The reverberations of the "Thousand-Year Reich" might actually be felt for that long.

[seemslikeadream]

The Chinese hired the son of Hitler's architect, Albert Speer, to create the "master plan" for their games. Yes, these games are brought to you by Albert Speer, Jr., just as the 1936 Berlin Olympics were presented by Albert Speer, Sr. You could not make this up.


http://crosscut.com/2008/08/12/mossback/16612/

Two things make it impossible to ignore the Peter Egner situation. One is the history of the unit to which he allegedly belonged, the Einsatzgruppen. These were mobile killing units — death camps on wheels — that went into Nazi occupied areas and killed Jews, Gypsies, and others. Their signature technique was the so-called "de-lousing" van, which killed their passengers with carbon monoxide pumped in from the running engine. Here's how it worked, according to Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and its Legacy by Richard L. Rubenstein and John K. Roth:


The fate of these remaining Serbian Jews was sealed when Turner requested that Berlin send a gas van to kill them. Except for Sundays, every day between March and May 1942 fifty to eighty women and children were told that they were being transported to a better camp. They were seated in the gas van and their baggage was placed in a separate truck. After a short drive the van stopped, and one of the two drivers pulled a switch that redirected the exhaust fumes into the van's interior.

Enger is alleged to have served in the Einsatzgruppen from 1941 to 1943. He is suspected of being involved in the deaths of more than 11,000 people at the Semelin concentration camp in Belgrade. The SS was so pleased with the effectiveness of their efforts in Serbia, that Turner famously bragged that "…Serbia is only country that has solved problem of the Jews and gypsies."

Another reason is that Serbia is dealing with its own more recent history of genocide as we speak. Radovan Karadzic, who gave us the term "ethnic cleansing," has been caught and sent to The Hague to be tried for war crimes. Genocide, even in Europe, is not a thing of the past. Those who carry on the traditions of the Siberian Einsatzgruppen are still around, still justifying mass murder as a mere exercise in hygiene. Many Serbian nationalists still defend Karadzic's actions. Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. envoy who negotiated an end to the Bosnian war, recently commented that Karadzic would have made a "good Nazi." Continuing to pursue cases against original Nazis is essential if we're going to hold their modern-day counterparts to account.

Some people toss around Nazi analogies freely these days, from editorialists for the Building Industry Association of Washington to Oregon anarchists like John Zerzan, who apparently coined the term "little Eichmanns" when referring to the Unabomber's victims. It was later outrageously applied by Ward Churchill to some of the "technicians" in the World Trade Center who died on 9/11.

But there's no need to stretch the definition of Nazi when there are still real Little Eichmanns around. The Nazis living today may have mostly been smaller cogs in the killing machine, but they're worth rooting out, even if it turns out they live peacefully in a Bellevue retirement co-op called Silver Glen. Remember it was SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolph Eichmann, mild mannered architect of the Final Solution, who came to personify the "banality of evil." That banality offers a great hiding place, but it's no excuse for letting evil off the hook.









http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article4913145.ece


They understood economics as a zero-sum game and looted Europe for Germany's advantage

[tom_paine]

1. I think the Bushification of Amerika is clearly a powerful aftereffect of theThird Reich.

The dots are right there and easy to connect. With well-established fact not even requiring embellishment or exaggeration

FACT: Prescott Bush and the attempted overtrow of FDR and the USA in order to bring us into alliance with Nazi Germany.

FACT: Operation Paperclip, in which CIA Members brought Nazi Criminals to the USA, gave them new IDs and helped them disappear "to help fight the Soviet Communists".

FACT: At this moment, and for the last decade or more, CIA Headquarters in Langley VA is the Geroge HW Bush Building.

(this speaks to his unquestionably long-term power and influence in that organization)

(I just had a funny thought - it may well be that, in the long-term Big Picture,that HW got a building named after him pretty much because he was the Control Officer co-ordinating the Kennedy Assassination)

[seemslikeadream]

2. unquestionably long-term power and influence

unquestionably long-term power and influence ;)