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bucolic_frolic

(54,334 posts)
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 09:00 PM 20 hrs ago

Himmler's Fourth Reich - SS Assets Saved in Global Conspiracy



In August 1944, as the Battle of Normandy raged, a secret meeting was held in Strasbourg by a cabal of senior SS officers and German industrialists. The meeting was ordered by Heinrich Himmler himself - its purpose - none other than to save German industrial wealth from the Allies and to lay the foundations for a postwar Fourth Reich, with Himmler as its leader.
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Himmler's Fourth Reich - SS Assets Saved in Global Conspiracy (Original Post) bucolic_frolic 20 hrs ago OP
Book rec: "Putin's People" describes how the KGB (later FSB) dispersed Soviet assets through various banks and eppur_se_muova 7 hrs ago #1

eppur_se_muova

(41,174 posts)
1. Book rec: "Putin's People" describes how the KGB (later FSB) dispersed Soviet assets through various banks and
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 10:14 AM
7 hrs ago

"private" companies, mostly in Europe. The book is a few years old, but surprisingly little is changed -- a few defenestrations, other assassinations, and long prison sentences for the insufficiently cooperative.



Of course, after Putin is gone, we'll learn from the Russian archives just how much Trmp became involved in this chicanery.

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