Continental Oil organization
also: Conti, K-O-N-T-I, Continental OL, Continental, Continental OI
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Claims (2)
Karl Blessing member_of
Continental Oil documented
“was to Germans' weapons production, a government-licensed monopoly used by the Nazis to seize control of hundreds of companies by German troops, especially along the Eastern Front. Under Blessing's leadership, this Continental became the Ge…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 23:27
Karl Wolff financed_via
Continental Oil documented
“He managed Himmler's personal slush fund of gifts from German financiers as well as U.S. backers. He handled sensitive contacts that arranged SS transfers of slave labor to IG Farben and Continental Oil and other major companies. He became …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 33:35
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counterfeit colonial dollars, hype them into the colonies and basically hyper inflate. So the dollar became the colonial dollar became worthless and Washington wouldn't be able to pay his troops. And therefore the army would disintegrate. A…
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flirting with John Andre previously. Long story short, Arnold gets command of West Point and he's going to betray it, the Americans. He ends up getting caught or the plot doesn't happen. He was basically deliberately dwindling the supplies …
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Talmadge ends up being the hero of the day, Benedict Arnold. Andre gets captured. They're going to try to trade Arnold for Andre. Americans aren't having it, or the British aren't having it. Benedict Arnold ended up living in England with h…
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and the elite in turn sought influence with those same people. Senior business leaders active in this organization, including Simmons, General Director Rudolph Bingle, Unilever, and Continental OI Director Carl Blessing, Steel Industrialist…
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He managed Himmler's personal slush fund of gifts from German financiers as well as U.S. backers. He handled sensitive contacts that arranged SS transfers of slave labor to IG Farben and Continental Oil and other major companies. He became …
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and its property. It was considered to be highly visible, but it also had been deemed a criminal corporate enterprise. He never was the lowly clerk that he told people that he was. The Continental OL was for the strategically crucial petrol…
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was to Germans' weapons production, a government-licensed monopoly used by the Nazis to seize control of hundreds of companies by German troops, especially along the Eastern Front. Under Blessing's leadership, this Continental became the Ge…
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Throughout the 30s, German oil production had been coordinated through the state ministry in a private cartel, and the main German companies in the industry had remained privately owned, but were managed by people like Blessing. Continental…
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as a new petroleum monopoly for Eastern Europe. The company enjoyed Germans' government sponsorship, exclusive production contracts, and first claim on any petroleum-related properties that were made available that they stole from the Jewis…
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All remaining profits of the operations were divided among the companies that were bankrolling it. They became the largest single exploiter of concentration camp labor in history. According to the International Red Cross records, Conti and …
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were other Conti operations in Poland and Ukraine. The prisoners did crushing construction labor needed to reopen roads and oil fields that had been destroyed by the Soviet Union. They also laid pipelines and created new petroleum sites. Co…
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Carl Blessing exercised special responsibility for the company's financial affairs and its relation with the German banks. He could hardly have been ignorant to the character of the company that he was leading. He could not be ignorant to t…
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were built with concentration camp labor. Much of this was known as early as the summer of 1945. Blessing's service as a director was widely noted in German biographies, dictionaries, business magazines, and the like. Details of Conti's act…
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in the Axis side of the war. How would it be possible for the New York Times and Fortune magazine to write about Conti's wartime businesses without considering the most of the company's assets had been looted from the countries that Hitler …