The Masada Faktor©
A Mediterranean Noir by
Naomi
Litvin
The Cover Image
The cover image is a stained glass masterpiece that was created by the Maumejean Brothers in July 1941 at the Saint Jacques Church in Montgeron south of Paris, France as a visible sign of French Resistance during the Nazi occupation. It was not noticed for seventy years until January 2011. The stained glass depicts Adolph Hitler as King Herod. Hitler’s moustache is hidden behind his arm in order not to be noticeable but the black fringed hair clearly depicts Hitler as Herod, violently murdering Saint Jacques who represents the Jewish people. Jacques is French for James which is Jacob in Hebrew. Jacob, considered a patriarch, was the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Prologue
A
group of six Schutzstaffel, SS German Nazis met in secret
toward the end of World War II. It was the first week of May 1945 and they had
gathered in their favorite location, a member’s home, in a downstairs hidden
room, with access through a false wall built into the water closet next to the
boiler.
The
light was dim and yellowed and the chairs smelled musty. Several cases of
German cognac that had been stashed there by German troops was available to
fortify and bolster their courage and assuage the boredom while they waited for
instructions.
Higher
level SS operatives had organized these groups of four to six SS per cell. They
called the overall group Odessa, the Organization of Former SS Members
and it was secretly founded the year before as it became clear that Germany was
losing the war.
The
immense amount of stolen wealth from the Jews would finance their plan for the
continuation of post-war mischief related to the annihilation of remaining
Jews. With these monetary resources and technical and military Nazi experts
they and the other groups organized and awaited their orders.
What
this group finally received by messenger that night came in a worn grey leather
pouch, and inside was a folder, the label handwritten with purple ink: The
Masada Faktor. This group did not include technical experts, their value
however, was in their dedication to the cause. They felt relief but trepidation
as they opened the envelope which contained six sets of duplicate secret
orders.
Their
meetings so far had included speculation as to what their orders would be but
they knew whatever it was, it would include the continuation of the destruction
of the Jews worldwide. Their mission would be to strictly follow those orders.
They
also drank freely. Sometimes Bruno would bring drugs that they would share.
“Tonight
I have a special treat,” Bruno rasped.
The
five others included Wilhelm, Erich, Gustav, Joachim, and Oskar. “I told you no
more drugs,” Gustav growled, and pushed Bruno off his chair.
“Stop
this immediately,” Oskar piped in with his bizarre high pitched voice. “From
this moment on we will not use any more pharmaceuticals, only alcohol will be
allowed.”
Oskar
slapped first Bruno and then Gustav across the face as Wilhelm, Joachim, and
Erich watched wide-eyed, nodding with a mixture of fear and disgust.
Silence
ensued as they sat and read the plans for the operation. The Masada Faktor was
a strategy that sought to tie a new fiasco against the Jews to an important
historical event in Jewish history that was an obsession of Hitler’s.
Hitler
had studied King Herod in depth and in his grandiose fanaticism he identified
with Herod. This was obvious in the preface to the instructions. Hitler knew
that seventy or so years after Herod’s death, Masada, which was Herod’s most
ambitious fortress project in Israel, was where a three year siege by Romans
ended in a mass suicide of Jews who would not be taken alive. And so Hitler
used the seventy year mark of his death to plan a parallel siege in Israel.
Herod
had been the ruthless King of Israel, a sexual pervert and psychopath who was
appointed by the Roman Senate. His most ambitious project was building Masada
between 37 BCE and 31 BCE with thousands of Jewish slave laborers moving
gigantic limestone blocks weighing over ten tons. Hitler
modeled policies of slave labor, murdering all opposition, and complete
authoritarianism with King Herod in mind.
The
Masada Faktor predicated the use of Nazis and their collaborators. They would
train their children and their children’s children in the plan. This became a
highly argued subject as to how the offspring would be recruited into this
conspiracy.
Because
the orchestration would take a long time they accepted that they would all be
dead long before the event unraveled. Luckily they had unlimited monetary funds
from liquidated Jewish property, which they could use to bribe their progeny,
in case their dedication to Naziism weakened with time.
They
were nervous at this meeting. The news of Hitler’s death had been reported as
suicide by gunshot and possible simultaneous ingestion of cyanide on 30 April
1945. His wife Eva Braun killed herself by swallowing cyanide. They all agreed
that it was now up to them to continue the effort. Instinctively knew they had no
choice.
The
news that master propagandist Joseph Goebbels had killed all six of his
children with lethal injections and planned out the fatal shooting of himself
and his wife had shook this group of six faithful Nazis.
“We
must vow that our children will have a different fate, a glorious fate, and
should continue their mission to destroy the Jews wherever they live.” Oskar
was the appointed leader of this group. “I want you all to stand and Sieg
Heil to swear your allegiance!” They quickly jumped to their feet
and in unison avowed commitment.
Despite
the audacity and delusional proportions of this diabolical plan, they were
convinced of it. No doubt fed by cognac and hatred, they were to enlist the
other mortal enemy of the Jews, the Arabs.
Hitler
had financially supported The Muslim Brotherhood and had enlisted Arabs in
large numbers for the infamous all-Muslim Hanzer battalion divisions for the
German military in the war. They had proven their skills in massacres and
atrocities. These Germans knew that any future goal of The Muslim Brotherhood
would include making the Middle East Judenrein, free of Jews.
They
were given all the names and connections they needed, including propaganda
wizards and were told that Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf
had been translated into Arabic to fuel the allegiance of the Arabs.
The
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had given his anti-Semitic propaganda skills in
support to Hitler and was being housed and protected by the Fuerher himself, in
a luxurious Jewish home that had been confiscated in Berlin.
The
idea that the Jews could have sovereignty over their ancient homeland made it
unquestionable that Zionism would continue to draw Jews to colonize
Palestine. The Jews would multiply in that land and would be an easy target,
vulnerable to their nefarious plot.
They
had a small but faithful following within the German Tempelgesellschaft, Templar society in Palestine and could
count on them for support. The Templars had established seven settlements in
the Holy Land, with the biggest group in Haifa.
The
men were pleased with the Fuerher’s choice. They vowed to abide by Hitler’s
last written statement, known as My Political Testament and continue his
work.
They
were ready to flee utilizing the ratlines that were already set up as escape
routes to South America, the Middle East, United States of America, Canada, and
other countries in Europe.
In
order to do this, they were to be assisted in their escape from Allied Forces
by Catholic priests who had pledged to provide false papers and passports in an
underground network through Switzerland and then Italy.
And
they knew they could escape to Arab lands, convert to Islam, marry and have
children while enlisting and fraternizing with those who felt the same hatred
for the Jews. They had the option to join the Arab militaries, do their part
with propaganda, and change to Arab names which would complete their
assimilation.
Not
many Nazis were left to stand trial at Nuremberg. They were going to be
welcomed to Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Jordan, all known to be havens for
European Nazis, where anti-Jewish propaganda was in force thanks to the Mufti
of Jerusalem, Haj Al-Husseini.
Each
packet of instructions included Hitler’s last statement:
My Political Testament by
Adolph Hitler
More than
thirty years have passed since I contributed my modest strength in 1914 as a
volunteer in the First World War, which was forced upon the Reich.
In these
three decades only love and loyalty to my people have guided me in my thinking,
my actions and my life. They gave me the strength to make the difficult
decisions, such as have never before confronted mortal man. I have used up my
time, my working strength and my health in these three decades.
It is
untrue that I or anybody else in Germany wanted war in 1939....
But nor
have I left any doubt that if the nations of Europe are once more to be treated
only as collections of stocks and shares of these international conspirators in
money and finance, then those who carry the real guilt for the murderous
struggle, this people will also be held responsible: the Jews!
I have
further left no one in doubt that this time it will not be only millions of
children of Europeans of the Aryan peoples who will starve to death, not only
millions of grown men who will suffer death, and not only hundreds of thousands
of women and children who will be burned and bombed to death in the cities,
without those who are really responsible also having to atone for their crime,
even if by more humane means....
But before
everything else I call upon the leadership of the nation and those who follow
it to observe the racial laws most carefully, to fight mercilessly against the
poisoners of all the peoples of the world, international Jewry.
Set down in
Berlin, April 29, 1945, 4.00 o’clock.
Witnesses:
Dr. Joseph
Goebbels
Wilhelm Burgdorf
Wilhelm Burgdorf
Martin
Bormann
Hans Krebs
Hans Krebs
Introduction
I
thought back to Mother’s last day. She was whispering into my ear as I laid
next to her knowing this was the end of her life. Urging her to conserve her
strength was unproductive.
