Hitler and His Secret Partners

James Pools powerful expos, Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitlers Rise to Power, 19191933, was praised by The New Yorker as one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism ever published. Now, James Pool discloses the shocking and often bizarre financial strategies and relationships that enabled Hitler to consolidate his power and perpetuate his reign of terror. Hitler and His Secret Partners at last tells the full, fascinating story of an amassed legacy that continues to make headlines with the recent emergence of Nazi accounts in Swiss banks. Included are these startling revelations:Top German industrialists and financiers funded Hitlers regime and were rewarded with multibilliondollar returns on their investments.Hitlers foreign supporters included King Edward VIII; his companion, Wallis Simpson, who may have been a Nazi collaborator; and Joseph Kennedy, who gave tacit approval to Hitlers Jewish policy.Many of Germanys largest companies profited from the Holocaust. There is evidence that the concentration camps themselves were designed as sources of slave labor for German industry.Adolf Hitlers private life was one of extravagance in which no expense was spared in the indulgence of his every whim, from the architectural to the sexual.A thoroughly documented account of a controversial subject, Hitler and His Secret Partners is the definitive study of the calculation, exploitation and greed at the heart of the Third Reich.