The Nazis, a small group of men and women, misled millions of Germans to their deaths, millions more to being maimed and maddened, scarred physically and psychologically. Many Germans survived their misleadership but never really recovered. Many were 'estranged' from their children who asked troubling questions of their parents as to what their role in it had been. How do you explain that 'to try to opt out' of participation in the church-state alliance of Nazism was suicide.

Being very efficient, the Germans kept very good records, thanks to IBM punch-card machines. They enslaved 17 million people. They systematically slaughtered 11 million, 6 million of whom were Jews. They killed anyone accused of being Communist, trade unionists, homosexuals (although there were many in their ranks and, near the end of the war, there was a 'purge' of them, "...and..." the man in a documentary said, "there were a lot of them." Just where the 'purge' put them was not stated. Whether they were killed, or formed the core of a plan to enable the Nazis to escape and survive, is unknown. They would be good at keeping secrets. The Nazis' ODESSA, a global spy structure, became the base for the CIA in 1947. Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen became head of West German Intelligence until 1968. When the two Germany's unified, the East German Stasi Secret Police, Germans, stayed in charge.

They killed Protestants, Buddhists, atheists, American Indians, Muslims, Catholics who did not go along. Many did. Priests blessed what the Nazis were doing, rationalized it to their congregations. They gave the people scapegoats, someone to blame for their troubles, justifying what they wanted to do.

Writings of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, in the Vatican archives, rival Hitler for venom against Jews. Catholic 'Rat Lines', monasteries and convents, helped Nazis escape after the war. A Bishop Dragon and Pacelli issued passports and visas. They came to the U. S., Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, India, all over the Arab world. They had the loot of Europe and Asia to buy favor from organized criminal enterprises, from legitimate governments, from big companies. Just this week 2/2012, they found some of Hitler's paintings in a convent. Martin Boorman's son was found studying for the priesthood in a monastery.

Big companies gave them jobs, hiding places, around the world. They became heads of security. Nazi General Walter Dornberger became President of Bell Aerospace. Henry Ford was a favorite of Hitler. Hitler gave Ford's book, critical of Jews, to visitors to his office. Auschwitz concentration camp existed to supply slave labor to I. G. Farbenindustrie, which continued in business until the 1990's. Many companies have been sued for reparations for using people enslaved by the Nazis.

They killed anyone with a physical or mental defect, emptying homes for the mentally retarded, the mentally ill. If you disagreed with them, they declared you mentally ill, and, no matter how 'perfect' you were in their ideal, superman concept, they could throw you into the camps and ovens like all the other 'subhumans'. Who would dare to resist?

If they wanted your house, your wife, your children, they could get rid of you. Hitler's order was, "Send me your undesirables." It was irresistable power, absolute, corrupting absolutely.

Hitler Youth, 10 years old in 1945, would only be 67 years old in 2012. It is said Karl Rove's father was a Nazi. Arnold Swartzenegger's father was a Nazi soldier. John Shalikashvily, son of a high-ranking Nazi, became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in command of all U. S. military. Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's propaganda filmmaker, died at age 90 or so, after living out her life in California. The wife of Krupp, the Nazi armorer who built the big guns, sold land near Las Vegas to the Howard Hughes entity. Nazi doctors practiced medicine and lived out their lives, probably in your home town.

The IBM punch cards were made in the United States and shipped to the Nazis. They made Eichmann's trains run on time, delivering soldiers and material to the front, slaves to the work camps, victims to the death camps. IBM technicians serviced the machines in the camps on a regular schedule. They kept very good records of the holocaust.

Book: IBM and the Holocaust
Book: Trading With The Enemy (re: U. S. laws governing rules of conducting commerce with the enemy during the war. )

All it takes is a few people to ascend to positions of leadership to begin misleading millions again.

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