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in helping Lenin travel to Russia in 1917, thus providing succour _—_ elsewhere, the wartime head of Britain's Special Operations to the Bolshevik Revolution that Hitler later so detested.’ Is this Executive (SOE), which was the template for the American simply a case of the left hand not knowing what the right one was OSS." doing, or could it be merely an example of the Hegelian dialectic As stated earlier, the "Group" is the British arm of the of forging conflict in order to forge the future shape and direction American Order of Skull and Bones—or is it the other way of human history? around?'> Either way, Skull and Bones is a "chapter of a German In any event, besides Max Warburg with his financing of the secret society". The "originating" prong of the "Group" and the PEM, another German banker in the form of Hjalmar Schacht was "Order" is, in the view of Professor Antony Sutton, almost cer- involved, addressing the first mass rally of the Pan European tainly the outlawed Bavarian Illuminati.'° Movement held in Berlin. Schacht would go on to work for Hitler as Minister for Economics and President of the Reichsbank. If THE "RED HOUSE" MEETING one believes in coincidence, then behold a coincidence: together It is self evident that the same behind-the-scenes banking and with Hitler, Max Warburg signed the document that appointed industrial forces who financed Hitler's rise to power as well as his Hjalmar Schacht to the presidency of the Reichsbank. Imagine subsequent military build-up would also take all necessary steps that! Max's brother, Paul Warburg, was a director of American to protect their hard investments once it became clear that Hitler 1G Farben as well as being the first director of the Federal and Germany were doomed to failure. Clarity arrived with the Reserve Bank of New York.’ devastating defeat of Field Marshal von Paulus's 6th Army Group Known simply as the "AO" (after the anglicised Greek letters at Stalingrad in January 1943. Any lingering doubts were erased Alpha and Omega), the Auslandsorganisation was the foreign with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, D-Day. intelligence arm of the Nazi Party and engaged in espionage, fifth With the Germans unable to repulse the Allied forces back into column, propaganda and "economic" activities in furtherance of the sea, it was clear for all to see that Hitler's days were Nazi aims. Overseas members of the AO operated largely numbered. through German owned or controlled Two months after the D-Day overseas companies. They included landings, a secret meeting was held in numerous employees of IG Farben, an elegant hotel in Strasbourg that was based at home and abroad. In fact, aimed at securing and protecting the Farben not only ran the AO but wealth of Nazi Germany and its loyal financed it." One of the most senior bankers and industrialists. On the Farben men involved in AO activities Skull and Bones morning of 10 August 1944, SS was Max Ilgner, who was the nephew is a "chapter of a German Obergruppenfiihrer Scheid, a of Farben director Hermann Schmitz— A " lieutenant-general in the Waffen-SS as whose ambition was to "form a world secret society . well as a director of the industrial fascist state without war if possible".'' company Hermansdorff & Schenburg, Ilgner, who was a uniform-wearing arrived at the Hétel Maison Rouge set member of the feared Gestapo, had in Strasbourg's rue des France- allied Farben's intelligence unit, known Bourgeois. as "NW7", with the AO and had Dr Scheid had been sent to host the recruited an army of 5,000 that operate meeting by none other than through American IG." Another member of Farben's NW7 was Reichsleiter Martin Bormann—by then the second most powerful Giinther Frank-Fahle, who was born in Bradford, England. man in Nazi Germany, after Hitler. Although the nominal head of the AO was Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, Bormann's rise to power followed on from the ill-fated flight of it was actually under the direct day-to-day control of Walter Rudolf Hess in 1941, when he parachuted to land in Scotland to Schellenberg—head of the SD, the Gestapo's counterintelligence meet secretly with the Duke of Hamilton. With the loss of his service—who described Farben as a "state within a state" to his friend, and his plans in tatters for creating a secret alliance with interrogators after the war. However, the overall boss of the AO Britain to fight Russia, Hitler heaped all of Hess's duties and was Deputy Fiihrer Rudolf Hess. responsibilities—with the exception of the office of Deputy The industrialists and bankers who funded Hitler's rise to power Fiihrer, which he abolished—onto Bormann's broad, bull-like in 1933 had their contributions processed through Hjalmar shoulders. Bormann also took over control of the AO. Schacht's account at the private Delbruck Schickler Bank in Before sending Dr Scheid to Strasbourg, Bormann had confided Berlin. The funds in this account were administered by Hitler's to him that "the steps to be taken as a result of this meeting will deputy, Rudolf Hess. Delbruck Schickler Bank was a subsidiary determine the post-war future of Germany", adding that the plan of Metallgesellschaft AG ("Metall"), by far the largest non-ferrous was to ensure an eventual "economic resurgence of Germany".”” metal company in Germany. Metallgesellschaft was jointly Present at the meeting, in addition to Dr Scheid, were owned by IG Farben and the British Metal Corporation."* representatives of Krupp, Messerschmitt, Rheinmetall, Bussing, One of the two British directors of "Metall" was Oliver Volkswagenwerk and engineers representing various factories in Lyttelton, who was Controller of Non-Ferrous Metals in 1939-40, Posen, Poland, including Brown Boveri—an important part of the Minister of Production in 1942-45 and a member of Churchill's German electrical industry that was part owned by two American War Cabinet. Lyttelton's mother was, by a merry coincidence, a companies, General Electric and International Telephone & member of the Rhodes—Milner Oxford "Group", whereas the Telegraph. Today, Brown Boveri (now Asea Brown Boveri) is a eldest son of the fifth Baron Lyttelton was the private secretary to massive multinational corporation employing almost 200,000 Lord Selborne during his years in South Africa. Lord Selborne staff worldwide and still maintains it close contacts with the USA. would take over leadership of the "Group" following Alfred Prior to his appointment as George W. Bush's Secretary of Milner's death in 1925. He was also, as I have remarked Defense, Donald Rumsfeld was on its board of directors.'* elsewhere, the wartime head of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), which was the template for the American OSS." As stated earlier, the "Group" is the British arm of the American Order of Skull and Bones—or is it the other way around?'> Either way, Skull and Bones is a "chapter of a German secret society". The "originating" prong of the "Group" and the "Order" is, in the view of Professor Antony Sutton, almost cer- tainly the outlawed Bavarian Illuminati.'° THE "RED HOUSE" MEETING It is self evident that the same behind-the-scenes banking and industrial forces who financed Hitler's rise to power as well as his subsequent military build-up would also take all necessary steps to protect their hard investments once it became clear that Hitler and Germany were doomed to failure. Clarity arrived with the devastating defeat of Field Marshal von Paulus's 6th Army Group at Stalingrad in January 1943. Any lingering doubts were erased with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, D-Day. With the Germans unable to repulse the Allied forces back into the sea, it was clear for all to see that Hitler's days were numbered. is a "chapter of a German secret society". 34 = NEXUS Skull and Bones www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2005