America's Nazi Secret: An Insider's History (4 page)

The prisoner was right. The guard was wrong.
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The Special Assistant Attorney General of the United States closed all of the treason cases in Occupied Germany. Not a single corporate officer ever went to jail for doing business with the Nazis, either in America or the United Kingdom.
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The Justice Department covered it all up.
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More than a hundred American traitors were returned home after many profitable years of serving Hitler. The Army’s original investigative files, codenamed ASHCAN and DUSTBIN are still off limits to “protect the privacy” of the American citizens involved. An American Intelligence Officer, Allen Dulles, used his position in the OSS to protect himself and his clients from investigation for laundering Nazi funds back to America.
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In addition to Dulles, President Franklin Roosevelt had his own Vice President and Attorney General under surveillance for protecting those American businessmen with commercial ties to the Third Reich. After British wiretapping suggested that FDR’s right-hand man had leaked classified information to a pro-Nazi Swedish businessman, FDR quickly replaced his Vice President with Harry Truman, who had a reputation for bipartisan investigation into American corporate corruption.

Unfortunately, President Roosevelt did not brief Truman on the investigations into Dulles and the Attorney General, both of whom were retained by Truman after Roosevelt’s death. What President Truman also did not know was that FDR permitted British assassination teams to murder pro-Nazi American businessmen in New York. Mention of the American-Nazi collaboration and the British assassination teams were censored from the original edition of this book, along with any mention of the Vatican’s role in laundering Nazi money back to the American corporate investors.
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Such censorship only proves that I started off on the right track nearly thirty years ago. In the following decades, my Australian co-author, Mark Aarons
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and I have combed through international archives for declassified traces of America’s Nazi Secrets. Our initial endeavor, a documentary series on ABC Australian National Radio exposing the Vatican’s role in smuggling Nazi war criminals out of Europe, won second place in the world in the Armstrong Radio Award. Subsequently, we made a five-part documentary series on Nazis in Australia, which prompted an official inquiry and led to major changes to Australia’s war-crimes legislation. Mark Aarons then published a history of Nazis “down under,” which won major journalistic acclaim. Our first joint book,
Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis and the Swiss Banks
, became an international best seller and has been translated into many languages.

With my Canadian friend, Brendan Howley, I co-authored a fiction-based-on-fact history of the Dulles family called The Witness Tree, which has never appeared in print in America, perhaps because if its embarrassing revelation about the Bush family. My next joint endeavor with Mark Aarons,
The Secret War Against the Jews
is considered a classic of intelligence history and is still in print, except of course in England, where it is still banned.

It is just a matter of time. The British intelligence records concerning American-Nazi corporate cooperation, to which I had access, should be released to the Public Records Office in London beginning in 2020. A significant number of British intelligence reports of American business ties to Nazi corporate fronts have recently been declassified and are cited in my previous works.
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The financial rot inside the Justice Department that began before WWII has never been cleansed. It has given corporate America a continuing source of blackmail against the career bureaucrats at DOJ who participated in the original Nazi cover-up. As we shall see, DOJ continues to be involved in the modern sequels, the Arab Nazi recruitment of the 9/11 terrorist groups, an inadvertent result of American oil company manipulation of DOJ and State. The Old Nazis are the New Nazis, their old evil still bottled in the same old barrels of oil.

Of course, I did not know this in 1979 when I first applied for a transfer to the Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations, the unit newly created by Congress to pursue Nazi war criminals living in America. The Appellate Section had been fun, but I was getting a bit bored with writing briefs and wanted some excitement. Be careful what you wish for.

OSI’s first director was Walter J. Rockler, a former prosecutor at the Bankers’ Trial at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. As I would soon discover, Walter was the real deal, and already knew quite a bit about the Nazi cover-up. He volunteered to join the Justice Department’s reopened Nazi unit in 1979, to finish a job he had started during WWII.

After serving with Army intelligence, Rockler had been assigned to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg to prepare war-crimes charges against those German bankers who had funded the Nazi war machine. Rockler told me how unnamed higher authorities kept eliminating his investigative budget. Sadly, this was happening to anyone in the Allied forces who poked his nose into the source of Nazi capital.
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Because of a lack of witnesses, and dwindling resources, Rockler had been finally forced to drop the investigation against Herman Abs and Deutsche Bank. The very next day Abs was appointed economic adviser to the British Zone of Occupied Germany.
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All of the British residents of Ashcan/Dustbin were quietly released. Several members of the British Royal Family had Nazi dossiers that were quietly returned by American intelligence to the British Secret Service.
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One prominent royal, Edward, Duke of Windsor, had actually served as King before he was forced to abdicate. He claimed that he left the throne “to marry the woman I love.”

The truth, however, is that SIS [MI6] wire tappers had made phonograph recordings of the Duke of Windsor making pre-war deals with Hitler’s Ambassador to the Court of Saint James. Even after his abdication, Windsor was regarded by J. Edgar Hoover as “such a dangerous Nazi agent”
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that he was kept under Allied surveillance throughout the war.

Forced to abdicate in December 1936, Edward and his American wife, Wallace Simpson, toured Germany in 1937. During his visit with Hitler, the dictator promised to restore him to the throne of England as its first fascist King. As his part of the bargain, it was said, Edward successfully betrayed the entire plan of the Maginot line to the Third Reich. British intelligence interceded just as Edward and Wallace were preparing to flee neutral Spain for Germany. They were seized and interned in the Bahamas for the duration of the war. At Churchill’s request to President Eisenhower, the Justice Department covered up the Windsor secret until I stumbled across the files in the Attorney General’s Top Secret vault.

Years later, Anthony Cave Brown, a prominent British historian, telephoned me to ask that I not reveal that their King was a Nazi traitor. Brown begged me to consider what would have happened to public morale in Britain if their former King had been put on trial after the war.

My response was that the people of Britain had not fought WWII to make England a safe haven for retired Nazi collaborators or for Hitler’s financial backers. Moreover, it was my opinion that many of the British nobility, bankers and corporate executives from the “Cliveden set,” should have stood in the dock along with Windsor. Mr. Brown was not amused. When I included the British-Nazi scandal in the American version of my book,
The Secret War Against the Jews
, every publishing house in Britain turned it down. As noted earlier, that international bestseller is still “banned in Britain.”

The British were not the only ones to cover up embarrassing Nazi connections. During the Nuremberg trials, one of the prosecuting attorneys, the same Walter J. Rockler who later became my boss at OSI, discovered a German document listing the thirteen American banks that had secretly worked for the Third Reich during WWII. After his investigative unit was shut down, Rockler kept the Nazi bank list to prevent it from being shredded.
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Shredding of captured Nazi records was the favorite tactic of Dulles and his corporate “volunteers” who stayed behind to help run the occupation of post-war Germany. Most of the Nazi records were shipped to the old torpedo factory on the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia. There the representatives of various intelligence services culled the documents under the guise of the War Department’s European Acquisition Project. The EAP files were indexed on Holorith cards, a sort of crude computer system where metal rods were slid through corresponding holes on the edges of the cards. There are many more documents listed in the EAP index than were ever turned over to the National Archives.

I found some of the missing documents when I raided the offices of Professor Alexander Dallin, Chair of the History Department at Stanford University. The terrified professor quickly turned over boxes of unpublished Einsatzgruppen reports, records of the SS mobile killing units in Eastern Europe. These records contained the names of Nazi collaborators from Belarus and Ukraine, men who had earned their spurs by carrying out the mass murder of their own countrymen. Similar records concerning Polish collaborators with the Nazis were pulled from the Nuremberg trials before the Russians could get their hands on them.

The most distressing stolen document that Professor Dallin produced from his hoard was the unpublished memoirs of a senior SS officer, Friedrich Buchardt, who had written a history of the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe. Professor Dallin had plagiarized Buchardt’s manuscript for his own famous work,
Russia Under German Rule
. Buchardt had been the leader of VorKommano Moskau, one of the SS mobile killing units which specialized in recruiting local collaborators from Belarus and the Ukraine as spies.
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Dallin confessed to me that his Nazis had also been used for Harvard’s Russian Research Project, and gave me the code list for the “anonymous” interview subjects, almost all of whom had been Nazi collaborators. I found the matching files at Harvard in drawer B2. Both Harvard and Stanford owe an apology for perpetrating an academic fraud upon the public, and polluting almost the entire field of Russian sociological studies during the Cold War.

The US Department of State’s intelligence service masterminded the Nazi cover-up. George Kennan’s friend Gustav Hilger had been the liaison between the German Foreign Office and the SS Mobile Killing units. It was Kennan who personally recruited Hilger and tried to bring him to America. Kennan screamed at me over the telephone that I was defaming his reputation, but quietly dropped his threats of a lawsuit when I told him that I had read his files. I had a similar experience with Henry Kissinger.
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Kissinger was recruited as a professional spy for Dulles shortly after the end of the war in Europe. Although there is no evidence that he personally recruited Nazis, Kissinger ran the intelligence file room where records of Nazi recruitment were kept. He then transferred to Harvard where he specialized in recruiting foreign students for espionage. Later he worked for Dulles during the glory days of Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). He was hired as a consultant for a private group known as Operations Research Office, which planned to use former Nazis as agents behind Russian lines in the event of World War III. Mention of Kissinger’s classified work was censored from the original manuscript of this book.

But Kissinger and the State Department had a witting accomplice in the Nazi cover up. The US Justice Department had known all along where Rockler’s missing witnesses could be found. The German bankers that Rockler was trying to prosecute at Nuremberg had hired American and British corporate executives – who had then become the secret residents of Camp Ashcan/Dustbin. It was the Special Assistant Attorney General Victor Swearingen who had kept all the American and British moneymen hidden from the nosey Nuremberg prosecutors.

Political smear tactics forced Rockler out before I could tell him why all Nazi financial crimes investigations kept getting closed down.
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He was getting much too close to the truth. The money that funded the banks and corporations of the Third Reich came from Wall Street and “the City,” London, England’s financial district and Wall Street equivalent. President Roosevelt knew about it, and so did his Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau.
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The problem was that Roosevelt never told Harry Truman about the Atomic bomb or about his real motive for the Nazi Bankers’ Trials at Nuremberg. The German bankers were supposed to point their fingers at their American investment partners, which would effectively incriminate the principal financial contributors to the GOP. Had he lived, Roosevelt might have succeeded in bringing treason charges against the leading lights of Wall Street. It was high time that some of them did jail time.

At the end of the 1800s, some of America’s wealthiest families had pooled their money to form aggressively brutal monopolies, cartels and other price fixing schemes. Their perfidious and predatory practices earned them the nickname “the Robber Barons of Wall Street.” There were some Democrats like the Harriman family (and later the Kennedys), but most of the Robber Barons were unabashedly Republicans. The Rockefeller, Dupont, Bush and Walker families were just a few.

I have always said that neither JFK nor George W. Bush should be blamed because their parents or grandparents invested in Hitler. What many people do not realize is that Joseph Kennedy bought his Nazi-era stock through Prescott Bush. They traveled by ship to Germany together before the war.
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Teddy Roosevelt, arguably the most honest of the Republican Presidents, was the only one in the GOP who tried to bring the Robber barons to their knees. He persuaded Congress to pass extremely strict anti-trust, anti-cartel, and anti-monopoly legislation. In 1918, the Robber Barons fought back, and somehow convinced Congress to pass the Webb-Pomerene Act. This little-know loophole law permitted the creation of American trusts, monopolies, etc., as long as it was done overseas. Because of this loophole law, investment capital left America in a great flood, one of the contributing causes of the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.