Another movement took hold in America. One of America’s darkest secrets: the most feared political party in history found a home in the United States. Codes and Conspiracies s2e2: American Nazis, Discovery 2015
The Silver Legion: its bigoted members, the Silver Shirts, combined spiritualism with paramilitarism, and targeted communists and Jews. ibid.
When Hitler unleashes an unseemingly unstoppable army of soldiers on Europe ... a dangerous secret is driving the Nazi forces: now, incredible new research reveals how far Hitler and his high command pushed the drug experiment ... Drug-fuelled Nazi soldiers and the regime that created them. Nazis on Drugs, Discovery 2015
The Allies suspected the Nazis were using something to supercharge their troops [Methamphetamine]. ibid.
A synthetic chemical compound ... Crystal Meth ... consumed by the millions. ibid.
A wonder pick-me-up pill under the brand-name Pervitin. ibid.
Nazi soldiers now had Crystal Meth on tap ... Crystal Meth turned them into ruthless killers. ibid.
At lavish parties Nazi officers pop amphetamines ... The lure of drugs reached to the very top. ibid.
Adolf Hitler had been plagued with episodes of deep depression. ibid.
The Nazi war machine was in danger of ... drug addiction. ibid.
Propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels spreads many stories ... one was of a deadly technological breakthrough. Nazi Death Ray, Discovery 2015
Plans were in place for a 5,100-mile-high orbiting death ray – a giant mirror that would focus the sun’s rays. ibid.
Biological warfare ... A clandestine programme prepared a sickening new weapon for the desperate Nazi war machine. Nazi Killer Bugs, Discovery 2015
Unbelievably, the live [Japanese] autopsies were performed with no anaesthetic. ibid.
‘Key members of the Nazi Party, in particular Himmler & Hitler, were not just a little into the occult, they were absolutely obsessed by it.’ Secrets of the Nazi Occult, author, BBC 2016
There were two secret societies at the core of these esoteric beliefs … The Thule Society … the Vril. ibid.
1945: the Second World War was over. Hitler was defeated. But over eight million Nazis remained in Germany. Last Days of the Nazis I: Dark Beginnings, H2 2016
[Julius] Streicher could not speak for more than a few minutes without turning to his obsession – the Jewish Problem. ibid.
‘The interrogators were fascinated by him because Speer really seemed like one of us.’ Last Days of the Nazis II: Smoke, Blood and Mirrors, Robert jan van Pelt
‘I have made anti-Semitism my life’s work. I am one of the world’s foremost authorities on the topic.’ ibid. Streicher
[Julius] Streicher’s psychological examination indicated that he suffered from a neurological obsession with the Jewish people. He was described as lewd and pathetic but not clinically insane. Last Days of the Nazis III: War of Conquest
Franz Stangl, detained in Austria in 1945: Stangl’s interrogators knew he was a high-ranking Nazi. They also suspected that he had a critical role in what would become the Final Solution. ibid.
Wilhelm Keitel’s last words were: ‘I call on almighty God to have mercy on the German people.’ ibid.
‘There are orders and directives bearing my name that are not in accord with international law. But there were justified.’ Last Days of the Nazis IV: The Executioners, Keitel
These orders [Keitel’s] called for the immediate execution of soldiers and civilians alike. ibid.
[Paul Blobel] was responsible for the deaths of as many as 60,000 people. ibid.
Chemists like Becker had used gas to implement the T4 euthanasia programme in Germany. They developed a mobilised version of this technique to be used on the Eastern front ... by diverting the engine exhaust into the passenger compartment. ibid.
Franz Stangl ran security for the T4 euthanasia programme before being assigned to extermination camps in Poland. ibid.
Konrad Morgen: Nazi judge ... Morgen investigated some 800 cases of corruption within the SS of the Nazi party. Last Days of the Nazis V: Death Factory
Bach-Zelewski was ordered to crush the revolt of the Polish home army in occupied Warsaw. Last Days of the Nazis VI: End of the Reich
Schenk told his interrogators he was witness to several atrocities committed by Oskar Dirlewanger’s men. ibid.
Speer did nothing: those factories belonged to Speer’s associates. ibid.
Your Job in Germany: Propaganda Film 1945. ibid.
I have come to this remote corner of southern Poland to try to unravel one of the last great mysteries of the Second World War ... ‘the Nazi gold train that went missing in 1945’. Dan Snow, Hunting the Nazi Gold Train, BBC 2016
If it’s true it’s the kind of thing that happens once in a lifetime. ibid.
The Allies used certain memories: they used them to build the official version of the good war. Adam Curtis, The Living Dead I: On the Desperate Edge of Now, BBC 1995
The Nazis’ project was far more than a simple reawakening of history. Their aim was to use the power of the past to transform those they governed into new and better people. ibid.
We live, said one, on the desperate edge of now. ibid.
The Allies forged a simple, powerful story. ibid.
The Germans called it Zero Hour: the destruction of all belief in the past. ibid.
What was buried at Nuremberg was any idea of examining why Nazism had happened in the first place. ibid.
Freud was not alone in his pessimism. Politicians like Adolf Hitler emerged from a growing despair in the 1920s about democracy. The Nazis were convinced that democracy was dangerous because it unleashed a selfish individualism, but didn’t have the means to control it. Hitler’s party, the National Socialists, stood in elections promising in their propaganda that they would abandon democracy because of the chaos and unemployment it led to. Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self I: Happiness Machines, BBC 2002
The new face of the far right [Mark Collett]: his party claims to have shed its fascist past; now it’s winning unprecedented support. Dispatches, Young, Nazi and Proud, Channel 4 2002
‘We are the voice of the white population.’ ibid. Collett
‘Hitler will live on for ever and maybe I will.’ ibid.
Mother: ‘I think the British National Party are misunderstood.’
Father: ‘They’ve been painted black all the time.’ ibid.
‘People will you know fight alongside me.’ ibid.
‘We must lend German DM90 million. It may never be repaid but it will be less of a loss than the fall of Nazism.’ Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick, 2014, Montagu Norman, Bank of England
The investment didn’t come from Hitler: it came from Brown Brothers Harriman … These Nazis raised money from America’s richest families. ibid.
I G Farben who had entered into a cartel with the Rockefeller’s Standard Oil ... The Nazi war machine was actually an American business … a highly lucrative business. ibid.
This railway line [to Auschwitz] was an American railway line. ibid.
Nobody said a word about American industrialists building Hitler’s war machine at the Nuremberg trials. ibid.
This is the BBC home-service. On orders from the German army the curfew will be relaxed from Monday to celebrate German/Soviet friendship week. SS-GB I, radio announcement, BBC 2017
London 14th November 1941: 14 months after Germany won the Battle of Britain. The resistance movement fights on. ibid.
The law is all we have. ibid. Hero
Superintendent Archer, so vital we keep up our standards. SS-GB II, opening scene
50 resistance men are due to be hanged. ibid. Nazi