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another great book from Farrell, December 14, 2008
This review is from: Nazi International: The Nazis' Postwar Plan to Control the Worlds of Science, Finance, Space, and Conflict (Paperback)
With this book Farrell takes a slight detour from his usual scientific detective work and moves into the realm of "conspiracy theory," or as he says, "conspiracy hypothesis." Using the same logical precision I have come to expect from his work, he analyzes the rumors and stories of Nazi escape at the end of World War 2.
Even in a work this size, over 400 pages, he can still only scratch the surface of the vast, powerful underground movement that the Nazi party created to facilitate their escape from their near-miss at world domination. As Jim Marrs has pointed out in his new book, and Farrell echoes here, the Nazi Party never surrendered - Germany, Japan and Italy did, but the Nazis did not. To drive the point home clearly, Farrell reproduces the "instruments of surrender" signed at the end of the war. Was it an incredible oversight to let the Nazis slip through the cracks like that, or was it just another part of their extraordinary plan?
The book is 12 chapters in 4 sections, and begins with a look at the surrender, the science fiction novels of Wilhelm Landig, Nazi UFO myths and Reinhold Schmidt, and part of the information Carol Rosin communicates from the late Werner Von Braun (a greater portion of which is available from Steven Greer's Disclosure Project, and well worth your attention). I was especially happy to see more information on Landig, as I was intrigued by his mention of Landig's novels in an earlier book.
He goes on to describe the financial processes by which Allied banking and other Big Money interests helped create both the Nazi party and the Bolshevik revolution. Again, he shows that the financial dealings and corporate underground created are so vast and powerful that even a book this size can only hit the high points. The legal wrangling of I.G. Farben's breakup took 52 years because the corporation was so vast and convoluted!
He discusses the escape theories surrounding Martin Bormann, Heinrich "Gestapo" Muller, and Adolf Hitler, having dealt with Hans Kammler and others in his previous books on Nazi scientific work.
He covers the migration of Nazis to South America and other places, and spends a large part of the book looking at the financial and political threads that indicate the heavy influence of the Nazis, even to this day. An interesting revelation is how important Nazis such as Otto Skorzeny were to the creation and training of our current nemesis, Arab terrorism.
He ends the book with information on the secret scientific work in Argentina and elsewhere, with a final chapter on Nazi influence in NASA. In the NASA chapter he quotes heavily from the research of Hoagland and Bara, which is also worth reading in depth. This is the only section where he gets back to the science we are so used to him writing about.
As always, Farrell dishes up a fantastic survey of the situation, paying great heed to detail and corroboration. He cites his sources, and provides actual copies of many documents, both in the main text and an appendix. He proves once again that he has the skills of a scientist with the intuition of a street wise detective. His procedure is logical and follows his usual structure of point by point elucidation backed up by evidence and lists of conclusions. Also, as always, he gives the reader lots of entry points to go deeper into the information.
While something of a departure from his more science oriented books, he proves that he can handle the topics of finance and politics as well as he does science. If you liked his other books, you'll like this one. If you are interested in just how much influence the Nazis still exert in this world and how they managed to get in that position, this is a good place to start.
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25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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Post-war Nazi survival and influence--connecting the dots, January 5, 2009
This review is from: Nazi International: The Nazis' Postwar Plan to Control the Worlds of Science, Finance, Space, and Conflict (Paperback)
The Nazi International is the story about post-war Nazi survival and influence in general, and the survival of Borman and his cronies in particular.
Joseph's brilliant research, and engaging, fast-paced writing take the reader from one breathtaking revelation to another. The connections established between radical Islam and the Nazis are especially pertinent. The influence of the Nazi International on major American institutions(the CIA and NASA in particular)and as a player in the global economy is also explored.
Anyone trying to make sense of recent historical events--particularly recent political events and the current economic meltdown--will find this book illuminating.
It's a great read!
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Good Scholarship, November 16, 2009
This review is from: Nazi International: The Nazis' Postwar Plan to Control the Worlds of Science, Finance, Space, and Conflict (Paperback)
I found the book extremely readable, and "unfortunately" with very good scholarship. Footnoted excellently to the source materials, Joseph Farrell's conclusions can only be listed as accurate to the extreme. If you would like to know how we could beat the German nation in World War Two and still be overtaken by global facism and nazi ideologies on the global scale this book will answer your questions.
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