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Memorandum Number Four:
Antithesis - Financing The Nazis
The Marxist version of the Hegelian dialectic poses financial
capitalism as thesis and Marxist revolution as antithesis. An obvious
puzzle in this Marxian statement is the nature of the synthesis presumed
to evolve out of the clash of these opposites, i.e., the clash of financial
capitalism and revolutionary Marxism.
Lenin's statement that the State will wither away at the synthesis stage
is nonsensical. In fact, as all contemporary Marxist states testify, the
State in practice becomes all powerful. The immediate task of "the
revolution" is to convey all power to the state, and modern Marxist
states operate under a constant paranoia that power may indeed pass
away from the hands of the State into the hands of the people.
We suggest that world forces may be seen differently, although still in
terms of the Hegelian dialectic. If Marxism is posed as the thesis and na-
tional socialism as antithesis, then the most likely synthesis becomes a
Hegelian New World Order, a synthesis evolving out of the clash of
Marxism and national socialism. Moreover, in this statement those who
finance and manage the clash of opposites can remain in control of the
synthesis.
If we can show that The Order has artificially encouraged and
developed both revolutionary Marxism and national socialism while re-
taining some control over the nature and degree of the conflict, then it
follows The Order will be able to determine the evolution and nature of
the New World Order.
I. WHERE DID THE NAZIS GET THEIR FUNDS FOR REVOLUTION?
In Wall Street And The Rise of Hitler we described several financial
conduits between Wall Street and the Nazi Party. This was later sup-
plemented by publication of a long suppressed book, Hitler's Secret
Backers.[1][1) Wall Street And The Rise Of Hitler and Hitler's Secret
Backer's are obtainable from Research Publications, P.O. Box 39850. Phoenix
Arizona 85069. Some other aspects are covered in Charles Higham. Trading With
The Enemy (Delacorte Press)] Still other books have emphasized the Fritz
Thyssen financial connection to Hitler. After he split with Hitler. Thyssen
himself wrote a book. I Paid Hitler. We are now in a position to merge the
evidence in these books with other material and our documentation on The
Order.
The records of the U.S. Control Council for Germany contain the
post-war intelligence interviews with prominent Nazis. From these we
have verification that the major conduit for funds to Hitler was Fritz
Thyssen and his Bank fur Handel and Schiff, previously called von
Heydt's Bank. This information coincides with evidence in Wall Street
And The Rise Of Hitler and Hitler's Secret Backers, even to the names
of the people and banks involved, i.e., Thyssen, Harriman, Guaranty
Trust, von Heydt, Carter, and so on.
The document reproduced on page 167 slipped through U.S. cen-
sorship because the Office of Director of Intelligence did not know of the
link between Fritz Thyssen and the Harriman interests in New York.
Documents linking Wall Street to Hitler have for the most part been
removed from U.S. Control Council records. In any event, we
reproduce here the Intelligence report identifying Fritz Thyssen and his
Bank fur Handel und Schiff (No. EF/Me/l of September 4, 1945)
page 13 of the interrogation of Fritz Thyssen entitled "Financial Support
of the Nazi Party."
II. WHO WAS THYSSEN?
Fritz Thyssen was the German steel magnate who associated himself
with the Nazi movement in the early '20s. When interrogated in 1945
under Project Dustbin, Thyssen recalled that he was approached in
1923 by General Ludendorf at the time of French evacuation of the
Ruhr Shortly after this meeting Thyssen was introduced to Hitler and
provided funds for the Nazis through General Ludendorf.
In 1930-31 Emil Kirdori approached Thyssen and subsequently sent
Rudolf Hess to negotiate further funding for the Nazi Party. This time
Thyssen arranged a credit of 250.000 marks at the Bank Voor Handel
en Scheepvaart N.V. the Dutch name for the bank named by Thyssen
in the attached document), at 18 Zuidblaak in Rotterdam, Holland.
<reproduced document>
Thyssen was former head of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke. The German steel
trust, financed by Dillon, Read (New York), and played a decisive
role in the rise of Hitler to power by contributing liberally to the Nazi
Party and by influencing his fellow industrialists to join him in support of
the Fuehrer. In reward for his efforts, Thyssen was showered with
political and economic favors by the Third Reich and enjoyed almost
unlimited power and prestige under the Nazi regime until his break with
Hitler in 1939 over the decision to invade Poland and precipitate the
Second World War.
This incident and Thyssen's subsequent publication, I Paid Hitler, has
a parallel with the history of his father, August Thyssen. Through a
similar confession in 1918 the elder Thyssen, despite his record as a
staunch backer of pan-Germanism, succeeded in convincing the Allies
that sole responsibility for German aggression should be placed on the
Kaiser and German industrialists should not be blamed for the support
they had given to the Hohenzollerns. Apparently influenced by August
Thyssen and his associates, the Allies made no effort to reform German
industry after World War I. The result was that Thyssen was allowed to
retain a vast industrial empire and pass it on intact to his heirs and
successors.
It was against this background that Fritz Thyssen took over control of
the family holdings following the death of his father in 1926. The new
German steel baron had already achieved fame throughout the Reich
by his defiance of the French during their occupation of the Ruhr in
1923. Like Hitler, Thyssen regarded the Treaty of Versailles as "a pact
of shame" which must be overthrown if the fatherland were to rise
again. This is the story in Hitler's Secret Backers.
Thyssen set out along the same road as his father, aided by ample
Wall Street loans to build German industry. August Thyssen had com-
bined with Hugenburg, Kirdorf, and the elder Krupp to promote the All-
Deutscher Verband (the Pan-German League), which supplied the ra-
tionale for the Kaiser's expansionist policies.
His son became an active member of the Stahlhelm and later,
through Goring, joined the Nazis. Finally, after the crash of 1931 had
brought German industry to the verge of bankruptcy, he openly em-
braced national socialism.
During the next 2 years Thyssen dedicated his fortune and his in-
fluence to bring Hitler to power. In 1932 he arranged the famous
meeting in the Dusseldorf Industrialists' Club, at which Hitler addressed
the leading businessmen of the Ruhr and the Rhineland. At the close of
Hitler's speech Thyssen cried, "Heil Herr Hitler," while the others ap-
plauded enthusiastically. By the time of the German Presidential elec-
tions later that year, Thyssen obtained contributions to Hitler's cam-
paign fund from the industrial combines. He alone is reported to have
spent 3,000,000 marks on the Nazis in the year 1932.
III. THE UNION BANKING CONNECTION
This flow of funds went through Thyssen banks. The Bank fur Handel
and Schiff cited as the conduit in the U.S. Intelligence report was a sub-
sidiary of the August Thyssen Bank, and founded in 1918 with H.J.
Kouwenhoven and D.C. Schutte as managing partners. In brief, it was
Thyssen's personal banking operation, and affiliated with the W. A.
Harriman financial interests in New York. Thyssen reported to his
Project Dustbin interrogators that:
"I chose a Dutch bank because I did not want to be mixed up with
German banks in my position, and because I thought it was better
to do business with a Dutch bank, and I thought I would have the
Nazis a little more in my hands."
Hitler's Secret Backers identifies the conduit from the U.S. as "von
Heydt," and von Heydt's Bank was the early name for Thyssen's Bank.
Furthermore, the Thyssen front bank in Holland - i.e., the Bank voor
Handel en Scheepvaart N.V. - controlled the Union Banking Cor-
poration in New York.
The Harrimans had a financial interest in, and E. Roland Harriman
(The Order 1917), Averell's brother, was a director of this Union Bank-
ing Corporation. The Union Banking Corporation of New York City
was a joint Thyssen-Harriman operation with the following directors
1932:
E. Roland Harriman Vice President of W.A. Harriman &
(The Order 1917) Co., New York
H.J. Kouwenhoven Nazi banker, managing partner of
(Nazi) August Thyssen Bank and
Bank voor
Handel Scheepvaart
N.V. (the
transfer bank for
Thyssen's funds)
Knight Woolley Director of Guaranty Trust, New York
(The Order 1917) and Director Federal Reserve Bank of
N.Y.
Cornelius Lisvenss President, Union Banking Corp. and
Director of
Holland-American Invest-
ment Corp.
Ellery Sedgewick James Partner, Brown Brothers, & Co.,
(The Order 1917) New York.
Johann Groninger Director of Bank voor Handel en
(Nazi) Scheepvaart and
Vereinigte Stahl-
werke (Thyssen's
steel operations)
J.L. Guinter Director Union Banking Corp.
Prescott Sheldon Bush Partner, Brown Brothers, Harriman
(The Order 1917) Father of Vice-President Bush.
The eight directors of Union Banking Corporation are an interesting
bunch indeed. look at the following:
* Four directors of Union Banking are members of The Order: all
initiated at Yale in 1917 - members of the same Yale class. All
four were members of the same cell (club) D 115.
* E. Harriman was the brother of W. Averell Harriman and a
Vice-President of W.A. Harriman Company.
* Guaranty Trust was represented by Knight Woolley.
* Two of the Union directors, Kouwenhoven and Gronninger
were Nazi directors of Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart
formerly the von Heydt Bank. Von Heydt was the intermediary
between Guaranty Trust and Hitler named in Hitler's Secret
Backer.
* Ellery S. James and Prescott S. Bush were partners in Brown
Brothers, later Brown Brothers, Harriman.
Out of eight directors of Thyssen's bank in New York, we can
therefore identify six who are either Nazis or members of The Order.
This private bank was formerly named Von Heydt Bank and von
Heydt is named by Shoup in Hitler's Secret Backers as the intermediary
from Guaranty Trust in New York to Hitler between 1930 and 1933.
Above all, remember that Shoup was writing in 1933 when this infor-
mation was still only known to those on the inside. Out of tens of
thousands of banks and bankers, Shoup, in 1933, names those that
evidence surfacing decades later confirms as financing Hitler.
In brief, when we merge the information in PROJECT DUSTBIN
with Shoup's Hitler's Secret Backers, we find the major oveseas
conduit for Nazi financing traces back to THE ORDER and
specifically cell D 115.
IV. PROFIT FROM CONFLICT
Out of war and revolution come opportunities for profit.
Conflict can be used for profit by corporations under control or in-
fluence of The Order. In World War II, the Korean War and the Viet
namese War we can cite examples of American corporations that traded
with "the enemy" for profit.
This "blood trade" is by no means sporadic or limited to a few firms; it
is general and reflects higher policy decisions and philosophies. Cor-
porations - even large corporations - are dominated by banks and
trust companies, and in turn these banks and trust companies are
dominated by The Order and its allies. (This will be the topic of a forth-
coming volume).
Although the U.S. did not officially go to war with Germany until
1941, legally, and certainly morally, the U.S. was at war with Nazi Ger-
many after the Destroyer deal with Great Britain in December 1940,
i.e., the exchange of 50 old U.S. destroyers for strategic bases in British
territory. Even before December 1940 the MS "Frederick S. Fales"
owned by Standard Vacuum Company was sunk by a German sub-
marine on September 21, 1940. Yet in 1941 Standard Oil of New
Jersey (now EXXON) had six Standard Oil tankers under Panamanian
registry, manned by Nazi officers to carry fuel oil from Standard Oil
refineries to the Canary Islands, a refueling base of Nazi submarines.
A report on this dated July 15, 1941 from Intelligence at Fifth Corps
in Columbus, Ohio is reproduced on page 172. The report is in error
recording that no Standard Oil ships had been sunk by the Nazis; Major
Burrows apparently did not know "Frederick S. Fales" in 1940.
Another example of profit from war is recorded in the document on
page 173. This records the association of RCA and the Nazis in World
War II. RCA was essentially a Morgan-Rockefeller firm and so linked to
The Order.
Yet another example is that of Chase Bank. Chase was linked to The
Order through the Rockefeller family (Percy Rockefeller, The Order
1900) and Vice-President Reeve Schley (Yale, Scroll & Key). Directors
of Chase in The Order included Frederick Allen (The Order 1900),
W.E.S. Griswold (The Order 1899) and Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose
brother Gwynne Vanderbilt (the Order 1899) represented the family
before his death. President of Chase was Winthrop Aldrich. This was
the Harvard branch of the Aldrich family, another branch is Yale and
The Order.
Chase Manhattan Bank is not only a firm that plays both sides of the
political fence, but with Ford Motor Company, was selected by Treasury
Secretary Morgenthau for post-war investigation of pro-Nazi activities:
These two situations [i.e.. Ford and Chase Bank] convince us that
it is imperative to investigate immediately on the spot the activities
of subsidiaries of at least some of the larger American firms which
were operating in France during German occupation . . .
The extent of Chase collaboration with Nazis is staggering - and this
was at a time when Nelson Rockefeller had an intelligence job in
Washington aimed AGAINST Nazi operations in Latin America.
In December 1944 Treasury Department officials examined the
records of the Chase Bank in Paris. On December 2O, 1944 the senior
U.S. examiner sent a memorandum to Treasury Secretary Morgenthau
with the preliminary results of the Paris examination - Here's an extract
from that report:
a. Niederman, of Swiss nationality, manager of Chase, Paris
was unquestionably a collaborator;
b. The Chase Head Office in New York was informed of Nieder-
man's collaborationist policy but took no steps to remove him.
Indeed there is ample evidence to show that the Head Office in
New York viewed Niederman's good relations with the Ger-
mans as an excellent means of preserving, unimpaired, the
position of the Chase Bank in France.
c. The German authorities were anxious to keep the Chase open
and indeed took exceptional measures to provide sources of
revenue.
d. The German authorities desired "to be friends" with the impor-
tant American banks because they expected that these banks
would be useful after the war as an instrument of German
policy in the United States.
e. The Chase, Paris showed itself most anxious to please the
German authorities in every possible way. For example, the
Chase zealously maintained the account of the German Em-
bassy in Paris, "as every little thing helps" (to maintain the ex-
cellent relations between Chase and the German authorities.
f. The whole objective of the Chase policy and operation was to
maintain the position of the bank at any cost.
In brief, Chase Bank was a Nazi collaborator, but the above
preliminary report is as far as the investigation proceeded. That report
was killed on orders from Washington, D.C.
On the other hand, Chase Bank, later Chase Manhattan Bank, has
been a prime promoter of exporting U.S. technology to the Soviet
Union. This goes all the way back to the early 1920s when Chase broke
U.S. regulations in order to aid the Soviets. As early as 1922 Chase was
trying to export military liberty aircraft engines to the Soviet Union!
In conclusion, we have seen that the two arms of the dialectic de-
scribed in Memoranda Three and Four clashed in World War II. Fur-
theremore, the corporate segment of the elite profited from Lend Lease
to the Soviets and by underground cooperation with Nazi interests. The
political wing of The Order was at the same time preparing a new dialec-
tic for the post World War II era.
pps. 164-174
--cont--
Aloha, He'Ping,
Om, Shalom, Salaam.
Em Hotep, Peace Be,
Omnia Bona Bonis,
All My Relations.
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
Roads End
Kris
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