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Rudolf Hess for Nazi Party expenses during the election. Translation of the I.G. Farben
transfer slip, selected as a sample, is as follows:25
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Translation of I.G, Farben letter of February 27, 1933, advising of transfer of 400,000
Reichsmarks to National Trusteeship account:
I.G. FARBENINDUSTRIE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Bank Department
Firm: Delbruck Schickler & Co.,
BERLIN W.8
Mauerstrasse 63/65, Frankfurt (Main) 20
Our Ref: (Mention in Reply) 27 February 1933
B./Goe.
We are informing you herewith that we have authorized the Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt/M.,
to pay you tomorrow forenoon: RM 400,000 which you will use in favor of the account
"NATIONALE TREUHAND" (National Trusteeship).
Respectfully,
I.G. Farbenindustrie
Aktiengesellschaft
by Order:
(Signed) SELCK (Signed)
BANGERT
By special delivery.26
At this juncture we should take note of the efforts that have been made to direct our
attention away from American financiers (and German financiers connected with
American-affiliated companies) who were, involved with the funding of Hitler. Usually the
blame for financing Hitler has been exclusively placed upon Fritz Thyssen or Emil Kirdorf.
In the case of Thyssen this blame was widely circulated in a book allegedly authored by
Thyssen in the middle of World War II but later repudiated by him.27 Why Thyssen would
want to admit such actions before the defeat of Naziism is unexplained.
Emil Kirdorf, who died in 1937, was always proud of his association with the rise of
Naziism. The attempt to limit Hitler financing to Thyssen and Kirdorf extended into the
Nuremburg trials in 1946, and was challenged only by the Soviet delegate. Even the Soviet
delegate was unwilling to produce evidence of American associations; this is not surprising
because the Soviet Union depends on the goodwill of these same financiers to transfer much
needed advanced Western technology to the U.S.S.R.
At Nuremburg, statements were made and allowed to go unchallenged which were directly
contrary to the known direct evidence presented above. For example, Buecher, Director
General of German General Electric, was absolved from sympathy for Hitler:
Thyssen has confessed his error like a man and has courageously paid a heavy
penalty for it. On the other side stand men like Reusch of the
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Gutehoffnungshuette, Karl Bosch, the late chairman of the I.G. Farben
Aufsichtsrat, who would very likely have come to a sad end, had he not died in
time. Their feelings were shared by the deputy chairman of the Aufsichtsrat of
Kalle. The Siemens and AEG companies which, next to I.G. Farben, were the
most powerful German concerns, and they were determined opponents of
national socialism.
I know that this unfriendly attitude on the part of the Siemens concern to the
Nazis resulted in the firm receiving rather rough treatment. The Director
General of the AEG (Allgemeine Elektrizitats Gesellschaft), Geheimrat
Buecher, whom I knew from my stay in the colonies, was anything but a Nazi. I
can assure General Taylor that it is certainly wrong to assert that the leading
industrialists as such favored Hitler before his seizure of power.28
Yet on page 56 of this book we reproduce a document originating with General Electric,
transferring General Electric funds to the National Trusteeship account controlled by Rudolf
Hess on behalf of Hitler and used in the 1933 elections.
Similarly, von Schnitzler, who was present at the February 1933 meeting on behalf of I.G.
Farben, denied I.G. Farben's contributions to the 1933 Nationale Treuhand:
I never heard again of the whole matter [that of financing Hitler], but I believe
that either the buro of Goering or Schacht or the Reichsverband der Deutschen
Industrie had asked the of fice of Bosch or Schmitz for payment of IG's share in
the elec tion fund. As I did not take the matter up again I not even at that time
knew whether and which amount had been paid by the IG. According to the
volume of the IG, I should estimate IG's share being something like 10 percent
of the election fund, but as far as I know there is no evidence that I.G. Farben
participated in the payments.29
As we have seen, the evidence is incontrovertible regarding political cash contributions to
Hitler at the crucial point of the takeover of power in Germany and Hitler's earlier speech
to the industrialists clearly revealed that a coercive takeover was the premeditated intent.
We know exactly who contributed, how much, and through what channels. It is notable that
the largest contributors I.G. Farben, German General Electric (and its affiliated company
Osram), and Thyssen were affiliated with Wall Street financiers. These Wall Street
financiers were at the heart of the financial elite and they were prominent in contemporary
American politics. Gerard Swope of General Electric was author of Roosevelt's New Deal,
Teagle was one of NRA's top administrators, Paul Warburg and his associates at American
I.G. Farben were Roosevelt advisors. It is perhaps not an extraordinary coincidence that
Roosevelt's New Deal called a "fascist measure" by Herbert Hoover should have so
closely resembled Hitler's program for Germany, and that both Hitler and Roosevelt took
power in the same month of the same year March 1933.
Footnotes:
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1
The American Historical Review, Volume LC, NO. 4, July. 1955. p, 830.
2
Ibid, fn. (2).
3
Elimination of German Resources, p. 648. The Albert Voegler mentioned in
the Kilgore Committee list of early Hitler supporters was the German
representative on the Dawes Plan Commission. Owen Young of General
Electric (see Chapter Three) was a U.S. representative for the Dawes Plan and
formulated its successor, the Young Plan.
4
Antony C. Sutton, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, op. cit,
5
Preussiche Zettung, January 3, 1937.
6
See p. 116.
7
Glyn Roberts, The Most Powerful Man in the World, (New York: Covicl,
Friede, 1938), p. 305.
8
Ibid., p. 313.
9
Ibid., p. 322.
10
See Chambre des Deputes Debats, February 11, 1932, pp. 496-500.
11
U.S. Group Control Council (Germany0 Office of the Director of
Intelligence, Field Information Agency, Technical). Intelligence Report No.
EF/ME/1,4 September 1945. "Examination of Dr. Fritz Thyssen," p, 13,
Hereafter cited as Examination of Dr. Fritz Thyssen.
12
The Bank was known in Germany as Bank fur Handel und Schiff.
13
Examination of Dr. Fritz Thyssen.
14
Fritz Thyssen, I Paid Hitler, (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1941). p.
159.
15
Taken from Bankers Directory, !932 edition, p, 2557 and Poors, Directory of
Directors. J.L. Guinter and Knight Woolley were also directors.
16
See Antony C. Sutton, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, op. cit.
17
National Cyclopaedia, Volume G, page 16.
18
For a description of these ventures, based on State Department files, see An,
tony C. Sutton, Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development,
Volume 1, op. cit.
19
See Antony C. Sutton, Wall Street and FDR. Chapter Nine, "Swope's Plan,"
op. cit.
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20
See Elimination of German Resources, pp. 728-30.
21
For yet other connections between the Union Banking Corp, and German
enterprises, see Ibid., pp. 728-30.
22
See Chapter Ten.
23
NMT, Volume VII, p. 555.
24
Josiah E. Dubois, Jr., Generals in Grey Suits op. cit., p. 323.
25
Original reproduced on page 64.
26
NMT, Volume VII, p. 565. See p. 64 for photograph of original document.
27
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