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There's a dirty little secret behind Europe's refusal to join the effort to oust Islamo-fascist Saddam Hussein – one I outline in more detail in the latest issue of my new G2 Bulletin online intelligence newsletter.
But here's a taste.
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France and Germany, the two obstacles in Europe, share a recent historical link with Iraq – to Nazism. Saddam Hussein was raised from the age of 10 by a Nazi backer – and that's just how he runs his country today.
What about France and Germany? Isn't Nazism old hat there? Haven't all the old Nazi collaborators been punished? Why would the people of France and Germany be so adamantly opposed to war with a Nazi disciple?
Maybe they've been brainwashed.
One of the largest media conglomerates in the world is Bertelsmann, headquartered in Germany, just as it was during Adolph Hitler's reign as fuehrer.
In fact, Bertlesmann was the biggest publisher of Nazi texts, even bigger than the National Socialist Party's own printing business. It produced more than 20 million books to spread the hate gospel of fascism.
In the early 1930s, Bertelsmann published "The Christmas Book for Hitler Youth," which tried to tie traditional Christianity with Nazi ideology. Even before that, Heinrich Mohn, who took over the family business in 1921, was a member of the German National People's Party, an organization largely serving as a front for the Nazis. He supported financially the dreaded SS.
Mohn made the decision to outsource some of the company's work – including to companies that used Jewish slave labor.
When the liberation of Germany took place in 1945, British forces gave Bertelsmann a license to publish books. Heinrich Mohn was permitted to remain at the helm. By 1947, the growing business was taken over by Mohn's son, Reinhard. Now in his 80s, he remains in charge of one of the world's largest media players.
Today, Bertelsmann is the world's largest publisher of books, one of the biggest magazine publishers, owner of Europe's biggest television group and proprietor of the BMG music business. In the United Kingdom, it is the majority owner of Channel 5. As a global media player, it ranks alongside AOL Time Warner and is bigger than Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. In June 1998, Bertelsmann bought out U.S. publishing giant Random House.
More than any other media company in Europe, Bertelsmann today sets the cultural and political agenda. But it is hardly alone among corporate giants in Germany to have strong ties to the Nazis.
In fact, Iraq got most of its arms and the components for making weapons of mass destruction from Germany. Much of the rest came from France.
All the details are in G2 Bulletin – the details of the arms dealing, the details of Bertelsmann's profiteering from Nazi ties, the details of Hussein's rise to power through his links to the strong Nazi movement in the Middle East.
It's shocking. It's shameful. It's amazing.
You would think Europe – meaning France and Germany – would be ashamed to support a Nazi-like dictator in the Middle East whose stated life's goal is the destruction of the Jewish state. You would think they would be ashamed to provide him with weapons of mass destruction and the components needed to build them. You would think they would be ashamed to stand as roadblocks to the sacrificial efforts of the United States and Britain to right this injustice and remove this threat to freedom and this blight on the world.
But you would over-estimate the French and Germans if you thought any of those things.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
There are cultural forces at work in France and Germany we simply cannot comprehend – just as there are forces at work in Iraq that are difficult for us to fathom.
It's time to stop concerning ourselves with what the French and Germans think of our mission to defend ourselves as Americans from this terrorist supporter in Iraq. It's time to stop worrying about whether the French and Germans are behind the cause to liberate Iraq. It's time to recognize that these two nations are compromised by their own evil past.
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