The Bridge at Arnhem

[David Guyatt]

After reading and re-reading the book by historian, Cornelius Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, I was left with many questions. The first was the curiosity that the II SS Panzer Corps was sent to bivouac in the Arnhem area just 2 weeks prior to the commencement of Operation Market garden that had been in the planning stage for a quite some time. I felt the order from Field Marshall Model to General Dittrich to move his II SS Panzers shouted the word suspicious.


But there was more. Not least I was curios why Ryan scrupulously identified all the players except, the Grenadier Guards Major (or Colonel depending on differing accounts at that time) who reached the far side of Nijmegen bridge with his tanks and then resolutely refused to budge.


By any measure of common sense the unidentified Guards officer should have raced to relieve the remnants of Colonel Frost's battered paratroopers who still held the bridge at Arnhem. Having reached Nijmegen, securing and relieving the bridgehead at Arnhem was the whole point of Operation Market Garden. And the he thing is that the bridge at Nijmegen had been taken at a terrible cost in lives of members of the US 82nd Airborne under the command of Major Julian Cook.


I wanted to know the identity of that Guards officer and try to understand his stubborn refusal to bring the Market Garden operation to a successful conclusion. I wanted to know why he wasn't court martialled for blatant dereliction of duty?


Back in the middle-late 1990's when all this was smouldering under my hat, the internet was still a young-thing and the availability of information that is there to grab by one and all these days, was nowhere in sight. After some digging I exhausted my efforts to find answers and set the whole matter aside to concentrate on other things.


But the questions kept nagging at me. And then one day, quite accidentally, I was reading a military article when the name of that Guards officer - a Major Peter Alexander Rupert Smith leapt out at me. Suddenly, I knew I had a story, because I knew all about major (later Colonel) Smith.


Previously I had researched the background of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and knew him to be a former member of the SS who had worked in the intelligence department of I G Farben, which was known as NW7. I also knew that during his marriage breakfast to Princes Juliana of the Netherlands, his nazi friends sang the Horst Wessel song in his honour.


Not least I had discovered that having fled to England after the Nazi's occupied Holland, British Intelligence viewed Bernhard with the gravest reservations. They thought him a German spy. But their objections were ignored by the King and therefore Bernhard was allowed full entre to the allied war planning councils. He knew all about Operation Market garden.


Eventually, I wrote Princes of Plunder as a speculative essay on what I thought had probably happened. I certainly did not have access to all the facts at that time. Later, much later in fact, the story of Christiaan Lindemans became public. Lindens was a member of the Dutch resistance who was a double agent. Her is now blamed for betraying the allied plans for Market Garden. He was a trusted agent of Prince Bernhard and a nazi spy.


While I clearly didn't have all the evidence at that time, I went on to speculate that there was purpose to Major Smith's behaviour and also that of Prince Bernhard. My conclusions hardened following a reading of Paul Manning's excellent book Martin Bormann: Nazi In Exile.


Manning was, to my knowledge, the very first journalist to make known the highly secret meeting at the Hotel Maison Rouge in Strasbourg on 10th August 1944, that was convened by Martin Bormann. The meeting was an acknowledgement by the Nazi hierarchy that the war was lost, but the plan was to engage in a capital flight programme to get all of Germany's wealth, plundered or not, plus all of their military and industrial blueprints and all their stock holdings to safe havens offshore in friendly nations. Bormann believed the Eagle's Flight plan would take nine months. As indeed it did… all but two days.


I further considered that the allies knew of and were to some degree involved in Bormann's capital flight programme; that a deal had been negotiated and agreed. The likelihood was that the US and VIP elements in the UK, in exchange for important Nazi war technology and doubtless a portion of the plundered loot, allowed thousands of nazi war criminals to escape to prepared havens like Argentine. Indeed, the evidence is that the US and the Vatican actually ran the so called Ratlines that enabled this mass escape - estimated as many as 40,000 - to occur.


It is also clear that there had been negotiations for some of the Waffen SS in Italy and elsewhere - plus others - to join in the cold war that the US had planned to consolidate their newly emerging status as the world power taking over from the reigns from the failing British Empire.


Below is my original article followed by what I think is an updated version that is full of additional and painstaking research by Tony Gosling, published by RT on 1st September 2014. For the record, I was in contact with Tony during the 1990's. Unless my memory is really failing we exchanged some research material at that time.


Although Tony makes no effort to credit me with the original research idea, I have no complaints. My whole ethic as a journalist is to get what I regard as important and suppressed stories out into the public domain.


All power to Tony for taking my research and running with it. His is an excellent and important article.

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PRINCES OF PLUNDER


THE SHAPE OF TREACHERY AND THE BRIDGE AT ARNHEM


By David Guyatt


If President George W Bush has his way, then the spread of the American system of democracy will continue to proliferate around the world. There are those, however, who argue that the American form of "democracy" has little to do with genuine democratic representation but rather more closely resembles a revolving fascist dictatorship beholden to the interests of a wealthy elite and big business. [1]


This form of government, it is argued, has as its underlying model the European Synarchist movement that was founded in the 1870's, by Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre. St Yves considered the medieval Knights Templars to be ultimate Synarchists of their time and consequently drew on Templar ideals when formulating his ideas.


St Yves movement came to the fore in the early 1920's, following the end of WWI and the signing of the Versailles Treaty [2] . In its essence, Synarchy advocates that government be run by a secret society or cabal "an elite of enlightened initiates who rule from behind the scenes." [3] As authors Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince describe it: "…it therefore doesn't matter which political party holds power in a state - or even what political system that state has. Synarchists would step in and take control of the key state institutions." [4]


In the United States, one such secret society worthy of note is Yale University's Order of the Skull and Bones. Entry into the Order involves elaborate ritual and is accompanied by a change of name. No longer is the neophyte known by his family name, but assumes the identity of a Knight.


Bonesmen include George W. Bush, his father George Bush senior and Senator John Kerry. George Bush's great grandfather, Prescott Bush, was also a Bonesman, as was George Bush's favourite uncle, Herbert Walker. In point of fact, almost all of the so-called "Eastern Establishment" families have been enrolled in the Skull and Bones. Author Antony Sutton, in his groundbreaking four-part series "The Order," states that the US Order links to Britain through the Rhodes-Milner Oxford Group but has German origins. The US Order also links to the Guggenheim, Schiff and Warburg families, despite having definite anti-semitic tendencies until more recent times. Sutton's own research linked the Order to "the founding and growth of Nazism" [5] and considered it likely that German original was the Illuminati.


The Bush family's political dynasty and indeed, its wealth, arose from the nazi connections forged by Prescott Bush, who worked for nazi magnate, Fritz Thyssen. Bush's uncle "Herbie" (Herbert Walker), was like-wise employed by Thyssen. [6] An even darker episode was reported by a Dutch intelligence agent who stated that Prescott Bush also managed a portion of the slave labour force located at I G Farben's Auschwitz plant - the infamous nazi death camp. [7] Working for Prescott Bush was Allen Dulles, who would later become a director of the CIA, following a highly questionable career in the war where he was posted to the head up the Swiss office of the American intelligence service, the OSS. Before the war Dulles was appointed the US legal counsel for I G Farben. Another law client of Dulles was Fritz Thyssen. These inter-relationships are, at the very least, very chummy. Some believe them to be treacherous.


The key period of the growth of Synarchism followed on the heels of the Russian Revolution and led to the rise of the Pan European Movement in 1922. The PEM was embraced by powerful forces inside Germany. This included the wealthy banker, Max Warburg, who financed PEM. Warburg was a director of the massive chemical cartel, I G Farben, that helped hoist Adolf Hitler to power. Curiously, however, Warburg was also involved in helping Lenin to travel to Russia in 1917, thus providing succour to the Bolshevik Revolution that Hitler later so detested. [8] Is this simply a case of the left hand not knowing what the right one was doing, or could it be merely an example of the Hegelian dialectic of forging conflict in order to forge the future shape and direction of human history?


In any event, besides Max Warburg financing PEM, another German banker in the form of Hjalmar Schact, addressed the first mass rally of the Pan European Movement held in Berlin. Schacht would go on to work for Hitler as Minister for Economics and President of the Reichsbank. If one believes in coincidence then behold a coincidence: together with Hitler, Max Warburg signed the document that appointed Hjalmar Schacht to the presidency of the Reichsbank. Imagine that. Max's brother, Paul Warburg, was a director of American I G Farben as well as being the first director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. [9]


Known simply as the "AO" the letters of the Greek Alpha-Omega the "Auslandsorganisation" was the foreign intelligence arm of the nazi party that engaged in espionage, fifth column, propaganda and "economic" activities in furtherance of nazi aims. Overseas members of the AO operated largely through German owned or controlled overseas companies. This include numerous employees of I G Farben both those based at home and abroad. In fact, Farben not only ran the AO but financed it. [10] One of the most senior Farben men involved in AO activities was Max Ilgner, who was the nephew of Farben director Hermann Schmitz who's ambition was to "form a world fascist state without war if possible." [11]


Ilgner, who was a uniform wearing member of the feared Gestapo, had allied Farben's intelligence unit known as "NW7" with the AO, and had recruited an army of 5,000 that operated through American I.G. [12] Another member of Farben's NW7 department, was Gunther Frank-Fahle, who had been born in Bradford, England. Although the nominal head of the AO was Ernst Wilhelm-Bohle, it was actually under the direct day-to-day control of Walter Schellenberg, head of the SD, the Gestapo's counterintelligence service who described Farben as a "state within a state" to his interrogators after the war. However, the overall boss of the AO was deputy fuehrer, Rudolf Hess.


The industrialists and bankers, who funded Hitler's rise to power in 1933, had their contributions processed through Hjalmar Schacht's account at the private Delbruck Schickler Bank in Berlin. The funds in this account were administered by Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess. Delbruck Schickler Bank was a subsidiary of Metallsgesellschaft A G ("Metall"), by far the largest non-ferrous metal company in Germany. Metallsgesellschaft was jointly owned by I G Farben and the British Metal Corporation. [13] One of the two British directors of "Metall" was Oliver Lyttelton who was appointed the Controller of Non-Ferrous Metals in 1939-40 and became the Minister of Production in 1942-5 and a member of Churchill's War Cabinet. Lyttelton's mother was by a merry coincidence, a member of the Rhodes-Milner Oxford "Group," whereas the eldest son of the fifth Baron Lyttelton has been the private secretary to Lord Selborne during his years in South Africa. Selborne would take over leadership of the "Group" following Milner's death in 1925. He was also, as I have remarked elsewhere, the wartime head of Britain's Special Operations Executive, which was the template for the American OSS. [14]


As stated earlier, the "Group" is the British arm of the American Order of the Skull and Bones or is it the other way around? [15] Either way the Skull and Bones is a "chapter of a German secret society. The "originating" prong of the "Group" and the "Order" are, in the view of Prof. Antony Sutton, almost certainly the outlawed Bavarian Illuminati. [16]


THE "RED HOUSE" MEETING


It is self evident that the same behind-the-scenes banking and industrial forces who financed Hitler's rise to power, as well as his subsequent military build-up, would also take all necessary steps to protect their hard investments once it became clear Hitler and Germany were doomed to defeat. Clarity arrived with the devastating defeat of Field Marshall von Paulus 6th Army Group at Stalingrad in January 1943. Any lingering doubts were erased with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6th June 1944. Unable to repulse the Allied D-day invasion forces back into the sea, it was clear for all to see that Hitler's days were numbered.


Two months after the D-day landings, a secret meeting was held in an elegant hotel in Strasbourg that was aimed at securing and protecting the wealth of nazi Germany and its loyal bankers and industrialists. On the morning of 10th August 1944, SS Obergruppenfuehrer Scheid, a lieutenant-general in the Waffen SS as well as a director of the industrial company Hermansdorff & Schenburg - arrived at the Hotel Maison Rouge set in Strasbourg's rue des France-Bourgeois. Dr. Scheid had been sent to host the meeting by none other than Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, by then the second most powerful man in nazi Germany, after Hitler.


Bormann's rise to power followed on from the ill-fated flight of Rudolf Hess in 1941, when he parachuted to land in Scotland to secretly meet with the Duke of Hamilton. With the loss of his friend, and his plans for creating a secret alliance with Britain to fight Russia in tatters, Hitler had heaped all of Hess' duties and responsibilities on to the broad bull-like shoulders of Bormann with the exception of the office of deputy fuehrer, which Hitler abolished. This included Bormann taking over control of the AO.


In sending Dr. Scheid to Strasbourg, Bormann had confided in him that: "the steps to be taken as a result of this meeting will determine the post-war future of Germany," adding that the plan was to insure an eventual "economic resurgence of Germany." [17] Present at the meeting, in addition to Dr. Scheid, were representatives of Krupp, Messerschmitt, Rheinmetall, Bussing, Volkswagenwerk, engineers representing various factories in Posen, Poland including Brown-Boveri an important part of the German electrical industry that was part owned by two American companies General Electric and International Telephone & Telegraph. Today, Brown Boveri has grown into a massive multinational corporation employing almost 200,000 staff worldwide and still maintains it close contacts with the US. Prior to his appointment as George W Bush's Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld was on its board of directors. [18]


Bormann's direction was that the industrialists should forge new contacts and alliances with foreign firms, as well as strengthening those already established. This should be done without attracting suspicion. Equally important was the capital flight programme of state and corporate assets to safe havens through the world, which Bormann ordered. Thus began Operation Eagle's Flight. Critically, Bormann believed he needed nine months to fully complete the planned capital flight programme. [19] This meant that German forces must resist the Allies advance throughout the winter of 1944 and on until early mid May 1945. By a remarkable twist of fate, the war in Europe ended on 8th May 1945, two days short of Bormann's estimate.


WHOOPSIDAISY


Less than a month later, however, English Field Marshall, Bernard Montgomery, laid out a daring plan that, were it to succeed, would have completely wrecked Bormann's critical nine-month programme. When, on 23rd August 1944, the Supreme Allied Commander, General Eisenhower, visited Montgomery's HQ for lunch, followed by a private conference, Montgomery argued that German forces were in complete disarray and that a decisive thrust into the Ruhr would result in the end of the war before Christmas 1944. At Montgomery's insistence, Eisenhower's Chief of Staff, General Walter Bedell Smith was excluded from the meeting, causing rancour. [20] Eisenhower left Montgomery's HQ unconvinced and wavering.


With the closing of the Falaise gap, Montgomery was determined not to let Eisenhower waste a golden opportunity to bring the war to a close in 1944. On 4th September, Montgomery sent a coded signal "Personal for General Eisenhower Eyes Only," laying out in detail an audacious plan to seize strategic bridges in the Netherlands followed by a full-blooded armoured thrust into Germany through the back door of the Ruhr the very heartland of German industry and, coincidentally home to many of those industrialists Dr. Scheid's capital flight conference had addressed less than a month earlier. The plan, which would become known as Operation Comet, was rejected by Eisenhower. Montgomery strenuously objected and a revised plan called Operation Market Garden, that would muster considerably more forces than the original Operation Comet, was eventually agreed on 10th September 1944 by Eisenhower. The final bridge to be captured by British airborne forces and held until the arrival of the armoured forces was located at Arnhem.


By coincidence too, it was the 4th of September, that Field Marshall Model directed Lt. General Bittrich's badly mauled but veteran II SS Panzer corps to bivouac in the Arnhem area to refit and rest. Bittrich later stated that "there was no particular significance in Model choosing the Arnhem vicinity except that it was a peaceful area where nothing was happening." [21] Now in hindsight when armed with Bormann's vital need for a full nine months for his capital flight programme to reach fulfilment, one wonders if other more subterranean factors influenced Model's decision? Was treachery involved?


THE FRATERNITY


What is known for a fact is that Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands had been appointed Commander in Chief of Dutch forces by Queen Wilhelmina. During the weeks following the D-day landings, Prince Bernhard had remained in constant contact with his Ministers, the US Ambassador-at-Large, Anthony Biddle, and General Bedell Smith. [22] His close contact with these men was hardly the result of mere chance. As we shall see, nothing was to be left to chance by Bormann's "Fraternity." [23]


A member of the Biddle family, Thomas Bradish Biddle, had been amongst the very first members of the Order of the Skull and Bones, having been tapped in 1839, just six years after it founding in 1833. Anthony Biddle who's full name was Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., was not himself a member of the Order. Never the less, he was no innocent.


During the early months of WWII, Biddle was in Paris as the US Deputy Ambassador to France. It was here that he became close friends of the pro-nazi Duke and Duchess of Windsor, who spent a considerable period of time living in the home of Baron Eugene de Rothschild. However, Biddle's greatest friend in Paris was Ambassador William Bullitt. Bullitt also held strong pro Hitler views and was responsible for introducing the American millionaire, Charles Bedaux, to the Windsor's.


Bedaux was a good friend of I G Farben's Hermann Schmitz, and had, in fact, been appointed as head of Farben's commercial operations. His involvement with the Windsor's wasn't accidental, as he had been instructed by no less than SS Chief Heinrich Himmler to inveigle them to help in secret plans for a negotiated peace with England. A secret meeting held in the Hotel Meurice in Paris, between Bedaux, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and Hollywood actor and nazi sympathiser Errol Flynn, the Duke of Windsor promised to help Hess contact the Duke of Hamilton, which "finally led to Hess's dramatic landing on the Hamilton Estate in 1941." [24]


Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands also has a decidedly nazi past. German born as Prince Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld, he joined the nazi party in the early 1930's, eventually donning the SS uniform. By 1935 he was gainfully employed in I G Farben's intelligence department NW7. His match to Princess Juliana, the daughter of the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, was reportedly arranged by Farben director, Gerhard Fritze, a relative of NW7's chief, Max Ilgner. [25] At their marriage ceremony, the Prince's closest friends struck up the old favourite, the Horst Wessel song, which was the anthem of the Nazis. Shortly after the marriage, the noble prince travelled to Berlin for a private meeting with Hitler, who had publicly intimated that the marriage represented an alliance between both nations - which was refuted by Queen Willhelmina. More telling was the fact that when he arrived in England, after the outbreak of war, and asked to work in British intelligence, his offer was declined by the Admiralty, because they didn't trust him. Nor did the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight Eisenhower who refused him access to sensitive intelligence information. However, with the intervention of King George on Prince Bernhard's behalf, he was eventually allowed to work in war planning councils. Whoops.


Moving on quickly; to understand the very special relationship between Prince Bernhard and General Walter Bedell Smith who most certainly had complete access general Eisenhower's intelligence - we need to advance several years. After the war, Prince Bernhard is believed to have been profitably employed dealing in art stolen during the war. Gerben Sonderman, who Prince Bernhard described as the "best friend I ever had" (presumably Adolf had by then been forgotten?), acted as the prince's private pilot for transporting stolen art, according to Ton Biesemaat, who has written an expose of the art ring called "The Correggio Mystery. [26]


In 1941, Sonderman, a Dutch Fokker pilot, developed contacts with Germans involved in plundering Dutch art works. A close contact of his was Alois Miedl, a "banker, spy and art dealer" who occasionally dressed in SS uniform. [27] After the war, Miedl operated on behalf of the ODESSA, the SS escape network that transported nazi war criminals to safety in South America particularly Argentina, where Bormann is believed to have escaped to. This also is a favourite destination for Prince Bernhard after the war, where he was usually accompanied by his best friend, Gerban Sonderman.


Another of those seemingly involved in this stolen art-trading ring was Hungarian nobleman, Prince Alfred zur Lippe-Weissenfeld, a relative of Prince Bernhard. By another of those remarkable coincidences, Prince Alfred's daughter was the wife of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Karzon, son of Fritz Thyssen's brother and heir to the Thyssen family fortune.


Walter Bedell Smith, who as we have seen above, was in close contact with the prince during the period that Montgomery was drawing up his initial plan to capture the Dutch bridges and then dash to Berlin via the Ruhr. Just how close this friendship to Prince Bernhard was can be judged by the fact that after the war both he and Prince Bernhard went into business together. One might describe it as an "import-export company" because it involved an art trading company called "Bernard Ltd" that uses military aircraft to fly between Soesterberg a short distance away from Prince Bernhard's palace Soestdijk and the USA.


In addition to his close personal friendship with Prince Bernhard, in August 1945, Bedell Smith donated his private plane to secretly fly nazi master spy Reinhard Gehlen, and five of his general staff, to Washington for secret talks. This move was in complete contravention of prevailing American policy and, according to author Charles Higham, could have resulted in court martial proceedings against Bedell Smith. [28]


Prince Bernhard's family relationship with that of the Thyssen's may go some way to explain why, in 1945, together with a unit of Dutch intelligence, Prince Bernhard travelled to the Russian zone in Berlin to recover a batch of buried "incriminating corporate papers" belonging to Fritz Thyssen, that evidenced "secret Thyssen ownership." This small favour was carried out under the pretext that the daring Prince was recovering the Dutch crown jewels stolen by the Nazis. The papers were returned to Holland and deposited in the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, in Rotterdam, which was secretly owned by Thyssen. Known as "Operation Juliana" this cunning scheme was a body blow to Allied investigators who were anxiously seeking the "missing pieces of the Thyssen fortune." [29] The US attorney to the Rotterdam bank was Allen Dulles, who had migrated from the OSS office in Bern, Switzerland, to become the US intelligence chief in post-war Germany.


FENCING THE ROSE


The Lippe family appears to have any number of connections to enterprises with intelligence connections. Take for example, the Order of the Rose of Lippe, a chivalric Order awarded to German House of Lippe. An offshoot of this order is the Noble Company of the Rose, founded by Ernst August Prinz zur Lippe the first cousin of Prince Bernhard - and Sir Rodney Hartwell. Today, the Noble Order of the Rose is awarded exclusively and by invitation only to members of a curious research institute with a focus on genealogy, royalty, nobility, chivalry, heraldry, and related topics called The Augustan Society that is housed in a mansion located in the Mojave Desert near Dagget, USA, and which was founded in 1957.


The curiosity here is that many of the early, and some of the founding members, were formerly with wartime intelligence services, mostly the OSS. These included Crolian Edelen, Robert Formhals, Robert Gayre, John Driscoll, George Balling and Forest Barber all of whom had also earlier been Shickshinny knights, a so called "fake" Order that claimed descent from the Russian Grand Priory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. The Shickshinny knights boasted some really heavy weight English and American pro nazi military and intelligence officers. [30]


It is alleged that the number one activity of the Augustan Society is intelligence gathering and that several members of the Society began working together three of four years before officially incorporating it as a legal entity (thus dating it back to circa 1954 of which more later). It is also said that it is an intelligence front for SMOM, the official Vatican Order of the Knights of Malta.


The Augustan Society was originally located in Torrance, California, a location that gave rise to an insider adage "when you hear a sneeze in Torrance, you hear a God Bless you' on the Via Condotti." The Via Condotti is the location of the Palazzo di Malta in Rome, the HQ of SMOM. The SMOM connection to this story is not without considerable interest. Members of this order have included such nazi notables as Dr. Herman Abs, a director of I G Farben and Deutsche Bank and who was known as "Hitler's paymaster." Robert Gayre, one of the founders of the Augustan Society was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of SMOM. Another to be honoured by SMOM was nazi spymaster, Reinhard Gehlen discussed above who received the prestigious Grand Cross of Merito Melitense in 1948. Another honoured by SMOM was James Jesus Angleton, to whom we shall return shortly. Neither of the Dulles brothers were honoured by this August body simply because they were Protestants rather than Catholics.


Curiously however, Martin Bormann's eldest son, Adolf Martin chose to take holy orders in 1946 following a preliminary course at Federaun Monastery, located close to Villach in Austria. This monastery was under the patronage of Bishop Hudal one of the most senior Vatican insiders who was responsible for running the nazi underground escape railway known as the Ratlines. More alarming is the fact that Hudal was the "guardian" of Aldolf Martin Bormann, as he was also the guardian of another monk, Brother Avery Dulles, son of John Foster Dulles, elder brother of Allen Dulles. It's a small world isn't it.


The Knights of Malta were also responsible for helping thousands of the worst Nazis and members of the SS escape to freedom down these Ratlines, thus evading justice and avoiding the hangman's noose at Nuremberg. Originally conceived as an underground railroad for wanted war criminals, it was quickly co-opted, I understand, to smuggle nazi gold, currency and other plunder to replenish the enormous sums lost by the Rockefeller family in pre-war German investments. Assisting Rockefeller in this sleazy endeavour were, Allen Dulles, Herbert Walker and James Jesus Angleton, the OSS Italian bureau chief and later CIA Rome Bureau chief. As such Angleton was in charge of the Vatican "account" and I understand that he learned about the homosexual proclivities of Pope Pius XII (formerly the Papal Nuncio in Bavaria) and was able to use this information for blackmail purposes. Meanwhile, Allen Dulles, Herbert Walker and James Jesus Angleton are said to have benefited most handsomely from "commissions" earned for their assistance in shifting plunder on behalf of the Rockefeller's. Angleton benefited even more since he was able to co-opt SMOM, the intelligence arm of the Vatican, to work on behalf of US intelligence interests.


Patrons of the Augustan Society are listed as Ernst August Prinz zur Lippe, Dr. Otto von Habsburg the old Austro-Hungarian Imperial House and Prince Victor Emmanuel of Savoy son of King Umberto II, the last Italian king who was forced to relinquish his throne after the war for being pro-Mussolini. [31] Prince Victor Emmanuel is the Grand Master of the authorised Vatican chivalric Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus.


Another of those beguiling coincidences is that Robert Gayre, who is mentioned above, was the head of the US branch of the racist organisation, the International Association for the Advancement of Eugenics and Ethnology, which is headquartered in Scotland. Eugenics formed a very powerful undercurrent in nazi ideology and thinking.


The IAAEE was founded by Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton who was a Wing Commander in the RAF during WWII. Lord Malcolm was, moreover, a member of the "Cliveden Set" - which is another name for the Rhodes-Milner Oxford "Group" that was sympathetic to Hitler's war aims. Not least, Lord Malcolm had the honour of being the brother of the Duke of Hamilton who, as we know, was the host of Rudolf Hess after his flight to Scotland in 1941.


Colonel Gayre also founded the Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in Edinburgh, with the US branch of this Order being established by Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton. Lord Malcolm is a relative of the late Queen Mother via his mother, Pamela Bowes-Lyon. Robert Gayre was also the vice president of the International Commission for Orders of Chivalry (ICC). The VI International Congress of the ICC was held in Edinburgh in 1962, under the Honorary Presidency of the Duke of Edinburgh and was presided over by the Duke of Hamilton.


THE BRIDGE TOO FAR


With this diversion fairly comprehensively covered, let's now briefly return to the actual events of Montgomery's audacious Operation Market Garden the approved plan to take and hold the five Dutch bridges that would open a way for a massive Allied thrust at the heart of Germany.


Those who have seen the excellent film, based on Cornelius Ryan's book "A Bridge Too Far" will recall the sheer stubborn courage of those soldiers of the Third Battalion of the US 82nd Airborne, under the command of Major Julian Cook, who paddled across the Waal river in slow, cumbersome boats, under a blizzard of deadly German fire, to assault and hold the heavily defended but critical Nijmegen road Bridge, a few miles south of Arnhem.


This was a last ditch attempt to relive the sorely battered British paratroops at Arnhem led by Colonel John Frost. Eventually succeeding, at terrible cost, the Nijmegen Bridge was taken and held. But rather than rushing armour up the road to Arnhem to relieve Colonel Frost and ensure success of Montgomery's daring plan, a British Guards Major arriving at Nijmegen Bridge told his American counterparts that "we do not move our tanks at night." [33] A furious Colonel Tucker, the regimental commander of the 504th that had secured the bridge, vehemently argued there was no time to waste before the Germans reinforced and that the British must grab the chance to reinforce Frost at Arnhem. Immune to these arguments, the English Major repeated "Well, we can't move our tanks at night," and then added "We will move them in the morning." [34] The next morning, as expected, the whole area was heavy with German armoured reinforcements.


Cornelius Ryan does not name the Grenadier Guards Major in his book, which is unusual. There also appear to be some critical inaccuracies in the chain of events he sets forth in his book.


A recent BBC documentary series called "Battlefields" presented by historian Prof. Richard Holmes, focused one programme on "The Battle for Arnhem." The programme makers interviewed on camera Captain Moffatt Burriss, commander of "I" company of the 504th, who was present when General Horrocks first asked to Colonel Tucker, commander of the American 504th, if he would take the heavily defended bridge by assaulting across the Waal. According to Burriss, General Horrocks said "This is an awesome task, can your lads do it?" Tucker replied, "Well general, if we take the bridge, will your tanks be lined-up ready to go?" Horrocks replied, "My tanks will be lined-up in full force, hell-bent for Arnhem and nothing will stop them." [35]


Once the bridge had been taken, it was Captain Burriss who welcomed the first tanks across, and was astonished when they stopped. He asked the sergeant in the first tank why they had stopped. The sergeant who was commanding the first three tanks soon to be joined by a fourth under the command a the Grenadier Guards major said that there was a German anti tank gun up ahead and that "if I go up there that gun will knock out my tank." Burriss said, "Well, we'll go with you and get that gun." But the offer wasn't accepted because, the sergeant said "No, I can't go, I've got no orders." [36] A situation that is in marked contrast to General Horrocks intentions and his direct pledge to Colonel Tucker.


According to the Grenadier Guards war diary, they bridge at Nijmegen was merely "consolidated." Also appearing on the interview was the Grenadier Guards major, who said, "it would have been quite difficult to go ahead." Captain Burriss didn't see it that way. He said during the programme that he "felt betrayed." His men had taken the bridge at massive cost, facing machine guns, 20mm canons and numerous other weapons, but the British "were stopping because of one gun and they had a whole Corps of tanks" at their disposal.


There was virtually nothing between the Grenadiers and Arnhem 8 miles away. At the north end of Arnhem Bridge the British paratroopers still held out. With an injured Colonel Frost, his second-in-command Major, Tony Hibbert of the 1st Parachute Brigade, fought on. He could hear the tanks of the Grenadier Guards in the distance. But they didn't arrive. Interviewed for the BBC programme he reflected wryly, perhaps even bitterly, that the Market Garden plan "Could and should have worked," adding with a wry look that the tanks under the control of Lord carrington were "over the bridge before we were overrun."


THE LOST BOYS


Royal patronage of the Grenadier Guards can be seen by virtue of the fact that reigning British monarch's are usually appointed as "colonels-in-chief" of the Regiment. It is one of only five British regiments who have the honour of trooping the monarch's "colour" the royal flag in front of the Monarch on the occasion of their official birthday. The ceremony derives from mounting guard of the royal family and palaces and as "Household Troops" the Grenadiers are one of the regiments who have the honour of guarding the monarch. The rank and file of the Grenadiers swear an oath of allegiance to the monarch as head of the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom. It is considerable significance that the oath is sworn to the reigning British monarch and not to Parliament. Interestingly, the first public engagement of the present monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, took place in 1942, when, as a young princess, she inspected the Grenadier Guards on her 16th birthday.


The Grenadier Guards officer he was referring to was Major Peter Alexander Rupert Smith, of the extremely powerful and influential Smith family - an almost publicly unknown dynasty of bankers that dates back 350 years. It was in the 1650's when Thomas Smith founded Samuel Smith & Co, Bankers in Nottingham, which is believed to have been the first English bank headquartered outside of London. Successive generations of Smiths ensured that the family business flourished and by 1902 a total of ten branches were operating.


Not only did a leading member of the family befriended Lord Rothschild, but a family member later married a Rothschild. A further dynastic marriage was to the well-known Baring family of bankers. Their influence kept on expanding and expanding. Frances Dora Smith married Sir Claude Lyon-Bowes, who were the grandparents of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon who married Prince Albert (Bertie) in 1923. Prince Albert became King George V1 in 1936 and Elizabeth become Queen Elizabeth 1 - later known as the Queen Mother. In recent years, newspaper article concerning the Queen Mothers favourable attitude to the "pro-peace movement" spoke of her "desire to avert war with Germany and for closer ties to be established between the two countries." [37] One newspaper went so far as to state that the Queen would have willingly accepted a German occupation providing that the monarchy and her place in it remained intact. [38]


Her brother, David Bowes-Lyon, to whom she was exceptionally close was, before the war, a director of Lazard Brothers bankers and who also held an "important but vaguely defined role in SOE." [39] The Lazard's connection is significant inasmuch as this bank was a link to pro-nazi Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch Shell and Viscount Bearsted of Hill Samuel, both of whom connect to Baron Kurt von Schroder a hard core nazi, a financier of SS chief Heinrich Himmler and a leading member of the "circle of friends of the Reichsfuhrer." Von Schroder coincidentally employed Allen Dulles as his American attorney [40] Royal Dutch Shell has long believed to be largely owned by the Dutch and British royal families.


Von Schroder was also a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship and a director of the bankers, Lazard Brothers. The Anglo-German fellowship was founded in 1935 by German banker Ernest Tennant - a close friend of Hitler's Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop - and had numerous members who admired Hitler. Some, went even further.


For example, Sir Oswald Mosley founded the fascist British Black shirts, which was funded by Berlin. Another was nazi enthusiast, Admiral Sir Barry Domville, who would later become a Shickshinny Knight. [41] Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe Coburg & Gotha was sent by Hitler to England to be the President of the Fellowship with instructions to improve Anglo-German relations and to push for an alliance between both countries. Another member was the Duke of Hamilton, who as we have seen, was the British point of contact sought by Rudolf Hess in his flight to Scotland. Saxe Coburg Gotha is, of course, the real family name of the British royal family, who changed to Windsor during the First World War to dilute any expressions of animosity by the British public.


The connections of the British royal family to the Nazis continue. Prince Phillip Mountbatten's (Duke of Edinburgh) closest sister in age, Princess Sophie, married Prince Christopher of Hesse, who was a member of Himmler's staff, enlisting as an "agent." [42] Prince Christopher would die in an aircraft accident in 1944, preceding by two years the extremely suspicious death of Prince George, the Duke of Kent and brother of the King, George VI who also died in an aircraft "accident."


The Duke of Kent died on 25th August 1942 aboard a Sunderland flying boat belonging to 228 Squadron of Coastal Command that crashed into a hill, called the Eagle's Rock, near Berriedale, Caithness, Scotland. The authors of the book "Double Standards" make a strong case that the aircraft was sabotaged on the instructions of Churchill, in order to avert the conclusion of a secret alliance agreed in principle between Germany and England that was to be signed in Sweden by the Duke of Kent, presumably on behalf of his brother, the King. The authors believe that aboard the aircraft and travelling with the Duke was none other that deputy fuehrer, Rudolf Hess.


Staying at Balmoral the night before the crash, according to one biography of the Queen Mother, the Duke feasted on a last supper of sorts. His dinner companion was Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. [43]


SNATCHING VICTORY FROM DEFEAT


It should come as no surprise to learn that the Grenadier Guards Major, Peter Smith, is the 6th Baron Carrington more commonly known as Lord Carrington, who in April 1985 was honoured by the Queen when he was made a knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the oldest and most prestigious British Order of chivalry that dates back almost 700 years. As a member of the royal family bloodline, Lord Carrington's illustrious career has included a stint as chairman of the secretive and elite Bildergers. Not least, he was a former President of the Pilgrim Society that was founded in London in 1902 (and in New York in 1903), as a dying wish of Cecil Rhodes. Another member of this ultra secret society was none other than the Duke of Kent, as was A J Drexel Biddle.


Founded in May 1954, the Bilderberg Conferences bring together the elite of the world to seek a consensus on how global matters are to be shaped. It is viewed with extreme suspicion by many who see it as working outside of democratic control to foist on them a dictatorial world order dedicated to the interests of the elite few.


Those instrumental in the founding of Bilderberg have included, General Walter Bedell Smith, Allen Dulles and Antoine Pinay, the ultra right French Prime Minister and Otto Wolff of the Cologne based firm Otto Wolff A. G., whose father was a substantial contributor to Hitler. Another was Sir Collin Gubbins, wartime head of the SOE who had established and trained Auxilary Units to resist underground in the event of a nazi invasion. These, in turn, were linked to the so-called Army "Oxen Units" that engaged in sabotage. One such Oxen Unit was in Berriedale at the time the Duke of Kent's aircraft crashed. [44]


Attendees are numerous and very influential. These have included, for example, David Rockefeller, Walter Boveri Jr, son of the founder of Brown Boveri, Sir Eric Roll of Warburg's London based merchant bank and Dr. Herman Abs of I G Farben to name just a few who are relevant to this essay. The first Bilderberg chairman was Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who remained chairing the meetings until 1976, when he stood down following his disgrace for accepting bribes in the Lockheed affair.


Of significance is the fact that the first Bilderberg meeting was held ten years after the failed Operation Market Garden, in a hotel (named the Bilderberg hence the name of the group), that is located in Oosterbeek, Holland, just a few kilometres from both Arnhem and Nijmegen and in the very middle of the fighting to take the Arnhem bridge.


Is it possible that Oosterbeck was chosen for the first meeting of Bilderberg in order to secretly celebrate the success in getting the wealth of nazi Germany to safety as planned by Bormann? Possibly. In the first two years of its existence, four meetings were held, on a semi-annual basis. [45] For 1954, meeting were held in May and again in September. In 1955, they were in March and September. Thereafter, meetings have been held just once annually in May. September 1954 was, of course, the month of the failed or betrayed Operation Market Garden.


1954 is of significance for other reasons, too, for it was in 1954 that the Allies finally agreed to return Western Germany to the status of a sovereign nation and German companies were, at last, freed from Allied control on 5th May 1955. The assets of Thyssen, Krupp and others that had been secreted abroad could now be untangled and returned to once again rebuild Germany as foreseen by Bormann. [46] The treaty that ended the occupation of West Germany was signed in Paris in October 1954. [47]


The past is the future. Sadly.


ENDS


[1] By "revolving" I mean to suggest that whoever wins an American presidential election, US foreign policy remains fundamentally unchanged.


[2] It is here of considerable significance that it was following the Versailles Treaty that many German industrialists, including the Thyssen and Dornier family, first developed their financial techniques to cloak ownership of their assets.


[3] See Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince lecture "The Rise of the Rough Beast" at the Sauniere Society Symposium, 19th September 1999. Also see numerous articles on Synarchism and the Synarchist agenda published by EIR.


[4] Ibid.


[5] Antony Sutton, "The Secret Cult of The Order" page 32.


[6] See article by John Loftus "How the Bush family made its fortune from the Nazis"


[7] See "Timeline of Treason: The Bush Family Connections to the Nazis" - from: http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/timeline.html


[8] See Anthony Sutton's "Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution.


[9] See Sutton's "Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler" page 93


[10] See Charles Higham's "Trading With The Enemy" page 189.


[11] Ibid page 211.


[12] Ibid page 133.


[13] Ibid


[14] See my article "The Spoils of War" at www.deepblacklies.co.uk.


[15] See Carroll Quigley's "The Anglo-American Establishment" page 307 (published by GSG & Associates, California, 1981)


[16] See Sutton's "The Secret Cult of the Order" page 34/35.


[17] See Paul Manning's "Martin Bormann Nazi in Exile" page 23.


[18] Two additional persons, both German government officials, were present at the Red House meeting.


[19] Manning's Martin Bormann - Nazi in Exile page 32.


[20] See Cornelius Ryan's "A Bridge Too Far" page 48.


[21] Ibid page70.


[22] Ibid page 43.


[23] The Fraternity was the name chosen by author Charles Higham, in his book American Swastika, to describe the network of prominent people and large corporations in Allied and neutral nations that cooperated with the nazis.


[24] See Higham's "Trading With The Enemy" pages 179-181


[25] This account is contained in an unpublished manuscript on matters relating to the nazis and US business interests that was written by Prof. Peter Dale Scott, who kindly provided a copy to me.


[26] See: www.michelvanrijn.com/artnews/correggio.htm


[27] Ibid


[28] See Charles Higham "American Swastika" page 260.


[29] See John Loftus article "The Dutch Connection" (available on the internet) for details of Operation Juliana. However, Dutch journalist, Ton Biesemaat disputes the accuracy of Loftus allegations, saying that the Prince was not directly involved but instead directed "influential friends and agents to do the job for him." Biesemaat also says that no crown jewels were recovered in Berlin but instead some "shares" of the royal family were recovered, although the main objective was to secure the fortune of the "Thyssen Bornemisza family" (private correspondence with this writer).


[30] For more on the Shickshinny Knights see my article "The Spoils of War".


[31] Although I understand that King Umberto II in fact hated Mussolini, but consented to abdicate to avoid an outbreak of bloodshed.


[32]


[33] See Cornelius Ryan who frustratingly neglects to name the British officer in question. Ryan is, however, by no means alone in this oversight. I could find no online source that did name the British officer, which may go some way to reveal the awesome actual power of a truly powerful family.


[34] Recorded by Thomas Pitt, a Sergeant in the 504th of the 82nd Airborne, who was present during these deliberations.


[35] Notes taken from the BBC TV documentary programme "Battlefields."


[36] Ibid.


[37] See Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince and Stephen Prior's "Double Standards The Rudolf Hess Cover-Up" page 265


[38] Ibid The Independent on Sunday, 5 March 2000.


[39] Picknett, prince & Prior's "Double Standard's" page 264.


[40] See Hugh Thomas SS-1 The Unlikely Death of Heinrich Himmler page 92.


[41] On the Shickshinny' s see my associated article The Spoils of War."


[42] See Hugh Thomas SS-1 as above page 92.


[43] See "Double Standards" above page 433.


[44] Ibid page 421


[45] See Holly Sklar's "Trilaterialism" page 171 which mentions this curious fact.


[46] See Paul manning's "Martin Bormann" above page 281.


[47] Ibid page 258.

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A betrayal too far: Only brutal honesty will do at Arnhem's 70th anniversary

Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist. Over the last 20 years he has been exposing the secret power of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and élite Bilderberg Conferences where the dark forces of corporations, media, banks and royalty conspire to accumulate wealth and power through extortion and war. Tony has spent much of his life too advocating solutions which heal the wealth divide, such as free housing for all and a press which reflects the concerns of ordinary people rather than attempting to lead opinion, sensationalise or dumb-down. Tony tweets at @TonyGosling. Tune in to his Friday politics show at BCfm.


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British veterans attends a commemoration ceremony to mark the 63th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, the battle of Arnhem at the Airborne monument in Arnhem, 21 Se

From Wednesday 17th to Friday 26th September this year thousands of friends and relatives of the fallen and the final few who fought there 70 years ago will gather to commemorate the Battle of Arnhem.
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In 1944, as the Allies were heading for Berlin, British Airborne troops were dropped in to take the Arnhem bridge, and the US 82nd Airborne the penultimate Nijmegen bridge. British tanks of XXX corps chugging up the road as reinforcements at least that was the plan.
Known to most through the 1977 feature film, "A Bridge Too Far" (directed by the late Sir Richard Attenborough), Operation Market Garden was the biggest airborne operation in history. Over 40,000 American and British soldiers, with artillery, jeeps and light armored vehicles were dropped, by parachute and hundreds of gliders, behind German lines.
The objective was to liberate a large slice of Holland, cross the Rhine, grab a bridgehead into the industrial heartland of the Ruhr's Nazi war machine, and end the war by Christmas 1944. Instead the mission's failure brought a colossal 16,000 casualties, and left a 60-mile finger of Allied troops sticking into German-held territory leading nowhere. A disastrous "Hongerwinter" of bitter starvation followed the military failure, where an estimated 22,000 Dutch civilians starved to death under Nazi occupation.
But as both sides gather in 2014 to remember, and puzzle over, one of the most enigmatic and engaging battles of the war, the organized evil of fascism is again legitimized, active and growing in Europe. Right now the legacy of Hitler's "Crooked Cross" is a political force, notably in Greece, with the Golden Dawn party, and Ukraine, with the openly pro-Nazi Pravy Sektor party.
"Did we," many of the old soldiers will be wondering, "really finish the job in 1945?""Have our leaders set us on the right path with their War on Terror determined to vanquish terrorism from the face of the Earth?""Or has that enemy been deliberately 'cooked up' by the real enemy within?""Will our children again have to confront this totalitarian menace in our midst before social justice triumphs and the cult of fascism and gangsterism is winkled out forever?"
At many of the twenty-four now mostly abandoned airfields all over the south and southeast of England from which the airborne Market forces took off, you'll find war memorials to the thousands that died trying to liberate Holland. We owe it to those 11,000 or so that never returned to expose both the mistakes in and lies about the battle. 4th Parachute Brigade commander General Sir John Hackett, in the foreword to "The Devil's Birthday," described it as "an absorbing field of study which is by no means fully exhausted." In plain talk, perhaps, "a can of worms."
Lions

After the success of the Normandy Invasion, back in June 1944, the hard slog to Berlin was on. US and British generals were vying for the precious ammunition, food and other supplies being shipped over the English Channel. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in the north won the tussle and was granted, in Operation Market Garden, a last chance to prove that audacity and imagination might make a quick end to the war in Europe. The traditional slugger, US General George S. Patton in the south, would have to bide his time.
Major Brian Urquhart was an intelligence officer in the planning of Market Garden. When he was shown aerial reconnaissance photographs of the 9th and 10th SS Panzer divisions "resting" just outside Arnhem he demanded a total rethink. British Airborne chief "Boy" Browning, though, would have none of it and Urquhart was unceremoniously put on sick leave. After the war Brian Urquhart went on to become Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations. He blamed the failure of the operation firmly on the incompetence and vanity of those in charge.

Of all the British airborne leaders, Colonel John Frost is roundly thought of as the most able, so much so that the bridge at Arnhem is now named after him. His 2nd battalion fought their way into Arnhem and held on to the bridge for three days and nights in the face of an enormous German force.
In his 1980 autobiography, "A Drop Too Many", Frost makes it crystal clear that the pre-drop intelligence that the German Panzer divisions were in the area was kept from him. "We had been given absolutely no inkling of this possibility," he relates. Indeed, airborne commander Browning actually diluted what he knew into a deliberate deception for Frost. "There were said to be some SS recruits in the Arnhem area without guns or armor."
At the Arnhem Bridge "hanging on by their fingernails" with Colonel Frost was Brigade Major Tony Hibbert, who I was privileged to interview in 2012. Like so many others in Arnhem, he felt let down by the ground army that never came. His insistent desire, though, was that the Polish General Stanisław Sosabowski, stripped of his command and scapegoated by Browning for the operation's failure and who sadly died in poverty in 1967, should have his rank restored and be posthumously honored by the British Army.
Led by a donkey

Despite commanding all three airborne divisions, according to William F. Buckingham's book, "Arnhem 1944", Eton-educated General "Boy" Browning "had no operational airborne experience at all." Instead of ferrying fighting men, he used 36 of the precious aircraft and gliders to bring in his lavish headquarters on a peripheral objective, the Groesbeek Heights, and after ordering US General Gavin to forget about his main objective, the Nijmegen bridge, instead to take up positions around his headquarters. As John Frost put it, his main objective, "Nijmegen bridge was there for the walk-over."
Browning spent the first day cruising about in his jeeps and making a trip across the nearby German border, into the Reichswald Forest, joking that he could take the credit as the first British officer to urinate on Germany. Adopting a more serious pose, he had his photograph taken for the home press as the first British officer to set foot on German soil.
Possibly Browning's most damning act though, when the desperate fight for the Nijmegen bridge was at its height, was to turn down the aid of an entire air-landing formation waiting in England who were straining to get in on the fight. Major General Hakewell-Smith, commanding the 52nd Lowland Division, offered to come to Browning's aid but was rebuffed, as Geoffrey Powell records in his "The Devil's Birthday: The Bridges To Arnhem 1944," with the reply, "Thanks for your message but offer not repeat not required as situation better than you think."
After the war, Browning landed a top post as Comptroller of the Royal Household, that of Treasurer to both the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. But despite the top job he remained an alcoholic throughout his two post-war decades and was forced out of his responsibilities for the Duke of Edinburgh's finances in the 1959 by a nervous breakdown.
Tanks take 18-hour break 11 miles from Arnhem

The burning question of Market Garden though remains Captain Peter Carrington's and his great Grenadier Guards' tank break. Eyewitness 82nd Airborne Captain Moffatt T. Burriss recounts the words of General Horrocks, in charge of the tank reinforcements of XXX Corps, promising the collected Allied commanders, poised to take the penultimate Nijmegen bridge. "My tanks will be lined up in full force at the bridge, ready to go, hell-bent for Arnhem. Nothing will stop them."
Instead, once Burriss and his men had taken the bridge, Horrocks, now with a clear run to Arnhem, ordered his men to take an 18-hour break, by which time Frost's men at Arnhem Bridge had been defeated, and the battle was lost.
Historians and soldiers have argued, and will continue to argue, over why Horrocks' depleted Corps of tanks, at least 100, failed to make that final 11-mile cruise to Arnhem on the evening of Wednesday 20th September, 1944.
Not enough ammunition, we are told. Well, one tank that did make the trip on its own through Lent and out the other side was described by its commander Sergeant Robinson pumping "round after round" into a lone German assault gun, then moving further up the road to do the same into Lent church from which unholy fireball a company of SS Panzer Grenadiers were observed to scatter in disarray.
Darkness, making it impossible for anti-tank guns to sight and range, might be the perfect cover for a tank advance and Lloyd Clark reveals in his 2008 book Arnhem, "Jumping the Rhein, 1944 and 1945," that

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I recently came across this Daily Telegraph article again (HERE) about the death of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. I had read it at the time and found it to be chillingly deceitful. Bernhard was a Nazi spy working for I G Farben's NW7 intelligence operation. The British Admiralty refused to allow him access to British secrets and the King had to plead to Churchill to give him a role during the war (besides that of being pro Nazi). So, of course Churchill complied. Bernhard was put on the planning group for Montgomery's Operation Market Garden.

The Telegraph obituary says "there was pressure for Bernhard to have Deutschland Uber Alles (one of the two Nazi anthems) sung at the wedding, but Bernhard refused point blank". What the article doesn't say is that he did have the Horst Wessel song (the other Nazi anthem) sung at his wedding instead (I've linked it below). I learned about this from a WWII Dutch resistance fighter Wim, who knew a great deal about Prince Bernhard's Nazi background and dealings.

Besides this, the Telegraph article simply glosses over Prince Bernhard's very strong Nazi connections. For example he had lots of property in Argentina where thousands of wanted war criminal nazis fled to after the war. His portfolio included property in Bariloche, Argentina, the exact German influenced town where Hitler lived with Eva Braun and their two daughters after the war.



For those who are interested in the Bormann story, the interview by Laurence de Milo (a female reporter) of Jorge Silva Cotto, Peron's Aide de Camp, is critical testimony of Bormann's survival and freedom to live in luxury in the best hotel in Buenos Aires after the war. The interview has many cuts in it as Cotto clearly has things he prefers not to answer publicly. But even so it is riveting watching. Publication was withheld until after his death under the agreement reached with de Milo.



Colonel ( later General) Ian Bell of the British Army below reveals how he hunted for Bormann and tracked him down to the Italian port of Bari, where he watched him board a vessel bound for freedom. For me the important revelation in this short clip is the orders he received from headquarters when he phoned in his report of having found Bormann: "right Bell, follow but do not apprehend, repeat, do not apprehend."



I absolutely accept that Bell is telling the truth in the above clip. The problem I have though is that it conflicts with what I regard as the most authoritative account of Bormann's escape, and that is the one told by American journalist, Paul Manning, who's book Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile is some of the best investigative journalism I can remember. A free .pdf copy of this book is available to download at Peter's excellent Wikispooks:

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Martin_..._Exile.pdf

Manning based his book on leaked FBI files (so far as I can judge anyway) and is very detailed about how Bormann escaped. He first went via the Northern escape route, where he holed up in a house in Denmark (where incidentally, Prof Anthony Sutton of British Army Intelligence was located on the Danish-German border having been tasked to search for Bormann) before heading to the Italian port of Genoa and freedom in Argentina.

Some may ask why someone in the FBI would turn over these critical and secret files to Manning? Well, Manning was a top journalist of his day for one. Secondly, it is quite apparent that Bormann, Hitler and thousands of other of the most vile nazi's escaped with the knowledge and complicity of elements inside the US (and presumably British government - given the latter's floating of false stories about Bormann et all in post war years) in exchange for something. Clearly negotiations were held and deals cut. The best guess is that critical weapon technology transfers occurred - quite likely the necessary plutonium the US needed to complete their Atom bomb, the Manhattan Project, as outlined in Carter Hydrick's excellent book, Critical Mass (I'm going to try to upload here a .pdf of this book later).

There was also the strong likelihood of blackmail involved. Bormann and other top Nazis would've known about all the smelly negotiations with British royals and the senior British aristo elites who sought to overthrow (murder) Churchill and the British royal family in seeking a peace treaty with Hitler so both nations could join together to fight the Soviet Union. There was also all the American and British corporations who were providing Hitler with essential war materiel without which his Third Reich would ground to a halt. For example, the British company De Beers continued to supply the Third Reich with industrial nations throughout the war. The British government knew this, but also needed their own industrial diamond supply from De Beers, and so took no action and simply covered the De Beers story up. Had any of this and much else besides, come into the public domain at the end of the war, governments and royal houses would fall.

The story od De Beers is told by Jan Roberts in her excellent book, Glitter & Greed: The Secret World of the Diamond Empire (HERE). I know Jan and was in contact with her for a long while. She suffered for her book. The documentary she made for the BBC was pulled at the last minute, with no explanation offered. She was very badly beaten up one evening too - just some of the treatment honest journalists can expect to endure when trying to get important information into the public domain and earn a crust at the same time (the poor journalist is often the honest journalist because there is no money to be made in truth telling… it's normally far too explosive and damaging the powers that be).

Continuing on the Bormann story, the following is an extract from Manning's book starting on page 196:

But would Martin Bormann survive if he left his modest sanc-tuary in northwest Germany? The administrators of ODESSA, aside f rom their role as short-term munitions merchants that they were later to segue into other commercial activities, were conf ident that they could get Party Minister Bormann right across Germany to Munich and over the Alps to Genoa. They had already moved several thousand SS men by this under- ground railroad, and thus far everything had gone according to schedule. "Saf e houses" had been established along the route, and the travelers always arrived and departed on time. By the time the f irst Nuremberg trial had ended in early 1946, Bor- mann was ready f or progress. General Mueller had him con-veyed to another saf e house near Domstedt. Griesheim-Domstedt was and still is the publishing center f or the U.S. Army's Stars & Stripes newspaper for Europe. The late editions go to press at midnight, and shortly thereafter trucks, operated exclusively by the Stars & Stripes command, line up f or their bundles of newspapers that must be distributed by morning to all U.S. Army bases. In 1946 it was a simple matter for Mueller to arrange for Bormann to be a casual passenger aboard such a truck, which halted brief ly as it turned out of the publishing plant and picked him up. Accelerating, it turned onto the Auto- bahn, then drove straight to Munich. Just before reaching U.S. Army headquarters, the German driver slowed to a stop and Bormann jumped out, disappearing into the downtown area of the city. He reached a safe house, where his brother Albert had been waiting; they remained there quietly, awaiting further instructions.
Bormann left Munich with an SS companion and guide, by automobile provided by a German mayor who was able to get rationed gasoline. In the pastoral uplands of Bavaria they parked the car at a previously agreed-on point, so the mayor could fetch it and drive it back. Bormann had been advised that it was best to travel on foot beyond this point in order to avoid interception and interrogation by U.S. CIC patrols. So the pair took to the countryside on foot and headed toward the Austrian Tirol. Their appearance was quite commonplace; few gave them more than a glance. The spring before millions of refugees and displaced persons had swarmed across Germany, prisoners of all nationalities making their way home, more than a million Ger-man families f rom the East f leeing bef ore the Red Army into western Germany. The Wehrmacht had disintegrated into long columns of prisoners walking toward prisoner-of -war camps. Mass chaos had characterized 1945, but now in the winter and spring of 1946 some order appeared; however, plodding men and women, Red Cross vehicles, and fast-driving U.S. Army trucks were familiar sights in the area beyond Munich. The two men made their way up mountain roads and across valleys, and no attention was paid to them by the civilians trying to f arm their patches or cut firewood in the forests.

Bormann and his companion crossed the Inn River, and were guided by local SS mountaineers to the Alpine village of Naud- ers, where the Austrian, Swiss, and Italian frontiers meet. The two rested in a safe house for several days, then set out on the next stage of the journey, which took them through Val di Adige and down to the green forestlands that line Lake Gardia. Here they halted for rest in the monastery overlooking the lake, feeling relatively safe. After a time they pushed on to a Fran-ciscan monastery in Genoa, where arrangements to receive them had been made by Heinrich Mueller.

New identification papers were handed to Bormann, together with the welcome news that in a matter of days he would be sailing to Spain. When he lef t the Franciscan monastery in Genoa and boarded a small Mediterranean steamer, his f irst stop was the port of Tarragona, to the south of Barcelona. It was night when the small vessel put into port, debarked the passenger, and steamed from the harbor. Bormann was met by two of Mueller's SS men, who promptly drove the party min-ister along the coast to Vendrell, where they picked up the auto route and headed inland. It was the purest scenic beauty that Bormann saw as they drove swif tly, with no stops other than to ref ill the gas tank f rom jerry cans they carried. They risked no appearance in a public place. Somewhat across the neck of Spain they turned of f at Todela, and continued over good secondary roads until the mountainous area of Logrono was reached. They passed Najera, then finally reached their destination, the Dominican monastery of San Domingo, which stands in the Province of Galicia, once called home by General Franco.

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But back in early 1947 a German of immense notoriety and importance waited his voyage to freedom. Martin Bormann, in the Dominican monastery of San Domingo, chafed under the constraint. Finally, the ship arrived to take him to South America, and he made his way at night to the harbor of Vigo. A rather sizeable freighter had been loaded with produce and other foodstuffs of Spain and with the most recent contingent of fleeing SS men. The last aboard was Party Minister Bormann, who went directly to the modest suite reserved f or him. He watched the hills of Spain recede in the distance, and thought wistfully that this was the last view he might ever have of the European continent. Certainly he would not be returning to this province of Galicia, where many fascists who had fled France and Belgium now resided in exile, such as Leon Degrelle, once the leader of the movement "Rex," who dwelled in a house in the mountains of Asturi, overlooking San Sebastian.

A strange footnote to the true tale of Bormann's stay in the Dominican monastery of San Domingo is the suspect fire that destroyed the archives in 1969. Mueller, ever the supercautious protector, became aware that Israeli agents were backtracking Bormann's escape route. I have been told they wanted to dis- cover what Catholic priests and bishops might have aided Bormann in his escape, intending to use this information to embarrass the Vatican. The only evidence of record that Bormann had been sheltered in this Dominican monastery was the Book of Visitors he had signed the night he arrived. Twenty- three years later f ire broke out in the very shelves where this book was kept, and all was burned up.

When the large freighter carrying Bormann and a contingent of SS officers and soldiers steamed into the harbor of Buenos Aires in the winter of 1947, the anchor was dropped in the waters of the south quay near Riachuelo, one of the tributaries of the La Plata, named by the conquistadores for what it means, "silver." The ship did not come close to the piers, where enormous cranes and swarming dockworkers unload cargoes, but as dusk f ell a small f leet of boats began f errying the passengers and their belongings to shore. At sea, each SS man had been supplied with new identity cards, courtesy of the skilled en- gravers of Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen, passports bear- ing appropriate visas, and written instructions as to where each was to stay once ashore. Some were dispatched to rooming houses and others to obscure hotels, while still others traveled by public transportation to inland cities and towns, or even to adjoining countries. Jobs had been found for all, either in the companies Bormann had established in 1944 and 1945 or in older German corporations that had been doing business in Latin America for a number of years. All those who debarked from the vessel either had with them or were issued a modest sum of cash, sufficient to carry them until the first payday. None of them actually saw Bormann on the ship, save for the captain and several Nazi VIPs who came aboard the night of arrival. Their reception was warm and friendly, and the local NSDAP leaders knew that they were speaking with the official successor to Adolf Hitler, the Party Minister and Reichsleiter whose orders they would obey implicitly in the years ahead.

Manning quotes Gestapo Mueller many times throughout his book. According to official sources, he like Bormann died at the end of the war, although it has been suggested he escaped to the Soviet Union. He didn't. He got out with Bormann, simply because he was head of Bormann's extensive security network.

The below British Grenada TV documentary extract from 1978 shows Gestapo Mueller (known in Asuncion, Paraguay as "Enrique"). Mueller wasn't Grenada's TV's target. They were, instead focusing their programme on Eichmann.



The following two Youtube clips are also worth a watch for its telling of Hitler's escape to Argentina.



The second video below is more lengthy running to 1.18 hours but is especially well researched and documented. It features the British investigative journalist, Gerard Williams, who's book Grey Wolf is a must read (Willims regularly featured in the History Channel TV series Hunting Hitler).



Finally, the following is a feature length docu-drama made by Gerard Williams and team that dramatises Hitler's escape. I personally don't particularly like dramatised documentaries, preferring the more hard hitting format of factual television. But even so this is worth watching too.



In closing, I think it is important to mention two other seminal books on this subject. The first is by historian Ladislas Farago, titled Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich (HERE).

Farago's book is excellently researched and Farago himself was widely regarded as a top-draw historian. However, his book got very badly reviewed because he published a photo he claimed was of Hitler in Argentina. It was a false photo. This, I'm afraid, was a case of an academic being too naive and trustworthy. The photo was given to him by Allen Dulles, former DCI of the CIA and the OSS station Chief in Bern, Switzerland during WWII.

Farago also persuaded Dulles to write a forward to this book. My guess is that Dulles must've laughed his arse off. He was the most untrustworthy American traitor of his generation imo. He negotiated Operation Sunrise with the Nazi SS General Karl Woolf that saw thousands of the Italian based Waffen SS escape to Latin America in exchange for agreeing to fight the Soviets in the forthcoming cold war. This story, as far as I am aware, has ever only been accurately and fully told by Peter Dale Scott in an unpublished manuscript that Peter kindly sent me when I was researching what had happened to Nazi gold back in the 1990's. Sadly, that and a great deal of my original research was lost when the hard-drive of my computer was lost in a computer repair shop (15 years research down the drain basically).

In any event, Farago's book is otherwise excellent. As is William Stevenson's book The Bormann Brotherhood (HERE).

In summary, my thesis is that Montgomery's plan to take the bridges unto and including the bridge at Arnhem, thereby bringing the war to a close by Christmas 1944, alarmed many important people who still had pro Hitler sympathies and other post war agendas - not to mention the transfer of very significant weapon technology with which to prosecute the cold war against the Soviet Union, not the possibility of avoiding fantastic scandals at home as a result of Bormann's knowledge of so much duplicity from various faction in the US and Great Britain.

Not least, I suspect, also because negotiations were ongoing to bring the Nazis back into the Western fold for the long sought war against Russia. Montgomery was too important a general to be ignored, so the powers that were simply took the decision to sabotage Operation Market Garden to give Bormann the time he needed to enact Operation Eagle's Flight and get all the Nazi loot and patents to safety and build the escape routes for, Hitler, himself and other top Third SS personnel that Manning discusses in his book.

This story necessarily remains speculative, although less so than before, thanks to the various testimonies that are now available about Bormann and Hitler - and about Prince Bernhard and his gofor, the Nazi double agent Christan Lindemans. However, I regard it as a common sense synthesis of what information is now known for sure. Concerning some relative matters I doubt that state papers will ever be made public and it is here, in the real of deduction and speculation this story will remain.
In closing I note that Lord Peter Carrington, the Grenadier Guards tank officer who, arguably was the one who scuppered the 1944 Operation Market Garden, was later awarded the not inconsiderable honour of being appointed in 1994, the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, the highest chivalric order of the British royal family and the one they most favour themselves. This placed Carrington as an elect member in a galaxy of famous British names dating back over 700 years when the Order was first founded by Edward III. Was it a reward? Who knows?

PS, Lauren has kindly offered to post on this forum my archive dump on the whole smelly Rudolf Hess affair. This story has never been made public in one place before - and like the Bormann / Hitler / Arnhem Bridge story has been gradually revealed piecemeal making it very hard to put together. This story reveals why the Hess affair was so sensitive to the British elite and why it has been de facto kept secret for all this time. The sheer duplicity, double-dealing, betrayal and vile human darkness of the British royals, aristo's and elite is simply awful.

The last bits of the puzzle were made available by Martin Frost some years ago. Frost was a former MI5 operative and general spook; whereas his father was the assassin working for Churchil who took care of the real Hess and Prince George, Duke of Kent. Martin contacted me years ago on another matter, and we got into discussions about his copy of the so called Red Book, the membership roster of Colonel Ramsay's very pro-Hitler "Right Club". I tried, in vain, to get Martin to turn over a copy of the Red Book to me. He wanted to know why he should, and I answered truthfully, because I want to publish it.

Honesty is always the best policy imo, but this honest statement put a nail in the coffin of this particular negotiation. Which is very sad, because the Red Book was allegedly published by Robert Saikia in 2010 (HERE). I'm am certainly not accusing the author of publisher of a cover up, but Frost has made clear that the full membership roster totalled 6,000 names, not the smaller number of just under 300, published in the linked book. Frost also made available a number of the names he had extracted from his copy and I found all of them in Saikai's book, including a very old friend of mine, UFO writer, Brinsley le Poer Trench, which came as a mighty surprise to me (but in retrospect, given the Nazi origin of the so called "Flying Saucers" of his various books period, it now makes sense).

Martin had a fantastic website that was the very devil to navigate around. I think it had been repeatedly closed down, again and again, because he was telling secrets that he shouldn't really have been telling - and he just reconstituted the whole website each time in another domain that was less reachable by the authorities. But as I say, because of the various fragmentation of each website, navigation was simply awful with there being no central registry. But for the researcher it was a veritable goldmine. Sadly, the whole thing disappeared when he died and is irretrievable by Wayback machine. At least this has been my experience when trying to get back pages from it. Fortunately, as I usually do, I made copies of everything I considered important at the time.

See Lauren's post HERE, due shortly.

[David Guyatt]

Carter Hydrick's Crital Mass HERE.

[David Guyatt]

Tony Gosling's presentation last year (on Arnhem anniversary) that sums up the Market garden betrayal. It's a bit disconnected but a decent summing up overall.

I think it's a bit rich of Tony to say that it is his idea that the reason for the betrayal was the Bormann capital flight programme for a Fourth Reich that was outlined at the Maison Rouge Hotel meeting of 10 August 1944 given that I had written about this (as above) years before he began writing on this campaign - but hey.... purloining other people's stuff - either by design or by forgetting where the idea had come from in the first place - seems to be pretty standard in this day and age.

[Lauren Johnson]

I don't understand why Market Garden was not just canceled rather than sacrifice so many soldiers given the plans to delay the war. Why not just find other ways to slow walk the final victory?

[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."
The report added: "It is concluded, however, that the French authorities are best able to deal with him."[/quote]







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[David Guyatt]

I have recently read Rudolf Hess: Treachery and Deception - The International intrigue behind the flight to Scotland of Hitler's Deputy in May 1941 by John Harris and Richard Willbourn.

I bought the book having just read an article by one of the authors (Richard Wilbourn) titled: "A Glimpse Into History - The Secret Royal Conspiracy Behind the Murder Of A Man Seeking A Peace Deal" (HERE).

In my personal view, the article is far more interesting than the book itself, which I found dry albeit detailed, and hesitant - bordering on fearful - of actually stating the conclusions presented in the article. My conclusion, right or wrong, was that one author of the two was far more hesitant to state the obvious conclusions to this affair than the other one -- probably as a result of receiving a bad press and criticism from historians.

Well, fuck historians I say. It's simply necessary for anyone with a brain cell to join the now available dots rather than whimper about evidence because the British government have not released documents confirming that the aristocratic leading lights of Blighty colluded with members of the royal family and others to betray Churchill and make friends with Hitler.... in order to save their fucking awful skins in the event of an invasion (when we know - and they clearly knew back then - most of them would have been liquidated by the SS and their assets and country seats seized). There will never, repeat never, be British government papers telling the truth about this affair. Not in a thousand years. Churchill saw to that.

These authors had nothing good to say about the Picknett and Prince book Double Standards: The Rudolf Hess Cover-Up. In fact they criticised it for not being rigorous enough (as I recall anyway). The understandable problem with the Picknett and Prince book was that they did not name the source of the information about the death of Hess and Prince George aboard the Flying Boat in 1942. That person was Martin Frost who had formerly worked for MI5 and about whom I have posted about above a number of times (his father, George Arthur Frank Frost, a sergeant in the Commando's was the man chosen by Churchill to conduct the assassination).

The Frost revelations are the most significant aspect to any story on the Hess affair. But Martin Frost is now deceased and with his death all his writings disappeared. Fortunately I made sure to take copies of those subjects he wrote about that interested me, in addition to having been in personal contact with him.

Rant over.... ::pullhairout::