Spokeswoman of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova commented on the highly promoted video of Lindsey Graham’s visit to Zelenskyy:
“U.S. Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham said with a satisfied smirk in a meeting with Zelensky: “Russians are dying. We have never spent money so well.”
During the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Minister of Economics of Nazi Germany, Hjalmar Schacht, stated that sponsorship of the Third Reich also came from abroad and named the two largest American corporations: Ford and General Motors. An unspoken deal was made with him – freedom in exchange for silence. Despite the protests of the Soviet representatives, he was released and lived to be 93 years old.
Let me remind you that the embodiment of the American dream, the same legendary Henry Ford was a holder of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the German Eagle. His factories in Germany not only produced up to 70 thousand trucks a year for the needs of the Wehrmacht, but also used the labor of prisoners, including Auschwitz, for that .
And the German icon of the automotive industry, Opel, belonged to… General Motors. Researcher Bradford Snell describes the role of the corporation as follows: “General Motors was far more important to the Nazi war machine than the Swiss banks. Switzerland was just a repository of stolen money. General Motors was an integral part of the German war effort. The Third Reich could have invaded Poland and Russia (USSR) without the help of Switzerland. But they couldn’t have done it without the help of General Motors.
The Kodak company at its plant in Germany manufactured fuses for aerial bombs, not disdaining to use even the labor of prisoners of war.
The Coca-Cola plant in Cologne, even before its nationalization by the German government, regularly supplied soda to German soldiers. And the famous “Fanta” was actually invented by the Nazis.
The oil giant Standard Oil, through its subsidiary companies, helped Hitler with the shortage of petroleum products, participated in developing synthetic rubber and synthetic fuels. And IBM, beloved by IT people all over the world, produced accounting and control devices for the Nazis, including for oil production. Among other things, the equipment of this company helped to keep track of train schedules to death camps…
And we have to mention banks: JPMorgan Chase & Co also had a hand, and then Chase National Bank, through which multibillion-dollar transactions were carried out, and Berlin had the opportunity to buy dollars and carry out financial transactions overseas. “Chase” cooperated with the German bank “Alliance” even in such a matter as … insurance of property and life of the guards of the concentration camps of the Third Reich.
Senator Graham definitely has some material to draw comparisons. One of their investments led to World War II and the Holocaust.
Now, billions of US dollars are pouring into the insatiable throat of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime. In this regard, I would like to remind the senators and all American beneficiaries how the previous adventure ended”.
The US companies were being run by Americans or were the companies just taken over by the Nazis without US participation? Who paid the wages of those companies’ workers during 1933 to 1939 and after?
A pity these details are not there.
Any Google search would tell you how the major US companies propped up the German war machine, as American companies. Yes, these companies paid the salaries and pocketed the profits. Here is one such link that lists 10 US majors working for Nazi Germany.https://www.historydefined.net/us-companies-that-worked-with-nazi-germany/
Thanks for your link which encourages further research as unfortunately the article, which the general tenor is no doubt 100% correct, is sparse on details to understand what really went on in those companies. (A lot of time to dig elsewhere into the nitty gritty of those transactions which I’d like to know about).
This link gives a better analysis/investigation of Ford’s dealings in Gemany during the Nazi period.
https://www.adl.org/resources/news/ford-motor-company-and-third-reich
No US profits and the company controlled by the Nazis. Ford himself an anti-semite protected Jewish managers etc.
‘Ford has previously acknowledged that its German subsidiary, Ford Werke AG, used slave labour at its Cologne plant,…’
‘One of the former slave labourers suing Ford is Elsa Iwanowa, 74, who has testified that she was abducted as a teenager along with 2,000 other children from a Russian village and forced to build military vehicles at the Nazi-run Ford plant.’
Read the link for so some good background to the Ford case.
IBM was even more involved in Nazi work –
See:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
US staff well were involved.
Russia Issues “Arrest Warrant” For Senator Lindsey Graham.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/russia-issues-arrest-warrant-senator-lindsey-graham/
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If Putin agreed to be tried as a war criminal he would never be jailed as he would be in back of a long queue behind Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld (dead I know), Kissinger, Cheney etc., so he’d be dead by then as each trial would take many years.