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Intro­duc­tion: Inter­roga­tory in nature, this pro­gram high­lights the Nazi fam­ily back­ground and Nazi-like affec­ta­tions of Cal­i­for­nia Guber­na­to­r­ial can­di­date Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger. Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of a body build­ing pic­ture in which Schwarzeneg­ger is giv­ing the Nazi salute, the broad­cast sets forth numer­ous accounts of Schwarzenegger’s man­i­fes­ta­tion of a Nazi/Aryan per­sona dur­ing his body­build­ing days. The dis­cus­sion also exam­ines Gus­tav Schwarzenegger’s Nazi back­ground in the Aus­trian brown-shirts, and the Third Reich’s mil­i­tary police—the lat­ter a key liai­son ele­ment with the SS mobile killing squads on the East­ern Front. (Gustav–Arnold’s father–was with a unit that was involved in some of the most bru­tal fight­ing in Rus­sia.) After exam­in­ing the strong areas of over­lap between the elder Schwarzenegger’s back­ground and the areas pro­jected as repos­i­to­ries of Third Reich post­war under­ground oper­a­tives, the broad­cast exam­ines the curi­ously large influ­ence that Gus­tav was able to exert on behalf of Arnold’s mil­i­tary career. It appears that Gus­tav may well have been more than a mere small-town police chief. Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger was a close polit­i­cal ally of and defender of Nazi war crim­i­nal Kurt Wald­heim, later elected pres­i­dent of Aus­tria. Schwarzeneg­ger has never repu­di­ated his sup­port for Wald­heim. Much of the pro­gram exam­ines the net­work­ing of Bush fam­ily ally and invest­ment adviser Allen Dulles and per­son­al­i­ties (includ­ing Ronald Rea­gan, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and William Casey) that were to become lumi­nar­ies in the Repub­li­can hier­ar­chy. All of these men were involved with the Cru­sade for Free­dom, an ille­gal CIA/State Depart­ment oper­a­tion in which Nazi and fas­cist war crim­i­nals were brought into the US for polit­i­cal pur­poses. Many even­tu­ally coa­lesced into the Repub­lic eth­nic out­reach orga­ni­za­tion. The key words and con­cepts to under­stand in the con­text of this broad­cast are net­work­ing, oli­garchy, hier­ar­chy. Is Schwarzeneg­ger asso­ci­ated with the Under­ground Reich? Was his ascen­sion real­ized through the net­work­ing of ele­ments of the Amer­i­can power elite with the Under­ground Reich?

Pro­gram High­lights Include: The Dulles milieu’s vet­ting of Schwarzenegger’s Nazi pal Wald­heim for ser­vice with the Aus­trian gov­ern­ment; Aus­trian ambas­sador Helene Von Damm’s net­work­ing with SS oper­a­tive Otto von Bolschwing and the Dulles milieu; the Third Reich’s pro­jected use of dis­abled vet­er­ans, the police, women and young girls as post­war under­ground oper­a­tives; leg­is­la­tion that has already been intro­duced that would allow Schwarzeneg­ger to run for President.

1. Begin­ning with the first thing that put Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger on Mr. Emory’s “radar screen”, the pro­gram high­lights a pic­ture from Sports Illus­trated that shows “Der Ter­mi­na­tor” giv­ing the Nazi salute. (Note that this is NOT a doc­tored pic­ture. Skep­ti­cal lis­ten­ers are emphat­i­cally encour­aged to go to a library, secure the orig­i­nal arti­cle, and dis­trib­ute it to media sources.) (“Pex Sell Tix” by Dan Geringer; Sports Illus­trated; 12/7/1987; p. 80; [the pic­ture itself is on page 84].)

2. Appar­ently, this sort of behav­ior was not unusual for Schwarzenegger.

“ . . . In Arnold: The Edu­ca­tion of a Body­builder, he wrote that he was over­whelmed by [Schwarzeneg­ger men­tor Reg] Park’s lux­u­ri­ous house, his pool, his antiques, and his ser­vants and that he felt out of place. He did, how­ever, appar­ently feel quite at home with the South African sys­tem of apartheid. Accord­ing to Rick Wayne, who is black, when they dis­cussed apartheid Arnold said he thought South Africa was right, say­ing things like ‘If you gave these blacks a coun­try to run, they would run it down the tubes.’ How­ever, Rick was accus­tomed to Arnold’s reac­tionary views and quirky ways. He and Arnold had posed together in Munich. In his book, Mus­cle Wars, a study of body­build­ing pol­i­tics, Rick recalled that after Arnold had ‘struck a pose rem­i­nis­cent of the Nazi salute,’ he received less applause from the Ger­man audi­ence than he had expected. Arnold’s response was to com­ment to Rick, ‘These peo­ple are noth­ing with­out an Aus­trian to lead them.’”

Arnold: The Unau­tho­rized Biog­ra­phy; by Wendy Leigh; Copy­right 1990 by Wendy Leigh; Con­g­don & Weed [HC]; ISBN 0–86553-216–8; pp. 68–69.

3. “A veneer of Nazism” was viewed by many Schwarzeneg­ger asso­ciates as part of Schwarzenegger’s body build­ing persona.

“ . . . On [Joe] Weider’s instruc­tions, [Art] Zeller pho­tographed Arnold con­stantly. Zeller remem­bers that from the start Arnold was ready to sac­ri­fice every­thing to achieve his goals, get­ting enough sleep and train­ing hard. Always pre­pared to admit to his defi­cien­cies and to devote him­self to elim­i­nat­ing them, Arnold imme­di­ately took pos­ing lessons from Dick Tyler. Tyler, decid­ing that Arnold mer­ited ‘heroic’ music, picked for his pos­ing rou­tine Thus Spake Zarathus­tra. Years later Tyler com­mented that if Hitler had wanted to adver­tise the Aryan ideal, Arnold would have been its per­fect representative.”

Ibid.; p. 87.

4. More about Schwarzenegger’s Nazi veneer:

“Tyler’s remarks may sound a tri­fle barbed; how­ever, since 1977 rumors have cir­cu­lated in the body­build­ing world that dur­ing the film­ing of Pump­ing Iron, the pseudo-documentary film that trans­formed him into a leg­end, Arnold said he admired Hitler. When con­tacted for a news­pa­per arti­cle in 1988, George But­ler, the pro­ducer and direc­tor of the film and still a close friend of Arnold’s today, admit­ted that dur­ing the film­ing of Pump­ing Iron Arnold def­i­nitely did say that he admired Hitler. But­ler then con­ceded that the remark was cut from the final ver­sion of the film, adding that Arnold expressed his admi­ra­tion of ‘Hitler and Kennedy in almost the same breath as peo­ple who were lead­ers.’ When asked why Arnold admired Hitler, But­ler replied that the con­text in the film was that Arnold was say­ing he had ‘always wanted to be remem­bered like the most famous peo­ple in his­tory, like Jesus and so on . . .”

Ibid.; pp. 87–88.

5. Man­fred Thel­lig had a sim­i­lar take on Schwarzenegger’s atti­tude toward the Third Reich:

“Man­fred Thel­lig, who worked with Arnold in Munich, offers a sim­i­lar inter­pre­ta­tion. Accord­ing to Thel­lig, Arnold ‘def­i­nitely admires the Teu­tonic period of the Third Reich. He just loved those left­over relics of the Third Reich in Munich—those Teu­tonic stat­ues.’ He added that Arnold would say, ‘If I had lived at that time, I would have been one of those Teu­tonic breed­ers’ but explains, ‘When­ever he opened his mouth and it sounded like ‘Oh, there is a neo-Nazi,’ this was just play­ing Tarzan. It wasn’t serious. . .’”

Ibid.; pp. 88–89.

6. Oth­ers have seen Schwarzeneg­ger “Sieg Heil”:

“There are, nev­er­the­less, wit­nesses over the years who have seen Arnold break into the ‘Sieg Heil’ salute and play his records of Hitler’s speeches. Arnold responded to this issue dur­ing a 1989 Pent­house inter­view with jour­nal­ist Sharon Churcher. Accord­ing to Churcher, a for­mer asso­ciate of Arnold’s dur­ing the sev­en­ties had heard from a mutual acquain­tance that Arnold had Nazi para­pher­na­lia in his apart­ment. Accord­ing to the asso­ciate, Arnold’s reac­tion at that time was to claim through Pump­ing Iron pro­ducer George But­ler, that his inter­est ‘was only that of a stu­dent.’ But­ler, pro­fess­ing to have for­got­ten the above exchange, says that he had never seen any Nazi para­pher­na­lia at Arnold’s house.”

Ibid.; p. 89.

7. More about the Pent­house article:

“The arti­cle goes on to quote Arnold as say­ing, ‘I totally hate the Nazi period.’ He adds, ‘When you come from a back­ground like Ger­many or Aus­tria, then you some­times are joked about and peo­ple give you some­times gifts that maybe had some­thing to do with that [Nazi] time.’ When asked if he kept any such presents, Arnold replied, ‘No. I am so much against that time period. I despise it.’”

Idem.

8. Per­haps he was not “so much against that period”!

“There is yet another pos­si­bil­ity. As one body­builder, who observed Arnold in Amer­ica doing the ‘Sieg Heil’ salute com­mented, ‘It was expected of him.’ Arnold per­son­i­fied Aryan supremacy and Ger­manic strength of will. To top that, his father had been a mem­ber of the Nazi party. Both his her­itage and his image were inescapable. Inescapable, but not inerad­i­ca­ble. Yet Arnold, far from under­play­ing his roots, embraced and adver­tised them.”

Ibid.; pp. 89–90.

9. More about the rea­son for Schwarzenegger’s Nazi affectations:

“Essen­tially always an enter­tainer, a per­former who glo­ried in sat­is­fy­ing his audi­ence, Arnold must have known that the Nazi aura sur­round­ing him did not dis­please his admir­ers. After all, the goal of many body­builders is to carve for them­selves bod­ies befit­ting a mas­ter race, and to that end power and dom­i­nance are val­ued above all. Body­build­ing jour­nal­ist Dick Tyler, who was Joe Weider’s West Coast edi­tor and who met Arnold dur­ing his first months in Amer­ica, sums up the allure of the jack­boot in body­build­ing terms: ‘I used to tell body­builders, ‘When you go out there, think of your­self as the very best. There is no other. It will come across to the audi­ence and they love it. That’s why they are there. They are sit­ting there with their skinny bod­ies and they are look­ing up at that stage—looking up at their heroes.’ They want that arro­gance, and Arnold knew this. You didn’t need to give any advice to him about being arro­gant.’ All in all, alle­ga­tions of Arnold’s veneer of Nazism prob­a­bly didn’t hurt him in the unique arena that is bodybuilding.”

Ibid.; p. 90.

10. Con­trast­ing with his later (cos­metic and politically-motivated?) efforts on behalf of the Wiesen­thal Insti­tute and the Museum of Tol­er­ance, Schwarzenegger’s views on eth­nic­ity struck some as sug­gest­ing a dif­fer­ent agenda.

“All through his gru­el­ing train­ing, Arnold kept the image of [Schwarzenegger’s black Brazil­ian rival] Serge Oliva in front of him. Black body­builder Dave DuPre, who would appear with Arnold years later in Pump­ing Iron, says Arnold declared one time while work­ing out at Gold’s. ‘Serge is your only black hope to beat me. Black peo­ple are infe­rior. You are not capa­ble of achiev­ing the suc­cess of white peo­ple. Black peo­ple are stu­pid.’ Black peo­ple weren’t the only tar­get of his venom, for as usual he was com­pletely demo­c­ra­tic in his heck­ling. Accord­ing to DuPre, ‘He would make fun of Jews. If any­body looked Jew­ish, he would point it out and tell them that they were inferior.”

Ibid.; p. 101.

11. After set­ting forth Schwarzengger’s “veneer of Nazism” dur­ing his body build­ing days, the broad­cast under­takes an exam­i­na­tion of his father’s back­ground. As will be seen, Gus­tav Schwarzenegger’s cir­cum­stances sug­gest at least the pos­si­bil­ity that he may have served as an oper­a­tive of the Under­ground Reich in Aus­tria dur­ing the post­war period. Later in the pro­gram, we will look at the degree of over­lap between Schwarzenegger’s sit­u­a­tion and some of the groups selected for post­war under­ground work.

“Doc­u­ments lodged in the Aus­trian State Archives in Vienna, only now avail­able as 30 years have elapsed since Gustav’s death, give the most detailed account yet of that role. They show that not only did he join the Nazi party but was also a mem­ber of the SA (Sturmabteilung or stormtroop­ers), the brown-shirted Nazi para­mil­i­tary wing made up of the most enthu­si­as­tic of Hitler’s followers.”

“Ter­mi­na­tor?” by Wendy Leigh; Mid Day; 3/9/2003; pp. 1–2; accessed at http://web.mid-day.com/smd/play/2003/march/46822.htm.

12. More about Gustav’s ser­vice for the Third Reich:

“After enlist­ing in the Wehrma­cht in Novem­ber 1939, he served as a sergeant major in the Feldgendarmerie—the Ger­man mil­i­tary police. His unit was attached to a Panzer group and took part in the inva­sion of Rus­sia, where he would have wit­nessed some of the most bru­tal fight­ing of the war and the mur­der of civilians . . .”

Idem.

13. Schwarzenegger’s father was taken with the Hitler mys­tique early on.

“By the end of the ‘30’s, Europe was chang­ing. Hitler had been in power in Ger­many since 1933 and was deter­mined to bring Aus­tria (his coun­try of birth) within the Ger­man Reich and there were many there who sup­ported him. Schwarzeneg­ger was cer­tainly one of them. He joined the Nazi Party when it was still illegal—on March 1, 1938, days before Hitler’s annex­a­tion of Aus­tria. In August, as Europe stood on the brink of war, he joined Feld­gen­darmerie Unit 521, formed in Vienna with the help of the Ord­nungspolizei (the Ger­man Order Police).”

Idem.

14. Schwarzenegger’s father may well have been involved in atrocities.

“His 110-man unit was first attached to the 14th Army dur­ing the inva­sion of Poland and then Hitler’s Panzer Gruppe 4, part of the Army group North, in the attack on Rus­sia. It was when Unit 521 was ordered to join up with Gen­eral Eric Hoepner’s Panzer Gruppe 4 for the attack on Rus­sia in may 1941, that Schwarzeneg­ger became involved in the most bru­tal fight­ing of the Sec­ond World War. Dur­ing the advance, the Feld­gen­darmerie was often involved in burn­ing down vil­lages and shoot­ing partisans.”

Idem.

15. It is impor­tant to note that the elder Schwarzenegger’s wartime role entailed liais­ing with the SS-controlled Ein­satz­grup­pen on the East­ern Front. As will be seen later, the Ein­satz­grup­pen and related ele­ments formed a key ele­ment of the Under­ground Reich forces recruited into US intel­li­gence and (later) the Repub­li­can Party.

“The Feld­gen­darmerie units soon earned an unen­vi­able rep­u­ta­tion for bru­tal­ity. They were so hated in Rus­sia that a bounty was put on their heads by the Sovi­ets demand­ing they be shot on sight in revenge. But there was a more sin­is­ter role for the men of the mil­i­tary police: they liaised with the Ein­satz­grup­pen, the SS forces respon­si­ble for shoot­ing par­ti­sans, Jews and Com­mu­nists and ini­ti­at­ing Hitler’s Final Solu­tion through the use of mobile gas cham­bers on spe­cially adapted lor­ries. Between June, 1941, and Jan­u­ary 31, 1942, Ein­satz­gruppe A, which was attached to Panzer Gruppe 4, was reported to have killed 2, 09, 052 Jews.”

Idem.

16. Wounded and plagued by malaria, Schwarzenegger’s com­bat role ended in August of 1942. Later in the broad­cast, we will exam­ine the role of dis­abled vet­er­ans in the Third Reich’s plans for under­ground post­war work.

“Schwarzenegger’s involve­ment in the war ended in August 22, 1942, when he was wounded. Ini­tially, he was treated in the mil­i­tary hos­pi­tal in Lodz, but accord­ing to the records he also suf­fered recur­ring bouts of malaria, which led to his dis­charge in Feb­ru­ary, 1944, when he was allowed to return to Graz.”

Idem.

17. Schwarzenegger’s mother also had strong feel­ings for Hitler. (Women were also viewed as essen­tial for post­war under­ground work by the Nazis.)

“The next record in the archives comes on Octo­ber 20, 1945, when he mar­ried Aure­lia Jadrny, a widow, in Murzsteg. Dur­ing the war, Aure­lia worked in a gov­ern­ment office, dis­pens­ing food stamps. How­ever, as mun­dane as her job may have been, she wasn’t immune to Hitler’s allure. Many years later, Arnold con­fided to a girl­friend that when Hitler marched into Aus­tria, Aure­lia was in the crowds and almost swooned.”

Idem.

18. Although the elder Schwarzeneg­ger was offi­cially cleared of direct par­tic­i­pa­tion in Nazi atroc­i­ties, it should be noted that (as we will see shortly) those Nazis selected for under­ground work were given fal­si­fied records that facil­i­tated their even­tual “sheep-dipping.”

“Dur­ing the de-Nazification of Aus­tria after the war, when Nazi sym­pa­thiz­ers were inves­ti­gated and assigned a cat­e­gory from one to five—with one rep­re­sent­ing those believed to have com­mit­ted war crimes and five for those deemed innocent—Schwarzenegger was clas­si­fied as Cat­e­gory 3, mean­ing he was incrim­i­nated by his wartime activ­i­ties though not guilty of major atroc­i­ties. He was banned from resum­ing his job in the police depart­ment. What hap­pened next is not on record, nor is the process by which he was able to resume work, but by 1948, Schwarzeneg­ger had become police chief of Thal [Ital­ics are Mr. Emory’s].”

Idem.

19. Turn­ing to exam­i­na­tion of the Third Reich’s plans for the post­war Nazi under­ground within the “Father­land” itself (of which Aus­tria was part), the pro­gram exam­ines a vitally impor­tant book from 1944 that set forth the plans for the Under­ground Reich.

“But what has not yet become known is that all this also applies to a much greater num­ber of anony­mous per­sons all over Ger­many, those on the sec­ond and third lev­els of the Nazi strata. These unknown per­son­al­i­ties may be used later by the under­ground. Party func­tionar­ies who may be known locally, but cer­tainly not nation­ally, can eas­ily be trans­ferred to another city or town, where they will sud­denly appear as anti-Nazis.”

(The Nazis Go Under­ground; by Curt Riess; Copy­right 1944 by Curt Riess; Dou­ble­day, Doran and Co., Inc. [HC]; p. 97.)

20. More about the Nazis plans for post­war, under­ground activity:

“The party helps in their mas­quer­ades. These men get new doc­u­ments which ‘prove’ that they have always been anti-Nazi. Notes are inserted in their per­sonal files say­ing they must be watched on account of their anti-Hitler atti­tudes and ‘unwor­thy’ behav­ior. Some of them will undoubt­edly be sent to con­cen­tra­tion camps for crimes which they have never com­mit­ted, but which will make them look depend­able in the eyes of the Allies; some have per­haps already suc­ceeded in join­ing anti-Nazi cir­cles and are pre­tend­ing to con­spire against Hitler. Later on they will be able to use such activ­i­ties as alibis.”

Idem.

21. Note that the civil infra­struc­ture was viewed as an essen­tial repos­i­tory for the forth­com­ing Nazi under­ground. Areas of employ­ment that would prove absolutely nec­es­sary for the AMG (Allied Mil­i­tary Gov­ern­ment) to ensure the smooth func­tion­ing of post­war Ger­many were selected as pri­mary repos­i­to­ries for trusted Nazi operatives.

“And though they [the AMG] will not want to co-operate with those they know as Nazis in Ger­many, they may be forced by neces­sity to co-operate with those Nazis they don’t rec­og­nize as such. For they will not be able to admin­is­ter the coun­try, even for a week, with­out using the already exist­ing machines and appa­ra­tuses of admin­is­tra­tion. These machines are full of Nazis, unknown, anony­mous. If they should all be removed, every­thing would break down: sup­ply, trans­port, the mails, elec­tric­ity, gas, water. The heads of depart­ments, the promi­nent Nazis, will either dis­ap­pear of their own free will or be fired by the occu­pa­tion author­i­ties. But that is the only rad­i­cal change that the lat­ter can make. Any more would bring inde­scrib­able con­fu­sion and gen­eral disorder.”

Ibid.; pp. 82–83.

22. Reiss delin­eates some of the gov­ern­men­tal insti­tu­tions that will be seen as irre­place­able and, as such, likely repos­i­to­ries for under­ground Nazi operatives.

“There are a great num­ber of irre­place­able bureaus and orga­ni­za­tions which no AMG will want to touch. For exam­ple, the numer­ous health depart­ments, every orga­ni­za­tion which helps pro­tect pub­lic health, will have to go on func­tion­ing. If there is any inter­fer­ence with them, the whole coun­try, and this includes invad­ing troops, might be swept epidemic.”

Ibid.; p. 83.

23. More about the secret­ing of under­ground Nazis in the gov­ern­men­tal and civic infrastructure:

“Nat­u­rally it is in all the exist­ing orga­ni­za­tions that Nazis will first try to hiber­nate at the end of the war, when they must play dead. They will be in fire depart­ments and in util­i­ties; they will sit in tax col­lec­tors’ offices—an impor­tant strate­gic posi­tion, because it is these offices that will fur­nish the lists from which the Allies will deter­mine repa­ra­tions pay­ments; and they will fill the offices of food-distributing agen­cies whose task it will be to avert famine after the war [Schwarzenegger’s mother worked in such a capacity].”

Idem.

24. Of pri­mary sig­nif­i­cance for our pur­poses is the fact that Schwarzenegger’s father served as a police­man. As dis­cussed above, the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing his post­war appoint­ment are unclear. The police were an area of civil infra­struc­ture viewed as one of the most impor­tant areas for secret­ing trusted oper­a­tives for post­war work. It is also inter­est­ing (though not nec­es­sar­ily sig­nif­i­cant) that the Ord­nungspolizei were one of the pro­jected repos­i­to­ries for post­war Nazis. The Ord­nungspolizei were instru­men­tal in the for­ma­tion of the Feld­gen­darmerie, in which Gus­tav Schwarzeneg­ger served.

“Another ideal place will be the police. Herr Himm­ler has been quoted as say­ing that no AMG could pos­si­bly dis­solve the entire Ger­man police with­out throw­ing Ger­many, and thus Europe, into com­plete chaos. He is prob­a­bly right . . . Such groups will be the Crim­i­nal Police, the Ordungspolizei (the reg­u­lar uni­formed police) the Land­jaeger (gen­darmes in the open coun­try), and the Feurschutzpolizei (Fire Police).”

Ibid.; p. 86.

25. Gus­tave became the chief of police in a small, coun­try vil­lage called Thal. In light of that fact, reflect on what follows:

“About nine months ago Himm­ler reor­ga­nized the gen­darmes into a new orga­ni­za­tion called Landwacht (County Guards) whose sup­posed duty it is to pre­vent dis­or­ders in vil­lages and towns. It is made up of the natives of each par­tic­u­lar dis­trict and is sup­posed to be a non-political orga­ni­za­tion. Any­body who vol­un­teers is accepted. Himmler’s idea in form­ing the Landwacht was to have ready a group of law-enforcing offi­cers who were appar­ently com­pletely non-political and who could be used by the AMG. It is into this Landwacht that Himm­ler has been send­ing men of his Elite Guard.”

Ibid.; pp. 86–87.

26. The police were seen as a par­tic­u­larly use­ful repos­i­tory for ded­i­cated Nazis ded­i­cated for post­war, under­ground work:

“Himm­ler also believes that the Crim­i­nal Police and the reg­u­lar uni­formed police will not be dis­solved, since these depart­ments have never been com­pletely iden­ti­fied with the party. It is dif­fi­cult indeed to run a coun­try or even a city with­out the help of a long-established crim­i­nal police or reg­u­lar police force. The smooth work­ing of a crim­i­nal police depends on per­sonal con­tacts devel­oped over a long period of time, on an army of tip­sters and stool pigeons, on the inti­mate knowl­edge of the habits and hide­outs of the crim­i­nals. Only in extreme cases will occu­py­ing author­i­ties fail to use old hands in police matters.”

Ibid.; p. 87.

27. As noted above, dis­abled vets were one of the areas pro­jected as an area for post­war Under­ground Reich oper­a­tives. As dis­cussed in the Wendy Leigh arti­cle about Gus­tav Schwarzenegger’s wartime career, he was offi­cially dis­abled for much of the conflict.

“At present there is in exis­tence an orga­ni­za­tion com­pris­ing all Ger­man war crip­ples. Its head is Hanns Ober­lin­dober, who was the head of a sim­i­lar orga­ni­za­tion called the War Vet­er­ans’ Aid Soci­ety, after World War I. In the thir­ties Ober­lin­dober gained inter­na­tional impor­tance as the leader of the War Vet­er­ans’ Asso­ci­a­tions. Ober­lin­dober him­self made exten­sive trav­els to France and other neigh­bor­ing coun­tries, pos­ing as a paci­fist and stag­ing touch­ing scenes of inter­na­tional frat­er­niza­tion. Too late it became known to the French secret ser­vice that he used his orga­ni­za­tions as an appa­ra­tus for espionage.”

Ibid.; p. 84.

28. More about the pro­jected use of dis­abled vets as post­war, under­ground Nazi operatives:

“It can be assumed that Ober­lin­dober him­self will dis­ap­pear after the defeat. He has become much too noto­ri­ous. It may also be assumed that his orga­ni­za­tions will not be allowed to con­tinue in their present form. How­ever, what­ever admin­is­tra­tive appa­ra­tus may be set up to take care of Ger­man war crip­ples after the war, the need for so-called experts will be great and thus oppor­tu­nity will be offered for a num­ber of ‘neu­tral’ Ober­lin­dober men to be slipped into the new setup. In this con­nec­tion it is inter­est­ing to note that quite a few new men have been reported to have entered the Ober­lin­dober orga­ni­za­tion lately, the arrange­ments with the War Min­istry hav­ing been made, so it is said, by Ober­lin­dober himself.”

Ibid.; pp. 84–85.

29. It is also inter­est­ing to note that women were pro­jected for post­war work. Schwarzenegger’s mother had dis­trib­uted food stamps dur­ing the war and she was appar­ently quite taken with Hitler. (Remem­ber, again, that such civil ser­vice posi­tions were a repos­i­tory for Under­ground Reich oper­a­tives.) Is it pos­si­ble that she and Gus­tav were selected as an “Under­ground Cou­ple?” A young Aus­trian woman—Helene Van Damm—appears to have played an essen­tial part in the Under­ground Reich’s efforts in the United States. Van Damm is dis­cussed below. (For more about Van Damm, see FTR#’s 332, 399, as well as RFA#’s 3, 32—available from Spitfire.)

“Whichever of the orga­ni­za­tions dis­cussed here will be left intact—whether it be the wel­fare orga­ni­za­tions or the hos­pi­tals, the Crim­i­nal Police or the machin­ery of Speer, the rail­roads or the util­i­ties that will be most active in the com­ing Nazi underground—one thing is cer­tain: the women will have to play a large part in its activ­i­ties. Since it is prac­ti­cally cer­tain that the Allies will not sen­tence any women as war crim­i­nals except in proved cases of cap­i­tal crimes, there will be lit­tle rea­son for the lead­ing per­son­al­i­ties of the women’s orga­ni­za­tions to dis­ap­pear and be replaced by unknown per­son­al­i­ties, although the orga­ni­za­tions them­selves will, of course, undergo a change.”

Ibid.; p. 92.

30. More about the pro­jected role of women as post­war operatives:

“Among the tasks of women in the com­ing Nazi under­ground on which Frau Scholtz-Klink has to con­cen­trate must be: . . . Spe­cial train­ing of stenog­ra­phers, typ­ists, fil­ing clerks, et cetera—in short, of all female per­son­nel likely to be used either by the occu­py­ing pow­ers (AMG) or by a future Ger­man government.”

Ibid.; p. 93.

31. After hav­ing mar­ried a mem­ber of the mil­i­tary intel­li­gence unit in which for­mer Rea­gan national secu­rity adviser Richard Clarke had served, Van Damm came to the United States and divorced her hus­band shortly after­ward. Note that the selec­tion of young girls [women] for pro­jected rela­tion­ships with Allied troops was envis­aged by the Third Reich.

“[A key area will be] the train­ing of young girls, or rather their prepa­ra­tion for the time when Ger­many is occu­pied by hun­dreds of thou­sands of for­eign sol­diers. After the last war, dur­ing the occu­pa­tion of the Rhineland, if a Ger­man girl had any­thing to do with an Amer­i­can or Eng­lish sol­dier, not to speak of inti­mate rela­tions, it was con­sid­ered by the fam­ily and the entire com­mu­nity as out­ra­geous behav­ior incom­pat­i­ble with ‘Ger­man Honor.’ This time such ‘out­ra­geous behav­ior’ will not only be encour­aged, but prac­ti­cally demanded, by the Nazis, no mat­ter what the offi­cial stand on this par­tic­u­lar prob­lem is. The rea­son is that young Ger­man girls enter­ing into inti­mate rela­tions with for­eign sol­diers may well con­vince these sol­diers that the Ger­mans are by no means the bad peo­ple they are pic­tured; that the Nazis, too, had their good points. In short, these Ger­man girls are being trained as dis­sem­i­na­tors of Nazi propaganda.”

Ibid.; pp. 93–94.

32. Van Damm later became a pro­tégé of Otto Von Bolschwing, and worked for him in a busi­ness capac­ity. The pas­sage that fol­lows could be seen as fore­shad­ow­ing her role with Von Bolschwing’s busi­ness interests.

“The train­ing of women who will be log­i­cal con­tacts between the under­ground move­ment or cer­tain cells of the under­ground party and cir­cles of influ­ence, such as big busi­ness, indus­tries, car­tels, for­eign politi­cians, et cetera.”

Ibid.; p. 94.

33. Before turn­ing to some dis­turb­ing indi­ca­tions that Schwarzenegger’s father was far more than a mere small-town police chief, we note that the town of Graz (of which Thal is a sub­urb) was viewed as spe­cial by Hitler.

“In fact, Hitler ws so grat­i­fied by the Graz­ers’ enthu­si­asm that he awarded the city an hon­orary title: die Stadt der Erhebung—the town of the ele­va­tion. Aus­tri­ans, even now, remem­ber Hitler’s tri­umphant entry into Graz, how the crowds mobbed the street, climb­ing lamp­posts for a glimpse of der Fuhrer, shout­ing ‘Sieg Heil’ with stri­dent fervor.”

(Arnold: The Unau­tho­rized Biog­ra­phy; p. 8.)

34. A seem­ingly insignif­i­cant detail about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ser­vice in the Aus­trian army, the fact that his father (osten­si­bly noth­ing but a small town police chief) was able to pull strings in a num­ber of ways is note­wor­thy. Any­one even remotely famil­iar with mil­i­tary pro­to­col would under­stand that Schwarzenegger’s father under nor­mal cir­cum­stances would never have been able to pre­vail on the Aus­trian army to change its reg­u­la­tions in such dra­matic fash­ion just for his son.

“Besides, accord­ing to Arnold, Gus­tav had smoothed the path for his younger son by using his influ­ence to have him sta­tioned at a camp near Graz. He had also pulled strings so that Arnold, char­ac­ter­is­ti­cally impressed by the size and power of tanks, could be a tank dri­ver. Arnold claims that, thanks to Gustav’s influ­ence, the Aus­trian Army made an excep­tion to the required tank driver’s min­i­mum age, low­er­ing it from twenty-one to eigh­teen, thus enabling him to ful­fill his ambition.”

Arnold: The Unau­tho­rized Biog­ra­phy; p. 34.

35. Per­haps even more strik­ing is Schwarzenegger’s con­tention that he for­got to engage the brake after park­ing a tank, that it rolled into the river as a result, and that he was not dis­ci­plined for his neg­li­gence! Talk to a mil­i­tary vet­eran about this. Ask their opinion.

“Dri­ving a tank pro­vided Arnold with a tremen­dous sense of power, and in Arnold The Edu­ca­tion of a Body­builder, he describes how much he loved the recoil of the guns when they fired and how it fed some­thing in his nature that was moved by demon­stra­tions of strength. Some­times, though, army life proved to be dan­ger­ous. Once he ‘parked’ a tank but for­got to put the brake on. The tank rolled into the river. Accord­ing to Arnold, there were no consequences.”

Idem.

36. Rem­i­nis­cent of George W. Bush’s AWOL stint from the Texas Air National Guard (per­formed with impunity due to his father’s sta­tus), Schwarzeneg­ger, too, was able to skip out from the Aus­trian army in order to com­pete in a contest.

“He knew exactly what he wanted. And he had taken great risks to obtain it. For despite being the prod­uct of Gustav’s school of obe­di­ence and dis­ci­pline, Arnold, as he would many times in his career, had gam­bled. To com­pete in Stuttgart he had gone AWOL.”

Ibid.; p. 35.

37. A polit­i­cal act that sug­gests his later activ­i­ties on behalf of the Museum of Tol­er­ance and the Wiesen­thal Cen­ter may well have been cos­metic in nature is Schwarzenegger’s endorse­ment of, and sup­port for, Kurt Wald­heim, a Nazi war crim­i­nal and later pres­i­dent of Austria.

“For there was one flaw in the oth­er­wise per­fect Shriver/Schwarzenegger nuptials—one false note that threat­ened to cloud the bright­ness of the day. Amid all the good wishes and hopes for future hap­pi­ness, the love and the kind­ness, a dark shadow was cast by a gift from some­one whom many peo­ple had iden­ti­fied as evil. The gift was two life-size, papier-mache dolls fab­ri­cated by artist Christa Muller, repli­cas of Arnold, dressed in leder­ho­sen, car­ry­ing Maria, dressed in a dirndl. They were sent from Arnold’s Aus­trian home­land by Kurt Waldheim.”

Ibid.; pp. 245–246.

38. More about Waldheim’s con­tri­bu­tion to Schwarzenegger’s nuptials:

“The dolls, promi­nently dis­played at the wed­ding recep­tion, assumed a slightly sin­is­ter air, as if they might sud­denly open up to reveal the grin­ning specter of Kurt Wald­heim lurk­ing inside their shells. After all, only the day before the press had car­ried yet another story about Waldheim’s duplic­ity, his con­ceal­ment of his nazi past, and evi­dence of nazi atroc­i­ties with which he may have been connected . . .”

Idem.

39. Schwarzeneg­ger made a point of endors­ing Wald­heim at his wed­ding to Shriver.

“ . . . In a ges­ture that per­haps was a defi­ant dec­la­ra­tion of independence—and that, accord­ing to one guest, caused Jackie Kennedy Onas­sis to pale—Arnold spoke the fol­low­ing words, later recorded by wed­ding guest Andy Warhol in his diaries: ‘My friends don’t want me to men­tion Kurt’s name because of all the recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. con­tro­versy, but I love him and Maria does too and so thank you, Kurt.’ CBS’ Terry Smith, also a wed­ding guest, con­firms that Warhol’s recorded com­ments encap­su­late the gist of Arnold’s remarks. Later, in what was described as ‘an awk­ward moment,’ Arnold praised Kurt Wald­heim, adding that he was a vic­tim of bad press. Accord­ing to another guest, Arnold’s friend Richard Burk­holder, ‘he [Arnold] wished Kurt Wald­heim was at the wed­ding. He also assured every­one that Wald­heim hadn’t done what he had been accused of . . .’”

Ibid.; pp. 246–247.

40. Schwarzeneg­ger cam­paigned on behalf of Wald­heim when the lat­ter ran for pres­i­dent of Austria.

“ . . . If, indeed, he did believe that he had boobed in defend­ing Kurt Wald­heim, Arnold took no steps to rem­edy the sit­u­a­tion. The usu­ally self-protective Arnold seemed to have placed Waldheim’s inter­ests ahead of his own. Far from retract­ing his remarks cham­pi­oning Wald­heim, Arnold went on to lend his name to posters that trum­peted his sup­port of Wald­heim in the Aus­trian pres­i­den­tial cam­paign. The posters were dis­played all over Aus­tria, but, luck­ily for Arnold, escaped the atten­tion of the Amer­i­can press. He has never retraced his defense of Wald­heim. Nor has he since with­drawn his sup­port from him.”

Ibid.; pp. 247–248.

41. Schwarzeneg­ger per­pet­u­ated his rela­tion­ship with Wald­heim, even after the con­tro­versy had con­tin­ued to ripen:

“Yet, despite the mount­ing evi­dence as to Waldheim’s alleged past, in August 1986 Arnold vis­ited the Aus­trian pres­i­dent in his sum­mer home on Lake Attersee, out­side of Salzburg. The visit, reported exten­sively in both the Aus­trian and the Ger­man press, was notable, for Wald­heim, then banned from enter­ing the United States (a ban that has never been lifted), rarely received impor­tant vis­i­tors, hav­ing been ostra­cized by the rest of the world . . .”

Ibid.; p. 248.

42. More about the Schwarzenegger-Waldheim relationship:

“In the fall of 1988, when asked by jour­nal­ist Sharon Churcher about his alle­giance to Wald­heim, Arnold refused to char­ac­ter­ize his meet­ing with Wald­heim as bad judge­ment. Arnold is not and has never been respon­si­ble for his father’s polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tions. How­ever, one can’t help won­der­ing why Arnold, rather than repu­di­at­ing Wald­heim for his duplic­ity in con­ceal­ing his Nazi past, rose up so pub­licly in defense of him.”

Ibid.; pp. 248–249.

43. There is already a bill on the floor of Con­gress (intro­duced by Schwarzenegger’s friend and fel­low Repub­li­can Orrin Hatch) that would per­mit Der Ter­mi­na­tor to run for President.

“His name has never appeared on a ballot—only a movie marquee—but already, peo­ple are whis­per­ing about Pres­i­dent Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger. Oh, no, you’re saying—that can’t be. For starters, he hasn’t even run for Cal­i­for­nia gov­er­nor yet. First things first. And then there’s the lit­tle mat­ter of the Con­sti­tu­tion, which pro­hibits any but native-born Amer­i­cans to run for Pres­i­dent or Vice-President. Not to worry—or do worry, depend­ing on your pol­i­tics. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch has intro­duced a con­sti­tu­tional amend­ment to allow the foreign-born who have been nat­u­ral­ized cit­i­zens for at least 20 years to run for the big job. Arnold’s shown up at some fund-raisers for his pal Orrin, but no, no, no, that’s not what this is about. The Deseret Morn­ing News in Utah quoted a Hatch spokes­woman as say­ing that the Equal Oppor­tu­nity to Gov­ern Amendment—which is what hatch is call­ing it—is a ‘pol­icy judg­ment not asso­ci­ated with any one individual.’”

(“Arnold for Pres­i­dent? At Least One Hur­dle May Fall” by Pat Mor­ri­son; The Los Ange­les Times; 7/21/2003; p. B2.)

44. To have an undis­tin­guished movie actor become Gov­er­nor of Cal­i­for­nia and then Pres­i­dent would not be unprece­dented. As noted in—among other progrms—FTR#’s 29, 48, 113, 248, 332, 346, 361, Ronald Rea­gan served as the front man for an ille­gal domes­tic intel­li­gence oper­a­tion known as the Cru­sade for Free­dom. Hatched by Allen Dulles (who invested Bush fam­ily money in the Third Reich and later became direc­tor of the CIA), this oper­a­tion was over­seen by Richard Nixon. William Casey (Nixon’s direc­tor of the SEC and man­ager of the Reagan-Bush cam­paign in 1980) over­saw the State Depart­ment machi­na­tions that brought these Nazi and fas­cist ele­ments into the United States. Casey later became direc­tor of the CIA. The Repub­li­can eth­nic branch (which grew out of this Nazi émigré com­mu­nity) later became a repos­i­tory for Islam­o­fas­cist ele­ments asso­ci­ated with Al Taqwa and Al Qaeda. (For more about this con­nec­tion, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 356, 357, 415.)

“As a young movie actor in the early 1950’s, Rea­gan was employed as the pub­lic spokesper­son for an OPC front named the ‘Cru­sade for Free­dom.’ Rea­gan may not have known it, but 99 per­cent for the Crusade’s funds came from clan­des­tine accounts, which were then laun­dered through the Cru­sade to var­i­ous orga­ni­za­tions such as Radio Lib­erty, which employed Dulles’s Fas­cists. Bill Casey, who later became CIA direc­tor under Ronald Rea­gan, also worked in Ger­many after World War II on Dulles’ Nazi ‘free­dom fight­ers’ pro­gram. When he returned to New York, Casey headed up another OPC front, the Inter­na­tional Res­cue Com­mit­tee, which spon­sored the immi­gra­tion of these Fas­cists to the United States. Casey’s com­mit­tee replaced the Inter­na­tional Red Cross as the spon­sor for Dulles’s recruits. Con­fi­den­tial inter­views, for­mer mem­bers, OPC; for­mer mem­bers, British for­eign and Com­mon­wealth Office.”

(The Secret War Against the Jews; by John Lof­tus and Mark Aarons; Copy­right 1994 by Mark Aarons; St. Martin’s Press; [SC] ISBN 0–312-15648–0; p. 605.)

45. Among the most shock­ing ele­ments of the Cru­sade for Free­dom was the recruit­ment of an entire SS intel­li­gence unit, later reset­tled in the U.S. This unit—the VorKom­mando Moskau–was deeply involved with the SS Ein­satz­grup­pen. Schwarzenegger’s father was also heav­ily involved with the coor­di­na­tion of the Ein­satz­grup­pen. Is it pos­si­ble that we are look­ing at “deep-networking”? Under what cir­cum­stances did Schwarzenegger’s father come to be a police chief? Was he more than just a police chief? Is Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger “2nd gen­er­a­tion Under­ground Reich?”

“VorKom­mando Moskau was an elite for­ward unit of SS intel­li­gence on the Soviet front. Its pri­mary mis­sion was anti-Communist intel­li­gence col­lec­tion, but it also was respon­si­ble for secu­rity screen­ing of the occu­pied pop­u­la­tions in a broad sec­tor of the East­ern Front, which held nearly 6 mil­lion Jews. Pre­cisely this secu­rity and intel­li­gence expe­ri­ence made the men of the unit so attrac­tive to West­ern intel­li­gence after the war and led them to their jour­ney to the United States and mem­ber­ship in Nixon’s Repub­li­can ‘eth­nic groups.’”

Ibid.; p. 496.

46. More about the VorKom­mando Moskau:

“VorKom­mando Moskau did not kill the Jews. It hired the col­lab­o­ra­tors, who recruited the exe­cu­tion­ers, who killed the Jews. From 1940 to 1942, this one small unit acted as an employ­ment agency for the archi­tects of Nazi geno­cide in East­ern Europe. Con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, while the Ger­mans mas­ter­minded and con­trolled the machin­ery of the Holo­caust, the foot­sol­diers who car­ried it out were not pri­mar­ily Ger­mans, but local vol­un­teers from Poland, the Baltic States, Ukraine, and White Rus­sia. Those non-Germans who wished to serve Hitler’s New Order first had to pass a secu­rity check by VorKom­mando Moskau.”

Idem.

47. While serv­ing as chair­man of the Repub­li­can National Com­mit­tee, the elder George Bush shep­herded the Nazi émigré com­mu­nity into posi­tion as a per­ma­nent branch of the Repub­li­can Party.

“It was Bush who ful­filled Nixon’s promise to make the ‘eth­nic emi­gres’ a per­ma­nent part of Repub­li­can pol­i­tics. In 1972, Nixon’s State Depart­ment spokesman con­firmed to his Aus­tralian coun­ter­part that the eth­nic groups were very use­ful to get out the vote in sev­eral key states. Bush’s tenure as head of the Repub­li­can National Com­mit­tee exactly coin­cided with Las­zlo Pasztor’s 1972 drive to trans­form the Her­itage Groups Coun­cil into the party’s offi­cial eth­nic arm. The groups Pasz­tor chose as Bush’s cam­paign allies were the émigré Fas­cists whom Dulles had brought to the United States.”

Ibid.; pp. 369–370.

48. More about the GOP/Nazi link:

“Nearly twenty years later, and after exposes in sev­eral respectable news­pa­pers, Bush con­tin­ued to recruit most of the same eth­nic Fas­cists, includ­ing Pasz­tor, for his own 1988 eth­nic out­reach pro­gram when he first ran for president.”

Ibid.; pp. 370–371.

49. Of inter­est in this con­text is the fact that it was the Dulles milieu that vet­ted Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Nazi war crim­i­nal friend Kurt Wald­heim for his first job in the Aus­trian gov­ern­ment. The back­ground check on Wald­heim was per­formed by Dulles’ son-in-law Fritz Molden.

“Both [Karl] Gru­ber and [Fritz] Molden had strong ties to U.S. intel­li­gence. Molden actu­ally wound up mar­ry­ing the daugh­ter of OSS (later CIA) chief Allen Dulles, for whom he had worked dur­ing the war . . . Gru­ber turned the back­ground inves­ti­ga­tion over to Molden. In turn, Molden asked his friends in Amer­i­can intel­li­gence to check Wald­heim out. This was, of course, redun­dant. Even­tu­ally, Molden reported to Gru­ber that his con­tacts had ‘inves­ti­gated [Wald­heim] and found no mate­r­ial on him, noth­ing, nothing.”

(Wald­heim: The Miss­ing Years; by Robert Edwin Hertzstein; Copy­right 1988 by Robert Edwin Herzstein; Arbor House/William Mor­row [HC]; ISBN 0–87795-959–5; pp. 168–169.)

50. Among the Nazis brought into the coun­try by Dulles & co. was Otto von Bolschwing. Von Bolschwing’s pro­tégé Helene Von Damm selected all of the per­son­nel from which Ronald Rea­gan made his appoint­ments when he was Gov­er­nor of Cal­i­for­nia. She per­formed the same func­tion when he became Pres­i­dent. Note in this con­text the above dis­cus­sion about the Third Reich’s plans to have young girls estab­lish sex­ual liaisons with Allied troops. (For more about the Von Damm/von Bolschwing con­nec­tion, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 180, 332, 399, as well as RFA’s 3, 32, avail­able from Spitfire.)

“Eich­mann was replaced on the Mid­dle East­ern scene by a far more skilled intel­li­gence offi­cer, Otto von Bolschwing. Before World War II, von Bolschwing set up an import-export busi­ness in Pales­tine as a cover for his espi­onage activ­i­ties. He was an edu­cated man from a good fam­ily and an enthu­si­as­tic sup­porter of Hitler. After the war, von Bolschwing became one of Allen Dulles’s senior agents in the CIA.”

Ibid.; p. 46.

51. Even­tu­ally, Von Damm became U.S. ambas­sador to Aus­tria. (She mar­ried a hote­lier and divorced him. He later com­mit­ted sui­cide. Her sec­ond hus­band was Chris­t­ian Von Damm. He became head of the Bank of America’s La Paz, Bolivia Branch at the time that Klaus Barbie’s “cocafascisti” were hold­ing forth in that coun­try. For more about Bar­bie, see—among other programs—RFA#’s 3, 17, 19, avail­able from Spitfire.)

“Dulles helped von Bolschwing emi­grate to Cal­i­for­nia, where he estab­lished a busi­ness asso­ci­a­tion with Helen von Damm, later Ronald Reagan’s ambas­sador to Aus­tria. In later years, his busi­ness went bank­rupt and he was forced to sur­ren­der his Amer­i­can cit­i­zen­ship on the grounds that he was a Nazi war criminal.”

(Idem.)

52. Von Damm and Schwarzeneg­ger are not strangers.

“Arnold’s busi­ness part­ner and men­tor, Jim Lorimer, whether by acci­dent or design, was in Vienna, and, cau­tious for a moment, Arnold left Brigitte [Nielsen] behind at the Hilton while he and Jim had Sun­day brunch with the Amer­i­can ambas­sador to Aus­tria, Helene Von Damm.”

Arnold: The Edu­ca­tion of a Body­builder; p. 216.