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Nazi Germany largely depended on oil shipments from US Standard Oil.
Written by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Prescott Bush was a partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co and director of Union Banking Corporation which had close relations with German corporate interests including Thyssen Steel, a major company involved in the Third Reich’s weapons industry.
“…[N]ew documents, declassified [in 2003], show that even after America had entered the war [December 8, 1941] and when there was already significant information about the Nazis’ plans and policies, he [Prescott Bush] worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler’s rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty” (The Guardian, September 25, 2004)
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Without US support to Nazi Germany, the Third Reich would not have been able to wage war on the Soviet Union. Germany’s oil production was insufficient to wage a major military campaign. Throughout the war, the Third Reich relied on regular shipments of crude oil from US Standard Oil owned by the Rockefeller family.
The main producing countries in the early 1940s were: the United States (50% of global oil production), the Soviet Union, Venezuela, Iran, Indonesia, and Romania.
Without a steady supply of oil, Germany would not have been able to conduct Operation Barbarossa which was launched on June 22, 1941. The invasion of the Soviet Union was intent upon reaching and taking control of the oil resources of the Soviet Union in the Caucasus and Caspian sea regions: the oil of Baku.
The Unspoken Question. Where did Germany get its oil from?
Prior the December 1941, Texas oil was shipped on a regular basis to Nazi Germany.
While Germany was able to transform coal into fuel, this synthetic production was insufficient. Moreover, Romania’s Ploesti oil resources (under Nazi control until 1944) were minimal. Nazi Germany largely depended on oil shipments from US Standard Oil.
The Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) occurred barely six months after the launching of Operation Barbarossa (July 1941). The United States enters World War II, declaring war on Japan and the axis countries.
Trading with the Enemy legislation (1917) officially implemented 
following America’s entry into World War II did not prevent Standard Oil of New Jersey from selling oil to Nazi Germany. This despite the Senate 1942 investigation of US Standard Oil.
While direct US oil shipments were curtailed, Standard Oil would sell US oil through third countries. US oil was shipped to occupied France through Switzerland, and from France it was shipped to Germany:
“… for the duration of the Second World War, Standard Oil, under deals Teagle had overseen, continued to supply Nazi Germany with oil. The shipments went through Spain, Vichy France’s colonies in the West Indies, and Switzerland.”
It should be noted that a large share of Nazi Germany’s oil requirements was met by shipments out of Venezuela which at the time was a de facto US colony.
Venezuela’s US sponsored (War-time) president General Isaías Medina Angarita (May 1941 – October 1945) was there to protect US oil interests as well as “trade with the enemy” from the onset of America’s entry into World War II in December 1941:
John D. Rockefeller Jr. owned a controlling interest in the Standard Oil corporation, but the next largest stockholder was the German chemical company I. G. Farben, through which the firm sold $20 million worth of gasoline and lubricants to the Nazis. And the Venezuelan branch of that company sent 13,000 tons of crude oil to Germany each month, which the Third Reich’s robust chemical industry immediately converted into gasoline.
While Medina Angarita’s government pressured by Washington in the immediate wake of Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) remained officially neutral (de facto aligned with the US, while breaking its relations with Nazi Germany), oil shipments out of Venezuela to Germany were not discontinued. In a rather unusual twist (bordering on ridicule) Venezuela declared war on Germany in February 1945, when the war was almost over.
Without those oil shipments instrumented by Standard Oil and the Rockefellers, Nazi Germany would not have been able to implement its military agenda. Without fuel, the Third Reich’s eastern front under Operation Barbarossa would most probably not have taken place, saving millions of lives. The Western front including the military occupation of France, Belgium and The Netherlands would no doubt also have been affected.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration could have adopted severe sanctions against Standard Oil with a firm decision to enforce a blockade against Nazi Germany.
The US was not committed to peace: Washington’s unspoken objective was not only to destroy the Soviet Union, it also consisted in undermining Britain’s role as an imperial power.
Let us be under no illusions. Without the oil shipments instrumented by US Standard Oil and its subsidiaries, Nazi Germany’s imperial design could not have been undertaken.
You cannot wage a war without fuel.
America had been “sleeping with the enemy” throughout World War II.
America’s objective was to destroy the Soviet Union.
Flash Forward to 2019
The European Union has recently adopted a resolution entitled “Importance of European Remembrance Day for the Future of Europe which reinforces an earlier declaration (September 23, 2008),
The resolution contends that the Second World War:
“was started as an immediate result of the notorious Nazi-Soviet Treaty on Non-Aggression of 23 August 1939, … and its secret protocols, whereby two totalitarian regimes that shared the goal of world conquest divided Europe into two zones of influence”
This is an absurd statement which distorts history. It intimates that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were allies.
It denies the fact that the Soviet Union was the object of Nazi aggression resulting in more than 25 million people killed (more than 10 percent of the population).
The resolution turns the realities of history upside down. The Soviet Union played a central role in defeating both Nazi Germany and Japan, Moreover, there is ample evidence that the US was sleeping with the enemy largely with a view to destroying the USSR and killing its population.
US oil shipments to Nazi Germany (until 1944) were intended to support Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa resulting in millions of deaths. In this regard, the US was complicit is extensive war crimes by supporting Nazi Germany’s military endeavors.
The broader picture of US-Nazi Cooperation
Selling fuel to Nazi Germany was one among several strategies envisaged by the US.
American business interests continued to cooperate with Nazi corporations after Pearl Harbor.
No attempt was made to prevent Ford from retaining its interests for the Germans in Occupied France, nor were the Chase Bank or the Morgan Bank expressly forbidden to keep open their branches in Occupied Paris. It is indicated that the Reichsbank and Nazi Ministry of Economics made promises to certain U.S. corporate leaders that their properties would not be injured after the Führer was victorious. Thus, the bosses of the multinationals as we know them today had a six-spot on every side of the dice cube. Whichever side won the war, the powers that really ran nations would not be adversely affected.
“Wiping the Soviet Union of the Map”
As early as 1942 (at the height of World War II), a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union had been envisaged. According to a secret document (declassified) released on September 15, 1945 (5 weeks after Hiroshima):
“the Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union with a coordinated nuclear attack directed against major urban areas. … The Pentagon estimated that a total of 204 atomic bombs would be required to “Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map”. The targets for a nuclear attack consisted of sixty-six major cities. (For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, December 10, 2017)
A single atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 resulted in the immediate death of more that 100,000 people.
Imagine what would would happen if 204 atomic bombs had been dropped on all major urban areas of the Soviet Union. This diabolical project formulated while the US and the Soviet Union were allies was tantamount to genocide.
Nothing new. The day of reckoning will be upon the west soon
Why the whole West?
51 out of 81 posts are censored in the best SF style.
My grandparents and my grandmothers fought to liberate Italy from fascism and Nazism. Result? Today we live in a fascist Italy and a Nazi-fascist Europe
Rubbish.Great Britain ruled the sea,there was a complete blockade of european ports under German occupation.
Actually, the American bankers supported both the Nazis and the Bolsheviks to destroy Europe.
You mean Jew Bankers. I don’t know of any “American” bankers.
Rockefeller
LOS ANGLOSAJONES NO SON EUROPEOS SON PERROS SIONISTAS !!! SIN HONOR YA SABEN HECHA LA LEY HECHA LA TRAMPA !!
Let’s imagine what a couple of 100 megatons nukes would explode in Europe today… or the Ukronazis would detonate a nuclear power plant! And it’s not even about the humans it’s about the entire ecosystem.
That madness in Ukraine must stop. NO MORE WEAPONS FOR UKRAINIANS!
LA MALDAD ANGLOSAJONA SIEMPRE ESTA A LA VISTA LA VICTIMA DE TURNO ES UCRANIA DESTRUIDA POR CULPA DE LOS ANGLODSAJONES Y LA BANDA DE JUDIOS NEONAZIS STRAUSSIANOS DEMENTES EN VERDAD ME DA MUCHA LASTIMA LO DE UCRANIA PERO RUSIA NO PUEDE SER BLANDA CON QUIENES BUSCAN DESTRUIRLA Y BORRARLA DEL MAPA
The rapid rise of military production after the NSDAP took over was financed from the US. They wanted to pin Germany vs Russia to destroy both.
And in order to achieve this first Poland as a buffer had vanish. So they did everything to prevent a peacefull settlement and encourage attrocities vs the native Germans in the Polnish annexed areas of pre WWI Germany.
You know from Donbass that there is no way to avoid war, if they massacre your ethnic population.
So there was Poland down in 18 days. Without any help from its allies.
And after Germany took over western Europe and made 42 peace offers to give up all gains just revolving to pre WW1 borders, the US then started building up USSR forces and economy to make the damage of the clash as big as possible…
Hitler in his speaches made it clear that the attack on USSR was a preemtive strike as USSR ever more prepared for war on Germany.
American bankers supported both Nazis and Bolsheviks to destroy Europe.
Very good summary. It’s the American way to pit countries against each other, and then when they are nearly destroyed it is safe for USA military to put boots on the ground. It worked well for centuries for the British too. Will history repeat itself in Ukraine? Likely, if Russia can be brought to its knees.
This was also the Iraq and Iran strategy too. Heading into the Iran contra affair. It is likely the Iran and Saudi Arabia strategy. Playing two sides is old as time, though. Switzerland even did it. It’s funny how These Soviet apologists miss their own opportunism, however.
Both Wahhabis and the Khomeini were supported by the Brits.
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America is not the power it is believed to be. Without the atomic bombs is nobody! It has a cheap and deluded “elite”. And America has disastrously and humiliatingly lost all wars! Since 1945! It was lucky enough to be between two oceans, because if it was adjacent to Germany, or Russia, it was defeated in 2 weeks!
taliban more competent than LGBT NATO
Taliban are incompetent
Ploesti was not minimal. Fuel extraction from coal (and fish oil) did make an impact. And the Bush family were most certainly members of the occult circles that gave rise to Hitler, in the first place, and certainly supported the reich.
“This is an absurd statement which distorts history. It intimates that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were allies.”
They actually were allies in 1939… And how do you think that Texas and Venezuelan crude got delivered to Germany? All ports Germany had access to were blockaded by the Royal Navy. There are many more mistakes and impossibilities. This is a BS article
its call it Propaganda friend, USA does, and also Russia does the same… Liberty and Freedom are just illusory pills to deceit the believers and the naive. Welcome to the Real-World Pal! First Rule of Politics: Politics are only allowed for Governments and not for common people.
For good reason. When the moral war is part of your agenda, you get more support for your agenda. It’s just sad, because when your hatred for the one is rooted in the fake ness of their narrative and what it’s done, the other just picks up the pieces and runs with them to create its own, equally intelligence-insulting BS.
Isn’t it funny how we come closer to truth when all the countries Germany went up against have to relinquish their moral armor in a way that indirectly justifies pieces of the buried German point of view?
US to post USSR: well actually you did this and that and weren’t so innocent..
Post USSR to US: well actually you did this and that and weren’t so innocent.
Result in both cases: more sympathy for Germans
I guess that was bound to happen. Both sides have been saying how wonderful they were 1930-1945 and used that to push agenda propaganda for a half a century, (and the US did this, especially, at Europe’s expense)
Come on!!! Everyone was trying to get each other throats since XVII century when the Geopolitical Maxim was: “You cannot get grown too much your neighbors or they will conquer you”, so for four centuries all kind of wars were waged in Europe between contending Powers for Hegemony, first against Holland to dethrone Netherlands, then was France to not allow them to be a Naval Power, then was Germany…. only UK last along and gets the Hegemony in the Seas during Queen Victoria, then UK start to fall when Colonies starting to achieve Independence from the Empire. Germany was convinced and moved again to try to modify Europe Maps, and Corporation Multinationals and Barons Lords were profiting for Wars since Napoleon Army felt in Waterloo against UK Army… … … let it be no mistake, HITLER was a moron, because if he was smart and have a solid strategy Germany would have succeeded in WWII. Only two Sides survived World War II, USA (UK and Colonies) and the URSS (Soviets), and Power could not be shared so USA and URSS started to fight in the Cold War soon after for Absolute Power of the World. URSS felt in the 90’s then USA thinks was so close to achieve full Planetary Domination and the NWO and the “”Novus Ordum Seclorum”” magic recipe appeared to the world as :”Radical Democratic Liberalism”…. …. do you like how I resume last five centuries of this tiny planet!
Ukraine ‘war’ is a sideshow for homeland #2 free of Ukrainian nationalists (“neonazis” per sf & ru). When you kill nationalists you’re left with globalists. Gee!
Ashkenazis get another homeland like homeland #1 from WW2, 70m dead & Germans destroyed for being aware, not woke.
But don’t look at the man behind the curtain – Ju.S.A. doing population decrease. Weather wars with aerial spraying, Geo engineering watch (dot) com. Toxic air quality world-wide aqicn (dot) org. COVID injections for blood & white-fiber clots, see ‘died suddenly’ 68 min video, need to know (dot) news. Just wear mask to decrease blood oxygen level & increase blood carbon dioxide level.
Ask Vlad what he gave for pregnant friend’s sanctuary in homeland #1.
*Illuminati
Without US help to dictator Stalin, russian kids would only learn German in school. But since losing Kherson and much of East Ukraine is only a tactical retreat for southfront, who the hell cares what this propaganda site has to say? Only russian flatheads and Nazis all over the world.
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Big lies 🤣. It was the USSR that was saved by the jewmurican lend&lease.
Sorry, this is bullshit. The US sent many millions of dollars in Lend-Lease to the Soviets and the Brits, in addition to fighting.
I support Russia in this US/NATO Globalist war, but let’s not try to rewrite history.
They sent that only AFTER Germany declared war on USA. Their objective was to get them to wipe each other out, including the end of the British empire – how else did you think that all ended, through British benevolence? Haha.
Try to read and think a bit before posting.
false—lend lease went to UK—USSR receivesved 15%—all unusable trash
Imagine if Hitler had actually done the holocaust instead of being nice and letting the jews go.
Imagine if the allies had not attacked Germany and allowed Hitler to wipe out Russian jewish bolshevism.
Europe, Russia and America would all be free of the jewish cancer.
imagine if you an inferior oregun hillbilly were not senile retired dishwasher
Where do you live? lol
So corporations sold to Germany. And to USSR. just as They had played two sides in WWI for profit as private enterprise acted in its own interests prior to the outbreak of war. Shock.
Yea, big “Nazi conspiracy” – especially airlifting the brains of Germany after the war so you couldn’t rap their minds, real shocking too.
Anyway as dumb as it is, this eternal ebil white west Nazi, vs dindo nuthin Soviet is really funny. I hope it goes viral because it’s hilarious to see everyone calling each other Nazi, even if you are too ignorant to know that’s what the west calls you and it’s own internal opponents too.
moron dindu nebraska hillbilly—senile retired janitor
True. God bless the Czar.
The fact is There was war supplies for USSR at the same time as it went to Germany and, once the Axis invaded USSR. it namely switched to USSR because it was never in the interests to see the USSR fall to a strong Europe. The UK came to similar conclusion with Napoleon. And with Germany in WWI. Let’s remember though what you wanted in exchange for more direct support to Germany and the Axis In WWII. You were eying Bulgaria on top of all you had already taken. earlier you ran to defend Serbia because Austria’s defeat would be your victory. You played your policy cards and used war just the same.
The world needs to understand this. The USA is a GERMANIC white supremacist nation first and foremost. Black people have been shouting this for the longest time.
1. They wiped out 50-150 million native Americans without mercy and stole their land. 2. They kidnapped, trafficked and enslaved millions of people to grow their entire economy. 3. During WW2 German POW were free to roam the USA, with more rights than non-white Americans!!! Just think about that.
You might be white or non-black but if you are NOT Germanic USA, you are still a target.
Don’t ignore it just because someone else is experiencing it, because soon the Germanic USA, controlled by the youse will be coming for YOU.
What are you saying here? You say about Native Americans. Native Americans are not one group but many. Some allied with British, some with French, some with Portuguese, some with Spaniards and some with Americans. Americans were the most evil for sure, the others weren’t so racist.
I found this on internet 12 years ago. General Motors, Ford, Rockefeller, DuPont Co, Goodyear, whole Wall St. practically supported Hitler rise on power. They were trading with German capital on Wall St. until 1944. Reed about Scull and Bones society, they transferred the iconography to Nazi troops.
eisenhower “I hate Germans” purged 20,000 pro-nazi officers from US military before USA entered WWII—only after USSR had defeated the inferior nazis did US pretend to be involved—their fake lend lease only provided 15% of promised support—despite the lies contained in CIA– wikipedia
Peron, Nasser and Assad were in the left-wing and they used ex-nazis, so what?
Illuminati, divide and conquer.
NO! They didn’t! It was business as usual. Nothing that gained the NSDAP. Read proper history at Codoh for instance.
I trust gestapo to lose again—after Talibann humiliation nobody takes anglo moron cowards seriously
Russia, India and Central Asian states also supported the government of Ashraf Ghani. What now?
Yeaaahhhh!!! Yuri is back… smash those idaho hillbillies lgbt living in trash cans eating viagra pills and smoking poo
This is faaarr… from what really happened. 70% of Germarny’s economy was in US hands (after WW1). They had ppl advising the Nazis; the British were in it too. Petrol came from Royal Dutch Shell etc. Nazi Germany was a creation of the Anglo-American elites (more Anglo really). The idea was to systematically prepare Germany for a war with the Soviet Union. Thus taking out both Germany and the Soviet Union is the most feared competitors. They weren’t “in bed” with the Nazis, they essentially made them. Of course, they, in the end, decided to aid Russia more (directly with tanks etc.), bc especially the British elites were hell-bent to completely destroy Germany, which they hated even more than Russia. Whether he really said it or not, Churchill and others later ‘realised’ that the Soviet Union was stronger than they’d thought.
Germany was in US hands so that the US could lend Germans money to pay off interest on fictitiously created debt to the US for war reparations. Keeping Germany weak and dependent was goal. That’s why the huge pushback in 1932 when Germany and Austria moved to create a customs union. Money withdrew from Austria that sabotaged the plan but caused new economy crash. Germans voted Hitler. That begins the period of Western profiteering aiding the German buildup, offset only by Jewish boycotts. You also have to remember that Spain almost fell to communists, it was German military aid that changed tide there. USSR backed the communists. So, West had incentive.
By 1939 it was understood that strong Germany limited options for USSR, and even if the two came together as they did, war with the UK would create tension because control of Europe was at stake, USSR had resources Germany needed and Germany’s war with UK would only weaken Germany’s military size. USSR could gain from abandoning Germany, as the Allies would have the prospect of USSR swallowing Europe and have to appease USSR big time. Which is what happened, only because Germany blinked first and invaded USSR. At that point focus was keeping Germany from controlling the continent, just as the USSR was not to control the continent. US and UK bled them out, just like they hoped to with Iran and Iraq in 1980
Remember Soviets initiated the expansion war into Slav Eastern Europe in 1920s.Soviet emblem was a globe with their hammer sickle on it, the objective brought them to Baltic, not a single willing annexation claim. The Soviets sponsored communists all across Europe. in Spain, in the war there. In France, commies almost won election. In Germany, came second to Hitler. Soviets said they’d go to war over the Germans in Sudetenland voting to join Germany (to stop basically a situation like today’s Donbass). The UK worried Soviets take the land. This is why the Soviet Union became a free agent. In the end, Germany became an ally, as giving Soviets free reign to attack 5 countries, Germany got food, energy resources (sound familiar to today?) and half of Poland – the part that split Germany in two and had Germans in it. Meanwhile Soviets offered to join German-led Axis pact in exchange for free hand in Balkans. So igeopolitics..
No, this is fake news.
This is fake news. It’s a wonder that an educated person like Chossudovsky makes this mistake. Companies and industries made business as usual with Germany, not the German government. Read proper history: