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NB: This descrip­tion con­tains mate­r­i­al not includ­ed in the orig­i­nal broad­cast.

Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of Jörg Haider, this pro­gram ana­lyzes the progress of fas­cist polit­i­cal forces on the Euro­pean polit­i­cal scene and com­mon ide­o­log­i­cal and oper­a­tional ele­ments shared by them.

Termed “the Yup­pie Fas­cist” by some, Haider has been the lynch­pin of the Aus­tri­an Free­dom Par­ty. This par­ty was cre­at­ed in the late 1940s as a vehi­cle for the polit­i­cal reha­bil­i­ta­tion of Nazis who had served Hitler. Haider has termed his polit­i­cal agen­da “the Con­tract with Aus­tria,” after that of for­mer Amer­i­can Repub­li­can Speak­er of the House Newt Gin­grich. Suc­cess­ful­ly mobi­liz­ing Aus­tri­ans’ fear of “immi­grants,” Haider has entered the gov­ern­ment as part of a par­lia­men­tary coali­tion. Begin­ning with Haider’s links with overt Ger­man “neo”-Nazis, the pro­gram under­scores his polit­i­cal sol­i­dar­i­ty with the old and new min­ions of Adolf Hitler. Lion­iz­ing the SS, Haider has stead­fast­ly refused to con­demn his Third Reich polit­i­cal antecedents. The pro­gram reviews Haider’s links with Ital­ian reac­tionar­ies and fas­cists and dis­cuss­es the lat­ter’s adop­tion of Haider’s anti-immi­grant stance.

Next, the broad­cast high­lights the grow­ing polit­i­cal for­tunes of media mag­nate Sil­vio Berlus­coni, viewed by ana­lysts of Ital­ian pol­i­tics as a pos­si­ble prime min­is­ter. (Berlus­coni had pre­vi­ous­ly held that post, in polit­i­cal coali­tion with Gian­fran­co Fini, the head of the Ital­ian fas­cist par­ty and polit­i­cal heir to Mus­soli­ni.)

The focus then shifts to the for­mer East Bloc coun­tries, with an analy­sis of the growth of fas­cism and anti-Semi­tism in Hun­gary. An Axis nation dur­ing World War II, Hun­gary has shown signs of return­ing to the past. The broad­cast con­cludes with a look at the con­tin­ued spon­sor­ship of Nazi ter­ror­ists by domes­tic Ger­man intel­li­gence ser­vices.

1.—U.S. Intel­li­gence and The Nazis by Richard Bre­it­man, Nor­man J.W. Goda, Tim­o­thy Naf­tali and Robert Wolfe; Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Press [SC]; Copy­right 2005 by Richard Bre­it­man, Nor­man J.W. Goda, Tim­o­thy Naf­tali and Robert Wolfe; ISBN 13978–0‑521–61794‑9; p. 298.

. . . . The CIC’s inter­est was trig­gered by Ger­man Red Orches­tra sur­vivors’ call for the tri­al of Dr. Man­fred Roed­er, judge advo­cate gen­er­al and chief legal offi­cer of Air Region III (Berlin) and the chief pros­e­cu­tor to Red Orches­tra spies arrest­ed in Berlin. Lat­er known as “Hitler’s Blood­hound,” Roed­er secured Her­mann Goering’s agree­ment to try the defen­dants before a mil­i­tary court-mar­tial and demand­ed the death sen­tences that were hand­ed down, even to many whose role was inci­den­tal. Roed­er pre­pared his cas­es with Gestapo help. . . .

2.– U.S. Intel­li­gence and The Nazis by Richard Bre­it­man, Nor­man J.W. Goda, Tim­o­thy Naf­tali and Robert Wolfe; Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Press [SC]; Copy­right 2005 by Richard Bre­it­man, Nor­man J.W. Goda, Tim­o­thy Naf­tali and Robert Wolfe; ISBN 13978–0‑521–61794‑9; p. 299.

. . . . By 1947, the CIC [Army Counter-Intel­li­gence Corps] in Regens­burg launched a full inves­ti­ga­tion based on the assump­tions that Red Orches­tra sur­vivors in Ger­many were still work­ing for the Sovi­ets and that for­mer Nazis were those best suit­ed to dis­cov­er who and where they were. The CIC Spe­cial Agent Ben­jamin Gor­by led the inves­ti­ga­tion. Roed­er, a want­ed war crim­i­nal, would be the key source. [Ital­ics mine—D.E.] . . .

3.– U.S. Intel­li­gence and The Nazis by Richard Bre­it­man, Nor­man J.W. Goda, Tim­o­thy Naf­tali and Robert Wolfe; Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Press [SC]; Copy­right 2005 by Richard Bre­it­man, Nor­man J.W. Goda, Tim­o­thy Naf­tali and Robert Wolfe; ISBN 13978–0‑521–61794‑9; p. 300.

. . . . Once in the CIC’s care, Roed­er took advan­tage, not­ing that the Red Orches­tra “is still alive and active in more than one coun­try.” This com­ment drove fur­ther inves­ti­ga­tion. Gor­by quick­ly insist­ed that the inter­ro­ga­tion, orig­i­nal­ly envi­sioned for three weeks, now became a project of six months or more that would include not only Roed­er and [Wal­ter] Hup­penkothen, but also “oth­er per­son­al­i­ties who pos­sess a wealth of infor­ma­tion and expe­ri­ence in the field of coun­teres­pi­onage and who, to the best knowl­edge of this head­quar­ters, have not . . . been ful­ly exploit­ed.”. . .

4.– U.S. Intel­li­gence and The Nazis by Richard Bre­it­man, Nor­man J.W. Goda, Tim­o­thy Naf­tali and Robert Wolfe; Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Press [SC]; Copy­right 2005 by Richard Bre­it­man, Nor­man J.W. Goda, Tim­o­thy Naf­tali and Robert Wolfe; ISBN 13978–0‑521–61794‑9; p. 301.

 . . . . The office of The Chief of Coun­sel, which thought Roed­er and Hup­penkothen both deserved long prison sen­tences, was stunned that the CIC had used them. On their return to the con­trol of the war crimes author­i­ties, nei­ther man would answer ques­tions, claim­ing that they were work­ing for the CIC . . . .

5.– U.S. Intel­li­gence and The Nazis by Richard Bre­it­man, Nor­man J.W. Goda, Tim­o­thy Naf­tali and Robert Wolfe; Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Press [SC]; Copy­right 2005 by Richard Bre­it­man, Nor­man J.W. Goda, Tim­o­thy Naf­tali and Robert Wolfe; ISBN 13978–0‑521–61794‑9; p. 302.

. . . . By 1951, Man­fred Roed­er had used his past as a Nazi sup­port­er to become a West Ger­man polit­i­cal fig­ure on the rad­i­cal right. His rela­tion­ship with the CIC in 1947 and 1948 showed him that anti-com­mu­nism offered pro­tec­tion from pros­e­cu­tion and vin­di­cat­ed his view of Germany’s Nazi past. Though not a mem­ber of the Social­ist Reich Par­ty (SRP)—a neo-Nazi par­ty found­ed in 1949 and banned in 1952—Roeder sup­port­ed the SRP and was close to one of its founders, a volkisch writer named Fritz Dorls. . . .

Pro­gram High­lights Include: analy­sis of the fas­cist alle­giances of Haider’s min­is­te­r­i­al appoint­ments; Haider’s con­nec­tions to Ital­ian reac­tionary Umber­to Bossi; Berlus­coni’s spon­sor­ship of an anti-immi­grant bill that echoes Haider’s agen­da; Berlus­coni’s mem­ber­ship in the fas­cist P‑2 Lodge; Hun­gar­i­an gov­ern­men­tal endorse­ment of media voic­es that express tra­di­tion­al Euro­pean anti-Semit­ic sen­ti­ment; Hun­gar­i­an nos­tal­gia for and revival of the Arrow Cross milieu that fought along­side the Third Reich; polit­i­cal alliance between a state-spon­sored Nazi ter­ror­ist in Ger­many and Man­fred Roed­er (a con­vict­ed Nazi killer who enjoyed sup­port from the Ger­man army and its elite offi­cers acad­e­my in the “new” Ger­many.) (Record­ed on 4/2/2000.)