International Jewry's Murder of Swede IVAR KREUGER

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IVAR KREUGER

Ivar Kreuger was born in the city of Kalmar, Sweden, on March 2, 1880. After his education, he worked as a civil engineer in the United States and also in South Africa. In 1907 he returned to Sweden and founded a match company. When World War I broke out and Sweden declared its neutrality, German U-boats put a blockade against Sweden in order to hinder it from exporting to England and France. Since matches at this time were essential to light everything from cooking stoves to lanterns, matches became an essential product for the defense of the Swedish nation. Kreuger suggested to the Swedish government that all match factories in Sweden should be combined into one single corporation, which was given the name "Svenska Tandsticks A.B. (Swedish Match Corporation). Kreuger became head of this new corporation. During a period of 15 years, from 1917 to 1932, Kreuger built an international corporation of match factories. As chairman of the board of directors, Kreuger yielded an enormous power and by 1925 his corporation manufactured more than 50% of all matches in the world.

In order to understand the political climate after World War I, I am referring the readers to the 2003 issue of The Dove magazine, scheduled for publication later this year. In short, the United States was isolated from politics in Europe, which at this time was dominated by England and France. Kreuger working with the American financier Morgan, tried to rebuild Europe from the devastation off World War I. Kreuger's corporation loaned billions of dollars to different governments, and in return was given a monopoly in manufacturing matches in the nations taking his loans. These loans were not to be used to build up military strength, but to build up the infrastructure and factories, and increasing trade between nations.

If Kreuger had been left alone, he would have done for Europe, what the Marshall Plan did for the United States after World War II. Instead, Ivar Kreuger ran into problems with several organizations, including national governments. The Social Democratic Party in Sweden was working hard to take political power in Sweden, but as long as the Swedish people were working and the nation was prospering, no one wanted Socialists in power. They needed unemployment and chaos to enable them to take over the running of the nation. The Soviet Jewish government, under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, did not want prosperity in Europe or no one would embrace Communist rule. The Zionists were working hand in hand with the German Nazi party to put pressure on German Jews, forcing them to immigrate to Palestine. Since the World Government was in control of all of these different factions, the decision was made, Kreuger had to go. But it could not be a regular murder; it must look like a suicide.

The Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Swedish banking family, Wallenberg, were given an order to finance and direct the execution of Kreuger. The Swedish bank, "Svenska Handelsbanken," (Swedish Trading Bank) was used to wire the money to the murderer. Joseph Stalin agreed that the Soviet secret police, at that time called "OGPU" was to furnish a killer. The man selected was Leon Birthschansky, at that time stationed in Paris, France. The Swedish sponsors of the murder wired the sum of 16,000 francs to Leon 24 hours in advance of the murder which took place March 12, 1932. The money wiring in itself was diabolic. Carl Frisk, former CEO of Svenska Handelsbanken (1911-1922) was asked to use his personal bank account to wire the money to Paris, where it was received by an infiltrator in the Kreuger Corporation in Paris, who transferred the money to the bank account of the Kreuger corporation, who in turn then issued a check to the murderer. Thus Ivar Kreuger did not know that his own corporation was used to pay the murderer. The Swede, Ernest A. Hoffman, a close associate to Kreuger, was part of the plot to murder his friend and boss, Ivar Kreuger. Hoffman was to remove the murder weapon and make sure that the murder scene had been "sanitized." 2

THE MURDER

Here is how the murder took place. On the morning of March 12, 1932, Kreuger had an appointment at 11 a.m. Sometime mid morning he was contacted by his friend and subordinate, Ernest A. Hoffman. The latter called Kreuger and insisted on a short personal meeting at Kreuger's apartment. Kreuger then called to inform his people that he would be ten minutes late for his 11 o'clock appointment. At 10:45 a.m. he informed his personal secretary, Karen Bokman, that he was suddenly extremely tired and he entered his bedroom and lay down on his bed. He did not know that his house maid, Miss Barraut, has drugged him with some kind of narcotic when she served him breakfast. Both Bokman and Barraut left the apartment at 10:45 a.m. Kreuger was then in a deep narcotic sleep. A short time later the murderer arrived and using a special weapon shaped like a bayonet, he thrust it through the heart of Kreuger (a ritual murder). Then he fired a blank shot into the wound to place traces of gunpowder in the wound. He then placed the gun in Kreuger's left hand, not knowing that Kreuger was right handed. A letter explaining the suicide was then placed in the room, after which Ernest Hoffman took the murder weapon and traveled to Switzerland where he disposed of it. The day after the murder Hoffman was wired the sum of 8,000, (currency unknown) to pay him for his coordination of the murder and the coverup.

One of the higher leaders in the Soviet Secret Police, Dzierzynski, made a statement at this time and bragged:

"To fix a murder is a simple task. But to fix a murder that will look like suicide takes an artist. We have many artists."

When the French police arrived, a very shoddy investigation was done. The police had been paid off in advance and the death was declared "suicide." The murderer Birthschansky was himself executed two years after the murder of Kreuger, and Ernest Hoffman lived a haunted life until his death, May 5, 1961.

A smear campaign was started immediately and Swedish papers declared that Kreuger was a crook and that he had swindled his clients and lost the money. The Kreuger Corporation was raided, and assets taken over by rivals. Factories were closed and thousands lost their jobs. A man that was working peace and trying to rebuild a destroyed Europe was executed like an animal, and then vilified.

The result was that the Swedish Social Democrats won the next election in Sweden, all of Kreuger's friends in Sweden were forced out of power and the bigamist, Per-Albin Hansson (1885-1946), became the new prime minister in Sweden. The destruction of Sweden was begun and the Social democrats held power for the next fifty years. Adolf Hitler was able to take power in Germany, and Joseph Stalin was building gulags. The Zionists worked on their project – Palestine. This leads us to the next murder. 3

THE MURDER OF RAUL WALLENBERG
Raul Wallenberg was born on August 4, 1912, in Stockholm, Sweden. His mother's maiden name was Maj von Dardel. The Wallenberg family at this time was one of the most influential families in Sweden, and controlled vast financial holdings through its flag ship, "Stockholms Enskilda Bank," (Stockholm"s Private Bank). This bank was founded in 1856 by Andree Oskar Wallenberg (1816-1886) the son of a Swedish State Lutheran Bishop. The family goes back for centuries in Sweden as farmers, with no Jewish ancestry. There are three very interesting things to notice about the family: first, the son of A.O. Wallenberg, Knut Agathon Wallenberg (1853-1938) was the director of the bank from 1886 to 1911, and during World War I Knut was the Swedish Foreign Minister (Secretary of State) from 1914 to 1918. In 1911 the leadership of the bank was taken over by his brother, Marcus Wallenberg ( 1864-1943) who ran the bank from 1911-1920. Secondly, this was the time of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, which was bank rolled from Stockholm's different banks, including the Wallenberg bank. From 1927 through World War II the director of the bank was Jacob Wallenberg (born 1892) and a son of Marcus. Also active in the bank at this time was Jacob's brother, Markus Wallenberg (born 1899). Thirdly, as stated previously in this newsletter, it was the Wallenberg Corporation and the Swedish Social Democratic Party which led the conspiracy to murder Ivar Krueger. The Wallenberg family also had banking ties to the Rothschild banks in London and Paris, and to the large American banks in New York.

At the time of the murder of Kreuger, Raul Wallenberg was 20 years old and in the process of finishing his schooling in Sweden. Since the Kreuger Corporation was competing with the Wallenberg Corporation, young Raul must have had knowledge of some of the inside dealings going on between the two financial giants. The death of Kreuger was widely discussed by the media in Sweden, and it made a huge impact on the Swedish economy for several years. Raul spent time in the United States and used it to earn a degree in architecture. After his degree from the United States, he held employment until 1944 in different banks in several nations in Europe, South Africa and the Middle East. He had also worked for different private corporations and in 1936 he became the foreign representative for a central European trading company, whose president was a Hungarian Jew.

Living during these turbulent years, watching the rise of Hitler and his Nazi party, and then living and working in nations which became embroiled in World War II as it broke out in 1939, Raul must have known a lot about politics, finances and arm twisting behind the scenes. He also must have had first hand knowledge of the Jewish Zionist movement and its interaction with the Nazi party to bring Jews to the land of Palestine.

Raul's destiny with an early death began when the American President Roosevelt had the American State Department, seek out Raul in 1944 and offer him a special job in Hungary. Here is the background to this mission, which is being dealt with in detail in the 2003 issue of The Dove.

Prior to World War II, the American Government under the leadership of President Roosevelt tried to develop a plan to rescue Jewish people from Europe and bring them to a number of nations, mostly to Canada and the United States. The Jewish Zionist leadership became furious. They wanted the European Jews to be taken to Palestine, not to North America. They knew very well that once the Jews had settled in North America they would have no interest in moving to Palestine to fight the Arabs and live in a primitive society that was being developed. Bowing to political pressure from different American Jewish groups, the American Government took a stand against bringing Jews to the United States. Hence, the Jews living in Europe were stuck – move to Palestine or face the Nazis.

In January 1944 the Zionist leadership decided it had to take some kind of action in order to cover its tracks. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1891-1967), an American Jew, gave President Roosevelt a document outlining new evidence of the State Department's inaction regarding rescuing Jews from the Nazis. The president knew that if this would be known to the American public, it would be a political disaster for the Democratic Party. The document charged the State Department with having prevented Jews from being rescued from German held territories, and then covering up and preventing the news of the Holocaust from reaching the American people.

President Roosevelt became painfully aware that the Jews had pressured him not to rescue Jews from Europe, and now they were turning the tables on him, and putting the blame on the president. Morgenthau then presented Roosevelt with a plan that would actively involve the American Government in rescuing what was left of the Jews living in German occupied territories. Within a week of this meeting, President Roosevelt established "The War Refugee Board," (WRB) It was charged with taking all measures within its power to rescue "the victims of enemy oppression who are in imminent danger of death." The members of the board were the secretaries of state, treasury and war. The executive order allotted about one million dollars in federal funds for administrative purposes, but virtually all other funding for the board's work had to come from private sources. As a result, throughout its operation the board was underfunded, and because of an ongoing internal struggle between the pro-rescue Treasury Department, the anti-rescue State Department, and the War Department, which did not want domestic concerns to interfere with the war effort, the board never achieved unanimity of purpose or direction.

Under the direction of John Pehle, a Treasury Department lawyer who had worked to expose the State Department's alleged cover-up of the Holocaust, the WRB set out to find a haven for rescued Jews. The board elicited statements from President Roosevelt condemning the murder of Jews, drew up plans for postwar war-crimes, trials, and after much hesitation forwarded requests for the bombing of Auschwitz. 4

For the readers who were born long after World War II, it is important to know that in January, 1944 the German armies were in full retreat in the Soviet Union, all of North Africa had been liberated from German occupation and most German cities had been reduced to ash heaps due to constant bombing by the Allies. Germany was losing the war, and the Allied invasion of Normandy was to take place in June, 1944. German forces surrendered in May 1945, after all of Germany had been overrun by American, British and Soviet forces.

The WRB then contacted neutral nations for help, and among them was the Swedish government . The place to begin the rescue was in Hungary which up to this time had been an ally of Germany, but as the tide of the war was turning, the Hungarians tried to disengage themselves from the Germans, and as a result the German Army took over Hungary in March 1944 and held it in an occupation. Up to this time, Jews in Hungary had been relatively safe, and had been used as a rescue place for Jews from other German occupied nations in Europe.

The Roman Catholic Church was also contacted, and a request given to the Vatican that it would issue "bogus birth certificates" to Hungarian Jews, in order to get them off the deportation lists. The Vatican gave its green light to this project, and the Roman Catholic Archbishop Angelo Roncalli (born 1881 in Italy; died 1963 in Rome, later known as Pope John XXIII) was used to issue these false birth certificates. Roncalli at that time was the Vatican's chief diplomat to the nation of Turkey and was stationed in Istanbul. Also stationed in Istanbul at this time was the WRB operative for Turkey, the American Jew, Ira Hirshmann.

RAUL WALLENBERG BECOMES A SWEDISH DIPLOMAT
For reasons still unknown today, the young (31 year old) Swedish architecht/banker/ business man, Raul Wallenberg was recruited by the American government agency WRB and asked to take the job in Hungary to rescue Jews from the German death camps. The Swedish "Utrikesdepartimentet" (State Department) hired him as a diplomat and assigned him to the Swedish embassy in Budapest, Hungary. But in reality he was hired and paid by the WRB.

Once in place in Budapest in the spring of 1944, he hired a staff of some 400 persons and purchased a number of apartment complexes. Each apartment complex was then proclaimed to be under the protection of the Swedish embassy. The Swedish embassy then issued tens of thousands of Swedish "security" passports to Jews living in Budapest, and when the operation was over some 95,000 Jews were rescued from being sent to the death camps in Germany.

The leading German Nazi official at this time in charge of exterminating Jews, was the German Jew, Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962, kidnaped by the Mossad in Argentina in 1960, smuggled out of Argentina and taken to Israel where he was hanged in 1962 after a trial). Eichmann, a member of the SS, who had been commissioned by Hitler to handle "the final solution of the Jews" had for several years been working with the European Zionist leaders to release Jews and have them sent to Palestine. Hitler, himself half Jewish, his propaganda minister Joseph Paul Goebbels (1897-1945) ,a full blooded German Jew, with the nick name "the Rabbi" in Nazi circles, and a number of other high ranking Nazi officials were of Jewish descent, like Reinhard Heydrich (full German Jew), Heinrich Himmler who's Italian grandmother was Jewish, Hans Frank (half Jew), and many others.

Hitler and his leaders had for years been working with the Zionist World leadership to rid Europe of Jews and bring them to Palestine, where they could build the state of Israel. Budapest and Hungary had been a hub of Zionist activity since the beginning of World War II, and it was in this hornet's nest that Raul Wallenberg suddenly found himself working. Raul had to negotiate with the representatives for Adolf Eichmann, and it must not have taken him long to figure out what was really happening behind the scenes. Regardless, Raul worked hard from the spring of 1944 to January 1945 to rescue as many Jews as he could, when he was arrested by the Soviets. 5

THE SOVIETS ARREST RAUL WALLENBERG
The full truth about the arrest of Raul Wallenberg became known after the fall of the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia promised the Swedish State Department that he would open all archives to once and for all solve the mystery of the Swedish diplomat, Wallenberg. During the month of December, 1992 in a military archive, the information was found regarding the seizure of Wallenberg. Here is the truth.

Wallenberg's arrest was not something that just happened. The order to find Wallenberg and take him captive was directed from then Vice Defense Minister Nikolaj Bulganin (Born 1895, former member of the Cheka, secret police, premier from 1953-1958, died in 1975). Bulganin sent a telegram on January 17, 1945 to the Soviet general Rodion Malinowskij in charge of Budapest which had been taken by the Soviet army. The order was, arrest Wallenberg at once and send him to Moscow. The Soviet general executed the order the same day. This was the last anyone in the West would ever see Raul Wallenberg.

THE COVER UP
The arrest of Raul Wallenberg by the Soviets became known at once by the Swedish government, as well as by the Zionist leadership and the American Government. Since the Soviets "were supposed" to be allied with the United States and Great Britain, Raul Wallenberg on January 17 made the decision to visit the Soviet headquarters in Budapest and present his diplomatic credentials and to establish formal contact with the new occupation force. Raul had previously met with a Soviet Army officer, who had set up the appointment for him. On January 17th, the Soviets had sent two Russian soldiers to escort him. On his way to meet with general Malinovskij, Raul stopped for a brief visit with his friend for many years, the Hungarian doctor Laszlo Peto. He made the following statement to his friend:

"These Russian soldiers have been given orders to come for me. I do not know if they came to protect me or to guard me. I do not know if I am a guest or a prisoner."

Wallenberg's purpose for meeting with the Soviet occupation power was to discuss how to provide humanitarian aid for Hungary and how to rebuild the country after its destruction from the fighting between the German and Soviet armies. But instead of discussing these issues, Wallenberg and his Hungarian driver, Vilmos Langfelder, were both arrested and immediately sent to the Soviet Union.

The day before the arrest, the Soviet Union's Foreign Ministry had informed the Swedish embassy in Moscow that Wallenberg had been found in Budapest and that he and his organization with all its assets had been placed under the protection of the Soviet army. The Swedish government publicly let it be known that they expected Raul to be back in Sweden in less than a month.

When a month had passed and the Soviets had not released Raul, Maj von Dardel, Raul's mother visited the Soviet embassy in Stockholm where she was told that her son was in good health and currently being kept in Moscow. Why he was detained and when he was going to be released was not disclosed to her.

The Soviet's detaining of Wallenberg caused a firestorm in Sweden, fueled by the media. The whole nation was involved in this outrage and a strong debate started in the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen). Until his death on October 6, 1946, Per-Albin Hanson was the Swedish prime minister. He was followed by Tage Erlander (1901-1985) who took over as prime minister. Neither one of these men made any great effort to have the Soviets release Wallenberg.

TWO SWEDISH TRAITORS
There were two Swedish men who sealed the fate of Raul Wallenberg. Osten Unden, Sweden's foreign minister (Secretary of State) and Staffan Soderblom, the Swedish Ambassador to the Soviet Union. On June 15, 1946, when a party was held in Moscow for Soderlund who was retiring as ambassador, Joseph Stalin himself attended and went up to Soderlund and asked "Is the name of the missing Swede Wallenberg?" When he was told that this was the name, he wrote it down on a piece of paper and said it would be investigated. The new Swedish ambassador, Gunnar Hagglof did not later ask about it again, for fear of "irritating Stalin," and regular Soviet officials would not get involved, fearing the wrath of Stalin.

Around this time the American Ambassador to the Soviet Union sent the following message to the American Secretary of State:

"The Swedes seem to have the opinion that the Russians have done what they could to find Wallenberg. The Swedes made it known that they did not want any American intervention in asking the Soviet Foreign Ministry about Wallenberg."

Wallenberg's fate was sealed, the Swedish government had let the Soviets know, that they were not interested in having Wallenberg released. Staffan Soderlund let it be known, as far as he was concerned, Raul Wallenberg was dead and the case was closed.

In a note sent to the Swedish government in August, 1947, the Soviet vice foreign minister Andrej Vysjinskij wrote, that Wallenberg was not located in the Soviet Union and that he was unknown to Soviet officials. The Swedish foreign minister Osten Unden accepted the note as true, and refused to put any pressure on the Russians as long as he held the office as Swedish Foreign Minister. A number of other Swedish officials tried to keep the case open but Unden destroyed every effort to locate Wallenberg.

On February 6, 1957, the Soviets, pressed by a number of testimonies from former prisoners in the Soviet Gulag system, confessed that documents had now been found that Wallenberg had been held in the KGB prison "Ljubljanka," located in Moscow, but that he had died on July 17, 1947 of heart failure and had been cremated. This was a note that the vice foreign minister, Andrej Gromyko, sent to the Swedish ambassador in Moscow. Then in 1965 the Soviets informed the Swedish government, that they were willing to exchange Wallenberg for the Swedish colonel, Stig Wennerstrom, who had been caught spying for the Soviet Union. Wennerstrom had caused enormous damage to the Swedish military defense and he had been arrested by the Swedish security police (SAPO) on June 20, 1963. This offer from the Soviets came via the East German government. The Swedish government declined. What the Swedish people were not told, was that Wallenberg still was alive and held in prison in the Soviet Union. This truth did not become public until after the fall of the Soviet Union. 6

In 1979 the Social Democrats had lost power, and the Swedish government was in the hands of "Folkpartiet" (The People's Party). This time a high official in the Swedish Security Police (SAPO) by the name of Stig Bergling had been caught for having spied for the Soviets for many years, and before his trial, Bergling suggested to the prosecution, that he would be exchanged for Wallenberg. This time the Soviets turned down the offer.

In his memoirs, the former Swedish prime minister, Tage Erlander wrote:

"In January 1961 came the most strange testimony of them all about Wallenberg. At a medical convention in 1961 the Soviet professor, A.L. Myasnikov, told the Swedish medical doctor, Nanna Svartz, that Wallenberg was alive and was being held in a Soviet mental hospital and that his health was frail." Erlander then wrote that when the Swedish government acted upon this information, it sent the Soviet leader Nikita Chrusjtjov in a rage.

In 1976 the Russian Jew, Jan Kaplan, was released from prison in the Soviet Union. When he contacted his daughter living in Israel, he told her that he had met a Swedish man who had been in the Soviet prison system for 30 years, but that he was still in good condition. In 1978, when the daughter received knowledge about Wallenberg, she disclosed this information to the media in Israel. As soon as this became known by the Soviets, Jan Kaplan was arrested by the KGB and sent back to prison.

The mystery of the disappearance of Raul Wallenberg will most likely never be known until the Great White Throne Judgment. The researchers who were able to find the military records of the seizing of Wallenberg exists, but when they tried to do further investigation, they found out that records had been deliberately destroyed by someone trying to keep the truth from being known.

CONCLUSION OF THE WALLENBERG TRAGEDY
Raul Wallenberg had done nothing against the Soviet Union. His "crime" was that he knew too much. While rescuing Jewish people in Hungary during the last year the Germans controlled that nation, he found out that the Nazis and the Zionists had worked hand in hand to uproot Jews from Europe and resettle them in Palestine. Why he was not outright murdered is unknown, but he was taken out of "circulation" and had to endure years of torment in Soviet prisons and mental hospitals, before he must have died. If he is still alive today, he would be 91 years of age. There is a similar case to Wallenberg's and that is the case of Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (1894-1987). Hess was born to a German merchant and a British woman in Egypt. He was raised and educated in Germany. During World War I he served in the German Army. He joined the Nazi party in 1920 and became the right hand of Hitler. In April 1933, he became deputy party leader and in December he entered the Cabinet. In 1939 Hitler declared him second to Hermann Goring in the line of succession. On May 10, 1941, he flew a German fighter plane to England, and parachuted over Scotland. His goal was to try to broker a peace and stop World War II. Instead of giving him a chance, the British government arrested him and put him into prison. After the war, he was sentenced at the Nuremberg trials to life imprisonment. His sentence was to be served in the Spandau prison, in Berlin. In the 1980's the American government tried to have him released. Since Spandau prison was run by the Soviet Union, England, France and the United States, the Soviets said no. From 1966 until he died at the age of 93, Hess was the only inmate in the prison.

Hess, just like Wallenberg knew too much about the connection between the Nazis and the Zionist movement. Instead of killing him, he was kept in solitary confinement until his death? Why he was kept alive will be an unknown secret until the Great White Throne Judgment.

It is ironic that when Wallenberg desperately needed help, neither the Zionists nor the United States Government made efforts to pressure Joseph Stalin to let him go. On September 22, 1981, the U.S. Congress, under the leadership of Representative Tom Lantos, who had himself been rescued by Wallenberg - granted honorary citizenship to the missing Wallenberg.

Only one time before in the history of the United States had this been done, and that was to Sir Winston Churchill. As far as Wallenberg is concerned, this "noble act" did nothing to take away the pain, his lost life on this earth, and the terrible feeling that those he had served to the utmost of his capacity, abandoned him and let him rot to death in a Communist prison. 7

To be continued . . .

1. A foreign minister is the same thing as the Secretary of State in the United States.

2. Previously known as the Cheka, then OGPU, then NKVD, then KGB, now FSB.

3. Information on the Kreuger murder was taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994-2002;
Swedish publication "Den Svenska Marknaden," editor and owner Jan Gillberg, March 2000 issue. Address: Box 5150, 102 43, Stockholm, Sweden. Contact Jan Gillberg

4. Auschwitz was not just a concentration camp. It was a huge manufacturing industrial park, with slave labor camps surrounding it, which furnished slave labor for the war production of the German war machine. Most of these industrial parks were never bombed by the Allies during World War II. When the men and women who were used as slave laborers could no longer work, they were exterminated.

5. See The Dove 2002, pages 5-46.

6. This date of death is listed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

7. Sources for the Wallenberg story: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1994-2002;
"AFFARERNAS SVERIGE," by Kent Olsson, published by Contra Forlag KB, Stockholm, Sweden, 1991
"HEROES, ANTIHEROES AND THE HOLOCAUST" by David Morrison, published by Milah Press, Jerusalem and London, 1995.
"KUNSKAPENS BOK," published by Bokforlaget Natur och Kultur, Stockholm, 1952



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