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me X
XI, N
um
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y U.S
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rme
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NT
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E M
AR
CH
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73
ISS
UE
Th
e C
on
gre
ssio
nal In
no
cen
ts!
By M
orris
Ko
min
sky
(All R
ights R
ese
rved)
(Co
pyrig
ht, 1
97
3, b
y Mo
rris Ko
min
sky)
(The author w
ishes to express his deep appreciation of th
e valu
able research
assistance g
iven
by H
err Geo
rg
Herde of F
rankfurt am M
ain and Herr F
riedrich Jaeger of H
agen/Westfalen, both in W
est Germ
any. Articles by
Herr Jaeger in T
he Minority of O
ne, August 1961, and
The C
alifornian, January 1961, furnished very valuable historical data. B
oth publications are now defunct.)
The recrudescence of N
azism in W
est Germ
any, as reflected in the infiltration of all levels of governm
ent by form
er Nazi functionaries and w
ar criminals, com
es as n
o su
rprise to
tho
se wh
o h
ave b
een aw
are of th
e fact that pow
erful industrial, financial, and political groups in
the U
.S.A
. help
ed b
ring H
itler into
pow
er and th
at sim
ilar gro
ups are n
ow
assisting in
the rev
ival o
f H
itlerism. W
hat is not so generally known is the extent
to w
hich
mem
bers o
f Co
ng
ress lend
their in
fluen
ce, w
ittingly and unwittingly, to the F
ascist buildup in West
Germ
any. T
he now-defunct N
ew Y
ork Herald T
ribune, said on M
arch 31, 1945: "T
he D
epartm
ent o
f State an
nounced
today
that
reliable in
form
ation
collected
by
Allied
Go
vern
men
ts clearly
indicates th
at the N
azi regim
e in G
erman
y h
as d
ev
elo
ped
well-a
rran
ged
po
stwar p
lan
s for -th
e
perpetuation of Nazi doctrines and dom
ination. Som
e of th
ese plan
s hav
e already b
een p
ut in
to o
peratio
n an
d
oth
ers are ready
to b
e laun
ched
on
a wid
espread
scale im
media
tely
upon te
rmin
atio
n o
f hostilitie
s in
Eu
rop
e ... Germ
an tech
niciian
s, cultu
ral exp
erts and
u
nd
ercov
er agen
ts hav
e well-laid
plan
s to in
filtrate fo
reie
n c
ou
ntrie
s with
the o
bie
ct o
f dev
elo
nin
e
Bo
rman
n, D
epu
ty F
uh
rer of H
itler's Germ
any
and
the
only
top-ran
kin
g N
azi to escap
e captu
re is in S
pain
m
aster-minding the international "D
ie Spinne" (S
pider) underg
round o
rgan
ization w
hich
is plan
nin
g to
reviv
e N
azism as soon as W
est Germ
any is adequately rearmed
by
the U
nited
States. O
fficial Wash
ing
ton
seems
disin
terested, h
ow
ever, an
d th
e clamor co
ntin
ues fo
r ex
ped
iting th
e rearmam
ent o
f the G
erman
s....Even
as
installed, in plush offices in the Pentagon, the G
erman
War C
riminal and loyal H
itler confidante, General A
dolf H
eusinger, as chief of NA
TO
Military P
lanning. F
urther evidence of the handiwork of the pro-N
azi elem
ents in
Am
erican so
ciety w
as giv
en b
y W
alter W
inchell on January 31, 1963:* "In
Octo
ber, 1
94
5, th
e U.S
. Arm
y cap
tured
the
Nazi party's m
aster file containing the mem
bership cards of N
azis throughout the globe---including the U.S
. After
much delay som
e names w
ere published. It was reported
that w
hen
the co
mp
lete list was m
ade p
ub
lic it wo
uld
reveal the nam
es of prominent A
mericans. T
hat was in
October, 1945. W
e are still awaiting the w
ow finish."
In a letter sen
t to S
ecretary o
f State C
hristian
H
erter, in February 1960, the A
merican Jew
ish Congress
pro
tested a d
ecision
by
Am
erican au
tho
rities in W
est . B
erlin denying newsm
en access to the Berlin D
ocument
Cen
ter. Th
e letter stated th
at the C
enter's arch
ives
contain
"one o
f the few
com
preh
ensiv
e record
s of th
e N
azi party
and o
f the p
ersons id
entified
with
it." This
would seem
to corroborate the charges made by W
alter W
inchell. T
he fruits of our love affair with N
azism w
ere not o
nly
the stu
nn
ing
electoral v
ictories o
f the n
eo-N
azi N
ational D
emocratic P
arty in
the states o
f Bav
aria, H
esse, and Low
er Saxony, but m
ore important w
as the in
stallation
of K
urt-G
eorg
Kiesin
ger as C
han
cellor o
f W
est Germ
any
and
Fran
z-Josef S
trauss as fin
ance
min
ister. Kiesin
ger is an
old
Nazi w
ar ho
rse, bu
t in
accord
ance w
ith th
e pre-arran
ged
plan
, stories W
ere sp
read b
y K
iesing
er that h
e had
been
"on
ly a m
ino
r em
plo
yee actin
g as a liaso
n b
etween
Hitler's F
oreig
n
_ .
AT
TE
NT
ION
T
he C
on
gressio
nal In
no
cents is a sp
ecial essay
wh
ich co
ntain
s data fro
m sev
eral po
rtion
s of th
e m
anuscript of "Am
erica Faces D
isaster." T
he essay
as such
will n
ot ap
pear in
the b
ook as
Farm
New
s erroneously indicated in the March issue
although its essential thrust will be there.
The June 1972 issue of F
arm N
ews had an article
entitled "Fascist M
ovements in U
.S.A
. Yesterday and
Today." T
he names of individuals and organizations
in the US
A w
hich the editor of Farm
New
s believed w
ere peddling Fascist or fifth colum
n poison before W
WII w
ere listed in this article. The list included the
House U
nAm
erican Activities C
omm
ittee. K
ominsky show
s how som
e Congressm
en in more
recent years have aided forces working to strengthen
the old pro-Hitler forces in W
est Germ
any. T
his essay
is bein
g p
ublish
ed as a su
pplem
ent to
the M
arch 1973 issue of Farm
New
s. Ten copies for
$1.00.
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Se
pla
t lb lid
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all c
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y v
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a a
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nu
vaa
411.1•3
oth
ers are ready to
be lau
nch
ed o
n a w
idesp
read scale
imm
ed
iate
ly u
po
n te
rmin
atio
n o
f ho
stilities in
E
uro
pe ... G
erman
techn
iciians, cu
ltural ex
perts an
d
un
derco
ver ag
ents h
ave w
ell-laid p
lans to
infiltrate
fore
ign
co
un
tries w
ith th
e o
bje
ct o
f develo
pin
g
economic, cultural and political ties . . . the governm
ent is n
ow
in p
ossessio
n o
f photo
static copies o
f several
volu
mes o
f Germ
an p
lans o
n th
is subject. T
he G
erman
pro
pag
anda is to
be an
integ
ral part o
f the o
verall
postwar program
.,The im
mediate aim
of the propaganda p
rog
ram w
ill be d
irected at rem
ov
ing
Allied
con
trol
measu
res, by so
ftenin
g u
p th
e Allies, th
rough su
btle
pleas fo
r fair treatmen
t of G
erman
s, and later th
e program
will be extended and intensified w
ith the object o
f giv
ing
rebirth
to all N
azi do
ctrines an
d fu
rtherin
g
Germ
an am
bitio
ns fo
r wo
rld d
om
inatio
n. U
nless th
ese p
lans are ch
ecked
, they
will p
resent a co
nstan
t men
ace to postw
ar peace and security." T
wo m
onth
s lat,J, on Ju
ne 2
5, 1
945, A
ssistant
Secretary of S
tate William
L. C
layton testifieil before a subcom
mittee of the S
enate Military A
ffairs Com
mittee:
"Th
e Dep
artmen
t of S
tate has ab
un
dan
t evid
ence
that th
e Nazis, in
anticip
ation o
f military
defeat, m
ade
careful p
lans to
carry o
n in
foreig
n co
untries a w
ide
range o
f activities n
ecessary to
support an
even
tual
resurgence of Germ
an power."
The co
rrectness o
f Mr. C
layto
n's testim
ony w
as attested
by a d
ocu
men
t signed
on M
arch 1
5, 1
944 b
y
Adm
iral Walter W
. Canaris on behalf of the Intelligence
Departm
ent of the Nazi H
igh Com
mand. It said, in part:
"We m
ust d
o o
ur u
tmo
st to c
reate
a sta
te o
f co
nfu
sion an
d d
istrust am
ong o
ur en
emies .. . T
here is
great fear in the U.S
.A. of B
olshevism. T
he opposition to R
oosev
elt's alliance w
ith S
talin is co
nstan
tly g
row
ing.
Ou
r chan
ces of su
ccess ate go
od
, if we can
stir up
influential circles against R
oosevelt's policy ... We have
at our co
mm
and in
the U
nited
States efficien
t contacts
which have been carefully kept up during the w
ar." T
he g
entlem
en in
the N
azi Hig
h C
om
man
d w
ere not u
ttering id
le boasts. W
hile it is g
enerally
believ
ed
that the Cold W
ar was launched by W
inston Churchill, in
his sp
eech at F
ulto
n, M
issouri o
n M
arch 5
, 1946, it is
more accurate to say that som
e sections of Am
erican Big
Busin
ess and th
eir political ag
ents w
ere carryin
g o
n a
clandestin
e anti-S
oviet C
old
War at th
e same tim
e that
Am
erican troops were locked in m
ortal combat w
ith the N
azis. In a b
ook en
titled "A
Stu
dy o
f a Master S
py",
published in London in 1961, B
ob Edw
ards, a mem
ber of P
arlia
ment, a
nd K
enneth
Dunne p
rese
nte
d
docu
men
tary ev
iden
ce that A
llen W
. Dulles o
f Cen
tral Intelligence A
gency fame carried on secret conferences
with
represen
tatives o
f Hitler's S
S S
ecurity
Office in
F
ebruary and March 1943.
In a dispatch from W
ashington*, Milton F
riedman
underg
round o
rgan
ization w
hich
is plan
nin
g to
reviv
e N
azism as soon as W
est Germ
any is adequately rearmed
by th
e United
States. O
fficial Wash
ingto
n seem
s disin
terested, h
ow
ever, an
d th
e clamor co
ntin
ues fo
r ex
ped
iting th
e rearmam
ent o
f the G
erman
s....Even
as B
orm
ann
plo
ts a resum
ptio
n o
f Nazi p
ow
er, the Jew
s an
d th
e peo
ple o
f Western
Euro
pe are to
ld to
forg
et their "prejudice" against G
erman m
ilitarism."
Yes, tim
es had changed. Franklin D
. Roosevelt had
passed away, and a graduate of the corrupt P
endergast political m
achine stepped into his shoes---the same H
arry T
rum
an w
ho
said in
19
41
, wh
en H
itler attacked
the
Soviet U
nion: "If w
e see that G
erman
y is w
inn
ing
we o
ug
ht to
h
elp R
ussia an
d if R
ussia is w
inn
ing
we o
ug
ht to
help
G
ermany and that w
ay let them kill as m
any as possible although I don't w
ant to see Hitler victorious under any
circumstances."*
When S
enator Harry T
ruman becam
e President of
the United S
tates, it was a foregone conclusion that the
pro-Nazi elem
ents would achieve m
ore influence. It was
shown by the fact that, w
hen Foreign M
inister Molotov
paid
a visit to
Tru
man
a few d
ays after R
oosev
elt's d
eath, o
n A
pril 1
2, 1
94
5, th
e new
presid
ent sp
ent 4
5
minutes heaping verbal abuse upon him
. Molotov stated
later that n
o o
ne h
ad ev
er talked
that w
ay to
him
in all
of h
is life. Drew
Pearso
n, rep
ortin
g o
n th
is incid
ent
several years later in his syndicated column* com
mented
that "m
any d
iplo
mats felt th
at Tru
man
touch
ed o
ff a n
ew ch
apter o
f So
viet en
mity
". Th
is new
chap
ter included his sm
iling approval, as he sat on the platform
at Fu
lton
, Misso
uri, w
hile C
hu
rchill o
pen
ed u
p th
e fo
rmal p
hase o
f the C
old
War. It is n
o w
on
der th
at M
artin B
orm
ann
cou
ld b
e in S
pain
five y
ears later, arranging for the return to pow
er of the Nazis and their
military apparatus.
• O
n M
arch 2
8, 1
952, M
ilton F
riedm
an rep
orted
from
Washington:*
"Our S
tate Departm
ent is expediting preparations fo
r the rem
ilitarization
of W
estern G
erman
y. T
he
Dep
artmen
t mad
e know
n th
at it is arrangin
g w
ith th
e G
erman
s to tu
rn o
ver to
them
custo
dy o
f the m
ost o
f the N
azi war crim
inals who still rem
ain in jail. ....T
he B
avarian
Rad
io h
as bro
adcast th
at 85
percent of the "New
" West G
erman F
oreign Ministry are
former N
azis. The G
erman report said there w
ere "more
Nazis n
ow
than
the F
oreig
n M
inistry
had
even
under
Hitle
r" and th
at so
me h
ad b
een c
onnecte
d w
ith
anti-Jew
ish p
rog
rams in
occu
pied
cou
ntries. A
ltho
ug
h
the Nazis lost in 1945, they are w
inning in 1952 on both the E
astern and Western fronts."
The C
old
War p
olic
y o
f the U
.S.A
. and its
anti-Com
munist crusade reached the depths of depravity
wh
en, in
19
61
, Presid
ent Jo
hn
F. K
enn
edy
perso
nally
west u
erman
y aria tran
z-Joset strau
ss as un
ance
min
ister. Kiesin
ger is an
old
Nazi w
ar horse, b
ut in
acco
rdan
ce with
the p
re-arranged
plan
, stories w
ere sp
read b
y K
iesing
er that h
e had
been
"on
ly a m
ino
r em
plo
yee actin
g as a liaso
n b
etween
Hitler's F
oreig
n
Minister Joachim
von Ribbentrop and the P
ropaganda M
inistry under Joseph Goebbels."* K
iesinger sings the fam
iliar refrain that he was "an inactive m
ember of the
Nazi P
arty w
ho actu
ally w
as opposed
to H
itler's policies."
The facts ab
out K
iesinger are th
at he jo
ined
the
Nazi P
arty in 1933 and that in 1936, at the age of 36, he entered the radio propaganda division of N
azi Foreign
Min
ister vo
n R
ibb
entro
p. H
e was su
ch an
"inactiv
e" N
azi Party
mem
ber th
at by 1
943 h
e was d
irecting a
world
-wid
e radio
pro
pag
anda ap
paratu
s with
195
specialists under his supervision. He also w
as the liason officer, coordinating his departm
ent's work w
ith that of P
ropaganda Minister, D
r. Paul Joseph G
oebbels. E
ven
more o
min
ous fo
r the fu
ture o
f Germ
any
and for world peace w
as the elevation to a cabinet post o
f Strau
ss, wh
o h
ad b
een th
row
n o
ut o
f the p
ost o
f defen
se min
ister three y
ears earlier becau
se of h
is co
rrupt an
d d
ictatorial p
ractices. Strau
ss was actu
ally
the front man of the financial tycoon, H
erman A
bs, and of the arm
aments em
pire of Krupp. A
nother worthy in
the new regim
e was F
riedrich Karl V
ialon, Secretary of
State. H
e is reported to be a Nazi crim
inal who sent Jew
s to concentration cam
ps during World W
ar II.* Thus is
the stag
e set for th
e reincarn
ation
of G
erman
Fascism
an
d fo
r Germ
an
milita
rism's th
ird try
for w
orld
conquest.
Am
ong the devices used by the Nazi underground
to g
radually
regain
pow
er w
as th
e se
tting u
p o
f innocuous-sounding front organizations. T
wo of these
org
an
izatio
ns w
ere
the W
itiko
-Leag
ue a
nd
the
Sudeten
deu
tsche L
andsm
annsch
aft. Both
gro
ups h
ad
their genesis in the circumstances that, of the 54 m
illion in
hab
itants o
f West G
erman
y, so
me 1
0 m
illion
were
expelled from the areas taken over by P
oland and other E
astern countries. Am
ong those who m
et on Novem
ber 9, 1947, to found the W
itiko-League w
ere: 1
.) D
r Walter B
echer, former m
ember of the N
azi P
arty
; form
er e
dito
r of th
e A
rt, Scie
nce, a
nd
Entertain
men
t pag
e of th
e Nazi p
aper, D
ie Zeit,
published in Prague during the N
azi occupation, and not to be confused w
ith the reputable Die Z
eit of Ham
burg; p
rese
ntly
the titu
lar h
ead
an
d c
hie
f gu
ru o
f the
Sudetendeutsche L
andsmannschaft.
2.) W
alte
r Bra
nd
, form
er e
xecu
tive o
f the
Sudetendeutsche P
arty; in charge of the chancellory of K
onrad Henlein, H
itler's deputy in the Sudetenland.
*Los A
ngeles Herald-E
xaminer •
*C
rIcannti ra
rtitho
re rlie
na
trh fro
m R
nn
n. i,n
s An
geles
is no
w in
po
ssession
of p
ho
tostatic co
pies o
f several
volumes of G
erman plans on this subject. T
he Germ
an pro
pag
anda is to
be an
integ
ral part o
f the o
verall
postwar program
.,The im
mediate aim
of the propaganda p
rog
ram w
ill be d
irected at rem
ov
ing
Allied
con
trol
measu
res, by so
ftenin
g u
p th
e Allies, th
rough su
btle
pleas fo
r fair treatmen
t of G
erman
s, and
later the
program w
ill be extended and intensified with the object
of g
ivin
g reb
irth to
all Nazi d
octrin
es and
furth
ering
G
erman
amb
ition
s for w
orld
do
min
ation
. Un
less these
plans are checked, they will present a constant m
enace to postw
ar peace and security." T
wo
mo
nth
s lat.Tr, o
n Ju
ne 2
5, 1
94
5, A
ssistant
Secretary of S
tate William
L. C
layton testified before a subcom
mittee of the S
enate Military A
ffairs Com
mittee:
"The D
epartment of S
tate has abundant evidence th
at the N
azis, in an
ticipatio
n o
f military
defeat, m
ade
careful p
lans to
carry o
n in
foreig
n co
untries a w
ide
rang
e of activ
ities necessary
to su
pp
ort an
even
tual
resurgence of Germ
an power."
Th
e correctn
ess of M
r. Clay
ton
's testimo
ny
was
attested b
y a d
ocu
men
t sign
ed o
n M
arch 1
5, 1
94
4 b
y
Adm
iral Walter W
. Canaris on behalf of the Intelligence
Departm
ent of the Nazi H
igh Com
mand. It said, in pad:
"We m
ust d
o o
ur u
tmost to
cre
ate
a sta
te o
f co
nfu
sion
and
distru
st amo
ng
ou
r enem
ies ... Th
ere is great fear in the U
.S.A
. of Bolshevism
. The opposition to
Rb
osev
elt's alliance w
ith S
talin is co
nstan
tly g
row
ing
. O
ur ch
ances o
f success a're g
oo
d, if w
e can stir u
p
influential circles against Roosevelt's policy .. . W
e have, at o
ur co
mm
and
in th
e Un
ited S
tates efficient co
ntacts
which have been carefully kept up during the w
ar." T
he g
entlem
en in
the N
azi Hig
h C
om
man
d w
ere n
ot u
ttering id
le bo
asts. Wh
ile it is gen
erally b
elieved
that the C
old War w
as launched by Winston C
hurchill, in his sp
eech at F
ulto
n, M
issouri o
n M
arch 5
, 1946, it is
more accurate to say that som
e sections of Am
erican Big
Busin
ess and th
eir political ag
ents w
ere carryin
g o
n a
cland
estine an
ti-So
viet C
old
War at th
e same tim
e that
Am
erican troops were locked in m
ortal combat w
ith the N
azis. In a b
oo
k en
titled "A
Stu
dy
of a M
aster Sp
y",
published in London in 1961, B
ob Edw
ards, a mem
ber of P
arlia
ment, a
nd K
enneth
Dunne p
rese
nte
d
docu
men
tary ev
iden
ce that A
llen W
. Dulles o
f Cen
tral Intelligence A
gency fame carried on secret conferences
with
represen
tatives o
f Hitler's S
S S
ecurity
Office in
F
ebruary and March 1943.
In a dispatch from W
ashington*, Milton F
riedman
reported on Novem
ber 17, 1950: "O
fficial Wash
ing
ton
has learn
ed th
at Martin
*California Jew
ish Voice, L
os Angeles.
-r
-b- their "prejudice" against G
erman m
ilitarism."
Yes, tim
es had changed. Franklin D
. Roosevelt had
passed away, and a graduate of the corrupt P
endergast political m
achine stepped into his shoes---the same H
arry T
rum
an w
ho said
in 1
941, w
hen
Hitler attack
ed th
e S
oviet Union:
"If we see th
at Germ
any is w
innin
g w
e ought to
help
Russia an
d if R
ussia is w
innin
g w
e ought to
help
G
ermany and that w
ay let them kill as m
any as possible although I don't w
ant to see Hitler victorious under any
circumstances."*
When S
enator Harry T
ruman becam
e President of
the United S
tates, it was a foregone conclusion that the
pro-Nazi elem
ents would achieve m
ore influence. It was
shown by the fact that, w
hen Foreign M
inister Molotov
paid
a visit to
Tru
man
a few d
ays after R
oosev
elt's d
eath, o
n A
pril 1
2, 1
94
5, th
e new
presid
ent sp
ent 4
5
minutes heaping verbal abuse upon him
. Molotov stated
later that n
o o
ne h
ad ev
er talked
that w
ay to
him
in all
of h
is life. Drew
Pearso
n, rep
ortin
g o
n th
is incid
ent
several years later in his syndicated column* com
mented
that "m
any d
iplo
mats felt th
at Tru
man
touch
ed o
ff a n
ew ch
apter o
f So
viet en
mity
". Th
is new
chap
ter included his sm
iling approval, as he sat on the platform
at Fulto
n, M
issouri, w
hile C
hurch
ill open
ed u
p th
e fo
rmal p
hase o
f the C
old
War. It is n
o w
on
der th
at M
artin B
orm
ann
cou
ld b
e in S
pain
five y
ears later, arranging for the return to pow
er of the Nazis and their
military apparatus.
On
March
28
, 19
52
, Milto
n F
riedm
an rep
orted
from
Washington:*
"Our S
tate Departm
ent is expediting preparations fo
r the rem
ilitarization
of W
estern G
erman
y. T
he
Dep
artmen
t mad
e kn
ow
n th
at it is arrang
ing
with
the
Germ
ans to
turn
over to
them
custo
dy o
f the m
ost o
f the N
azi war crim
inals who still rem
ain in jail. ....T
he B
avarian
Rad
io h
as bro
adcast th
at 85
percent of the "New
" West G
erman F
oreign Ministry are
former N
azis. The G
erman report said there w
ere "more
Nazis n
ow
than
the F
oreig
n M
inistry
had
even
un
der
Hitle
r" and th
at so
me h
ad b
een c
onnecte
d w
ith
anti-Jew
ish p
rogram
s in o
ccupied
countries. A
lthough
the Nazis lost in 1945, they are w
inning in 1952 on both the E
astern and Western fronts."
The C
old
War p
olic
y o
f the U
.S.A
. and its
anti-Com
munist crusade reached the depths of depravity
when
, in 1
961, 'P
residen
t John F
. Ken
ned
y p
ersonally
*New
York T
imes, June 24, 1941.
*Daily N
ews, L
os Angeles, D
ec. 7, 1950.
*California Jew
ish Voice, L
os Angeles.
familiar refrain that he w
as "an inactive mem
ber of the N
azi Party
who actu
ally w
as opposed
to H
itler's policies."
Th
e facts abo
ut K
iesing
er are that h
e join
ed th
e N
azi Party in 1933 and that in 1936, at the age of 36, he
entered the radio propaganda division of Nazi F
oreign M
inister v
on
Rib
ben
trop
. He w
as such
an "in
active"
Nazi P
arty m
emb
er that b
y 1
94
3 h
e was d
irecting
a w
orld
-wid
e radio
pro
pag
anda ap
paratu
s with
195
specialists under his supervision. He also w
as the liason officer, coordinating his departm
ent's work w
ith that of P
ropaganda Minister, D
r. Paul Joseph G
oebbels. E
ven
mo
re om
ino
us fo
r the fu
ture o
f Germ
any
and for w
orld peace was the elevation to a cabinet post
of S
trauss, w
ho h
ad b
een th
row
n o
ut o
f the p
ost o
f defen
se min
ister three y
ears earlier becau
se of h
is co
rrupt an
d d
ictatorial p
ractices. Strau
ss was actu
ally
the front man of the financial tycoon, H
erman A
bs, and of the arm
aments em
pire of Krupp. A
nother worthy in
the new regim
e was F
riedrich Karl V
ialon, Secretary of
State. H
e is reported to be a Nazi crim
inal who sent Jew
s to concentration cam
ps during World W
ar II.* Thus is
the stag
e set for th
e reincarn
ation o
f Germ
an F
ascism
and fo
r Germ
an m
ilitarism
's third
try fo
r world
conquest.
Am
ong the devices used by the Nazi underground
to g
radually
regain
pow
er w
as th
e se
tting u
p o
f innocuous-sounding front organizations. T
wo of these
org
an
izatio
ns w
ere
the W
itiko
-Leag
ue a
nd
the
Sudeten
deu
tsche L
andsm
annsch
aft. Both
gro
ups h
ad
their genesis in the circumstances that, of the 54 m
illion in
hab
itants o
f West G
erman
y, so
me 1
0 m
illion
were
expelled from the areas taken over by P
oland and other E
astern countries. Am
ong those who m
et on Novem
ber 9, 1947, to found the W
itiko-League w
ere: 1
.) D
r Walter B
echer, former m
ember of the N
azi P
arty
; form
er e
dito
r of th
e A
rt, Scie
nce, a
nd
E
nte
rtain
men
t pag
e o
f the N
azi p
ap
er, D
ie Z
eit,
published in Prague during the N
azi occupation, and not to be confused w
ith the reputable Die Z
eit of Ham
burg; p
rese
ntly
the titu
lar h
ead
an
d c
hie
f gu
ru o
f the
Sudetendeutsche L
andsmannschaft.
2.) W
alte
r Bra
nd, fo
rmer e
xecutiv
e o
f the
Sudetendeutsche P
arty; in charge of the chancellory of K
onrad Henlein, H
itler's deputy in the Sudetenland.
*Los A
ngeles Herald-E
xaminer
*Osgood C
aruthers' dispatch from B
onn, Los A
ngeles
Tim
es, Nov. 11, 1966.
*Dispatch from
Bonn by A
lfred Wolfm
an, California
Jewish V
oice, Decem
ber.9, 1966.
Since 1955, D
r. Walter B
echer has been either the S
ecre
tary
Gen
era
l or th
e V
ice P
resid
en
t of th
e
Sudeten
deu
tsche L
andsm
annsch
aft. With
out q
uestio
n,
he is the dynamo of the organization, and if he has not
been
defin
itely assig
ned
to carry
out th
e pro
gram
en
unciated
in th
e 1944 d
ocu
men
t, signed
by A
dm
iral W
alte
r W. C
an
aris o
n b
eh
alf o
f the In
tellig
en
ce
Dep
artmen
t of th
e Nazi H
igh
Co
mm
and
, it mu
st be
con
sidered
the m
ost ex
traord
inary
coin
ciden
ce in th
e histo
ry o
f politics an
d d
iplo
macy
. Dr. B
echer h
as on
more than one occasion tried to either deny or m
inimize
his fo
rmer N
azi role, so
we feel co
nstrain
ed to
presen
t th
e pro
of th
at he w
as a leadin
g N
azi in th
e past an
d is
now a leading neo-N
azi. In
the M
arch 1
95
9 issu
e of N
eue K
om
men
tare, G
eorg Herde, the editor, m
ade a series of charges about B
echer's N
azi and an
ti-Sem
itic activities d
urin
g th
e H
itler era. Bech
er engag
ed th
e services o
f attorn
ey
Gustav W
alter to demand retraction of the charges. T
he attorney's letter and editor H
erde's reply were published
in Neue K
omm
entare of April 1959. H
erde told Becher's
attorn
ey th
at he w
as prep
ared to
presen
t docu
men
tary
proof of his charges in a court of law. U
p to the present w
riting, B
echer's atto
rney
has n
ot seen
fit to av
ail him
self of th
e pro
visio
ns o
f the strin
gen
t libel law
s governing the press in W
est Germ
any. In
resp
onse
to c
harg
es a
gain
st Dr. B
echer
men
tion
ed in
a letter of O
ctob
er 10
, 19
66
that w
e sent
Co
ng
ressman
Ralp
h H
arvey
and
45
oth
er mem
bers o
f C
ongress, Becher w
rote a three-page type-written letter
on O
cto
ber 2
4, 1
966 to
Congre
ssman H
arv
ey; a
photocopy of this letter w
as sent to us by Congressm
an H
arvey. We sent a photocopy of B
echer's letter to editor H
erde, an
d ask
ed fo
r his co
mm
ents ab
ou
t Bech
er's denials; and w
e requested documentation of his charges.
In a fiv
e-pag
e mem
oran
dum
accom
pan
yin
g a letter o
f N
ovember 5, 1966 that he sent us, G
eorg Herde said, in
part (translated from the G
erman):
1.)
'Sin
ce 19
58
I hav
e been
pu
blish
ing
my
in
form
ation
service, N
eue K
om
men
tare. Ev
eryth
ing
w
hich I reveal is beyond attack because it is true. Since I
am a federal citizen and therefore subject to the law
s of th
is country
, each false statem
ent o
r assertion w
ould
have brought about indictm
ents by the persons so falsely accused, and, in the legal proceedings as w
ell." (By legal
proceedings, Herde apparently m
eans a libel suit. - MX
.) 2.)
"As proof against B
echer's assertion of never hav
ing b
een a N
azi Party
mem
ber, a p
hoto
copy o
f the
fron
t and
back
of th
e orig
inal m
emb
ership
card o
f the
Nazi party is enclosed."
1
"Frn
m 1
927 to
1936 B
echer liv
ed in
Vien
na.
5.) H
as been
Secretary
Gen
eral of th
e Sudeten
G
erman C
ouncil since 1955. T
he biographical data, summ
arized from T
etens' book are;*
Du
ring
Wo
rld W
ar II, Bech
er wo
rked
as a war
corresp
onden
t of th
e Pro
pag
anda M
inistry
and o
f the
Wehrm
acht, not as a combat soldier, as his "W
ho's Who"
biography implies. A
fter the defeat of Hitler, he joined
the n
eo-N
azi Deu
tsche G
emein
schaft P
arty an
d w
as elected to the B
avarian Landtag. In the early 1950's he
switch
ed to
the A
ll-Germ
an b
loc, w
hich
has its m
ain
base am
on
g th
e refug
ees and
exp
ellees and
wh
ose
ideo
log
y is alm
ost th
e same as th
e oth
er neo
-Nazis.
Becher served as chairm
an of the All-G
erman bloc in the
Bav
arian L
andtag
and as a G
eneral S
ecretary o
f the
Sudetendeustche L
andsmannschaft. B
echer's influence rests in
part o
n h
is ability
to m
ake rab
ble-ro
usin
g,
flag-waving speeches, in w
hich he deludes the millions of
refugees an
d ex
pellees w
ith th
e hope th
at they
will b
e resto
red to
their S
ud
etenlan
d h
om
es. Bech
er's oth
er so
urces o
f streng
th an
d in
fluen
ce deriv
e from
the
sup
po
rt and
enco
urg
agem
ent h
e received
in th
e early
19
50
's from
Sen
ators Jo
seph
McC
arthy
and
William
Jen
ner; an
d also
from
the U
ltra-Rig
htist C
on
gressm
en
Walter Ju
dd, B
. Carro
ll Reece, A
lbert H
. Bosch
e, and
Francis E
. Walter. In 1955, B
echer considered his base of su
pp
ort am
on
g A
merican
Co
ng
ressmen
of su
fficient
importance to w
arrant the establishment of a perm
anent ex
pellee o
ffice in W
ashin
gto
n, D
.C. H
e appoin
ted a
form
er Nazi d
iplo
mat, R
ichard
Sallet, to
this p
ost.
Sallett had previously served G
oebbels and Ribbentrop
in the Germ
an embassy. H
e has a record of anti-Sem
itic an
d an
ti-Am
erican p
ropag
anda activ
ities, which
were
designed to undermine the R
oosevelt administration and
its New
Deal program
of social reforms.
It is of u
tmost sig
nifican
ce to n
ote th
at, among
Becher's supporters from
the very outset and continuing up to
this v
ery
day, a
re m
em
bers o
f the H
ouse
U
n-Am
erican Activities C
omm
ittee* and its counterpart, the S
enate Internal Security S
ubcomm
ittee. A
s prev
iou
sly m
entio
ned
, in 1
93
7 D
r. Bech
er b
ecam
e th
e e
dito
r of th
e A
rt, Scie
nce, a
nd
E
ntertain
men
t section o
f the P
rague N
azi pap
er, Die
Zeit. T
his ch
arge w
as mad
e op
enly
by
the resp
ected
Germ
an m
agazin
e, Der S
pieg
el, in its issu
e of Ju
ne 3
, 1959. T
his charge was also m
ade in a book entitled "Bis
Alles in
Sch
erben
Fallt" ("T
ill Ev
eryth
ing
Go
es to
Pieces")*, published in 1960 by G
eorg Herde and H
ans M
aier. Their charges are:
"Dr. W
alter Becher w
as the editor in charge of Art,
Science, and E
ntertainment for the official organ of the
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3.) R
upert G
lass, form
er regio
nal lead
er of th
e N
azi Party.
4.) K
on
stantin
Ho
ss, form
e'r regio
nal lead
er of
the Nazi P
arty in Prague.
5.) K
arl K
raus, fo
rmer S
S le
ader
(Obersturm
bannfuhrer) of the Nazi P
arty. 6.)
The late H
ugo L
iehm
, form
er Sen
ator o
f S
udeten
deu
tsche P
arty an
d fo
rmer N
azi may
or o
f L
uditz. 7.)
Em
il Lo
de, fo
rmer activ
e mem
ber o
f the
Henlein N
azi group. A
fter many m
onths of wrangling and m
aneuvering for positions of leadership, this founding group w
as able to
draw
into
its rank
s som
e add
ition
al Nazis w
ho
had
been active in the S
udetenland. Thus, by the sum
mer of
19
48
, they
had
forg
ed a fo
rmid
able o
rgan
ization
of
form
er Nazis w
ho co
uld
do u
nderg
round w
ork
beh
ind
the facad
e of a so
cial club
. Th
ey p
roceed
ed to
bran
ch
out into a number of key cities, and by the tim
e of their m
eeting in
Stu
ttgart o
n O
ctober 1
, 1950, th
ey o
pen
ly
declared themselves an "independent organization." In
1955, D
r. Walter B
echer w
as elected to
the ex
ecutiv
e board of the W
itiko-League. In 1956, B
echer was elected
president. At the sam
e time, F
ranz Karm
asin was elected
vice-p
residen
t. Th
is gen
tleman
had
served
as state secretary
of th
e Nazi satellite g
overn
men
t of S
lovak
ia an
d w
as a close co
-wo
rker o
f Ko
nrad
Hen
lein an
d h
is N
azi Su
deten
Germ
an P
arty. T
he o
ther m
emb
ers of
Becher's executive board w
ere Dr. H
einz Lange, form
er
the Nazi P
arty in Prague.
5.) K
arl K
raus, fo
rmer S
S le
ader
(Obersturm
bannfuhrer) of the Nazi P
arty. 6.)
Th
e late Hu
go
Lieh
m, fo
rmer S
enato
r of
Su
deten
deu
tsche P
arty an
d fo
rmer N
azi may
or o
f L
uditz. 7.) E
mil L
od
e, foim
er active m
emb
er of th
e H
enlein Nazi group.
After m
any months of w
rangling and maneuvering
for positions of leadership, this founding group was able
to d
raw in
to its ran
ks so
me ad
ditio
nal N
azis wh
o h
ad
been active in the Sudetenland. T
hus, by the summ
er of 1948, th
ey h
ad fo
rged
a form
idab
le org
anizatio
n o
f fo
rmer N
azis who co
uld
do u
nderg
round w
ork
beh
ind
the facad
e of a so
cial club. T
hey
pro
ceeded
to b
ranch
out into a num
ber of key cities, and by the time of their
meetin
g in
Stu
ttgart o
n O
ctob
er 1, 1
95
0, th
ey o
pen
ly
declared themselves an "independent organization." In
19
55
, Dr. W
alter Bech
er was elected
to th
e execu
tive
board of the Witiko-L
eague. In 1956, Becher w
as elected president. A
t the same tim
e, Franz K
armasin w
as elected v
ice-presid
ent. T
his g
entlem
an h
ad serv
ed as state
secretary o
f the N
azi satellite go
vern
men
t of S
lov
akia
and w
as a close co
-wo
rker o
f Ko
nrad
Hen
lein an
d h
is N
azi Sudeten
Germ
an P
arty. T
he o
ther m
embers o
f B
echer's executive board were D
r. Heinz L
ange, former
leader of Hitler Y
outh in the Sudetenland, and D
r. Fritz
Kollner, form
er brigade comm
ander of the Hitler S
torm
Tro
op
ers and
form
er mem
ber o
f the R
eichstag
. Dr.
Ko
llner's d
evo
tion
to th
e Nazi reg
ime earn
ed h
im th
e right to w
ear the Golden S
wastika.
The ro
le of th
e Witik
o-L
eague w
as mad
e crystal
clear by D
r. Walter B
rand at th
e yearly
meetin
g o
n
Septem
ber 20, 1958. He declared:
1.)
Th
at a
decisio
n h
ad
been
mad
e a
t the
fou
nd
ing m
eeting
on N
ovem
ber 9
, 19
47 to
gath
er up
and organize all the Nazi functionaries w
ho had worked
together in the Sudetenland.
2.) T
hat the mem
bership must not grow
beyond a certain
num
ber, th
at. the L
eague m
ust n
ot b
ecom
e a m
ass organization. 3.)
Th
at it was an
d m
ust co
ntin
ue as an
elitist gro
up, w
hich
supplies id
eas to b
e taken
up b
y o
ther
organizations. A
fter Hitler's m
ilitary defeat, millions of displaced
perso
ns flo
oded
the area n
ow
called W
est Germ
any.
Quite
understa
ndably
, there
aro
se a
varie
ty o
f organizations to obtain for these people jobs, relief, and in
tegratio
n w
ith th
e society
of th
e area. Of th
e vario
us
org
an
izatio
ns o
f refu
gees a
nd
ex
pelle
es, th
e
Sudeten
deu
tsche L
andsm
annsch
aft becam
e the m
ost
influ
ential. T
he n
ame, in
English
translatio
n, m
eans
"Org
anizatio
n o
f Country
men
of S
udeten
Germ
ans".
The elitist g
entlem
en o
f the W
itiko-L
eague q
uick
ly
disce
rne
d th
e n
ossih
ilities in
he
ren
t in q
iirth n
raa
ni7
atio
nq
governing the press in West G
ermany.
In re
sponse
to c
harg
es a
gain
st Dr. B
echer
men
tion
ed in
a letter of O
ctob
er 10
, 19
66
that w
e sent
Congressm
an R
alph H
arvey
and 4
5 o
ther m
embers o
f C
ongress, Becher w
rote a three-page type-written letter
on O
cto
ber 2
4, 1
966 to
Congre
ssman H
arv
ey; a
photocopy of this letter w
as sent to us by Congressm
an H
arvey. We sent a photocopy of B
echer's letter to editor H
erde, an
d ask
ed fo
r his co
mm
ents ab
ou
t Bech
er's denials; and w
e requested documentation of his charges.
In a fiv
e-pag
e mem
oran
du
m acco
mp
any
ing
a letter of
Novem
ber 5, 1966 that he sent us, Georg H
erde said, in part (translated from
the Germ
an): 1
.) 'S
ince 1
95
8 I h
ave b
een p
ub
lishin
g m
y
info
rmatio
n serv
ice, Neu
e Kom
men
tare. Every
thin
g
which I reveal is beyond attack because it is true. S
ince I am
a federal citizen and therefore subject to the laws of
this co
untry
, each false statem
ent o
r assertion w
ould
have brought about indictm
ents by the persons so falsely accused, and, in the legal proceedings as w
ell." (By legal
proceedings, Herde apparently m
eans a libel suit. - M.K
.) 2.)
"As proof against B
echer's assertion of never hav
ing b
een a N
azi Party
mem
ber, a p
hoto
copy o
f the
fron
t and
back
of th
e orig
inal m
emb
ership
card o
f the
Nazi party is enclosed."
3.) "F
rom 1927 to 1936, B
echer lived in Vienna,
where h
e com
pleted
his law
deg
ree. Acco
rdin
g to
the
respected
week
ly jo
urn
al Die Z
eit,* p
ub
lished
in
Ham
burg, August 8, 1957, B
echer joined Hitler's N
azi P
arty
as e
arly
as D
ecem
ber 1
2, 1
93
1, w
ith th
e
mem
bership card number 896,129."*
4.) "According to this,* B
echer was a N
azi Party
mem
ber as of Novem
ber 1, 1938, mem
bership number
6,5
58
,11
3. L
ike th
e o
ther m
em
bers o
f Hen
lein
's S
udetendeutsche Party, w
hich functioned as a branch of th
e Nazi P
arty in
Czech
oslav
akia, h
e was accep
ted
directly into the Nazi P
arty. 5.)
"On M
arch 2
0, 1
940, B
echer w
as expelled
fro
m th
e Nazi p
arty in
a Reg
ional C
ourt o
f Honor.
(Presiding Judge w
as Dr. F
ranz Bohm
, who later becam
e P
residen
t of th
e Su
deten
deu
tsche L
and
sman
nsch
aft, w
hile D
r. Bech
er becam
e the V
ice Presid
ent.) A
t the
time, he w
as involved in legal proceedings in Dresden; in
whicn
several p
ersons w
ere senten
ced b
ecause o
f hom
osex
uality
(the o
fficial Nazi p
aper V
olk
ischer
Beo
bach
ter of Jan
uary
11, 1
940, rep
orts th
is trial in
detail)". 6.)
"Presum
ably Becher w
as taken back into the N
azi P
arty
in Ju
ne 1
940, fo
r on th
e e
nclo
sed
mem
bersh
ip card
a no
te to th
is effect can b
e seen. H
is change of residence w
as also entered in June 1940." T
he biographical data regarding Dr. W
alter Becher,
as giv
en in
"Who's W
ho in
Germ
any", th
ird ed
ition,
1964, are: 1
T
-
• T
./ 1
1
I
/ • n
• n
Francis E
. Walter. In 1955, B
echer considered his base of su
pp
ort am
on
g A
merican
Co
ng
ressmen
of su
fficient
importance to w
arrant the establishment of a perm
anent ex
pellee o
ffice in W
ashin
gto
n, D
.C. H
e appoin
ted a
form
er Nazi d
iplo
mat, R
ichard
Sallet, to
this p
ost.
Sallett had previously served G
oebbels and Ribbentrop
in the Germ
an embassy. H
e has a record of anti-Sem
itic an
d an
ti-Am
erican p
rop
agan
da activ
ities, wh
ich w
ere designed to underm
ine the Roosevelt adm
inistration and its N
ew D
eal program of social reform
s. It is o
f utm
ost sig
nifican
ce to n
ote th
at, amo
ng
B
echer's supporters from the very outset and continuing
up to
this v
ery
day, a
re m
em
bers o
f the H
ouse
U
n-Am
erican Activities C
omm
ittee* and its counterpart, the S
enate Internal Security S
ubcomm
ittee. A
s prev
iou
sly m
entio
ned
, in 1
93
7 D
r. Bech
er becam
e th
e e
dito
r of th
e A
rt, Scie
nce, a
nd
Entertain
men
t section o
f the P
rague N
azi pap
er, Die
Zeit. T
his ch
arge w
as mad
e op
enly
by
the resp
ected
Germ
an m
agazin
e, Der S
pieg
el, in its issu
e of Ju
ne 3
, 1959. T
his charge was also m
ade in a book entitled "Bis
Alles in
Sch
erben
Falit" ("T
ill Ev
eryth
ing
Go
es to
Pieces")*, published in 1960 by G
eorg Herde and H
ans M
aier. Their charges are:
"Dr. W
alter Becher w
as the editor in charge of Art,
Science, and E
ntertainment for the official organ of the
Nazi P
arty in the Sudetenland D
ie Zeit. H
e is responsible for the publication of anti-S
emitic sm
ear articles in the pages of A
rt, Science, and E
ntertainment section of his
paper. After his involuntary, non-political, conditional
separation from the editorial position of this paper, the
anti-Jewish sm
ear ceased imm
ediately." H
erde and Maier quote from
an article definitely carrying B
echer's signature in the Nazi D
ie Zeit of M
ay 2
3, 1
93
9. B
echer's article, en
titled "L
and
of S
on
gs,"
says, in part (translated from G
erman):
"Th
e bo
ot w
hich
is march
ing
thro
ug
h th
e streets in
Germ
any once more, is, according to the opinion of the
hig
h ju
dges in
the W
est, the alleg
ed sy
mbol o
f the
cultu
ral d
egenera
cy o
f the la
nd o
f the p
oets a
nd
philosophers. .... w
hilst in Paris as in L
ondon the artist, now as
before, is nourished by the crumbs of salons and is m
uch in
evid
ence in
the arm
y o
f the u
nem
plo
yed
, Adolp
h
Hitler's G
erman
y m
arches---y
es, march
es---tow
ards a
blossoming era of cultural life ...
Th
e Su
deten
land
has b
ecom
e a land
of cu
lture.
Only the liberating action of the F
uhrer has re-awakened
the in
nu
merab
le sleepin
g fo
rces, and
thu
s initiated
a cultural life in w
hich they can reach their full effect. All,
that was suppressed by the previous alien governm
ent, influenced by Jew
ish triflers, can now be exposed to the
critical judgment of the public at large."
Herd
e and
Maier q
uo
te also ffo
m an
un
sign
ed
...00
..0.1
,01
, 1,0
0.•
•■
■01
AL 1.1
11
.4V
/
Tro
opers an
d fo
rmer m
ember o
f the R
eichstag
. Dr.
Ko
llner's d
evo
tion
to th
e Nazi reg
ime earn
ed h
im th
e right to w
ear the Golden S
wastika.
The role of the W
itiko-League w
as made crystal
clear by D
r. Walter B
rand at th
e yearly
meetin
g o
n
Septem
ber 20, 1958. He declared:
1.)
That a
decisio
n h
ad b
een m
ade a
t the
fou
nd
ing
meetin
g o
n N
ov
emb
er 9, 1
94
7 to
gath
er up
and organize all the N
azi functionaries who had w
orked together in the S
udetenland. 2.)
That the inzm
bership must not grow
beyond a certain
num
ber, th
at the L
eague m
ust n
ot b
ecom
e a m
ass organization. 3.)
That it w
as and m
ust co
ntin
ue as an
elitist gro
up, w
hich
supplies id
eas to b
e taken
up b
y o
ther
organizations. A
fter Hitler's m
ilitary defeat, millions of displaced
perso
ns flo
oded
the area n
ow
called W
est Germ
any.
Quite
understa
ndably
, there
aro
se a
varie
ty o
f organizations to obtain for these people jobs, relief, and in
tegratio
n w
ith th
e society
of th
e area. Of th
e vario
us
org
aniz
atio
ns o
f refu
gees a
nd e
xpelle
es, th
e
Sudeten
deu
tsche L
andsm
annsch
aft becam
e the m
ost
influ
ential. T
he n
ame, in
English
translatio
n, m
eans
"Org
anizatio
n o
f Country
men
of S
udeten
Germ
ans".
The elitist g
entlem
en o
f the W
itiko-L
eague q
uick
ly
discerned the possibilities inherent in such organizations. In his S
eptember 20, 1958 speech, at the yearly m
eeting of the W
itiko-League, D
r. Walter B
rand boasted of 23 d
ifferent o
rgan
ization
s, pu
blish
ers, and
edu
cation
al in
stitutio
ns in
whic
h th
ere
were
mem
bers o
f the
Witiko-L
eague in leading positions. He concluded w
ith the statem
ent that mem
bers of the League are in active
lead
ersh
ip a
t all le
vels o
f the S
udete
nd
eu
tsch
e
Landsm
annschaft. T
he p
rete
nse
that th
e S
udete
ndeutsc
he
Lan
dsm
ann
schaft is ju
st a jolly
old
club
of G
erman
s devoted to the eternal verities is belied by the fact that this group seldom
misses an opportunity to com
e to the defen
se of th
e most n
oto
rious N
azi war crim
inals. O
n
this question, H.L
. Tetens reports "W
hen the former S
S
leader H
erman
n K
rum
ey, k
no
wn
as the 'b
utch
er of
400,0
00 H
ungarian
Jews', w
as arrested in
1957, th
e S
udetendeutsche Association publicly supported him
. It w
as revealed
that K
rum
ey h
ad b
een ch
airman
of an
ex
pellee asso
ciation fo
r several y
ears and th
at he h
ad
obtained a government loan w
hich enabled him to build
up a prosperous business."*
*The N
ew G
ermany and the O
ld Nazis" by T
.H. T
etens, N
ew Y
ork, 1961, Random
House, page 134.
respected
week
ly jo
urn
al Die Z
eit,* p
ub
lished
in
Ham
burg, August 8, 1957, B
echer joined Hitler's N
azi P
arty
as e
arly
as D
ecem
ber 1
2, 1
93
1, w
ith th
e
mem
bership card number 896,129."*
4.) "According to this,* B
echer was a N
azi Party
mem
ber as of Novem
ber 1, 1938, mem
bership number
6,5
58,1
13. L
ike th
e o
ther m
em
bers o
f Henle
in's
Sudetendeutsche P
arty, which functioned as a branch of
the N
azi Party
in C
zecho
slavak
ia, he w
as accepted
directly into the N
azi Party.
5.) "O
n M
arch 2
0, 1
940, B
echer w
as expelled
fro
m th
e Nazi p
arty in
a Reg
ional C
ourt o
f Honor.
(Presiding Judge w
as Dr. F
ranz Bohm
, who later becam
e P
residen
t of th
e Su
deten
deu
tsche L
and
sman
nsch
aft, w
hile D
r. Bech
er becam
e the V
ice Presid
ent.) A
t the
time, he w
as involved in legal proceedings in Dresden, in
whicn
several p
ersons w
ere senten
ced b
ecause o
f hom
osex
uality
(the o
fficial Nazi p
aper V
olk
ischer
Beo
bach
ter of Jan
uary
11, 1
940, rep
orts th
is trial in
detail)". 6.)
"Presum
ably Becher w
as taken back into the N
azi P
arty
in Ju
ne 1
940, fo
r on th
e e
nclo
sed
mem
bersh
ip card
a no
te to th
is effect can b
e seen. H
is change of residence w
as also entered in June 1940." T
he biographical dati regarding Dr. W
alter Becher,
as giv
en in
"Who's W
ho in
Germ
any", th
ird ed
ition,
1964, are: 1
.) H
e was born in K
arlsbad, October 1, 1912.
2.) S
erved in World W
ar II. Was aw
arded the Iron C
ross. 3.) W
as an editor in Prague, 1936-1938.
4.) W
as man
ager o
f Wo
rkin
g C
om
mittee fo
r P
rotection of Sudeten G
erman Interests since 1949.
*This should not be confused w
ith the Nazi
Die Z
eit, which w
as published in Prague
during the Hitler occupation. —
M.K
.
*In a footnote on page 122 of his book, H.L
. Tetens
quotes th
e same in
form
ation, an
d p
oin
ts out th
at D
ie Zeit of H
amburg obtained the inform
ation from
the U
.S. D
ocu
men
t Cen
ter in B
erlin. T
etens ad
ds:
"He later d
ropped
out an
d re-en
tered th
e party
on
Novem
ber 1
, 1938. H
e was also
a mem
ber o
f the
Nazi B
rown-S
hirts and he belonged to the National
So
cialist Stu
den
t Bu
nd
." (Th
e reader is rem
ind
ed
that N
ational S
ocialist w
as the d
eceptiv
e nam
e H
itler adopted for his political party. — M
.K.)
*The reference is to the photocopies of B
echer's Nazi
Party m
embership card. —
M.K
.
for th
e pu
blicatio
n o
f anti-S
emitic sm
ear articles in th
e pages of A
rt, Science, and E
ntertainment section of his
paper. After his involuntary, non-political, conditional
separation from the editorial position of this paper, the
anti-Jewish sm
ear ceased imm
ediately." H
erde and Maier quote from
an article definitely carrying B
echer's signature in the Nazi D
ie Zeit of M
ay 23, 1
939. B
echer's article, en
titled "L
and o
f Songs,"
says, in part (translated from G
erman):
"The b
oot w
hich
is march
ing th
rough th
e streets in
Germ
any once more, is, according to the opinion of the
hig
h ju
dg
es in th
e West, th
e alleged
sym
bo
l of th
e cu
ltura
l deg
en
era
cy
of th
e la
nd
of th
e p
oets a
nd
philosophers.
...0 whilst in P
aris as in London the artist, now
as before, is nourished by the crum
bs of salons and is much
in ev
iden
ce in th
e army o
f the u
nem
plo
yed
, Adolp
h
Hitler's G
erman
y m
arches---y
es, march
es---tow
ards a
blossoming era of cultural life ...
The S
udeten
land h
as beco
me a lan
d o
f cultu
re. O
nly the liberating action of the Fuhrer has re-aw
akened th
e innum
erable sleep
ing fo
rces, and th
us in
itiated a
cultural life in which they can reach their full effect. A
ll, that w
as suppressed by the previous alien government,
influenced by Jewish triflers, can now
be exposed to the critical judgm
ent of the public at large." H
erde an
d M
aier qu
ote also
Wo
rn an
un
sign
ed
article in Die Z
eit of Novem
ber 28, 1938, pointing out that D
r. Becher m
ust be held responsible, inasmuch as he
was then the editor of that section of the paper. It is an
especially
vicio
us tirad
e, calling fo
r the elim
inatio
n o
f H
einrich Fischer, P
rofessor Frankl, and other Jew
s from
the Czech radio broadcasting system
. In the Novem
ber 9, 1
938 issu
e of D
ie Ziet th
ere is an article b
y B
echer
callin
g fo
r "De-Je
wific
atio
n" o
f the th
eate
rs, the
schools, the professions, and of cultural life in general. In
Neu
e Kom
men
tare of M
arch 1
959, ed
itor G
eorg
H
erde summ
arized Becher's activities as cultural editor
of the Nazi D
ei Zeit (translated from
the Germ
an): "F
rom
this p
ositio
n D
r. Bech
er (as well as E
rich
Maier)* exercised such an infam
ous anti-Sem
itic baiting
"Th
e New
Germ
any
and
the O
ld N
azis", pag
es 122-124, 137.
*T
he C
om
mittee is n
ow
called th
e Ho
use In
ternal
Security C
omm
ittee.
*A copy of this book is in our possession. —
M.K
.
*Not to be confused w
ith Hans M
aier, the co-author of "T
ill Everything G
oes to Pieces."
U.S
. FA
RM
NE
WS
, Des M
oin
es, Io
wa
PA
GE
TH
RE
E
MA
RC
H, 1
973
that h
e pro
bab
ly h
as to b
e cou
nted
with
Streich
er and
R
osenberg to be mainly responsible for the propagation
of the anti-Sem
itic venom am
ong the Germ
ans." It is w
ell to em
ph
asize again
that ed
itor H
erde
refused
to retract th
is statemen
t and o
thers ab
out
Bech
er when
it was d
eman
ded
of h
im b
y B
echer's
attorn
ey.
Dr. W
alter Bech
er is a shrew
d an
d reso
urcefu
l propagandist, skilled in the art of sem
antic quibbling. He
has an uncanny ability to put sugar-coating on the most
atrocious and revolting crimes. T
wo paragraphs from
his th
ree-pag
e letter to C
ongressm
an R
alph H
arvey
will
illustrate the point: "In the first C
zechoslavak Republic I belonged to
the Sudeten G
erman P
arty, as most of m
y countrymen
did
. Th
at P
arty
fou
gh
t at th
at tim
e fo
r the se
lf determ
ination of the Sudeten G
erman people. I w
as, as a very
young m
an in
my tw
enties, fro
m 1
936 till th
e sp
ring
of 1
93
9 (u
ntil th
e time o
f the sep
aration
of th
e S
udetenland from C
zechoslovakia) editor of the cultural section of D
ie Zeit. D
uring the last years of my present
political w
ork
in G
erman
y I h
ave b
een, fro
m tim
e to
time, attack
ed b
y th
e Com
munist p
ress in C
om
munist
Czechoslovakia and the S
oviet Zone of G
ermany because
of articles in
wh
ich I p
oin
ted o
ut th
e influ
ence o
f the
Jewish people on the com
mercialization of cultural life
in Czechoslovakia of that tim
e. That w
as written before
the terrib
le hap
pen
ing
s in W
orld
War II an
d can
be
understo
od o
ut o
f the sp
ecial relations an
d d
isputes
am
ong th
e v
ario
us n
atio
nalitie
s in th
e p
re-w
ar
Czechoslovakia.
Afte
r the a
nnexatio
n o
f the S
udete
nla
nd to
G
erman
y, I w
as, tog
ether w
ith 3
00
po
litical friend
s, im
prisio
ned
by
the G
estapo
from
July
1, 1
93
9, till
Decem
ber 2
0, 1
939. T
his en
ded
also m
y w
ork
in D
ie Z
eit. I spen
t the w
ar as a sold
ier on th
e Russian
front.
Many o
f my te
achers a
nd frie
nds u
nderw
ent a
confinem
ent in concentration camps for long years."
In this exquisite bit of special pleading, Dr. B
echer ad
mits h
is mem
bersh
ip in
the S
ud
eten G
erman
Party
, w
hich
was lin
ked
to H
itler's Nazi P
arty. H
e tries to
minim
ize the gravity of this admission by pleading that
most o
f his co
untry
men
were m
embers o
f the N
azi political m
achine, and unwittingly B
echer has confirmed
the reaso
n w
hy th
e Czech
oslo
vak
Socialist R
epublic
expelled all the Sudeten G
ermans. H
. L. T
etens explains it this w
ay:* "T
he 3,000,000 Sudeten G
ermans lived in a truly
adv
anced
dem
ocratic co
un
try an
d en
joy
ed th
e same
political, cultural, and social freedoms as all the other
. .
that he was director of P
ie Zeit. W
e should have said he w
as a directo
r of D
ig,Leit o
r rather ed
itor in
charg
e of
the cultural section. The rest of his denials fly in the face
of all the documentation, and as w
e have seen, Becher is
less than careful with the facts of history.
The very courageous and brilliant anti-N
azi writer
of H
agen
, West G
erman
y, F
riedrich
Jaeger, rep
orted
*
that the following w
ere present at the Federal M
eeting of the S
udetendeutsche Landsm
annschaft on Septem
ber 19,.1959:
1.)
Dr. V
ikto
r Asch
enbren
ner. H
e was a N
azi district leader in the S
udetenland. 2.)
Ern
st Bartl. H
e was a N
azi functio
nary
and
the Nazi M
ayor of Eger.
3.) W
alter Becher. H
is credentials are known.
4.) D
r Franz B
oehm. H
e was the head of the N
azi d
istrict cou
rt of th
e Su
deten
land
. Was a co
nsu
ltant to
the N
azi leader, Konrad H
enlein. 5.)
Em
il Bre
uer. F
orm
er N
azi le
ader o
f R
eichenberg in the Sudetenland.
6.) L
oth
ar Foltin
ek. W
as form
erly a reg
ular
contributor to the Nazi D
ie Zeit. H
e is now (1961) chief
edito
r of th
e S
udetendeutsche Zeitung, in
which
he
blatan
tly u
phold
s the rig
ht o
f "Greater G
erman
y" to
have the S
udeten area of Czechoslovakia under the term
s o
f the in
famo
us M
un
ich ag
reemen
t sign
ed b
y A
do
lph
H
itler and Neville C
hamberlain.
7.) G
ustav Hacker. "A
s chairman of the F
armers
Asso
ciation
of S
ud
etenlan
d, h
e ord
ered o
n M
arch 2
2,
19
38
, the jo
inin
g o
f his asso
ciation
with
the N
azi S
udeten Germ
an Party of K
onrad Henlein, w
ho prepared the N
azi invasion of Czechoslovakia."
8.) F
ranz Karm
asin. Managing C
hairman of the
Witiko-L
eague. As previously m
entioned, Dr. B
echer was
President of the L
eague in 1956 and Karm
asin was his
Vice P
residen
t. Most o
f the p
rom
inen
t Sudeten
land
Nazis joined the W
itiko-League. P
rospective mem
bers m
ust be vouched for by two m
embers in good standing.
As m
entioned before, Karm
asin was the S
tate Secretary
of the Nazi satellite governm
ent of Slovakia and a close
collaborator of Konrad H
enlein. 9.)
Dr. H
ans N
euw
irth. H
e was a R
eichstag
m
ember of the N
azi Party.
10.) D
r. Leo
po
ld P
fitzner. H
e was a lead
ing
H
enlein functionary in Prague.
11.) L
eo S
chu
bert. H
e was S
ud
eten G
erman
leader for the state of N
orth-Rhine-W
estphalia. He also
served as a Nazi m
ember of the R
eichstag and as Vice
President of B
ohemia.
At th
is s
am
e m
eetin
g H
ans
. .
.
of N
ov
em
ber 1
95
9, K
uk
uk
is a m
em
ber o
f the
Witiko-L
eague. 9.)
Ossi B
ose. 10.)
Franz M
oldner. An old-tim
e Nazi w
ho was
even
befo
re 19
39
a Nazi m
emb
er of th
e Bru
nn
City
C
ouncil. 11.)
Rudolph W
ollner. 12.)
Grete H
artmann.
13.) H
ans Schutz.
The first n
ine m
embers, an
d p
ossib
ly also
the
tenth one, are mem
bers of the Witiko-L
eague! In view of
Dr. B
echer's p
ast Nazi reco
rd, in
view
of h
is past an
d
present association with N
azis, and in view of his neglect
to disavow H
itler ideology and anti-Sem
itism, w
e feel ju
stified in
con
clud
ing
that D
r. Walter B
echer is an
unreconstructed N
azi. H
aving laid the groundwork in 1955, D
r. Becher
was su
fficiently
prep
ared b
y 1
95
7 fo
r a massiv
e penetration of A
merican political life w
ith his pro-Nazi
ideology. In the Congressional R
ecord of July 9, 1957, pages A
5450-5451, we find that C
ongresaman A
lbert E.
Bosch of N
ew Y
ork inserted a lengthy letter which had
appeared in the New
York T
imes of June 30, 1957. T
he letter w
as written
by
Han
s Sch
uetz o
n b
ehalf o
f the
Sudetendeutsche L
andsmannschaft. It is, in the m
ain, a clev
er and sp
ecious p
lea for th
e "restoratio
n" o
f the
Sudeten G
ermans to their hom
eland. The w
riter of the letter is absolutely certain that the C
zechs will w
elcome
with
open
arms th
e return
of th
e peo
ple w
ho stab
bed
them
in the back during the Hitler era. H
e makes his plea
upon the basis of the principle of self-determination of
peo
ples en
unciated
in 1
917 b
y W
oodro
w W
ilson. H
e co
nclu
des h
is letter by callin
g u
pon th
e peo
ple o
f the
United S
tates to take the lead in such a consumm
ation, and he calls for an official declaration of policy in this respect.
Tw
o d
ays later C
ongressm
an D
aniel J. F
lood o
f P
ennsylvania placed in the Congressional R
ecord, pages A
55
67
-55
68
, a letter from
Dr. W
alter Bech
er. Dated
Ju
ly 1
, 19
57
and
timed
to reach
Wash
ing
ton
, D.C
. aro
und th
e 4th
of Ju
ly, B
echer's letter v
irtually
gush
es w
ith ad
miratio
n fo
r the p
rincip
les sym
bolized
by
Am
erican Independence Day. H
e implies that w
e have departed from
these principles and expresses the hope "that these tranditions of freedom
for men and nations
will ag
ain b
e reviv
ed in
the fu
ture as a b
eacon fo
r all freedom
-loving men of all nations."
On July 16, 1957, the late C
ongressman U
sher L.
Burd
ick, p
laced th
ree differen
t pieces o
f Bech
er's propaganda in the C
ongressional Record. T
he article on •
C/I-1
, G. m
il,
. .1
al
1,1
- —
—
1—
. —1 --1
illustrate the point: "In the first C
zechoslavak Republic I belonged to
the Sudeten G
erman P
arty, as most of m
y countrymen
did
. That P
arty
fought a
t that tim
e fo
r the se
lf determ
ination of the Sudeten G
erman people. I w
as, as a very
young
man
in m
y tw
enties, fro
m 1
936 till th
e sp
ring o
f 1939 (u
ntil th
e time o
f the sep
aration o
f the
Sudetenland from
Czechoslovakia) editor of the cultural
section of Die Z
eit. During the last years of m
y present political w
ork
in G
erman
y I h
ave b
een, fro
m tim
e to
time, attack
ed b
y th
e Co
mm
un
ist press in
Co
mm
un
ist C
zechoslovakia and the Soviet Z
one of Germ
any because o
f articles in w
hich
I po
inted
ou
t the in
fluen
ce of th
e Jew
ish people on the comm
ercialization of cultural life in C
zechoslovakia of that time. T
hat was w
ritten before th
e terrible h
app
enin
gs in
Wo
rld W
ar II and
can b
e understo
od o
ut o
f the sp
ecial relations an
d d
isputes
am
on
g th
e v
ario
us n
atio
nalitie
s in th
e p
re-w
ar
Czechoslovakia.
Afte
r the a
nnexatio
n o
f the S
udete
nla
nd to
G
erman
y, I w
as, tog
ether w
ith 3
00
po
litical friend
s, im
prisio
ned
by th
e Gestap
o fro
m Ju
ly 1
, 1939, till
Decem
ber 2
0, 1
939. T
his en
ded
also m
y w
ork
in D
ie Z
eit. I spen
t the w
ar as a sold
ier on
the R
ussian
fron
t. M
any
of m
y te
ach
ers a
nd frie
nd
s un
derw
ent a
confinem
ent in concentration camps for long years."
In this exquisite bit of special pleading, Dr. B
echer ad
mits h
is mem
bersh
ip in
the S
ud
eten G
erman
Party
, w
hich
was lin
ked
to H
itler's Nazi P
arty. H
e tries to
minim
ize the gravity of this admission by pleading that
mo
st of h
is cou
ntry
men
were m
emb
ers of th
e Nazi
political machine, and unw
ittingly Becher has confirm
ed th
e reason w
hy th
e Czech
oslo
vak
Socialist R
epublic
expelled all the Sudeten G
ermans. H
. L. T
etens explains it this w
ay:* "T
he 3,000,000 Sudeten G
ermans lived in a truly
advan
ced d
emocratic co
untry
and en
joyed
the sam
e p
olitical, cu
ltural, an
d so
cial freedo
ms as all th
e oth
er citizen
s of C
zecho
slov
akia. Y
et 92
percen
t of th
em
rallied b
ehin
d H
itler, embark
ed o
n a p
olicy
of treaso
n,
an
d v
ote
d "E
in V
olk
, ein
Reic
h, e
in F
ueh
rer".
Acco
rdin
g to
captu
red G
erman
docu
men
ts, in 1
937
Hitler decided that C
zechoslovakia "must be w
iped off th
e map
". .A y
ear later, at the h
eigh
t of th
e crisis, the
Sudeten
Germ
ans rev
olted
, help
ing to
underm
ine th
e republic, and on M
arch 15, 1939, Hitler occupied P
rague and m
ade the tiny remainder a G
erman "protectorate".
Subsequently the S
udeten Germ
ans participated in the "G
ermanization" of the country by driving the C
zechs (their neighbors for centuries) from
their homes and by
killin
g th
e Slav
ic intelleg
entsia b
y th
e thousan
ds.. .
Fro
m 1
93
9 to
19
45
several h
un
dred
tho
usan
d C
zechs
were m
urd
ered b
y th
e SS
. It was fo
r these crim
es that
the S
ud
eten G
erman
s, the ch
ief perp
etrators o
f the
tPrrn
r rprrim
p
PvrlP
llarl
frn
rn
the
en
il of
2.) E
rnst B
artl. He w
as a Nazi fu
nctio
nary
and
the N
azi Mayor of E
ger. 3.)
Walter B
echer. His credentials are know
n. 4.)
Dr F
ranz Boehm
. He w
as the head of the Nazi
district co
urt o
f the S
ud
etenlan
d. W
as a con
sultan
t to
the Nazi leader, K
onrad Henlein.
5.) E
mil B
reuer. F
orm
er N
azi le
ader o
f R
eichenberg in the Sudetenland.
6.) L
oth
ar Fo
ltinek
. Was fo
rmerly
a regu
lar contributor to the N
azi Die Z
eit. He is now
(1961) chief ed
itor o
f the S
udeten
deu
tsche Z
eitung, in
which
he
blatan
tly u
ph
old
s the rig
ht o
f "Greater G
erman
y" to
have the S
udeten area of Czechoslovakia under the term
s o
f the in
famo
us M
un
ich ag
reemen
t sign
ed b
y A
do
lph
H
itler and Neville C
hamberlain.
7.) G
ustav Hacker. "A
s chairman of the F
armers
Asso
ciation o
f Sudeten
land, h
e ord
ered o
n M
arch 2
2,
19
38
, the jo
inin
g o
f his asso
ciation
with
the N
azi S
udeten Germ
an Party of K
onrad Henlein, w
ho prepared the N
azi invasion of Czechoslovakia."
8.) F
ranz Karm
asin. Managing C
hairman of the
Witiko-L
eague. As previously m
entioned, Dr. B
echer was
President of the L
eague in 1956 and Karm
asin was his
Vice P
residen
t. Most o
f the p
rom
inen
t Sudeten
land
Nazis joined the W
itiko-League. P
rospective mem
bers m
ust be vouched for by two m
embers in good standing.
As m
entioned before, Karm
asin was the S
tate Secretary
of the Nazi satellite governm
ent of Slovakia and a close
collaborator of Konrad H
enlein. 9.)
Dr. H
ans N
euw
irth. H
e was a R
eichstag
m
ember of the N
azi Party.
10.) D
r. Leo
po
ld P
fitzner. H
e was a lead
ing
H
enlein functionary in Prague.
11.) L
eo S
chubert. H
e was S
udeten
Germ
an
leader for the state of North-R
hine-Westphalia. H
e also served as a N
azi mem
ber of the Reichstag and as V
ice P
resident of Bohem
ia. A
t t
his s
am
e m
eeting H
ans
Christo
ph S
eebohm
, the W
est Germ
an T
ransp
ort
Min
ister, was elected
Sp
eaker o
f the S
ud
etend
eutsch
e L
andsm
annsc
haft. F
riedric
h Ja
eger re
ports: "H
e
enrich
ed h
imself d
urin
g th
e Nazi d
ictatorsh
ip b
y
`Aryanizing' Jew
ish property and amalgam
ating factories seized in C
zechoslovakia into the Egerlaender M
ining Co.
Durin
g th
e war h
e cooperated
closely
as a min
eral oil
producer with H
ermann G
oering's Air M
inistry." If it is tru
e, as the o
ld saw
go
es, that b
irds o
f a feather flock together, D
r. Becher's protestations seem
very
hollo
w, in
the lig
ht o
f his p
ast a
nd p
rese
nt
associatio
ns. W
hat is ev
en m
ore rem
arkab
le is the
affected air o
f naiv
ete' with
wh
ich B
echer relates th
e follow
ing in his letter to Congressm
an Ralph H
arvey: "1 am
no
w S
ecretary G
eneral o
f the S
ud
eten G
erman
C
ouncil, w
hic
h th
e fo
reig
n p
olic
y fo
rum
of th
e
present association with N
azis, and in view of his neglect
to disavow H
itler ideology and anti-Sem
itism, w
e feel ju
stified in
con
clud
ing
that D
r. Walter B
echer is an
unreconstructed N
azi. H
aving laid the groundwork in 1955, D
r. Becher
was su
fficiently
prep
ared b
y 1
957 fo
r a massiv
e penetration of A
merican political life w
ith his pro-Nazi
ideology. In the Congressional R
ecord of July 9, 1957, pages A
5450-5451, we find that C
ongresaman A
lbert E.
Bosch of N
ew Y
ork inserted a lengthy letter which had
appeared in the New
York T
imes of June 30, 1957. T
he letter w
as written
by
Han
s Sch
uetz o
n b
ehalf o
f the
Sudetendeutsche L
andsmannschaft. It is, in the m
ain, a clev
er and sp
ecious p
lea for th
e "restoratio
n" o
f the
Sudeten G
ermans to their hom
eland. The w
riter of the letter is absolutely certain that the C
zechs will w
elcome
with
open
arms th
e return
of th
e peo
ple w
ho stab
bed
them
in the back during the Hitler era. H
e makes his plea
upon the basis of the principle of self-determination of
peo
ples en
unciated
in 1
917 b
y W
oodro
w W
ilson. H
e co
nclu
des h
is letter by callin
g u
pon th
e peo
ple o
f the
United S
tates to take the lead in such a consumm
ation, and he calls for an official declaration of policy in this respect.
Tw
o d
ays later C
ongressm
an D
aniel J. F
lood o
f P
ennsylvania placed in the Congressional R
ecord, pages A
55
67
-55
68
, a letter from
Dr. W
alter Bech
er. Dated
Ju
ly 1
, 19
57
and
timed
to reach
Wash
ing
ton
, D.C
. aro
und th
e 4th
of Ju
ly, B
echer's letter v
irtually
gush
es w
ith ad
miratio
n fo
r the p
rincip
les sym
bo
lized b
y
Am
erican Independence Day. H
e implies that w
e have departed from
these principles and expresses the hope "that these tranditions of freedom
for men and nations
will ag
ain b
e reviv
ed in
the fu
ture as a b
eacon
for all
freedom-loving m
en of all nations." O
n July 16, 1957, the late Congressm
an Usher L
. B
urd
ick, p
laced th
ree differen
t pieces o
f Bech
er's propaganda in the C
ongressional Record. T
he article on pages A
5696-5697 sounds exactly like the ideological pyro
technics th
at started to
com
e a year later in
the
"Blu
e Bo
ok
" of th
e Birch
So
ciety an
d its m
on
thly
m
agazin
e, Am
erican. O
pin
ion
. Th
e article starts by
b
emo
anin
g "th
e lon
g y
ears' traditio
n o
f illusio
ns in
A
merica" and then adds: "B
ut it is also no wonder that
another policy, a policy 100 percent opposite to treason and naive illusions, a m
anly, intelligent policy, originated in A
merica. It is the policy of intelligence, of patriotism
, o
f reason
--the p
olicy
of lib
eration
." Th
e article nam
es so
me o
f the p
rom
inen
t Am
ericans co
nsid
ered as
exp
on
ents o
f "the p
olicy
of lib
eration
". Am
on
g th
em
are General D
ouglas MacA
rthur, the late Senator R
obert A
. Taft, form
er Congressm
an Charles J. K
ersten, the late S
enato
r Josep
h M
cCarth
y, C
on
gressm
an U
sher L
. B
urdick, and Congressm
an CarrollR
eece. We are also
info
rme
d b
y th
is a
rtirlP th
at a
Prim
o o
f Am
eric
an
s
I illlICU
1/C
1111111 IL
tlel e111oal K
CL
L U
ll a pulley
tJ1
iteason,
an
d v
ote
d "E
in V
olk
, ein
Reic
h, e
in F
ueh
rer".
Acco
rdin
g to
captu
red G
erman
do
cum
ents, in
19
37
H
itler decided that Czechoslovakia "m
ust be wiped off
the m
ap". .A
year later, at th
e heig
ht o
f the crisis, th
e S
udeten
Germ
ans rev
olted
, help
ing to
underm
ine th
e republic, and on M
arch 15, 1939, Hitler occupied P
rague an
d m
ade th
e tiny
remain
der a G
erman
"pro
tectorate".
Su
bseq
uen
tly th
e Su
deten
Germ
ans p
articipated
in th
e "G
erman
ization
" of th
e cou
ntry
by
driv
ing
the C
zechs
(their neighbors for centuries) from their hom
es and by k
illing
the S
lavic in
tellegen
tsia by
the th
ou
sand
s.. . F
rom
1939 to
1945 sev
eral hundred
thousan
d C
zechs
were m
urd
ered b
y th
e SS
. It was fo
r these crim
es that
the S
ud
eten G
erman
s, the ch
ief perp
etrators o
f the
terro
r reg
ime, w
ere
ex
pelle
d fro
m th
e so
il of
Czechoslovakia."
Mr. T
etens' summ
ary is, of course, historically accurate an
d is su
pp
orted
by
all the av
ailable ev
iden
ce. Bu
t Dr.
Bech
er contin
ually
falsifies histo
ry an
d w
ork
s his
followers up to hysterical levels by his frenzied appeals
for their "rights" to the former hom
eland. The treachery
of th
e Su
deten
Germ
ans, u
nd
er the lead
ership
of th
e S
udeten Germ
an Party, becom
es, in Becher's lexicon, a
figh
t for "self-d
etermin
ation
". His u
gly
anti-S
emitic
disquisitions become the pointing out of "the influence
of th
e Jewish
peo
ple o
n th
e com
mercializatio
n o
f cultural life in C
zechoslovakia of that time". H
is role as a w
ar correspondent for Goebbels P
ropaganda Ministry
and for the Wehrm
acht becomes the role of a "soldier on
the Russian front". W
hen
Bech
er tells of h
is confin
emen
t by th
e G
estapo from July 1 till D
ecember 20, 1939, he forgets
to mention that he w
as released by the Gestapo because
he was considered useful to the N
azi political apparatus, w
hile h
is man
y teach
ers and frien
ds "u
nderw
ent a
confin
emen
t in co
ncen
tration cam
ps fo
r long y
ears". B
echer fa
ils to e
xpla
in w
hy h
e w
as g
iven „
such
com
parativ
ely m
ild treatm
ent. A
nd w
hen
he ex
plain
s th
at th
is en
ded
his c
are
er o
n D
ie Z
eit, h
e fa
ils to
mention his expulsion from
the Nazi P
arty four months •
after his release fro
m G
estapo co
nfin
emen
t, after a session in a R
egional Court of H
onor. (Tw
o months later
he was allow
ed to rejoin the Nazi P
arty.) In his letter to C
ongressman R
alph Harvey, B
echer denies he w
as ever a mem
ber of the Nazi P
arty, denies he w
as ever a lead
er or a m
ember o
f the S
torm
Tro
opers,
and d
enies h
e was d
irector o
f Die Z
eit. For th
e last denial, B
echer has a slight technical justification, because a m
ino
r erro
r in tra
nsla
tion
of th
e v
olu
min
ou
s assortm
ent of Germ
an documents resulted in our charge
"The N
ew G
ermany and the O
ld Nazis"
minister,
was eiectea ,3
peax
er 01
me au
ucten
ueu
tscae L
andsm
annsch
aft. Fried
rich Jaeg
er reports: "H
e en
riched
him
self durin
g th
e Nazi d
ictatorsh
ip b
y
`Aryanizing' Jew
ish property and amalgam
ating factories seized in C
zechoslovakia into the Egerlaender M
ining Co.
Du
ring
the w
ar he co
op
erated clo
sely as a m
ineral o
il producer w
ith Herm
ann Goering's A
ir Ministry."
If it is true, as th
e old
saw g
oes, th
at bird
s of a
feather flock together, Dr. B
echer's protestations seem
very
ho
llow
, in th
e lig
ht o
f his p
ast a
nd
pre
sen
t asso
ciations. W
hat is ev
en m
ore rem
arkab
le is the
affected air o
f naiv
ete' with
which
Bech
er relates the
following in his letter to C
ongressman R
alph Harvey: "I
am n
ow
Secretary
Gen
eral of th
e Sudeten
Germ
an
Council, w
hic
h th
e fo
reig
n p
olic
y fo
rum
of th
e
Sudeten G
ermans in the F
ederal Republic of G
ermany
and whose C
hairmen are W
est Germ
an Federal M
inister o
f Traffic D
r. Ing
. Han
s-Ch
ristop
h S
eebo
hm
and
the
State M
inister fo
r Lab
or an
d S
ocial C
are Mr. H
ans
Schutz. I am
also Vice C
hairmen of the S
udeten Germ
an L
and
sman
nsch
aft." Wh
at Dr. B
echer left o
ut o
f his
description of Seebohm
is his Nazi past, w
hich we have
describ
ed ab
ov
e. Bech
er alway
s describ
es his N
azi associates as honorable gentlem
en who w
ouldn't harm a
fly. T
hat th
e lapse o
f time h
as caused
Dr. B
echer to
disassociate him
self from his N
azi past is disproves by th
e list of th
e 1966 d
irectors o
f the S
udeten
deu
tsche
Landsm
annschaft, which follow
s: 1
.) D
r. Franz B
oehm, w
hose past Nazi record w
e have already described.
2.) D
r. Walter B
echer. 3.)
Dr. W
alter Brand. F
ormer C
ollaborator with
Konrad
Hen
lein, fo
rmer lead
er of th
e Sto
rm T
roopers,
and reportedly jailed during the Nazi regim
e as "Youth
Sed
ucer." T
he N
azi pap
er, Vo
lkisch
er Beo
bach
ter of
January 11, 1940 designed him as a "crim
inal." 4.)
Dr. V
ikter Aschenbrenner. W
e have previously given his N
azi record. 5.)
Dr. F
ranz O
hm
an. F
orm
er collab
orato
r with
th
e Gestap
o in
Prag
ue, w
ith d
ecisive in
fluen
ce on
the
fate of Jews and political opponents of the N
azis. 6
.), Dr. Jo
sef Do
mab
yl. F
orm
er leadin
g N
azi fu
nctio
nary
in P
rague an
d activ
e in th
e so-called
P
rotectorate Adm
inistration. 7.)
Dr. H
an
s S
ch
ob
er. A
cco
rdin
g to
W
itiko-Messenger of A
ugust 1959, Kukuk is a m
ember
of the Witiko-L
eague. 8.)
Erich K
ukuk. According to W
itiko-Messenger
*Article in the January 1961 issue of the now
defunct, T
he Californian m
agazine.
vL
cka
mik
..a
Llla
t JL
ai L
.0 L
U
t..A...ata. a y
la
tU
l III /I IV
"Blu
e Book" o
f the B
irch S
ociety
and its m
onth
ly
magazine, A
mericana O
pinion. The a
rticle
starts b
y
bem
oan
ing
"the lo
ng
years' trad
ition
of illu
sion
s in
Am
erica" and then adds: "But it is also no w
onder that another policy, a policy 100 percent opposite to treason and naive illusions, a m
anly, intelligent policy, originated in A
merica. It is the policy of intelligence, of patriotism
, of reason--the policy of liberation." T
he article names
som
e of th
e pro
min
ent A
merican
s consid
ered as
exp
on
ents o
f "the p
olicy
of lib
eration
". Am
on
g th
em
are General D
ouglas MacA
rthur, the late Senator R
obert A
. Taft, form
er Congressm
an Charles J. K
ersten, the late S
enato
r Josep
h M
cCarth
y, C
ongressm
an U
sher L
. B
urdick, and Congressm
an CarrollR
eece. We are also
info
rmed
by th
is article that a g
roup o
f Am
ericans
form
ed th
e Citizen
s Fo
reign
Relatio
ns C
om
mittee o
n
February 11, 1957 and published "A
Program
to Govern
Our F
oreign Policy" in the N
ew Y
ork Tim
es of February
28
, 19
55
. Th
e a
rticle
tells u
s that th
is pro
gra
m
represen
ts "the p
olicy
of lib
eration". A
mong th
e m
embers of the com
mittee w
ere General W
illoughby, G
eneral Wedem
eyer, General S
tratemeyer, A
mbassador
Crom
well, C
ongressman- Jackson, C
ongressman G
winn,
Congressm
an L. H
. Sm
ith, Congressm
an W. S
mith, D
ean C
larence Manion, R
obert E. V
ogeler, Adolphe M
enjou and others.
We a
re to
ld th
at "th
e p
olic
y o
f libera
tion"
embodies 17 proposals, w
hich are then listed. We quote
or summ
arize the most essential ones:
1.)
An extrem
ely strong air force, guided missiles,
and atomic w
eapons "which could attack R
ussia directly in her cities and factories."
2.) "C
om
plete ex
termin
ation
of C
om
mu
nist
sub
versiv
e activities an
d o
f the secret C
om
mu
nist
conspiracy in Am
erica and in the West."
3.) B
reakin
g o
f dip
lom
atic relations w
ith th
e S
oviet U
nio
n an
d th
e rest of th
e Com
munist-b
lock
countries.
4.) A
10
0%
co
no
mic
blo
ck
ad
e o
f all th
e
cou
ntries in
the C
om
mu
nist-b
loc an
d o
f any
neu
tral country that trades w
ith the Com
munists.
5.) "R
ecognitio
n o
f exile g
overn
men
t of th
e refugees and expellees" and
6.) "F
orm
atio
n o
f natio
nal m
ilitary
un
its com
posed of refugees. ...' 1
0.) "A
meric
an
an
d W
este
rn p
olic
y to
be
adju
sted to
moral law
s, Christian
ity, an
d en
lighten
ed
nationalism of every nation."
Th
e final an
d sev
enteen
th p
oin
t is the u
sual
coverup: that all these recomm
ended acts of provocation are in
tended
only
to p
reven
t war! T
he A
merican
g
entlem
en w
ho
adv
ocate su
ch a p
rog
ram receiv
e
U.S
. FA
RM
NE
WS
, Des M
oin
es, Iow
a M
AR
CH
, 1973 P
AG
E F
OU
R
unstin
ted p
raise from
the N
azis, becau
se they
are ad
vocatin
g a b
luep
rint fo
r Fascism
and a th
ird w
orld
w
ar. T
he second item, placed on pages A
5725-5726 of th
e C
ongre
ssional R
ecord
of th
e sa
me d
ay b
y
Congressm
an B
urd
ick, is an
article which
he d
eclared
had
been
received
from
Dr. B
echer. It is en
titled "T
he
Policy of Illusions and the P
olicy of Liberation". It is a
thinly disguised argument that peaceful coexistence w
ith the C
omm
unist-bloc nations constitutes treason, and he co
nclu
des: "In
the fu
ture, w
e will h
ave to
pay
perh
aps
by our lives for this treason; by millions of lives." In his
intro
ducto
ry rem
arks, C
ongressm
an U
sher L
. Burd
ick
expounded the Becher-H
itler "Lebensraum
" doctrine in this m
anner: "T
he Sudeten G
ermans now
want to return to their
hom
eland in
freedom
, and to
live th
ere under th
e full
right o
f self-determ
inatio
n as n
eighbors o
f the C
zech
people. They w
ant to contribute to the liberation of the enslaved nations in the E
ast, to the Czech people, and to
the fight for survival of the free world."
The third item
, placed in the Record on the sam
e day
, pag
es A5729-5
730, is en
titled, "T
he S
udeten
G
erm
ans: T
he P
olic
ies o
f Reaso
n, M
ora
le, a
nd
Lib
eration in
the A
bolish
men
t of W
ar." It is more o
f B
echer's glittering generalities, by which he attem
pts to pro
ve th
at F
asc
ism m
eans p
eace a
nd fre
edom
. C
ongressman B
urdick distinguished himself not only by
placing Nazi propaganda in the C
ongressional Record,
but he also placed in the Record on June 13, 1957 tw
o pro
pag
anda item
s that o
rigin
ated w
ith an
indig
enous
Clerical-F
ascist propagandist. The first item
is entitled "B
eware of P
sychiatrists", in which B
urdick claims that
Stalin had ordered frontal lobotom
ies performed on 10
million slaves or prisoners. T
his canard is then bolstered by a q
uotatio
n fro
m a sp
eech alleg
edly
deliv
ered b
y
Lavrentia B
eria, Stalin's chief of the secret police. T
he seco
nd item
is entitled
"Com
munist B
rainw
ashin
g fo
r A
mericans". W
ith a short preface by Burdick, the rest of
this presentation is the entire speech allegedly delivered by R
ena to
a gro
up o
f Am
erican stu
den
ts at Len
in
University. B
urdick obtained this alleged speech from a
booklet p
ublish
ed b
y th
e late Rev
. Ken
neth
Goff,
form
er hen
chm
an o
f hate-m
onger G
erald L
. K. S
mith
and subsequently the operator of S
oldiers of the Cross, a
para-military F
ascistic group with religious overtones.
The booklet is entitled B
rainwashing: A
Synthesis of the
Russian T
extbook on Psycho-politics. T
he whole thing is
a vulgar imitation of the P
rotocols of the Learned E
lders of Z
ion. T
he fo
rmer B
irchite C
ongressm
an, E
dgar W
. H
iestand, placed similar quotations from
this fraudulent 1".c. -.4
+1
,. 1
A
1C
........4
som
ethin
g "w
hich
form
erly w
as carelessly k
now
n as
com
munism
". He calls it "th
e great in
ternatio
nal
FO
RC
E". T
he Force X
hoax finally completed its period
of gestation in Ultra-R
ightist circles and had its birth in th
e pag
es of A
merican
Opin
ion o
f March
1964. T
he
obstetrician
in atten
dan
ce at this h
appy ev
ent w
as the
inimitable P
rofessor Revilo P
. Oliver (w
hose first name
spelled backwards equals his last nam
e, and vice versa).* B
esides reg
aling h
is readers w
ith tales o
f consp
iracies w
hich
rival th
e mysteries o
f Edgar A
llen P
oe, th
e pro
fessor d
iscloses th
at part o
f his in
spiratio
n fo
r his
Forc
e X
theorie
s com
es fro
m "a
report th
at th
e
Honorab
le Tim
oth
y P
. Sheeh
an read
to th
e House o
f R
epresen
tatives o
n A
ugust 5
, 1957". T
hen
Oliv
er sum
mariz
es th
e "
docum
ent"
of B
echer's
S
udetendeutsche Landsm
annschaft in this fashion: "T
he kernel of this long and circumstantial report is
that, superior to Khrushchev and sim
ilar administrators,
and su
perio
r'even
to th
e Secret P
olice, is an
oth
er and
more select organization of truly international scope, the
Com
munist S
ecurity
Syste
m (C
SS
), whic
h h
as
penetrated and controls even the Secret P
olice." A
Birch
Society
theo
retician can
not b
e expected
to
be sa
tisfied w
ith o
ne c
onsp
irato
rial h
oax.
Accordingly, the professor asks: "B
ut if the CS
S is the
contro
lling o
rgan
ism, w
e hav
e merely
push
ed th
e ultim
ate questio
n o
ne step
farther b
ack. W
ho co
ntro
ls the C
SS
;" Putting on his best pair of gum
shoes, Oliver
beg
ins h
is investig
ation w
ith
the Illu
min
ati and
speculates about "Force X
," Satanists, "B
ilderbergers," Z
ionists, P
harise
es, K
hazars, F
abia
n S
ocia
lists, In
ternatio
nal B
ankers, R
ock
efellers, Roth
schild
s, or a
gang of otherwise unidentified "m
essianic materialists."
Am
ong th
e five p
ossib
le ded
uctio
ns fro
m all th
e available data, avers our investigator, is that the F
orce X
may be: "A
n inner circle, comparable to, if not identical
with, the C
omm
unist Security S
ystem."
The final refinem
ent of the Force X
doctrine and its co
un
terpart, B
echer's C
om
mu
nist S
ecurity
Sy
stem
hoax
, was u
nveiled
by th
e maestro
him
self in th
e N
ovem
ber 1
966 A
merican
Opin
ion. In
a long essay
, R
obert W
elch traces th
e main
curren
ts of so
cial and
political phenomena during the past tw
o hundred years to
a secret consp
iratorial g
roup th
at he calls T
HE
IN
SID
ER
S.
On A
ugust 22, 1957, Congressm
an Law
rence H.
Sm
ith of Wisconsin placed in the .C
ongressional Record a
long essay by Dr. W
alter Becher, w
hich asserts that the econom
ic system in every C
omm
unist country has failed an
d co
nclu
des w
ith a th
inly
disg
uised
call for a w
ar of
annhilation against the Com
munist-bloc nations.
Becher concludes w
ith this: "I w
ould
greatly
appreciate if y
ou m
ost k
indly
w
ould
put th
e enclo
sed tran
slated m
aterial into
the
Record."
In other words, B
echer expects to use and does use th
e Congressio
nal R
ecord
for th
e dissem
inatio
n o
f pro
-Nazi p
ropag
anda at th
e expen
se of th
e Am
erican
taxpayers. F
rom
the C
ongre
ssional R
ecord
it is reproduced by our indigenous pro-F
ascist groups, who
then
quote it as co
min
g "fro
m th
e Congressio
nal
Record", thus giving it a sort of im
primatur of the U
.S.
Governm
ent. In M
ay 1961, Dr. B
echer visited Washington, D
.C.
and p
ersuad
ed C
ongressm
an R
oy A
. Tay
lor (N
orth
C
arolin
a), Morg
an M
. Mould
er (Montan
a), Gord
on H
. S
cherer (Ohio), and H
enry C. S
chadeberg (Wisconsin) to
fly b
ack to
Germ
any w
ith h
im a
nd ta
ke p
art in
a
celebratio
n o
f Sudeten
Germ
an D
ay 1
961 h
eld in
C
olo
gne M
ay 1
9-2
2 b
y th
e S
udete
ndeutsc
he
Lan
dsm
ann
schaft. M
ou
lder, S
cherer, an
d S
chad
eberg
w
ere mem
bers o
f the H
ouse U
n-A
merican
Activ
ities C
om
mittee. A
pparen
tly th
eir "Am
ericanism
" does n
ot
conflict w
ith th
e pro
-Nazi p
hilo
sophical p
ostu
re of
Bech
er and th
e Sudeten
deu
tsche L
andsm
annsch
aft. M
ore than sixty mem
bers of Congress sent telegram
s of co
ngratu
lation th
at were read
at the rally
. The list
inclu
ded
Sen
ators D
odd (C
onnecticu
t), Gold
water
(Arizo
na), T
almad
ge (G
eorg
ia), Sch
oep
pel (K
ansas),
Ben
nett (U
tah), M
orto
n (K
entu
cky), M
undt (S
outh
D
akota), S
trom
Thurm
ond (S
outh
Caro
lina); an
d
Birchite C
ongressman John J. R
ousselot. Congressm
an S
cherer, w
ho w
as a vig
oro
us m
ember o
f the H
ouse
Un-A
merican A
ctivities Com
mittee, said in his telegram
: "W
e h
ave a
com
mon g
oal. . .a
nti-C
om
munist
organizations like yours and those in the United S
tates sh
ould
get m
ore m
oney
.. ." A
few
days b
efo
re 4
th o
f July
of 1
962 b
oth
G
eorg
e Brad
a and D
r. Walter B
echer sen
t letters to
mem
bers of Congress. It seem
s that only Congressm
an A
lbert H. Q
uie of Minnesota carried the ball for B
echer in 1962, because only he placed both of these letters in th
e Congressio
nal R
ecord
of Ju
ly 2
. Brad
a's letter expressed the usual gushy, glittering generalities about Ju
ly 4
th a
nd e
xpre
ssed th
e firm
hope th
at "R
ed
extortion" and the aim of the "international C
omm
unist conspiracy" to rem
ove Dr. A
denauer's party from pow
er "w
ill be thwarted by the w
ork of Am
erican statesmen in
the U.S
. Congress". B
echer's letter backs up Brada, and
pred
icts that th
e defeat o
f the aim
s of th
e alleged
co
nsp
iracy "w
ill be d
ue to
the w
ork
of th
e patrio
tic A
mericans and the real statesm
en in the U.S
. Congress".
expounded the Becher-H
itler "Lebensraum
" doctrine in this m
anner: "T
he Sudeten G
ermans now
want to return to their
hom
eland in
freedom
, and to
live th
ere under th
e full
right o
f self-determ
inatio
n as n
eighbors o
f the C
zech
people. They w
ant to contribute to the liberation of the enslaved nations in the E
ast, to the Czech people, and to
the fight for survival of the free world."
The third item
, placed in the Record on the sam
e day
, pag
es A5729-5
730, is en
titled, "T
he S
udeten
G
erm
an
s: Th
e P
olic
ies o
f Reaso
n, M
ora
le, a
nd
L
iberatio
n in
the A
bolish
men
t of W
ar." It is more o
f B
echer's glittering generalities, by which he attem
pts to pro
ve th
at F
asc
ism m
eans p
eace a
nd fre
edom
. C
ongressman B
urdick distinguished himself not only by
placing Nazi propaganda in the C
ongressional Record,
but h
e also p
laced in
the R
ecord
on Ju
ne 1
3, 1
957 tw
o
pro
pag
and
a items th
at orig
inated
with
an in
dig
eno
us
Clerical-F
ascist propagandist. The first item
is entitled "B
eware of P
sychiatrists", in which B
urdick claims that
Stalin had ordered frontal lobotom
ies performed on 10
million slaves or prisoners. T
his canard is then bolstered b
y a q
uo
tation
from
a speech
alleged
ly d
elivered
by
L
avrentia Beria, S
talin's chief of the secret police. The
second item
is entitled
"Com
munist B
rainw
ashin
g fo
r A
mericans". W
ith a short preface by Burdick, the rest of
this presentation is the entire speech allegedly delivered b
y B
eria to a g
rou
p o
f Am
erican stu
den
ts at Len
in
University. B
urdick obtained this alleged speech from a
booklet p
ublish
ed b
y th
e late Rev
. Ken
neth
Goff,
form
er hen
chm
an o
f hate-m
onger G
erald L
. K. S
mith
and subsequently the operator of Soldiers of the C
ross, a para-m
ilitary F
ascistic gro
up w
ith relig
ious o
verto
nes.
The booklet is entitled B
rainwashing: A
Synthesis of the R
ussian Textbook on P
sycho-politics. The w
hole thing is a vulgar im
itation of the Protocols of the L
earned Elders
of Z
ion
. Th
e form
er Birch
ite Co
ng
ressman
, Ed
gar W
. H
iestand, placed similar quotations from
this fraudulent book in the C
ongressional Record of A
ugust 14, 15 and 21. H
iestand got his material second-hand by quoting a
series of columns w
ritten by the Right-W
ing columnist,
Geo
rge T
odt. T
his m
aterial crops u
p w
hen
ever th
e U
ltra-Rig
htists m
ou
nt an
attack o
n an
y attem
pt to
institute a m
ental health program.
On A
ugust 5
, 1957, C
ongressm
an T
imoth
y P
. S
heehan o
f Illinois fille
d so
me fo
ur p
ages o
f the
Co
ng
ression
al Reco
rd (1
36
81
-13
68
5) w
ith a sh
ort
speech of his own and a docum
ent he admitted receiving
from
Dr. B
echer a
nd th
e S
udete
ndeuts
che
Lan
dsm
annsch
aft. Sheeh
an d
escribes B
echer's o
utfit
with these w
ords: "This association has certainly been
pro-Am
erican and is leading every effort to fight against th
e Russian
Com
munist in
vad
ers of th
eir hom
eland."
That the C
zechoslovak people are in possession of the
...■-••Lv
a. al tiv
"L.), a
u
ltGG
lla11 1
GaU
Lk" L
IIC 1
1u
usG
Vi
Rep
resentativ
es on A
ugust 5
, 1957". T
hen
Oliv
er sum
mariz
es th
e "
docum
ent"
of B
echer's
S
udetendeutsche Landsm
annschaft in this fashion: "T
he kernel of this long and circumstantial report is
that, superior to Khrushchev and sim
ilar administrators,
and
sup
erior'ev
en to
the S
ecret Po
lice, is ano
ther an
d
more select organization of truly international scope, the
Co
mm
un
ist Secu
rity S
yste
m (C
SS
), wh
ich
has
penetrated and controls even the Secret P
olice." A
Birch
Society
theo
retician can
not b
e expected
to
be sa
tisfied w
ith o
ne c
onsp
irato
rial h
oax.
Accordingly, the professor asks: "B
ut if the CS
S is the
con
trollin
g o
rgan
ism, w
e hav
e merely
pu
shed
the
ultim
ate qu
estion
on
e step farth
er back
. Wh
o co
ntro
ls the C
SS
;" Putting on his best pair of gum
shoes, Oliver
beg
ins h
is inv
estigatio
n w
ith
the Illu
min
ati and
speculates about "F
orce X," S
atanists, "Bilderbergers,"
Zio
nists, P
harise
es, K
hazars, F
ab
ian
So
cia
lists, In
ternatio
nal B
ank
ers, Ro
ckefellers, R
oth
schild
s, or a
gang of otherwise unidentified "m
essianic materialists."
Am
ong th
e five p
ossib
le ded
uctio
ns fro
m all th
e available data, avers our investigator, is that the F
orce X
may be: "A
n inner circle, comparable to, if not identical
with, the C
omm
unist Security S
ystem."
Th
e final refin
emen
t of th
e Fo
rce X d
octrin
e and
its co
unterp
art, Bech
er's Com
munist S
ecurity
System
hoax
, was u
nveiled
by th
e maestro
him
self in th
e N
ovember 1966
Am
erican Opinion. In
a lo
ng e
ssay,
Ro
bert W
elch traces th
e main
curren
ts of so
cial and
political phenom
ena during the past two hundred years
to a secret co
nsp
iratorial g
roup th
at he calls T
HE
IN
SID
ER
S.
On A
ugust 2
2, 1
957, C
ongressm
an L
awren
ce H.
Sm
ith of Wisconsin placed in the .C
ongressional Record a
long essay by Dr. W
alter Becher, w
hich asserts that the econom
ic system in every C
omm
unist country has failed an
d co
nclu
des w
ith a th
inly
disg
uised
call for a w
ar of
annhilation against the Com
munist-bloc nations.
On F
ebru
ary 1
8, 1
958, C
ongressm
an A
lbert H
. B
osch of New
York placed in the R
ecord a long article by D
r. Walter B
echer d
ealing w
ith th
e "Com
munist
Syste
m o
f Secre
t Polic
e". O
n M
arc
h 2
0, 1
958,
Congressm
an Jo
hn R
. Pillio
n o
f New
York
told
the
House of R
epresentatives that he had been a mem
ber of a d
elegatio
n th
at visited
West G
erman
y in
the fall o
f 1957, w
here he had met and conferred w
ith Dr. W
alter B
echer. After giving a buildup for B
echer, Congressm
an P
illion placed in the Record a B
echer essay inveighing against any trade w
ith the Com
munist-bloc nations.
On M
ay 1
4, 1
958, C
ongressm
an T
imoth
y P
. S
heeh
an o
f Illinois filled
almost 2
1/2
pag
es of th
e C
ongressio
nal R
ecord
with
an essay
by D
r. Walter
Bech
er, to su
pplem
ent th
e longer essay
placed
in th
e R
ecord
on A
ugust 5
, 1957 b
y S
heeh
an o
n b
ehalf o
f
111 m
ay
17
01
, Vl. D
eciie
r visueu w
asningron, an
d p
ersuad
ed C
ongressm
an R
oy A
. Tay
lor (N
orth
C
arolina), Morgan M
. Moulder (M
ontana), Gordon H
. S
cherer (Ohio), and H
enry C. S
chadeberg (Wisconsin) to
fly b
ack to
Germ
any w
ith h
im an
d tak
e part in
a celeb
ration o
f Sudeten
Germ
an D
ay 1
961 h
eld in
C
olo
gne M
ay 1
9-2
2 b
y th
e S
udete
ndeutsc
he
Lan
dsm
ann
schaft. M
ou
lder, S
cherer, an
d S
chad
eberg
w
ere mem
bers o
f the H
ou
se Un
-Am
erican A
ctivities
Com
mittee. A
pparently their "Am
ericanism" does not
conflict w
ith th
e pro
-Nazi p
hilo
sophical p
ostu
re of
Bech
er and
the S
ud
etend
eutsch
e Lan
dsm
ann
schaft.
More than sixty m
embers of C
ongress sent telegrams of
con
gratu
lation
that w
ere read at th
e rally. T
he list
inclu
ded
Sen
ators D
odd (C
onnecticu
t), Gold
water
(Arizo
na), T
almad
ge (G
eorg
ia), Sch
oep
pel (K
ansas),
Ben
nett (U
tah), M
orto
n (K
entu
cky), M
undt (S
outh
D
ako
ta), Stro
m T
hu
rmo
nd
(So
uth
Caro
lina); an
d
Birchite C
ongressman John J. R
ousselot. Congressm
an S
cherer, w
ho
was a v
igo
rou
s mem
ber o
f the H
ou
se U
n-Am
erican Activities C
omm
ittee, said in his telegram:
"We h
ave a
com
mon g
oal. . .a
nti-C
om
munist
organizations like yours and those in the United S
tates sh
ould
get m
ore m
oney
.. ." A
few
day
s befo
re 4
th o
f July
of 1
96
2 b
oth
G
eorg
e Brad
a and D
r. Walter B
echer sen
t letters to
mem
bers of Congress. It seem
s that only Congressm
an A
lbert H. Q
uie of Minnesota carried the ball for B
echer in 1962, because only he placed both of these letters in th
e Congressio
nal R
ecord
of Ju
ly 2
. Brad
a's letter expressed the usual gushy, glittering generalities about Ju
ly 4
th a
nd
ex
pre
ssed
the firm
ho
pe th
at "R
ed
extortion" and the aim
of the "international Com
munist
conspiracy" to remove D
r. Adenauer's party from
power
"will be thw
arted by the work of A
merican statesm
en in the U
.S. C
ongress". Becher's letter backs up B
rada, and p
redicts th
at the d
efeat of th
e aims o
f the alleg
ed
con
spiracy
"will b
e du
e to th
e wo
rk o
f the p
atriotic
Am
ericans and the real statesmen in the U
.S. C
ongress". O
n July 2, 1963, Congressm
an Don H
. Clausen of
California placed D
r. Becher's 4th of July m
essage in the C
ongressional Record. P
art of it consists of a letter from
Becher thanking him
for the message he had sent to that
year's S
ud
etan G
erman
Day
rally. In
part, it read
s: "Y
our words w
ere made know
n to the Sudeten G
erman
people for whom
they are a great encouragement." T
his is precisely the point of B
echer's political strategy. He
has built up an image of him
self as having the support of m
ost o
f the U
.S. C
on
gress, an
d to
this ex
tent ev
ery
mem
ber of Congress, w
ho sends a greeting to Sudeten
Germ
an Day, contributes to building up the influence of
the n
eo-N
azi movem
ent. B
echer rep
orts fu
rther in
his
letter to C
ongressm
an C
lausen
that 4
00,0
00 p
eople
attended the 1963 rally. T
he 4th of July message in 1964 w
as placed in the
.1.
iiicata
itu g
ut
MS
IIIa L
CIia
l JU
LA
JU
U-1
/cU
al U
y quoting a
series of columns w
ritten by the Right-W
ing columnist,
Geo
rge T
od
t. This m
aterial crop
s up
wh
enev
er the
Ultra-R
igh
tists mo
un
t an attack
on
any
attemp
t to
institute a mental health program
. O
n A
ugust 5
, 1957, C
ongressm
an T
imoth
y P..
Sheehan o
f Illinois fille
d so
me fo
ur p
ages o
f the
Congressio
nal R
ecord
(13681-1
3685) w
ith a sh
ort
speech of his own and a docum
ent he admitted receiving
from
Dr. B
ech
er a
nd
the S
ud
ete
nd
eu
tsch
e
Lan
dsm
ann
schaft. S
heeh
an d
escribes B
echer's o
utfit
with
these w
ord
s: "This asso
ciation h
as certainly
been
pro-A
merican and is loading every effort to fight against
the R
ussian
Co
mm
un
ist inv
aders o
f their h
om
eland
." T
hat th
e Czech
oslo
vak
peo
ple are in
po
ssession
of th
e S
udeten territory does not inhibit a Becher devotee from
sp
readin
g th
e fa
lsehood th
at th
e R
ussia
ns a
re in
possession of the area. S
heehan goes on to describe this "docum
ent" in breathtaking terms. H
e claims that it is a
secre
t docum
ent "o
utlin
ing th
e stru
ctu
re a
nd th
e
working m
ethods of the Com
munist S
ecurity System
--th
e CS
S---th
e inv
isible h
eirarchy
that g
ov
erns th
e C
om
munist ap
paratu
s" in all co
untries; th
at Bech
er's organization has m
ade this "document" available to him
; th
at the "rev
elations em
bodied
in th
is docu
men
t hav
e never been exposed to public scrutiny", even though the "d
ocu
men
t" has b
een av
ailable to
certain W
estern
governments and private agencies. S
heehan reveals that the S
udetendeutsche Landsm
annschaft had appealed to him
to present this "document" to the A
merican public.
Th
e "do
cum
ent", w
hich
no
go
vern
men
t agen
cy w
as w
illing
to tak
e seriou
sly, is a fan
tastic con
coctio
n,
purporting to prove that a few hidden insiders, operating
a secret espionage system, actually run the governm
ents of all the C
omm
unist countries. The "docum
ent" asserts fu
rther th
at "th
ere
is a su
spic
ion
that a
secre
t organization or invisible governm
ent is working w
ithin the free nations. In 1951, G
eneral MacA
rthur referred to this intelligence and w
arned us about it." It is really akin to
the m
otif o
f the frau
dulen
t Pro
toco
ls of th
e Learn
ed
Elders of Z
ion. A
similar thesis w
as expounded in the anti-Sem
itic and pro-F
ascist hate sheet, Com
mon S
ense, in its issue of A
ug
ust 1
96
3. It "u
nco
vers" a
secre
t crim
inal
org
anizatio
n p
lottin
g a n
ew w
orld
ord
er. The n
ame o
f th
is org
anizatio
n is F
orce X
. In A
merican
Opin
ion,
Septem
ber 1963, novelist Taylor C
aldwell has an article
entitled "Force X
", although she says nothing to explain F
orc
e X
, oth
er th
an p
rese
ntin
g a
tirade a
gain
st C
om
mu
nists, L
iberals. an
d ex
- Co
mm
un
ists. In th
e S
eptember 1963 A
merican O
pinion, the late Westbrook
Peg
ler allud
es to th
e "force", w
hich
he d
escribes as
Bosch
of N
ew Y
ork
placed
in th
e Reco
rd a lo
ng article
by D
r. Walter B
echer d
ealing w
ith th
e "Com
munist
Syste
m o
f Secre
t Polic
e". O
n M
arc
h 2
0, 1
958,
Co
ng
ressman
Joh
n R
. Pillio
n o
f New
Yo
rk to
ld th
e H
ouse of Representatives that he had been a m
ember of
a deleg
ation
that v
isited W
est Germ
any
in th
e fall of
1957, where he had m
et and conferred with D
r. Walter
Becher. A
fter giving a buildup for Becher, C
ongressman
Pillion placed in the R
ecord a Becher essay inveighing
against any trade with the C
omm
unist-bloc nations. O
n M
ay 1
4, 1
958, C
ongressm
an T
imoth
y P
. S
heeh
an o
f Illino
is filled alm
ost 2
% p
ages o
f the
Co
ng
ression
al Reco
rd w
ith an
essay b
y D
r. Walter
Bech
er, to su
pplem
ent th
e longer essay
placed
in th
e R
ecord
on
Au
gu
st 5, 1
95
7 b
y S
heeh
an o
n b
ehalf o
f B
echer. Like the previous essay, it dealt w
ith the esoteric C
om
munist S
ecurity
System
. Sheeh
an stated
in h
is accom
panying speech: "T
his year, Dr. B
echer and the Czech journalist in
exile, Mr. G
eorge Brada, of M
unich, visited the United
States and W
ashington; D.C
. . . . and they brought with
them
new
material co
ncern
ing
the C
om
mu
nist S
tate S
ecurity System
in the Com
munist countries."
Sheeh
an w
ent o
n to
say th
at he w
as hap
py to
be
of assistan
ce to B
echer an
d B
rada. N
ot o
nly
did
he
neglect to identify Walter B
echer as a Nazi propagandist,
but he failed to inform his colleagues that G
eorge Brada
had been expelled from C
zechoslavakia as a spy. O
n Ju
ly 7
, 19
58
, Co
ng
resswo
man
Kath
erine S
t. G
eorge placed in the Record a letter received from
Dr.
Walter B
echer, p
oin
ting
ou
t that o
ther m
emb
ers of
Congress had received sim
ilar letters. The year of 1958
was a
hu
ge su
ccess fo
r Dr. B
ech
er's p
rop
ag
an
da
app
aratus, fo
r it was rep
orted
that h
is view
s were
presen
ted b
y 7
1 A
merican
new
spap
ers and
to th
e 32
}pillion listeners of the M
utual Broadcasting N
etwork.
In 1
95
9, B
ech
er ite
ms w
ere
pla
ced
in th
e
Congressional R
ecord by the following C
ongressmen:
1.)
Daniel J. F
lood of Pennsylvania. A
pril 27. 2.)
Robert C
. Byrd of W
est Virginia. June 8.
3.) A
lbert H. B
osch of New
York. July 21.
4.) R
obert C. B
yrd of West V
irginia. August 11.
The latter item
is of particular interest. It consists o
f a letter from
Bech
er to B
yrd
and
two
articles from
th
e Press-B
ulletin
of th
e West G
erman
Govern
men
t, translated into E
nglish by Dr. B
echer. The final sentence
of B
ech
er's le
tter sh
ow
s bo
th th
e e
xte
nt o
f his
pen
etration
of th
e U.S
. Co
ng
ress and
his b
razenn
ess.
*P
rofessor Oliver and T
he John Birch S
ociety have parted com
pany since that essay was w
ritten.
Califo
rnia p
laced D
r. Bech
er's 4th
of Ju
ly m
essage in
the
Congressional R
ecord. Part of it consists of a letter from
B
echer thanking him for the m
essage he had sent to that year's S
udetan
Germ
an D
ay rally
. In p
art, it reads:
"Your w
ords were m
ade known to the S
udeten Germ
an people for w
hom they are a great encouragem
ent." This
is precisely the point of Becher's political strategy. H
e has built up an im
age of himself as having the support of
mo
st of th
e U.S
. Co
ng
ress, and
to th
is exten
t every
m
ember of C
ongress, who sends a greeting to S
udeten G
erman D
ay, contributes to building up the influence of th
e neo
-Nazi m
ovem
ent. B
echer rep
orts fu
rther in
his
letter to C
ongressm
an C
lausen
that 4
00,0
00 p
eople
attended the 1963 rally. T
he 4th of July message in 1964 w
as placed in the C
ongressio
nal R
ecord
by S
enato
r Gord
on A
llott o
f C
olorado, who told his colleagues that for m
any years he h
ad b
een in
terested in
Su
deten
Germ
an D
ay. B
echer's
letter emphasized
that th
e hopes o
f his p
eople "rest o
n
your great country and above all on the statesmen in the
Congre
ss of th
e U
nite
d S
tate
s". Indeed, B
echer
contin
ually
boasts o
f the su
pport h
e receives fro
m th
e U
nite
d S
tate
s Congre
ss for th
e S
udete
ndeutsc
he
Landsm
annschaft and its pro-Nazi program
. Thus in the
letter to C
on
gressm
an R
alph
Harv
ey h
e stated: "M
any
m
embers of C
ongress have made speeches, statem
ents an
d in
sertions in
the C
ongressio
nal R
ecord
on o
ur
beh
alf." And h
is conclu
din
g sen
tence w
as: "We are
happy and honorea that we have found m
oral support in th
e United
States in
the p
ast and w
e greatly
hope th
at w
e can keep it in the future." T
he year 1966 was an eventful one for D
r. Becher
and the Sudetendeutsche L
andsmannschaft. T
he yearly S
udeten Germ
an Days w
ere held in Munich June 17-19.
Its official p
ub
lication
, West an
d O
st (West an
d E
ast), dated June 10, 1966, carried m
essages from 46 m
embers
of the U.S
. Congress under the heading:
Voices from
Am
erica*
"The R
ight will be victorious"
Am
erican Messages to S
udetendeutsche Day 1966
After w
e received
this d
ocu
men
t and
had
it translated, w
e sent letters, individually typed, to all 46 m
embers of C
ongress. We sum
marized the inform
ation that' w
e had about Dr. B
echer and the Sudetendeutsche
Landsm
annschaft, and we asked the follow
ing-questions: 1
.) D
id you actually send such a message?
2.) W
ere you aware of D
r. Walter B
echer's Nazi
past? 3.) W
ere you aw
are of th
e true p
urp
ose o
f the
"Su
deten
Germ
an D
ay" celeb
ration
s?
*Translated from
the Germ
an.
U.S
. FA
RM
NE
WS
, Des M
oin
es, Iow
a P
AG
E F
IVE
M
AR
CH
, 1973
The rep
ly fro
m S
enato
r Kuch
el's office w
as that
Bech
er had
perso
nally
visited
the S
enato
r's office in
1961, an
d th
at subseq
uen
tly B
echer h
ad b
een in
the
hab
it of sen
din
g letters o
f greetin
gs at C
hristm
as time
and
arou
nd
Fo
urth
of Ju
ly. F
or th
e mo
st part, th
ese letters have gone unansw
ered, but occasionally a mere
formal letter of acknow
ledgement w
as sent out. As far as
the reco
rds in
Sen
ator K
uch
el's office sh
ow
, they
had
n
ever sen
t any
greetin
gs to
the S
ud
eten G
erman
Day
celeb
ration, an
d m
ost assu
redly
no su
ch g
reeting h
ad
been authorized for the 1966 celebration. The S
enator's adm
inistrative aide, Mr. E
wing H
ass, sent us a photocopy of B
echer's 1
966 letter an
d M
r. Hass' fo
rmal letter o
f acknow
ledgment. T
here was no m
essage for the Sudeten
Germ
an Day celebration in that letter. D
espite this fact, V
oices from A
merica* carried this alleged greeting from
S
enator Kuchel:
"On occasion of the S
udetendeutschen Days 1966
I convey my best greetings and congratulations."
We n
otified
edito
r Herd
e, and
he w
rote a sto
ry
about it in the issue of Neue K
omm
entare for the second h
alf o
f Octo
ber 1
96
6. H
e e
xp
ose
d th
e fa
bric
ate
d
greeting from S
enator Kuchel and pointed out that this
is nothing unusual for Becher's organization. T
he Prague
New
s Letter of N
ovember 12, 1966 picked up the story
from
Neu
e Kontu
nen
tare, addin
g th
e com
men
t: "Dr.
Walter B
echer is a fraud who deliberately deceives the
pu
blic." S
tun
g b
y th
is exp
osu
re, Dr. B
echer w
rote a
lette
r on O
cto
ber 1
7, 1
966 to
Senato
r Kuchel's
adm
inistrativ
e assistant, M
r. Ew
ing
Hass, in
wh
ich h
e adm
itted that no such congratulatory message had been
received from S
enator Kuchel. H
e placed the blame on a
secretary w
ho
, he said
, had
mad
e an erro
r, and
he
apologized.
With
respect to
the o
ther m
emb
ers of C
on
gress
who sen
t greetin
gs in
1966 to
Sudeten
Germ
an D
ays
celebration, we give the follow
ing report: 1
.) C
ongressman G
eorge Andrew
s (D., A
labama).
He sent B
echer best greetings and sincere wishes for a
successfu
l meetin
g. H
e did
not rep
ly to
our first tw
o
letters. In reply to our third letter--which w
ent certified m
ail, return
receipt--h
e wro
te: "I hav
e abso
lutely
no
knowledge of w
hether or not I was quoted in a G
erman
do
cum
ent o
r pap
er." We sen
t him
ano
ther certified
letter an
d ask
ed h
im to
reply
to o
ur o
rigin
al three
questio
ns, w
hich
inclu
ded
the q
uestio
n o
f wheth
er he
did
in fact sen
d a co
ng
ratulato
ry m
essage to
Bech
er's group. N
o reply to this letter was received.
2.) C
ongressman C
harles E. B
ennett (D., F
lorida). W
e sent him tw
o letters. In reply to the second letter, he _
.
March 25, 1964
January 11, 1965 A
pril 26, 1965 June 9, 1965 F
ebruary 11, 1966 M
ay 13, 1966 June 27, 1966 June 30, 1966
Brooks letters
May 1, 1958
April 20, 1959
April 29, 1960
April 14, 1961
June 5, 1962 M
ay 2, 1963 A
pril 24, 1964 A
pril 30, 1965 M
ay 18, 1966 R
eading this entire file is an education in the fine art of propaganda. O
ne marvels at D
r. Becher's m
astery of all th
e tricks an
d artifices o
f the p
ublic relatio
ns
experts. We learn from
the correspondence that Becher
paid Brooks a personal visit in June 1961. In his letter of
January 11, 1965, and again in his letter of February 11,
1966, B
echer req
uested
that C
ongressm
an B
rooks p
ut
him on the m
ailing list to receive the regular newsletter
that Brooks sends to his constituents. B
echer dished out lib
eral amounts o
f "soft so
ap", try
ing to
convin
ce B
rooks that the Germ
an legislatures need the wisdom
to be d
erived
from
the B
rooks' n
ewsletters. A
pparen
tly
Bro
oks d
idn't su
ccum
b to
Bech
er's blan
dish
men
ts on
this sco
re. A co
mpariso
n o
f the p
hoto
copy o
f Bro
oks'
letter of co
ngratu
lation o
n M
ay 1
8, 1
966 an
d th
e m
essage that appeared in the 1966 Voices from
Am
erica, in
dicates th
at Bro
oks' m
essage w
as "docto
red" an
d
"beefed up". C
on
gressm
an B
roo
ks' letter to
us o
n O
ctob
er 18
, 1966, if tak
en at face v
alue---an
d w
e are inclin
ed to
believ
e in h
is sincerity
---, is a distressin
g ex
ample o
f naivete and vulnerability to F
ascist deception. He w
rites, in part:
"If your a
llegatio
ns a
re c
orre
ct, I a
m m
ost
distressed to learn of his connections and activities. My
correspondence with D
r. Becher has alw
ays been based strictly
on a g
ood-w
ill basis. M
ust say
his letters h
ave
always conveyed w
orthwhile sentim
ents and are totally devoid of neo-N
azi or anti-Sem
itic tendencies." 6
.) Co
ng
ressman
Claren
ce J. Bro
wn
, Jr. (R.,
Oh
io). H
e ackn
ow
ledg
ed, in
his letter o
f Octo
ber 1
4,
19
66
, that h
e had
sent a m
essage o
f con
gratu
lation
s to
and Sudeten G
erman D
ay. 10.)
Congre
ssman P
aul R
. Dague (R
., P
ennsy
lvan
ia). In h
is letter of O
ctober 1
2, 1
966, h
e acknow
ledged the correctness of the message attributed
to h
im in
the 1
966 V
oices fro
m A
merica. H
e wro
te to
us, in part: "I, o
f cou
rse, hav
e no
kn
ow
ledg
e wh
atsoev
er relating to D
r. Becher's past, and I am
inclined to believe that probably a large percentage of the ruling hierarchy now
in control in West G
ermany m
ust have had some
relationship with the N
azis." 11.)
Congressm
an Bob D
ole (R., K
ansas). In his letter o
f Octo
ber 1
3, 1
96
6, h
e ackn
ow
ledg
ed th
e correctness of the short congratulatory m
essage credited to
him
in th
e 1966 V
oices fro
m A
merica. H
e sent u
s copies of the correspondence w
ith Becher and a copy of
a letter to Becher, in w
hich he told Becher that, if all our
allegations are correct, Becher should so advise all his
Congressional contacts. T
he Congressm
an told us that he h
ad n
ever m
et Bech
er and
kn
ew n
oth
ing
abo
ut h
is background.
12.) S
enator Peter H
. Dom
inick (R., C
olorado). H
is letter to u
s, No
vem
ber 3
, 19
66
, corro
bo
rates the
message contained in the 1966 V
oices from A
merica. H
e stated that he w
as not aware of B
echer's Nazi past; that
Bech
er den
ies all our ch
arges; an
d th
at he w
ould
not
knowingly lend support to any group w
hich promoted
anti-Sem
itic activities. 13.)
Congressm
an William
Jennings Bryan D
orn (D
., South C
arolina). He sent us this evasive m
essage on Jan
uary
27
, 19
67
: "Th
is is to ack
no
wled
ge an
d th
ank
y
ou
for y
ou
r letter of Jan
uary
20
. With
warm
regard
s and all good w
ishes." This, of course, is no explanation
for his vigorous Cold W
ar Pronunciam
ento in the 1966 V
oices from A
merica.*
14.) C
ongressman John G
. Dow
(Dem
ocrat, New
Y
ork). In a letter to us, October 14, 1966, he explained
his v
ery sh
ort an
d b
land
messag
e in th
e 19
66
Vo
ices fro
m A
merica as a ro
utin
e courtesy
, and th
at the
thought n
ever cro
ssed h
is min
d th
at there m
ight b
e anything unhealthy about D
r. Becher or the celebration.
He concluded: "I do thank you for alerting m
e." 15.)
Congressm
an T
hom
as N. D
ow
nin
g (D
., V
irgin
ia). In
a le
tter to
us, O
cto
ber 2
1, 1
966, h
e
explained that he doesn't know D
r. Becher, cannot recall
ever m
eeting
him
, and
had
been
send
ing
messag
es of
greeting to the Sudeten G
erman D
ay Mlles as a gesture
of friendship to "the Germ
an people." 16.)
Congre
ss man Jo
hn J. D
uncan (R
., T
ennessee). His letter of O
ctober 14, 1966 explained his m
essage to
Sudeten
Germ
an D
ay celeb
ration as a
or m
etier s letter an
a tviI, raiss tu
tittai leL
LG
1 v
L
acknowledgm
ent. There w
as no message for the S
udeten G
erman D
ay celebration in that letter. Despite this fact,
Voices from
Am
erica* carried this alleged greeting from
Senator K
uchel:
"On occasion of the S
udetendeutschen Days 1966
I convey my best greetings and congratulations."
We n
otified
edito
r Herd
e, and
he w
rote a sto
ry
about it in the issue of Neue K
omm
entare for the second half o
f Octo
ber 1
966. H
e exposed
the fab
ricated
greeting from S
enator Kuchel and pointed out that this
is nothing unusual for Becher's organization. T
he Prague
New
s Letter of N
ovember 12, 1966 picked up the story
from
Neu
e Kom
men
tare, addin
g th
e com
men
t: "Dr.
Walter B
echer is a fraud who deliberately deceives the
pu
blic." S
tun
g b
y th
is exp
osu
re, Dr. B
echer w
rote a
lette
r on O
cto
ber 1
7, 1
966 to
Senato
r Kuchel's
adm
inistrativ
e assistant, M
r. Ew
ing H
ass, in w
hich
he
admitted that no such congratulatory m
essage had been received from
Senator K
uchel. He placed the blam
e on a secretary
who, h
e said, h
ad m
ade an
error, an
d h
e apologized.
With
respect to
the o
ther m
embers o
f Congress
who sen
t greetin
gs in
1966 to
Sudeten
Germ
an D
ays
celebration, we give the follow
ing report: 1
.) C
ongressman G
eorge Andrew
s (D., A
labama).
He sent B
echer best greetings and sincere wishes for a
successfu
l meetin
g. H
e did
not rep
ly to
our first tw
o
letters. In reply to our third letter---which w
ent certified m
ail, return
receipt--h
e wro
te: "I hav
e abso
lutely
no
knowledge of w
hether or not I was quoted in a G
erman
docu
men
t or p
aper." W
e sent h
im an
oth
er certified
letter and ask
ed h
im to
reply
to o
ur o
rigin
al three
questio
ns, w
hich
inclu
ded
the q
uestio
n o
f wheth
er he
did
in fact sen
d a co
ngratu
latory
messag
e to B
echer's
group. No reply to this letter w
as received. 2.)
Congressm
an Charles E
. Bennett (D
., Florida).
We sent him
two letters. In reply to the second letter, he
wrote that "prior to hearing from
you I had never heard anyone ascribe any im
proper motives or background to
Dr. B
echer". He enclosed a copy of B
echer's "Fourth of
July
letter" (dated
Jun
e 26
, 19
64
) and
his o
wn
form
al letter o
f acknow
ledgem
ent o
f June 3
0, 1
964; also
B
echer's letter o
f April 2
6, 1
965 an
d h
is ow
n letter o
f co
ng
ratulatio
ns d
ated M
ay 3
, 19
65
. If Co
ng
ressman
B
ennett is te
lling u
s the tru
th--th
at th
is is all th
e
corresp
on
den
ce up
to Jan
uary
23
, 19
67
---we m
ust
conclu
de th
at th
e 1
966 m
essa
ge a
ttribute
d to
C
ongressman B
ennett in Voices from
Am
erica is another fabrication. F
rom the tone of the C
ongressman's letter,
we are inclined to believe him
rather than Becher.
3.) C
on
gre
ss:nan
Joh
n A
. Bla
tnik
(D.,
Min
neso
ta). He sen
t qu
ite a leng
thy
con
gratu
latory
m
essage to
the S
ud
eten G
erman
Day
celebratio
n. In
r1.1
J111
MS
/
April 14, 1961
June 5, 1962 M
ay 2, 1963 A
pril 24, 1964 A
pril 30, 1965 M
ay 18, 1966 R
eading this entire file is an education in the fine art of propaganda. O
ne marvels at D
r. Becher's m
astery of all th
e tricks an
d artifices o
f the p
ublic relatio
ns
experts. We learn from
the correspondence that Becher
paid Brooks a personal visit in June 1961. In his letter of
January 11, 1965, and again in his letter of February 11,
19
66
, Bech
er requ
ested th
at Co
ng
ressman
Bro
ok
s pu
t him
on the mailing list to receive the regular new
sletter that B
rooks sends to his constituents. Becher dished out
liberal am
ounts o
f "soft so
ap", try
ing to
convin
ce B
rooks that the Germ
an legislatures need the wisdom
to be d
erived
from
the B
rooks' n
ewsletters. A
pparen
tly
Bro
oks d
idn't su
ccum
b to
Bech
er's blan
dish
men
ts on
this sco
re. A co
mp
arison
of th
e ph
oto
cop
y o
f Bro
ok
s' letter o
f congratu
lation o
n M
ay 1
8, 1
966 an
d th
e m
essage that appeared in the 1966 Voices from
Am
erica, in
dicates th
at Bro
oks' m
essage w
as "docto
red" an
d
"beefed
up".
Congressm
an Brooks' letter to us on O
ctober 18, 1966, if tak
en at face v
alue---an
d w
e are inclin
ed to
believ
e in h
is sincerity
---, is a distressin
g ex
ample o
f naivete and vulnerability to F
ascist deception. He w
rites, in
part:
"If your a
llegatio
ns a
re c
orre
ct, I a
m m
ost
distressed to learn of his connections and activities. My
correspondence with D
r. Becher has alw
ays been based strictly
on a g
ood-w
ill basis. M
ust say
his letters h
ave
always conveyed w
orthwhile sentim
ents and are totally devoid of neo-N
azi or anti-Sem
itic tendencies." 6.)
Congressm
an C
larence J. B
row
n, Jr. (R
., O
hio
). He ack
no
wled
ged
, in h
is letter of O
ctob
er 14
, 1966, th
at he h
ad sen
t a messag
e of co
ngratu
lations to
the 1966 rally, and said that he w
ould like to see some
pro
of th
at Bech
er has a N
azi back
gro
und an
d th
at the
Su
deten
deu
tsche L
and
sman
nsch
aft is neo
-Nazi in
chara
cte
r. He se
nt u
s photo
copie
s of th
e 1
966
correspondence from and to B
echer. 7.)
Congressm
an R
onald
Bro
oks C
amero
n (D
., C
alifornia). In his letter of October 24, 1966 he pleaded
ignorance of the facts about Becher and his organization.
He sen
t us a co
py
of th
e letter he sen
t Bech
er on
May
24, 1966, and w
hich Becher quoted in the V
oices from
Am
erica. It is shock
ing to
read th
at Congressm
an
Cam
eron
do
esn't realize o
r preten
ds n
ot to
realize that
his m
essage to
Bech
er euphem
istically ex
presses
concurrence in a good part of Becher's program
. 8.)
Senator F
rank Church (D
., Idaho). The 1966
Voices fro
m A
merica q
uotes h
im as sen
din
g th
is
til ‘.../%0
Ltp
u ,1
correctness of the short congratulatory message credited
to h
im in
the 1
966 V
oices fro
m A
merica. H
e sent u
s copies of the correspondence w
ith Becher and a copy of
a letter to Becher, in w
hich he told Becher that, if all our
allegatio
ns are co
rrect, Bech
er sho
uld
so ad
vise all h
is C
ongressional contacts. The C
ongressman told us that he
had
nev
er met B
echer an
d k
new
noth
ing ab
out h
is background.
12.) S
enato
r Peter H
. Dom
inick
(R., C
olo
rado).
His letter to
us, N
ov
emb
er 3, 1
96
6, co
rrob
orates th
e m
essage contained in the 1966 Voices from
Am
erica. He
stated that he was not aw
are of Becher's N
azi past; that B
echer d
enies all o
ur ch
arges; an
d th
at he w
ou
ld n
ot
kn
ow
ing
ly len
d su
pp
ort to
any
gro
up
wh
ich p
rom
oted
anti-S
emitic activities.
13.) C
ongressman W
illiam Jennings B
ryan Dorn
(D., S
outh Carolina). H
e sent us this evasive message on
Janu
ary 2
7, 1
96
7: "T
his is to
ackn
ow
ledg
e and
than
k
yo
u fo
r yo
ur letter o
f Janu
ary 2
0. W
ith w
arm reg
ards
and all good wishes." T
his, of course, is no explanation for his vigorous C
old War P
ronunciamento in the 1966
Voices from
Am
erica.* 14.)
Congressm
an John G. D
ow (D
emocrat, N
ew
York). In a letter to us, O
ctober 14, 1966, he explained h
is very
sho
rt and
blan
d m
essage in
the 1
96
6 V
oices
from
Am
erica as a routin
e courtesy
, and th
at the
thought n
ever cro
ssed h
is min
d th
at there m
ight b
e anything unhealthy about D
r. Becher or the celebration.
He concluded: "I do thank you for alerting m
e." 15.)
Congressm
an T
hom
as N. D
ow
nin
g (D
., V
irgin
ia). In
a le
tter to
us, O
cto
ber 2
1, 1
966, h
e
explained that he doesn't know D
r. Becher, cannot recall
ever m
eeting h
im, an
d h
ad b
een sen
din
g m
essages o
f greeting to the S
udeten Germ
an Day ?allies as a gesture
of friendship to "the Germ
an people." 16.)
Congre
ssman Jo
hn J. D
uncan (R
., T
ennessee). His letter of O
ctober 14, 1966 explained his m
essage to
Su
deten
Germ
an D
ay celeb
ration
as a response to B
echer's representations. He thanked us for
calling to his attention Becher's N
azi activities. 17.)
Congre
ssman R
obert A
. Evertt (D
., T
ennessee). Did not reply to three letters w
e sent him,
the last one being sent via certified mail, return receipt
requested. 18.)
Sen
ator P
aul J. F
annin
(R., A
rizona). D
id
not rep
ly to
three letters, th
e last one b
eing sen
t via
certified mail, return receipt requested.
19.) C
ongressman P
aul Findley (R
., Illinois). His
letter of January 25, 1967 explained his short message
to th
e 1966 S
udeten
Germ
an D
ay rally
as a sort o
f routine response to B
echer's request, because Becher is a
mem
ber of the West G
erman parliam
ent. He said: "T
o the best of m
y knowledge, D
r. Becher has never visited
my
office, in
fact I do
no
t recall ever h
avin
g m
et the
Dr. B
echer". He enclosed a copy of B
echer's "Fourth of
July letter" (dated June 26, 1964) and his own form
al letter o
f acknow
ledgem
ent o
f June 3
0, 1
964; also
B
echer's letter of April 26, 1965 and his ow
n letter of congratulations dated M
ay 3, 1965. If Congressm
an B
ennett is tellin
g u
s the tru
th---th
at this is all th
e co
rresponden
ce up to
January
23, 1
967--w
e must
conclu
de th
at th
e 1
966 m
essa
ge a
ttribute
d to
C
ongressman B
ennett in Voices from
Am
erica is another fabrication. F
rom the tone of the C
ongressman's letter,
we are inclined to believe him
rather than Becher.
3.) C
ongre
ssman Jo
hn A
. Bla
tnik
(D.,
Min
neso
ta). He sen
t quite a len
gth
y co
ngratu
latory
m
essage to the Sudeten G
erman D
ay celebration. In response to our second letter, he said, in part: "I am
not personally acquainted w
ith Dr. W
alter Becher, know
n
oth
ing
of h
is past activ
ities, no
r hav
e I any
oth
er inform
ation about the Sudeten G
erman D
ay except that it is an
annual cu
ltural festiv
al aimed
at pro
mo
ting
international friendship and understanding."
4.) C
ongresswom
an Frances P
. Bolton (R
., Ohio).
She sen
t a congratu
latory
messag
e to th
e Sudeten
G
erman D
ay affair. In response to our second letter, she w
rote u
s on
Janu
ary 2
3, 1
967
, adv
ising
us th
at we
should write to D
r. Becher and get inform
ation directly from
him, in order to get the facts for a book that w
e are w
riting. She enclosed a photocopy of the letter of
alibi that Becher had w
ritten to all of his Congressional
buddies. It w
as iden
tical with
the letter w
ritten to
C
ongressman R
alph Harvey.
5.) C
ongressm
an Jack
Bro
oks (D
., Tex
as). C
ongressman B
rooks sent us photocopies of his file of correspondence w
ith Becher. H
ere is the tabulation:
Becher letters
April 26, 1958
June 3, 1958 A
pril 15, 1959 June 3, 1959 June 30, 1959 A
pril 28, 1960 F
ebruary 21, 1961 A
pril 4, 1961 June 16, 1961 M
ay 11, 1962 June 26, 1962 June 28, 1962 M
ay 1, 1963 June' 30, 1963
*All item
s from V
oices from A
merica have been
translated from the G
erman.
Sudeten
deu
tsche L
andsm
annsch
aft is neo
-Nazi in
chara
cte
r. He se
nt u
s photo
copie
s of th
e 1
966
correspondence from
and to Becher.
7.) C
ongressman R
onald Brooks C
ameron (D
., C
alifornia). In his letter of October 24, 1966 he pleaded
ignorance of the facts about Becher and his organization.
He sent us a copy of the letter he sent B
echer on May
24, 1966, and which B
echer quoted in the Voices from
A
merica. It is sh
ock
ing to
read th
at Congressm
an
Cam
eron doesn't realize or pretends not to realize that h
is messag
e to B
echer eu
ph
emistically
exp
resses concurrence in a good part of B
echer's program.
8.) S
enator Frank C
hurch (D., Idaho). T
he 1966 V
oices fro
m A
merica q
uotes h
im as sen
din
g th
is m
essage: "M
y m
ost c
ord
ial c
ongra
tula
tions a
t the
manifestations of the S
udetendeutschen Tag in M
unich 1966!"
In a v
ery fo
rthrig
ht letter o
f Octo
ber 2
1, 1
966,
Senator C
hurch wrote to us that B
echer has sent him
many letters; that at no tim
e did he know of B
echer's intentions, his background, or the purpose of S
udeten G
erman D
ay; that he had turned down B
echer's request to be placed on the S
enator's mailing list. H
e said further that he had not sent him
a message of congratulations at
any time. S
enator Church concluded his letter w
ith the follow
ing: "D
r. Becher m
ay have taken advantage of a letter w
ritten by my adm
inistrative assistant on June 3, 1966, the com
plete text of the letter was as follow
s: "In the absence of S
enator Church I am
taking the liberty of .answ
ering your letter to him of M
ay 13, 1966. Were he
here, I am sure the S
enator would be happy to send his
greetings to this year's Sudeten G
erman D
ay." I do not believe this letter can be construed as an
endorsement but, in any event, I have no intention of
aiding Dr. B
echer and appreciate having your warning on
this matter." O
nce ag
ain, it clear that B
echer falsifies the record, fabricates m
essages, and deceives his followers.
9.) C
ongressman D
on H. C
lausen (R., C
alifornia). W
ith h
is letter of O
ctober 1
9, 1
966, C
ongressm
an
Clausen enclosed copies of the correspondence w
ith B
echer a
nd c
opie
s of h
is length
y m
essa
ges o
f congratulations to S
udeten Germ
an Days in 1965 and
1966, which B
echer quoted quite accurately. He stated
that he was not aw
are of Becher's background, that he
had
nev
er met B
echer, an
d h
ad tak
en at face v
alue
Bech
er's descrip
tion o
f the p
urp
ose o
f the y
early
Su
deten
Germ
an rallies. H
e said h
e was p
leased to
cooperate and w
ould like to learn more about B
echer
1,Cl.11.G
1 a v.
vst
1 7 .) C
ongressm
an R
obert A
. Evert t (D
., T
ennessee). Did not reply to three letters w
e sent him,
the last one being sent via certified mail, return receipt
requested. 18.)
Senator P
aul J. Fannin (R
., Arizona). D
id not reply to three letters, the last one being sent via _ certified m
ail, return receipt requested. 19.)
Congressm
an Paul F
indley (R., Illinois). H
is letter of January 25, 1967 explained his short m
essage to
the 1
966 S
udeten
Germ
an D
ay rally
as a sort o
f routine response to B
echer's request, because Becher is a
mem
ber of the West G
erman parliam
ent. He said: "T
o the best of m
y knowledge, D
r. Becher has never visited
my office, in fact I do not recall ever having m
et the m
an. Naturally I reject the im
plication of your letter that I have em
braced Dr. B
echer's philosophy." 20.)
Congressm
an 0. C. F
isher (D., T
exas). He
wrote us on O
ctober 14, 1966 that his message to the
1966 rally
was n
ot in
tended
as an en
dorsem
ent o
f anyone, and that he know
s nothing about Dr. B
echer.
21.) C
ongressm
an S
amuel N
. Fried
el (D.,
Maryland). H
is letter of October 21, 1966 confirm
ed the accuracy of his m
essage to the 1966 rally. He stated that
he h
ad n
ever h
eard th
at Bech
er was a N
azi and h
ad
considered the Sudeten G
erman D
ay celebration to be for the purpose B
echer claimed.
22.) C
ongressman E
. C. G
athbigs (D., A
rkansas). W
e received no reply to our letter. His m
essage to the 1966 S
udeten Germ
an Day rally w
as a very enthusiastic endorsem
ent of the participants, the principles, and the purposes.
23.) S
enato
r Van
ce Hartk
e (D., In
dian
a). We
received no letter of explanation of his 1966 message to
Becher's rally.
24.) C
ongressman W
illiam D
. Hathaw
ay (D.,
Maine). H
is letter of October 20, 1966 w
as a petulant refusal to discuss his correspondence w
ith Becher or his
congratulatory message to the 1966 rally. H
e denied having any know
ledge of Becher's past activities.
25.) C
ongre
ssman E
dw
ard
Hebert (D
., L
ouisiana). We sent him
two letters of inquiry via regular
mail and follow
ed this up with a letter via certified m
ail. O
n March 17, 1967, C
ongressman H
ebert wrote us: "A
thorough search of our files has failed to -tarn up any
*Mr. D
orn has other international ties. He w
as a speaker at a so-called Freedom
Day R
ally, Jan. 23, 1966, at T
aipei, Taiw
an, headquarters of the Fascist dictator, C
hiang Kai-shek.
U.S
. FA
RM
NE
WS
, Des M
oin
es, Io
wa
MA
RC
H , 1
973
PA
GE
SIX
correspondence from you." O
n March 22, 1967, w
e sent him
anoth
er letter via certified
mail, in
Which
we
repeated our requests for answers to three questions. N
o reply w
as received. We hold signed arrival receipts for
both certified letters. 26.)
Congressm
an W
illiam L
. Hughes (D
., M
issou
ri). His m
essage, as q
uo
ted in
the 1
96
6 V
oices
from A
merica, concludes w
ith: "We share the hope that
soon a
ll people
will b
e lib
era
ted fro
m fo
reig
n
aggre
ssion." T
here
is no w
ay o
f tellin
g w
hat th
e
Congressm
an meant, but to D
r. Becher liberation from
fo
reig
n a
gg
ressio
n m
ean
s rein
state
men
t of N
azi
dom
inatio
n in
the S
udeten
land an
d o
ther areas o
f E
astern Europe. C
ongressman H
ungate replied to us on N
ovem
ber 1
0, 1
966 th
at he is n
ot p
ersonally
versed
in
the law
s of co
pyrig
ht, lib
el and d
efamatio
n, an
d is
referring our letter to his legal advisor. We replied that
we failed
to see w
hat th
is has to
do w
ith an
swerin
g
whether or not he had been quoted accurately by a W
est G
erman group. W
e repeated our request for answers to
our th
ree questio
ns. N
ot receiv
ing a rep
ly, w
e sent
anoth
er letter, via certified
mail, retu
rn receip
t. On
March 25, 1967, H
ungate wrote us that his prelim
inary in
vestig
ation in
dicated
no frau
dulen
t activity
by D
r. B
echer an
d th
at, if we h
ave an
y ev
iden
ce, we sh
ould
sen
d it to
him
. We rep
lied w
ith an
oth
er letter sent v
ia certified
mail th
at we failed
to see h
ow
this co
ncern
ed
him, that w
e only asked for answers to three questions.
In a letter o
f April 7
, 1967, C
ongressm
an H
ungate
advised
us to
corresp
ond w
ith h
is attorn
ey. In
all this
correspondence, Hungate neglected to inform
us that he him
self is an attorney, a graduate of Harvard L
aw S
chool in 1948.
27.) C
on
gre
ssman
Jam
es A
. Mack
ay
(D.,
Georgia). T
he 1966 Voices from
Am
erica quotes what
purports to be his telegram of approval of the principal
goal set forth by the spokesmen for the S
udetendeutsche L
and
sman
nsch
aft. After sen
din
g h
im tw
o letters v
ia regular m
ail and one via certified mail, M
r. Mackay sent
us a letter on the stationery of his law firm
stating that he cannot locate our previous com
munications and that
he is not a mem
ber of the 90th Congress. H
e asked if it w
ere
po
ssible
that w
e w
ere
co
nfu
sing
him
with
C
ongressman John M
ackie of Michigan. O
n March 28,
1967 w
e sent M
r. Mack
ay an
oth
er letter, via certified
m
ail, in which w
e repeated our previous questions and pointed out that he w
as a mem
ber of the 89th Congress,
and therefore there was no confusion w
ith Congressm
an M
ackie. T
he teleg
ram in
Vo
ices from
Am
erica qu
otes
Mackay as a D
emocratic R
epresentative from G
eorgia at ti,„
. 1-1
,1+
L.
Octo
ber 1
2, 1
966 h
e sent u
s a very
cord
ial letter, in
which
he stated
that h
is 1966 m
essage w
as only
a co
urtesy
reply
to B
echer an
d d
oes n
ot im
ply
any
inten
tion
to co
nd
on
e or ex
press su
pp
ort fo
r Bech
er's political philosophies or his organizations. H
e expressed ap
preciatio
n o
f the o
pportu
nity
to co
rrespond w
ith u
s on th
e matter. H
is letter also h
as a distin
ct ring o
f sincerity. A
comparison of the photocopy of his m
essage w
ith th
e qu
oted
statemen
t in V
oices fro
m A
merica
show
s again
distin
ct evid
ence o
f "docto
ring". F
or
instan
ce, the fin
al senten
ce in C
ongressm
an P
rice's m
essage was:
I appreciate having this opportunity to correspond w
ith you on this occasion. B
echer made this read: I am
pleased that I am able
to agree with you at this occasion.
Becher has an excellent com
mand of the E
nglish language and its idiom
s and he is the editor of West and
Ost in
wh
ich th
e Vo
ices from
Am
erica is carried. H
e m
ust, th
erefore, accep
t full resp
on
sibility
for th
e "doctoring" of m
essages sent to him.
35.) C
on
gre
ssman
Jam
es H
. Qu
illen
(R.,
Ten
nessee). In
response to
our q
uestio
ns ab
out h
is m
essage to the 1966 rally, he wrote to us on N
ovember
4, 1
96
6 th
at he is ch
eckin
g in
to th
e matter. T
hat is th
e last that w
e heard from him
. 36.)
Congressm
an R
ichard
L. R
oudeb
uch
(R.,
Indian
a). In h
is letter of O
ctober 1
7, 1
966 h
e did
not
den
y h
is messag
e to th
e 19
66
rally. H
e stated: "B
e assured that w
e had no knowledge of any N
azi influence and, of course, w
ould not knowingly support any such
movem
ent." 37.)
Congressm
an Garner E
. Shriver (R
., Kansas).
In a letter of October 12, 1966, his adm
inistrative aide stated that the C
ongressman did send "a tw
o paragraph ro
utin
e letter of g
reeting o
n th
e occasio
n o
f Sudeten
G
erman
Day
." He assu
red u
s that th
e Congressm
an
"would not know
ingly associate himself w
ith any person or o
rganiz
atio
n w
hic
h a
dvocate
s Nazism
or
anti-Sem
itism." H
e went on to say that they have m
ade inquiry w
ith the State D
epartment regarding B
echer and the S
udeten Germ
an Day celebration.
38.) C
ongressm
an R
oy A
. Tay
lor (D
., Kan
sas). H
is messag
e, as quoted
in th
e 1966 V
oices fro
m
Am
erica, exp
ressed eu
ph
emistically
the sen
timen
ts of
the Cold W
ar assumptions of B
echer et alia. In his letter of O
ctober 14, 1966, he told us: "I becam
e acquainted with D
r. Becher about five
years ag
o w
hen
I wen
t to G
erman
y as a g
uest o
f the
Su
deten
s. Sin
ce then
, we h
ave
, annually exchanged
from him
to the 1966 rally: "I hope that you w
ill convey my best w
ishes to all th
ose w
ho
particip
ate at the S
ud
etend
eutsch
en T
ag.
Many of us on this side of the A
tlantic hope with you at
the liberation of the nations of Middle and E
ast Europe
and all the nations of this earth. May they enjoy in the
near fu
ture freed
om
, self-determ
inatio
n an
d a lastin
g
peace." T
here is that word again: liberation! W
e have seen w
hat the Nazis and pro-N
azis mean by "liberation".
41.) C
ongressm
an C
harles L
. Weltn
er (D.,
Geo
rgia). H
is messag
e to th
e 1966 rally
was a ro
utin
e greeting, in response to B
echer's saccharine appeal. His
letter to u
s on
Octo
ber 2
0, 1
96
6 ex
plain
s it this w
ay,
and adds that Becher is know
n to him only by m
ail. 42.)
Congressm
an Jim W
right (D., T
exas). The
message attributed to C
ongressman W
right in the 1966 V
oices from A
merica is quite routine. In his letter to us
on O
ctober 1
2, 1
966, h
e emphasized
that h
e does n
ot
know B
echer or his background. He sent us copies of the
1965 ex
chan
ge o
f corresp
onden
ce, but co
uld
find
no
thin
g in
his files fo
r 19
66
. He stated
that it w
as possible that som
e kind of routine message could have
go
ne o
ut, b
ut w
e hasten
to ad
d th
at it cou
ld also
be a
fabrication. In the 1965 correspondence, Becher asked
for Mr. W
right's photograph and also to be placed on the C
ongressm
an's m
ailing list, to
receive th
e new
sletters that he sends to his constituents. C
ongressman W
right ex
pressed
appreciatio
n fo
r the o
pportu
nity
to set th
e record straight.
43.) C
ongressm
an M
ilton R
. Young (R
., North
D
akota). T
he m
essage attrib
uted
to S
enato
r Milto
n R
. Y
oung em
bodies th
e "liberatio
n" m
otif, an
essential
elemen
t in th
e neo
-Nazi id
eolo
gy an
d p
rogram
. In h
is letter o
f Octo
ber 1
3, 1
966, S
enato
r Young to
ld u
s that
he was not aw
are of Becher's past and he did not suspect
an
yth
ing
am
iss ab
ou
t the S
ud
ete
nd
eu
tsch
e
Lan
dsm
ann
schaft. H
e mad
e it very
clear that h
e was
attracted b
y B
echer's v
igoro
us an
ti-Com
munism
. So
many people forget that aniti-C
omm
unism is the banner
under w
hich
all Fascist m
ovem
ents start an
d co
me to
pow
er. It never dawns on som
e people to ask the likes of B
echer fo
r a positiv
e pro
gram
of co
pin
g w
ith th
e pressing problem
s of the day. 44.)
Congre
ssman J. A
rthur Y
ounger (R
., C
aliforn
ia). His letter to
us o
f Octo
ber 1
2, 1
966 g
ives
the message that he sent D
r. Becher on A
pril 29, 1966 fo
r the S
ud
eten G
erman
Day
rally. T
he statem
ent th
at B
echer attributes to Congressm
an Younger does not bear
the slig
htest resem
blan
ce to w
hat Y
ou
ng
er claims h
e A
nin
tA in
14
.4-1
-14
1r flitra
on
o.n
IVA
ho
,r. to rh
nn
ca
11/h
rtm in
do
min
ation
in th
e Su
deten
land
and
oth
er areas of
Eastern E
urope. Congressm
an Hungate replied to us on
Novem
ber 10, 1966 that he is not personally versed in th
e laws o
f cop
yrig
ht, lib
el and
defam
ation
, and
is referring our letter to his legal advisor. W
e replied that w
e failed to
see what th
is has to
do w
ith an
swerin
g
whether or not he had been quoted accurately by a W
est G
erman group. W
e repeated our request for answers to
ou
r three q
uestio
ns. N
ot receiv
ing
a reply
, we sen
t an
oth
er letter, via certified
mail, retu
rn receip
t. On
March 25, 1967, H
ungate wrote us that his prelim
inary in
vestig
ation
ind
icated n
o frau
du
lent activ
ity b
y D
r. B
echer an
d th
at, if we h
ave an
y ev
iden
ce, we sh
ould
sen
d it to
him
. We rep
lied w
ith an
oth
er letter sent v
ia certified
mail th
at we failed
to see h
ow
this co
ncern
ed
him, that w
e only asked for answers to three questions.
In a letter o
f Ap
ril 7, 1
96
7, C
on
gressm
an H
un
gate
adv
ised u
s to co
rrespo
nd
with
his atto
rney
. In all th
is correspondence, H
ungate neglected to inform us that he
himself is an attorney, a graduate of H
arvard Law
School
in 1948. 27.)
Co
ng
ressm
an
Jam
es A
. Mack
ay
(D.,
Georgia). T
he 1966 Voices from
Am
erica quotes what
purports to be his telegram of approval of the principal
goal set forth by the spokesmen for the S
udetendeutsche L
and
sman
nsch
aft. After sen
din
g h
im tw
o letters v
ia regular m
ail and one via certified mail, M
r. Mackay sent
us a letter o
n th
e stationery
of h
is law firm
stating th
at he cannot locate our previous com
munications and that
he is not a mem
ber of the 90th Congress. H
e asked if it w
ere
possib
le th
at w
e w
ere
confu
sing h
im w
ith
Congressm
an John Mackie of M
ichigan. On M
arch 28, 1967
we sen
t Mr. M
ackay
anoth
er letter, via certified
m
ail, in which w
e repeated our previous questions and pointed out that he w
as a mem
ber of the 89th Congress,
and therefore there was no confusion w
ith Congressm
an M
ackie. T
he teleg
ram in
Voices fro
m A
merica q
uotes
Mackay as a D
emocratic R
epresentative from G
eorgia at a tim
e that he was a m
ember of C
ongress. No reply w
as received from
our last letter to Mr. M
ackay. 28.)
Congressm
an Walter E
. Moeller (D
., Ohio).
After sending him
two letters via regular m
ail and one via certified m
ail, Congressm
an Moeller replied
.on March
20
, 19
67
that h
e kn
ow
s of n
o reaso
n th
at he w
ou
ld b
e quoted in a docum
ent from W
est Germ
any and knows
noth
ing ab
out su
ch a d
ocu
men
t. He req
uested
more
information, w
hich we sent him
in a letter on March 25,
19
67
. No
reply
to th
is letter has b
een receiv
ed. T
he
1966 Voices from
Am
erica did quote what purports to
be an enthusiastic message from
Congressm
an Walter H
. M
oeller o
f Oh
io. W
ho
is no
t telling
the tru
th in
this
instance we can only guess.
29.) S
enator Frank E
. Moss (D
., Utah). H
e sent a letter o
n O
ctob
er 12
, 19
66
con
firmin
g th
e accuracy
of
the messaee attributed to him
by Voices from
Am
erica.
I appreciate having this opportunity to correspond w
ith you on this occasion. B
echer made this read: I am
pleased that I am able
to agree with you at this occasion.
Becher has an excellent com
mand of the E
nglish language and its idiom
s and he is the editor of West and
Ost in
which
the V
oices fro
m A
merica is carried
. He
mu
st, therefo
re, accept fu
ll respo
nsib
ility fo
r the
"doctoring" of messages sent to him
. 3
5.) C
on
gre
ssman
Jam
es H
. Qu
illen
(R.,
Ten
nessee). In
respo
nse to
ou
r qu
estion
s abo
ut h
is m
essage to the 1966 rally, he wrote to us on N
ovember
4, 1
96
6 th
at he is ch
eckin
g in
to th
e matter. T
hat is th
e last that w
e heard from him
. 36.)
Co
ng
ressman
Rich
ard L
. Ro
ud
ebu
ch (R
., In
dian
a). In h
is letter of O
ctober 1
7, 1
966 h
e did
not
den
y h
is messag
e to th
e 19
66
rally. H
e stated: "B
e assured that w
e had no knowledge of any N
azi influence and, of course, w
ould not knowingly support any such
movem
ent." 37.)
Congressm
an Garner E
. Shriver (R
., Kansas).
In a letter of October 12, 1966, his adm
inistrative aide stated that the C
ongressman did send "a tw
o paragraph ro
utin
e letter of g
reeting
on
the o
ccasion
of S
ud
eten
Germ
an D
ay." H
e assured
us th
at the C
on
gressm
an
"would not know
ingly associate himself w
ith any person o
r org
an
izatio
n w
hic
h a
dv
ocate
s Nazism
or
anti-Sem
itism." H
e went on to say that they have m
ade inquiry w
ith the State D
epartment regarding B
echer and the S
udeten Germ
an Day celebration.
38.) C
on
gressm
an R
oy
A. T
aylo
r (D., K
ansas).
His m
essage, as q
uoted
in th
e 1966 V
oices fro
m
Am
erica, exp
ressed eu
ph
emistically
the sen
timen
ts of
the Cold W
ar assumptions of B
echer et alia. In his letter of O
ctober 14, 1966, he told us: "I becam
e acquainted with D
r. Becher about five
years ag
o w
hen
I wen
t to G
erman
y as a g
uest o
f the
Sudeten
s. Sin
ce then
, we h
ave an
nually
exch
anged
holiday greetings. In fact, w
hen I fail to send a holiday greeting, D
r. Becher usually w
rites to remind m
e. About
a year ago, Dr. B
echer was in W
ashington and visited my
office, although I was out of tow
n the day he was here.
He stated also that his association w
ith Dr. B
echer has b
een "p
urely
superficial" an
d th
at "he h
ad n
o
awaren
ess of h
is political m
otiv
es". To th
is should
be
add
ed a rem
ind
er that th
ree mem
bers o
f the H
ou
se U
n-Am
erican Activities C
omm
ittee were w
ith Taylor at
the 1
961 rally
at Colo
gne. In
a letter to C
ongressm
an
Jack B
rooks o
n Ju
ne 1
6, 1
961, D
r. Bech
er brag
ged
about the fact that all four C
ongressmen had addressed
the rally. We find it hard to accept C
ongressman T
aylor's posture of innocence.
39.) C
ongressm
an • C
harles M
. Teag
ue (R
. C
aliforn
ia). In a frien
dly
letter of O
ctober 1
2, 1
966,
Co
na
reccm
an
T
Pq
17
11
P c
an
t ,,
rnn
w
of 1
13- Ilo
oh
r.r'e
greeting, in response to Becher's saccharine appeal. H
is letter to
us o
n O
ctob
er 20
, 19
66
exp
lains it th
is way
, and adds that B
echer is known to him
only by mail.
42.) C
ongressman Jim
Wright (D
., Texas). T
he m
essage attributed to Congressm
an Wright in the 1966
Voices from
Am
erica is quite routine. In his letter to us on O
ctober 1
2, 1
966, h
e emphasized
that h
e does n
ot
know B
echer or his background. He sent us copies of the
19
65
exch
ang
e of co
rrespo
nd
ence, b
ut co
uld
find
n
oth
ing
in h
is files for 1
96
6. H
e stated th
at it was
possible that some kind of routine m
essage could have g
on
e ou
t, bu
t we h
asten to
add
that it co
uld
also b
e a fabrication. In the 1965 correspondence, B
echer asked for M
r. Wright's photograph and also to be placed on the
Co
ng
ressman
's mailin
g list, to
receive th
e new
sletters that he sends to his constituents. C
ongressman W
right ex
pressed
appreciatio
n fo
r the o
pportu
nity
to set th
e record straight.
43.) C
ongressm
an M
ilton R
. Young (R
., North
D
akota). T
he m
essage attrib
uted
to S
enato
r Milto
n R
. Y
oung em
bodies th
e "liberatio
n" m
otif, an
essential
elemen
t in th
e neo
-Nazi id
eolo
gy
and
pro
gram
. In h
is letter o
f Octo
ber 1
3, 1
96
6, S
enato
r Yo
un
g to
ld u
s that
he was not aw
are of Becher's past and he did not suspect
an
yth
ing
am
iss ab
ou
t the S
ud
ete
nd
eu
tsch
e
Lan
dsm
annsch
aft. He m
ade it v
ery clear th
at he w
as attracted
by
Bech
er's vig
oro
us an
ti-Co
mm
un
ism. S
o
many people forget that aniti-C
omm
unism is the banner
under w
hich
all Fascist m
ovem
ents start an
d co
me to
pow
er. It never dawns on som
e people to ask the likes of B
echer fo
r a positiv
e pro
gram
of co
pin
g w
ith th
e pressing problem
s of the day. 44.)
Congre
ssman J. A
rthur Y
ounger (R
., C
aliforn
ia). His letter to
us o
f Octo
ber 1
2, 1
966 g
ives
the message that he sent D
r. Becher on A
pril 29, 1966 fo
r the S
udeten
Germ
an D
ay rally
. The statem
ent th
at B
echer attributes to Congressm
an Younger does not bear
the slig
htest resem
blan
ce to w
hat Y
ounger claim
s he
wrote to B
echer. Once again w
e have to choose whom
to believe. W
e choose to believe the late Congressm
an J. A
rthur Younger. H
e told us finally that he was surprised
to learn about Becher's N
azi past. 45.)
Congressm
an R
alph H
arvey
(R., In
dian
a). H
is adm
inistrativ
e aide rep
lied: "Y
es, a messag
e was
sent. M
r. Harv
ey w
as no
t aware o
f any
'Nazi p
ast' as reg
ards D
r. Bech
er. Nor w
as he aw
are of an
y p
urp
ose
behind 'Germ
an Sudeten D
ay' other than that which had
been set out by Dr. B
echer..." 46.)
Senato
r Thom
as H
. Kuchel. W
e h
ave
previously reported about his response.) L
est anyone have any doubt of the revanchist and neo-N
azi p
rogra
m o
f the S
udete
ndeuts
che
Landsm
annschaft, it is well to consider the m
ain speech delivered at the 1966 rally in M
unich by one of the top echelon leaders. H
err Wenzel Jaksch. A
midst the roaring
1 •
28.) C
ongressman W
alter E. M
oeller (D., O
hio). A
fter sendin
g h
im tw
o letters v
ia regular m
ail and o
ne
via certified mail, C
ongressman M
oeller replied on March
20
, 19
67
that h
e kn
ow
s of n
o reaso
n th
at he w
ou
ld b
e quoted
in a d
ocu
men
t from
West G
erman
y an
d k
now
s noth
ing ab
out su
ch a d
ocu
men
t. He req
uested
more
information, w
hich we sent him
in a letter on March 25,
1967. N
o rep
ly to
this letter h
as been
received
. The
1966 V
oices fro
m A
merica d
id q
uote w
hat p
urp
orts to
be an enthusiastic m
essage from C
ongressman W
alter H.
Mo
eller of O
hio
. Wh
o is n
ot tellin
g th
e truth
in th
is instance w
e can only guess. 29.)
Senator F
rank E. M
oss (D., U
tah). He sent a
letter on
Octo
ber 1
2, 1
966 co
nfirm
ing th
e accuracy
of
the message attributed to him
by Voices from
Am
erica. H
e stated th
at he h
ad n
o in
form
ation ab
out B
echer's
past an
d sen
t his m
essage to
the rally
on th
e basis o
f B
echer's representations. 30.)
Co
ng
ressm
an
An
ch
er N
else
n (D
., M
inn
esota). O
n Jan
uary
24
, 19
67
he sen
t us a v
ery
friendly
letter, than
kin
g u
s for th
e opportu
nity
to
comm
ent. He stated that he w
as unaware of D
r. Becher's
back
gro
und o
r of an
y n
eo-N
azi involv
emen
t of th
e S
udeten
Germ
an D
ay celeb
ration an
d th
at he sen
t greetin
gs o
nly
on th
e basis o
f pro
motin
g frien
dly
relations w
ith all people. The C
ongressman's letter has a
definite ring of sincerity. 31.)
Senator C
lairborne Pell (D
., Rhode Island).
He w
rote
us o
n A
pril 1
4, 1
967 th
at h
e h
ad n
o
kn
ow
ledg
e of D
r. Bech
er and
that h
e was g
lad to
be
enlightened about him. H
e sent a message to B
echer only because
Becher h
ad a
dvise
d h
im th
at a
Count
Coudenhove-K
alergi would receive an aw
ard at the rally, and the C
ount had been a friend of Senator P
ell's father; an
d th
at his m
essage co
nstitu
tes no
end
orsem
ent o
f B
echer or his rally. His m
essage was "doctored" a bit in
the Voices for A
merica.
32.) C
on
gre
ssman
Ph
ilip J. P
hilb
in (D
., M
assachusetts). H
is letter of N
ovem
ber 2
5, 1
966
disavows any sym
pathy for Nazism
or anti-Sem
itism. H
e states th
at he w
as not aw
are of an
y u
lterior p
urp
ose in
th
e Sudeten
deu
tsche L
andsm
annsch
aft pro
gram
. The
message attributed to him
for the 1966 rally reflects an acceptance at face value of D
r. Becher's representations.
33.) C
ongressman Joe P
ool (D., T
exas). The late
Congressm
an P
ool, w
ho w
as a mem
ber o
f the H
ouse
Un-A
merican A
ctivities Com
mittee, did not respond to
three letters we sent him
, the last of which w
as sent via certified m
ail. The 1966 V
oices from A
merica did quote
a purp
orted
messag
e of ap
pro
val fro
m h
im o
f the
Sudetendeutschen creed.
34.) C
ongressman M
elvin Price (D
., Illinois). On
a year ago, Dr. B
echer was in W
ashington and visited my
office, although I was out of tow
n the day he was here.
He stated also that his association w
ith Dr. B
echer h
as been
"pu
rely su
perficial" an
d th
at "he h
ad n
o
awaren
ess of h
is political m
otiv
es". To th
is should
be
add
ed a rem
ind
er that th
ree mem
bers o
f the H
ou
se U
n-Am
erican Activities C
omm
ittee were w
ith Taylor at
the 1
96
1 rally
at Co
log
ne. In
a letter to C
on
gressm
an
Jack B
roo
ks o
n Ju
ne 1
6, 1
96
1, D
r. Bech
er brag
ged
about the fact that all four C
ongressmen had addressed
the rally. We find it hard to accept C
ongressman T
aylor's posture of innocence.
39.) C
on
gressm
an ' C
harles M
. Teag
ue (R
. C
aliforn
ia). In a frien
dly
letter of O
ctob
er 12
, 19
66
, C
ongressm
an T
eague sen
t us a co
py o
f Dr. B
echer's
letter of May 16, 1966, asking for a m
essage to be read at the S
udeten Germ
an Day rally. C
ongressman T
eague w
rote to us, in part: "U
pon receipt of the letter, I asked a mem
ber.of my
staff to call th
e Lib
rary o
f Co
ng
ress wh
ich, in
turn
, ad
vised
my
staff mem
ber th
at som
e 50
mem
bers o
f C
ongress had already asked the Library w
hat to say. The
Library suggested a few
phrases which I w
orked into a sh
ort le
tter o
n th
e E
ast B
erlin
up
rising
an
d
Germ
an-E
uro
pean
un
ity, a co
py
of w
hich
is also
attached
. Upon re-read
ing it, it seem
s to m
e to b
e a rath
er innocu
ous "G
od an
d M
oth
erhood" ty
pe o
f letter."
Mr. T
eague concludes his letter with:
"With
regard
to y
our statem
ents co
ncern
ing D
r. B
echer, to
my
kn
ow
ledg
e I hav
e nev
er met h
im, an
d,
certainly
, was n
ot aw
are of th
e Nazi o
r anti-S
emitic
back
gro
un
d y
ou
con
tend
he h
as. I abh
or th
e prin
ciples
of N
azism an
d th
e anti-S
emitism
it fosters. It is m
ost
surp
rising to
me, h
ow
ever, th
at the ex
perts in
the
Lib
rary o
f Congress w
ere unaw
are of D
r. Bech
er's alleged connections or the purposes of S
udeten Germ
an D
ay." 40.) S
enato
r John G
. Tow
er (R., T
exas). A
fter sending him
two letters via regular m
ail and two letters
via certified mail, he w
rote to us on April 6, 1967:
"Since I do not agree w
ith your assessment of the
Su
deten
deu
tsche L
and
sman
nsch
aft, I do
no
t believ
e it w
ould
be co
nstru
ctive fo
r me to
com
men
t upon y
our
views or for us to engage in further correspondence on
this matter." T
his k
ind o
f reply
is what w
e expected
, based
upon our know
ledge of Senator T
ower's voting record,
which
obtain
ed fo
r him
a rating o
f 96, fo
r the first
session o
f the 8
9th
Congress, b
y th
e Ultra-R
ightist
Am
ericans for Constitutional A
ction:' It is, therefore, no surprise that V
oices from A
merica reports this m
essage
Arthur Y
ounger. He told us finally that he w
as surprised to learn about B
echer's Nazi past.
45.) C
ongressm
an R
alph H
arvey
(R., In
dian
a). H
is adm
inistrativ
e aide rep
lied: "Y
es, a messag
e was
sent. M
r. Harv
ey w
as no
t aware o
f any
'Nazi p
ast' as regards D
r. Becher. N
or was he aw
are of any purpose behind 'G
erman S
udeten Day' other than that w
hich had been set out by D
r. Becher.. ."
46.) S
en
ato
r Th
om
as H
. Ku
ch
el. W
e h
av
e
previously reported about his response.) L
est anyone have any doubt of the revanchist and n
eo
-Nazi p
rog
ram
of th
e S
ud
ete
nd
eu
tsch
e
Landsm
annschaft, it is well to consider the m
ain speech delivered at the 1966 rally in M
unich by one of the top echelon leaders, H
err Wenzel Jaksch. A
midst the roaring
approval of over 300,000 listeners, Jaksch cried out: "O
ur ch
ancello
r lacks co
mp
etent ad
viso
rs ... he
thinks he can get by with the forniula, that the M
unich ag
reemen
t of 1
938 is n
ow
torn
up an
d in
valid
. This
misses the point. W
hat has it to do with our right to the
homeland, that H
itler marched into P
rague on March 15,
19
39
? Creatio
n o
f the P
rotecto
rate Bo
hem
ia-Mo
ravia
was an act of H
itler's Reichspolitik. . .*"
The editor of N
eue Kom
mentare, com
ments thus
about Jaksch's harangue: "Jak
sch k
no
ws p
erfectly w
ell that am
on
g th
e leaders of the S
udetendeutsche Landsm
annschaft are the F
ifth C
olu
mnists w
ho g
uid
ed th
e destru
ction o
f the
Czechoslovak R
epublic; pointing again and again to his ow
n em
igratio
n, h
e wish
es to w
hitew
ash th
e Hen
lein
Nazis and their B
erlin Headquarters, to absolve them
of guilt." In W
est and Ost, the official organ of the S
udeten G
erman C
ouncil, issue of October 21, 1966, editor D
r. W
alter Bech
er camp
aign
s again
st a treaty fo
r the
prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons. A
nd whom
does h
e quote to
bolster h
is positio
n? A
n A
merican
C
ongressman of course! H
e quotes Congressm
an Paul
Fin
dley
, wh
o h
ad w
ritten u
s a letter min
imizin
g th
e effect of his sending greetings to the S
udeten Germ
an D
ay rally. D
r. Becher's infiltration stragegy is not confined to
mem
bers of Congress. In M
esa, Arizona there is a radio
preacher, who calls him
self Dr. W
. C. B
urpo. He holds
forth
daily
on so
me 2
6 rad
io statio
ns, so
me o
f them
b
eing
amo
ng
the m
ost p
ow
erful in
the co
un
try. H
e preach
es the U
ltra-Rig
htist id
eolo
gy w
rapped
up in
a clo
ak o
f "Christian
ity". P
eriodically
he trav
els to
Wash
ingto
n, D
.C., in
terview
s such
peo
ple as S
enato
r S
trom
Th
urm
on
d, S
enato
r Herm
an T
almad
ge, an
d
*Reported in N
eue Kom
mentare, July-A
ugust 19
66
.
U.S
. FA
RM
NE
WS
, De
s Mo
ine
s, Iow
a
PA
GE
SE
VE
N
MA
RC
H, 1
973
Congressm
an John Rarick. T
he latter is a leader of the (W
hite) Citizens C
ouncils of Louisiana. O
n Dr. B
urpo's last visit to W
ashington, he brought back as one of his trophies a picture of R
arick autographed as follows:
To D
r. Burpo, F
or God, C
onstitution Our P
eople and C
ountry D
r. Burpo usually brings back tape recordings of
his interviews and then broadcasts them
on his program.
In h
is month
ly n
ewsletter fo
r April 1
967, D
r. B
urpo tells of a trip to Africa and other places, including
Berlin. H
e tells of his coming to B
erlin at the invitation of M
r. Walter B
echer, who put a governm
ent auto at his disposal. In response to an inquiry, D
r. Burpo identified
this Mr. B
echer as being one and the same as D
r. Walter
Becher of the S
udetendeutsche Landsm
annschaft. Yes,
indeed, Walter B
echer gets around. T
he Prague N
ews L
etter of May 27, 1967 reported
that th
e rally o
f the L
and
sman
nsch
aft was h
eld in
M
unich that year. Then it adds:
"Th
e h
ead
qu
arte
rs of th
e S
ud
ete
n G
erm
an
L
andsm
annsch
aft issued
a declaratio
n in
Feb
ruary
an
nouncin
g th
at the in
famous M
unich
Agreem
ent o
f 1938, handing over part of C
zechoslovak territory to the N
azis, remains the basis of its policy and corresponds "in
its territorial measures, to the w
ill to self-determination
expressed by the Sudeten G
ermans".
A letter, d
ated Ju
ly 8
, 19
67
, from
Herr F
riedrich
Jaeger, our research colleague in H
agen/Westfalen, W
est G
ermany, reports that, as a result of our exposures, the
Sudeten
deu
tsche L
andsm
annsch
aft rally th
is year w
as n
ot so
well p
ub
licized an
d it ap
pears th
at the V
oices
from
Am
erica did
no
t speak
up
this y
ear. Ho
wev
er, it w
as learned that they had among their visitors this year:
1.)
Professor K
arol Sittko, w
ho was introduced as
the president of the Upper S
ilesiens World L
eague in the U
.S.A
. 2.) P
rofessor F. K
. Richter of B
oston. 3.)
Dr. E
rnst Scheyer of D
etroit. 4.)
Hans K
. Linke of N
ew Y
ork. It is n
ot p
ossib
le, with
in th
e limitatio
ns o
f this
article, to detail the facts about all the organizations and individuals w
ho carry on the Becher propaganda line in
the U.S
.A. A
couple of examples w
ill illustrate the point. P
erh
aps th
e m
ost in
fluentia
l in th
is work
is the
Germ
an-Am
erican National C
ongress, with headquarters
in C
hicag
o. In
the Ju
ly 1
96
7 issu
e, its mo
nth
ly o
rgan
, D
er Deu
tsch-A
merik
aner, carries a fro
nt-p
age ap
peal,
sign
ed b
y its p
resiaent, W
alter A. K
ollack
s, for all
org
anizatio
ns to
particip
ate in th
e sched
uled
"Cap
tive
Nations" parade in C
hicago. The C
aptive'Nations W
eek th
at ra
railta
ii from
tha m
nrir o
f Prn
fecenr T
PV
triggering World W
ar III. In pursuance of this campaign,
the Germ
an-Am
erican National C
ongress sent letters to all m
embers of C
ongress, to Governors of states, and to
other influential people. Am
ong the replies which they
elicited w
as a letter from
that w
ell-kn
ow
n ad
vo
cate of
peace an
d ju
stice, Geo
rge C
. Wallace, G
ov
erno
r of
Alab
ama. W
allace assured
his G
erman
friend
s that "1
have alw
ays been in favor of Germ
an reunification." W
e susp
ect that o
ur p
ersistent q
uestio
nin
g o
f 46
m
embers of C
ongress made an im
pact, because during th
e entire y
ear of 1
96
7 w
e cou
ld fin
d n
ot o
ne sin
gle
pie
ce o
f Dr. W
alte
r Becher's p
ropaganda in
the
Congressional R
ecord. In 1968, we found only one item
, a letter from
Dr. B
echer which C
ongressman W
illiam E
. M
inshall (R., O
hio) placed in the Record on July 3. W
e w
rote to the Congressm
an, telling him briefly about our
investig
ation o
f Bech
er. The C
ongressm
an p
rofessed
ignorance of B
echer's background. T
he Sudeten G
erman D
ay rally on May 25, 1969
was held, appropriately, at N
uremberg, w
here Hitler had
staged
his y
early p
rop
agan
da ex
travag
anzas. S
om
e 400,000 S
udeten Germ
ans assembled for the rally, out
of a total of 2 million now
living in West G
ermany. T
he N
PD
---the neo-Nazi party--- distributed 90,000 copies of
its official newspaper, w
ith the headline: "The M
unich A
greement R
emains V
alid". If th
ere cou
ld b
e any
do
ub
ts that D
r. Walter
Bech
er is an au
then
tic neo
-Nazi, it w
ould
be h
ard to
reject su
ch a co
nclu
sion after read
ing th
e report in
the
May
21
, 19
69
issue o
f the F
rank
furter R
un
dsch
au, as
translated and reported to us by Herr F
riedrich Jaeger in a letter of the sam
e date. Dr. B
echer is reported to have told the M
unich Press C
lub: "I do not belong to those people w
ho condemn the
NP
D (th
e n
eo-N
azi p
arty
--M.K
.) right fro
m th
e
beginning. If the NP
D w
ill be voted into the Bundestag,
then it will get its place in the S
udeten Germ
an Council
too." H
err Jaeger advised us in the same letter that the
Ham
bu
rg w
eekly
, New
Po
licy, rep
orted
on
May
10
, 1
96
9 th
at Dr. B
echer h
ad recen
tly v
isited 2
2 S
enato
rs an
d 2
7 R
epresen
tatives. A
ccom
pan
yin
g B
echer w
as M
arcel Hep
p, ch
ief edito
r of F
ranz Jo
seph
Strau
ss' B
ayerk
urier. T
he F
rank
furter R
un
dsch
au stated
in its
April 25, 1969 issue that their purpose w
as to "influence som
e Right- R
epublican Senators against N
ixon's policy fo
r the tre
aty
of n
on-p
rolife
ratio
n (o
f nucle
ar
weap
on
s)". An
d N
ew P
olicy
, in th
e article prev
iou
sly
qu
oted
, ob
serves th
at Presid
ent N
ixo
n w
as very
ang
ry
about this flagrant intervention in Am
erican politics; and r
• _
1
l•
The June 1972 issue of W
ashington New
Approach
reports th
at Dr. W
alter Bech
er addressed
250,0
00
Sudeten
Germ
ans at S
tuttg
art durin
g th
e week
-end o
f M
ay 2
0-2
1, 1
97
2. B
echer d
eno
un
ced, in
vitrio
lic language, the W
arsaw and M
oscow treaties that had been
signed by his own governm
ent. W
e conclu
de fro
m all th
e availab
le data th
at the
Am
eric
an p
eople
must b
ecom
e m
ore
ale
rt to th
e
pro
blem
of cu
rbin
g th
e Fascists, n
eo-F
ascists, and
C
rypto-Fascists, w
ho conduct propaganda campaigns for
a Fascist dictatorship and a T
hird World W
ar. Concerned
citizens should protest the actions of any Congressm
an w
ho, wittingly or unw
ittingly, gives aid and comfort to
Dr. W
alte
r Becher a
nd th
e S
udete
ndeutsc
he
Lan
dsm
annsch
aft. Now
that th
e subject is o
ut in
the
op
en, n
o m
emb
er of C
on
gress can
plead
inn
ocen
ce of
the facts as an
excu
se for p
layin
g B
echer's g
ame. In
ad
ditio
n, th
e Cap
tive N
ation
s Reso
lutio
n, w
ith its
subversive attacks against 22 sovereign nations, should b
e rescind
ed. T
hese are so
me o
f the n
ecessary step
s to
thw
art the effo
rts of th
ose fo
rces Adm
iral Walter H
. C
anaris h
ad in
min
d w
hen
he sig
ned
the d
ocu
men
t on
behalf of the N
azi High C
omm
and, which stated:
"We h
ave at o
ur co
mm
and in
the U
nited
States
efficient co
ntacts w
hich
hav
e been
carefully
kep
t up
even during the war."
Let it n
ot b
e said b
y fu
ture g
eneratio
ns th
at we
Am
ericans failed to discharge our responsibilities.
Postscrip
t: After th
is essay w
as com
pleted
, additio
nal
info
rmatio
n b
ecame av
ailable, w
hich
corro
borates o
ur
thesis of an international neo-Nazi conspiracy.
On
New
Year's D
ay
, 19
72
, a P
eru
via
n
multi-m
illionaire, L
uis B
anch
ero R
ossi, w
as found
beaten
and stab
bed
to d
eath. M
orto
n M
. Rosen
thal
reported
in th
e Anti-D
efamatio
n L
eague B
ulletin
of
Sep
tember 1
972 th
at police in
vestig
ation led
to th
e th
eory
that B
anch
ero "h
ad b
een k
illed b
y a g
rou
p o
f high-ranking N
azis who engage in blackm
ail, smuggling
contraband, and illegal foreign currency dealings. These
illeg
al a
ctiv
ities w
ere
un
der th
e c
on
trol o
f an
organization know
n as Die S
pinne." T
he article states fu
rther th
at the P
eruvian
police
had
arrested a fo
rmer N
azi SS
colo
nel, F
rederico
S
chw
end, o
n a ch
arge o
f illegal fo
reign cu
rrency
dealings, and that he w
as suspected of engineering the B
anchero
murd
er. C
iting p
olic
e so
urc
es, L
ima
new
spap
ers repo
rted th
at the n
oto
riou
s Nazi w
ar crim
inal and fugitive from justice, D
r. Joseph Mengele,
had
been
in L
ima at th
e time o
f the m
urd
er and
that
Ma
rtin R
nrrrin
nn
'e n
am
e V
ine
linkp
h to
the
inve
stio
atim
i
this Mr. B
echer as being one and the same as D
r. Walter
Becher of the S
udetendeutsche Landsm
annschaft. Yes,
indeed, Walter B
echer gets around. T
he Prague N
ews L
etter of May 27, 1967 reported
that th
e rally o
f the L
and
sman
nsch
aft was h
eld in
M
unich that year. Then it adds:
"Th
e h
ead
qu
arte
rs of th
e S
ud
ete
n G
erm
an
L
and
sman
nsch
aft issued
a declaratio
n in
Feb
ruary
an
nouncin
g th
at , the in
famous M
unich
Agreem
ent o
f 1938, handing over part of C
zechoslovak territory to the N
azis, remains the basis of its policy and corresponds "in
its territorial measures, to the w
ill to self-determination
expressed by the Sudeten G
ermans".
A letter, d
ated Ju
ly 8
, 19
67
, from
Herr F
riedrich
Jaeger, our research colleague in H
agen/Westfalen, W
est G
ermany, reports that, as a result of our exposures, the
Sudeten
deu
tsche L
andsm
annsch
aft rally th
is year w
as not so
well p
ublicized
and it ap
pears th
at the V
oices
from
Am
erica did
not sp
eak u
p th
is year. H
ow
ever, it
was learned that they had am
ong their visitors this year: 1
.) P
rofessor Karol S
ittko, who w
as introduced as the president of the U
pper Silesiens W
orld League in the
U.S
.A. 2.)
Professor F
. K. R
ichter of Boston.
3.) D
r. Ernst S
cheyer of Detroit.
4.) H
ans K. L
inke of New
York.
It is no
t po
ssible, w
ithin
the lim
itation
s of th
is article, to detail the facts about all the organizations and individuals w
ho carry on the Becher propaganda line in
the U.S
.A. A
couple of examples w
ill illustrate the point. P
erh
ap
s the m
ost in
fluen
tial in
this w
ork
is the
Germ
an-Am
erican National C
ongress, with headquarters
in C
hicag
o. In
the Ju
ly 1
967 issu
e, its month
ly o
rgan
, D
er Deu
tsch-A
merik
aner, carries a fro
nt-p
age ap
peal,
signed
by its p
resiaent, W
alter A. K
ollack
s, for all
org
anizatio
ns to
particip
ate in th
e sched
uled
"Cap
tive
Nations" parade in C
hicago. The C
aptive Nations W
eek is a project that resulted from
the work of P
rofessor Lev
Dobrian
sky, w
ho teach
es econom
ics at Geo
rgeto
wn
University. H
e is the president of the Ukrainian C
ongress C
om
mittee o
f Am
erica, a gro
up
wh
ose p
hilo
sop
hy
parallels that of the S
udetendeutsche Landsm
annschaft. In
add
ition
, he is th
e edito
r of its o
fficial org
an, T
Ix
Ukrainian Q
uarterly. He is also the econom
ics editor of W
ashin
gto
n R
epo
rt, the w
eekly
new
sletter of th
e A
merican S
ecurity Council, w
hich is, in our considered opin
ion, th
e m
ost in
fluentia
l spokesm
an fo
r the
military-industrial com
plex. U
sing propaganda techniques quite similar to those
of Dr. W
alter Becher, P
rofessor Dobriansky engineered
the passage by Congress i.-1 1959 of a so-called C
aptive N
ations Week resolution—
Public L
aw 86-90. T
he thesis ad
op
ted in
this reso
lutio
n is th
at all the n
ation
s in th
e C
omm
unist bloc are "captive nations", whom
we should
111
a
WV
, TV
So
•,./...a
sss
a letter from D
r. Becher w
hich Congressm
an William
E.
Minshall (R
., Ohio) placed in the R
ecord on July 3. We
wrote to the C
ongressman, telling him
briefly about our in
vestig
ation o
f Bech
er. The C
ongressm
an p
rofessed
ignorance of B
echer's background. T
he Sudeten G
erman . D
ay rally on May 25, 1969
was held, appropriately, at N
uremberg, w
here Hitler had
staged
his y
early p
rop
agan
da ex
travag
anzas. S
om
e 400,000 S
udeten Germ
ans assembled for the rally, out
of a total of 2 million now
living in West G
ermany. T
he N
PD
---the neo-Nazi party--- distributed 90,000 copies of
its official newspaper, w
ith the headline: "The M
unich A
greement R
emains V
alid". If th
ere cou
ld b
e any
do
ub
ts that D
r. Walter
Bech
er is an au
then
tic neo
-Nazi, it w
ould
be h
ard to
reject su
ch a co
nclu
sion after read
ing th
e report in
the
May
21, 1
969 issu
e of th
e Fran
kfu
rter Rundsch
au, as
translated and reported to us by Herr F
riedrich Jaeger in a letter of the sam
e date. Dr. B
echer is reported to have told the M
unich Press C
lub: "I do not belong to those people w
ho condemn the
NP
D (th
e n
eo
-Nazi p
arty
--M.K
.) righ
t from
the
beginning. If the NP
D w
ill be voted into the Bundestag,
then it will get its place in the S
udeten Germ
an Council
too
." Herr Jaeg
er adv
ised u
s in th
e same letter th
at the
Ham
burg
week
ly, N
ew P
olicy
, reported
on M
ay 1
0,
19
69
that D
r. Bech
er had
recently
visited
22
Sen
ators
and
27
Rep
resentativ
es. Acco
mp
any
ing
Bech
er was
Marcel H
epp, ch
ief edito
r of F
ranz Jo
seph S
trauss'
Bay
erku
rier. Th
e Fran
kfu
rter Ru
nd
schau
stated in
its A
pril 25, 1969 issue that their purpose was to "influence
some R
ight- Republican S
enators against Nixon's policy
for th
e tre
aty
of n
on-p
rolife
ratio
n (o
f nucle
ar
weap
on
s)". An
d N
ew P
olicy
, in th
e article prev
iou
sly
quoted
, observ
es that P
residen
t Nix
on w
as very
angry
about this flagrant intervention in A
merican politics; and
that th
e Adm
inistratio
n refrain
ed fro
m an
y o
fficial pro
test to th
e Bonn g
overn
men
t only
becau
se the
activities of Becher and H
epp did not get public notice. A
merican
citizens m
ay w
ell ask w
hy
the m
edia o
f com
munic
atio
n h
ave k
ept th
em
ignora
nt o
f the
subversive activities of the neo-Nazi propagandists.
Th
e Su
deten
Germ
an D
ay 1
97
0 w
as held
in
Munich under the slogan of "F
or a Free E
urope --- Peace
by Partnership", w
hich, of course, is sheer demagogy.
In h
is letter to u
s of S
eptem
ber 3
, 1970, H
err F
riedrich Jaeger reported that information had reached
them
that S
enato
r Barry
Gold
water h
ad w
elcom
ed to
W
ashington a group of Right-W
ing politicians from W
est G
erman
y, w
ho
were in
this co
un
try fro
m Ju
ly 7
to 1
6;
that Dr. W
alter Becher visited here during the last w
eek o
f Jun
e and
called o
n m
emb
ers of b
oth
the H
ou
se of
Representatives and the S
enate.
Dr. W
alte
r Bech
er a
nd
the S
ud
ete
nd
eu
tsch
e
Lan
dsm
annsch
aft. Now
that th
e subject is o
ut in
the
open, no mem
ber of Congress can plead innocence of
the facts as an
excu
se for p
layin
g B
echer's g
ame. In
ad
ditio
n, th
e Cap
tive N
ations R
esolu
tion, w
ith its
subversive attacks against 22 sovereign nations, should be rescinded. T
hese are some of the necessary steps to
thw
art the effo
rts of th
ose fo
rces Adm
iral Walter H
. C
anaris had in mind w
hen he signed the document on
behalf of the Nazi H
igh Com
mand, w
hich stated: "W
e hav
e at ou
r com
man
d in
the U
nited
States
efficient co
ntacts w
hich
hav
e been
carefully
kep
t up
even during the war."
Let it n
ot b
e said b
y fu
ture g
eneratio
ns th
at we
Am
ericans failed to discharge our responsibilities.
Po
stscript: A
fter this essay
was co
mp
leted, ad
ditio
nal
information becam
e available, which corroborates our
thesis of an international neo-Nazi conspiracy.
On
New
Year's D
ay
, 19
72
, a P
eru
via
n
mu
lti-millio
naire, L
uis B
anch
ero R
ossi, w
as fou
nd
b
eaten an
d stab
bed
to d
eath. M
orto
n M
. Ro
senth
al rep
orted
in th
e Anti-D
efamatio
n L
eague B
ulletin
of
Sep
tember 1
972 th
at police in
vestig
ation led
to th
e th
eory
that B
anch
ero "h
ad b
een k
illed b
y a g
roup o
f high-ranking N
azis who engage in blackm
ail, smuggling
contraband, and illegal foreign currency dealings. These
illeg
al a
ctiv
ities w
ere
un
der th
e c
on
trol o
f an
organization know
n as Die S
pinne." T
he article states further that the Peruvian police
had
arrested a fo
rmer N
azi SS
colo
nel, F
rederico
S
chw
end
, on
a charg
e of illeg
al foreig
n cu
rrency
dealings, and that he w
as suspected of engineering the B
anchero
murd
er. C
iting p
olic
e so
urc
es, L
ima
new
spap
ers reported
that th
e noto
rious N
azi war
criminal and fugitive from
justice, Dr. Joseph M
engele, had
been
in L
ima at th
e time o
f the m
urd
er and th
at M
artin Borm
ann's name w
as linked to the investigation. M
r. Rosenthal reports also: "A
ccording to recently released U
.S. S
tate Departm
ent documents, six hundred
Nazis fo
un
d refu
ge in
Arg
entin
a alon
e. . .and
"were
protected and cared for by a 'Com
radeship Trust' set up
by
SS
men
to lo
ok
after the in
terests of N
azi war
criminals and their fam
ilies."
SU
BS
CR
IBE
TO
:
U. S. F
AR
M N
EW
S or b
etter yet -
JOIN
TH
E U
.S. F
AR
ME
RS
AS
SO
CIA
TIO
N
10
24
Gra
nd
, Des M
oin
es, Iow
a 5
03
09
0 I w
ant h
onest re
pre
senta
tion. C
ount m
e in
as
University. H
e is the president of the Ukrainian C
ongress C
om
mittee o
f Am
erica, a gro
up w
hose p
hilo
sophy
parallels that of the Sudetendeutsche L
andsmannschaft.
In addition, he is the editor of its official organ, Thg
Ukrainian Q
uarterly. He is also the econom
ics editor of W
ashin
gto
n R
epo
rt, the w
eekly
new
sletter of th
e A
merican S
ecurity Council, w
hich is, in our considered o
pin
ion
, the m
ost in
fluen
tial spo
kesm
an fo
r the
military-industrial com
plex. U
sing propaganda techniques quite similar to those
of Dr. W
alter Becher, P
rofessor Dobriansky engineered
the passage by Congress in 1959 of a so-called C
aptive N
ations Week resolution---P
ublic Law
86-90. The thesis
adopted in this resolution is that all the nations in the C
omm
unist bloc are "captive nations", whom
we should
help
"liberate". T
his, o
f course, is an
ideo
log
ical corollary to B
echer's "liberation" program to restore the
Germ
an e
xpelle
es to
the S
udete
n re
gio
n o
f C
zechoslovakia, as well as B
echer's "CS
S" doctrine and
Rob
ert Welch
's "Insid
ers" theo
ry. P
ursu
ant to
this
resolution, meetings, rallies, dem
onstrations And parades
-are held in many cities each year, w
here inflamm
atory speeches are m
ade to heat up the Cold W
ar. In addition, scores of C
ongressmen and S
enators fill hundreds of pag
es with
speech
es calling fo
r "liberatio
n"; an
d
Dob
riansk
y's sp
eeches an
d articles are p
laced in
the
Congressional R
ecord, from w
here our Ultra-R
ightists pick up the "facts from
the Congressional R
ecord". This
is done in spite of the fact that we m
aintain diplomatic
and
trade relatio
ns w
ith all th
ese "captiv
e natio
ns",
excepting the Peking regim
e of China. D
obriansky, the A
merican
Secu
rity. C
ouncil, an
d th
e Congressio
nal
collab
orato
rs do
not in
clude F
ascist Sp
ain, F
ascist G
reece, and all the tyrannical regimes of C
entral and S
outh Am
erica in their concept of "captive nations". T
he Fascist regim
es, including Chiang K
ai-shek's regime
on Taiw
an, are included in their concept or the "free w
orld". In the 1967 session of Congress, every single
mem
ber of Congress w
as handed a pamphlet about the
Cap
tive N
ations th
eme, w
ritten b
y D
obrian
sky; an
d
Congressm
an William
C. B
ray of Indiana placed the entire pam
phlet in he Congressional R
ecord of July 11, 1967, w
ith this statement: "S
o. that the general public m
ay become fam
iliar with this subject, I include the
Dobrian
sky article in
full in
the R
ecord
." Am
ong
Dobriansky's other activities w
ere his active work in the
Goldw
ater election campaign and his participation in
Senator D
odd's defense comm
ittee. T
he Germ
an-Am
erican National C
ongress conducts a p
ropag
anda cam
paig
n fo
r forcib
le reunificatio
n o
f G
ermany, a program
which they know
, or should know,
cann
ot b
e con
sum
mated
with
out a real d
ang
er of
activities of Becher and H
epp did not get public notice. A
merican
citizens m
ay w
ell ask w
hy th
e med
ia of
com
municatio
n h
ave k
ept th
em ig
noran
t of th
e subversive activities of the neo-N
azi propagandists. T
he S
ud
eten G
erman
Day
19
70
was h
eld in
M
unich under the slogan of "For a F
ree Europe --- P
eace by P
artnership", which, of course, is sheer dem
agogy. In
his letter to
us o
f Sep
tember 3
, 1970, H
err F
riedrich Jaeger reported that information had reached
them that S
enator Barry G
oldwater had w
elcomed to
Washington a group of R
ight-Wing politicians from
West
Germ
any, who w
ere in this country from July 7 to 16;
that Dr. W
alter Becher visited here during the last w
eek of June and called on m
embers of both the H
ouse of R
epresentatives and the Senate.
On O
ctober 16, 1970, we sent a letter to S
enator G
old
water, g
ivin
g th
e nam
es of th
e West G
erman
R
ight-W
ing p
olitician
s, who h
ad alleg
edly
been
w
elcomed w
armly by him
, and we asked the follow
ing questions:
1.)
What areas did these gentlem
en cover in their talks w
ith you? 2.)
To the extent that it has becom
e known to
you, please advise what areas these gentlem
en covered in their talks w
ith the Adm
inistration? 3.)
To the extent that it has becom
e known to
you, please advise what organizations they visited?
4.) W
hat w
as their p
urp
ose in
hold
ing th
ese m
eetings and discussions? W
e also wrote the S
enator: "I w
ould appreciate your advising me if you m
et w
ith Dr. B
echer, and I would like to get som
e idea of the purpose of his m
ission." T
he Senator did not reply. S
o, on Novem
ber 14, 1970, w
e sent him a courteous letter, w
ith which w
e enclosed a copy of the previous letter, and again asked for a reply. T
he Senator rem
ained silent! In
its April 1
972 issu
e,
Wash
inon N
ew
A
pproach, the monthly organ of the G
erman-A
merican
National C
ongress, quotes the West G
erman m
agazine D
er Spiegel as reporting the follow
ing: 1
.) T
hat D
r. Walte
r Bech
er h
ad
been
in
Wash
ingto
n to
pro
pag
andize m
embers o
f Congress
against his own governm
ent's new policy of peaceful
coexistence with E
ast Germ
any. 2.)
That am
ong those whom
he met w
ere Senator
Ro
man
Hru
ska, S
enato
r Stro
m T
hu
rmo
nd
, and
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ursu
ant to
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dish
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ts, m
embers of C
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Chancellor W
illy Brandt's O
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ards the East).
released U.S
. State D
epartment docum
ents, six hundred N
azis found refuge in Argentina alone. . .and "w
ere protected and cared for by a 'C
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rust' set up b
y S
S m
en to
loo
k after th
e interests o
f Nazi w
ar crim
inals and their families."
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e C
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r the
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cra
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is b
oo
k is
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luable
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rence
book, a
nd h
is dedica
tion to
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ocra
cy and th
e b
roth
erh
ood o
f man is e
vident."
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me
r Ay
res
, Write
r, from
Stu
rgis, S
ou
th D
ako
ta: "T
his b
oo
k is a re
al g
old
min
e o
f info
rma
tion
tha
t a
ll pe
op
le w
ho
wa
nt to
cha
ng
e th
ing
s for th
e b
ette
r sho
uld
rea
d a
nd
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ve o
n h
an
d, to
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ad
.. . It is on
e o
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ose
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oks I w
ou
ld g
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ve if p
ur h
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se ca
ug
ht fire
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rne
y H
aro
ld T
ick
tin, C
leve
lan
d: "M
r. Ko
min
sky sho
ws in
sup
era
bu
nd
an
t de
tail th
e m
en
da
city of
much
that p
asse
s as re
specta
ble
debate
in o
ur co
untry."
Psych
olo
gy P
rofe
sso
r, Dr. H
arry
C. S
tein
metz: "F
or e
ight ye
ars, M
orris K
om
insky h
as b
een d
oggedly,
bra
vely, syste
matica
lly, and e
xpensive
ly inve
stigatin
g th
e U
ltra-R
ightist a
nd n
eo-F
ascist in
divid
uals in
the
U.S
.A., a
nd
his fin
din
gs a
re frig
hte
nin
g."
Alb
ert K
ah
n, a
uth
or: "Y
ou h
ave
perfo
rmed a
service
of tru
e im
porta
nce
."
Geo
rge S
eld
es, a
uth
or a
nd
jou
rnalis
t: "You h
ave
done a
gre
at jo
b in
"The H
oaxe
rs." It is a b
ook w
hich
sh
ou
ld b
e ta
ken
up
by u
nive
rsities, fo
un
da
tion
s, asso
ciatio
ns, a
nd
ma
de
req
uire
d re
ad
ing
in co
lleg
es, a
nd
e
spe
cially w
he
reve
r histo
ry is tau
gh
t."
Mis
s W
an
da
Wig
ht, L
ibra
rian
, Ph
oe
nix P
ub
lic Lib
rary: "T
hre
e ch
ee
rs for M
orris K
om
insky, w
ho
step
s o
n E
lea
no
r Ro
ose
velt's to
es a
nd
an
yon
e e
lse's in
ad
vised
ly invo
lved
in co
ntrib
utio
n to
the
pro
pa
ga
tion
of a
h
oa
x."
PA
GE
EIG
HT
M
AR
CH
, 19
73
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fesso
r Haro
ld C
. Ure
y, w
orld
fam
ous N
obel L
aure
ate
: "I have
read yo
ur-b
oo
k with
en
orm
ou
s fa
scinatio
n, a
nd I th
ink it is a
n e
xceedin
gly va
luable
book."
Su
pe
rior C
ou
rt Ju
dg
e R
ob
ert W
. Ken
ny, fo
rmer C
alifo
rnia
Atto
rney G
enera
l: "It is my fo
nd h
ope th
at
your b
ook w
ill get th
e m
assive
distrib
utio
n th
at it ,d
ese
rves."
Fra
nk
Ke
lly, V
ice
-Pre
sid
en
t of th
e C
en
ter fo
r the
Stu
dy o
f De
mo
cra
tic In
stitu
tion
s: "H
is b
oo
k is
va
luable
as a
refe
rence
book, a
nd h
is dedica
tion to
dem
ocra
cy and th
e b
roth
erh
ood o
f man is e
vident."
Ho
me
r Ay
res
, Write
r, from
Stu
rgis, S
ou
th D
ako
ta: "T
his b
oo
k is a re
al g
old
min
e o
f info
rma
tion
tha
t a
ll pe
op
le w
ho
wa
nt to
cha
ng
e th
ing
s for th
e b
ette
r sho
uld
rea
d a
nd
ha
ve o
n h
an
d, to
re-re
ad
... It is on
e o
f th
ose
bo
oks I w
ou
ld g
rab
to sa
ve if o
ur h
ou
se ca
ug
ht fire
."
Atto
rney H
aro
ld T
icktin
, Cle
vela
nd: "M
r. Kom
insky sh
ow
s in su
pera
bundant d
eta
il the m
endacity o
f m
uch
that p
asse
s as re
specta
ble
debate
in o
ur co
untry."
Psych
olo
gy P
rofe
sso
r, Dr. H
arry
C. S
tein
metz: "F
or e
ight ye
ars, M
orris K
om
insky h
as b
een d
oggedly,
bra
vely, syste
ma
tically, a
nd
exp
en
sively in
vestig
atin
g th
e U
ltra-R
igh
tist an
d n
eo
-Fa
scist ind
ividu
als in
the
U
.S.A
., an
d h
is find
ing
s are
frigh
ten
ing
."
Alb
ert K
ah
n, a
uth
or: "Y
ou h
ave
perfo
rmed a
service
of tru
e im
porta
nce
."
Geo
rge S
eld
es, a
uth
or a
nd
jou
rnalis
t: "You h
ave
done a
gre
at jo
b in
"The H
oaxe
rs." It is a b
ook w
hich
sh
ou
ld b
e ta
ken
up
by u
nive
rsities, fo
un
da
tion
s, asso
ciatio
ns, a
nd
ma
de
req
uire
d re
ad
ing
in co
lleg
es, a
nd
e
spe
cially w
he
reve
r histo
ry is tau
gh
t." • -
Miss W
an
da
Wig
ht, L
ibra
rian
, Phoenix P
ublic L
ibra
ry: "Thre
e ch
eers fo
r Morris K
om
insky, w
ho
step
s on E
leanor R
oose
velt's to
es a
nd a
nyo
ne e
lse's in
advise
dly in
volve
d in
contrib
utio
n to
the p
ropagatio
n o
f a
hoax."
Pro
fesso
r Fre
deric
k L
. Sch
um
an
, distin
guish
ed p
olitica
l scientist: "Y
our b
ook is.a
magnifice
nt jo
b o
f defin
itive re
search
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osin
g fo
r good o
f the in
num
era
ble
misre
pre
senta
tions a
nd fa
brica
tions o
f Am
erica
n
Rig
htists a
nd F
ascists."
Ken
neth
Co
nle
y, D
irecto
r, Na
tion
al In
form
atio
n C
en
ter, S
prin
gfie
ld, M
ass.: "I h
ave
just co
mp
lete
d
readin
g "T
he H
oaxe
rs" and w
ord
s cannot e
xpre
ss how
use
ful yo
ur m
onum
enta
l work w
ill be fo
r us .. . It is
no
w th
e m
ost va
lua
ble
refe
ren
ce I h
ave
on
the
righ
t win
g."
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llyw
oo
d A
ttorn
ey H
erb
ert M
. Po
rter: "I ca
nnot co
mm
end to
o h
eartily th
e n
ece
ssity of p
rese
rving
our o
wn live
s by le
arn
ing
the
lesso
ns th
at a
re se
t out in
this b
ook . .. T
his b
ook is re
qu
ired
rea
din
g fo
r the
liv
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Gilb
ert A
hcaria
n_ in
the J
ou
rnal o
f Po
litics_ U
niv
ers
ity o
f Flo
rida
: "A m
aste
rnie
ce
of n
olitin
al
de
finitive
rese
arch
, disp
osin
g fo
r go
od
of th
e in
nu
me
rab
le m
isrep
rese
nta
tion
s an
d fa
brica
tion
s of A
me
rican
R
ightists a
nd F
ascists."
Ke
nn
eth
Co
nle
y, D
irecto
r, Na
tion
al In
form
atio
n C
en
ter, S
prin
gfie
ld, M
ass.: "I h
ave
just co
mp
lete
d
readin
g "T
he H
oaxe
rs" and w
ord
s cannot e
xpre
ss how
use
ful yo
ur m
onum
enta
l work w
ill be fo
r us ... It is
now
the m
ost va
luable
refe
rence
I have
on th
e rig
ht w
ing."
Ho
llyw
oo
d A
ttorn
ey
He
rbe
rt M. P
orte
r: "I cannot co
mm
end to
o h
eartily th
e n
ece
ssity of p
rese
rving
ou
r ow
n live
s by le
arn
ing
the
lesso
ns th
at a
re se
t ou
t in th
is bo
ok ... T
his b
oo
k is req
uire
d re
ad
ing
for th
e
livin
g."
Gilb
ert A
bcaria
n, in
the J
ou
rnal o
f Po
litics, U
niv
ers
ity o
f Flo
rida: "A
maste
rpie
ce o
f politic
al
dete
ctive w
ork."
U.S
. Sen
ato
r Jo
hn
V. T
un
ney: "Y
our b
ook is w
ell-d
ocu
mente
d a
nd yo
ur p
rese
nta
tion is in
form
ative
,
con
vincin
g, a
nd
be
lieva
ble
."
Brig
ad
ier G
en
era
l Hu
gh
B. H
este
r, (U.S
.A., R
et.):
"Every
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en o
wes it a
s a
patrio
tic d
uty
to
enco
ura
ge w
ide re
adersh
ip o
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xposu
re o
f the re
al co
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iracy a
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eople
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e U
nite
d S
tate
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Ho
n. R
en
z L. J
en
nin
gs
, retire
d Ju
stice o
f the
Arizo
na
Su
pre
me
Co
urt: "I w
as tre
me
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ou
sly fascin
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d
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r bo
ok. Y
ou
ha
ve re
nd
ere
d a
gre
at se
rvice to
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r cou
ntry a
nd
hu
ma
nity. I co
nsid
er it th
e m
ost
importa
nt b
ook to
reach
the p
eople
of th
is country in
many ye
ars."
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