Wall Street and the rise of Hitler

167 Pages·2010·1.16 MB·English

by  Sutton

ANTONY C. SUTTON, born in London in 1925, was educated at the
universities of London, Gottingen and California. He was a Research Fellow at
the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford, California,
from 1968 to 1973 and later an Economics Professor at California State
University, Los Angeles. He is the author of 25 books, including the major three-
volume study Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development. He died
in 2002.
WALL STREET
AND THE RISE OF HITLER
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution was first published in 1974. Sadly, the
author was not able to update it in his lifetime. It is reproduced here in its
original form, as a classic study of the subject.
WALL STREET
AND THE RISE OF HITLER
ANTONY C. SUTTON
Clairview Books
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Published by Clairview 2012
First published in 1976 by ‘76 Press, California © Antony C. Sutton 1976
The moral right of the author has been asserted under the Copyright, Designs
and Patents Act, 1988
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the
publishers A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 905570 62 1
Cover by Andrew Morgan Design
Dedication
Dedicated to the memory of Floyd Paxton — entrepreneur, inventor, writer, and
American, who believed in and worked for individual rights in a free society
under the Constitution.
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 Fuels 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