FTR#609—Update on Germany--(One 30-minute segment.)
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be downloaded with a modem Internet connection. They are available at: Spitfirelist.com/Books. In addition, we have added Cairo to Damascus by John Roy Carlson [1951], Germany Plots with the Kremlin by T.H. Tetens [1953], and Armies of Spies by Joseph Golomb [1939].
Yet another recent addition is Germany’s
Master Plan by Joseph Borkin and Charles Welsh. (Borkin is the author of
the 1979 classic The Crime and Punishment
of I.G. Farben.) Another anti-fascist classic about I.G. Farben supplements
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Summary of FTR#609—(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. FTR#’s
454, 455, 456 are compilations of much of the key documentation
culled from Mr. Emory’s investigation into 9/11. Along with FTR#391, they should give
listeners/readers a substantive grasp of this momentous event. It is
recommended that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others.) Updating Mr. Emory’s
long-running coverage of matters German, this broadcast begins by examining the
severity of the international financial crisis for German financial
institutions. The situation is so perilous that German banking executives have
adopted a self-enforced code of silence, lest their public pronouncements lead
to “uncertainty.” In spite of public pronouncements that the subprime mortgage
in the U.S. would not affect German lending institutions, two institutions have
already been bailed out. After highlighting a new book documenting how the
Argentine/German cooperation in laundering German World War II loot led
directly to the German “economic miracle” after the conflict, the broadcast
sets forth Germany’s attempts at opposing its will on other countries in
Europe. Even as it demands that other European countries defer to Germany’s
will on security matters, Germany is disregarding EU policy on immigration.
Assessing some of Germany’s handiwork, the broadcast concludes with a look at
the revival of World War II-era fascism in the Croatian state midwived by
Germany.
Program Highlights Include: Overpricing by German corporations as part of
the Argentine money-laundering operation; the Argentine government’s
destruction of documents that might have disclosed the German flight-capital
program; the manner in which the disclosures concerning the Argentine/German
money laundering operation supplement Paul Manning’s Martin Bormann:
Nazi in Exile; Germany’s imposition of total hegemony over other EU
states with regard to police powers; Germany’s cooperation with some of the
most murderous of African countries on refugee policy; Croatian rock fans’ use
of the Nazi salute at a nationally-broadcast concert.
1.
The broadcast begins with a European take on the growing international
financial crisis deriving from the US subprime mortgage crisis. Although global
financial authorities generally speak reassuringly of the crisis, the
self-enforced silence of the German banking industry is troubling. “German banks, locked in a crisis over the fallout from volatile
credit markets, have adopted a curious strategy over their increasing image
problem: silence. After the head of a regional bank warned that the situation
of German banks was critical as some foreign banks were refusing to lend to
them, top executives at other financial institutions have decided to gag
themselves. Given the situation in the financial markets, the main commercial
banks have decided to refrain from commenting in public on the general market
situation, said an e-mail from the head of communications at Dresdner Bank to
journalists to explain why its chief executive was canceling a meeting. The
association of German banks, the BdB, which represents the main commercial
institutions, was keen to underline that there was no formal ban on executives
speaking out. But an official said: The banks have said they don’t want to
cause any more uncertainty by speaking out. . . .” (“German Banks
Remain Silent after Warning” by Richard Milne; Financial Times;
8/27/2007; available in its entirety at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2007/08/german-banks-remain-silent-after.html.)
2.
The German government is investigating the collapse of two financial
institutions as a result of the crisis that other bankers won’t discuss for
fear that it might “cause uncertainty.” “The German
government will launch an inquiry into Bafin, the German financial services
regulator, amid accusations that the watchdog took too long to address crises
at two banks that had to be bailed out. Torsten Albig, a spokesman for the
finance ministry, which oversees Bafin, said on Monday, the ministry would look
into what reasons Bafin had to take, or not take, action. The recent turmoil in
the global credit markets, triggered by a weakening US mortgage market, has hit
Germany's financial sector particularly hard. In the past month, IKB, a small
company lender, and Sachsen LB, the public Landesbank, had to be rescued after
they were unable to provide credit facilities they had pledged to their own
investment funds. Both banks had promised back-up credit facilities that far
exceeded their own size, making it highly unlikely they could provide the funds
when prompted. The facilities were designed legally to avoid regulatory limits
on credit exposure. . . .” (“Watchdog Faces Berlin Inquiry on Banks
Bail-out” by Bertrand Benoit and Ivar Simensen; Financial Times;
8/28/2007; available in its entirety at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2007/08/watchdog-faces-berlin-inquiry-on-banks.html.)
3.
Next, the program sets forth a recently published investigation of the
Argentine role in the Nazi flight capital program that took place near the end
of and after World War II. A key element of that undertaking was a
money-laundering program realized through cooperation of German and Argentine
corporations under the dictatorship of Juan Peron. (For more about the Nazi
flight capital program, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 305, 604. Above all,
interested listeners should download and read Paul Manning’s Martin Bormann:
Nazi in Exile, available on the Spitfire website.). The capital
that was secreted abroad under the Bormann program provided the foundation for
the German economic miracle of the postwar period. “That
scores of fugitive Nazis found their way to Argentina after World War II, aided
and abetted by Gen. Juan D. Perón, is no secret. But according to a book just
published here that draws extensively on archival material only now being made
available to researchers, his government also offered a haven for the profits
of German companies that had been part of the Nazi war machine and whose assets
the victorious Allies would otherwise have seized. In The German Connection:
The Laundering of Nazi Money in Argentina, Gaby Weber, a German journalist,
argues that the Perón dictatorship sponsored an operation to move illicitly
obtained wealth to Argentina and then back to Germany. For nearly a decade, her
book asserts, German-made cars, trucks, buses and even the machinery for entire
factories flowed into Argentina, paid for with dollars that were then used to
help finance the German economic miracle. . . .” (“Half-Century
Later, a New Look at Argentine-Nazi Ties” by Larry Rohter; The New York
Times; 4/4/2007; available at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2005/04/half-century-later-new-look-at.html.)
4.
Quietly, out of the public spotlight, Germany has been increasing its
hegemony over the other member states of the EU. There has been widespread
publicity over American abuses committed under the “War on Terror,” but very
little on the German implementation of investigative and police hegemony over
the EU’s other member states. “In spite of the
massive resistance put up by several EU member states, the German Interior
Minister is demanding that a restriction on rights of national sovereignty in
the field of security be applied throughout the EU. Following a meeting with
his EU counterparts, Wolfgang Schäuble announced that Germany intends to obtain
access to police data of all EU member states. Berlin can already take
sovereign action in some of its neighboring states. The legal basis for this
was provided by the Prüm Treaty, signed two years ago by a group of EU
pioneers. Using its EU Council Presidency, Berlin is planning to initiate the
incorporation of the Prüm Treaty into the EU's legal framework. This Treaty has
come under criticism in Germany because of deficits in the protection of data
privacy and its lack of democratic control. The attempt to subvert legitimate
resistance in the other countries, through reaching a special agreement with
some of the member states, is being described in the German press as a novelty
in the European integration process. It is being voiced, that this is opening
the possibility of enforcing numerous legal norms, in spite of their far
reaching consequences, without ratification by the entire EU. Because of its
dominating position, Germany can set its own norms. Berlin has successfully
rejected Portugal's plan to adopt the admirable migration policy model
legislation. . . .” (“European Achievement”; German-Foreign-Policy.com;
1/17/2007; available in its entirety at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2007/01/european-achievement.html.)
5.
While demanding conformity and acquiescence by other EU states on
issues of police powers and security, Germany is pursuing a course on
immigration that is deviant from official EU policy on immigration. “ . . . To facilitate the deportation of migrants, Berlin is
hoping to conclude, during its EU Council Presidency, so called, partnership
treaties, containing clauses regulating the evacuation of refugees, with
African third-party countries. According to Berlin, Mauritania, Mali and
Senegal are countries being considered as models for such treaties. It is known
that Mauritanian security forces have abandoned refugees, deported from the EU,
in the desert. [8] Mauritania is not the only West African country known for
exceptional treatment of refugees. Gambia, which likewise is presided over by a
president, brought to power through a putsch, is reported to have taken, last
fall, 50 illegal immigrants from various West African countries as soon as they
crossed the border from Senegal into Gambia, they were arrested and were
brought to the Marine headquarters in the Gambian capital, Banjul.[9] Tied with
cords and electric cable, they were transported by the military to different
locations on the outskirts of Banjul, where they were executed, some with
machetes. It is with Gambia, of all countries, that Germany intends to conclude
its fourth model treaty, including regulations for deportation. . . .”
(Idem.)
6.
The program concludes with a look at some of the “new” Germany’s
handiwork. The first significant act of reunified Germany on the international
stage was to precipitate the first major land war in Europe since the end of
World War II. By recognizing the secession of Croatia and Slovenia from the
Yugoslovian union and forcing the rest of the fledgling EU to do the same as a
condition for ratifying the Maastricht Treaty, Germany rendered an outbreak of
hostilities in the Balkans as inevitable. (For more about Germany’s role in the
destabilization of Yugoslavia and igniting the Balkans’ wars, see—among other
programs—FTR#’s 48, 154.) A recent concert by a Croatian pop star
indicated the extent to which the brutal Ustashe fascist government of the
World War II period has been rehabilitated. (For more about the brutal Croatian
fascists of World War II, see—among other programs—FTR#530.) “On a hot
Sunday evening in June, thousands of fans in a packed stadium here in the
Croatian capital gave a Nazi salute as the rock star Marko Perkovic shouted a
well-known slogan from World War II. Some of the fans were wearing the black
caps of Croatia’s infamous Nazi puppet Ustashe government, which was
responsible for sending tens of thousands of Serbs, Gypsies and Jews to their
deaths in concentration camps. The exchange with the audience is a routine part
of Mr. Perkovic’s act, and the gesture seemed to lack any conscious political
overtones. The audience — most of whom appeared to be in their teens and early
20s — just seemed to be having a good time. But Mr. Perkovic’s recent success
among a new generation — many of them apparently oblivious to the history of
the Holocaust — has prompted concern and condemnation from Jewish groups abroad
and minority groups in Croatia. [Despite those objections, the concert — his
biggest ever, with an estimated 40,000 fans in the soccer stadium — was shown
in prime time on Sunday night on state-owned television, prompting further
protests from Jewish and Serbian groups.] We don’t want to pay for something
that strikes fear into my children, or distances them from their friends or
neighbors, said Milorad Pupovac, leader of the largest Serbian political party
in Croatia, referring to the plan for the broadcast. What has shocked those
groups more, though, is that in the ensuing debate, many senior politicians and
journalists have said that they see no problem with the imagery or salutes. . .
.” (“Fascist Overtones From Blithely Oblivious Rock Fans” by Larry
Rohter; The New York Times; 7/2/2007; available in its entirety at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2007/07/fascist-overtones-from-blithely.html.)
7.
Two video productions are being generated by a couple of
documentary filmmakers. One is a DVD of a three-lecture series called “The
First Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Relationship Between Fascism and Religion.” To
learn more about this, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4YPCdFu7OE.
In addition, there will soon be a documentary about Mr. Emory, titled “The
Anti-Fascist.” For more about this project, visit: http://www.theantifascist.com/