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The Great Patents Heist.
One of the greatest ripoffs of all time was the theft of German patents after World War
II. From saccharin and aspirin to refrigeration, radio and space flight technology, the
victorious Allies ensured their post-War scientific lead and prosperity by simply stealing
German inventions - literally thousands of tons of patents. As one gloating Washington
bureaucrat put it, it was "the first orderly exploitation of an entire country's
brain power."
"In addition to official government looting of Germany (what GIs always called
"liberating"), there was also the personal looting bonanza exemplified by Robert
Maxwell, financier extraordinaire, and at one time the most hated man in Britain. The
great contribution of this Orthodox Jewish citizen, born Jan Hoch in what was then
Czechoslovakia, was to found a scientific publishing empire in Britain, called Pergamon
Press, based entirely on German research he had looted with British intelligence
connivance. Maxwell came to dominate the British tabloid press and raided his own
employees' pension fund to the tune of 90 million pounds. He finally perished mysteriously
and nakedly in a plunge from his yacht in 1991 just a week after standing up to the
Israeli secret police, the Mossad - who may have set him up in business in the first
place. Interestingly, his main co-conspirator in the United States, Robert Rubin, formerly
of Goldman Sachs, is now secretary of the treasury.7
When not gunning down a surrendering German mayor armed only with a white flag (as he
boasted in a Der Spiegel interview) or bribing British officers to invent his heroic war
record (for which war record Montgomery personally pinned a medal on him), Maxwell/Hoch8
was in the British Zone of Berlin in 1946 with the full backing of British intelligence,
coercing the vast research findings of the Springer science publishing house from
Springer's widow for pence on the pound.
Ultimately, after Maxwell stripped $94 million from the pension funds of the 5,000
employees of the Mirror Group, his U.S. financiers at Goldman Sachs were stripped of an
estimated $250 million to settle their claims - whereupon Maxwell's body was fished from
the sea by an astonished Spaniard, to be buried with full honors in Israel and hopefully
forgotten. Far from exemplifying that the Germans were nothing without Jewish scientific
help, his life suggested that one Jew could become a billionaire exploiting German
ideas."
http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/patents.html
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