how private cooperations mucked up US government policy
In World War II the United States remained neutral until the attack on Pearl Harbor, yet before did support the Allied cause, legally giving them weapons through lend lease, yet private companies in the United States were at the time making profits by making business with the Nazi's.
Nazi Germany's war effort was largely supported by two organizations, one of which was called IG Farben. IG Farben produced 84% of Germany's explosives and even the Zyklon B used in the concentration camps to kill the Jews in their millions!
Also IBM (which later made personal computers) produced counting machines to help the Nazi's keep track of the vast amount of prisoners in the big concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
The Luftwaffe could not operate without a special additive patented by Rockefeller standard oil. The drastic bombing of London by Nazi Germany for example was made possible by a 20 million dollar sale of fuel to IG Farben by the Rockefeller standard oil company. This is just one small point about how America business funded both sides of World War II.
Another thing worth mentioning is the Union Banking Corporation of New York City. Not only did it finance numerous aspects of Hitler's rise to power, along with actual materials during the war, it was also a bank used for Nazi money-laundering. Which was eventually exposed for having millions of dollars of Nazi Money in its vaults. The Union Banking Corporation of New York was eventually seized for violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act.
The director and Vice President of the Union Bank was Prescott Bush, George W. Bush's Grandfather and of course our former George HW Bush's father, both of whom were presidents of the US!
But well before all of this in 1933 a group of wealthy businessmen that included the heads of Chase Bank, Goodyear, the DuPont family, Standard Oil, GM, and Senator Prescott Bush attempted to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt to take down that government and in the insuing chaos install a fascist dictatorship in the United States!
Although it never got past its initial planning stages and Smedley did testify to a congressional committee in 1934.
Though many of the people who had backed the planned Business Plot still maintained financial ties with Nazi Germany up through America's entry into World War II.
Nazi Germany's war effort was largely supported by two organizations, one of which was called IG Farben. IG Farben produced 84% of Germany's explosives and even the Zyklon B used in the concentration camps to kill the Jews in their millions!
Also IBM (which later made personal computers) produced counting machines to help the Nazi's keep track of the vast amount of prisoners in the big concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
The Luftwaffe could not operate without a special additive patented by Rockefeller standard oil. The drastic bombing of London by Nazi Germany for example was made possible by a 20 million dollar sale of fuel to IG Farben by the Rockefeller standard oil company. This is just one small point about how America business funded both sides of World War II.
Another thing worth mentioning is the Union Banking Corporation of New York City. Not only did it finance numerous aspects of Hitler's rise to power, along with actual materials during the war, it was also a bank used for Nazi money-laundering. Which was eventually exposed for having millions of dollars of Nazi Money in its vaults. The Union Banking Corporation of New York was eventually seized for violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act.
The director and Vice President of the Union Bank was Prescott Bush, George W. Bush's Grandfather and of course our former George HW Bush's father, both of whom were presidents of the US!
But well before all of this in 1933 a group of wealthy businessmen that included the heads of Chase Bank, Goodyear, the DuPont family, Standard Oil, GM, and Senator Prescott Bush attempted to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt to take down that government and in the insuing chaos install a fascist dictatorship in the United States!
Although it never got past its initial planning stages and Smedley did testify to a congressional committee in 1934.
Though many of the people who had backed the planned Business Plot still maintained financial ties with Nazi Germany up through America's entry into World War II.
Labels: business plot, nazi germany, united states, world war II
posted by Paul Iddon @ 6:20 PM
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