The fire next time.
Adolph Hitler
Will the volatile oil market trigger a Third World War? Will anti-Jewish sentiment be involved?
Another major global recession can trigger the Third World war with some Western European states and the Arabs taking on the United States and Israel.
This is the scenario of a novel written by academic Adrian Gomez who believes that Russia will make common cause in a conflict triggered by a volatile oil market.
Such a conflict would make the current political squabbling in Trinidad and Tobago seem like tea parties for old ladies.
“The world is headed for a new showdown between Nazis and Jews,” a leadng Trini artist told me some years ago.
Durng the hectic 1960s, I had a close first hand view of international power politics.
In 1972. I flew from London to Germany to take a test for a job at Radio Free Europe.
The station, based in Munich, offered me the job but I turned it down to remain working with Reuters News Agency in London.
Reuters assigned me to Argentina in mid-1974 and I travelled to Venezuela to get some personal documents I needed.
I visited relatives and friends in Caracas, among them Clemente Cohen, a US citizen and former editor of the English language Daily Journal newspaper for which I used to work.
“What the hell have you been up to?” Clem asked me abruptly.
“What do you mean?” I asked him? “I have been working for the past few years with Reuters in London.”
“Is that all?” he asked.
“Yes, why do you ask?” I said, feeling puzzled.
“The CIA has been asking questions about you,” he replied. ‘They contacted me and asked me about your background. What did you do?”
“Oh that,” I replied. “They were doing a background check because I had applied for a job in Munich, Germany with Radio Free Europe. And what did you tell them?”
“I told them that I considered you a loyal subject of the British Queen since you were educated in Trinidad.”
“Hey thanks,” I told him. “They agreed to give me the job but I turned it down.when I was told the CIA funded the station.”
“I was impressed by their interest in you,” Clem said.
I had little knowledge of German history and the language.
I knew only that Germany had taken on the rest of Europe in two world wars and had lost them both.
I also knew about Adolf Hitler’s fury against the Jews.
The Great Depression of 1929 had battered the German economy, fuelling hyper- inflation and political unrest.
Hitler formed the National Socialist (Nazi) Party and managed to convince the German people to elect him Chancellor.
Hitler stressed national pride and blamed the Jews for his country’s socio-economic problems.
He believed that the Jews were determined to rule the world through their control of the global financial system and cared nothing for the nations in which they lived.
He also considered Marxism a Jewish materialist ideology and believed that charity and compassion were virtues only for the weak.
His paganistic Nazi movement was ultranationalist and he decided to impose his ideology on the world through brute force.
His “final solution” to the Jewish problem would be to murder the entire race.
The western allies amnd Russia won the war and Hitler commited suicide.
Unike the victorous allies of the first world war, the United States did not demand reparations from the defeated Axis powers.
Instead, it provided financial and other assistance to rebuild the economies of Japan and the battered European counriees, including Germany.
US troops had occupied Munich while the Rusians virtually colonised Eastern Europe.
The Americans set up Radio Free Europe there to broadcast news and propaganda to Eastern Europe.
While in Munich, I visited popular sites like the famous Oprahaus where Gemans drink gallons of beer during the Oktoberfest.
I found the people of Munich very courteous and many of them spoke English.
I noted that many of them looked more Latin than German with darker hair and complexions.
After the test at the radio station located in the Eglishergarten, I visited a nearby pub with some of the American and Canadians who worked there and they gave a rundown on local history, politics and culture.
I learned that Hitlet had established his Nazi party in Munich, was born in neighouring Austria and was raised a Catholic.
The lads told me that many Austrians had Italian genes and that many people considered Munich the most northern Italian city.
Northern Germany became Protestant after the Reformation but the south remained Catholic.
Hitler admired Italy’s Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and adapted their raised open palm salute as his own.
“Ave Caeser” (long live Caesar) became “Sieg Heil.”
Hitler’s madness led to the creation of a Jewish state in what used to be Palestine creating a political problem there which threatens to engulf the rest of the world.
Germany is now united and is a major power in Europe but now keeps a low profile in world politics.
The Nazi movement has been badly discredited and Communism seems passe.
Germany now has a responsible social democratic system and is a close ally of the United States.
But ancient grievances die hard snd some analysts believa that another anti-Jewish pogrom is inevitable if the global economy sinks into a major recession.