The history of national socialism in Germany also occasions no small measure of head-scratching worldwide. It began around 1905, when Japan became the first Asian nation not only to prevail in a war against the white colonialists, but also to annex a substantial stretch of Russian territory – Manchuria. Promptly, the still-fledgling German Empire, with Bavarian backing, dispatched Munich officer Karl Haushofer to Japan for an intensive study of local affairs. For decades, Haushofer remained a popular and highly esteemed advisor to senior Japanese military figures, and he was presumably among the first, from 1924 onward, to recommend the conquest of the Pacific islands all the way to Hawaii – including the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. While Karl Haushofer travelled Japan with his early feminist wife Martha, their son Albrecht remained in Upper Bavaria, where the young Albrecht almost certainly also played with the new puzzle-construction kits from the royal Bavarian purveyor Anker of Rudolstadt.

A particularly acute source of cerebral distress was an order from October 1918, issued by the German Kaiser in Berlin - who at the time appeared to have been suffering from grave afflictions of the head. At the end of the First World War, Germany experienced revolution. The Social-Democrat Party (SPD) served as the driving force after naval soldiers rose up in German ports: they refused to have their ships sunk by enemy vessels shortly before the war’s end, following instructions from the evidently deranged Kaiser. The military uprising rapidly transformed into a political revolution that soon compelled the German Kaiser to flee by automobile to the Netherlands. From 1919 onward, a new political republic replaced the formerly extremal pyramidal order with the Kaiser at its apex. Ironically, the constitution of this nascent Weimar Republic was signed nowhere else but during the summer holiday of Friedrich Ebert and his family in the Thuringian woods of Schwarzburg, within easy reach of the brain-teaser manufacturers’ headquarters of Anker in Rudolstadt.

Not everyone was enamoured with the new political reality of the Weimar Republic. The former officers of the exiled Kaiser in particular devoted themselves, in the early years, to every conceivable effort to restore an imperial, aristocratic, and pretty unchristian order. To that end, the majority of the irate, pro-Kaiser military officers assembled precisely in Munich under the personal protection of the Munich police chief and camouflaged as the Bayerische Holzverwertungsgesellschaft  (Bavarian Wood Utilisation Ltd). Terrorist acts were organised from the overwhelmingly Catholic State of Bavaria against the new political reality emanating out of Berlin. Numerous Weimar republicans were simply murdered; a Germany-wide "Kapp" Putsch attempt, organised also from Munich, failed only by a narrow margin.

It was during this period that a former First World War soldier – rejected on multiple occasions as an art student in Vienna – made his way to Munich. Adolf Hitler felt quite at home among the police-protected 'Organisation Consul' and the furious imperial military officers in Munich. So much so that in the autumn of 1923, Hitler launched his first putsch attempt, aimed at toppling the slowly encroaching Weimar spirit and the regional Bavarian parliament. After this failed, a months-long court trial took place in Munich, staged by Bavarian judicial officials – more a theatre for Hitler’s rambling monologues than a genuine judicial proceeding. The trial concluded in April 1924 with a comfortable fortress detention in the south of Munich: in Landsberg near Lake Ammersee. There, Hitler’s best friend Rudolf Heß was assigned to the neighbouring cell – with open door, fresh flowers, beer deliveries, and a typewriter procured by Bavarian judiciaries and prison guards. On that machine, Rudolf Heß – not Adolf Hitler – typed the unspeakable tale 'Mein Kampf', after weekly visits had been arranged throughout the summer of 1924 with none other than the aforementioned Karl Haushofer. Every Wednesday morning and afternoon, Haushofer instructed his two prison pupils on geopolitical alliances – with Japan, for instance; certainly on Darwinism, and presumably also on this or that aspect of genetics. Haushofer was regularly accompanied by his women rights advocate wife Martha.

In those summer months of 1924, the final pieces of the puzzle finally clicked together in a magical triangle of three H’s: Hitler, Heß, Haushofer. After 1945, this puzzle was torn into thousands of fragments and thereafter concealed under intellectual cloaks of invisibility, so that it might never be reassembled. But now, a good hundred years later, the last puzzle pieces have at last been identified and brought to light.

Few are aware that the fundamental objective of the national socialists was not worldwide destruction, devastation, mass murder, and totalitarianism. The Nazi goal, far surpassing the self-delusional “final victory”, was the creation of a perfect society in which war, crime, murder, and manslaughter would no longer exist. It was for these reasons that, under the aegis of Heß, Hitler, Haushofer and others, the designation “National-Socialism” was adopted.

At that historical juncture, this very term was being defined by none other than Lenin. Lenin had studied Karl Marx already prior to his asylum sojourn in Switzerland. He was convinced that communism – a utopian social order in which capital would be abolished and every individual could take whatever they required – could be attained only through a transitional phase: socialism. According to Lenin, the task of socialism was for an elite, socialist vanguard to lead the remainder of society into communism with relative dispatch.


Ironically, Lenin not only furnished the philosophical foundations for nearly all subsequent terror regimes and brutal dictators worldwide, but also contributed to the German Kaiser’s forced abdication in November 1918. As we now know from long-sealed documents, no one other than Wilhelm II had initially provided massive financial support to Lenin. Berlin not only released money and gold but also arranged for Lenin to travel in his sealed train from Zurich all the way to Petrograd in Russia. The background: the German Kaiser sought to politically weaken his cousin, the Russian Tsar Nicholas. Lenin initially appeared to Wilhelm as a veritable gift from heaven. However, when Lenin signalled after the first weeks of revolution that he had no further interest in the German Kaiser – on the contrary, he welcomed the German sailors’ revolution from Russia and cheered Wilhelm II’s nocturnal flight from Berlin to the Netherlands – all German aristocratic circles were understandably furious with Lenin and his obstinate plot. A fury that, in essence, persists to this day. That nearly half the passengers on Lenin's sealed April 1917 train from Zurich to Russia were Jewish was not helpful in the eruption of rabid antisemitic hatred at the time.

In the spirit of a socialism conceived entirely differently from Lenin’s, monarchist circles, particularly in the European Alpine region in the early 1920s following the successful anti-monarchical coup in Berlin and elsewhere, hastily emblazed a so-called “National-Socialism” upon their red-and-black banners. Black for nationalists, red for socialism – mix the two colours and you obtain brown, the standard hue for many Nazi uniforms. The national socialists likewise adopted Lenin’s philosophical and practical foundations as their own and sold large segments of society on the notion that they would lead society – somehow analogously to Lenin – via a guiding elite into the perfect society as well. Unlike Lenin, however, the national socialists did not intend to bring about this allegedly perfect state of society through economic reorganisation and the utopian abolition of capital, but rather through what they regarded as unyielding science – which, around 1920, was believed to have reached the very pinnacle of wisdom.

Darwinism was then relatively novel, the fundamental genetic building block of every living being – the DNA or nuclein – had only recently been discovered in 1869 and confirmed through first laboratory testing not before the early 1900s. Scientists and numerous elites adopted, with remarkably little critical scrutiny, the view that a person’s DNA was not only all-determining but could alter and improve exclusively at the moment of sexual reproduction. In order to erect the perfect society, in which war, crime, murder, and manslaughter would finally be overcome, the primary focus had to be on a perfect gene pool, so the Nazis argued. They were utterly convinced that men and women possessing a so-called “inferior gene pool” must be prevented from procreating. And as a socialist elite in the true spirit of Lenin, they now possessed even the philosophical justification for political power to implement this – such was the perverse perspective of the era.

This philosophical foundation was what organised industrial mass murder across Europe and worldwide soon after 1933. It was the diabolical conviction, at the time fully backed by purported science, that the genetic building block was not only fixed and set after birth, but as well responsible not only for outward appearance like eyes and hair yest even for a person’s inner actions and impact on society. Today we know this to be entirely misguided. Scientists have demonstrated how viruses can breach and modify a person’s DNA. We now know that individuals forced to live under traumatic conditions for years on end acquire an altered DNA as a consequence of those living circumstances. Scientists further report that women who experience a powerful orgasm undergo a minute alteration in their DNA structure. DNA is not a fixed construct that changes only at the moment of sexual reproduction, as Darwinian absurdity would have it. The gene is cooperative, interacts with numerous cellular organisms, and transforms over the course of a human lifetime.

For a long time, humanity has been told over and over again that socialism is exclusively a vehicle for left-leaning political forces. This is simply false, as the national socialists readily demonstrate. Likewise, the primal ghost and self-proclaimed arch-enemy named "Communism" – particularly in the United States during the postwar decades – is largely an illusory and, in the truest sense, utopian distraction from the totalitarian and dictatorial possibilities that were unleashed with the very definition of socialism. Neither Lenin nor Stalin, Mao, Fidel Castro, nor any of the so-called 'communist rulers' were themselves genuinely interested in creating a utopian state of society in which everyone could take whatever they needed.

Socialism in the form last shaped by Lenin, by contrast, quickly became a philosophical and simultaneously practical vehicle of brutal suppression, political persecution of dissenters, and oppression of one's own population. It was likewise planted in every corner of the globe, left and right, regardless of political colours. Ultimately, it was this self-contained definition of socialism — as a quasi-religion — that was consistently mislabelled as an intermediate stage on the path to the utopian ideal of "Communism" or whatever other utopian paradise state of society, while simultaneously being applied in reality as the permanent, mostly brutal and egomaniac-elitist-ruling solution.


Surely some may know the great joy of finally finding, after a long time, the dusty missing piece of a gigantic puzzle somewhere in a corner.