Trading With The Enemy

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Trade between US corporations and the Nazi regime during World War 2

They say that winners write the history books.

New information on the business activities of certain banks and multinational companies during World War II makes one wonder who was fighting whom - and why?

Studying government documents obtained through the FOIA, Charles Higham entered a most alarming world. He discovered to his utter dismay and growing contempt the secret negotiations, trades, sales, and financial dealings that had gone on before, during and after the war between corporate leaders of the United States and the firms of Nazi Germany.

His book, "Trading With The Enemy", is filled with stories of secret trading and funding for anti-war sentiment, among other traitorous activities. In his preface, the author asks some extremely poignant questions which we should be asking ourselves in relation to the US-Soviet Union connection.

What would have happened if millions of American and British people, struggling with coupons and lines at the gas stations, had learned that in 1942 Standard Oil of New Jersey managers shipped the enemy's fuel through neutral Switzerland and that the enemy was shipping Allied fuel? Suppose the public had discovered that the Chase Bank in Nazi-occupied Paris after Pearl Harbour was doing millions of dollars worth of business with the enemy with the full knowledge of the head office in Manhattan? Or that Ford trucks were being built for the German occupation troops in France? Or that Col. Sosthenes Behn, the head of the international American telephone conglomerate ITT, flew from New York to Madrid to Berne during the war to help improve Hitler's communications Systems and the robot bombs that devastated London? Or that ITT built the Focke-Wulfs that dropped bombs on British and American troops? Or that crucial ball-bearings were shipped to Nazi-associated customers in Latin America with the collusion of the vice chairman of the US War Production Board, in partnership with (high Nazi official) Goering's cousin in Philadelphia when American forces were desperately short of them? Or that such arrangements were known about in Washington and either sanctioned or deliberately ignored?

Some of it was `business as usual' and some transactions' purposes were traitorous, i.e., favouring Hitler and Nazism. An organisation that combined these motives was the BIS (Bank for International Settlements, created in 1930 of the world's central banks and inspired by Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi Minister of Economics who had powerful Wall Street connections.

BIS was created to retain channels of communication and collusion between the world's financial leaders during international conflicts. Its ostensible purpose was to provide the Allies with reparations to be paid by Germany for World War 1. However, it soon became an instrument to funnel money from America and Britain to Hitler's war machine. In May of 1944 during BIS's annual meeting, while young Americans were dying on the Italian beach-heads, the financial fraternity was deciding what to do with the $378 million in gold that the Nazi government had looted from the national banks of Austria, Holland, and Belgium.

Some other examples of traitorous activity:

1) While General Motors (GM) was equipping the USAF in 1943, the German GM group was developing and assembling motors for the Messerschmidt 262, the first jet fighter in the world (GM went unpunished after the war; in fact, they were awarded a $33 million tax exemption on profits for its destroyed factories in Germany and Austria by the US government).

2) SKF (Swedish Enskilda Bank) was the colossal ball-bearings trust. Goering's cousin, Hugo von Rosen, and William Batt, Vice Chairman of the War Production Board, were directors of SKF in America throughout the war. Ball-bearings were essential -- tanks, trucks, planes, armored cars, U-boats, railroads, ITT's communication devices, guns, and bombsights would have been powerless without them. Therefore, ball-bearings were among the most powerful weapons of "the fraternity"`s (the name Higham continually uses to refer to the men who were overseeing the game of banking on war) sophisticated form of wartime neutrality. SKF not only controlled ball-bearings but, since its inception in 1907, it controlled iron ore mines, steel and blast furnaces, foundries, factories and plants in US, Germany, France, and Britain. The largest share of its production was allocated to Germany: 60 per cent.

The all-important Curtiss-Wright Aviation Corporation was unable for 15 months after Pearl Harbour to secure sufficient ball-bearings from SKF, and came close to closing down. Worn ball-bearings caused crashes that cost American lives. Large numbers of planes were grounded because of the lag in supply. Batt would do nothing; the inventories at the plant in Philadelphia were doctored to appear that only a few million bearings were ground out, when in fact much more had been produced. And sometimes Goering's cousin, von Rosen, would manufacture incomplete bearings for Americans that were useless. Investigations were being implemented, accountancy files and correspondence were burned, Watergates upon Watergates trying to ascertain who were the traitors in the War Production Board. In the end, Batt and von Rosen went without punishment. The secret promises with other members of the fraternity were kept. The SKF plants in Sweden and Germany would not be broken down or removed.

"Trading with the Enemy" Delacourte Press, NY USA. A book review by Charles Higham. Extracted from issue 1 of: Paranoia - the Conspiracy Reader PO Box 3570, Cranston, RI 02910 USA.

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