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...people get you on any hate-Germany kick, either. You know how everybody hates the Nazis in this country? Well I'll tell you why. It's because they brought in the Reichmark which threatened to undercut the business of all the fat Jewish bankers in this country, that's why. And you know why Lincoln was killed? Because he was trying to bring in the green-back dollar, and the Jewish bankers wouldn't let him. The man who killed him, Booth, he was a member of the House of Warburg. The historians could find all this...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Mississippi Monologue | 11/29/1966 | See Source »

...heat on Yugoslavia began with the customary demands: 1) concentration on agriculture for the benefit of a hungry-Reich at the expense of industrial development; 2) preferential rights to Germany on all surpluses. Incidental demands included a 20% increase in the official exchange value of the reichmark in terms of dinars, added quotas of corn, copper and lead to replace the wheat Yugoslavia cannot deliver because of a disastrous harvest, and 600,000 tons of iron ore a year to bring the German supply up to the pre-air-raid level. Promised reward: an economic role in the New Order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: More Squeezing | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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