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unexpended after the election.
Hjalmar Schacht organized this historic meeting. We have previously described Schacht's
links with the United States: his father was cashier for the Berlin Branch of Equitable
Assurance, and Hjalmar was intimately involved almost on a monthly basis with Wall
Street.
The largest contributor to the fund was I.G. Farben, which como mitted itself for 80 percent
(or 500,000 marks) of the total. Director A. Steinke, of BUBIAG (Braunkohlen-u. Brikett-
Industrie A.G.), an I.G. Farben subsidiary, personally contributed another 200,000 marks. In
brief, 45 percent of the funds for the 1933 election came from I.G. Farben. If we look at the
directors of American I.G. Farben the U.S. subsidiary of I.G. Farben we get close to
the roots of Wall Street involvement with Hitler. The board of American I.G. Farben at this
time contained some of the most prestigious names among American industrialists: Edsel B.
Ford of the Ford Motor Company, C.E. Mitchell of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
and Walter Teagle, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Georgia Warm Springs
Foundation.
Paul M. Warburg, first director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and chairman of
the Bank of Manhattan, was a Farben director and in Germany his brother Max Warburg
was also a director of I.G, Farben. H. A. Metz of I.G. Farben was also a director of the
Warburg's Bank of Manhattan. Finally, Carl Bosch of American I.G. Farben was also a
director of Ford Motor Company A-G in Germany.
Three board members of American I.G. Farben were found guilty at the Nuremburg War
Crimes Trials: Max Ilgner, F. Ter Meer, and Hermann Schmitz. As we have noted, the
American board members Edsel Ford, C. E. Mitchell, Walter Teagle, and Paul Warburg
were not placed on trial at Nuremburg, and so far as the records are concerned, it appears
that they were not even questioned about their knowledge of the 1933 Hitler fund.
The 1933 Political Contributions
Who were the industrialists and bankers who placed election funds at the disposal of the
Nazi Party in 1933? The list of contributors and the amount of their contribution is as
follows:
FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO HITLER:
Feb. 23-Mar. 13, 1933:
(The Hjalmar Schacht account at Delbruck, Schickler Bank)
Political Contributions
by Firms (with selected Amount Percent of
affiliated directors) Pledged Firm Total
Verein fuer die $600,000 45.8
Bergbaulichen
Interessen (Kitdorf)
I.G. Farbenindustrie 400,000 30.5
(Edsel Ford, C.E.
Mitchell, Walter Teagle,
Paul Warburg)
Automobile Exhibition, 100,000 7.6
Berlin (Reichsverbund
der Automobilindustrie
S.V.)
A.E.G., German General 60,000 4.6
Electric (Gerard Swope,
Owen Young, C.H.
Minor, Arthur Baldwin)
Demag 50,000 3.8
Osram G.m.b.H. (Owen 40,000 3.0
Young)
Telefunken Gesellsehaft 85,000 2.7
ruer
drahtlose Telegraphic
Accumulatoren-Fabrik 25,000 1.9
A.G.
(Quandt of A.E.G.)
_____________ _____________
Total from industry 1,310,000 99.9
Plus Political Contributions by Individual Businessmen:
Karl Hermann 300,000
Director A. Steinke (BUBIAG- 200,000
Braunkohlen u. Brikett
Industrie A.G.)
Dir. Karl Lange 50,000
(Geschaftsfuhrendes
Vostandsmitglied des Vereins
Deutsches Maschinenbau
Anstalten)
Dr. F. Springorum (Chairman: 36,000
Eisen-und Stahlwerke Hoesch
A.G.)
Source: See Appendix for translation of original document.
How can we prove that these political payments actually took place?
The payments to Hitler in this final step on the road to dictatorial Naziism were made
through the private bank of Delbruck Sehickler. The Delbruck Schickler Bank was a
subsidiary of Metallgesellschaft A.G. ("Metall"), an industrial giant, the largest non-ferrous
metal company in Germany, and the dominant influence in the world's nonferrous metal
'trading. The principal shareholders of "Metall" were I.G. Farben and the British Metal
Corporation. We might note incidentally that the British directors on the" Metall"
Aufsichsrat were Walter Gardner (Amalgamated Metal Corporation) and Captain Oliver
Lyttelton (also on the board of Amalgamated Metal and paradoxically later in World War II
to become the British Minister of Production).
There exists among the Nuremburg Trial papers the original transfer slips from the banking
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