Higham, Charles. Trading With the Enemy: An Expose of the Nazi-American
Money Plot 1933-1949. New York: Dell Publishing, 1984. 299 pages.
When Charles Higham was going through declassified documents in 1978
for a biography on Errol Flynn and his Nazi associations, he found "numerous
cross-references to prominent figures who, I had always assumed, were
entirely committed to the American cause, yet who had been marked down for
suspected subversive activities." Higham had heard about certain tycoons in
American, British, and German commerce and industry who continued their
associations during the war. They wanted a negotiated peace with Germany
that would preclude any reorganization of Europe, and only when it was clear
that Germany would lose did they become more "loyal" to America. After the
war they "pushed into Germany, protected their assets, restored Nazi friends
to high office, helped provoke the Cold War, and insured the permanent
future of The Fraternity."
This book covers documented commercial links, including the Rockefellers'
Chase National Bank (later Chase Manhattan), their Standard Oil of New Jersey,
ITT, GAF (General Aniline and Film), Ford, General Motors, DuPont, and others.
The post-war link between U.S. intelligence and the Nazis is not covered at
all, but would no doubt add to an understanding of how the end of the hot
war brought on the Cold War. It can all be nicely analyzed, one suspects,
by following the big money and its hunger for markets.
ISBN 0-440-19055-X
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