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The Nazi Hydra
In Fascist America
The Nazi Hydra In Fascist America is a currently an ongoing work in progress
of the White Rose. The Nazi Hydra was conceived to fill a gap in the
literature by providing a detailed overview of the influence of fascism
within the United States. The intent and motivation for such a project was
twofold: to sound an ominous warning as to the direction this country is
taking at the hands of the right wing and to provide a convenient all
encompassing source on fascism in the Untied States for the reader. In this
regards the chapters are heavily documented. And I urge the reader here and
throughout the book to read the sources cited for further details.When
complete the book is projected to span sixteen chapters. Chapters will be
made available on this web site as they are completed.
After two years into this project I now understand why such a book was never
attempted before. Such a detailed accounting of fascism within this country
would literally fill volumes. Some of the chapters are brutally long, yet I
feel that I have omitted far too many details for the sake of the reader. For
instance, the Chapter Ratlines covering the CIA and its reliance on Nazi war
criminals, is over 27,000 words or roughly 60 pages.
Many details had to be omitted in writing that chapter in setting up the
premise of how this over reliance of Nazi war criminals started the cold war,
influenced our foreign policy and even influence our medical testing on
orphans and prisoners. At least a half dozen excellent books exploring this
aspect of fascism comes to mind and the reader is referred to them
extensively in the chapter. But such omissions of details become a fact of
life in presenting a broad overview of a complex and many faceted topic.
In fact nothing remains unchanged from the original outline. Even the title
was changed to better reflect on the subject from the original title of High
Noon: in Fascist America. The real danger of fascism is that its so insidious
that it can creep into every crack of daily life unnoticed including religi
ous groups, hence the logic behind the change in title. Chapters were omitted
and others added as research dictated. Additional information and revisions
need and will be made in some of the chapters already written. But such
changes are the hallmark of good research.
Some readers will undoubtedly find the Nazi Hydra disturbing. They shudder at
reports of another Nazi war criminal being deported and the crimes against
humanity that he inflicted onto others. They fear to ask the question how
such a person could slip into the country or how many more are present.
Others may be livid with anger as the Nazi Hydra details the associations of
the Republican Party and past presidents: Nixon, Ford, Bush and Reagan with
Nazi war criminals. But history cannot be rewritten and it's a story that
must be told. Those that aided Nazi war criminals are no less guilty of
crimes against humanity than any of the Nazi war criminals and need be held
fully accountable at the end of a hangman's rope. As today we stand at the
edge of a deep chasm with the right wing ready to shove us over the edge into
full-blown fascism.
Still others may find the Nazi Hydra as it was intended as a useful resource
and the danger that fascism presents to the world and the United States
today. In fact I have received an email from a wonderful lady in New Zealand
that has been using it as a reference in the forum MAI-NOT. Her email with
her name omitted appears in the rave review link below. The one thing I do
promise is the book will not end in darkness. The final chapter will be a
chapter detailing solutions to stopping fascism dead in its tracks. For the
reader that cannot wait one such proposal can be found in the Corporate
Welfare section in the links section of the White Rose. The proposed solution
to ending once and for all time corporate rule and domination is the proposed
constitutional amendment.
I would greatly appreciate if any reader has documentable evidence of fascism
or of right wing propaganda material to please email such material to me. One
particular item that I am currently seeking is a list of the twenty one steps
to communism originally put out by the John Birch Society in the 1960s. And
currently being promoted by a militia group from Arizona and recently found
posted on a bulletin board of a Midwest state university.
I hope you find the Nazi Hydra useful and please feel free to quote it or
cite it.
Email
Rave Review
Preface
Chapter 1 What Fascism Is & Isn't
Corporate Law: A History
The 1930s: Nazis Parading on Main Street
The War Years
Ratlines: The CIA & The Nazis
Those Damn Hippies Are Still Trouble: How the 60s Still Effects Us.
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Before diving into the subject mater at hand a note is in order concerning
the documentation. This writer would have preferred to use references
entirely from hard copy works over web site urls. Hard copy references are
permanent as opposed to the more fleeting nature of the web. In this regard
this writer has tried to limit web references to those of organizations only
rather than to personnel pages that may be here today and gone tomorrow.
But the web is a wonderful research tool, yes the web has a lot of junk as
well but so does any library. It's up to the researcher to sort out the
reliable information in both and to discard the junk. Secondly information on
the web is more current than what you can find in any library. With that said
the writer has made heavy use of web references. Yes, they may be fleeting in
nature, and yes the information may be updated in the future but that is a
hazard of any research source. With that said the web references found within
this book do what any references do and that is to give credit to the
original writer after all you are reading this book on line. For this reason
no attempt to update the html links will be made.
This book addresses the topic of creeping fascism in America. Before
proceeding we need to carefully define what is meant by creeping fascism.
Fascism itself will be defined in the first chapter. Creeping fascism refers
to events themselves that may not be truly fascist in nature but when viewed
in the context of a greater movement they can indeed be seen as part of a
fascist movement or contributed to the rise of fascism. Events of creeping
fascism will all have one thing in common they will represent a lost of
freedoms for the average citizen. Indeed if any single event in the U. S.
short of the suspension of the constitution could be properly labeled as
fascist or in any other country for that matter.
Much of what this writer labels as creeping fascism could be properly termed
Neo-fascism. Another author who has struggled with what constitutes fascism a
nd neo-fascism is Eatwell.3 The precise definition is all but impossible. Nor
does this writer really like the term neo-fascist or neo-nazi. It tends to
somehow lend some creditability to them. It's like putting a happy face on a
Nazi; rip the mask off and you still have a stark raving lunatic. For the
purpose of this book creeping fascism will be defined as any measure that
lends support to the elite or takes freedoms away from the greater masses.
The danger with such a definition is that's it's a little too broad if used
indiscriminately as will be shown shortly but neither the less it's the best
definition available to define creeping fascism, which in the remainder of
the book will simply be referred to as fascism.
It is the inherent nature of fascism that a revolution is not needed for the
fascist to gain power. Indeed the only shooting revolution of the three
classical fascist countries was in Franco's Spain. Both the Nazis and
Mussolini rose to power in what could be more properly called a noisy
protest. This is what makes fascism so dangerous and insidious. It can result
from a natural decay of a democratic capitalistic society. Certainly economic
troubles aid the fascist, as does the lack of strong leadership, it was
precisely such conditions and the resulting chaos that allowed the Nazis to
seize power in Germany.
This then is the basis and justification of the term creeping fascism. It
refers directly to the decay of a democratic society and the gradual erosion
of liberties and freedom leading to an authoritarian state. Thus when the
writer labels an event as fascism he is looking at that event in the context
of a larger movement in which individual freedoms and liberties are being
gradually washed away. Once again the same type of events are easy to spot
looking at the history of Germany now, but without the benefit of hindsight
the imagines are indeed blurry. For one America may reverse this slide into
the dark side. We still have the ability to counteract those that wish to
revoke our freedoms. In the final chapter the writer will present definite
steps that can be taken to regain our freedoms. Failure to include such
solutions is fatalistic and the outcome far too dark to contemplate without
their inclusion.
In the second chapter it will be shown that how fascism is unique in not
requiring a shooting revolution and can arise out of a nature degenerative
process of a democratic capitalistic society. Since fascism is a top down
movement all that is required is that the elite of that society begin to
concentrate their power without regards to the masses. Thus all fascist need
do is to corrupt the political and economic processes to begin their march to
a totalitarian state. They can do so with spreading forth propaganda to
discredit the government, the schools, the media, the scientists, the courts
and the remainder of the very institutions that have made America great. Once
they have created a critical mass of distrust in the public then they are
free to begin the process of concentration of power. This is the approach
that the hard right and Republican Party has followed since the election of
Reagan in 1980. It is a gradual process that can easily be cloaked until it's
too late. The purveyors of fascism are free to mask much of the concentration
under the banner of capitalism. Such as the consolidation of the media, which
is today nothing more than the mouth-piece for corporate America.
The writer is not being an alarmist when he labels an event that seems almost
harmless as fascism. It's the inherent nature of creeping fascism that masks
the true significance of these events until it's too late. Freedom is a
precious commodity nor is there any shortage of thugs that will do anything
to kill it; it requires a constant vigil. These events leading to fascism may
appear to be innocuous by themselves, certainly there were many such events
in Germany prior to the rise of the Nazis. Its only after we have seen the
nasty outcome of Nazi Germany that we can see that these events were not
innocuous that they contributed directly to the rise of the Nazis. But at the
time of their occurrence the average German citizen would have dismissed them
without any further thought as harmless. But that's the benefit of hindsight.
To expound further on how these events can appear harmless at the time of the
event, a brief look at the reaction to the appointment of Hitler will provide
the ideal example. Considering the enormity of the event with the benefit of
hindsight one would except the reaction to have been a loud and bloody
protest, but instead the reaction was muted indifference. In a newsreel that
was widely shown in movie houses throughout Germany, Hitler's appointment as
chancellor was the last of six events. It followed such newsworthy items as a
report on ski jumping, a horse race and a horse show. Editor of Vorwarts,
Fredirich Stampfer recalled that most people had no idea what had befallen
them. Foreign reactions were restrained. A Czech diplomat in Berlin saw
nothing significant in the new cabinet. The British ambassador informed
England that the appointment of the cabinet marked the end of the
presidential governments.1 Other members of the German press reported that it
was Hugenberg who was the power behind the new cabinet. Indeed some of the
leaders of big business expressed more concern over Hugenberg as economic
minister than of Hitler.2
To further complicate maters these events need not have been supported by the
Nazis, they may have been supported by well meaning government officials or
others while the Nazis were still viewed as nothing more than a noisy bunch
of thugs led by a little guy with a funny mustache. One such example would be
the flaw in the German constitution that made no allowances for a negative
parliament. It was a defect that Hitler successfully exploited in his quest
for power. Following the war the flaw was corrected and the German
parliamentary system has performed admirably. Another example would be the
lack of comprising among the various parties to form a parliamentary
president starting around 1930. This was another large factor in the rise to
power of the Nazis, there was an acute power vacuum; there was no strong
leadership. The electorate was simply too fractured or polarized for a strong
leader that was responsible to the people to arise. Yes, much of that
polarization was the direct cause of the Nazis, but the other parties
likewise contributed to it, including the centralist parties.
Another example would be the practice of big businesses forming cartels
dating all the way back into the monarchy. How much these cartels contributed
to the economic problems of the 1920s can only be estimated, but it certainly
added to the economic woes of Germany. Further the various fractions of
businesses sought out conflicting goals from the government contributing to
the general government instability. The Rhur industrial sought to promote
free trade while the agribusiness's sought out higher tariffs on grain
imports to protect their livelihood.
Additionally we have already hinted that some of these events even proceeded
the formation of the Nazi party. Indeed the best example of this is the
prevalence of anti-Semitic feelings in Germany dating all the way back to the
time of Martin Luther. Hitler exploited the underlying anti-Semitism to
divide the electorate in order to gain power. Is racism in America part of a
fascist movement? In the book that follows it will indeed be treated and
labeled simply as fascist. Again we don't have the benefit of hindsight at
the moment to know. We do know from looking at the history of fascism that
racism is indeed a characteristic of fascism, as is any method that can
divide the electorate.
This writer feels that divisionism is another trait of fascism that is always
present just as is authoritarian and extreme nationalism is. The writer
acknowledges that any political party in a democracy uses some form of
divisionism in order to win elections. But there is a difference here, when
this writer refers to divisionism as a trait of fascism he is referring to
destructive divisionism that serves only but one purpose and that is to
solely further the aims of the user.
A good example of this destructive divisionism was after first being
appointed chancellor Hitler immediately set about destroying any chance at
forming a parliamentary majority. This will be gone into more depth in the
first chapter. Likewise, the Republican led government shut down over the
budget in 1997 was simply labeled a fascist move on the part of the
Republicans in an analogy in the same chapter. Clearly this writer means it
to be an example of creeping fascism and not out right fascism, the writer
chooses not to insult his readers' intelligence by repeating the exact
phrase. Throughout the remainder of this book the writer will label such
events as fascism rather than creeping fascism. Likewise this writer will
simply label an event as divisionism rather than destructive divisionism. One
final example of divisionism that has already been mentioned is racism.
Certainly it serves no constructive purpose and it certainly fractures the
electorate.
This particular rise of the hard right in America is unique and poses a
dangerous threat to our liberties and freedoms. Like the period between wars
this rise in fascism is global in nature not confined to one country or one
area of the world. The author does recognize that there have been times in
the past of widespread repression such as the rise of the Klan in the 1920s,
the prosecution of the Wobblies in the same time period, McCarthyism in the
1950s and even COINTELPRO in the 1960s. What then makes this time
particularly dangerous and unique? The second chapter explores the 3Ms needed
for a revolution to succeed. Those are the media, the military and the money.
The hard right today have taken on the aspects of social darwinism and at no
time in the past has the wealth of the country been controlled by so few. The
media has consolidated until only seven companies now control the airwaves
and the press. . In essence it is now a reality that big money now owns the
media, the only exception to that is the net. But even here consolidation is
already beginning to occur.
It should be noted that a similar consolidation of the press occurred in
Germany during the late 1920s. Indeed there are many parallels and analogies
between the present time and Nazi Germany. Other writers have also noted a "h
auntingly similarity" to Nazi Germany.4 In this case the writer attributes
the sudden shift to the right in America to five factors: conservative
religious revitalization, economic contraction and restructuring, racism,
social stress and backlash, and a well-funded network. In past times, not all
of these root causes have occurred simultaneously. This writer concurs with
such an analysis and those topics will be explored later in detail.
Indeed this shift to the hard right would not have happened without the
excesses from the 1960s. The 60s was the period in which the religious right
laid the ground work for their movement. The Goldwater campaign provided a
pivotal role for the formation of today's hard right. Not only did it provide
fertile ground for the organizers but it also lent some sort of legitimacy to
their radical extremist views and served to desensitize us.
The primary focus of this book will be the times following 1980. As hinted to
already in order to understand the shift and the danger it presents
background material from earlier times is needed. The chapters from the first
section will lay the ground work for the background needed to fully
understand the 1980s and the hard right movement. The second part will deal
with the 1980s and more recent times. In any book such as this, which is
primarily a survey of the subject, the various topics are numerous and a full
discussion of any single topic is beyond the scope of this book. Indeed books
have been written on the topics or even of subdivisions of a topic. The
writer is not going to bore you with over repetitious examples and analysis.
Rather the writer will present various examples that serve to make the point
before moving on. The objective here is to stimulate the reader into thinking
for himself not to provide exhaustive analysis and examples.
1. Thirty Days to Power, Henry Ashby Turner, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1996,
p159.
2. German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler, Henry Ashby Turner, Oxford
Press, 1985, p326.
3. Fascism, Roger Eatwell, Penguin, 1996. 4.
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