WHILE THE UGLY FACE OF NEO-NAZISM, seemingly, has risen from out of nowhere after the chaos of Charlottesville, Virginia, where a “Unite the Right” rally called by white nationalists in response to a plan to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee turned deadly after a driver plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing a 32-year-old woman and injuring many others.
Many people, however, would be shocked to learn that America has a dark and complex connection with NAZISM in the past.
In, biographer and former writer for The New York Times’ Charles Higham’s book, TRADING WITH THE ENEMY: The Nazi-American Money Plot (1933-1949)-the secret was revealed.
For nearly forty years the facts behind the true story of Nazi-American war-time business relations were buried in government files.
But Charles Higham, drawing his account from thousands of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, has, in TRADING WITH THE ENEMY, given us a horrifying, full scale picture of the American businessmen who dealt with the Nazis during the Second World War.
Those culpable include certain executives of Standard Oil of New Jersey, the Chase Bank, the Texas Company, ITT, Ford Motor Company, and Sterling Products.
And helping them with their dealings were such government officials as a secretary of commerce, an assistant secretary of state, and ambassadors to France and Great Britain.
But Charles Higham, drawing his account from thousands of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, has, in TRADING WITH THE ENEMY, given us a horrifying, full scale picture of the American businessmen who dealt with the Nazis during the Second World War. Those culpable include certain executives of Standard Oil of New Jersey, the Chase Bank, the Texas Company, ITT, Ford Motor Company, and Sterling Products.
And helping them with their dealings were such government officials as a secretary of commerce, an assistant secretary of state, and ambassadors to France and Great Britain.
The Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, was Nazi-controlled but presided over by an American, even in 1944.
At one of its yearly meetings, the bank’s president sat down with his German, Japanese, Italian, British, and American executive staff to discuss shipments of $378 million in gold sent to the bank by the Nazi government for use by its leaders after the war.
This was looted from the banks of Austria, Belgium, and Czechoslovakia, or melted down from tooth filings, eye-glass frames, and wedding rings of murdered (so-called) Jews.
This was looted from the banks of Austria, Belgium, and Czechoslovakia, or melted down from tooth filings, eye-glass frames, and wedding rings of murdered (so-called) Jews.
But that is only one example. Standard Oil of New Jersey shipped the Nazis precious oil through Switzerland while Allied forces endured restrictions of supplies and shortages were widespread.
Ford Motor Company trucks were built for Nazi troops with authorization from Ford directors in the United States.
Ford Motor Company trucks were built for Nazi troops with authorization from Ford directors in the United States.
The chairman of ITT supplied much of Hitler’s communication system. Throughout World War II, the list of those who chose Business as Usual-even when the business was conducted with their country’s “enemy” during a war-is as extensive as it is shocking!!!-This is the Evolution of an MC-www.bobbeethehater.blogspot.com
