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Re: Where did Hitler get the money from....
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:57 pm
by Sam Slater
The Swiss bankrolled the Nazi machine, and they stole off their own population remember. I've a sneaky suspicion that the Catholic Church contributed as well.
Re: Where did Hitler get the money from....
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:14 pm
by one eyed jack
Which is probably why his lads went around the houses turfing out and robbing the jewish community and cnfiscating their homes and everything.
Youd be surprised where the money comes from when you want to wage a war such as his back in the day. Very rich supporters help too.
What a dull world this would be if everyne was blone and blue eyed. Is it not enough that people complain about american porn stars looking like they where wheeled off a conveyor belt in a factory.
This would have been Hitlers vision. A bit like Robert Palmers Simply Irresistable video but with Hitler singing instead of Robert Palmer.
Re: Where did Hitler get the money from....
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:59 pm
by bristolian
The Swiss didn't just bankroll the Nazis they stole huge amounts of Jewish prisoners' gold, stripped from them in the death camps. Don't forget two things: a) major industrialists backed Hitler as the only alternative to the Communists b) Hitler's nationalism was just right for a nation peed off after WW1 and paying war reparations to France. He was just what many thought the doctor to have ordered. Swiss bankers- why are they called the Gnomes of Zurich?- weird little smiles with hands welded to plaster casts?? I have a gnome called Jurgen- he doesn't say much...
Re: Where did Hitler get the money from....
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:26 pm
by Pervert
It's already been mentioned----big German companies, particularly the industrialists whose factories would be under threat from worker unrest, saw in Hitler and the Nazis the perfect solution to Communist infiltration and therefore bankrolled them. And I'm sure they all got a good return from their investment once the armed forces were needing supplied.
Pretty sure there'd have been foreign investment too---from those who thought Europe needed a strong Germany.
Re: Where did Hitler get the money from....
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:36 am
by Pervert
Tarquin is too busy in Wikipedia to thank you personally.