A bizarre and disturbing work of “art” prominently displayed at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) recent summit in Davos, Switzerland has gone viral.
Article by Ava Grace, republished with permission from Naturalnews.com
The mural dubbed the Walthamstow Tapestry was made in 2009 by Grayson Perry, a cross-dressing contemporary artist. Depicted in the style of cave paintings and hieroglyphs, it chronicles the life journey of a man from birth until death – replete with personified corporations he encountered along the way. The tapestry begins with the birth of a baby along a river of blood that eventually flows into the waiting mouth of the Devil, ending in the death of an old man.
“I’ve always been interested in the pilgrimage, in the journey and the idea of the journey through life,” Perry said in 2012 while at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London, when asked about the tapestry.
“And then I thought about: Is this the kind of shopping trip of life? The kind of glossy, sort of meaningless trek from one department store to another that is modern Western consumerism.”
According to a write-up about the tapestry, it’s design “brings to mind its most famous medieval precursor – the Bayeaux Tapestry.” The work is also replete with mentions of brand names including Coca-Cola, the Sotheby’s auction house, Red Bull energy drink, Aldi supermarket and the BBC.
The tapestry’s existence was divulged by journalist Larry Alex Taunton, who went undercover at the WEF summit in Davos. According to him, the said artwork was featured at the summit’s dining hall. “These bleak and death-themed works of art are just the kind these elites love to surround themselves with,” InfoWars commented.
Social media users comment on the tapestry
Following Taunton’s expose, the tapestry gained a lot of attention on social media. Several users put in their two cents on the satanic art piece.
“Why would they put [that] up as a decoration?” asked user @ErikaLLJ on X. “You’d think it would make some attendees get a clue. So oddly blatant.”
User @NotTinaKotex remarked: “How much did all these [corporations] pay for that product placement?” Their comments came as a response to a post by user @JebraFaushay, who challenged “all culture and art critics” to analyze the tapestry.
Two users took up the challenge. @mS52680571 stated that the tapestry centered on three things – corporations, abortion and population control. Meanwhile, @orwellshandmaid commented: “The message is clear. In fact, explicitly clear – it’s satanic.”
User @IngaBingaBoo had a more humorous take on the piece, writing: “It looks like Satan went on a bad acid trip and broke out the paint.” But @grilli_deborah pointed out that the tapestry reminded her of the murals at Denver International Airport (DIA). The murals at the DIA appear to envision various globalist goals, foremost of them is the depopulation of humanity under the guise of “protecting nature.”
“The murals … tell a terrifying story of future events about to happen, as if it was some sort of prophecy,” the Vigilant Citizen noted. “There are specific social and political references and other occult details that basically turn those paintings into a New World Order Manifesto.”
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WEF “Elites” Demand a “New World Order”….While Standing In Front Of A Swastika
Oh the irony!
Except….I don’t think it IS irony…
I think it’s intentional.
Why is Klaus Schwab now using a NAZI symbol in his speeches?
You’d think that would be a headline from The Onion, but it’s not.
Sadly, this is a real question and spoiler alert: major parts of it are confirmed.
Let’s dig in…
So yesterday pictures of this APEC CEO Summit started going viral online.
Take a look:
Klaus Schwab is just the face they want you to see among many others. He’s not the real one in charge. Same with Bill Gates. Dig deeper.. these are the Fall Guys to obfuscate from the Real controllers! pic.twitter.com/YOKOdQOdlc
— Christopher Greene 😎🏝🚀⛵️ (@amtvmedia) November 26, 2022
Klaus was a speaker.
And take a look at that image behind him…
Ummmm, is that what I think it is?
Is that what we ALL think it is?
Let’s look at some other pictures:
Here’s a zoom in:
Of course, Macron was there:
And here is Klaus:
When the blue parts blend in to the blue background you can see it very clear….
It sure looks like the old NAZI symbol, doesn’t it?
It does to me, you decide for yourself…
Now let’s verify a few things.
Yes, the logo and the conference are real.
Not that any of us could stomach listening to this guy for more than 10 seconds but here’s a link to the full speech from Macron with the logo proudly visible:
Many are calling it a NAZI symbol on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/wallstreetsilv/status/1596511356991471616
Here is a full page of Google search results to show it’s real:
More:
Ok, so the image is real, that’s confirmed.
Does it look like a NAZI symbol to you?
Now to the question of whether Klaus Schwab is using the image.
To that we have to say it appears the image is for the conference and not Klaus directly.
So to that we rate it as incorrect that it is Anal Schwab’s image…he simply appeared at a conference where that was the logo.
I’m not making excuses for him, but it’s not fair to say it’s his logo.
But…is Klaus a good guy?
Hardly.
Read this:
FACT-CHECK: Was Klaus Schwab’s Father a “Close Confidant” Of Hitler?
It’s time to do a deep dive investigation!
And unlike those “Fact Checkers” in the MSM, we actually do an honest look with honest reporting.
Today’s question?
Was Klaus Schwab’s father a close friend and associate of Hitler?
YIKES!
And a related follow up: Is New Schwabenland (in Antartica) related to Klaus or his father?
Let’s dig in!
Where did all of this start?
Well, I’m not sure where it necessarily started, but I do know how it got super popular, and that is the basis for most things these days: a Joe Rogan Podcast!
You gotta love Joe Rogan, especially the classic episodes.
And that’s what we have here.
So here is Sam Tripoli blowing Joe’s mind on the connection between Klaus Schwab, his father, Hitler, aliens and Antarctica!
Yes, really.
You can watch it here below and then keep reading for our analysis:
Now let’s go to Twitter.
I’m not saying any of this is confirmed yet, I’m just showing you what’s out there:
https://twitter.com/FayvanDunk/status/1578383123959644161
"Eugen Schwab, a close confidant of Hitler"? Source?
— Anja Weimer 🌻 🇺🇦 🌊 💉 🟧 📚 (@anja_weimer) October 6, 2022
Eugen Schwab was a member of some National Socialist organizations. Eugen ran the Escher Wyss facility in Ravensburg, Germany, where POWs & forced laborers were deployed..
Some argue this may have been forced, but it may not have been – given their views.https://t.co/khGhdfOEcW
— StarCaptainDread (@StarCptnDread) October 6, 2022
https://twitter.com/KellyParl/status/1576879177541726212
Now….what is true?
Let’s start with the basics.
Let’s go to Wikipedia and see who his father was:
Schwab was born to Eugen Wilhelm Schwab and Erika Epprecht[2][3] in Ravensburg. His parents had moved from Switzerland to Germany during the Third Reich in order for his father to assume the role of director at Escher Wyss AG.[4] Schwab’s family was monitored by the Gestapo,[5] which in 1944 also interrogated his mother (who was from Zurich) for using a Swiss accent in public.[4] He is a citizen of Germany although he has three Swiss grandparents and two Swiss brothers.[5]
That’s interesting.
His father was “Eugen”.
Kind of reminds you of the word “Eugenics” doesn’t it?
Must just be a wild coincidence!
So what else did we find?
Well….not much!
It’s actually shocking how little there is out there on Klaus’ father.
And as this next video shows, there’s almost NOTHING out there on Klaus himself before 1968…it’s as if he suddenly just appeared on the scene — because that’s normal, right?
The best information I can find — if you trust this sort of thing — is a Fact Check from Newsweek, who has debunked the story as False:
Here’s their full Report so we can let YOU decide — nothing to hide here:
As world leaders meet in Davos, Switzerland, social media users have attempted to create a familial link between the conference’s founder, Klaus Schwab, and Adolf Hitler.
Schwab, who was born in Ravensburg, Germany, in 1938 during the Nazi era, has been the target of multiple conspiracy theorists, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
To that end, Twitter and Reddit users have shared claims that Schwab’s father, Eugen Schwab, was an “intimate confidant” of Germany’s infamous World War 2 leader.
The posts shared online in May, 2022, claim Klaus Schwab’s father, Eugen Schwab, was a close ally of Hitler, and include a photo of the World Economic Forum leader alongside a man in Nazi uniform.
The posts have received thousands of likes and engagements on both Reddit and Twitter.
🗣“On the left you can see the founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab.
On the right, his father, intimate confidant of Hitler, the industrialist and fascist “Eugen Schwab” in uniform. Klaus was born in Hitler’s Germany in 1938. At that time, his father was in charge pic.twitter.com/mdsdGy5D5y
The Facts
Klaus Schwab has been a frequent target of conspiracy theorists, who have invented claims that he was related to the Rothschilds and that he wrote four billion people would die through planned epidemics.
The theory that his father was a close confidant of Hitler appears to be part of the same misinformation narratives.
To start, the photo shared online is not of Eugen Schwab, but of Nazi general Walter Dybilasz. The photo used in the post appears to be the same used in blogs cataloging details of Third Reich officers. It has been published multiple times including by someone who claims to have an original photo.
Of what little information is available online, Dybilasz is said to have been born in 1892 and died in 1950, possibly in Soviet captivity. Some sources claim he was awarded the German Cross and obtained the rank of General-major. Other spellings of his forename include Watther and Walther.
Klaus Schwab’s father, on the other hand, was the managing director of a subsidiary of Zurich-based engineering firm Escher Wyss. The history of Eugen’s relationship with Nazism in general is complex, but there is no substantive evidence of ties to high-ranking German leadership, particularly Hitler.
A fact check published by accredited German journalists dpa used Denazifaction records to uncover that Eugen Schwab was a member of some National Socialist organizations, but that alone does not prove any relationship to German high command or a belief in Nazi ideology.
While the Escher Wyss branch in Ravensburg, Germany, (which Eugen managed) used prisoners of war and forced laborers, it is not clear whether the company was forced to do so by the Nazis or because of a lack of workers.
Similarly, while Escher Wyss made a turbine for a Norwegian hydroelectric power station used in the construction of an experimental reactor for military-use plutonium, whether the Ravensburg branch did so as well is not clear.
At the end of the Second World War, as Germany attempted to remove Nazis and Nazism from public life, Schwab was acquitted before a committee investigating prominent public figures.
A translation of dpa’s work states: “…it also seems unlikely that Schwab could have successfully denied that he would have been a member of the N.S.D.A.P. (the National Socialist German Workers’ Party) if he were a prominent Nazi.”
Crucially, there appears to be no evidence to suggest that Eugen Schwab was a confidant of Hitler, as the social media posts state.
Newsweek has contacted the World Economic Forum for comment.
Now, how about New Schwabenland in Antarctica?
Or Neuschwabenland as it is sometimes spelled.
That’s an interesting name, don’t you think?
Probably just another wild coincidence!
First of all, it does exist:
But we are unable to find any information on a link to the Eugen Schwab / Klaus Schwab family.
Here’s what Wikipedia reports:
The third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) was led by Alfred Ritscher (1879–1963), a captain in the German Navy. The main purpose was to find an area in Antarctica for a German whaling station, as a way to increase Germany’s production of fat. Whale oil was then the most important raw material for the production of margarine and soap in Germany and the country was the second largest purchaser of Norwegian whale oil, importing some 200,000 metric tonnes annually. Besides the disadvantage of being dependent on imports, it was thought that Germany would soon be at war, which was considered to put too much strain on Germany’s foreign currency reserves. Another goal was to scout possible locations for a German naval base.[4][5]
Flag sometimes attributed to the New Swabia, but in fact it was flag of Reichskolonialbund and common flag for all German colonies during the Nazi period (NS was the only “colony”). There is also no evidence that the flag has ever flown in this territory. [6]
On 17 December 1938, the New Swabia Expedition left Hamburg for Antarctica aboard MS Schwabenland (a freighter built in 1925 and renamed in 1934 after the Swabia region in southern Germany) which could also carry and catapult aircraft. The secret[5]expedition had 33 members plus Schwabenland‘s crew of 24. On 19 January 1939, the ship arrived at the Princess Martha Coast, in an area which had lately been claimed by Norway as Queen Maud Land, and began charting the region. Nazi German flags were placed on the sea ice along the coast. Naming the area Neu-Schwabenland after the ship, the expedition established a temporary base and in the following weeks teams walked along the coast recording claim reservations on hills and other significant landmarks. Seven photographic survey flights were made by the ship’s two Dornier Wal seaplanes named Passat and Boreas.[1][7] About a dozen 1.2-meter (3.9 ft)-long aluminum arrows, with 30-centimeter (12 in) steel cones and three upper stabilizer wings embossed with swastikas, were airdropped onto the ice at turning points of the flight polygons (these arrows had been tested on the Pasterze glacier in Austria before the expedition).[1][7][8] None of these have ever been recovered. Eight more flights were made to areas of keen interest and on these trips, some of the photos were taken with colour film. Altogether they flew over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers and took more than 16,000 aerial photographs, some of which were published after the war by Ritscher. The ice-free Schirmacher Oasis, which now hosts the Maitri and Novolazarevskaya research stations, was spotted from the air by Richard Heinrich Schirmacher (who named it after himself) shortly before the Schwabenland left the Antarctic coast on 6 February 1939.[9]
MS Schwabenland in 1938
German map of Antarctica (1941) showing Neuschwabenland (territorial claim)
On its return trip to Germany, the expedition made oceanographic studies near Bouvet Island and Fernando de Noronha, arriving back in Hamburg on 11 April 1939. Meanwhile, the Norwegian government had learned about the expedition through reports from whalers along the coast of Queen Maud Land. Although some, notably Norwegian writer Bjarne Aagaard and German geographer Ernst Herrmann, have claimed that Germany never actually occupied the territory, it is well documented that Germany issued a decree about the establishment of a German Antarctic Sector called New Swabia after the expedition’s return in August 1939.[2][10]
Germany never advanced any territorial claims to the region, which were abandoned in 1945.[11]
So there you go!
Newsweek marks the claim FALSE.
We believe a more accurate ranking is UNDETERMINED.
Ok one more before I wrap this up…
They sure do seem to love Swastikas recently:
Why Did The NY Times Just Print a Swastika On The First Day of Hanukkah?
Well, this is a new low….even for the failing New York Times!
If you were running a major newspaper and you wanted to do something fun for your Crossword puzzle, perhaps something to celebrate the First Day or Hanukkah, a little “Easter Egg” so to speak….what might you do?
I’ll tell you what would NOT be on the list: shaping your crossword puzzle to look like a Swastika!
But that’s exactly what just happened:
Disgusting! Only the New York Times would get Chanukah going with this is the crossword puzzle. Imagine what they would do to someone who did this and was not ideologically aligned with them? I’ll give them the same benefit of the doubt they would give those people… EXACTLY ZERO pic.twitter.com/eZHr0SQbT4
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 18, 2022
Oddly enough, when I pixelated the image, it made it even more obvious:
It’s going viral online for all the wrong reasons:
A hidden Happy Chanukah message in today's @nytimes crossword? pic.twitter.com/iFVPQdTWSi
— Kalman Yeger (@KalmanYeger) December 18, 2022
Of course we already knew WHO the NY Times was, but even normies are now waking up:
If you think it’s outrageous that the New York Times decided a swastika was a great idea for their crossword puzzle on the first day of Hanukkah, maybe you should remember that the next time you read their reports about Haredi yeshivot & ponder whether there might be bias there. pic.twitter.com/HubKEVzRR8
— shevereshtus (@shevereshtus) December 18, 2022
Will the MSM cover it….or cover it up?
I think you know:
Shocking. As Chanukah begins the NY Times Crossword puzzle is laid out in the shape of a Nazi Swastika. This on top of their being accused of anti-semitism for years. Will the media cover this up or confront them about this? pic.twitter.com/00EC9SHcxe
— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) December 18, 2022
Can anyone explain why the Times crossword is a swastika on the first day of Hanukkah pic.twitter.com/z3cZ3nPVZ6
— Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈 (@kennedytcooper) December 18, 2022
In other news, the failing paper may be on its way to it’s best day of sales in decades as people are actually going out to buy a copy to see if this is possibly true.
Spoiler alert: it is:
Other people have pointed out that the @nytimes crossword has an interesting layout this week. I thought, “There’s no way this actually made it to print.” I had just bought the print copy… and we’ll shit. I did nahtsee that coming. (This is real, I just took the photo) pic.twitter.com/j7OPp3UDyr
— Zach D Roberts – Photojournalist (@zdroberts) December 18, 2022
Oh, and of course they made it so much worse with the clues.
Here’s is #1:
Folks are making hay over today's @nytimes crossword layout. If the swastika is unintentional, you'd think an editor along the way would have caught it. And on the first day of Hanukkah, no less. 🙄
And the clue for 1 across just salts the wound. pic.twitter.com/coNVkgrLUv
— D Christian Harrison (@dcharrison) December 18, 2022
And make no mistake about this BEING a “mistake”.
It’s not.
You don’t “accidentally” draw a Swastika on the first day of Hannukah.
No coincidences are that big.
Also enough with the “how was this not caught” nonsense….
It wasn’t caught because they wanted it to be in there.
Simple.
Anyone with two eyes and a brain “catches” it.
Surely many editors could have “caught it”.
Unless they didn’t want to.
Unless they designed it…
In related news, why are we starting to see this image pop up all over suddenly?
FACT-CHECK: Is Klaus Schwab Now Using a NAZI Symbol?
Time for a Fact Check!
Except we do real Fact Checks around here, not propaganda pieces disguised as Fact Checks like the MSM does.
And here’s the latest topic we’re investigating today: Is Klaus Schwab now using a NAZI symbol in his speeches?
You’d think that would be a headline from The Onion, but it’s not.
Sadly, this is a real question and spoiler alert: major parts of it are confirmed.
Let’s dig in…
So yesterday pictures of this APEC CEO Summit started going viral online.
Take a look:
Klaus Schwab is just the face they want you to see among many others. He’s not the real one in charge. Same with Bill Gates. Dig deeper.. these are the Fall Guys to obfuscate from the Real controllers! pic.twitter.com/YOKOdQOdlc
— Christopher Greene 😎🏝🚀⛵️ (@amtvmedia) November 26, 2022
Klaus was a speaker.
And take a look at that image behind him…
Ummmm, is that what I think it is?
Is that what we ALL think it is?
Let’s look at some other pictures:
Here’s a zoom in:
Of course, Macron was there:
And here is Klaus:
When the blue parts blend in to the blue background you can see it very clear….
It sure looks like the old NAZI symbol, doesn’t it?
It does to me, you decide for yourself…
Now let’s verify a few things.
Yes, the logo and the conference are real.
Not that any of us could stomach listening to this guy for more than 10 seconds but here’s a link to the full speech from Macron with the logo proudly visible:
Many are calling it a NAZI symbol on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/wallstreetsilv/status/1596511356991471616
Here is a full page of Google search results to show it’s real:
More:
Ok, so the image is real, that’s confirmed.
Does it look like a NAZI symbol to you?
Now to the question of whether Klaus Schwab is using the image.
To that we have to say it appears the image is for the conference and not Klaus directly.
So to that we rate it as incorrect that it is Anal Schwab’s image…he simply appeared at a conference where that was the logo.
I’m not making excuses for him, but it’s not fair to say it’s his logo.
But…is Klaus a good guy?
Hardly.
Read this:
FACT-CHECK: Was Klaus Schwab’s Father a “Close Confidant” Of Hitler?
It’s time to do a deep dive investigation!
And unlike those “Fact Checkers” in the MSM, we actually do an honest look with honest reporting.
Today’s question?
Was Klaus Schwab’s father a close friend and associate of Hitler?
YIKES!
And a related follow up: Is New Schwabenland (in Antartica) related to Klaus or his father?
Let’s dig in!
Where did all of this start?
Well, I’m not sure where it necessarily started, but I do know how it got super popular, and that is the basis for most things these days: a Joe Rogan Podcast!
You gotta love Joe Rogan, especially the classic episodes.
And that’s what we have here.
So here is Sam Tripoli blowing Joe’s mind on the connection between Klaus Schwab, his father, Hitler, aliens and Antarctica!
Yes, really.
You can watch it here below and then keep reading for our analysis:
Now let’s go to Twitter.
I’m not saying any of this is confirmed yet, I’m just showing you what’s out there:
https://twitter.com/FayvanDunk/status/1578383123959644161
"Eugen Schwab, a close confidant of Hitler"? Source?
— Anja Weimer 🌻 🇺🇦 🌊 💉 🟧 📚 (@anja_weimer) October 6, 2022
Eugen Schwab was a member of some National Socialist organizations. Eugen ran the Escher Wyss facility in Ravensburg, Germany, where POWs & forced laborers were deployed..
Some argue this may have been forced, but it may not have been – given their views.https://t.co/khGhdfOEcW
— StarCaptainDread (@StarCptnDread) October 6, 2022
https://twitter.com/KellyParl/status/1576879177541726212
Now….what is true?
Let’s start with the basics.
Let’s go to Wikipedia and see who his father was:
Schwab was born to Eugen Wilhelm Schwab and Erika Epprecht[2][3] in Ravensburg. His parents had moved from Switzerland to Germany during the Third Reich in order for his father to assume the role of director at Escher Wyss AG.[4] Schwab’s family was monitored by the Gestapo,[5] which in 1944 also interrogated his mother (who was from Zurich) for using a Swiss accent in public.[4] He is a citizen of Germany although he has three Swiss grandparents and two Swiss brothers.[5]
That’s interesting.
His father was “Eugen”.
Kind of reminds you of the word “Eugenics” doesn’t it?
Must just be a wild coincidence!
So what else did we find?
Well….not much!
It’s actually shocking how little there is out there on Klaus’ father.
And as this next video shows, there’s almost NOTHING out there on Klaus himself before 1968…it’s as if he suddenly just appeared on the scene — because that’s normal, right?
The best information I can find — if you trust this sort of thing — is a Fact Check from Newsweek, who has debunked the story as False:
Here’s their full Report so we can let YOU decide — nothing to hide here:
As world leaders meet in Davos, Switzerland, social media users have attempted to create a familial link between the conference’s founder, Klaus Schwab, and Adolf Hitler.
Schwab, who was born in Ravensburg, Germany, in 1938 during the Nazi era, has been the target of multiple conspiracy theorists, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
To that end, Twitter and Reddit users have shared claims that Schwab’s father, Eugen Schwab, was an “intimate confidant” of Germany’s infamous World War 2 leader.
The posts shared online in May, 2022, claim Klaus Schwab’s father, Eugen Schwab, was a close ally of Hitler, and include a photo of the World Economic Forum leader alongside a man in Nazi uniform.
The posts have received thousands of likes and engagements on both Reddit and Twitter.
🗣“On the left you can see the founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab.
On the right, his father, intimate confidant of Hitler, the industrialist and fascist “Eugen Schwab” in uniform. Klaus was born in Hitler’s Germany in 1938. At that time, his father was in charge pic.twitter.com/mdsdGy5D5y
The Facts
Klaus Schwab has been a frequent target of conspiracy theorists, who have invented claims that he was related to the Rothschilds and that he wrote four billion people would die through planned epidemics.
The theory that his father was a close confidant of Hitler appears to be part of the same misinformation narratives.
To start, the photo shared online is not of Eugen Schwab, but of Nazi general Walter Dybilasz. The photo used in the post appears to be the same used in blogs cataloging details of Third Reich officers. It has been published multiple times including by someone who claims to have an original photo.
Of what little information is available online, Dybilasz is said to have been born in 1892 and died in 1950, possibly in Soviet captivity. Some sources claim he was awarded the German Cross and obtained the rank of General-major. Other spellings of his forename include Watther and Walther.
Klaus Schwab’s father, on the other hand, was the managing director of a subsidiary of Zurich-based engineering firm Escher Wyss. The history of Eugen’s relationship with Nazism in general is complex, but there is no substantive evidence of ties to high-ranking German leadership, particularly Hitler.
A fact check published by accredited German journalists dpa used Denazifaction records to uncover that Eugen Schwab was a member of some National Socialist organizations, but that alone does not prove any relationship to German high command or a belief in Nazi ideology.
While the Escher Wyss branch in Ravensburg, Germany, (which Eugen managed) used prisoners of war and forced laborers, it is not clear whether the company was forced to do so by the Nazis or because of a lack of workers.
Similarly, while Escher Wyss made a turbine for a Norwegian hydroelectric power station used in the construction of an experimental reactor for military-use plutonium, whether the Ravensburg branch did so as well is not clear.
At the end of the Second World War, as Germany attempted to remove Nazis and Nazism from public life, Schwab was acquitted before a committee investigating prominent public figures.
A translation of dpa’s work states: “…it also seems unlikely that Schwab could have successfully denied that he would have been a member of the N.S.D.A.P. (the National Socialist German Workers’ Party) if he were a prominent Nazi.”
Crucially, there appears to be no evidence to suggest that Eugen Schwab was a confidant of Hitler, as the social media posts state.
Newsweek has contacted the World Economic Forum for comment.
Now, how about New Schwabenland in Antarctica?
Or Neuschwabenland as it is sometimes spelled.
That’s an interesting name, don’t you think?
Probably just another wild coincidence!
First of all, it does exist:
But we are unable to find any information on a link to the Eugen Schwab / Klaus Schwab family.
Here’s what Wikipedia reports:
The third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) was led by Alfred Ritscher (1879–1963), a captain in the German Navy. The main purpose was to find an area in Antarctica for a German whaling station, as a way to increase Germany’s production of fat. Whale oil was then the most important raw material for the production of margarine and soap in Germany and the country was the second largest purchaser of Norwegian whale oil, importing some 200,000 metric tonnes annually. Besides the disadvantage of being dependent on imports, it was thought that Germany would soon be at war, which was considered to put too much strain on Germany’s foreign currency reserves. Another goal was to scout possible locations for a German naval base.[4][5]
Flag sometimes attributed to the New Swabia, but in fact it was flag of Reichskolonialbund and common flag for all German colonies during the Nazi period (NS was the only “colony”). There is also no evidence that the flag has ever flown in this territory. [6]
On 17 December 1938, the New Swabia Expedition left Hamburg for Antarctica aboard MS Schwabenland (a freighter built in 1925 and renamed in 1934 after the Swabia region in southern Germany) which could also carry and catapult aircraft. The secret[5]expedition had 33 members plus Schwabenland‘s crew of 24. On 19 January 1939, the ship arrived at the Princess Martha Coast, in an area which had lately been claimed by Norway as Queen Maud Land, and began charting the region. Nazi German flags were placed on the sea ice along the coast. Naming the area Neu-Schwabenland after the ship, the expedition established a temporary base and in the following weeks teams walked along the coast recording claim reservations on hills and other significant landmarks. Seven photographic survey flights were made by the ship’s two Dornier Wal seaplanes named Passat and Boreas.[1][7] About a dozen 1.2-meter (3.9 ft)-long aluminum arrows, with 30-centimeter (12 in) steel cones and three upper stabilizer wings embossed with swastikas, were airdropped onto the ice at turning points of the flight polygons (these arrows had been tested on the Pasterze glacier in Austria before the expedition).[1][7][8] None of these have ever been recovered. Eight more flights were made to areas of keen interest and on these trips, some of the photos were taken with colour film. Altogether they flew over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers and took more than 16,000 aerial photographs, some of which were published after the war by Ritscher. The ice-free Schirmacher Oasis, which now hosts the Maitri and Novolazarevskaya research stations, was spotted from the air by Richard Heinrich Schirmacher (who named it after himself) shortly before the Schwabenland left the Antarctic coast on 6 February 1939.[9]
MS Schwabenland in 1938
German map of Antarctica (1941) showing Neuschwabenland (territorial claim)
On its return trip to Germany, the expedition made oceanographic studies near Bouvet Island and Fernando de Noronha, arriving back in Hamburg on 11 April 1939. Meanwhile, the Norwegian government had learned about the expedition through reports from whalers along the coast of Queen Maud Land. Although some, notably Norwegian writer Bjarne Aagaard and German geographer Ernst Herrmann, have claimed that Germany never actually occupied the territory, it is well documented that Germany issued a decree about the establishment of a German Antarctic Sector called New Swabia after the expedition’s return in August 1939.[2][10]
Germany never advanced any territorial claims to the region, which were abandoned in 1945.[11]
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