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Hitler's Biggest Allies in World War II Were Ford, General Motors & Cars & Nazis article Hitler’s biggest allies in World War II were Ford, General Motors & a special report by Clive Matthew-Wilson All content © The Dog & Lemon Guide 2010. All rights reserved N 1937, William E. Dodd, U.S. a tiny bunch of nutters raving on Mu- Ambassador to Germany, sent an nich street corners, Ford is believed to I urgent warning to the American have provided considerable amounts of government: finance to the fledgling party, enabling the Nazis to gain their stronghold on “A clique of U.S. industrialists is Germany. It is notable that even after hell-bent to bring a fascist state to sup- “A clique of U.S. the horrors of the Nazi era were exposed plant our democratic government and is following World War II, Ford never working closely with the fascist regimes industrialists denied financing Hitler. in Germany and Italy. ”1 is hell-bent By the mid-1930s General Motors Ford, General Motors and Standard to bring a was totally committed to large-scale Oil weren’t just the world’s leading auto- fascist state to war production in Germany, produc- motive suppliers, they were among the supplant our ing trucks, tanks & armoured cars. Its largest and wealthiest corporations on German subsidiary Adam-Opel manu- the planet. Greedy, ruthless and drunk democratic factured a host of effective military with Nazi ideology, they decided to help government equipment for the German military end democracy, first in Europe, then in throughout the war. And, while the America. and is working American Air Force used conventional closely with the piston engines, the German Air Force While their own country was at war fascist regimes was close to getting the world’s first with Germany, Ford, General Motors jet fighters, thanks almost entirely to and Standard Oil kept or expanded in Germany General Motors. 3 their ties with the Nazis. Thus, when and Italy. ” the Allied troops successfully invaded The earth is flat France near the end of World War II, How did this happen in America, a they discovered that they had something William E. country which prides itself on being a in common with their German enemies: Dodd, freedom-loving democracy? Well, the Ford and General Motors vehicles run- obvious answer is money, but money ning on gasoline provided by Standard U.S. alone does not explain what happened. Oil. 2 Ambassador For that you have to look back in American history. Ford, GM and Standard Oil weren’t to Germany, the only ones, of course. All in all, 1937 At the time when Standard Oil was around 200 prominent US corporations giving corporations a bad name back in helped the Nazis before and during the late nineteenth century, the average World War II, but you don’t have to American lived in a small town domi- dig very deep to see that the automotive nated by puritanical values. He or she industry was the axle around which the might not travel further than a few kilo- wheel of American fascism turned. The metres from his or her home in an entire Third Reich would have had financiers lifetime. Few voting Americans knew without the help of America, but it was anything at all about other countries, Ford, General Motors, Standard Oil, and tourists were rare. The Victorian Davis Oil & a few other key corpora- era was still in full swing. White people tions which made the German military controlled China and much of the rest conquest both economically and techni- of the planet; India & many African cally possible. countries were British colonies. Non- white people were widely considered Adolf Hitler kept a photo of Henry to be savages. Women were expected to Ford on his desk; Henry Ford built Hit- politely obey their husbands and could ler’s trucks and pushed Nazi propaganda not vote. Hollywood, California was through his car dealerships. At a time famous only for its fruit orchards. when the German Nazi party was still All content © The Dog & Lemon Guide 2010. All rights reserved America was united in name only. genes were the reason for their wealth In the days before the Model T, America & power, then it stood to reason that had mostly dirt roads and consisted inferior genes must be the cause of of thousands of small towns, which poverty. Because the rich were rich as operated more or less autonomously. a result of superior genes, then it was There were no radios or movie theatres. foolish to try and help the poor, because Newspapers tended to cover an area of a the poor obviously arose from inferior few square miles. The average American genetic stock, otherwise they wouldn’t today knows far more about the moon when the be poor. And, of course, the rich and than the average American then knew powerful, being from superior genetic about Africa or China. At the turn of Allied troops stock, had not only a right but an ob- the twentieth century it took a year for successfully ligation to rule over the poor and keep the American army base in Alaska to the rabble from disrupting the natural ask its Washington office a question: six invaded order of things. months for a ship to sail from Alaska, France near and six months to sail back with the the end of In his 1911 textbook, Principles of reply. Alaska was not reachable by road Economics, Harvard Professor Frank W. until World War II. World War Taussig noted: II, they “More and more thought has been In an atmosphere like this, the pre- given of late years to the strange contrast vailing mindset for both rich and poor discovered between our care in breeding animals was almost medieval in its simplicity: that they had and our carelessness in breeding men. The world outside had no real shape or something in . Certain types of criminals and paupers form and was often intensely threaten- breed only their kind, and society has a ing because it was unknown. The Victo- common with right and a duty to protect its members rians worshipped control, and American their German from the repeated burden of maintain- Victorians had no control of the world ing and guarding such parasites.” outside their town. Other races might as enemies: well have come from a different planet. Ford and When you strip away the scientific The mental world of the Victorians was General presentation, you get back to the basic flat, and anyone who strayed too close bigotry behind all ethnic cleansing: to the edge was presumed to simply fall Motors the tribal leader believes that only he off into darkness. vehicles and his genetic group are holy, noble and righteous, and that therefore the Keeping things all white ‘lesser’ races are a threat and must be As American industry grew mas- exterminated. This bigotry is all the sively during the early twentieth cen- more shameful when it is presented as tury, its leaders, almost all of them white science. In this case, the science was Protestants, developed a simple, almost called Eugenics. childlike philosophy: “We are white, hard-working, virtuous, Christian men The term Eugenics was first coined and we have grown rich and powerful. in 1883 by Charles Darwin’s cousin, Therefore, if you are not rich and pow- English mathematician Sir Francis erful, it is because you are not white, Galton and literally means ‘good breed- hard-working, virtuous & Christian.” ing’ or ‘well-born’. Eugenics was well received by the wealthy in England, but These businessmen were enthusias- it made its biggest impact in America in tic followers of the quaint nineteenth the early twentieth century. century theories of social & economic Darwinism – the belief that the rich America’s rapid economic growth and powerful were genetically superior had attracted hoards of non-white peo- to the common man. It was a very ple from around the globe, eager to take convenient doctrine to hold; if superior part in the American Dream. While the All content © The Dog & Lemon Guide 2010. All rights reserved American Dream was open to all com- criminals, those afflicted with inherit- ers, the American Reality was firmly in able diseases, and others found bio- the hands of a small group of rich white logically unfit should be sterilised or in businessmen who viewed their success cases of doubt be isolated as to prevent as proof that rich white people were the perpetuation of their afflictions by genetically superior. Thus, the cream breeding.” of the American business community – including du Pont, Rockefeller, Hen- “We do not want word to get out ry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, that we want to exterminate the Negro Andrew Mellon, Averell Harriman & population.” Prescott Bush (president George Bush’s grandfather) – all viewed the presence With corporate America picking up of Chinese, Jews, Italians, American “That’s where the tab, over half the American States Indians and Negroes as an alarming the Bush family passed eugenics laws, which allowed for dilution of the white gene pool. fortune came the forced sterilisation of the mentally ill and incapable. In practice this usu- The rich white businessmen weren’t from: It came ally meant poor whites, latinos, blacks about to take this ‘invasion’ lying down; from the Third & native Americans, all of whom were they financed two groups that were sterilised in the name of racial purity, to have a profound influence in both Reich” and often on the flimsiest of grounds. America and Germany: the Population Association of America, and the Pioneer Pioneer Fund’s first president, Harry Fund, founded in 1937 by General W.
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