Standard Oil shipped enemy fuel through Switzerland for the Nazi occupation forces in France. On September 22,1947, Judge Charles Clark delivered the final word on the subject. He said, ''Standard Oil can be considered an enemy national in view of its relationships with I.G. Farben-after the United States and Germany had become active enemies." The appeal was denied. [The Treason Of Rockefeller Standard Oil During World War II By The American Chronicle, February 4, 2012]
I.T.T. helped supply the rocket bombs that marauded much of London; and I.T.T. build the Focke-Wulfs that dropped those bombs. Long and shocking is the list of diplomats and businessmen alike who had their own ways of profiting from the war. After the war, I.T.T. and General Motors both received tax deductions for the damage to their factories in Germany from Allied bombing.
The bottom line is that, while British and US soldiers were dying at the hands of thee Nazi war machine, and Jews sere being exterminated in their thousands, British and US companies which had invested in post-WW I Germany continued to sympathize and trade with the Nazi regime. The bombs that leveled so many British cities and killed so many women and children, may well have been manufactured in Germany, but it was largely British and US money that provided Hitler with the parts, and the fuel to dispatch them to allied targets.[5] Both at the Normandy landing and in Russia many Nazi tanks had GM motors and downed German planes were found to have GE engines.
Britain was America's closest ally. During the year 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, 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.[6]
That the Second World War was a 'good war,' a clear fight against what a madman had brought about, has been a major and fundamental deception solidified in Wall Street owned media and movies. So pervasively universal is the deception that even the outcry of the German Counsel for the Defense in his summation at the major Nuremberg trial, heard in the block buster American movie Judgement at Nuremberg, (with Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy, Marlena Dietrich) made little impression, "Where is the responsibility of those American industrialists, who helped Hitler to rebuild his armaments and profited by that rebuilding?!! Are we not to find the American industrialists guilty? s houts actor Maximilian Schell in defense of the Nazis on trial.
Seven years before the outbreak of WWII, during this rearming of Germany, 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." (Jackson was US president a hundred years earlier). While Roosevelt was permitted to tax the wealthy in order to enact Social Security, Unemployment Compensation and have the government put the unemployed to work in CCC Camps and the Works Projects Administration, Roosevelt at the same time had to have been aware all his cronies among the wealthy owners of America's top corporations were investing and joint venturing head over heels in Nazi Germany.
The Nazi's frightening early on murderous, violence against Germany's Jewish population did not deter the titans of US industry from empowering Hitler militarily for war against Russia. In any case, the upper echelon of American high society in general was clearly anti-Jewish. From the roll modeling elite, strong anti-Jewish sentiment was reflected down and throughout the country. It was usually more viciously and outspokenly demonstrated among the working classes. As a seven year old, your author upon missing a shot playing marbles in the schoolyard remembers cursing the wayward marble with "Jew bastard!" without knowing the meaning of either word. Though 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, they knew of the inhuman persecution of Jews in Germany that began immediately upon Hitler's accession to power in 1933.
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 as it did and claimed as many victims without the harvest of deadly information recorded by the Hollerith machines, on IBM punch cards. IBM/Dehomag employees worked 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.
(Not that it means anything, your author would never buy a Ford or General Motors built automobile.)
The Chase Manhattan Bank's form of colluding with the Reich was particularly heinous. It functioned as the bank for foreign transactions for fascist Vichy France, and because Carlos Niedermann, Chase's representative in Paris, had very good personal relations with the Nazis, he agreed to their requests that the bank seize the assets of at least one hundred Parisian Jews that were considered especially worth pursuing by the Reich. This doubtless helped the Gestapo capture those people. Chase Manhattan was hardly alone in this. In 1998, Chase was part of a suit demanding reparations from J.P. Morgan and Citibank for the millions of dollars stolen.
(Yours truly would not have the stomach to open an account in a Chase Manhattan bank.)
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.
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