Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich

by Guido Giacomo Preparata

Nazism is usually depicted as the outcome of political blunders and unique economic factors: we are told that it could not be prevented, and that it will never be repeated.

In this explosive book, Guido Giacomo Preparata shows that the truth is very different: using meticulous economic analysis, he demonstrates that Hitler's extraordinary rise to power was in fact facilitated - and eventually financed - by the British and American political classes during the decade following World War I.

Through a close analysis of events in the Third Reich, Preparata unveils a startling history of Anglo-American geopolitical interests in the early twentieth century. Showing that Nazism was not regarded as an aberration: for the British and American establishment of the time, it was regarded as a convenient way of destabilising Europe and driving Germany into conflict with Stalinist Russia, thus preventing the formation of any rival continental power block. In laying bare the economic forces at play in the Third Reich, Guido Giacomo Preparata identifies the key players in the British and American establishment who aided Hitler's meteoric rise.

Genres: History, World War II, Politics, Germany, Nonfiction, Conspiracy Theories, American History

336 pages, Paperback

First published April 27, 2005

Reviews

[Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

The description is wrong: this has nothing to do with nuclear weapons. Whoever uploaded the book is obviously trying to sabotage it and clearly the publisher or the author never checked the page which makes me conclude that Goodreads just doesn't matter to them - a shame, because a book this important should at least have an accurate description, even if Goodreads clearly isn't a site that attracts any serious students of history, or in this case, people with basic reading comprehension skills, to write reviews. Just look at the reviews here: they don't even mention the monumental thesis of the British funding the Nazis, and act like it's common knowledge, while focusing on the lack of charts! or their pretentious misconceptions about the writing style.



Sieg Heil and Cheery-O!

Preparata's main premise is that the English ruling class establishment needed to foster and arm a fanatical German group that would avenge her defeat in WWI. He examines and exposes many financial deals and agreements, central bank actions, and other business and political deals, that make his premise undeniably credible. He also analyzes the policy of appeasement, and explains that the British ruling class used an elaborate act of political theater to give the Nazis the impression that The Prince of Wales, along with other groups were sympathizers. He also analyzes the Soviet role in arming Germany, right up until the Nazis invaded.

WWI was started by the same Anglo imperialists to stop German imperial ambitions and economic progress, but failed to completely destroy the country, or more precisely, its spirit. Preparata explains how Anglo imperialists also put the Bolsheviks in power to stop czarist imperialism, double-crossing their WWI ally. After the war, the Germans were still willing and able to defeat – along with the czarist resistance – the Bolshevik psychos, and bring to nothing the even more sadistic and psychotic long-term schemes of the British ruling class. Preparata exposes British foreign policy as more attuned to lies, mass murder, and double-crossing ‒ seemingly just for their own sake ‒ rather than for any cogent, long-lasting geopolitical aims.

They used foreign policy as a way to unleash their innate rage, limitless arrogance and their all-consuming delusion that they were superior and should rule the world. It seems that the policy was the result of some inherent psychosis that is an integral part of extreme arrogance and racism. There's no way that a policy like that, and tactics like those can sustain control; they can only destroy and achieve short-term success. Even if only high-level government officials of countries discover the plots, they will know they're dealing with dangerous and insane killers.

This is the attitude of a small minority that wielded tremendous power: the mechanism of any oligarchic society. A group that began in earnest with Cecil Rhodes, Edward VII and Alfred Milner and captured politicians like Balfour, Asquith, Grey, Lloyd George, Churchill and several top military figures. Of course there was the collusion of business and finance: the banks, the Rothschilds, Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, the press and arms barons etc. and hoards of minor officials – this is the gang. There are also their minions and counterparts in high places in other countries. Preparata focuses on post-WWI, but gives a brief overview of pre-WWI schemes.

This British system of concerted chaos continues, having infected the American oligarchs, using them as puppets to continue the slaughter that they, being a toothless tiger, can no longer perpetuate. They've leached on to the American empire to create the Anglo-American empire. All their brilliant evil schemes ever accomplished politically was to lose them their empire, millions of soldiers and civilians, and reduce them to hollow pretensions of grandeur, solely and wholly contained in bad public television shows made for old ladies and fops. It did make many people immensely rich though and I think that's all that really mattered to them.

Soon Scotland and Wales will go. If ever there was a country, along with the US, that needs a national reconciliation with its own people, it's England. Books like this one, and Hidden History: the Secret Origins of World War One by Gerry Docherty and James Macgregor, can help achieve that. Tear down the Churchill cult and expose the monarchy and disband it, official historians are hiding their treason and so have the subsequent governments. Along with exposing the treason of the politicians, expose the dealings of the banking cartels – no peace or truth can be achieved unless that happens. They cannot say, after policies as savage and insane as those, that they were acting in the best interests of the nation.

The book has a lot of economics terminology but Preparata does a good job of making it understandable; it maintains a narrative thread, especially in the last chapters that powerfully depict the results of the years of financial/political scheming to rearm Germany, in order to suck her into another two-front war and hopefully, cause even greater destruction than WWI, and of course, even greater war profits. The Bolsheviks were the perfect extreme counterpart to the Nazis, both funded by the Anglo war machine. Communist apologists will have as hard a time with this book as deluded Anglophiles and followers of official history. I admit, it's hard to take. I had no idea of the intricacy of these plots, or that they were stated policy, before reading this book, though I knew of the rampant trading with the enemy during the war, through books like Charles Higham's American Swastika.

The two main countries posing as liberal and democratic, England and the U.S. have been overtaken by a death cult that establishes the most sadistic regimes in other countries in order to create chaos and terror. This to them, insures war profits and allows them to continue their posturing as protectors of civilization. As long as there is a threat, they can keep the illusion alive that they are civilized, and the defenders against a barbarous world. The book doesn't try to dismiss the presence of delusional fanatics like the Nazis; it states that the Nazis and subsequent groups like them, could have been easily crushed early on by sane foreign policy, but instead were and are encouraged and nurtured to assume power, explicitly for the purpose of creating an enemy for eventual war, or for creating a state of chaos and terror in the specific country or region. It begs the question that anyone who funds and nurtures groups like the Nazis, Bolsheviks or ISIS, is in fact the same type of person.

Once people start believing in the enormous will and capacity of powerful groups to lie and deceive – and I think this is very slowly happening – then these politicians and their backers will be exposed as the haters of humanity and destroyers of human potential that they are. They were able to fool other, less powerful countries for a long time. Countries that believed their treaties and/or cynically played along, hoping to gain something, only to be used and double-crossed. Now nobody trusts anything they say, not even the least developed nations. The only ones who trust them are the dictators and fanatical groups they empower, and usually, they never take orders for long.

American and western foreign policy has been and is a self-congratulating farce not even worth the newsprint of its media cheerleaders, who carry on as if smart people are still listening seriously to them. Yes, they're listening, but only to see what schemes they're trying to push and to believe the opposite of what they want you to believe. Their last bastion are the groups, both liberal and conservative, of pseudo-intellectuals, frauds, cowards, dupes and semi-literates that depend on them for a salary, or whose life is consumed by some tangential pet issue that is manipulated by politicians to get their votes. The trade-off being some relatively minor issue for a blank check to wage endless war and commit financial fraud.

Many people take comfort in the false belief that they're on the side of the good ones, who won the "good" war and continue to defend democracy etc. If they ever read this book and discover that the saintly Brits and Americans funded the Nazis and the Bolsheviks, I doubt they would even be able to believe it, just like they can't believe or critically analyze so many other atrocities that occur, seemingly out of nowhere, so that the Anglo-American war machine can come to the rescue and protect us all from evil.

From p. 265:

“If it is true that the British stewards intrigued at Versailles to conjure a reactionary movement that would feed on radicalism and be prone to seek war in the East; if it is true that the Anglo-Americans traded heavily with and offered financial support to the Nazis, continuously and deliberately from the Dawes loans of 1924 to the conspicuous credits via the Bank of International Settlements in Basle of late 1944; if it is true that the encounter in Cologne in von Schröder's manse was the decisive factor behind Hitler's appointment as Chancellor; if it true that such financial support was accorded to make Nazism an enemy target so strong as to elicit in war a devastating response – retribution that would make the Allied victory clear-cut and definitive; if it is true that appeasement was a travesty since 1931; if it is true that Churchill refused deceitfully to open a western front for three years, during which the expectation was that the Germans would find themselves so hopelessly mired in the Russian bog as to make the British closing onslaught from the West as painless as possible; and if it is true that Hess brought with him to Britain plans for evacuating the Jews to the island of Madagascar, for such was the last policy pursued by the Germans before adopting the Final Solution – a plan that clearly was given no sequitor; if all the foregoing is true, then it is just to lay direct responsibility for incubating Nazism and planning World War II, and indirect responsibility for the Holocaust of the Jews, at the door of the Anglo-American establishment.”

[Joel Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Guido Preparata, a professor of political economy sets out to show conclusively that Great Britain as early as the late nineteenth century had sown the seeds of World Wars I and II targeting the industrially ascendant Germany that looked, at least at the time set to topple the British empire in Eurasia. To do this, the ruling elites recruited Sir Halford Mackinder who drafted a long-term strategy to circle and destroy Germany called the Geographical Pivot of History (1904). Resorting to Machiavellianism to preempt a rival Eurasian power, the British drew France and Russia into its fold to provoke the Germans and at a later phase spurred the emergence of a far-right reactionary movement that plunged Europe in total war.

This book therefore is not really about Hitler, but the political, economic, and fraternal forces that propelled his political ascendancy. Preparata delivers a passionate tour de force particularly in the opening chapters like the preface and the introduction where he lays out the scope and sophistication of British geopolitics. His thesis represents a long overdue reappraisal of the spark that led to the most cataclysmic events in human history, pointing the finger not at Germany, but at the Anglo-American establishment instead.

[Ramzey · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author writes about the History of Germany before world war one and world war two with and eye behind the scenes of the financing and re-armanent of Germany

The title of the book is a bit misleading since there is very little about Hitler in the book.

The treaty of Versailles and the dawes plan is also covered.

He follows the American oligarchy who uses the world banking system to create wars and mold future events for their liking using balance of power to divide and conquer to continue the hidden British Empire.

I didn't enjoy reading this book since it was not like a normal history book and it contained many boring details. Also i think the author was biased against Soviet Union anyways i gave this book 2 stars out 5 because it demolished many British and American myths about ww1 and ww2.

I took away three stars because of the lies against Soviet Union "war" against poland and lies about Stalin and his writing style was not enjoyable. He lies about Katyn and Sergei kirov.

[Derek · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was very disappointing. Considering how rich the source material for such a study would be, the book says little of US finance and influence over the Nazis instead choosing to focus solely on Britain's role. Much of the material here is actually rather in line with mainstream histories in that it blames Nazism on economic crisis and the hyperinflation of the Mark, however Preparata additionally attributes much of this to capital flight which bolsters his argument but still leaves it mistakenly determinist.

For something with such an economic angle, there are next to no actual charts or figures, which I found really inconceivable, even for the lengthy chapter in which he describes the Bank of England's currency manipulation. He instead devotes most of the book to a strange fetish he has for Thorstein Veblen, a third rate microeconomist, and suggestive narrative fiction of Alexander Parvus secretly engineering the October Revolution for the sake of Great Britain. I thought the anti-communism would be a footnote given the supposed point of the book, but no it was actually a disgustingly consistent thread and it's horrible the degree to which he slanders these great men. Meandering and unrigorous. Some good facts here and there but they are never explored.

[Lucy Tierney · Rating 2 out of 5]

I hastily skimmed it. From run-away currency, hidden blonde metal, annulled private debt in partial response to hyperinflation, come a "kombination" of wicked intrigues financed by foreign countries in support of Nazis. Financial legerdemain in opposition to USSR. Colorfully written but so deep it trumps a lot of WWII books.

[Xian · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book's central thesis is that the rise of Nazism was not a historical accident but the result of a deliberate, decades-long covert operation by the Anglo-American elite. At the heart of this argument is Britain's profound fear of a German-Russian alliance—a "Eurasian Embrace"—that would challenge its global empire. To prevent this, Preparata argues, Britain orchestrated a "titanic siege," beginning with the entrapment of Germany in World War I and culminating in the incubation of a reactionary, belligerent regime it could manipulate. The book meticulously details how Germany was systematically screwed through financial warfare—from the engineered hyperinflation of 1923 that wiped out the middle class, to the Dawes and Young plans that re-industrialised Germany with foreign capital, and finally to the 1929 crash, allegedly triggered by the Bank of England to plunge the nation into the chaos from which the Nazis would emerge. In this narrative, appeasement was not a mistake but a calculated "masquerade" to arm a pawn for a pre-planned two-front war against the Soviet Union, a war from which Germany was never meant to emerge intact.

A striking theme throughout Conjuring Hitler is the complete subordination of ideology to raw geopolitical interest. Preparata paints a world where states act with a ruthless cynicism that makes a mockery of their public-facing principles. Capitalist Britain and America are shown to be the primary enablers of their supposed ideological arch-enemies, first installing and protecting the Bolsheviks in Russia to prevent a czarist-German alliance, and then meticulously funding and arming the Nazi war machine.

The book’s depiction of the Soviet Union's role offers a complex vindication for the correctness of Stalin's "socialism in one country" policy over the idealism of world revolution. From its very inception, it is purported, the Bolshevik state was an Allied creation, a pawn installed and manipulated by the West to keep Germany in check. In such a world, surrounded by hostile and duplicitous capitalist powers actively plotting its demise, the Trotskyist notion of "permanent revolution" would have been a suicidal fantasy. The only rational path forward was to prioritize the defense and industrialization of the Soviet state at all costs. From this perspective, Stalin’s cynical use of the Comintern was not a mistake, but a necessary tool of foreign policy; forcing the German Communists to attack the Socialists was a gambit to prevent a united German left that might align with the West, and to allow the rise of a Nazi regime that could be pointed like a weapon back at its capitalist creators. While the policy ultimately resulted in unimaginable devastation for the USSR, it was the only conceivable strategy for a lone socialist state fighting for its life in a world of predators.

[Max Feldman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely brilliant — everyone should read this book, especially Americans and Brits. Preparata lays out the hidden history behind Hitler, the Nazis, and World War II in a way you’ll never see taught in schools or mainstream history books. It’s deeply researched, shocking at times, and makes you realize how much of the real story has been buried. A must-read for anyone who actually wants to understand how the war really came to be.

[Danila · Rating 5 out of 5]

отличная книга. история первой и второй мировой войны с точки зрения имперской политики Англии. В том числе подробно рассмотрена экономическая подоплёка, о чем мне ещё не приходилось читать.

Много моментов открылись для меня в новом свете. Теперь мне более ясна политика Англии и США, которая с тех пор не сильно изменилась.