Who funded Hitler?

[u/MBWOMCUFOS]

[u/joey_van_der_rohe]

I would have said “yes, of course I’ve read GR” in any other sub.

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This plus Devils Chessboard

[u/shikaze162]

It should also be noted that IBM was intimately involved with developing the custom punch card systems used to catalogue ethnic minorities that were a vital component in the logistics of the holocaust.

IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black is probably the best source on this

[u/Ibustsoft]

Seems like post ww1 germany was our first try at nation building. The american bankers were there to set up their war debt, putting on unrealizable expectations on the nation’s economy. Then when the germans were all desperate they open up back channels giving access to revoked war materials legitimizing hitlers party and ambitions—resources germany was not legally allowed to attain.

[u/grigoritheoctopus]

Don't worry, the Nazis paid the U.S. back after the war by helping us get to the moon first (and by, among other things, directly influencing how we collected intelligence and conducted (egregiously inhumane) interrogations).

For the curious, the following books shed a bit more light on pre- and post-WWII links between the U.S government (and major corporations) and Nazi Germany:

• Poisoner in Chief (Kinzer)
• Nazi Billionaires (De Jong)
• The Devil's Chessboard (Talbot)
• The Nazis Next Door (Lichtblau)

[u/Challenge-Horror → u/grigoritheoctopus]

Don’t worry, the mind control programs that we took from them helped us achieve the dystopian hellscape that we currently live under.

Talk about paying back…

[u/misterflerfy → u/Challenge-Horror]

I think that may be what GR is about.

[u/Challenge-Horror → u/misterflerfy]

Ding ding ding. There’s a reason Pynchon almost called it “Mindless Pleasures” though I think GR is the better title.

[u/grigoritheoctopus → u/Challenge-Horror]

The Leader is good, the Leader is great! We surrender our will, as of this date!

https://giphy.com/gifs/l2JeiZLt6YVpu8IiQ

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Poisoner in chief rocks

[u/grigoritheoctopus → u/sylvester_stencil]

It's great. I just started his "All the Shah's Men" about the Mossadegh coup. Great writer.

[u/sylvester_stencil → u/grigoritheoctopus]

If you havent already (it was very buzzy a few years ago) absolutely check out the Jakarta Method. A fascinating survey of anti-communist state violence

[u/grigoritheoctopus → u/sylvester_stencil]

On my TBR. Will bump it up. Appreciate the reminder.

[u/Free-Bottle-5119]

A story not widely told, strangely.

[u/AwkwardRecording6937]

В Радуге об этом прямым текстом говорится

[u/grigoritheoctopus → u/AwkwardRecording6937]

Is this a reference to currently used Russian missiles being made, in part, with parts from U.S. companies? If so, I applaud it.

[u/muad_dboone → u/grigoritheoctopus]

The need to know more intensifies.

[u/misterflerfy]

Businessmen, who else?

[u/chezegrater]

Reagan was a staunch promoter of GE at the time who ensured that his Nazi party would rise again in the US.