At the turn of the twentieth century, Britain is prodded to action by the fear of losing her empire to Germany. British If the Reich, manages to harness Mother Russia to its structure, the much-dreaded Russo-German “Eurasian Embrace” would come into being. Such an embrace would have irremediably disabled all strategic anchorages of Britain’s maritime hold on the terrestrial orb.

To prevent such an alliance, Britain resolves to embark upon an extraordinary feat of aggression, which she initiates by besieging the Central Powers — the First World War — and overseeing the fifteen-year long incubation of Nazism. At Versailles, Britain plants the seed in Germany of a revanchist movement, which could be eventually steered into a final Armageddon with the Soviet Union, whose emergence is another stealthy exploit of British policy.

The incubation proper is carried out under the Weimar Republic. Drawing plentiful capital from America and leveraging the financial virtuosity of the Bank of England, to which they delegate the dispensation of shocks and stimuli aimed at shaping events in Germany, British strategists proceed to revamp German infrastructure during the latter part of the Twenties and afterwards precipitate the crisis to open the way for Nazism.

In view of the forthcoming conflict, Hitler’s regime may then avail itself of British political, economic, and financial support, as well as American weaponry and corporate investment, which is symmetrically complemented by a no less significant supply of Soviet materials. Thereafter, mired in Russian territory and squeezed anew between two fronts, Germany at long last collapses exactly as auspicated in plans hatched in 1919 by the Anglo-American establishment —plans which could not have succeeded without full Soviet complicity.

The Incubation of Nazism is a condensed version of the text originally published as Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich and Destroyed Europe (2005, 2023).

The Italian Version: L’INCUBAZIONE DEL NAZISMO: UN RACCONTO DELLE MISURE ESTREME ADOTTATE DALLA GRAN BRETAGNA PER SALVAGUARDARE IL PRIMATO IMPERIALE 1900-1944