1. Might be good to contextualize this story about origins of Koch Bros. fortune in working with Nazis a little: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/us/politics/father-of-koch-brothers-helped-build-nazi-oil-refinery-book-says.html?smid=tw-share …
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@HeerJeet And history continues repeating itself.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Not all biz leaders went on to fund the rise of the John Birch Society..Fred Koch even financed his own line of racist pamphlets.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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4. Our sense of the degree business worked with Soviets & Nazis clouded by Cold War scholarship was embarrassed by this history.
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5. As against left view of Hitler as handmaiden to big business, US historians (i.e. Henry Turner) downplayed collaboration.
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@HeerJeet You mean BBH & Prescott Bush, don't you? Gravity's Rainbow leads to http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet See the history of Sullivan & Cromwell, represented Nazi interests - produced John Foster & Allen Dulles. Now a major donor to HCR -
@HeerJeet https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?cycle=2016&id=N00000019 … ~ Also see Talbot's Devil's Chessboard.
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@HeerJeet Prescott Bush did business with the Nazis until 1942, didn't he?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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