Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler: The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis

by Antony C. Sutton

Book Overview

"The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities.... Not only was an influential sector of American business aware of the nature of Nazism, but for its own purposes aided Nazism wherever possible (and profitable)--with full knowledge that the probable outcome would be war involving Europe and the United States."

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905570279
• ISBN13: 9781905570270
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Clairview Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The best foes that the money can buy

I read this good book, here in Brazil. This book has this table of contents: Preface Introduction Unexplored Facets of Naziism PART ONE: Wall Street Builds Nazi Industry Chapter One Wall Street Paves the Way for Hitler 1924: The Dawes Plan 1928: The Young Plan B.I.S. -- The Apex of Control Building the German Cartels Chapter Two The Empire of I.G. Farben The Economic Power of I.G. Farben Polishing I.G. Farben's Image The American I.G. Farben Chapter Three General Electric Funds Hitler General Electric in Weimar, Germany General Electric & the Financing of Hitler Technical Cooperation with Krupp A.E.G. Avoids the Bombs in World War II Chapter Four Standard Oil Duels World War II Ethyl Lead for the Wehrmacht Standard Oil and Synthetic Rubber The Deutsche-Amerikanische Petroleum A.G. Chapter Five I.T.T. Works Both Sides of the War Baron Kurt von Schröder and I.T.T. Westrick, Texaco, and I.T.T. I.T.T. in Wartime Germany PART TWO: Wall Street and Funds for Hitler Chapter Six Henry Ford and the Nazis Henry Ford: Hitler's First Foreign Banker Henry Ford Receives a Nazi Medal Ford Assists the German War Effort Chapter Seven Who Financed Adolf Hitler? Some Early Hitler Backers Fritz Thyssen and W.A. Harriman Company Financing Hitler in the March 1933 Elections The 1933 Political Contributions Chapter Eight Putzi: Friend of Hitler and Roosevelt Putzi's Role in the Reichstag Fire Roosevelt's New Deal and Hitler's New Order Chapter Nine Wall Street and the Nazi Inner Circle The S.S. Circle of Friends I.G. Farben and the Keppler Circle Wall Street and the S.S. Circle Chapter Ten The Myth of "Sidney Warburg" Who Was "Sidney Warburg"? Synopsis of the Suppressed "Warburg" Book James Paul Warbur's Affidavit Some Conclusions from the "Warburg" Story Chapter Eleven Wall Street-Nazi Collaboration in World War II American I.G. in World War II Were American Industrialists and Financiers Guilty of War Crimes? Chapter Twelve Conclusions The Pervasive Influence of International Bankers Is the United States Ruled by a Dictatorial Elite? The New York Elite as a Subversive Force The Slowly Emerging Revisionist Truth Appendix A Program of the National Socialist German Workers Party Appendix B Affidavit of Hjalmar Schacht Appendix C Entries in the "National Trusteeship" Account Appendix D Letter from the U.S. War Department to Ethyl Corporation Appendix E Extract from Morgenthau Diary (Germany) Footnotes Bibliography Index ************* This book shows that many Americans gave fortunes to Hitler. Among them, not the freemason and eugenist Henry Ford, but also famous and rich Jews, such as the Warburg family. I found some problems in this book: 1- Henry Ford and Paul Warburg were both freemasons and eugenists. They gave money to Hitler. Anyone knows that Hitler was an eugenist. And what about freemasonry linked to Hitlerism? 2- This book remebers that many Lenin's financial supporters were Hitler's supporters some years later. Almost anyone giving money to Hitler, also was h

Very deep, complete and an eye opener.

This book is very detailed. So much so that it is easy to get lost in the facts. However, the detail is needed to support the subject. Mr. Sutton leaves the reader very angry with the "powers to be" for sacrificing the lives of so many in WWII for the sake of money. The reader discovers most of the horrors of this war could have been avoided.He makes the danger of the Council of Foreign Relations more real.This is a must read for everyone, especially if you are a believer in the Constitution of the U.S.Be sure to read Appendix A.Jerry