Recorded July 15, 2007
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Pow­er­ful coun­tries main­tain the effec­tive­ness of those his­tor­i­cal lies deemed essen­tial to the preser­va­tion of the cog­ni­tive sta­tus quo. Just as the United States clings to the offi­cial fic­tion of the War­ren Commission’s find­ings about Pres­i­dent Kennedy’s assas­si­na­tion, the Fed­eral Repub­lic of Ger­many duti­fully adheres to the fic­tion that Mar­tin Bor­mann died in the ruins of Berlin dur­ing the clos­ing days of World War II. The power behind the throne dur­ing the Third Reich, Mar­tin Bor­mann arranged for the secret­ing of Germany’s wealth in neu­tral coun­tries and then presided over the result­ing eco­nomic and polit­i­cal net­work in the post­war period. Dom­i­nat­ing Ger­man polit­i­cal and eco­nomic life and play­ing a deci­sive role in the affairs of other coun­tries (includ­ing and espe­cially the United States), the net­work cre­ated by Bor­mann is lit­er­ally an Under­ground Reich, per­pet­u­ated in Mafia-like fash­ion. In response to inves­ti­ga­tions that revealed Bormann’s escape and post­war activ­i­ties, the Ger­man gov­ern­ment arranged for a DNA test­ing of the remains—supposedly of Bormann—that were found in Berlin in the 1970’s. The DNA tests were never inde­pen­dently ver­i­fied and the remains that were sup­posed to be Bormann’s were dis­posed of in a secret loca­tion, pre­clud­ing the pos­si­bil­ity of future ver­i­fi­ca­tion of the test. The corpses placed in the ruins of Berlin were, in fact, con­cen­tra­tion camp inmates whose den­tal work was metic­u­lously altered under the super­vi­sion of Dr. Hugo Blaschke, Hitler and Bormann’s per­sonal den­tist. The inmates’ den­tal work was made iden­ti­cal to Bormann’s, right down to the wear and aging of the oral archi­tec­ture. The inmates were then killed, and their remains buried in the rub­ble of Berlin. These corpses were the remains found—and tested—by the Ger­man gov­ern­ment to “ver­ify” Bormann’s sup­posed death in World War II! Most of the sec­ond half of the pro­gram is devoted to detail­ing the efforts of the pow­er­ful Thyssen fam­ily, Ger­man cor­po­ra­tions and for­mer Gestapo chief [and Bor­mann secu­rity direc­tor] Hein­rich Mueller’s efforts at block­ing inves­ti­ga­tion of the Bor­mann net­work and its asso­ciates. For more about the Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion, see FTR#305, as well as read­ing Mar­tin Bor­mann: Nazi in Exile [avail­able on this web­site in both PDF and HTML.] To learn more about the Bush family’s involve­ment with the Bor­mann net­work, check out the declas­si­fied doc­u­ments avail­able on this web­site. Note that the lever­age main­tained by the Bor­mann net­work derives from its con­sum­mate eco­nomic power, termed by one banker as “the great­est con­cen­tra­tion of money power under a sin­gle con­trol in history.”

Pro­gram High­lights Include: The mur­ders com­mit­ted to cover up the exis­tence of the Bor­mann net­work; the mur­ders com­mit­ted to cover-up the Bush family’s involve­ment with the Bor­mann net­work; for­mer Gestapo chief Hein­rich Mueller’s dis­cred­it­ing of writer Ladis­las Farago; author Ger­ald Posner’s efforts at lead­ing the media charge to dis­credit Farago; checks writ­ten by Mar­tin Bor­mann on accounts in three demand accounts in New York banks in August of 1967, twenty-two years after he sup­pos­edly died.

1. Begin­ning with the gam­bit gen­er­ated by Hein­rich Mueller to obscure Bormann’s escape by plant­ing a fake Bor­mann corpse in the ruins of Berlin for later dis­cov­ery, the pro­gram notes that Mueller faked his own death. When his “grave” was opened after the war, it was found to con­tain three skele­tons, none of which was Mueller’s. (In FTR#283, we exam­ined indi­ca­tions that Mueller went to work for ele­ments of U.S. intel­li­gence at the end of World War II.) “ . . . Mueller had already ini­ti­ated a strat­egy of decep­tion to explain his own dis­ap­pear­ance from promi­nent cir­cles in Berlin. The week he slipped out of the Ger­man cap­i­tal, his griev­ing fam­ily gath­ered for his ‘funeral.’ A cof­fin was borne to a ceme­tery where it was buried with appro­pri­ate cer­e­mony. The grave was marked with a head­stone bear­ing the words ‘Our Dear Daddy,’ Mueller’s name, his birth­date, and the date of his alleged death in Berlin in 1945. Sev­eral years fol­low­ing this inci­dent, an edi­tor of a Ger­man news mag­a­zine, act­ing on an informer’s tip gen­er­ated by the mas­ter decep­tion­ist Mueller him­self, from South Amer­ica, obtained a court order in 1963, and the grave was opened. When the cof­fin in ques­tion was unearthed and opened, the edi­tor and the attend­ing offi­cials found three skele­tons, none remotely match­ing Hein­rich Mueller’s short and thick-set mea­sure­ments, or his markedly promi­nent fore­head. . . .”
(Mar­tin Bor­mann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Man­ning; Copy­right 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stu­art Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; pp. 179; see archived excerpt.)

2. Select­ing two Sach­sen­hausen inmates who bore a phys­i­cal resem­blance to Bor­mann, Mueller arranged to have their den­tal work struc­tured to look like Bormann’s. After their den­tal work had time to “age” appro­pri­ately, the two inmates were killed, and their corpses placed in the rub­ble of Berlin. These were the remains that were used for the DNA “test” that sup­pos­edly proved that Bor­mann was dead. “A decep­tion plan for Bor­mann had been com­pleted by Mueller in Berlin. Tops in police work and crafty beyond imag­in­ing, he pro­vided for a match­ing skele­ton and skull, com­plete with iden­ti­cal den­tal work, for future foren­sic experts to pon­der over and to reach con­clu­sions that suited his pur­pose. . . . When Hein­rich Mueller vis­ited Sach­sen­hausen he walked through the engrav­ing, print­ing, and doc­u­ment areas look­ing for any inmates who might resem­ble Bor­mann. In one he noticed two indi­vid­u­als who did bear a resem­blance in stature and facial struc­ture to the Reich­sleiter. He had them placed in sep­a­rate con­fine­ment. There­upon a spe­cial den­tal room was made ready for “treat­ment” of the two men. A party den­tist was brought in to work over and over again on the mouth of each man, until his teeth, real and arti­fi­cial, matched pre­cisely the Reichsleiter’s. In April 1945, upon com­ple­tion of these alter­ations, the two vic­tim­ized men were brought to the Kur­fuer­sten­strasse build­ing to be held until needed. Dr. Blaschke had advised Mueller to use live inmates to insure a believ­able aging process for den­tures and gums; hence the need for sev­eral months of prepa­ra­tion. Exact den­tal fidelity was to play a major part in the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of Hitler’s body by the invad­ing Rus­sians. It was to be of sig­nif­i­cance in Frank­furt twenty-eight years later, when the West Ger­man gov­ern­ment staged a press con­fer­ence to declare that they had ‘found Bormann’s skele­ton prov­ing he had died in Berlin’s freight yards May 1–2, 1945.’ Dr. Hugo Blaschke was the den­tist who had served both Hitler and Bor­mann. . . . In Bormann’s case, the prob­lem was more com­plex, more chal­leng­ing. Yet under Mueller’s skill­ful guid­ance, two bod­ies were planted; their dis­cov­ery was made pos­si­ble when an SS man, act­ing on Mueller’s orders, leaked the infor­ma­tion to a Stern mag­a­zine edi­tor as part of a ploy to “prove” that Bor­mann had died in the Berlin freight yard. The stand-ins for Bor­mann were two unfor­tu­nates from Con­cen­tra­tion Camp Sach­sen­hausen, who had been killed gen­tly in the Gestapo base­ment secret cham­bers with cyanide spray blown from a cig­a­rette lighter (a killing device used later by the KGB in 1957 and 1959 against Lev Rebet and Stephen Ban­dera, two lead­ers of the Ukrain­ian immi­grants in Munich). At Gestapo head­quar­ters, the night of April 30, the bod­ies were taken by a spe­cial SS team to the freight yards near the Wei­den­damm Bridge and buried not too deep beneath rub­ble in two dif­fer­ent areas. The Gestapo squad then made a hur­ried retreat from Berlin, join­ing their leader, SS Senior Gen­eral Hein­rich Mueller, in Flens­burg. The funeral and bur­ial caper was to be a Mueller trade­mark through­out the years of search­ing for Mar­tin Bor­mann. The Mossad was to point out that they have been wit­nesses over the years to the exhuma­tion of six skele­tons, two in Berlin and four in South Amer­ica, pur­ported to be that of Mar­tin Bor­mann. All turned out to be those of oth­ers . . .”
(Ibid.; pp. 180–183; archived excerpt.)

3. Of pri­mary inter­est here is the fact that the Bush family’s involve­ment with Nazi indus­try was pro­found. On August 10, 1944, SS Gen­eral Dr. Scheid was brief­ing assem­bled indus­tri­al­ists and financiers on behalf of Bor­mann. One of the firms Scheid cited as a com­pany that had been par­tic­u­larly use­ful to Ger­many was the Hamburg-Amerika Line. As dis­cussed in—among other programs–FTR#’s 273, 361, 475, the Hamburg-Amerika Line was part of the Bush family’s busi­ness oper­a­tions on behalf of the Third Reich. (For more about the sub­ject of the Bush fam­ily, the Third Reich and the Bor­mann cap­i­tal net­work, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 370, 435, as well as the doc­u­ments avail­able at the web­site linked above.) “Dr. Scheid also affirmed, ‘The ground must now be laid on the finan­cial level for bor­row­ing con­sid­er­able sums from for­eign coun­tries after the war.’ As an exam­ple of the kind of sup­port that had been most use­ful to Ger­many in the past, Dr. Scheid cited the fact that ‘patents for stain­less steel belonged to the Chem­i­cal Foun­da­tion, Inc. New York, and the Krupp Com­pany of Ger­many, jointly, and that of the United States Steel Cor­po­ra­tion, Carnegie, Illi­nois, Amer­i­can Steel & Wire, National Tube, etc., were thereby under an oblig­a­tion to work with the Krupp con­cern.’ He also cited the Zeiss Com­pany, the Leica Com­pany, and the Hamburg-Amerika line as typ­i­cal firms that had been espe­cially effec­tive in pro­tect­ing Ger­man inter­ests abroad. He gave New York addresses to the twelve men.” (Ibid.; p. 25)

4. When the man­ager of the Dutch bank used by the Thyssens and their Amer­i­can busi­ness part­ners the Bushes attempted to alert the allies about the truth of the Thyssen family’s busi­ness affairs, he died under strange and pre­cip­i­tous cir­cum­stances. This pas­sage and the one that fol­lows are excerted from FTR#370, which fur­ther doc­u­ments the rela­tion­ship between the Bush fam­ily and the Thyssen inter­ests. “In 1945, the for­mer Dutch man­ager of the Rot­ter­dam bank resumed con­trol only to dis­cover that he was sit­ting on a huge pile of hid­den Nazi assets. In 1947, the man­ager threat­ened to inform Dutch author­i­ties, and was imme­di­ately fired by the Thyssens. The some­what naïve bank man­ager then fled to New York City where he intended to talk to Union Bank direc­tor Prescott Bush. As Gowen’s Dutch source recalled, the man­ager intended ‘to reveal [to Prescott Bush] the truth about Baron Hein­rich and the Rot­ter­dam Bank, [in order that] some or all of the Thyssen inter­ests in the Thyssen Group might be seized and con­fis­cated as Ger­man enemy prop­erty. ‘The manager’s body was found in New York two weeks later.”
(“How the Bush Fam­ily Made its For­tune from the Nazis” by John Lof­tus; p. 4.)

5. A Dutch jour­nal­ist also expe­ri­enced a sud­den bout of mor­tal­ity when he attempted to unearth the truth about the Thyssen-Bornemisza empire, nearly fifty years after the death of the Dutch bank man­ager. “Sim­i­larly, in 1996, a Dutch jour­nal­ist Eddy Roever went to Lon­don to inter­view the Baron, who was neigh­bors with Mar­garet Thatcher. Roever’s body was dis­cov­ered two days later. Per­haps, Gowen remarked dryly, it was only a coin­ci­dence that both healthy men had died of heart attacks imme­di­ately after try­ing to uncover the truth about the Thyssens.” (Idem.)

6. Author Frank Bran­den­burg learned of the lethal nature of the Bor­mann organization’s ret­ri­bu­tion. When con­tact­ing a Wehrma­cht vet­eran and Ger­man art expert named Georg Stein, Bran­den­burg car­ried a mes­sage from the Bor­mann net­work, which was expect­ing Stein’s assis­tance in locat­ing the price­less Amber Room. (For more about the search for the Amber Room, see FTR#234.) Bran­den­burg did not carry Stein’s mes­sage back to the Bor­mann group. Stein was found mur­dered in a forest–two kitchen knives stuck in his naked corpse. “Frank stood up. ‘Thank you for your time,’ he said, ‘and the infor­ma­tion you have given me. But I must cat­e­gor­i­cally decline any active involve­ment on my part with the activ­i­ties of Mari­bor­sol or you. A year later, Georg Stein was found mur­dered in a for­est near Munich, naked, stabbed to death with two table knives that were still stick in his body.’”
(Quest: Search­ing for the Truth of Germany’s Nazi Past, Ib Mel­chior and Frank Bran­den­burg, Pre­sidio Press, copy­right 1990, ISBN 0–89141-397–9, p. 306.)

7. The Bor­mann network’s mem­bers are very aware of the deadly nature of the reci­procity that awaits any­one break­ing the offi­cial silence sur­round­ing Bormann’s escape and the fak­ing of his “death” over the years. “ . . . Israeli agents who move too closely to these cen­ters of power are elim­i­nated. One such ter­mi­na­tion was Fritz Bauer, for­merly attor­ney gen­eral for the State of Hesse in Frank­furt, a sur­vivor of Auschwitz and the man who tipped off the Israeli Mossad about the pres­ence of Adolf Eich­mann in Buenos Aires, who was killed on orders of Gen­eral Mueller. . . .Mueller’s ruth­less­ness even today is what deters Artur Axmann from alter­ing his tes­ti­mony that he saw Bor­mann lying dead on the road­way the night of their escape from the Fuehrerbunker, May 1–2, 1945. The story had been com­posed by Mueller. To this day, Axmann, the only so-called liv­ing wit­ness to the ‘death’ of Bor­mann in Berlin, knows his life is in jeop­ardy if he reverses him­self. Gen­eral Mueller is thor­ough and has a long mem­ory, and for a Nazi such as Axmann to go against Mueller’s orig­i­nal direc­tive would make him a trai­tor; ret­ri­bu­tion would surely fol­low. When I ques­tioned one SS man who had once worked closely with Mar­tin Bor­mann in South Amer­ica about the Axmann tes­ti­mony, he said, ‘Axmann knows Bor­mann is in South Amer­ica. I don’t know why he per­sists in lying about the fact.’ He thought a moment, then went on, ‘But per­haps he wants to go on liv­ing, which is rea­son enough.’ . . . ”
(Mar­tin Bor­mann: Nazi in Exile; pp. 289–90.)

8. Illus­trat­ing the dif­fi­culty of telling the truth about the Bor­mann net­work, the pro­gram relates the active frus­tra­tion of Paul Manning’s lit­er­ary cru­sade to write about the group. Time after time, inter­ests asso­ci­ated with the Thyssens and/or other ele­ments of the Bor­mann net­work directly inter­fered with Paul Manning’s pub­lish­ing con­tracts. [Recall, in this con­text, that the Thyssen inter­ests were heav­ily involved with the Bush fam­ily over sev­eral gen­er­a­tions, as we saw in—among other programs—FTR#305.] When Paul Man­ning finally did get his book pub­lished by Lyle Stu­art, Mr. Stu­art had both of his legs bro­ken the week of pub­li­ca­tion. (Excerpted from side “A” of FTR#152. The text, in turn, is excerpted from two arti­cles writ­ten by Paul Man­ning him­self, and pub­lished on August 24 and 25 of 1982 by the now-defunct peri­od­i­cal News World. The two-part series was titled “Pub­lish­ing Con­spir­acy to Deep Six Bor­mann Book.”)

9. In addi­tion to set­ting forth the block­ing of Paul Manning’s writ­ing about the Bor­mann net­work, the News World excerpts dis­cuss Hein­rich Mueller’s dis­cred­it­ing of author Ladis­las Farago, the author of After­math, a 1974 book about Bormann’s escape to Latin Amer­ica. Rather than have Farago killed, Mueller arranged for dis­in­for­ma­tion to be chan­neled to Farago. In turn, the result­ing inac­cu­ra­cies in his book were leaked to the New York Times, which then reported them and used the mate­r­ial to dis­credit Farago.

10. Excerpt­ing FTR#134, the broad­cast sheds more light on Mueller’s dis­cred­it­ing of Farago. Inter­est­ingly, and per­haps sig­nif­i­cantly, writer Ger­ald Pos­ner was highly vis­i­ble in the media attack on Farago’s cred­i­bil­ity. Pos­ner has achieved con­sid­er­able noto­ri­ety in con­nec­tion with his lit­er­ary defenses of the offi­cial [and dis­cred­ited] “long nut” the­o­ries of the assas­si­na­tions of both Pres­i­dent Kennedy and Mar­tin Luther King. (The infor­ma­tion about Mueller’s dis­cred­it­ing of Farago is excerpted from a let­ter writ­ten in 1981 to William Leonard, then the head of CBS news. Paul Manning’s let­ters to col­leagues can be accessed in FTR#145. The mate­r­ial about Pos­ner lead­ing the media charge to dis­credit Farago comes from Unholy Alliance by Peter Lev­enda [pub­lished in soft­cover by Avon Books in 1995].)

11. At Pres­i­dent Harry Truman’s request, the FBI began a post­war file on Mar­tin Bor­mann. The file revealed that he had been bank­ing under his own name in for some time. In August of 1967, he wrote three checks on demand accounts in New York City. Not bad for some­one who sup­pos­edly died in 1945. “The file revealed that he had been bank­ing under his own name from his office in Ger­many in Deutsche Bank of Buenos Aires since 1941; that he held one joint account with the Argen­tin­ian dic­ta­tor Juan Peron, and on August 4, 5 and 14, 1967, had writ­ten checks on demand accounts in first National City Bank (Over­seas Divi­sion) of New York, The Chase Man­hat­tan Bank, and Man­u­fac­tur­ers Hanover Trust Co., all cleared through Deutsche Bank of Buenos Aires.”
(Mar­tin Bor­mann: Nazi in Exile; pp. 205.)

12. The Bor­mann group’s enor­mous influ­ence has led to an effec­tive cover-up over the years. The fol­low­ing text pas­sage encap­su­lates the nature of the forces that applied pres­sure to Man­ning and oth­ers, through a com­bi­na­tion of polit­i­cal pres­sure, cor­po­rate influ­ence and [when deemed nec­es­sary] deadly force or the threat of it. “. . .were he to emerge, it would embar­rass the gov­ern­ments that assisted in his escape, the indus­trial and finan­cial lead­ers who ben­e­fited from his acu­men and trans­ferred their cap­i­tal to neu­tral nations in the clos­ing days of World War II, and the busi­ness­men of four con­ti­nents who prof­ited from the 750 cor­po­ra­tions he estab­lished through­out the world as depos­i­to­ries of money, patents, bearer bonds, and shares in blue chip indus­tries of the United States and Europe. . . When I pen­e­trated the silence cloak­ing this story, after count­less inter­views and labo­ri­ous research in Ger­man and Amer­i­can archives for reveal­ing doc­u­ments of World War II, I knew that the Bor­mann saga of flight cap­i­tal and his escape to South Amer­ica was really true. It had been cov­ered up by an unpar­al­leled manip­u­la­tion of pub­lic opin­ion and the media. The closer I got to the truth, the more quiet atten­tion I received from the forces sur­round­ing and pro­tect­ing Mar­tin Bor­mann, and also from those who had a direct inter­est in halt­ing my inves­ti­ga­tion. Over the period of years it took to research this book, I was the object of dili­gent obser­va­tion by squads of Gestapo agents dis­patched from South Amer­ica by Gen­eral ‘Gestapo’ Mul­ller, who directs all secu­rity mat­ters for Mar­tin Bor­mann, Nazi in exile, and his orga­ni­za­tion, the most remark­able busi­ness group any­where in the secret world of today. Mueller’s inter­est in me, an Amer­i­can jour­nal­ist, con­firmed the truth of my many inter­views and my ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion. . .There are also those in inter­na­tional gov­ern­ment and busi­ness who have attempted to stop my for­ward move­ment on this inves­ti­ga­tion. In Ger­many, France, Eng­land, and the United States, too many lead­ers in gov­ern­ment and finance still adhere to Win­ston Churchill’s state­ment to his Cab­i­net in 1943 ‘In wartime, truth is so pre­cious that she should always be attended by a body­guard of lies’ . . .Oddly, I encoun­tered less resis­tance from Mar­tin Bor­mann and his aging peers than I did from the cover-up groups in West Ger­many, Paris, Lon­don, Wash­ing­ton, and Wall Street.” (Ibid.; pp. 11–12.)

13. Two video pro­duc­tions are being gen­er­ated by a cou­ple of doc­u­men­tary film­mak­ers. One is a DVD of a three-lecture series called “The First Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Rela­tion­ship Between Fas­cism and Reli­gion.” To learn more about this, visit The Anti-Fascist YouTube.com page. In addi­tion, there will soon be a doc­u­men­tary about Mr. Emory, titled “The Anti-Fascist.” For more about this project, visit theantifascist.com.