In an article, titled What Hitler’s Four-Year-Plan & the European Union Have In Common?, Thomas Röper, the Editor of the Anti-Spiegel website, has exposed frightening similarities between the EU (and NATO) rearmament policy and the policy introduced by Adolf Hitler in 1936. In his Denkschrift (Memorandum) to Hermann Göring, Hitler wrote that since the (erstwhile) Soviet Union was preparing an invasion of Europe, Germany should be ready for war against Moscow in four years. “The military power behind this (the Soviet Union’s) aggressive intent is increasing rapidly from year to year. Compare the Red Army that has actually been created today with the military’s assumptions 10 or 15 years ago to gauge the dangerous extent of this development,” the Führer asserted, concluding the six-page memorandum with two marching orders: “1. The German Army must be operational in four years. 2. The German economy must be capable of waging war in four years.”

One can compare the text of Hitler’s memorandum with comments by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who stressed on June 9, 2025: “Russia could be ready to use military force against NATO within five years.” Meanwhile, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius stated: “We must be ready for war by 2029.” The only difference is that whereas Hitler used the word “kriegsfähig” (war capable), Pistorius used the synonymous term “kriegstüchtig” (ready for war).

The memorandum is also interesting from another stand-point, which Röper does not raise here. After presenting the main reason why Germany must prepare for a war, namely the Soviet threat; Hitler gave another reason by using the original arguments of Thomas Malthus. He reportedly said that agricultural production would not be able to feed the German population. Therefore, Germany needs Lebensraum.

Meanwhile, some of the Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz Government’s recent nominations raise questions as to whether Berlin is controlled by Ukrainian intelligence. The new head of the Army, General Christian Freuding, is a nerd who has been in charge of the Situation Room for Ukraine. More often in Kiev than in Berlin, the general let himself be photographed with the head of the pro-Nazi Azov battalion, Oleg Romanov, on May 8, 2025. Freuding has been nicknamed the YouTube General because of his updates on the Ukraine War on the Bundeswehr’s own YouTube channel, where he insisted until recently that “Russia cannot win the war” and covered-up the Operation Spiderweb.

The German Government also announced that Martin Jäger, the outgoing Ambassador to Ukraine, would be the new head of the counterintelligence agency BND, while the outgoing BND head, Bruno Kahl, would be the new ambassador to the Vatican. And, the new ambassador to Kiev would be Heiko Thoms, the current undersecretary to the finance minister.

Here lies the transmission chain of the military-industrial-intelligence complex. The question arises here: Whose interest is the German government serving? Certainly not the interests of the German population that it sold out long ago.

This article was first published in Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) Strategic Alert weekly newsletter (Volume 39, No. 28-29) on July 10, 2025.

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