More Jews babbling about German History...

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 Endless Jew babble.... for the Tim Fitzpatricks, Bjerknes, Henry Makows, and ThirdEyeWise types... whose research is continually grounded in Jew books by people like NY Fashion Designer Jew John Weitz.

Weitz got his ass kicked out by the Nazis... and then he works for the Jew'd OSS-CIA.. figures. --CSR

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John Weitz, 79, Fashion Designer Turned Historian, Dies
By TINA KELLEY
Published: October 04, 2002

John Weitz, the fashion designer known for licensing a variety of products under his name and for his second career as a novelist and historian, died yesterday at his home in Bridgehampton, N.Y. He was 79.

The cause was cancer, his son Christopher said.

Mr. Weitz cheerfully accepted the blame for being among the first American fashion designers to enter into licensing deals in the early 1950's. He licensed items like socks, neckties and men's fragrances, though he had his limits. He would not use his name on clothing for large women, police and airline uniforms (''They wanted to tell me how to design them''), or cigarettes (''I thought it would be immoral'').

A designer's name lives after him, Mr. Weitz said in a 1988 interview with The New York Times. ''Christian Dior has been dead for 30 years, and he still makes more money than I do,'' he said. ''My presence, you see, is not exactly necessary.''

John Fairchild, the former publisher of Women's Wear Daily, said last night that Mr. Weitz was a very clever businessman.

''He made some wonderful sportswear, he understood very sporty clothes, and he had a certain amount of elegance about what he did,'' he said.

''He did very well at putting his name on things,'' Mr. Fairchild said. ''He became sort of a household name.''

Mr. Fairchild considered Mr. Weitz more of a stylist than a designer. ''He was making things he thought were attractive for the general public, and at that time this was rather unique.''

Mr. Fairchild recalled how Mr. Weitz would talk about his days in the Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency). ''He loved all that romantic part of his past,'' Mr. Fairchild said. ''He was a perfect gentleman, and could talk for hours and hours and hours, a lot about himself, which is part of his charm.''

He was born Hans Werner Weitz on May 25, 1923, in Berlin, the son of Robert Salomon Weitz, an infantry hero in World War I who was awarded the Iron Cross. Robert Weitz became a successful businessman who was part of the social set in Berlin described by Christopher Isherwood.

John Weitz came to the United States in 1939, his son said. In 1944, at the age of 21, he joined the O.S.S., returning to his native land for what he calls ''sensitive work.''

In 1964 he married Susan Kohner, Lana Turner's co-star in ''Imitation of Life.''

Mr. Weitz went on to write books, including ''Hitler's Diplomat: The Life and Times of Joachim von Ribbentrop,'' a biography of the German bon vivant who served as Hitler's ambassador to London. Von Ribbentrop was foreign minister from 1938 until the end of the World War II. He was hanged in 1946 for war crimes.

Mr. Weitz also wrote ''Hitler's Banker''; ''Man in Charge''; ''Friends in High Places''; and ''The Value of Nothing''.

In a 1992 interview with The Times, Mr. Weitz said he could not count the number of times he was asked how he reconciled the dichotomy between designing and writing about such serious topics. ''As Shakespeare said, 'One man in his time plays many roles,' '' he said. ''And who else but a fashion designer would understand such a worldly man?''

His sons Paul and Christopher were the co-directors and producers of the movies ''American Pie'' and ''About a Boy.''

  (...and the Jew corruption of Christian America continues... --CSR)

Recently, Mr. Weitz was rewriting a novel based on the life of Max Schmeling, a German boxer, Mr. Weitz's son, Christopher, said.

In addition to his sons Paul and Christopher, he is survived by his wife, Susan Kohner Weitz, and two children from his previous marriage to Sally Gould: Karen Weitz Curtis and Robert Weitz. He is also survived by a granddaughter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/nyreg ... -dies.html

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THE MONEYMAN BEHIND THE NAZIS

HITLER'S BANKER
Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht
By John Weitz  
Little, Brown 361pp $29.95

Could any German have slowed the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s? During Germany's long slouch toward war, the Holocaust, and disastrous defeat, why didn't more business and financial leaders oppose Hitler and work to undermine him? Hitler's Banker, John Weitz's new biography of Hjalmar Schacht, the head of the Reichsbank during Germany's rapid arms buildup under the Nazis, offers no definitive answers to such questions. But Weitz, the well-known men's fashion designer and author of such books as Hitler's Diplomat, a biography of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, does tell a fascinating tale of the interplay of ambition, pride, and politics that prevented one powerful man from opposing Hitler until it was too late.

If ever there was a financier who might have helped change the course of German politics in the 1930s, it was Schacht. He was born in straitened circumstances in 1877, the son of a Danish baroness and a German schoolteacher she had married for love. Yet by the early 1920s, by dint of personal brilliance and shrewd career politicking, he was one of the world's most famous men. As Germany's currency commissioner, and later head of the Reichsbank, Schacht was the prototype for today's tough and principled central bankers--the Alan Greenspans and Hans Tietmeyers of the world.

By halting the printing of worthless money, repeatedly slamming speculators, and pegging the mark at 4.2 to the dollar (one new mark was worth 1 trillion old ones) and eventually to gold, he tamed the runaway inflation that crippled Germany after World War I. By the mid-1920s, Schacht had a worldwide reputation as ''the banker who saved his country.''

But Schacht was an enigmatic man whose motivations often are hard to unravel. He was a conservative who never borrowed money or owned stock and affected old-fashioned pince-nez and high starched collars. Yet Schacht had a streak of daring, which at one point led him--without any backing from his government--to attempt to bluff Germany's way out of paying World War I reparations. (The effort failed.) A public apologist for Nazi atrocities, Schacht also attended the church of a well-known anti-Nazi cleric while in Hitler's government and took Hitler to task over his harsh treatment of Jews. Weitz paints this complex man as driven by a sense of duty that was all too often warped by ambition and hubris.

That certainly was the case when Schacht faced what in retrospect was his greatest test: the Nazis' rise in the 1930s. Schacht, who had resigned from the Reichsbank over the reparations issue in 1930, knew Hitler was a dangerous rabble-rouser who had served jail time for trying to overthrow the Bavarian government. Yet Schacht, disastrously, tried to exploit him. In October, 1931, he gave Hitler much-needed legitimacy by attending a fascist rally, where he sharply attacked the Weimar regime then in power. Dozens of industrialists attended, too, because they hoped for an authoritarian regime that could restore order to Germany. But Schacht, a committed democrat, seemed driven by ambition. ''The Nazis cannot rule,'' he told a reporter, ''but I can rule through them.'' The next year, Schacht declared Hitler the best candidate for Germany's chancellorship.

By 1933, after Hitler had become Chancellor and asked him to run the Reichsbank again, and later to become Economics Minister, Schacht quickly agreed. He rationalized his decision by declaring that only he could help Germany's 6.5 million unemployed. Weitz makes it clear that what Schacht really did--however reluctantly at times--was to throw his prestige and financial acumen behind Hitler's rearmament drive. And, at least in the beginning, Schacht shut his eyes to Nazi violence. ''What atrocities? All lies,'' he once snapped at reporters' queries about Hitler's increasingly violent attacks on Jews and others.

Schacht's behavior was deeply inconsistent. Through most of the 1930s, he worked tirelessly to stabilize Germany's finances in the face of wild Nazi spending. But he also intervened to save Jewish friends. And by 1938, Schacht was publicly calling the Nazis ''criminals'' and attacking the persecution of Jews in a Christmas speech to employees of the Reichsbank. Hitler tolerated this defiance because of Schacht's importance to the economy, but Schacht still was running a huge personal risk. By 1943, when Hitler formally dismissed him from the government, Schacht was brazenly anti-Nazi and had ties to groups plotting the Fuhrer's assassination; he was eventually sent to Ravensbruck and Dachau. But one still has the feeling that Schacht's disaffection stemmed largely from his own waning influence--from what Weitz calls his feeling of devastation ''that a man of his proven superiority could be discarded by Hitler, a creature he had helped launch and form.''

Weitz--himself a German-Jewish emigre and a onetime U.S. Office of Strategic Services officer--prefers to lay out the facts of Schacht's life and let the reader make the judgments. But it's hard not to agree with Schacht's prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials after the war, who said: ''Schacht always fought for his position in a regime he now affects to despise....When he did break with [the Nazis] in the twilight of the regime, it was over tactics, not principle.'' Then again, Schacht's record was so ambiguous that he was one of the few defendants acquitted at the trials. He died in Munich in 1970, at 93, having spent his old age building a new life out of the rubble of the old one. Whatever else you can say about Hjalmar Schacht, he defied easy categorization to the end.

BY THANE PETERSON

http://www.businessweek.com/1997/46/b3553065.htm


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From 1940 with a little article on Maurice Rothschild getting his ass kicked out of France.

http://www.unz.org/Pub/SocialJustice-1940oct21-00013