My Favorite Bit of History

Currently, I Love reading history. Currently I am really into World War II. But I don't like reading the usual war stuff. I like reading about the more obscure and unknown things that should probably be known.

Some of my top rankers in history that should be known that aren't are things like Henry Ford's influence and financial support of Adolf Hitler ("Who Financed Hitler" by James Pool and Suzanne Pool, "Internal Combustion" and "Nazi Nexus" by Edwin Black, "Trading With the Enemy" by Charles Gigham). Henry believed in a pamphlet titled "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." It was a falsified document stating that the Jews were in control of the world through the banking system. Henry in 1919 bought a newspaper called the "Dearborn Independent." He started an anti-semitic campaign that inspired a Jewish boycott of Fords and hurt Henry right in the ole pocket book, which didn't stop him. It wasn't until some 10 years later that Ford printed an apology to the Jews to break the boycott. Turns out, however, that a Jew wrote it and a Ford associate forged the signature.

Adolf Hitler admired Ford and even said so by name in the original "Mein Kampf." Ford funnelled money secretly to the Nazi's and even helped fund them THROUGHOUT WWII. He manufactured trucks for them and it is said that in the invasion of Poland in '39 that around one third of the vehicles used were Ford manufactured.

Above you see Ford winning the "Grand Cross of the German Eagle," the highest civilian honor of the Third Reich for a non-citizen. It is said that only four of the awards were given out. One to Musollini, one to Ford, one to James Mooney of GM...GM...That's right!

General Motors was also a great Lover of the Third Reich as it offered such great business opportunity. Through its executive and fellow "Grand Cross" winner, James E. Mooney, General Motors built aircraft engines for the Nazi's THROUGHOUT World War II.

Why was the U.S. having such a hard time getting oil during that time...because Standard Oil was busy shipping the black goo to the Nazi's THROUGHOUT World War II.

Wait...I know what your thinking...Eugene, don't get off on a tangent. You only mentioned three of the "Grand Cross" winners, Musollini, Henry Ford, and James Mooney. Who was the fourth? This is "My Favorite Bit of History."

Thomas Watson was head of a little organization during this time of life called International Business Machine...IBM. IBM provided a punchcard technology that was a precursor to the computer. With this machine and the proper settings you could garner all sorts of information, say, like on Social Security. Why, it could have been possible, using IBM technology at the time, for Franklin Roosevelt to gather the names of Japanese citizens under Executive Order 9066 and intern them. One of the biggest IBM custormers during WWII however was...you guessed it...Nazi Germany.

Through IBM's Dehomag subsidiary, they used Hollerith technology that helped in manufacturing, making the trains run on time, etc. Hey, have you ever wondered how the Nazi's got the lists of names of all those Jews, Gypsies, etc., so quickly for the round-ups?
That's right, through the above IBM tabulator the Nazi's gathered the names of a mess of Jews and shipped them off to the death camps. Tom Watson knew about this ("IBM and the Holocaust," by Edwin Black). However, in a memo, he told his employees to look the other way when servicing these machines, you see, they were used IN the death camps as well. That would give plausible deniability, a legal term basically allowing IBM to get away with genocide.

Furthermore, the Nazi's were only allowed to LEASE the technology. Much of the millions of dollars IBM made came from the punch cards needed to gather the information. When the death camps were liberated, these machines were protected and returned to IBM as part of its grand business plan.

But wait, THERE'S MORE! After reading "The 100th Monkey," I saw quotes from a great man of peace, Tom Watson. You see, Tom Watson wasn't only the head of IBM where he was making billions with his technology on both sides of the war, he was also the president of The Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. That's right, our fourth "Grand Cross" winner was also the head of a peace organization.

Wait! Wait! Wait! It gets better!

The Carnegie Foundation funded heavily the U.S. eugenics movement ("War Against the Weak," by Edwin Black). The U.S. Eugenics movement is the programs that brought forced sterilization to the U.S. of the feeble minded, aka poor whites, blacks, Indians, Puerto Ricans (forced sterilization is a crime of genocide, article 2e of the convention). During the Third Reich, Carnegie Foundation Money went to fund race science in Nazi Germany! (Oh goodness, this is so sick!) Carnegie money made it to Auschwitz. "Zwilling! Zwilling!"

A lot of race science was based on studies of genetics shared between twins. When the internees were removed from the trains, they would hear the word "Zwilling! Zwilling!" "Twins! Twins!" Joseph Mengele did a lot of research using some Carnegie money on twins at Auschwitz.

So, Tom Watson, head of IBM, not only made it possible to round up Japanese for internement, but Jews, Gypsies, Communists, Trade Unionists, Gays, etc., for the death camps, thus winning him the "Grand Cross of the German Eagle." All the while Tom was the head of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, and Carnegie was funding race and eugenics studies in Nazi Germany who lead experiments such as vivisection on Jews.

Other bits of history:

While listening too Ronald Takaki's "Double Victory" book on CD, I learned that there were 242 race riots in 47 cities in 1943 in the United States. There were things called "Hate Strikes," which was when white folk got pissed that Blacks would get promoted from sweeping and mopping into production if they were qualified. My favorite bit of information was about a Mexican, Guy Louis Galbadon. Guy had befriended a Japanese family in Southern California and lived with them for some six years learning the Japanese language in the process. During the battle of Saipan, he had killed some 33 Japanese. Sickened by his killing of folk who were like his friends, he captured 6 men and told 3 to go get more of their friends to surrender or he would shoot the 3. He repeated this measure everytime they'd come back. In a few hours he captured, SINGLE HANDEDLY, 1,100 Japanese soldiers.

One other thing I Love studying from this period is the Jasenovac death camp. This death camp is rarely heard about. It was in Croatia around the Gradina area. Why do you rarely hear about the Jasenovac death camp? Because it was ran by the Catholics all the way to the Vatican and the head of said criminal organization at the time, Eugenio Pacelli, the crime boss also known as Pope Pius XII. One of the former heads of this death camp was a Catholic Priest. From this death camp we get Peter Brzica. Peter is known as "King of the Cutthroats." In a single evening, Peter Brzica slit the throats of 1360 Orthodox Serbs winning a gold watch. I tried to track Peter down and found, using sources at various genocide research facilities, that Peter Brzica made it to the United States under an assumed name in 1958. That was as far as I could get, thus far.

There are some interesting bits of history for those of you who just may not know about these things.