Thursday, October 6, 2011
Authenticated Hitler Letter From 1919 Confirms Author's Early Anti-Semitic "Removal" Policies--"UCLA historian Saul Friedlander, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of a two-volume analysis of the Nazi regime, observed that “In his very first written statement about the Jews, Hitler shows that [hatred of Jews] was the very core of his political passion.” http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/63058/hitler-letter-offers-first-glimpse-of-anti-semitic-obsession/
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Interesting Doug here is one ironic one for ya if you don't mind - most all of Hitlers' relations reside within New York. You can fact check it. But it's the truth, he was what he was and it was a time which did change the world back then.
ReplyDeleteYes, I saw an article to that effect in the "New Yorker" years ago, Jack. I'm sure you're right.
ReplyDeleteIt's sobering to think that without World War I, we would be living in a very different world now, one that, thankfully and certainly, would have never heard of any Adolph Hitler.
We are Doug I don't know where it all leads but the past as well as current shapes the times. We are getting old I think. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's one thing for certain, Jack. :-)
ReplyDeleteBefore Hitler became involved in politics he was a failed art student living on the street but he still continued to sale some of his art work and ironically many of his customers were Jewish. Hitler was no doubt a monster but certainly a very complicated one.
ReplyDeleteAs well he himself was part Jewish Mike and how ironic is that.
ReplyDeletewow I didn't know that Jack...I do know that the Nazis were testing a-bombs or at least they tested one in which they killed
ReplyDeletea few thousand Russian POWs and they had the Vl and later the VII rockets had the war gone on much longer who knows what might have happened. One of their scientists was brought to the US and became the founder of what we now call NASA.
Unless the books I read were of fiction but he was. There is much to say of men of the likes of Hitler. As well, within medicine
ReplyDeletewell lets leave that one alone. But it was a time in which was a nasty era Mike.
Yet this site here says otherwise:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitlerjew.html
WWII was a fascinating time and there is so much wonderful stuff out there to read about it.
ReplyDeleteto bad he committed suicide I would have loved to see him in front of the court in Nuremberg
ReplyDeleteI had heard that, Mike. Apparently he could draw buildings well, but not people.
ReplyDeleteOne can see why the German officers went running in some cases into the hands of Western Allied armies in the Spring of 1945.
ReplyDeleteThe Germans had something called the VIII rocket on the drawing board, an intercontinental missle that could in theory have hit New York City. And the early jet aircrafts were all German. It was tough for the Brits and the Americans to keep up with German aviation innovations, and the rockets as it was. As you say, another year who knows.
Warner Von Braun I know was both a Nazi rocketeer and a NASA scientist. They did a lot to "rehabilitate" his image. The US government secretly sponsored a feature film in1960 based on his life called "I am At the Stars".
As stand-up comic Mort Sahl joked about it back in the day, "I aim at the Stars!...but smetimes I hit London."
Me too Heidi.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly is Mary Ellen. Just the code-breaking operations against the Nazis (Operation Ultra), for example, are fascinating and reveal a great deal of how Allied movements after the Summer of 1940 could check the Germans. It was all hush-hush technology Hitler didn't know the British and the other Allies had.
ReplyDeleteThis was a political passion with a number of influential foreign backers however Doug.
ReplyDeleteFor example as Antony Sutton indicates in August 1938 — after Hitler had achieved power with the aid of the cartels — Henry Ford received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, a Nazi decoration for distinguished foreigners.
The New York Times reported it was the first time the Grand Cross had been awarded in the United States and was to celebrate Henry Ford's 75th birthday.
Hitler was bankrolled by German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, who arranged a credit of 250,000 marks for Hitler, through this Dutch bank affiliated with the Harrimans. Thyssen's book, later repudiated, states that as much as one million marks came from Thyssen.
Thyssen's U.S. partners were, of course, prominent members of the Wall Street financial establishment. Edward Henry Harriman, the nineteenth-century railroad magnate, had two sons, W. Averell Harriman (born in 1891), and E. Roland Harriman (born in 1895)
http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/
It was indeed a political passion with powerful adherents, AA.
ReplyDeleteHenry Ford was an early-and-often offender in the "fools socialism", anti-Semitic bigotry. He had the Dearborne (Michigan) Independant Newspaper and book and pamphlets published with anto-Jewish articles and tracts. I beleive he was succesfully sued for libel when he made the mistake of naming names. I'm pretty sure old Henry Ford was pleased when Hitler shut down the trade unions as well.
The chapter of Sutton's book on you refer to shows many bankers all over Europe and some in The United States were quite convinced that they could "control" the nazi movement and that Hitler and Goering were eager to advance the fear of a Soviet-style government in Germany to their party's advantage in the Weimar elections. 1933 was an auspicious time, not unlike our own I'm afriad, where contributors and voters look for a demagogue and some scapegoats to latch unto to. The better in the former case for groups like the multi-national banks to avoid their share of the blame for mass unemployment. In this case, fanatical nationalism prevailed.
Yet Henry Ford was the one which took the times of which this writing is about and began or was one of the first to bring about what was called the industrialization which happened while the war was taking place. Henry was often ridiculed but was rudimentary in the first pursuit of building. Henry Ford paved the way and the economy lifted during this time.
ReplyDeleteLet us not forget.
Henry Ford, Sr., was a amazing industrialist, I agree Jack,and important to the civilian American prosperity in the three decades before WWII. Later Ford plants supplied a lot of heavy equipment for the Allies. But he and and son Edsel Ford had been up to their eyebrows with keeping plants open in German-occupied France.
ReplyDeleteBut his politics toward friendship to nazis and antipathy toward unions left something to be desired. Like the aviator "hero" Charles Lindbergh and others, he was very much on the wrong side of history.
The goals of the US "Liberty League" and some members of America First in the 1930's and early 1940's were both racist and undemocratic.
The same of course could have been said for a lot of people at that time. But Ford had more clout than most people.
For more on this matter of anti-semitism, pro-nazi Americans in the industrial and business ranks:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Car_Connection_TWE.html
Ford's first plant of which he began the method of building began within Canada. I never look into what he was thinking within that time Doug. All I do know is that he was a major leader within the industralization and the method of the assembly line was his own creation which many companies thereafter followed suit.
ReplyDeleteShall look as it's a stat holiday here tomorrow...
ReplyDeleteMost interesting reading Doug.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jack. I didn't know about the Canadian angle with Henry Ford.
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