TABLE 7-1: FINANCIAL LINKS BETWEEN U.S. INDUSTRIALISTS AND ADOLF HITLER

Date American Bankers
and Industrialists
U.S. Affiliated Firm German Source Intermediary for
Funds/Agent
                  
1923 Henry FORD FORD MOTOR
COMPANY

1931 E.R. HARRIMAN UNION BANKING
CORP
Fritz
THYSSEN
250,000 RM       Bank voor Handel en  Scheepvaart N.V. (Subsidiary of August Thyssen Bank)
1932-3 Flick
(a director 
of AEG)
Friedrich
FLICK
150,000 RM       Direct to NSDAP
February-   
March 1933
NONE Emil
KIRDORF
600,000 RM       "Nationale Treuhand" a/c at Delbrück Schickler Bank
February-
March 1933
Edsel B. FORD
C.E. MITCHELL
Walter TEAGLE
Paul M. WARBURG
AMERICAN
I.G.
I.G. FARBEN 400,000 RM       "Nationale Treuhand"
February-
March 1933
NONE Reichsverband der Automobilindustrie 100,000 RM       "Nationale Treuhand"
February-
March 1933
Gerard SWOPE
Owen D. YOUNG
C.H. MINOR
E. Arthur BALDWIN
INTERNATIONAL
GENERAL
ELECTRIC
25 percent A.E.G. 60,000 RM       "Nationale Treuhand"
NONE DEMAG 50,000 RM      
February-
March 1933
Owen D. YOUNG INTERNATIONAL GENERAL ELECTRIC 162/3 percent OSRAM
G.m.b.H.
40,000 RM       "Nationale Treuhand"
February-
March 1933
Sosthenes BEHN  I.T.T. Telefunken 35,000 RM       "Nationale Treuhand"
February-
March 1933
NONE Karl
Herrman
300,000 RM       "Nationale Treuhand"
Februa ry-
March 1933
NONE A. Steinke
(Director of
BYBUAG)
200,000 RM       "Nationale Treuhand"
February-
March 1933
NONE Karl Lange
(Machine
industry)
50,000 RM       "Nationale Treuhand"
February-
March 1933
NONE F. Springorum
(Hoesch A.G.)
36,000 RM       "Nationale Treuhand"
February-
March 1933
Edsel B. FORD Ford Motor Co. Carl BOSCH
(I.G. Farben & Ford Motor A.G.)
1932-1944 Walter TEAGLE
J.A. MOFFETT
W.S. FARISH
 Standard Oil
of N.J.
94 percent Emil HELFFRICH
(German-American
Petroleum Co)
Heinrich Himmler S.S. via Keppler's Circle
1932-1944 Sosthenes BEHN  I.T.T. Kurt yon SCHRÖDER
Mix & Genest 
Lorenz
Heinrich Himmler S.S. via Keppler's Circle

 

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