While attentive persons are justly concerned and intimately focused upon in-depth detailed examination of the Ukraine/Russia War — the senseless, insane criminality, plunder and grift of the bipartisan War Party in Congress and the degenerate Biden regime — and their murderous Merchants of death adjuncts in the military-industrial complex, let us never forget and ignore the dire historical precedents or antecedents which led up an earlier epic global conflagration.
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Funding a Movement: German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler
MONEY IS THE OXYGEN of any political movement, be it the ADL and SPLC, or White racialism. Starve a movement — or a people — of money, and you can destroy them. Jews, ever focused on power, routinely attack White funding sources. Indeed, a major purpose of the government’s so-called “money-laundering” laws, ostensibly aimed at “terrorism” and organized crime, is to destroy political opposition to Zionist thuggery, White nationalism, and other political movements deemed unacceptable by the System.
Since money is so important, its role in the rise of National Socialism in Germany is of more than academic interest to White racialists determined that their people should survive.
The Left has long maintained that Hitler was put into power by wealthy White capitalists. This narrative was constructed in the 1920s and ’30s by Communists and Leftists dominant in Germany, the West, and, of course, the Soviet Union, and promoted by academics and the media ever since.
The narrative was challenged by Atlanta-born Yale University historian Henry Ashby Turner in his best-known book, German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), translated into German as Die Grossunternehmer und der Aufstieg Hitlers (Berlin: Siedler Verlag, 1985). It covers the period up to 1933. Turner, who died in 2008 at age 76, was married and had three children and six grandchildren.
The 1985 book rebuts the standard claim that German big business financed and promoted the attainment of power by Adolf Hitler. It demonstrates that the extent of big business support for Hitler and the National Socialist Party has been greatly exaggerated, even falsified. Emil Kirdorf and Fritz Thyssen were the only captains of industry who actively supported the National Socialists. Actual sources of financing for election campaigns and party activities came mostly from membership dues and contributions by small and medium-sized businesses. According to William L. Patch of Washington and Lee University, Turner’s conclusions “are now accepted by nearly all specialists in the field.”
1932 front page illustration of the Communist Allgemeine Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) by artist “John Heartfield” (Helmut Herzfelde), later an artistic fixture of East Germany: “The Meaning of the Hitler Salute: Little man asks for big gifts. Motto: Millions Stand Behind Me!”
Turner, who spent 1954–1955 as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Munich and the Free University of Berlin, knew German and exhaustively examined original, unpublished records of large German corporations, trade associations, and the National Socialist Party. (Some of his scholarly work was written and published in German.)
Unsurprisingly for anyone who has read David Irving, Turner notes that the documentary sources he consulted had been ignored by other historians. Mostly Turner cites original documents: “Only in the case of impeccable scholarly editions have I relied on published versions of materials I originally used in archival form” (p. xv).
Also like Irving, Turner is alert to the propaganda pitfalls ignored by other academics for ideological purposes. He is far more scrupulous than average about ascertaining the reliability of sources, and is particularly critical of East German and other Communist accounts. A colleague noted that Turner believed that
many ambitious attempts at comparative history — inspired not just by Marxism but also by Freudian psychoanalysis, theories of totalitarianism, or modernization theory — had distorted important factual details of the Nazi rise to support broad [ideological] generalizations. . . . Turner developed a suspicion that adherents of Marxism were especially likely to violate basic rules of historical evidence, but he always displayed similar skepticism with regard to Freudian psychoanalysis, theories of totalitarianism, and many other attempts by ambitious social scientists to fit the case study of the Nazi seizure of power into a sweeping theory.
This, of course, is precisely what makes his work interesting to the serious student of history.
Although Fritz Thyssen was a rare big business supporter of Hitler, Turner was aware that his book I Paid Hitler (1941) is unreliable. He calls it “purported memoirs” “ghostwritten” by the “Hungarian”…
Read more:
https://nationalvanguard.org/2018/05/funding-a-movement-german-big-business-and-the-rise-of-hitler/
