The Hitler Project

Historical Background

The great financial collapse of 1929 had rocked America, Great Britain and Germany. Germany’s war reparations, as outlined in the Treaty of Versailles, remained unpaid and left Germany resource-poor. As Adolf Hitler was rising to power the Nazi Party’s coffers were virtually empty, and collaboration with US businessmen was clearly an important move for the Nazi regime. Remarkably, little has been reported about how American industrialists, Wall Street lawyers and bankers got involved with Hitler and the Nazi Party. Researchers and authors have obtained documentation from FOIA, US National Archives, the Library of Congress and declassified Nazi data that prove “elite” American businessmen helped bring Hitler to power and they were helping fund the Third Reich throughout World War II. Bank statements, letters from US ambassadors, Congressional Records and excerpts from the Nuremberg trials find that some were also laundering money, transporting counterfeit currency, and selling or trading concentration camp prisoners’ gold, art and other stolen property. These American financiers were racists and they funded eugenics-based medical and pharmaceutical experiments in the Nazi concentration camps. They were closely tied to the Nazis. This is part of authentic US history, just hidden from view.

While the US government turned a blind eye, a deeply hidden American-Nazi fascist cabal of industrialists Wall Street bankers, and lawyers was established. The Rockefellers (Standard Oil), the Morgans (Chase Manhattan Bank), the DuPonts, General Motors, Henry Ford, and front companies operated by the Bush and Harriman families were all crucial players in setting up the industrial power behind the Third Reich, which led to a reported 75 million people being killed in World War II, including 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians. The business of war has proven highly profitable, and deadly!

In Germany, corporate preparations for World War II started as early as 1925, when Agfa, BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, and 2 other German dye and chemical corporations formed a cartel called IG Farben Industry. Records from the Nuremberg Tribunals showed that already in 1925, Farben’s corporate value surpassed 11 billion Reichsmark, with 93 subsidiaries around the world, and more than 80,000 employees. This was unfathomable at that time. IG Farben took over the dye, chemical, pharmaceutical and petrochemical industries, with an agenda to dominate the European market, and having the ultimate goal of controlling all of the planet’s resources. In 1933 IG Farben became the largest financier of the Nazis’ rise to power. And in the coming years a German-American cartel of corporate accomplices would reap vast wealth from illegal enterprise.

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, “IG Farben built and operated more than 40 concentration camps in Nazi-occupied Europe. At Auschwitz, IG Farben built the largest industrial complex in Europe to produce the chemicals and explosives for the WWII Eastern front.” IG Farben was the only German company in the Third Reich that ran its own concentration camp. This 24 square kilometer industrial complex, as well as the massive expansion of the nearby concentration camps, was financed with credits of almost one billion Reichsmark.

It was no coincidence that IG Farben built their massive new plant at Auschwitz since the forced labor workforce would cost virtually nothing, and the location was near Poland’s Upper Silesia coal reserve. It is a fact that IG employee SS major Dr. Helmuth Vetter participated in many experiments ordered by Bayer Leverkusen. At the same time, Dr. Joseph Mengele was experimenting in Auschwitz with Farben medications identified as “Rutenol”. The test preparations were not only administered to those prisoners who were ill, but also to healthy ones. They were infected on purpose through pills, injections or enemas. Many of the medications caused the victims to vomit blood or have bloody diarrhea. In most cases the prisoners died as a result of the experiments.

In the Auschwitz files, correspondence between the camp commander and Bayer Leverkusen was discovered that dealt with the sale of 150 female prisoners for experimental purposes: “With a view to the planned experiments with a new sleep-inducing drug, we would appreciate it if you could place a number of prisoners at our disposal…We consider the price of 200 RM [Reichsmarks] per woman to be too high. We propose to pay no more than 170 RM per woman.” “The experiments were performed. All test persons died. We will contact you shortly about a new shipment…” The scientific value of all these experiments, whether ordered by the IG Farben or not, was in fact zero. The test subjects were in bad physical condition, caused by forced labor, insufficient nutrition and diseases in the concentration camp. In addition, there were generally unacceptable sanitary conditions in the laboratories. Heidelberg University’s Professor of Historical Medicine, Wolfgang Eckhart states, “The concentration camps were used as a huge laboratory for human experimentation…we have to look upon the camps as outposts of pharmacological research.”

Scientific experiments were done in other concentration camps. A Nazi physician at Buchenwald, Dr. Waldemar Hoven was involved in medical experiments regarding typhus and the tolerance of serums containing phenol, which led to many deaths. He was involved in Nazi euthanasia programs, where people who were considered unfit for work and those with disabilities were killed. Hoven was arrested by the Nazis in 1943, accused of giving a lethal injection of phenol to an SS officer who was a potential witness in an investigation against Ilse Koch, with whom Hoven was rumoured to be having an affair. He was convicted and sentenced to death. He was released in March 1945 due to the Nazi “shortage of doctors”. He testified during a Nuremberg Trial, stating, “It should be generally known…that the experiments in the camps with IG preparations only took place in the interests of the IG, which strived by all means to determine the effectiveness of these preparations. It was not the IG’s intention to bring any of this out in the open, but rather to put up a smoke screen around the experiments so that they could keep any profits to themselves.” An estimated 300,000 inmates were used as human experimental subjects. Bayer’s pharmaceutical division was using prisoners in deadly experiments to test their patented chemicals under the veil of “chemotherapy for cancer cures”. This mumbo-jumbo, signaling-verbiage of “we care” while performing wicked activities behind the curtain continues, and has been perfected for today’s sophisticated propaganda used for mind control. Thanks to Nazi research and development in mind control, I believe this is the most powerful weapon being used on the unknowing public today.

Twenty four Farben executives were put on trial at Nuremberg, and despite the efforts of the US chief prosecutor Telford Taylor, only thirteen were found guilty and the sentences were light. Taylor said, “With the beginning of the Cold War, some of the IG Farben executives that stood trial were reinstated into the highest positions of German industry.” “Fritz ter Meer, a Bayer executive was convicted of forced slave labor and mass medical murder committed in Auschwitz. He was sentenced to a paltry 7 years in jail, released after 3 years, and “went on to occupy the position as chairman of the supervisory board of Bayer, again.” His grave in Krefeld has a wreath that says, “Donated by BAYER in recognition of his services”. Carl Wurster, chairman of the Farben’s subsidiary Degesch–manufacturer of Zyklon B–was released from prison after only 4 years, and became a chief executive at BASF. Bayer, BASF and Hoechst never paid any wage reparations to their former prison workers. It is hard to accept any of this when Farben companies were allowed to keep their entire property while the survivors received nothing. Taylor summarized the role of this chemical cartel during the Nuremberg Tribunals this way: “Without IG Farben, the Second World War would not have been possible…”

There were clear reasons for light sentences for Farben executives. First, the Rockefeller family heavily funded the creation of the company! Another, the rebuilding of Europe was seen as a bulwark against aggressive Soviet communism. Farben war criminals were “needed” to organize the new Europe. More importantly, a whole new world was coming into being, with mega-corporations and cartels at the heart of it. They would be the engines driving the oligarchs’ goal of a global economy and control of the entire world’s natural resources. The Farben moguls, and those like them, were seen as highly competent designers of their propagandized “peace and prosperity” global society. And oh yes, there was another reason the Farben executives got off so lightly. Their powerful cartel partners from Europe and America wanted to continue the very profitable relationships with their Nazi brethren; the highly influential international partners like DuPont, the imperial chemical and pharmaceutical industrialists, and most importantly the Rockefeller and Rothschild Empires. After the war, the emerging global pharmaceutical colossus was a reincarnation of the Farben ideology: profit before safety; lethal medical experimentation beyond legal limits; the use of drugs and vaccines as a means of population control. And of course, “Profit uber alles”, or profit above all else.

Although IG Farben was officially put into liquidation in 1952, this did not end the company’s legal existence. As almost all its assets and activities had been transferred to the original constituent companies. Agfa, BASF and Bayer remained in business. Hoechst spun off its chemical business in 1999 as Celanese AG before merging with Rhône-Poulenc to form Aventis, which later merged with Sanofi-Synthélabo to form the multinational Sanofi. Two years earlier, another part of Hoechst was sold to the chemical spin-off of Sandoz, the Switzerland based Clariant. The successor companies remain among the world’s largest chemical and pharmaceutical companies.

While Farben did not join a national compensation fund set up in 2001 to pay the victims, it contributed 500,000 DM towards a foundation for former captive labourers under the Nazi regime. Each year, the company’s annual meeting in Frankfurt was the site of demonstrations by hundreds of protesters. As of 2012 Farben still existed as a corporation in liquidation. Bill Gates has come under fire for his massive investments in Bayer, but as of June 2015 the biggest shareholders were a number of investment funds with the Vanguard Group at the top. Bayer and Monsanto merged in 2018, as MOBAY (MOnsantoBAYer), a lasting part of the poison cartel of IG Farben.

Author James Perloff stated that “In 1939, on the eve of blitzkrieg, other US companies which contributed heavily to the Nazi war machine include the Rockefellers’ Standard Oil…sold $20 million in aviation fuel to IG Farben and even created an American subsidiary called American IG.” Perloff revealed the role that the Council on Foreign Relations played in aiding the Nazis, listing the directors of the American Farben IG as Paul Warburg (CFR founder & Federal Reserve architect), Henry A. Metz (CFR founder), and CFR member John Foster Dulles. John Foster became the United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959 and was briefly a US Senator for New York in 1949.

The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements, arrived at in private meetings and conferences, like the Rhodes Roundtable, Bilderberg group, the Davos-WEF and the Bank for International Settlements. Interestingly, Nazi collaborator Prince Barnhard founded the Bildegerg group, which he chaired from 1954 until 1976. From one of Bill Clinton’s Georgetown University professors, Carroll Quigley in 1966: “The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements (Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich) in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds’ central bankers. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control, and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic systems. The real truth of the matter is that this financial element has owned the US Government since the creation of the Federal Reserve.”

Winthrop Aldrich, of Chase National Bank, and Rockefeller’s National City Bank (now Citibank) developed ties with the Nazi-linked Bank for International Settlements. It was involved in the transfer of gold that the Nazis had stolen from concentration camp prisoners in Europe. The gold was melted down and marked with a date preceding World War II, in order to obscure its origins and be used freely by senior Nazis. In 1940 and 1946, the Bank für Internationalen president was Thomas H. McKittrick, a Harvard-educated American banker that became a Nazi stooge, as the Bank für Internationalen mediated business with the Axis countries; while it was effectively controlled by Nazi officials like Emil Puhl, vice-president of Germany’s Reichsbank, and Reich Minister for Economic Affairs Walther Funk. McKittrick was a good friend of Allen Dulles, whom he had met in Switzerland when Dulles was the Bern OSS station chief during the war. Dulles had previously met Hitler and Mussolini when acting as a legal adviser to the League of Nations. Allen and brother John Foster Dulles established contacts with various elites in Germany and high ranking Nazis.

Aristocratic American families had cultivated deep personal and professional relationships with German businessmen and financiers. They personified a cadre of Ivy League pragmatic elitists, and those in high echelons of business and in the US government. They greatly admired Nazi ideals and supported Hitler’s early programs. Before Hitler had even come to power, Hitler’s views had drawn approval from leading American industrialists like John D. Rockefeller, Irénée du Pont, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Prescott Bush and W. Averell Harriman. All were proponents of racial superiority and members of the American Eugenics Movement of the 1920s and 30s, from which Hitler based his racial policies. These American eugenicists had cultivated deep relationships with Germany’s eugenics scientists Hitler proudly told how closely he followed the progress of the American Eugenics Movement and the US laws: “I have studied with great interest the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock”. These Wall Street leaders represented (and their progeny still do) all the important owners of American banks, various industries, and some politicians. Germany’s Science of Eugenics was established and funded by Standard Oil, Carnegie, IBM, DuPont and Ford Motor Co., among others. In 1930 Precott Bush hosted the Third International Congress of Eugenics. The purpose of the event was to call for the sterilization of 14 million Americans!

Harriman, Walker and Bush

Until recently, little has been revealed about the Bush family patriarch, Samuel P. Bush, the father of Prescott Bush and the grandfather of the 41st President, George H.W. Bush. Sam Bush was on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in 1931. Prior to that Sam was appointed president of Buckeye Steel Castings Co. of Ohio by Frank Rockefeller, a brother of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller. Buckeye manufactured automatic couplers and chassis for the railroad cars and tankers owned by the Rockefellers, E.H. Harriman, and John Pierpont, “JP” Morgan. Sam Bush’s entire career had been in the railroad business, in service to the Wall Street-owned railroad systems. In the spring of 1918, John D. Rockefeller had given Sam Bush the position of Director of the War Industries Board (WIB). This was an unusual appointment since Prescott’s father had no background in munitions. With war mobilization conducted under the supervision of the WIB US taxpayers showered unprecedented fortunes on war industries and certain holders of raw materials and patents. The WIB was led by financier and statesman, Bernard Baruch, a Wall Street speculator with close personal ties to E.H. Harriman, handling various kinds of Harriman speculations. Along with Sam Bush, Wall Street private banker Clarence Dillon and Robert S. Lovett were in charge of directing the national purchasing “priorities” for the WIB. Lovett was president of Union Pacific Railroad, and chief counsel to E.H. Harriman, and the executor of his will.

Sam Bush was given responsibility for conducting government munitions business with armament companies such as Remington Arms Co. Hearings in 1934 by the committee of US Senator Gerald Nye attacked the “Merchants of Death” war profiteers, such as Remington and the British Vickers company, which became the giant BAE Systems of today that’s gifted with massive US military contracts. The owners manipulated many nations into wars and revolutions, and then supplied both sides with the weapons needed. Percy Rockefeller and Samuel Pryor‘s Remington Arms Co. supplied machine guns and Colt automatic pistols, and millions of rifles to Czarist Russia, and over half of the ammunition and 69 percent of the rifles used by the Allies in WWI. World War One made a lot of money for the cabal of stock speculators and European bankers who had taken over US industry.

The First World War elevated Samuel Bush into the ranks of the Eastern Establishment. Sam gave Prescott (and future Bush progeny) powerful ties to elite American and European families. Samuel Bush’s wartime relationship to these businessmen would continue after the war, and would help further Prescott’s career of service to the Harrimans. The Harrimans were among the “superstars” of this new Anglo-American elite. W. Averell Harriman’s father, E.H. Harriman had become rich by gaining control of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1898, with credit arranged by William Rockefeller, and by the Kuhn Loeb Company‘s German private bankers, including Jacob Schiff and Felix Warburg. William Rockefeller was the treasurer of Standard Oil, and another brother of Standard’s founder John D. Rockefeller, who owned National City Bank. In return for their backing, E.H. Harriman deposited vast receipts from his railroad lines into National City Bank. When Harriman issued tens of millions of dollars of fraudulent railroad stock, he sold most of the shares through the Kuhn Loeb Company. Just one example of why they became known as “Robber Barons”.

J. P. Morgan formed U.S. Steel on March 2, 1901 by financing the merger of Andrew Carnegie‘s Carnegie Steel Company with Elbert H. Gary’s Federal Steel Company and William Henry “Judge” Moore‘s National Steel Company, for $492 million ($16 billion today). This created the world’s first billion-dollar company, with an authorized capitalization of $1.4 billion–much larger than any other US industrial firm at that time. U.S. Steel ranked 16th among US corporations in the value of World War II production contracts. Carnegie’s steel built Harriman’s railroads and built Morgan’s tankers that shipped Rockefeller’s oil. See how it works?

W. Averell Harriman believed he needed a financial and intelligence-gathering organization of his own for his intended international business ventures. He wanted a seasoned intriguer, who quietly represented many of the European-designated rulers of American finance and politics. The man Averell chose was George Herbert Walker, for whom President George H.W. Bush was named. George Herbert (“Bert”) Walker had attended prep school and college in England, and his family had developed many international banking and political ties. Walker’s operations were always quiet, or mysterious, whether in local or global affairs. Bert Walker started his own banking and investment firm, G.H. Walker & Co. in 1900, and became the director of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Laclede Gas and the Texas & Mexico Railroad. Walker was known as the power behind the local Democratic Party, and became the premier international deal-maker. He awarded investment capital of his international banker contacts to various railroads, utilities and other major industries.

The English-educated Bert Walker assisted in assembling the Harriman family’s overseas business investments. Walker’s relationship with Averell Harriman went back to at least 1920, when they traveled to Berlin to set up the German branch of W.A. Harriman & Co’s banking and investment operations, largely based on critical war resources such as steel and coal. The Harriman firm was backed by J.P. Morgan’s Guaranty Trust, and the Rockefellers’ National City Bank, one of the principal players in the Dawes Plan to rebuild Germany in the post WWI period, contributing $173,000,000 in loans.Part of which included a $30,000,000 insurance on the securities of Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (A.E.G.), aka German General Electric, and $35,000,000 to American IG Chemical (IG Farben).

In 1921, Walker’s favorite daughter, Dorothy, married Samuel Bush’s son Prescott Bush, a Yale graduate and a member of the school’s exclusive Skull and Bones society. Tall, handsome and admired for his golf and tennis skills, Prescott was a young man with the easy grace of someone born into the comfortable and competitive world of the upper-crust sphere of influence. When Prescott married Dorothy, and while his new wife’s father was building one of the most silent business conglomerates in the world, Prescott was a minor executive of the Simmons Co., another railroad equipment supplier.

Bert Walker helped join the Harriman-Bush business interests with Fritz Thyssen, owner of the largest steel and coal company in Germany. A government investigative report showed that “W. Averell Harriman was in Europe sometime prior to 1924 and became acquainted with Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist.” By 1920 Averell Harriman and Bert Walker had already established important connections with their counterparts in Europe: Baron Kurt von Schroder, the Warburg family of bankers, and Montagu Collet Norman, the Governor of the Bank of England, along with Hjalmar Schacht, the Reichsbank President. At that time the dictator of world finance was Montagu Norman. Kurt von Schroder was a German nobleman, SS-Brigadeführer, a financier, and the treasurer of the organization for the Nazi Party’s private armies. Von Schroder had organized the banking firms of J. Henry Schröder Banking Corporation in London and New York as conduits for deposits made by German industrialists. The Thyssen family of steel and coal magnates had suffered great debt from Germany’s WWI defeat. To guard against any future setbacks, patriarch August Thyssen created a system of private European banks; specific to this story, one in Berlin and another in the city of Rotterdam. August’s son Fritz became a shrewd businessman that was a Nazi Party member since 1931. Fritz Thyssen played a prominent role in German commercial life as head of the German Iron and Steel Industry Association. Thyssen’s factories were essential components of Hitler’s war industry, and had provided massive funds to the Nazis.

Union Banking Corporation

Averell Harriman agreed to set up the Union Banking Corporation (UBC) in New York for Fritz Thyssen, founded by Bert Walker in 1922. By investing $400K the Harriman organization would be joint owner and manager of Thyssen’s banking operations in New York and those in Europe, with Prescott Bush as a founding member and one of seven directors. Other principles of UBC were Sam’s Bush’s WIB cohort, Sam Pryor, while Avererll Harriman hid in the background. It is documented that Sam Pryor was the go between in introducing Averell Harriman and the Bush family to Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering.

UBC interlocked closely with Fritz Thyssen’s Dutch Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V. (BHS) which became a linchpin for the Nazi activities conducted by Harriman, Walker and Bush, and it was closely tied to the BHS bank’s board members, Allen and John Foster Dulles. One of the main pillars in Thyssen’s international corporate web was UBC. Prescott Bush was in charge of the German accounts and would operate clandestine financial operations on behalf of the Nazis. The UBC was not a bank at all but in reality it was a clearing house for the many assets and enterprises held by Fritz Thyssen and his German industrialist clients. Since its inception UBC had been transferring funds back and forth between New York and Thyssen’s interests in Europe. UBC became a Nazi money laundering machine.

The Harriman-Walker-Bush enterprise led the way in directing American money to German companies, and they began spreading an investment net over German industry and raw materials. According to declassified USG documents, “Union Banking Corporation bought more than 8 million dollars worth of stolen Nazi gold with Allen Dulles’ help” (of course!). The gold was shipped to the Dulles’ law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, then on to Switzerland banks using Walker and Bush’s Hamburg-Amerika line. Walker and Bush became Adolf Hitler’s primary financiers, major shipping conduit and manufacturing brokers.

Hamburg-Amerika Shipping Line

After the WWI financial disaster befell Germany’s Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft, or “Hapag”, it’s director Wilhelm Cuno negotiated a deal with Sam Pryor, Bert Walker and the M.M. Warburg & Co. Sam Pryor’s use to Hitler was enhanced as a major Harriman-Walker-Bush partner in Nazi banking and trans-Atlantic shipping. This deal gave Prescott Bush and Bert Walker control over the German shipping line and created the world’s largest private shipping company. Hamburg-Amerika (H-A) was the major pivot for the entire Hitler project, with a particularly high degree of Nazi involvement in its operations. In the 1930-32 drive for a Hitler dictatorship Wilhelm Cuno was a heavy contributor to Nazi Party funds. Since Prescott Bush was managing Harriman’s American Ship and Commerce Corp, he was in a unique position of control over H-A.

With Hamburg-Amerika, weapons and war materials, stolen patents, steel, coal and Rockefeller oil were silently and easily transported to Germany and various European ports. Nazi infiltrators were also on the H-A routes to ports throughout Europe, and provided free passage to individuals going abroad for Nazi propaganda purposes.

At this point, SS guards were stationed on all ships of the company. According to the testimony by company officials before Congress in 1934, “a supervisor from the Nazi Labor Front rode with every ship, and the employees of the New York offices were directly organized into the Nazi Labor Front organization”.

A congressional investigation revealed H-A was also a front for IG Farben’s spying and propaganda organization, known as the NW-7. In 1938 Farben executive Georg von Schnitzler had developed a scheme whereby IG Farben would fund German newspapers to drive a massive pro-Nazi propaganda campaign. The scheme played a central role in gaining ethnic German support for the annexation of the Sudetenland. The German masses were thereafter transformed largely into devoted followers of Adolf Hitler, and subjected regularly to Joseph Goebbels propaganda. Many of the techniques that Goebbels had learned in the 1920s came from Edward Bernays, the influential American propaganda merchant, and nephew of Sigmund Freud. This technique was used in America when Hamburg-Amerika subsidized American pro-Nazi newspapers. William S. Farish, chairman of Standard Oil, was a close friend with Hermann Schmitz, chairman of IG Farben. Farish hired public relations pioneer Ivy Lee to write pro-IG Farben and pro-Nazi propaganda for the US press. The H-A line, Sullivan & Cromwell and UBC became the major conduits during WWII for funneling gold, money, Nazi spies, stolen patents, counterfeit and prisoners’ stolen goods from Germany to America.

German Steel Trust (Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG)

In 1926 Bert Walker and Clarence Dillon, another old comrade of Sam Bush from the WIB, and head of Dillon Read & Co., set up the German Steel Trust (Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG) with Fritz Thyssen and his partner, Friedrich Flick, another German steel magnate and friend of Harriman and Bush. This new organization created the world’s largest mining and steel cartel in the world, by merging four major German companies, including Thyssen AG. The merger united most of Germany’s iron, steel and coal producers, and controlled more than 75 percent of Germany’s ore reserve. GST was modeled on the U.S. Steel corporation’s infrastructure. The goal was to move beyond the limitations of the old cartel system by incorporating advances in modernization and technology simultaneously. GST would go on to produce between one-third and one-half of Nazi explosives and iron by making heavy use of slave labor from the concentration camps.

The partnership was directly supervised by Prescott Bush and Bert Walker from their UBC New York office. Thyssen’s confidential accounts for Nazi political and related purposes were run through GST and UBC, with UBC operating it’s corporate banking through Dillon Read & Co. For putting up $70 million to help create GST, Dillon Read & Co. would handle the Trust’s corporate banking with UBC, and two Dillon Read representatives would be placed on the GST board of directors. Fritz Thyssen became chairman of the board, and he appointed Albert Voegler as the chief executive officer. Voegler was the co-founder of the German People’s Party, and an important executive in the munitions industry during WWII. Voegler was another German industrialist that was instrumental in bringing Hitler to power. He also held directorships in the Thyssen-Bush affiliated Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart and was one of the directors of the H-A shipping line.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

In 1929 Averell Harriman bought Dresser Industries, supplier of oil-pipeline couplers to Standard Oil and others. Prescott Bush became a director and financial czar of Dresser, installing his Yale classmate Neil Mallon as chairman. By 1931, with the Dresser acquisition, Harriman was well-positioned to merge his Harriman Brothers & Company with the British firm Brown Bros. & Co. Averell and brother Roland “Bunny” Harriman, Prescott Bush and Thatcher M. Brown would comprise the core senior partners in the new Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH), becoming the world’s largest private investment bank. Prescott Bush’s close friend and fellow Yale “Bonesman” Robert Abercrombie Lovett, became another BBH senior partner. He was the son of Robert S. Lovett, the board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad while E.H. Harriman was president. The father, Robert S. Lovett, was one of E.H. Harriman’s lawyers, and had served on the WIB with Prescott’s father, Sam Bush and their buddy Sam Pryor. On April 19, 1919, the son, Robert A. Lovett married a descendant of Britain’s Brown banking family, Adele Quartley Brown. Later, in April 1941, Robert A. Lovett was named assistant secretary of war, and oversaw the massive expansion of the Army Air Forces and the procurement of huge numbers of aircraft during World War II. He would later serve as Under Sec. of State from 1947-1949, as Deputy Sec. of Defense in 1950-1951, and as Secretary of Defense from 1951-1953. Getting the picture?

According to the Guardian, “The New York-based Brown Brothers Harriman served as a US business platform for the ubiquitous [Fritz] Thyssen.” Prescott Bush concentrated on BBH’s German activities while Montague Norman’s protege, Thatcher Brown Jr., watched over their business in England. Ironically, Montague Norman’s grandfather had been boss of Brown Bros. & Co. during the Civil War when American patriots were cursing the Brown name for shipping 75 percent of the slave labor cotton over to British mill owners. Montague Norman was also a former Brown Bros. & Co. partner. His intimacy with BBH was essential to his management of, what has come to be known as, The Hitler project. Montagu Norman was one of the most avid Hitler supporters within the British ruling class. Norman was a close friend of Prescott Bush, and often stayed with the Bush family on his secret visits to New York.

These guys were not just incidental business partners but had familial connections. Their banking activities were not politically neutral money making ventures which just happened to coincide with the ideals of the Nazis. They had the same ideals. It was BBH that heavily funded the rise of Hitler and Nazism, through money made possible by Montague Norman, the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds and the Morgans. All were connected to one another through the Dulles brothers and their mountains of legal hocus-pocus documents, agreements, holding companies and paper empires that financed the horrors and genocide of Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Economist Victor Thorn revealed that the UBC and BBH became the secret channels to protect Nazi capital leaving Germany for the US: “UBC received German funds and when the Nazis needed to retrieve it BBH sent it back. Both firms, the Union Banking Corporation and Brown Brothers Harriman bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, fuel, steel, coal and US treasury bonds to Germany, both feeding and financing Hitler’s build-up to war.” Thorn noted that “although a large number of other American corporations aided the Nazis, Prescott Bush’s and Averell Harriman’s interests were much more profound and sinister”.

Fritz Thyssen, Baron Kurt von Schroder, Albert Voegler and Frederich Flick made some of the heaviest 1930-33 Nazi contributions that helped organize Adolf Hitler’s final leap to power. These German businessmen are universally recognized as some of the most important German financiers of Hitler’s takeover of Germany. On January 4, 1933 an important meeting was held at the villa of Kurt von Schroder. Notable figures who attended the meeting included Adolph Hitler, Fritz Thyssen, Gustav Krupp, owner of the Krupp A.G. steel and armaments company, and the German banking family members Max and brother Paul Warburg. The Warburgs were close partners of Montagu Norman, and long time advisors to Hjalmar Schacht, the Nazi’s Economic Minister and an executive in the Reichsbank. Paul Warburg, a German Jew, spoke English well enough to craft the 1,750 page financial document that resulted in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, designed to control the finances of America from Europe. Of particular interest was how Warburg was able to establish important American connections prior to his arrival in the US, and then orchestrate this major financial coup! Also in attendance were two important board members of IG Farben: Georg von Schnitzler and John Foster Dulles. Allen Dulles was present, representing Baron von Schroder’s banks and Sullivan and Cromwell’s clients.

Hitler informed the attendees that the choice in Germany was now between his rule, which “respects the rights of private property and business, and that of communism, that will do the opposite and must be destroyed”. Hermann Goering informed the attendees that the Nazi Party urgently needed funds for the critical March 5, 1933 elections. All of the businessmen agreed to contribute at least two million Reichsmarks, with IG Farben pledging the most. This was in exchange for Hitler breaking the trade unions and changing labor policies. The Nazis’ repressive labor policies enabled companies linked to the Third Reich to reduce their German subsidiaries’ labor costs by the end of 1933. In the years ahead, many of these American companies’ profits grew substantially. Ford Motor Co. reduced its labor costs from 15% to 11% in 1933 alone. Henry Ford, once stated there are two classes of financiers: 1) Those who profit from war and use their influence to bring about war for profit, and 2) constructive financiers.” Ford Motors along with over 100 other major US banks and corporations belonged to the first group. Indeed, Ford himself was actually decorated by Hitler for his service to Nazism.

The historian, Gaetano Salvemini, compelled to leave Mussolini’s Italy due to death threats, later stated “almost 100% of American big business was sympathetic towards Mussolini and Hitler’s dictatorships because of their lucrative armament programs and destruction of labour policies”.

Soon more US and British bankers flew to Germany for another major gathering with Hitler. Attendees included Winthrop Aldrich, scion of a prominent and powerful political family and chairman of Wall Street’s Chase National Bank, and Henry Mann of Rockefeller’s National City Bank. The British support for Hitler reached the highest levels, including Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Philip Kerr of the British Rhodes Round Table, as well as the Prince of Wales, Edward VIII, whose sympathies with the Nazi ideologies were vastly known. Among others who attended the meeting were Fritz von Opel, Opel board member and grandson Adam Opel, IG Farben’s board member. Georg von Schnitzler, Albert Voegler, the Warburg brothers and the Dulles brothers also attended.

Aldrich and Mann subsequently told William Dodd, the US Ambassador to Germany, that Hitler’s stated intention to preserve big business was welcomed by American industrialists. Later he stated that, “A clique of US industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government. 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. Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extend aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there.”

To help strengthen Hitler’s grip on power, Hjalmar Schacht organized yet another important meeting and invited leading industrialists and bankers to the summit on February 29, 1933. Schacht was a frontman for J.P. Morgan, and acted as a liaison between German industrialists and foreign financial leaders such as Montagu Norman, the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds. Schacht was also SS–Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny’s father-in-law. Interestingly, Schacht was arrested by the Gestapo after the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944. Subsequently, he was imprisoned in the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Flossenbürg. In the last days of the war, he was one of the 134 “special prisoners” who were transported by the SS into the Niederdorf, South Tyrol in Italy, where he was freed on April 30, 1945, and just one of 70,000 Nazi war criminals subsequently pardoned by John McCloy.

In early May of 1933, right before the Hitler regime was consolidated, an agreement was reached in Berlin for the coordination of all Nazi commerce with the United States. A consortium was formed by Hjalmar Schacht, Montagu Norman, Baron von Schroder, and the Warburg brothers, with John Foster and Allen Dulles facilitating. The plan came to be known as the The Hitler project. The agreement stipulated that all German trade and transport with America was to be made through a syndicate of 150 German-approved US firms and individuals. Catholic, Evangelical and even Jewish bankers connected to Wall Street were also in on the deal. They alone granted the Hitler regime $7 billion in credit during the 1930s and 40s, as revealed in 1943 by US investigative journalist George Seldes. Nearly 70 percent of the money going to Germany came from these American businessmen. Many of them were clients of Sullivan and Cromwell. Both Union Bank Corp. and the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart were overflowing with money. Prescott Bush was the managing director of UBC and took over the day-to-day operations of the Hitler project. With these aggressive funding conferences and this American pact with the Nazis, Hitler was in solid control of Germany by the end of May, 1933.

On December 13, 1941, six days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor President Roosevelt issued a secret decree that can be found in the National Archives, granting special authorization for certain US corporations to continue their business ventures with enemy nations. This was a violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act, but Roosevelt, reliant on many of the same people in the business of war, was steadfast to appease them. The American public had little idea, of course, that famous American companies, like DuPont, Gillette and IBM were making deals with the Nazis. After the Nazis became an official enemy of America from December 1941, General Motors and Ford, among other Hitler Project companies continued doing business with the Third Reich.

Trading with the Enemy

Harriman’s banking business was the main Wall Street connection for German companies and the various US financial interests of Fritz Thyssen. The Trading With the Enemy Act classified any business transactions for profit with enemy nations as illegal, and any funds or assets involved were subject to seizure by the USG. The declaration of war on the US by Hitler led to a US government investigation, which led to an order on October 20, 1942, to seize German interests in the US which included the Harriman-Walker-Bush front companies. The business interests seized under the act in October, and subsequently in November 1942, include:

Union Banking Corporation
Harriman Fifteen Holding Company
Holland-American Trading Corporation
Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation
Silesian-American Corporation (this company was partially owned by a German entity during the war. The Germans tried to take full control of Silesian-American. In response to that, the American government seized German-owned minority shares in the company, leaving the US partners to carry on the portion of the business in the US.)

The investigative report had traced the origins of the non-American board members of UBC, and learned that Dutchman H.J. Kouwenhoven, who had met with Harriman to set up UBC, was found to be the managing director of Thyssen’s Bank voor Handel and the director of his bank in Berlin, as well as the director of Thyssen’s German Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, the holding company for Thyssen’s steel and coal mine empire. Funds were returned to the perpetrators after the war. Compensation for wartime losses in Poland was based on pre war assets, while Harriman and Bush, who owned vast coal reserves in Poland, were handsomely compensated.

Congressional investigations revealed that Fritz Thyssen’s German Steel Trust, which interlocked with Union Banking Corporation, produced a high percentage of Germany’s national output of metal products and explosives. Papers in the National Archives show that the Bush-Harriman empire was operated on behalf of Nazi Germany and had greatly assisted the Nazi war effort. It was found that Kurt von Schroder and Prescott Bush funnelled funds directly to Heinrich Himmler‘s SS organization in 1944 while World War II was still in progress. At the time of the seizures Fritz Thyssen had already published his famous book, “I Paid Hitler”, admitting that he had financed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement since October 1923. Thyssen machinations and those of his American friends amounted to treason.

The orders seizing the properties were curiously kept quiet and modest about the identity of the perpetrators. The orders were published only in obscure government record books and kept out of the media. Nothing was stated about Nazi involvement with any of the American businessmen, other than; “Union Banking Corp. was run for the Thyssen family of Germany and or Hungary, nationals of a designated enemy country.” With Averell Harriman, Allen Dulles, and Nazi-leaning USG officials running interference, no arrests were made and charges against Prescot Bush were dropped. Despite the fact UBC was caught red-handed operating an American bank-shell and other front companies for the Nazis–even after America had entered the war–and that this was the bank that had greatly helped finance Hitler’s rise to power, UBC was returned to the shareholders. For his share in the Union Banking Corporation, Prescott Bush received $1.5 million, equivalent to over $20 million today. Prescott Bush continued to work for UBC and the other Harriman enterprises.

Charles Higham’s book “Trading with the Enemy” demonstrates that the: “Americans had an intimate economic relationship with the Nazis through corporations like Standard Oil, Union Banking Corporation and Chase Bank.” “More secretive is where the cloaking arrangement with Sullivan and Cromwell and Schroder Rock, which is the Schroder Bank and the Rockefeller family trust investment arrangements, that links the Rockefeller dealings to the Wall Street bankers. Some of which had to do with IG Farben through City National Bank in back of those transactions. City National Bank, was definitely a hot-bed for a lot of the Nazi money, especially IG Farben’s Hermann Schmidt and John Foster Dulles. It was clear that the Dulles brothers cloaked their Nazi investments and those of their clients. By the end of January 1937, Allen Dulles had merged all of his cloaked deals into one client account; the Brown Brothers Harriman-Schroder “Rock”.”

Most of the records involving Averell Harriman and Prescott Bush prior to and during WWII have been obscured or purged. But a Guardian newspaper account threatened to expose that Prescott Bush “profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler’s rise to power”. For most public figures, allegations of trading with the enemy would have been a political kiss of death, but the disclosures barely left a lipstick smudge on Averell Harriman, Prescott Bush, the Dulles brothers and their business associates implicated in the article. Politically, the significance is that none of it seemed to matter much over the next decade or so. In 1950 Prescott Bush was defeated in his political race, but that was due to his participation in the American Eugenics Movement. By 1952 all was forgotten and Prescott Bush was elected US Senator from Connecticut. Averell Harriman would not be stopped from becoming federal Mutual Security Administrator in 1951, or winning the election as governor of New York in 1954. In 1953, John Foster Dulles was appointed Secretary of State, and Allen Dulles was appointed Director of the CIA, which in reality, was created by Wall Street bankers and lawyers, with a heavy dose of Nazi spies. But that’s a whole other, very long story. In 1954, under the direction of Allen Dulles, the CIA helped spawn a coup against Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala to aid the United Fruit Co., which was partnered with Kurt von Schroder’s bank. And much more we don’t have room for here.

There are official records of a 2001 multi-billion dollar legal action filed by Kurt Goldstein and Peter Gingold. These two Holocaust survivors filed for damages against the Bush family and the USG for a total of $40 billion, claiming the Bush family materially benefited from slave labor during WWII. The media surrounding this story threatened to make Prescott Bush’s legacy an uncomfortable issue for his son and grandsons, but the case was immediately thrown out by Judge Rosemary Collier, and most reports have been scrubbed. Coincidentally, official government records of the 1942 Prescott Bush trial were destroyed in the World Trade Center building оn September 11 2001, along with the Enron case files, and other secrets the public is not allowed to know. Unlike politicians of lower classes, the Bushes seemed to travel in a bubble impervious to accusations of impropriety, since the Eastern Establishment doesn’t want the public to think badly of their own.

The descendants of the people involved are still advancing the values and principles at the heart of the Nazi movement to this very day. Just like the Nazis, they advocate for highly centralized national governments that are heavily socialized. Just like the Nazis, they are deeply committed to globalization. Just like the Nazis, they believe in strict gun control for the general population. Just like the Nazis they have centralized-government- controlled education. Just like the Nazis, they believe that they are the “elite” that have been placed here to control the world. They believe in using military power to advance their cause when necessary, and they are deeply committed to mind control and population control, just like the Nazis. They want to convince the masses that the number one problem in our world is overpopulation, and the Club of Rome created the false narrative of climate change to use for their ever-expanding taxes and policies, with an ever-tightening grip to control the people of the world.

This is a story of power, totalitarianism and sheer greed, having no morality or virtue. Funding of Nazi Germany, and the profits made by these “elite” American families must be ranked among the gravest acts of treason in the history of America. In one terrible chapter of American history, the wealth that built the multi-national corporations of today’s global market came from money made from abhorrent slave labor practices, diabolical human experimentation, and eugenics-driven Nazi death camps. Since it has all been kept virtually hidden we are now facing another 1939.

The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich ~ John Loftus, former US Justice Dept., Nazi War Crimes Prosecutor

Books

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made, by Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas

Wall Street and FDR, by Professor Antony C. Sutton

Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, by Professor Antony C. Sutton

The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power, by Peter Ross Range

Trading with the Enemy, by Charles Higham

Big Business and Hitler, by Jacques R. Pauwels

Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich, by Guido Giacomo

The Nazi Hydra In America, by Glen Yeadon

The World Disorder: US Hegemony, Proxy Wars, Terrorism and Humanitarian Catastrophes, by Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corp., by Edwin Black