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The company they keep
By nessie
The company they keep
That Germany lost the Second World War is not in doubt. That Germans suffered
as a result is obvious. Some suffered more than others. The rich suffered
least. Few were surprised. That is the way of suffering, war or peace. The
Poles, the French, the Belgians, the Dutch, the Serbs, et. al., and
especially the Russians certainly suffered while they were losing. Then the
tide turned. This is the way of war. Tides turn. Winning now is no guarantee
against losing later. Somebody always loses eventually. Civilians start
losing on day one.
The Wehrmacht lost the war. The Luftwaffe lost the war. The civilians lost
the war. The Nazis, however, did not lose the war. The Nazis got away. It is
true that a tiny minority of individual Nazis lost the war. Goebbels,
Goering, Kaltenbrunner, and the man claiming to be Hess lost the war. Perhaps
it is even true that Hitler and Himmler lost the war as well, though forensic
evidence to the effect is notably scant.
The Nazi Party and the S.S., as organizations, got away intact. They got away
with the money, the Reichsbank treasury, $15,000,000,000 in 1945 money. This
included the tooth gold. Guinness calls it the world's largest unsolved
robbery. Then there was all the stolen art, pieces of which, to this day,
occasionally surface. The Nazis did very well in the war, from a business
viewpoint. War is a business. It is fought for material gain. The Nazis
gained materially, and lived to spend it thus, they won the war. They did
not win as much as they wanted to win, but who does? They did win a great
deal. What they lost was territory. What they gained was treasure, new
friends, and experience.
The treasure included a couple of U-boats full of bearer bonds, numbered
stock shares and patent certificates.
This represented:
" ... the hard core of Nazi wealth in Latin America. In 1944 a great treasure
had been sent secretly across the Atlantic, the famous 'Bormann treasure.'
Toward the end of 1943, Bormann gave orders for Aktion Fuerland "Operation
Land of Fire" to begin. This operation involved the transport from Germany
to Argentina of several tons of gold, some securities, shares, and works of
art ...
... Several U-boats arrived in Argentine waters after the capitulation of
Germany. They were the carriers of bundles of documents, industrial patents,
and securities. On July 10, 1945, the U-530 surfaced at the mouth of the
River Platte and entered the port of La Plata. The following month, on August
17, the U-977 also arrived at La Plata. In accordance with international
conventions, both U-boats were interned by Argentina and later handed over to
the United States authorities."
The Avengers, by Michael Bar-Zohar, Hawthorn Books, 1967, p 101
To the surprise of few, they were found to be empty of treasure.
"Two more U-boats, according to reliable sources, appeared off an uninhabited
stretch of the coast of Patagonia between July 23, and 29, 1945."
Ibid., p. 101
In occupied Germany one could neither vote with these shares nor could one
collect interest, dividends, nor royalties. When (West) Germany again "took
its place among the nations of the World" in 1955, the Bundestag immediately
changed all this. The holders of these once worthless scraps of paper
suddenly, once again, possessed incredibly wealth.
Consider the case of I.G. Farben:
David M. Nichol, of the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, writing in 1947,
observed:
"The trial of I.G. Farben's leading officials for war crimes is like Topsy.
It just 'growed.' It is still growing.
Some of the more starry-eyed in Nuernberg and throughout the world would like
to see it as a crusade against "monopoly" and "big business." Others,
including Farben's 24 crotchety and dyspeptic executives in the dock, believe
it is purely persecution... .
... No trial at all was planned in the beginning... .
... Investigating teams were interested in German finances, as such, in the
possible sources of reparations for Nazi damages to other countries, and in
tracing as much as possible of the loot that the Germans had concealed
outside their borders.
Not the least of their interests was Farben's huge headquarters building in
Frankfurt. Almost undamaged by bombs and fighting, it has served as the
administration center for American occupation forces ever since... .
... German Army headquarters had ordered Farben's records destroyed. Many of
them were. One official has compiled from memory a list of the most important
ones he burned. It runs 14 pages of single space typing... .
... A handful of officials, were held for detailed but routine questioning...
. One of them in particular, 63-year-old Georg von Schnitzler, one time head
of Farben's entire sales organization ... began to 'talk.' From Farben's
standpoint, the damage was done... .
... Justice Robert W. Jackson, United States prosecutor for the original
Nuernberg trial against Goering and his mates felt industry was heavily
involved in the crime with which the Nazi leaders were charged.
He proposed at first to include one Farben official among the defendants. But
the case against Farben was so complex in itself that it might have
overshadowed the more general charges. Gustav Krupp Von Bohlen und Halfbach,
Germany's gun maker for a half century was indicted instead.
But the aging Krupp upset the plans by taking so seriously ill that he could
not be tried. An unsuccessful move was made to substitute his son. In the
end, big business went unrepresented before the international tribunal,
except indirectly through Hitler's financial wizard, Hjalmar Schacht. And
Schacht was acquitted... .
... Meantime, the Farben officials themselves can't believe it has happened.
They've been accustomed too long to dictating even to the Nazis... .
... Their American friends haven't come so far, except by mail. Letters are
delivered in prison, but they go through regular censorship channels. In an
effort to avoid this, some had been sent to prison officials through APO
numbers, but these have been returned."
Oakland Tribune, 11/2/47
I.G. Farben was broken up (on paper) into
" ... nine companies: the Big Three (Bayer, BASF, Hoechst) and nine smaller
firms, including Agfa, Kalle, Casella, and Huels. Those in Allied countries
who demanded the dissolution of I.G. 'as one means of ensuring world peace'
were bitterly disappointed."
The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, by Joseph Borkin, The Free Press, A
Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. 1978, p 160
When these firms, still owned and controlled by the same families,
organizations and in many cases the same individuals, are considered as a
whole, I.G. Farben is bigger and more powerful than ever.
"Corporate camouflage, the art of concealing foreign properties from enemy
governments, has a special place in the history of I.G. Farben. Unlike I.G.'s
involvement in mass murder and slave labor, which was a wartime aberration,
I.G.'s program of camouflage long predated and outlived the war. Its
political effects will persist for years to come."
Ibid., p 164
In German they call this Tarnung, the magic hood that renders its wearer
invisible. Camouflage really does work. It's still working.
Consider the case of party member Hermann Schmitz, who became the chairman of
Farben's managing board in 1935.
"It is a good bet that if Hermann Schmitz were alive today he would bear
witness as to who really won. Schmitz died contented, having witnessed the
resurgence of I.G. Farben, albeit in altered corporate forms, a money machine
that continues to generate profits for all the old I.G. shareholders and
enormous international power for the German cadre directing the workings of
the successor firms. To all appearances he died in relatively reduced
circumstances, in 1960, at the age of seventy-nine, though immensely wealthy
during his lifetime. Any information about his fortune seemingly vanished
with his death; but those who knew him believe it still exists. He was the
master manipulator, the corporate and financial wizard, the magician who
could make money appear and disappear, and reappear again.
... Schmitz's wealth largely I.G. Farben bearer bonds converted to the Big
Three successor firms, shares in Standard Oil of New Jersey (equal to those
held by the Rockefellers), General Motors, and other U.S. blue chip
industrial stocks, and the 700 secret companies controlled in his time by
I.G., as well as shares in the 750 corporations he helped Bormann establish
during the last year of World War II has increased in all segments of the
modern industrial world. The Bormann organization in South America utilizes
the voting power of the Schmitz trust along with their own assets to guide
the multinationals they control, as they keep steady the economic course of
the Fatherland.
... the resurgence of West Germany was due to hard work by its people,
assistance from the Marshall Plan, an infusion of buying orders from the
United States military establishment during the Korean War, and a(n) ...
economic policy that enabled business and industry to wheel and deal in world
markets and come up with profits ... Allowing business to have its head was,
to go back, the formula adopted by Hitler during the 1930s; he harnessed the
people instead of nationalizing industry ..."
Martin Bormann, Nazi in Exile, by Paul Manning, Lyle Stuart, 1981, pp.
280-281
It is also true that the resurgence of West Germany was financed in part by
Nazi blood money, some of it looted with pliers from the mouths of its
rightful owners.
It is easy and profitable to blame a dead, "crazy" man for one's mistakes and
crimes. Consider, for example, the enormous mileage the Contras and their
friends got out of CIA chief Bill Casey's convenient demise. Hitler has
assumed mythic proportions since his death. In life, he was mainly a front
man, a mouthpiece, a lightning rod, and above all, the Nazi's "great
communicator."
While the masses worshipped him like a god, his friends plotted behind his
back, used him as a cat's paw and scapegoat, and (perhaps) cynically
sacrificed him to save their own skins and fortune. Hitler had cleverly
parlayed his position as figurehead into control over the military by
rewording the soldiers oath. However, military power has always been
subordinate to economic power, if for no other reason than because lead
cannot be mined with bayonets. The purse strings of the Nazi Party were
controlled by Bormann, and Bormann got away. So did the purse.
" ... the alleged Bormann skull is that of a grisly stand-in a substitute ...
... Substituting one body for another has been a ploy much used by General
Heinrich Mueller of the Gestapo. It was he who coordinated the details of
Bormann's disappearance."
Ibid
When Mueller's grave was exhumed by court order in 1963, the grave held three
skeletons, none of which even remotely resembled Mueller's short stature and
high forehead.
" ... it was Mr. Brandt and his government that provided Martin Bormann with
what amounted to a 'passport to freedom' in 1973 by stating that the former
Hitler aide had perished in Berlin in 1945."
Ibid, p 227
Bormann had help from his friends. Consider, if you will, Herman Abs:
"While Germany's bankers were collectively responsible for the financing of
Hitler's war effort, the dean of them all is Herman Josef Abs. Money was his
life, and his astuteness in banking and international financial manipulations
enabled Deutsche Bank to serve as leader in fueling the ambitions and
accomplishments of Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann. His dominance was
retained when the Federal Republic of Germany picked itself up from the
ashes; he was still there as chairman of Deutsche Bank, director of I.G
Farben, and of such others as Daimler-Benz and the giant electrical
conglomerate, Siemans. Abs became a financial advisor to the first West
German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, and was a welcome visitor in the Federal
Chancellery under Mr. Adenauer's successors, Ludwig Erhard and Kurt George
Keisinger ...
... (Bormann's) friendship with Dr. Herman Josef Abs predated Abs's move into
the management of Deutsche Bank. Dr. Abs had been a partner in the
prestigious private bank of Delbruck, Schickler & Co. in Berlin. Recalling
those days, Abs has written:
'The Reich Chancellery in Berlin was its largest account, and it was through
this account that Adolf Hitler received his salary as Chancellor of the
Reich.'
... Reichsleiter Bormann knew that his relationship with Abs would tighten as
his own power grew ... He knew in 1943 that with his Nazi banking committee
well established, he had the means to ... set new Nazi state policy when the
time was ripe for the general transfer of capital, gold, stocks, and bearer
bonds to safety in neutral nations."
Ibid, p 87
History has largely ignored bankers in favor of other subjects. History, and
those who write it (and their masters) apparently want us to think
politicians and generals are more important to the state. Bankers, of course,
feel differently. They tend, and not with out reason, to be as furtive as
much as possible. While we are cheering the politicians and saluting the
generals, we are not noticing the bankers, who are picking our pockets. This
suits the bankers' ends, thus history slants their relative importance.
"Baron Kurt von Schroeder, a well-known banker ... and economic advisor to
Bormann's economic committee, commented that Dr. Herman Josef Abs, chairman
of Deutsche Bank, was particularly important to the government of the Third
Reich.
His influence was mainly with the Reichsbank and with the Ministry of
Economics. Abs proved very valuable to the party and to the government by
using his bank to assist the government in doing business in the occupied
countries and other foreign countries. Abs enjoyed excellent relations with
Walther Funk, who was both president of the Reichsbank and head of the
Ministry of Economics ...
... Branch managers of Deutsche Bank were to a man members of the party ..."
Ibid., p 69
This is the same Hermann Abs who was chosen by Pope John Paul II to oversee
the reorganization of the Vatican Bank when it was caught red-handed
laundering counterfeit securities and heroin profits for the Gambino crime
family. It is worth noting that in his youth J.P. II was, according to the
official version, once a slave laborer for I.G. Solvay, a Farben subsidiary
specializing primarily in pharmaceuticals. He is supposed to have labored in
the Solvay quarries near Auschwitz. It's a rare slave indeed who becomes pope
at all, let alone then hires his former master to keep track of his money.
Wonders truly never cease.
It is equally worthy of note that despite the name, dyes alone were not the
source of the wealth upon which I.G. Farben was founded. Pharmaceuticals
played a major rule.
"In 1898 ... the Bayer Company ... began mass production of diacetylmorphine
and coined the trade name heroin to market the new remedy ... Bayer described
heroin as a nonaddictive panacea for adult ailments and infant respiratory
diseases...
... During the late nineteenth century, the same manufacture also promoted
another narcotic, cocaine."
The Politics of Heroin in South East Asia, by Alfred McCoy, Lawrence Hill Bo
oks, 1972, p 5-6
If one overlooks its narrow threshold to LD50 range, its price, and its
addictive properties, heroin does indeed make a dandy cough remedy. It is the
only known cure for the common cold. In the long run, though, you're better
off with the cold. Cocaine is totally useless.
"In October 1978 the Marshall Foundation was utilized as a platform for Dr.
Herman J. Abs, now honorary president of Deutsche Bank A.G. as he addressed a
meeting of businessmen and Bankers and members of the Foreign Policy
Association in New York City on the 'Problems and Prospects of
American-German Economic Co-operation.' This luncheon was chaired by his old
friend, John J. McCloy, Wall Street banker and lawyer, who had worked closely
with Dr. Abs when McCloy served as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany during
those postwar reconstruction years. At that time, Hermann Abs, as chief
executive of Deutsche Bank was also directing the spending of America's
Marshall Plan money in West Germany as the chairman of the Reconstruction
Loan Corporation of the Federal Republic of Germany."
Manning, p 261
--[cont]--
Aloha, He'Ping,
Om, Shalom, Salaam.
Em Hotep, Peace Be,
All My Relations.
Omnia Bona Bonis,
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
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