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The Nazis and Fascists Who Founded the European Union
You only really know a political institution by the kind of people who support it. By that measure alone the Nazi and fascist nature of the European Union is difficult to deny. I set out here the names of the prominent Nazis and fascists of the 1930s and 1940s who then became prominent political leaders of European countries and were intimately involved in creating the European structures which rule us today under the name of the European Union. Some became leaders of EU institutions others became renowned as “EU founding fathers.”
- 1WALTER HALLSTEIN
Hallstein was State Secretary for Foreign Affairs under Adenauer. He established the “Hallstein doctrine” which denied diplomatic recognition to those states that recognised East Germany. He was a member of many leading Nazi organisations—the most significant of which were:
The National Socialist University Lecturers’ Association (Dozentenbund) where he qualified as a Nazi leadership officer, (enabling him to join the army as an officer in 1942) andThe National Socialist League for Protection of the Law (Rechtswahrerbund)
Such organisations were not like being forced to be a member of the Nazi party. They were central cadres of Nazi rule to which only the most committed would have been admitted. The French President General De Gaulle summed him up: “If Dr Hallstein is a convinced European, it is because he is first and foremost an ambitious German.” (From “Memories of Hope” 1970). His ambition during the Nazi period was evident from his intimate involvement in the preservation of Nazi doctrine in Universities and the promotion of Nazism in German Law.
Walter Hallstein became the first president of the EEC Commission in 1958.
- 2HEINZ TWETSCHLER VONFALKENSTEIN
134 of von Ribbentrop’s Foreign Office civil servants served under Adenauer after 1949.
Heinz Twetschler von Falkenstein
