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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler: The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis Kindle Edition

by Antony Cyril Sutton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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'The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities... Not only was an influential sector of American business aware of the nature of Naziism, but for its own purposes aided Naziism wherever possible (and profitable) - with full knowledge that the probable outcome would be war involving Europe and the United States.'
Penetrating a cloak of falsehood, deception and duplicity, Professor Antony C. Sutton reveals one of the most remarkable but unreported facts of the Second World War: that key Wall Street banks and American businesses supported Hitler's rise to power by financing and trading with Nazi Germany. Carefully tracing this closely guarded secret through original documents and eyewitness accounts, Sutton comes to the unsavoury conclusion that the catastrophic Second World War was extremely profitable for a select group of financial insiders. He presents a thoroughly documented account of the role 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, General Motors, the Ford Motor Company, and scores of others in helping to prepare the bloodiest, most destructive war in history.
This classic study, first published in 1976 - the third volume of a trilogy - is reproduced here in its original form. (The other volumes in the series study the 1917 Lenin-Trotsky Revolution in Russia and the 1933 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States.)
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"Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as "extreme" or, more often, simply ignored."

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“Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as “extreme” or, more often, simply ignored.” ―Richard Pipes, Baird Professor Emeritus of History, Harvard University

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Carmen A.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read For Everyone Who's Interested in History
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2018
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I have been aware for quite some time of how the banking system and the Federal Reserve control the money supply and subsequently impact the economy by inducing economic booms and which end up with devastating busts. After reading the Creature from Jekyll Island, I learned about the banking cartel's vested interest in the military industrial complex. But what I wasn't aware of, was how large American corporations such as Rockefeller's Standard Oil, General Electric and Ford Motors have contributed to the financing of Hitler's rise to power and the implementation of economic fascism. I also wasn't aware of the connection between Hitler's election in Germany and FDR's in the United States, both coming into power during the same year, 1933. The conclusion I drew from reading this book, was that in addition to making a lot of money, the leading elites of such Wall Street companies (along with several leading New York banks) had a crucial goal of gaining monopolistic control of the economy. By using the coercive power of the government and its politicians, they're able to eliminate competition through the implementation of regulations, tariffs, and taxation (which were putting the smaller competitors out of business). By using extensive propaganda of associating capitalism with negative attributes and by largely contributing to economic devastation (such as the Great Depression via the boom/bust induced by the central bank) the leading Wall Street elites were successful in establishing monopolistic industries and introducing economic fascism in Germany (note that these were not the only factors contributing to the rise of fascism but were very instrumental in the economic transformation which lead to the rise of Hitler and consequently to WW2). Thus, it was important that they could control who comes into leading position powers of the nation, both in Germany and the U.S. at that time (which, I suspect, is still happening today). The author has done an excellent job documenting from the U.S. government archives (and other sources) the events detailing piece by piece the contributions made to the rise of fascism and the election of Hitler (and FDR in America). He uncovers the financial contributions with exact amounts, by which American corporation and German or European affiliate, often with evidence of the banks' receipt of such funds. Mr. Sutton eloquently elaborates on the evidence of the profits made (while in monopolistic status) by Wall Street large corporations when engaged in providing the necessary resources (armament, gun powder, tanks, etc.) to conduct what many may call it "Hitler's War". But one can very easily come to the conclusion (after reading the book) that without the contributions (financial, equipment, and technology) of the banking cartel and Wall Street large corporations (described above plus more listed in the book) Adolph Hitler would have remained an unknown socialist ideologue that would have never made it into history books. After reading this book, I see the world with different eyes. This ought to be a must read on the reading list of every American and European child, in every school, in every history book. But the Road to Serfdom must continue and it appears that it may not be convenient to teach the historical facts which reveal the truth.
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Bret Daniel
5.0 out of 5 stars On time and as described,well packaged!
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2021
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Camilo Yaryura
5.0 out of 5 stars The book tells how the grand capitals profitted helping Hitler to make war
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2013
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Wall Street helped to gain power to Trosky, Stalin and Hitler, they borrow money to Germany to pay WWI war reparations, financed the rise to power of the Nazi Party, and made bussiness with Hitler until the last minutes of the WWII.

The ball bearings used by the fighter planes of the Luftwaffwe ,were made in Canada and shipped to Germany until the end of the war.
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Scotty L
5.0 out of 5 stars A PARADIGM SHIFTING BOOK...EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2015
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This book is a powerful indictment of the world as we know it. History does repeat itself - and if this type of corruption existed in the the 20s, 30s, and 40s - there is NO TELLING how bad the corruption run pervasively in our world. Documentation is thorough and incontrovertible. You must read this book.
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Ross Nordeen
4.0 out of 5 stars Big Business funding the Nazis
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2003
Sutton makes that case that several Wall Street firms were deeply involved in financing the rise to power of the National Socialist German Workers Party (i.e., the Nazis) in pre-World War II Germany. Sutton shows that first, Wall Street financed the German cartels in the 1920's, second, that Wall Street indirectly financed Hitler and the Nazi Party, prior to their rise in power in Germany, third, that Wall Street firms profited from the build-up to war and the war itself, even after the U.S. got involved, and finally, that U.S. firms worked to cover up their complicity after the war.
This book is the third in a trilogy. The two other books chronicle Wall Street's involvement in the rise of FDR and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. The anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathies of businessmen like Henry Ford is no secret, so it's surprising that this subject gets so little play. Given modern leftist thought on big business, one would think that they would leap at the chance to link Wall Street to the Nazis. The reason they don't is no doubt due to Sutton's larger effort at showing that Wall Street supported "corporate socialism" not only in Germany, but in Russia and the U.S. as well. Since leftists still idealize FDR and the brutal regime that arose to become the U.S.S.R., they probably prefer to forget about the businessmen who connect them all. Sutton himself is no anti-business left-winger, instead he is a conservative concerned with the actions of an "unelected power elite", controlling events/governments/societies behind the scenes, to the detriment of freedom everywhere.
It makes for rather dry reading, but Sutton goes into extensive details about the persons, funds and timelines that show the deep connection between certain American Big Businesses and the Nazis. Why would Big Business embrace such a horrid political movement? Although Sutton does not go into details about motivation, there is a good case to be made that many businesses were not fond of the untrammeled free market and instead yearned for the security of government guaranteed profits, regardless of the expense to others in terms of loss of freedom. These businesses saw themselves as the contractors running the government machinery of what was thought to be the inevitable march to socialism. Sutton doesn't mention it, but many in the early twentieth century thought that some form of socialism was unavoidable, and that it was a choice between that and corporate domination through monopoly. Thus these businesses saw themselves as merely working towards what was almost pre-destined to happen, and ensuring that they would be the ones running the show and reaping the benefit.
The book turns a bit conspiratorial in the end. Sutton invokes the Kennedy Assassination, the Korean War and Vietnam War and the Council on Foreign Relations all in an attempt to suggest that we are being ruled by an unelected power elite, bent on societal domination at all costs, in the name of profit. There's no need to invoke conspiracy, though. The selfish acts of business men, tempted by access to the levers of power, is as good an explanation as any.
The case that Sutton makes is compelling. If his evidence is able to withstand scrutiny, it's hard to come to any other conclusion than that Big Business was willing to deal with the worst of the worst in order to profit via the coercive powers of government.
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5.0 out of 5 stars thank you
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2021
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George
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2018
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This is the book for you if you want to know how nefarious Wall Street really is.
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Jason foster
5.0 out of 5 stars An important text
Reviewed in Australia on January 8, 2021
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Sometimes the truth is really dark
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Ingo Jackisch
5.0 out of 5 stars We are all being played like a bunch of young children by the bankers.
Reviewed in Canada on February 17, 2013
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My father and Grandfathers fought in the German army in WWII. Much of the material published in this book has been conveyed to me orally as to what really went on inside Germany before and during the war. It was not the same as what was being taught in the Canadian schools I went to. This book basically writes about what I was told, but goes further in filling in lots of the spaces and goes into more detail as to why certain events were unfolding as they were. The book is well written, quite repetitive about many events to make sure you get it, names lots of names and what they were generally doing in the background to pay for and facilitate the war. The shocking part is the cooperation at the highest levels to basically make a lot of money at the expense of the common soldier who paid dearly. This book, along with the other 2 on Wall Street & Roosevelt, and Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution give an entirely different perspective on powerful machinations in the background of the Western World that completely influenced the 20th century and are most likely heavily influencing this century as well. These forces try to stay as hidden and camouflaged as possible so there can never be any backlash against them. To shine the light on them and their chess game, hopefully, will cause them to freeze and end this game.
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Mozartien
5.0 out of 5 stars Un mot sur Antony Cyril Sutton,
Reviewed in France on January 19, 2012
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Sutton signala que la capacité de production des entreprises IG Farben et Vereinigte Stahlwerke, qui produisaient 95% des explosifs d'Allemagne en 1937-38, fut uniquement possible avec les crédits concédés par le Plan Dawes et la technologie des États-Unis. Une coopération entre I. G. Farben et la Standard Oil of New Jersey pour produire de l'essence synthétique à base de charbon a donné à la I. G. Farben le monopole de cette production durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La moitié de la production allemande d'essence était entre ses mains et le reste à des compagnies affiliées[14]. Selon Sutton, sans le capital de Wall Street il n'y aurait eu ni IG Farben, ni Adolf Hitler, ni Seconde Guerre mondiale.
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Mr. Andrew Crabtree
5.0 out of 5 stars A book designed to shine a light in dark places, Highly Recommended!!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2011
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I found Professor Sutton's work to be superbly referenced, and a thoroughly enjoyable book to read. This is truly a book for any serious students/readers on International Finance / World War I & II / and anyone with the slightest interest on what role did key Wall Street banks (Chase Manhattan, J.P Morgan) and other American businesses (Ford, AT&T, etc) support Hitler's rise to power by financing and trading with Nazi Germany.

Having read the 1star review on this book, I felt compelled to defend Professor Sutton's work and to perhaps suggest to the previous reviewer `I White' that they would do very well to read any of the following books by "REAL" historians.

In response to reviewer `I White's' comment that Professor Sutton's work smacked of `Conspiracy rules ok', I would wager next months mortgage payment that `I White' would find it difficult to dismiss the following essential reading list as a collection of conspiracy writers.

All of the following authors and books point, support, and provide evidence to the very same conclusions that Professor Sutton reaches in his book ..........Let the light shine in dark places!!!!!

All honorable men by James Stewart Martin

America's Second Crusade by William Henry Chamberlin

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Harry Elmer Barnes

The Confessions of a Monopolist by Frederic Clems Howe

The Makers of War by Francis Neilson

Hitler's Magician: Schacht - the Life and Loans of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht

Generals in Grey Suits: the Directors of the International 'i G Farben' Cartel, Their Conspiracy and Trial at Nuremberg by Josiah Ellis Dubois

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

RULERS OF AMERICA: A STUDY OF FINANCE CAPITAL by Anna Rochester

War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated General - Smedley D. Butler

Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich by Guido Giacomo Preparata

Germany's Foreign Indebtedness - by C.R.S. Harris;

The High Cost Of Vengeance by Freda Utley

The devil theory of war;: An inquiry into the nature of history and the possibility of keeping out of war, by Charles Austin Beard

Bankers' profits from German loans, (The Institute of economics of the Brookings institution. Publication) by Robert René Kuczynski

Treason's peace;: German dyes & American dupes by Howard Watson Ambruster

Tearing away the veils: The financiers who control the world by Fran¸ois Coty

Hell's Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine by Diarmuid Jeffreys
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coached88
5.0 out of 5 stars Truth
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2019
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Some sheep below claimed this book is full of debunked theories . So the official story is Germany was in the red , and owed reparations to the west , so not from the banks lol . Then almost over night at hyper German bank debt and slave labor turned Germany into a military power that took 26 nations to defeat because they invaded Poland , but not cos they built their military against the Versailles treaty , and invaded other nations to .
Not because Hitler stopped paying back wall street debt , and the other corporations who funded Hitler of course including fanta being created to fund the Hitler youth . Hitler was time magazine winner in the 1930s and nominated for a peace prize . But leftist and gov , gov and banks want that debunked so it does not exist . This book is great !! You can look up open truths of fanta , IBM and ford assisting Hitler
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