National Socialism

• Conspiracy theories questioned;
• The cause of the Weimar hyperinflation;
• Hitler’s economic miracle based on sovereign credit principles;
• Today’s financial crises;
• A Russian opinion poll on Katyn.

Picture: Chancellor Hitler and his Banker Hjalmar Schacht

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Carolyn talks with World War II Wehrmacht veteran and Luftwaffe bomber pilot Wilhelm Kriessmann (pictured right in 1940 enlarge) about the political climate in Austria during his youth in the 1920s and ’30s; then his wartime and post-war experiences. Kriessmann was incarcerated in the British concentration camp for political prisoners at Wolfsberg for nine months after his return to his family home in Sept. 1945; then for a further eight months at Camp Wetzelsdorf before being released in 1947 and continuing his education.

About Wilhelm Kriessmann

Listeners can learn more about Wilhelm Kriessmann’s WWII experiences here and here.

Dr. Kriessmann received his Ph.D. at Gratz University in Austria. After a few years in the Trade Ministry, he was appointed Austrian Trade Commissioner for the U.S. west coast in 1953, which led to his eventual permanent move to California. In more recent years he turned to writing - publishing many articles and features in German-American periodicals. He has always been an avid sportsman, with a special fondness for the ski slopes, long biking trips and tennis.

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Carolyn Baker (left) and Naomi Wolf

by Carolyn Yeager, September, 2007
copyright Carolyn Yeager 2007

Carolyn Baker is a lesbian, a liberal, and identifies herself as an adjunct professor of history at New Mexico State University. Naomi Wolf is a Jewess and a nationally known writer (The Beauty Myth) who, perhaps because of famous or well-placed relatives, became a “literary star” at a young age. Both are raging feminists and often a little flaky.

Guest: Vincent Reynouard in France gives his views on the Holocaust and the severe laws in Europe that criminalize any dissent from the "official history." He tells how, as a Roman Catholic, he came to embrace National Socialism as his political philosophy.