Fritz Thyssen
Where each worldview places it
The German steel entrepreneur and banker who was "a major financial supporter of Hitler" from the early 1920s, and whose network was tied to the Harriman bank and Prescott Bush[1].
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
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- Dates
- from the early 1920s
- 1927 (Draper handles his account)
- 1945 (interrogated)[2]
- Places
- Key events
- 1927: William H. Draper Jr is hired by Dillon Read to handle his account[3]
- 1945: interrogated, says the Young Plan's unemployment made Hitler's election success[4]
- Author's claims · 3
- 01A Thyssen company controlled the Union Banking Corporation, which linked the W. A. Harriman Company (Brown Brothers Harriman) and Prescott Bush to his German Steel Trust[5].
- 02He introduced Allen Dulles to Hitler[5].
- 03Sullivan and Cromwell served him[3].