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.Whether.such a procedure is morallyjustifiable is a debatable matter; there is some justification for holding that Nuremburg wasa political farce far removed from legal principle.7 However, if we assume that there is suchlegal and moral justification, then surely any such trial should apply to all, irrespective ofnationality.What for example should exempt Franklin D.Roosevelt and Winston Churchill,but not exempt Adolf Hitler and Goering? If the offense is preparation for war, and notblind vengeance, then justice should be impartial.The directives prepared by the U.S.Control Council in Germany for the arrest and detentionof war criminals refers to "Nazis" and "Nazi sympathizers," not "Germans." The relevantextracts are as follows:a.You will search out, arrest, and hold, pending receipt by you of furtherinstructions as to their disposition, Adolph Hitler, his chief Nazi associates, other war criminals and all persons who have participated in planning orcarrying out Nazi enterprises involving or resulting in atrocities or war crimes.Then follows a list of the categories of persons to be arrested, including:(8) Nazis and Nazi sympathizers holding important and key positions in (a)National and Gau Civic and economic organizations; (b ) corporations andother organizations in which the government has a major financial interest; (c)industry, commerce, agriculture, and finance; (d) education; (e) the judicial;and (f) the press, publishing houses and other agencies disseminating news andpropaganda.Top American industrialists and financiers named in this book are covered by the categorieslisted above.Henry Ford and Edsel Ford respectively contributed money to Hitler andprofited from German wartime production.Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Electric,General Motors, and I.T.T.certainly made financial or technical contributions whichcomprise prima facie evidence of "participating in planning or carrying out Nazienterprises."There is, in brief, evidence which suggests:(a) cooperation with the Wehrmacht (Ford Motor Company, Chase Bank, Morgan Bank);(b) aid to the Nazi Four Year Plan and economic mobilization for war (Standard Oil of NewJersey);(c) creating and equipping the Nazi war machine (I.T.T.);(d) stockpiling critical materials for the Nazis (Ethyl Corporation);(e) weakening the Nazis' potential enemies (American I.G.Farben);and,(f) carrying on of propaganda, intelligence, and espionage (American I.G.Farben andRockefeller public-relations man Ivy Lee).At the very least there is sufficient evidence to demand a thorough and impartialinvestigation.However, as we have noted previously, these same firms and financiers wereprominent in the 1933 election of Roosevelt and consequently had sufficient political pull tosquelch threats of investigation.Extracts from the Morgenthau diary demonstrate that WallStreet political power was sufficient even to control the appointment of officers responsiblefor the denazification and eventual government of post-war Germany.Did these American firms know of their assistance to Hitler's military machine? Accordingto the firms themselves, emphatically not.They claim innocence of any intent to aid Hitler'sGermany.Witness a telegram sent by the chairman of the board of Standard Oil of NewJersey to Secretary of War Patterson after World War II, when preliminary investigation ofWall Street assistance was under way: During the entire period of our business contacts, we had no inkling ofFarben's conniving part in Hitler's brutal politics, We offer any help we cangive to see that complete truth is brought to light, and that rigid justice is done.F.W.Abrams,Chairman ofBoardUnfortunately, the evidence presented is contrary to Abrams' telegraphed assertions.Standard Oil of New Jersey not only aided Hitler's war machine, but had knowledge of thisassistance.Emil Helfferich, the board chairman of a Standard of New Jersey subsidiary, wasa member of the Keppler Circle before Hitler came to power; he continued to give financialcontributions to Himmler's Circle as late as 1944.Accordingly, it is not at all difficult to visualize why Nazi industrialists were puzzled by"investigation" and assumed at the end of the war that their Wall Street friends would bailthem out and protect them from the wrath of those who had suffered.These attitudes werepresented to the Kilgore Committee in 1946:You might also be interested in knowing, Mr.Chairman, that the top I.G.Farben people and others, when we questioned them about these activities,were inclined at times to be very in.dignant.Their general attitude andexpectation was that the war was over and we ought now to be assisting themin helping to get I.G.Farben and German industry back on its feet.Some ofthem have outwardly said that this questioning and investigation was, in theirestimation, only a phenomenon of short duration, because as soon as things gota little settled they would expect their friends in the United States and inEngland to be coming over.Their friends, so they said, would put a stop toactivities such as these investigations and would see that they got the treatmentwhich they regarded as proper and that assistance would be given to them tohelp reestablish their industry.8Footnotes:1Morgenthau Diary (Germany).2Ibid.3Ibid.4Ibid., pp.800-2.5James Stewart Martin, All Honorable Men, op.cit., p.75.6Morgenthau Diary (Germany), p.1543.Colonel Graeme K.Howard's book was entitled, America and a New World Order,(New York: Scribners, 1940). 7The reader should examine the essay, "The Return to WarCrimes," in James J.Martin, Revisionist Viewpoints, (Colorado:Ralph Mules, 1971).8Elimination of German Resources, p.652.BACK CHAPTER TWELVEConclusionsWe have demonstrated with documentary evidence a number of critical associationsbetween Wall Street international bankers and the rise of Hitler and Naziism in Germany.First: that Wall Street financed the German cartels in the mid-1920s which in turnproceeded to bring Hitler to power.Second: that the financing for Hitler and his S.S.street thugs came in part from affiliates orsubsidiaries of U.S.firms, including Henry Ford in 1922, payments by I.G.Farben andGeneral Electric in 1933, followed by the Standard Oil of New Jersey and I.T.T.subsidiarypayments to Heinrich Himmler up to 1944.Third: that U.S.multi-nationals under the control of Wall Street profited handsomely fromHitler's military construction program in the 1930s and at least until 1942.Fourth: that these same international bankers used political influence in the U.S.to cover uptheir wartime collaboration and to do this infiltrated the U.S.Control Commission forGermany.Our evidence for these four major assertions can be summarized as follows:In Chapter One we presented evidence that the Dawes and Young Plans for Germanreparations were formulated by Wall Streeters, temporarily wearing the hats of statesmen,and these loans generated a rain of profits for these international bankers.Owen Young ofGeneral Electric, Hjalmar Schacht, A.Voegler, and others intimately connected withHitler's accession to power had earlier been the negotiators for the U.S [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Whether.such a procedure is morallyjustifiable is a debatable matter; there is some justification for holding that Nuremburg wasa political farce far removed from legal principle.7 However, if we assume that there is suchlegal and moral justification, then surely any such trial should apply to all, irrespective ofnationality.What for example should exempt Franklin D.Roosevelt and Winston Churchill,but not exempt Adolf Hitler and Goering? If the offense is preparation for war, and notblind vengeance, then justice should be impartial.The directives prepared by the U.S.Control Council in Germany for the arrest and detentionof war criminals refers to "Nazis" and "Nazi sympathizers," not "Germans." The relevantextracts are as follows:a.You will search out, arrest, and hold, pending receipt by you of furtherinstructions as to their disposition, Adolph Hitler, his chief Nazi associates, other war criminals and all persons who have participated in planning orcarrying out Nazi enterprises involving or resulting in atrocities or war crimes.Then follows a list of the categories of persons to be arrested, including:(8) Nazis and Nazi sympathizers holding important and key positions in (a)National and Gau Civic and economic organizations; (b ) corporations andother organizations in which the government has a major financial interest; (c)industry, commerce, agriculture, and finance; (d) education; (e) the judicial;and (f) the press, publishing houses and other agencies disseminating news andpropaganda.Top American industrialists and financiers named in this book are covered by the categorieslisted above.Henry Ford and Edsel Ford respectively contributed money to Hitler andprofited from German wartime production.Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Electric,General Motors, and I.T.T.certainly made financial or technical contributions whichcomprise prima facie evidence of "participating in planning or carrying out Nazienterprises."There is, in brief, evidence which suggests:(a) cooperation with the Wehrmacht (Ford Motor Company, Chase Bank, Morgan Bank);(b) aid to the Nazi Four Year Plan and economic mobilization for war (Standard Oil of NewJersey);(c) creating and equipping the Nazi war machine (I.T.T.);(d) stockpiling critical materials for the Nazis (Ethyl Corporation);(e) weakening the Nazis' potential enemies (American I.G.Farben);and,(f) carrying on of propaganda, intelligence, and espionage (American I.G.Farben andRockefeller public-relations man Ivy Lee).At the very least there is sufficient evidence to demand a thorough and impartialinvestigation.However, as we have noted previously, these same firms and financiers wereprominent in the 1933 election of Roosevelt and consequently had sufficient political pull tosquelch threats of investigation.Extracts from the Morgenthau diary demonstrate that WallStreet political power was sufficient even to control the appointment of officers responsiblefor the denazification and eventual government of post-war Germany.Did these American firms know of their assistance to Hitler's military machine? Accordingto the firms themselves, emphatically not.They claim innocence of any intent to aid Hitler'sGermany.Witness a telegram sent by the chairman of the board of Standard Oil of NewJersey to Secretary of War Patterson after World War II, when preliminary investigation ofWall Street assistance was under way: During the entire period of our business contacts, we had no inkling ofFarben's conniving part in Hitler's brutal politics, We offer any help we cangive to see that complete truth is brought to light, and that rigid justice is done.F.W.Abrams,Chairman ofBoardUnfortunately, the evidence presented is contrary to Abrams' telegraphed assertions.Standard Oil of New Jersey not only aided Hitler's war machine, but had knowledge of thisassistance.Emil Helfferich, the board chairman of a Standard of New Jersey subsidiary, wasa member of the Keppler Circle before Hitler came to power; he continued to give financialcontributions to Himmler's Circle as late as 1944.Accordingly, it is not at all difficult to visualize why Nazi industrialists were puzzled by"investigation" and assumed at the end of the war that their Wall Street friends would bailthem out and protect them from the wrath of those who had suffered.These attitudes werepresented to the Kilgore Committee in 1946:You might also be interested in knowing, Mr.Chairman, that the top I.G.Farben people and others, when we questioned them about these activities,were inclined at times to be very in.dignant.Their general attitude andexpectation was that the war was over and we ought now to be assisting themin helping to get I.G.Farben and German industry back on its feet.Some ofthem have outwardly said that this questioning and investigation was, in theirestimation, only a phenomenon of short duration, because as soon as things gota little settled they would expect their friends in the United States and inEngland to be coming over.Their friends, so they said, would put a stop toactivities such as these investigations and would see that they got the treatmentwhich they regarded as proper and that assistance would be given to them tohelp reestablish their industry.8Footnotes:1Morgenthau Diary (Germany).2Ibid.3Ibid.4Ibid., pp.800-2.5James Stewart Martin, All Honorable Men, op.cit., p.75.6Morgenthau Diary (Germany), p.1543.Colonel Graeme K.Howard's book was entitled, America and a New World Order,(New York: Scribners, 1940). 7The reader should examine the essay, "The Return to WarCrimes," in James J.Martin, Revisionist Viewpoints, (Colorado:Ralph Mules, 1971).8Elimination of German Resources, p.652.BACK CHAPTER TWELVEConclusionsWe have demonstrated with documentary evidence a number of critical associationsbetween Wall Street international bankers and the rise of Hitler and Naziism in Germany.First: that Wall Street financed the German cartels in the mid-1920s which in turnproceeded to bring Hitler to power.Second: that the financing for Hitler and his S.S.street thugs came in part from affiliates orsubsidiaries of U.S.firms, including Henry Ford in 1922, payments by I.G.Farben andGeneral Electric in 1933, followed by the Standard Oil of New Jersey and I.T.T.subsidiarypayments to Heinrich Himmler up to 1944.Third: that U.S.multi-nationals under the control of Wall Street profited handsomely fromHitler's military construction program in the 1930s and at least until 1942.Fourth: that these same international bankers used political influence in the U.S.to cover uptheir wartime collaboration and to do this infiltrated the U.S.Control Commission forGermany.Our evidence for these four major assertions can be summarized as follows:In Chapter One we presented evidence that the Dawes and Young Plans for Germanreparations were formulated by Wall Streeters, temporarily wearing the hats of statesmen,and these loans generated a rain of profits for these international bankers.Owen Young ofGeneral Electric, Hjalmar Schacht, A.Voegler, and others intimately connected withHitler's accession to power had earlier been the negotiators for the U.S [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]