Nazi Nexus

[Hesper]

Finished a pretty darn interesting book about a week ago called "Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust" by Edwin Black, author of IBM and the Holocaust, and War Against the Weak (concerning America's role in the Nazi Eugenics program). The book is a compilation of all of his research into the role America played in arming, fueling, and propagating Nazis and their ideology. In all it seems like it barely scratches the surface of the ponerogenic networks involved, but it does an amazing job of putting together all of the pieces, and boy are there a ton of pieces. I highly recommend it. From the blurb on Amazon:

Nazi Nexus is the long-awaited wrap-up in a single explosive volume that details the pivotal corporate American connection to the Holocaust. The biggest names and crimes are all there. IBM and its facilitation of the identification and accelerated destruction of the Jews; General Motors and its rapid motorization of the German military enabling the conquest of Europe and the capture of Jews everywhere; Ford Motor Company for its political inspiration; the Rockefeller Foundation for its financing of deadly eugenic science and the program that sent Mengele into Auschwitz; the Carnegie Institution for its proliferation of the concept of race science, racial laws, and the very mathematical formula used to brand the Jews for progressive destruction; and others.

 

[Baristarossa]

Aloha, Hesper,

The field of Nazi "hidden history" turns out to be quite a rabbit hole. Edwin Black is one of the more mainstream authors, in that he doesn't indulge in speculation or unsubstantiated rumors, for ex., Nazi Flying Saucers, the Underground Base in Antarctica, Hitler's escape to Argentina, etc. What is sometimes unfortunate is when you realize that some who propagate these rumors are actually white supremacist or neo-Nazi.

Personally I don't mind going further out on a limb with an author, provided s/he is level-headed and honest enough to say what is speculation and why this is desirable for forming a more complete picture. Lately the author I regard as provocative yet relatively sane on the subject is Joseph P. Farrell. I've read most of his books re the Nazi International. I'd call his method "triangulation to the truth"; for ex., imagine you have 3 points that you know are solid, established facts. You can use those as anchorage points to reach and support a 4th point that by itself is not established. Kinda like a balcony that juts out from a building; architecturally it's not as stable as a rooftop terrace, but you can stand on it if you like.

Ciao,
Wayne