Seven years before the outbreak of WWII, on the eve of this rearming of Germany with US government acquiescence if not support, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the last wealthy aristocratic insider US President, wrote to his confidant Colonel House "as you and I know, this government has been owned by a financial element in the centers of power since the days of Andrew Jackson."[28a] (Jackson was US president a hundred years earlier). FDR most certainly meant that they both knew that the "government owned by a financial element" included all three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judicial, and therefore Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidency.
Roosevelt was permitted to tax the wealthy (one year as high as 94% of income over $ 200,000),[29] in order to enact socialist reforms like Social Security, Unemployment Compensation and have the government put the unemployed to work in Civilian Conservation Corps camps and the Works Projects Administration and thus quiet calls for revolution and provide a more livable America than what the economic depression had made American families suffer up to that time.
FDR Was Fully Aware His Cronies Were Investing in Hitler's Military
Roosevelt, at the same time, had to have been aware that many of his cronies and most of his peers among the wealthy owners of America's corporations were investing and joint venturing head over heels in and with Nazi Germany. In 1936, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri on the floor of the Senate accused Franklin D. Roosevelt himself as being a "hired man for the economic royalists" in Wall Street, and that the Roosevelt family "is one of the largest stockholders in the General Electric Company."[30]
This author expects that the reaction of a good many readers to the affirmation that the 'Holocaust could not have happened without corporate USA rearming Germany to destroy the USSR,' would be one of protest. Skeptical readers might insist that although the elite of American industrialists did invest in and joint venture with the Nazis, rapidly building their Wehrmacht up to world's number one military force in six years with the collusion of US and European government leaders, who permitted violations of the prohibitions in the Versailles Treaty, that these titans of American industry, banking and government could not have imagined or expected Hitler's 1941 orders for the mass murder of all Jews we have come to call the Holocaust.
No! This historian agrees. These wealthiest of investors and bankers on Wall Street and eminent CEOs of America's major corporations could not have foreseen that their empowering Nazi Germany militarily would bring about Hitler's 1941 orders to kill all Jews in Nazi occupied Europe, however they most certainly did know of the vicious, and often murderous, persecution of Jews in Germany that began immediately upon Hitler's accession to power in 1933.
In 1933, new German laws forced Jews out of their civil service jobs, university and law court positions, and other areas of public life. In April 1933, laws proclaimed at Nuremberg made Jews second-class citizens.These Nuremberg Laws defined Jews, not by their religion or by how they wanted to identify themselves, but by the religious affiliation of their grandparents. Between 1937 and 1939, new anti-Jewish regulations segregated Jews further and made daily life very difficult for them. Jews could not attend public schools; go to theaters, cinema, or vacation resorts; or reside or even walk in certain sections of German cities. The Nazis either seized Jewish businesses and properties outright, or forced Jews to sell them at bargain prices. In November 1938, the Nazis organized a riot or pogrom, known as Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"). This attack against German and Austrian Jews included the physical destruction of synagogues and Jewish-owned stores, the arrest of Jewish men, the vandalization of homes, and the murder of individuals. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
JewishHistory.org puts forth a description of European anti-Jewish prejudice: "Ironically, the more assimilated the Jew became the more this type of anti-Semitism reared its head. To a great degree, the dominant culture was willing to tolerate Jews with long beards, fur hats, a strange language (Yiddish) and who were easily identifiable as Jews. But they were not willing to accept Jews who were clean-shaven, wore no special garb and spoke perfect German or French or English".
The economic elite of capitalist America's white Anglo-Saxon Protestant ruling rich had to have felt their ruling position threatened as well, and their anti-Jewish reaction trickled down, or rather poured down. As a personal example the first curse words this peoples historian at age seven used when missing a shot playing marbles in the school play-yard was "jew bastard!," without knowing the meaning of either word. (This would have been in 1939, well after Kristallnacht.) My first summer job in 1949, was performing in the Breakers, an Atlantic City Beach hotel built by Jews, so Jews would have one hotel there sure to give lodging to Jews.
The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies describes the reaction to Kristallnacht in the US: Kristallnacht, (German: "Crystal Night"), the night of November 9-10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. The name Kristallnacht refers ironically to the litter of broken glass left in the streets after these pogroms.
"President Franklin Roosevelt condemned the pogrom, recalled the U.S. ambassador from Germany for 'consultations,' and extended the visitors' visas of the approximately 12,000 German Jewish refugees who were then in the United States. But at the same time, FDR announced that liberalization of America's tight immigration quotas was 'not in contemplation.' The Christian Science Monitor echoed Roosevelt's position, telling its readers that prayer, not more immigration, was the best response to the persecution of German Jewry.
In the wake of Kristallnacht, humanitarian-minded members of Congress introduced legislation to aid German Jewry. A bill sponsored by Senator Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) and Rep. Edith Rogers (R-Mass) proposed the admission of 20,000 German refugee children outside the quotas. Nativist and isolationist groups vociferously opposed the Wagner-Rogers bill. "Typical of their perspective was a remark by FDR's cousin, Laura Delano Houghteling, who was the wife of the U.S. Commissioner of Immigration: she warned that '20,000 charming children would all too soon grow into 20,000 ugly adults.' In February, 1939, the Wagner-Rogers bill died in Congress. Roosevelt refused to take a position on it."
The only plausible answer as to why Russians haven't openly and logically held the United States responsible for the second world war, Holocaust and the genocidal Nazi invasion of their country is the shame for the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. However, given the obviousness of the colonial powers heavily arming Nazi Germany under such a pathetic excuse as to make Nazi Germany only a "bulwark against communist Soviet Union," and then refusing all entreaties of the Soviets to form a protective alliance in the face of Hitler's ever increasing power and belligerence, Stalin's surprise signing a non-aggression pact seems to have been a last resort defense of Russia.h
Were the Soviets to wait for Hitler's attack, openly prepared by US, UK and France's rearming of Germany against the terms of the Versailles Treaty and refusing to unite with the Soviet Union in opposing Hitler?
In his book, Mission to Moscow, (later a film as well with Walter Huston), US ambassador to Russia from 1936 to 1938, Joseph Davies, chronicles the desperation of the Russians in 1937, unable to get a defensive alliance with England and France, and fully aware that the rearming of Germany was directed at the Soviet Union most obviously not meant to be only a 'bulwark.' By the surprise non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, Stalin derailed for the moment the West's plan to have Hitler invade the USSR. This gained the Soviet Union the time to build the tanks in the East that would later defeat the Nazi invasion. What Hitler called "a war of extermination" in Western Poland began only one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Hitler would again call for "a war of extermination" with the German invasion of the USSR, June 22, 1941, at the same time calling for the eradication of Jews. a continuance of the colonial powers policy of total destruction of Soviet Russia since it's inception. In 1917, after suffering more dead than the other empires in a colonial powered First World War, Russians had overthrown their Tsar and their capitalists, and had declared a socialist government. Russians established a revolutionary government as a consequence of intolerably horrendous suffering during the First World War. Almost immediately, fourteen armies of twelve capitalist nations, former WW I allies of Russia, invaded in support of a desperate regime change civil war that failed but took the lives of millions, three million from typhus alone. The US sent two armies, one to Murmansk, the other to Vladivostok. There are official US Army photos of Americans standing over dead Bolsheviks* posted in the margins of Wikipedia's articles, Polar Bear Expedition and the American Expeditionary Force Siberia. *'Bolshevik' in Russian means 'majority' referring to past voting results during a Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party Congress) Churchill declared that Bolshevism must be "strangled in its cradle." [Cover Story: Churchill's Greatness,. Jeffrey Wallin 2006-10-04 at the Churchill Center]
The capitalist arming of Hitler, seems to have been sign of a desperate continuance of the mortally destructive intentions of the US and other colonial powers since 1919.
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