How the Anglo/American Elite Created Hitler

 

Conjuring Hitler

Guido Giacomo Preparata

Pluto Press (2005)

Book Review

Available free online via the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/conjuringhitlerh0000prep_p5u8/

Part 1

This fascinating book presents a wealth of research into 1) the plot hatched by British intelligence in 1898 to destroy Germany via an industrial-scale war, 2) the Anglo-British plot to end the regime of Tsar Nicholas II by financing communist and Bolshevik militias in 1917, 3) the political chicanery behind the 1919 Versailles Treaty that officially ended World War I, 4) the careful grooming and financing by British intelligence of National Socialist Workers Party founder Adolph Hitler starting in 1924 (following his release from prison), 5) the real reason the Allies invaded the Soviet Union in January 1918, 6) the role of the Anglo-American banks in crashing the global economy in 1929 and 7) the role of British and American banking and corporate elites in rearming Germany after 1933 (in violation of the Versailles Treaty).

I’ve divided this review in two halves. Part I covers history from the unification of Germany in 1871 to 1929. Part II begins with the decision by the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve to crash their respective economies in 1929.

Prior to reading Conjuring Hitler, I had no idea British Foreign Office elites were plotting as early as 1898 to decimate newly unified Germany[1] militarily, politically and economically. According to Preparata, the influential academic and politician Halford MacKinder[2] (1861-1947) was highly prone to anti-German conspiracy theories. He somehow convinced the British Foreign that a Russo-German alliance was plotting to replace the UK as the de facto global super power.

The British political establishment chose to target Germany, rather than Russia, in part because it was more accessible and in part due to grave concerns about Germany’s growing industrial strength, their heavy investments in the Middle East and their colonies in Africa (Northwest Africa, Togoland, Cameroons and Tanganyika), and the Pacific (Solomon, Marshall and Caroline Islands).

Knowing that Germany would have to be “dragged” into war (because they would never initiate a first strike), in 1904, the UK entered into strategic treaties with the countries surrounding it. They hoped to launch a short (few months) war in which Germany would be immobilized with simultaneous attacks on two fronts. France signed the first treaty in 1904, after the UK granted them sole jurisdiction over the contested colony of Morocco.  In 1907, the UK signed a similar military pact with Russia, granting them jurisdiction over northern Persia and promising them Constantinople and the Bosporus Straits (following the anticipated defeat of the the Ottoman Empire [3]).

In May 1914, President Woodrow Wilson’s chief foreign advisor notified him that Britain, France and Russia were preparing to ambush Germany via a false flag event in Eastern Europe. A month later an anarchist linked to Serbian intelligence assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary) with the approval of the Russian government.

After Serbia rejected the Austrian ultimatum for an formal Serbian-Austrian investigation, Austria declared war and invaded Serbia in late July. After three unsuccessful attempts to negotiate an end to Russian military mobilization, Austria’s military ally Germany declared war on the Allies and invaded Belgium.

Despite their significant initial success against the French, the Germans were totally unprepared for the industrial scale warfare launched by the allies, and between 1914 and 1917 the Germans and Allies were virtually stalemated.

Beginning in 1915, Germany embarked on a conspiracy to finance (with two tons of gold) a revolutionary militia (ie the Bolsheviks) to destabilize the Russian government. In early 1917, the German government arranged for Lenin’s release from prison in Zurich and his safe passage through Germany.

In May 1917, when Czar Nicholas II (after heavy Russian losses) signaled his intention to for peace, Jack Morgan (son of J P Morgan who previously financed the February Revolution via the Red Cross War Council)[4] shifted his support from Kerensky and the Mensheviks to the Bolsheviks.

According to Preparata, by April 1917 the Allies were close to defeat, and the US, facing massive financial loss in the face of British defeat,[5] agreed to enter the war.

According to a declassified State Department memorandum, after the new Bolshevik government withdraw Russian forces from the front, the Allies worried the anti-Bolshevik White Russians would ally themselves with Germany. For this reason, they opened a second front in January 1918 by invading the USSR. At the same time, Britain secretly double crossed their White Russian allies by hiring the Cossack Semenov to cut off provisions to the White Army.[6]

The book also details the torturous Versailles negotiations, resulting in the punitive war reparations imposed on the Germans.[7]

[1] In 1871 most of the German-speaking states unified as the German Empire under Emperor Wilhelm I (formerly King Wilhelm of Prussia).

[2] MacKinder is best known for the “World Island Theory” of global dominance (followed slavishly by Anglo-American policy makers to the present day), which asserts that whoever controls the “heartland” of the Eurasian land mass controls the world. See To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change

[3] In August 14, the Ottoman Empire signed a secret alliance with Germany and Austria, and they entered the war with a surprise naval attack on Russia on October 14, 1914.

[4] Jacob Schiff and other Wall Street opponents of the Tsarist regime had been financing Russian revolutionary socialists since 1905. See Who Financed the Bolshevik Revolution?

[5] With a German victory, Morgan stood to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. Beginning in the last quarter of 1916, the Allies were totally dependent on the US to finance the war.

[6] Wall Street financiers were still providing weapons to the Bolsheviks in early 1918.

[7] Prior to reading this book, I had no idea the US Senate refused to ratify the Versailles Treaty and that the US negotiated a separate peace treaty with Germany in 1921.