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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 09:52 AM
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Documents reveal CIA recruited five of Eichmann's associates: Haaretz
Edited on Sat Feb-05-05 09:53 AM by emad
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent

Five of Adolph Eichmann's Nazi assistants were recruited and employed by the Central Intelligence Agency after World War II, according to recently declassified intelligence documents.

The information came to light after a lengthy battle waged by the non-profit group, The National Security Archive, whose goal is to expose government documents under the framework of the Freedom of Information Act.

The newly-revealed documents are based on internal investigations in the CIA's history department. The agency has steadfastly refused to make the documents public for fear they would cause embarassment.

The revelations cast a negative light not only on American intelligence activity but also the U.S. Army's conduct in Germany at the conclusion of the war. The military made efforts to recruit members of the SS and the Gestapo into its ranks despite simultaenously waging a campaign of de-Nazification over vanquished Germany, a process which included arresting and trying Nazi war criminals.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/536364.html

EDIT: see recent DU:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1202371
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 09:54 AM
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1. Operation paperclip. Assholes. Hypocrits. nt
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:13 AM
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27. What Uncle Sam Really Wants - Short Online Book of our FP since WWII

What Uncle Sam Really Wants


Noam Chomsky

Copyright © 1993
Table of Contents

The main goals of US foreign policy

1. Protecting our turf
2. The liberal extreme
3. The "Grand Area"
4. Restoring the traditional order
5. Our commitment to democracy
6. The threat of a good example
7. The three-sided world

Devastation abroad

1. Our Good Neighbor policy
2. The crucifixion of El Salvador
3. Teaching Nicaragua a lesson
4. Making Guatemala a killing field
5. The invasion of Panama
6. Inoculating Southeast Asia
7. The Gulf War
8. The Iran/contra cover-up
9. The prospects for Eastern Europe
10. The world's rent-a-thug

Brainwashing at home

1. How the Cold War worked
2. The war on (certain) drugs
3. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
4. Socialism, real and fake
5. The media

The Future

1. Things have changed
2. What you can do
3. The struggle continues
4. Notes

read online...
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/sam/sam-contents.html


psst... pass the word

peace
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:18 AM
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28. Yeah, I know, I know.
What annoys me is that these morons think it's actually good policy.
It's been one stupid disaster after another since WWII, yet these
bozos continue. The surest sign of a corrupt and disfunctional
political system is that smooth-brained incompetents of the sort that
we have had running things here in the good old USA retain a firm
grip on power.
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:31 AM
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29. but many, many others don't know...
thats the problem and why they retain a firm grip on power.

it is our DUTY to pass the word to as many people as possible... and that is why i was piggybacking off your post for HIGHER visibility :evilgrin:

Thank GORE he 'INVENTED' the INTERNET's!

:hi:

peace
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:33 AM
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30. No problem. I've been known to do that myself. nt
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PDittie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 09:56 AM
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2. Posted 30 minutes ago (in GD):
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 10:16 AM
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3. hey the u.s. can be racist and heroic
all at the same time!
we have a history of it.
you know -- free the slaves then lynch them legally for years -- etc.
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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 10:22 AM
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4. Could give new meaning
to Ward Churchill's "little Eichmann's" charge. (there could have been people who worked for people who had worked for Eichmann in the CIA offices :shrug: )
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 10:32 AM
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5. People like Dulles and Nixon and Bush.
Bush Family Connection to NAZIs

EXCERPT...

1945: The Treasury Department revealed to congress that United Steel produced the following percentages of war munitions for the Nazis: Pig iron 50.8%; Pipe & tubes 45.5%; Universal plate 41.4%; Galvanised sheet 38.5%; Heavy plate 36%; Explosives 35%; Wire 22.1%. This is the same firm Prescott Bush acted, as banker for. In effect, Prescott was Hitler’s American banker.

Allen Dulles sought out a young Naval Officer that had been put in charge of some captured Nazi documents. If the documents surfaced it would have revealed Dulles as a traitor. In a deal to bury the documents, Dulles agreed to finance the young man’s first political race. This was the beginning of the political career of Richard Nixon.

Project Paperclip begins to import Nazis into the United States.

1946: Nixon defeated Jerry Voohris for congress with the help of an influx of money from New York centered banks.

1947: Following the war, authorities seeking to locate the Dutch Royal family’s jewelry discovered the transaction papers of the Silesian American Corporation in the books of Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart. The bank manager, H.J. Kounhoven came under intense scrutiny and was shocked by the discovery. Soon Kounhoven traveled to New York to inform Prescott Bush. Two weeks later, the otherwise healthy Dutch banker died of a heart attack.

1950: Prescott Bush defeated in his political race due to his background association with the American eugenics movement.

CONTINUED...

http://www.country-liberal-party.com/pages/Bush-Nazi-links.htm
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:36 AM
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31. Prescott Bush and Operation Paperclip?
http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi_2

“Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951” - Federal Documents
By John Buchanan and Stacey Michael
from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003

---------------------snip-------------------------------------

The discovery of the Bush-Nazi documents raises new questions about the role of Prescott Bush and his influential business partners in the secret emigration of Nazi war criminals, which allowed them to escape justice in Germany," says Bob Fertik, co-founder of Democrats.com and an amateur 'Nazi hunter.' "It also raises questions about the importance of Nazi recruits to the CIA in its early years, in what was called Operation Paperclip, and Prescott Bush's role in that dark operation."

Fertik and others, including former Justice Department Nazi war crimes prosecutor John Loftus, a Constitutional attorney in Miami, and a former Veterans Administration official, believe Prescott Bush and the Harrimans should have been tried for treason.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 12:01 AM
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40. Kleines Welt, eh?
James Jesus Angleton believed Averell Harriman might be a Soviet spy. If he was compromised by the KGB, it's likely so was Bush and the rest of the NAZI-loving BFEE. After all, many of the Operation PAPERCLIP volk brought over with the Gehlen ORG were themselves Commie moles. It's really an ugly topic to think about, but these turds being triple-spies or a double-traitors must be faced and examined.

Paranoid shift

Commentary
By Michael Hasty
Online Journal Contributing Writer

January 10, 2004—Just before his death, James Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, was a bitter man. He felt betrayed by the people he had worked for all his life. In the end, he had come to realize that they were never really interested in American ideals of "freedom" and "democracy." They really only wanted "absolute power."

Angleton told author Joseph Trento that the reason he had gotten the counterintelligence job in the first place was by agreeing not to submit "sixty of Allen Dulles' closest friends" to a polygraph test concerning their business deals with the Nazis. In his end-of-life despair, Angleton assumed that he would see all his old companions again "in hell."

The transformation of James Jesus Angleton from an enthusiastic, Ivy League cold warrior, to a bitter old man, is an extreme example of a phenomenon I call a "paranoid shift." I recognize the phenomenon, because something similar happened to me.

Although I don't remember ever meeting James Jesus Angleton, I worked at the CIA myself as a low-level clerk as a teenager in the '60s. This was at the same time I was beginning to question the government's actions in Vietnam. In fact, my personal "paranoid shift" probably began with the disillusionment I felt when I realized that the story of American foreign policy was, at the very least, more complicated and darker than I had hitherto been led to believe.

SNIP...

In his book, "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower," William Blum warns of how the media will make anything that smacks of "conspiracy theory" an immediate "object of ridicule." This prevents the media from ever having to investigate the many strange interconnections among the ruling class—for example, the relationship between the boards of directors of media giants, and the energy, banking and defense industries. These unmentionable topics are usually treated with what Blum calls "the media's most effective tool—silence." But in case somebody's asking questions, all you have to do is say, "conspiracy theory," and any allegation instantly becomes too frivolous to merit serious attention.

CONTINUED...

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/011004Hasty/011004hasty.html

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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 01:50 PM
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15. Shush,
Edited on Sat Feb-05-05 01:51 PM by DulceDecorum
someone might hear you.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 02:02 PM
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16. Does the "Deep Throat" thingy tie-in to this?
:shrug:
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gottaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 10:19 PM
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18. Not buying. It does though lend credence to a certain conspiracy theory.
Edited on Sat Feb-05-05 10:20 PM by gottaB
In my mind.

Here is the ah hah: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3045645#3058279

Here is something to think about: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1199304#1210313

And a cautionary note: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3055908#3056845

Those two posters are both astute, and more attuned to such goings on than I am. But my curiosity has been piqued, and the wheels of my imagination have been set in motion, so I'm going to spin a wee little yarn here in which any resemblence to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

In 1972 the American Indian Movement came to the attention of President Richard Nixon in the form of a Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington. Nixon, being a devious and hostile man, decided that the movement must be destroyed. He was informed that although the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) had been officially terminated the year before, the Bureau still had moles and agents provacateur working within the American Indian Movement. Nixon concluded that the Bureau's agents were failing miserably. He turned to his friend George Herbert Walker Bush for help.

Conveniently Bush, who was ostensibly serving as UN Ambassador (in fact he reported to Kissinger, head of the NSA), kept a secret office in the White House. It was the same office Bush worked from as head of the RNC, beginning that next year.

Bush understood that the job Nixon wanted done called for the CIA. DCI Helms, a career intelligence professional, was regarded as useless. Bush, however, had close contacts at Langley and was quickly able to put together a mission to crush the American Indian Movement.

Enter Warren Kirchengast. Kirchengast had been recruited by the CIA during a tour of Viet Nam. Upon returning to the States, he had been planted to hang around the fringes of the antiwar movement and various leftist activist groups. By 1972 he had developed a reputation among COINTELPRO agents as a potential wacko. The Bureau's agents of course had no idea that Kirchengast was a CIA mole. Kirchengast was assigned to infiltrate and cripple the American Indian Movement by any means necessary.

Fade to black.

Operation Paperclip is coming home to roost. Kirchengast, having completed his original assignment, is reactivated. The campaign to seriously discredit him begins in 2000. In early 2001 he is given the phrase "little Eichmanns" and told to plant it upon receiving orders. In September of 2001 he recieves his orders.


Is this story anything but unadulterated hogwash? See the caveats and cautionary notes above. But also, try a little experiment on yourself. Try some free association with the name "Eichmann." How deep do you have to dig to come up with the name "Ward Churchill"? How far away is "Prescott Bush"? What is your emotional reaction to the associations you have?

</conspiracy theory mode>

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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:55 AM
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32. OMG *LOL* crazy memory of that wacko "anti-war" female charged,...
,...with treason. You remember the one that got all that attention and was placed under arrest for conspiring with the enemy or whatever. She came off as hysterical and just plain weird!!!

When I saw her, I cracked up because she was like a cartoon. Whatever happened to her? I can't even remember her name.
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gottaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 02:52 PM
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37. I don't remember any woman being arrested for conspiring with the enemy
Or whatever. Did this happen recently? Is this an association you had with the name "Eichmann"?

NB: I am not old enough to have memories of COINTELPRO or the Viet Nam war.
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 10:55 AM
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6. British attempts to free Hess from Spandau.....:
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 10:56 AM
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7. Poland in uproar over leak of spy files:
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 11:10 AM
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8. One of Joe McCarthy's first causes was to free the Malmedy Massacrers
You'll remember them, they were the SS guys who machine-gunned American prisoners during the Battle of the Bulge.

We actively recruited complete hard-core Nazis, especially if they had any experience against the Soviets. The Croatian Fascists also got shielded for years: we wanted anyone who was anti-communist from that part of the world.

Remember the term that was used after WW 2 to tar the leftist volunteers who had fought in Spain? It was "premature anti-fascist".

It's all about corporatism and protecting the incredibly wealthy from unions, regulations, nationalization, taxation and any other annoyances that could take away their god-given privilege. Nothing new here, folks; the entire history of the 20th century in America was a continual attempt to keep these people at bay. Things don't look good at the moment, do they?
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 11:19 AM
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9. Wow! No wonder we seem to be so influenced by their methods.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 11:46 AM
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10. Do as we say, not as we have done for yeeeeers. Hypocrites.
Won't sign onto the ICC, won't sign onto Kyoto, ripping up the non-nuclear proliferation treaty, torturing whomever we please.... doing everything we tell, no demand that others don't do. It's a shame when a nation feels that there is no power greater in existence than itself. This behavior usually beckons a wake-up call of the first order.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 11:51 AM
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11. I wonder if this will reach the light of day in the U.S.A. n/t
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 11:59 AM
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12. CIA subcontracted more than a hundred German Third Reich vets
to Egypt


The C.I.A. & The Muslim BrotherhoodHow the CIA set the stage for Sept11


Reverend Franklin Graham, the pugnacious preacher who delivered the prayer at President George W. Bush's 2001 inauguration, might have a bone to pick with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). When Franklin branded Islam "a very evil and wicked religion" after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he had no idea that American spies were once eager to promote a Muslim leader in the Middle East modeled after his own father, the famous evangelist Billy Graham.

The CIA often works in mysterious ways - and so it was with this little-known cloak-and-dagger caper that set the stage for extensive collaboration between US intelligence and Islamic extremists. The genesis of this ill-starred alliance dates back to Egypt in the mid-1950s, when the CIA made discrete overtures to the Muslim Brotherhood, the influential Sunni fundamentalist movement that fostered Islamic militancy throughout the Middle East. What started as a quiet American flirtation with political Islam became a Cold War love affair on the sly - an affair that would turn out disastrously for the United States. Nearly all of today's radical Islamic groups, including al-Qaeda, trace their lineage to the Brotherhood.

.............

To understand what happened on that fateful day when terrorist strikes leveled the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon, one must revisit the turbulent changes that took place a half century earlier in the land of the sphinx. After seizing power in a 1952 military coup Egyptian Col. Gamal Abdul Nasser quickly threw prominent Communists in jail. This raised eyebrows among US cloak-and-dagger operatives who were eager to oblige when Nasser requested help in upgrading Egypt's ineffectual secret service. But the US government "found it highly impolitic to help him directly," the late CIA agent Miles Copeland acknowledged in his memoirs, The Game of Nations , so the CIA subcontracted more than a hundred German Third Reich vets, who specialized in Nazi security and interrogation techniques, to do the job.

..............

Copeland was off and running. He visited several Egyptian mosques in search of an Islamic preacher who could sway the Arab masses in a manner most congenial to US interests. Although Copeland never found the CIA's messiah, his furtive machinations were not without impact. While on the prowl for a Muslim Billy Graham, Copeland reached out to leaders of the religious revival movement known as the Ikhwan, or Muslim Brotherhood, which sought to build an Islamic society from the bottom up. The seeds of a clandestine relationship between the CIA and the Ikhwan were planted by Copeland, who surmised that the Muslim Brothers, by virtue of their strong antipathy to Arab nationalism as well as Communism, might be a viable counterweight to Nasser in the years ahead, US intelligence would become a defacto partner of the Brotherhood as it evolved from a mass-based social reform organization into the wellspring of Islamic terrorism.

Martin Lee
Razor Magazine 08042004

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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 10:33 PM
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20. Does the Franklin Cover-Up tie into any of this?
I'm wondering if these Nazis, working within the CIA had any connection to the Franklin Cover-Up or other child-exploitation crimes?

I know very little about the Franklin Cover Up, but I did some reading that led me in many directions. I read about MK Ultra and other "mind control" experiments that have been done on children.

Were the children involved in the Franklin Cover Up a part of mind control? Or was this purely exploiting them for sexual purposes?

Some of the adults who claim that they were part of the Franklin Cover Up (Paul Binacci) and other cult-like rings--describe mind control techniques that sound Naziesque.

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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 10:40 PM
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21. I've come to think so.
When you dig into the mind control material, included the protected ritualized abuse of children, there are many indicators of a Nazi legacy.

Google the "Greenbaum Speech" of Dr D Corydon Hammond if you want to make your head spin.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 11:57 PM
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23. Can I ask your opinion....
Edited on Sat Feb-05-05 11:59 PM by TwoSparkles
Mind if I pick your brain a bit? You seem to know a great deal about this topic. I've appreciated your insight in other threads...

What was the government's purpose in using these "Nazi" mind-control techniques on children?

Were the mind-control techniques used to silence the children, to keep a lid on the organized sex rings that were ongoing?

Or was the sexual abuse just one part of larger mind-control research or experimentation?

If I'm not mistaken, you've mentioned the Johnny Gosh abduction/disappearance on the board. I read up on that and found some very interesting material, written by Gosh's mother. She alleges that her son was abducted to participate in a govt-run child-sex ring. She bases her assertions on very-powerful evidence, including testimony from Paul Binacci--a victim of the Franklin Cover Up who sued and won damages for the pain and suffering he endured.

I'm wondering...why would the govt be involved in this sick stuff? Just because they can? Or are they researching mind-control techniques?

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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:20 AM
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24. It's complicated and murky, but this is what I think:
there seems to be a branch of Nazi-influenced mind control research that has used young children as subjects. It appears the younger the subject, the less resistant they are to programming. Trauma is used to intentionally fragment the personality, and create "alters."

Why would they do it? I think because they are pure materialists, in the philosophical sense.

There's an interesting lecture here by Jon Rappaport on "The CIA, Mind Control and Children" that makes that point:

"I would say this is a Nazi project, but a lot of the Nazis are American-born. It shouldn't be excused or explained away on that basis because as we know, if we look at Nazi psychiatry for example, they learned a lot from the Americans, especially about eugenics. This is not something where we should say, '...well, the Nazis took over....' This is home-grown stuff. This is Americana at its worst, at its lowest form. This is also the sub-sub-basement that you walk into when you are a materialist, when that is your philosophy. And I don't mean you are a materialist in the sense that you want money, possessions ... I mean, philosophically. The materialist position is that we are meat, and tissue, and cells, and electrical impulses, and that's it. When that system collapses, we are gone, never to return. My own feeling is that when you espouse and embrace that philosophy, the ultimate, ultimate sub-basement that you end up in is that sub-basement ... that's where you end up. Finally, that's where it all comes out."
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bin.dare Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 02:08 PM
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36. don't blame materialist philosophy for the debauched ...
... behavior of some. Here is a Marxist view of philosophy:

The history of philosophy is the history of the struggle between two mutually opposed schools of philosophy --- idealism and materialism. Further, these theories have been developed by people belonging to a definite social class.

Idealism was the product of the ignorance and superstition of primitive peoples. Idealism, in the process of its historical development, represents the ideology of the exploiting classes and serves reactionary purposes.

By contrast, materialist philosophy is the world view of the revolutionary class; in a class society, it grows and develops in the midst of an incessant struggle against the reactionary philosophy of idealism. It is based on empiricism, on the direct observation of measurable or observable phenomena; materialist philosophy is interested in studying how the human mind, via the senses, perceives external reality, and particularly with the idea of how we know things objectively, without the interference of emotions or preconceived ideas about things. Marxism or historical materialisn shows that history, or social change, occurs via human forces, and not because of God, destiny, or some unknown non-human force that shapes events. It is interested in how humans have created material culture, i.e. tools, objects, the material things that we use to live our lives every day, and in how this material culture has formed the basis for historical change.

Idealism should have declined ages ago, but actually has developed and carried on a struggle for supremacy with materialism from which neither seems to be emerging as victor. The reason lies in the continued division of society into classes. In its own interest, the oppressing class must develop and reinforce its idealist doctrines; the oppressed classes, likewise in their own interest, must develop and reinforce their materialist doctrines. Both idealism and materialism are weapons in the class struggle, and the struggle between idealism and materialism cannot disappear so long as classes continue to exist. Consequently, the history of the struggle between idealism and materialism in philosophy reflects the struggle of interests between the reactionary class and the revolutionary class.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 11:24 PM
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22. Go back to when Hitler met Dietrich Eckart
Hitler wanted to turn the German Workers Party into a mass-conscious fighting party, but Harrer and Drexler were hesitant, due in part to their woeful financial situation. The Thule Society was not yet supplying very much money and no one seemed to know how to build up a mass party. Hitler arranged two public meetings in obscure beer halls, and he drafted leaflets and posters, but there was no real breakthrough.

All of this changed dramatically at the end of the 1919 when Hitler met Dietrich Eckart. Most biographers have underestimated the influence that Eckart exerted on Hitler. He was the wealthy publisher and editor-in-chief of an anti-semitic journal which he called In Plain German. Eckart was also a committed occultist and a master of magic. As an initiate, Eckart belonged to the inner circle of the Thule Society as well as other esoteric orders.

Briefly, the creed of the Thule Society inner circle is as follows: Thule was a legendary island in the far north, similar to Atlantis, supposedly the center of a lost, high-level civilization. But not all secrets of that civilization had been completely wiped out. Those that remained were being guarded by ancient, highly intelligent beings (similar to the "Masters" of Theosophy or the White Brotherhood). The truly initiated could establish contact with these beings by means of magic-mystical rituals. The "Masters" or "Ancients" allegedly would be able to endow the initiated with supernatural strength and energy. With the help of these energies the goal of the initiated was to create a race of Supermen of "Aryan" stock who would exterminate all "inferior" races.

There can be no doubt that Eckart - who had been alerted to Hitler by other Thulists - trained Hitler in techniques of self confidence, self projection, persuasive oratory, body language and discursive sophistry. With these tools, in a short period of time he was able to move the obscure workers party from the club and beer hall atmosphere to a mass movement. The emotion charged lay speaker became an expert orator, capable of mesmerizing a vast audience.

One should not underestimate occultism's influence on Hitler. His subsequent rejection of Free Masons and esoteric movements, of Theosophy, of Anthrosophy, does not necessarily mean otherwise. Occult circles have long been known as covers for espionage and influence peddling. Hitler's spy apparatus under Canaris and Heydrich were well aware of these conduits, particularly from the direction of Britain which had within its MI5 intelligence agency a department known as the Occult Bureau. That these potential sources of trouble were purged from Nazi life should not be taken to mean that Hitler and the Nazi secret societies were not influenced by mystical and occult writers such as Madame Blavatsky, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Guido Von List, Lanz Von Liebenfels, Rudolf Steiner, George Gurdjieff, Karl Haushofer and Theodor Fritsch. Although Hitler later denounced and ridiculed many of them, he did dedicate his book Mein Kampf to his teacher Dietrich Eckart.
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http://www.geocities.com/okar_review/hitlertibet.html


In 1923, on his deathbed, Hitler's mentor Dietrich Eckart, a dedicated Satanist and central figure in the Occult Thule Society and a founder member of the Nazi party, said:


'Follow Hitler ! He will dance, but it is I who have called the tune !'
'I have initiated him into the 'Secret Doctrine', opened his centres in vision and given him the means to communicate with the Powers.'

'Do not mourn for me: I shall have influenced history more than any other German.'

http://web.org.uk/picasso/spear.html


Nazi Interest in Parapsychology and the Paranormal
There was widespread interest by the Nazis in various paranormal topics. Albert Speer was clearly very interested in geomancy and the ley lines and sacred spots of Germany, and some of his architecture betrays knowledge of principles of mystical geometry and numerology. The Vril Society in Germany promoted the idea that there might be a mystical energy within the earth that could be tapped by the German people, although Bulwer-Lytton had maintained it was the property of a race living inside the earth. It is well known that Hitler consulted astrologers for propitious dates for his military campaigns and employed dowsers on the battlefield to search for water and for minefields. There was also some interest by the Nazi cadres in parapsychology as an espionage device - research that appears to be carried along by the intelligence apparati of the two victorious Allied powers (our CIA and the Soviet KGB.) Further, the Nazis were interested in antigravity and 'free energy' devices. Viktor Shauberger, a Nazi scientist, worked on a saucer design for one of his 'antigravity' ships16. For a long time, it was believed that the 'foo fighters' and 'ghost rockets' of the 1940s were a secret Nazi weapon, and there was a small minority that thought the Nazis may have created the 'flying saucers,' though the ETH-UFO hypothesis caught on soon after, by 1949.
But what captivated Hitler's interest most of all was his interest in hypnosis or the occult powers of 'fascination.' Witnesses of the Nuremberg rallies claim that people there were in a trancelike state, glassy-eyed and open mouthed with awe. Hitler claimed to have studied the mystical charismatic powers of earlier leaders, and read a great deal about the Jesuits' psychological techniques of focused concentration and devotion. It is certain that Hitler's minister Goebbels did employ carefully crafted techniques of social control - lighting, the tenor of the voice, and crowd psychology - for maximum propaganda value. But Trevor Rayvenscroft and others are of the opinion that the Nazis may have been more than just master propagandists; they may have been true sorcerous mesmerists, possessing the minds of thousands of people. Some people maintain the CIA's MKUltra mind-control experiments may have been derived from Nazi researchers smuggled into this country through Project Paperclip17.

http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/occult-reich.html


HITLER'S THULE SOCIETY -- AN OVERVIEW

Let us begin with a quick overview of the German Thule Society, beginning with a study of its practices and relevant history. Members were Satanists who practiced Black Magick -- this means that they were "solely concerned with raising their consciousness by means of rituals to awareness of evil and nonhuman intelligences in the universe; and with achieving means of communication with these intelligences." (Ravenscroft, Spear of Destiny, p. 161). Concentrate on that seemingly innocent word, rituals. Christians equate a ritual to a church service, thereby not understanding its occultic meaning. The New Age Dictionary defines ritual as a "ceremony to restore balance with nature...and bring back lost harmony and sacredness." Remember we are dealing with the Satanic world, where good is called evil and evil is called good. The sacredness mentioned here is a Satanic sacredness. Rituals literally are proscribed activities designed to allow demonic power to flow through the participants. These activities are proscribed chants, formula wordings, and carefully planned actions. The effect is devastatingly powerful, as demonic force pours through the participants, delivering a counterfeit spiritual experience which literally transforms their lives. Never skip over the word ritual, as it is a word of Satanic power.

Thule members practiced a form of Sexual Magic derived from a lodge of which Aleister Crowley was a member. Crowley was recognized as the foremost worshipper of Satan in the 19th Century. "The origin of this...medieval magic...can be traced to a Freemason, Robert Little, who founded the Societas Rosicruciana in 1865... (Ravenscroft, Spear of Destiny, p. 164-5). While the actual sexual perversions which were practiced are too offensive to share, the results are not. Author Revenscroft stated that "indulgence in the most sadistic rituals awakened penetrating vision into the workings of Evil Intelligences and bestowed phenomenal magical powers." (Ibid. p. 167). This is the Thule Society.

Ravenscroft records its effect upon Hitler, "...sexual perversion took a central place in life...a monstrous sexual perversion was the very core of his whole existence, the source of his mediumistic and clairvoyant powers, and the motivation behind every act through which he reaped a sadistic vengeance on humanity." (Ibid., p. 171).

Eckart's final act was to initiate Hitler into "a monstrous sadistic magic ritual...after which he was sexually impotent. Hitler's impotency had a deep psychological foundation. He knew sexual fulfillment through the extremes of sadism and masochism..."(Ravenscroft, p. 155, 173). This impotency delivered a final devastating blow to Hitler's psychological foundation, finally making him into the sadistic murderer that history knows.

CONTINUED...

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1314.cfm



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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 12:10 PM
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13. Henry Kissinger was part of PAPERCLIP.
Lots of folks were giving Nazi war criminals identities as "Americans working in national security" to help battle godless communism.
This was the original "intelligence failure"-the use of Nazis.
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Voltaire99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 12:29 PM
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14. Shhhh! Don't talk about this!
WWII is one of the most profitable mythologies in America. If Murricans begin to see the differences between themselves and Nazis blurring, what will happen to the publishing, movie, TV and video game industries--let alone the Hitler, er, the History Channel?

Jesus. Next thing they'll be telling us is Col. Hogan used to fluff Klink in Burchalter's staff car!
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 06:06 PM
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17. Eichmann's henchmen were the evil charged with the "Final Solution."
It's maddening to think these scum could be of any "use" to our country in the Cold War. The reality is, Dulles and the Good Old Boys needed reasons to escalate hostilities with the Soviets to keep the American people on edge and give an excuse for the resulting war-time Pentagon budgets. In addition to helping maintain the engines of death humming, benefiting most the ruling elites of the world.

PS: Knowing that top NAZI mass murderers became part of America's "Secret Team," how can anyone doubt whether the CIA's top dogs are behind the global drug trade? Or the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 10:21 PM
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19. See, Murika is bullshit. Commit the right crime, get rich! Being poor
is the worst offense a man can make. Well, next to being
highly intelligent that is.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 08:11 AM
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25. Whats with all you hate America types?
If the US must be friends with the Nazis, the bin Ladens, and the Saddams when it suits our needs, thats just the way it is. We are the chosen ones so it is alright for "us" to do these things. It doesn't make no difference they were responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people. Now go out and purchase one of them Made In China "Support The Troops" magnets for you car and get over it.

Don

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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:11 AM
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26. One magnet isn't enough
In my experience, you have to have two or more to be a real American. ;)

The people with one magnet are just posers. True patriots buy more than one.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 05:24 PM
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39. When the "Made in China" help seduce the Iraq is alright mindset
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sattahipdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 11:04 AM
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33. Good Americans
Project Paperclip -- A successful American operation which brought to the U.S.
literally hundreds of top aerospace and munitions experts from Nazi Germany to form the
corporate leadership and the expertise behind the technological and military advances of a
growing military-industrial I complex.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/GoodAmericans.html#fn10

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sattahipdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 11:26 AM
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34. Ward Churchill said his speech had been misinterpreted
Edited on Sun Feb-06-05 11:57 AM by sattahipdeep
When queried by reporters concerning his views on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in
November 1963, Malcolm X famously -- and quite charitably, all things considered -- replied
that it was merely a case of "chickens coming home to roost."

On the morning of September 11, 2001, a few more chickens -- along with some half-million
dead Iraqi children -- came home to roost in a very big way at the twin towers of New York's
World Trade Center. Well, actually, a few of them seem to have nestled in at the Pentagon as
well.

The Iraqi youngsters, all of them under 12, died as a predictable -- in fact, widely predicted --
result of the 1991 US "surgical" bombing of their country's water purification and sewage
facilities, as well as other "infrastructural" targets upon which Iraq's civilian population depends
for its very survival. Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply, by Thomas J. Nagy, The Progressive, September 2001.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/WC091201.html


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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:43 PM
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35. Thanks sattahipdeep


In the vogue words of the time, the Scholls and their friends represented the “other” Germany, the land of poets and thinkers, in contrast to the Germany that was reverting to barbarism and trying to take the world with it. What they were and what they did would have been “other” in any society at any time. What they did transcended the easy division of good-German/bad-German and lifted them above the nationalism of time-bound events. Their actions made them enduring symbols of the struggle, universal and timeless, for the freedom of the human spirit wherever and whenever it is threatened.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/rose.html


"We emphatically point out that the white rose is not in the pay of any foreign power. Although we know that the national socialist power must be broken by military means, we seek the revival of the deeply wounded German spirit".

"Do not forget the minor scoundrels of this system. Note their names, so that no one may escape... We shall not be silent- we are your bad conscience. The white rose will not leave you in peace!"

"...Freedom and honor! For ten years Hitler and his accomplices have abused, distorted, debased these noble German words... and cast the most precious values of the nation to the swine. During this ten years destruction of all material and spiritual values they showed what freedom and honor mean to them. This horrible blood bath which they have caused throughout europe has opened the eyes of even the most naive and simpleminded German... The name of Germany will be dishonored forever, lest German youth finally rise to smash his tormentors and invoke a new, intellectual and spiritual europe.

Stalingrad's dead implore us! rise up, my people, the fiery beacons beckon!"


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sattahipdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 03:00 PM
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38. Final Judgment:
International War Crimes Tribunal

The members of the International War Crimes Tribunal, meeting in New York, have carefully considered
the Initial Complaint of the Commission of Inquiry dated May 6, 1991 against President George H. W.
Bush, Vice President J. Danforth Quayle, Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, Gen. Norman
Schwarzkopf Commander of the Allied Forces in the Persian Gulf, and others named in the Complaint
charging them with nineteen separate crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in
violation of the Charter of the United Nations, the 1949 Geneva Conventions

http://www.deoxy.org/wc/warcrim3.htm

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