- The rise of the Third Reich
- In 1933, shortly after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor
of Germany, the German Parliament was set on fire by the Nazis and the
Communists were blamed for this act of terrorism against the German people.
Following the Nazi-inspired arson, Hitler exploited the outrage of the
German citizens to arrogate to himself dictatorial powers, which he promised
would be used to rid Germany of Communists. The next day, Chancellor Hitler
demanded from the German cabinet an emergency decree which would enable
him to deal decisively with the domestic crisis.
- President von Hindenburg signed the decree "for
the Protection of the people and the State." An account of this watershed
event is found at
- The History Place:
- "The exact sequence of events will never be known,
but Nazi storm troopers under the direction of Göring were also involved
in torching the place. They had befriended the arsonist [a Communist named
Van der Lubbe] and may have known or even encouraged him to burn the Reichstag
that night. The storm troopers, led by SA leader Karl Ernst, used the
underground tunnel that connected Göring's residence with the cellar
in the Reichstag. They entered the building, scattered gasoline and incendiaries,
then hurried back through the tunnel.
- "The deep red glow of the burning Reichstag
caught the eye of President Hindenburg and Vice-Chancellor Papen who were
dining at a club facing the building.
- Papen put the elderly Hindenburg in his own car and took
him to the scene.
- "Hitler was at Goebbels' apartment having dinner.
- They rushed to the scene where they met Göring who
was already screaming false charges and making threats against the Communists.
- "At first glance, Hitler described the fire
as a beacon from heaven.
- "'You are now witnessing the beginning of a
great epoch in German history... This fire is the beginning,' Hitler told
a news reporter at the scene.
- "After viewing the damage, an emergency meeting
of government leaders was held. When told of the arrest of the Communist
arsonist, Van der Lubbe, Hitler became deliberately enraged
- "'The German people have been soft too long.
Every Communist official must be shot. All Communist deputies must be hanged
this very night. All friends of the Communists must be locked up. And that
goes for the Social Democrats and the Reichsbanner as well!'
- "Hitler left the fire scene and went straight
to the offices of his newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, to oversee
its coverage of the fire. He stayed up all night with Goebbels putting
together a paper full of tales of a Communist plot to violently seize power
- "At a cabinet meeting held later in the morning,
February 28, Chancellor Hitler demanded an emergency decree to overcome
the crisis. He met little resistance from his largely non-Nazi cabinet.
That evening, Hitler and Papen went to Hindenburg and the befuddled old
man signed the decree 'for the Protection of the people and the State.'
- "The Emergency Decree stated: 'Restrictions
on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including
freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and a ssociation; and violations
of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications and
warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions
on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.'
- "Immediately, there followed the first big Nazi
roundup as truckloads of SA and SS roared through the streets bursting
in on known Communist hangouts and barging into private homes. Thousands
of Communists as well as Social Democrats and liberals were taken away
into 'protective custody' to SA barracks where they were beaten and tortured.
- "'I don't have to worry about justice; my mission
is only to destroy and exterminate, nothing more!' -
- Hermann Göring, March 3, 1933.
- "Fifty one anti-Nazis were murdered. The Nazis
suppressed all political activity, meetings and publications of non-Nazi
parties. The very act of campaigning against the Nazis was in effect made
- 1. The rise of the Fourth Reich
- The response of the United States Government to a frightened
and enraged U.S. citizenry over the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon
and World Trade Center has been eerily reminiscent of Hitler's strategy
following the burning of the Reichstag. As well, the rapidity and recklessness
with which the Bush administration and the U.S. Congress have abrogated
the Bill of Rights places the U.S. Government squarely in the same camp
with the "enemies of freedom" they purport to oppose.
- 1. The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001
- The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee
steamrolled through the Congress a bill which would dramatically increase
the power of U.S. law enforcement agencies. Attorney General John Ashcroft
insisted that the FBI needed additional surveillance and enforcement powers
immediately and the Department of Justice demanded the bill be enacted
by September 28. The House Judiciary committee was scheduled to vote on
the Bush administration's bill on the morning of September 25;
- however, in response to an outcry the vote was rescheduled
to take place only two days after the catastrophic attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon. The Senate voted for anti-terrorist legislation
which increased Internet surveillance after senators were given just 30
minutes to read the measure.)
- According to http://www.eff.org/Pr%0d%0a%0d%0aivacy/
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation, "...
- the DoJ has sat on this bill, a 'wish list', for some
time, waiting to take advantage of a tragedy like the World Trade Center
attack to ram it through Congress with little debate or objection."
- The http://www.cdt.org/security/010911response.shtml
Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001 would eliminate the legal requirement for government
agents to obtain permission from a judge before being allowed to search
homes and download computer files. Under the proposed law, the information
gathered could be used in court, a legal change which presently violates
constitutional protections against search and seizure. The proposed bill
would also eliminate the requirement for a judge to sign a warrant in order
for government agents to obtain billing records from hotels, phone companies,
and other businesses, replacing judicial review with an administrative
subpoena. Essentially, agencies would be able to sign their own search
warrants and conduct searches in routine secrecy, without having to notify
the subject of the search.
- Additionally, this law gives broad surveillance powers
to the federal government, and authorizes the issuance of wiretaps by a
secret seven-judge court in Washington, D.C. The DOJ bill proposes a host
of Wiretap Act expansions which are not limited to terrorism investigations,
and which vastly increase the power of the federal government to conduct
surveillance of the reading habits and correspondence of the American people.
The DOJ bill would expand the power of the police to record the phone
numbers of incoming and outgoing phone calls on a phone line to include
surveillance of Internet surfing and e-mail.
- 2. Coverage on Monday, September 24, of the Anti-Terrorism
Act was limited to Attorney General John Ashcroft's testimony urging hasty
passage of the sweeping new police powers sought by the Bush administration.
Although Ashcroft's testimony was open to television cameras, the committee's
Republican staff ordered camera crews to leave when civil liberties and
free-speech advocates were called to testify. This happened in violation
of House rules which state, "Whenever a hearing or meeting conducted
by a committee or subcommittee is open to the public, those proceedings
shall be open to coverage by audio and visual means."
- The Offic e of Homeland Security
- "On the evening of September 20, President Bush
allied himself with the worst enemies of freedom. He made a seemingly innocuous
-- even a comforting-sounding --announcement. He said he had created the
cabinet-level Office of Homeland Security, with Pennsylvania governor
Tom Ridge as its head. (See: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/
- "Most people were utterly unaware of the significance
of Bush's new bureaucracy. But for anyone watching the advance of police-state
policies in America, absolutely nothing could have been more ominous.
- "The Homeland Defense Agency is not a new idea.
Conceived by a bi-partisan commission headed by former senators Gary Hart
and Warren Rudman, this Clinton-era conception, 'The Phase III Report
Of The U.S. Commission On National Security/21st Century,' is nothing less
than the framework for a permanent military-bureaucratic American police
- "The new Homeland Defense Agency is the lynchpin
of a plan that extensively reorganizes both the executive a nd legislative
functions of the U.S. government. Among other things, the plan makes the
National Guard a national police force. It extensively federalizes both
the study and the work of science, mathematics, and engineering. It creates
numerous new sub-bureaucracies. The Homeland Security agency itself is
to 'be built upon the Federal
- "Emergency Management Agency, with the three
organizations currently on the front line of border security - the Coast
Guard, the Customs Service, and the Border Patrol - transferred to it.'
The plan calls for the new agency to oversee activities of the Department
of Defense, as well as to assume a variety of duties now held by agencies
from the Department of Commerce to the FBI."
- 3. Compulsory National Identification Cards
- Hitler controlled the German citizenry by mandating national
I.D. cards without which no one could obtain work, food or travel. By means
of the information on these card, those who were socially unfit for the
new German state were easily identified and eliminated. Within two weeks
of the WTC/Pentegon attacks, ORACLE Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison called
for the United States to create a http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/ellsn092301.htm
- national identification system to thwart terrorists and
offered to donate the software for this massive enterprise.
- Under Ellison's proposal, Americans would be photographed
and fingerprinted and the information would be placed on a database used
by airport security officials to verify identities of travelers at airplane
- "'We need a national ID card with our photograph
and thumbprint digitized and embedded in the ID card,' Ellison said in
an interview Friday night on the evening news of KPIX-TV in San Francisco.
'We need a database behind that, so when you're walking into an airport
and you say that you are Larry Ellison, you take that card and put it in
a reader and you put your thumb down and that system confirms that this
is Larry Ellison,' he said."
- 4.In an http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr092501.htm
- Address to the Congress, Congressman Ron Paul offered
a more sensible alternative to the draconian measure of compulsory national
- "Precise identification of all travelers on
all our air flights is a desired goal. A national ID issued by the federal
government would prove to be disastrous to our civil liberties and should
not be considered. This type of surveillance power should never be given
to an intrusive overbearing government, no matter how well intentioned
- "The same results can be better achieved by
the marketplace. Passenger IDs voluntarily issued by the airlines could
be counterfeit-proof; and loss or theft of an ID could be immediately
reported to the proper authorities. An ID, fingerprints, birth certificates,
or any other information can be required without any violations of anyone's
personal liberty. This delicate information would not be placed in the
hands of the government agents but could be made available to law enforcement
officers like any other information obtained with probable cause and a
- 5. The Real Terrorist Network WAKE UP!
- For those who are skeptical that the present crisis could
be at all analogous to early developments in Nazi Germany, we wish to present
solid evidence that genocide is very much a part of the Bush family tradition.
Government documents housed in the Library of Congress should convince
even skeptics of the fascist connections of the Bush family and of the
gravity of the present crisis in America, which extends far beyond Osama
bin Laden's terrorist network to the larger network of Anglo-American elites
-- who financed the Nazi terrorist machine.
- "Bush - Nazi Link Confirmed" by John Buchanan
- New Hampshire Gazette, Oct. 10, 2003
- "WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and
even denial by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in
The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush,
the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner
of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war
machine from 1926 until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against
Bush and his 'enemy national' partners.
- "The documents also show that Bush and his colleagues,
according to reports from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and FBI,
tried to conceal their financial alliance with German industrialist Fritz
Thyssen, a steel and coal baron who, beginning in the mid-1920s, personally
funded Adolf Hitler's rise to power by the subversion of democratic principle
and German law.
- "Furthermore, the declassified records demonstrate
that Bush and his associates, who included E. Roland Harriman, younger
brother of American icon W. Averell Harriman, and George Herbert Walker,
President Bush's maternal great-grandfather, continued their dealings with
the German industrial baron for nearly eight months after the U.S. entered
the war... " (http://nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?
Bush - Nazi Link Confirmed)
- The grandfather of President George W. Bush (Skull &
Bones, 1968) was Prescott Bush (Skull & Bones, 1917), and his great
grand father was George Herbert Walker. Prescott Bush and George Herbert
(Bert) Walker were directors of the London-affiliated New York banking
house of Brown Brothers-Harriman and its various fronts, which funded and
directed the military- industrial complex behind Hitler and the Nazi revolution.
In 1919, George Herbert Walker had organized W.A. Harriman & Co which
merged with the British Brown Brothers in 1931. In 1924, Averell Harriman
(Skull & Bones, 1913) and Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist who
began funding Hitler in 1923, set up the Union Banking Corp in New York
to handle funds supplied to it through Thyssen's Dutch bank for American
investment. Prescott Bush, who had been an officer of the W.A. Harriman
bank since 1926, was a director of the Union Banking Corp from 1934 through
1943. According to government documents, "all of the shares of the
Union Banking Corp., were held for the benefit of members of the Thyssen
- The federal government did not crack down on the Bush-Harriman/Nazi
operation until 1942. After the war, Congressional investigation revealed
that Fritz Thyssen's German Steel Trust, Germany's largest industrial corporation,
which interlocked with Union Banking Corporation, produced a high percentage
of Germany's national output of metal products and explosives.
- Vesting Orders signed by the Office of Alien Property
Custodian, Leo T. Crowley, which were "published in obscure government
record books and kept out of the news, explained nothing about the Nazis
involved; only that the Union Banking Corporation was run for the 'Thyssen
family' of 'Germany and/or Hungary'-- 'nationals...of a designated enemy
- More at: http://www.watch.pair.com/reich.html