Jim Marrs - The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America

The Secret Societies that Threaten to Take Over America

This book is dedicated to my father, my uncles, and all the
Allied soldiers who sacrificed so willingly to serve their
country in World War II. They deserve better.

It was well known and publicly reported that Hitler often made use of doubles, men who closely resembled him, for use at certain public presentations. Pauline Koehler, a maid at Hitlers Berghof in Berchtesgaden, insisted that she knew of at least three men who doubled for Hitler.

Did Hitler make use of one final double in the bunker? After all, the few persons who testified that he was dead were ardent Nazis who were eager to please their captorswhether Russian, British, or Americanwith accounts of the leaders death. Was the strange execution of Eva Brauns brother-in-law, Hermann Fegelein, due to his knowledge of Hitlers escape plan with the use of a double? Fegelein had left the bunker but protested when captured by an SS search party that he planned to return. He was later shot by a firing squad in the chancellery garden for desertion. Yet, days earlier, Hitler had urged others in the bunker to flee. Get out! Get out! he cried. Go to South Germany. Ill stay here. It is all over anyhow. Why make Fegelein the exception?

Evidence that Fegelein was privy to secret knowledge comes from Kristina Reiman, an actress who met with Fegelein in Berlin on April 27. She told author Glenn B. Infield, He was very worried. We had several drinks together and he kept repeating that there were two Hitlers in Berlin. I thought he was drunk. Just before he left me, however, he said that if the fuehrer ever discovered that he, Fegelein, knew his secret, Hitler would kill him.

To fake Hitlers death would have been simple. A Hitler double could have been secreted into the bunker any time prior to his reported suicide. After Hitler got Eva to take poisonor a dead duplicate Eva brought inthe double, dressed in the fuehrers clothing, could have been shot, a poison capsule placed in his mouth, and left to be covered by Bormann and retrieved by the unsuspecting valet Linge.

Hitler could have then passed from the study through his living quarters to a small conference room containing a stairway to the garden above. Hitler had instructed Linge to wait at least ten minutes before entering the room. While Linge and others from the entourage waited in the hallway outside Hitlers study, the fuehrers party and an armed SS escort could have made their way to a secluded spot to await darkness.

Under the cover of night, Hitler could have moved along Hermann Goering Strasse, then cut across the Tiergarten to the Zoo Station near Adolf Hitler Platz. From there, they could have followed the rail lines to the Reichssportfeld and crossed the Scharndorfestrasse to the Piechelsdorf Bridge, a short walk to the Havel River, where a Ju-52 floatplane would have been waiting to fly the fuehrer out.

Indeed a Ju-52 pontoon plane had landed on the Havel the previous night, at the radioed request of someone in the Fuehrerbunker . It took off that same night. Author Infield has suspected this was a practice run for the following night.

Once away from Berlin, an airplane could have taken Hitler almost anywhere in territory not under direct control of the AlliesSwitzerland, Spain, or any number of other friendly locations.

But did this happen?

Conventional history says that Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in the bunkerend of story, despite tantalizing tidbits of information that have surfaced since the war. On July 17, 1945, during the Potsdam Conference, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin reportedly told U.S. president Harry S. Truman that Hitler did not commit suicide but probably escaped. Years later, the Russians produced photos purporting to be of Hitlers dead body, which contradicted their earlier accounts that the bodies of Hitler and his mistress had been immediately burned.

Today, while Hitlers fate may be intriguing and undoubtedly will be argued for years, it is immaterial, a moot point. What is certain is that Hitlers legacyNational Socialismlives on.

T HE HISTORY OF how the Nazis, armed with advanced technology and the greatest hoard of treasure in history, were able to escape justice at the end of World War II is perhaps the greatest untold story of the twentieth century.

From the days of Lyndon B. Johnson to those of George W. Bush, there has been talk of Amerika turning fascist. Most people, this author included, dismissed this as radical rhetoric. Unfortunately, as shall be seen, this might not be so far from the truth.

The Germans were defeated in World War IIbut not the Nazis. They were simply forced to move. They scattered to the four corners of the world. Many of them came to the United States and penetrated what President Dwight D. Eisenhower termed the military-industrial complex.