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The Masters of Auschwitz Are Coming Back Is This Poland's Future in the EU: The Masters of Auschwitz Are Coming Back The people of Poland currently have to take The Roots of the European Union Lessons From History an important decision: do they want to be 1933 IG Farben finances the Nazi rise to power. part of a European Union that is dominated After the military attempt to conquer Europe had by a few economic powers or is the scepti- failed, the interests around this oil and drug cartel 1939 IG Farben takes over the chemical and petro- chemical industry in Poland. cism about this form of Europe of "big busi- regrouped. While the political and military stake- 1940 IG Farben builds giant IG Auschwitz plant ness" justified. holders of the IG Farben/Nazi coalition received heavy sentences in Nuremberg, the IG Farben exec- with Polish forced labour; opponents of this The purpose of this page is to provide some utives - the real war criminals - were soon reinstat- regime perish in the Auschwitz concentration camp important historical facts to this debate. It ed in the highest positions of the IG Farben succes- 1948 IG Farben executives sentenced in Nuremberg will show that it is not only the people of sors, namely BASF and Bayer. Their goal was to make a second attempt at the "conquest" of Europe for genocide and slavery - particularly for the Poland who should be highly sceptical of this crimes committed in Auschwitz and other parts monster - but the people all over Europe. - this time using political pressure and economic bribery in the context of forging an EU ruled by of Poland. large corporations. 1951 Hans Globke, co-author of the Commentary to the Nuremberg racial laws, escaped the Not surprisingly, the political architects of the Nuremberg Tribunal and - as head of the European Union were all relicts of the Nazi era or Chancellery office - became the key architect successors of IG Farben interests. Walter Hallstein, of post-war Germany. Under his term of office, a leading law professor in Nazi Germany, was each of the three IG Farben successor compa- imposed as the first President of the European nies, Bayer, BASF and Hoechst became more powerful than the parent ever Commission from 1956 - 1967. his task was to was. design the basic legal framework of the EU to assure corporate control at every level. 1952 Carl Wurster, during WWII chairman of the chemical company that produced the zyklon B Under the two- gas for Auschwitz and indicted in the decade long reign Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, becomes of German head of BASF for thirteen years. Chancellor Hel- 1956 Fritz Ter Meer, sentenced in Nuremberg for mut Kohl – who genocide and slavery in connection with the Historical Facts had risen from the crimes in Auschwitz, becomes chairman of the supervisory board of Bayer for almost a ranks of an WWII was planned and financed by the world's decade. largest chemical/pharmaceutical cartel at that time, employee of the IG Farben daugh- 1958 Walter Hallstein, a leading Nazi lawyer, Germany's IG Farben (Bayer, BASF, Hoechst and becomes the first President of the European ter BASF to the others). Their goal was to conquer Europe and unite Commission for a full decade. it as a common market for their chemical and petro- Chancellery - the Rome 1955: Konrad Adenauer 1960s While Wurster is still head of BASF, he discov- political institu- (left) and Walter Hallstein (right) chemical products. The only way to accomplish this ers a promising young employee, Helmut goal was by military force, so they brought the tions of the EU sign the Treaty of Rome, the founding document of the Kohl, and promotes his political ascent right up Nazis into power as their political and military were shaped European Union. to the Chancellery of Germany. according to the agents. The details of this master plan can be 1981-98For 16 years, Helmut Kohl is the political con- demands of multi-national corporations. Under obtained from the records of the Nuremberg War ductor for the oil and drug cartel, finances the Crime Tribunal against IG Farben that have just Kohl's reign, the so-called "European Commission" built-up of the EU bureaucracy, and organises been published online for the first time (www.prof- was turned into the politburo of the oil and drug car- its second attempt to take over Europe. During it-over-life.org). tel - elected by no-one and operating beyond any his reign, he names two reliable successors democratic control. It was the oil and drug cartel who would continue guiding Europe into the that financed the EU as its operative basis. hands of big business: Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, today's most worthy executors of this task. Occupied Poland (1939 - 1945) The political future of Poland (and other European countries) if a Europe controlled by the oil and drug cartel becomes reality: Then Now • The country's wealth owned by foreign powers and corporations same • Poland's national industry marginalized same • Polish legal system replaced by a legal system imposed by foreign powers acting as agents for multi-national companies same Helmut Kohl (on the right) and his successor Angela Merkel (on the left) who he called “my girl” • Much of Polish foreign exchange reserves diverted to financing QUESTIONS THE POLISH the import of expensive patented products to the detriment of same the national economy PEOPLE FACE TODAY • Do you want to live in a Europe like that? • Public opinion dominated by media stakeholders of foreign interests same • Do you think that the people and the govern- ment of Poland - especially considering Polish • To suppress any resistance, supra-national laws and history - have a particular responsibility to instruments are imposed that curtail fundamental same prevent history from repeating itself? civil rights and turn Poland into a police state • Do you think that the government of Poland should continue leading the nations of Europe For more information: www.profit-over-life.org in making sure that Europe of big business is Dr. Rath Health Foundation – a non-profit organization – www.dr-rath-foundation.org replaced by a Europe for the people?.
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