Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich - Softcover

Preparata, Guido Giacomo

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ISBN 10: 074532181X ISBN 13: 9780745321813

Verlag: Pluto Press, 2005

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Nazism is usually depicted as the outcome of political blunders and unique economic factors: we are told that it could not be prevented, and that it will never be repeated. In this explosive book, Guido Giacomo Preparata shows that the truth is very different: using meticulous economic analysis, he demonstrates that Hitler's extraordinary rise to power was in fact facilitated -- and eventually financed -- by the British and American political classes during the decade following World War I. Through a close analysis of events in the Third Reich, Preparata unveils a startling history of Anglo-American geopolitical interests in the early twentieth century. He explains that Britain, still clinging to its empire, was terrified of an alliance forming between Germany and Russia. He shows how the UK, through the Bank of England, came to exercise control over Weimar Germany and how Anglo-American financial support for Hitler enabled the Nazis to seize power. This controversial study shows that Nazism was not regarded as an aberration: for the British and American establishment of the time, it was regarded as a convenient way of destabilising Europe and driving Germany into conflict with Stalinist Russia, thus preventing the formation of any rival continental power block. Guido Giacomo Preparata lays bare the economic forces at play in the Third Reich, and identifies the key players in the British and American establishment who aided Hitler's meteoric rise.

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Guido Giacomo Preparata is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Washington. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, raised in the USA, France and Italy, he completed his PhD in Political Economy and Economic History at the University of Southern California in 1998.

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Conjuring Hitler

How Britain and America Made the Third ReichBy Guido Giacomo Preparata

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Contents

List of Figures...............................................................................................................ixA Chronology of Germany's Undoing, 1900-45....................................................................................xiPreface.......................................................................................................................xiv1. Introductory: The Eurasian Embrace. Laying Siege to Germany with World War I, 1900-18......................................1The Second Reich: The Tragedy of an Imperial Upstart..........................................................................1The Heartland, the Crescent and the Nightmare of British Geopolitics..........................................................8The Blood of the Romanovs and the Encirclement of Germany.....................................................................15The 'Useful Idiots' of Sarajevo...............................................................................................20Besieging Germany.............................................................................................................22Conjuring Lenin...............................................................................................................27The Last Days of America: from Republic to Truculent Empire...................................................................382. The Veblenian Prophecy. From the Councils to Versailles by Way of Russian Fratricide, 1919-20..............................42The Impossible Revolution.....................................................................................................42Inducting Hitler into the Mother Lodge........................................................................................57The Allied Betrayal of the Russian Whites.....................................................................................60The Peace Treaty That Was Too Harsh...........................................................................................74Dreaming of Hitler and Deciphering Versailles.................................................................................803. The Meltdown and the Geopolitical Correctness of Mein Kampf Between the Kapp and the Beerhall Putsch,1920-23.......................................................................................................................89Erzberger: One Man Alone against the Inflation................................................................................89Hiring Trebitsch-Lincoln to Foil the Kapp Putsch..............................................................................98Rathenau, The Reluctant Victim of the Russo-German Pact.......................................................................112The Hyperinflationary Purge of 1923...........................................................................................121The Maiden Storm of the Nazi Fundamentalists..................................................................................1304. 'Death on the Installment Plan', Whereby Governor Norman Came to Pace the Damnation of Europe, 1924-33.....................138The Banking 'Grid' and the Rules of the Gold Game.............................................................................138Montagu Norman and the 'Nationalization' of the Bank..........................................................................147The Dawes Bailout and the Hierodule Schacht...................................................................................159I. G. Farben and Germany's First Five-Year Plan...............................................................................165Britain's Grand Charade to Crash the New Gold Standard........................................................................171The Last Scheme of Kurt von Schleicher and the End of Weimar..................................................................1815. The Reich on the Marble Cliffs. Fire, Legerdemain and Mummery all the Way to Barbarossa, 1933-41...........................202Nazi Coup d'Etat..............................................................................................................203Money Magic, Work Creation and Foreign Aid....................................................................................211A British Masquerade to Entrap the Germans Anew...............................................................................228A Soviet Tale of Madness and Sacrifice........................................................................................244Fake War in the West, True Push in the East...................................................................................2546. Conclusion.................................................................................................................263Notes.........................................................................................................................269Select Bibliography...........................................................................................................295Index.........................................................................................................................305

Chapter One

Introductory: The Eurasian Embrace

Laying Siege to Germany with World War I, 1900-18

'A petty Navy Royall of three score tall ships or more, but in case fewer ... seemeth to be almost a mathematical demonstration, next under the merciful and mighty protection of God, for a feasible policy to bring and preserve this victorious British monarchy in a marvellous security. Whereupon the revenue of the Crown of England and wealth public will wonderfully increase and flourish; and then ... sea forces anew to be increased proportionately. And so Fame, Renown, Estimation and Love, and Fear of this Brytish Microcosmus all the whole of the great world over will be speedily and surely be settled.' John Dee The Brytish Monarchy [1577]

The Second Reich: the tragedy of an imperial upstart

The sudden growth of the German Reich during the second half of the nineteenth century compelled the British Commonwealth to launch a sweeping maneuver against the world's continental landmass. The chief objective was the prevention of a durable alliance between Russia and Germany. Britain proceeded to deter the union by signing a triple alliance with France and Russia designed to encircle the German Reich (1907). After the outbreak of war, the operation was deepened by enlisting the aid of the United States in a phase during which the Russian link of the alliance seemed to be giving (1917). As a perilous gap opened in the East, Britain hastened to fix it by encouraging a Liberal experiment under a straw man, a barrister by the name of Kerensky, which dissolved in a few months. Meantime, as a possible alternative, revolutionary nihilists - the so-called Bolsheviks commanded by the intellectual radical Lenin - were transferred to Russia through a labyrinthine network of organized subversion by obscure 'agents' such as the Russian Parvus Helphand, with the expectation that out of such inflow would emerge a despotic regime, whose polarity (materialist, anti-clerical, and anti-feudal) was the inverse of that of the German Reich. The involvement of the United States became part of a broader deployment...

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• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 074532181X
• ISBN 13: 9780745321813
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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