Photo of Arnold from Sports Illustrated, December 7, 1987, page 84
FTR#421—Pump This: The Schwarzenegger File—(Two 30-minute segments) (Sources
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Summary of FTR#421—(Note: The massive
volume of “For The Record” programs about 9/11 and related topics is summarized
and analyzed in the periodically-updated description for FTR#391. It is recommended that listeners use this
description and e-mail it to others. Also: The “meat” of the book “Martin
Bormann: Nazi in Exile” has been digested into an extended description for FTR#305. Listeners can now e-mail this
quintessentially important book to people around the world. In addition, the
professional history of the late Paul Manning, the book’s author, is presented
in the description “About Paul Manning.” This
enables listeners to acquaint others with Mr. Manning’s journalistic
credentials. Understanding the Bormann organization is essential to
comprehending the concept of “the Underground Reich.”) Interrogatory in nature, this program highlights the Nazi family
background and Nazi-like affectations of California Gubernatorial candidate
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Beginning with discussion of a body building picture in
which Schwarzenegger is giving the Nazi salute, the broadcast sets forth
numerous accounts of Schwarzenegger’s manifestation of a Nazi/Aryan persona
during his bodybuilding days. The discussion also examines Gustav
Schwarzenegger’s Nazi background in the Austrian brown-shirts, and the Third
Reich’s military police—the latter a key liaison element with the SS mobile
killing squads on the Eastern Front. (Gustav--Arnold’s father--was with a unit that
was involved in some of the most brutal fighting in Russia.) After examining
the strong areas of overlap between the elder Schwarzenegger’s background and
the areas projected as repositories of Third Reich postwar underground
operatives, the broadcast examines the curiously large influence that Gustav
was able to exert on behalf of Arnold’s military career. It appears that Gustav
may well have been more than a mere small-town police chief. Arnold
Schwarzenegger was a close political ally of and defender of Nazi war criminal
Kurt Waldheim, later elected president of Austria. Schwarzenegger has never
repudiated his support for Waldheim. Much of the program examines the
networking of Bush family ally and investment adviser Allen Dulles and
personalities (including Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and
William Casey) that were to become luminaries in the Republican hierarchy. All
of these men were involved with the Crusade for Freedom, an illegal CIA/State
Department operation in which Nazi and fascist war criminals were brought into
the US for political purposes. Many eventually coalesced into the Republic
ethnic outreach organization. The key words and concepts to understand in the
context of this broadcast are networking,
oligarchy, hierarchy. Is
Schwarzenegger associated with the Underground Reich? Was his ascension
realized through the networking of elements of the American power elite with
the Underground Reich?
Program Highlights Include: The Dulles milieu’s
vetting of Schwarzenegger’s Nazi pal Waldheim for service with the Austrian
government; Austrian ambassador Helene Van Damm’s networking with SS operative
Otto von Bolschwing and the Dulles milieu; the Third Reich’s projected use of
disabled veterans, the police, women and young girls as postwar underground
operatives; legislation that has already been introduced that would allow
Schwarzenegger to run for President.
1.
Beginning with the first thing that put Arnold Schwarzenegger on Mr.
Emory’s “radar screen”, the program highlights a picture from Sports Illustrated that shows “Der
Terminator” giving the Nazi salute. The picture can be viewed by clicking on
the link in this description. (Note that this is NOT a doctored picture.
Skeptical listeners are emphatically encouraged to go to a library, secure the
original article, and distribute it to media
sources.) (“Pex Sell Tix” by Dan Geringer; Sports Illustrated; 12/7/1987; p. 80; [the picture itself is on
page 84].) Photo of Arnold from Sports
Illustrated, December 7, 1987, page 84
2.
Apparently, this sort of behavior was not unusual for
Schwarzenegger. “In Arnold:
The Education of a Bodybuilder, he wrote that he was overwhelmed by [Schwarzenegger
mentor Reg] Park’s luxurious house, his pool, his antiques, and his servants
and that he felt out of place. He did, however, apparently feel quite at home
with the South African system of apartheid. According to Rick Wayne, who is
black, when they discussed apartheid Arnold said he thought South Africa was
right, saying things like ‘If you gave these blacks a country to run, they
would run it down the tubes.’ However, Rick was accustomed to Arnold’s
reactionary views and quirky ways. He and Arnold had posed together in Munich.
In his book, Muscle Wars, a study of
bodybuilding politics, Rick recalled that after Arnold had ‘struck a pose
reminiscent of the Nazi salute,’ he received less applause from the German
audience than he had expected. Arnold’s response was to comment to Rick, ‘These
people are nothing without an Austrian to lead them.’” (Arnold: The Unauthorized Biography; by
Wendy Leigh; Copyright 1990 by Wendy Leigh; Congdon & Weed [HC]; ISBN
0-86553-216-8; pp. 68-69.)
3.
“A veneer of Nazism” was viewed by many Schwarzenegger associates as
part of Schwarzenegger’s body building persona. “On [Joe] Weider’s instructions, [Art] Zeller
photographed Arnold constantly. Zeller remembers that from the start Arnold was
ready to sacrifice everything to achieve his goals, getting enough sleep and
training hard. Always prepared to admit to his deficiencies and to devote
himself to eliminating them, Arnold immediately took posing lessons from Dick
Tyler. Tyler, deciding that Arnold merited ‘heroic’ music, picked for his
posing routine Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Years later Tyler commented that if Hitler had wanted to advertise the Aryan
ideal, Arnold would have been its perfect representative.” (Ibid.;
p. 87.)
4.
“Tyler’s remarks
may sound a trifle barbed; however, since 1977 rumors have circulated in the
bodybuilding world that during the filming of Pumping Iron, the pseudo-documentary film that transformed him into
a legend, Arnold said he admired Hitler. When contacted for a newspaper article
in 1988, George Butler, the producer and director of the film and still a close
friend of Arnold’s today, admitted that during the filming of Pumping Iron Arnold definitely did say
that he admired Hitler. Butler then conceded that the remark was cut from the
final version of the film, adding that Arnold expressed his admiration of
‘Hitler and Kennedy in almost the same breath as people who were leaders.’ When
asked why Arnold admired Hitler, Butler replied that the context in the film
was that Arnold was saying he had ‘always wanted to be remembered like the most
famous people in history, like Jesus and so on . . .” (Ibid.; pp. 87-88.)
5.
“Manfred
Thellig, who worked with Arnold in Munich, offers a similar interpretation.
According to Thellig, Arnold ‘definitely admires the Teutonic period of the
Third Reich. He just loved those leftover relics of the Third Reich in
Munich—those Teutonic statues.’ He added that Arnold would say, ‘If I had lived
at that time, I would have been one of those Teutonic breeders’ but explains,
‘Whenever he opened his mouth and it sounded like ‘Oh, there is a neo-Nazi,’
this was just playing Tarzan. It wasn’t serious. . .’” (Ibid.; pp. 88-89.)
6.
“There are,
nevertheless, witnesses over the years who have seen Arnold break into the ‘Sieg Heil’ salute and play his records
of Hitler’s speeches. Arnold responded to this issue during a 1989 Penthouse interview with journalist
Sharon Churcher. According to Churcher, a former associate of Arnold’s during
the seventies had heard from a mutual acquaintance that Arnold had Nazi
paraphernalia in his apartment. According to the associate, Arnold’s reaction
at that time was to claim through Pumping
Iron producer George Butler, that his interest ‘was only that of a
student.’ Butler, professing to have forgotten the above exchange, says that he
had never seen any Nazi paraphernalia at Arnold’s house.” (Ibid.; p. 89.)
7.
The article goes
on to quote Arnold as saying, ‘I totally hate the Nazi period.’ He adds, ‘When
you come from a background like Germany or Austria, then you sometimes are
joked about and people give you sometimes gifts that maybe had something to do
with that [Nazi] time.’ When asked if he kept any such presents, Arnold
replied, ‘No. I am so much against that time period. I despise it.’” (Idem.)
8.
“There is yet another
possibility. As one bodybuilder, who observed Arnold in America doing the ‘Sieg Heil’ salute commented, ‘It was
expected of him.’ Arnold personified Aryan supremacy and Germanic strength of
will. To top that, his father had been a member of the Nazi party. Both his
heritage and his image were inescapable. Inescapable, but not ineradicable. Yet
Arnold, far from underplaying his roots, embraced and advertised them.” (Ibid.; pp. 89-90.)
9.
“Essentially
always an entertainer, a performer who gloried in satisfying his audience,
Arnold must have known that the Nazi aura surrounding him did not displease his
admirers. After all, the goal of many bodybuilders is to carve for themselves
bodies befitting a master race, and to that end power and dominance are valued
above all. Bodybuilding journalist Dick Tyler, who was Joe Weider’s West Coast
editor and who met Arnold during his first months in America, sums up the
allure of the jackboot in bodybuilding terms: ‘I used to tell bodybuilders,
‘When you go out there, think of yourself as the very best. There is no other.
It will come across to the audience and they love it. That’s why they are
there. They are sitting there with their skinny bodies and they are looking up
at that stage—looking up at their heroes.’ They want that arrogance, and Arnold
knew this. You didn’t need to give any advice to him about being arrogant.’ All
in all, allegations of Arnold’s veneer of Nazism probably didn’t hurt him in
the unique arena that is bodybuilding.” (Ibid.; p. 90.)
10. Contrasting with his later
(cosmetic and politically-motivated?) efforts on behalf of the Wiesenthal
Institute and the Museum of Tolerance, Schwarzenegger’s views on ethnicity
struck some as suggesting a different agenda. “All through his grueling training, Arnold
kept the image of [Schwarzenegger’s black Brazilian rival] Serge Oliva in front
of him. Black bodybuilder Dave DuPre, who would appear with Arnold years later
in Pumping Iron, says Arnold declared
one time while working out at Gold’s. ‘Serge is your only black hope to beat
me. Black people are inferior. You are not capable of achieving the success of
white people. Black people are stupid.’ Black people weren’t the only target of
his venom, for as usual he was completely democratic in his heckling. According
to DuPre, ‘He would make fun of Jews. If anybody looked Jewish, he would point
it out and tell them that they were inferior.” (Ibid.; p. 101.)
11. After setting forth
Schwarzengger’s “veneer of Nazism” during his body building days, the broadcast
undertakes an examination of his father’s background. As will be seen, Gustav
Schwarzenegger’s circumstances suggest at least the possibility that he may
have served as an operative of the Underground Reich in Austria during the
postwar period. Later in the program, we will look at the degree of overlap
between Schwarzenegger’s situation and some of the groups selected for postwar
underground work. “Documents lodged in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna,
only now available as 30 years have elapsed since Gustav’s death, give the most
detailed account yet of that role. They show that not only did he join the Nazi
party but was also a member of the SA (Sturmabteilung or stormtroopers), the
brown-shirted Nazi paramilitary wing made up of the most enthusiastic of
Hitler’s followers.” (“Terminator?” by Wendy Leigh; Mid Day; 3/9/2003; pp. 1-2; accessed at http://web.mid-day.com/smd/play/2003/march/46822.htm .)
12. “After enlisting in the Wehrmacht in November 1939, he
served as a sergeant major in the Feldgendarmerie—the German military police.
His unit was attached to a Panzer group and took part in the invasion of
Russia, where he would have witnessed some of the most brutal fighting of the
war and the murder of civilians . . .” (Ibid.; p. 2.)
13. “By the end of the ‘30’s, Europe was changing. Hitler had
been in power in Germany since 1933 and was determined to bring Austria (his
country of birth) within the German Reich and there were many there who
supported him. Schwarzenegger was certainly one of them. He joined the Nazi
Party when it was still illegal—on March 1, 1938, days before Hitler’s
annexation of Austria. In August, as Europe stood on the brink of war, he
joined Feldgendarmerie Unit 521, formed in Vienna with the help of the
Ordnungspolizei (the German Order Police).” (Idem.)
14. “His 110-man unit was first attached to the 14th
Army during the invasion of Poland and then Hitler’s Panzer Gruppe 4, part of
the Army group North, in the attack on Russia. It was when Unit 521 was ordered
to join up with General Eric Hoepner’s Panzer Gruppe 4 for the attack on Russia
in may 1941, that Schwarzenegger became involved in the most brutal fighting of
the Second World War. During the advance, the Feldgendarmerie was often
involved in burning down villages and shooting partisans.” (Idem.)
15. It is important to note that
the elder Schwarzenegger’s wartime role entailed liaising with the
SS-controlled Einsatzgruppen on the Eastern Front. As will be seen later, the
Einsatzgruppen and related elements formed a key element of the Underground
Reich forces recruited into US intelligence and (later) the Republican Party. “The
Feldgendarmerie units soon earned an unenviable reputation for brutality. They
were so hated in Russia that a bounty was put on their heads by the Soviets
demanding they be shot on sight in revenge. But there was a more sinister role
for the men of the military police: they liaised with the Einsatzgruppen, the
SS forces responsible for shooting partisans, Jews and Communists and
initiating Hitler’s Final Solution through the use of mobile gas chambers on
specially adapted lorries. Between June, 1941, and January 31, 1942,
Einsatzgruppe A, which was attached to Panzer Gruppe 4, was reported to have
killed 2, 09, 052 Jews.” (Ibid.; pp. 2-3.)
16. Wounded and plagued by
malaria, Schwarzenegger’s combat role ended in August of 1942. Later in the
broadcast, we will examine the role of disabled veterans in the Third Reich’s
plans for underground postwar work. “Schwarzenegger’s involvement in the war ended in August 22,
1942, when he was wounded. Initially, he was treated in the military hospital
in Lodz, but according to the records he also suffered recurring bouts of
malaria, which led to his discharge in February, 1944, when he was allowed to
return to Graz.” (Ibid.; p. 3.)
17. Schwarzenegger’s mother also
had strong feelings for Hitler. (Women were also viewed as essential for
postwar underground work by the Nazis.) “The next record in the archives comes on October 20, 1945,
when he married Aurelia Jadrny, a widow, in Murzsteg. During the war, Aurelia
worked in a government office, dispensing food stamps. However, as mundane as
her job may have been, she wasn’t immune to Hitler’s allure. Many years later,
Arnold confided to a girlfriend that when Hitler marched into Austria, Aurelia
was in the crowds and almost swooned.” (Idem.)
18. Although the elder
Schwarzenegger was officially cleared of direct participation in Nazi
atrocities, it should be noted that (as we will see shortly) those Nazis
selected for underground work were given falsified records that facilitated
their eventual “sheep-dipping.” “During the de-Nazification of Austria after the war, when
Nazi sympathizers were investigated and assigned a category from one to
five—with one representing those believed to have committed war crimes and five
for those deemed innocent—Schwarzenegger was classified as Category 3, meaning
he was incriminated by his wartime activities though not guilty of major atrocities.
He was banned from resuming his job in the police department. What happened next is not on record, nor is
the process by which he was able to resume work, but by 1948, Schwarzenegger
had become police chief of Thal [Italics are Mr. Emory’s].” (Idem.)
19. Turning to examination of
the Third Reich’s plans for the postwar Nazi underground within the
“Fatherland” itself (of which Austria was part), the program examines a vitally
important book from 1944 that set forth the plans for the Underground Reich. “But what has not
yet become known is that all this also applies to a much greater number of
anonymous persons all over Germany, those on the second and third levels of the
Nazi strata. These unknown personalities may be used later by the underground.
Party functionaries who may be known locally, but certainly not nationally, can
easily be transferred to another city or town, where they will suddenly appear
as anti-Nazis.” (The Nazis Go
Underground; by Curt Riess; Copyright 1944 by Curt Riess; Doubleday, Doran
and Co., Inc. [HC]; p. 97.)
20. “The party helps in their masquerades. These men get new
documents which ‘prove’ that they have always been anti-Nazi. Notes are
inserted in their personal files saying they must be watched on account of
their anti-Hitler attitudes and ‘unworthy’ behavior. Some of them will
undoubtedly be sent to concentration camps for crimes which they have never
committed, but which will make them look dependable in the eyes of the Allies;
some have perhaps already succeeded in joining anti-Nazi circles and are
pretending to conspire against Hitler. Later on they will be able to use such
activities as alibis.” (Idem.)
21. Note that the civil
infrastructure was viewed as an essential repository for the forthcoming Nazi
underground. Areas of employment that would prove absolutely necessary for the
AMG (Allied Military Government) to ensure the smooth functioning of postwar
Germany were selected as primary repositories for trusted Nazi operatives. “And though they
[the AMG] will not want to co-operate with those they know as Nazis in Germany,
they may be forced by necessity to co-operate with those Nazis they don’t
recognize as such. For they will not be able to administer the country, even
for a week, without using the already existing machines and apparatuses of
administration. These machines are full of Nazis, unknown, anonymous. If they
should all be removed, everything would break down: supply, transport, the
mails, electricity, gas, water. The heads of departments, the prominent Nazis,
will either disappear of their own free will or be fired by the occupation
authorities. But that is the only radical change that the latter can make. Any
more would bring indescribable confusion and general disorder.”
(Ibid.; pp. 82-83.)
22. “There are a great number of irreplaceable bureaus and
organizations which no AMG will want to touch. For example, the numerous health
departments, every organization which helps protect public health, will have to
go on functioning. If there is any interference with them, the whole country,
and this includes invading troops, might be swept epidemic.” (Ibid.; p. 83.)
23. “Naturally it is in all the existing organizations that
Nazis will first try to hibernate at the end of the war, when they must play
dead. They will be in fire departments and in utilities; they will sit in tax
collectors’ offices—an important strategic position, because it is these
offices that will furnish the lists from which the Allies will determine
reparations payments; and they will fill the offices of food-distributing
agencies whose task it will be to avert famine after the war [Schwarzenegger’s
mother worked in such a capacity].” (Idem.)
24. Of primary significance for
our purposes is the fact that Schwarzenegger’s father served as a policeman. As
discussed above, the circumstances surrounding his postwar appointment are
unclear. The police were an area of civil infrastructure viewed as one of the
most important areas for secreting trusted operatives for postwar work. It is
also interesting (though not necessarily significant) that the Ordnungspolizei
were one of the projected repositories for postwar Nazis. The Ordnungspolizei
were instrumental in the formation of the Feldgendarmerie, in which Gustav
Schwarzenegger served. “Another ideal place will be the police. Herr Himmler has
been quoted as saying that no AMG could possibly dissolve the entire German
police without throwing Germany, and thus Europe, into complete chaos. He is
probably right . . . Such groups will be the Criminal Police, the
Ordungspolizei (the regular uniformed police) the Landjaeger (gendarmes in the
open country), and the Feurschutzpolizei (Fire Police).” (Ibid.; p.
86.)
25. Gustave became the chief of
police in a small, country village called Thal. In light of that fact, reflect
on what follows: “About nine months ago Himmler reorganized the gendarmes into a new
organization called Landwacht (County Guards) whose supposed duty it is to
prevent disorders in villages and towns. It is made up of the natives of each
particular district and is supposed to be a non-political organization. Anybody
who volunteers is accepted. Himmler’s idea in forming the Landwacht was to have
ready a group of law-enforcing officers who were apparently completely
non-political and who could be used by the AMG. It is into this Landwacht that
Himmler has been sending men of his Elite Guard.” (Ibid.; pp.
86-87.)
26. “Himmler also believes that the Criminal Police and the
regular uniformed police will not be dissolved, since these departments have
never been completely identified with the party. It is difficult indeed to run
a country or even a city without the help of a long-established criminal police
or regular police force. The smooth working of a criminal police depends on
personal contacts developed over a long period of time, on an army of tipsters
and stool pigeons, on the intimate knowledge of the habits and hideouts of the
criminals. Only in extreme cases will occupying authorities fail to use old
hands in police matters.” (Ibid.; p. 87.)
27. As noted above, disabled
vets were one of the areas projected as an area for postwar Underground Reich
operatives. As discussed in the Wendy Leigh article about Gustav
Schwarzenegger’s wartime career, he was officially disabled for much of the
conflict. “At
present there is in existence an organization comprising all German war
cripples. Its head is Hanns Oberlindober, who was the head of a similar
organization called the War Veterans’ Aid Society, after World War I. In the
thirties Oberlindober gained international importance as the leader of the War
Veterans’ Associations. Oberlindober himself made extensive travels to France
and other neighboring countries, posing as a pacifist and staging touching
scenes of international fraternization. Too late it became known to the French
secret service that he used his organizations as an apparatus for espionage.” (Ibid.; p. 84.)
28. “It can be assumed that Oberlindober himself will disappear
after the defeat. He has become much too notorious. It may also be assumed that
his organizations will not be allowed to continue in their present form.
However, whatever administrative apparatus may be set up to take care of German
war cripples after the war, the need for so-called experts will be great and
thus opportunity will be offered for a number of ‘neutral’ Oberlindober men to
be slipped into the new setup. In this connection it is interesting to note
that quite a few new men have been reported to have entered the Oberlindober
organization lately, the arrangements with the War Ministry having been made,
so it is said, by Oberlindober himself.” (Ibid.; pp. 84-85.)
29. It is also interesting to
note that women were projected for postwar work. Schwarzenegger’s mother had
distributed food stamps during the war and she was apparently quite taken with
Hitler. (Remember, again, that such civil service positions were a repository
for Underground Reich operatives.) Is it possible that she and Gustav were
selected as an “Underground Couple?” A
young Austrian woman—Helene Van Damm—appears to have played an essential part
in the Underground Reich’s efforts in the United States. Van Damm is discussed
below. (For more about Van Damm, see FTR#’s 332,
399, as well as RFA#’s 3,
32—available from Spitfire.) “Whichever of the organizations discussed here will be left
intact—whether it be the welfare organizations or the hospitals, the Criminal
Police or the machinery of Speer, the railroads or the utilities that will be
most active in the coming Nazi underground—one thing is certain: the women will
have to play a large part in its activities. Since it is practically certain
that the Allies will not sentence any women as war criminals except in proved
cases of capital crimes, there will be little reason for the leading
personalities of the women’s organizations to disappear and be replaced by unknown
personalities, although the organizations themselves will, of course, undergo a
change.” (Ibid.; p. 92.)
30. “Among the tasks of women in the coming Nazi underground
on which Frau Scholtz-Klink has to concentrate must be: . . . Special training
of stenographers, typists, filing clerks, et cetera—in short, of all female
personnel likely to be used either by the occupying powers (AMG) or by a future
German government.” (Ibid.; p. 93.)
31. After having married a member of the military intelligence unit in which
former Reagan national security adviser Richard Clarke had served, Van Damm
came to the United States and divorced her husband shortly afterward. Note that
the selection of young girls [women] for projected relationships with Allied
troops was envisaged by the Third Reich. “[A key area
will be] the training of young girls, or rather their preparation for the time
when Germany is occupied by hundreds of thousands of foreign soldiers. After
the last war, during the occupation of the Rhineland, if a German girl had
anything to do with an American or English soldier, not to speak of intimate
relations, it was considered by the family and the entire community as
outrageous behavior incompatible with ‘German Honor.’ This time such
‘outrageous behavior’ will not only be encouraged, but practically demanded, by
the Nazis, no matter what the official stand on this particular problem is. The
reason is that young German girls entering into intimate relations with foreign
soldiers may well convince these soldiers that the Germans are by no means the
bad people they are pictured; that the Nazis, too, had their good points. In
short, these German girls are being trained as disseminators of Nazi
propaganda.” (Ibid.; pp. 93-94.)
32. Van Damm later became a
protégé of Otto Von Bolschwing, and worked for him in a business capacity. The
passage that follows could be seen as foreshadowing her role with Von
Bolschwing’s business interests. “The training of women who will be logical contacts between
the underground movement or certain cells of the underground party and circles
of influence, such as big business, industries, cartels, foreign politicians,
et cetera.” (Ibid.; p. 94.)
33. Before turning to some
disturbing indications that Schwarzenegger’s father was far more than a mere
small-town police chief, we note that the town of Graz (of which Thal is a
suburb) was viewed as special by Hitler. “In fact, Hitler ws so gratified by the Grazers’
enthusiasm that he awarded the city an honorary title: die Stadt der Erhebung—the town of the elevation. Austrians, even
now, remember Hitler’s triumphant entry into Graz, how the crowds mobbed the
street, climbing lampposts for a glimpse of der
Fuhrer, shouting ‘Sieg Heil’ with
strident fervor.” (Arnold: The Unauthorized Biography; p.
8.)
34. A seemingly insignificant
detail about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s service in the Austrian army, the fact
that his father (ostensibly nothing but a
small town police chief)
was able to pull strings in a number of ways is noteworthy. Anyone even
remotely familiar with military protocol would understand that Schwarzenegger’s
father under normal circumstances
would never have been able to prevail on the Austrian army to change its
regulations in such dramatic fashion just for his son. “Besides,
according to Arnold, Gustav had smoothed the path for his younger son by using
his influence to have him stationed at a camp near Graz. He had also pulled
strings so that Arnold, characteristically impressed by the size and power of
tanks, could be a tank driver. Arnold claims that, thanks to Gustav’s
influence, the Austrian Army made an exception to the required tank driver’s
minimum age, lowering it from twenty-one to eighteen, thus enabling him to
fulfill his ambition.” (Arnold:
The Unauthorized Biography; p. 34.)
35. Perhaps even more striking
is Schwarzenegger’s contention that he forgot to engage the brake after parking
a tank, that it rolled into the river as a result, and that he was not disciplined for his negligence! Talk to a military veteran about this. Ask their opinion. “Driving
a tank provided Arnold with a tremendous sense of power, and in Arnold The Education of a Bodybuilder,
he describes how much he loved the recoil of the guns when they fired and how
it fed something in his nature that was moved by demonstrations of strength.
Sometimes, though, army life proved to be dangerous. Once he ‘parked’ a tank
but forgot to put the brake on. The tank rolled into the river. According to
Arnold, there were no consequences.” (Idem.)
36. Reminiscent of George W.
Bush’s AWOL stint from the Texas Air National Guard (performed with impunity
due to his father’s status), Schwarzenegger, too, was able to skip out from the
Austrian army in order to compete in a contest. “He knew exactly what he wanted. And he had
taken great risks to obtain it. For despite being the product of Gustav’s
school of obedience and discipline, Arnold, as he would many times in his
career, had gambled. To compete in Stuttgart he had gone AWOL.” (Ibid.;
p. 35.)
37. A political act that
suggests his later activities on behalf of the Museum of Tolerance and the
Wiesenthal Center may well have been cosmetic in nature is Schwarzenegger’s
endorsement of, and support for, Kurt Waldheim, a Nazi war criminal and later president
of Austria. “For
there was one flaw in the otherwise perfect Shriver/Schwarzenegger nuptials—one
false note that threatened to cloud the brightness of the day. Amid all the
good wishes and hopes for future happiness, the love and the kindness, a dark
shadow was cast by a gift from someone whom many people had identified as evil.
The gift was two life-size, papier-mache dolls fabricated by artist Christa
Muller, replicas of Arnold, dressed in lederhosen, carrying Maria, dressed in a
dirndl. They were sent from Arnold’s Austrian homeland by Kurt Waldheim.” (Ibid.;
pp. 245-246.)
38. “The dolls, prominently displayed at the wedding reception,
assumed a slightly sinister air, as if they might suddenly open up to reveal
the grinning specter of Kurt Waldheim lurking inside their shells. After all,
only the day before the press had carried yet another story about Waldheim’s
duplicity, his concealment of his nazi past, and evidence of nazi atrocities
with which he may have been connected . . .” (Idem.)
39. “ . . . In a gesture that perhaps was a defiant
declaration of independence—and that, according to one guest, caused Jackie
Kennedy Onassis to pale—Arnold spoke the following words, later recorded by
wedding guest Andy Warhol in his diaries: ‘My friends don’t want me to mention
Kurt’s name because of all the recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. controversy, but
I love him and Maria does too and so thank you, Kurt.’ CBS’ Terry Smith, also a
wedding guest, confirms that Warhol’s recorded comments encapsulate the gist of
Arnold’s remarks. Later, in what was described as ‘an awkward moment,’ Arnold
praised Kurt Waldheim, adding that he was a victim of bad press. According to
another guest, Arnold’s friend Richard Burkholder, ‘he [Arnold] wished Kurt
Waldheim was at the wedding. He also assured everyone that Waldheim hadn’t done
what he had been accused of . . .’” (Ibid.; pp. 246-247.)
40. “ . . . If, indeed, he did believe that he had boobed in
defending Kurt Waldheim, Arnold took no steps to remedy the situation. The
usually self-protective Arnold seemed to have placed Waldheim’s interests ahead
of his own. Far from retracting his remarks championing Waldheim, Arnold went
on to lend his name to posters that trumpeted his support of Waldheim in the
Austrian presidential campaign. The posters were displayed all over Austria,
but, luckily for Arnold, escaped the attention of the American press. He has
never retraced his defense of Waldheim. Nor has he since withdrawn his support
from him.” (Ibid.;
pp. 247-248.)
41. “Yet, despite the mounting evidence as to Waldheim’s alleged
past, in August 1986 Arnold visited the Austrian president in his summer home
on Lake Attersee, outside of Salzburg. The visit, reported extensively in both
the Austrian and the German press, was notable, for Waldheim, then banned from
entering the United States (a ban that has never been lifted), rarely received
important visitors, having been ostracized by the rest of the world . . .” (Ibid.; p. 248.)
42. “In the fall of 1988, when asked by journalist Sharon
Churcher about his allegiance to Waldheim, Arnold refused to characterize his
meeting with Waldheim as bad judgement. Arnold is not and has never been
responsible for his father’s political affiliations. However, one can’t help
wondering why Arnold, rather than repudiating Waldheim for his duplicity in
concealing his Nazi past, rose up so publicly in defense of him.” (Ibid.; pp. 248-249.)
43. There is already a bill on
the floor of Congress (introduced by Schwarzenegger’s friend and fellow
Republican Orrin Hatch) that would permit Der Terminator to run for President. “His name has
never appeared on a ballot—only a movie marquee—but already, people are
whispering about President Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh, no, you’re saying—that
can’t be. For starters, he hasn’t even run for California governor yet. First
things first. And then there’s the little matter of the Constitution, which
prohibits any but native-born Americans to run for President or Vice-President.
Not to worry—or do worry, depending on your politics. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch has
introduced a constitutional amendment to allow the foreign-born who have been
naturalized citizens for at least 20 years to run for the big job. Arnold’s
shown up at some fund-raisers for his pal Orrin, but no, no, no, that’s not
what this is about. The Deseret Morning
News in Utah quoted a Hatch spokeswoman as saying that the Equal
Opportunity to Govern Amendment—which is what hatch is calling it—is a ‘policy
judgment not associated with any one individual.’” (“Arnold for
President? At Least One Hurdle May Fall” by Pat Morrison; The Los Angeles Times; 7/21/2003; p. B2.)
44. To have an undistinguished
movie actor become Governor of California and then President would not be
unprecedented. As noted in—among other progrms—FTR#’s 29, 48, 113, 248, 332, 346, 361, Ronald Reagan served as the
front man for an illegal domestic intelligence operation known as the Crusade
for Freedom. Hatched by Allen Dulles (who invested Bush family money in the
Third Reich and later became director of the CIA), this operation was overseen
by Richard Nixon. William Casey (Nixon’s director of the SEC and manager of the
Reagan-Bush campaign in 1980) oversaw the State Department machinations that
brought these Nazi and fascist elements into the United States. Casey later
became director of the CIA. The Republican ethnic branch (which grew out of
this Nazi émigré community) later became a repository for Islamofascist
elements associated with Al Taqwa and Al Qaeda. (For more about this
connection, see—among other programs—FTR#’s
356, 357, 415.) “As a young movie actor in the early 1950’s, Reagan was
employed as the public spokesperson for an OPC front named the ‘Crusade for
Freedom.’ Reagan may not have known it, but 99 percent for the Crusade’s funds
came from clandestine accounts, which were then laundered through the Crusade
to various organizations such as Radio Liberty, which employed Dulles’s
Fascists. Bill Casey, who later became CIA director under Ronald Reagan, also
worked in Germany after World War II on Dulles’ Nazi ‘freedom fighters’
program. When he returned to New York, Casey headed up another OPC front, the
International Rescue Committee, which sponsored the immigration of these
Fascists to the United States. Casey’s committee replaced the International Red
Cross as the sponsor for Dulles’s recruits. Confidential interviews, former
members, OPC; former members, British foreign and Commonwealth Office.” (The Secret War Against the Jews; by John
Loftus and Mark Aarons; Copyright 1994 by Mark Aarons; St. Martin’s Press; [SC]
ISBN 0-312-15648-0; p. 605.)
45. Among the most shocking
elements of the Crusade for Freedom was the recruitment of an entire SS
intelligence unit, later resettled in the U.S. This unit—the VorKommando
Moskau--was deeply involved with the SS Einsatzgruppen. Schwarzenegger’s father was also heavily involved with the coordination
of the Einsatzgruppen. Is it possible that we are looking at “deep-networking”?
Under what circumstances did Schwarzenegger’s father come to be a police chief?
Was he more than just a police chief? Is Arnold Schwarzenegger “2nd
generation Underground Reich?” “VorKommando Moskau was
an elite forward unit of SS intelligence on the Soviet front. Its primary
mission was anti-Communist intelligence collection, but it also was responsible
for security screening of the occupied populations in a broad sector of the
Eastern Front, which held nearly 6 million Jews. Precisely this security and
intelligence experience made the men of the unit so attractive to Western
intelligence after the war and led them to their journey to the United States
and membership in Nixon’s Republican ‘ethnic groups.’” (Ibid.; p.
496.)
46. VorKommando Moskau did not kill the Jews. It hired the
collaborators, who recruited the executioners, who killed the Jews. From 1940
to 1942, this one small unit acted as an employment agency for the architects
of Nazi genocide in Eastern Europe. Contrary to popular belief, while the
Germans masterminded and controlled the machinery of the Holocaust, the
footsoldiers who carried it out were not primarily Germans, but local
volunteers from Poland, the Baltic States, Ukraine, and White Russia. Those
non-Germans who wished to serve Hitler’s New Order first had to pass a security
check by VorKommando Moskau.” (Idem.)
47. While serving as chairman of
the Republican National Committee, the elder George Bush shepherded the Nazi
émigré community into position as a permanent branch of the Republican Party. “It was Bush who
fulfilled Nixon’s promise to make the ‘ethnic emigres’ a permanent part of
Republican politics. In 1972, Nixon’s State Department spokesman confirmed to
his Australian counterpart that the ethnic groups were very useful to get out
the vote in several key states. Bush’s tenure as head of the Republican
National Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo Pasztor’s 1972 drive to
transform the Heritage Groups Council into the party’s official ethnic arm. The
groups Pasztor chose as Bush’s campaign allies were the émigré Fascists whom
Dulles had brought to the United States.”(Ibid.; pp. 369-370.)
48. “Nearly twenty years later, and after exposes in several
respectable newspapers, Bush continued to recruit most of the same ethnic
Fascists, including Pasztor, for his own 1988 ethnic outreach program when he
first ran for president.” (Ibid.; pp. 370-371.)
49. Of interest in this context
is the fact that it was the Dulles milieu that vetted Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
Nazi war criminal friend Kurt Waldheim for his first job in the Austrian
government. The background check on Waldheim was performed by Dulles’ son-in-law
Fritz Molden. “Both
[Karl] Gruber and [Fritz] Molden had strong ties to U.S. intelligence. Molden
actually wound up marrying the daughter of OSS (later CIA) chief Allen Dulles,
for whom he had worked during the war . . . Gruber turned the background investigation
over to Molden. In turn, Molden asked his friends in American intelligence to
check Waldheim out. This was, of course, redundant. Eventually, Molden reported
to Gruber that his contacts had ‘investigated [Waldheim] and found no material
on him, nothing, nothing.” (Waldheim:
The Missing Years; by Robert Edwin Hertzstein; Copyright 1988 by Robert
Edwin Herzstein; Arbor House/William Morrow [HC]; ISBN 0-87795-959-5; pp.
168-169.)
50. Among the Nazis brought into
the country by Dulles & co. was Otto von Bolschwing. Von Bolschwing’s
protégé Helene Van Damm selected all of the personnel from which Ronald Reagan
made his appointments when he was Governor of California. She performed the
same function when he became President. Note in this context the above discussion
about the Third Reich’s plans to have young girls establish sexual liaisons
with Allied troops. (For more about the Van Damm/von Bolschwing connection,
see—among other programs—FTR#’s 180,
332, 399, as well as RFA’s 3, 32,
available from Spitfire.) “Eichmann was
replaced on the Middle Eastern scene by a far more skilled intelligence
officer, Otto von Bolschwing. Before World War II, von Bolschwing set up an
import-export business in Palestine as a cover for his espionage activities. He
was an educated man from a good family and an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler.
After the war, von Bolschwing became one of Allen Dulles’s senior agents in the
CIA.” (Ibid.; p. 46.)
51. Eventually, Van Damm became
U.S. ambassador to Austria. (She married a hotelier and divorced him. He later
committed suicide. Her second husband was Christian Van Damm. He became head of
the Bank of America’s La Paz, Bolivia Branch at the time that Klaus Barbie’s
“cocafascisti” were holding forth in that country. For more about Barbie, see—among
other programs—RFA#’s 3, 17, 19,
available from Spitfire.) “Dulles helped
von Bolschwing emigrate to California, where he established a business
association with Helen van Damm, later Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to Austria.
In later years, his business went bankrupt and he was forced to surrender his
American citizenship on the grounds that he was a Nazi war criminal.” (Idem.)
52. Van Damm and Schwarzenegger
are not strangers. “Arnold’s business partner and mentor, Jim Lorimer,
whether by accident or design, was in Vienna, and, cautious for a moment,
Arnold left Brigitte [Nielsen] behind
at the Hilton while he and Jim had Sunday brunch with the American ambassador
to Austria, Helene Van Damm.” (Arnold:
The Education of a Bodybuilder; p. 216.)
