>>801058> then ordered Communist parties and their followers to oppose the Allied war effort and not resist the NazisCitation Needed.
>>801036>before June of 1941 the USSR helped the AxisNo. Before June of 1941, the USSR held neutrality with the Axis. They buckbroke the Japanese so bad in Mongolia that Japan sued for a neutrality agreement that it did not violate even in 1941 at the height of German advance, and instead sought to fight the USA to push it out of the West Pacific.
>Stalin ordered French Communists not to resist Nazi occupation.Citation fucking needed
>hearing that Roosevelt was seriously considering sinking the Bismark if it had entered the West Atlantic Where did you hear this? I have never heard this ever claimed anywhere. The closest the USA came to being involved in that was selling Britain CBY Catalinas used in maritime operations. The American Atlantic Fleet was nowhere near the power of its Pacific Fleet.
Furthermore the USA was directly involved in Nazi Germany's economy right up to 1941 and into 1942, and this only changed because Japan attacked the USA and was allied to Germany.
>>801024 The USA was playing both sides. FDR was anti-axis but the corporations of the USA which owned most of the government through lobbying were pro-Nazi and continued to supply them into 1942 and some even longer than that.
The company Standard Oil supplied millions of barrels of oil to the Nazis. In the Canary Islands in general, a filling station was set up for German submarines which provided them an ample base for the Battle of the Atlantic allowing them to easily extend their range South. In addition, this corporation owned a patent for tetraethyl, which was part of the fuel for aircraft. -
https://newrepublic.com/article/104346/standard-oil-axis-allyThe International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) established a supply of components and even entire ready-to-use units for the V-missiles which bombarded Britain. According to the contract, ITT conscientiously supplied Germany with special communication equipment, high-frequency equipment, selenium rectifiers, fuses to artillery shells (30,000 each month), radar equipment, telephone sets, switches and many, many others. The International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation maintained close ties with leaders of Nazi Germany from 1933 until the end of the war in 1945, according to Anthony Sampson, the author of a forthcoming book, “The Sovereign State of ITT,” to be published by Stein and Day. His charge is based on a study of U.S. government records in the National Archives that have been ignored until recently. -
https://www.jta.org/1973/04/24/archive/disclose-itt-had-nazi-tiesIBM was yet another friend of the Nazis. IBM, supplied computing machines, spare parts for them and special paper for concentration camps. Apparently, as the contingent of death camps replenished, the Americans increased the supply of IBM, which helped the fascists quickly calculate the population of those yet to be exterminated. While individual members of departments making those instruments may not have been aware of their purpose (though it is doubtful anyone would admit to such an atrocity now), The higher ups of IBM most certainly were aware, considering how close they were to Hitler. -
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ibm-and-nazi-germany/
>"The Rockefeller enterprise eventually agreed to pay a minor fine “for having betrayed America” but was allowed to continue its profitable commerce with the enemies of the United States. A tentative investigation into IBM’s arguably treasonous activities in the land of the Nazi enemy was similarly aborted because the US needed IBM technology as much as the Nazis did. Edwin Black writes: “IBM was in some ways bigger than the war.” Both sides could not afford to proceed without the company’s all-important technology. “Hitler needed IBM. So did the Allies.” (Black, 333, and 348) Uncle Sam briefly wagged a finger at Standard Oil and IBM, but most owners and managers of corporations who did business with Hitler were never bothered at all. The connections of ITT’s Sosthenes Behn with Nazi Germany, for example, were a public secret in Washington, but he never experienced any difficulties as a result of them. Meanwhile, it would appear that the headquarters of the Western Allies were keen to go as easy as possible on the American-owned enterprises in Germany. According to German expert Hans G. Helms, Bernard Baruch, a high-level advisor to President Roosevelt, had given the order not to bomb certain factories in Germany, or to bomb them only lightly; it is hardly surprising that the branch plants of American corporations fell into this category. And indeed, while Cologne’s historical city centre was flattened in repeated bombing raids, the large Ford factory on the outskirts of the city enjoyed the reputation of being the safest place in town during air attacks, although some bombs did of course occasionally fall on its properties." (The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War, revised edition By Jacques R. Pauwels, Billstein et al, 98-100)In 1940, Ford factories began mass production of trucks and other vehicles for the Nazis such as the Maultier. The Ford plants in Europe also worked, supplying the fascists with cars of various purposes, tires, aircraft engines, auto parts and much more. A Ford plant in 'neutral' Switzerland also repaired German trucks. -
http://www.kfzderwehrmacht.de/Homepage_english/Motor_Vehicles/Germany/Ford/Ford_V_3000_S-SSM/ford_v_3000_s-ssm.html The relationship of Ford and GM to the Nazi regime goes back to the 1920s and 1930s, when the American car companies competed against each other for access to the lucrative German market. Hitler was an admirer of American mass production techniques and an avid reader of the antisemitic tracts penned by Henry Ford. "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration," Hitler told a Detroit News reporter two years before becoming the German chancellor in 1933, explaining why he kept a life-size portrait of the American automaker next to his desk. -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm?noredirect=onPrimary examples of investments in the German economy.
"Ford" - $ 17.5 million.
Standard Oil of New Jersey (now Exxon Mobil Corporation) - $ 120 million.
General Motors - $ 35 million.
"ITT" - $ 30 million.
Hitler's ideas caught on with the rich elite of the world especially well. Something remarked upon by William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany in 1937, who said, “… I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi Regime.”
William Randolph Hearst for example. In the mid 1930s he was one of the richest men in the world due to his yellow-news outlets; 25 daily newspapers, 24 weekly newspapers, 12 radio stations, 2 world news services, one business providing news items for films, the Cosmopolitan film company, and a lot of others. In 1948 he bought one of the US’s first TV stations, BWAL – TV in Baltimore. In 1934 he visited Nazi Germany where he was personally received by Hitler as a guest and friend. His anti-communist ranting only ramped up afterwards, publishing repeated articles about the 1932-34 famine in the USSR, focusing on Ukraine and using scurrilous fraud photographs of a one Thomas Walker as supposed 'evidence'. Despite being called out on this multiple times, he continued to print the articles.
Another example is Prescott Bush. Prescott Bush was a firm believer in eugenics, (the study of genetic improvement through selecting parents, or racial superiority) which was very common among the influential families at the start of the twentieth century. Of course we are all more than familiar with the eugenics 'studies' done by the Nazis (such as those conducted in Auschwitz by the escaped Angel of Death Dr. Mengele). The grandfather of George Bush Jr. was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp., a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen family. Brown Brothers Harriman's affiliate Union Bank - of which Prescott was the director - had invested huge sums of money into Thyssen Steel, the backbone of Nazi steel production. August Thyssen was an affluent German industrialist who lost much of his corporate empire to the harsh Treaty of Versailles after WWI. Vowing this would never happen again, he founded three banks in three countries: The August Thyssen Bank in Berlin, Bank voor Handel en Scheepuaart in Rotterdam, Holland, and Union Banking Corp. in New York City. Using money channeled through these three banks, Thyssen financed the rise of the Nazi party and their front-man Adolf Hitler, ruling Nazi steel production along side Krupp, profited from the mining of coal by Jewish slaves, and financed concentration camps including Auschwitz. In 1937, while director of Union Bank, Prescott hired Allen Dulles to 'cloak' his accounts; Allen obviously didn't do that great of a job because in 1942 the U.S. Alien Property Custodian froze Union Bank's accounts and fined Prescott 1 million dollars. 'Coincidentally,' Allen Dulles was appointed U.S. Intelligence Chief in post-war Germany while he was also the lawyer representing Thyssen's bank in Holland. This ensuing cover-up may have saved Prescott from further penalty stemming from proper investigation. In 1951, Prescott reclaimed Union Bank from the U.S. Alien Property Custodian, and went on to represent Connecticut in the Senate. his sons and grandsons would continue his legacy of war-profiteering and proliferation throughout the Cold War and into the 21st century, with the actions of George Bush Junior still running their course (Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/secret-history-the-u-s-supported-and-inspired-the-nazis/5439236https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers-willing-business-partners/303146/http://nationalpost.com/g00/news/how-six-months-before-the-second-world-war-britain-gave-hitler-9-million-in-gold-that-belonged-to-another-country/wcm/3c1b3aa0-3bfe-4e57-83e9-8eefeec7cc52?i10c.referrerhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwarhttps://fort-russ.com/2016/05/hitler-was-financed-by-federal-reserve/http://www.globalresearch.ca/profits-ber-alles-american-corporations-and-hitler/4607This didn't stop with Corporations either. The people and governments of many European countries supported the German war-effort, including volunteering to fight. The German author of the book “Results of the Second World War” (1953), K. Pfeffer wrote,
"Most volunteers from Western Europe went to the Eastern Front only because they saw this as a common task of the West … Volunteers from Western Europe, as a rule, were attached to SS units and units …"
The English historian A. Taylor wrote about the two “neutral” countries least of all dependent on Nazism, Switzerland and Sweden, that they “could bring Germany more benefits than if they were in the position of vanquished. Germany received iron ore from Sweden, precision instruments from Switzerland. Without this, she could not continue the war.” Almost every third fascist projectile was made of steel smelted from Swedish ore, and almost all the necessary tungsten came from Portugal.
Professor Richard Kaczmarek, director of the Institute of History of the Silesian University, author of the book “Poles in the Wehrmacht” claims that roughly half a million Poles served the German army during the war. In 1942 alone, the Poles made up 40-45% of the personnel of the 96th infantry division of the Wehrmacht, about 30% of the 57th division, about 30% of the 11th division (together with the Czechs), about 12% of the 110th division. The French also had their contribution with 220,000 volunteers serving in the 33rd SS division Charlemagne alone.
The British Royal Family was all but public in their support of the Nazi regime. Even if one dismisses the nazi salute photographs one cannot deny their role in supporting Germany. Anti-semitic sympathies, letters of correspondence, and generally being supportive:
This of course is ignoring things like Western military sympathies to the Nazis. The best example of this is of course General Patton. He sympathized with the Nazis and believed the USSR was a Jew-Bolshevik conspiracy along with other anti-Semitic ideals. He was killed in a car crash, however his ideas did not decline.
The New Yorker, Blood, Guts and McChrystal By Amy Davidson Sorkin, June 25, 2010
http://archive.fo/Fjm4g“…Thinking like that often got Patton into trouble. Much of it has been recounted before, in the movie Patton and elsewhere. In one well-known incident, Patton was visiting a field hospital when he came across a soldier who didn't appear to be wounded. When Patton asked what was wrong with him, the soldier responded, "It's my nerves." Patton blew up: "You cowardly bastard! You're going right back to the front. Although that's too good for you. You ought to be lined up against a wall and shot. Although that's too good for you, too. I ought to shoot you myself, goddamn you!" Patton then pulled out his (ivory-handled) gun, repeatedly slapped the soldier, and ordered doctors to get the GI out of the hospital. Hirshson adds that as Patton left, he shouted, "There's no such thing as shell shock! It's an invention of the Jews!" The slapping eventually made it into the press and caused such an outrage that Eisenhower temporarily stripped Patton of his command." - Life of General Patton
http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/news/cuny_matters/2002_october/gralpatton.htmlThis prejudicial and ethno-racial hatred extended to the Russians, whom he unilaterally despised,
"The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk." - Statement (8 August 1945), as quoted in General Patton: A Soldier's Life (2002) by Stanley P. Hirshson, p. 650
The sheer prejudice and hatred in his words is remarkably similar to that of the Germans, indeed to quote Der Untermensch (translation)
"… the subhuman the greatest enemy of the dominant species on earth, mankind. The subhuman is a biological creature, crafted by nature, which has hands, legs, eyes and mouth, even the semblance of a brain. Nevertheless, this terrible creature is only a partial human being. Although it has features similar to a human, the subhuman is lower on the spiritual and psychological scale than any animal. Inside of this creature lies wild and unrestrained passions: an incessant need to destroy, filled with the most primitive desires, chaos and coldhearted villainy."
Der Untermensch:
https://ia800500.us.archive.org/15/items/SS-Hauptamt-Der-Untermensch/Ss-hauptamt-DerUntermensch194252S.Scan_text.pdfTranslation source:
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/deruntermensch.htmlIndeed the term "Untermensch" (undermen) was created by an American, Lothrop Stoddard. His book, The Passing of the Great Race, was even praised by president Warren G. Harding.