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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler (ISBN: 9781905570270), by Antony C. Sutton explores the explosive, largely unreported claim that key Western bankers and industrialists actively funded and traded with Nazi Germany to secure immense profits. The book details how major US corporate entities—such as Ford, General Electric, Standard Oil, and Wall Street financiers—were deeply aware of Nazism’s nature but continued to aid the German military-industrial complex. Originally published in 1976, this 2010 edition from Forest Row-based publisher Clairview Books serves as the third and final installment of Sutton’s trilogy on 20th-century geopolitical and economic power.

‘The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities…Not only was an influential sector of American business aware of the nature of Naziism, but for its own purposes aided Naziism wherever possible (and profitable) – with full knowledge that the probable outcome would be war involving Europe and the United States’. Penetrating a cloak of falsehood, deception and duplicity, Professor Antony C. Sutton reveals one of the most remarkable but unreported facts of the Second World War: that key Wall Street banks and American businesses supported Hitler’s rise to power by financing and trading with Nazi Germany. Carefully tracing this closely guarded secret through original documents and eyewitness accounts, Sutton comes to the unsavoury conclusion that the catastrophic Second World War was extremely profitable for a select group of financial insiders. He presents a thoroughly documented account of the role played by J.P. Morgan, T.W. Lamont, the Rockefeller interests, General Electric Company, Standard Oil, National City Bank, Chase and Manhattan banks, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, General Motors, the Ford Motor Company, and scores of others in helping to prepare the bloodiest, most destructive war in history. This classic study, first published in 1976 – the third volume of a trilogy – is reproduced here in its original form. The other volumes in the series study the 1917 Lenin-Trotsky Revolution in Russia and the 1933 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States.

Review: I found Professor Sutton’s work to be superbly referenced, and a thoroughly enjoyable book to read. This is truly a book for any serious students/readers on International Finance / World War I & II / and anyone with the slightest interest on what role did key Wall Street banks (Chase Manhattan, J.P Morgan) and other American businesses (Ford, AT&T, etc) support Hitler’s rise to power by financing and trading with Nazi Germany. Having read the 1star review on this book, I felt compelled to defend Professor Sutton’s work and to perhaps suggest to the previous reviewer `I White’ that they would do very well to read any of the following books by “REAL” historians. In response to reviewer `I White’s’ comment that Professor Sutton’s work smacked of `Conspiracy rules ok’, I would wager next month’s mortgage payment that `I White’ would find it difficult to dismiss the following essential reading list as a collection of conspiracy writers. All of the following authors and books point, support, and provide evidence to the very same conclusions that Professor Sutton reaches in his book ……….Let the light shine in dark places!!!!!

• All honorable men by James Stewart Martin
• America’s Second Crusade by William Henry Chamberlin
• Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Harry Elmer Barnes
• The Confessions of a Monopolist by Frederic Clems Howe
• The Makers of War by Francis Neilson
• Hitler’s Magician: Schacht – the Life and Loans of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht
• Generals in Grey Suits: the Directors of the International ‘i G Farben’ Cartel, Their Conspiracy and Trial at Nuremberg by Josiah Ellis Dubois
• Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Antony C. Sutton
• RULERS OF AMERICA: A STUDY OF FINANCE CAPITAL by Anna Rochester
• War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated General – Smedley D. Butler
• Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich by Guido Giacomo Preparata
• Germany’s Foreign Indebtedness – by C.R.S. Harris;
• The High Cost Of Vengeance by Freda Utley
• The devil theory of war;: An inquiry into the nature of history and the possibility of keeping out of war, by Charles Austin Beard
• Bankers’ profits from German loans, (The Institute of economics of the Brookings institution. Publication) by Robert René Kuczynski
• Treason’s peace;: German dyes & American dupes by Howard Watson Ambruster
• Tearing away the veils: The financiers who control the world by Fran¸ois Coty
• Hell’s Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine by Diarmuid Jeffreys

ANTONY C. SUTTON, born in London in 1925, was educated at the universities of London, Gottingen and California. He was a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford, California, from 1968 to 1973 and later an Economics Professor at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of 25 books, including the major three-volume study Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development. He died in 2002.