Secret Fourth Reich - The Naumann Circle Plot
March 18, 2024
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as posted by the channelIn the early 1950s, a secret Nazi organisation in West Germany attempted to infiltrate political parties to establish some form of Fourth Reich, a successor to the defeated Third Reich. The organisation was called the Naumann Circle, and was the mastermind of the last Propaganda Minister Dr. Werner Naumann, who had escaped from Berlin in 1945 in the same group as Martin Bormann. Find out the story here...
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Credits: US National Archives; Library of Congress; LNieminen; De-okin; CIA.org; Bundesarchiv
Sources:
- James P. O'Donnell, The Berlin Bunker, (Dent: 1978)
- Hugh Thomas, Doppelgängers, (4th Estate: 1995)
- 'Nazi influence on Germany's post-war government to be investigated' by Caroline Mortimer, The Guardian, 27 November 2016
- '53 EX-NAZIS HOLD BUNDESTAG SEATS; These Were Less the Choice of the West German People Than of the Parties,' The New York Times, 9 May 1950
- Edwin Hartrich, 'Fourth and Richest Reich', (MacMillan: 1980)
- Peter Longerich, 'Goebbels', (Vintage: 2016)
- Mark Felton, 'Guarding Hitler', (Pen & Sword: 2014)
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