The Rise of the Fourth Reich

by Jim Marrs

  Trotsky left the United States by ship on March 27, 1917—just days before America entered the war—along with nearly three hundred revolutionaries and funds provided by Wall Street. Trotsky, whose real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein, was being trailed by British agents who suspected him of working with German intelligence since his stay in prewar Vienna. In a speech before leaving New York, Trotsky stated, “I am going back to Russia to overthrow the provisional government and stop the war with Germany.”

  When the ship carrying Trotsky and his entourage stopped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, they and their funds were impounded by Canadian authorities, who rightly feared that a revolution in Russia might free German troops to fight their soldiers on the Western Front. But this well-grounded concern was overcome by President Woodrow Wilson’s alter ego, Colonel Edward Mandell House, who told the chief of the British Secret Service, Sir William Wiseman, that Wilson wanted Trotsky released. On April 21, 1917, less than a month after the United States entered the war, the British Admiralty ordered the release of Trotsky, who, armed with an American passport authorized by Wilson, continued on his journey to Russia and history.

  At this same time, Lenin also left exile. Aided by the Germans and accompanied by about 150 trained revolutionaries, “[he] was put on the infamous ‘sealed train’ in Switzerland along with at least $5 million,” according to Still. The train passed through Germany unhindered, as arranged by German banker Max Warburg (the brother of Paul Warburg, who cofounded the Federal Reserve System and handled U.S. financing during World War I) and the German High Command. Lenin, like Trotsky, was labeled a German agent by the government of Alexandr Kerensky, the second provisional government created following the czar’s abdication. By November 1917, Lenin and Trotsky, backed by Western funds, had instigated a successful revolt and seized the Russian government for the Bolsheviks.

  But the communist grip on Russia was not secure. Internal strife between the “reds” and the “whites” lasted until 1922 and cost some 28 million Russian lives, many times the war loss. Lenin died in 1924 from a series of strokes after establishing the Third International, or Comintern, an organization formed to export communism worldwide. Trotsky fled Russia when Joseph Stalin took dictatorial control, and, in 1940, was murdered in Mexico by an agent of Stalin’s.

  Some conspiracy authors have seen a dual purpose to the funding of the Bolsheviks. It is clear that revolutionaries like Lenin and Trotsky were being used to get Russia out of the war, to the benefit of Germany. And communism was being supported by the globalists to advance their plan of creating tension between the capitalist West and socialist East.

  A. K. Chesterson, a right-wing British journalist and politician, who in 1933 joined Oswald Moseley’s British Union of Fascists, observed that to understand politics, one must make a study of power elites. “These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence on events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.” He once wrote in his magazine, Candour, “At times capitalism and communism would appear to be in conflict, but this writer is confident that their interests are in common and will eventually merge for one-world control.”

  Because of the warring factions in post-revolution Russia, sending an official delegation to Russia was problematic. Therefore, American financiers came in the form of the American Red Cross Mission. One head of this group was Raymond Robins, described as “the intermediary between the Bolsheviks and the American government” and “the only man whom Lenin was always willing to see and who even succeeded in imposing his own personality on the unemotional Bolshevik leader.” Lenin apparently came to understand that he was being manipulated. “The state does not function as we desired,” he once wrote. “A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.” This other “force” was the globalists behind the birth of communism itself, “monopoly finance capitalists,” as Lenin described them.

  “One of the greatest myths of contemporary history is that the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was a popular uprising of the downtrodden masses against the ruling class of the Czars,” wrote author G. Edward Griffin. “…however, the planning, the leadership, and especially the financing came entirely from outside Russia, mostly from financiers in Germany, Britain, and the United States.”

  The flight of the privileged elite from Russia in 1918 sent shockwaves through the capitals of Europe and America and prompted a backlash that lasted for decades. The cry “Workers of the world, unite!” struck fear into the capitalists of Western industry, banking, and commerce who were not in the know. This fear trickled through their political representatives, employees, and on into virtually every home.

  Mystified conspiracy researchers were puzzled for years about why such high-level capitalists as the Morgans, Warburgs, Schiffs, and Rockefellers could condone, much less support, an ideology that overtly threatened their position and wealth. Author Gary Allen explained, “In the Bolshevik Revolution we have some of the world’s richest and most powerful men financing a movement which claims its very existence is based on the concept of stripping of their wealth men like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Schiffs, Warburgs, Morgans, Harrimans and Milners. But obviously these men have no fear of international communism. It is only logical to assume that if they financed it and do not fear it, it must be because they control it. Can there be any other explanation that makes sense?”

  The manufactured animosity between the democracies of the West and the communism of the East produced continuous tension from 1918 through the end of the twentieth century. But it threatened to get out of hand. Some researchers believe that the threat of worldwide communist socialism caused these globalists to turn to German nationalists. They funded the rise of National Socialism in Germany and saw an armed Greater Germany as a barrier to communism in Europe. National Socialism was a form of socialism almost indistinguishable from communism, only it was confined within national geographic boundaries. Under National Socialism, the globalists could pit the various nations against each other. But following Germany’s military successes in Poland, the Low Countries, and France, these globalists realized they faced the same problem they had with the communists. A total German victory would result in a worldwide National Socialist system unable to produce the tensions and conflicts necessary for maximizing profit and control. They also may have feared that Stalin’s Soviet Union was about to launch an attack on Western Europe. Only Hitler’s Germany had the strength to prevent this.

  At some point, the globalists determined that the Axis, after blocking Russia’s invasion of Europe, should lose the war. They also began drawing up plans for the survival and renewal of a new form of National Socialism, one not dependent on racism and ethnicity. Working with the same financiers and capitalists that had helped create German Nazism, these globalists began laying the foundation for a Fourth Reich.

  Conspiracy researchers have long suspected that one element of this German influence has been centered in the secretive Skull and Bones fraternity on the campus of Yale University. Known variously as Chapter 322, the Brotherhood of Death, the Order, or, more popularly, as Skull and Bones or simply Bones, the Order was brought from Germany to Yale in 1832 by General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft.

  (Russell’s cousin, Samuel Russell, was an integral part of the British-inspired Opium Wars in China. Taft, secretary of war in 1876 and U.S. attorney general and an ambassador to Russia, was the father of William Howard Taft, the only person to serve as both president and chief justice of the United States. Another prominent Bones member was Averell Harriman, who has been described as “a man at the heart of the American ruling class,” and played a prominent role in the establishment of the new American empire.)

  A pamphlet detailing an 1876 investigation of Skull and Bones headquarters at Yale, known as “the Tomb” by a rival secret society, stated, “…its founder [Russell] wa
s in Germany before Senior Year and formed a warm friendship with a leading member of a German society. He brought back with him to college authority to found a chapter here. Thus was Bones founded.”

  The secret German society may have been none other than the mysterious and infamous Illuminati. Ron Rosenbaum, a former Yale student and one of the few journalists to take a serious look at Skull and Bones, noted that the official skull-and-crossbones emblem of the Order was also the official crest of the Illuminati. In an investigative piece for Esquire magazine, Rosenbaum wrote, “I do seem to have come across definite, if skeletal, links between the origins of Bones rituals and those of the notorious Bavarian Illuminists…[who] did have a real historical existence…. From 1776 to 1785 they were an esoteric secret society with the more mystical freethinking lodges of German Freemasonry.”

  Other researchers agree that the Order is merely the Illuminati in disguise, since Masonic emblems, symbols, German slogans, even the layout of their initiation room, all are identical to those found in Masonic lodges in Germany associated with the Illuminati. The Tomb is decked out with engravings in German, such as “Ob Arm, Ob Reich, im Tode gleich”— “Whether poor or rich, all are equal in death.” According to U.S. News & World Report, one of the Bonesmen’s traditional songs is sung to the tune of “Deutschland Über Alles.”

  The Bavarian Illuminati was formed on May 1, 1776, by Adam Weishaupt, a professor of canon law at Ingolstadt University of Bavaria, Germany. His Illuminati were opposed to what they saw as the tyranny of the Catholic Church and the national governments it supported. “Man is not bad,” Weishaupt wrote, “except as he is made so by arbitrary morality. He is bad because religion, the state, and bad examples pervert him. When at last reason becomes the religion of men, then will the problem be solved.”

  Weishaupt also evoked a philosophy that has been used with terrible results down through the years by Hitler and many other tyrants. “Behold our secret. Remember that the end justifies the means,” he wrote, “and that the wise ought to take all the means to do good which the wicked take to do evil.” Thus, for the enlightened—or “illuminated”—any means to gain their ends is acceptable, whether this includes deceit, theft, murder, or war.

  The key to Illuminati control was secrecy. “The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment. Let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always covered by another name, and another occupation,” stated Weishaupt. He not only deceived the public, but he reminded his top leaders they should hide their true intentions from their own initiates by “speaking sometimes in one way, sometimes in another, so that one’s real purpose should remain impenetrable to one’s inferiors.”

  In 1777, Weishaupt rolled his brand of Illuminism into Freemasonry after joining the Masonic Order’s Lodge Theodore of Good Counsel in Munich. This lodge integrated with the Grand Orient Lodges, which, according to several researchers, were at the core of the Illuminati penetration into Freemasonry. By 1783, the Bavarian government saw the Illuminati as a direct threat to the established order and outlawed the organization, which prompted many members to flee Germany, only spreading their philosophies farther.

  Many researchers today believe the Illuminati still exists and that the order’s goals are nothing less than the abolition of all government, private property, inheritance, nationalism, the family unit, and organized religion. This belief partially comes from the intriguing notion that the much-denounced Protocols of the Elders of Zion—used widely since its publication in 1864 to justify anti-Semitism—was actually an Illuminati document with Jewish elements added later for disinformation purposes. “Even though the Illuminati faded from public view, the monolithic apparatus set in motion by Weishaupt may still exist today,” commented author William T. Still. “Certainly, the goals and methods of operation still exist. Whether the name Illuminati still exists is really irrelevant.”

  No one can doubt that socialism, whether Illuminati-inspired or not, has come to the United States, and socialism is the cornerstone of Nazi philosophy. Beginning with seemingly innocuous programs like Social Security and continuing through a myriad of government programs such as Medicare, farm subsidies, food stamps, and student entitlements, it seems that nearly every aspect of life today involves the centralized federal government, which, since the attacks of 9/11, continues to draw ever more power unto itself. USA Today reported, “A sweeping expansion of social programs since 2000 has sparked a record increase in the number of Americans receiving federal government benefits such as college aid, food stamps and health care. A USA Today analysis of 25 major government programs found that enrollment increased an average of 17% in the programs from 2000 to 2005.”

  Socialism has come to America because the National Socialists of the New World Order recognize that any social program requires central authority. And they know full well that with their immense wealth and power, they can control any central authority. Over the years, they have masked this creep of socialism by distracting appeals to nationalism. Americans are constantly reminded that the United States is God’s gift to the world, the epitome of freedom and democracy. Patriotism has been used to fan the flames of nationalism among Americans. Today, anyone who criticizes foreign policy, overseas military interventions, or even questions national policies opens themselves to charges of being unpatriotic.

  It is possible that the United States is indeed becoming the Fourth Reich, the continuation of a philosophy of National Socialism thought to have been vanquished more than half a century ago. Such a concept may seem absurd to those who cannot see past the rose-colored spin, hype, and disinformation poured out daily by the corporate mass media, most of which is owned by the same families and corporations that supported the Nazis before World War II.

  Many today describe what they see as “neo-Nazism,” the movement to revive National Socialism. But this is a misnomer. There is nothing neo, or new, about this trend. National Socialism never died. The philosophies of fascism are alive and active in modern America. Unfortunately, younger generations cannot understand the nuances of differences between fascism, corporate power, democracy, and a democratic republic.

  While the USA helped defeat the Germans in World War II, we failed to defeat the Nazis. Many thousands of ranking Nazis came to the United States under a previously classified program called Project Paperclip. Many other Nazis and war criminals set up shop in a variety of other nations, and many traveled on passports issued by the Vatican. They brought with them miraculous technology, such as the V-2 rockets, but they also brought with them Nazi ideology. This ideology, based on the Illuminati premise that the end justifies the means, includes unprovoked wars of aggression and curtailment of individual liberties, and has gained sway in “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

  Ranking Nazis, along with their young and fanatical protégés, used the loot of Europe to create corporate front companies in many countries, including Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, and Argentina. More than two hundred fronts were created just in Switzerland, that banking hub that continued to handle Nazi money before, during, and after the war. Utilizing the stolen wealth of Europe, which may have included the legendary treasure of Solomon, men with both Nazi backgrounds and Nazi mentality wormed their way into corporate America, slowly buying up and consolidating companies into giant multinational conglomerates. They met little resistance from corporate leaders who had supported them in previous years and could not resist the temptation of obscene profits. Nor were they checked by others, who had grown fearful over the “communist threat.” In time, they all became partners in a new version of America.

  PART ONE

  THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH

  CHAPTER 1

  A NEW REICH BEGINS

  CHAPTER 1

  HITLER’S SUPPORT GROUP

  FOLLOWING THE ARMISTICE OF 1918, WHICH ENDED WORLD WAR I, German soldiers returned home, to a country economically devastated by the war. The Bavarian city of Munich was hit pa
rticularly hard, with jobless ex-soldiers wandering the streets and a number of splinter political parties vying for membership.

  It was in this setting that Hitler, a twenty-nine-year-old veteran, came into contact with members of the Thule Gesellschaft, or Thule Society, ostensibly an innocent reading group dedicated to the study and promotion of older German literature. But the society, composed mostly of wealthy conservatives, ardent nationalists, and anti-Semites, actually delved into radical politics, race mysticism, and the occult under its emblem—a swastika superimposed over a sword.

  The society also served as a front for the even more secretive Germanenorden, or German Order, a reincarnation of the old Teutonic Knights, which had branches throughout Germany patterned after Masonic lodges. It is believed that these lodges carried on the agenda of the outlawed Bavarian Illuminati, with its fundamental maxim that “the end justifies the means.” In other words, members should pretend to be anything or anybody, adopt any philosophy, tell any lie, steal, cheat, even kill as long as it accomplishes the society’s objectives.

  Members of the Thule Society encouraged a Munich locksmith and toolmaker named Anton Drexler to bring workers into the political process. The unassuming Drexler founded the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or German Workers Party, which was guided to prominence by covert aid from conservative elements within industry and the military.

  Hitler, unable to make a living as an artist, turned to earning extra money by serving as an army intelligence agent reporting to a Captain Karl Mayr. “One day I received orders from my headquarters to find out what was behind an apparently political society which, under the name of ‘German Workers Party,’ intended to hold a meeting…. I was to go there and look at the society and to report upon it,” Hitler recalled in Mein Kampf. Arriving at the Sterneckerbrau beer hall, he was not overly impressed. “I met there about 20 to 25 people, chiefly from among the lower walks of life,” wrote Hitler. However, the young military agent stood and “astonished” the small gathering by arguing against a proposal that Bavaria break ties with Prussia. Impressed with the nationalistic and anti-Semitic views of the fledgling party, military authorities allowed Hitler to join and began funding the party’s work. He became the party’s seventh registered member.