FTR #50 Reunited Germany: The New Danger

Posted March 4, 1997 by FTR, in Category: For The Record

(Thirteen 30-minute segments)
Because the Nazis were anti-communist and anti-labor, National Socialism was viewed with great favor by many powerful political, industrial and financial figures among the victorious Western allies. Because of this, Nazis were allowed to remain in power in Germany (behind a relatively thin democratic facade.) After German reunification, disturbing indications began to appear that Germany was beginning to return to its old ways. This series highlights aspects of the re-emergence of German fascism including: the new German policy of using the army (Bundeswehr) as an integral element of economic and political expansion; the functional continuity between the officer corps of Hitler’s Wehrmacht and the “new” Bundeswehr; the German governmentâs revival of organizations and publications banned at Nuremberg and the participation of junior government ministers on the advisory boards of these organizations; German economic and political conquest of the newly liberated nations of Eastern Europe through German corporate acquisitions of those nationsâ strategic heavy industry, energy, transportation and communications industries; the pivotal German role in the destabilization and break up of both Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia; German support for fascist political movements in neighboring countries; German governmental complicity in recent Nazi violence against “foreigners” and “immigrants;” German financing and political support for political and economic autonomy for German minorities in neighboring countries; and muted German threats of war against neighboring nations who resist German ethnic, economic and political hegemony. (Recorded in the summer of 1995.)

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