"hard pill to swallow"
Not for me. Have thought all along that we're looking at Third Reich 2.0 this whole time.
The old guys died but set up legacy org, recruited NWO & Redshields, Vatican (who helped them get out of Germany at end of WW2) and US military industrial complex to set up their own evil empire.
Consider - it would have been only the most intelligent and skilled Nazis who would have been spirited out of Germany.
Read "Operation Paperclip" by Annie Jacobsen (or watch any YT video with her) and you'll see.
I mean hell, the OSS/CIA yanked out Nazis who'd been tried at Nuremberg, convicted and plopped them smack into the United States. Hundreds of them. Get this: those fuckers never had to pay a dime of taxes once they got here.
Here's one: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHs5M3pyd3Q&t=619s
Jacobsen is not without controversy. Very Ivy League, uses neurolinguistic programming, so heads up about that. (Once you learn what NLP is, you'll end up looking for it everywhere you go, but if you want to get into sales, hey)