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[2]Serpent’s Walk: Forecasts a Nazi takeover of U.S. in mid-twenty-first century, after SS takes over American media.
COMMENT: In our previous post, we asked who would dare to report the facts, if the German elderly now being “shipped to the East” to lessen the expense of medical care were actually being killed? (As time passes and the expense of care increases, the pressure to find a “solution” to the gerontology problem in Germany and elsewhere will increase.)
Certainly, the inclination toward candor in among the world’s literati declined with the creation of the world’s largest publisher.
The former supplier of books for the SS is wielding larger influence. Bertelsmann will dominate the new Random House/Penguin merged unit, which will control 25% of the world’s publishing business.
Formerly headed by “former” SS man Heinrich Mohn, Bertelsmann shows every indication of maintaining its Nazi character and obscuring them at the same time. Its official house historian [3] published books blaming World War II on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. imperialism and Jewish control of the U.S. news media.
With Bertelsmann continuing its efforts in the music business [4] and other Underground Reich media entities like Al Jazeera [5] gaining in the American media market, we expect the scenario presented in [6]Serpent’s Walk [6] to come to pass.
“Random House and Penguin Merger Creates Global Giant” by E [7]ric Pfanner and Amy Chozick; The New York Times; 10/29/2012. [7]
EXCERPT: The book publishing industry is starting to get smaller in order to get stronger.
The announcement on Monday that Random House and Penguin would merge narrows the business to a handful of big publishers, and could set off a long-expected round of consolidation as the industry adapts to the digital marketplace.
John Makinson, the chief executive of Penguin who will serve as chairman of the new company, said that with consolidation inevitable, “we decided it was better to get in early rather than be a follower.”
In announcing the agreement, the European owners of Random House and Penguin — Bertelsmann and Pearson, respectively — said Bertelsmann would control 53 percent of the combined entity and Pearson 47 percent. In a statement, Bertelsmann said the deal would most likely conclude in the second half of 2013, after approval from regulators.
The merger will create the largest consumer book publisher in the world, with a global market share of more than 25 percent and a book list that includes contemporary best-sellers like Random House’s “Fifty Shades of Grey” and Penguin’s backlist of classics from authors like George Orwell. . . .
[8]“Bertelsmann’s Revisionist” by Hersch Fischler and John Friedman; The Nation; 11/8/99. [9]
EXCERPT: . . . Rewriting history, he [Bertelsmann house historian Dirk Bavendamm] stated that Roosevelt, not Hitler had caused World War II. He also wrote that American Jews controlled most of the media,’ and he claimed they gave a false picture of Hitler. Did the book impress [Heinrich’s son Reinhard] Mohn, then the majority shareholder of Bertelsmann? The firm hired Bavendamm as its house historian, and in 1984 he completed a historical study, 150 Years of Bertelsmann: The Founders and Their Time—with a foreword by Mohn.
A year later, Bavendamm edited the firm’s official history, which set forth the untrue story that the firm had resisted the Nazis and had been closed down by them. Mohn also asked Bavendamm to write the authorized history of the Mohn family, published in 1986 under the title Bertelsmann, Mohn, Scippel: Three Families—One Company. In a second book, Roosevelt’s War (published in 1993, reissued in 1998), Bavendamm accuses the U.S. President of enacting a plan to start World War II. In the same book he suggests that Hitler’s threats in early 1939 against European Jewry were a reaction to Roosevelt’s strategy against Germany.
After the revelations about Bertelsmann’s Nazi past appeared, the company announced that it had asked ‘the historian and publicist Dr. Dirk Bavendamm to look at the new information and begin to reinvestigate the role the publishing house played in those days’ and defended his work. . .