Από την αρχή, ένας από τους κύριους χρηματοδότες της «Ε.Ε. των Βρυξελλών» ήταν η κυβέρνηση της Δυτικής Γερμανίας. Στις 24 Απριλίου 1964, οι βασικοί αρχιτέκτονες της «Ε.Ε. των Βρυξελλών» – όλοι τους ενεργά μέλη...της κοινοπραξίας IG Farben / Ναζί κατά τη διάρκεια του Β ‘Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου – συναντήθηκαν στην έδρα της «Ε.Ε. των Βρυξελλών» σχετικά με το μέλλον της ευρωπαϊκής ηπείρου. Οι άνδρες που εμφανίζονται σε αυτή την εικόνα είναι:
Πρόεδρος της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής Walter Hallstein – το αφεντικό της «Ε.Ε. των Βρυξελλών»
Ο Γερμανός Καγκελάριος Ludwig Erhard
Ludger Westrick, επικεφαλής της γερμανικής Καγκελαρίας
Karl Carstens, γερμανός υφυπουργός του Υπουργείου Εξωτερικών
Karl-Günther von Hase, Προϊστάμενος της Υπηρεσίας Τύπου και Πληροφοριών της γερμανικήςκυβέρνησης
Η παραπάνω εικόνα παρέχεται από την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή. Δυστυχώς, οι πληροφορίες που παρέχονται στην ιστοσελίδα της Επιτροπής της ΕΕ σχετικά με τους συμμετέχοντες της συνάντησης αυτής αφήνει έξω βασικές πτυχές για το υπόβαθρό τους.
Ακολουθεί μια πιο ολοκληρωμένη περιγραφή των ανδρών σε αυτή την εικόνα, οι οποίοι συναντήθηκαν τον Απρίλιο του 1964 στην Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή στις Βρυξέλλες, και η σχέση τους με τη σύμπραξη Ναζί / IG Farben:
Ο Walter Hallstein, Γερμανός δικηγόρος, είχε διοριστεί ιδρυτικός πρόεδρος της λεγόμενης Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής, το ανώτατο όργανο στο πλαίσιο της «Ε.Ε. των Βρυξελλών.” Το 1964,όταν πραγματοποιήθηκε η παραπάνω συνάντηση, ο Hallstein ήταν ήδη ο κύριος αρχιτέκτονας του κατασκευάσματος της ΕΕ για επτά χρόνια. Ο Hallstein, χωρίς νομιμοποίηση από καμία δημοκρατική ψηφοφορία οπουδήποτε στην Ευρώπη, είχε ήδη δημιουργήσει – με την επικουρία των διαδόχων του καρτέλ πετρελαίου και φαρμάκων της IG Farben – ένα στρατό 3.000 διοικητικών υπαλλήλων στις Βρυξέλλες και έναν προϋπολογισμό δισεκατομμυρίων ευρώ (σε νόμισμα σήμερα).Πριν και κατά τη διάρκεια του Β ‘Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου ο Hallstein είχε υπηρετήσει το ναζιστικό καθεστώς ως ένθερμος υποστηρικτής της ναζιστικής νομοθεσίας, και στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Rostock, Γερμανίας. Στις 23 Ιανουαρίου του 1939, τρία χρόνια μετά την έκδοση των ρατσιστικών νόμων της Νυρεμβέργης από ναζί συναδέλφούς του – και μόνο λίγους μήνες πριν την έναρξη της επίθεσης των ΝΑΖΙ στην Πολωνία μίλησε για τη μελλοντική ευρωπαϊκή νομοθεσία υπό γερμανική ηγεσία (“Rechtseinheit Großdeutschlands »). Ο ίδιος δεν άφησε καμία αμφιβολία για την ιδεολογία που υπηρετούσε λέγοντας ότι: «. Ένας από τους πιο σημαντικούς νόμους (στις ναζιστικά κατεχόμενες ευρωπαϊκές χώρες) είναι ο νόμος για την προστασία του γερμανικού αίματος και τιμής”
Ο Ludwig Erhard ήταν οικονομικός σύμβουλος της σύμπραξης Ναζί / IG Farben- . Ήταν ιδρυτής και επικεφαλής του χρηματοδοτούμενου από ΝΑΖΙ “Institut für Industrieforschung» («Ινστιτούτο Έρευνας Βιομηχανίας») από το 1942. Ήταν παντρεμένος με την αδελφή του Δρ Guth, ο οποίος ήταν επικεφαλής του περιβόητου «Reichsguppe Industrie» – επίσημος σύνδεσμος των Ναζί βιομηχάνων του γερμανικού Ράιχ. Το 1944, ο Erhard έγραψε το “Οικονομικά του Πόλεμου και αναδιάρθρωση του χρέους” (“ Kriegsfinanzierung und Schuldenkonsolidierung ”), μια μελέτη για την ανασυγκρότηση της οικονομίας σε μια μεταπολεμική Γερμανία.Μετά τον Δεύτερο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο, ο Erhard έγινε οικονομικός σύμβουλος των συμμαχικών δυνάμεων και μετέπειτα Υπουργός Οικονομικών και καγκελάριος στη μεταπολεμική Γερμανία. Ήταν τότε μέλος του Χριστιανοδημοκρατικού Κόμματος (CDU). Ήταν υπεύθυνος για την επανένταξη των διοικητικών στελεχών και διαχειριστών της IG Farben, οι οποίοι καταδικάστηκαν στη Νυρεμβέργη για εγκλήματα κατά της ανθρωπότητας σε κορυφαίες εταιρικές θέσεις στη μεταπολεμική Γερμανία.
Ένας από αυτούς ήταν ο διευθυντής της WWII BAYER Fritz ter Meer. Αυτό το στέλεχος της μεγαλύτερης φαρμακευτικής εταιρείας στον κόσμο καταδικάστηκε στη δίκη Νο. VI της Νυρεμβέργης για εγκλήματα Πολέμου για γενοκτονία σε σχέση με θανατηφόρα πειράματα σε ανθρώπους με δίπλωμα ευρεσιτεχνίας της φαρμακοβιομηχανίας Bayer στο στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης KZ Auschwitz . Με τη βοήθεια του Erhard – τότε γερμανός υπουργός Οικονομικών Υποθέσεων -. Ο Ter Meer απελευθερώθηκε από τη φυλακή και επανήλθε ως πρόεδρος του διοικητικού συμβουλίου της BAYER από το 1956
Ο Erhard υπερασπίστηκε δημοσίως μια τέτοια ανείπωτη πράξη δηλώνοντας ότι η επιλογή αυτών των διευθυντών της μεταπολεμικής βιομηχανίας της Γερμανίας ήταν αναγκαία εξαιτίας της “εμπειρίας τους στον τομέα της οικονομίας και της χημικής τεχνολογίας.” Προφανώς, δεν ενοχλούσε τον Erhard ότι ο Ter Meer και οι άλλοι φαρμακευτικοί διευθυντές είχαν δικαστεί στη Νυρεμβέργη για εγκλήματα πολέμου. Ως μέρος του «δούναι και λαβείν», ο Erhard βραβεύτηκε με το διορισμό του ως αντικαγκελάριος της Γερμανίας, μόλις ένα χρόνο αργότερα.
Ο Ludger Westrick ήταν πρόεδρος του διοικητικού συμβουλίου, πρόεδρος και αργότερα κεντρικός διαχειριστής των κρατικών “Vereinigte Industrie-Unternehmen AG” (VIAG) κατά τη διάρκεια της ναζιστικής περιόδου. Στη μεταπολεμική Γερμανία, ο Westrick εντάχθηκε στο Χριστιανοδημοκρατικό Κόμμα (CDU). Μέχρι το 1964 – κατά το χρόνο της πιο πάνω συνεδρίασης – είχε διοριστεί επικεφαλής της γερμανικής Καγκελαρίας, μία από τις πιο ισχυρές θέσεις στο γερμανικό πολιτικό σύστημα. Σε αυτή τη λειτουργία έλεγχε όλες τις βασικές αποφάσεις της γερμανικής πολιτικής, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των οικονομικών, της εξωτερικής πολιτικής, των μυστικών υπηρεσιών, πολιτικά ταμεία, δημόσιες σχέσεις και την προπαγάνδα της μετα-ΒΠΠ γερμανικής κυβέρνησηςΟ προκάτοχος του Westrick στην κορυφή της γερμανικής καγκελαρίας – και ο άνθρωπος που είχε συντονίσει τηνν πολιτική και οικονομική στήριξη για τον Hallstein και την κατασκευή της «Ε.Ε. των Βρυξελλών» από τη γερμανική καγκελαρία για τα 6 πρώτα έτη του νέου ευρωπαϊκού Πολιτικού Γραφείου του καρτέλ στις Βρυξέλλες – ήταν ο Hans Globke . Ο Globke ήταν ένας βασικός παράγοντας στο Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών του Χίτλερ. Ήταν ο δικηγόρος ο οποίος ήταν υπεύθυνος για την εφαρμογή των ναζιστικών νόμων και κανονισμών, υποβάλλοντας τις κατεχόμενες χώρες στην Ευρώπη, σύμφωνα με τους όρους της IG Farben / Ναζί σύμπραξης. Επιπλέον, ο Globke ήταν συν-συγγραφέας του νομικού κώδικα που έκανε τους ρατσιστικούς νόμους της Νυρεμβέργης δεσμευτικούς νόμους στη ναζιστική Γερμανία. Αυτός ο κώδικας αποτέλεσε τη νομική βάση για την εξόντωση των Εβραίων, Σλάβων και άλλων εθνικοτήτων στην κατακτημένη από τους Ναζί Ευρώπη. Ο δεύτερος συγγραφέας αυτού του κώδικα, Wilhelm Stuckart ήταν υφυπουργός στο γερμανικό υπουργείο Εσωτερικών και από τους λίγους επιλεγμένους συμμετέχοντες στην περίφημη “ συμφωνία Wannsee στην οποία αποφάσισαν την «τελική λύση».
Ο Westrick, ο άνθρωπος στην παραπάνω εικόνα, ήταν ο άμεσος διάδοχος του Globke και είχε ενταχθεί στο γραφείο του από τον ίδιο.
Ο Karl Carstens ήταν ένας ενθουσιώδης οπαδός των Ναζί και εντάχθηκε στο SA το 1934. Ήταν εγγεγραμμένο μέλος του ναζιστικού κόμματος, το NSDAP από το 1940 . Το 1955 έγινε μέλος της γερμανικής Χριστιανοδημοκρατικής Ένωσης.Ο Carstens το 1954 έγινε μέλος της γερμανικής Υπηρεσίας Εξωτερικών και από το 1955 ήταν ο επίσημος εκπρόσωπος της Ομοσπονδιακής Δημοκρατίας της Γερμανίας στο Ευρωπαϊκό Συμβούλιο στο Στρασβούργο!
Παράλληλα, προωθήθηκε στη θέση του αντιπροέδρου Υπουργού Εξωτερικών με καθορισμένο πεδίο της ευθύνης ” Ευρωπαϊκές ερωτήσεις”. Το 1958 έγινε επικεφαλής του τμήματος «Europe West” στο γερμανικό Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών.
Ο Karl-Günther von Hase προσχώρησε στην Βέρμαχτ , το γερμανικό στρατό του 1936.Συμμετείχε στο ναζιστική γερμανική εισβολή της Πολωνίας το 1939,στη Μάχη της Γαλλίας το 1940 και στην εισβολή της Ρωσίας κατά το 1941 – 1945 και παντρεύτηκε την κόρη ενός Ναζί Στρατηγού.Μετά τον πόλεμο, ο von Hase εντάχθηκε σε μια διπλωματική σχολή στην Ομοσπονδιακή Δημοκρατία της Γερμανίας και ξεκίνησε μια ταχεία καριέρα στη γερμανική πολιτική. Από το 1962 – 1967 – συμπεριλαμβανομένου και του χρόνου της παραπάνω συνεδρίασης στις Βρυξέλλες –ο von Hase ήταν επικεφαλής του γραφείου Τύπου της γερμανικής κυβέρνησης και υπεύθυνος για τις δημόσιες σχέσεις της.
Μόνο 19 χρόνια αφότου η σύμπραξη IG Farben / Ναζί είχε προκαλέσει το θάνατο 60 εκατομμυρίων ανθρώπων και κατέστρεψε το ήμισυ της Ευρώπης κατά τη διάρκεια του Β ‘Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου , προσπαθούν και πάλι. Η Τρίτη προσπάθεια τους να κατακτήσουν την Ευρώπη δεν θα πραγματοποιηθεί με στρατιωτικές στολές, αλλά στα γκρι κοστούμια των επιχειρήσεων και των πολιτικών φορέων της σύμπραξης.
Πώς ήταν δυνατόν ο Hallstein, δημιουργός των ρατσιστικών νόμων της Νυρεμβέργης , να γίνει ο « πατέρας »της ΕΕ “;
Γιατί οι πολιτικοί της Ευρώπης , στη συνέχεια δεν ενημερώνουν τους πολίτες για αυτά τα λείψανα από το ναζιστικό παρελθόν; Γιατί δεν μποϊκοτάρουν την ΕΕ τότε;
Πόσα χρήματα οι διάδοχοι της IG Farben πρέπει να διοχετεύσαν μέσω των τραπεζικών λογαριασμών των “ Βρυξελλών της ΕΕ »για να αγοράσουν τη σιωπή της υπόλοιπης Ευρώπης για περισσότερο από μισό αιώνα;
Και, πώς είναι δυνατόν οι πολιτικοί της Ευρώπης σήμερα να προσπαθούν να παρουσιάζουν στους πολίτες αυτό το κατασκεύασμα της ΕΕ ως βάση για μια μελλοντική Ευρώπη?
ΝΤΟΚΟΥΜΕΝΤΟ:
Η μυστική αναφορά του σχεδίου ανόρθωσης των ναζί μέσω της… ΕΕ!
Αναρτήθηκε από τον/την olympiada στο Απριλίου 29, 2013
ΤΟ ΠΕΡΙΒΟΗΤΟ RED HOUSE REPORT. Πως το ναζιστικό χρήμα φυγαδεύτηκε στην Αμερική, έφτιαξε τα “δημοκρατικά κινήματα” τύπου ΓΑΠ και επανήλθε στην Ευρώπη από την πίσω πόρτα.
Γερμανοί βιομήχανοι (ναι, σαν αυτούς που βράβευαν τον Παπανδρέου) και ανώτατα στελέχη των ναζί.
Revealed: The secret report that shows how the Nazis planned a Fourth Reich ...in the EUBy Adam Lebor
UPDATED: 21:30 GMT, 9 May 2009
The paper is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters slowly fading. But US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the day it was written in November 1944.
The document, also known as the Red House Report, is a detailed account of a secret meeting at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944. There, Nazi officials ordered an elite group of German industrialists to plan for Germany's post-war recovery, prepare for the Nazis' return to power and work for a 'strong German empire'. In other words: the Fourth Reich.
Plotters: SS chief Heinrich Himmler with Max Faust, engineer with Nazi-backed company I. G. FarbenThe three-page, closely typed report, marked 'Secret', copied to British officials and sent by air pouch to Cordell Hull, the US Secretary of State, detailed how the industrialists were to work with the Nazi Party to rebuild Germany's economy by sending money through Switzerland.
They would set up a network of secret front companies abroad. They would wait until conditions were right. And then they would take over Germany again.
The industrialists included representatives of Volkswagen, Krupp and Messerschmitt. Officials from the Navy and Ministry of Armaments were also at the meeting and, with incredible foresight, they decided together that the Fourth German Reich, unlike its predecessor, would be an economic rather than a military empire - but not just German.
The Red House Report, which was unearthed from US intelligence files, was the inspiration for my thriller The Budapest Protocol.
The book opens in 1944 as the Red Army advances on the besieged city, then jumps to the present day, during the election campaign for the first president of Europe. The European Union superstate is revealed as a front for a sinister conspiracy, one rooted in the last days of the Second World War.
But as I researched and wrote the novel, I realised that some of the Red House Report had become fact.
Nazi Germany did export massive amounts of capital through neutral countries. German businesses did set up a network of front companies abroad. The German economy did soon recover after 1945.
The Third Reich was defeated militarily, but powerful Nazi-era bankers, industrialists and civil servants, reborn as democrats, soon prospered in the new West Germany. There they worked for a new cause: European economic and political integration.
Is it possible that the Fourth Reich those Nazi industrialists foresaw has, in some part at least, come to pass?
The Red House Report was written by a French spy who was at the meeting in Strasbourg in 1944 - and it paints an extraordinary picture.
The industrialists gathered at the Maison Rouge Hotel waited expectantly as SS Obergruppenfuhrer Dr Scheid began the meeting. Scheid held one of the highest ranks in the SS, equivalent to Lieutenant General. He cut an imposing figure in his tailored grey-green uniform and high, peaked cap with silver braiding. Guards were posted outside and the room had been searched for microphones.
Death camp: Auschwitz, where tens of thousands of slave labourers died working in a factory run by German firm I. G. FarbenThere was a sharp intake of breath as he began to speak. German industry must realise that the war cannot be won, he declared. 'It must take steps in preparation for a post-war commercial campaign.' Such defeatist talk was treasonous - enough to earn a visit to the Gestapo's cellars, followed by a one-way trip to a concentration camp.
But Scheid had been given special licence to speak the truth – the future of the Reich was at stake. He ordered the industrialists to 'make contacts and alliances with foreign firms, but this must be done individually and without attracting any suspicion'.
The industrialists were to borrow substantial sums from foreign countries after the war.
They were especially to exploit the finances of those German firms that had already been used as fronts for economic penetration abroad, said Scheid, citing the American partners of the steel giant Krupp as well as Zeiss, Leica and the Hamburg-America Line shipping company.
But as most of the industrialists left the meeting, a handful were beckoned into another smaller gathering, presided over by Dr Bosse of the Armaments Ministry. There were secrets to be shared with the elite of the elite.
Bosse explained how, even though the Nazi Party had informed the industrialists that the war was lost, resistance against the Allies would continue until a guarantee of German unity could be obtained. He then laid out the secret three-stage strategy for the Fourth Reich.
In stage one, the industrialists were to 'prepare themselves to finance the Nazi Party, which would be forced to go underground as a Maquis', using the term for the French resistance.
Stage two would see the government allocating large sums to German industrialists to establish a 'secure post-war foundation in foreign countries', while 'existing financial reserves must be placed at the disposal of the party so that a strong German empire can be created after the defeat'.
In stage three, German businesses would set up a 'sleeper' network of agents abroad through front companies, which were to be covers for military research and intelligence, until the Nazis returned to power.
'The existence of these is to be known only by very few people in each industry and by chiefs of the Nazi Party,' Bosse announced.
'Each office will have a liaison agent with the party. As soon as the party becomes strong enough to re-establish its control over Germany, the industrialists will be paid for their effort and co-operation by concessions and orders.'
Extraordinary revelations: The 1944 Red House Report, detailing 'plans of German industrialists to engage in underground activity'The exported funds were to be channelled through two banks in Zurich, or via agencies in Switzerland which bought property in Switzerland for German concerns, for a five per cent commission.
The Nazis had been covertly sending funds through neutral countries for years.
Swiss banks, in particular the Swiss National Bank, accepted gold looted from the treasuries of Nazi-occupied countries. They accepted assets and property titles taken from Jewish businessmen in Germany and occupied countries, and supplied the foreign currency that the Nazis needed to buy vital war materials.
Swiss economic collaboration with the Nazis had been closely monitored by Allied intelligence.
The Red House Report's author notes: 'Previously, exports of capital by German industrialists to neutral countries had to be accomplished rather surreptitiously and by means of special influence.
'Now the Nazi Party stands behind the industrialists and urges them to save themselves by getting funds outside Germany and at the same time advance the party's plans for its post-war operations.'
The order to export foreign capital was technically illegal in Nazi Germany, but by the summer of 1944 the law did not matter.
More than two months after D-Day, the Nazis were being squeezed by the Allies from the west and the Soviets from the east. Hitler had been badly wounded in an assassination attempt. The Nazi leadership was nervous, fractious and quarrelling.
During the war years the SS had built up a gigantic economic empire, based on plunder and murder, and they planned to keep it.
A meeting such as that at the Maison Rouge would need the protection of the SS, according to Dr Adam Tooze of Cambridge University, author of Wages of Destruction: The Making And Breaking Of The Nazi Economy.
He says: 'By 1944 any discussion of post-war planning was banned. It was extremely dangerous to do that in public. But the SS was thinking in the long-term. If you are trying to establish a workable coalition after the war, the only safe place to do it is under the auspices of the apparatus of terror.'
Shrewd SS leaders such as Otto Ohlendorf were already thinking ahead.
As commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which operated on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1942, Ohlendorf was responsible for the murder of 90,000 men, women and children.
A highly educated, intelligent lawyer and economist, Ohlendorf showed great concern for the psychological welfare of his extermination squad's gunmen: he ordered that several of them should fire simultaneously at their victims, so as to avoid any feelings of personal responsibility.
By the winter of 1943 he was transferred to the Ministry of Economics. Ohlendorf's ostensible job was focusing on export trade, but his real priority was preserving the SS's massive pan-European economic empire after Germany's defeat.
Ohlendorf, who was later hanged at Nuremberg, took particular interest in the work of a German economist called Ludwig Erhard. Erhard had written a lengthy manuscript on the transition to a post-war economy after Germany's defeat. This was dangerous, especially as his name had been mentioned in connection with resistance groups.
But Ohlendorf, who was also chief of the SD, the Nazi domestic security service, protected Erhard as he agreed with his views on stabilising the post-war German economy. Ohlendorf himself was protected by Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS.
Ohlendorf and Erhard feared a bout of hyper-inflation, such as the one that had destroyed the German economy in the Twenties. Such a catastrophe would render the SS's economic empire almost worthless.
The two men agreed that the post-war priority was rapid monetary stabilisation through a stable currency unit, but they realised this would have to be enforced by a friendly occupying power, as no post-war German state would have enough legitimacy to introduce a currency that would have any value.
That unit would become the Deutschmark, which was introduced in 1948. It was an astonishing success and it kick-started the German economy. With a stable currency, Germany was once again an attractive trading partner.
The German industrial conglomerates could rapidly rebuild their economic empires across Europe.
War had been extraordinarily profitable for the German economy. By 1948 - despite six years of conflict, Allied bombing and post-war reparations payments - the capital stock of assets such as equipment and buildings was larger than in 1936, thanks mainly to the armaments boom.
Erhard pondered how German industry could expand its reach across the shattered European continent. The answer was through supranationalism - the voluntary surrender of national sovereignty to an international body.
Germany and France were the drivers behind the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the precursor to the European Union. The ECSC was the first supranational organisation, established in April 1951 by six European states. It created a common market for coal and steel which it regulated. This set a vital precedent for the steady erosion of national sovereignty, a process that continues today.
But before the common market could be set up, the Nazi industrialists had to be pardoned, and Nazi bankers and officials reintegrated. In 1957, John J. McCloy, the American High Commissioner for Germany, issued an amnesty for industrialists convicted of war crimes.
The two most powerful Nazi industrialists, Alfried Krupp of Krupp Industries and Friedrich Flick, whose Flick Group eventually owned a 40 per cent stake in Daimler-Benz, were released from prison after serving barely three years.
Krupp and Flick had been central figures in the Nazi economy. Their companies used slave labourers like cattle, to be worked to death.
The Krupp company soon became one of Europe's leading industrial combines.
The Flick Group also quickly built up a new pan-European business empire. Friedrich Flick remained unrepentant about his wartime record and refused to pay a single Deutschmark in compensation until his death in July 1972 at the age of 90, when he left a fortune of more than $1billion, the equivalent of £400million at the time.
'For many leading industrial figures close to the Nazi regime, Europe became a cover for pursuing German national interests after the defeat of Hitler,' says historian Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, an adviser to Jewish former slave labourers.
'The continuity of the economy of Germany and the economies of post-war Europe is striking. Some of the leading figures in the Nazi economy became leading builders of the European Union.'
Numerous household names had exploited slave and forced labourers including BMW, Siemens and Volkswagen, which produced munitions and the V1 rocket.
Slave labour was an integral part of the Nazi war machine. Many concentration camps were attached to dedicated factories where company officials worked hand-in-hand with the SS officers overseeing the camps.
Like Krupp and Flick, Hermann Abs, post-war Germany's most powerful banker, had prospered in the Third Reich. Dapper, elegant and diplomatic, Abs joined the board of Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, in 1937. As the Nazi empire expanded, Deutsche Bank enthusiastically 'Aryanised' Austrian and Czechoslovak banks that were owned by Jews.
By 1942, Abs held 40 directorships, a quarter of which were in countries occupied by the Nazis. Many of these Aryanised companies used slave labour and by 1943 Deutsche Bank's wealth had quadrupled.
Abs also sat on the supervisory board of I.G. Farben, as Deutsche Bank's representative. I.G. Farben was one of Nazi Germany's most powerful companies, formed out of a union of BASF, Bayer, Hoechst and subsidiaries in the Twenties.
It was so deeply entwined with the SS and the Nazis that it ran its own slave labour camp at Auschwitz, known as Auschwitz III, where tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners died producing artificial rubber.
When they could work no longer, or were verbraucht (used up) in the Nazis' chilling term, they were moved to Birkenau. There they were gassed using Zyklon B, the patent for which was owned by I.G. Farben.
But like all good businessmen, I.G. Farben's bosses hedged their bets.
During the war the company had financed Ludwig Erhard's research. After the war, 24 I.G. Farben executives were indicted for war crimes over Auschwitz III - but only twelve of the 24 were found guilty and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one-and-a-half to eight years. I.G. Farben got away with mass murder.
Abs was one of the most important figures in Germany's post-war reconstruction. It was largely thanks to him that, just as the Red House Report exhorted, a 'strong German empire' was indeed rebuilt, one which formed the basis of today's European Union.
Abs was put in charge of allocating Marshall Aid - reconstruction funds - to German industry. By 1948 he was effectively managing Germany's economic recovery.
Crucially, Abs was also a member of the European League for Economic Co-operation, an elite intellectual pressure group set up in 1946. The league was dedicated to the establishment of a common market, the precursor of the European Union.
Its members included industrialists and financiers and it developed policies that are strikingly familiar today - on monetary integration and common transport, energy and welfare systems.
When Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of West Germany, took power in 1949, Abs was his most important financial adviser.
Behind the scenes Abs was working hard for Deutsche Bank to be allowed to reconstitute itself after decentralisation. In 1957 he succeeded and he returned to his former employer.
That same year the six members of the ECSC signed the Treaty of Rome, which set up the European Economic Community. The treaty further liberalised trade and established increasingly powerful supranational institutions including the European Parliament and European Commission.
Like Abs, Ludwig Erhard flourished in post-war Germany. Adenauer made Erhard Germany's first post-war economics minister. In 1963 Erhard succeeded Adenauer as Chancellor for three years.
But the German economic miracle – so vital to the idea of a new Europe - was built on mass murder. The number of slave and forced labourers who died while employed by German companies in the Nazi era was 2,700,000.
Some sporadic compensation payments were made but German industry agreed a conclusive, global settlement only in 2000, with a £3billion compensation fund. There was no admission of legal liability and the individual compensation was paltry.
A slave labourer would receive 15,000 Deutschmarks (about £5,000), a forced labourer 5,000 (about £1,600). Any claimant accepting the deal had to undertake not to launch any further legal action.
To put this sum of money into perspective, in 2001 Volkswagen alone made profits of £1.8billion.
Next month, 27 European Union member states vote in the biggest transnational election in history. Europe now enjoys peace and stability. Germany is a democracy, once again home to a substantial Jewish community. The Holocaust is seared into national memory.
But the Red House Report is a bridge from a sunny present to a dark past. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief, once said: 'In 50 years' time nobody will think of nation states.'
For now, the nation state endures. But these three typewritten pages are a reminder that today's drive towards a European federal state is inexorably tangled up with the plans of the SS and German industrialists for a Fourth Reich - an economic rather than military imperium.
• The Budapest Protocol, Adam LeBor's thriller inspired by the Red House Report, is published by Reportage Press.
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Ακολουθεί μια πιο ολοκληρωμένη περιγραφή των ανδρών σε αυτή την εικόνα, οι οποίοι συναντήθηκαν τον Απρίλιο του 1964 στην Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή στις Βρυξέλλες, και η σχέση τους με τη σύμπραξη Ναζί / IG Farben:
Ο Walter Hallstein, Γερμανός δικηγόρος, είχε διοριστεί ιδρυτικός πρόεδρος της λεγόμενης Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής, το ανώτατο όργανο στο πλαίσιο της «Ε.Ε. των Βρυξελλών.” Το 1964,όταν πραγματοποιήθηκε η παραπάνω συνάντηση, ο Hallstein ήταν ήδη ο κύριος αρχιτέκτονας του κατασκευάσματος της ΕΕ για επτά χρόνια. Ο Hallstein, χωρίς νομιμοποίηση από καμία δημοκρατική ψηφοφορία οπουδήποτε στην Ευρώπη, είχε ήδη δημιουργήσει – με την επικουρία των διαδόχων του καρτέλ πετρελαίου και φαρμάκων της IG Farben – ένα στρατό 3.000 διοικητικών υπαλλήλων στις Βρυξέλλες και έναν προϋπολογισμό δισεκατομμυρίων ευρώ (σε νόμισμα σήμερα).Πριν και κατά τη διάρκεια του Β ‘Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου ο Hallstein είχε υπηρετήσει το ναζιστικό καθεστώς ως ένθερμος υποστηρικτής της ναζιστικής νομοθεσίας, και στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Rostock, Γερμανίας. Στις 23 Ιανουαρίου του 1939, τρία χρόνια μετά την έκδοση των ρατσιστικών νόμων της Νυρεμβέργης από ναζί συναδέλφούς του – και μόνο λίγους μήνες πριν την έναρξη της επίθεσης των ΝΑΖΙ στην Πολωνία μίλησε για τη μελλοντική ευρωπαϊκή νομοθεσία υπό γερμανική ηγεσία (“Rechtseinheit Großdeutschlands »). Ο ίδιος δεν άφησε καμία αμφιβολία για την ιδεολογία που υπηρετούσε λέγοντας ότι: «. Ένας από τους πιο σημαντικούς νόμους (στις ναζιστικά κατεχόμενες ευρωπαϊκές χώρες) είναι ο νόμος για την προστασία του γερμανικού αίματος και τιμής”
Ο Ludwig Erhard ήταν οικονομικός σύμβουλος της σύμπραξης Ναζί / IG Farben- . Ήταν ιδρυτής και επικεφαλής του χρηματοδοτούμενου από ΝΑΖΙ “Institut für Industrieforschung» («Ινστιτούτο Έρευνας Βιομηχανίας») από το 1942. Ήταν παντρεμένος με την αδελφή του Δρ Guth, ο οποίος ήταν επικεφαλής του περιβόητου «Reichsguppe Industrie» – επίσημος σύνδεσμος των Ναζί βιομηχάνων του γερμανικού Ράιχ. Το 1944, ο Erhard έγραψε το “Οικονομικά του Πόλεμου και αναδιάρθρωση του χρέους” (“ Kriegsfinanzierung und Schuldenkonsolidierung ”), μια μελέτη για την ανασυγκρότηση της οικονομίας σε μια μεταπολεμική Γερμανία.Μετά τον Δεύτερο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο, ο Erhard έγινε οικονομικός σύμβουλος των συμμαχικών δυνάμεων και μετέπειτα Υπουργός Οικονομικών και καγκελάριος στη μεταπολεμική Γερμανία. Ήταν τότε μέλος του Χριστιανοδημοκρατικού Κόμματος (CDU). Ήταν υπεύθυνος για την επανένταξη των διοικητικών στελεχών και διαχειριστών της IG Farben, οι οποίοι καταδικάστηκαν στη Νυρεμβέργη για εγκλήματα κατά της ανθρωπότητας σε κορυφαίες εταιρικές θέσεις στη μεταπολεμική Γερμανία.
Ένας από αυτούς ήταν ο διευθυντής της WWII BAYER Fritz ter Meer. Αυτό το στέλεχος της μεγαλύτερης φαρμακευτικής εταιρείας στον κόσμο καταδικάστηκε στη δίκη Νο. VI της Νυρεμβέργης για εγκλήματα Πολέμου για γενοκτονία σε σχέση με θανατηφόρα πειράματα σε ανθρώπους με δίπλωμα ευρεσιτεχνίας της φαρμακοβιομηχανίας Bayer στο στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης KZ Auschwitz . Με τη βοήθεια του Erhard – τότε γερμανός υπουργός Οικονομικών Υποθέσεων -. Ο Ter Meer απελευθερώθηκε από τη φυλακή και επανήλθε ως πρόεδρος του διοικητικού συμβουλίου της BAYER από το 1956
Ο Erhard υπερασπίστηκε δημοσίως μια τέτοια ανείπωτη πράξη δηλώνοντας ότι η επιλογή αυτών των διευθυντών της μεταπολεμικής βιομηχανίας της Γερμανίας ήταν αναγκαία εξαιτίας της “εμπειρίας τους στον τομέα της οικονομίας και της χημικής τεχνολογίας.” Προφανώς, δεν ενοχλούσε τον Erhard ότι ο Ter Meer και οι άλλοι φαρμακευτικοί διευθυντές είχαν δικαστεί στη Νυρεμβέργη για εγκλήματα πολέμου. Ως μέρος του «δούναι και λαβείν», ο Erhard βραβεύτηκε με το διορισμό του ως αντικαγκελάριος της Γερμανίας, μόλις ένα χρόνο αργότερα.
Ο Ludger Westrick ήταν πρόεδρος του διοικητικού συμβουλίου, πρόεδρος και αργότερα κεντρικός διαχειριστής των κρατικών “Vereinigte Industrie-Unternehmen AG” (VIAG) κατά τη διάρκεια της ναζιστικής περιόδου. Στη μεταπολεμική Γερμανία, ο Westrick εντάχθηκε στο Χριστιανοδημοκρατικό Κόμμα (CDU). Μέχρι το 1964 – κατά το χρόνο της πιο πάνω συνεδρίασης – είχε διοριστεί επικεφαλής της γερμανικής Καγκελαρίας, μία από τις πιο ισχυρές θέσεις στο γερμανικό πολιτικό σύστημα. Σε αυτή τη λειτουργία έλεγχε όλες τις βασικές αποφάσεις της γερμανικής πολιτικής, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των οικονομικών, της εξωτερικής πολιτικής, των μυστικών υπηρεσιών, πολιτικά ταμεία, δημόσιες σχέσεις και την προπαγάνδα της μετα-ΒΠΠ γερμανικής κυβέρνησηςΟ προκάτοχος του Westrick στην κορυφή της γερμανικής καγκελαρίας – και ο άνθρωπος που είχε συντονίσει τηνν πολιτική και οικονομική στήριξη για τον Hallstein και την κατασκευή της «Ε.Ε. των Βρυξελλών» από τη γερμανική καγκελαρία για τα 6 πρώτα έτη του νέου ευρωπαϊκού Πολιτικού Γραφείου του καρτέλ στις Βρυξέλλες – ήταν ο Hans Globke . Ο Globke ήταν ένας βασικός παράγοντας στο Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών του Χίτλερ. Ήταν ο δικηγόρος ο οποίος ήταν υπεύθυνος για την εφαρμογή των ναζιστικών νόμων και κανονισμών, υποβάλλοντας τις κατεχόμενες χώρες στην Ευρώπη, σύμφωνα με τους όρους της IG Farben / Ναζί σύμπραξης. Επιπλέον, ο Globke ήταν συν-συγγραφέας του νομικού κώδικα που έκανε τους ρατσιστικούς νόμους της Νυρεμβέργης δεσμευτικούς νόμους στη ναζιστική Γερμανία. Αυτός ο κώδικας αποτέλεσε τη νομική βάση για την εξόντωση των Εβραίων, Σλάβων και άλλων εθνικοτήτων στην κατακτημένη από τους Ναζί Ευρώπη. Ο δεύτερος συγγραφέας αυτού του κώδικα, Wilhelm Stuckart ήταν υφυπουργός στο γερμανικό υπουργείο Εσωτερικών και από τους λίγους επιλεγμένους συμμετέχοντες στην περίφημη “ συμφωνία Wannsee στην οποία αποφάσισαν την «τελική λύση».
Ο Westrick, ο άνθρωπος στην παραπάνω εικόνα, ήταν ο άμεσος διάδοχος του Globke και είχε ενταχθεί στο γραφείο του από τον ίδιο.
Ο Karl Carstens ήταν ένας ενθουσιώδης οπαδός των Ναζί και εντάχθηκε στο SA το 1934. Ήταν εγγεγραμμένο μέλος του ναζιστικού κόμματος, το NSDAP από το 1940 . Το 1955 έγινε μέλος της γερμανικής Χριστιανοδημοκρατικής Ένωσης.Ο Carstens το 1954 έγινε μέλος της γερμανικής Υπηρεσίας Εξωτερικών και από το 1955 ήταν ο επίσημος εκπρόσωπος της Ομοσπονδιακής Δημοκρατίας της Γερμανίας στο Ευρωπαϊκό Συμβούλιο στο Στρασβούργο!
Παράλληλα, προωθήθηκε στη θέση του αντιπροέδρου Υπουργού Εξωτερικών με καθορισμένο πεδίο της ευθύνης ” Ευρωπαϊκές ερωτήσεις”. Το 1958 έγινε επικεφαλής του τμήματος «Europe West” στο γερμανικό Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών.
Ο Karl-Günther von Hase προσχώρησε στην Βέρμαχτ , το γερμανικό στρατό του 1936.Συμμετείχε στο ναζιστική γερμανική εισβολή της Πολωνίας το 1939,στη Μάχη της Γαλλίας το 1940 και στην εισβολή της Ρωσίας κατά το 1941 – 1945 και παντρεύτηκε την κόρη ενός Ναζί Στρατηγού.Μετά τον πόλεμο, ο von Hase εντάχθηκε σε μια διπλωματική σχολή στην Ομοσπονδιακή Δημοκρατία της Γερμανίας και ξεκίνησε μια ταχεία καριέρα στη γερμανική πολιτική. Από το 1962 – 1967 – συμπεριλαμβανομένου και του χρόνου της παραπάνω συνεδρίασης στις Βρυξέλλες –ο von Hase ήταν επικεφαλής του γραφείου Τύπου της γερμανικής κυβέρνησης και υπεύθυνος για τις δημόσιες σχέσεις της.
Μόνο 19 χρόνια αφότου η σύμπραξη IG Farben / Ναζί είχε προκαλέσει το θάνατο 60 εκατομμυρίων ανθρώπων και κατέστρεψε το ήμισυ της Ευρώπης κατά τη διάρκεια του Β ‘Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου , προσπαθούν και πάλι. Η Τρίτη προσπάθεια τους να κατακτήσουν την Ευρώπη δεν θα πραγματοποιηθεί με στρατιωτικές στολές, αλλά στα γκρι κοστούμια των επιχειρήσεων και των πολιτικών φορέων της σύμπραξης.
Πώς ήταν δυνατόν ο Hallstein, δημιουργός των ρατσιστικών νόμων της Νυρεμβέργης , να γίνει ο « πατέρας »της ΕΕ “;
Γιατί οι πολιτικοί της Ευρώπης , στη συνέχεια δεν ενημερώνουν τους πολίτες για αυτά τα λείψανα από το ναζιστικό παρελθόν; Γιατί δεν μποϊκοτάρουν την ΕΕ τότε;
Πόσα χρήματα οι διάδοχοι της IG Farben πρέπει να διοχετεύσαν μέσω των τραπεζικών λογαριασμών των “ Βρυξελλών της ΕΕ »για να αγοράσουν τη σιωπή της υπόλοιπης Ευρώπης για περισσότερο από μισό αιώνα;
Και, πώς είναι δυνατόν οι πολιτικοί της Ευρώπης σήμερα να προσπαθούν να παρουσιάζουν στους πολίτες αυτό το κατασκεύασμα της ΕΕ ως βάση για μια μελλοντική Ευρώπη?
ΝΤΟΚΟΥΜΕΝΤΟ:
Η μυστική αναφορά του σχεδίου ανόρθωσης των ναζί μέσω της… ΕΕ!
Αναρτήθηκε από τον/την olympiada στο Απριλίου 29, 2013
ΤΟ ΠΕΡΙΒΟΗΤΟ RED HOUSE REPORT. Πως το ναζιστικό χρήμα φυγαδεύτηκε στην Αμερική, έφτιαξε τα “δημοκρατικά κινήματα” τύπου ΓΑΠ και επανήλθε στην Ευρώπη από την πίσω πόρτα.
Γερμανοί βιομήχανοι (ναι, σαν αυτούς που βράβευαν τον Παπανδρέου) και ανώτατα στελέχη των ναζί.
Revealed: The secret report that shows how the Nazis planned a Fourth Reich ...in the EUBy Adam Lebor
UPDATED: 21:30 GMT, 9 May 2009
The paper is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters slowly fading. But US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the day it was written in November 1944.
The document, also known as the Red House Report, is a detailed account of a secret meeting at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944. There, Nazi officials ordered an elite group of German industrialists to plan for Germany's post-war recovery, prepare for the Nazis' return to power and work for a 'strong German empire'. In other words: the Fourth Reich.
Plotters: SS chief Heinrich Himmler with Max Faust, engineer with Nazi-backed company I. G. FarbenThe three-page, closely typed report, marked 'Secret', copied to British officials and sent by air pouch to Cordell Hull, the US Secretary of State, detailed how the industrialists were to work with the Nazi Party to rebuild Germany's economy by sending money through Switzerland.
They would set up a network of secret front companies abroad. They would wait until conditions were right. And then they would take over Germany again.
The industrialists included representatives of Volkswagen, Krupp and Messerschmitt. Officials from the Navy and Ministry of Armaments were also at the meeting and, with incredible foresight, they decided together that the Fourth German Reich, unlike its predecessor, would be an economic rather than a military empire - but not just German.
The Red House Report, which was unearthed from US intelligence files, was the inspiration for my thriller The Budapest Protocol.
The book opens in 1944 as the Red Army advances on the besieged city, then jumps to the present day, during the election campaign for the first president of Europe. The European Union superstate is revealed as a front for a sinister conspiracy, one rooted in the last days of the Second World War.
But as I researched and wrote the novel, I realised that some of the Red House Report had become fact.
Nazi Germany did export massive amounts of capital through neutral countries. German businesses did set up a network of front companies abroad. The German economy did soon recover after 1945.
The Third Reich was defeated militarily, but powerful Nazi-era bankers, industrialists and civil servants, reborn as democrats, soon prospered in the new West Germany. There they worked for a new cause: European economic and political integration.
Is it possible that the Fourth Reich those Nazi industrialists foresaw has, in some part at least, come to pass?
The Red House Report was written by a French spy who was at the meeting in Strasbourg in 1944 - and it paints an extraordinary picture.
The industrialists gathered at the Maison Rouge Hotel waited expectantly as SS Obergruppenfuhrer Dr Scheid began the meeting. Scheid held one of the highest ranks in the SS, equivalent to Lieutenant General. He cut an imposing figure in his tailored grey-green uniform and high, peaked cap with silver braiding. Guards were posted outside and the room had been searched for microphones.
Death camp: Auschwitz, where tens of thousands of slave labourers died working in a factory run by German firm I. G. FarbenThere was a sharp intake of breath as he began to speak. German industry must realise that the war cannot be won, he declared. 'It must take steps in preparation for a post-war commercial campaign.' Such defeatist talk was treasonous - enough to earn a visit to the Gestapo's cellars, followed by a one-way trip to a concentration camp.
But Scheid had been given special licence to speak the truth – the future of the Reich was at stake. He ordered the industrialists to 'make contacts and alliances with foreign firms, but this must be done individually and without attracting any suspicion'.
The industrialists were to borrow substantial sums from foreign countries after the war.
They were especially to exploit the finances of those German firms that had already been used as fronts for economic penetration abroad, said Scheid, citing the American partners of the steel giant Krupp as well as Zeiss, Leica and the Hamburg-America Line shipping company.
But as most of the industrialists left the meeting, a handful were beckoned into another smaller gathering, presided over by Dr Bosse of the Armaments Ministry. There were secrets to be shared with the elite of the elite.
Bosse explained how, even though the Nazi Party had informed the industrialists that the war was lost, resistance against the Allies would continue until a guarantee of German unity could be obtained. He then laid out the secret three-stage strategy for the Fourth Reich.
In stage one, the industrialists were to 'prepare themselves to finance the Nazi Party, which would be forced to go underground as a Maquis', using the term for the French resistance.
Stage two would see the government allocating large sums to German industrialists to establish a 'secure post-war foundation in foreign countries', while 'existing financial reserves must be placed at the disposal of the party so that a strong German empire can be created after the defeat'.
In stage three, German businesses would set up a 'sleeper' network of agents abroad through front companies, which were to be covers for military research and intelligence, until the Nazis returned to power.
'The existence of these is to be known only by very few people in each industry and by chiefs of the Nazi Party,' Bosse announced.
'Each office will have a liaison agent with the party. As soon as the party becomes strong enough to re-establish its control over Germany, the industrialists will be paid for their effort and co-operation by concessions and orders.'
Extraordinary revelations: The 1944 Red House Report, detailing 'plans of German industrialists to engage in underground activity'The exported funds were to be channelled through two banks in Zurich, or via agencies in Switzerland which bought property in Switzerland for German concerns, for a five per cent commission.
The Nazis had been covertly sending funds through neutral countries for years.
Swiss banks, in particular the Swiss National Bank, accepted gold looted from the treasuries of Nazi-occupied countries. They accepted assets and property titles taken from Jewish businessmen in Germany and occupied countries, and supplied the foreign currency that the Nazis needed to buy vital war materials.
Swiss economic collaboration with the Nazis had been closely monitored by Allied intelligence.
The Red House Report's author notes: 'Previously, exports of capital by German industrialists to neutral countries had to be accomplished rather surreptitiously and by means of special influence.
'Now the Nazi Party stands behind the industrialists and urges them to save themselves by getting funds outside Germany and at the same time advance the party's plans for its post-war operations.'
The order to export foreign capital was technically illegal in Nazi Germany, but by the summer of 1944 the law did not matter.
More than two months after D-Day, the Nazis were being squeezed by the Allies from the west and the Soviets from the east. Hitler had been badly wounded in an assassination attempt. The Nazi leadership was nervous, fractious and quarrelling.
During the war years the SS had built up a gigantic economic empire, based on plunder and murder, and they planned to keep it.
A meeting such as that at the Maison Rouge would need the protection of the SS, according to Dr Adam Tooze of Cambridge University, author of Wages of Destruction: The Making And Breaking Of The Nazi Economy.
He says: 'By 1944 any discussion of post-war planning was banned. It was extremely dangerous to do that in public. But the SS was thinking in the long-term. If you are trying to establish a workable coalition after the war, the only safe place to do it is under the auspices of the apparatus of terror.'
Shrewd SS leaders such as Otto Ohlendorf were already thinking ahead.
As commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which operated on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1942, Ohlendorf was responsible for the murder of 90,000 men, women and children.
A highly educated, intelligent lawyer and economist, Ohlendorf showed great concern for the psychological welfare of his extermination squad's gunmen: he ordered that several of them should fire simultaneously at their victims, so as to avoid any feelings of personal responsibility.
By the winter of 1943 he was transferred to the Ministry of Economics. Ohlendorf's ostensible job was focusing on export trade, but his real priority was preserving the SS's massive pan-European economic empire after Germany's defeat.
Ohlendorf, who was later hanged at Nuremberg, took particular interest in the work of a German economist called Ludwig Erhard. Erhard had written a lengthy manuscript on the transition to a post-war economy after Germany's defeat. This was dangerous, especially as his name had been mentioned in connection with resistance groups.
But Ohlendorf, who was also chief of the SD, the Nazi domestic security service, protected Erhard as he agreed with his views on stabilising the post-war German economy. Ohlendorf himself was protected by Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS.
Ohlendorf and Erhard feared a bout of hyper-inflation, such as the one that had destroyed the German economy in the Twenties. Such a catastrophe would render the SS's economic empire almost worthless.
The two men agreed that the post-war priority was rapid monetary stabilisation through a stable currency unit, but they realised this would have to be enforced by a friendly occupying power, as no post-war German state would have enough legitimacy to introduce a currency that would have any value.
That unit would become the Deutschmark, which was introduced in 1948. It was an astonishing success and it kick-started the German economy. With a stable currency, Germany was once again an attractive trading partner.
The German industrial conglomerates could rapidly rebuild their economic empires across Europe.
War had been extraordinarily profitable for the German economy. By 1948 - despite six years of conflict, Allied bombing and post-war reparations payments - the capital stock of assets such as equipment and buildings was larger than in 1936, thanks mainly to the armaments boom.
Erhard pondered how German industry could expand its reach across the shattered European continent. The answer was through supranationalism - the voluntary surrender of national sovereignty to an international body.
Germany and France were the drivers behind the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the precursor to the European Union. The ECSC was the first supranational organisation, established in April 1951 by six European states. It created a common market for coal and steel which it regulated. This set a vital precedent for the steady erosion of national sovereignty, a process that continues today.
But before the common market could be set up, the Nazi industrialists had to be pardoned, and Nazi bankers and officials reintegrated. In 1957, John J. McCloy, the American High Commissioner for Germany, issued an amnesty for industrialists convicted of war crimes.
The two most powerful Nazi industrialists, Alfried Krupp of Krupp Industries and Friedrich Flick, whose Flick Group eventually owned a 40 per cent stake in Daimler-Benz, were released from prison after serving barely three years.
Krupp and Flick had been central figures in the Nazi economy. Their companies used slave labourers like cattle, to be worked to death.
The Krupp company soon became one of Europe's leading industrial combines.
The Flick Group also quickly built up a new pan-European business empire. Friedrich Flick remained unrepentant about his wartime record and refused to pay a single Deutschmark in compensation until his death in July 1972 at the age of 90, when he left a fortune of more than $1billion, the equivalent of £400million at the time.
'For many leading industrial figures close to the Nazi regime, Europe became a cover for pursuing German national interests after the defeat of Hitler,' says historian Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, an adviser to Jewish former slave labourers.
'The continuity of the economy of Germany and the economies of post-war Europe is striking. Some of the leading figures in the Nazi economy became leading builders of the European Union.'
Numerous household names had exploited slave and forced labourers including BMW, Siemens and Volkswagen, which produced munitions and the V1 rocket.
Slave labour was an integral part of the Nazi war machine. Many concentration camps were attached to dedicated factories where company officials worked hand-in-hand with the SS officers overseeing the camps.
Like Krupp and Flick, Hermann Abs, post-war Germany's most powerful banker, had prospered in the Third Reich. Dapper, elegant and diplomatic, Abs joined the board of Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, in 1937. As the Nazi empire expanded, Deutsche Bank enthusiastically 'Aryanised' Austrian and Czechoslovak banks that were owned by Jews.
By 1942, Abs held 40 directorships, a quarter of which were in countries occupied by the Nazis. Many of these Aryanised companies used slave labour and by 1943 Deutsche Bank's wealth had quadrupled.
Abs also sat on the supervisory board of I.G. Farben, as Deutsche Bank's representative. I.G. Farben was one of Nazi Germany's most powerful companies, formed out of a union of BASF, Bayer, Hoechst and subsidiaries in the Twenties.
It was so deeply entwined with the SS and the Nazis that it ran its own slave labour camp at Auschwitz, known as Auschwitz III, where tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners died producing artificial rubber.
When they could work no longer, or were verbraucht (used up) in the Nazis' chilling term, they were moved to Birkenau. There they were gassed using Zyklon B, the patent for which was owned by I.G. Farben.
But like all good businessmen, I.G. Farben's bosses hedged their bets.
During the war the company had financed Ludwig Erhard's research. After the war, 24 I.G. Farben executives were indicted for war crimes over Auschwitz III - but only twelve of the 24 were found guilty and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one-and-a-half to eight years. I.G. Farben got away with mass murder.
Abs was one of the most important figures in Germany's post-war reconstruction. It was largely thanks to him that, just as the Red House Report exhorted, a 'strong German empire' was indeed rebuilt, one which formed the basis of today's European Union.
Abs was put in charge of allocating Marshall Aid - reconstruction funds - to German industry. By 1948 he was effectively managing Germany's economic recovery.
Crucially, Abs was also a member of the European League for Economic Co-operation, an elite intellectual pressure group set up in 1946. The league was dedicated to the establishment of a common market, the precursor of the European Union.
Its members included industrialists and financiers and it developed policies that are strikingly familiar today - on monetary integration and common transport, energy and welfare systems.
When Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of West Germany, took power in 1949, Abs was his most important financial adviser.
Behind the scenes Abs was working hard for Deutsche Bank to be allowed to reconstitute itself after decentralisation. In 1957 he succeeded and he returned to his former employer.
That same year the six members of the ECSC signed the Treaty of Rome, which set up the European Economic Community. The treaty further liberalised trade and established increasingly powerful supranational institutions including the European Parliament and European Commission.
Like Abs, Ludwig Erhard flourished in post-war Germany. Adenauer made Erhard Germany's first post-war economics minister. In 1963 Erhard succeeded Adenauer as Chancellor for three years.
But the German economic miracle – so vital to the idea of a new Europe - was built on mass murder. The number of slave and forced labourers who died while employed by German companies in the Nazi era was 2,700,000.
Some sporadic compensation payments were made but German industry agreed a conclusive, global settlement only in 2000, with a £3billion compensation fund. There was no admission of legal liability and the individual compensation was paltry.
A slave labourer would receive 15,000 Deutschmarks (about £5,000), a forced labourer 5,000 (about £1,600). Any claimant accepting the deal had to undertake not to launch any further legal action.
To put this sum of money into perspective, in 2001 Volkswagen alone made profits of £1.8billion.
Next month, 27 European Union member states vote in the biggest transnational election in history. Europe now enjoys peace and stability. Germany is a democracy, once again home to a substantial Jewish community. The Holocaust is seared into national memory.
But the Red House Report is a bridge from a sunny present to a dark past. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief, once said: 'In 50 years' time nobody will think of nation states.'
For now, the nation state endures. But these three typewritten pages are a reminder that today's drive towards a European federal state is inexorably tangled up with the plans of the SS and German industrialists for a Fourth Reich - an economic rather than military imperium.
• The Budapest Protocol, Adam LeBor's thriller inspired by the Red House Report, is published by Reportage Press.
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