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Thursday, May 21, 2026

HITLER & THE WAR ON NATIONAL HEALTH - 05.20.2026


 
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Today's Show: HITLER & THE WAR ON NATIONAL HEALTH - 05.20.2026

Chris discusses the history of the Nazi healthcare system back in the 1930's and 40's from the perspective of the book, "Racial Hygiene," by Robert N. Proctor. As the book shows, the Nazis used the healthcare system and the fear of disease and pandemics as the pretense to round up Jews and get them into ghettos and eventually, concentration camps. For example, when Auschwitz opened in August of 1943, it was originally a "quarantine" camp and later became a death camp where more than one million people were killed. Furthermore, we examine the book, "Hitler Speaks," by Hermann Rauschning, first published in 1939. In it, the former Nazi leader records Hitler's vision of future warfare, where the use of bacteria would be employed to destroy the health of a nation before they were invaded.

Monday, April 27, 2015

'Pope And Mussolini' Tells The 'Secret History' Of Fascism And The Church


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'Pope And Mussolini' Tells The 'Secret History' Of Fascism And The Church

It's commonly thought that the Catholic Church fought heroically against the fascists in Italy. But historian David Kertzer says the church actually lent organizational strength and moral legitimacy to Mussolini's regime. Kertzer recently won a Pulitzer Prize for his book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe.

Originally broadcast Jan. 25, 2014.


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If you listened to the podcast you might want to read an Abridged edition of the following book here:

Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Book by John Cornwell.

Wednesday, October 01, 2014

The hidden origins of the hippie movement





The hidden origins of the hippie movement





BY *A**V*
--A YOUTHFUL VIEW--



See me, Feel me, Touch me, Heal me!


Many people ask "what were the origins of the hippie movement"?


Where did they come from?


To most people they seemed to come out of no where.


What was their tradition?


Did they revive any traditions?





These are questions often asked by historians.
Most assume that the whole hippie phenomenon simply grew out of the drug culture of the 60's.



Little do they know, that the culture the hippies created was not only envisioned by folkish and spiritual pan-Germanics in and out of Germany, but the very idea of growing a "Longhaired tribe" or an "Aryan Christ", a new race of Longhaired Aryans in tune with the forests and meadows activating the Christ-consciousness in all life, began with such German folkists as Carl Jung and Fidus, they already envisioned a nation of hippies!
-A nation of Longhaired Germanic nature worshiping Christs was the vision these German idealists had for the future Aryan Race.
The dawning of the 60's youth culture was an attempt to breed a community of Christ like Aryans, of which the very conceptions which the hippies adopted were identical to those of the German folkist movements and of the individuals who originated and believed in their vision.
So what traditions did the hippies reactivate?
They specifically activated the tradition of the Longhaired troubadours personified by the Merovingian's and similar illuminated peoples.
The hippies were in an effect a Merovingian youth.
So it seems that the mixture of Germanic blood and soil conscious, country living, -folkish movements mixed with the sensuality of the Franco-Hebrew influence gave birth to this Merovingian youth, which was a youth of musicians, artists-creators, poets, wizards, occultists, revolutionaries, spiritual reformers and idealistic dreamers of every type.
They created a "new order", by reviving the genuine order of eternity and sweeping away the old order of their parents.
So the 60's youth movement really did take that "Christ like" component within the various free-spirit movements of the Middle Ages to the German naturalists and Bohemian folkists of the 19century and create a 'new culture' of Aryan people where "every man looked like Jesus, and every woman looked like Mary, and they had their spirit"!
This was the birth of a new interpretation of the world.


The very ideas which the hippie movement adopted and gave new life to had their original resurrection among the folkish movements in Germany such as the Wandervogel and many others. Of which many got absorbed in the Nazi movement and the Hitler Yourth.
The interesting thing is that it was individuals such as Carl Jung that started the "Aryan Christ Movement".
He wished to breed a race of Christs in America. This new man would have perfect polarity between the divine male and the divine female, and would be at peace with nature. He hoped that this would stimulate the Christ like energies in nature and thus guide the evolution of life to it's next state of development.
Again, Long Hair would be a major source of this mystical power and connection, with the healing feminine and masculine forces in nature forming them into an androgynous whole.
Thus it was Germans like Fidus and Carl Jung who planted the seeds that would later grow into the hippie movement in the 1960's.



"Lichtgebet" ("Prayer To The Sun") by Fidus, 1913

While he regretted the militarization and thus de-Christification of the nazi government, he still saw the light in nazism and in Hilter, and many times praised the nazis in their fight against certain ills such as materialism, Judeo-anti-folkish institutions etc;
praising their liberation of nature.
Many of his supporters were sympathetic to Nazi Germany if not completely pro-Hitler.
Paticuarly Fidus wanted to raise an Aryan Youth of Longhaired mystics, wizards, and saviors. Their long hair would help them develop a mystical Christ like relationship with the planet.

 

Professor Arnold Ehret, taken shortly after his 49 day fast in Cologne, Germany, circa 1905. Ehret later migrated to southern California and helped to spawn a new sub-culture in America, based upon his natural philosophy and lifestyle. His books have never been out of print in over 70 years. (Photo courtesy of Fred Hirsch)


So in a sense Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary and the whole of the psychedelic youth movement conspired to activate this "Christ gene", or "Christ consciousness" within the White masses of America, so that they could awaken the "Christ consciousness" in all creation.
Through marijuana, sex, and music they succeeded in liberating the gentle and energetic spirit of the American youth.
Through LSD, Eastern Religions and other exotic forms of enlightenment the leaders of the flower youth movement succeeded in opening the "cyclic understanding" of history and the nature of life to all who would tune in.
Timothy Leary and other agents of free spiritualism took after the German conspiracy of Aryan Christs that Carl Jung and many other German and American folkish societies and individuals such as Arnold Ehret, Maximillian Sikinger, Eden Abez, Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung, Isadora Duncan, D. H. Lawrence, Arnold Ehret, Franz Kafka, Adolf Just, Ernst Haeckel and so many more had envisioned.





Nature Boy, Maximillian Sikinger, at home in the Santa Monica Mountains, 1946. Max left Germany in 1935 then made his way to Southern California where he inspired many American kids to become "Nature Boys". By the 1960s, he was a regular fixture at pop festivals and concerts and was considered a guru to many Topanga hippies.
I think it interesting that Timothy Leary looked to Carl Jung as one of those who were "in tune", when the majority of civilized society was 'not'.
Hitler, the Wagnerian, was certainly a folkish person and embraced the ideals of the Wandervogel -free wandering spirits- and was in fact fighting for their very survival.
He was using violent Templars (the SA and especially the SS) to destroy the anti-natural world and pave the way for the future of free folkish communities in Germany.

In this essay by Gordon Kennedy & Kody Ryanon displayed at the website entitled "hippyland" explains the nature of the Wandervogel movement:



Wandervogel print from the local group in Darmstadt, 1911

"Wandervogel members, aged mainly between 14-18 years and spread to all parts of Germany eventually numbering 50,000. Part hobo and part medieval, they pooled their money, wore woolen capes, shorts and Tyrolean hats and took long hikes in the country where they sang their own versions of Goliardic songs and camped under primitive conditions. Both sexes swam nude together in the lakes and rivers and in their hometowns they established "nests" and "anti-homes", sometimes in ruined castles where they met to plan trips and play mandolins and guitars.



Wandervogel, 1926

Their short weekend trips became 3 to 4 weeks long journeys of hundreds of miles. Soon they were establishing permanent camps in the wild that were open to all. With no thought of pay, the bands worked at improving their campsites and building cabins for which they made the furniture-in all forming a complex of precedents underlying the youth-hostel movement which began in 1907 when Richard Schirmann opened the first hostel in Altena Germany.




Nudists worshipping the Sun, 1926

Mostly the Wandervogel sought communion with nature, with the ancient folk-spirit as embodied in the traditional peasant culture, and with one another. They developed a harmonious mystic resonance with their environment.
The expression "Lebensreform" (life-reform) was first used in 1896, and comprised various German social trends of the 19th and first half of the 20th century.




Elizabeth Dorr with some of her daughters at Ascona, 1905 (Note the headbands!)


Particularly:
1. vegetarianism
2. nudism
3. natural medicine
4. abstinence from alcohol
5. clothing reform
6. settlement movements
7. garden towns
8. soil reform
9. sexual reform
10. health food and economic reform
11. social reform
12. liberation for women, children and animals
13. communitarianism
14. cultural and religious reform: i.e. a religion or view of the world that gives weight to the feminine, maternal and natural traits of existence
Further south in Switzerland, Ascona was a little fishing village on the shore of Lake Maggiore, on the Swiss side of the border with Italy. In the year 1900 a counter-culture renaissance began and lasted until about 1920. Ascona became the focal point for all of Europe’s spiritual rebels.
Life experiments were in vogue: surrealism, modern dance, dada, Paganism, feminism, pacifism, psychoanalysis and nature cure. A few of the participants were Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung, Isadora Duncan, D.H. Lawrence, Arnold Ehret and Franz Kafka.




Bill Pester at this palm log cabin in Palm Canyon, California, 1917. With his "lebensreform" philosophy, nudism and raw foods diet, he was one of the many German immigrants, who "invented" the hippie lifestyle more than half a century before the 1960s. He left Germany to avoid military service in 1906 at age 19, for a new life in America. (Photo Courtesy of Collection Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California)

At the turn of the century Germany had 56 million people, and had as many large cities as all of the rest of Europe combined. Industrialism, technology, pollution and "affluenza" began a crisis amongst the over-privileged German-speaking of that period. The disenchanted began to arrive in Ascona by the hundreds.
The beautiful natural setting inspired urban people to sunbathe in the nude, sleep outdoors, hike, swim and fast. This village quickly developed a universal reputation as a health center.
Hermann Hesse was excited when he saw four longhaired men with sandals walk through his village on their way to Ascona. He followed them, settled in and then took a nature cure for his alcoholism. The year was 1907.





"Herbst" (Autumn), mural sketch by Fidus, 1934
(Note "peace" symbol on top)


These communities have been characterized by many as "rightwing hippie movements" because while they embraced nearly every hippy ideal, they were also German nationalists and believed in the power and beauty of racial purity as inseparable from their land, forest and water preservation ideals.
They felt that they were tied to the land by blood and soil, as this was the land where their ancestors dreamed and evolved.
Like the American Indians, they were tied to their land by spirit and by race.

Hitler was the most militant of the folkists, he was the only one who actually made an attempt to destroy the enemy of free spirit movements by force. In this process, he came to be perceived by many of these free spirited peoples as the opposite to their nature, but it seems that they instinctively understood that the struggle he was taking on had to be fought eventually.
One thing is for sure, if Hitler were around today he would be a leftist-libertarian of the "middle path".



He once said that his dream was for Germany and England to march together against America!
The hippies of the 1960's were much like those folkish communities in Germany, like the "Wandervogel" and similar movements.
For the youth to gain understanding of the secrets of the universe and of the Aryan soul is what many flower children of the psychedelic generation did, they understood that ancient reality and attempted to transform their world so it could again resemble that lost paradise.
The way in which the magical generation looked to transform the world is actually a fallen version of what Hitler wanted: For the youths of the world to rise up and inherit what is rightfully theirs, the world.
A nation of Artistic masters, wizards, poets and musical revolutionaries, this would be his elite and this is what happened to the youth of America in the 60's.
Certainly the people on the neo-nazi-skinhead mentality could never be members of the divine race which Hitler planned to re-create.
I doubt whether any neo-nazi-skinheads listen to the music of Richard Wagner and understand it's true significance for the New Age of the Aryan millennium.
No, Hitler would have greatly despised the degenerate nature of the skinhead movement and they could never be his children.
Hitler would have much rather hung out with young hippies than with skin-heads! Skin-heads are just the degenerate humanity that Hitler planned to rid the earth of!
Oh how they know not whom they worship!



Just as his critics today know not whom they put down!
Being a skin-head is not being a nazi anymore than it is being an Aryan.
The Nazi's used to shave the heads of their inferiors, ironically, to take away their self pride.
In all esoteric cultures such as the Long Haired Kings of the Merovingians, Cathars, Nazorenes and all manner of Nazirites, their long and beautiful hair was a major source of their mystical powers and charisma. From Noah to Jesus to the Cathars to the hippies, long hair on Aryans gave them occult powers and divine authority. Their beautiful hair was a signature of their divine inheritance and of their spiritual identity. The Nazi SS who were members of a warrior military order, as all the Hitler Youth, took every aspect of their superior being into praise, -their eyes and hair, as marks of their divinity, power and beauty which reflects the nature of the beings which inhabit higher realms of the dimensions of blue and white light. Jesus was a vegetarian, and so was his long lost brother Hitler! If Hitler had not been so misguided he could have been the New Age Messiah!
Though he chose the dark path in that life, he is STILL HERE.
HE HAS NOT GONE ANYWHERE.
He must have been rehabilitated to understand where he went wrong last time!
He is back and this time he is going to be a mixture beetween Adolf and Gandhi!
A real peace warrior!
This time we're going to judge everyone not by the color of their skin, but by the level of their intelligence and content of their character!
As he said: "One thing I can predict to the eaters of meat, THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE WILL BE VEGETARIAN!!!!!!!!"



Trust me--Hitler was way beyond The Ku Klux Klan ; they wouldn't have had much of a place in his new vision of the world. Hitler and John Lennon tapped into the same visions when they thought about the future of Christianity. When John Lennon said: "Christianity will go, it will vanish" "I am right and I will be proven right." -Which he followed by his famous saying " The Beatles are more popular than Jesus now" which received protests and death threats from the Ku Klux Klan and other Rightwing Christian groups in America. John was simply stating the truth. The truth was that kids were more enthusiastic about going to Beatle concerts than they were about going to Church. John Lennon could see that his charismatic musical religion was more popular than Christianity.



Hitler had the same effect, he could see that more kids were attending his rallies than church and you can even say that he became more popular than Jesus.
What John Lennon said could be put side by side with what Hitler said on the future of Christianity: " We are witnessing the final summersaults of Christianity, it will last another hundred years or so, then it will vanish." For Hitler was also witnessing, as John did, a new religion that would replace the Christian church. If you looked at a film of a Hitler rally and then looked at films of the early Beatle concerts and if someone didn't tell which was what, you would not be able to tell the difference.
Both had fanatical screaming and crying white girls with their heads in the air.
Many people remarked at this when the Beatles first hit the scene. -Many older people said that it was reminiscent of the early Nuremberg Rallies. In fact, when John himself returned to his hometown in Liverpool, while standing on a balcony, young kids were fanatically cheering so loudly he felt that the kids were acting like the early Hitler youth! -So much though that he gave the Hitler Salute, shouting "Sieg Heil" and putting his finger to his nose symbolizing the Hitler mustache and the kids just kept cheering !! The Beatles had become a sort of "Gods on earth" and had won the hearts and minds of the youth. This is partly what drove John Lennon to say that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus because, like Hitler 35 years earlier, it was true.
It was the Jewish-Leftist-Liberal, multi-cultural, "Old Roosevelt Democrats" who became political revolutionaries and who used the revolution that happened mostly among middle class whites in the sixties, because they felt the freedom and love that this generation generated. The hippy movement started to liberate everyone until the system beat them down and whacked all their early leaders from John and Robert F Kennedy to John Winston Lennon... The reactionary establishment then took advantage of the freedom fight that had been launched by this new generation to beat down Aryan culture.
Now the only cultures that survived are the diseased Redneck Puritan cultures, and the Jewish neo-cons.



Thus today, if you are not one of those two, and you are a kid, you have to bow down to the crazed negroes who have gotten too drunk with a false sense of power. I'm talking about "ghetto culture", or as black comedian Chris Rock calls it "nigger culture". And they hate whites who have not lost their identity. And this is why they hate anything to do with the sixties culture to the point where they now violently threaten the old whites who fought for their liberation from pigs because of their own moral conscience, only to get spat in face for it by arrogant black youth.
The Sixties movement was actually more racially identified than most people think, and the emerging hippies hated this materialistic society that beats up on everything natural, everything free, and everything Aryan.
They came back to give that evil American WWII generation hell once more, only this time instead of doing it with guns, they did it with music, art, and prophetic protests aimed at the whole capitalist system of the pig tribes. This was a war between the creative Aryans, and the destructive Pig peoples, as Abbie Hoffman called them: "culture-vultures".
The Hippy movement was an Aryan folkish rebellion against the post WWII Pigs who believed the world was their oyster to exploit. Many of those hypocrites did not even deserve to win WWII but ended up coming out looking like the good-guys because of the propaganda lies regarding atrocities which the axis powers were supposed to have committed. Atrocities which were part and parcel of any war and committed by all parties, axis and allies alike. Now they had inherited the world after that war. It was also the war that had gotten them out of economic depression, so they viewed war as a good thing and could not understand why their strange kids refused to fight for that bullshit system that they had believed in, because of their upbringing. The magical generation had different plans for the future, and were not gonna let the old generation get in their way. They were gonna lead and not follow -as Hitler said "let youth be lead by youth". The right to direct the future destiny of the nation is the right of youth and it is the duty of the young generation to overthrow a corrupt system build upon lies. The youth of Germany respected the revolutionary heroic leadership of Hitler and the nazi party. For the sixties generation their heroes were the musicians who spoke to them and instigated them to revolt! Jim Morrison sang: " lost in a Roman....wilderness of pain........and all the children are insane, ........waiting for the summer rain yea"... The British Kings came back to conquer America and enforce their culture on the natives, only this time the natives were Christian Pigs, and the British conquered America with Music. The British Kings like John Lennon, Pete Townsend, and many others came to settle their "old scores" with the despised Americans.




Hitler's greatest vision was that "one day Germany and Britain, would march together against America".
The German youth and many folkish movements were already being reincarnated in America, and their British Kings had come to liberate them.
Thus the youth of Germany and England came to re-conquer America, just as Hitler had dreamed!
The magical youth of the sixties planned on recreating the destiny that was taken from them.
This is what the psychedelic Atlantian Aryan youth of the sixties tried to do, and they believed in the power of love.
They were the first youth in the world to totally take charge of their nation, stop a war, and create a new culture in the history of mankind. The Aryan youth had suddenly become the saviors of the world! -As the black civil rights leader Dick Gregory once put it "all of a sudden the white race had produced a movement where every guy looked like Jesus, and every girl looked like Mary, and they acted like them and had their spirit!"
They had the Merovingian-Cathar spirit.
The movement was mostly middle class whites who looked more like they were from the European culture than from the puritan American culture. And the Jews who got caught up in it were all Jews who hated the 'Jewish system' and wanted to wash off their Jewish identity in the sink, reject the Old Testament vengeance and join the white Aryans who were changing the world through the philosophy of peace and free love. This was a folk movement that had it's roots in the German youth movements like the "free-wanderings-spirits" of the "Wandervogel," most of whom got caught up later in the Hitler youth. They both had the ideals of nature-worship, communalism, vegetarianism, nudism, and firm belief in the magical power of youth. The Hitler Youth slogan was--"let youth lead youth". In Hitler's Germany youth were even given power over their parents, to turn them in and to get them off their back. The hippy youth were of the same mindset, -that the youth had the right to to lead the future and if the elders couldn't "tune in" they had to "drop out". The hippies didn't care much about their parents or about the struggles they went through in the depression or WWII. They were of the past and now had to step aside and accept this new order. The Woodstock Nation was very natural. Most of them were whites and preferred to live and mate with other whites.



This California surfer and his girlfriend were some of the young folks who went to live wild in nature during the late 1960s and early '70s, mostly in California, Hawaii and parts of Europe. This most radical form of communalism was a replay of the Wandervogel and Naturmensch period some 60 years before in Germany and Switzerland (Taylor Park, Kauai, Hawaii, 1971)

It was an Aryan movement of nature worship and honor for the connection to the land. This is why they embraced the native American peoples because they understood better than anyone the religion of blood and soil and the need for folkish-socialist communities.



The hippie movement was by majority Anglo-Germanic and people of other races were drawn to it and intrigued by it, but they were never really part of it. The blacks, through the Black Panthers, were going to establish a separate black state for black people who wished to live separate from whites.
The north would be the Nation of Rock and Roll and would be predominantly white in identity because many hippy tribes were actually old Aryan tribes coming together to take over.
No wonder ghetto liberal youth culture today puts down the cultural revolution that looked to destroy the Zionist materialistic system that was oppressing them and that is now oppressing many artistic white-kid dreamers who want to change their world which they sense is full of LIES.
There is a saying about the 60's generation: "In the 60's all we wanted was love, now we want the truth!" That's the generation of the day but I still believe and I have many friends who agree with me and who are sure Hitler was an artist, a visionary, a prophet, and a conqueror! I believe in "Mein Kampf" he said that ever since he was a child he knew he would never be a civil servant, but rather an Artist!

The war between the Luciferic powers (fallen light) and Satanics (powers of this world) can be seen all through history.
The holy bloodline of the Pleadians which was inherited by Noah, passed down to David and remained in his descendants, who Yeshua Ben Yoseff and his brothers Judas and Jakob was born of and which was most likely passed down from members of Yeshua's family if not Yeshua himself, which made their magical appearance in the people of the Cathars, Merovingians and others. -Right down into our present days the spirit which was so strongly present in the hippie phenomenon and which was a reaction to a doomed world by the magical youth who discovered their powers and looked to transform the world to resemble heaven.




They were young and had no leaders to look up to besides the fallen Luciferic energies of the music they enjoyed, which I have enjoyed.
Therefore their revolution ended in failure, just like many others before it. (Nazorene, Cathar, Mareovingians--all "long haired kings").
They liberated and opened the cages which let out the many demons which are now at work on our planet.
Their revolution was crushed and their liberation used for the benefit of their enemies.
The freedom that they had shown the world has been used to further the dark agenda of the present enemies of the children of light.
Those of us who have a yearning to go beyond the limits of humanity feel so because of the intertwining of our blood relations with the various extraterrestrials who colonized this primitive planet and-or because the "star dust" which our souls are made of is still vibrating. We are some of the last remaining "children of light" on this doomed planet and our mission is to try to reverse the karma of those destructive elements which exist on this earth and effect us all. "WE ARE STARDUST, WE ARE GOLDEN and we've got to get ourselves back to the GARDEN! Yea!"

Thanks for hearing me out and always remember that the light remains throughout the centuries. Though it has taken many forms: Nazirites, Essenes, Merovingians, Cathars (all LongHaired Kings), the forces of which got caught and tangled in the chaos of a fallen Germany, and reacted like a tortured animal in the failed nazi experience, and then the fallen era of flower-power in the sixties when the children of the sun finally, after eons of oppression, exploded in unrealistic imaginations and psychedelic visions of the paradise that was lost.
Now we are back only this time we are going to learn from the experiences of all our previous incarnations and take what was good from them and build the new future.

Sieg Heil!
















Source: http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/hidden_origins_of_the_hippie_movement.htm
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Wednesday, April 02, 2014

When the U.S. recruited Nazis for 'Operation Paperclip'




PBS NewsHour

Published on Mar 31, 2014

After World War II, the government recruited dedicated Nazis — the scientists behind Hitler's formidable war machine — to come to the U.S. to protect American interests during the Cold War. Jeffrey Brown talks to journalist Annie Jacobsen about her new book, "Operation Paperclip," which sheds light on this veiled national security program and confronts the moral conundrum of whitewashing the past.
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Friday, September 27, 2013

God and the Fascists: The Vatican Alliance with Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, and Pavelic


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Excerpt from GOD AND THE FASCISTS; The Vatican Alliance with Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, and Pavelic, by Karlheinz Deschner (Prometheus Books, 2014). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.


This is the prologue to the book:





Why, after almost fifty years, should there be a reprint of Karlheinz Deschner's work God and the Fascists ( Mit Gott und den Faschisten )? Because it is very topical. Because it is, fully unfairly, in danger of being forgotten. Because it disrupts a process of suppression, or better, indeed the deliberate policy of disinformation, pursued by the Vatican. It reminds us of the Vatican's collaboration not only with Hitler, the greatest criminal of all time, but also with Mussolini, Franco, and the little-known Pavelić, the Fascist leader in Croatia who, along with Cardinal Stepinac, was responsible for the concentration and death camp of Jasenovac, of whose existence only few people know today.

Because the web of lies spun by the Vatican is exposed. It has been trying to position itself as an anti-Hitler resistance organization for decades, although according to Cardinal Faulhaber, Pius XII was "the best friend, indeed, the only friend of the new Reich at the beginning," especially in the unstable initial phase of National Socialism, when history could have taken a completely different course! Because it is not a fashionable book that caters for a trendy opinion for reasons of accommodation but presents and summarizes historical facts precisely and in great detail and draws conclusions that are comprehensible to everyone. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen clearly considers it unnecessary to quote Deschner at all in his book A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust , despite Deschner being able to provide much more information using much less ink nearly forty years earlier. And because it is also exciting to read, like a novel but where every line is the truth and every reader is considerably more intelligent and enlightened after reading it than he or she was before and may also be shocked to see the extent of the collaboration between the Nazis, all the Fascists, and the Vatican! In short, because it exposes a historical lie. The lie of the Catholic resistance.

Let us not forget that it was the French Revolution that showed the Catholic Church where its boundaries were and thereby put an end to its feudal power--albeit, unfortunately, only half-heartedly. But still, the Spanish Inquisition did not sentence the last heretic--the schoolteacher Caetano Ripol--to death at the gallows, followed by a "symbolic burning," until July 26, 1826, almost half a century after the Bastille was stormed! After the revolution, Napoleon's troops occupied the Papal States at the end of the eighteenth century--which had arisen from bloody wars and been legitimized by a forged document, the so called Donation of Constantine--arrested Pius VI, and took him to Valence as a prisoner. The Congress of Vienna restored the Vatican rState again in 1815 with a reduced territory, but in 1870, after the occupation by Italian troops, it finally disappeared in the new Italian state. Those responsible were then excommunicated. . . and could not have cared less.

The increasing power of the bourgeoisie, the development of the European national states, the emancipation movement, the natural sciences and progress through technological developments increasingly forced Catholicism onto the back foot in the second half of the nineteenth century--it tried desperately, and in vain, to take up the fight against "modern rationalism" with the first Vatican Council and restore the beleaguered papal authority by means of the dogma of infallibility. But time was against Catholicism. Under Bismarck, nearly two thousand Catholic clergy were imprisoned or given hefty fines in the Kulturkampf ("battle of the cultures") for interfering in state affairs; the United States broke off diplomatic relations with the Vatican on February 28, 1867 (and did not restore them until 1984 under Ronald Reagan). The "Roman Question" had arisen: How could the Holy See be saved from ultimate, and at that time foreseeable, downfall? How, and with whose aid, could its former power be restored? This problem was exacerbated by the growth of the decidedly anticlerical workers' movement after the debacle of the First World War, which was committed to enlightenment and the principle of equality.

This is the starting point of Karlheinz Deschner's book God and the Fascists . The aim of this new edition, published by Prometheus Books, is to ensure it is not forgotten. With richness of detail, historically founded, and by mining a vast number of sources, it proves that after the First World War, the chance was seized to turn the wheel of history back together with the rising Fascist movements. For fear of a victory of the workers' movement across Europe--according to the Soviet model--the Vatican, together with the reactionary property-owning classes and their henchmen--the Fascists--entered an alliance that was intended to secure the existence of both. This unholy Catholic alliance with the supposedly lesser--Fascist--evil led to the greatest catastrophe in human history: the Second World War and the Holocaust.

After the Catholic party "Partito Popolare" was dissolved by Pius XI, the curia paved the way for Benito Mussolini and Italian Fascism. As a reward, they received--by means of the Lateran Pacts--the Vatican State back, a sovereign, stately construct, albeit reduced in size, and the monstrous sum of one billion lire in state bonds and 750 million lire in cash. These assets formed the basis of the Vatican Bank, which is under strict observation from the American supervisory authorities today because of its machinations, suspicion of money laundering, and proximity to the Mafia.

And the Vatican helped the Nazis to power according to exactly the same pattern and under the same premises. The Catholic Centre Party--the oldest party in Europe led by Prelate Kaas, a close friend of Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, the Pope's second-in-command--concurring with the Enabling Act of March 24, 1933, and then dissolving itself cleared the way for Hitler. The subsequent dictatorship set the catastrophe in motion. The historical lie that nobody at the time knew who they were dealing with is clearly disproved by Karlheinz Deschner. Because the first concentration camps had been built before the Enabling Act--not for the Jews at this point, but for political opposition--basic citizens' rights were suspended and the boycott of Jewish businesses, doctors, and lawyers was called for. Hitler's Mein Kampf could not have been unknown to Eugenio Pacelli: the same Eugenio Pacelli who had been the papal nuncio in Berlin until 1929 ("the best-informed diplomat in Germany") and then made a career in the Vatican, first as cardinal secretary of state, then as pope. Pope Pius XII. He, who had the reputation of being an outstanding connoisseur and friend of Germany, harvested the fruits of that collaboration on July 20, 1933, in the form of the concordat with Nazi Germany. This treaty under international law still has constitutional status in the Federal Republic of Germany to this day (Article 123.2 of the German Basic Law). It regulates the friendly relations between the Holy See and the German Reich; state religious education was introduced under it, with a status equal to that of the other subjects taught, the payment of salaries from religious-education teachers to bishops by the state from public tax revenue is guaranteed and church tax collected by the state--to this day, let it be noted--a new phenomenon that was to have far-reaching consequences. Workers must publicly declare their religious confession, losing their previously constitutional right to keep this silent, and employers are obliged to take part in the collection of the ecclesiastical obolus. A church state was born! The Hitler concordat meant that the clergy's robes were afforded the same protection as military uniforms, priests were exempted in advance from military service--they knew what was coming--the dissolution of the Centre Party was retrospectively justified and a great deal more.

Karlheinz Deschner describes how the collaboration of the German episcopate with the Nazis--which could only happen with the approval of the curia--lasted until the end of the Second World War, how vicars, priests, and bishops prayed for Hitler's Reich every Sunday all across the land, which was also regulated in the concordat (Article 30), and agitated in favor of the war, how churches and cathedrals were decorated with swastikas on Hitler's birthday, and the papal nuncio personally congratulated the Führer, full of pride, on his fiftieth birthday in 1939--half a year after the Kristallnacht! In the so-called church struggle, which is supposed to have been the expression of church resistance, the church stood up only for its own interests, never against Hitler, never against the war, and never for the Jewish population. And even after the military defeat of Nazi Germany, the Vatican helped high-ranking Nazi functionaries to flee to South

America with the help of the ratline, with which Mengele, Eichmann, and many other criminals escaped the Allies' justice.

What did Benedict XV, Pius XI, and Pius XII dream of ? They dreamt of a Catholic continental Europe in a united military battle against the godless Soviet Union, as degenerated as it may already have been by Stalin's influence (read Arno Lustigers Stalin and the Jews: The Red Book ). They dreamt of the end of Orthodoxy, the end of communism, and the Catholicization of Russia. And of a neutral, Anglican Great Britain and a neutral United States. Because a military conflict within the western camp made the outcome of the war unpredictable. After the military defeat of France, this dream seemed to be well within reach, and in 1940 the whole world was convinced that Hitler would win the war. The realization of the curia's dream had, with Hitler's help, come within their grasp.

We learn from Karlheinz Deschner how the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, was openly welcomed, not only by the German episcopate, and how unlimited their enthusiasm for Hitler and agitations against Russia were. And Pius XII--who allegedly did too little against Hitler and said too little--spoke in a radio address one week later of "rays of light that raise the heart to great, holy expectations: great bravery and courage in defending the foundations of Christian culture and optimistic hope for their triumph," by which he intended to express, according to embassy counselor Menshausen, the hope that the great sacrifices demanded by this war would not be in vain and would, should Providence so wish, lead to victory over Bolshevism. In this "war between worldviews," which had been so longed for by the Catholics and which Hitler also called it, the Holocaust was viewed as a kind of collateral damage.There may even have been a secret feeling of satisfaction in light of the two thousand years of Christian anti-Judaism. Had Hitler not, in April 1933, already coquetted before high Catholic functionaries--as Deschner reports--and much to their delight, that his "treatment of the Jewish Question" was merely a continuation of medieval Catholic tradition?! In any case, the pope never condemned the Nazi pogroms against the Jews, not even when the Jews were rounded up before his eyes, so to speak, and taken away. Today's propagated idea of a Judeo-Christian West is based on a syncretism swindle.

The Vatican was even more deeply involved in Fascist crimes in Croatia, where the Franciscans played a leading role in the atrocities perpetrated there, which were so brutal that even the Germans complained. Ante Pavelic, the leader of the Croatian Fascists, called the Ustashi, coined the slogan that a third of the Orthodox population of Yugoslavia should be forcibly converted, a third expelled, and the other third murdered. Seven hundred fifty thousand Serbs fell victim to this regime with clerical help, and often after brutal torture, as did 80 percent of the Jews in Yugoslavia. The Primate of the Croatian Catholics, Archbishop Dr. Stepinac, collaborated with Pavelić from the first minute to the last. After his conviction as a war criminal, the Ustaša leader managed to escape, initially to South America, with the help of the ratline. He was accompanied by the former contact man between the Croatian archbishop Stepinac and the Vatican, the priest Krunoslav Draganović, who was, among other things, responsible for the deportation of Jews and Serbs during the war as a "resettlement officer" and was later one of the key figures in the organization of the ratline. He later fled to Franco's Spain, where he found refuge in a Franciscan monastery in Madrid. This war criminal died on December 26, 1959, and received the blessing of the Holy Father on his deathbed. Stepinac was the only high cleric who was at least partly brought to justice for his deeds. The sentence: sixteen years' imprisonment with forced labor. After six years of imprisonment, he was released early. Today's theologians may claim that this verdict was based on a "misunderstanding." But it is no misunderstanding that Yad Vashem rejected the obscenity of an application to grant him the title and honor of a "Righteous among the Nations" twice, in 1970 and 1994. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1998.

In his resume at the end of the book, Karlheinz Deschner says, in 1965, "If one considers the attitude of Eugenio Pacelli to the politics of Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, and Pavelic, it hardly seems an exaggeration to say: Pius XII is probably more incriminated than any other pope has been for centuries. He is so obviously involved in the most hideous atrocities of the Fascist era, and therefore of history itself, both directly and indirectly, that it would not be surprising, given the tactics of the Roman Church, if he were to be canonized."

And now the beatification is already under way, less than fifty years later! If Hitler had won the war, one may wish to add, then he would presumably have long since attained the same Catholic honors.

And Franco's support from the Vatican in the Spanish Civil War--and before--is also a theme of this rewarding book, this irreplaceable source of information.

Let us now return to the present, to the constitutional knock-on effects of the church's collaboration with Fascism in Germany. One has to only compare this close interrelationship between church and state, this still-surviving German church state--which, under the Weimar Constitution and the federal constitution of Germany, should never have been permitted--with the constitutions of France and the United States, in which the separation of church and state is clearly stipulated. It then becomes clear how far Germany is today from being a modern democracy. It is a country in which the churches, on the basis of regional concordats, have places in all radio and television broadcasting councils, in nearly all newspaper editorial offices, in countless other influential institutions, and--some quite openly, others well hidden--at the levers of power. It then becomes clear what massive favors Hitler and Mussolini did the Vatican with this special answer to the Roman Question, with the restoration of its statehood, its assets, and its public influence, which were in a state of dissolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. And at what cost to the rest of the world!

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Karlheinz Deschner's book is an important contribution to enlightenment, a jewel for anyone who seeks historical truth; it is an antidote to the historical lie of Catholic resistance to Adolf Hitler and provides a fundamental contribution to the current debate on the rehabilitation of the Pius Brotherhood (fronted by Richard Williamson, who denied the Holocaust), the planned beatification of Pius XII, the scandal surrounding the Vatican Bank, the reintroduction of the Good Friday Intercession, and the role of the Vatican in the world in general.

Anyone who is looking for the historical Ariadne's thread in the labyrinth of church heteronomy will go nowhere without Karlheinz Deschner's book God and the Fascists . I would, at this juncture, recommend to anyone who wishes to find out more, many historical layers deeper, for example, about the historical origins of Christianity, Hyam Maccoby's superb, central work The Mythmaker:

Paul and the Invention of Christianity (1986), in which he proves that Christianity is not founded on the Jewish Jesus but the Greek Paul, who composed a highly virulent mythical mix of gnosis, mystery cults, and the story of Jesus and, therefore, started off two thousand years of Christian anti-Judaism, which culminated in the Holocaust.

The other Ariadne's thread from the religious labyrinth--the subjective, "psychological" one--can be found by anyone looking for it in Sigmund Freud (e.g., Totem and Taboo , The Future of an Illusion , Moses and Monotheism ), and more especially in the pioneering study of religion by Fritz Erik Hoevels, ""Bhagwan' Rajneesh and the Dilemma of any Humane Religion" in Mass Neurosis Religion , published by Ahriman International, which is now also to be credited with the republishing of Deschner's masterpiece God and the Fascists . Both authors make it clear how small the eye of the needle is through which human society must pass if the aims of enlightenment, reason, freedom, the principle of equality, and maximum happiness for the maximum number of people are to become reality, how many archaic and yet real power structures must be broken in order to achieve this.

May the interested reader convince himself or herself of the topicality of this book nearly fifty years after God and the Fascists was first published. It is thrillingly written and a literary achievement of the first rank.


Peter Gorenflos

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Saturday, April 07, 2012

Hitler's Pope (Abridged)



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by John Cornwell
Published in Vanity Fair, October 1999

With comments by Jared Israel
Editor, www.tenc.net

[21 April 2005]

After the publication of Hitler's Pope, the Vatican went on a virtual crusade to discredit John Cornwell; the Internet is flooded with attacks on him. In an effort to present Cornwell's side of the argument, Emperor's Clothes has posted the abridged pre-publication version of Hitler's Pope, which appeared in 1999 in the magazine, Vanity Fair. The unabridged book is of course much richer; below I have posted links to online stores where you can buy it, new and used, and as an e-book.

- Jared Israel
Emperor's Clothes


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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Ousted Pope brought back by the Fascists

October 18, 2011

The Kingdom of Italy removed Roman Catholicism as state religion in 1870. In 1929 the Papal system was brought back by the Fascists, though the Treaties of Lateran. With Benito Mussolini as the midwife, The present Vatican state was born.

In 1848, the Pope of Rome was exiled to the Castle of Gaeta 120 kilometer south ot Rome.

In 1848, the Pope of Rome was exiled to the Castle of Gaeta 120 kilometer south ot Rome.

The Papal system was the ruler of Kings and Kingdoms. It was the biggest landowner of the divide Italian peninsula of many small states. It had its own army, and a Pope sitting in Rome.

On September 10 in 1870 A.D, Italy declared war on the Papal States. The Italian Army, commanded by General Raffaele Cadorna, crossed the papal frontier on 11 September and advanced slowly toward Rome. He was hoping that a peaceful entry could be negotiated.

The Italian Army reached the Aurelian Walls on 19 September and placed Rome under a state of siege. Although the pope’s tiny army was incapable of defending the city, Pius IX ordered it to put up at least a token resistance to emphasize that Italy was acquiring Rome by force and not consent.

Map of Italy before the war against the Papal system

Map of Italy before the war against the Papal system

On September 20, the Bersaglieri entered Rome and marched down Via Pia, which was subsequently renamed Via XX Settembre. Rome and Latium were annexed to the Kingdom of Italy.

In October, Rome and the surrounding Campagna, voted for a union with the kingdom of Italy. Pius IX refused to accept this act of force majoure.

Pope Pius IX lost his Earthly Kingdom. The Papal system made a comback in Rome with the help of the Fascists.

Pope Pius IX lost his Earthly Kingdom. The Papal system made a comeback in Rome with the help of the Fascists.

He remained in his palace, describing himself as a prisoner in the Vatican. However the new Italian control of Rome did not wither, nor did the Catholic world come to the Pope’s aid, as Pius IX had expected.

Pope Pius IX spent his time as prisoner of the Vatican. In 1882, A later Pope even considered moving the papacy to Trieste or Salzburg, two cities in Austria.

My comment:

Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council in 1869, which decreed Papal infallibility in questions of moral and how to understand the scriptures.

That the Roman religion was suspended as state religion in the new Italian Kingdom the very next year, should not have impressed anyone enough to believe in the infallibility of the Pope in Rome.

The people of 1870 A.D simply did not want him. Even the people who lived in Rome, voted against the Pope in a referendum. The citizens of Rome wanted to be a part of the new Kingdom of Italy, with religious freedom, without a Pope as their religious head.

The Pope of Rome became a victim of the political games he had created as head of a worldly state. In 1848 he even had to flee Rome because of an uprising, and take exile in the Castle of Gaeta in The Kingdom of Two Sicilles. That was 120 kilometers from Rome, just north of Napoli. The Pope, not yet to be anointed by his Church with infallibility, was exiled in this castle for two years. But even when he came back to Rome in april 1850, French troops remained in Rome until 1870, to protect the status quo on the chaotic Italian peninsula.

If it had not been for the Fascists, the Papal system might have ended on the scrap-yard of history almost hundred years ago. The Bible tells us that one Pope, one of the heads of the «beast» would be rescued by another «beast».

Revelation 13:3
One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast.

Mussolini and Hitler. Two stern faced man came to the reque of the Pope of Rome.

Mussolini and Hitler. Two stern faced Kings came to the rescue of the Pope of Rome. Hitler made his own peace deal with the Vatican in 1933.

The «brown shirts»brought back Roman Catholicism as state religion in Italy. The Fascists and the Pope had common interests and aspirations, and were well suited for each other.

If the Fascists were able to gain World control by political and military powers, the winners would make the Pope in Rome the religious head of the World.

Bentito Mussolini came to power by violence, following the «March on Rome» in 1922. As late as 1927, he was baptized by a Catholic priest. This was needed to silence Catholic opposition to the planned deal of making peace with Fascism in exchange for the Vatican state in 1929.

The two «peace partners» of Rome who signed the Treaties of Lateran. did not succeed.

But just before the Jewish Messiah returns to Earth, they will finally«succeed».

Read more about the Papal views on Israel: Click here

First published July 16th, 2009

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Pope Attempts History Revision







A recent article challenges the Pope’s account of the historical relationship between the Roman Catholic church and the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.

The pope is at it again. In a speech before the Queen of England last week, Pope Benedict XVI carefully revised the history of what led up to the scourge of Nazism during World War II. He said, “Even in our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live” (emphasis mine throughout).

But was it really a godless society in Germany that led to the Nazi atrocities? Benedict, who was a registered member of Hitler Youth at 14 and served in the Germany Army at 16, said he recalled the regime’s attitude toward religion and Christian pastors “who spoke the truth in love, opposed the Nazis and paid for that opposition with their lives.” ...

Benedict concluded, “As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the 20th century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society. …”

Of course, it was actually the inclusion of “God” and religious ideology that provided the Nazi regime its greatest source of inspiration. Adolf Hitler himself was a deeply religious man and wanted to be seen as a religious figure.

“We are not a movement—rather we are a religion,” Hitler said about his regime (Robert G.L. Waite, The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler).

“Christ was the greatest early fighter in the battle against the world enemy, the Jews,” Hitler said in 1926. “The work that Christ started but could not finish, I—Adolf Hitler—will conclude” (John Toland, Adolf Hitler). He even said he learned from the Jesuit order “above all.”

While other influences, like social Darwinism, might have contributed to Nazi doctrine, this fact remains: Most Nazis believed in God and claimed to be doing the work of God.

And to suggest that the Vatican stood against Hitler’s psychopathic religion is yet another blatant attempt to revise the historical record.

The Vatican was actually Nazism’s chief enabler (“Benedict Revises the Historical Record," http://www.thetrumpet.com/, Sept. 24, 2010).

Inspired commentary

Inspiration has described the continuing nature of the papacy.

The papacy is just what prophecy declared that she would be, the apostasy of the latter times. 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4. It is a part of her policy to assume the character which will best accomplish her purpose; but beneath the variable appearance of the chameleon she conceals the invariable venom of the serpent. “Faith ought not to be kept with heretics, nor persons suspected of heresy” (Lenfant, volume 1, page 516), she declares. Shall this power, whose record for a thousand years is written in the blood of the saints, be now acknowledged as a part of the church of Christ? (The Great Controversy, p. 571)

Saturday, November 06, 2010

Pope Attempts History Revision


Pope Attempts History Revision

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A recent article challenges the Pope’s account of the historical relationship between the Roman Catholic church and the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.

The pope is at it again. In a speech before the Queen of England last week, Pope Benedict XVI carefully revised the history of what led up to the scourge of Nazism during World War II. He said, “Even in our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live” (emphasis mine throughout).

But was it really a godless society in Germany that led to the Nazi atrocities? Benedict, who was a registered member of Hitler Youth at 14 and served in the Germany Army at 16, said he recalled the regime’s attitude toward religion and Christian pastors “who spoke the truth in love, opposed the Nazis and paid for that opposition with their lives.” ...

Benedict concluded, “As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the 20th century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society. …”

Of course, it was actually the inclusion of “God” and religious ideology that provided the Nazi regime its greatest source of inspiration. Adolf Hitler himself was a deeply religious man and wanted to be seen as a religious figure.

“We are not a movement—rather we are a religion,” Hitler said about his regime (Robert G.L. Waite, The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler).

“Christ was the greatest early fighter in the battle against the world enemy, the Jews,” Hitler said in 1926. “The work that Christ started but could not finish, I—Adolf Hitler—will conclude” (John Toland, Adolf Hitler). He even said he learned from the Jesuit order “above all.”

While other influences, like social Darwinism, might have contributed to Nazi doctrine, this fact remains: Most Nazis believed in God and claimed to be doing the work of God.

And to suggest that the Vatican stood against Hitler’s psychopathic religion is yet another blatant attempt to revise the historical record.

The Vatican was actually Nazism’s chief enabler (“Benedict Revises the Historical Record," www.thetrumpet.com, Sept. 24, 2010).

Inspired commentary
Inspiration has described the continuing nature of the papacy.

The papacy is just what prophecy declared that she would be, the apostasy of the latter times. 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4. It is a part of her policy to assume the character which will best accomplish her purpose; but beneath the variable appearance of the chameleon she conceals the invariable venom of the serpent. “Faith ought not to be kept with heretics, nor persons suspected of heresy” (Lenfant, volume 1, page 516), she declares. Shall this power, whose record for a thousand years is written in the blood of the saints, be now acknowledged as a part of the church of Christ? (The Great Controversy, p. 571)
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Sunday, January 10, 2010

The Reichstag Burns



The Reichstag Burns

Adolf Hitler, the new Chancellor of Germany, had no intention of abiding by the rules of democracy. He intended only to use those rules to legally establish himself as dictator as quickly as possible then begin the Nazi revolution.

Even before he was sworn in, he was at work to accomplish that goal by demanding new elections. While Hindenburg waited impatiently in another room, Hitler argued with conservative leader Hugenberg, who vehemently opposed the idea. Hitler's plan was to establish a majority of elected Nazis in the Reichstag which would become a rubber stamp, passing whatever laws he desired while making it all perfectly legal.

On his first day as chancellor, Hitler manipulated Hindenburg into dissolving the Reichstag and calling for the new elections he had wanted - to be held on March 5, 1933.

That evening, Hitler attended a dinner with the German General Staff and told them Germany would re-arm as a first step toward regaining its former position in the world. He also gave them a strong hint of things to come by telling them there would be conquest of the lands to the east and ruthless Germanization of conquered territories.


Hitler also reassured the generals there would be no attempt to replace the regular army with an army of SA storm troopers. For years this had been a big concern of the generals who wanted to preserve their own positions of power and keep the traditional military intact.

Hitler's storm troopers were about to reach new heights of power of their own and begin a reign of terror that would last as long as the Reich.

President Hindenburg had fallen under Hitler's spell and was signing just about anything put in front of him. He signed an emergency decree that put the German state of Prussia into the hands of Hitler confidant, Vice Chancellor Papen. Göring as Minister of the Interior for Prussia took control of the police. Prussia was Germany's biggest and most important state and included the capital of Berlin.

Göring immediately replaced hundreds of police officials loyal to the republic with Nazi officials loyal to Hitler. He also ordered the police not to interfere with the SA and SS under any circumstances. This meant that anybody being harassed, beaten, or even murdered by Nazis, had nobody to turn to for help.

Göring then ordered the police to show no mercy to those deemed hostile to the State, meaning those hostile to Hitler, especially Communists.

"Police officers who use weapons in carrying out their duties will be covered by me. Whoever misguidedly fails in this duty can expect disciplinary action." - Order of Hermann Göring to Prussian Police, February 1933.

On February 22, Göring set up an auxiliary police force of 50,000 men, composed mostly of members of the SA and SS. The vulgar, brawling, murderous Nazi storm troopers now had the power of police.

Two days later, they raided Communist headquarters in Berlin. Göring falsely claimed he had uncovered plans for a Communist uprising in the raid. But he actually uncovered the membership list of the Communist party and intended to arrest every one of the four thousand members.

Göring and Goebbels, with Hitler's approval, then hatched a plan to cause panic by burning the Reichstag building and blaming the Communists. The Reichstag was the building in Berlin where the elected members of the republic met to conduct the daily business of government.

By a weird coincidence, there was also in Berlin a deranged Communist conducting a one-man uprising. An arsonist named Marinus van der Lubbe, 24, from Holland, had been wandering around Berlin for a week attempting to burn government buildings to protest capitalism and start a revolt. On February 27, he decided to burn the Reichstag building.

Carrying incendiary devices, he spent all day lurking around the building, before breaking in around 9 p.m. He took off his shirt, lit it on fire, then went to work using it as his torch.

The exact sequence of events will never be known, but Nazi storm troopers under the direction of Göring were also involved in torching the place. They had befriended the arsonist and may have known or even encouraged him to burn the Reichstag that night. The storm troopers, led by SA leader Karl Ernst, used the underground tunnel that connected Göring's residence with the cellar in the Reichstag. They entered the building, scattered gasoline and incendiaries, then hurried back through the tunnel.

The deep red glow of the burning Reichstag caught the eye of President Hindenburg and Vice-Chancellor Papen who were dining at a club facing the building. Papen put the elderly Hindenburg in his own car and took him to the scene.

Hitler was at Goebbels' apartment having dinner. They rushed to the scene where they met Göring who was already screaming false charges and making threats against the Communists.

At first glance, Hitler described the fire as a beacon from heaven.

"You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in German history...This fire is the beginning," Hitler told a news reporter at the scene.

After viewing the damage, an emergency meeting of government leaders was held. When told of the arrest of the Communist arsonist, Van der Lubbe, Hitler became deliberately enraged.

"The German people have been soft too long. Every Communist official must be shot. All Communist deputies must be hanged this very night. All friends of the Communists must be locked up. And that goes for the Social Democrats and the Reichsbanner as well!"

Hitler left the fire scene and went straight to the offices of his newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, to oversee its coverage of the fire. He stayed up all night with Goebbels putting together a paper full of tales of a Communist plot to violently seize power in Berlin.

At a cabinet meeting held later in the morning, February 28, Chancellor Hitler demanded an emergency decree to overcome the crisis. He met little resistance from his largely non-Nazi cabinet. That evening, Hitler and Papen went to Hindenburg and the befuddled old man signed the decree "for the Protection of the people and the State."

The Emergency Decree stated: "Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed."

Immediately, there followed the first big Nazi roundup as truckloads of SA and SS roared through the streets bursting in on known Communist hangouts and barging into private homes. Thousands of Communists as well as Social Democrats and liberals were taken away into 'protective custody' to SA barracks where they were beaten and tortured.

"I don't have to worry about justice; my mission is only to destroy and exterminate, nothing more!" - Hermann Göring, March 3, 1933.

Fifty one anti-Nazis were murdered. The Nazis suppressed all political activity, meetings and publications of non-Nazi parties. The very act of campaigning against the Nazis was in effect made illegal.

"Every bullet which leaves the barrel of a police pistol now is my bullet. If one calls this murder, then I have murdered. I ordered this. I back it up. I assume the responsibility, and I am not afraid to do so." - Hermann Göring.

Nazi newspapers continued to print false evidence of Communist conspiracies, claiming that only Hitler and the Nazis could prevent a Communist takeover. Joseph Goebbels now had control of the State-run radio and broadcast Nazi propaganda and Hitler's speeches all across the nation.

The Nazis now turned their attention to election day, March 5.

All of the resources of the government necessary for a big win were placed at the disposal of Joseph Goebbels. The big industrialists who had helped Hitler into power gladly coughed up three million marks. Representatives from Krupp munitions and I. G. Farben were among those reaching into their pockets at Göring's insistence.

"The sacrifice we ask is easier to bear if you realize that the elections will certainly be the last for the next ten years, probably for the next hundred years," Göring told them.

With no money problems and the power of the State behind them, the Nazis campaigned furiously to get Hitler the majority he wanted.

On March 5, the last free elections were held. But the people denied Hitler his majority, giving the Nazis only 44 per cent of the total vote, 17, 277,180. Despite massive propaganda and the brutal crackdown, the other parties held their own. The Center Party got over four million and the Social Democrats over seven million. The Communists lost votes but still got over four million.

The goal of a legally established dictatorship was now within reach. But the lack of the necessary two thirds majority in the Reichstag was an obstacle. For Hitler and his ruthless inner circle, it was obstacle that was soon to be overcome.

As for Van der Lubbe, the Communist arsonist, he was tried and convicted, then beheaded.

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Source:http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/burns.htm
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