By carefully penetrating the cloak of deception behind which it was hidden, Professor Antony C. Sutton considered original documentation and eyewitness accounts to reveal what remains one of the most remarkable and under-reported facts of World War II.
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View full-sizeDownload Antony Cyril Sutton (February 14, 1925 – June 17, 2002) was a British-American writer, researcher, economist, and professor.
In his account of this orchestrated conflagration, Sutton carefully documents how prominent Wall Street banks and US businesses supported Hitler's rise to power by financing and trading with Nazi Germany, reaching the unsavory conclusion that,
'the catastrophe of World War II was extremely profitable for a select group of financial insiders' including J.P. Morgan, T.W. Lamont, the Rockefeller interests, General Electric, Standard Oil, and the National City, Chase, and Manhattan banks, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and scores of others in 'the bloodiest, most destructive war in history'.
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler pp. 11-12.
To illustrate the complex and wide-ranging collaboration between US business interests and the Nazis throughout the war, consider just one example:
On the eve of World War II the German chemical complex of I.G. Farben, which included the banker Max Warburg (brother of Paul of the US Federal Reserve) on its Board of Directors, was the largest chemical manufacturing enterprise in the world, with extraordinary political and economic power within Hitler's Nazi state.
The Farben cartel dated from 1925 and had been created with financial assistance from Wall Street by the organizing genius of Hermann Schmitz, a prominent early Nazi who, through I.G. Farben, helped fund Hitler's seizure of control in March 1933.
Hermann Schmitz in 1931
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View full-sizeDownload Hermann Schmitz (1 January 1881 – 8 October 1960) was a German industrialist and Nazi war criminal. CEO of IG Farben from 1935 to 1945, he was sentenced to four years in prison in the IG Farben Trial.
Schmitz created the super-giant chemical enterprise out of six already giant German chemical companies.
So critical was I.G. Farben to the Nazi war effort that it produced 100% of its lubricating oil and various other products, 95% of its poison gas - 'enough gas to kill 200 million humans' - used in the extermination chambers, 84% of its explosives, 70% of its gunpowder, and very high proportions of many other critical products including aviation fuel.
As Sutton concludes:
'Without the capital supplied by Wall Street, there would have been no I.G. Farben in the first place and almost certainly no Adolf Hitler and World War II.'
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, pp.17-20.
The cost in human lives of World War II was 70-85 million.
But there was no cost to those Wall Street corporations and their fellow war profiteers that collaborated with Nazi Germany.
Just massive profits...
Following World War II
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View full-sizeDownload Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills published widely in both popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, such as The Power Elite, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, and The Sociological Imagination. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post–World War II society, and he advocated public and political engagement over disinterested observation. One of Mills's biographers, Daniel Geary, writes that Mills's writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s era." It was Mills who popularized the term New Left in the U.S. in a 1960 open letter, "Letter to the New Left".
Documenting what had become the long-standing collusion between political, corporate and military elites, sociology Professor C. Wright Mills published his classic work The Power Elite in 1956.
This scholarly effort was among the earliest of the post-World War II era to document the nature of the US elite and how it functioned, highlighting the interlocking power of:
corporate
political
military
elites as they exercised control over US national society and went about the task of exploiting the general population.
But a weakness of the account by Mills was his failure to grapple with the already long-standing power of a global elite to manipulate key events in any one country, and certainly the United States, even if much of this was done through the relevant national elite(s).
This 'global reach' of the Elite is again clearly apparent in any study of ownership of the world's oil resources.
In his 1975 book The Seven Sisters, Anthony Sampson popularized this collective name for the shadowy oil cartel that, throughout its history, had vigorously worked to eliminate competitors and control the world's oil.
The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies and the World They Shaped.
Several decades later, Dean Henderson simply observed that,
'After a tidal wave of mergers at the turn of the millennium, Sampson's Seven Sisters were Four Horsemen: Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco, BP Amoco and Royal Dutch/Shell.'
Beyond this, however, Henderson noted the following:
The oil wealth generated in the Persian Gulf region is the main source of capital [for the international mega-banks].
They sell the Gulf Cooperation Council sheiks 30-year treasury bonds at 5% interest, then loan the sheiks' oil money out to Third World governments and Western consumers alike at 15-20% interest.
In the process these financial overlords - who produce nothing of economic import - use debt as their lever in consolidating control over the global economy.
and other European old money behemoths', own the four oil giants and are also 'among the top 10 stockholders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation' giving them vast control over the global economy.
Ibid pp. 470, 473.
So, who owns these banks?
By now it should come as no surprise that several scholars at different times during the past 100 years have investigated this issue and come to essentially the same conclusion:
the major families, increasingly interrelated by blood, marriage and/or business interests, have simply consolidated their control over the banks.
Apart from scholars already mentioned above, in the 1983 revision of his book, Eustace Mullins noted that a few families still controlled the New York City banks which, in turn, hold the controlling stock of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Several scholars have written on the subject of elite power since Mills with Professor Peter Phillips penning the 2018 book Giants: The Global Power Elite which reviews,
'The transition from the nation state power elites described by Mills to a transnational power elite centralized on the control of global capital around the world.
The Global Power Elite function as a nongovernmental network of similarly educated wealthy people with common interests of managing, facilitating, and protecting concentrated global wealth and insuring the continued growth of capital.'
Aside from the obvious criticism that Phillips effectively repeats the mistake made by Mills in assuming that there was no pre-existing 'transnational power elite' even if in different form, Phillips goes on to usefully identify the world's top seventeen asset management firms, such as BlackRock and J.P Morgan Chase, that collectively manage (by now) more than $US50 trillion in a self-invested network of interlocking capital that spans the globe.
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View full-sizeDownload The WEF logo is seen on a window at the congress center during preparations for the upcoming Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2011.
More precisely, Phillips identifies the 199 individual directors of the seventeen global financial Giants and the importance of those transnational institutions that serve a unifying function, including,
And Phillips carefully explains why and how the Global Elite defends its power, profits and privilege against rebellion by the 'unruly exploited masses':
'The Global Power Elite uses NATO and the US military empire for its worldwide security...
The whole system continues wealth concentration for elites and expanded wretched inequality for the masses.'
Advocating the importance of systemic change and the redistribution of wealth, Phillips goes on to argue that,
'This concentration of protected wealth leads to a crisis of humanity, whereby poverty, war, starvation, mass alienation, media propaganda, and environmental devastation are reaching a species-level threat.'
Hence, it is worth reiterating:
War plays an ongoing and vital role in the exercise of Elite power to reshape world order to maximize wealth concentration by the Elite.
If you want further evidence of this, you might find these recent reports instructive:
the US Congressional Research Service report 'Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2022'.
But, as the discussion above and below illustrates, war is not the only mechanism the Elite uses.
For an account which focuses on identifying many of the world's largest corporations, in many industries, and then illustrates the interlocking nature of corporate ownership while demonstrating that they are all owned by the same small group of giant asset management corporations - notably including Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street - this video is very instructive:
And for a penetrating critique of BlackRock and its overall strategy to acquire vast worldwide control, including by using its Aladdin investment analysis technology (which employs massive data collection, artificial intelligence and machine learning to derive investment insight),
In the 'Monopoly' video, you will again see the names of some familiar individuals and families who own significant shareholdings in these corporations and asset management firms.
After showcasing families such as the:
Rothschilds
Rockefellers
Morgans
the narrator simply observes in relation to Vanguard that its,
'Largest shareholders are the private funds and nonprofit organizations of these families'.
And if you think that national Elites in countries like China and Russia are somehow not involved in all this, you might find it interesting to read articles that discuss the wealth and political influence of the Chinese 'immortals' and the Russian oligarchs.
Beyond this, however, Emanuel Pastreich points out that if anyone attributes responsibility for Chinese policies in relation to data collection and control based on QR codes and contact tracing, they inevitably identify the Chinese government.
Pastreich in 2015
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View full-sizeDownload Emanuel Pastreich (born October 16, 1964) is an American professor, director, and polyglot who is an international relations expert and serves as the president of the Asia Institute, a think tank with offices in Washington DC, Tokyo, Seoul and Hanoi. He is also a senior fellow at the Global Peace Foundation where he strives to solve geopolitical tensions in Northeast Asia.
'But the truth is that few, or none, of these policies were made up or implemented by the Chinese government itself, but rather that the Chinese government is occupied by IT corporations that report to the billionaires (often through Israel and the United States) and bypass the Chinese government altogether.'
Pastreich goes on to offer some insight into how key Elite intelligence and finance corporations are driving the technocratic social control policies being implemented under cover of the 'virus' in China.
'Thanks to early members of the [Elite's] Trilateral Commission, China was brought out of its dark ages Communist dictatorship and onto the world stage.
Furthermore, the Trilateral Commission orchestrated and then facilitated a massive transfer of technology to China in order to build up its non-existent infrastructure...
As a failed Communist dictatorship, China was a blank slate with over 1.2 billion citizens under its control.
However, Chinese leadership knew nothing about capitalism and free enterprise, and [key Trilateralist Zbigniew] Brzezinski made no effort to teach them about it.
Instead, he planted seeds of Technocracy...
In the 20-year period from 1980 to 2000, a transformation took place that was considered nothing short of an economic miracle; but it was not of China's doing.
Rather, it can be fully attributed to the masters of Technocracy within the ranks of the Trilateral Commission.'
After listing several key features of China's technocracy (5G, AI, social credit scores…), Wood concludes that 'China is a full-blown Technocracy and it is the first of its kind on planet earth.'
See this article on China as one of Wood's 12-part series on technocracy:
And in relation to Russia, Riley Waggaman simply observes that,
'As for "COVID-triggered" economic restructuring: the Russian government has openly embraced the World Economic Forum's Fourth Industrial Revolution.
In October [2021], the Russian government and the WEF signed a memorandum on the establishment of a Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Russia.
Russia has already adopted a law allowing for "experimental legal regimes" to allow corporations and institutions to deploy AI and robots into the economy, without being encumbered by regulatory red tape.
Returning to Gref and his digital Sbercoin: Russia's central bank is already planning to test-run a digital ruble that, among other nifty features, could be used to restrict purchases.'
Moreover, according to Mikhail Delyagin, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation:
'In the 90s, under Yeltsin, the external management of global banksters was carried out through the IMF and through [Russian oligarch Anatoly] Chubais. Now under Putin, external management will be done by Big Tech, social global platforms, and Big Pharma through the WHO. Exactly the same management.'
Separately from this, bear in mind that the Elite, as well as its agents and organizations (including those in China and Russia), have vast wealth stashed in 'secrecy jurisdictions' (better known as tax havens):
locations around the world where wealthy individuals, criminals and terrorists, as well as governments and government agencies (such as the CIA), banks, corporations, hedge funds, international organizations (such as the Vatican) and crime syndicates (such as the Mafia), can stash their money so that they can avoid regulation and oversight, and evade tax.
Just how much wealth is stashed in tax havens?
While this is impossible to know precisely, it can only be measured in tens of trillions of dollars as well as an unknown number of gold bricks, artworks, yachts and racehorses.
Well, it is protected by government legislation and legal systems, with an 'army' of Elite agents -
accountants
auditors
bankers
businesspeople
lawyers
and politicians - ensuring that they remain protected.
The point here is simple:
if you have enough money, the law simply does not exist...
And you can evade taxes legally and in the full knowledge that your vast profits (even from immorally acquired wealth such as sex trafficking, gunrunning, endangered species trafficking, conflict diamonds and drug trafficking) are 'lawful' and will escape regulation and oversight of any kind.
According to Dean Henderson writing in 2010, it is,
'the Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of New York; the Rothschilds of Paris and London; the Warburgs of Hamburg; the Lazards of Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome.'
Henderson goes on to state that,
'The control that these banking families exert over the global economy cannot be overstated and is quite intentionally shrouded in secrecy.
Their corporate media arm is quick to discredit any information exposing these money powers as half-baked conspiracy theory.
The word "conspiracy" itself has been demonized, much like the word "communism".
Anyone who dare utter the word is quickly excluded from public debate and written off as insane.
In his exceptionally detailed investigation into three major historical events of the C20th - the Bolshevik Revolution, the rise of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the rise of Hitler - Professor Antony Sutton identified the seat of political power in the United States not as the US Constitution authorized but,
'The financial establishment in New York: the private international bankers, more specifically the financial houses of J.P. Morgan, the Rockefeller-controlled Chase Manhattan Bank, and in earlier days (before amalgamation of their Manhattan Bank with the former Chase Bank), the Warburgs.'
For most of the twentieth century the Federal Reserve System, particularly the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (which is outside the control of Congress, unaudited and uncontrolled, with the power to print money and create credit at will), has exercised a virtual monopoly over the direction of the American economy.
In foreign affairs the Council on Foreign Relations, superficially an innocent forum for:
academics
businessmen
politicians
contains within its shell, perhaps unknown to many of its members, a power center that unilaterally determines U.S. foreign policy.
The major objective of this submerged - and obviously subversive - foreign policy is the acquisition of markets and economic power (profits, if you will), for a small group of giant multi-nationals under the virtual control of a few banking investment houses and controlling families.
Wall Street and The Rise of Hitler, pp.125-126.
So what has changed?
Nothing has changed...
But it is not just fine scholars who have reached this conclusion.
Consider David Rockefeller's delusionary whitewashing of his own family's key role in the killing, devastation and destruction outlined above:
'Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will.
If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it... one of the most enduring [conspiracies] is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world's economy... [but these people] ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century'.
If you are wondering how all of this happens without any significant pushback from within elite circles, there is a simple answer:
They are all insane and control to maximize resource accumulation has become the perpetual substitute for their destroyed capacity to engage emotionally in their own lives and empathize with their fellow human beings.
So, while some of us occasionally ponder how we can contribute more to improve the human condition and the state of the world, and then endeavor to do something along those lines, there are plenty of terrified people whose daily life is consumed (consciously or unconsciously) by the question,
'How can I take more?'
And people like that have been taking more since the dawn of human civilization and, no doubt, earlier.
The Global Elite is simply those who have been insanely ruthless and organized enough to take more, whatever the cost to humanity and all other life on Earth.
