The Ruling Elite

by Deanna Spingola

  Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, then a journalist, could afford to travel to Europe, along with two cameramen, where he interviewed Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin. On March 5, 1933, Adolf Hitler was just about to address an exuberant crowd at the Sports Palace in Berlin. Vanderbilt managed to briefly speak to Hitler who told Vanderbilt that Germany had “been threatened with disintegration and loss of honor for fifteen long years.” Vanderbilt asked him about the Jews but Hitler brushed him off and said, “My people are waiting for me!” Hitler referred him to Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl, his foreign press chief. “He will tell you about the Jews and all the other things that seem to bother America.” 1327

  Vanderbilt, now back in America, had footage of Jewish immigrants leaving Germany, which the German Consul in Chicago insisted was altered. Motion Picture Daily began promoting his view of the “Nazi oppression of the Jews.” He hired Mike Mindlin, a Jewish film director, who had just finished This Nude World, a groundbreaking “documentary.” Vanderbilt, who played himself, hired NBC reporter Edwin C. Hill as the interviewer. Vanderbilt’s movie, Hitler’s Reign of Terror, one of the first anti-Nazi films, opened on Broadway on April 30, 1934. It included newsreel footage, showed frenzied crowds burning books, torchlight parades, speeches at the boycott Germany rally in New York and other scenes devised to incite hatred against Hitler and Germany. Censors banned the film. 1328

  Despite Vanderbilt’s efforts to update the film, it vanished until just recently. In April 2013, Thomas Doherty, a Brandeis University professor, published the book, Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939. He was successful in finding other anti-Nazi films and searched for a copy of Hitler’s Reign of Terror. Roel Vande Winkel told him that Nicola Mazzanti, of the Royal Belgium Film Archive in Brussels, had a copy. The New Yorker acquired an excerpt of the film, which had obvious fabrications. Vanderbilt tells Hill (narrator) about the troubles he had in “Hitler’s country.” Hill asked Vanderbilt, “Is it your belief that Europe is getting ready for another world war… is she trying to force another such war on humanity?” Remember, this is 1934, both Hill and Vanderbilt concluded that Germany was preparing for warfare. 1329

  On June 13, 1942, FDR created the Office of War Information (OWI) with Executive Order 9182, which focused on “winning the war.” 1330 It devised propaganda to resemble independent legitimate news agencies, like the government-created United News, which produced newsreels for domestic and foreign distribution. The newsreels described the violence of our enemies, which stimulated distrust, revulsion, and indignation—effective recruiting tactics. At the same time, the newsreels incited a feeling of American superiority, elevating citizens to a higher moral ground. OWI produced several radio series and persuaded Hollywood personalities to do their patriotic duty by endorsing government activities. Frank Capra made his film series Why We Fight for the War Department. 1331 Hatred of Hitler erupted into intolerance and hatred of all Germans. Demonized enemies are easier to kill. Ethically challenged government officials typically repudiate horrific war crimes while committing and concealing comparable offenses committed by ordinary citizens, swayed by emotion-filled words and soul-stirring anthems, which provoke them to act violently against foreigners.

  Dr. Kenneth Levin, a popular, contemporary Israeli defender, a clinical psychiatrist and the author of The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People under Siege, 1332 writes that there were reports beginning in the summer of 1941, which claimed that the Nazis were exterminating Jews in the territories under their control. In May 1942, the Polish government in exile in London transmitted a message, purportedly from the Jewish Bund in Poland, claiming that the Germans had slaughtered 700,000 Jews and that they intended to annihilate all the Jews of Europe.” 1333

  On January 27, 1943, The New York Times headline announced, “Liquidation Day Set for France’s Jews.” 1334 On February 28, the same newspaper announced “Total Nazi Executions Are Put at 3,400,000; Poland with 2,500,000 Victims, Tops List.” The article explained that the Germans had killed or had permitted 1,000,000 Jews to perish in concentration camps. 1335 The Allies appeared to be doing absolutely nothing about the alleged mass exterminations. 1336 Jews later used this deliberate, devised apathy to impose collective guilt on the American population who would then be compelled to financially and emotionally support Holocaustianity and the Israeli state with billions of taxpayer dollars.

  General John Charteris, Chief of Intelligence Officer, and the editors of the Christian Century also used atrocity stories (1914-1918), with their German cadaver factory stories after the First World War, a hoax until 1925, to ignite American outrage. Now with another war, Lord Northcliffe, the World War I propagandist, remarked on the utter gullibility of the Americans, even to believing the same discredited recycled fables. By year’s end, 1942, as the Soviets and Zionists united in their propaganda against Germany, the Soviets had to suppress their earlier actions and had to admit that they had lied about relocating one to two million Polish Jews to safety, in order to accommodate the Zionist claims that Germany had murdered over a million and starved another million. 1337

  Soviet and Zionist propaganda operatives devised the December 17, 1942 declaration, one of Raphael Lemkin’s two key sources of Axis Rule in Occupied Europe where he implied that the events occurred in 1944, the date of publication. Had he updated, he would have exploited the later more despicable atrocity claims, following the Red Army’s liberation of the first German camp, Majdanek, in Poland, in late August, 1944. In 1943, journalist Ève Curie, a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and other papers, from November 1941 to April 1942, authored Journey among Warriors (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), based on testimony from dozens of witnesses that gave her “the same version of the facts and swore they were true.” 1338

  In August, 1944, Time Magazine translated and published Roman Karmen’s “first eyewitness description of a Nazi extermination camp.” Karmen, a Soviet correspondent, claimed that Majdanek had several gas chambers that used chlorine gas and next to the chambers, there were five crematoria, each with a 250-person capacity. The camp purportedly shipped the ashes of 1,400 bodies consumed per day to Germany to produce fertilizer. Karmen, part of a huge media operation, argued that the Germans killed over half a million at Majdanek. Two agencies, the Soviet—Polish Atrocities Investigation Commission and the Polish Committee of National Liberation, opposed the Polish government in exile led by Władysław Sikorski. On April 13, 1943, Germany announced their discovery of the mass grave in the Katyn Forest. On April 16, Sikorski asked the ICRC to investigate as he believed German officials who blamed the Soviets for the death of 20,000 Poles. Stalin then broke off Soviet-Polish diplomatic relations. On July 4, the general died when his plane unexpectedly plunged into the sea upon take-off on a flight from Gibraltar to London. 1339

  By the end of 1943, Sol Bloom, Emanuel Celler, and other members of Congress and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the AJC urged FDR to do something about the situation in Europe. Wise, with the help of Bloom, attempted to halt the legislation for the formation of the War Refugee Board (WRB). Wise was unable to completely prevent it but his actions delayed it. 1340 Due to pressure from John W. Pehle, chief of the Treasury’s office of Foreign Funds Control, Roosevelt, via an executive order, organized the WRB on January 22, 1944. One Jewish source said that this action took place after 400 American rabbis demonstrated in Washington and petitioned Congress. 1341 The board, with Pehle as Executive Director, consisted of the Secretary of State, the Treasury Secretary (Henry Morgenthau) and the Secretary of War. The WRB would assist the efforts of the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the intergovernmental committee (established November 9, 1943) and other international agencies and governments. FDR reiterated that it was necessary to take immediate action to prevent the Nazi plan to exterminate all the Jews and other minorities. 1342

  The Atrocities Investigation Commission gathered thirty western journalists, based in Europe, and took them on a tour of Maj
danek a few days after Time Magazine published Karmen’s story. This group included William H. Lawrence of The New York Times, Edgar Snow of the Saturday Evening Post and Maurice Hindus, and others, essentially pro-Stalinist propagandists working in the American media. Members of the group embellished the Red atrocity stories regarding the Germans for American consumption and submitted dozens of them to their respective news agencies. The Christian Century referred to the camp’s liberation as “the atrocity story of the year” or the “corpse factory,” reminiscent of the false atrocity stories that propagandists devised against the Germans in World War I. Lawrence characterized Majdanek as “a veritable River Rouge for the production of death,” the exact words that the Red tour guides used to describe how the Germans allegedly asphyxiated then cremated Jews in huge furnaces. The Soviets and their agents claimed that the Germans had killed 18,000 people a day despite the fact that the facilities were insufficient to accommodate such numbers. 1343

  Within a few days, Lawrence and Hindus increased Karmen’s death figure, a half million, to 1.5 million, a number they reported in American dispatches. The Soviets supported their claims by showing images of a 150 feet long warehouse full of clothing and piles of shoes. On October 28, 1944, the Saturday Evening Post published Snow’s article, How the Nazi Butchers Wasted Nothing, along with the images of the clothing/shoes in the warehouse, and an incinerator, but no gas chamber. Snow wrote that the Soviet-backed Polish government in Lublin found the ashes of 1,000,000 at Majdanek (despite claims that the Germans shipped the ashes to Germany for fertilizer). In September 1944, the Soviets claimed to have discovered the ashes of 4,000,000 people at Treblinka and three other German camps in Poland. Richard Lauterbach, a Time and Life Soviet correspondent based in Krakow, Poland, made the extraordinary, logistically impossible claim that the German Gestapo killed 1.5 million, supposedly just at Majdanek. 1344

  Look Magazine, dated September 19, 1944, published an article by Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet Jew and journalist, The Breath of a Child. During the 1960s, his articles about World War II incited severe controversies in West Germany. He and Vassily Grossman, war reporters for the Red Army, edited, along with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) and members of the American Jewish community, The Black Book: The Ruthless Murder of Jews by German-Fascist Invaders Throughout the Temporarily-Occupied Regions of the Soviet Union and in the Death Camps of Poland during the War 1941-1945. People considered it the first documentary piece about the Holocaust. Grossman reported the opening of the Treblinka and Majdanek and provided the first eyewitness accounts, as early as 1943. Officials distributed his article, The Treblinka Hell, to the prosecutors at Nuremberg. In 1946, Ehrenburg and Grossman wrote the two-volume, Murder of the People in Yiddish and presented it to the JAC with copies to America, the British mandate of Palestine and Romania. Editors in America published excerpts under the title The Black Book. The Yad Vashem in Israel has a handwritten manuscript. 1345

  On December 4, 1944, Newsweek reported that the War Refugee Board (WRB) supported the idea that the Germans engaged in mass executions. This was suspiciously close to the November 25 publication date of Raphael Lemkin’s Axis Rule in Occupied Europe and certainly suggests a coordinated propaganda effort. The WRB shared the objectives of Morgenthau who wanted to depopulate Germany and turn it into a pastoral habitat with the ultimate goal of communizing and re-peopling Central Europe with Germany’s enemies. Morgenthau used this tactic to gain acceptance for what the U.S. military had done and was about to do to Germany. 1346 This strategy makes one think of the Agenda 21 program which calls for the depopulation of prime pastoral land in America.

  Newsweek endorsed the WRB’s report that Germany had killed 1,500,000 to 1,765,000 people at Berezina in southwestern Poland. Newsweek also mentioned two Slovak refugee Jews and a Polish officer, recently at Auschwitz, who said that the Germans had systematically killed 1,500,000. Given the political goals of the Soviets and the Zionists, they cited alleged German atrocities (1940-1945) using reprisal propaganda in order to justify the policies and programs they intended to inflict upon postwar Germany. Thus, they did everything they could to validate, and give credibility, via government agencies and the press, to German crimes. 1347

  On October 19, 1945, The Courier-Mail of Brisbane reported that the WJC provided information to the U.S. War Crimes Commission about Isaak Echshorn, a Jew and a clerk at seven different camps for almost six years. He said that Germans use numerous methods to kill Jews including beating, gassing, shooting, poisoning, torturing, suffocation, exposure, and deliberate starvation. He said, during his time at Auschwitz, he saw six SS men hold up 380 Jewish children by the hair and then they shot them. According to him, the commandant’s favorite sport at the Gross-Rosen camp was to throw Jews into a snow-covered pit where they would suffocate. He said that at Buchenwald, they buried Jews up to their necks and watched them die an “agonizing” death. He claimed that German officials threw Jews into grinding concrete mixers, and then used the resulting material to repair roads. 1348

  Through the efforts of skillful, malevolent propagandists, governments during the twentieth century slaughtered over 170 million people. Ten million died in World War I and fifty million in World War II. Of those that the military killed during World War II, almost seventy percent were civilians. This so-called collateral damage resulted from Britain and America’s indiscriminate bombing. 1349 Americans have killed millions of apolitical foreign citizens to eradicate fascism, communism and terrorism. Yet, these ideologies still exist!

  A couple of decades later, the corporate media informed newspaper-reading Americans about Hitler’s use of propaganda and citizens expressed amazement that the Germans fell for it. Actually, Germans adopted their techniques from the Allies and the tactics they used during World War I. Adolf Hitler understood that Marxists were very adept in the “practical uses” of propaganda, which was “practically unknown to our bourgeois parties.” Success in countless ventures is wholly dependent on information dissemination, factual or not. Hitler wrote, “It was during the War, however, that we had the best chance of estimating the tremendous results which could be obtained by a propagandist system properly carried out. Here again, unfortunately, everything was left to the other side, the work done on our side being worse than insignificant. It was the total failure of the whole German system of information, a failure which was perfectly obvious to every soldier.” 1350

  Jewish Claims of Genocide

  Theodore N. Kaufman, a 31-year old New York Jew, wrote Germany Must Perish, self-published by his own company, Argyle Press in 1941. The New York Times, in a review of his book commented, “Frankly presents the dread background of the Nazi soul.” On March 24, Time Magazine said, “a sensational idea.” The Washington Post referred to it as, “a plan for permanent peace among civilized nations.” Kaufman’s book claims that Germany had an “avowed program” of “world conquest and dominion” and would “make free and liberal use of chicanery, deceit, intolerance, lust, persecution and oppression, in order to achieve that goal.” 1351 Kaufman, who waged a huge PR campaign, said that Germany has forced a total war upon the world. As a result, she must be prepared to pay a total penalty: Germany must perish forever!

  Regarding Kaufman’s book, Joseph Goebbels said, “This Jew has done a disservice to the enemy… if he had composed the book at my behest he couldn’t have done a better job.” Goebbels had the Berlin daily, Der Angrif print an article about the book on July 23, 1941, entitled Diabolical Plan for the Extermination of the German People. The weekly paper, Das Reich, printed a similar article on August 3. Presumably, Kaufman anticipated the unconditional surrender of Germany as his book called for the sterilization of the entire population of Germany in order to guarantee the ultimate extinction of all Germans. 1352

  As of June 22, 1941, before America formally entered the war, Soviet Communists and American Zionists engaged in a joint decades-long propaganda campaign against Germany and it
s alleged genocidal treatment of the Polish Jews. The Red Army relocated millions of Poles, including Menachem Begin, into Central Asia and Siberia. Several Polish officials exiled to England, along with many Polish Jews. The Polish government-in-exile produced a White Book claiming that Germany was gassing Poles which seemed to confirm Alex Dreier’s much later allegations while providing fodder for Nuremberg. The Zionists pushed the extermination propaganda, justification for the future Israeli State. Raphael Lemkin began advocating for international recognition and unrestricted extradition for these “genocidal” crimes. 1353

  On September 10, 1941, Chaim Weizmann wrote to Prime Minister Winston Churchill admitting that the Jews had assisted in putting America into World War I against Germany. Weizmann indicated that they would be quite willing and able to repeat those actions in yet another war. Here’s the essence of that letter. Weizmann, on behalf of the Jewish people in Palestine and “throughout the world,” offered Britain “the fullest active support” including “Jewish military units” to fight in the Middle East or elsewhere, even in Germany, against Hitler, the Jew’s “foremost enemy.” Weizmann said that Hitler “tortured” them “as no nation… in modern times.” He said that he understood that Churchill was not responsible for the Munich policy in Europe and that the Mufti of Jerusalem and his friends were serving Hitler in the Middle East. He stated that only “British strength” could secure the Arabs, as was clearly shown in Iraq. He said he had spent months traveling in America, whose position was “uncertain,” while only Britain supported the desire of the five million American Jews. He wrote, “From Secretary Morgenthau, Governor Lehman, Justice Frankfurter, down to the simplest Jewish workman or trader, they are conscious of all that this struggle against Hitler implies.” 1354