Anschluss event
also: Nazi takeover of Austria, absorption of Austria into the Reich, Nazi invasion, march into Austria in 1938
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Austriacountry · 11Deutsche Bankorganization · 6Hermann Absperson · 6Creditanstaltorganization · 5Paul Warburgperson · 3Agency for Settlement and Transferorganization · 1Nazi Partyorganization · 1SS Central Office for Jewish Emigrationorganization · 1Dresdner Bankorganization · 1BIAGorganization · 1Hans Kehrlperson · 1Charles Higmanperson · 1
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Higman stepped forward with a blistering expose of Abbe's institutional role during the Third Reich. For those more critical observers, Hermann Abbe was not only the director at Germany's most powerful war industries, he was also the financ…
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of the complex role played by the German financial elite in the Holocaust. Hitler's government, the Deutsche Bank, and most of Germany's large corporations regarded the absorption of Austria into the Reich as a test case for going east. The…
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The persecution measures used in this new Reich proved to be faster and more sophisticated than they thought possible. Hitler's Ministry of Economics tipped off the Deutsche Bank to Germans' plan to march into Austria in 1938, well before t…
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to take control of the Rothschild Bank. The Deutsche Bank's chief rival in this effort was the German state-owned BIAG, which owned a major Berlin bank, which was called RKG. About a week before Germans marched into Austria, Abs met with th…
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then appointed him onto the board the following morning. The bank's directors did not reveal their knowledge of the coming Nazi invasion to the rest of the Austrian public. So it makes you think, especially during, when you look at the reve…
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notify the Austrian government. So Rothschild's Bank knows the country is going to get attacked. They make a deal and they allow the country to be attacked with no warning. Two weeks after the Nazi invasion, Credit & Stall formally became a…
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Kredenstahl and other Vienna banks soon became a focal point for this struggle. SS officer Hans Kroll, K-E-H-R-L, confronted Abt shortly after taking over Austria and told him that the Reich could not consent to the acquisition by Deutsche …
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at a fraction of their value was supported. Credenstahl bought up Jewish assets for the bank's own portfolio as well. Herman Abbs was at the time vice chairman of Credenstahl's board with direct responsibility for the approval of all large …
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the banks specifically, it looks like, and in the case with the one in Austria, we know for a fact, they made deals. And they not only made deals, but they made deals ahead of time in Austria and didn't tell their government they were about…
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Definitely a part of it. So you've got the enabling of the war machine and then the financing kind of locked up. But they talked about how, you know, like Warburg lost his bank and but he ended up getting it back and he ended up not getting…
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But again, it was ahead of time. They made a deal before Austria was ever even invaded. The bank went down there and said the Dresdner Deutsche Bank went down there and made a deal with them like a week before the invasion. And they didn't …