Boris, Hitler and the European Union: ADAM LEBOR
says if anyone is suffering from ‘political
amnesia’ it is the EU grandees and their allies in the British establishment
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3597410/Boris-Hitler-European-Union-ADAM-LEBOR-says-suffering-political-amnesia-EU-grandees-allies-British-establishment.html
By ADAM LEBOR FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED:
21:06, 18 May 2016 | UPDATED: 00:58, 19 May 2016
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=172643#172643
From Belgravia to Brussels, the howls of outrage
over Boris Johnson’s observation that Hitler,
like the EU, had tried to unify Europe under a
single authority, grow ever louder.
Lord Heseltine described Johnson’s remarks as
‘preposterous’ and ‘obscene’. Donald Tusk, the
president of the European Council, said Johnson
was suffering from 'political amnesia’.
But if anyone is suffering from ‘political
amnesia’ it is the EU grandees and their allies in the British establishment.
As a journalist and author who has studied in
detail both the foundation of the European Union
and the Nazis’ plans for post-war economic
domination, and who has reported from all over
Europe for more than 20 years, I believe that
Johnson’s reference to Hitler was not only correct, but absolutely necessary.
The Nazis, like Napoleon, whom Johnson also
referred to, are part of a historical continuum of European empire-building.
It is a story that goes back to the original
Roman empire, through Charlemagne’s Holy Roman
Empire in the ninth century, the Austro-Hungarian
empire, and its Ottoman rival, the Third Reich,
the Soviet Bloc in the east of the continent and today’s European Union.
And Johnson is being smeared. He had deliberately
NOT drawn parallels between the methods and aims
of the EU and those of the Nazis.
Of course the EU is not fighting a race war or
organising mass exterminations. There are no
parallels to be drawn between the way Brussels
carries out its business and the Nazi approach in wartime Berlin.
What Johnson did do was to make an apt and timely
historical observation about diverse attempts to
unify Europe that have taken place over the centuries.
As Britain debates crucial questions about its
future sovereignty, and an ever-more powerful
Germany dominates the European economy, it is not
only legitimate, but VITAL to dig deep into the
origins of a united Europe wherever they are.
Nazi Germany, far from being a subject to gloss
over in any debate on the EU, is one that has to be scrutinised.
For many senior figures in Third Reich wanted
economic union in Europe - and it is incumbent on
us to examine whether their hopes actually came to fruition.
The fact is that the Nazis drew up detailed
proposals to ensure that, even if they were
militarily defeated, Germany would continue to
rule Europe, but through economic, rather than military means.
The evidence can be found in documents held in
American intelligence archives, and at the Bank
for International Settlements, the secretive
‘bank for central banks’ founded in 1930, and
still located in Basel, Switzerland.
One US intelligence report, known as the ‘Red
House Report’ recounts the details of a meeting
of top Nazi industrialists and officials at the
Maison Rouge Hotel, in Strasbourg, France on August 10, 1944.
Guards had been posted outside and the room
checked for hidden microphones. Stamped ‘Secret’,
the three page document was written by a French
spy who had been present. It was judged credible
enough to be sent by air-pouch to Cordell Hull, the US Secretary of State.
The meeting was chaired by SS Obergruppenfuhrer
Dr Scheid. Scheid told the industrialists that
they must realise ‘that the war cannot be won’
and the industrialists must, as a result, take
steps ‘in preparation for a post-war commercial campaign’.
The Nazi businessmen, who included officials from
Messerschmitt, Krupp and Volkswagen, as well as
the Navy and Ministry of Armaments, agreed that
with the military struggle all but lost, the next
Reich would be an economic Reich.
Scheid then convened a smaller group and
explained how the Nazi party would go
underground. The German government would channel
vast amounts of money abroad through the
industrialists so that a ‘strong German empire
can be created after the defeat’.
The closely-typed document reads like a thriller
(and indeed inspired me to write one, The Budapest Protocol).
Another key document, ‘Economic Reorganisation of
Europe’ is much drier, but makes for even more unsettling reading.
The eight-page memo, written by Walther Funk -
the president of the Reichsbank, the German
national bank - in 1940, is stored in the
archives of the Bank for International Settlements.
Funk was later convicted at Nuremberg for war
crimes; he served as Nazi minister of economics
and also sat on the board of the Bank for International Settlements.
Boris Johnson has discovered that to merely hint
at any similarities nowadays between the Nazis’
post-war plans for Europe and the present
European Union is to invite ridicule and disdain.
And, to be fair, the post-war European
integration project has contributed to opening
the continent to free trade, stabilising a
war-torn continent after 1945 and nurturing a new
pan-European mentality among younger generations.
But the uncomfortable - and usually unspoken -
truth is that the parallels between the plans of
the Nazi leadership for the post-war European
economy and the subsequent process of European
monetary and economic integration are real.
The difference is, the plans have been imposed by
stealth rather by war and genocide.
The new ‘European large-unit economy,’ wrote
Funk, ‘must be an organic growth’ and will result
from ‘close economic collaboration between Germany and European countries’.
The Reichsmark would be the dominant currency of
this economy, but that was of secondary
importance to the question of economic
leadership. Conversion rates must be controlled
and kept stable, to avoid wild currency
fluctuations, before the ultimate of aim monetary union could be reached.
Meanwhile, the area of the Reichsmark would
‘continue to widen’, wrote Funk. There would be
an incremental process of abolishing foreign
exchange controls and a bonfire of regulations
that slowed down trade and commerce.
‘The sense of common interest in the economic
field must be strengthened among European peoples
by collaboration in all spheres of economic
policy (currency, credit, production, trade,
etc.)...This united Europe will not accept the
imposition of conditions of a political or
economic nature from any extra-European group.'
The deciding factor in trade relations would be
the quality of German goods for export 'and in
this respect we really need have no anxiety'.
The central pillar of the post-war economy would
be German needs. Other countries would plan their
production on the German markets.
Much of what Funk predicted has come to pass. The
Reichsmark evolved into the Deutschmark, which
became the most powerful currency in Europe.
Behind the scenes at the Bank for International
Settlements, technocrats laboured in secret for
decades to harmonise different currencies’
exchange rates and prepare the ground for the launch of the Euro.
Foreign exchange and capital controls were abolished.
And while we tend to associate the EU with a mass
of bureaucracy, the European Single Market did
abolish what Funk called the 'mass of forms'
previously needed to do business, so labour and
capital could flow unhindered between countries.
Meanwhile, the Reichsbank’s successor, the
Bundesbank, became Europe’s most powerful central
bank, making Germany Europe’s most dominant economy.
Funk lived to see two of the most important
milestones in European unity: the establishment
in 1951 of the European Coal and Steel Community,
Europe’s first supra-national institution; and
the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957, the
same year he was released from prison on ground of ill-health.
He died in 1960 but he would have applauded the
launch of the European Single Market in 1993 as
the culmination of his dream of a united continent, dominated by Germany.
Funk’s ‘European Large-Unit Economy’, would be
better known today perhaps the Eurozone. Funk’s
prediction that there was no need for anxiety
about German exports has also come true: every
second euro in Germany is earned by exports.
But for many smaller countries German economic
domination has proved a disaster.
Germany’s mania for low inflation (rooted in the
traumatic hyper-inflation of the Weimar republic
after World War 1) has forced austerity onto
weaker eurozone countries with disastrous results.
Today, parts of Europe face economic collapse.
The Bundesbank and the European Central Bank,
based in Frankfurt, have driven the mania for
austerity that has already forced Greece to the
edge and destabilised its neighbours.
From Oslo to Athens, the far-Right is resurgent,
fed in part by soaring poverty and unemployment.
The Euro might yet collapse and those with money
seek safe haven in gold or property. Across the
Mediterranean a whole generation has been thrown on the scrap-heap.
The answer to the crisis, say the
euro-federalists, is more of everything: more
integration, more shared sovereignty, more
control over a central currency, more rule by
unaccountable technocrats who caused the crisis in the first place.
In other words, allow the Bundesbank and its
allies at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt
– to take more control of eurozone nations’ economies.
Monetary union has been achieved, albeit at terrible social and economic cost.
And the long march to a fiscal and political
union continues. Just as Walther Funk dreamt it would - in 1940s Berlin.
‘Tower of Basel’ Adam LeBor’s investigative
history of the Bank for International Settlements
is published by PublicAffairs.
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