Rheimetall, the primary manufacturer of Nazi Germany’s weaponry of death, a company specializing in the manufacturer of anything from guns, machine-guns, cannons, artillery, to tanks, renews its cast. The furnaces through which the Nazi’s sped their engines of Blitzkrieg are burning all over again in a renewed action of aggression.
90 years after Hitler took power and 82 years after the start of the Wehrmacht’s war of annihilation against the Soviet Union, German tanks emblazoned with iron crosses—designed, manufactured, and upgraded by Nazi Germany’s own blast furnishing factory of death, skull and bones, Rheinmetall—are once again rolling against Russia.
The Germany armaments company, Rheinmetall, following the Ramstein meeting on January 20th, 2023, recently announced its readiness to supply Ukraine with Main Battle Tanks. Although only Leopard 1s are ready for immediate delivery, 22 Leopard 2A4s are ready to be sent. Rheinmetall expects its readiness to deliver the remaining 38 before the end of 2023 or the beginning of 2024. [1]
Although the New York Times reports on January 26th, 2023 that Germany, “despite its history,” has agreed to send no more than 14 tanks. The number is scheduled to become larger or is much larger, although unannounced, especially in light of the article by Der Spiegel on Rheinmetall’s readiness to supply no less than 139. The New York Times has continued to seek the cause of delay in Germany’s hesitation, especially in articles from the newspaper on January 25th, 2023. A more recent quote from the same newspaper, however, opens the closet on the skeleton.
“We’re talking about very effective weapons here, and it’s proper that we never provide those weapons systems alone, but always in close cooperation,” a statement Mr. Scholz recently relayed to Parliament in regards to the delay.[2]
These lies—that Germany’s hesitation to deliver tanks stemmed from fears over an association with the history of Nazi Germany and aggression—are completely baseless and the truth is quite the opposite, especially in light of Rheinmetall’s history.
Rheinmetall, which, prior to Adolf Hitler’s ascension to power as Reichkanzler in 1933 through a democratic election, once executed contracts for Russia’s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, all of a sudden terminated its orders for the communist country and thereafter swore allegiance to the Führer.
From the 1930s, Rheinmetall, as with many other industrial enterprises owned by the affluent, upper middle class or petite bourgeois layers of Germany’s society, developed and produced weapons and munitions in response to orders from the Reich’s War Ministry, except, perhaps more than any other military industrial complex, Rheinmetall benefited immensely from its proximity to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime and gained access to “privileges” not readily available to all the capitalists of Germany’s ruling elite.
Within a short period of time and after Adolf Hilter’s Ministry of Armaments and Munitions took over the coordination of military contracts, Rheimetall became Hitler’s second biggest arms supplier and began to reap immense profits and joined in the exploitation of Nazi Germany’s sprawling source of forced labor in its concentration camps. The CEO and managers of Rheinmetall, however, developed a special predilection for Jewish women, and extricated no less than a thousand of them from Buchenwald to work to death at Sommerda.
At its slave plants in Sommerda and around Germany, Rheinmetall blasted metal and supplied the Nazi war machine with nearly every single one of its most important instruments of death. The Nazi’s Stuka dive bombers, for instance, which are famous for their horrific siren of death from above, were outfit with MG 17s that were designed, developed, and outfit for the planes by none other than Rheinmetall. During operation Barbarossa, Stuka dive bombers notoriously mowed down, shot to death, and murdered farmers, villagers, and Soviet soldiers of the Red Army.
Rheinmetall built from 1932 onward, all of Nazi Germany’s Panzers and specialized in it building its chassis and turrets. These and many other famous guns Rheinmetall manufactured for the Nazi juggernaut. And it continues in that tradition today with the Leopard 2s.
In 1957 Jewish survivors, presumably from among the ranks of women extricated from Buchenwald, filed criminal charges against Rheinmetall. Germany ultimately succeeded in subverting these charges and dismissing the case.
Nearly ten years later, Rheinmetall, facing criticism for its role in WWII and the exploitation of Jews, set up a monetary trawl with a pittance from which Rheinmetall, a courteous German gentleman, let its former enslaved Jews draw meaningless drops of money. The sum of its pittance, 2,5M DM (i.e., approximately $650,000), meant no single affected member could receive more than the paltry sum of $425, a new crime against the victims and humanity.
With no shame in its company history, Rheinmetall, however, is now literally foaming at the mouth to build, upgrade or deliver Kampfpanzers to the Ukrainian armed forces and not only!
On January 26th, 2023 Rheinmetall, reacting to the widespread declarations among NATO allies of spent casings and a shortage of munitions, announced that it is boosting its ammunition production capacity, especially for high caliber Totengewehr. Ja!
It just can’t get any better for former Nazi Germany’s arms dealer of death. “We have invested heavily in this and will continue to do so by building new production facilities and recruiting additional personnel,” the company said.
“We are doing everything to support Ukraine, as well as NATO and the German government, including with necessary ammunition.”
Celebrating the company’s embrace of Germany’s own push for militarization in the past few years, the company has begun to respond to the higher demand of the German army and other countries that use Leopard tanks, such as the UK.
The UK is one of the most expensive contractors with the former Nazi company. In May 2021 the UK announced a contract with Rheimetall to supply the UK with 148 fully upgraded tanks as a part of its armed forces’ major overhaul.
The UK’s Ministry of Defense reported that the vehicles will be produced at the Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (henceforth RBSL) in Telford, Shropshire.
The contract is said to have caused the creation of more than 200 jobs at RBSL’s plant, including 130 engineers and 70 technicians, the UK’s MOD reported. In addition, the contract is also said to be adding 450 new supply chain jobs.
In the more than 90 years after Hitler took power and 82 years after the start of the Wehrmacht’s war of annihilation, little appears to have changed for Rheinmetall, except, perhaps now more than ever, the prospects for making money from Ukrainian, Russian or Slav blood and guts, is much more ripe for the taking.
Recently, Germany’s Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, announced the lack of a “unified position” in regards to a meeting at Ramstein in Germany on Friday, January 20th, 2023.
It is highly likely that the failure of NATO allies to reach a “unified position” stemmed less from Germany’s hesitation to enter the war but from discussions over the exact amount of money Germany’s primary armament manufacturer would receive to upgrade, repair, or rebuild Leopard 2 tanks, as they roll across Ukraine’s breadbasket and blast death about.
The District Assembly calls upon workers, family members, or any one who may be located or associated with Rheinmetall in the UK and Germany to establish a rank-and-file assembly to terminate its operations for the manufacturer of Totengewehr, extinguish the flames in its blast furnaces of death, and permanently enjoin, once and for all, and until kingdom come the manufacturer from casting a single die for skulls and bones. Contact the District Assembly now!
[1] – [“Rheinmetall könnte Ukraine 139 Leopard-Panzer liefern” ; Der Spiegel, January 24th, 2023]
[2] – “Tank Deal Pulls U.S. and Germany Out of a Diplomatic Quagmire” ; New York Times, January 26th, 2023]