Given all the above documentation, readers may decide for themselves which adjectives best describe America's capitalists investing in, and joint venturing with the Nazis and Hitler. Was it collaboration, collusion, co-conspiring, consorting or 'merely' cooperating with the Nazis and Hitler in order to facilitate war against Communist Russia that accepted the murderous treatment of German Jews which would intensify into the Holocaust?
A shocking account of IBM's complicity with the Nazis is a reminder that people bear moral responsibility for the actions of corporations. IBM founder Thomas Watson was in Berlin in July, 1935, when Black Shirts rampaged through the streets smashing the windows of Jewish stores, and forcing his Jewish friends to sell their department store for next to nothing, and escape to Sweden. Watson had seen the broken windows, taken tea with a German official at a fine home that he told Watson was once the property of a Jew who had fled Germany, but still, Watson accepted a medal from Hitler "in recognition of his services to the Third Reich." [6]
Edwin Black, in his 'IBM and the Holocaust' raises the important question of whether Hitler's destruction of the Jews would have happened as rapidly and claimed as many victims without the harvest of deadly information recorded by the Hollerith machines, on IBM punch cards, made by IBM/Dehomag employees working for the Nazi death bureaucracy. In 1933, International Business Machines began providing Germany with punchcard machines that functioned as precursors to modern computers and databases. Documents have since been uncovered that show that as late as 1941, IBM was working in tandem with the Reich to liquidate Jews from Holland. IBM employees were training SS personnel how to use their machines to record the movement, sorting, and mass execution of large numbers of undesirables, at times right in the headquarters of death camps.[Hitler's Willing Business Partners, by Jack Beatty, April, 2001, Atlantic Monthly]
Similar to IBM and GM's automotive rivals, General Motors was sued by Holocaust survivors for assisting the Nazi war machine. During the trials at Nuremberg after the war it came out in testimony that the German translation of Henry Ford's 'The International Jew' was required reading for the Hitler Youth. [find documentation in Minority Perf long jj piece]
One wonders if any of this description of US - Nazi business and manufacturing collaborations is at all noted in any of the Holocaust Museums.
News Item:
Prince Charles joins world leaders for Auschwitz anniversary in Israel The Times,
UK, Jan. 23, 2020
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The Prince of Wales has begun his first state
visit to Israel. "will deliver a speech at the World Holocaust Forum in
Jerusalem in which he will say that "the lessons of the Holocaust are
searingly relevant to this day". The meeting at the World Holocaust
Remembrance Centre will include about 40 world leaders.
During the years leading up to his abdication in 1936, the King of England and the British Empire was for certain a greater follower of Hitler than most Germans. During the occupation of France, the then Duke of Windsor (who had been forced to abdicate his kingship over disapproval of his marriage to an American divorcee), asked the German forces to place guards at his Paris and Riviera homes - and they did. His pro-Hitler statements, while Governor of the Bahamas during the war had to be hushed up. Even as late as 1970 he spoke affectionately of Hitler.[see 1997 titled The Windsor File, Written by Paul Sweet, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer and historian involved in the eventual publication of the papers, details the duke's Nazi associations and the long, ultimately unsuccessful effort at suppression. See also: How Britain covered up the friendship between Hitler & Edward VIII By Andrew Morton, New York Post, March 1, 2015]
What uncomfortable
realization of the enormity of American and European society's
complicity in the Holocaust there was, formed a backdrop for additional
basic business considerations entertained by many of the same
influential U.S. politicians beholden to Wall Street's avarice and
economic crime in rearming Germany. Highly placed villainous capitalist
gangsters saw an imperialist opportunity to make genocidal use of the
plight of a quarter million 'undesirable' Jewish Holocaust survivors to
create a client colony of Europeans in the midst of oil rich Muslim
countries.
AngloAmerican power over an incipient United Nations of only 51 nations, produced a genocidal stratagem of torching the Holy Land with a phony, never expected nor intended to be implemented resolution for a crazy quilt partition of Palestine into seven noncontiguous areas; the Arab areas entirely noncontiguous; the Jewish areas contiguous by a thread, its major area containing more Arabs than Jews [see UN provided map of recommended partition.] meant to provoke a civil war prepared for, planned and expected by the Colonial Powers supported revisionist Zionists leadership. From Wikipedia, Map of the UN resolution for partition:
In
an Address by Albert Einstein at the Manhattan Opera House to the
National Labor Committee for Palestine, as reported in the January 11,
1946,
Einstein spoke what he saw as the basic human problem in Palestine, namely, colonialism, British Empire colonialism.
Testimony Before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, Washington , D.C.
"I
wish to explain why I believe the difficulties in Palestine exist.
First, the difficulties between the Jews and Arabs are artificially
created, and are created by the English...Of course the English had two
interests. First was to have raw materials for their industry. Also the
oil in those countries. I find everywhere there are big landowners who
are exploiters of that race of people. ...The British are always in a
passive alliance with those land possessing owners which suppress the
work of the people in the different trades. It is my impression that
Palestine is a kind of small model of India" Now how can I explain
otherwise that national troublemaking is a British enterprise? I believe
that the Palestinian people, under severe influence of the United
Nations, will be able to create a better state of affairs. But with the
British rule as it is, I believe it is impossible to find a real remedy.
" The Irishmen have for a long time suffered under your rule. " The
state idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is
needed. It is connected to many difficulties and a narrow-mindedness. I
believe it is bad" If people are united with each other and they come to
the idea that they do not need the foreign rule, then they want to make
themselves independent."
A few days later, Einstein again
made his position clear, "I am in favor of Palestine being developed as a
Jewish Homeland but not as a separate state. It seems to me a matter of
simple common sense that we cannot ask to be given political rule over
Palestine where two thirds of the population are not Jewish." [January
19, 1946 Letter to Maurice Dunay]
In August 1945, Einstein was sharply and publicly critical of the Jewish underground paramilitary groups, such as the Irgun and the Stern Group. In his words, "I regard it [the Irgun] as a disaster"( Interview with I. Z. David). Also "I am not willing to see anyone associated with those misled and criminal people." [letter to Shepard Rifkin).
End Notes
1. Letter to Col. Edward Mandell House (21 November 1933); as quoted in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945, edited by Elliott Roosevelt (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950), pg. 373."-
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