Executive Summary
Do you know why the top command of the Nazi elite were never punished after World War II — and why the same financial network that funded Hitler also funded the Federal Reserve? This week I sat down with historian and documentarian Matt Ehret to walk through his new film, Black Sun Rising: The Esoteric Roots of Fascism Past and Present. What he has documented is the architecture beneath an ideology that was never just German, was never just defeated, and is being quietly rehabilitated right now in front of our eyes.
We traced the esoteric foundations — Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Rosicrucian revival, Lanz von Liebenfels's "new Templar order," the Thule Society, and the rituals inside Wewelsburg Castle where Hitler's high command attempted to invoke demons and usher in the age of Kali Yuga. We followed the money — the Morgan, Rockefeller, DuPont, Warburg, and Schiff financial network that simultaneously funded the Bolshevik revolution, the rise of Hitler, and the financial coup d'état that became the Federal Reserve. We confronted the American piece almost no one teaches — Francis Bellamy, the socialist disciple of Blavatsky who coined the phrase "national socialism" in English, wrote our Pledge of Allegiance, and installed the raised-arm salute into our public schools. We exposed the 1933 Havara Agreement between the Nazi regime and the Zionist movement, the parallel funding of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Eichmann's stunning Hebrew-Kabbalah self-education. We documented Major General Smedley Butler's 1935 whistleblowing on a Wall Street-backed fascist coup against Franklin Roosevelt. And we tracked the operational continuity from Operation Paperclip through Allen Dulles, NATO, and the murder of JFK to the present-day eugenics regime now rebranded as "medical assistance in dying."
This is not conspiracy theory. This is documentary history. And it explains why the same Weimar-era playbook — extreme progressive left fused with an organized stormtroop right, both funded from above to crush the middle — is being run on us right now. Scroll to the bottom for Key Takeaways.
The Word "Nazi" Has Been Hollowed Out — On Purpose
Let's start where Matt and I started. The full name was the National Socialist German Workers Party. Most Americans were never taught that. Today the word "Nazi" is applied to a sitting U.S. President, a parent at a school board meeting, and a comedian — and at the same time, a young provocateur named Nick Fuentes with tens of millions of followers is quietly arguing on his platforms that Hitler was actually a "cool, patriotic leader." Kanye West is selling swastika fashion. The ten-part Europa: The Last Battle film series has gone viral in our online ecosystem. Stu Peters has put out a new pro-Hitler-adjacent film called Occupied. When a word means everything, it means nothing — and when a word means nothing, the actual thing it described can come back wearing a different name. That is not an accident. That is the operation.
The Esoteric Spine: Wewelsburg, the Thule Society, and the "Black Magicians" Who Built the Reich
The young Adolf Hitler did not radicalize himself organically in a Munich beer hall. At eighteen, he was a paying subscriber to Ostara — the propaganda journal of a Cistercian monk named Lanz von Liebenfels, who taught at the very Austrian abbey Hitler attended. The swastika was already painted on the monastery walls. Lanz had launched what he called the "new Templar order" — a continuation of Guido von List's Germanic theosophical Templarism, which was itself a repackaging of Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy and the Rosicrucian revival overseen by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton out of Knebworth Castle.
Hold that name. Bulwer-Lytton. The man whose castle is now the filming location for Harry Potter and Batman Returns — what Matt calls an "occult ritual command center" still shaping how our children imagine power, magic, and "special families with superpowers." His 1841 novel Rienzi Hitler personally said had transformed him and revealed his destiny as the savior of the "Teutonic Aryan" people.
Inside Wewelsburg Castle, Himmler's order and the Thule Society's black magicians were attempting to invoke demons. They were trying to usher in the age of Kali Yuga and a thousand-year Reich. Hitler personally rewrote the Bible — introducing an Aryan Christ and new commandments such as "Keep thy blood pure" and "Honor thy Führer." This was not a political party. This was a millenarian death cult with a foreign policy.
"National Socialism" Was Coined in America Before It Was a German Word
Here is the part that should stop every American cold. The man who coined the phrase "national socialism" in the English language was named Francis Bellamy — and he and his cousin Edward Bellamy were direct disciples of Helena Blavatsky. They wrote her letters. They took her counsel on what America should become. And what they decided America should become was a "Roman Empire aesthetic" organized around the fasci — the bound rod of the Roman magistrate that gave fascism its name.
Francis Bellamy was a socialist. He came out of one of dozens of utopian socialist communes scattered across New England, upstate New York, and Canada — the Oneida Colony being the most infamous. He wrote the Pledge of Allegiance and installed the raised-arm salute into American public schools before Mussolini was old enough to drive. And those communes were not benign hippie experiments — they were proto-MK-Ultra laboratories. The Oneida commune produced the assassin who killed President Garfield. Another commune produced the assassin who killed President McKinley.
These were small-scale social engineering experiments. They have been scaled up. We are living in the scaled-up version right now.
The Bankers Who Funded Both Sides
We have to talk about the money — because none of this happened by itself. The same Morgan, Rockefeller, DuPont, Warburg, and Schiff financial powerhouses who engineered the financial coup d'état that became the Federal Reserve in 1913 were simultaneously sponsoring the regime change operation in Russia that became the Bolshevik revolution and pouring money into the rise of National Socialism in Germany. The same network. The same families. The same accounts.
In 1935 a United States Marine Corps Major General named Smedley Butler — the most decorated Marine in American history at that time — went on national radio and told the American people that JP Morgan-tied financiers had tried to recruit him to lead five hundred thousand American Legionnaires in a fascist coup against the Roosevelt administration. The American Legionnaires had been founded in 1919 on an explicit National Socialist stormtrooper model. Butler refused. He blew the whistle. That whistleblowing, in Matt's words, "largely saved the world for a period" — because it bought Roosevelt the political room to start breaking up the same Wall Street banks that were simultaneously funding Hitler. How much of that did you learn in school?
Operation Paperclip Was Just the Tip of the Iceberg
The cleaned-up version of Operation Paperclip is that we imported a few hundred German rocket scientists who got us to the moon. The real version is harder. Allen Dulles, John J. McCloy, and General Lauris Norstad systematically embedded unreconstructed fascist operators — German, French, Italian, Spanish — into the postwar intelligence, banking, media, and military architecture of "the good guys." Bretton Woods and the international super-architecture of endless war for profit were already finalized before Hitler surrendered. The trials at Nuremberg ended. The networks continued. The murder of President John F. Kennedy was overseen by the same operators. The same men were quietly relocated to Argentina, to Switzerland, to West Germany, and to Northern Virginia. My friend Cathy keeps saying "World War II hasn't ended yet" — and the more we look at the record, the harder that becomes to argue with.
The Havara Agreement and the Three-Movement Convergence
In 1933, the Nazi regime signed the Havara Agreement. Sixty thousand Jews were relocated from Germany to Mandate Palestine, and the Nazis printed commemorative coins featuring a swastika alongside a Star of David. Eichmann taught himself Hebrew so he could study Kabbalah. In his final interview before his 1961 execution, he said that had he been born a Jew, he would have been "the most radical Zionist imaginable."
At the same time, the same London-and-Wall-Street financial network funding the Nazis was also funding the Muslim Brotherhood through Hajj Amin al-Husseini and the revisionist Zionist movement of Vladimir Jabotinsky. Three movements. Same money. One project — permanent organized conflict in the Middle East that justifies permanent overseas management of it. The descendants of those three networks are running the contemporary fight today, and the Democratic Socialists of America walking arm in arm with Hamas supporters on American campuses is not the historical accident our corporate media wants us to think it is.
The Weimar Playbook Is Being Run on Us Right Now
Kamala Harris said the quiet part out loud during the 2024 campaign. She warned about "Hitlerism" — and then she added, accurately, that Germany before Nazism in the 1920s was "the most progressive place in the world." Drag shows in public. Open everything. And then the door slammed. The Weimar Republic's most "progressive" decade gave way to the most totalitarian regime of the twentieth century almost overnight. The bridge between the two was a financial collapse engineered by the same international banking network that had created and funded both extremes.
Now look at where we are. The Democratic Socialists of America are openly part of the Progressive International. They have absorbed the old Democrat Party from the inside. They campaign with the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Antifa stormtroopers handle the street-level violence. And on the "right" we have a flood of influencers — Nick Fuentes, Stu Peters, Europa: The Last Battle, Kanye West literally selling swastika clothing — being algorithmically amplified to nudge healthy traditional American conservatism toward a perversion of itself. Both extremes are being grown at once. The middle is being squeezed. The 1920s and 1930s in Germany — deliberately left out of every American history class — are the exact playbook.
Eugenics Did Not Die — It Was Rebranded
The Tiergarten 4 healthcare program of 1934 sterilized and then killed hundreds of thousands of Germans deemed "unfit" before that program was ever extended to other racial groups. Eugenics — the science of breeding out the unfit, overseen by a self-appointed "more than human" elite — is the operating philosophy at the core of the entire occult-fascist project. And eugenics did not die at Nuremberg. It moved. It got new branding. It is called "medical assistance in dying" in Canada now, expanding rapidly. It is normalizing across Belgium and increasingly the United States. The danger we face right now is not "Nazism" in the swastika-banner sense. It is totalitarianism — the bureaucratic dictatorship Hannah Arendt diagnosed in Eichmann in Jerusalem — fused with a managerial-eugenics philosophy that treats ordinary human beings as a herd to be managed, optimized, and culled.
We the People Have Always Been the Answer
I want to leave you with hope, not despair. We the People have been the answer in this country every single time the architecture above us tried to swallow us. Smedley Butler refused. JFK refused. Patrick Henry refused. Frederick Douglass refused. The Founders, sitting in those Philadelphia taverns, refused. The pattern of refusal is the American pattern. It is in our covenant. And recovery from this — like recovery from any addiction — starts with honest history, plainly told. Knowledge breeds confidence. Confidence breeds calm. Calm, sober, well-informed citizens are the one thing the suppliers of conflict and chaos cannot manufacture, cannot scale, and cannot beat. Watch Matt's documentary. Pull one historical thread. Bring it to your neighbor. Show up to the next local meeting in your community. The architecture above us cannot govern a sober and engaged ground floor. That is the recovery.
Key Takeaways
- Adolf Hitler subscribed at age 18 to Ostara, the propaganda journal of Lanz von Liebenfels — a Cistercian monk teaching at Hitler's Austrian abbey, where the swastika was already on the monastery walls.
- The phrase "national socialism" was coined in English by Francis Bellamy, an American socialist disciple of Helena Blavatsky who wrote our Pledge of Allegiance and put the raised-arm salute into American public schools.
- The Oneida Colony and other 19th-century American utopian socialist communes operated as proto-MK-Ultra social-engineering laboratories — the assassins of Presidents Garfield and McKinley came directly out of them.
- The 1933 Havara Agreement relocated 60,000 Jews from Germany to Mandate Palestine, with the Nazi regime printing commemorative coins featuring both the swastika and the Star of David — and Eichmann taught himself Hebrew to study Kabbalah.
- In 1935 Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler publicly blew the whistle on a JP Morgan-tied financier plot to install him as fascist dictator over a 500,000-man American Legionnaire stormtroop army.
- Operation Paperclip was only "the tip of the iceberg" — Allen Dulles, John J. McCloy, and the NATO high command systematically embedded unreconstructed fascist operators into the postwar Western intelligence, banking, and military architecture.
- Nazi eugenics — the Tiergarten 4 program of 1934 — never died; it was rebranded as "medical assistance in dying" and is expanding rapidly across Canada, Belgium, and increasingly the United States.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why have I never heard the name "Bellamy" connected to American fascism?
Because Francis Bellamy is taught, when he is taught at all, as a harmless schoolteacher who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance. The documented fact that he was a card-carrying socialist disciple of Helena Blavatsky who coined the phrase "national socialism" in English and installed the raised-arm salute into American classrooms has been scrubbed from our curriculum. That is not an oversight. That is curation by the same network that wrote the textbook industry.
Isn't naming "the bankers" antisemitic?
This is exactly the trap. Heavy propaganda and genuinely evil behavior from a Greater Israel-obsessed elite have led well-intentioned people to believe "the Jews" are behind everything — which conveniently rehabilitates every movement that ever hated Jews, including the Nazi movement itself. The actual network behind Bretton Woods, Bolshevism, Nazism, and the Federal Reserve includes Morgan, Rockefeller, DuPont, Warburg, Schiff, and the British imperial banking complex. Some are Jewish. Most are not. Naming the actual network is the only way to stop blaming the wrong people.
Is Matt Ehret saying Hitler was a Zionist?
No. Eichmann and the Nazi high command despised Jewish people. What Matt is documenting is the stranger and more disturbing truth — the same high-level financial and intelligence network that built the Third Reich also helped midwife the British Mandate transition to the state of Israel, and simultaneously bankrolled the Muslim Brotherhood as a parallel project. Three movements. One overseeing class. The goal was not to "win" with any of them but to install permanent organized conflict in the region.
Why does the "right" now have Nick Fuentes while the "left" has DSA and Hamas supporters at the same time?
Because the same playbook is being run that was run in Weimar Germany in the 1920s. Both extremes are grown intentionally so the middle collapses and something is installed above both. The Hitler-rehabilitation content is not organic — it is being amplified. The radical progressive-DSA-Antifa stack is not organic — it is part of the Progressive International. Two stormtroop movements. One squeeze.
Did Operation Paperclip really import Nazis into our government?
Yes — and far more than the official record acknowledges. Allen Dulles, John J. McCloy, and the NATO command embedded unreconstructed fascist operators into intelligence, banking, media, and military leadership roles after the war. The murder of JFK was overseen by the same network. The architecture of endless war for profit was already locked in before Hitler surrendered. Bretton Woods finalized it.
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