Wall Street and the rise of Hitler

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1. arminiusreturnsApr 2022
   I think anyone on this thread who hasn't already, needs to go read Antony Sutton's Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler.

   "PREFACE

   This is the third and final volume of a trilogy describing the role of the American corporate socialists, otherwise known as the Wall Street financial elite or the Eastern Liberal Establishment, in three significant twentieth-century historical events: the 1917 Lenin- Trotsky Revolution in Russia, the 1933 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States, and the 1933 seizure of power by Adolf Hitler in Germany. Each of these events introduced some variant of socialism into a major country — i.e., Bolshevik socialism in Russia, New Deal socialism in the United States, and National socialism in Germany. Contemporary academic histories, with perhaps the sole exception of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy And Hope, ignore this evidence. On the other hand, it is understandable that universities and research organizations, dependent on financial aid from foundations that are controlled by this same New York financial elite, would hardly want to support and to publish research on these aspects of international politics. The bravest of trustees is unlikely to bite the hand that feeds his organization. It is also eminently clear from the evidence in this trilogy that "public-spirited businessmen" do not journey to Washington as lobbyists and administrators in order to serve the United States. They are in Washington to serve their own profit-maximizing interests. Their purpose is not to further a competitive, free-market economy, but to manipulate a politicized regime, call it what you will, to their own advantage. It is business manipulation of Hitler's accession to power in March 1933 that is the topic of Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler.

   ANTONY C. SUTTON"

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2. GoodIntentionsJul 2013
   You might have read this already. mebbe not.

   "wall Street and the Rise of Hitler"

   http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0945001533

   You can probably find it as a pdf someplace too, as it is a pretty old book. Read it and try to see the difference between the US industrialists and German industrialists in the dock at Nueremburg. Same sh*t, different piles imho.

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3. arminiusreturnsApr 2022
   I really don't find too much in the preface, I just thought it was a decent introduction (after all, written by the author) to the book. If I had to be specific though:

   > the role of the American corporate socialists, otherwise known as the Wall Street financial elite or the Eastern Liberal Establishment, in three significant twentieth-century historical events: the 1917 Lenin- Trotsky Revolution in Russia, the 1933 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States, and the 1933 seizure of power by Adolf Hitler in Germany.

   > Contemporary academic histories, with perhaps the sole exception of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy And Hope, ignore this evidence.

   > universities and research organizations, dependent on financial aid from foundations that are controlled by this same New York financial elite, would hardly want to support and to publish research on these aspects of international politics

   > business manipulation of Hitler's accession to power in March 1933 that is the topic of Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler

   I think just those four things offer plenty of intellectual red-meat that is very interesting to explore.

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4. GoodIntentionsApr 2011
   Perhaps he was expecting to see evidence of racism due to Henry Ford's connections with anti-semitism.

   Google "henry ford racism".

   If you want a dead tree source, I think Anthony Sutton's "Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler" had references. Been a while since I've read it. Pretty sure it is out of print, but PDFs are online.

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