# The Nazis Were Funded by wall street **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 5, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364 "2013-08-05T03:08:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MIDWESTcowboy8312](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@MIDWESTcowboy8312](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MIDWESTcowboy8312)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/1 "2013-08-05T03:08:01Z")
Any thoughts on this? I read a book called wall street and the rise of hitler which detailed how the nazi war machine was funded by American banks like JP Morgan Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. These bankers were very closely connected with the Rothschild banking family who has been pulling the strings for hundreds of years…sounds like the illuminati ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/2 "2013-08-05T03:14:45Z")
My thought is “No they weren’t, and the Illuminati don’t exist.” I assume that’s not going to settle the discussion, though. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MIDWESTcowboy8312](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@MIDWESTcowboy8312](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MIDWESTcowboy8312)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/3 "2013-08-05T03:16:26Z")
Any thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/4 "2013-08-05T03:17:36Z")
I wouldn’t be surprised if Golden Mansachs had a sub-basement with Hitler’s frozen corpse. Of course would you really expect anything less of [the great Vampire Squid](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405). [continues whistling past the graveyard] 😉 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/5 "2013-08-05T03:19:16Z")
One, the Lehman Brothers were Jewish. So I’m gonna go with “no.” Plus, don’t teh j00z control Wall Street? So why would they fund the Nazis? Perhaps it was… it was… it was… all a great big cover up so that they could get the only piece of land in the area with no oil? And then make all the money on Schindler’s List!!! > [@](#): > > the Illuminati don’t exist. What are you trying to hide? ---
**Author:** ![MIDWESTcowboy8312](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@MIDWESTcowboy8312](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MIDWESTcowboy8312)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/6 "2013-08-05T03:23:49Z")
This isn’t a matter of “if” this happened, it DID happen. The nazi war machine was no accident it was created by banksters who new what they were doing. Google the Rothschilds to find out more ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/7 "2013-08-05T03:24:36Z")
My first thought: 10 million years seems a reasonable upper bounding point. Homo sapiens will give way to our descendant species by then anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/8 "2013-08-05T03:27:20Z")
> [@MIDWESTcowboy8312](#): > > Google the Rothschilds to find out more The [RationalWiki entry](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rothschild_family) is pretty good. I especially liked this bit: [QUOTE=RationalWiki] During World War II, Adolf Hitler seized the Rothschilds’ property and drove them from Germany. Pretty sneaky considering Hitler was supposed to be their puppet. In reality, the power of the family went into decline by World War I as American Wall Street based financiers began to overtake them. Of course, in conspiracy-land, the ascendancy of the Wall Street firms was all part of the plan. [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/9 "2013-08-05T03:27:34Z")
> [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](#): > > One, the Lehman Brothers were Jewish. So I’m gonna go with “no.” I’m pretty sure Goldman and Sachs weren’t French. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/10 "2013-08-05T03:29:52Z")
Moved from General Questions to Great Debates. **samclem** , moderator ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/11 "2013-08-05T03:30:33Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > My first thought: 10 million years seems a reasonable upper bounding point. 10 million and _one_ years! [/The Price is Right] ---
**Author:** ![MIDWESTcowboy8312](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@MIDWESTcowboy8312](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MIDWESTcowboy8312)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/12 "2013-08-05T03:30:57Z")
It appears their wealth declined, but if you look a little deeper their fortunes are estimated in the trillions to this day, some say possibly even 500 trillion ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/13 "2013-08-05T03:31:54Z")
> [@MIDWESTcowboy8312](#): > > This isn’t a matter of “if” this happened, it DID happen. The nazi war machine was no accident it was created by banksters who new what they were doing. Google the Rothschilds to find out more Good advice. You should try it. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/14 "2013-08-05T03:32:55Z")
> [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](#): > > Plus, don’t teh j00z control Wall Street? So why would they fund the Nazis? Everybody knows that, they engineered the Holocaust as a sympathy ploy. If there’s one thing those people know how to do, it’s exploit guilt! ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/15 "2013-08-05T03:33:27Z")
> [@MIDWESTcowboy8312](#): > > if you look a little deeper How about YOU look a little deeper and report back? Preferably with reputable cites backed by some actual data. Not too hard to do if it’s all out there to find, right? If you look deeper, my own personal fortune is estimated to be in the billions, possible even 500 quadrillion… …deeper doesn’t have to mean “factual”, does it? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/16 "2013-08-05T03:33:47Z")
I don’t think it’s going to ever collapse. Eventually, 100 years, 1000 years, it will evolve and split up into different things. No collapse I foresee. Wrong forum. I’m turning you into the mods. Pray they’ve already eaten today. 🙂 ETA, Oops, too late. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/17 "2013-08-05T03:33:56Z")
> [@MIDWESTcowboy8312](#): > > It appears their wealth declined, but if you look a little deeper their fortunes are estimated in the trillions to this day, some say possibly even 500 trillion Some are ignorant. You shouldn’t listen to idiots. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/18 "2013-08-05T03:34:25Z")
The Rothschilds are Jewish too, so I guess the Third Reich was all a Jewish plot really. :rolleyes: Mind you , I do not doubt that there was lots of Wall Street money, and probably even money from Jewish controlled banks, invested in German industry (probably including the arms industry) during the period of the Nazi rise to power and of German re-armament. No conspiracy theory is needed to explain this, however. It was just a matter of the normal pursuit of profit combined with an inability to see the future (and very likely when the profits are rolling in nicely, that makes it even even harder than it might otherwise be to foresee the coming evil consequences of your investments). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/19 "2013-08-05T03:34:40Z")
Whenever I poke it . . . ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364/20 "2013-08-05T03:35:27Z")
Meanwhile, W.E.B. DuBois was funding the KKK. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazis-were-funded-by-wall-street/665364.md?page=2)