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This pro­gram high­lights the devel­op­ment of fas­cism around the world and over the decades. Begin­ning with revi­sion­ist his­tory of the Bat­tle of Britain, the pro­gram exam­ines a novel inter­pre­ta­tion of that event by Adolph Gal­land (in charge of Ger­man fighter air­craft dur­ing World War II.) (York­shire Post; 9/11/2000; www.ypn.co.uk/archive.)

1. Gal­land con­tends that Hitler had already decided against invad­ing Britain before the engage­ment took place and that the Ger­man Mescher­mitt 109 air­craft was supe­rior to the British Spit­fire. (Idem.)

2. At vari­ance with the facts, Galland’s view is char­ac­ter­is­tic of pro-fascist revi­sion­ism cur­rently gain­ing dis­tri­b­u­tion. Galland’s views were writ­ten down in the imme­di­ate after­math of the war (when he was serv­ing as an aide to Argen­tin­ian pres­i­dent Juan Peron), but not pub­lished in Eng­lish until recently.

3. Next, the broad­cast details the ordeal of a for­mer under­cover agent for the Bun­deswehr (Ger­man armed forces). Assigned to infil­trate the Nazi Nation­al­ist Front (“NF”), the soldier’s supe­ri­ors have not pro­tected him from pos­si­ble ret­ri­bu­tion. (Der Tagesspiegel Online; 8/19/2000; cryptome.org; trans­la­tion by Cryptome.)

4. Because a sec­re­tary for a Bun­deswehr brigade com­man­der worked for the NF, “Michael P” was viewed as pos­si­bly being in dan­ger. (Idem.)

5. When assigned to the United States, Michael was dis­turbed to see a swastika-adorned pho­to­graph adorn­ing the wall of an offi­cer who was work­ing as a liai­son offi­cer with the United States Army. (Idem.)

6. That offi­cer was Lieu­tenant Colonel Guen­ther Gud­er­ian and the pic­ture was that of his grand­fa­ther, Gen­eral Heinz Gud­er­ian (one of the Wehrmacht’s top com­man­ders under Hitler.) (Idem.)

7. Gud­er­ian had posted the pic­ture on the wall of his office in Fort Bragg, North Car­olina. (Idem.)

8. Gen­eral Gud­er­ian was a prin­ci­pal tar­get of recruit­ment by the U.S. in the post-war period. (Dreamer of the Day: Fran­cis Parker Yockey and the Post­war Fas­cist Inter­na­tional; Autono­me­dia; copy­right 1999; ISBN 1–57027-039–2; pp. 393–394.)

9. Because of his sta­tus as a Third Reich mil­i­tary hero, Guderian’s alle­giance was seen as a bul­wark against the pos­si­bil­ity that Ger­many might pur­sue a neu­tral­ist (or even pro-Soviet) stance dur­ing the Cold War. (Ibid.; p. 393.)

10. Next, the pro­gram high­lights the recent death of Alek­san­dras Lileikis in Lithua­nia. The head of the Lithuan­ian secu­rity police dur­ing the Nazi occu­pa­tion, Lileikis was viewed as a war crim­i­nal for his role in the liq­ui­da­tion of Lithuan­ian Jewry, and was sought for many years after the war. (Los Ange­les Times; 9/28/2000; p. A5.)

11. Like so many Third Reich col­lab­o­ra­tors, Lileikis was able to elude cap­ture, in part, because of the assis­tance he received from the United States. (Idem.)

12. Like many East­ern Euro­pean fas­cists, Lileikis was given sanc­tu­ary in the U.S. (Idem.)

13. Much of the sec­ond half of the pro­gram focuses on Jörg Haider in Aus­tria. Despite hav­ing for­mally resigned as head of the Free­dom Party, Haider appears to be the actual “power behind the throne” in the Aus­trian gov­ern­ment. (San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle; 9/27/2000; pp. 14–16.)

14. In that con­text, it should be noted that the EU recently lifted sanc­tions against Aus­tria. (“EU Scraps Sanc­tions,” by Graeme Atkin­son; The Search­light; Octo­ber of 2000, #304; p. 26.)

15. Aus­trian chan­cel­lor Wolf­gang Schus­sel, in par­tic­u­lar, has begun to look and sound like a clone of Haider. (“Diplo­macy Aus­trian Style” by Karl Pfeifer; The Search­light; Octo­ber of 2000 #304; pp. 26–27.)

16. The pro­gram con­cludes with a look at “net­work­ing” among fas­cists of var­i­ous nations. Sil­vio Berlus­coni of Italy, his polit­i­cal ally Gian­franco Fini, for­mer U.S. Ambas­sador Maxwell Rabb (an old ally of Ital­ian fas­cists) and ele­ments of Israel’s far-right Likud Party have been coor­di­nat­ing their activ­i­ties. (“Inter­na­tional Fas­cist Axis” by Gerry Gable; The Search­light; Octo­ber of 2000 #304; p. 9.)

17. Berlus­coni is a for­mer mem­ber of Licio Gelli’s P-2 lodge. His asso­ciate Fini is the head of the National Alliance, the direct suc­ces­sor to Mussolini’s fas­cist party in Italy. (Recorded on 10/8/2000.)