Die Geschichte der Murphy Ranch in Kalifornien ist so bizarr und so unvollständig aufgeklärt, dass sie einen eigenen Post wert ist.
Ich hatte darüber schon in dem Post "McKiernan und andere SS Fans in den USA" berichtet:
http://zettelmaus.blogspot.com/2012/05/was-hat-mckiernan-wirklich-gesagt.html .
Die Hollywood-Connection und die Murphy Ranch sind auch erwähnt in dem Abschnitt "Von der Krim nach Connecticut" in dem Post
http://zettelmaus.blogspot.com/2014/03/krim-krise-und-historischer-krimkrieg.html
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| Ruinen der Murphy Ranch Fotostrecke auf http://californiathroughmylens.com/murphys- ranch-abandoned-nazi-camp-in-santa-monica/ . |
Nun fand ich dazu noch eine Fotostrecke auf
http://californiathroughmylens.com/
murphys-ranch-abandoned-nazi-camp-in-santa-monica/ .
Seltsam ist, dass über Herrn Schmidt, auf dessen Einfluss die Entstehung dieses Nazi-Camps in der Nähe von Hollywood zurückgeführt wird, so wenig zu erfahren ist.
Ist Herr Schmidt mehr eine Metapher als eine reale historische Figur - eine Metapher dafür, dass alle Nazi-Einflüsse in den USA von deutschen Spionen gekommen sein müssen, und der Gedanke, dass es WECHSELSEITIGE Einflüsse gab, nicht aufkommen darf?
Über das Trio Dietrich
Eckart, Alfred Rosenberg und Otto von Kursell und die Publikation ihres
Hass-Pamphlets „Gravediggers of Russia“ in Hollywood siehe Post „Bolschewisten-Fratzen
in der Karikatur“
http://guttmensch.blogspot.com/2011/08/bolschewisten-gesichter-das.html
Über den Führer der Silver Shirts (SS) und
Hollywood-Autor William Dudley Pelley siehe auch Stichwort „Pelley“ auf meinem
anderen Blog; z.B. im Post „Auf gut deutsch und Plain English – kleine Bildergalerie“
http://guttmensch.blogspot.com/2011/08/bolschewisten-gesichter-das.html
http://guttmensch.blogspot.com/2013/03/auf-gut-deutsch-und-plain-english.html
The tracks of Mr. Schmidt
The history of the Murphy Ranch in California is so bizarre and so incompletely understood, that it is worth a post of its own.
I first came across the Murphy Ranch when working on the post "McKiernan and other SS fans in the U.S", and have mentioned about it there:
http://zettelmaus.blogspot.com/2012/05/was-hat-mckiernan-wirklich-gesagt.html
The Hollywood Connection and the Murphy Ranch are also mentioned in the section on Anastase Vonsiatsky ("Von der Krim nach Connecticut") on http://zettelmaus.blogspot.com/2014/03/krim-krise-und-historischer-krimkrieg.htmlThe history of the Murphy Ranch in California is so bizarre and so incompletely understood, that it is worth a post of its own.
I first came across the Murphy Ranch when working on the post "McKiernan and other SS fans in the U.S", and have mentioned about it there:
http://zettelmaus.blogspot.com/2012/05/was-hat-mckiernan-wirklich-gesagt.html
More recently, I found a series of photos
from the Murphy compound on:
http://californiathroughmylens.com/murphys-ranch-abandoned-nazi-camp-in-santa-monica/
http://californiathroughmylens.com/murphys-ranch-abandoned-nazi-camp-in-santa-monica/
It is strange that so little is known about Mr. Schmidt, whose
influence is said to have led to the
development of this Nazi camp
near Hollywood.
Is Mr. Smith more of a metaphor than a real historical figure - a metaphor that all Nazi influences in the United States must have come from German spies, and the existence of MUTUAL influences is unthinkable?
Is Mr. Smith more of a metaphor than a real historical figure - a metaphor that all Nazi influences in the United States must have come from German spies, and the existence of MUTUAL influences is unthinkable?
About the trio Dietrich Eckart, Alfred Rosenberg und Otto von Kursell and the publication of their hate phamphlet „Gravediggers of Russia“ in Hollywood see Post „Bolschewisten-Fratzen in der Karikatur“
http://guttmensch.blogspot.com/2011/08/bolschewisten-gesichter-das.html
About the
leader of the Silver Shirts (SS) und Hollywood author William Dudley Pelley see
search word „Pelley“ on my other blog; for example on the post „Auf gut deutsch
und Plain English – kleine Bildergalerie“
http://guttmensch.blogspot.com/2013/03/auf-gut-deutsch-und-plain-english.html
http://guttmensch.blogspot.com/2013/03/auf-gut-deutsch-und-plain-english.html
Geschaeftsbedingte Nazi-Sympathien?
AntwortenLöschen... General Motor’s Opel division was one of the largest tank manufacturers for Hitler. Dillon and Reed was one of the Wall Street firms that helped finance and build the Third Reich. Perhaps, the best summary of how the Control Council was sabotaged comes from Morgenthau’s memorandum of May 29, 1945. It is reproduced below.
MEMORANDUM
May 29, 1945
Lieutenant-General Lucius D. Clay, as Deputy to General Eisenhower, actively runs the American element of the Control council for Germany. General Clay's three principal advisers on the Control Council staff are:
1. Ambassador Robert D. Murphy, who is in charge of the Political Division.
2. Louis Douglas, whom General Clay describes' as my personal adviser on economical, financial and governmental matters." Douglas resigned as Director of the Budget in 1934; and for the following eight years he attacked the government's fiscal policies. Since 1940, Douglas has been president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and since December 1944, he has been a director of the General Motors Corporation.
3. Brigadier-General William Draper, who is the director of the Economics Division of the Control Council. General Draper is a partner of the banking firm of Dillon, Read and Company.
Sunday's New York Times contained the announcement of key personnel who have been appointed by General Clay and General Draper to the Economic Division of the Control Council. The appointments include the following:
1. R.J. Wysor is to be in charge of the metallurgical tatters. Wysor was president of the Republic Steel Corporation from 1937 until a recent date, and prior thereto, he was associated with the Bethlehem Steel, Jones and Laughlin Steel corporation and the Republic Steel Corporation.
2. Edward X. Zdunke is to supervise the engineering section. Prior to the war, Mr. Zdunke was head of General Motors at Antwerp.
3. Philip Gaethke is to be in charge of mining operations. Gaethke was formerly connected with Anaconda Copper and as manager of its smelters and mines in Upper Silesia before the war.
4. Philip P. Clover is to be in charge of handling oil matters. He was formerly a representative of the Socony Vacuum Oil Company in Germany.
5. Peter Hoglund is to deal with industrial production problems. Hoglund is on leave from General Motors and is said to be an expert on German production.
6. Calvin B. Hoover is to be in charge of the Intelligence Group on the Control Council and is also to be a special advisor to General Draper. In a letter to the Editor of the New York Times on October 9, 1944, Hoover wrote as follows:
The publication of Secretary Morgenthau's plan for dealing with Germany has disturbed me deeply. . . such a Carthaginian peace would leave a legacy of hate to poison international relations for generations to come. . . the void in the economy of Europe which would exist through the destruction of all German industry is something which is difficult to contemplate.
7. Laird Bell is to be Chief Counsel of the Economic Division. He is a well-known Chicago lawyer and in May 1944, was elected the president of the Chicago Daily News, after the death of Frank Knox.
One of the men who helped General Draper in the selection of personnel for the Economics Division was Colonel Graeme Howard, a vice-president of General Motors, who was in charge of their overseas business and who was a leading representative of General Motors in Germany prior to the war. Howard is the author of a book in which he praises totalitarian practices, justifies German aggression and the Munich policy of appeasement, and blames Roosevelt for precipitating the war. ...
A Pledge Betrayed
Part 7: The Control Council Of Germany
http://cosmicpenguin.com/GDY/gdy/betrayalp7.htm
(A pledge betrayed)
LöschenThe question of German remilitarization was first raised when, Chancellor Adenauer suggested a united Europe defended by an integrated European Army. In 1948, Adenauer submitted a request to US authorities in secret to rearm twenty-five divisions. The request was exposed on July 30, 1948 in an article in US News and World report.
The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 brought about a total change. Provisions banning military groups were no longer enforced. West Germany was allowed to set up its own General Staff camouflaged under the name "Blank Office." Supported by Bonn and the United States a network of ex-Nazi officers was created to reactive Germany’s military. The man behind the plan for remilitarization was Dr. Werner Naumann. With his old party connection from the Propaganda Ministry, the SS, the Wehrmacht and the Bruderschaft, Naumann emerged in a position of power. Naumann however, was still a devoted Nazi and can be credited with the directing spirit behind almost every Nazi organization and publication that arouse in the 1950-1951 period.
One of the outgrowths of this rush to rearm Germany was the creation of the Bund Deutscher Jugend (Association of German Youth). Membership in the group rose to 22,000. However, behind this group laid a sinister secret division of trained saboteurs and assassination squads labeled the Technical Emergency Service. This guerrilla army was staffed by several thousand Wehrmacht and SS officers. They had been trained and equipped by US agencies, the Bonn government and a few German businesses.
This Nazi group would have remained lost in history among the hundreds of other Nazi groups in post war Germany if it had not been for President of the State of Hesse, August Zinn. In 1952, Zinn publicly charged that the group had drawn up a blacklist of prominent politicians to be assassinated in an emergency. Enough evidence was produced to the dismay of the US High Commissioner to show that a large-scale political assassination plot had been hatched in the style of the free corps. The October 10, 1952 edition of the New York Times carried the story. Similar plots and illegal activities were found behind other Nazi groups such as the Freikorps Deutschland, the Bewegung Reich and scores of other smaller groups.
In 1952, five members of a secret Hitler Action group were sentenced for unconstitutional activities. The leader of the group Schroer had been a prominent officer in Hitler’s Munich headquarters. It was known at the time that Schroer had given the order "Act inconspicuously! Infiltrate all rightist organizations and make them ready for the final assault."
American Occupation officials systematically sabotaged directive 1067. Even Eisenhower saw the systematic way in which the Directive was being violated and issued strong warnings against the officers guilty of such violations. Perhaps, the best summation of the systematic sabotage of Directive 1067 can be found in the Truman Library. The following quote comes from General Lucius D. Clay, who became Military Governor of Germany. ...
... the General’s words clearly show he knowingly chipped away gradually at the directive until all of its provisions were voided.
(A Pledge Betrayed)
Löschen... the Nazis had powerful friends in the halls of Congress to protect them. One such congressman was John Rankin. Excerpts from his speech to the House of Representatives on November 27, 1947 follows below:
"What is taking place at Nuremberg, Germany, is a disgrace to the United States. Every other country has now washed its hands and withdrawn from this Saturalia of persecution. But a racial minority, two and half years after the war closed are in Nuremberg not only hanging German soldiers but trying German businessmen in the name of the United States."
Note Rankin used the words racial minority to refer to Jews in the above quote. Rankin’s racism and pro-fascist allegiance was already presented in previous chapters. Rankin was not alone in Congress in opposing the trials. George Dondero, Republican representative from Michigan was another. Dondero was a former mayor of Royal Oak, Michigan before being elected to the House. Royal Oak was the home of the pro-Nazi priest Father Coughlin and a hot bed for pro-Nazi groups. Dondero described the trials as a result of Jewish and communist treachery. He singled out ten lawyers from the I.G. Farben case including the leading prosecutor Josiah D u Bios whom he called a known left-winger from the Treasury Department who had been a student of the Communist Party. Dondero became something of an art critic in the late 1940s and 1950s, dismissing modern art as communist inspired. ...
Also, based in Dondero’s district was Dow Chemical. Dow had several cartel arrangements with I.G. Farben and feared that the trial could lead to exposing its full collaboration with I.G and the Nazis. The British ICI Ltd firm was also implicated in the Farben trial. However, the British Foreign Office breathed a sigh of relief when the Times discreetly omitted any reference to ICI in its reporting of the I.G. Farben case.
The choice of Clay and Murphy to head up their respective positions in the Control Council was largely engineered by the State Department. Their appointments were more of a political decision, which testified to the power of the pro-fascist faction within the State Department. ...
Both Clay and Murphy once appointed to their posts ... immediately set about sabotaging the denazification program. Once the Kennan doctrine emerged in 1946 Clay and Murphy both embraced it. ... Both men had a large influence in escalating the emerging Cold War ... Clay’s frantic war warning message was based on an exaggerated threat assessment from Gehlen that the Soviets were mobilizing large numbers of troops in Eastern Europe. Gehlen was a former Nazi officer in charge of intelligence on the eastern front, recruited by the OSS/CIA.
The rehabilitation of Hermann Abs by General Clay could be considered as the most damning act of sabotaging the denazification program. While Abs was never associated with the concentration camps or the horrors of the Holocaust, he was the single figure within the Nazi empire that made it all possible. Abs was the Nazi banker. Without the financial magic of Abs, the Nazis would have faced a financial crisis that would have brought the Third Reich crumbling down. Clay complained that he was never able to make Abs the financial minister of the new German government due to American public opinion. However, he was successful in placing Abs as head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC). Th RFC was somewhat outside the realm of the government but was the sole instrument in the distribution of funds for Germany from the Marshall Plan.
zorro
AntwortenLöschenI am Norma Theanne Stevens, called Toni since I was 14. My dad Norman Stevens built this beautiful ranch and we lived there during the war. Carlile (Steve) and I went to Santa Monica Canyon School near Sunset Blvd and the beach. All of this about nazis and a Herr Schmidt is a bunch of garbage, totally made up by some kook. Verna Weber was our teacher. We both went to Stanford as did my mother ,Winona Basset. I am in my 80,s and lived in Laurel Canyon for years. I have just lost my husband, Bud Pepper , and live in San Diego County. My mother died in ;54, the year I graduated from Stanford.
Posted on Aug 30, 2015 | 5:00 PM
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Löschen@zorro:
Hi Toni
The OSS intercepted secret communiques between Schmidt and Nazi officers in Mexico, South America and Europe and raided your parent’s property and found a clandestine shortwave set. Records say your parents were taken into custody along with Schmidt. They were cleared and released while Schmidt later died in jail.
You are right though that the Ranch was never the Nazi headquarters some have suggested. That was Deutscher Haus in downtwon Los Angeles which had according to a 1941 LA Examiner piece had 300 sworn Nazis.
Posted on Oct 2, 2015 | 5:00 PM
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@shmily:
Norman Stephens had silver mine interests in Colorado and Winona Stephens was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. They apparently ran out of money before getting to the mansion. Also at the time the contractors remarked that the scale of the project made them think money must have been coming from Germany as the project was beyond even what an extremely wealthy person could do.
The irony is that the newer 1941 blueprints are done by Paul Williams, a noted black architect.
Posted on Oct 2, 2015 | 5:00 PM
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