30 Willis Carto (Holocaust: IHR)
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This article is from the Holocaust FAQ, by Ken McVay kmcvay@nizkor.org with numerous contributions by others.
30 Willis Carto (Holocaust: IHR)
Carto, born in 1926 in Indiana, had helped edit "Right" (a
mid-fifties San Francisco newsletter for an information clearinghouse for
antisemitic activities), was, inter alia, director of the far right
Congress of Freedom and, briefly, organiser for the John Birch
Society, from which he was later expelled.
In 1989, Dennis King provided this picture of Carto's ideological
background during his discussion of the connection between Lyndon
LaRouche, the NCLC (see Glossary, below), and Carto's Liberty Lobby
(get pub/orgs/american/ihr/larouche.ihr):
Carto, founder of the Liberty Lobby, was by far the most
successful and influential American anti-Semite of the 1970s. He
was an intellectual disciple of the late Francis Parker Yockey,
who roamed Europe and North America in the 1950s futilely
attempting to build an underground movement. Carto met Yockey
only once - in San Francisco in 1960, when Yockey was in jail
awaiting trial for possession of false passports. Several days
after their meeting, Yockey committed suicide in his cell by
taking cyanide. Carto, already an ultrarightist, dedicated
himself to carrying out Yockey's mission to save Western
civilization.
This mission was set forth in Yockey's 'Imperium,' a 600-page
synthesis of Nazi racialism and Oswald Spengler's philosophy of
history. The book was dedicated to the 'Hero of the Second World
War' (Hitler). But Carto, although devoted to Yockey's ideas, had
no illusions about Yockey's tactics. Instead of engaging in inept
conspiracies, he concentrated on building a political movement and
developed a populist cover ideology. Although he discreetly sold
'Mein Kampf' and 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' by mail, he
publicly denied being either a Nazi or an anti-Semite - he was
merely 'anti-Zionist.'
Carto defended Hitler's heritage, not by saying the Holocaust had
been a good thing, but by denying that it ever took place. He
founded the Institute for Historical Review to prove that the
alleged murder of six million Jews was a hoax invented by Zionists
to make people feel sorry for them. Carto went so far as to
publish a theory that the gas ovens at Auschwitz were really just
an industrial facility for converting coal into oil, operated by
happy well-fed Jewish prisoners.
Carto's Liberty Lobby, based in Washington, D.C., and nominally
headed by Colonel Curtis B. Dall (a former son-in-law of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt), enjoyed friendly ties with
conservative congressmen. It published a weekly tabloid, 'The
Spotlight,' which by 1979 enjoyed a paid circulation of almost
200,000*. Its articles championed income-tax rebels, protested the
plight of family farmers, and promoted quack cancer cures such as
laetrile. Its favorite political targets included the
Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, Henry Kissenger, the Council on
Foreign Relations, and the 'Zionist entity' in Palestine." (King,
39-40)
*According to George and Wilcox, circulation peaked at 315,000 in 1981
and had fallen to about 90,000 by 1992. (George & Wilcox, 260)
What kind of a man is Carto? The answer to that question is suggested
by his writing:
There are 600 million Chinese and about 200 million Russians. All
united in a determination to destroy the West. And we have been
so misled that we live in a dream world - far away from reality.
Hitler's defeat was the defeat of Europe. And America. How could
we have been so blind? The blame, it seems, must be laid at the
door of the international Jews. It was their propaganda, lies and
demands which blinded the West as to what Germany was doing. ---
from a letter to Norris Holt
Who is using who? Who is calling the shots? History supplies the
answer to this. History tells us plainly who our Enemy is. Our
Enemy today is the same Enemy of 50 years ago and before - and
that was before Communism. The Communists are "using" the Jews we
are told ... who was "using" the Jews fifty years ago - one
hundred or one thousand years ago. History supplies the answer.
The Jews came first and remain Public Enemy No. 1. --- a memo to
himself
In fact, no objective Scholar can deny today that the world would
be a far better place to live if Germany had won - even if it had
meant the defeat of American arms!
Let us first understand who won and who lost the last war. The
victors were Soviet Russia, international Communism, Red China,
Israel, international Zionism, the international money
manipulators (Wall Street-CFR crowd) and rising colored
nationalisms the world over.
Let us now name the losers: All of the European nations, most
certainly including Britain and her now non-existent Empire, the
United States, White world-hegemony and the idea of the
war-preventing, world-saving philosophy of nationalism and
non-interference in the affairs of others. ..........
(Hitler and Chamberlain, incidentally, and contrary to the massive
lies told about "Munich," worked out a sensible and workable
agreement at Munich to save Europe from a war. In return for a
free hand in the east, Hitler guaranteed Chamberlain that Germany
would not contest Britain's dominance on the seas, or covet any of
her colonies. The deal was broken by the war-madness stirred up
by the British press in obedience to the financial power after
Hitler marched on Poland - and also by pressure from Roosevelt.)
..........
Israel and Zionism would be unknown - still a crazy
dream in the minds of a few fanatics - and the secret
international power of the Zionist conspiracy would not be in
existence nor the manifold culture distortions which flow from
this disease source into all of the western nations. ..........
Juvenile delinquency would be uncommon because the youth of
America would be filled with patriotism, the natural aftermath of
defeat in war, and there would be something to aspire to.
Desegregation and the cultural negrification of America would be
unknown. ..........
What would have been the effect of a German
victory inside Germany? It is important to remember that Hitler's
ambition stopped in Europe - he would have gone no further. He
would have stopped if for no other reason that he yearned to build
Germany into an architectural paradise. The result of German
victory would have brought a true internationalism of Europe! The
United Europe only dreamed of today would have been a certain
result of the war. ..........
The important thing to note is
that a German victory would have assured that the life-span of
the White world would have been extended for many centuries more
than now seems likely; indeed, for the "thousand years" promised
by Hitler. --- from American Mercury, Summer 1973
By the way, the author of this last article is "E. L. Anderson,
Ph.D.", which is an alias for Carto.
What kind of a man is Willis Carto? You tell me...
In 1955 Carto founded Liberty Lobby as a right-wing political
pressure group in Washington D.C., and has been running it ever since.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center's recent infiltration report has this to
say about Carto:
Willis Carto is the most influential professional antisemite in
the United States. He is the founder of Liberty Lobby, the
Institute for Historical Review, the Noontide Press (which
distributes a wide range of racist and antisemitic titles), and
the Populist Party, whose 1988 Presidential candidate was David
Duke. Carto's name came up in nearly every conversation held
between Ron Furey, S.W.C. researcher, Richard Eaton, and the
neo-Nazis. Literature produced by the Carto organization is
widely read by German's radical right. In addition, several of
those interviewed know Mr. Carto personally. (Get
pub/orgs/american/wiesenthal.centre/swc.oprep) for the full
Wiesenthal report on the penetration of Germany's extreme right.)
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