Author(s): Guido Giacomo Preparata
Publisher: Pluto Press
Year: 2005
Language: English
City: Ann Arbor, MI
Contents
1. Introductory: The Eurasian Embrace. Laying Siege to Germany with World War I, 1900 - 18
The Second Reich: The Tragedy of an Imperial Upstart
The Heartland, the Crescent and the Nightmare of British Geopolitics
The Blood of the Romanovs and the Encirclement of Germany
The 'Useful Idiots' of Sarajevo
Besieging Germany
Conjuring Lenin
The Last Days of America: from Republic to Truculent Empire
2. The Veblenian Prophecy. From the Councils to Versailles by Way of Russian Fratricide, 1919 - 20
The Impossible Revolution
Inducting Hitler into the Mother Lodge
The Allied Betrayal of the Russian Whites
The Peace Treaty That Was Too Harsh
Dreaming of Hitler and Deciphering Versailles
3. The Meltdown and the Geopolitical Correctness of Mein Kampf Between the Kapp and the Beerhall Putsch, 1920 - 23
Erzberger: One Man Alone against the Inflation
Hiring Trebitsch- Lincoln to Foil the Kapp Putsch
Rathenau, The Reluctant Victim of the Russo- German Pact
The Hyperinflationary Purge of 1923
The Maiden Storm of the Nazi Fundamentalists
4. 'Death on the Installment Plan' Whereby Governor Norman Came to Pace the Damnation of Europe, 1924 - 33
The Banking 'Grid' and the Rules of the Gold Game
Montagu Norman and the 'Nationalization' of the Bank
The Dawes Bailout and the Hierodule Schacht
I. G. Farben and Germany's First Five- Year Plan
Britain's Grand Charade to Crash the New Gold Standard
The Last Scheme of Kurt von Schleicher and the End of Weimar
5. The Reich on the Marble Cliffs. Fire, Legerdemain and Mummery all the Way to Barbarossa, 1933 - 41
Nazi Coup d'Etat
Money Magic, Work Creation and Foreign Aid
A British Masquerade to Entrap the Germans Anew
A Soviet Tale of Madness and Sacrifice
Fake War in the West, True Push in the East
6. Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
