link: https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/henry-ford-und-die-nazis-a-947358.html
Of course in Koch's defense Koch violated no laws in building an oil refinery in a nation that the US had full diplomatic relations with. Apparently even thoughAnd apparently Hitler.
On how the Koch brothers' father built oil refineries for Hitler and Stalin
Fred Koch, the patriarch of the family, was an expert in building oil refineries, and he and a friend named William Rhodes Davis proposed building one in Germany during 1934, '35, that period in there. In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of the Third Reich in Germany, so this meant working under the Third Reich. And in order to get permission, they actually had to go to Hitler himself, and William Rhodes Davis did the "Heil Hitler" to greet Hitler, and finally they got Hitler to greenlight this proposal so that they could build an oil refinery in Hamburg.
And the Hamburg Oil Refinery, built by the Winkler-Koch Co., became key, according to several German historians I talked to, to Hitler's war efforts. By the time they built it, it was already clear that Hitler had very major military ambitions, but one of the things he was unable to do was to refine high-octane oil for warplanes. What this plant did was create that capacity, and it eventually supplied much of the fuel that was needed for Hitler's Luftwaffe.
He was not a Nazi, and I certainly don't suggest that in the book, but what he was was an American businessman looking for a good deal, and he was looking all over the world to see how he could make some money. Oddly, and what's been known before, is before working under Hitler's Third Reich, Fred Koch had worked for Stalin, where — under Stalin's first five-year plan — Fred Koch helped build up the Russian, the Soviet oil refineries and really gave huge muscle to the oil industry in the Soviet Union.
https://www.npr.org/2016/01/19/4635...ers-traces-their-childhood-and-political-rise
You are correct, he was bribing & "selling rope"
against the interests of his homeland.That is a good " what if " point. We simply can't know a theoretical possibility. Certainly the US State Department Intelligence Bureau was not unaware of American business interests in the Soviet Union.You are correct, he was bribing & "selling rope"
If not for the Germans and then the greedy capitalists the U.S.S.R. would have been--likely--strangled in its cradle.
History.com has a brief article on a 1929 agreement between Ford Motor Company and the Soviet Union.Also 25 other major companies including Du Pont and RCA also signed commercial agreements with the Soviet Union despite no US recognition of the Soviet Union and a Republican Party that controlled all three branches actually four branches of the US government .You are correct, he was bribing & "selling rope"
If not for the Germans and then the greedy capitalists the U.S.S.R. would have been--likely--strangled in its cradle.
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a few?
I added a list ... check out the 1960-70...
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was there a proxy war in afrika they were not involved? they had a hand in south american affairs quite often, tooI added a list ... check out the 1960-70...
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The US actually parachuted supplies to the Baltic states in the early 2959s plus fast ship drop offs but in the end it didn't work out.Here a list of anti communist para militaries... East Germans are missing...
The Central and Eastern European anti-Communist insurgencies fought on after the official end of the Second World War against the Soviet Union and the communist states formed under Soviet occupation and support.
They seem to be a type of local police not part of the US Army.
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