Status Updates From Who Financed Hitler: The Se...

Steel & coal magnates were driven to Hitler as bulwark against communist insurrections & the economic deprivations resulting from terms of Versailles Treaty. Author claims they mostly thought some of Hitler’s more radical positions, including anti-semitism, were mostly huffing & puffing to gain support. Not unlike politicians when they agreed to appoint Hitler chancellor thinking they’d be able to control him.

There’s a whole chapter on Henry Ford. So far it’s more about how Hitler got some anti-Semitic ideas from Ford and not about financing at all.

Much of Hitler’s early financial support came from people who were afraid of communism. And his message appealed to the middle and lower classes due to runaway inflation. So those numbers gave him credibility with the moneyed folks

This will be challenging. The subject matter is its own obstacle. Then it’s a rather long book at about 500 pages. And I’ll be reading it in between library books, including after hours book club books.

It’s a 1979 edition, so I’ve owned this book for some 45 or more years. It’s probably about time I read it.