The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America by Jim Marrs

The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Reviews

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  Leo .

  Well what can I say about this book. If you question the reality you live in. If you have questions about our history. If you want to know secrets of the Nazi empire and the USA and the world as a whole then The Rise Of The Fourth Reich is a book that I strongly recommend. Jim Marrs was an amazing researcher. Jim Marrs was a vigilant investigative journalist. He had decades of research. Some of his books have been made into block buster movies. Crossfire springs to mind. It was the basis for the film JFK by the director Oliver Stone. Like Stanley Kubrick, Oliver Stone made films that made the viewers think about what is really going on in our world. I tend to watch movies and read books not just as entertainment but for a source of information too. If one watches any film by any of these two greats one should; and is; left with many questions and longing for answers. I have watched all of these two directors films and recommend them to everyone. Anyhow I digress, I have read all of Jim Marrs's books and The Rise Of The Fourth Reich is by far my favourite. If one looks around now and stop to see what is unfolding globally this book will certainly raise some eyebrows.🐯👍
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  Jess Smoll

  I AM DYING OF LOLS. This book is so awful it passes back into "good"-- though your mileage may vary, of course. This is the mother of all terrible conspiracy theory books, combining many smaller conspiracies into one enormous Nazi-driven plot, as though all the Nazis of history managed to party down with the evil fictional Nazis that hunted Indiana Jones, Captain America, and the Basterds, and those vampire Nazi legions of Hellsing infamy.
  
  Roswell and UFOs?
  Mulder, it was Nazis.
  Water fluoridation?
  Sorry General Ripper, it wasn't Commies; it was Nazis.
  JFK's assassination?
  Nazis.
  Shoddy public education?
  Nazis.
  Fat Man and Little Boy and the bombing of Japan?
  Nazis.
  Planned Parenthood?
  Nazis.
  Big Pharma?
  Nazis.
  NASA?
  Nazis.
  The Cold War?
  Nazis.
  Al-Qaeda?
  Nazis.
  9/11?
  All the conspiracies are true! Also? Nazis.
  The Bush family?
  Totally had ties to Nazis...and so did/does Hillary Clinton, Jerry Falwell, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  Etc.
  Etc.
  Etc.
  
  I SWEAR TO FREAKING JESUS I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. The author even finds ties between the organic food movement and Paul Wellstone's plane crash and the freaking Nazis. He blamed so much shit on the Nazis I can't even remember it all...but it basically boiled down to everything. Everything is because of/tied to/developed by/funded by the Nazis. My answer for everything from now until I stop finding it hilarious (which will be...um, never) is going to be, "Nazis."
  
  The books swings between points that might be able to be taken seriously-- such as discussing both the Vatican's and various American corporations' investments in Nazi Germany, which is a valid point mentioned in many other, much more serious and well-researched books-- to claiming outrageously wild and just plain kooky things like that the Nazis found King Solomon's treasure, developed antigravity tech in the 1940s, and are currently making tons of money off of the tobacco industry despite the fact that Nazis were (according to the author) very anti-tobacco. You could drive rockets through the logical holes littering this book and it's stupid claims. And I seriously cannot believe that so many Goodreads readers take this shit seriously. My faith in humanity has taken a crippling blow.
  
  Logical? No. Based in reality? Not really.
  Impractically awesome and hilarious as a Wile E. Coyote skit? Fuck yeah! Read it for the LULZ, kids.
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  Linda Munro

  I chose this book due to these words: Throw out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don't believe anything you hear from the government—The Rise of the Fourth Reich reveals the truth about American power." I was not dissapointed!
  
  This book clearly explains that 'the U.S. helped defeat Germany in WWII, but it did not defeat the Nazi's." Dubious war criminal activity was expunged for thousands of high ranking Nazi scientist when they were brought to the United States for their knowledge. Once on American soil, they could cooberate with Nazi sympathizers who had already attempted to overthrow FRD to bring about fascism in the U.S. and were found to have financially supported the Nazi's during the war (although money talks and they were never convicted).
  
  The 14 characteristics of a fascist regime are: 1) Powerful & continuing expressions of nationalism 2) disdain for the importance of human rights 3)identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause 4)supremacy of the military & avid militarism 5)rampant sexism 6)controlled mass media 7) obsession with natinal security 8)religion and ruling elite are tied together 9)power of corporations are protected 10) power of labor suppressed or eliminated 11) disdain & suppression of intellectuals & the arts 12) obsession with crime & punishment 13) rampant cronyism & corruption 14) fraudulant elections.
  
  If you cannot see the U.S. in the above list, you have already fallen for the propaganda and are on your way to loose every freedom you thought you had.
  
  
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  Jacob Aitken

  One should retitle this book “A popular version of some of Joseph Farrell’s conclusions without the rigor and discipline of Joseph Farrell’s scholarship.” Jim Marrs’ thesis is sound and not new: an elite group has controlled Western politics and economics for the past 100 years. This group is connected to or synonymous with the Anglo-American banking establishment. Their modus operandi consists in playing different political and national factions against one another.
  
  (note: These are not all my thoughts on this book. There are a lot of other musings about Marrs I have, but I won't say them here because I am tired and the book isn't that good and you should read Joseph Farrell instead.)
  
  Strengths of the Book
  
  Marrs has a very good section on the rise of Hitler and what happened behind the scenes in WWII. Marrs relies heavily on Joseph Farrell’s research, and this part of the book is strong because of that (the second half is notoriously weak). Marrs makes the interesting suggestion that the Nazis actually detonated an atomic bomb in Russia (and he gives the reasons why the Allies and Stalin would have covered this up. I agree with him ). Marrs highlights the various banking clans that funded and aided the Nazis both before the war and after the war. Marrs has an intriguing chapter on Otto Scorzeny and the lost Cathar treasure.
  
  Criticisms of the Book
  Did Marrs’ thesis shift? (I am open to correction on this one.) Marrs’ main thesis is that the Nazi elite weren’t eradicated in WWII and/or Nuremberg, but rather made it to South America via the Vatican “ratline” (and Marrs is to be commended for pointing that out). Further, he points out that these same elites eventually influenced American society and policy, and I suppose there is some truth in that. On the other hand, it seemed that his earlier thesis is that an international cabal in London/New York financed first Lenin, and then when the Russians got too dangerous, financed Hitler to fight the Commies off. Fair enough; I buy that. What I don’t get is the connection between the international elite who created Hitler and the international elite’s relationship to present-day America. Hitler’s crew is bad, to be sure, but it seems the more nefarious power is the group that made Hitler possible. Marrs seems to forget about that.
  
  The scholarship and research methods are about as bad as one can get. Note: I am not contesting the majority of Marrs’ facts. I think for the most part he is correct on what he reports. The problem is he does not cite his sources! At all. Yes, he does have a “sources” page at the back, including page numbers of books, but I don’t know to which arguments in what chapter he is referring. True, I could double-check and make some intuitions, but the burden should not be on the reader for that. That’s just simple clicking “insert endnote” in MS Word. This is a half-assed junior high bibliography. Even the joke of a research method known as APA is more respectable than this.
  
  His New Age Conspiracies Get the Best of him. While I am intrigued by the possibility that the Cathar’ treasure was taken from the Temple of Solomon, and that this treasure represented in some way an advanced form of “paleo-physics” (again, I am fairly open-minded here), Marrs did not elaborate on what was probably the most interesting point of his book. Had he used real scholarship and evaluated the sources in a detailed, logical fashion, he could have shed much light on a fairly unresearched topic. Instead, he mentioned it in passing and the book he “referenced” in the back was one of the New Age Gnostic pamphlets on Jesus being one of the dragon children ala David Icke! I officially stopped taking Marrs seriously at this point.
  
  He offers no real plan of action. Towards the end of the book Marrs (rightly) points out that all political candidates are funded by the same people and eventually advance some form of the same cause. There is really no way to stop them. He makes vague appeals to the Constitution and has an interesting idea to “vote with your shopping cart” (buy local), but no detailed plan of action on how to stop the Fourth Reich. To be fair, I won’t fault him too much on this point because given the structure of today’s republican government, there is no way to stop the moneyed elite. America is down for the count (though resurrections are certainly possible).
  
  The Second half of the book doesn’t say anything new. I enjoyed the first part of the book. The second part, unfortunately, felt like a collation of all the various rightwing and leftwing blogs attacking the government. I agreed with most of the points, but it did not tell me anything new.
  
  Marrs’ Logical Fallacies. Marrs seemed to make the argument: The Nazis did x. George W. Bush’s administration does x. Ergo, Bush is a Nazi. He may well be a Nazi, and his grandfather certainly funded the Nazi party, but the above argument is an example of the fallacy “correlation equals causation.”
  
  Misses other possible conclusions. On one hand, it is not fair to criticize an author for not saying one’s own personal conclusion or hobby-horse, so this really is not a fault of Marrs’. It is fairly obvious that Jews own most of the media, the lobbies, and the banks. (Btw, that is not anti-semitic. That is simply looking at the last names of the CEOs!). Since that is the case, how does that square with Marrs’ claim (which I also believe to be correct) that the Nazis also control much of the media and banks? Both claims are fairly true, but most people don’t accuse Nazis and Jews of being on the same side!
  
  Conclusion
  Don’t get the book. Marrs has several radio interviews where he explains this in better detail (and the radio interviews are worth downloading. Marrs is a gifted and enjoyable speaker. He has a unique way of connecting to his audience). If one wants to pursue further research in this area, read Joseph Farrell’s The Nazi International, Daniel Estulin’s The Story of the Bilderbergers, and Farrell’s Babylon’s Banksters. Farrell is a gifted writer and employs easily-followable footnotes and is an actual scholar. Estulin has a more focused look on the Bilderbergers and doesn’t get distracted from his thesis.
  
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  Isidore

  I don't mind the fact that Marrs spends most of his time synthesizing other people's ideas and reporting their research findings; boiling down complex arguments and masses of arcane data into a lively and accessible form is a worthwhile undertaking.
  
  His fundamental premise, that a global financial elite which despises democracy and the rights of citizens is running our society must be self-evident to any critical thinker who follows the news. The rest is a grab bag. I found myself veering from "He's nuts", to "Well, maybe. . ." to "Damn right!" "Damn right" would include the postwar restoration of many Nazis to positions of power and influence, and to the striking parallels between the methods of modern "conservative" parties and those of the Fascists.
  
  I'm not too impressed by the reviewers who jeer at the book: "Ha ha, look at the funny conspiracy theorist." My guess is that a certain amount of what Marrs says is nonsense; I know that a great deal of what the mainstream media says is also nonsense. The difference is that Marrs is stumbling around in the dark with the rest of us, trying to figure out just what's going on in a bewildering world, and he will inevitably blunder, while the mainstream media is in the business of misleading the public to safeguard corporate profits. Need to do some jeering? Jeer at the powerful, destructive liars, not at well-meaning duffers like Marrs.
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  Captain_Howdy

  Jim Marrs is the type of excellent researcher to write a book like this. For anyone who hasn't any knowledge beyond mainstream history, this book will be an eye-opener.
  
  Marrs details the extent of America's wealthy families, banks and corporations who funded Hitler's Germany and it's rise to power. And how various U.S. government organizations shifted thousands of Nazi scientists and researchers in many key fields safely into positions of U.S. high tech corporations and government research. Others were swept secretly into South America.
  
  The author then follows through with how they have advanced over the last sixty years to continue their projects. The best chapter in the books is called Wonder Weapons, which describes how advanced the Germans had developed their specialized sciences.
  
  Ominous parallels are drawn between WWII Nazi weapons, thoughts and agenda to the current state of the USA. Rising nationalism, state corporatism, consolidation of the mass media to the point of propaganda, inordinate hysteria over national security accompanied by eroding liberties, rampant corruption, are just a few of the connections to be made.
  
  Operation Paperclip, ratlines and Grandpa Bush are all brought to light.
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  Devin Wallace

  I don't like diving off the side of the cliff into the murky waters of conspiracy theories of the highest nature. I would have been forced to do that to completely enjoy Marrs' book. It is full of facts and dark connections between the world's past and the current elite, but he adds a lot of conjecture that lowers the quality of his ideas. Jim Marrs is the ultimate conspiracy theorist, but I don't want to ride roundtrip on it. I'll ride it for a bit, but there is a point where I need to get off at my stop.
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  Johnny

  The Rise of the Fourth Reich is the ultimate conspiracy book. Imagine a book contending that neither Hitler nor Bormann died at the end of the war. Imagine that the book is so bold as to connect Roswell’s famous UFO incident with Nazi super-technology—specifically anti-gravity devices and flying saucers. Then, add in delicious innuendo showing that Prescott Bush (along with the famous John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles), father of President George H. W. Bush and grandfather of President George W. Bush, was not only a supporter of the Nazi cause, but allegedly involved in both helping Nazis get gold out of the crumbling country at the end of WWII and involved through the OSS and Operation Paperclip at getting certain Nazi scientists and high party officials out of the country.
  And what conspiracy book would be complete without some JFK assassination conspiracy? Marrs sees E. Howard Hunt and company as being the real assassins while Oswald was “the patsy.” Of course, that’s the same as in his Crossfire, but the new nuance is that Hunt and company came out of the OSS and had pro-Nazi connections. Add in the interesting anecdote that George H. W. Bush was dining with Hinckley’s father on the night of the Reagan assassination and certain interesting observations concerning the failed assassination of Carter in Los Angeles, and you really have some entertaining aspects of recent history to consider. Amazingly, a mix of Truman, Kennedy, Carter, and Reagan come across as authentic while Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Bush I and Bush II come across as procurers for the secret machinations of Nazis, Trilateral Commission, Illuminati, and whatever other mysterious group Marrs can deduce. You almost expect Steve Jackson Games’ Illuminati to be invoked, just as it is in Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons.
  Sometimes the connections between the dots seem spurious and the author, like many authors in the world of Nazis, UFOs, and assassination conspiracies, cites other authors in the “genre” such that it seems like a game of circular evidence where everyone proves each other by citing someone else in the circle. Yet, the book brought several hours of entertaining speculation and fuel for my conspiratorial fire. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys conspiracies—real or imagined.
  
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  Tom

  This is the mother of conspiracy books. Read this and you will understand why some people feel it necessary to carry assault weapons to town hall meetings about health care. Yes, providing care to sick people is part of the conspiracy.
  
  By the way, Hitler did not die, nor did Martin Bormann and oh yes, Rockefeller and some of his friends are in on it too. It was Rockefeller money that funded the degradation of the American education system. This conspiracy dates back to the Holy Roman Empire (the first Reich) and continues today in the US. The Nazis have mastered time travel too. The UFO incident and cover up at Roswell? Nazi technology brought to America.
  
  This conspiracy is neither of the right nor the left. In fact both George W Bush and the current President are simply the tools of this group. Unprovoked wars of aggression and curtailment of liberty are their doing.
  
  However, the most frightening aspect of this book is that there are a lot of people who read it and subscribe to it.
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  Doug Brunell

  Despite some alarmist paranoia, this book makes for one hell of an interesting read ... especially in today's political climate.
  
  Marrs traces corporations that were run by or started by Nazis, follows the money, follows the ratlines and looks at the names that keep popping up in connection to the National Socialists and the governments in several countries, including the USA. It is eye-opening, to say the least.
  
  I don't agree with all the conclusions drawn here, but I also think there is something to the what Marrs has written. So much so that it may cause you to start researching these things on your own.
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  Armin

  Der Klappentext klingt ja ziemlich verheißungsvoll, aber der Autor hat allen möglichen Mist und diverse Mythen über die Nazis und andere Geheimgesellschaften zusammen getragen und lässt die größten Widersprüche undiskutiert nebeneinander stehen. Im Vergleich damit ist das auch von Marrs reichlich geplünderte Buch von Baigent/Leigh über die Templer*
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... eine hochseriöse Publikation.
  
  * Hauptinspirationsquelle für Dan Browns Da-Vinci-Code.
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  Anabela Costa

  This book is an account of how the Rockefellers and British Elite helped Hitler in his ascension.
  But the show still goes on according to Jim Marrs.
  
  Some Chapters repeat the same issues over and over again, that makes the book sometimes hard to read and boring. But in general the book is interesting, and provides a lot of good information for further studies in the subject.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Jane

  It is darned scary what I learned from this book. The powers to be in the US are definitely not to be trusted and neither are those in big business worldwide.
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  Leo Guidry

  So much to take in. I think it is information overload on crack, but I is has good information.
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  Ian

  All about the plots of Hitler and the rest of his cronies.
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  Deven

  I thought this was a very disturbing book, probably because I believed a lot of it.
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  Tee Jay

  A highly engrossing and entertaining text. If anything, it provides great creative writing inspiration.
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  Rafael Suleiman

  A compelling tale about the history of secret societies in our world.
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  Zy Marquiez

  Review by: Zy Marquiez
  
  “Since the war was lost, the “enemy lines” meant, quite literally, a new kind of special guerilla warfare was to be waged from a postwar Nazi underground, quite literally, “behind enemy lines” which would in the aftermath of the war, cover the entire globe, and that warfare was deliberately conceived in conjunction with an advanced technology that, in the hands of Weltanschauungskrieg experts, would be used to spread fear, terror, confusion, and thereby to demoralize the enemy, short circuit his world-interpretation and decision making process….But what precisely, was that technology?”
  
  – Joseph P. Farrel, Saucers, Swastikas And PsyOps – A History Of A Breakaway Civilization: Hidden Aerospace Technologies And Psychological Operations
  
  “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
  
  “The hierarchical organization and the initiation through symbolic rites, that is to say, without bothering the brain but by working on the imagination through magic and the symbols of a cult, all this is the dangerous element, and the element I have taken over.”
  
  – Adolf Hitler
  
  In this tour de force, The Rise Of The Fourth Reich – The Secret Societies That Threaten To Take Over America, Jim Marrs does unparalleled work in exposing an extensive amount of data regarding the Nazis that you will not get taught in school.
  
  As its often said, history is written by the winners, and an odd history it is that most people know very little about the Nazis except for what they have heard about from the mainstream media.
  
  One quick, yet notable example of how history is twisted, is the fact that much of the populace is blind to the fact that America, the Vatican, as well as other countries funneled Nazis through ratlines in droves. If that were it, it would be bad enough. However, many of those very high-ranking criminal Nazis were given positions of power within the establishment of the time via Project Paperclip; most notable of those is Dr. Wehrner Von Braun, who in later years became the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]. Other high ranking Nazis brought over in such a manner include Kurt Diebner, Otto Hahn often called “the father of nuclear chemistry” Walter Gerlach, and many others.
  
  Therein, by 1955, nearly a thousand German scientists had been funneled into the United States and given vital positions within the American Scientific community. This gave firm roots to what Jim Marrs calls ‘The Fourth Reich’, within the American Landscape.
  
  An examination of those very Nazi roots within the American establishment is what Marrs carries out in this landmark book.
  
  From his foray into the strangeness of Rudolf Hess and his particular case, to an examination of what is oft-termed ‘Nazi Wonder Weapons’, Marrs – like a heat seeking missile – locks into the most keen of aspects in his extensive synopsis of the Nazi abstruse lore.
  
  Another great topic of note that affects our everyday lives – yet has its nascent stages within the Nazi history – is the one of the neurotoxin Fluoride. Unbeknownst too many is the fact that not only is this toxin put into the water supply, but it also causes extensive detrimental side effects such as lower IQ [as Harvard studies find], mental retardation, brain damage, skeletal fluorosis, increased bone fractures, genetic damage, dental fluorosis, gastrointestinal disturbances. Marrs also covers the noxious Aspartame, which the FDA knows has 92 potential side effects, but still pushed it through since it was Donald Rumsfeld’s Bioweapon Legacy.
  
  Some of the other topics touched upon by Marrs include the Nazi Mind Control programs [that aided in the spawning of the infamous MK-Ultra Mind Control program], as well as the elite & corporate ties to the Nazis, the Nazi connections to the pharmaceutical industry, I.G. Farben and their love for eugenics, the pervasive control of mainstream media, and a whole lot more.
  
  Calling this merely a great book would be an understatement. This particular well researched piece is a veritable library of references for the inquiring individual. It is as well rounded as it is incisive. Not having it would be a great disservice to those wishing to understand the current criminals in a plethora of positions powers such as politics, finance, banking, etc. whose ties lead back to some these nefarious roots.
  
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  Other suggested books on the topic:
  
  The Third Way – The Nazi International, European Union, And Corporate Fascism by Joseph P. Farrel
  Nazi International – The Nazis’ Postwar Plan To Control Finance, Conflict, Physics and Space by Joseph P. Farrell
  Saucers, Swastikas And PsyOps – A History Of A Breakaway Civilization: Hidden Aerospace Technologies And Psychological Operations, by Joseph P. Farrell
  Ratline – Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests, and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler by Peter Levenda
  Unholy Alliance – A History Of Nazi Involvement In The Occult, by Peter Levenda
  The Hitler Legacy – The Nazi Cult In Diaspora by Peter Levenda
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  Cyanemi

  Quite a lot of fascinating information the last quarter of the book kind of fell apart.
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  Paul Pessolano

  If you want something to think about in the next month or so read this book. It is shelved in "Speculation" and that should alert the reader to be cautious of its content; although I must admit that Marrs does put a pretty good source file for his beliefs.
  
  The gist of the book is that the United States is fast moving to National Socialism. National Socialism was the movement that was made popular in Germany by Adolph Hitler. The word Nazi came form National Socialism. Marrs believes that Hitler was fronted by the leaders of industry and those leaders and their philosophy are shaping a "New World Order" today.
  
  Marrs touches on about any subject that he can to expound his theory. This includes going back to the Knights Templar, Masons, and Skull and Bones. Nothing and no one escapes his pen. He even brings a convincing case against the fluoridation of our water. The new media is taken to task for presenting, in his words, the beliefs of these industrial leaders. He also puts a big hurt on the school system of the United States.
  
  Again, leaving no one by the wayside, he brings a heated augument on the outrageous profits of the Drug Companies. These companies found their beginnings during the Third Reich.
  
  One of the more interesting aspects of the book is the migration of known Nazi sympathizers to the United States and South America. He not only names names but names those governments that had a hand in bringing them to this country. He also claims that many of them were aided by the Vatican in obtaining visas to this country.
  
  This is a most interesting book and will give the reader plenty to ponder over. One should be careful and not take everything for fact until one does a little deeper study into the individual subject matters of this book.
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  David

  The most important lesson from this book is not time-traveling Nazis but the fact that all three of the major world powers in the 20th century (Fascism, Communism, and American Capitalism) have been funded and controlled by the same interests. These include European royals alongside wealthy Jewish families and, yes, members of the German Nazi elite and associated secret societies who all collaborate in the ownership and operation of the global network of banks (Deutsche Bank, Federal Reserve, Chase Bank, Bank of International Settlements) and corporations (Standard Oil, Shell Oil, IBM, etc.) which control the modern world.
  
  For example, the American International Corporation (AIC) was formed in 1915 and helped fund the Russian Revolution. It represented the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Du Ponts, Kuhns, Loebs, Harrimans, and Bushes (p. 9). Most of these same families also funded the rise of National Socialism, another totalitarian political system which differed little from Communism in its essentials: state control of guns, business, media, education, religion, and elections.
  
  The book digresses annoyingly into wild-sounding speculation about Nazi technology, secret treasure troves, and fluffy social commentary that I found tedious at best. The introduction and first chapter are the best portions of the book, though the chapter on Kennedy is interesting. The author also spends excessive time bashing the Republican party as a secret trove of crypto-Nazis, but this is perhaps inevitable in a book that is about National Socialist influence in American politics rather than Communist influence.
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  Brendan Jure

  Mostly off-beat conspiracy theories but it makes it an entertaining read.
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  Eric

  This is a really good book. I would give it five stars except it scared the crap out of me and didn't offer any suggestions as to how to fight the ongoing nazification of the US. There is plenty of reference material cited and Mr. Marrs gives names, dates and associations that make my skin crawl.
  
  This is a dark, negative look at the last hundred years or so that has led to the fascist society we insist on calling a democracy. It's still safe to say that after Andrew Jackson eliminated the federal debt and saved us from the Federal Reserve was the last time we were truly a free nation. When the international bankers chained us to their Federal Reserve banking system was the beginning of the end. The assassination of JFK was when fascism took control.
  
  "Nazis in America?" you say, "Impossible. We hate Nazis in America."
  
  But the people with all the money love the way the Nazis take control and get things done. They are here and their ideas, methods, and intentions have been transferred to our institutions.
  
  This book stands in stark contrast to the last book I read and reviewed here: "Looking Forward" by Jacque Fresco. Jacque has the most likely solution to our Fourth Reich.
  
  Viva, Resource-based Economy!
  
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  Terence Kong

  This is one of those book which will leave readers stunned and also informed. It goes on to tell about the things going on in America that we just have't been subjected to.
  
  This non-fiction book by Kim Marrs points out that even though the Germans were taken down during World War 2, the Nazi philosophy did not fade along with it. When top Nazis was approaching to the realisation that their country would lose the war, they fled the country and established new homes in various regions around the world such as United States and South America. In these regions, they sneaked their way into major corporations and financial institutions as part of their means to enslave a population from behind the scenes. Their methods still persists to this day.
  
  Their philosophy and influence continues to affect the political and social executions of today, 70 years later. The author also reveals the greed and corruption that the runaway Nazis adopt to alter the political and corporate landscape of their new homes. It comes to show that the Nazi has forever altered the world in many extraordinary but terrible ways and Marrs explains each of them perfectly. Well-written and easily comprehensible to the general audience, this book is a must read.
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  Doug Brunell

  No matter how you look at this book it is eye-opening, fascinating and just plain insane. You can view it as fact or conspiracy theory. It is reinforced by history and fact (and with plenty of sources for your own research purposes), but it does sometimes veer into the realm of the fantastic.
  
  That said, I think Jim Marrs hit it out of the park with this one.
  
  Marrs has connected the dots (which, in all honesty, aren't that hard to connect) to show that the Nazis really never went away. Yes, after WWII they scattered to the wind, but where did they go? Well, primarily to America and Russia. While here in America they did some wonderful things like help us get to the moon (a well-known fact). Why did they do such things? That is where you get to make the call.
  
  Most people who have read this book will, at the very least, say it caused them to think. I'm not a conspiracy buff, though I find them fascinating. This book, I believe, shows a conspiracy that may actually be true or at least have some grain of truth behind it.
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  Norman John

  I think any American frustrated with the decisions the Federal Government and Presidents have made should read this. This, The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy and Marr's Rule by Secrecy answer your questions and solve the mystery.
  
  While I may not always understand or agree with everything Marrs says the majority of the information is useful to enlighten the public/civilians to the corruption of the United States government and political system, monetary system and it's vitally important everyone becomes aware just how ruthless these power mongers are.
  
  Now, with the advance of electronics and nano-technology, biological warfare tech and mass survailance of the public exploiting the "Patriot Act" and other laws, violating the Constitution in the name of "National Security", Americans are losing more and more of their privacy and rights.
  
  
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  Michael Herrman

  It's full of conspiracy theories, yes, but 'conspire' only means 'to breathe together'. Governments, religions, and societies are conspiracies. The word alone does not disprove content.
  
  Of course, where so much information is actually lost or hidden, it's also difficult to prove much of the content. This book will tell you about otherwise obscure points of interest such as Die Glock; Operation Paperclip; the incestuous relationships between US and foreign business interests and Nazi Germany. It will also make sweeping claims backed with little or no credible evidence.
  
  Worth a read, but skepticism is required.
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  Paul

  I'm not too big into conspiracy theories.
  
  I was anticipating that this book was going to deal more with the rise of neo-Nazi groups, or others of that ilk. What I found was that each chapter starts-off with (what I consider) established historical fact, then works through some interesting theories that challenge these facts, and then just really goes whole-hog into the conspiratorial maelstrom. Not that this isn't interesting or well-written material (it is), it's just that my anti-conspiratorial nature just didn't gel with the subject matter.