His presence was known by Britain, USA, and other countries and they knew full well the role he played during World War Two and never bothered him. Josef Mengele died at the beach in Brazil due to heart problems. With full knowledge of Western German authorities he travelled to Germany after World and later returned to Latin America. His movements could not be more public.
I was about 21 years old when Josef Mengele died at a beach in Brazil, on February 7th 1979. My father was a pilot and he often travelled alone to Brazil, but he always kept his movements secret. Shall I add that among my first toys there was a Stuka Dive Bomber that my father gave me. My father knew chemical formulae by heart and had the then typical Deutsche Punktlichkeit. He used to make people laugh when it was found that other people used to check their watches when my father arrived to see if their watches were on time. My father was for a time President of the two main social clubs of the town, clubs that did not welcome non whites. During a storm with very strong winds the ceiling of a neighbour´s house that happened to be Jewish was blown away. My mother often referred to my father´s reaction when that happened: "He was standing on the streets, laughing, applauding and celebrating his neigbour´s misfortune".
But the story goes on and it becomes more interesting. In June 1973, there was a military coup in Uruguay, followed by a military coup in Chile in September 1973. Days before the coup in Chile, my father and I attended a meeting of military officers in Uruguay. My father had a very good relationship with the military. At that meeting, it was announced that a military coup was going to happen in Chile.
And the story becomes ever more interesting. We come to Track II, a CIA operation organised to depose President Salvador Allende and Henry Kissinger had active participation in it, involving in it SS and Gestapo Officers in Latin America in what later known as Operacion Condor. Henry Kissinger was obsessed with Chile and had even tried to prevent Salvador Allende from becoming Chilean President. Having failed to prevent Salvador Allende from becoming Chilean President, he decided to kill President Allende. But things did not stop. They went on. As part of the US called the South Atlantic Strategic Defensive Triangle, the USA - under Henry Kissinger direction - allowed the use of any means possible, including assassination and torture to carry out an ideological war. The USA trained military officers of the military regimes in Latin America to fight against, capture, torture, rape and kill ten of thousands of people. CIA officers were sent to Latin America to assist with "interrogation techniques". In Argentina, more than 30,000 were killed and many of them were thrown from airplaes flying at high altitude, drugged after being tortured. It is presumed that they died during the fall, death provoked by air pressure, before their bodies collided with the surface of the sea that for those falling from high altitude had the consistency of hard rock. We can go to Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia and other countries where similar accounts can be found. Bolivia is a particularly interesting chapter since the Butcher of Lyon, Klaus Barbie, was employed by the USA. But there were other significative places like Colonia Dignidad in Chile. Do you know who Klaus Barbie was? Do your homework.
Now, lets rewind a little. By 1942, it became evident that Unternehmen Barbarossa was not going well. German forces were not in good shape when the first Russian Winter arrived. The chain of supplies was much too thin and the Luftwaffe having lost much of its capacity in the West was not capable of providing German forces in the Eastern Front what German forces needed. German forces had tried unsuccessfully to capture Stalingrad. First, the city was bombed and left in ruins. This itself made the German advance more difficult as the ruins of the city became its defenders´ major asset. (July 17 1942 - February 2, 1943)
General Paulus army were increasingle isolated and surrounded be enemies that sooner than later managed to totally encircle his army. By then it was obvious that Germany did not have what it took to take the city, let alone the Soviet Union. So concerned capitalists and industrialists in Germany were justifiably worried about what would happen to their assets if Germany lost the war. A high ranking meeting was called to talk about what could be done to protect German assets. The assets were not lost even when Germany was said to have been defeated. Moreover, the Americans used the Gold they captured in what is known as the Marshall Plan. Soonafter the war, Germany prospered as German capitals that had remained hidden started to flow again, legally, in Germany and elsewhere.
So lets rewind a bit more. When he realised that the war was lost, Adolf Hitler prophesized that there would be a new Germany, a stronger Germany, after a confrontation between the USA and the Soviet Union (now Russian Federation, after the fall of the Soviet Union).
Now, lets see what is happening now. Relatively recent events in Europe are promoting German Rearmament (No Versailles Treaty on the horizon). Friedrich Merz was seen gloating and boasting about "the German Armed Forces will be the biggest in Europe". Compared to other countries, Germany is relatively stronger both economically and militarily. Germany no longer needs to justify its military strength as other countries are extremely happy to promote German rearmament "for the common good". And significative events are happening all the time. Now, a force of 4500 troops, part of Panzer Group, will be stationed in Lithuania. Never mind the numbers. The importance of such deployment is that it leaves behind postwar military and political limitations regarding the deployment of German fighting forces outside Germany. Moreover, the conflict in Ukraine has allowed German industry to test the efficacity of German weapons. Ukraine, like Spain before Ukraine (The Spanish Civil War) provides valuable knowledge about how effective German weapons are. Until now, German weapons were in the hands of Ukrainians. From now on, German weapons will be in the hands of German troops that will be especially trained to use them.
And who stands to benefit from German rearmament? Well, geopolitical changes will lead to Germany producing its own weapons, instead of importing them from somewhere else i.e USA. While other European countries will still be buying weapons "off the shelves", Germany will empower its own defense industries. Something that might not be ignored is the possibility that American forces will leave Germany and that Germany will have total control of any forces in its territory.
So, coming back to the beginning, the idea that Germany was totally defeated during World War Two contrasts with the fact that there was a continuity that is becoming ever more apparent. World War Two was just a battle.
Sitting in an office with the television set by my side watching the news, I suddenly was focused on a report coming from New York, USA, about the Twin Towers and airplanes crashing onto the sides of the towers and couldn't possibly imagine that just a few weeks later war was to arrive in Afghanistan, country that was to be subject to carpet bombing. The smoking mountains were on television screens across the world. Just about two years later came yet another disastrous event that was the invasion of Iraq that completely destabilized the Middle East causing wave after wave of refugees. There was Libya, Syria and so forth afterwards.
The present war in Ukraine has been going on for more than a year and there is every indication that it could go on and on, threatening to engulf Europe as a whole. I do remember the war in Yugoslavia, war that ended up with the end of Yugoslavia and that in more than one way led to expansion of NATO that created the present war in Ukraine.
Long before the present war, Ukraine was in trouble, unable to make ends meet, with internal upheaval and ethnic tensions. Western Ukraine did not love Eastern Ukraine very much and World War Two is ample evidence of it when one side of Ukraine supported National Socialist Germany and was very much involved in what we know as the Holocaust and Eastern Ukraine sided with the Allies. Paradoxically, history repeats itself following what happened in Yugoslavia. Croatia and Bosnia Herzegobina were on the side of National Socialist Germany. Heinrich Himmler used to boast about the fact that Muslims from Bosnia Herzegobina joined the SS and were 'good fighters'. It did not come as a surprise the fact that Germany was the first country to recognize an independent Croatia because, after all, Croatia was on the German side during World War Two.
What happens today in the Baltic Republics is no surprise either. SS officers remarked the cruelty of Lithuanians against Jews. They described the scenes of an execution carried out by Lithuanians against Jews. The Lithuanians killed Jewish men, women and children and after the execution they danced on top of the corpses playing accordions and singing.
One conflict after another seems to be waged against people who fought against National Socialist Germany. Yugoslavia was dismantled and all the focus was against Serbia that in two World Wars fought against Germany and Austria. Now the focus is against Eastern Ukraine and against the Russian Federation that as part of the then Soviet Union lost tens of millions of people fighting against National Socialist Germany.
But, going back to the title, how good are the promises and what is the real agenda? The real agenda is to weaken Europe and the USA is using the conflict in Ukraine to weaken Europe and threatening to destabilize Europe with the willing cooperation of European governments that seem all to eager to please warmongering lobbies with complete disregard for their own peoples. In their efforts, adulating politicians are getting rid of outdated equipment that even when it is outdated it will be difficult to replace. Denmark, Netherlands, Norway and others are not known for being military powers and even Germany that was kept under American domination is no military power at all. Warplanes are foreign made and bought from the shelf since Germany was not allowed to develop its war industries. The only pieces of equipment worth mentioning are the Leopard tanks and even so they have proven to be pretty useless in real combat.
Promises here and there and big speeches including speeches made by Ursula von der Leyen, the disastrous former German Defense Secretary and present head of the European Commission can only make a bad situation worse. Present German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talks both ways, sending equipment while expressing fears regarding the involvement of Germany in yet another war.
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