Reply #21: I know this is going to sound like a conspiracy theory, but.... [View All]

[AntiFascist]

I thought I had read details somewhere about how Prescott's banks were actively financing the promotion of Hitler to office, and if it wasn't for this financing he never would have won. How many banks take such an active interest in promoting foreign leaders to office? Hitler was being financed by industrialists:

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-hitlerdemo.htm

As Hitler historian Alan Bullock put it:

"Hitler came to office in 1933 as the result, not of any irresistible revolutionary or national movement sweeping him into power, nor even of a popular victory at the polls, but as part of a shoddy political deal with the 'Old Gang' whom he had been attacking for months… Hitler did not seize power; he was jobbed into office by a backstairs intrigue." (4)
Hitler's deal did not even give him a majority in the Reichstag. His coalition of Nazis and Nationalists had only 247 out of 583 seats in the Reichstag, still not a majority. But Hitler wasted no time using his newfound powers to start eliminating his competition. New elections were scheduled for March 5, 1933. Goebbels was completely confident now of success. "Now it will be easy to carry on the fight, for we can call on all the resources of the State. Radio and press are at our disposal. We shall stage a masterpiece of propaganda. And this time, naturally, there is no lack of money." (5)