Cult Targets German Nation for Destruction
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EIRInvestigation THE ANTI-DEUTSCHEN A ‘Thatcherite’ Cult Targets German Nation for Destruction by an EIR/LaRouche Youth Movement Investigative Team Beginning in the Winter of 1989-90, when the whole world the full allegiance of German nationalists. Nationalist in- was celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall, the liberation of tellectuals will explain that true Germans should not feel guilt, East Germany, and the unfolding demise of the Soviet Em- but pride about the Holocaust, that great courageous and salu- pire, bizarre banners began appearing at left-wing rallies tory act—I fear that the Fourth Reich, if it comes, will have a throughout Germany. The demonstrators carrying these ban- natural tendency to resemble its predecessor.” ners were part of a violent, left-wing “autonomist” milieu On Nov. 12, 1989, within days of the fall of the Berlin in Germany, known as the “Antifa” (“Anti-fascists”). Their Wall, the Sunday Times editorialized on the same theme under banners and posters carried slogans like “Fourth Reich— the headline, “The Fourth Reich.” The voice of the Anglo- Never Again!” and “Bomber Harris—Do It Again.” The latter Dutch Liberal establishment declared, in apocalyptic terms: slogan referred to British Royal Air Force Marshal Sir Arthur “The result [of reunification] will be a German economy twice Travers “Bomber” Harris, otherwise known as “Butcher Har- as big as any other....Aunited Germany will then become ris,” who was the architect of Britain’s massive World War II the locomotive in the rebuilding of the newly free market strategic bombing campaign directed against German civilian economies of Eastern Europe, for Germany is preeminent in targets, which killed and maimed millions of Germans, de- the capital, industrial know-how, and management skills that stroyed most German cities, but did little damage to the Nazi these countries need. The Fourth Reich is set to boom, becom- war machine. The violent hatred of all things German, particularly the prospect of a united Germany, which characterized this ex- treme wing of the Antifa (they soon labeled themselves the The following researchers contributed to this report: “Anti-Deutschen”—“Anti-Germans”) precisely mirrored the Dean Andromidas, Rainer Apel, Anton Chaitkin, Paul rhetoric and policies coming, at that same time, out of the Gallagher, Elke Fimmen, Alex Getachew, Daniel- Tory government of Margaret Thatcher in Britain, and some Enrico Grasenack-Tente, Aaron Isherwood, Steven of the leading City of London propagandists in the British Jeffery, Creighton C. Jones, Ilja Karpowski, Tony media. Ka¨stner, Natalie Lovegren, Steven P. Meyer, Roger On Oct. 31, 1989, Conor Cruise O’Brien penned an hys- Moore, Stephan Ossenkopp, Tony Papert, David terical attack on the prospect of a future united Germany. Shavin, Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele Steinberg, and Writing in the Times of London, he ranted, “We are on the Scott Thompson. road to the Fourth Reich, a pan-German entity commanding 22 Investigation EIR March 9, 2007 antideutsch.com EIRNS/Stuart Lewis The violent hatred of all things German, particularly the prospect of a united Germany, that characterizes the extreme wing of the Anti- Germans, mirrors the rhetoric and policies of Britain’s Tory government of Margaret Thatcher (left). Right: An Anti-German group campaigns against “anti-Semitism.” ing Europe’s economic superpower in the process. Where proposal for Germany to play a leading role in the economic does that leave Britain?” rebuilding of post-Communist Central Europe and Russia. By July 1990, the theme was directly taken up by the LaRouche’s ideas had been echoed in the efforts of Chancel- British government of Prime Minister Thatcher. On July 12, lor Kohl’s leading economic advisor, Deutsche Bank Presi- Minister of Trade and Industry Nicholas Ridley gave an in- dent Alfred Herrhausen. Herrhausen would be assassinated flammatory interview to The Spectator. Accompanying the in December 1989, in a still-unsolved killing, blamed, at the Ridley interview was a cartoon portraying Germany’s Chan- time, on a non-existent “third generation” Red Army Faction cellor Helmut Kohl with a Hitler moustache. The caption (RAF) terrorist cell. At the time, LaRouche and others pinned read “Saying the unsayable about the Germans.” Asked to the assassination on British intelligence—given London’s ra- comment on a statement by Germany’s Central Bank head bid campaign to destroy Germany, and given Britain’s long- Hans Tietmeyer about the possible benefits of a common Eu- standing expertise in creating controlled terrorist “counter- ropean monetary policy, Ridley railed, “This is all a German gangs,” including nominally “left-wing” terror cells in racket designed to take over the whole of Europe. It has to be Germany that had been carrying out assassinations of leading thwarted. You might as well give up [sovereignty] to German bankers and industrialists, from Walter Rathenau Adolf Hitler, frankly.” Ridley went on to boast that Britain (1923) to Ju¨rgen Ponto (1977) and Hanns-Martin Schleyer had “always played the balance of power in Europe. It has (1977). always been Britain’s role to keep these various powers bal- anced and never has that been more necessary than now, with Anti-Deutschen: Sporting the Germany so uppity.” Union Jack Label Days later, Thatcher herself came out strongly in defense The continuing parallels between the rhetoric and actions of Ridley’s comments, further underscoring that the destruc- of the Anti-Deutschen and the policies of the Anglo-Dutch tion of Germany was a top priority for the British government, oligarchy, up to the present day, are hardly coincidental. A as well as the City of London financial establishment. several-month-long investigation by EIR and the LaRouche Unspoken, but clearly on the minds of the authors of this Youth Movement (LYM) has revealed a level of top-down British propaganda outburst, was the fact that, in October ideological and operational control over the violence-prone 1988, American statesman Lyndon LaRouche had delivered Anti-Deutschen by a London-centered apparatus, closely tied an historic press conference in West Berlin, forecasting the to the trans-Atlantic neo-conservative movement. near-term reunification of Germany, and putting forward a The objectives of the controllers of the Anti-Deutschen EIR March 9, 2007 Investigation 23 hooligans, and the international network of think-tanks, aca- which is viewed by more traditional left-wing extremists demics, and political operatives who back their operations, as imperialist aggression. Demonstrations by anti-German is to destroy the real Germany of great republican figures groups typically include Israeli, U.S., and British flags and like the philosopher, scientist, and political leader, Moses banners and slogans such as ‘USA anti-Fascism,’‘Stalingrad Mendelssohn, a German Jew who was a pivotal figure in 43—Thank You Red Army,’ and ‘Bomber Harris Do It the 18th- and 19th-Century development of the German Again.’ Classical movement (see article in this section). It is the “Anti-German positions provoked serious ideological Germany of Mendelssohn, Gotthold Lessing, Abraham confrontations among left-wing extremists. These confronta- Ka¨stner, Friedrich List, Friedrich Schiller, J.S. Bach, and tions are often hateful, especially on the relevant Internet Ludwig van Beethoven that the British oligarchy despises, websites. In practice, this conflict has already led to the break- and is out to obliterate. up of long-standing associations and even physical attacks at By convicting every German of the crimes of Hitler and demonstrations and other events.” the Nazis, this London-directed apparatus is also out to cover The BfV report also included a general warning note: up the role of leading British bankers, like Lord Robert Brand “Organizations have developed within the militant autono- of London Lazard Brothers, and Bank of England head mist scene whose attacks have crossed the line of what consti- Montagu Norman, in Hitler’s rise to power. Without the back- tutes terrorist violence.” ing of the British Round Table group—and American Wall The report continued: “The members of these small, clan- Street allies such as Averell Harriman, Prescott Bush, and the destine groups live a life that looks perfectly normal to the Dulles brothers of the Sullivan and Cromwell law firm, along rest of the world. They leave behind few traces that could help with French Synarchist banking circles (Lazard and Banque the authorities identify them and as a rule sign each of their Worms)—Hitler could have never taken power, and Germany letters claiming responsibility for an attack with a different might have aligned in the 1930s with the United States of name in order to avoid criminal prosecution (‘no-name mili- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in leading the Americas tancy’). However, some groups do operate under the same and Europe out of the horrors of the Great Depression and the ‘brand name’ as an expression of continuity, to be recognized continuing plague of Anglo-Dutch colonialism. and to provide a contact point.” While the BfV report certainly provided an accurate The Anti-Germans ground-level snapshot of the Anti-Deutschen and their role In 2005, the German Office for the Protection of the Con- within the overall autonomist, proto-terrorist German left- stitution (Bundesamt fu¨r Verfassungsschutz, BfV), in its an- wing scene, and also underscored German government con- nual survey report, offered the following description of the cerns about the growing influence of the Anti-Germans, some Anti-German wing of the larger autonomist groupings. of the most crucial and revealing features of the network were “Within violent left-wing extremism, positions favoring left out. a strict rejection of the German nation’s right to exist and One early but critical lead in the EIR/LYM probe emerged hence the struggle to abolish the German state, play a special in May 2005, when an open letter was published, addressed to role.