The Bridge at Arnhem

[David Guyatt]

As I said in my FB PM Lauren, only a few of the players knew about the conspiracy. The rest were unaware of the treachery taking place.

The context of why is explained in my article above, specifically the Bridge at Arnhem part. The Bormann capital flight and secret weapons technology off-shore-ing as discussed during the August 10 1944 meeting at the Maison Rouge Hotel was geared towards firstly escaping and surviving and then rebuilding a Fourth Reich in Germany using finance instead of Panzers.

I recommend the following article: European Union: The End Game as worthwhile reading.

Then there was Paul Mannings article in the New York Times of 3 March 1973 where he sets out the plans of the Bormann Brotherhood. As with anything written by Manning it is always highly informative and rewarding to read:

Martin Bormann and the Future of Germany

By PAUL MANNINGMARCH 3, 1973
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March 3, 1973, Page 31The New York Times ArchivesWhen the tine story of Martin Bormann is written it will reveal him to be the man largely responsible for West Germany's postwar recovery.
The blueprint for this economic resurgence was outlined at a secret meeting of German induatrialists in Strasbourg, France, on Aug. 10, 1944. A directive addressed to the meeting from Martin Bormannthe most powerful man in Germany next to Hitlersaid the war was practically lost and that a postwar commercial campaign must take its place.
The secret, verbatim minutes of this conference where a new Germany was born promised that "the Govermnent would allocate large sums to industrialists so that each could establish a secure postwar foundations in foreign countries." The minutes also noted that "after the defeat of Germany, the Nazi party recognizes that certain of its best known leaders will be condemned as war criminals. However, in cooperation with the industrialists it is arranging to place its less conspicuous but most important members in positions with various German factories as technical experts or members of its research and designing offices."
But the main thrust of the Strasbourg gathering was deployment of Germany's economic reserves into neutral countries where they would be beyond reach of the wartime Allies.
When Martin Bormann informed these industrialists through his personal representative at the meeting that all Government controls over the export of wealth (money, patents, scientists and administrators) were to be relaxed immediately, the transfer of these national assets became an official policy of the Nazi state.


A report by the U.S. Treasury Department in 1946 stated that 750 companies were set up all over the world by the German industrialists following the Aug. 10, 1944 meeting in Strasbourg. Their listing noted 112 in Spain, 58 in Portugal, 35 in Turkey, 98 in Argentina, 214 in Switzerland, 233 in various other countries.
In Berlin, Adolf Hitler had advised Bormann to "Bury everything, you will need it to return to power." Bormann, the man designated as Reichsieiter(the leader) by Hitler with authority to carry on policies of the Fuehrer, interpreted the advice in the sophisticated fashion of a man who knew finance and how to distribute it most effectively to the neutral nations. It was, in fact, the policy he had been pursuing for two years before the fall of Berlin, sensing that defeat was possible and knowing that Germany would need all the economic strength it could muster for a commercial comeback in the postwar years.
While Hitler concerned himself with the mounting problems of the battlefields, Martin. Bormann was carefully planning the economic survival and future of Germany.
During 1942 and 1943, Bormann began transferring party and S.S. funds under his control from the Third Reich to South America. The transfers included currency, gold, diamonds and share‐holding certificates controlling numerous blue‐chip German and foreign corporations.
The master plan which Bormann put into motion for German industry had two aspects: removal of funds from the Third Reich and stepping up of German investments in neutral countries.
West Germany owes a debt for its revival to the American Marshall Plan, to the Swiss bankers who were first to channel investment money back into German industry after 1945, and to the dedication and hard work of the German people.
I. G. Farbenindustrie, A. G., the largest and most powerful chemical combine in the world during the twelve years of the Third Reich, controlleclboth admitted and concealed over 500 firms in 92 countries. It was the largest single earner of foreign exchange for Germany, and its cartel agreements numbered over 2,000 and included such major industrial concerns as Standard Oil (New Jersey), the Aluminum Company of America, E. I. du Pont de Nemours, Ethyl Export Corporation, Imperial Chemical Industries (Great Britain), the Dow Chemical Company, Rohm & Haas, Etablissements Kuhlmann (France), and the Mitsui interests of Japan, When Martin Bormann switched on the green light for massive transfers of wealth, I. G. Farben moved into high gear.
Hermann Schmitz, I. G.'s, president of that era, reported to Martin Bormann: "Our measures of camouflage have proved to be very good during the war, and have even surpassed our expectations." The measures he referred to was camouflage of the true ownership of Farben assets as a war and postwar device. The company cloaked its direct and indirect ownership and control of hundreds of its foreign subsidiaries by utilizing every conceivable device known to the legal mind. It was a razzle‐dazzle operation, with Bormann nodding approval and giving assistance every step of the way. Other major German firms pursued the same complicated and devious course.
A primary technique used generally for shifting control of Gerrnan property to avoid Allied seizure in the last year of the war was to use a cloaking device of ownership. The German owner would transfer his holdings to neutral national who acted as the nominal owner; made easy by the general European practice of using bear er shares as a token of ownership (bearer shares are negotiable by delivery, and it is exceedingly difficult to trace the chain of title of a particular share). Fees varied for this service, but the usual figure was 5 per cent of the deal.
But the man who conceived and made possible the transfer of German assets on a vast scale which made possible the establishment of bastions of economic strength outside Germany lives today in South America.
Martin Bormann, at 72, is the Reichsleiter in exile, a legally appointed head of state who does not consider himself to be a war criminal, according to spokesmen for him. Much has been written about Bormann in recent times; all of it incorrect except for the single fact he is alive and in South America.
If he is ever to come out into the open and live the life of a free man once again, he must refute the charges of. Nuremberg, where he was tried in absentia in 1945‐46 and found not guilty on the charge of crimes against peace, but guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The indictment which the prosecution attorney hammered home in the emotion‐charged atmosphere of that period was that Bormann had been "extremely active in the persecution of the Jews not only in Germany but also in the absorbed or conquered countries." As the crime of racial extermination was realistically what the first Nuremberg trial was all about, Bormann must produce incontrovertible evidence of his personal innocence on this critical point. In its decision, the International Military Tribunal left a loophole for Martin Borrnann if he ever wishes to reopen the case.
"If Bormann is not dead," the tribunal stated, "and is later apprehended, the Control Council for Germany may, under Article 29 of the Charter, consider any facts in mitigation, and alter or reduce his sentence, if deemed proper."
Will Martin Bormann, an unquestioned genius of finance and administration, take the gamble, or continue to be the most hunted man in history?

Lastly, a Daily Bellylaugh article on 4 April 2011 says this (it's not nearly as informative as Manning but you get the idea all the same) Quite apart from "the agents" who had "been sent" to Spain and Switzerland, the Bellylaugh and MI5 obviously didn't mention those many foreign nationals from the US, England, France, Sweden etc etc who were already in situ and ready, willing and able to launder and invest these funds on behalf of Bormann. People like Allen Dulles and his law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, for instance.

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MI5 files: Nazis planned 'Fourth Reich' in post-war Europe

The Nazis hatched plans for a "Fourth Reich" by planting sleeper cells in post-war Europe to destabilise governments, secret MI5 files show.

The plan was so the Nazi party could, in time, reappear in a suitable disguise and build up a fourth Reich Photo: AP







By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent

6:00AM BST 04 Apr 2011



The interrogation of a French collaborator revealed he had attended a conference near Munich in mid-April 1945, a few weeks before the end of the Second World War, presided over by an SS officer in full uniform in which the plans were discussed.

The agent, Olivier Mordrelle, was caught and interrogated in Italy three months later, and a report produced for MI5 that was marked "top secret," describing his reliability as "good."

The meeting, in a district called Deisenhofen, included 15 representatives from countries to the West of Germany, including Italy, and they were apparently told about a "great plan of promoting post-war unrest."

In the report, released by the National Archives, Mordrelle told his interrogators: "The speaker then proceeded to relate how ample funds had already been planted in South America, mainly in the Argentine, and would become available for financing agents in due course.

"In order to have bankers' who could distribute this money, certain trustworthy key men had already been sent to live in Spain and Switzerland."


The agents were to lie low for a "certain period after the end of the war in Europe" and at a given time were to start organising "national movements" which would be "thoroughly in keeping with the traditions of each country but which would all preach anti-Bolshevism and stir up unrest culminating in civil war."
"If the cult of anti-Bolshevism were not particularly popular, then any other sore point, such as the burden of supporting an army of occupation or of having to cede territory might be seized on," Mordrelle told his interrogators.
The main purpose, he said, was "to make the Allies' post-war task as hard as possible so that the Nazi party could, in time, reappear in a suitable disguise and build up a fourth Reich."
The cardinal rule was that no movement was to make any mention of its pro-Nazi sentiments or to indulge in anti-Semitic propaganda.
"Each movement should also strive to create different slogans, methods of approach to the public, initiation ceremonies, ranks, etc, in order to lessen the risk of the affinity between movements being suspected," the report said.
"Clandestine cooperation between movements in different countries was not envisaged, at least at the beginning."
The Nazis apparently planned a three-layered organisation that included a "shutzgemeinschaft" outside Europe that would direct "high policy", second layer that would make policy and a first layer that carried out "moral propaganda work" for the various movements.
Mordrelle was told to head to Spain and contact a French agent at the Ritz Hotel in Madrid.
The file added: "Source states that this last meeting had a strange air of unreality. He had the feeling that last minute plans were being made in words and on paper when all the persons present were secretly preoccupied with the idea of how they could best save their skins."
Mordrelle had performed a number of roles for the occupiers, culminating in being appointed French representative for post-war activities by the Nazi party's intelligence agency, the Sicherheitsdienst.
He was also said to have had contact with nationalist movements in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Cornwall.
The agent was described as 45, 5ft 7ins tall, and 145lbs, with greying hair and glasses, he was said to have a pale complexion, a moustache and false teeth.
He was said to be a former architect who designed warehouses and reinforced concrete garages for Renault and then for a firm specialising in theatre acoustics.
He had served as a lieutenant in the French army but fled to Germany in 1939, believing that the "Germans would conquer the West completely and that in any case they would have the most understanding for his [separatist] aims."
Mordrelle was sentenced to death by the French military authorities in May 1940 for continued political activity in connection with the separatist movement and for failure to report for military service.
He was said to have been involved with the IRA and described how a man called "Scarface," thought to be Dr Hermann Goertz, parachuted into Ireland in 1940 but was caught because he failed to destroy his German uniform.
His family was paid 5,000 Francs a month by the German secret service the Abwehr throughout the war and Mordrelle was seeking to "vanish from French sight in order to escape the death sentence or a term of imprisonment."
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