“From this room, Your Grace, I govern not only Paris, but China; not only China, but the whole world –and all without anyone knowing how it is done.” – Society of Jesus Superior General Tambourini to the Duke de Brissac, Constitutions of the Jesuits, edited by Paulin, Paris (1843)

 

15 Brienner Strasse

 

by F. Tupper Saussy

 

Sleuthing Munich

About eighty-four years ago something important happened in Munich, capital of the south German state of Bavaria.

The event consisted of no more than a short conversation between strangers and a gift of money. It was a stone dropped quietly in a pond, yet we all have been affected in some way by its ever-expanding ripples.

It happened in a mansion, the residence of the ambassador from the Holy See to Bavaria. Such residences are officially called “nunciatures;” the ambassador is the “nuncio.” It was not enough for me to know what the nuncio did that night in 1919, I wanted to experience the real estate he did it in. So I went to Munich looking for a nunciature. I wanted to photograph and sketch it, touch its walls, pass through its doorways, peer out its windows, stand on its floors, sniff its odors.

As I studied Munich by map, a name leapt out at me. Pacelli Strasse. That's the name of the nuncio in question: Eugenio Pacelli! Had this boulevard been dedicated to the memory of Pacelli's auspicious Bavarian career? Was the nunciature located in Pacelli Strasse? The street was right around the corner from my hotel. Excitedly, I grabbed my raincoat and went looking for clues.

Pacelli Strasse is tiny, no more than a few blocks long. I found an Austrian Consulate and a Café Pacelli – but alas, no former nunciature. But there was still hope, for Pacelli Strasse's main attraction is the Office of Archbishop's Affairs.

I entered and explained my needs through a glass window to the receptionist. She summoned a jolly little man whose intense face evidenced a strong commitment to print. He was the archbishop's Archivist.

“I'm sorry to tell you,” he said, “that the nunciature was not in Pacelli Strasse, and I would not know where it was.”

I pressed. “Do you happen to have any telephone directories from the year 1919?”

The Archivist brightened.

“Ah, come with me,” he said.

He took me down a flight of stairs into the archbishop's stacks, disappeared a few moments, and returned with an old telephone book. Our fingers did the walking until they arrived at 15 Brienner Strasse.

“That is the correct address,” the Archivist beamed. “The Nunciature of the Holy See was located at 15 Brienner Strasse. Will you be taking a cab, or would you like directions?”

It was a distance of about two miles on foot under a cloudy November sky with occasional drops of rain. Brienner Strasse is a fashionable thoroughfare bordered by wide sidewalks and decked with affluent high-rises, shops, and restaurants. I stopped in at Café Luitpold for a quick luncheon salad before arriving at... disappointment.

Number 15, the mansion of my imagination, was not there. In fact, there was nothing but a simple park ornamented by a granite monument surmounted by a large cubic grid. The monument was inscribed:

DEN OPFERN DER NATIONAL-SOZIALISTISCHEN GEWALTHERRSCHAFT

Later, back at the hotel, my German-English dictionary told me that these words mean:

TO THE VICTIMS OF THE NATIONAL-SOCIALIST DESPOTISM

Anyone researching rulers of evil would know this rhetoric was more than just another civic-minded apology for the ravages of Nazism. I had amassed facts that reveal this granite cage, whose bars are crosses interlaced with swastikas (study the design carefully), to be a historical marker that every human being should know. It proves that mankind is ruled by a legitimate authority that most of us ignore or misjudge at our peril.

Let me acquaint you with some of these facts.

Who's Who at Number 15?

Eighty-two years ago, 15 Brienner Strasse housed three vital players in world politics: Eugenio Pacelli, Archbishop of Sardi, nuncio to Bavaria, and administrator of the Vatican's foreign affairs; his housekeeper, a Holy Cross nun named Pascalina; and his Jesuit speech-writer Robert Lieber.

Eugenio Pacelli had served in the Church's diplomatic service since his ordination in 1899. His international sensibilities had been mentored by the Jesuits, one of whom—Vladimir Ledochowski—he idolized. I say “idolized” because this is the exact word an elderly Jesuit I interviewed in Rome employed to describe Pacelli's relationship to Ledochowski. He'd known both figures personally.

Vladimir Ledochowski was a Polish aristocrat who by 1906 had demonstrated such exceptional skills in international diplomacy that Jesuit Superior General Franz Xavier Wernz (under whose tutelage Pacelli had done his postgraduate research in canon law) appointed him Consultor General for Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, and Poland, as well as Belgium and the Netherlands.

“Consultor General” is the equivalent of a cabinet post. It empowered Ledochowski to lace the future of his nations with alliances that lay buried like so many land-mines. This is not an unusual feat for a Jesuit strategist. Indeed, the Society of Jesus (which is the pope's private CIA and veritable Mother of spies) is renowned for “Othelloizing” nations—setting them up for mutual destruction, as when Othello's trusted but treacherous advisor Iago gloats to the audience, “Now whether he kill Cassio or Cassio him, or each do kill the other, every way makes my gain.”

(It's foolish, in my opinion, not to suspect a covert military strategist of anything he has authority, means, and requirement to do. To ignore him is to be conquered by his strategy, which is usually to foster ignorance of his most decisive operations.)

Triggering World War

Most historians agree that the first World War was triggered by the Serbian Concordat of June 1914. Eugenio Pacelli was the Concordat's acknowledged author, but Vladimir Ledochowski had authority, means, and requirement to ghost it.

The Serbian Concordat promised (a) Vatican support of Serbia's liberation from Roman Catholic Austria-Hungary, while (b) pitting Roman Catholic evangelism against the Serbian state religion, Eastern Orthodoxy, a faith that denies the supremacy of the Roman papacy.

Such a policy was sure to provoke belligerency between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, just as Jesuit military strategy created enmity between America and Great Britain to incite a Revolution that resulted in the world's first republic governable by Roman Catholic laypersons. The underlying purpose of the Serbian Concordat, like the Declaration of Independence, was to restructure the world according to the requirements of Rome. What those requirements were we shall learn presently.

Four days after Eugenio Pacelli signed the Concordat, a Serbian terrorist assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Within weeks, nations with no more reason to make war than the alliances they had signed began outfitting their respective soldiery for what looked like Armageddon.


Reorganization

Death hit the Vatican, too. On August 19, 1914, Jesuit General Wernz died suddenly, followed the next day by Pope Pius X—of heartbreak, it was rumored, over the world's disintegration. To succeed Pius, the college of cardinals chose a professional diplomat, Giacomo della Chiesa, who assumed the name Benedict XV.

It took the Jesuits six months to elect a Superior General to succeed Wernz. There's no more powerful political office on earth than Superior General of the Society of Jesus. It commands absolute, unquestioned obedience. The proposition that Jesus Christ is to be seen in the person of the Superior General is repeated no less than five hundred times in the Society's Constitutions.

Vladimir Ledochowski was chosen General by his Jesuit electors.

The man idolized by Eugenio Pacelli now had full authority to cause America to desire war against Germany. We have heard many reasons why America entered World War I. Statesmen argued that it was “the war to end all wars,” while pacifists charged it was a war to support British imperialism. Actual outcome points to another, less apparent yet more practical reason.
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The Purpose of World War I

Immediately upon assuming his Generalate, Vladimir Ledochowski fled Rome (Austria, after all, was now at war with Italy) and set up office with two assistants in his mother's castle at Zizers, Switzerland.

In 1917, Ledochowski invited Mathias Erzberger, a deputy from the German Catholic Center party, to Zizers for a secret meeting.

Erzberger later reported to friends that the General had persuaded him to support a strategy of destroying the unified Reich under the Protestant Kaiser Wilhelm II in order to bring the Catholic nations of central and eastern Europe together in a pan-German federation under a charismatic dictator charged with subduing the communist menace from the east.

Dr. Hans Carossa, documenting the deputy's fact patterns after Zizers, observed that “Every political maneuver that Erzberger has engaged in since his discussion with the Jesuit General has only served to advance this Jesuit political strategy.” (Manfred Barthel, The Jesuits, William Morrow, p. 254-5)

Means A: The Lusitania

As much as Ledochowski needed to mobilize America against Germany, America was disinterested in European events. In fact, President Woodrow Wilson repeatedly declared that Europe's calamities were of absolutely no concern to Americans.

But soon after Ledochowski ensconced in Zizers (locals pronounce it "Caesar's"), things started going his way. A German submarine sank the RMS Lusitania off the coast of Ireland with 128 Americans aboard.

This act, wrote Jim Marrs in his study of clandestine governments (Rule By Secrecy, HarperCollins, 2000), “set off a firestorm of anti-German feeling throughout the United States, fanned by the Rockefeller-[J.P.] Morgan dominated press.”

Marrs added that “Morgan was the Rothschilds' American representative—some say partner.”

The house of Rothschild is bound by fiduciary duty to facilitate the Jesuit General's needs. According to Encyclopedia Judaica, the Rothschilds are “Guardians of the Vatican Treasury.”

The Rothschild press used the Lusitania to foment hatred among Americans toward “the hideous Hun.” But a stunt even more dramatic was needed to secure a declaration of war.


Means B: The Zimmerman Telegram

War resulted from the famous Zimmerman Telegram, which the Rothschild press sensationally published in America on March 1, 1917.

In the telegram, supposedly decoded by British interceptors, German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann proposed to the German ambassador in Mexico a German-Mexican alliance against the United States in which Germany would support the Mexican recapture of territory in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.

A German official talking secretly of invading Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico brought the war suddenly home!

Normally, when the alleged proponent of such an explosive notion—true or not—is asked for verification, he follows good diplomatic form and categorically denies responsibility. Not Arthur Zimmermann. At a Berlin news conference on March 3rd, a reporter for the Hearst papers—which columnist George Seldes terms "the most pro-Catholic press in America”—caught Zimmermann's attention and stated: “Of course Your Excellency will deny this story.” Zimmermann replied, “I cannot deny it. It is true.”

Is this a script, or what?

Zimmermann's inexplicable admission (and shamefully unprofessional, unless done in obedience to the General or the Rothschilds) gave President Wilson no alternative but to ask Congress for precisely what Vladimir Ledochowski desired: a declaration that a state of war existed with Germany.

Congress complied on April 6, the Guardians of the Vatican Treasury cranked out the credit (through the Rothschilds' brand new Federal Reserve), and over the next year and a half, more than 364,000 American lives were sacrificed (out of 4,355,000 mobilized) to Ledochowski's objective of destroying the Reich and replacing its Protestant Kaiser with a charismatic dictator.

Came Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, the Reich was devastated . The Kaiser had fled for the safety of Holland.

Power-drunk from overthrowing czarist Russia, Bolshevik mobs flying red flags overran Bavaria. All Munich's diplomatic legations returned to their home countries. The Vatican nunciature alone remained.

On June 28, 1919, the Allies presented the Treaty of Versailles for Germany to sign. The Diktat, as Germans called it (“dictated peace”), only perfected their devastation—forcing them to accept sole responsibility for the war, ripping great chunks of territory away from the Reich, and reducing German naval and military power to practically nil.

The moment had arrived for the introduction of Vladimir Ledochowski's “charismatic dictator.”

He entered history at 15 Brienner Strasse late one blustery night during the winter following the Diktat...

 

Mission Accomplished

Sister Pascalina recalled the moment for her biographers, Paul Murphy and Rene Arlington (La Popessa, Viking, 1983).

The nunciature was asleep. Pascalina heard knocking at the door. She answered to find a young Austrian soldier standing there, a corporal and a Catholic, bearing a letter of introduction from a leading Bavarian politician citing him for acts of bravery during the war.

Pascalina issued the young man into the sitting room and awoke Archbishop Pacelli. Their meeting went fast. The soldier vowed to check the spread of atheistic communism in Munich and elsewhere.

Pascalina heard Pacelli say, “Munich has been good to me, so has Germany. I pray Almighty God that this land remain a holy land, in the hands of Our Lord, and free of communism.”

She then saw Pacelli give the soldier “a large cache of Church money to aid the rising revolutionary and his small, struggling band of anticommunists.”

“Go, quell the devil's works,” the archbishop told him. “Help spread the love of Almighty God.”

Sister Pascalina never forgot the young soldier's face or his name—Adolf Hitler.

Reflections

Of course, in 1939 Eugenio Pacelli was elected Pope Pius XII, whom John Paul II moved toward sainthood with beatification in 1998.

Catholic author and Cambridge scholar John Cornwell contends in Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (Viking, 1999) that Pacelli's tactical subservience to Hitler, particularly his refusal to intercede with the Fuhrer's treatment of the Jews, depended upon “a fatal combination of high spiritual aspirations in conflict with soaring ambition for power and control.” In other words, “Ignore Vladimir Ledochowski; look no further than His Holiness, in the same way you look no further than Oswald, Ray, Koresh, or McVeigh.”

Although it fails to consider the pope's very real legal relationship to the man he idolized (immediately after Ledochowski's death in 1942, Pius nominated him for canonization), Cornwell's estimable book is still our most revealing examination of Pacelli's inner career.

Scholars need to learn that the Church is perennially at war with every non-Catholic, a fact proved by the existence and record of the Jesuits. His task of defending the sacraments places the Superior General in control of the entire Church Militant. In certain circumstances, he is entitled to require obedience of the pope—for the sake of Rome.

And so I submit that the policies of Pius XII were not his to make but rather those of Vladimir Ledochowski. The Society of Jesus will never agree to this, I know. As Manfred Barthel has explained, “Jesuit sources always blandly insist that the General concerned himself entirely with spiritual and administrative matters and never gave politics a thought.”

We've seen how 15 Brienner Strasse is dedicated “to the victims of the national-socialist despotism.” The word translated “victims” is opfern, which means “sacrificial victims,” opfern being a cognate of “offerings.” Are we being told here that the Holocaust, such as occurred, was a form of ritual, a human sacrifice perceived necessary to propitiate some divinity?

If so, it is a message consistent with my Rulers of Evil hypothesis that the vast, amorphous institution known as Rome, under the military leadership of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, is divinely empowered to rule evildoers under the seal given by God Almighty to Cain.

An evildoer, according to the Bible, is anyone who prefers other gods to the Jesus Christ of Scripture. With its crown of interlocking swastikas and crosses, 15 Brienner Strasse pays tribute to those souls, regardless of religious persuasion, who placed their faith in a ministry of righteousness operated by the satanic majesty.

The many who denied Christ yet escaped the sacrificial altar did so only by the grace of God.

 

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Post Script: With profound appropriateness typical of the Vatican Way, the Last Reigning Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Zita von Hapsburg, lived out her final twenty years of life in the very castle from which the destruction of her Empire was administered. She died at Zizers in 1989 at the age of 97.

 

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