Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Individual Liberties unmolested by abuse and tyrrany-what if von Stauffenberg had succeeded?

Recently I began reading Alex Constantine's "Virtual Government" after I had found some information on the Fourth Reich. I'd known of Hartrich's "Fourth and Richest Reich", a very cheerleader OP Mockingbird book published based on his European Bureau desk work for WSJ or Newsweek, or something like that after WW2, after the Third Reich transitioned its war effort into the commercial war with Bormann's and probably the Rockefellers' plans under the "Fourth Reich".

Last weekend 1 apr 11, I watched "Valkyrie" (and two weeks ago, "Inglorious Basterds" and "Patton"; Schaffner was an F&M grad). That weekend after seeing Valkyrie, while reflecting on von Stauffenberg's effort to liberate Germany from the Nazis and their counterfeit of the Teuton 'soul' of Germany, it occurred to me that the nazis didn't have an honor code nor any breeding whereas von Stauffenberg and his group did. The character despised what the Nazis were doing, also despised the camps and the secret police, et al and wanted to shut down the camps and imprison the Gestapo and SS.

And he was a great loss to them; executing him however also left us the the overbearing, bastard side of Germany, rather than the leadership that best or bettered Germany to itself and the World. What now is exists, lurks, looks for what can benefit it from sucker punches, conceit.

I also realized that had von Stauffenberg been successful, the Fourth Reich would not have happened. Germany would have been de-nazified which if one remembers at the end of "Patton" when they ask him why didnt he denazify his quandrant. Apparently however that wasn't done and in the US we also sanctuaried many high level nazis other than their scientists. Sadly others like Wilhelm Reich was holed up in the US Department of Agriculture and off'd at an early age just after the war. His "Mass Psychology of Fascism" is an insightful read to grasp what happened in Germany as well as what was and would happen in the US after we disgraced ourselves by partnering and making a home for mass murderers and sociopaths. Today we've got this problem and if one had listened carefully to the Bush 2 admin or even some of Obama, you will realize what you're hearing.

The world would be and would have been after that war, very different. We would not have had the cia, the nsa, the coldwar, perhaps the british would still have its 'empire', there would not have been the coldwar and 'Warsaw Pact'; and those countries would not have been Soviet satellites. The central banks would not have the power they do, except for Rockefeller and his interests, but there wouldnt even have been 911 and 'Global war on 'terror' ' if people understand the difference between von Stauffenberg, his group, the Germany they wanted and the Fourth Reich of Bormann, et al that we have today and had after the loss of von Stauffenberg and their effort, the Third and Fourth Reich's control of Germany, Europe, Great Britain and actually de facto the world.

We would have had no cold war, no global war on terror which is another money maker after the 'cold war' sort of stopped. We also may not have had the directed energy-'nonlethal' weapons, and perhaps also not the nuclear bomb and other nuclear weaponry. But there also wouldn't be this US and I also suspect German and possibly if no israel then no mossad, intelligence apparatus that has been a 5th column for international fourth reich interests, nor their desperation to self immolate the US, stomp, trample and pathologically defer or enfranchise that maggotry - society driven by lust and fear and often is mediocre, and awarding a business school named after the father of 'planned obsolescence'. Now this would be disgraceful and a form of treason if the founders were alive. We would still have Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, a better economy and healthier commerce, no 'free' (non-tariff'd) trade agreements including NAFTA, no 'fast track' no "trade promotion authority' no PNTR with the PRC, less wealth stratification in the hands of a few and it would be more broadly distributed among the many; less power of the m aggotry their lusts and fears...

In the US we would not have the degree of insidious corporate colonial/neo-feudal problems that we do and the german footprint would have remained in its former self, perhaps divided to suit the fury of the russians, but there wouldn't not have been the internationalization of national socialism, perhaps no israel (although the 'holocaust' hysteria still would have been pumped up by the balance of zionist/international jewry that had wanted an israel) and also probably no bormann having secured 3rd reich war spoils and corporations in neutral countries veiled behind corporate shells.

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3 April 2011



Dear Sirs,


A little 'late' after its original release, this weekend I saw the DVD of "Valkyrie", which I though was well done.

Your particular description of the mysterious, inner soul of some of Teuton Germany also was very well done and helped with some nuances that some movie viewers may not have understood about that movie, that period of time in Germany and Germans such as Schenk von Stauffenberg and that group with him.

My take away on the movie, and what occurred to me also after reading your 'review' of sorts below, was that the Nazis counterfeited that Teuton soul and attempted to exploit it. Hitler and those of his inner circle, Bormann, etc had no breeding, no Honor code like von Stauffenberg and the men with him in their strong desire to the death to bring about, and in their minds if not restore, but have the Germany that they thought they'd had or had wanted to have. That was not the international nazi/Fourth Reich that we see today. Notice there wasn't a Bormann among those men; none of the commercial sorts except for perhaps Fromm on the political side of the military were in the group with von Stauffenberg.

The differences between that of the 'Third Reich' which transitioned into the Fourth Reich and what we understood in "Valkyrie" are so dramatic that today we would not have the problems we do if von Stauffenberg and his group had been successful.

He was a man not bitten with a bastard spirit/curse of the bastard that is characteristic of the much of Germany and the Nazis - that lust/greed, 'fear', delusions, occult worship, and pathology that characterizes the Hitler, Himmler, Bormann that type and that clique that had commercial interests of some magnitude in Germany such as IG Farben, in the neutral countries and with the west - with the sorts like Rockefeller, duPont, IBM. Without the Fourth Reich, we would not have had and have the 'coldwar'/Global-War-on-'Terror', CIA, the NSA, the G20, the international problems, the 'terrorism', the disruptions in society, the inflate/collapse economic problems, the aggressive 'free' (nontariff'd) trade such as NAFTA, et al. On the minds and wallets of the voters, neo-feudal, International national/'corporate' socialism went on the road facilitated by the Reinhard Gelhand-SS/Gestapo-US Government/Rockefeller joint venture of the CIA/NSA and perhaps even the Mossad.

With Roosevelt who would have lived longer - they'd off'd Roosevelt - the Soviets and Stalin may not have had the Warsaw pact and those countries may not have been given for Soviet satellites, except by the time von Stauffenberg and his group were successful, the Germans already had lost in the long Russian winter and the Russians were looking for their pound of flesh/war spoil. The British may still have had their 'Crown' colonies.

There would not have been a '911'. Even the commercial sorts with Bormann, those knew that they were going to loose the war, but convincing delusional, demon minded Hitler and those around him was another matter. Again, our world, Europe, the US, the UK, the civilized west would be vastly different had there been success by von Stauffenberg and his effort to liberate Germany from the pathological thieves, bastards and bankers.

Please if you quote me and/or use what I've observed, please quote me. I am an established bank/financial sector analyst in the US. I have some profile on financial, economic-commercial and political matters.

In order to really understand what was happening in the US and with our commerce and economy, it was important to understand international agreements in which the US had some commitment and need to break. By the Grace of God, the G20 agreements and insights about them were brought across my path.

My colleague, Joan Veon (http://www.womensgroup.org/ ; "Prince Charles, The Sustainable Prince", "UN Global Straight Jacket" ) recently was passed away. She was what some would consider an expert on global government and the G20 agreements, however I am not certain what she understood about the Fourth Reich and the way the world is today by the influence of the Fourth Reich.

Respectfully,

Andrea Psoras


Secret Germany

As Valkyrie, a new film about the plot to kill Hitler in 1944, is released, Justin Cartwright looks at the soldier at the centre of the coup and his vision for his country had it succeeded


Justin Cartwright /The Guardian, /Saturday 10 January 2009

In the film Valkyrie, Tom Cruise plays Colonel Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, the man who, on 20 July 1944, placed a bomb next to Hitler in his east Prussian headquarters, the Wolf's Lair. The bomb failed to kill Hitler, merely blowing his trousers to ribbons. That night, when the coup was seen to have failed, Stauffenberg was shot in the courtyard of the army headquarters in Berlin on the orders of General Fromm, his superior, who was in on the plot and hoped - in vain - to save himself. Sandbags were piled in the courtyard and the lights of staff cars illuminated the victims. Von Haeften, his aide, threw himself in front of Stauffenberg. He and two others were also shot that night and their bodies quickly buried. Stauffenberg died with the words "Long live our sacred Germany" on his lips, or perhaps - some heard - "Long live our secret Germany". In German, there is even less difference between the words "sacred" and "secret" than there is in English.

Valkyrie Production year: 2008

Country: USA Cert (UK): 12A

Runtime: 120 mins Directors: Bryan Singer

Cast: Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Eddie Izzard, Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Tom Cruise, Tom Wilkinson

The producers of Valkyrie have muffled his last words; the story behind secret Germany does not figure in their script, but they were clearly aware of its significance. Within a few weeks, 80 plotters had been executed in Plötzensee prison by slow strangulation, hung from meathooks; in all, at least 3,000 were killed and many children, including Stauffenberg's, were taken from their families and placed in orphanages.

Many of those executed were from Germany's most distinguished families, people who, like Stauffenberg, were appalled by the direction Germany had taken, both in relation to the Jews and to the disastrous war in the east. The film is true to most of the facts of the plot, but fails to convey any sense of the catastrophic moral and political vortex into which Germans were being drawn. Nor does it give much sense of the immense charisma of Stauffenberg, to whom generals and politicians deferred and who had for some time been tipped as a future chief of staff.

A revealing private memoir I was given, which describes a visit shortly before the bomb plot by Stauffenberg to one of the other resister's houses, suggests that the female staff were sent into paroxysms of adoration by the wounded hero.

And the film gives no indication at all of Stauffenberg's background and philosophy: he fitted perfectly into the German tradition of Dichter und Helden, poets and heroes. For a start, he looked the part, tall with classical features; he was often compared to a medieval statue of a knight in the cathedral at Bamberg, his home town, and his wedding in this cathedral in 1933 to Nina von Lerchenfeld was a huge social event. Even Hitler believed that Stauffenberg was the embodiment of a German hero. So when the generals failed in their plots against Hitler - there were as many as 15 of them - someone was needed to head the disparate but substantial resistance, which extended from the army into the Foreign Office, the secret services and to important clerics and trade unionists.

Stauffenberg was persuaded by his uncle, Nikolaus Graf von Üxküll, long disenchanted with the Nazis, that he should lead the movement. It seemed that he was the man who unmistakably wore the mantle of a near-mystic German past, a warrior Germany, a noble Germany, a poetic Germany, a Germany of myth and longing.

There is nothing in the script or in Cruise's performance that explores these particularly German preoccupations. At times Cruise looks and sounds like the troublesome cop who has been given a tricky assignment, with 24 hours to get the bad guy before he has to hand in his badge: the assassination attempt is treated as a thriller.

It lacks the intelligent understanding that Florian von Donnersmarck brought to The Lives of Others (2006), as people from different backgrounds, and with wildly different ideas of what Germany should become, tried to work together. Stauffenberg's stroke of genius was to subvert the emergency plan for defending Berlin against insurrection, Valkyrie, into a plan for a putsch after Hitler had been killed. As Hitler became more paranoid, it seemed that Stauffenberg was the only one who had both the access and the resolve to kill him. He was fully aware that the chances of success were slim, but he felt that he needed to demonstrate to the world that there was a better Germany - what he thought of as secret Germany - and perhaps that he was the agent of history.

When I was writing my book The Song Before it is Sung, about a conspirator in the bomb plot, I was puzzled for some time that the British refused to trust the various overtures from the resistance in Germany. Stauffenberg was a close friend and confidant of Adam von Trott, the Rhodes scholar who was also deeply involved in the resistance and executed a few weeks after the July plot.

I also pondered the question of why Trott's friend at Oxford, Isaiah Berlin, a magnanimous and generous man, came to distrust him, and I wondered why, 30 years later, he wrote in a letter to Shiela Grant Duff, who knew them both well, saying that Trott was no hero and "not on our side".

What he saw, I think, is that in ideas of a mythic German past, and in the belief in a historical destiny, lay the genesis of Nazism. The idea of a noble Germany, uncorrupted by racial inferiors and alien philosophies, a Germany that would be led by a world figure, was not invented by Hitler. Long before he came along, the simple word Führer - leader - had been turned into something messianic, and I think Berlin knew where the blame lay. During their walks and discussions in Oxford, Berlin often said to Trott that when he was at a loss, he turned to Hegel. Hegel believed, essentially, that history had a forward motion to a point where all contradictions would be resolved.

It is ironic that Stauffenberg's son should have been contemptuous of the notion of Tom Cruise playing his father, on the grounds that he is a cultist, because Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg and his two brothers, Berthold and Alexander, were themselves members of a cult that formed around a mythical secret Germany; their master was the poet Stefan George. George is a sinister figure, but in an American newspaper article of the 1920s he was rated one of the most important men in the world. Hardly remembered and little read today, he was a poet who rivalled Hölderlin and Schiller in his fame.

The Stauffenberg family had held the title of "Schenk", which meant "cup-bearer", since the 13th century, an honour bestowed on them by the Hohenstaufens, the legendary monarchical family of Swabia who also ruled Sicily in the middle ages. At the time of Stauffenberg's birth in 1907, his family was to be found at the Altes Schloss in Stuttgart, in the service of the Württemberg monarchy.

The Stauffenbergs were a family steeped in tradition, highly cultured, highly regarded. It was hardly surprising that Stefan George welcomed these good-looking and aristocratic brothers into his circle. This may in part have been because of the homoerotic element in his movement, but it was also because the Stauffenbergs represented everything George felt had been lost in Germany - the medieval greatness of the Hohenstaufen Friedrich II and the warrior qualities of the Teutonic Knights.

Poetry was to lead the way back to greatness, and George was Germany's poet; he and his disciples propagated the notion of a unique German-ness, Deutschtum, which was traced back to Friedrich II. Members of the George circle were subject to some bizarre rules. Only Claus von Stauffenberg kept his own name, presumably because of its flattering historical resonances. His brother Berthold was told not to marry the woman he loved, and he obeyed, at least until George was dead. But even after the war, the surviving brother, Alexander, eulogised George as the spokesman of something uniquely German.

Göring revered him too, and after the Nazi takeover of 1933 wanted to instate him as the head of an academy of poetry. George replied that he had for a long time been the leader of German poetry, and didn't need an academy. His circle had many Jewish members, but his views became broadly antisemitic as the Nazis became more important.

None the less, he fled to Switzerland and died before it was completely clear where he stood on national socialism. The Stauffenberg brothers were made George's heirs, and after his death tended his grave in Switzerland and continued to organise candlelit readings of his poetry. As the war progressed, Stauffenberg enjoyed a rapid rise in the army. He was at first enthusiastic about military successes on the eastern front, but had for some time been deeply alarmed by Hitler: Kristallnacht had disgusted him, particularly as his brother was married to someone of Jewish descent. He quickly became aware that the SS, the SD and the Gestapo were creating a lasting legacy of hatred that would one day be avenged.

He began to seek out like-minded officers and spoke at times quite openly about his fears for Germany and the army. Sometimes he recited George's poem "The Antichrist" to support his argument. As the advance east was halted, it became more urgent to end the war with at least something of Germany intact. Stauffenberg had particular cause for alarm: he was in charge of logistics for the 10th Panzers and knew that for every thousand casualties, only 300 replacements could be found - disaster was inevitable.

At the same time he found himself increasingly appalled by the indiscriminate killing of Jews, Slavs and Russian prisoners, and by the SS battalions' unbridled lust for murder, which was having a corrupting effect on the army too. He often ignored or changed orders: he managed to thwart an order that all Russian prisoners should be tattooed on their buttocks. After Stalingrad, his outspokenness caused some of his superiors to decide that he should be sent to north Africa, which was relatively free of the SS. There he was severely wounded, losing part of his right arm, one eye and two fingers on his left hand.

Through determination he made a dramatic recovery and found himself second in command of the home army in Berlin, under General Fromm, and was also appointed to the general staff, which gave him access to Hitler. After his first visit to the Berghof, he described the atmosphere there as "stale, paralysing, rotten and degenerate". A few months later, he primed the bomb with the three fingers of his left hand and placed it beside Hitler.

The question the film does not raise is what kind of Germany Stauffenberg envisaged had the coup succeeded, which in all probability it would have, had Hitler been killed. Stefan George's poem "Secret Germany" was the inspiration for Stauffenberg's oath of mutual intent for the conspirators, which was typed by his brother Berthold's secretary: We want a new order which makes all Germans responsible for the state and guarantees them law and justice; but we despise the lie that all are equal and we submit to rank ordained by nature. We want a people with roots in their native land, close to the powers of nature, finding happiness and contentment in the given environment, and overcoming, in freedom and pride, the base instincts of envy and jealousy. We want leaders who ... are in harmony with the divine powers and set an example to others by their noble spirit, discipline and sacrifice.

When Stauffenberg's body was burned, a ring was lost with it. Engraved on it were the words FINIS INITIUM, which is drawn from another of George's poems with the final line "I am the end and the beginning".

This wasn't the Germany that the allies had in mind.

• Valkyrie (12A) is released on 23 January