TYT: Hitler Kickstarted The Koch Empire. Also Stalin.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

The new book “Dark Money” tells how Fred Koch, the father of the Koch brothers, earned a lot of his money from Hitler. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally approved by Adolf Hitler, according to a new history of the Kochs and other wealthy families.

The book, “Dark Money,” by Jane Mayer, traces the rise of the modern conservative movement through the activism and money of a handful of rich donors: among them Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking fortune, and Harry and Lynde Bradley, brothers who became wealthy in part from military contracts but poured millions into anti-government philanthropy.

But the book is largely focused on the Koch family, stretching back to its involvement in the far-right John Birch Society and the political and business activities of the father, Fred C. Koch, who found some of his earliest business success overseas in the years leading up to World War II. One venture was a partnership with the American Nazi sympathizer William Rhodes Davis, who, according to Ms. Mayer, hired Mr. Koch to help build the third-largest oil refinery in the Third Reich, a critical industrial cog in Hitler’s war machine.”*

Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/us/politics/father-of-koch-brothers-helped-build-nazi-oil-refinery-book-says.html

[IkeRepublican]

1. Duh!

They want an America run by companies using a Stalin fist. Just like with communism, it was under the banner of "freedom for the individual".

We saw how well that turned out - government was sucked bone dry, citizens waiting in line for toilet paper and those at the top ran off with all the dough, leaving the average Russian citizen out to dry in radiation, pollution, prostitution and so forth. That's why Putin being from the old KGB, is such a Republican darling.

Don't focus on the petty tripe such as bible thumpers, anti-gay marriage and all those bullshit wedge issues the Republicans throw out there for us to fight about. Look at the big picture.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. The third thread on this I've seen on DU that has garnered little interest. WTF?

Then again, didn't Prescott Bush have similar involvements and the public doesn't seem to care?

[libodem]

3. Kick for Democracy

[zebonaut]

4. If its Blood Money; I say take the money back and arrest these traitors and ill gotten funds.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

5. You'd have to arrest the Bushes too

Prescott Bush was a tire salesman before he married into money, but his big break came laundering money for the Nazis- A practice he continued even after war was declared, until the FBI forced him to quit. He had also been a central player in the plot to overthrow FDR and install a fascist government.