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Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933 Paperback – October 1, 1997

by James Pool (Author)
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Called "one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism" by The New Yorker, this highly acclaimed work of history unravels the secret financial web which Hitler spun across Europe and around the globe to bankroll his dream of world domination
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James Pool has been investigating the financial and psychological reasons behind Hitler's crimes for the past twenty-five years. He is the author of Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933, a Simon & Schuster book.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books; Compl Rev & Updtd ed. edition (October 1, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0671760831
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671760830
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches
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Scott H. Irving
5.0 out of 5 stars Details Galore and more
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2013
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Listen, I have only read 2 of 9 chapters, but the detail is most impressive. You can't go wrong with this. But I offer this caution on such subject matter. No matter how good the work and intentions of authors, so much of what goes on in the rise of leaders, is done by secret funding. So secret that we will never likely know the whole truth, despite all efforts. So this book will show you a lot but there is much no one could ever show, I suspect. But you can read in between the events and discern some of it. Hitler was financed almost from his beginning and those who were doing it wanted to remain secret. I have not found this book to be dry, either, which for the material, could often be that way, normally.

I will update my review when I am done. I have many other books I am more eager to read, but I catch a page or 2 while watching some rare TV. I'll get there. Meanwhile, here is the table of contents since the book does not contain one, which is the only fault I find with it.

Preface 1
1 A Mysterious Beginning 4
2 Billions ---------------------------- 40
3 Ford and Hitler ------------------ 85
4 Kirdorf and Thyssen 131
5 What Did Big Business Want? 175
6 Depression ----------------------- 229
7 Hitler’s Foreign Financiers 290
8 Big Business Attempts
To Stop Hitler 336
9 Bribes and Blackmail 415

Appendix ------------------------------ 493
Footnotes ----------------------------- 496
Selected Bibliography -------------- 521
Index ----------------------------------- 529
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Glen
5.0 out of 5 stars Very thorough and easy to read
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2011
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James Pool is very detailed and knowledgeable regarding the rise of Hitler and National Socialism after World War I. Pool shows that it took Hitler a long time to win industrialists and the wealthy to his cause. His knowledge on the subject shows he did a lot of research and uses many cross references. Once you start reading, you can't put it down.

This book is only the first in a two-part series and half the story. After reading this book, you really need to purchase Hitler and his Secret Partners (Contributions, Loot and Rewards, 1933-1945) so you can get the whole picture.
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Eric Haixs
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2016
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Good book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An entertaining historical account
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2016
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Excellent book filled with a million historical anecdotes and facts which paint a multifaceted description of the era. This frank book answers many questions that our black & white US propaganda glosses over or completely ignores.
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WAZMAN
5.0 out of 5 stars Hitler's Backers
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2012
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ery goog book about the money that helped fund Hitler's rise to power. Good book, good price, fast ship, thanks.
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pft
5.0 out of 5 stars What about 1933-1939?
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2016
The financing of Hitler up until 1933 would have been minimal relative to what it took for Germany to arm itself to the extent it did. Especially when considering their massive debt as a result of the Versailles Treaty which also put restrictions on the size of their military. The lack of a credible history on this topic is interesting. Those books which have touched on the subject are tarnished with the conspiracy label
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Robert W. Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars very informative
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2008
this book offers the reader much information. while the title leads me to believe that the focus will be on finances of the nazi regime, it also provides, necessarily, a lot of historical information. the new financial information is limited (published in the 1980s) although it certainly includes much more information than, say, churchill's masterpiece written just 3 years after the war. i would have liked the book to offer some new material, copies of documents, etc. i appreciate that much documentation does not exist, but a search on the internet offers more information than is offered in this book. overall, i concede that it is well written, provides useful information, and, from what i could tell, it provides good information. i think that expanded analysis of the financial support of dulles, ford, usa, and great britain for hitler merit attention. very good work that i recommend.
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Carol. Noble
5.0 out of 5 stars The hobo philosopher
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2007
After reading both of Mr. Pool's books on this subject, I felt that these books should be required reading for every World War II veteran - possibly all veterans. And now I would expand that recommendation to all who have ever fought in any war and to those who may be forced to do so in the future.
Reading such books will help to get through a lot of the "who harr" and hoopla of what most everybody "thinks" war is all about. "Where's the Money and Follow the Money" are always good questions - and invariably eye-opening.
Conclusions:
Fear of Communism or anti-Communism was the chief motivational concept behind the rise of Nazism and Adolf Hitler. From the man in the street to the captains of industry and the nobles and aristocrats the hatred, fear, and spirit of anti-Communism was common.
Patriotism and nationalism were the second strongest motivational characteristics of Hitler contributors inside Germany.
Industrialists, aristocrats, white Russian refugees and wealthy advocates of the capitalist system all around the world found cause in Hitler's anti-Communism.
The secret Thule Society is for me a new discovery. I had never before read of this group.
The Aryan and the anti-Jewish attitudes seem to be a whole other study. This book would suggest to me that anti-Communism was a bigger motivation for the monetary support of Nazism or Hitlerism.

Richard Edward Noble - The Hobo Philosopher - author of:

Mein Kampf - An Analysis of Book One
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Roy Szweda
4.0 out of 5 stars Staggeringly brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2018
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Oh my my so that is how Dolfie and his evil crew got away with it. Nothing new under the sun in a way that tricky choice of devil or the deep red sea.... hammer or stahlhelm, not much else on offer but wishy washiness. This book is going to give a new perspective on what you thought you were taught so better get a copy. While you are there get the one about his physician and his "pep me up pills and potions". Throw in the Bletchley Park mob and many of us really need to rethink what the Big Two was all about and why. Not to mention how.... and what light it casts on modern doings in elections and so-called democracies.
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Rosalee
4.0 out of 5 stars Bought the book for my husband
Reviewed in Canada on May 29, 2014
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My husband has an extensive library on WW1 and WW2 and especially the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
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Cora May
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, not in great shape
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2016
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Good book, not in great shape. Wish it was on Kindle, but some good information and I am always checking sources. Would recommend this to anyone researching the subject.
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Christopher Allen
3.0 out of 5 stars Only recommended for those deeply interested in the study of political power in Germany between the wars.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2017
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First published in 1979, this is a highly detailed, well written and extremely ably researched account of the rise of Nazism in Germany following the First World War. It provides clear evidence that big business was not the main culprit in bankrolling Hitler's National Socialist Party as is so often erroneously thought. Indeed, the book explains that it was the Fuhrer's skill as a fundraiser and his appeal to shopkeepers and small businessmen that mattered most. It also describes how he was able to manipulate Germany's social elite to his own ends in the most class conscious country in Western Europe. However, on the negative side, this work is nearly 500 pages long and so crammed with facts that it can be hard going at times. Therefore, I would only really recommend it for those who have a specialist interest in the history of these turbulent times. And even then, you might be better advised to use the Internet for your research.

Chris Garfield Allen is a former Technical Author and crime writer with several books which are available through Amazon including his latest novel:  Reality Shaper: The Quantum Detective
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nickjordan
1.0 out of 5 stars No Fact based Evidence....
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2015
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I didn't hate, it's just Crap! ... How can you expect to have an objective book written about Hitler, that references and footnotes Jewish authors .... Conflict of interest. Unless of course, objectively is Not the idea. ..... Add Mr Pool to the long list of Propagandists and is an Enemy of the Truth.
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