The Rise of the Nazis

Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933 and drove Jews, many of whom were Communist, out of German government positions. As a result, in July 1933, the Jews held a World Conference in Amsterdam and demanded the reinstatement of every Jew to his former position. Hitler refused and Samuel Untermyer (an Ashkenazi Jew who had previously blackmailed President Wilson and was now the head of the American delegation and President of the Conference) returned to the USA where he made a radio speech. It included the following statements.

"...the Jews are the aristocrats of the world...Our campaign is...the economic boycott against all German goods, shipping and services...What we are proposing...is to prosecute a purely defensive economic boycott that will undermine the Hitler regime and bring the German people to their senses by destroying their export trade on which their very existence depends... ...Each of you, Jew and Gentile alike...must refuse to deal with any merchant or shopkeeper who sells any German-made goods or who patronises German ships or shipping." 

 At the time, two thirds of Germany's food supply had to be imported, and this could only be paid for with the proceeds from exports. If Germany could not export then two thirds of her population would starve. Jews throughout America, protested outside and damaged stores where they found products marked "Made in Germany." Many stores were forced to dump German products or face bankruptcy. 

The Germans, who up to this point had demonstrated no violence towards any Jews, began boycotting Jewish stores in the same way and anti-semitism began to increase.

Samuel Landman (at the time, secretary to the World Zionist Organisation), in his 1936 book, "Great Britain, The Jews, and Palestine" describes the entry of the USA into World War 1,

"The fact that it was Jewish help that brought USA into the War on the side of the Allies has rankled ever since in German ­ especially Nazi ­ minds, and has contributed in no small measure to the prominence which anti-Semitism occupies in the Nazi programme."

On 7th November 1938, a Jew called Herschel Grynszpan, assassinated Ernst vom Rath who was a minor official at the German Embassy in Paris. German hostility towards German Jews began to turn violent.

Meanwhile, Swiss banking laws had been reformed to make it an offence resulting in imprisonment if any bank employee violated bank secrecy. This was in preparation for the Rothschild engineered World War 2 where, as usual they intended to fund both sides.

IBM (financed by the Rothchilds) began to supply punch card machines to the Nazis to help them manage the identification of Jews. This led to their social expulsion, the confiscation of their property and eventually their attempted extermination.

I.G. Farben (controlled by the Rothchilds) were the leading chemical production company in the world and largest German producer of steel. They began to dramatically increase production and the results were almost exclusively used to arm Germany for World War 2. This company would go on to use Jews and other disaffected peoples as slave labour in concentration camps. I.G. Farben also created the lethal Zyklon B gas that was used to exterminate the Jews.

World War 2 began on 1st September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. The German leadership were Christians who understood that Soviet Russia was led by Rothschild funded Communists and they feared that, as the Soviet Union grew in strength, these Jewish Communists intended to invade and wipe all Christians off the map.

The Reichstag Fire and 911

On 22nd February 1933, a young communist called Marinus van der Lubbe carried out an arson attack on the the Reichstag  Building in Berlin which is the main assembley location for the German Parliament. Adolf Hitler had been sworn in as German Chancellor four weeks earlier and he used this as evidence of a communist plot in operation. He manipulated the situation President Paul von Hindenburg and persuaded him to pass an emergency decree suspending civil liberties which enabled Hitler to organise a series of mass arrests of Communist party members. This included all the Communist Party Parliamentary delegates and the Nazis thus managed to eliminate their main political rivals at a stroke and became the majority party in German Parliament.

Whether van der Lubbe acted alone is still a matter for debate and it has been suggested that the Nazis carried out the attack as an under cover operation to discredit their political opponents. Hitler and the Nazis certainly used the situation to consolidate their political power but was President von Hindenberg very naive in issuing the emergency decree. To be fair, he could not have forseen the far reaching consequences of his actions

On September 11th 2001, the World Trade Center in New York was attacked and the USA adopted a whatever it takes approach to punish those responsible. Security concerns were deemed to be more important than individual civil liberties but some of the tactics used, when details emerged, could be described as questionable at the very least. Tales of secret prisons, the rendition of terror suspects, waterboarding and the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq produced a collective guilty conscience in the USA population.  Widespead wire tapping, arrest without trial and invasive airport security are other examples which are not just confined to the USA and have gradually increased in severity 

It is difficult to ignore the similarities between the Reichstag fire and 911. In each case, ordinary people were persuaded to give up their liberty for increased security. What will be the consquences this time?

In 1945, Nazi Germany was defeated and Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker. Twelve years after the Reichstag Fire and the world was able to move on. 

Thirteen years have passed since 911 and there is still no let up is in sight. A supposed terrorist threat means security is still more important than individual freedom and our hard won, long established civil liberties are still being slowly eroded. Each reduction is barely noticeable but taken as whole, over a period of time the effect will be very significant. Nobody notices and nothing is said. 

There is a famous quote by Edmund Burke:

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"

In Nazi Germany, the good men stood aside while the Jews were persecuted because it didn't concern them. In post 911 USA, the good men said nothing while innocent men were imprisoned without trial. 

Who will be next? Maybe it's your turn?