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The Genie from Washington, DC, Goes Global: Master of Obscurity (M Chapter 8 The Genie from Washington, DC, Goes Global: Master of Obscurity (M. O.) he genie has accommodated the strategies, methods and Trhetoric of the Bolshevik communist Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov to the motives of Washington, DC and the current White House. However, he expanded his “vision” to advising far right parties in Europe and boosting ultra-right political movements across that continent, citing as great examples sim- Figure 27.1. ilar campaigns in the nineteen thirties. He has advocated the embrace of racism. His proposals lack any details. Their mean- ing and required explanations are provided herein. A list of far right parties, established in the nineteen thirties, which includ- ed racism as an integral part of their programs, included: 1. Austria: Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) (Figure 27.1.). Figure 27.2. 2. Belgium: Rexist Party (Figure 27.2.). 3. Belgium: Vlaams Nationaal Verbond (Figure 27.3.). 4. Belgium: Deutsch-Vlämische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (Figure 27.4.). Figure 27.3. 5. Bulgaria: Bulgarian National Socialist Workers Party (Figure 27.5.). 263 Protected by Muslims During World War II Figure 27.4. Figure 27.5. Figure 27.6. Figure 27.7. Figure 27.8. Figure 27.9. Figure 27.10. Figure 27.11. Figure 27.12. Figure 27.13. Figure 27.14. Figure 27.15. Figure 27.16. Figure 27.17. Figure 27.18. Figure 27.19. Figure 27.20. 264 The Genie from Washington, DC, Goes Global Figure 27.21. Figure 27.22. Figure 27.23. Figure 27.24. Figure 27.25. Figure 27.26. Figure 27.27. Figure 27.28. Figure 27.29. Figure 27.30. Figure 27.31. Figure 27.32. 265 Protected by Muslims During World War II 6. Bulgaria: National Social Movement (Figure 27.6.). 7. Bulgaria: Warriors for the Advancement of the Bulgarian National Spirit [ Ratnikš] (Figure 27.7.) 8. Croatia: Ustaša (Figure 27.8.). 9. Czechoslovakia: National Fascist Community (Figure 27.9.) 10. Czechoslovakia: Czech National Socialist Camp (Vlajka). (Figure 27.10.). 11. Sudetendeutsche Partei (Figure 27.11). 12. Denmark: National Socialist Worker’s Party of Denmark (Figure 27.12.). 13. France: Parti Populaire Français (Figure 27.13.). 14. Germany: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei [NSDAP] (Figure 27.14.). 15. Greece: National Union of Greece (Figure 27.15.). 16. Hungary: Arrow Cross Party (Figure 27.16.). 17. Hungary: Hungarian National Defense Association (Figure 27.17.). 18. Iceland: Nationalist Party. 19. Italy: National Fascist Party (Figure 27.18.). 20. Italy: Republican Fascist Party (Figure 27.19.). 21. Latvia: Thunder Cross (Figure 27.20.). 22. Liechtenstein: German National Movement (Figure 27.21.). 23. Mexico: National Synarchist Union (Figure 27.22.) 24. Netherlands: National Socialist Movement (Figure 27.23.). 25. Netherlands: National Socialist Dutch Workers Party (Figure 27.24.). 26. Norway: Nasjonal Samling (Figure 27.25.). 27. Poland: National Radical Camp Falanga (Figure 27.26.). 266 The Genie from Washington, DC, Goes Global 28. Romania: Iron Guard ((Figure 27.27.) 29. Romania: National-Christian Defense League (Figure 27.28.). 30. Romania: National Socialist Party (Figure 27.29.). 31. Slovakia: Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party (Figure 27.30.). 32. British Union of Fascist (Figure 27.31.). 33. UK: Imperial Fascist League (Figure 27.32.). The party programs and the fate of distinct party leaders after World War II is summarized below using the reference numbers (1 to 33) shown above. 1. Josef Leopold, Theodor Habicht:killed in military actions after invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. 2. Léon Degrelle: Joined the SS; fought on the Eastern Front with the Soviet Union; Recipient of the Nazi Iron Cross distinction; After World War II went into exile in Spain under the dictatorship by Francisco Franco. 3. Hendrik Elias: Sentenced to death, changed to imprisonment for life. Released for health rea- sons in 1959. 4. Jef Van de Wiele: Sentenced to death, changed to imprisonment for life. Released in 1963. 5. Hristo Kunchev: Party banned. Fate of leader unknown. 6. Aleksandar Tsankov: Went into exile in Argentina. 7. Asen Kantardzhiev: Information not accessible. 8. Ante Pavelič: War criminal. Found exile in Argentina, Paraguay, followed by Spain. 9. Radola Gajda: Tried for fascist and Nazi propaganda. Sentenced to prison for two years in 1947. Died several months later. 11. Konrad Henlein: Joined the SS. In US captivity in the town of Plzen committed suicide on May 10, 1945. 12. Cay Lembcke: Was removed from party leadership in 1932. Died in 1965. 267 Protected by Muslims During World War II 13. Jacques Doriot: Joined the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Was killed in his automobile by Allied bombers in February 1945. 14. Adolf Hitler: Committed suicide on April 30, 1945, in Berlin. 15. Georgios Kosmidis: Party members were prominent collaborators of the Nazis, and joined the Security Battalions helping in the identification of Greek Jews. Owing to its paramilitary uniforms and organization, the party was commonly referred to as “The Steel-helmets”, in allusion to the German paramilitary Stahlhelm. 16. + 17. Ferenc Szálasi: Sentenced to death by hanging for war crimes on March 12, 1946, and executed in Budapest. 18. Frits Clausen: Participated in the war against the Soviet Union. After the war, was sent to prison, died during a trial. 19. + 20. Benito Mussolini: Executed for war crimes by firing squad on April 28, 1945 near Lake Como in Italy. 21. Gustavs Celminš: Involved in massacres of rural Jews in Latvia and Belarus. After World War II settled in Italy, and in 1949 emigrated to the United States (?!). 22. Alfons Goop: Attempted a coup d’état in 1939 to force Liechtenstein to become part of Nazi Germany. He was a member of the Waffen SS until 1943. Involved in vehement anti-Semitic agitation. Prosecuted in 1946 and convicted of high treason and sentenced to thirty months in prison. 23. José Antonio Urquiza: Roman Catholic extreme rightist supporting clerical fascism and fa- langism. Opposed to secularist policies. Supported Nazi Germany and its allies. Sympathetic towards the Spanish and Portuguese dictators Franco and Salazar, respectively, Murdered in April 1938. 24. Anton Mussert: Collaborated with the Gestapo. After World War II convicted and executed for high treason. 25. Ernst Herman van Rappard: Advocated the incorporation of the Netherlands into Nazi Germany. Virulent anti-Semite. Enlisted into Waffen-SS and SS-Panzer Divisionn Wiking. Received Nazi Iron Cross 2nd Class. Sentenced to death in 1949, changed to life imprisonment. 268 The Genie from Washington, DC, Goes Global 26. Vidkun Quisling: Head of Norway government during the occupation of the country by Nazi Germany. Participated in the “Final Solution” genocide of Jews. After the war sentenced to death and executed by firing squad in Oslo on October 24, 1945. 27. Boleslaw Piasecki: Advocated Catholic totalitarianism. During World War II joined Polish underground. Far-rightist. In 1971 to 1979 he was member of the Polish Council of State. 28. Cornelius Zelea Codreanu: Inciting pogroms. Alliances with Nazi Germany. Organized burn- ing of synagogues and called for the destruction of Jews. Assassinated in November 1938. 29. Nichifor Crainic: Supporter of an “ethnocratic state”. Supporter of Mussolini and Hitler. Racist ideologue. After the war spent 15 years in prison. However between 1962 and 1968 was an editor of a Communist propaganda magazine, i.e. “always adaptable”. 30. Stefan Tätärescu: Advocate for expulsion or segregation of Romanian Jews. Enthusiastic sup- porter of Hitler whom he personally visited. Arrested after the war but freed in 1957. 31. Dr. Jozef Tiso: Roman Catholic Priest who became President of the Slovak Republic, a satel- lite state of Nazi Germany, from 1939 to 1945. Collaborated with Germany in deportation of Jews to concentration camps. Fled to Austria, followed by Germany in 1945. Arrested by US troops, and ex- tradited to Czechoslovakia. Convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and then executed by hanging in 1947. 32. Oswald Mosley: Visited Benito Mussolini in 1931 and got convinced that fascism represented the future of Britain. Advocated anti-Zionism and authoritarianism, followed by anti-semitism. He was detained on May 23, 1940 after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. He was released in 1943. Politically disgraced, he moved abroad, spending most of his remaining life in Paris. 33. Arnold Leese: Leading authority on camels. Virulent anti-Semite. He visited the Nazi Julius Streicher, publisher of the semi-pornographic anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer, in Germany. After the war, Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity, and executed. Leese supported the mass murder of Jews by use of gas chambers as early as 1935. As a result of that, he was jailed for six months. He claimed that Jewish Passover celebrations included the sacrifice of Christian children.He was de- tained but released for health reasons in 1944. He denied the existence of the Holocaust after the war. He was again imprisoned in 1947 for helping escaped German prisoners of war who had been mem- bers of the Waffen SS. The interpretation and implications for selection of far right political parties favored by the Genie have now been clarified. Most of their leaders supported Nazi Germany, and were 269 Protected by Muslims During World War II sentenced to death after World War II. This favored selection contradicts everything the United States has been standing for and fighting for, including the death in battle against Nazi Germany of over 400,000 US combatants. Genie’s preference for racism and xenophobia repudiates US Supreme Court opinions: “…. if any fundamental assumption underlies our system, it is that guilt is personal and not inheritable…..” [Robert H. Jackson Dissenting in Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, 242-45 (1944)].https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fascist_movements_by_country 270.
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