Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
"There is no doubt whatever that in time to come Germany must have her place in the world which will want her great scientific attainments and her energy. But before that time comes, clearly she must be purged of the brutal doctrines which have caused her to plunge Europe into war over and over again in the last century and which. . . have not altered in the German character for several hundred years past.
That means a real re-education of the German people, and it probably means also a splitting up of Germany in some way or other.
Above all things, it means definitely the splitting of the Prussian influence from the rest of Germany. . ."
Today, the average American looks at prosperous Germany - and, for that
matter, at wealthy Japan - and more often than not believes that this prosperity
and material well-being of erstwhile enemies is the result of a benign American
occupation after World War II.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Few Americans realize that, especially in the case of Germany, the Allied
occupation and its ramifications were as draconian a peace as can be imagined
- reminiscent of Rome's conquest of Carthage - and that absolutely nothing
was "benign" about it. While there were certain differences of
degree of viciousness between the Soviet Union's occupation and the other
three major Allies (France, Britain and the United States), their true intent,
namely the post-war destruction of the Reich and all typically called "German",
was uniform.
In defense of those who carried out this ethnic destruction of Germany,
it must be said that most of them had become victims of their own wartime
propaganda. This becomes apparent when one reads the directives to Allied
soldiers who arrived in Germany in the immediate postwar years. In these
general orders one can discover the recurring theme of ". . . Germany's
sole guilt for both world wars", for the alleged ". . . innate
German militarism", for a supposedly ". . . inborn brutality"
of all Germans, and for their implied ". . . tendency toward aggression
and love for war".
Immediately after the war, by Allied directives, German civil servants such
as mailmen, policemen, town officials, (including registrars of births and
deaths), railroad employees, teachers, administrators, and even cemetery
workers were prevented from performing their time-honored duties because
they may or may not have been members of the NSDAP - the so-called "Nazi
Party" - or its many affiliates. This way, right from the start, all
statistics and records were fudged and distorted.
AFTER the cessation of hostilities, and when the Germans were totally helpless,
the Allies next committed the most monstrous war crime in the entire European
history. As a result of the agreements of Yalta and Potsdam, 18 million
Germans were uprooted from their ancestral homes in Eastern and Southeastern
Europe and driven, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and what
few belongings they could carry, into the utterly destroyed remnants of
the Reich.
In the process, approximately 2.5 million of these unfortunates, mostly
women and children, were robbed, raped, beaten to death or died of cold
or starvation, or were simply left with a bullet in their bodies by the
roadside, forgotten by the world. Talk about some "ethnic cleansing"!
Additionally, in the two years following the German defeat, the Allies pursued their policies of demilitarization, demontage and denazification with a vengeance. When it was all over, not one German traditional institution was intact or recognizable: from soccer club to the Red Cross, from elementary schools to the top universities - everything had been turned upside down and altered.
This was mainly accomplished through:
1) the automatic arrest and incarceration of the entire German elite of about 300,000 people
2) the installation of unsavory elements (known Communist agitators, mostly Jews from German concentration camps) and others who, to this day, are merely known as "liberals" and
3) by installing Jewish immigrants who had emigrated to England, Canada or the USA in the PRE-war years to positions of power and influence in POST-war Germany.
This "re-education" process was augmented through the "cleansing"
of all German libraries and book stores of all books that presented a German
view of history or culture. Compared to this total raid and destruction
of a people's history and belief system, Dr. Goebbels's symbolic book burnings
in 1933 were mere child's play.
Wholesale thievery by the entire Allied soldateska was also a normal occurrence
- to this day, many postwar American pawn shops and camera stores owe their
existence to cameras and antiques "liberated" in Germany. The
recent revelations of the discoveries of German nation treasures in Texas
that were stolen from the Cathedral at Quendlinburg by an American soldier,
and the now confirmed existence of billions of dollars worth of German (and
other) art treasures hidden in Russia and other countries, are only the
tip of the iceberg.
To this one must add the removal of all ships, planes, foreign assets and
many complete factories. "America" particularly helped itself
to hundreds of thousands of German patents and trademarks and, ultimately,
even Germany's top scientists, not only in rocketry and the aircraft industry
- a wealth of the intellectual heritage of Germany. It is difficult to put
a price tag on this theft, but a recent development provides a clue.
Already during World War I, the United States confiscated the German assets
in this country as war spoils to the victor nations. Among them was the
trade mark "Bayer Aspirin". Ever since, the legal owners of this
trademark were forbidden to sell their product under their own name in the
United States and, one can assume, elsewhere in countries that dance to
the tune of Washington. Only in 1995 was the German Bayer Corporation in
a position to buy back their own trademark that had been stolen so long
ago, and re-enter the American market. For this trademark of a single product,
the Germans had to pay a cool 1 billion! And you thought that post-war America
was Germany's ally? Benefactor? Friend?
The official demilitarization of Germany ended about 1950, after the Korean
war had started, and when the Western Allies saw a need for German soldiers
as cannon fodder in their own ranks. The result was the participation of
West Germany in NATO, an instrument of power whose alleged purpose was the
defense of Western Europe against the Red menace, but one of whose main
function was and is to keep Germany chained to the West. One American writer
put it this way: "NATO is there to keep the Germans down, the Americans
in Europe, and the Russians out!"
Like so many of the Allied policies that had grown out of hate - and, naturally,
out of the phony Western belief in their own innocence - many of the irrational
actions of the victors backfired, as events were soon going to prove.
For instance, the fact that almost the entire German industrial potential
that had survived the ravages of war was subsequently either destroyed or
confiscated, forced the Germans to equip most factories with new and better
machines built according to new designs that had already been on the drawing
boards by 1945. This assured that the Germans as a whole could produce better
products cheaper than their victorious neighbors, who were still using the
stolen German machines, now outdated by German advances.
However, Germany's rapid recovery would not have been possible without the incredible discipline of the German workers who did not strike for higher wages while the rebuilding of the nation was still going on. That Germany recovered as much and as fast as it did can be credited to two factors that accounted for the Reich's resurgence and growth to an economic world power:
1. The typical traits inherent in the bulk of the German people - traits that had developed over millennia, namely honesty, thrift, punctuality, loyalty, dependability, the work ethic -and, last but not least, their legendary self-discipline, and
2. the fantastic education the managerial and working class of Germany had received during the Hitler years - and also the understanding by all levels of German society that THE NATION WAS ONE ORGANIC ENTERPRISE IN WHICH ALL HAD A ROLE TO FULFILL ACCORDING TO THEIR SKILLS OR LEVEL OF EDUCATION.
You see - Hitler was dead, but not his ideology as meant to benefit his
folk. It was no coincidence that some of the men such as the Deutsche Bank
chief Herrhausen and the head of the German industrialists, Schleyer, even
Chancellor Hellmut Schmidt, who reached the very pinnacle of German success
in the determining 1950s, 60s and 70s - before a brainwashed, "re-educated"
generation of Westernized zombies and vassals took over - had been graduates
of the Adolf Hitler schools, the NAPOLA, or of the Führerschulen of
the Waffen-SS.
So what you had in the first decades after World War II was a prostrate,
defeated nation with practically nothing left intact except what was still
in their hearts, heads and hands left of their value system - to give the
task at hand their all.
That value system, minus National Socialism, was now strapped as tightly
as could be into the yoke of tribute for building a new state - called "Israel".
Tomorrow: Heeeere's Hollywood!
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
A Lithuanian asked a prominent Bolshevik how the Communist regime in Russia was maintained. His answer:
"Our power is based on three things: first, on Jewish brains; secondly, on Lettish and Chinese bayonets; and thirdly, on the crass stupidity of the Russian people."
(As quoted by Sir Paul Dukes, formerly Chief of the British Secret Service in Russia, p. 303)