[Peace-discuss] War crime

[n.dahlheim at mchsi.com]

Well, it is a fact that several major American and British corporations and uber-wealthy individuals 
invested heavily in the rearmament of Nazi Germany.  Prescott Bush, in his high position with Brown 
Brothers Harriman, was the personal banker for the industrialist Fritz Thyssen who was the primary 
German financier of the Nazi regime.  Prescott also owned a ball bearings factory attached to 
Auschwitz.  The factory and the banking assets were seized in 1942 by the federal government under 
the Trading With the Enemy Act.

Alfred Sloan of GM was also a major backer of Hitler, and although less vocal than Ford in his racism, 
was probably much more influential among American auto executives in supporting the Nazi regime.

Rockefeller interests strongly backed Hitler through significant stakeholds in petrochemical giant IG 
Farben.

Rothschild interests in London strongly backed Hitler via Montagu Norman's support for the Nazi 
regime through their BIS contact Schaact....

So, yes while Allied interests didn't directly cause WWII; they certainly abetted the rise of fascist 
totalitarinism in Europe during the 1930s.

        Nick


----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
From:    "Laurie at advancenet.net" <laurie at advancenet.net>
To:      "'C. G. Estabrook'" <galliher at uiuc.edu>, <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Subject: RE: [Peace-discuss] War crime
Date:    Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:52:02 +0000

> Statements are so easy to make and good quotes are so very easy to come up
> with; but it comes clear in the light of historic actions that they are
> mainly rationalizations and legitimizing explanations that people use to
> justify their own behaviors while condemning others' behaviors.  One should
> have asked Jackson why the U.S. government and its officials were not taken
> to take under the law for starting many of the Indian wars.  It couldn't
> have been because the white man won or could it? 
> 
> To further play devil's advocate, one could questionably make a case for the
> fact that the Allies at the conclusion of WWI set the conditions that
> provoked the start of WWII, although not necessarily the strategies,
> tactics, and inhumane behaviors.  How again did the indiscriminate inhuman
> violence perpetrated against certain classes or populations of civilians by
> the Germans differ from that the Americans against the American Indians, the
> Japanese-Americans, against Mexican-Americans and the Chinese in America,
> the residents of Dresden, or the cities on which the atomic bombs were
> dropped?  One does not have to restrict this to the U.S.; one can turn to
> the Spanish Inquisition, the UK in Northern Ireland or India, the French in
> Algeria, etc.
> 
> It is all about power politics where the winner defines the rules of right
> and wrong.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net [mailto:peace-discuss-
> > bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of C. G. Estabrook
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:16 PM
> > To: Peace Discuss
> > Subject: [Peace-discuss] War crime
> > 
> > 
> > We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen
> > leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they
> > started it.
> > --U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, U.S. representative to
> > the international Conference on Military Trials, August 12, 1945
> > 
> > 
> > To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an
> > international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing
> > only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the
> > accumulated evil of the whole.
> > --Nuremberg War Tribunal regarding wars of aggression
> > 
> > 
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