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CONTENTS

Page

Publisher's Note........................................................ iv

Editor's Introduction.................................................... v

Who's Who in the Book ........................................... vii

Translator's Affirmation ............................................. ix

Text as Translated From German to English.............. 1

1929.........................................................................2

1931 .......................................................................14

1933.......................................................................32

Epilogue................................................................... 41

iii

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

The newspaper clipping that appears below appeared in many major

papers throughout the U.S. and was received by all major TV networks. None

of the TV networks carried the story to the best of our knowledge.

The last line of the UPI release says the manuscript would be republished

Dec. 1 of 1982. On Jan. 4, 1983, we received word that the publisher had

"changed his mind" and would not reprint the document. No reason was given.

So, in the last 50 years this book has been suppressed twice. What forces caused

this remain unknown, but if they are that powerful, we have every reason to

believe that we'll be hearing from them at some future date.

This third release of the manuscript while true to the original in verbiage

has corrected previously unchanged errors in spelling and punctuation.

History is now the judge of the book's authenticity.

San Jose Mercury News - Saturday, September 25,1982

MUNICH, West Germany (UPI) — A publish-

ing firm claimed Friday to have discovered a book

that alleges American bankers supplied Adolf Hit-

ler with millions of dollars to help build up his Nazi

party.

Droemer Knaur publishers said they received a

copy of the book from a Dutch doctor and were

convinced that it was authentic.

They said the book, written by the late U.S.

banker Sidney Warburg, disappeared during the war.

Warburg, a joint owner of the New Yotk bank

Kuhn Loeb and Cie. described in the book three

conversations he held with Hitler at the request of

American financiers, the Bank of England and oil

firms to facilitate payments to the Nazi party, the

publisher said.

The book alleged that Hitler received $10 mil-

U.S. bankers aided Hitler, book claims

lion from Kuhn Loeb and Cie. during 1929, further

payments of $15 million in 1931, and $7 million

when Hitler took power in 1933, the publishers said.

They said Warburg described himself in the book

as the "cowardly instrument" of his American bank-

ing colleagues for having arranged deals with Hit-

ler. The book originally was published in Holland in

1933, shortly before Warburg's death, but disap-

peared during the war after its translator and pub-

lisher were murdered, the publisher's spokesman

said.

He said it was thought the Nazis carried out the

murders and destroyed copies of the book to avoid

being discredited.

The book will be republished Dec. 1 under the

title "How Hitler Was Financed," he said.

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

The book you are about to read is one of the most extraordinary historical

documents of the 20th century.

Where did Hitler get the funds and the backing to achieve power in 1933

Germany? Did these funds come only from prominent German bankers and

industrialists or did funds also come from American bankers and industrial-

ists?

Prominent Nazi Franz von Papen wrote in his MEMOIRS (New York: E.P.

Dutton & Co., Inc. 1953) p. 229, "...the most documented account of the

National Socialists' sudden acquisition of funds was contained in a book pub-

lished in Holland in 1933, by the old established Amsterdam publishing house

of Van Holkema & Warendorf, called DE GELDBRONNEN VAN HET

NATIONAAL SOCIALISME (DRIE GESPREKKEN MET HITLER) under the

name 'Sidney Warburg.'

The book cited by von Papen is the one your are about to read and was

indeed published in 1933 in Holland, but remained on the book stalls only a

few days. The book was purged. Every copy—except three accidental survi-

vors—was taken out of the bookstores and off the shelves. The book and its

story were silenced—almost.

One of the three surviving copies found its way to England, translated into

English and deposited in the British Museum. This copy and the translation

were later withdrawn from circulation, and are presently "unavailable" for

research. The second Dutch language copy was acquired by Chancellor Schus-

snigg of Austria. Nothing is known of its present whereabouts. The third Dutch

survivor found its way to Switzerland and in 1947 was translated into German.

This German translation was in turn found some years ago by this editor in the

Schweizerischen Sozialarchiv in Zurich, along with an affidavit by the three

Dutch-to-German translators and a critique of the book. This editor made cop-

ies of the German text and commissioned an English translation. It is this

translation that you will read here. Even allowing for the double translation

from Dutch to German and German to English, the original lively style is

essentially retained. The book is not by any means dull reading.

The original book FINANCIAL ORIGINS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM

was branded a forgery. However, since 1933 numerous pre-war German gov-

ernment files have become public information, including the captured German

Foreign Ministry files and the Nuremburg Trial documents. These confirm the

story at key points.

For example, in the book, Sidney Warburg claims to have met with an

obscure banker von Heydt in 1933. We now know in 1982 from the German

records that in 1933 the Dutch Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V. was a

channel of funds for the Nazis. The earlier name for this bank was the von

Heydt Bank. Coincidence? How would Sidney Warburg know in 1933?

There are other links. We now know that the German combine of I.G.

Farben was a financier of Hitler, and Paul Warburg was a director of American

I.G. Farben. Further, Max Warburg was a director of the German I.G. Farben.

Max Warburg also signed the document appointing Hjalmar Schaht to the

Reichsbank—and Hitler's signature appears alongside that of Max Warburg.

Yet the Warburg family denied any link to Hitler. The Warburgs branded

the book a forgery and threatened the publisher unless it was removed from

bookstores. In any event, the Warburgs are not accused directly. "Sidney War-

burg" was only the courier. In fact, all the bankers named are gentiles, not

Jewish.

In 1949 James P. Warburg made a sworn affidavit which compounds the

mystery. Warburg denied he had even seen the "Sidney Warburg" book, yet

branded it as a complete forgery! Furthermore, careful reading of the James

Warburg affidavit shows that his denial refers to another book published by

one of the translators, Rene Sonderegger, and not the "Sidney Warburg" book.

And just to deepen the mystery, this Warburg affidavit is published in Fritz von

Papen's MEMOIRS—the very same source that recommended Sidney War-

burg as a source of accurate information on the financing of Hitler (and Papen

was, of course, a prominent Nazi).

Even today in 1983 a mystery surrounds the document There is a ring of

authenticity about the original explanation for its publication—that an indi-

vidual member of the Warburg family wanted to warn of the coming European

war.

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