-Caveat Lector-
> there was a . . . a surprisingly approachable pope in the eighties
and nineties
Approachable, indeed.
Consider, if you will, his friend Herman Abs:
"While Germany's bankers were collectively responsible for the financing
of Hitler's war effort, the dean of them all is Herman Josef Abs. Money
was his life, and his astuteness in banking and international financial
manipulations enabled Deutsche Bank to serve as leader in fueling the
ambitions and accomplishments of Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann. His
dominance was retained when the Federal Republic of Germany picked
itself up from the ashes; he was still there as chairman of Deutsche
Bank, director of I.G Farben, and of such others as Daimler-Benz and the
giant electrical conglomerate, Siemans. Abs became a financial advisor
to the first West German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, and was a welcome
visitor in the Federal Chancellery under Mr. Adenauer's successors,
Ludwig Erhard and Kurt George Keisinger . . .
. . . (Bormann's) friendship with Dr. Herman Josef Abs predated Abs's
move into the management of Deutsche Bank. Dr. Abs had been a partner
in the prestigious private bank of Delbruck, Schickler & Co. in Berlin.
Recalling those days, Abs has written:
'The Reich Chancellery in Berlin was its largest account, and it was
through this account that Adolf Hitler received his salary as Chancellor
of the Reich.'
. . . Reichsleiter Bormann knew that his relationship with Abs would
tighten as his own power grew . . . He knew in 1943 that with his Nazi
banking committee well established, he had the means to . . . set new
Nazi state policy when the time was ripe for the general transfer of
capital, gold, stocks, and bearer bonds to safety in neutral nations."
-- Martin Bormann, Nazi in Exile by Paul
Manning, Lyle Stuart, 1981, pp 87
History has largely ignored bankers in favor of other subjects.
History, and those who write it (and their masters) apparently want us
to think polititions and generals are more important to the state.
Bankers, of course, feel differently. They tend, and not with out
reason, to be as furtive a lot as possible. While we are cheering the
polititions and saluting the generals, we are not noticing the bankers,
who are picking our pockets. This suits the bankers' ends, thus history
slants their relative importance.
"Baron Kurt von Schroeder, a well-known banker . . . and economic
advisor to Bormann's economic committee, commented that Dr. Herman Josef
Abs, chairman of Deutsche Bank, was particularly important to the
government of the Third Reich.
'His influence was mainly with the Reichsbank and with the Ministry of
Economics. Abs proved very valuable to the party and to the government
by using his bank to assist the government in doing business in the
occupied countries and other foreign countries. Abs enjoyed excellent
relations with Walther Funk, who was both president of the Reichsbank
and head of the Ministry of Economics . . .
. . . Branch managers of Deutsche Bank were to a man members of the
party . . ."
-- Ibid, p 69
This is the same Hermann Abs who was chosen by Pope John Paul II to
oversee the reorganization of the Vatican Bank when it was caught
red-handed laundering counterfeit securities and heroin profits for the
Gambino crime family. It is worth noting that in his youth J.P. II was,
according to the official version, once a slave laborer for I.G. Solvay,
a Farben subsidiary specializing primarily in pharmaceuticals. He is
supposed to have labored in the Solvay quarries near Auschwitz. It's a
rare slave indeed who becomes pope at all, let alone then hires his
former master to keep track of his money. Wonders truly never cease.
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