Martin Bormann was given orders to activate the Nazi movement in Western Germany. It was essential for Der Fuehrer to have a “going concern” before he made his approach to Stalin. Bormann, whom Hitler in his Political Testament called his “trusted friend,” had laid his plans well.
The New Nazi Spirit
Berchtesgaden, shrine of the Nazi party, became the birthplace of the new “Nazi spirit.” A youth movement, the Deutsche Jugend, was established there and spread throughout the Western Zone. A clandestine Nazi newspaper called the Deutschland Brief was circulated by the scores of thousands and openly attacked the occupation forces while advocating friendlier relations with Russia. It was edited by one “Hek Rau,” whose real name was discovered by Allied Intelligence agents to be Heinz Erich Krause, a young, rabble-rousing Hitler admirer.
“The Soviets alone,” asserted the Deutsche Brief, “could help unite Germany.” This Nazi underground newsletter once again trumpeted the excuse used after World War I and raised the old Hitler cry of “the real culprits are the Jews.”
By the spring of 1952, Hitler felt his movement was well under way. No longer were the Nazis an underground movement except in name. They now called themselves the SRP—the Socialist Republican Party. They were a recognized and important political element. When, in 1932, Hitler was moving towards power, the Nazis had exactly eleven seats in the Reichstag; today the SRP has thirteen seats in the Bundestag. Hitler knows it does not take many rabble-rousers to steer a successful movement.
In the West German Social-Democrat government of Konrad Adenauer, Martin Bormann had deployed a very large number of Nazis. Last year, the Bavarian Socialist radio station charged that the West German Foreign Office was a “rat’s nest of Nazis” and accused Adenauer of giving 85 percent of the government jobs to former Nazis. Adenauer’s reply was significant and revealing. Denying the charges he said:
“The figure is incorrect. The true percentage is sixty-five.”
Adenauer’s hands had been tied by Bormann. The Chancellor set up a Bundestag (Parliamentary) Committee of Investigation, which queried 21 of the key men but decided only four had records meriting dismissal and took this decision only upon the insistence of the Allies, for Hitler’s 13 representatives in Parliament blocked action in the other cases.
These four men who were thrown out of public office into the Nazi underground were Curt Heinburg, economic counselor and chief of the political division of the Foreign Office under von Ribbentrop, who had worked out “a solution of the Jewish problem in Serbia,” meaning slave labor, concentration camps or death; Werner von Grundheer, Nazi Ambassador to Greece, who had been in control of the “Jewish problem” in Denmark; Herbert Dittmann, Chief of von Ribbentrop’s personnel department, and Werner von Bargen, responsible for the persecution of Jews in Brussels and Paris.
The Committee’s investigation, although it was hushed up by the Nazis and given little attention by the Allies, revealed startling facts.
In the Political Department of the Bonn Government, the entire executive staff of ten were Nazis;
In the Landes (Federal States—equivalent to our States), seven out of eight top officials were veteran Nazi Party card holders;
In the Commerce Department, all five key men were Party members;
In the Culture Department, three out of four executives were Party veterans, and
In the Personnel Department, 18 out of 19 executives were Hitler regime office holders and 14 of them were Nazi Party veterans.
Martin Bormann had succeeded in placing in the Bonn Foreign Office such dangerous Nazis as Legation Counsellor von Keller, former top assistant to Woermann, Hitler’s Secretary of State who was tried at Nuremberg; L. C. Melchers, war criminal and Jew baiter, an expert on the Middle East and Hitler’s negotiator with the Grand Mufti of the Arab world; Heribert von Strempel, former Secretary in the German Embassy in Washington and one of the organizers of the Nazi Fifth Column in the United States.
Most significant of all, Bormann had once again brought into being the nucleus of a new German General Staff. With the Allied decision to rearm Germany, official permission was given German generals to set up headquarters in converted barracks on the Argelanderstrasse in Bonn. While apparently obeying all Allied orders for the reorganization of infantry divisions only, this new German General Staff has openly created staff schools embracing all branches of theoretical military instruction. The emphasis is on the theoretical because Germany today has no tanks, heavy artillery or warplanes. This General Staff issued an official order Einheitliche Politische, Wirtschaftliche, und Technische Ausbildung (unified political, economic, and technical training) which strangely resembled orders in the Third Reich training manuals. This order was hastily withdrawn when a copy fell into Allied hands and drew a sharp reprimand from British Army Headquarters.
This was the situation of the Nazi move towards regaining power in West Germany in the late spring, last year, when Hitler made his first approach to the Soviets. Details of who made the initial contact and where it was effected are not known but the immediate sequence of events is significant and startling.
Pavlov’s Secret Mission
In August, 1952, according to a Jewish refugee who had held an executive position in the East German Communist government and who only escaped last January during the wave of anti-Semitism sweeping Iron Curtain countries, a burly, six-foot, 220-pound Russian, Ivan Mihailovitch Pavlov, who was first assistant to the dreaded Soviet Secret Police Chief Beria, flew in a Russian military transport plane to the Argentine to confer with the Nazis in exile. He is known to have spent ten days in the Argentine and to have visited the remote hinterland of Bariluche, where Adolf Hitler was last reported.
When Pavlov returned to Moscow aboard the same plane—the Soviets use their own planes for all diplomatic purposes, trusting their couriers, personnel and pouches to no one—he was accompanied by a “trusted and important Nazi agent.” This agent, says this refugee source, was Martin Bormann.
Details pieced together from these Iron Curtain refugee sources indicate that, less than a week after his return to Moscow, Pavlov flew to Magdebourg, in East Germany, with Bormann.
In Magdebourg, home of the Prussian General Staff and foster-home of the German spirit of militarism, jackboot and brutality, Pavlov and Bormann held secret conferences with Field-Marshal von Paulus and his ranking staff officers, who had been captured by the Russians during the War and whom Stalin had carefully nurtured for just such an opportunity.
In September, according to refugees from East Germany, Martin Bormann traveled into Western Germany to consult with Dr. Naumann and Dr. Scheel. Adolf Hitler, in his Political Testament to the German people, had named Dr. Naumann to replace Josef Goebbels as Minister of Propaganda in his last-ditch cabinet and had appointed Dr. Scheel as Minister of Church and Education. Both of these men were among the seven top-ranking Nazi underground leaders arrested recently by the British Intelligence agents.
Martin Bormann called Major-General Hermann Bernhard Ramcke, Nazi paratroop general, into conference with the top brass of the reconstituted Western Bonn General Staff. Ramcke was sent, according to refugee sources, on a mission to von Paulus’ staff headquarters. This mission, apparently, was to coordinate, with the entire approval of the Soviets, a general training program for ALL German officers and men. The program would adhere closely to the pre-war Nazi training manuals and would be “paralleled by the Bonn training program.”
The effects of the August agreement between Stalin and Hitler became apparent almost immediately. In October last year, two highly significant events occurred, one in the East, the other in the West zones of Germany.
In the East, 25,000 East Germans paraded in the rebirth of a German army. Stalin sent Nikolai M. Shvernik, President of the Presidum of the Supreme Soviet, to attend. In the parade were Air Police, the nucleus of the new German Air Force, wearing embroidered wings on blue lapel tabs, and Sea Police, the nucleus of a revitalized German
Navy.
“More than half the men marching in these air and sea contingents,” say refugees who watched the parade, “were men from West Germany. They were being trained in weapons they could not use under Allied occupation.” It is now no secret that the Soviets are training both East and West Germans in U-boat warfare.
Hitler’s Aides Meet
In the West, two former S.S. generals organized a rally of former blackshirts in Verden, Lower Saxony. Generals Herbert Gille and Felix Steiner sent orders for 5,000 of the onetime dreaded S.S. butchers of the Hitler regime, to attend. They lacked their sinister black uniforms which had struck terror into all, but their jackboots were highly polished and the measured cadence of their faultless goose-step left a chill in the hearts of Allied onlookers.
Asked why these 5,000 had all registered with full names and addresses, the generals stated they merely wished to form a veterans’ association of veteran blackshirts. But it was at this rally that General Ramcke got out of hand. He seemed to see Hitler back in power and disclosed too soon that the Nazi movement was not dead, that it had been re-activated and that the Germans were but awaiting a new “Der Tag.”
“I am proud to have been on the Allied black list,” he shouted to the gathering. “One day it will be the list of honor.”
While the entire rally shouted in chorus and the two frantic generals tried to shut him up, he led a chant of: “Eisenhower Schweinhund (pig-dog).”
Red-Nazi Alliance
In coordination with the German side of the new mutual assistance pact, Soviet Russia struck too. This time, as a preliminary step, she launched a wave of anti-Semitism, starting with the satellite nations. Using an anti-Jewish battle-cry, both Stalin and Hitler have hopes of cementing their alliance and of bringing to their support the entire Moslem Arab world, embracing North Africa, the Near East and India.
Despite the astonishment of the Western World and the open disbelief that Stalin and Hitler could again reach an agreement, history supports the warnings carried to the democratic world by refugees fleeing in fear from the Red terror at the rate of more than 1,000 a day.
The German General Staff has a 200-year old tradition of friendship and alliance with the Russians. Frederick the Great, with the help of the Czar, defeated the French in the war of 1756 to 1763; Bismarck laid down a doctrine of German policy towards the East which he called “Russian reinsurance.” When Kaiser Wilhelm violated this unwritten code, he lost the first World War; when Hitler violated it again in 1941, he lost the second World War.
In exile, Hitler has had much time to realize the truth of an adage formulated a century ago by the Prussian military genius, General Clausewitz:
“With Russia, Germany can conquer the world; against Russia, Germany cannot prevail.”
HITLER IS ALIVE—PREPARES TO RETURN!
by GEORGE McGRATH
Police Gazette reveals for the first time the actual details of the Nazi conspiracy to restore Der Fuehrer to power in Germany and pave the way for world revival of Hitlerism.
From his hiding place in the Argentine, Adolf Hitler has organized a widespread Nazi International whose roots are firmly laid in Germany and whose tentacle-like branches of intrigue extend to Cairo, Madrid, Rome, and the United States—where former members of the Nazi Bund lurk as a potential Fifth Column.
In this article, the Police Gazette is able to reveal for the first time the true facts about this Nazi International. Step by step, through the tangled morass of postwar German political parties, phony veterans associations, and underground movements, the Police Gazette has traced the clearcut pattern of Hitler’s conspiracy to return to power as Fuehrer of the Reich.
Although the sudden arrest of seven Nazi ringleaders by British Military Intelligence agents last January forced the Bonn Government, against its will, to act on the evidence placed under its nose, the lid to this cesspool of Nazi chicanery was never lifted. A few bare facts were allowed to escape. They were very bare. They did not mention how Hitler and his infamous henchman, Martin Bormann, had organized this core of Nazism and had appointed, as Gauleiter, Dr. Werner Naumann—another of the war criminals supposed to have died with Hitler and Bormann in Berlin. (Dr. Naumann is very much alive and is now in a British army jail.)
Bonn’s discreet handling of this plot did not disclose to the German people that this underground movement was part of the Nazi International; that it consisted of approximately 5,000 of the most rabid Nazis; that it coordinated the efforts and policies of all the right-wing political parties in Western Germany; and that it was in constant liaison with the Communist underground and banned Red movements. Nor did Bonn disclose to the Germans that this neo-Nazi movement had access to the secret files and documents of the democratic Adenauer cabinet—and that the full details of the NATO plans for West European defense against the Reds in Germany were in the possession of the Nazis and, therefore, in the hands of the Soviets.
Above all, no mention was made of the fact that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler’s return to Germany is fixed tentatively for 1957.
The Police Gazette has regularly published the facts about the Hitler conspiracy ever since it produced irrefutable evidence in September 1951 that the three major allies of 1945 (United States, Britain, and Russia) had never obtained proof of the Fuehrer’s death—and that not one of the leading government officials in the US or Britain would say for the record that Hitler committed suicide in his famous bunker beneath the bomb-torn, shell-ruined Reichskanlei. However, the full picture of the Nazis’ postwar plot became clear only after the British swoop on seven ringleaders of the Nazi International in the British Zone of Germany, and the subsequent arrests by Bonn police of nearly 50 neo-Nazi and Communist co-schemers.
Documents seized by British Military Intelligence agents show that the Nazi International was organized by farsighted Germans several years before the Nazis’ last stand in Berlin.
Bormann’s first move after he escaped from Berlin (according to British M.I.5, which received reports of his arrival in Switzerland) was to contact the Nazi Party’s numerous financial agents in Zurich, where colossal unseizable bank accounts had been cached in various currencies. He then contacted Nazis in Italy (where he lived as a monk under the name of Brother Martin) before going to Madrid. Whether Bormann personally visited Cairo, where a strong Nazi International cell was established, or whether he sent an emissary to contact the Nazis there, is not clearly shown in the documents.
John J. McCloy, former US High Commissioner in Germany, was informed by a Munich source of the existence of the Nazi International in Madrid, Rome, and Cairo, and transmitted his information to the Allied secret services.
Bormann was next seen in the Argentine, where (as revealed previously by the Police Gazette) he reported to Hitler. The Fuehrer was being hidden in the wilds of Patagonia by a strong Nazi organization with the active support of Argentine dictator Juan Peron.
Hitler and Bormann decided to make Dr. Werner Naumann chief of the neo-Nazi movement in Western Germany as the representative of the Nazi International. Naumann was one of the Fuehrer’s most trusted followers (he was appointed by Hitler in his last will and testament as Minister of Propaganda to replace Dr. Josef Goebbels in the surrender cabinet of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz). Even more important to the Fuehrer and his Nazi International of those days, Naumann was believed dead. He was living under an assumed name near Hamburg.
The Truth About Dr. Naumann
The sensational truth, published here for the first time, is that Allied Intelligence agents reported that Naumann died in the bunker with Hitler. One of the judges at Nuremberg, Michael Musmanmo, as late as 1950 wrote a book in which he dismissed Naumann as “reported killed in Berlin”, which is why Naumann was never brought to trial. Actually, while the Allies were writing him off as “dead”, Naumann, together with Bormann, was the last to escape from the bunker. Both men safely crossed the Weidedammer Bridge, on which Bormann was later reported to have been killed by a bazooka shell.
Dr. Naumann, who today is only 43 years old, was a rabid Hitler follower from the start. The son of an Amtsgerichtsrat (Police Court magistrate) of Silesia, he joined Dr. Josef Goebbels in the Propaganda Ministry and soon rose to become permanent secretary of the Ministry. He made his last public speech when he ranted over the Berlin radio a few days before the Fuehrer “committed suicide.” He said:
“At the head of the defense of Berlin stands our Fuehrer, and this alone characterizes the struggle for Berlin as unique and decisive. Never has he been so close to the hearts of his soldiers than in this grave hour. We are not shaken by our recent military reverses. National Socialism has made Germany strong and flourishing.”
From the time he escaped from the bunker until he was arrested by the British last January, Naumann remained hidden from Allied intelligence agents. Only once was he mentioned briefly, by the Communist East German news agency, as having attended a meeting of the neo-Nazi and pro-Red Bruderschaft (now banned, but certainly not defunct) veterans’ brotherhood in Bielefeld in November 1950. It was this short paragraph in a Red paper that led to his arrest.
British M.I.5 agents have since traced the permanent liaison that was established between Hitler’s Shangri-La headquarters, the Nazi International cells in various countries, Dr. Naumann’s top-secret role in the Nazi revival in Western Germany, and the various neo-Nazi and Red groups in that country. This liaison operated chiefly through the United States, where former members of the Nazi Bund remained unswerving adherents of the Fuehrer. It was through the undercover activities of the American cell of the Nazi International that fascist representatives from all countries arranged a secret meeting in Sweden in 1951. The slogan at that meeting was: “Fascists of the world—unite!”
As chief of the Nazi International in Germany, Dr. Naumann was the hidden hand behind the organization of the Freikorps Deutschland (German Free Corps) as the neo-Nazi centralizing agency. The Freikorps was pledged to restore the Fuehrer to power over a “united and unified” Germany. It boasted a 25-point program featuring such inseparable Nazi ideals as militarism, the pre-ordained superiority of the German people, and their right to world power. Naturally, all members were sworn to absolute obedience in this secret anti-Jewish, anti-Jesuit, anti-Masonic group.
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