Contributions, Loot and Rewards, 1933-1945
James Pool's highly acclaimed volume, 'Who Financed Hitler: The Secrt Funding of Hitler's Rise to power, 1919-1933' was praised by The New Yorker as "one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism."
Now in this companion book, Pool re-examines the Third Reich and the Holocaust in terms of economics, offering the controversial premise that Jews were primarily persecuted for their wealth. He also divulges startling revelations about German financiers and industrialists who helped fund Hitler's regime and later reaped in multi-billion dollar returns on their investments; how the concentration camps themselves were designed as sources of slave labor for German industry; and explores the disturbing truth that not all of Hitler's support came from Germany. For example, Joseph Kennedy, American ambassador to England and father of a future president, gave tacit approval to Hitler's "Jewish policy." Hitler's extravagant private life, in which no expense was spared in the indulgence of his every whim, from the architectural to the sexual, is also detailed here. Meticulously documented, this remarkable volume is sure to spark controversy for years to come.
