Corporate & Complicity

[calbert at tiac.net]

> Along with the Rockefellers (Standard Oil, Chase Manhattan
> Bank), Mellons (Gulf Oil, Alcoa Aluminum), DuPonts (DuPont
> Chemicals), General Motors and Henry Ford, banks and
> shipping companies operated by the Bush family were crucial
> players  in setting up the industrial power behind the Third
> Reich. 
> 
> The crucial players? 

This may overstate the case a bit, but there is no question that 
Brown Brothers Harriman provided "critical" services to Nazi 
Germany, specifically the sourcing of sophisticated aviation fuel 
components which Germany was precluded from posessing. This 
goes beyond general services like transportation and credit. In fact, 
the confiscated elements of the bank were formed for the purpose of 
performing such functions for ONE CLIENT - Nazi Germany. In 
such a context it is difficult to credit the notion that BBH was out 
there just serving "the market", of which Nazi Germany was but a 
part.
> When I  open the paper to the Business section and read the
> Dow 30
> industrials, I see a basket of companies, public
> companies, companies that trade on the NYSE. 

> So, if you go back to the period in question  you will
> discover that the Companies listed as having built the Nazi
> industrial power are the big US Companies, Banks,  and
> Firms. And of course these were by and large Public
> companies, companies owned by stock holders. This is an
> important concept. 

In 1940 most Wall Street concerns, including large investment banks 
like Brown Brothers, were PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. 


love,
cfa