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This pro­gram details the role of Ger­man and Amer­i­can cor­po­ra­tions in arm­ing Sad­dam Hus­sein with his weapons of mass destruc­tion — chem­i­cal, bio­log­i­cal and nuclear. Many of the cor­po­rate inter­ests tar­geted in a class-action law suit filed by Amer­i­can vet­er­ans of the Per­sian Gulf War are the same cor­po­ra­tions that were instru­men­tal in equip­ping Hitler’s armies. In May of 1980, the Uncle Sam and The Swastika Archive Show set forth how these cor­po­ra­tions armed Hitler and pro­moted his rise to power. This broad­cast reprises some excerpts of the orig­i­nal 1980 pro­gram and high­lights how cor­po­ra­tions like Degesch, Degussa and Thyssen AG helped build the chem­i­cal, bio­log­i­cal and nuclear arma­ments that the plain­tiffs in the above-mentioned law­suit believe resulted in Gulf War Syn­drome. Degesch and Degussa were sub­sidiary com­pa­nies of the giant I.G. Far­ben chem­i­cal com­pany that was the back­bone of Third Reich indus­try and of polit­i­cal sup­port for Hitler. These two com­pa­nies made the Zyk­lon B used in the gas cham­bers dur­ing World War II. Iron­i­cally, this gas was orig­i­nally used as a pes­ti­cide and “pes­ti­cides” were the nom­i­nal pur­pose of the gases that Sad­dam devel­oped as well. As the United States pre­pared for mil­i­tary action against Iraq in early 1998, the Defense Depart­ment decided to inoc­u­late more than two mil­lion armed forces per­son­nel against anthrax, one of the bio­log­i­cal war­fare agents believed to be in Saddam’s arse­nal. The com­pany that makes the vac­cines for the army is Merck, a German-owned com­pany that has been deeply involved in bio­log­i­cal war­fare devel­op­ment and, like the Ger­man cor­po­ra­tions that gave Sad­dam much of his CBW capa­bil­ity, they are con­trolled by the remark­able and deadly Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion. The lat­ter lit­er­ally con­sti­tutes an under­ground Reich, which con­trols cor­po­rate Ger­many and much of the rest of the world from its base in Latin Amer­ica. If the Anthrax vac­cine were acci­den­tally or delib­er­ately con­t­a­m­i­nated by a path­o­genic agent, the results for the United States could be catastrophic.