07-07-2013, 10:37 PM
In the penultimate episode, in a sequence clearly, perhaps deliberately, reminiscent of the classic Laurence Olivier-narrated documentary series, The World At War, Stone names Prescott Bush and Brown Brothers Harriman as having continued to trade with the Nazis during WW2.
Then, he proceeds to name the following scions of American capitalism as also having traded with the Nazis up until 1941:
Ford
GM
Standard Oil
Alcoa
ITT
General Electric
Du Pont
Kodak
Westinghouse
Pratt & Whitne
Douglas
United Fruit
Singer
International Harvester
He also exposes the behaviour of IBM, Ford and GM in obtaining compensation for their German enterprises, and in the case of Ford & GM, successfully suing for damage to their factories in Nazi Germany caused by allied bombing.
He names the Dulles brothers at Sullivan and Cromwell, the Bank of International Settlements in Switzerland, and Chase Bank, JP Morgan and Union Bank as all cooperating extensively with the Nazis, or "successfully obfuscating" such cooperation.
All this is of course familiar to members of DPF.
However, never before have I seen this suppressed history told in a major network TV series.
I raise a jar to Oliver Stone.
PS as per my question above, is this series really being shown in America?
Have the likes of Faux News and the NYT been allowed to marginalise and ignore Stone's Untold History?
Then, he proceeds to name the following scions of American capitalism as also having traded with the Nazis up until 1941:
Ford
GM
Standard Oil
Alcoa
ITT
General Electric
Du Pont
Kodak
Westinghouse
Pratt & Whitne
Douglas
United Fruit
Singer
International Harvester
He also exposes the behaviour of IBM, Ford and GM in obtaining compensation for their German enterprises, and in the case of Ford & GM, successfully suing for damage to their factories in Nazi Germany caused by allied bombing.
He names the Dulles brothers at Sullivan and Cromwell, the Bank of International Settlements in Switzerland, and Chase Bank, JP Morgan and Union Bank as all cooperating extensively with the Nazis, or "successfully obfuscating" such cooperation.
All this is of course familiar to members of DPF.
However, never before have I seen this suppressed history told in a major network TV series.
I raise a jar to Oliver Stone.
PS as per my question above, is this series really being shown in America?
Have the likes of Faux News and the NYT been allowed to marginalise and ignore Stone's Untold History?
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war