Summary of Jim Marrs' The Rise of the Fourth Reich

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#1 Following the Armistice of 1918, which ended World War I, German soldiers returned home to a country economically devastated by the war. The Bavarian city of Munich was hit particularly hard, with jobless ex-soldiers wandering the streets. It was in this setting that Hitler, a 29-year-old veteran, came into contact with members of the Thule Society, a secret society composed of wealthy conservatives and anti-Semites, who encouraged him to join their party.

#2 Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, after the German aristocracy made a deal with wealthy businessmen to support him. Hitler went against tradition by not working out of an office in the German Reichstag, or parliament building, in 1933.

#3 The German government passed the Enabling Act, which allowed Hitler to start his dictatorship. With the German population firmly under control due to massive propaganda and fear of government retaliation, Hitler was free to launch invasions into former German territories as well as Poland.

#4 Following World War I, American capitalism and German corporations became intertwined. The Dawes Plan, designed to restructure German war reparations, was largely a J. P. Morgan production. The Young Plan, designed to require burdensome monetary payments from Germany, proved as profitable as it was dangerous to European peace.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822545977

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#1

Following the Armistice of 1918, which ended World War I, German soldiers returned home to a country economically devastated by the war. The Bavarian city of Munich was hit particularly hard, with jobless ex-soldiers wandering the streets. It was in this setting that Hitler, a 29-year-old veteran, came into contact with members of the Thule Society, a secret society composed of wealthy conservatives and anti-Semites, who encouraged him to join their party.

#2

Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, after the German aristocracy made a deal with wealthy businessmen to support him. Hitler went against tradition by not working out of an office in the German Reichstag, or parliament building, in 1933.

#3

The German government passed the Enabling Act, which allowed Hitler to start his dictatorship. With the German population firmly under control due to massive propaganda and fear of government retaliation, Hitler was free to launch invasions into former German territories as well as Poland.

#4

Following World War I, American capitalism and German corporations became intertwined. The Dawes Plan, designed to restructure German war reparations, was largely a J. P. Morgan production. The Young Plan, designed to require burdensome monetary payments from Germany, proved as profitable as it was dangerous to European peace.

#5

The BIS was a multinational organization that exchanged information and planned for the coming war. I. G. Farben, a German chemical company, was the brainchild of Hermann Schmitz, who became its president. It was I. Farben’s patented Zyklon-B poison gas that was used to kill victims in the shower baths of Auschwitz, Maidanek, and Treblinka.

#6

By the mid-1930s, with the government, military, and the German cartels now firmly in hand, Hitler knew it was time to strengthen his influence over international bankers and businessmen. He initially had little trouble getting funds from corporate sponsors who saw his National Socialism as a necessary alternative to worldwide communism.

#7

The banking industry, including foreign financial houses, provided Hitler and his Nazis with the funds to both consolidate and spread their National Socialist doctrine.

#8

The Bank of International Settlements, which was under Nazi control by the start of World War II, was a money funnel for American and British funds to flow into Hitler’s coffers. The bank’s directors included Schmitz, Schroeder, Dr. Walter Funk, and Emil Puhl of the Reichsbank.

#9

The Rockefeller-owned Chase National Bank, now JPMorgan Chase Bank, was also involved in banking connections with Nazi Germany. Two executives of Standard Oil of New Jersey were Karl Lindemann and Emil Helfferich, prominent figures in Himmler’s Circle of Friends of the Gestapo.

#10

The company that provided the Nazis with the technology to register, correlate, and assign shipment schedules to the millions of Jews and others that were rounded up and