How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
EM: - http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1312542,00.html

Ao ler hoje esta notícia no jornal Gardian Unlimited, que me parece bastante incompleta, não deixei de admirar certas frases que transcrevo.

“August Thyssen, the founder of the dynasty had been a major contributor to Germany's first world war effort and in the 1920s, he and his sons Fritz and Heinrich established a network of overseas banks and companies so their assets and money could be whisked offshore if threatened again.”

“December 1931 and admits backing Hitler in his autobiography, I Paid Hitler, when the National Socialists were still a radical fringe party. He stepped in several times to bail out the struggling party: in 1928 Thyssen had bought the Barlow Palace on Briennerstrasse, in Munich, which Hitler converted into the Brown House, the headquarters of the Nazi party. The money came from another Thyssen overseas institution, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvarrt in Rotterdam.
By the late 1930s, Brown Brothers Harriman, which claimed to be the world's largest private investment bank, and UBC had 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.”

“Jones recommended that the assets be liquidated for the benefit of the government, but instead UBC was maintained intact and eventually returned to the American shareholders after the war.”
“No further action was ever taken nor was the investigation continued, despite the fact UBC was caught red-handed operating a American shell company for the Thyssen family eight months after America had entered the war and that this was the bank that had partly financed Hitler's rise to power.”

“Walker and Harriman were the two evil geniuses, they didn't care about the Nazis any more than they cared about their investments with the Bolsheviks.”

Especialmente o último parágrafo se pode perceber como os grandes banqueiros, tanto financiaram Hitler como Lenine.
E as perguntas são inevitáveis. Porque razão estes capitalistas financiaram o regime nazi e em especial o comunista? Este último sendo abertamente anti capitalista? Terão sido só estes?