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Were the nazi funded by America?
The financial architecture underpinning the Third Reich had deep American roots. Antony Sutton's archival research demonstrated that Wall Street banks and corporations provided the industrial and financial scaffolding on which the Nazi war machine was built — not through direct cash to Hitler, but through interlocking capital flows that made German rearmament structurally possible.
Evidence
- Antony Sutton's foundational work 'Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler' documented that major American financial institutions and corporations — including entities linked to the Harriman banking network and Standard Oil — invested heavily in German industrial capacity throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s.
- The Dawes Plan (1924) and Young Plan (1929) — both engineered with heavy Wall Street involvement — restructured German war debts and funneled enormous American loan capital into Germany.
- Prescott Bush and the Union Banking Corporation remain the most documented specific case.
- Sutton argued this was not naivety but deliberate policy by an Anglo-American financial elite that viewed a rearmed Germany as a useful geopolitical instrument against Soviet Bolshevism.
- According to Carroll Quigley's 'Tragedy and Hope,' this represented coordinated Anglo-American banking strategy, not arms-length philanthropy.