The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

THE WRITING ON THE WALL 121“These unknown personalities may be used later by the underground.Party functionaries who may be known locally, but certainly not nationally,can easily be transferred to another city or town, where they will suddenlyappear as anti-Nazis. The party helps in their masquerades. Thesemen get new documents which ‘prove’ that they have always been anti-Nazi. Notes are inserted in their personal files saying they must be watchedon account of their anti-Hitler attitudes and ‘unworthy’ behavior. Someof them will undoubtedly be sent to concentration camps for crimes whichthey have never committed, but which will make them look dependablein the eyes of the Allies; some have perhaps already succeeded in joininganti-Nazi circles and are pretending to conspire against Hitler. Later onthey will be able to use such activities as alibis.”Nazi sympathizers across the world were brought into the plan for resurrectingNational Socialism through the Auslandsorganisation (AO), orthe League of Germans Abroad. Various forms of this organization hadbeen in existence since the 1800s and have manipulated thousands of personsin many different countries. In Czechoslovakia, Holland, Belgium,and Norway, members aided the Nazi invasions, becoming known as“fifth columnists.”“[T]he Nazis, long before they came to power, put their men or menthey trusted into these leagues. At a party meeting in Hamburg it wasdecided to set up Nazi cells within all these organizations. That was in1930. One year later Rudolf Hess formed a special Foreign Department ofthe [Reich Leadership] of the National Socialist Party, which establishedcard files on every member who lived abroad or traveled abroad. This wasthe basis of the gigantic files which the AO was to organize later,” statedReiss.In 1944, Reiss pondered when the flight capital program might bearfruit. “How long it will take for the Nazis to come back, to emerge on thesurface—if they succeed in their aims—is a question which cannot beanswered at all. Even under the most favorable circumstances—that is,most favorable for them—it will take ten or fifteen years. Even then itwould be a blitzkrieg, an underground blitzkrieg with somewhat differentconceptions of time,” he wrote. “The Italian underground needed a halfcentury to achieve its goal, the Irish a whole century, the Bonapartists