weak or puny individuals among the Jews than in any other civilized, religious, social or ethnic group.” (Maurice Fishberg, Eugenic Factors in Jewish Life, 1917) Moronic brutality seems to have been the hallmark of Jewish Bolshevism.

  U.S.-based Jewish literature scholar Benjamin Harshav maintained the suggestive theory: “Maybe the Jews are not distinguished as much by their high intelligence as by their disturbed psyches.” (Allgemeine Jüdische Wochenzeitung, Bonn, July 12, 1990)

  Soviet Russia was not only an ally during WWII, supplied with American technology, it continued to benefit during the Cold war:

  The course of Russian history has, indeed, been greatly affected by the operations of international bankers... The Soviet Government has been given United States Treasury funds by the Federal Reserve Board ... acting through the Chase Bank England has drawn money from us through the Federal Reserve banks and has re-lent it at high rates of interest to the Soviet Government... The Dnieperstory Dam was built with funds unlawfully taken from the United States Treasury by the corrupt and dishonest Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. (Rep. Louis T. McFadden, the Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee)

  However, as a result of massacring its best elements, the Soviet system was so inefficient, despite repeated injections of U.S. kno
w-how, that it finally broke down during the 1980s – or was it simply time to run down this experiment in anti-social socialism?

  Fundamentally decent and trusting, the German authorities put their faith in Wilson’s 14-point peace plan (January 8, 1918), especially in his proclamation of “self-determination”: “National aspirations must be respected; people may now be dominated and governed only by their own consent. Self determination is not a mere phrase; it is an imperative principle of action” (Wilson, 11 February 1918). This speech and the 14 Points became the basis for the terms of the German surrender. The speech was widely disseminated as an instrument of allied propaganda. Copies were also dropped behind German lines, to encourage the Central Powers to surrender in the expectation of a negotiated peace and a just settlement.

  “Colonel” House (Wilson’s handler) worked to secure the acceptance of the Fourteen Points by Entente leaders. (“Mr. House is my second personality. He is my independent self. His thoughts and mine are one. If I were in his place I would do just as he suggested.” (Wilson quoted in The Intimate Papers of Colonel House, vol. I, Houghton Mifflin, by Charles Seymour, p. 114-115)

  On October 16, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson and Sir William Wiseman of MI6 (liaison between Wilson and the British Government) had an interview. This interview was one reason why the German government accepted the Fourteen Points as the stated principles for peace negotiations. Wiseman participated in the 1919 Peace Conference, leading to the Treaty of Versailles. (He remained in the U.S. as an employee at American investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co. until 1960, becoming a partner in 1929.) A note sent to Wilson by Prince Maximilian of Baden, the German imperial chancellor, in October 1918 requested an immediate armistice and peace negotiations on the basis of the Fourteen Points.