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As the Second World War advanced from its early stages, the United States was assessing which sections of the earth it would hold conquest over. American planners had to remain patient, however. A seemingly endless string of conquests for the Nazis had astonished the world – particularly those in the US – and led to Adolf Hitler being crowned as “the new Napoleon”.
In the summer of 1942, under Hitler’s domineering command of the military, the Germans controlled vast swathes of Europe – from Warsaw to Oslo to Paris, and eastwards onto Athens, Kiev and Sevastopol. It was one major victory after another for the Third Reich, blighted by the narrow failure to take Moscow in late 1941 after a celebrated Russian counterattack, and the inability to gain air superiority over Britain.
Yet, by November 1942, Hitler had plunged deeper into Russian territory than even Napoleon in his pomp 130 years before. By this point, Nazi forces had killed many millions of Russians – much of whom were innocent civilians – in “a war of annihilation”, as Hitler had previously said.
Come early November [1942], 90% of Stalingrad had been taken by German infantry after weeks of fierce house-to-house fighting. The swastika was now flying over the tallest building in Stalingrad city centre. Such news prompted a buoyant Hitler to say in an after-dinner speech in Munich that, “I wanted to take the place [Stalingrad], and you know, we’ve done it. We’ve got it really, except for a few enemy positions still holding out. Now they say, ‘why don’t we finish the job more quickly?’ Well, I prefer to do the job with quite small assault groups. Time is of no consequence at all”.
At this stage, American planners were preparing with certainty for a postwar world split up between the Third Reich and the leader of the Free World. The Nazis would control the whole of mainland Europe and Eurasia, while the US would command the Western Hemisphere, the Far East, and the former British empire. American imperialists gave this unprecedented sphere of conquest a title, “the Grand Area”.
The plans were soon altered, however. Despite Hitler’s assertions, time was catching up on the Germans. Just days later Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Premier, orchestrated another famous counterattack with fresh reserves – smashing the overextended German lines. By November 23 the German 6th Army, which led the conquest over France in 1940, was completely encircled by superior forces.
Come the following year, 1943, it was increasingly clear to the Roosevelt administration that the Germans were heading towards defeat – which is precisely what unfolded two years later. Russia deserved the vast majority of credit for winning the Second World War – which is scarcely ever mentioned – yet Russia was almost destroyed in doing so, losing over 25 million people along with immeasurable damage to her infrastructure.
The US had not suffered invasion or bombing and in 1945 controlled a remarkable 50% of the world’s wealth. The Grand Area was now to be expanded to control as much of Eurasia as possible too. The Americans had a problem to overcome, however – by war’s end the anti-Nazi Resistance had become powerful and contained many Socialist and Communist elements. The traditional order had to be restored.
Resistance factions would not be conducive to American demands and were to be smashed. At this point, the US did not possess the knowledge of infiltration in breaking up undesirable organisations.
Yet there were those who did possess that ability: Nazi leaders who for years had been specialists in undermining the Resistance through covert techniques. Men like Wehrmacht General Reinhard Gehlen, who was head of German intelligence on the Eastern Front (1942-45), where the most atrocious crimes were perpetrated. The US further hired SS Captain Klaus Barbie – “the Butcher of Lyon” – who had performed a key role in destabilising the Resistance in the Netherlands, and from 1942 on, in Nazi-occupied France.
Gehlen himself was initially under the guidance of the US Army, before being overseen by the recently-formed CIA in 1949. Gehlen headed secret espionage activities against the Soviet Union as head of the so-called Gehlen Organisation – with hundreds of ex-Wehrmacht and SS intelligence officers under his command, all with American assurance.
A declassified CIA intelligence document describes him as, “the Master Spy, the Man of Mystery, Spy of the Century”. Later, for 12 years, Gehlen was the first president of the Federal Intelligence Service of West Germany (1956-1968) – and was also the highest ranking reserve officer in the West German military, before being forced into retirement in 1968.
Barbie, formerly of the SS and Gestapo, was recruited by the US Army’s Counterintelligence Corps in 1947 – historians estimate he bears direct responsibility for the deaths of up to 14,000 people. He was accountable for other crimes such as the widespread use of torture, and the deportation of Jewish children to Auschwitz.
Now under his American masters, Barbie was utilised once more to destroy anti-Communist movements in Europe. Eugene Kolb, an ex-Major in the US Army’s Counterintelligence Corps, said decades later that, “We did not have any great pangs of conscience [about recruiting Nazis]”.
Kolb further stated that Barbie’s “skills were badly needed… His activities had been directed against the underground French Communist party and the Resistance”.
Another former US intelligence officer Ed Dobringhaus said, “We went overboard to be nice to that guy [Barbie]. We went out drinking beer once in a while”.
France had twice sentenced Barbie to death in absentia for war crimes. Upon discovering he was operating under US command, the French issued a plea to the US High Commissioner for Germany, John J. McCloy, to hand him over for execution. McCloy allegedly refused the request.
By the early 1950s, Barbie was becoming too hot to handle for the US – instead they sent him to the Vatican-run “ratline”, as Croatian Nazi priests and other fascist sympathisers shipped him off to Bolivia from Genoa, Italy. Barbie resided in South America for over 30 years, enjoying protection from US-backed dictatorships. There he operated as a major drug lord while working for the CIA and secret police.
Barbie was strongly involved in the 1980 military putsch in Bolivia, known as “the cocaine coup” – before at last being extradited to France in 1983 under Bolivia’s new democratic government, dying in a Lyon prison eight years later.
In another major instance, there were no issues in sending over 1,600 Nazi scientists and engineers to the US to work on space programmes, with the further aim of gaining Cold War superiority. Among such scientists was Wernher von Braun, the Nazis’ leading engineer and inventor of the feared V-2 rocket – which killed over 2,700 people in London.
In the US, Von Braun became the driving force behind the Apollo program moon landings – despite earlier US security reports describing him as “a serious potential security threat”. Von Braun had been an SS member and rose to the rank of Major under Hitler.
The highly classified project of spiriting hundreds of Nazi technicians to the US was known as “Operation Paperclip”. It was undertaken despite many of the scientists having notorious pasts. The operation was authorised in 1946 by US President Harry Truman.
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“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
from James Joyce, Ulysses
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yZDd8hJiwEw
It is any surprise that the US would aid & assist the NAZI in Kiev as well as ISIS in Syria? There’s no morals or righteousness associated with the US Gov, they’ll use whatever means, however evil, to achieve their lust for a unipolar world. Beacon of democracy my ass!
Well done Mr. Quinn, poke ’em straight in the eyes, nazi slime has to be exterminated once and for all!!
How about those who orchestrated and funded WW1 and WW2? It was not Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination…..How is it that both Dulles brothers were SO eager to get Hitler appointed as chancellor in 1932? How is it that they made oodles of money from the slave Labor in Auschwitz, while we are still told it was an extermination camp? WHY? Why were the Rockefeller’s partners of I.G Farben – why did they give to IG Farben a patent for synthetic rubber, while the U.S. was short on rubber. Why did Standard Oil provide all the fuel to Germany. Every 6-year-old that… Read more »
And where have you been while the U.S. and 18 other countries sent their planes to bomb my country for 11 weeks back in 1999, you hypocrite? The only European country bombarded after the WWII was Serbia!! And what exactly you are trying to say which is opposite than Mr.Quinn said?? My grandfather fought the WWI, fought Kolubara and Cer Battle, walked thru Albania with other fellow soldiers and breached the Thessalonikhi front making his way home 4 years later. It was my people who lost one third of a population in WWI and lost over 2 million in WWII… Read more »
You might read my comment again. Do some research and learn that neither WW1 nor WW2 were started by the Germans, orthodox history notwithstanding.
What happened in 1870?
Why is Germany STILL occupied? Nothing to do with Nazis….Do you know what a Nazi IS? Who bombed Serbia?? And WHY?? I know who bombed me!!! And it was not the Nazis
Copying orthodox drivel has little to do with reality.
And yet, today we have to endure the spectacle of intellectually dishonest historians like Timothy Snyder who equate the Third German Reich with the USSR. Not to mention the various far-right clowns infesting the forums and who keep informing that Hitler wasn’t so bad at all, because he wanted to liberate the poor Russians from the yoke of evil Bolshevik Jews and these idiotic Slavs fought him back instead. Which, of course, implies that the Americans did not do something horrible by taking a scumbag like Barbie under their wings.
Odd that the people who compare Nazi Germany and the USSR don’t compare both to the western slave empires that eventually defeated both…..
Of course, Ford and GM continued to operate in Germany throughout the war manufacturing vehicles and such for the German military thus aiding and abetting the Nazi cause. Neither company was prosecuted. It’s my understanding that their factories, save a single exception, were never bombed, Moreover, the Ford Motor Company, whose factory was bombed, sued the US government and received financial compensation for damages incurred from the bombing.
What this article didn’t discuss was the fact that many U.S. industrialists assisted Hitler’s rise to power in
Bush and Ford among them
Hitler built a reputation as a leader of an anti-organized-labor private army of mostly WWI veterans (later known as “Brown Shirts”). Industrialists and big land owners paid him to break unions and intimidate workers. Since labor was the biggest cost of running an industry, many industrialists in Europe and the U.S. admired Hitler’s methods of suppressing wages. Emil Kirdorf, coal mining magnate, is a good example of an important early supporter of the Nazi party, understandable because coal mining is a labor-intensive business.
The Ford plant in Germany was using slave labor to increase their profits during World War II. The parent company in Dearborn was fully aware of what was going on and allowed it. Yet Ford was never brought to trial at Nuremberg for this practice, which amounted to crimes against humanity.
Yes, my assumption has always been that they were planning to use Hitler as they always use people – to do their dirty work for them. Hitler was to bring down Britain and Europe, which America would command under the banner of having ‘freed” them from Hitler.
It’s been a recurring theme for a long time. Just think – they tried it in WWII 70+ years ago, they did it again in Iraq, Libya and Syria just yesterday>
As Mr. Putin pointed out, different Presidents, same theme over and over and over.
I wish people would concentrate on the Pre-WW2 US-Nazi alliance !
And how did USSR ‘liberation of Poland go? How many Millions of German POWs (men, women, children) died in the gulags or on the way to the gulags, 4 yrs of systematic abuse of Germans in Prussia from 1943 – 1947 estimated 2 million german women raped. Nazi Germany was also fighting communism and banksters remember. The guys who bankrolled stalin and now run the EU. Europe lost the war to communism. And how many german scientists were taken at forced gunpoint by the soviets?.
Most people don’t know what Prussia IS or WAS? But everyone has an opinion!!
Go figure 🙁
Why no condemnation of Western rapists? It’s a bit immoral to exploit rape against women to have a go at the Red Army when “army” had always been synonymous with “rape”.
do not try and defend communism.
The USSR wasn’t communist after 1921; do your homework and mind your manners while you’re at it.
What were they?
Look it up, it’s interesting; start with the suppression of the Kronstadt Mutiny of 1921.
That’s not how it works buddy…You make a statement YOU defend it. …which means that it requires some facts…..
When you’ve grown up , get back to me.
Ciao
Krondstadt. Mutiny. 1921. look it up.
You need a crash course in comprehension…..WOW
Then you might refrain from the “orthodoxy” that all Soviets were rapists. That same orthodoxy describes Nazis as rabid killers…..We were occupied by Germany and those “Nazis” of which we had 2 living in our front parlor were extremely disciplined and friendly, according to my mother. They were well aware of the fact that we had an Austrian deserter (he became my uncle and I am still in touch with his children) with a death sentence on his head hiding in our home….that my father was in the resistance, but they never reported him. They played cards together in the… Read more »
Watch Greatest Story Never Told 6.5 hr documentary. btw i have been called far right, far left, a nazi, a communist and everything else under the sun, the original article was bemoaning german scientists surviving the war, from a very pro russia news site. I didnt call ALL Russians rapists, but the red army was specifically told to rape and take women as booty. Stalin even set up a puppet polish government to get what they wanted. world changes, recorded history and what actually happened is warped. Russia today is a very different place now. I didnt say all soviets… Read more »
I find myself in the extraordinary position, as a victim of German occupation, of rehabilitating Hitler….I’ve been called a Nazi and numerous other names. I have been researching WW1 and WW2 for the past 6 years when I discovered that I too was indoctrinated into the orthodox Holocaust myths. Russians, by “definition” were considered the rapists during WW2. That belongs in the same trash can as did the notion of German gas chambers which have long been debunked as does the description and the nefarious deeds committed by German soldiers. What is conspicuously absent in all these scenarios are the… Read more »
am British, we learnt an entirely different history. i dont follow the narrative much. But to say German soldiers in the same vein as Russian soldiers is kinda just being lazy on allsides i guess. SS were the most culturally and ethnically diverse armies in history, soviets and nazis isn’t entirely accurate either. It does seem to be ideologies rather than a nations will in itself that cause the worst problems, ideologies attack nations, nations consistently have to defend against banksters and their whims. The same people who bankrolled Stalin are in control of the EU now. Germany is still… Read more »
I suspect your history and mine were similar. It was not until my daughter, who wrote a theses on WW2 Propaganda, told me that the allies did not win the war that I said WHAAAT!!! War is a bitch….There is no black and white….I have had endless discussions with Americans what “no black and white” means. That during war we do things (the lesser of 2 evils) that we would normally never consider. doing. The same goes for Russians soldiers as well as German soldiers. My father, a member of the resistance called the invader “moffen” a derogatory name for… Read more »
Chopped up? Germany lost about 20% of its 1914 territory, most of it inhabited by non-native German speakers. Britain had yet another civil war and lost about 20% of it’s land, much of that also being occupied by non-native English speakers
When the Germans advanced through Russia all the able bodied males had a choice to join them or go to the work camps. The girls where put to work in there shall we say pleasure houses or into the fields to produce food for the German Army.Grand Ma and Grandad where got rid of mouths to feed carn’t have that.Roughly by the time the Germans had reached Moscow and Stalingrad around some 2 million Russians had died and around 11/2 million Russian Troops had been sent to the factories and work camps. When the Germans started to get pushed back… Read more »
not at all, bomber harris was a disgrace, i suggest you watch the 6 hr documentary Greatest Story Never Told
Do not try and tell me Stalins people were not happy to be liberated.
Another point of view, tell me another leader who could have done what Stalin accomplished,maybe Churchill
Churchill – the bloviating, narcissistic, bi-polar, alcoholic (did I miss anything? Oh yes who received people in the nude….who never saw an opportunity for war that did not make him absolutely giddy with joy!!
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v09/v09p261_Irving.html
Churchill was a complete arsehole. Pol Pott or something killed a few million under communism tho
Who liberated Stalins People ?
Who were Stalin’s people exactly?
6.5 hr long documentary Greatest Story Never Told
So what? Russia did exactly the same.
actually no
There were 2 “WWII”s The Great Patriotic War in the east, which was a war against fascism. And the “WWII” in the west, which was a war between 2 competing versions of fascism.
Why bother with ethics as long as profits can be made.
“In Italy, like in most of western Europe, the ‘resistence’ had been led and greatly influenced by the survivors of the communists and socialists.” The resistance against fascists and Nazis consisted largely of Communists. They helped defeat the Nazis and were stabbed in the back by the Americans after the war. The resistance saved untold numbers of Jews, Romas and members of other out groups from death. Germany’s Communist party had been the main bulwark against the Nazi party, so as soon as Hitler became chancellor in 1933, he declared the Communist party illegal and thus Communists were the first… Read more »
Did you forget that the day after Hitler became chancellor Jews declared war on Hitler. They did it again in 1938…Small wonder he put them in camps.
Dickhead
WOW a real Einstein
http://rense.com/general84/declare.htm
“The USSR wasn’t communist after 1921; do your homework and mind your manners while you’re at it.”
Perhaps you can explain what the USSR WAS if not communist, and while talking about manners….oh never mind
How old are you?
Do as you’re told. ;o)
An empty suit…Oh well.
Some related references: Jacobsen, Annie. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America. First Back Bay paperback ed. New York, NY: Back Bay, Little & Brown, 2015. Lichtblau, Eric. The Nazis next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. Sutton, Antony C. Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler. San Pedro, California: GSG & Associates Publishers, 2002. Talbot, David. The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government. New York, NY: Harper, 2015. Black, Edwin, and Richard Farkas. IBM and the Holocaust: The… Read more »
“Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919 – 1933” by James Pool. This is an excellent but rarely cited book with lots of facts most people don’t know. Among other interesting facts, it reveals that there were Jewish sources of funding for the Nazis. Another book by the same author is “Hitler and His Secret Partners: Contributions, Loot and Rewards, 1933 – 1945′”. Pool emphasizes the rarely reported fact that by the 1930s, Hitler had become one of Europe’s richest men and owned one of Europe’s most valuable collections of art and rare books (Eduard… Read more »
Please understand that Europe is by and large Socialist. So while in the resistance my father was not fighting socialism, he was fighting the “moffen” (derogatory name for Germans during the war) who had invaded our country because they knew that Britain was going to invade Germany through either Holland/Belgium or France. What were the British doing at Dunkirk around the 20th of May 1940? ….Seems like the “moffen” had good intelligence which is why they invaded Holland/Belgium and France to prevent the British from coming. Hitler called Henry Ford “My mentor” Prescott Bush was the President of Union Banking… Read more »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Historical_Review
Do some homework.
And Wikipedia is an open source and far from being the arbiter of truth. This is standard orthodoxy which keeps the holocaust farce alive and well. It is a hoax. There was NO holocaust. There were no gas chambers….the carpet bombings by the US/UK caused Typhus epidemics – view pictures of emaciated bodies in mass graves..typical Typhus victims – The Anne Frank story is a hoax – Read Prof. Faurisson’s analysis . I believed like you until about 6 years ago. You need to get different sources and learn that nothing you think you know is in fact so. There… Read more »
In my articles, it is the arbiter of truth, certainly no less than the effusions of corp-0-rat publishing.
What was so bad about the nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939, that wasn’t bad about the Anglo-French–nazi Pact of 1938?
Mr. Quinn has fallen victim to the unthinking muttering of Western “intellectual elites” with this one bad statement “The Nazis would control the whole of mainland Europe and Eurasia, while the US would command the Western Hemisphere, the Far East,” Well, Mr. Quinn, if The US would command the “Far East” which we all understand to be so called “Asia” [so called by the West. The people of the Oriental countries didn’t used to use the term], which of course includes China, then who on earth are you referring to as “Eurasia”. After all, the Nazis have “Europe” and since… Read more »
That Pact bring Russians some time, they were pretty aware Hitler’s gonna break it. Now it’s a historical fact.