The first Jesuits were crypto‑Jews. Ignatius Loyola himself was a crypto‑Jew
of the Occult
Cabala. A crypto‑Jew is a
Jew who converts to another religion and outwardly embraces the new
religion, while secretly maintaining Jewish practices. As John Torell
explains: "In 1491 San Ignacio de
Loyola was born in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa, Spain. His parents were Marranos and at the
time of his birth the family was very wealthy. As a young man he became
a member of the Jewish
Illuminati order in Spain. As a cover for his crypto Jewish activities,
he became very active as a
Roman Catholic. On May 20, 1521 Ignatius (as he was now called) was
wounded in a battle, and
became a semi‑cripple. Unable to succeed in the military and
political arena, he started a quest for
holiness and eventually ended up in Paris where he studied for the
priesthood. In 1539 he had
moved to Rome where he founded the "JESUIT ORDER," which was
to become the most vile, bloody
and persecuting order in the Roman Catholic Church. In 1540, the current Pope Paul III approved
the order. At Loyola's death in 1556 there were more than 1000 members
in the Jesuit order,
located in a number of nations."
Ignatius of Loyola's secretary, Polanco, was of Jewish descent and was
the only person present at
Loyola's deathbed. James Lainez, who succeeded Loyola as the second
Jesuit General, was also of
Jewish descent. Jews were attracted to the Jesuit order and joined in
large numbers. Lacunza was
no exception. He was a Jew, which explains why he introduced the
eschatological teaching of a
return to the Jewish animal sacrifices during the Millennium. (In a book titled The Coming of the
Messiah in Glory and Majesty published in 1812, 11 years after the death
of its author, Jesuit
Emanuel de Lacunza who, wrote under the fictitious pen name of a
purportedly converted Jew,
Rabbi Juan Josaphat Ben Ezra, in order to conceal his identity and to
make his writings more
palatable to the Protestant readers. He promoted the writings of
sixteenth century Jesuit priest
Francisco Ribera, developing a futuristic perspective which restricted
the prophetic fulfillments in the
book of Revelation to the end of the world). Lacunza also wrote that during a millennium
after the
tribulation the Jewish animal sacrifices would be reinstated along with
the Eucharist (the mass) of
the Catholic Church. Lacunza has followed after Jewish fables and
replaced the commandments of
God with the commandments of men. That doctrine gives the Jews primacy
in God's plan and
relegates Christians to a prophetic parenthetical to be supplanted by
the Jews during the
thousand year earthly reign of Christ.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
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August 2002
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Editor's note:
You just never
know where or when some truly insightful information is going to
cross our path to share with you.
How the Vatican created Islam.
The astonishing story from an ex-Jesuit
priest, Alberto Rivera, which was told to him by Cardinal Bea while
he was at the Vatican.
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How about a "comic book" form of publication of important suppressed history about the Jesuit/Vatican hand in the creation of Islam and Islam's founder, the prophet Muhammad?
According to the Introduction to what
you are about to read:
"This information came from Alberto Rivera, former Jesuit priest, after his conversion to Protestant Christianity. It is excerpted from The Prophet, published by Chick Publications, P.O. Box 662, Chino CA 91708.Since its publication, after several unsuccessful attempts on his life, he died suddenly from food poisoning. His testimony should not be silenced. Dr. Rivera speaks to us still.""The Destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem" by Nicolas Poussin (1637)
More complete information and color
illustrations of this and related materials are available for
viewing and purchase from
www choosinglife.net/Islam.htm
Internet website (note that the website address is
case-sensitive to the capital I in the word Islam.)
Because of the provocative nature of this material, I (E.Y.) asked Rick Martin to contact SPECTRUM friend Eric Jon Phelps, author of the blockbuster research work VATICAN ASSASSINS, for his opinion.
This is what Eric wrote back via email:
"This is from the Chick comic book 'Alberto' series, titled The Prophet. And it is absolutely true. Islam is a sword of the Church evidenced by who the Moslems have killed for the last 100 years."
Eric also said, in a later
communication, that Dr. Alberto Rivera first publicly released
this information back in 1988.
Of course, Eric would likely add another
twenty pages of details to this document tracing the Jesuit hand in
these shenanigans, but you'll be able to spot that thread easily
enough from what is related in the following narrative (analysis
by Eric Phelps of a recent example of the typically two-faced
nature of Vatican propaganda as carried out through their
controlled media puppetry.)
Pay attention to the overall picture being painted below; don't get caught up in arcane theological language and related concepts that obviously derive from Dr. Rivera's background. The Dark Energies, by any name, reveal themselves through their ACTIONS!
Also pay close attention to another thread running through the following narrative - one which provides important background for the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict.
In beautiful contrast to what
you're programmed to believe through the media, that Arabs and
Israelis can't get along, elsewhere in this issue of The SPECTRUM is
a very warm and personal account of some Jews sharing in the
hospitality of some Arabs.
The actual (natural) inclination for people of even diverse backgrounds to generally live in peace and get along with each other on common human grounds always reveals when there has been the instigation of conditions (by diabolical ones operating behind the scenes) that are calculated to artificially provoke strife and war.
The following is a good example of just
such behind-the-scenes shenanigans that are carried out by ones long
overshadowed by the Dark Energies.
from ChoosingLife Websiterecovered through WayBackMachine WebsiteWhat I'm going to tell you is what I learned in secret briefings in the Vatican when I was a Jesuit priest, under oath and induction.
A Jesuit cardinal named Augustine Bea showed us how desperately the Roman Catholics wanted Jerusalem at the end of the third century. Because of its religious history and its strategic location, the Holy City was considered a priceless treasure.A scheme had to be developed to make Jerusalem a Roman Catholic city. The great untapped source of manpower that could do this job was the children of Ishmael.The poor Arabs fell victim to one of the most clever plans ever devised by the Powers of Darkness.Early Christians went everywhere with the gospel, setting up small churches, but they met heavy opposition.Both the Jews and the Roman government persecuted the believers in Christ to stop their spread.
But the Jews rebelled against Rome, and in 70 A.D. Roman armies under General Titus smashed Jerusalem and destroyed the great Jewish temple which was the heart of Jewish worship - in fulfillment of Christ's prophecy in Matthew 24:2.On this holy place, where the temple once stood, the Dome of the Rock Mosque stands today as Islam's second most holy place.
Sweeping changes were in the wind. Corruption, apathy, greed, cruelty, perversion, and rebellion were eating at the Roman Empire, and it was ready to collapse. The persecution against Christians was useless, as they continued to lay down their lives for the gospel of Christ.
The only way Satan could stop this thrust was to create a counterfeit "Christian" religion to destroy the work of God.The solution was in Rome. Their religion had come from ancient Babylon, and all it needed was a face-lift. This didn't happen overnight, but began in the writings of the "early church fathers".
It was through their writings that a new religion would take shape. The statue of Jupiter in Rome was eventually called St. Peter, and the statue of Venus was changed to the Virgin Mary. The site chosen for its headquarters was on one of the seven hills called "Vaticanus" - the place of diving serpent where the satanic Temple of Janus stood.
The great counterfeit religion was Roman Catholicism, called "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth" (Revelation 17:5). She was raised up to block the gospel, slaughter the believers in Christ, establish religions, create wars, and make the nations drunk with the wine of her fornication as we will see.
Three major religions have one thing in common - each has a holy place where they look for guidance. Roman Catholicism looks to the Vatican as the Holy City. The Jews look to the wailing wall in Jerusalem, and the Muslims look to Mecca as their Holy City.Each group believes that they receive certain types of blessings for the rest of their lives for visiting their holy place.
In the beginning, Arab visitors would bring gifts to the "House of God" and the keepers of the Kaaba were gracious to all who came. Some brought their idols and, not wanting to offend these people, their idols were placed inside the sanctuary.It is said that the Jews looked upon the Kaaba as an outlying tabernacle of the Lord, with veneration until it became polluted with idols.The Kaaba, MeccaIn a tribal contention over a well (Zamzam) the treasure of the Kaaba and the offerings that pilgrims had given were dumped down the well and it was filled with sand; it disappeared.Many years later Adb al-Muttalib was given visions telling him where to find the well and its treasure. He became the hero of Mecca, and he was destined to become the grandfather of Muhammad.
Before this time, Augustine became the bishop of North Africa and was effective in winning Arabs to Roman Catholicism, including whole tribes. It was among these Arab converts to Catholicism that the concept of looking for an Arab prophet developed.
Muhammad's father died from illness, and sons born to great Arab families in places like Mecca were sent into the desert to be suckled and weaned and spend some of their childhood with Bedouin tribes for training and to avoid the plagues in the cities.After his mother and grandfather also died, Muhammad was with his uncle when a Roman Catholic monk learned of his identity and said:"Take your brother's son back to his country and guard him against the Jews, for by God, if they see him and know of him that which I know, they will construe evil against him. Great things are in store for this brother's son of yours."The Roman Catholic monk had fanned the flames for future Jewish persecutions at the hands of the followers of Muhammad.The Vatican desperately wanted Jerusalem because of its religious significance, but was blocked by the Jews.
Another problem was the true Christians in North Africa who preached the gospel. Roman Catholicism was growing in power, but would not tolerate opposition. Somehow the Vatican had to create a weapon to eliminate both the Jews and the true Christian believers who refused to accept Roman Catholicism. Looking to North Africa, they saw the multitudes of Arabs as a source of manpower to do their dirty work.
Some Arabs had become Roman Catholic, and could be used in reporting information to leaders in Rome. Others were used in an underground spy network to carry out Rome's master plan to control the great multitudes of Arabs who rejected Catholicism.
When "St. Augustine" appeared on the scene, he knew what was going on. His monasteries served as bases to seek out and destroy Bible manuscripts owned by the true Christians.
The Vatican wanted to create a messiah for the Arabs, someone they could raise up as a great leader, a man with charisma whom they could train, and eventually unite all the non-Catholic Arabs behind him, creating a mighty army that would ultimately capture Jerusalem for the pope.In the Vatican briefing, Cardinal Bea told us this story:A wealthy Arabian lady who was a faithful follower of the pope played a tremendous part in this drama. She was a widow named Khadijah. She gave her wealth to the church and retired to a convent, but was given an assignment.
She was to find a brilliant young man who could be used by the Vatican to create a new religion and become the messiah for the children of Ishmael.Khadijah had a cousin named Waraquah, who was also a very faithful Roman Catholic, and the Vatican placed him in a critical role as Muhammad's advisor. He had tremendous influence on Muhammad.Teachers were sent to young Muhammad and he had intensive training. Muhammad studied the works of St. Augustine, which prepared him for his "great calling". The Vatican had Catholic Arabs across North Africa spread the story of a great one who was about to rise up among the people and be the chosen one of their God.
While Muhammad was being prepared, he was told that his enemies were the Jews and that the only true Christians were Roman Catholic. He was taught that others calling themselves Christians were actually wicked impostors and should be destroyed. Many Muslims believe this.
Muhammad began receiving "divine revelations" and his wife's Catholic cousin Waraquah helped interpret them. From this came the Koran. In the fifth year of Muhammad's mission, persecution came against his followers because they refused to worship the idols in the Kaaba.
Muhammad instructed some of them to flee to Abysinnia, where Negus, the Roman Catholic king, accepted them because Muhammad's views on the virgin Mary were so close to Roman Catholic doctrine. These Muslims received protection from Catholic kings because of Muhammad's revelations.
Muhammad later conquered Mecca and the Kaaba was cleared of idols.History proves that before Islam came into existence, the Sabeans in Arabia worshiped the moon-god who was married to the sun-god. They gave birth to three goddesses, who were worshipped throughout the Arab world as "Daughters of Allah". An idol excavated at Hazor in Palestine in the 1950s shows Allah sitting on a throne with the crescent moon on his chest.
Muhammad claimed he had a vision from Allah and was told:"You are the messenger of Allah."This began his career as a prophet and he received many messages. By the time Muhammad died, the religion of Islam was exploding. The nomadic Arab tribes were joining forces in the name of Allah and his prophet, Muhammad.
Some of Muhammad's writings were placed in the Koran, others were never published. They are now in the hands of high ranking holy men (Ayatollahs) in the Islamic faith.When Cardinal Bea shared this information with us in the Vatican, he said:"These writings are guarded because they contain information that links the Vatican to the creation of Islam."Both sides have so much information on each other that, if exposed, it could create such a scandal that it would be a disaster for both religions.In their "holy" book, the Koran, Christ is regarded as only a prophet. If the pope was his representative on Earth, then he also must be a prophet of God. This caused the followers of Muhammad to fear and respect the pope as another "holy man".
The pope moved quickly and issued bulls granting the Arab generals permission to invade and conquer the nations of North Africa.The Vatican helped to finance the building of these massive Islamic armies in exchange for three favors:
Under Waraquah's direction, Muhammad wrote that Abraham offered Ishmael as a sacrifice. The Bible says that Isaac was the sacrifice, but Muhammad removed Isaac's name and inserted Ishmael's name. As a result of this and Muhammad's vision, the faithful Muslims built a mosque, the Dome of the Rock, in Ishmael's honor, on the site of the Jewish temple that was destroyed in 70 A.D. This made Jerusalem the second most holy place in the Islamic faith.How could they give such a sacred shrine to the pope without causing a revolt?
The pope realized what they had created was out of control when he heard they were calling "His Holiness" an infidel. The Muslim generals were determined to conquer the world for Allah, and now they turned toward Europe.
Islamic ambassadors approached the pope and asked for papal bulls to give them permission to invade European countries. The Vatican was outraged; war was inevitable. Temporal power and control of the world was considered the basic right of the pope.He wouldn't think of sharing it with those whom he considered heathens.The pope raised up his armies and called them "crusades" to hold back the children of Ishmael from grabbing Catholic Europe.The crusades lasted for centuries and Jerusalem slipped out of the pope's hands. Turkey fell, and Spain and Portugal were invaded by Islamic forces. In Portugal, they called a mountain village "Fatima" in honor of Muhammad's daughter, never dreaming it would become world famous.
Years later, when the Muslim armies were poised on the islands of Sardinia and Corsica, to invade Italy, there was a serious problem. The Islamic generals realized they were too far extended. It was time for peace talks. One of the negotiators was Francis of Assisi.As a result, the Muslims were allowed to occupy Turkey in a "Christian" world, and the Catholics were allowed to occupy Lebanon in the Arab world. It was also agreed that the Muslims could build mosques in Catholic countries without interference, as long as Roman Catholicism could flourish in Arab countries.
Cardinal Bea told us in Vatican briefings that both the Muslims and Roman Catholics agreed to block and destroy the efforts of their common enemy: Bible-believing Christian missionaries.Through these concordats, Satan blocked the children of Ishmael from a knowledge of scripture and the truth.
The Islamic community looks on the Bible-believing missionary as a devil who brings poison to the children of Allah. This explains years of ministry in those countries with little results.
The Vatican also engineers a campaign of hatred between the Muslim Arabs and the Jews. Before this, they had co-existed peacefully. A light control was kept on Muslims - from the Ayatollah, down through the Islamic priests, nuns, and monks.
The next plan was to control Islam. In 1910, Portugal was going Socialistic. Red flags were appearing and the Catholic Church was facing a major problem. Increasing numbers were against the Church.
The Jesuits wanted Russia involved, and the location of this vision at Fatima could play a key part in pulling Islam to the Mother Church. In 1917, the Virgin appeared in Fatima. "The Mother of God" was a smashing success, playing to overflow crowds. As a result, the Socialists of Portugal suffered a major defeat.
Roman Catholics worldwide began praying for the conversion of Russia, and the Jesuits invented the novenas to Fatima, which they could perform throughout North Africa, spreading good public relations to the Muslim world.The Arabs thought they were honoring the daughter of Muhammad, which is what the Jesuits wanted them to believe.
As a result of the vision of Fatima, Pope Pius XII ordered his Nazi army to crush Russia and the Orthodox religion, and make Russia Roman Catholic. A few years after he lost World War II, Pope Pius XII startled the world with his phony "dancing Sun" vision to keep Fatima in the news. It was great religious show biz and the world swallowed it.Not surprisingly, Pope Pius was the only one to see this vision.
As a result, a group of followers has grown into a Blue Army worldwide, totaling millions of faithful Roman Catholics ready to die for the Blessed Virgin. But we haven't seen anything yet. The Jesuits have their Virgin Mary scheduled to appear four or five times in China, Russia, and major appearance in the U.S.
What has this got to do with Islam?Note Bishop Sheen's statement:"Our Lady's appearances at Fatima marked the turning point in the history of the world's 350 million Muslims. After the death of his daughter, Muhammad wrote that she 'is the most holy of all women in Paradise, next to Mary.'He believed that the Virgin Mary chose to be known as Our Lady of Fatima as a sign and a pledge that the Muslims who believe in Christ's virgin birth, will come to believe in his divinity."Bishop Sheen pointed out that the pilgrim virgin statues of Our Lady of Fatima were enthusiastically received by Muslims in Africa, India, and elsewhere, and that many Muslims are now coming into the Roman Catholic Church.DR. ALBERTO RIVERA1988
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Editor's note:
Most readers of this publication are aware of the
eye-opening book
VATICAN ASSASSINS and its engaging author,
Eric Jon
Phelps.
In our popular May 2000 issue, we
introduced Eric for the first time in a front-page feature interview
about the well-hidden, high-level Jesuit aspect of world control and
their leader,
the so-called "Black" Pope.
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Another article in this issue of The SPECTRUM provides great insight into the Jesuit/Vatican hand in the creation of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
We see the modern effects of these manufactured
"religious" tools of manipulation and division of peoples everywhere
around the globe - and particularly in the boiling Middle East.
While Eric's remarkable Jesuit-connection research has stood up quite well to the test of scrutiny, that such a realm of global manipulation could have been so well concealed for so long is just too much for some so-called conspiracy authors to accept. Or they are beholden to other agendas which cause them to "act blind" to The Truth.
With that said, we share the following analysis with you from Eric, who even provides his own introduction.
If you look beyond the
religious terminology behind which so many power plays unfold, what
he has to say most clearly acts as an instructive exercise to help
us not fall into obvious traps set up by those of a cunning and
devious nature who are experts at making things seem to be what they
are not.
After all, their boss is the Great
Deceiver himself!
6/26/02ERIC JON PHELPS
Dear Friends,This article [below] has been written by a brilliant and noted author who blamed the Pope's Mossad of Zionist Israel as the true power behind the Kennedy Assassination.He bases his premise upon the fact that the late Yitzak Rabin was in Dallas on November 22, 1963 according to his late wife, Leah.
He knows of me and is aware of my book VATICAN ASSASSINS. Still he maintains the false position that the Jews control the American Media while refusing to admit to the primacy of the Jesuit Order within the Pope's Holy Roman Fourteenth Amendment American Empire (1868-Present) ruled through the Archbishop of New York's Council on Foreign Relations.
The Jews manning the Order's American Press are the Pope's "Court Jews" - the Masonic Jewish Zionists - and nearly all are members of the Council on Foreign Relations. This brings us to the three primary purposes of the Pope's Masonic Jewish Zionists.They are:
Rather than merely forward this article to you, I felt compelled to comment as to its content and erroneous conclusion promulgated therein.Therefore I shall comment in bold.
Eric Jon Phelps
Vatican Links Israeli Influence To Media Attacks
by Michael Collins Piper
Exclusive To
American Free Press
(6/15/02)
The Vatican has issued a not-so-subtle blast at the influence of the Israeli lobby over the American media monopoly.
This is news
that the media (not surprisingly) is keeping under wraps.
You won't read about it in your daily newspaper or hear Dan Rather or Tom Brokaw talking about it on television, but Civilta Cattolica - an influential Jesuit journal sanctioned by the Vatican - has fired a volley at the American media for its obsessive coverage of the Catholic Church sex scandals.
[Civilta Cattolica ("Catholic Civilization" i.e. "World Government under the Pope") is THE Jesuit house organ of the Vatican. Whatever is written here comes straight from the mouth of the Black Pope.This is the periodical that I quoted in VATICAN ASSASSINS which declared that "Fascism is the regime that corresponds most closely to the concepts of the Church of Rome."]
What is most significant is that in
tracing the media's interest in the Church's troubles, the Vatican
has hinted at the behind-the-scenes power of the inter-connected
handful of powerful pro-Israel families and financial interests who
dominate the media monopoly in shaping the media's news coverage.
[Now it's time to blame the Jews in general. Does not Mr. Piper realize that the Council on Foreign Relations controls the Press? Sure he does!Who, dear reader, do you think is more powerful, Henry Kissinger, a CFR Presider, or the President of the Jesuits' Fordham University in New York, Joseph A. O'Hare, another CFR Presider and Jesuit under Extreme Oath?Is not Fox News affiliated with the CFR?Of course it is, and its Director is Knight of Malta Rupert Murdoch, a porn king and promoter of the Jenin Massacre Hoax that was intended to ignite anti-Jewish fury within America.No - the JESUITS have used their controlled press, employing their Masonic Jewish Zionists, to expose the scandal of America's Roman Hierarchy. The $64,000 question is: WHY!]
Published on June 1 the Vatican-approved
article flatly asserts that - at least in part because the Catholic
Church refused to support the much-ballyhooed and media-promoted
Persian Gulf War against Saddam Hussein in 1991 - the controllers of
the American media monopoly have nursed a grudge against the Church.
[This is absolutely ridiculous!The Vatican, controlled by the Jesuits since 1814 upon their restoration by Pope Pius VII, caused the Persian Gulf War in 1991. The Jesuits controlled both sides, using brother Freemasons and business partners President George H. W. Bush and Saddam Hussein.That war was waged against the Moslem peoples of Iraq, not against Saddam Hussein, as he is still in power. The Vatican-controlled CFR/Jesuit Press may have OPENLY opposed the war - just like it OPENLY opposed Hitler's extermination of the Jewish people; just as it OPENLY refused to recognize the Nation of Israel until 1993. But the Vatican's SECRET policy was to support the Gulf War, Hitler's Jewish genocide, and the Zionist Nation of Israel.The Pope always has TWO POLICIES - like the two-headed Janus that he is. One is OPEN and FALSE, intended for public confusion; the other is SECRET and TRUE, which is in fact the Black Pope's agenda.]
And while, in this context, the Vatican
doesn't say it directly, it is absolutely beyond question that it
was the pro-Israel lobby that was the prime mover behind the war
against Saddam who has long been perceived as one of Israel's
greatest enemies.
[The pro-Israel lobby?There is no greater pro-Israel lobby than the Federal Reserve Bank, its primary class-A stockholders being New York banks managed by the Pope's Knights of Malta, past men like Francis X. Stankard of Chase Manhattan Bank and Martin F. Shea of Citibank.The Director of the New York Federal Reserve Bank is the Jesuit-trained economist, Irish Roman Catholic and Papal Knight, William J. McDonough, though the Order has placed a CFR Masonic Jew to head the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan.And all these Papal Knights were or are members of the Council on Foreign Relations. The CFR is the pro-Zionist Government of Israel lobby, all the while plotting the mass murder of the Jewish people within Israel, once they have been used to rebuild Solomon's Temple - for the Pope! Saddam Hussein is an enemy of the Jewish people but not the enemy of the Pope's Masonic Jewish Zionist government.If Hussein is an enemy of the Pope's Zionist Israel, then why did the Pope's CFR use the American Military-Industrial Complex to arm him with biological, conventional, and nuclear weapons? Simple: Those weapons are to be used in a future war with an otherwise invincible American Military.Once we invade Iraq, just watch which weapons are used both in Central Asia and inside the borders of America.]
In addition, in recent months - since
the
Sept. 11 attacks - Israel's American lobby (actively abetted by the
media monopoly) continued to push for war against Iraq, despite the
fervent opposition of career American military leaders, including
the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff.
[Again, Israel's American lobby is indeed abetted by the Pope's CFR media monopoly.Indeed, it pushed for war with Iraq - which is exactly what the Jesuit General wants - so that whatever calamities befall America as a result of that war, American Jews can be scape-goated, persecuted, and then driven back to Israel, fulfilling the dream of the Black Pope's Ariel Sharon: increasing the population of Israel by one million Jews within fifteen years.This immigration will further secure Jerusalem for the Pope, using the Jewish people as a human shield against any Moslem who would dare to foil the rebuilding of the Pope's new Temple.This means that the Palestinian agitation will be ended. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are all CFR members. If they opposed a war with Iraq, why have NONE of them resigned, refusing to commit such a travesty against a people betrayed by their Masonic leader, Saddam Hussein?The SECRET policy of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs is to wage the Black Pope's war against the Iraqi people for expelling the Jesuit Order in 1969. Payback time has arrived once again for the Iraqis.]
Given that - as the record indicates - the
media's sudden and intense interest in the Church's problems did, in
fact, evolve after Sept. 11, it is interesting to note that
Civilta Cattolica also cited the aftermath of 9/11 in its
dissection of the media's attacks on the Church.
The journal suggested that the Catholic
Church's appeals against "vendettas" against the Arab and Muslim
world in the wake of 9/11 also offended the media, which has been
heavily promoting an anti-Arab and anti-Muslim agenda, often quoting
so-called "experts" on terrorism and on the Middle East who are - more
often than not - advocates of Israeli policy and often directly
affiliated with Israeli intelligence.
[Yes, the Pope's CFR/Jesuit-controlled media empire exposed the scandal of the Roman Hierarchy after 9/11. This had a dual purpose:
Big Problem
While no one excuses either the Vatican or other Church officials for misfeasance, malfeasance, or non-feasance in handling the travesty of sexual abuse by priests, the truth is that the problem has been one of long standing and has really been no secret whatsoever.
[Correct. Then why would the Jesuits expose it now?]
It was only after Sept. 11 - as any
content analysis of daily news coverage will affirm - that the
American media began devoting so much space to the problem to the
point that the term "Catholic" is now become almost synonymous in
many people's minds with "pedophilia"
- a scourge which is, by no
means, limited to any one religious affiliation.
Some critics allege, for example, that
pedophilia is actually advocated in portions of the Talmud.
[We are getting off point here. Do not use this Jesuit ruse of war, Mr. Piper.The Roman Hierarchy, at which the Jesuit Order laughs while being outside of its jurisdiction, has been known for centuries as sexual predators of the worst sort. The closed cloistered convents have been houses of prostitution in every country, for which reason Republican Spain closed them all and expelled the Jesuits in 1932.And the damnable doctrine of priestial celibacy is its impetus. Simply read ex-priest Charles Chiniquy's The Priest, The Woman, And The Confessional, written in the late nineteenth century. All will become crystal clear.]
Although there are elements who promote
the bizarre and totally outlandish theory that all of the great
tragedies of history can be attributed to the Vatican - including the
Bolshevik Revolution, both World War I and World War II, and even
the assassination of America's first Catholic president, John F.
Kennedy - the record suggests otherwise.
[Mr. Piper is referring to me here. I promote this "bizarre and totally outlandish theory" that all of the great tragedies of history for the last 450 years can be attributed to the Vatican - and I prove it in VATICAN ASSASSINS with an irrefutable chain of evidence.The record does not suggest otherwise.WHO BENEFITS, Mr. Piper? Always the Jesuits, as they use their Masonic Jewish Zionists to fulfill their grand design. To deny this irrefutable fact is to betray your true colors.]
The Vatican's criticism of the media
giants is not a new development.
[The Vatican always has TWO policies when implementing its Hegelian Dialectic: one is OPEN, which is the FALSE, and one is SECRET, which is the TRUE.]
Several years ago, speaking before
Corallo, the consortium of independent local radio and
television channels in Italy, Pope John Paul II cited the
rise of global media monopolies and emphasized the need for "local
information" - that is, media voices outside the hands of the powerful
media barons.
The pope said that "communication has
become the soul which shapes the culture of our time" and stressed
what he called the "dignity" of independent media.
[This is the Pope's lying and false OPEN policy of the Jesuit General. It is intended to mislead us into thinking that the Vatican is for free enterprise - a free press, contrary to the Order's Council of Trent which CONDEMNS FREEDOM OF SPEECH - when it is actually the master of the Fortune 500 corporations, many of which compose America's CFR media monopoly.]
Observers say the fact that the Vatican
has fired back at its enemies - citing their hidden
motivations - indicates this "warning shot across the bow" could very
well point toward a new, bold approach to world affairs by the
Catholic Church which, for the last 50 years, has approached its
dealings with Israel and its worldwide supporters in a most gingerly
fashion.
[Indeed, the Vatican's Jesuits, having used their Masonic Jewish Zionist agitators, have laid the foundation for firing at their age-old enemies.Those enemies are the Jewish people and any who would come to their defense - like us Bible-believing White Anglo-Saxon Protestant and Baptist Calvinists.But we have weathered not only "warning shots" but a thousand fields of battle in resisting the machinations of the Black Pope as he attempts to reduce every nation to the "Temporal Power of the Papal Caesar" in his bold attempt to rule the world from Jerusalem.We know that the Pope has ALWAYS had a bold approach to world affairs, that approach being anything but "gingerly".For the creation of the Pope's Zionist Israel required the "gingerly" mass extermination of two-thirds of European Jewry and millions of Russian Jews, to the delight of Jesuit-trained Joseph Stalin.The subjugation of Russia and China required the "gingerly" extermination of fifty-million Chinese and millions of Orthodox Russians in gulags of Siberia.
No, Mr. Piper, the Jesuits in control of the Vatican will continue their mass murder of "heretics and liberals" for the next fifty years - ever true to their Satanic Jesuit Oath of the Fourth Vow. And the Order's "Skull and Bones" George W. Bush - who during his initiation "kissed the slippered toe of the Pope" - has started this new century off with a bang.That bang will be the death knell to millions of "infidel" Moslems, "liberal" Roman Catholics, and "heretic" Bible-believers and "perfidious Jews" to the orgasmic delight of the Black Pope and his master.]
The Death of Hitler The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives
The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives
By Ada Petrova and Peter Watson
On a cold afternoon at the end of March 1945, General Dwight D. Eisenhower sat down at his headquarters in Reims, north-eastern France and drafted an unprecedented and historic cable. It was sent to Moscow, for the personal attention of Joseph Stalin. This was the first time in all the years of war that the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force had communicated directly with the Soviet leader, but there were now urgent and pressing reasons for doing so. The final thrust of the Allied Forces deep into Germany was about to begin and it was clearly important for the Anglo-american armies to coordinate their movements with the Russians. Eisenhower told Stalin his plans and asked that he reciprocate, wanting to avoid a repeat of the situation in 1939. Then, in a very different phase of hostilities, German and Russian troops - allied by treaty - had met head-on in Poland when that country was being carved up between Stalin and Hitler. No prearranged line of demarcation had been fixed, which had resulted in a battle with surprisingly heavy casualties on both sides. In the climate of suspicion that was developing between America and Britain on the one hand, and Russia on the other, such a clash had to be avoided at all costs. It could bring catastrophe at this vital stage of the War.
Eisenhower sent two other cables that afternoon, one to Washington, to the General of the Army, George C. Marshall, who was his immediate superior. The other went to General Bernard Montgomery, Commander-in-chief of the 21st Army Group in the north of Germany. To both men, Eisenhower outlined his new plan for bringing a speedy end to the War. It centred on the 12th Army Group, under General Omar N. Bradley, which would advance through central Germany on the Erfurt-Leipzig-dresden axis. There, Eisenhower hoped, it would join hands with the Russians and divide Germany in two.
Within hours, those telegrams - especially the one to Stalin - had created the most serious split between the Americans and the British since the invasion had begun nine months earlier on D Day, 6 June 1944. For the fact was, in the days and weeks prior to 28 March, Eisenhower had changed his mind decisively on one vital matter relating to the course of the war: he no longer considered Berlin, capital of Hitler's Reich, to be a major military objective. Unlike British generals, Eisenhower had not been trained to consider political objectives as part of military strategy. His main concern was to get the War over as quickly as possible and with as few casualties as circumstances would allow. In international terms, Eisenhower was politically inexperienced. His mission, as spelled out by the Combined Chiefs of Staff, was enshrined in one sentence: "You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces." Even now, this late in the war, his objective was purely military - to destroy the enemy army as quickly as he could. In any case, it had already been agreed at higher levels that Berlin would fall under Soviet aegis.
For the British in general - and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in particular - the shape of the post-war world was already clear. Like Czechoslovakia and Poland, much of Eastern Europe was already under the Russian heel, destined for Communist rule. If Montgomery could capture Berlin ahead of the Russians it would be a major propoganda victory and give the Western Allies an important bargaining advantage later on. For Churchill had already noted with misgiving the changes in Stalin's behaviour since the conference between him, Stalin and Roosevelt at Yalta in February 1945, where the map of the post-1945 world had been sketched in. For example, Anglo-american bombers forced to land behind Russian lines were now being interned, along with their crews; the Russians had refused the evacuation of Anglo-american soldiers in eastern camps, although reciprocal arrangements were going ahead for Russian soldiers in western camps; air bases and refuelling and repair facilities for American bombers on Russian-controlled territory were being denied. In these proto-Cold War circumstances" Churchill considered Eisenhower's telegram to Stalin a naive and dangerous intervention into global political strategy. He was incensed.
There were, however, several reasons (good and bad) for Eisenhower's change of heart over Berlin. He heartily disliked Montgomery, who was in command in the north. To have settled on a dash for Berlin would have giver, the British Field-marshal a bigger role than Eisenhower could have stomached. But it is another reason which particularly concerns us here. At this stage of the War, the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), were located in the three-storey College Moderne et Technique in a back street of Reims, close to the railway station. There, near Eisenhower's own office, was the map room. On the wall there hung a chart that was updated every day. Headed Reported National Redoubt, it showed the mountainous, lakeland region south of Munich, stretching over into western Austria. This incorporated Bavaria and OberSalzburg, the very region where the Nazi Party had been born a quarter of a century before. It was an area some 20,000 square miles in dimension, consisting mainly of wooded mountain peaks between 7000 and 9000 feet high. At its heart was Berchtesgaden and Hitler's mountain-top hideaway, the "Eagle's Nest".
The National Redoubt map was covered in red marks, each one a military symbol denoting this or that defence installation. A Y meant a radio transmitter, a square stood for barracks, a crescent with an F inside indicated a food dump. There were signs for ammunition stores, for petrol and chemical warfare dumps and for underground factories. Fortified positions were shown with zig-zag lines. Every day during March more symbols were added to the chart, so much so that this mountain defence system, the National Redoubt, seemed to SHAEF the greatest remaining threat in the European war, greater even than the prize of Berlin.
It was in this Alpine area, according to Allied Intelligence, that the Nazis intended to make their last stand, with Adolf Hitler at their head. The terrain was so difficult as to be almost impregnable but, again according to intelligence, the remaining Nazi leadership would not be content merely to sit back and absorb whatever the Allies could throw at them. A new type of commando unit had been created, called the Werewolves, whose task it was to sneak out from the Redoubt and create mayhem among the occupation armies. Some 200,000 veteran troops and Werewolves were to cover an area of 20,000 square miles, it was rumoured, to Bavaria, Austria and a small part of Italy.
Some plans certainly went ahead. Both Otto Skorzeny and Reinhard Gehlen hid plans and microfilms in the Alpine Fortress area, Gehlen claiming to have based his organisation on his secret intelligence on Polish resistance to the Nazis. Gehlen had documents forged on his behalf and transferred his wife and children to the Alps. William Casey, an Allied Intelligence officer, later recalled being told in early May 1945 that the Werewolf organisation was in process of formation and that it was to be built on the framework of the Gestapo and other Nazi security services.
The Allies' concern with the Redoubt and Hitler's last stand had been growing since September 1944 when the OSS had predicted that, as the War neared its end, the Nazis would evacuate crucial government departments to Bavaria. The War Department in Washington had taken up this notion on 12 February 1945, warning that a man like Hitler would require his Gotterdammerung. Four days later, Allied agents in Switzerland sent a chilling report claiming that the Nazis were preparing for a "bitter fight from the mountain redoubt". This report said that strongpoints within the Alpine Fortress were connected by underground railways, that months of supply of munitions had been gathered together with "almost all of Germany's poison gas supplies."
Not everyone was convinced. The Research and Analysis Branch of OSS, directed by Bill Langer, produced a mammoth report: "An analysis of the political and social organisation, the communications, economic controls, agricultural and food supply, mineral resources, manufacturing and transportation facilities of south Germany". It was very sceptical of the viability of a National Redoubt but, as its very title implied, the report was too long, too dry and too academic-sounding to be read by busy field officers. No one paid it the attention it deserved.
Instead, on 21 March, the headquarters staff of General Bradley's 12th Army Group released what turned out to be a decisive memorandum - "Re-orientation of Strategy" - which argued that Allied objectives had changed rendering "obsolete the plans which brought us over the beaches." The strategy document concluded that the significance of Berlin was now much diminished and that: "all indications suggest that the enemy's political and military directorate is already in the process of displacing to the Redoubt in lower Bavaria."
Four days after that came the most alarming analysis of all. The Chief of Intelligence of Lieutenant-general Alexander Patch's 7th Army, on the southern edge of the front, described an elite force of mainly SS and mountain troops at least 200,000 to 300,000 strong. The report said that up to five very long trains were arriving in the Redoubt area every week and that new types of weapon had been observed on these trains. An underground factory was believed to exist in the Alpine Fortress capable of producing Messerschmitts. Werewolf schools were reported everywhere and Counter-intelligence Corps estimates put the numbers of youngsters in training under SS officers at some 5000 in one particular week. A booklet had been published that, "reinforced a general sense of apprehension". It was entitled Werewolf: Winke fur Fagdeinheiten (Tips for Hunting Units). The Vogelfrei legends were revived. "The word meant 'bird-free', explained the report. It derived from the mediaeval-style courts of revenge, which declared that anyone found guilty became like a game bird during the open season for hunters."
Goebbels chipped in. His broadcasts - and those of Radio Werewolf - stepped up the pressure. "God has given up the protection of the people . . . Satan has taken command." Goebbels himself said, "We Werewolves consider it our supreme duty to kill, to kill and to kill, employing every cunning and wile in the darkness of the night, crawling, groping through towns and villages, like wolves, noiselessly, mysteriously." There were secret recognition signals for boys and girls (some were only nine) and the Wolfsangel, a runic letter, was to be painted on buildings occupied by those marked out for vengeance.
Then there was the rumour about Gallery 16, near the village of Redl Zipf, part of the Alpine Fortress. This gallery was an underground network of corridors and workshops centred around a 200 foot tunnel into which banknote presses had been transferred from Berlin. Nine million Bank of England notes with a face value of $600 million were produced here, sufficient for the Bank to have to withdraw many of its own notes and substitute a new design with a fine metallic thread drawn through the fabric in a way thought to be immune to forgery.
In March, SHAEF itself finally and crucially concluded that: "It seems reasonably certain that some of the most important ministries and personalities of the Nazi regime are already established in the Redoubt area. Goring, Himmler, Hitler are said to be in the process of withdrawing to their respective personal mountain strongholds." Even those who had their reservations, such as SHAEF's Intelligence Chief, the British Major-general Kenneth Strong, thought that the Allies should act as though the Redoubt existed, just in case. We repeat that there were other reasons for Eisenhower's change of mind over Berlin. We have dwelt on this one because the Redoubt idea produced in the mindset of the Allied Command the sense that if - and when - Hitler was found it would be in the south.
The Allies in fact found out the grim truth on 23 April when three Germans crossed the Elbe near Magdeburg shortly after dawn and surrendered to the us 30th Infantry Division. One of them was Lieutenant-General Kurt Dittmar, a fifty-seven-year-old Wehrmacht officer who had made a name for himself broadcasting communiques from the front and was known everywhere as the "voice of the German High Command". As such he was considered the most accurate of the German military broadcasters and so drew a following not only in Germany but among the Allied monitoring staff.
Dittmar was immediately taken to headquarters for interrogation: "Tell us about the National Redoubt," someone demanded. Cornelius Ryan - author of the 1966 book The Last Battle - takes up the story: "Dittmar looked puzzled. The only thing he knew about a National Redoubt, he said, was something he had read in a Swiss newspaper the previous January. He agreed that there were pockets of resistance in the north, 'including Norway and Denmark and one in the south in the Italian Alps. But,' he added, 'that is less by intention than by force of circumstance.' As his interrogators pressed him about the redoubt, Dittmar shook his head. "The National Redoubt? It's a romantic dream. It's a myth."',
He was right.
General Bradley, whose general staff had written the famous memorandum on a change of strategy - in which the importance of Berlin was downgraded in favour of the Alpine Fortress - later had the grace to admit his error. "The Redoubt existed largely in the imagination of a few fanatical Nazis. It grew into so exaggerated a scheme that I am astonished we could have believed it as innocently as we did. But while it persisted, this legend . . . shaped our tactical thinking."
Dittmar had another surprise for his interrogators. Hitler, he said confidently, was in Berlin. Until that point no one on the Allied side had been exactly certain where the Fuhrer was. His whereabouts and all personal details about him, such as his medical records, had been kept a well-guarded secret throughout the War. But while the Redoubt idea had dominated Allied minds it had been assumed that Hitler would be found there. One of the Allies' spies in Berlin, Carl Wiberg, a Swedish businessman generally regarded as a "good Berliner" by his neighbours, had sent a report on 18 April obtained from two women gossiping in a black market shop, to the effect that Hitler was in the Berlin area. But his report had been lost amid the weight of intelligence in the past five days. When the Allied interrogators suggested to Dittmar that he was mistaken, or dissembling, he refused to change his story. Moreover, he said, "Hitler will either be killed there or commit suicide."
It was thus against this background that the War entered its last month. Too late, the Allies realised that there was no National Redoubt in Bavaria, and never had been. (As late as 28 April, the Daily Mirror was able to report that "Seven Allied armies are closing in on Hitler's last-stand Redoubt in the mountains of Austria and Bavaria." Too late they realised that Hitler and Stalin, whose lives had run in parallel for so long, both believed that Berlin itself was the last great prize, both psychologically and politically.
For our story, the most important consequence of this course of events was that the Russians reached Berlin first. Indeed, the moment Stalin received Eisenhower's cable which suggested that Berlin was no longer very important, he ordered Marshal Zhukov to advance on the German capital with all speed and whatever the cost. He couldn't believe that Eisenhower could be so wrong, or so naive - and therefore assumed that he must be playing a political game. Churchill had been right to be annoyed about the "historic and unprecedented" telegram.
The Anglo-American forces, following Eisenhower's new policy, actually met the Russian Army along the Elbe, first coming into contact at Torgau on 25 April. Running north, at its closest point this "Front Line" was just under fifty miles from Berlin. It wasn't much but it was enough.
It was not until the conference of Commanders-in-chief of the four armies of occupation on 29 June, that the various Berlin zones were agreed upon. Advanced detachments of American, British and French troops arrived in the city at the beginning of July. Thus the Russians had had Berlin - and the Reichschancellery - all to themselves for about seven weeks, for most of Man, and all of June. This, and the developing Cold War, accounted for much of what followed.
On 1 May, at 9.30 in the evening, Hamburg radio warned the German people that "a grave and important announcement" was about to be made. This was immediately followed by several excerpts from a number of Wagner's operas and the slow movement of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony. Then at 10.20 pm, came the voice of Grand-Admiral Karl Donitz, Commander-in-chief for the north of Germany. In sombre tones, he announced the death of Hitler and his own succession as Fuhrer of the Reich. Hitler had fallen "this afternoon," he said, fighting "at the head of his troops".
This statement was believed by many. The Times of London printed Hitler's obituary next day. President Valera of Ireland sent his condolences to the German ambassador in Dublin. But it was untrue. Hitler, as the world was later told, had died the previous day and had not fallen in action, as a heroic martyr, but had committed suicide without leaving the Bunker under the Reichschancellery where he had been since 16 January 1945. Donitz perhaps had more than one reason for releasing the story he did. He may not have been aware of all the facts, but in any case he must have wondered how the German troops would have reacted if they had been told that their leader had not died a glorious death but had taken his own life.
Whatever Donitz's reasons, this erroneous story, combined with the complete silence on the part of the Russians regarding what they had or had not found in the Reichschancellery and the absence of a body - either Hitler's or Eva Braun's - did not convince many people. On the contrary, throughout the summer of 1945 the rumours that Hitler was still alive gathered pace.
There were many sightings. Among the first, it was reported that Hitler had been seen living as a hermit in a cave near Lake Garda in northern Italy. Another report had it that he was now a shepherd in the Swiss Alps, a third that he was a croupier at a casino in Evian. He was seen at Grenoble, St Gallen and even off the Irish coast.
Viewed from this distance, each of these accounts appears fantastic and incredible. But that was not how they were seen at the time. Not all of the accounts were so fantastic. In July 1945, the us Office of Censorship intercepted a letter written from someone in Washington. Addressed to a Chicago newspaper, the letter claimed that Hitler was living in a German-owned hacienda 450 miles from Buenos Aires. The us government gave this report enough credibility to act on it, sending a classified telegram to the American embassy in Argentina requesting help in following up the inquiry. Besides giving basic information the telegram added that Hitler was alleged to be living in special underground quarters. "Source indicates that there is a western entrance to the underground hideout which consists of a stone wall operated by photo-electric cells, activated by code signals from ordinary flashlights. Entrance thus uncovered supposedly provides admittance for automobiles." It continued that Hitler had provided himself with two doubles and was hard at work developing plans for the manufacture of long-range robot bombs and other weapons. The matter was taken sufficiently seriously for J. Edgar Hoover, then the director of the FBI, tO become involved, although shortly afterwards he wrote to the War Department: "To date, no serious indication has been received that Adolf Hitler is in Argentina."
The Russian newspaper Izvestiia ran a report that Hitler and Eva Braun were both alive and well, and living in a moated castle in Westphalia. This implied complicity on the part of the British, for Westphalia lay in the British zone of occupation. The report was followed by one in August, in which an American lawyer wrote to Hoover at the Fbi to say that the former Fuhrer was living under the alias of Gerhardt Weithaupt in a house belonging to a certain Frau Frieda Haaf at Innsbruck. With Hitler, said this lawyer, was his personal physician, Dr Alfred Jodl.
Another account also placed Hitler at Innsbruck. The informant was an educated man - again a lawyer - rather than a peasant or an ill-educated private soldier. Another came from a German doctor, a man presumably trained in observation. Karl-Heinz Spaeth claimed he had treated Hitler on 1 May 1945 at his Berlin casualty clearing station ill the cellar of the Landwehrkasino right opposite the Bunker at the Berlin Zoo. Spaeth said that Hitler had been wounded at a tank barricade in the fighting around the Kustrin area of the city. In his sworn deposition, he added: "Hitler was lowered to the floor. A shell fragment had pierced the uniform, went through his chest and entered the lungs on both sides. It was no use to do anything. I took a few first-aid bandages and bandaged him. During this time Hitler groaned continually. He was not fully conscious. To relieve his pain I went back to the collecting station to get some morphine and gave him a double strength injection. The general opinion was that Hitler would die. I examined his pulse and respiration and found that after about three minutes he had stopped breathing. The heartbeats continued for about three minutes and then ceased. After I had pronounced the Fuhrer dead and had informed the ss leaders of this fact I was released and went back to my work." Shortly afterwards, Spaeth said, the surviving ss leaders "blew the body into the air with two three-kilo charges of high explosives." He repeated his story to an officer of the Military Government, who in turn reported to Berlin in September. Everyone, everywhere, seemed determined to ignore Grand-Admiral Donitz's statement of 1 May.
Such accounts of Hitler's death were scarcely less confusing than the more numerous examples of sightings and the situation looked like getting out of hand. General George C. Marshall, the American Chief of Staff, had realised as early as 1 May that it might be necessary to do something to counter the "Hitler martyr myth" which had been fuelled by Admiral Danitz's announcement. Eisenhower seemed not to agree. In June, when he was probably the most popular leader in the West, he attended a press conference at the Hotel Raphael in Paris. There he voiced doubt that Hitler was really dead. He was the first Allied figure of authority in the West to say this.
Nonetheless it was not until September that any official inquiry got under way - and when it did it was the British who carried out the investigations. Dick White, the Brigadier commanding the Intelligence Bureau in the British Zone of Occupation (part of MI5), was stationed at Bad Oeynhausen, between Osnabruck and Hannover, and he had been incensed by the Russian report that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were living, apparently unmolested, in the British zone of Germany - ie, Westphalia. He invited a young major, and friend, Hugh Trevor-Roper, to make an official inquiry into the mystery which at that time still surrounded the death of Hitler.
A four-volume dossier on the Fuhrer, compiled by the us Counter-Intelligence Corps, was made available to Trevor-Roper who, in civilian life, was an Oxford history don. This dossier was "a cornucopia of everything that could be gleaned about" Hitler and included his medical condition, his state of mind, his various "inclinations and proclivities." It did not make Hitler out to be a monster. The CIC analysts had found, "to their embarrassment, that the scourge of the human race gave presents to children, hated blood sports, disliked excessively fanatical people and was conservative and fastidious in his habits . . . Every day at the same hour," according to one informant, "he would go with the same dog to the same corner of the same field and pick up the same piece of wood and throw it in the same direction." The report also contained the conclusions of a long-distance psychiatric examination of the Fuhrer. This concluded that the suicide of Hitler could not be ruled out.
Trevor-Roper's inquiries were to prove exciting. He spent most of September and October tracking down what eye-witnesses he could, people who had lived in the Fuhrerbunker in those last desperate days and could tell him what had happened. He was not entirely successful. Goebbels and Martin Bormann were not available, missing or dead according to whom you talked to. So were Heinz Linge, Hitler's valet, Otto Gunsche, Hitler's Adjutant, Hans Baur, his personal pilot and Johann Rattenhuber, the Chief of Bodyguards. Many others known to have been in the Bunker were also untraceable.
Still, Trevor-Roper was able to interview Frau Gerda Christian and Frau Else Krueger, who were respectively Hitler's and Bormann's secretaries. They had not actually been eye-witnesses for much of what happened, but they had been given contemporaneous accounts by people such as Linge and Gunsche, who claimed to have seen everything. Trevor-Roper had also visited Innsbruck, no doubt' to double-check the story that Hitler was now masquerading as Gerhardt Weithaupt.
On 1 November 1945, Trevor-Roper gave a press conference in Berlin where he outlined the conclusions of his inquiry. His investigations showed, he said, that Hitler had committed suicide at about 3.30 pm on 30 April 1945, and that Eva Braun had died with him. In Hitler's case, the manner of death was by shooting - the Fuhrer had put a pistol in his mouth and pulled the trigger. In the case of Eva Braun, she had taken a cyanide capsule: everyone living in the Bunker had been issued with similar capsules.
Asked by one of the newspapermen if he was aware of the Russian view on Hitler's death, Trevor-Roper indicated that he thought the Soviets were sceptical - that is, inclined to the view that Hitler was not dead. As he said this, a Russian officer present nodded.
Trevor-Roper also dismissed the possibility that it was Hitler's doppelganger - his double - who had been burned. In the first place, he said, there wouldn't have been time to move the double's body in and out of the Bunker. Second, in his very poor physical condition, Hitler would not have been able to escape. And third, and most convincingly perhaps, Eva Braun herself would never have died willingly. - or been taken in by - such a substitute.
Finally, he conceded that there was no "conclusive proof" that Martin Bormann, Hitler's Personal - and Party - Secretary, was dead.
Although it was acknowledged that Trevor-Roper's account was necessarily incomplete and that there were many gaps to be filled in, the press conference was reported extensively in the world's newspapers. He himself continued to inquire into the last days of the Third Reich throughout the winter of 1945-46.
Later in the year, the Allied Intelligence services received word that a certain Paustin, working as a gardener in the quiet village of Tegernsee, was in fact none other than the former ss Standartenfuhrer Wilhelm Zander, the Adjutant to Martin Bormann. Now here was a very important individual indeed. For three weeks in November and December 1945, British secret service agents and American CIC special agents Arnold Weiss and Rosener tried to track Paustin/Zander's trail.
As Christmas arrived, they thought they had him cornered. On Boxing Day, Trevor-Roper and the CIC agents raided the house they had been watching, only to find that Zander had left the area to visit his fiance who lived near Passau. Two days later, they were tipped off that a suitcase belonging to Zander could be found in the home of a certain Frau Irmgard Unterholzener in Tegernsee. They wasted no time in paying Frau Unterholzener a visit and picked up the suitcase. The case was searched thoroughly but initially proved of little interest. However, a secret compartment was then found inside which were several documents that had been brought out of the Bunker only forty-eight hours before Berlin fell. These documents were of the utmost historical importance.
Here was Hitler's Will and Political Testament. This confirmed what Trevor-Roper had been told about the last days in the Bunker. There was also Goebbels's Appendix to Hitler's Political Testament - further corroborative evidence that the picture Trevor-Roper was building up was essentially correct. Third, and perhaps most intriguing of all, there was the marriage contract of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. Trevor-Roper had been told by several of the people who had lived in the Fuhrerbunker that Eva Braun had finally achieved her long-time aim to become the wife of the Fuhrer. If Trevor-Roper had ever had any doubts about what he had been told, here was documentary support.
But the marriage contract was more than just corroborative evidence. The fact of Hitler's marriage tended to confirm the psychological portrait Trevor-Roper was putting together. Hitler had never felt the need to marry Braun before. Why should he do so in the last week of April 1945? The answer seemed clear: only if he was contemplating something dramatic.
To be double sure of the veracity of the documents, they turned them over to Major Anthony W. Lobb, Chief of the 3rd us Army CIC, who handed them on to the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2. He, in turn, shipped them across the Atlantic to the United States. In Washington, an FBI forensic analysis of the paper and ink confirmed their authenticity.
Still in Germany, Trevor-Roper and CIC agent Arnold Weiss had followed Zander to the small village of Vilshofen, near the Czech border. There, Zander resisted arrest and a short gunfight ensued before he was overpowered. He was transferred to Munich and interrogated. He resisted for about ten hours but finally broke, revealing to Trevor-Roper many details of the last days in the Bunker which the former historian had gleaned from other, less well-placed sources.
This was early in 1946. Although everything Trevor-Roper was turning up now confirmed his initial conclusions about Hitler's last days, vet much of the rest of the world was still not convinced. Sightings of Hitler continued.
That year he was seen in Spain, where he was reported at the end of September as leading a wolf-pack of u_boats. For added verisimilitude, he was said to be suffering badly from seasickness. Next, he was reported as living on a farm at La Falda in Argentina although his appearance had been changed, according to this report, by a plastic surgeon who had performed the operation on the boat that ferried the Fuhrer across the Atlantic from Europe to the new world.
Just before Christmas 1946 the us embassy in Stockholm received an anonymous letter addressed to the "Chief of the American Zone". Given that even Kurt Dittmar had admitted that there was a small redoubt in northern Scandinavia, this report was treated more seriously than many others. It read in part:
"If you look in the Bauerska mountains you will find a long cave about 466 metres or maybe even longer, with about ninety-m,o doors, well camouflaged. Hitler has here a room thirty by thirty metres, with electrical stoves, one big, one small. There is food there, cans of all kinds for several years ahead and lots of money, of all kinds of currencies. There is also a pipe from the top of the mountain in which food can be dropped down. Those who bring food there are called 'Ravens'. Those who built this in the mountains have been killed long ago so it would not be discovered. When you have found it, I demand one sixth of what there is there and a jeep and a tractor. You will know my name when you have found him." On the reverse was written: "They had stolen horses and cows, hay and so on. They have plenty of ammunition and guns. A Swede who has a sixth sense is with them. He tells them all. Find these gentlemen. What will be done will be done soon."
Still another report in 1946 placed Hitler in Holland, in a coffee room in Amsterdam. This time the writer commented on the Fuhrer's strange appearance - he had a very long body and long arms - but the informant also said that this Hitler still had direct links with the Gestapo and was trying to kill the writer, who therefore begged the Allied authorities to act quickly.
Another report placed Hitler in Zurich, saying he had aged dreadfully, that his hair had turned white, his body was bent forward and he took ver-y short steps. He apparently had some form of lung infection for he coughed persistently. He preferred dark suits and hats and his demeanour was "similar to that of a pensioned official." The Deputy Director of Intelligence at the European Command instructed his subordinates to check out this report, as he did with almost all such paperwork coming across his desk. "I feel we would be remiss in our duty," he wrote, "if we failed to follow up a report of this nature." He even requested help from the Chief of the Swiss Federal Police in Berne.
Nor were the Allied Forces immune from spotting Hitler. One American GI reported that he had seen the Fuhrer, Eva Braun and her sister Gretl in Bernheim in the house where he collected his laundry. This man had to be Hitler, the Gi felt, because he flew into a rage whenever the v-1 weapon was mentioned and "exhibited great sentiment over the photograph of a dog" which seems to have closely resembled Blondi, the Fuhrer's own Alsatian.
The impact of these reports may be judged from the account of Lieutenant Colonel W. Byford-Jones, a British Intelligence officer who, on 20 April 1946 (what would have been Hitler's fifty-seventh birthday), questioned twenty educated Berliners on the fate of Hitler. "Only, one thought Hitler was dead. The other nineteen betrayed that then were conscious of the fact that it was their Fuhrer's birthday. Then- were convinced he was alive and spoke of him with anything but reproach. I found also that children, who are usually a good guide to the beliefs of adults, almost without exception spoke of Onkel Adolf as a living being.
"A new feature in this belief was where Hitler was supposed to be hiding. In the summer of 1945 1 had been told he was in Spain, South America and other unlikely places, but now another hide-out, was mentioned. He was with the Edelweiss, an illegal organisation well known to exist, and he was in the wild mountainous area that extends from the Alps on the Swiss frontier to the Tyrol in Austria, where thousands of Wehrmacht troops, calling themselves Edelweiss, retain their wartime formations, stores, equipment and munitions and live high up in the mountain fastnesses." The Redoubt was back.
In January 1947, a report was sent to the American CIC forces via the French Intelligence services. This claimed that Hitler was hiding in the area of Heidelberg and was in touch with a Resistance leader in Weinheim. The French report said that Hitler had visited Weinheim disguised as an American soldier, the visit no doubt part of the Fuhrer's campaign to begin a new Reich.
Weinheim duly became the subject of a raid by thirty. Allied officers - five CIC special agents and twenty-five men of the us Constabulary. There was no trace of either Hitler or the Resistance leader.
It was in March 1947 that Trevor-Roper's report was published in the form of a book, under the title The Last Days of Hitler. By rights, the book ought to have solved the mystery once and for all, to have killed speculation for ever. It was meticulously researched, well written and by and large convincing. But among several points left unresolved, one all-important matter remained a mystery.
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