Conjuring Hitler : how Britain and America made the Third Reich / Guido Giacomo Preparata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preparata, Guido Giacomo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National socialism.

Great Britain--Foreign economic relations--Germany.

Great Britain.

United States--Foreign economic relations--Germany.

United States.

Germany--Foreign economic relations--Great Britain.

Germany.

Germany--Foreign economic relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1. Introductory: The Eurasian Embrace. Laying Siege to Germany with World War I, 1900 - 18

The Second Reich: The Tragedy of an Imperial Upstart

The Heartland, the Crescent and the Nightmare of British Geopolitics

The Blood of the Romanovs and the Encirclement of Germany

The 'Useful Idiots' of Sarajevo

Besieging Germany

Conjuring Lenin

The Last Days of America: from Republic to Truculent Empire

2. The Veblenian Prophecy. From the Councils to Versailles by Way of Russian Fratricide, 1919 - 20

The Impossible Revolution

Inducting Hitler into the Mother Lodge

The Allied Betrayal of the Russian Whites

The Peace Treaty That Was Too Harsh

Dreaming of Hitler and Deciphering Versailles

3. The Meltdown and the Geopolitical Correctness of Mein Kampf Between the Kapp and the Beerhall Putsch, 1920 - 23

Erzberger: One Man Alone against the Inflation

Hiring Trebitsch- Lincoln to Foil the Kapp Putsch

Rathenau, The Reluctant Victim of the Russo- German Pact

The Hyperinflationary Purge of 1923

The Maiden Storm of the Nazi Fundamentalists

4. 'Death on the Installment Plan' Whereby Governor Norman Came to Pace the Damnation of Europe, 1924 - 33

The Banking 'Grid' and the Rules of the Gold Game

Montagu Norman and the 'Nationalization' of the Bank

The Dawes Bailout and the Hierodule Schacht

I. G. Farben and Germany's First Five- Year Plan

Britain's Grand Charade to Crash the New Gold Standard

The Last Scheme of Kurt von Schleicher and the End of Weimar

5. The Reich on the Marble Cliffs. Fire, Legerdemain and Mummery all the Way to Barbarossa, 1933 - 41

Nazi Coup d'Etat

Money Magic, Work Creation and Foreign Aid

A British Masquerade to Entrap the Germans Anew

A Soviet Tale of Madness and Sacrifice

Fake War in the West, True Push in the East.

6. Conclusion

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611750268

9781849642255

1849642257

9781281750266

1281750263

9781435661493

1435661494

OCLC:

666933052