Little-known facts about the role of the British ruling class in the emergence of the Hitler phenomenon and his rise to power. (Video version of the article. Download in Word format.)

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My preface

In his book, Scarlet and the Beast, John Daniel reveals the little-known factors that gave rise to the Hitler phenomenon, ensuring his rise to power, the Anschluss of Austria, and the seizure of Czechoslovakia — events that ultimately led to the outbreak of World War II.

These factors can be roughly divided into three main groups: ideological, political, and financial. All of them, as the author demonstrates, can be traced back to the British ruling class.

Ideological factors

These include the works of British authors on the superiority of the white race, which had a profound influence on Hitler’s worldview, as well as the mystical and occult mythology created by British scholars, which inspired Hitler’s belief in his own messianic destiny. Key figures and organizations include:

• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English writer, author of the novels “Rienzi” and “Vril”, which extolled the superiority of the Aryan race. These books had a dramatic impact on the formation of Hitler’s messianic consciousness.

• Lord Kitchener, who initiated the future General Karl Haushofer into Tibetan mysteries in 1909. After the war, Haushofer taught Hitler geopolitics, assisted him in writing parts of Mein Kampf, and taught Tibetan mysticism to SS officers, founding the Vril Society for them.

• The Masonic research lodge “Quatuor Coronati” in London, whose specialists developed the Thule mythology — a synthesis of the legends of Atlantis and the Holy Grail. In 1918, this mythology formed the basis of the German occult “Thule Society,” which paved the way for the rise of Hitler.

• I’d like to add one more key figure who influenced the formation of Hitler’s worldview: Winston Churchill.

Russian aristocrats who emigrated to Western Europe after the Bolshevik Revolution accused the British establishment of organizing a communist coup and plotting against Russia.

In response to these accusations, Secretary of State for War Winston Churchill attempted to divert public attention from the subversive role of the British ruling class on February 8, 1920, by invoking the “Jewish conspiracy” theory. In an article published in the London newspaper Illustrated Sunday Herald, he accused the Jewish people of a “150-year-old” conspiracy against European civilization.

Churchill’s article gave the previously fringe theory of a “Jewish conspiracy” an official status and effectively legitimized its dissemination. Three months later, inspired by Churchill’s example, American industrialist Henry Ford began publishing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in his newspaper The Dearborn Independent.

Political Factors

These represent a complex political game played by the British establishment, which supported Hitler’s illusion of a possible alliance with Great Britain against the communist USSR and the “Judeo-Masonic conspiracy”. Its main elements are:

• The Cliveden Set was a pro-Nazi circle of British aristocrats whose goal was to direct German expansion eastward, toward the border of the USSR.

• Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who, implementing the plans of the Cliveden Set, pursued a policy of appeasement of Hitler: first he ceded Austria to him, then Czechoslovakia.

• The Duke of Windsor, an open Hitler sympathizer, actively promoted Nazism in British society as King Edward VIII, leading many members of the upper class to join the Nazi Party. Other members of the royal family also shared his sympathy for the Führer, fueling Hitler’s belief in the possibility of a future union with Great Britain.

Financial factors

These factors ensured Hitler’s political rise and Germany’s transformation into a military superpower. These include:

• The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was an institution created to finance the war machine of the Third Reich.

• Montagu Norman, a director of the Bank of England and a member of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), is a man who, according to historian Andrey Fursov, “weighed perhaps as much on the scales of history as Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, and Mussolini combined.” Between 1929 and 1933, Montagu Norman invested in Hitler’s rise to power, and after 1933, in the war machine of the Third Reich.

To sum it up, John Daniel writes:

In retrospect it seems inevitable that English Freemasonry would need to discover or create, if not Adolf Hitler, someone like him. It is this endeavor of the British Brotherhood that we call the “Hitler Project”.

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The main theme of John Daniel’s book is the confrontation between English and French Freemasonry. For this reason, the author devotes particular attention to the Masonic connections of the protagonists.

Without denying the significance of the Masonic factor, it is worth noting that by the beginning of the 20th century, Freemasonry had largely lost its status as a major supranational force, giving way to new structures — the Milner Group, the Round Table movement, and the Fabian Society — ​​organizations that laid the foundations of the modern global world, which, in essence, is a hidden form of the British Empire.

Igor I. Isaev, October 2025.