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In AFA#1 we noted that the term “Iron Curtain,” generally believed to have been minted by Winston Churchill in a famous address he gave in Missouri, was actually purloined from a propaganda address given by Hitler finance minister Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk during the twilight days of the Third Reich.
Von Krosigk’s granddaughter is a German parliamentary representative from the AfD, a neo-fascist political party in Germany. She has been networking with members of the Brazilian royal family, with which she is distantly related.
” . . . . It was uttered by Hitler’s former Finance Minister, Count [Lutz] Schwerin von Krosigk, on May 2, 1945, when he was trying desperately to win Allied recognition for the government of Admiral Doenitz [in which von Krosigk was briefly Foreign Minister—D.E.]. . . . ‘The Iron Curtain moves closer,’ he declared in a broadcast. ‘People caught in the mighty hands of the Bolsheviks are being destroyed.’. . . ”
Also in AFA#1 we set forth the fact that the phrase “Better Than Dead” also originated from radio broadcasts in the twilight days of the Third Reich.
The Werewolves were a guerilla network composed primarily of Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens. Their combat role in the closing days of the war was minimal, however the propaganda and psychological warfare impact was considerable.
In FTR#894, we noted that former Werewolf formations were incorporated into the German component of the “Stay Behind” fascist cadres assembled by the U.S. and NATO during the Cold War.
” . . . . It was the symbolism, as always, that counted. Radio Werewolf hammered the theme ‘Rather dead than Red’ (a phrase that lived long after). . . .”
. . . . The threat of war between the Western Allies and Russia had been promoted for years by the Nazis. This vision of ultimate conflict with “barbaric Bolshevism” produced the first reference to an Iron Curtain.
It was uttered by Hitler’s former Finance Minister, Count [Lutz] Schwerin von Krosigk, on May 2, 1945, when he was trying desperately to win Allied recognition for the government of Admiral Doenitz [in which von Krosigk was briefly Foreign Minister—D.E.]. Schwerin von Krosigk was an unctuous figure who had never forgotten Hess’s saying before his departure that the two Germanic nations, Britain and Germany, were fighting each other to the enormous satisfaction of the Bolsheviks. The Count, a former Rhodes Scholar, who seems to have learned nothing about the English during his time at Oxford, calculated that Hess had made some impression on his British hosts. “The Iron Curtain moves closer,” he declared in a broadcast. “People caught in the mighty hands of the Bolsheviks are being destroyed.”
The term was picked up from the German broadcast. Churchill used it when he cabled President Harry Truman on May 12: “An Iron Curtain is drawn upon their front. We do not know what is going on behind.” He dropped it into a speech in the United States. It demonstrates the infectious nature of the fears deliberately released by Hitler’s followers in order to win Western sympathy. . . .
. . . . It was the symbolism, as always, that counted. Radio Werewolf hammered the theme “Rather dead than Red” (a phrase that lived long after). Bolshevism was the real enemy; the Nazis had always resisted the Bolsheviks; therefore any German who helped the enemies of Nazism was helping the Bolsheviks and was a traitor. A climate was being created that would favor the concealment of wanted men. . . .
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