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APRIL - MAY 1998 © REVIEWS cannibalism), BSE and scrapie. were rewarded for their funding of the B oO oO K Ss Her chilling, detective-style account, regime in the lead-up to and throughout Reviewed by Ruth Parnell Cannibals, Cows &the CJD Catastrophe, World War II. Central to his argument is includes interviews with key scientists, the that the Jewish Holocaust was largely moti- CANNIBALS, COWS & THE C/D heart-wrenching experiences of many vic- vated by profit and the opportunity to seize CATASTROPHE tims and their families, and the ongoing liti- Jewish property. by Jennifer Cooke gation in Australia, UK and Europe. Her Hitler and His Secret Partners covers the Publisher: Random House, Aust, 1998 warnings about a time bomb waiting to go__—_—‘1933 to 1945 period, but, to get a firmer ISBN: 0-09-183691-3 (398pp hic) off have serious implications for us all. grasp on the big picture according to Pool, Price: AUD$24.95; NZD$27.95 the reader should refer to his earlier work, Distributor: AusNZ—Random House. HITLER AND HIS SECRET PARTNERS: ji"? Financed Hitler, which considers the n late November 1991 in Australia's Contributions, Loot and Rewards more deail on Hitler's fore: n financiers ln Federal Parliament came the first public by James Pool this volume, the foreign influences emerge announcement of deaths from Creutzfeldt- Publisher: Pocket Books, USA, 1997 more as (questionable) moral supporters Jakob disease (CJD) attributable to human ISBN: 0-671-76081-5 (425pp hic), than financial saviours pituitary hormone (hPG) injections used in Price: AUD$34.95; NZD$39.95; : women's fertility and children's growth pro-__ sT@E48.99; NFL 52,90; USD$24.00; grams. Public outrage followed when it was GAN$39 00 on , realised that the warning signs were there in ¥etriby ore: the mid-1980s; that unethical and unsafe Distributors: Aust/UK/USA/Canada— : F : Simon & Schuster; NZ—Macmillan, ph practices were the norm in the extraction of rE. ie piuay glans from cadavers taboos ee iPtorcocmmes (AND AES bank supplies were probably already conta- S ” : minated with CJD; and that the debilitating new information has emerged about the c ; disease could take hold well over a decade rise and fall of Hitler, the Nazis and the 43 i a] after cessation of the hormone injections. Third Reich. This book, Hitler and His One journalist to reveal the cover-up and Secret Partners, is another interesting the human cost was Jennifer Cooke, a senior ©XPOS¢ of what went on behind the scenes of medical writer with the Sydney Morning the regime. Author James Pool argues that Herald, who went on to spend much of the it was greed as much as lust for power that next five years researching the CJD crisis in Was at the heart of the Third Reich (though, Contributions, — Australia and around the world. She had surely, greed and lust for power are funda- Loot # oe planned to focus her book on the CJD/hPG mental to any regime!). 4 J o~ tragedy, but when the deaths of 10 young Hitler's partners were the secret govern- Aeowaer bl Britons from a new variant strain of CJD ment of his day: the industrialists, bankers 1933-1545 were linked with the BSE (mad cow disease) _ and military, all working together to fund epidemic in March 1996, Cooke was com- the expansionist dream which World War I pelled to expand the scope to cover the links _ failed to materialise. While the occult moti- between various spongiform "prion" dis- vations behind Hitler and the Third Reich eases: CJD, kuru (found in some Papua are not part of Pool's domain, there are reve- New Guinean highland tribes who practised _ lations enough about how Hitler's supporters cannibalism), BSE and scrapie. Her chilling, detective-style account, Cannibals, Cows &the CJD Catastrophe, includes interviews with key scientists, the heart-wrenching experiences of many vic- tims and their families, and the ongoing liti- gation in Australia, UK and Europe. Her warnings about a time bomb waiting to go off have serious implications for us all. were rewarded for their funding of the regime in the lead-up to and throughout World War II. Central to his argument is that the Jewish Holocaust was largely moti- vated by profit and the opportunity to seize Jewish property. Hitler and His Secret Partners covers the 1933 to 1945 period, but, to get a firmer grasp on the big picture according to Pool, the reader should refer to his earlier work, Who Financed Hitler, which considers the lead-up period of 1919 to 1933 and goes into more detail on Hitler's foreign financiers. In this volume, the foreign influences emerge more as (questionable) moral supporters than financial saviours. NEXUS -75