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In reply to the discussion: Hitler was not a leftist [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)capitalists -- including Brown Bros. Harriman's Prescott Bush and Herbert Walker, Governor of the Bank of England Sir Montagu Norman, and various industrialists (Henry Ford, the DuPont family, and Standard Oil, etc. ) -- funneled millions of dollars to the fledgling Nazi Party through wealthy Right-wing German capitalists such as Fritz Thyssen. The Wall Street law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell headed by the Dulles Bros. has a major role in laundering that money and coordinating the rearmament of Germany.
It wasn't all business -- these wealthy bankers, businessmen and lawyers knew they were helping to build Hitler -- as the correspondence, investigations and published findings of the American Ambassador in Berlin William E. Dodd, and Secretary of the Treasury's Morganthau made clear at the time and after WWII.
See, Banking With Hitler that focuses on the British and Americans who bankrolled the rise of the Third Reich: