The Gravediggers of Memory

Oleg Yasinksy – Feb 1, 2025

“We are very happy for the United States, which liberated our country and helped us become a democracy again,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview with CNN a few days ago. Meanwhile, Poland was celebrating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz by the Red Army, an event attended by representatives of Germany, Austria, Ukraine, and others, while Russia was not invited. This is how the current “democracies,” that the US often turns some countries into, function.

Beyond the scandalous and profane speech of the political leader of the most powerful country in the European Union, his statement carried several other messages.

The Hollywood of the international press (and, lately, also social networks) has been convincing the world public for decades that it was the USA that defeated German fascism. An example of this was the recent statement by the US president in which he said, in the US state of Wisconsin, that “the United States of America has won two world wars” and has “defeated fascism and communism.”

These phrases involve a great fraud, because they contain several lies at the same time. Let us remember that the current messages of Trump and Scholtz, representatives of the forces of the West, apparently contrary and in conflict with each other, have been prepared for decades with statements such as that “Nazism and fascism are not the same” or that “fascism and communism are the worst enemies of democracy.”

Such statements, which for a long time were an important part of the daily menu of the “democratic press,” sought to achieve today’s abrupt leap, leading to this absolute ignorance of history. In this respect, between the followers of “Democrats” and “Republicans” (who obviously have nothing to do with either democracy or republicanism), there is not even the slightest contradiction.

The great fraud of origin that hides the cheap populism of the managers of the corporations in power is simple. German fascism, defeated by the Red Army of the Soviet Union in 1945, the only socialist country in the world at that time, was not just a bloody madness of a German dictator.

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It was also the most advanced project of capitalism at that historical moment, which aspired to absolute power, the same one that neoliberal corporations, represented by Elon Musk and others, seek today. Hitler’s project frightened the political elites of the “civilized world” not so much for its atrocity but for its great efficiency and competitiveness because, from today’s perspective, it is clear that German fascism was a corporate project, just like today’s neoliberal projects.

Let us recall the famous phrase of the American senator Harry S. Truman—who later became president and unleashed the Cold War. Truman said, on the day after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, “If we see that Germany is winning, we must help Russia, and if it is Russia that wins, we must help Germany, and in that way, let them kill each other as much as possible…”

Let us not forget that after Hitler’s fall, the best Nazi scientists were welcomed by the CIA and other special services of the “Empire of Good” to support them in their fight “against communism” and national liberation movements around the world. How can we not remember that the great anti-communist campaign unleashed by the Western media throughout the world during the decades of the Cold War, including the periods of the “thaw”, was carried out with active advice from former Goebbels cadres, which, among other things, undoubtedly undermined the USSR and the socialist camp.

In 2006, the US Department of Justice issued a 600-page report on how the Central Intelligence Agency arranged a new life in the US for top SS officers responsible for the execution of thousands of people. The document, which was prepared for six years and then hidden for four years, revealed some of the most terrible secrets of the US special services.

Among those protected and collaborators of the CIA and the FBI were the head of the Gestapo in Vienna Franz Josef Huber, responsible for the deportation and death of hundreds of thousands of Jews; Aleksandras Lileikis, head of the Nazi Security Police in Lithuania, responsible for the execution of 60,000 Jews; Otto von Bolschwing, one of the intellectual leaders of the SS, who designed plans for the extermination of Jews together with Adolf Eichmann; and hundreds of others. Obviously, the complete lists of Nazi employees “in the service of democracy” will never be revealed.

So, except for the brief period at the end of World War II, rather than being enemies of Nazism, they were always allies in the West.

As the US usually does, faithful to its pragmatism, they used several of these characters when needed, and then, when they were already old and no longer useful, they let justice “find” them and even allowed themselves to extradite them as a gesture of their “participation in the fight against Nazism” to those countries that claimed them for their crimes.

In international politics, we can see what happened, for example, in Argentina and Chile, with the elderly dictators who were no longer useful to Washington, as well as what will soon happen to its “Ukrainian ally” Vladimir Zelensky.

Speaking of the root of the fraud, which the gravediggers of memory now spread with such enthusiasm to continue manipulating us according to their plans, it is worth remembering these lines from the great Eduardo Galeano, published in 2008 in his book Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone:

Adolf Hitler’s friends have a bad memory, but the Nazi adventure would not have been possible without the help he received from them. Like his colleagues Mussolini and Franco, Hitler had the early approval of the Catholic Church. Hugo Boss dressed his army.

Bertelsmann published the works that instructed his officers. His planes flew thanks to fuel from Standard Oil (today Exxon and Chevron), his soldiers traveled in trucks and Ford jeeps. Henry Ford, author of those vehicles and of the book The International Jew, was his inspiring muse. Hitler thanked him by decorating him. He also decorated the president of IBM, the company that made the identification of Jews possible… He financed racial and racist research in Nazi medicine. Joe Kennedy, the president’s father, was the US ambassador in London, but he looked more like a German ambassador. And Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of presidents, was a collaborator of Fritz Thyssen, who put his fortune at the service of Hitler. Deutsche Bank financed the construction of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The IG Farben consortium, the giant of the German chemical industry, which later became Bayer, Basf, and Hoechst, used the prisoners of the camps as guinea pigs and also used them as labour. These slave workers produced everything, including the gas that was to kill them. The prisoners also worked for other companies, such as Krupp, Thyssen, Siemens, Varta, Bosch, Daimler Benz, Volkswagen, and BMW, which were the economic basis of Nazi delusions. Swiss banks made a fortune buying Hitler’s victims’ gold: their jewellery and their teeth. Gold entered Switzerland with astonishing ease, while the border was sealed off against the flesh-and-blood fugitives. Coca-Cola invented Fanta for the German market in the middle of the war. During this period, Unilever, Westinghouse, and General Electric also multiplied their investments and profits there. When the war ended, the ITT company received millions in compensation because the Allied bombings had damaged its factories in Germany.

I can only add that Scholz’s recent statements are more than an insult to the peoples of the Soviet Union, who saved the world 80 years ago, but are also a profanation of the memory of the US soldiers and those of other Allied countries, and also of thousands of anti-fascist Germans, who united their blood with that of our people in the most just struggle in history.

 

 

(RT)

Translation: Orinoco Tribune