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Without the support of key American industrialists, Adolf Hitler would never have been able to wage World War II. hile most Americans were appalled by the Nazis and the rearming of Germany in the 1930s, some of America’s most powerful corporations were more concemed about making a buck from their German investments. Here are a few examples of how US industrialists supported Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. GENERAL MOTORS GM, which was controlled by the du Pont family during the 1930s, owned 80 per cent of the stock of Ope! AG which made 30 per cent of Germany's passenger cars. When Hitler's panzer divisions rolled into France and Eastern Europe, they were riding in Opel trucks and other equipment. Opel earned GM a hefty US$36 million in the 10 years before war broke out, but because Hitler prohibited the export of capital, GM rein- vested the profits in other German companies. At least US$20 million was invested in companies owned or controlled by Nazi officials. General Motors may have even been plotting against the Roosevelt administration. According to Charles Higham in his book, Trading with the Enemy, GM representatives met secretly with Baron Manfred von Killinger, Nazi Germany's west coast chief of espi- onage, and Baron von Tippleskirsch, the Nazi consul general and Gestapo leader, in Boston on 23rd November 1937. The group "signed a joint agreement showing total com- mitment to the Nazi cause for the indefinite future" and proclaimed that "in view of Roosevelt's attitude toward Germany, every effort must be made to remove him by defcat at the next election, Jewish influence in the political, cultural and public life of America must be stamped out. Press and radio must be subsidised to smear the administration", and a fuihrer, perhaps Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana, should be in the White House. Although the group tried to keep the agreement secret, Representative John M. Coffee of Washington found out about it and had the entire text of the agreement printed in the Congressional Record in August 1942, HENRY FORD Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, was an outspoken anti-Semite and a big donor to the Nazi party. Ford allegedly bankrolled Hitler in the early 1920s at a time when the party had few other sources of income. In fact, the Nazi Party might have per- ished without Ford's sponsorship. Hitler admired Ford enormously. In 1922, The New York Times reported, "The wall beside his desk in Hitler's private office is decorated with a large picture of Henry Ford. In the antechamber there is a large table covered with books, nearly all of which are translations of books written and published by Henry Ford." (Hitler actually borrowed passages from Ford's book, The International Jew, to use in Mein Kampf.) The same year, the German newspaper Berliner Tageblatt, a Hitler foe, called on the American ambassador to investigate Ford's funding of Hitler, but nothing was ever done. Ford never denied that he had bankrolled the Fiihrer. In fact, Hitler pre- sented Nazi Germany's highest decoration for foreigners—the Grand Cross of the German Eagle—to Henry Ford. Reprinted with permission from It's A Conspiracy! © 1992 by The National insecurity Council Published by EarthWorks Press 1400 Shattuck Avenue, #25 Berkeley, CA 94709, USA THE CURTISS-WRIGHT AVIATION COMPANY Employees of Curtiss-Wright taught dive-bombing to Hitler's Luftwaffe. When Hitler's bombers terrorised Europe, they were using American bombing techniques. The US Navy invented dive-bombing several years before Hitler came to power, but managed to keep it a secret from the rest of the world by expressly prohibiting US aircraft manufactur- ers from mentioning the technique to other countries. However, in 1934, Curtiss-Wright, NEXUS ¢ 37 DECEMBER 1994 - JANUARY 1995