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WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER

by Antony C. Sutton
© Copyright 2000, by Antony C. Sutton

Makes Every Previous Book on World War II Obsolete 

Finally, a distinguished scholar has penetrated the cloak of falsehood, deception, and duplicity that for more than thirty years has protected one of the most incredible secrets of World War II:  the support from key Wall Street financiers and other international bankers in subsidizing Hitler's rise to power.

Professor Antony C. Sutton proves that World War II was not only well planned, it was also extremely profitable -- for a select group of financial insiders.  Carefully tracing this closely guarded secret through original documents and eyewitness accounts, Sutton documents the roles played by J.P. Morgan, T.W. Lamont, the Rockefeller interests, General Electric Company, Standard Oil, National City Bank, Chase and Manhattan banks, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, and scores of other business elitists.

Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler shows how the bloodiest, most destructive war in history was financed and promoted.  It is sure to spark angry denials and heated debate.

ANTONY C. SUTTON was born in London in 1925 and educated at the universities of London, Gottingen, and California.  A citizen of the United States since 1962, he was a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford, California from 1968 to 1973, where he produced the monumental three-volume study, Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development.

In 1974, Professor Sutton completed National Suicide:  Military Aid to the Soviet Union, a best-selling study of Western, primarily American, technological and financial assistance to the U.S.S.R.  Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler is his fourth book exposing the role of American corporate insiders in financing international socialism.  The two other books in this series are Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution and Wall Street and FDR.

Professor Sutton has contributed articles to Human Events, The Review of the News, Triumph, Ordnance, National Review, and many other journals.  He is currently working on a two-part study of the Federal Reserve System and the manipulation of the U.S. economic system.  Married and the father of two daughters, he lives in California.

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.

"The 1945 interrogation of I.G. Farben director von Schnitzler reads:

Q. What did you do when they told you that I.G. chemicals was [sic] being used to kill, to murder people held in concentration camps?

A. I was horrified.

Q. Did you do anything about it?

A. I kept it for me [to myself] because it was too terrible .... I asked Muller-Cunradi is it known to you and Ambros and other directors in Auschwitz that the gases and chemicals are being used to murder people.

Q. What did he say?

A. Yes: it is known to all I.G. directors in Auschwitz."

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"The critical point is that the German industrialists financing Hitler were predominantly directors of cartels with American associations, ownership, participation, or some form of subsidiary connection. The Hitler backers were not, by and large, firms of purely German origin, or representative of German family business. Except for Thyssen and Kirdoff, in most cases they were the German multi-national firms — i.e., I.G. Farben, A.E.G., DAPAG, etc. These multi-nationals had been built up by American loans in the 1920s, and in the early 1930s had American directors and heavy American financial participation."

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"The American electrical industry has conquered the world, and only a few of the remaining opposing bastions have been able to withstand the onslaught."

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Original transfer slip dated March 2, 1933 from German General Electric to Delbruck, Shickler Bank in Berlin, with instructions to pay 60,000 RM to the "Nationale Treuhand" fund (administered by Hjalmar Schacht and Rudolph Hess) used to elect Hitler in March 1933.  Source:  Nuremburg Military Tribunal, document No. 391-395.

Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, by Antony C. Sutton

Table of Contents

PART ONE:  Wall Street Builds Nazi Industry

PART TWO:  Wall Street and Funds for Hitler