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Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party: Domestic fascist networks and their effect on U.S. cold war politics Paperback – January 1, 1991

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A provocative, sometimes chilling expose of domestic fascist networks, which include Nazi collaborators within the Republican Party.

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148 pages
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English
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South End Press
Publication date

January 1, 1991
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5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-10

0896084183
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978-0896084186
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Bellant convincingly documents three arguments in this short, journalistic book. First, many people who had been active in Nazi or pro-Nazi groups in Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s subsequently came to this country, often under the auspices of the Displaced Persons Commission. Second, many of these emigres then became active in political and ethnic groups affiliated with the Republican Party, providing financial and electoral support and crusading relentlessly against Communism. Third, and most important, some of the most unsavory elements of the anti-Communist right gained a foothold in official foreign policy circles under Reagan. Bellant's case is strong and disturbing, but his book is terribly organized, and the meaningful arguments are mixed in with overstated claims (especially the suggestions of a fascist conspiracy) and charges based only on political disagreement, not malfeasance. An optional purchase.
-Timothy Christenfeld, Columbia Univ.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ South End Press; 3rd edition (January 1, 1991)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 148 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0896084183
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0896084186
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches

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Julia J.

A definitive and important work. Russ Bellant is a ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2017

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A definitive and important work. Russ Bellant is a scholar, not a conspiracy theorist. The work was researched for PRA -- the Political Research Associates -- in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The information is dry, not sensational and one-of-a-kind. Everyone should read it to know what's out there and why we must remain vigilant.

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Dennis McCarthy

Why America turned into today's political mess

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2017

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If you wonder why we're in the political mess we're in today, this explains it.

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vandoverd

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not a very good read..boring.

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Paul Hosse

Trotting Out the Same Old Bogy Man

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2010

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The book, as the names suggests, attempts to link the Republicans Party to diehard old Nazis and their ideological kindreds bent on recreating a new Fourth Reich in America. Personally, I have no doubt that there are, or rather, were Nazis in the Republican Party following World War II (and just as likely in the Democratic Party too). After all, thanks to declassified documents, we know the US Government, following the end of the Second World War, and the onset of the Cold War, aided hundreds, if not thousands of former Nazis and Nazi sympathizers escape the punishment they would have otherwise faced. Some of these were spymasters whom the US Government thought could be useful in the anticipated conflict to come against Russia.

Operation Paperclip, for example, began under President Truman (a Democrat), and was responsible for bringing out Nazi scientists to work on missile development, and later, the American space program. Other secret US Government programs, however, brought out engineers, military planners and designers, other scientists, and simple bureaucrats. At the same time, the US Government turned a blind eye as other high ranking Nazis making their way to places such as Egypt, Syria, Iran, Paraguay, and Argentina.

Frankly, I found the author's attempt to somehow demonize the Republican Party overly transparent. Saying there were Nazis, or even a influx of Germans in the Republican Party after 1945 is like a conservative writer trying prove that there were Socialist in Labor Movement in the 1920's or 1930's or Communists in the Democratic Party during the 1930's through the 1950's. That these old Nazis continue to ply their efforts at turning the Republican Party into a Nazi front to be on the absurd.

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PHILIP A. STAHL

A Book That Merits Serious Attention from Political Groupies!

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2012

First, let me say I have suspected extraneous influence in the modern GOP since observing how much more extreme they have become in the past two and a half decades. The sort of policies and proposals they now uphold - which essentially rips the social fabric to shreds- were also espoused by States Rights parties in the 1960s. But Americans then were much more informed and educated (not merely by FOX news) so they didn't take them seriously. Today it's all different!

Don't take my word! If you need corrroboration on the GOP extremist mutation look no further than Thomas E. Mann and Norman Ornstein's book, 'It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With The New Politics of Extremism'. The authors cogently argue in their book that the ongoing American political paralysis and dysfunction is largely due to the transformation of the Republican Party to an extremist force that is "dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition". Hence, bipartisan cooperation is impossible when one side consistently operates exclusively in its own political interests and eschews any 'give' - as the Repubs have on raising revenue via taxes, opting to hold to a Grover Norquist 'no tax' pledge. Meanwhile, few in the national media seem to have processed that the unemployment rate (8.2%) remains unacceptably high because Repubs have resolutely refused to pass Obama's Jobs Bill. The reason? According to Mitch McConnell: 'We want to make the president a onte termer'.

Second, most (95% ?) of Bellant's book wouldn't be the least bit controversial (even to hard core rightists) if the Nazi Wartimes Disclosure Act had been passed by congress in 1999. But alas, it was not. According to a Baltimore Sun article ('Government May Soon Open Files on Nazi War Criminals', Aug. 2, 1998, p. 20A):

"Under pressure from Congress, the Justice Department and other agencies may be forced to declassify tens of thousands of top-secret documents describing the U.S. intelligence community's dealings with Nazi war criminals in the Cold War years. Legislation to open most of those files has already passed the Senate and could come up for a vote in the House this week. Some historians suspect that the opened files could cause 'tremendous embarrassments' for the United States."

Less than one year later the GOP congress voted against passage, and that was it. No one has heard much about it since.

The reason for reinforcing Bellant's book is that the putative basis for widespread former Nazi use and recruitment (including in our intelligence agencies, e.g. CIA) would have been laid bare....but it seemed evident to me even then that the GOP congress wished to cover its party tracks and all possible links to Nazi interests. This point has also been made by author Christopher Simpson in his book, 'Blowback: America's recruitment of Nazis, and its disastrous effect on our domestic and foreign policy', Collier / Macmillan, 1988.

This is why I believe, that for the general reader with political interest, it may be advisable to read Simpson's book and Mann's- Ornstein's before going to Bellant's. Let us say if that order is adhered to there is less likelihood of outright disbelief or criticisms of evidence lacking. Indeed, it would be ludicrous to believe that if Nazi recruitment were made (e.g. from Gehlen Org) there could also not be political influence.

Bellant, in his book, merits kudos for going one step further and documenting the insertion of Nazi-affiliated S.S. groups from Latvia, the Ukraine into the Republican Heritage Groups Council in the 1980s. Many of Bellant's conjectures on associations, groups - apart from establishing direct ties of former S.S. affiliates to the GOP, were also well substantiated in the Newsweek article ('The Right Wing Web', February 22, 1999, p.34). This was especially in regards to the connections of the Regnery Press and its propagandizing.

Of course, right wingers will not wish to hear or see this, but what would you expect? They are already detached from reality or the reality community via their continued rejection of global warming-climate change (as human incepted).

I originally had some reservations regarding Bellant's treatment (on page 18) of Philip Guarino and his links to Licio Gelli, a 'Blackshirt' member of Mussolini's Fascist Party. I was happy to find subsequent confirmation in David Yallop's (1984) book, 'In God's Name' (p. 442). Another interesting tidbit is that Guarino was involved in John Connally's 'Committee for the Defense of the Mediterranean' which propagandized on the Italian Communist Party (PCI) threat to the West. (Recall Connally was seated with JFK in his limo when the shots rang out in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and he was wounded by a separate shot, contrary to the Warren Commission's fabrication of a single bullet.)

All in all, Bellant's book is an excellent read and provides a plausible basis for understanding the extremist swing of the current GOP.

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Jerome Nicolas

Bellant's Evidence

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2012

Clearly, the one star reviewers have not really read the book.

One of them talks about Germans being smuggled into the country. The book's author, Russ Bellant, does the opposite by focusing on Eastern European fascist emigres who slipped in more easily without arousing suspicion.

Another one star reviewer writes that members of these fascist parties were too young to have done anything. Certainly this does not apply to the founders of these groups or the town mayor who enjoyed murdering Jewish people personally. Nor do the Waffen SS vets who proudly kept their old medals seem like those who lament being caught between two totalitarian evils. In these cases, the "wrong place/wrong time" argument does not wash. One profiled figure regretted being too young to have served during the war. He may be innocent in deed, but not in desire.

Bellant goes to great pains to emphasize that not all Eastern European emigres fit in this category. But many did and were ideologically committed fascists before the Soviets invaded. And they were chosen to head the official GOP ethnic outreach effort. Bellant does not make vague generalizations but instead gives the history of specific individuals who were either a) war criminals with blood on their hands or b) those who vocally fought against the extradition of these war criminals. Many of these figures deny the Holocaust or tout eugenicist publications. Many such men were ensconced in George Bush Sr.'s campaign staff in 1988 and Bellant explains how that happened, documenting everything.

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