Shell in WWII, Vietnam

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Wed Sep 6 01:21:41 CDT 2000


"What would have happened if millions of American and British people, 
struggling with coupons and lines at the gas stations, had learned that in 
1942 Standard Oil of New Jersey (part of the Rockefeller empire) managers 
shipped the enemy's fuel through neutral Switzerland and that the enemy was 
shipping Allied fuel? Suppose the public had discovered that the Chase Bank 
in Nazi-occupied Paris after Pearl Harbor was doing millions of dollars' 
worth of business with the enemy with the full knowledge of the head office 
in Manhattan (the Rockefeller family among others?) Or that Ford trucks were 
being built for the German occupation troops in France with authorization 
from Dearborn, Michigan? Or that Colonel Sosthenes Behn, the head of the 
international American telephone conglomerate ITT, flew from New York to 
Madrid to Berne during the war to help improve Hitler's communications 
systems and improve the robot bombs that devastated London? Or that ITT built 
the FockeWulfs that dropped bombs on British and American troops? Or that 
crucial ball bearings were shipped to Nazi-associated customers in Latin 
America with the collusion of the vice-chairman of the U.S. War Production 
Board in partnership with Goering's cousin in Philadelphia when American 
forces were desperately short of them? Or that such arrangements were known 
about in Washington and either sanctioned or deliberately ignored?"

Charles Higham, researcher, about U.S.-Nazi collaboration during WWII.



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