The Brussels EU is Attempting to Dismiss Our Proof of its Nazi Roots as ‘Pro-Kremlin Disinformation’

Published in 2010 and supported by historical documents sourced from international archives, our book ‘The Nazi Roots of the Brussels EU’ presents a very different history of Europe to that promoted by the continent’s political establishment. Not surprisingly, therefore, in the initial years following the book’s publication, the European Union (EU) avoided drawing attention to it. Since 2016, however, a website related to the European External Action Service, the diplomatic service and combined foreign and defense ministry of the EU, has been making clumsy attempts to whitewash the facts and dismiss the book as ‘pro-Kremlin disinformation.’ With worldwide awareness of the EU’s Nazi roots growing fast in recent years, it seems we have touched a nerve.

The whitewashing attempts are published on the EUvsDisinfo website, a database describing itself as “the flagship project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force.” Established in 2015, the supposed aim of the site is “to better forecast, address, and respond to the Russian Federation’s ongoing disinformation campaigns affecting the European Union, its Member States, and countries in the shared neighborhood.” The site claims that its “core objective is to increase public awareness and understanding of the Kremlin’s disinformation operations, and to help citizens in Europe and beyond develop resistance to digital information and media manipulation.”

Needless to say, the Dr. Rath Health Foundation is not involved in any Kremlin disinformation campaigns or operations. Supported by historical documents sourced from international archives, our book simply reflects the facts. Significantly, therefore, and as we shall examine next, the EUvsDisinfo site blatantly misquotes what we actually say in the book.

The EU fails to disprove our evidence

Citing a review of our book published on the Czech Free Press website, the EUvsDisinfo site claims we say that the EU has Nazi roots because Walter Hallstein, the founding president of the European Commission (the EU’s executive body), was a prominent Nazi and a member of the Nazi Party. Describing this as ‘Disinfo,’ the site states that Hallstein was never a member of the Nazi Party and that he kept his distance from the Nazis. Slovakian websites citing our book are dismissed on the same grounds

In dismissing the book, the EUvsDisinfo website cites two sources as its supposed proof that we are spreading disinformation. The first is a short biography of Hallstein published on the Konrad Adenauer Foundation website, while the second is a four-page Hallstein biography written by a professor at the University of Cologne. Significantly, however, neither of these texts provide any unequivocal documentary evidence to disprove what we say in our book. Moreover, and as previously stated, the EUvsDisinfo website actually misquotes what we say. For example, we have never claimed that Walter Hallstein was a member of the Nazi Party. What we have said – and can prove – is that before and during World War Two he was a member of official Nazi organizations.

Walter Hallstein’s membership of official Nazi organizations and support for Nazi ideology

Walter Hallstein, founding president of the European Commission, openly advocated the imposition of the Nuremberg Race Laws as a top priority in the ‘Greater German Reich’

The ‘Association of National Socialist German Lawyers’ was founded in 1933, immediately after the Nazis had seized power. In 1936 it was converted into the notorious ‘Nazi Association of Law Protectors.’ Membership of this second organization was restricted to those individuals showing uncompromising support for, and participation in, the implementation of Nazi ideology. In a memorandum sent by Hallstein to the representative of the Nazi government at the university of Rostock in Germany in 1935, Hallstein openly admitted that he was a member of both these organizations.

Similarly, while we have never specifically stated that Hallstein was a “prominent Nazi,” as the EUvsDisinfo website claims, it is hardly true to say that he “kept his distance from the Nazis.” Nor could it reasonably be said that he didn’t support Nazi ideology. We know this from a truly astonishing speech given by Hallstein shortly before the outbreak of World War Two. He gave this speech on 23 January, 1939, in ‘Mahn and Ohlerichs Celler,’ one of the largest convention sites in Rostock, Germany, at that time.

Perhaps the most shocking thing about this speech is that Hallstein specifically stated in it that one of the most important laws to be introduced in the annexed countries was the ‘Law for the Protection of the German Blood, and the German Honor.’ In other words, he openly advocated the imposition of the Nuremberg Race Laws as a top priority in the ‘Greater German Reich.’ These laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying, or even having sexual relations, with persons of German or related blood.

We know for a fact that Hallstein said this as we have a copy of his original handwritten manuscript for the speech. We also have a copy of a newspaper report about the speech. Published the following day, this confirms the venue, the date of the speech, and describes how the attending guests included the entire elite of the Nazi state in the Rostock region. We additionally have a copy of the official invitation to the event. This too confirms the title of the speech, and the date of the speech.

The evidence for the EU’s Nazi roots is overwhelming

Arno Sölter, head of an official Nazi economic research institute based in Dresden, Germany, and author of the book ‘The Greater Sphere Cartel’ (‘Das Großraum-Kartell’)

Ultimately, of course, our book isn’t only about Hallstein as it brings together multiple sources of historical evidence to prove beyond doubt that the blueprint for the European Union was designed in Nazi Germany. A little-known Nazi research institute based in Dresden, Germany, headed by a man called Arno Sölter, played a particularly important role in this planning.

In 1941, Sölter summarized the Nazi plans for postwar Europe in a book titled ‘The Greater Sphere Cartel – An Instrument of Industrial Market Order in a New Europe.’ His book describes all the key elements we see around us in the EU today, such as the unelected European Commission that serves as the construct’s executive body and the system of ‘Directives’ that are used for its lawmaking. Hallstein himself had similarly referred to the use of Directives in the aforementioned speech he gave in Rostock in 1939.

Further proof of the Nazi’s intended post-war plans emerged during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial against the IG Farben pharmaceutical and chemical cartel, consisting of Bayer, BASF, Hoechst, and other companies, which took place between August 14, 1947, and July 30, 1948. Discussing the charges against Fritz ter Meer, a senior director of Farben, Dr. Berndt, his legal counsel, specifically stated that the concept of a ‘Total European Economic Area’ had shaped his client’s aims during the war.

Looking at the overwhelming evidence we present in our book, it is clear that far from being a source of truthful and non-misleading information, the EUvsDisinfo website is itself essentially engaged in the deliberate spreading of disinformation. Anyone who examines the evidence for themselves will easily see through its transparent attempt to whitewash the real origins of the Brussels EU. With worldwide awareness of its Nazi roots growing fast in recent years, it would appear that the political construct is getting desperate.