Published at: 04/09/2024 10:00 PM

(LATEST NEWS, July-September 1942)

• The anti-fascist struggle of the Government of General Isaías Medina resulted in a bombardment of fake news coming from Joseph Goebbles' dirty propaganda laboratories in Berlin, Germany.
• The Nazi-Fascist propaganda designed for Latin America publicized virulent attacks disqualifying the Homeland of Simon Bolivar in the following terms:
  • “The Plaza Bolívar in Caracas is full of poisonous snakes that are often shot dead by Germans, since the police do not know how to handle weapons.”
  • “Venezuela: a country of poor mixed-race people with a non-sovereign government”.
  • “Descendants mostly of red-skinned and black-haired slaves.”
  • Some local radio stations and newspapers transmitted repeated messages stating that, since the time of the occupation of the Welser German banking family (1528-1556), Venezuela was and continued to be a former German colony in the process of recovery, called “Welserland”.
• Several newspapers, including La Religión, El Heraldo and El Católica de San Cristóbal, were pro-Nazi allies, publishing war bulletins and propaganda favorable to the Third Reich and Benito Mussolini.
• On Sunday, October 20, 1942, the government of General Medina discovered and dismantled an attempt to sabotage local fascism to dynamite the Mené Grande oil pumping plant in São Tomé, Edo. Anzoategui. The National Guard arrested four people involved in the attempt to blow up the facilities, which was described as an act of “fifth columnism”.
• The German priest, Rudolf Sheusher, was deported for having in his possession strategic documents, maps of oil fields and plans of ports and military installations.
• The published organization chart revealed that, from 1926 to 1944, many families belonging to the rancid surnames of the Creole aristocracy, delighted with the improvement of the race and a golden era of racial splendor, promised by Adolf Hitler, did not hesitate to collaborate openly with the Venezuelan Nazi Party. It is estimated that more than 100,000 representatives of the bourgeoisie openly supported the Venezuelan Nazi Party, according to the archives of the Foreign Ministry and the AN.
• To avoid the deportations ordered by General Medina, the vast majority of the German and Italian community in Venezuela chose to renounce their nationality of origin or change their last names, thus becoming Venezuelans and avoiding an almost certain death in European war camps.
• In those days, 80 fascists were deported and 170 commercial firms, clubs, charities and German, Italian and Japanese cultural institutions that served as a front for financing the activities of Nazi fascism in several cities of the Republic were shut down.
• In fact, following the rupture of relations between Venezuela and Germany, the business activities of the Lithography of Commerce and the Schnell, Lamke, Waldeck and Braun family were intervened, because they were the fund managers of the Nazi Party of Venezuela (newspaper Ahora, July 14, 1942).
• The heads of the Nazi organization in Valencia, Veer and Feltner, were caught in acts of espionage, taking photographs, drawing up plans and taking notes of the Choroni Power Plant, as part of a plan to sabotage it.

Mazo News Team