US Steel, Ford, General Motors and IBM were all investors in Germany in
the 20s & 30s. With Germany essentially bankrupted by the Treaty of
Versailles, there was a lot of money to be made there.
I'm not sure how much actual control an American headquarters was able
to exercise over German subsidiaries once the Second World War broke
out, particularly after Germany declared war on the United States, but
the German subsidiaries of those American corporations did support the
NAZI war effort and the American corporations accrued some profits from
them after they were able to reestablish control upon Germany's surrender.
Standard Oil controlled certain I.G. Farben patents for tetraethyl lead
(used in the manufacture of high octane aviation gasoline) in the United
States and wouldn't license them to the U.S. government between the time
war broke out in Europe and the U.S. entry into the war.
I don't really know much about Prescott Bush's involvement with Standard
Oil, but I know he was a Nominee Director in Union Banking Corporation
representing Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Bush also served as a
director for Holland-American Trading Corporation ("Dutch" in the same
way Pennsylvania's German immigrants all became "Pennsylvania Dutch"
during the First World War)
The Harrimans, the Browns, the Rockefellers and the Walkers were all
heavy investors in pre-war Germany as well as in the pre-war Soviet
Union & Prescott Bush amassed his personal fortune by hitching his wagon
to the E. Roland Harriman's star (W. Averell Harriman's younger brother).
The record is kind of mixed. I don't think the American Corporations
actively conspired to support Nazi Germany during the war, but they were
ready & willing to rake in all the profits they could in the aftermath.
On 8/31/2015 7:55 PM, Bill wrote:
On 31/08/2015 1:27 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
Corporations that kill their customers don't make much profit in the
long run, but Rogue Governments, are perfectly willing to kill millions
to make a point.
Based on your statement WWII was a fight between US Steel and Krup with
Germany and the US as proxies.
There were a lot of US corporations that had a hand in arming Nazi
Germany. Standard Oil (George Bush's grandfather Prescott), the Koch
family (still around and big into oil and the Tea Party), IBM, if I'm
not mistaken, and I believe both General Motors and Ford were hot in the
game.
One wouldn't be too far off saying that up until Japan forced America's
hand, it was Britain and her allies against Germany, with the USA
propping her up.
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