05.03.10
More on Marrs’ text
Marrs on the fourth reich
I finished reading Marrs’ book, and my opinion at the end is indeterminate. Because Marrs’ Crossfire on the JFK assassination is well done I give him a temporary benefit of doubt, to the extent of reading his book (s).
I am not sure how far I go with him on the issue raised by his title, thence the purported main theme of his book: on one level however his thesis is, if not obvious, then a referral to some important hidden strains of post-fascism fascism.
But as you read the text something else happpens, it is so packed with secondary issues, and mini-research findings that you are left gaping. A good example is the suggestion that the Nazis actually did produce a nuclear weapon, and that the uranium used by the Los Alamos team was in part produced in Germany by Nazis, brought to the USA near the end of the war.
The book is filled with ‘hypotheses’ like this, which are hard to assess.
In general, I find the book of interest for the way a ‘conspiracy theory’ thesis comes into being willynilly, on the basis of the stark contradictions emerging at many points in twentieth century history in general and the post-JFK legacy in particular.
More on this later. If you can follow the maxim, read all, believe nought, the book is well worth reading.