Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis, and The Swiss Banks | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mark Aarons, John Loftus
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
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Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 031218199X
Dewey Decimal Number: 261.83313809044
EAN: 9780312181994
ASIN: 031218199X
Publication Date: June 15, 1998
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Written in rivetings fashion by the coauthors of The Secret War Against the Jews, Unholy Trinity tells one of the darkest tales of World War II. After the war had ended, fearing a surge of Soviet growth, the Papacy entered into an espionage alliance with British and American intelligence agents. Subsuming justice to the nascent Cold War ideology, these three powers ferreted Nazi criminals out of Europe so that they could be used in the supposedly greater fight against Communism. The Vatica's Nazi smuggling network was penetrated by Prince Anton Turkul, the great Soviet double agent who turned the operations into a sting for his masters in the Kremlin. Unholy Trinity exposes Turkul's "Red Nazi" operation for the first time and shows how Kim Philby, the infamous British-Soviet double agent, and his network were nearly sacrificed to preserve Turkul's Vatican operation.
Exploring the Vatican's role in aiding Nazi criminals to escape punishment for their crimes, this book, originally published in 1991, first revealed the Vatican--Swiss bank connection to Nazi gold and documented the hidden links to Western investors in Nazi Germany. Since 1991, major revelations about the role of Swiss banks have confirmed Unholy Trinity's expose of the flight of the Nazi's stolen treasures; the new introduction and new final chapters, written by Aarons and Loftus for this edition, bring the book completely up to date and show how the media have missed the vital Vatican connection in the Swiss-bank story. Among other things, the authors demonstrage that U.S. and British code-breakers were fully aware of the Holocaust as early as 1941 but lied to the Western press; that the code-breakers bugged the Swiss banks and then buried secrets of Nazi gold transfers to protect U.S. intelligence chief Allen Dulles; and that the Australian, Brisih, and Canadian governments are still waging a campaign to keep their citizens ignorant about the Nazi war criminals living among them.
Covers all these topics and more, Unholy Trinity is the definitive history of a series of profoundly disturbing cover-ups involing the Holy See, Allen Dulles, the Swiss banks, and the remnants of the Third Reich.
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A bok with a bad title December 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very difficult book to read and follow. Nothing about Swiss banks, mostly about individual persons who aided the Nazis to escape but nothing about how they did it. Or not much about those who did escape
 The dark and least known side of World War II November 30, 2008
I am one of the victims who had been left an orphan and despoiled by the nazies as a consequence of cooperation by the Swiss Banks and others. To this day no trace has been found. This excellent book provided an insight and confirmed the circumstantial evidence of my personal experience.
To this day not one large deposit has been found or returned to the rightful owners or heirs. Almost 100% of the bank accounts that were published were small forgotten leftovers, this begs the question why then did the Swiss Banks provide over 1 1/2 Billion? As of today most of the claimants have been offered a token sum of $ 5000.00 by signing away their rights to further claims. These payments do not even equal the interest earned since these funds were provided and during the many years that the administrators took to come to this miserly decision many of the claiments passed away. The real story may never be written.
How thousands of Nazi war criminals escaped May 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although the title (and the cover) are deceptive, this is an attempt to unravel the motives behind the creation of the Rat Line, a scheme to spirit Nazi war criminals through Genoa to South America. It is at times frustrating,
for the profusion of characters, their motivations and eventual unmasking is, to say the least, Byzantine.
It is also a voyage of discovery, since it's initial "come-on" appears to be an attack on the role of the Vatican in this nefarious escape route, it eventually concludes that EVERYBODY WAS IN ON IT. The British and Americans were competing for Nazi expertise, the Vatican was accessory to the facts for fear of Communism, the Russians were in it simply to attempt to control it, the Swiss bankers for obscene profits. And, not to forget, Allan Dulles,
brother of John Foster Dulles, was right in the middle of it, representing the OSS (the precursors of the CIA) in Switzerland. Warning: be ready for a very bumpy ride, and keep a scorecard, it will help get through it.
 Conspiracy lunacy April 5, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's small wonder people are recommending reading "The Two Babylons" and "Babylon Mystery Religion" along with this book. You can't believe everything written, you have to investigate it. If you read the other negative reviews which I won't bother to repeat what's already been covered, you'll see this book is just a rehash of bad information already debunked. The people praising this book are very well informed on the subject and seem interested in simply bashing Roman Catholics. I'm a Protestant, and I think there are valid reasons theologically not to be a Roman Catholic. But buying into every conspiracy theory that comes along just because they bash someone you don't agree with is just plain wrong. By the way, the author of "Babylon Mystery Religion", Ralph Woodrow, later realized Hislop's "Two Bablons" was a hack job (which had been the basis for "Babylon Mystery Religion" book), and later recanted in the book "The Babylon Connection?". It's funny no one's mentioned any of that. That's because people of this mentality simply pick and chose what they like to suit their theory. The truth is the Vatican hid about 1000 Jews on the hills of Rome, and the Pope was always afraid Musolini would invade the Vatican...hardly something you'd expect if he had a cozy relationship with them. Like all consiracy theories, this one falls apart when logic is applied. Why would the Vatican support the Communists, Nazis, and the U.S. as the book contends??? It's bizare as theories created by Jack Chick, such as the Vatican created Communism and Nazism as well as Islam (three things that seek to destroy Roman Catholicism). Yes, there were Catholics who supported the Nazis, just as there were Lutherans who did the same. Hitler in fact supported the Lutheran church over the Roman Catholic, and Martin Luther is known to have been Anti-Semetic. Should we assume an alliance between the Lutheran Church and Hitler based on just this information?
 The Vatican, the USA and the UK collude with Nazis to fight the Commies August 10, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
There are already several excellent reviews of Unholy Trinity on Amazon, so I will try to bring up some additional points about the book and its authors.
The original title of this book is "Ratlines". Ratlines, a nautical term, is used in this context to describe the method by which Nazi war criminals escaped from Germany and Austria to a first point of safety (usually Italy) and thence to points beyond in Europe, North America, Australasia, and especially to South America. These escapes were facilitated by the Allied powers, but would not have been possible without the help of the Vatican.
This newer edition is titled "Unholy Trinity", and features the portraits of Pope Pius XII, Hitler and Stalin on the cover. The subtitle is "The Vatican, the Nazis, and the Swiss banks". Then why is Stalin on the cover? Also, when describing the ratlines, one cannot omit the USA and Britain. Unholy Pentagon? I think the newer title was invented by the publishers who thought that it was catchier than the original, but "Ratlines" remains a much better way to encapsulate the book. That said, the most intriguing character of the book is a Russian spy, Prince Anton Vasilevich Turkul, described by the authors as "arguably the greatest professional spy of the twentieth century".
I found the central chapters of this book heavy going due to the complicated nature of the narrative, the great number of Central European characters with similar looking names, and the alphabet soup of acronyms for what must be dozens of organizations. The book could have benefited from a cast of characters and an acronym guide. I recommend that readers make their own list of acronyms as they read, because most of them are not indexed.
Co-author John Loftus is a self-proclaimed Irish Catholic. I have heard him describe himself as such several times on Dave Emory's 'For the Record' radio programs. I mention this because one of the detractors of Unholy Trinity labelled the book anti-Catholic propaganda. The authors are not anti-Catholic, rather they are anti-Vatican. By the same token, I might criticize the government of the USA, but that doesn't mean that I am anti-American. I sensed that the authors were very disappointed and perhaps surprised by the unethical actions on the part of the Vatican elite. I suspect that as a Catholic himself, Mr. Loftus expected more from the Catholic church hierarchy than non-Catholics might expect.
My next comment may not mean much to readers who are unfamiliar with the concept of the Nazi capital flight network, as detailed in Paul Manning's "Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile". Please refer to that landmark book, reviewed on Amazon, and available as a free download if you look for it. Paul Manning's thesis was that Martin Bormann survived WWII, moved to South America via the ratlines, and exercised control over the Nazi flight capital, i.e., Nazi war loot, that was later used to create the "great economic miracle" that was the West German economy of 1948-51. My biggest disappointment with "Unholy Trinity" was the short shrift given to Paul Manning's thesis. They mention it briefly, but in such a way that I'm not convinced they fully appreciated it, even though it coincides with and complements their arguments.
Despite those few misgivings and difficulties with the book, I recommend it highly and rate it five stars.
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