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In reply to the discussion: He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them [View all]Codifer
(1,207 posts)The Prescott Bush/Brown Brothers Harriman financing of the nazi party and Hitler was prewar (pre US involvement anyway) and they were forced to stop, General Motors also were forced to cease their financial collaboration with Germany although it took a long goddamn time for them to do so. I do not know what profit Ford made (if any) from the wartime production of the factories that it had built in Germany before the war. Ford did, however, receive compensation from the US Government for damage that those factories suffered from US and British bombers. Henry Ford might also have had other reasons for dealing with Hitler (research "The Protocols of Zion"
. Curtis Aircraft, Bell Aircraft and Studebaker sold equipment to Russia, was that profiteering. Some of the business arrangements mentioned were for profit and some no doubt were in part ideological but none were the sort of price gouging of the US Government that Harry was tasked with stopping. No $50 mess kits.
Maybe all the above is meaningless. "War is a Racket". Smedly Butler said so.
Cheers
Edit to try to get rid of the silly smiley face that replaced the closed parenthesis that I had typed.... but I can't. Sorry.
Edit again to add IBM equipment and the tabulation of the dead and soon to be dead. I would like to think that IBM did not know how their equipment was used. Robert Jackson found those records very useful.