Now suppose you were Saruman, the synarchist, aiming to built an empire to rue humanity, which cannot become a reality for as long as human development is allowed to happen. How would you have to react?

You have recognized Gandalf to be a threat, and out of fear you had tried to stop him. You had tried to corrupt him, then you threatened him, and finally you imprisoned him, but all that failed. He escaped from you and is now leading the fellowship that aims to assure that your empire will never become a reality. In other words, you are facing your last chance to gain control over humanity and your time is running out. Wouldn't you do everything in your power to prevent this fellowship from succeeding? Indeed, that is what Saruman does. That is also what Hitler did.

Hitler was a part of the synarchist international apparatus, together with many others. The great empires of the world were threatened by the humanist revival that followed the close of World War I. Germany became a republic, and within that republic the same humanist, cultural, and economic revival was beginning to unfold that had brought Franklin Roosevelt to power in the USA. In Germany, that revival was centered around Chanceler Lautenbach and the cultural legacy of Friedrich List (1789-1846), and the still earlier rich legacy of the Yiddish Renaissance typified by Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), all of which had provided a rich contributions to the German cultural background.

That's the kind of cultural 'fortress' the synarchists were facing after World War I. Nobody in the population wanted war again, but the synarchists were frightened by the disappearing glory of their empires. Gandalf was fast gaining the upper hand.

The synarchists plan was to create a vast new synarchist imperium that would combine the military of Germany, France, Italy, England, Japan, with a few others added, to rule the world. Well, it didn't work out that way, but even to get the idea of the ground, huge obstacles were in the way. Financing wasn't a problem. Hitler was richly financed from synarchist sources from the U.S. and England, who bought this little man an open door to power. But how would they get him to drive a nation to war in the midst of a humanist revival? Gandalf was really having the upper hand.

In the saga, Saruman puts all kinds of obstacles in the way of the fellowship of the ring, to prevent them from succeeding. The synarchists did the same thing in Germany. The humanist movement that could have stopped Hitler was decapitated with the assassination of Lautenbach. The next obstacle was the strong humanist elite, which was to a large measure located in the Jewish segment of the German society, but also had a strong German component. In a typical synarchist fashion that Saruman and Lord Shelburne would be proud of, they 'assassinated' the Jewish people in order to demoralize and dehumanize the rest of the elite.

The eradication of the Jewish people was therefore a sacrificial step for a secondary objective. It was one of those "hard choices" that we talk so much about these days. The choice was similar to that of a commander of an army of a million man, who has a swamp to cross, might have made, who puts ten thousand men into the swamp and shoots them, and builds a bridge across the swamp on their dead bodies. This sort of thing never happens in real life, of course, thank God, but similar things did happen in countless ways, and continues to happen whenever we talk about those "hard choices."

It still seems unimaginable, though, even today, that it was possible for the leadership of Germany to execute a segment of its own population that was well educated, industrious, and had a high moral standard. The victims looked the same, spoke the same language, were a part of the same nation.  How could they kill them? That's a paradox, right.

That paradox becomes resolved when one begins to realize that nationality has no meaning in the synarchist mind. Saruman would have killed Gandalf if he had been able, a man of his own kind. That wouldn't have bothered him. The objectives alone are meaningful in the synarchist world.

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche