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THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH
communists. A total German victory would result in a worldwide National Socialist system unable to produce the tensions and conflicts necessary for maximizing profit and control. They also may have feared that Stalin’s Soviet Union was about to launch an attack on Western Europe. Only Hitler’s Germany had the strength to prevent this. At some point, the globalists determined that the Axis, after blocking Russia’s invasion of Europe, should lose the war. They also began drawing up plans for the survival and renewal of a new form of National Socialism, one not dependent on racism and ethnicity. Working with the same financiers and capitalists that had helped create German Nazism, these globalists began laying the foundation for a Fourth Reich. Conspiracy researchers have long suspected that one element of this German influence has been centered in the secretive Skull and Bones fraternity on the campus of Yale University. Known variously as Chapter 322, the Brotherhood of Death, the Order, or, more popularly, as Skull and Bones or simply Bones, the Order was brought from Germany to Yale in 1832 by General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft. (Russell’s cousin, Samuel Russell, was an integral part of the British-inspired Opium Wars in China. Taft, secretary of war in 1876 and U.S. attorney general and an ambassador to Russia, was the father of William Howard Taft, the only person to serve as both president and chief justice of the United States. Another prominent Bones member was Averell Harriman, who has been described as “a man at the heart of the American ruling class,” and played a prominent role in the establishment of the new American empire.) A pamphlet detailing an 1876 investigation of Skull and Bones headquarters at Yale, known as “the Tomb” by a rival secret society, stated, “. . . its founder [Russell] was in Germany before Senior Year and formed a warm friendship with a leading member of a German society. He brought back with him to college authority to found a chapter here. Thus was Bones founded.” The secret German society may have been none other than the mysterious and infamous Illuminati. Ron Rosenbaum, a former Yale student and one of the few journalists to take a serious look at Skull and Bones, noted that the official skull-and-crossbones emblem of the Order was also the