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Trading With the Enemy: An Expose of the Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949 Hardcover

by Charles Higham (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
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Examines the relationships between major American corporations and banks, including Ford, Standard Oil, Chase Bank, and I.T.T., and the Nazi regime, before and throughout the war
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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385290802
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0385290807
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
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charles f. poulnot III
5.0 out of 5 stars trading with the enemy:the nazi-american money plot 1933-1945
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2010
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i wouldnt put too much faith in the 1 star reviews of this book especially considering that just yesterday the united states government released the names of the 10,000 american corporations that have been doing business with our "arch enemy" iran; all with our governments approval! that announcement all but legitimizes everything in charles higham's book and proves that NOTHING has changed since WWII. these multinational corps play both sides of all wars/conflicts, profiting handsomely from the death and destruction that the governments cook up while the flag waving idiots march off to kill each other with the latest weaponry dreamed up by GM/dupont/carlyle group. this book cites names, places, dates to the point of ad nauseum of the dirty dealings that FORD, DUPONT, STANDARD OIL(ROCKEFELLERS), GENERAL MOTORS, IT&T, the BANK CORP of AMERICA/PRESCOTT BUSH,(BOY GEORGE'S GRRANDFATHER), etc, etc ,etc. had with hitler and the nazi death machine. to say this book isnt referenced or researched well would only lead me to believe that such an opinion would come from someone with a vested interest in the warmongering. i'm sure the crowd down at the COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS isnt too happy with the facts presented by mr. higham. but as winston churchill said himself, "facts are stubborn things" and the fact has become apparent that we the people are being held hostage by these same ruthless banks/corporations that are now run by the cowardly grandsons of those murdering cowards who ran these corps back in the 30's and 40's. this book is a great foundation to begin the dismantling of the belief system that our government and the corporations have our best interest at heart, they dont! WAKE UP PEOPLE FROM YOUR UNCONSCIOUS STATE, its been business as usual for centuries all dressed up with "differing" political regimes/partys but nothing has changed but the first names of these murdering cowards. "no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
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Mrs. Silverio
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, full of sources and well documented
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2022
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Excellent book
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L-J.Slyk
4.0 out of 5 stars New and different look
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2013
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A friend who lived in Austria as a child in WW II said it was amazing to read. Rings true
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Louis Beland
5.0 out of 5 stars This is information everyone needs to know, why are ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2015
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This is information everyone needs to know, why are we still doing business with these companies that financed the ennemy? Is has been the same old story for centuries.
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Dr. Halle
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading!!
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2010
This book is a marvel I discovered it some twenty years ago, and I am still enthralled with it. There is a maxim that the victors write the history books (and it can be exceedingly difficult to discover the real facts in a given battle or war). As it happens, Hitler was not simply a madman with a potent and magnetic ability to touch the German people "where they live" and move them to action, and who--more or less single-handedly--created the "Third Reich." There were bankers and industrialists (a Thule Society connection too) that came together to create this enormity of violence, genocide, lies and plunder. And, plenty of cooperation from other nations and other nations' corporations too. Note how Jew-laden ships were turned away by the United States during WWII, a nasty chapter of American history.

This book details the role some major American corporations--such as ITT, Standard Oil, Ford and GM--played in this sordid tale, in the pursuit of the almighty buck (even though it led to the deaths of many Europeans and American GIs. Were the guilty still alive, I would DEMAND they be summarily called to task for their crimes--indicted, and--once convicted--heavily sentenced. This book is a scholarly, but very readable treatment of the subject with fairly comprehensive documentation. It is actually a wonder that there is as much documentation as there is, considering that much of this was deeply "under wraps," until this researcher was able to crow-bar it out, via FOIA means. I consider that the negative reviewers on this page are either asleep or in league with the those who would prevent us from learning the truth.

Books like this one, and "The Real Lincoln," I have found to be enormously refreshing. It is on my list of Top Hundred Books, in my collection. There are a lot of political, corporate and financial shenanigans occuring behind the scenes today, just as there were then. It behooves us to become privy to them, inasmuch as we are able. Wholesale corruption, and the principals sometimes wear liberal labels, and sometimes conservative ones. "Left" and "right" mean little today, as our republic (and our fundamental rights) go by the board, and our overseas wars burn on ceaselessly, maniacally, as in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." Never fear; it's merely "Business as usual, mates!!"
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Tim
5.0 out of 5 stars Fortunately, Hitler's megalomania got the best of the "Fraternity's" ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2015
I read this while earning my Sustainable Business MBA. The snippets of information I picked up throughout my coursework research about the real existance of the worldwide cabal known as the "Fraternity" were at once fleshed-out and confirmed by the content of this book. The mere existance of the "Fraternity" is quite sobering, and explains the hand-in-glove collusion of mega-multinational corporations and world governments. They tried to create a socialist-fascist Europe in 1938 and planned the same for the United States, South America, and Oceania. The Third Reich, and to a lesser extant the Japanese Empire, were financed by the 1933 nationalization of American's gold by FDR, the movement of that wealth to the Fed, and then the IBS International Bank of Settlement, via the Swiss banking system, is all exposed. GM, Ford, Chase, DuPont, ITT, Standard Oil, to name a few, all worked towards a world socialist-fascist State which would subjugate the worlds populace and create a slave-labor-pool. Fortunately, Hitler's megalomania got the best of the "Fraternity's" plan and it did not come to full fruition. However, realize the "Fraternity" is still alive and well and has had 70+ years to perfect the new world order, and has proceeded with many of its plans. The world is on the brink of financial collapse right now which is all part of their master plan as it will indeed thrust the world into a martial law, socialist fascist state of existance, which will be the "Fraternity's" nirvanna. This book should be required reading for high school History and college frosh economics class.
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1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in Canada on September 16, 2016
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terrible style of writing,possibly on purpose.some very dirty things done.
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Doug Edwards
5.0 out of 5 stars Interested in the subject
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2014
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I was interested in this scenario and wanted to know more about it. Hope to learn a lot more from the book.
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Albert
2.0 out of 5 stars Not nearly as good as it should have been.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 30, 2020
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A very interesting subject but this book fails to tackle it.
The book is very hard to follow and not in any way as informative as it should be.
Which is unfortunate as it does touch on some extremely embarrassing matters for the USA.
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