As far as working for, or dealing with the Nazis, IBM is probably
as good or better than most corporations doing business in the USA. Many of the existing corporations that got
their start after World War II cannot be matched when it comes to ill intent. It's always good to know about a corporation's
history. In today's world, as in
yesterday's, corporations operate for profit, exclusively, and their only
loyalty is to money. They are not concerned,
and never have been concerned, with whom, or where, they are doing business.
As
the book carefully explains, this has been the case ever since corporations
first came into existence. See, for
example, how Rockefeller, Gould and others obtained their first fortunes during
the Civil War -- by buying defective rifles
that blew up when fired by the Union soldiers to whom they were eventually
issued. Rockefeller and Gould bought
these defective rifles for pennies on the dollar, then shipped them to other areas of
the country so that they could be sold back to the Army at their face value -- at
a huge mark-up -- for use by Union soldiers on the front, with huge numbers of
injuries to the soldiers who fired them, probably causing defeat in any number
of their battles with the Confederacy.
Still more evidence of US corporate involvement with the Nazis
According to
Anthony Sampson's book The Sovereign State of ITT , one of the first
US businessmen Hitler received after taking power in 1933 was Sosthenes Behn ,
then the CEO of ITT, and his German representative, Henry Mann. Antony C. Sutton ,
in his book Wall Street and the Rise
of Hitler, informs us that ITT subsidiaries made cash payments to SS leader Heinrich Himmler .
ITT, through its
subsidiary The Lorenz Company, owned 25% of Focke-Wulf , the German aircraft manufacturer, builder of
some of the most successful Luftwaffe fighter aircraft .
In the 1960s, ITT Corporation quite incredibly won $27 million in
compensation for damage inflicted on its share of the Focke-Wulf plant by Allied bombing
during World War II . In
addition, Sutton's book uncovers that ITT owned Huth and Company, G.m.b.H. of Berlin , which
made radio and radar parts that were
used in equipment for the Wehrmacht .
Excerpt From Sampson's book
"After
Pearl Harbor, at meetings with Kurt von Schroder and Behn in Switzerland,
Westrick nervously admitted he had run into a problem. Wilhelm Ohnesorge, the
elderly minister in charge of post offices, who was one of the first fifty Nazi
party members, was strongly opposed to ITT's German companies continuing to
function under New York management in time of war. Behn told Westrick to use Schroder and the protection
of the Gestapo against Ohnesorge. In
return, Behn guaranteed that ITT would substantially increase its payments to
the Gestapo through the so-called Circle
of Friends.
"A
special board of trustees was set up by the German government to cooperate with
Behn and his thirty thousand staff in Occupied Europe. Ohnesorge savagely fought these arrangements
and tried to obtain the support of Himmler.
However, Schroder had Himmler's ear, and so, of course, did his close
friend and associate Walter Schellenberg. Ohnesorge appealed directly to Hitler and
condemned Westrick as an American sympathizer.
However, Hitler realized the importance of ITT to the German economy and
proved supportive of Behn. Thus, an American corporation literally
entered into partnership with the Nazi government in time of war."
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