The Splendid Blonde Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century [Hardcover]

Christopher Simpson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1993

An investigation into how governments turn a blind eye to crime describes how the existing customs in international law and commerce actually encourage mass murder and the escape of war criminals. 15,000 first printing.

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From Publishers Weekly

Citing newly uncovered archival sources, Simpson ( Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War ) first argues that Hitler emulated the Turkish government's 1915-1918 policy regarding the massacre of Armenians by offering economic incentives and other rewards to citizens willing to participate in the extermination of the Jews. He then examines the U.S. government's response to both genocidal campaigns. Of utmost interest here is the evidence he presents that President Eisenhower's secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, and Dulles's brother Allen, director of the CIA, deliberately stymied efforts to bring to justice many German bankers and industrialists involved in the Nazis' extermination-through-labor programs. The study leaves little doubt that many members of Germany's corporate elite not only were aware of the genocidal programs during the war but sponsored innumerable supplementary negelganger , or "side camps," staffed by company employees. Simpson argues that while genocide is still widely practiced today, it is usually tolerated by those who benefit from it through the theft of land and natural resources. The cycle of genocide can be broken, he maintains, through relatively straightforward (though politically difficult) reforms of the international legal system.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

In this intriguing combination of revisionist history and conspiracy theory that should interest many students of the Cold War, Simpson ( Blowback , Grove, 1988) asserts that genocide has been a common factor in the development of many Western nations, including the United States. He argues that genocide has recurred due to the willingness of monied classes to support amoral governments that work to further their commercial interests. By way of example, he cites both the Turkish slaughter of the Armenians during World War I and the Jewish Holocaust. He faults U.S. diplomats for their role in both tragedies, especially those who aided the escape of Nazi war criminals after World War II. Though well written, Simpson's work suffers from a lack of objectivity and a constant tone of accusation. Some conclusions regarding the origins of the Cold War are highly speculative and are likely to come under serious criticism by many historians. Recommended for libraries with large European history collections. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/92.
- Joseph W. Constance Jr., St. Anselm Coll. Lib., Manchester, N.H.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 399 pages
• Publisher: Grove Pr; 1st edition (March 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802113621
• ISBN-13: 978-0802113627
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,344,468 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very necessary work on a dispicable era in OUR history, December 4, 1998

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This review is from: The Splendid Blonde Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)

this book is as indispensable as simpsons "blowback", blum's "killing Hope",and Loftus' "secret war against the Jews", in wading through the cesspool that is American Foreign Policy. what is common to all of these works, is that the Big Business/OSS/CIA connection begins here, with the people, events and institutions indicted herein. this book SHOULD go far in clearing up the lenses in the American Public Eye fogged over by utter crap like the "Hitler Channel", where the OSS/CIA nazi recruitment campaign is rationalized as a necessary evil, and the Dulles' (May their names be Blotted out), as simply "men of their times". but this essential book will probably never again see the light of day, and will, like "Blowback", only be a footnote in the more popular and whitewashed "expose" books of others.