Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Anthony C. Sutton:
‘The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities... Not only was an influential sector of American business aware of the nature of Naziism, but for its own purposes aided Naziism wherever possible (and profitable) - with full knowledge that the probable outcome would be war involving Europe and the United States.’ Penetrating a cloak of falsehood, deception and duplicity, Professor Antony C. Sutton reveals one of the most remarkable but unreported facts of the Second World War: that key Wall Street banks and American businesses supported Hitler’s rise to power by financing and trading with Nazi Germany. Carefully tracing this closely guarded secret through original documents and eyewitness accounts, Sutton comes to the unsavoury conclusion that the catastrophic Second World War was extremely profitable for a select group of financial insiders. He presents a thoroughly documented account of the role played by J.P. Morgan, T.W. Lamont, the Rockefeller interests, General Electric Company, Standard Oil, National City Bank, Chase and Manhattan banks, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, General Motors, the Ford Motor Company, and scores of others in helping to prepare the bloodiest, most destructive war in history.
I was always into history...I have a pretty good fast recall ability, so I was the go-to guy on my high school's academic team for that subject.
So one time our team was at a quiz bowl (might've been Duke...think it was actually), and we played a team that wrecked us...George Washington HS in Northern Virginia close to DC (huge school too).
I still remember getting a question right about the Black Hole of Calcutta that stunned the teacher that led our team...lol.
Anyhow, we got to a part in the game where the team could choose from three categories, and they got 10 questions on the topic, with a big bonus if you got all ten right. I shit you not, the other team had a Jewish team member, and one of the categories was Wars of Israel. He answered all ten questions in under a minute, no joke. We lost like 530-260 or some shit.
I might've got ONE of those questions right at the time. Before he even started answering though...I was like, this is seriously fucky. Rigged...quite possibly. And even if not, you'd be hard pressed to get a ten question set about wars of a single nation, besides the U.S.
Mainly, it made no sense to me that Germany loses WWII, so Jews get Israel. Shit like that just doesn't happen in wars, ever. And then you realize it wasn't really a war, was it?