2001-06-21 - 07:31 MDT

THE WONDERING JEW

Playing Both Sides ?

I guess from what I read our corporations and the big wheeler dealers were playing both sides while the Holocaust continued on.

I am quoting in its entirety from: "Forgotten History - Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - - - - Titled: "Arming the Fascists," by Denis Mueller.

"During the 1930's, General Motors was under the control of the du Pont family. At the head of the family was Irenee du Pont who was an unwavering supporter of Adolph Hitler. He felt it was necessary to breed a race of supermen and in 1926 du Pont told the American Chemical Society about his theories. Du Pont was not alone in his admiration of Hitler."

"The captains of industry at General Motors looked favorably at the Nazis; between 1932 and 1939 they invested over $30 million in I. G. Farben's plants even though they knew one percent of the money went to the Nazi party. It was a convienent way for American Corporations to support Hitler because they officially could deny the support. The money went for German tanks and arms that would someday kill American boys."

Back at home, the du Ponts did everything they could to finance native fascist groups in the United States. Along with Alfred Sloan, also of General Motors, they poured money into the American Liberty league who were an anti-Semitic and anti-black group. The league opened a thirty-one room office in New York and campaigned vigorously against Roosevelt, however, they were defeated in the landslide of 1936."

In 1936 du Pont used GM money to finance the infamous "Black Legion." The Legion was a terrorist group whose purpose it was to stop union organizing. The members, modeled after the Klan, wore hoods and black robes. They firebombed union meetings, murdered organizers and killed at least fifty people in their attacks and many of their targets were blacks and Jews."

"While Rooosevelt desired to make working conditions better for Americans, it is safe to say that this help angered the du Ponts even more. General Motors was soon employing speed up tactics that forced men to work at unsafe speeds. Many died at the job. The heat and pressure became overwhelming, and these men feared for their jobs. But du Pont wasn't through. He now hired groups of storm troopers, modeled after Hitler's own group, and went through the factories beating up anyone who questioned their authority."

"While half of the GM corporate employees were attacking workers in the United States, the other half were busy overseas doing anything they could do to help Hitler. They enlisted the support of the National Council of Clergymen and Laymen. Others who supported Hitler were lumber giants John Henry Kirby of Texas and Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia. They supported the German-Bund and used Charles Lindberg as a mouthpiece."

"Support for Hitler did not stop with the beginning of the American involvement with the war. According to Charles Levinson, Sloan and others remained on the General Motors-Opel board during the war. As late as 1943, GM offices in Stockholm were trading with the Nazis and providing them with the help they needed. This was a flagrant violation of the law but after the war GM was given compensation for their destroyed plants. They should have been hung for treason." END OF QUOTES

So fifty some years ago, some of those people who worked in those plants received a sum of money for being slaves in factories and mines financed in part with corporate American money. I doubt if the money is adequate, lets see x amount divided by fifty years probably would be calculated out to a pittance compared to what they should have received. I wonder how much money the slaves had to expend in the litigation ? Worked in plants that had an amount of willful financial support from American corporations.

I have read in bits and pieces many of the things mentioned here and to my knowledge they are true.

I remember when Dad and Mom were organizing a union here in Denver along about that time. All the people involved worked in absolute secrecy, fearful of being hit with tactics mentioned above and fearful about losing their jobs. It was a difficult and frightening time for the average Joe. I have read about the speed up tactics and have seen some of it personally. It is still being done today, disguised a bit maybe, but there never the less. Some of these big layoffs are forcing the remaining employees to double up on work once done by the vanished force.

Maybe a strong Union Man shouldn't be putting in his diary something derogatory about corporations. But to my own knowledge I have seen the truth of many of these statements.

The big guys, the corporations, the government bureaus, the massive organizations always have had the upper hand, but I feel their abuse of power is and has been despicable.

For many, many years they have been Playing Both Sides . . . . . .

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