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...PAID HITLER - Fr!tz Thyssen - Farrar & Rinehart...
...Elbe, lime deposits in Bavaria, refractory materials in Upper Palatinate. Aiming at power-in-general rather than any organic industrial shape, the Göring trust next spread into oil fields, commercia houses, shipping companies. In 1938 the capital jumped to $160,000,000. The next year Fritz Thyssen abdicated. Under a decree which permits the State to seize "communistic property," Industrialist Göring took over Thyssen's holdings in the Vereinigte Stahlwerke, the anything-but-communistic mills in Mullheim (largest in Germany...
...ring's trust followed the troops. From the Austrian National Bank he got control of Louis Rothschild's holdings: Austria's leading automobile and former armament company (Steyr-Daimler-Puch A. G.), .the Danube steamship company, a railroad car factory. After a struggle, the Thyssen group coughed up Alpine Montangesell-schaft A. G., No.1 Austrian steel company. In exchange, the Thyssen group got shares in a synthetic oil plant. In charge of his Austrian properties Göring put Guido Schmidt, who as Austrian Foreign Minister had made reservations for Kurt von Schuschnigg in the Hotel Metropole...
From Paris via Switzerland, whither he fled from his onetime friends, the Nazis, German Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen prophesied the fall of Hitler "once the German people understand how they have been betrayed." Said he: "Never was a war so recklessly started and with less industrial preparation...
...toleration of the victors, may one ask what is going to prevent the world from resorting to fascism after this war? Impoverished countries will need increased taxation and financial levies. Will not an increased governmental power be necessary which, with the cooperation of big business men and industrialists (ef. Thyssen in Germany), will impose the new social order, regulate human activity, and limit individual freedom? Marcel Francon, Instructor in Romance Languages...