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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 06:20 AM Jan 2016

Koch Brothers' Father Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/34583-koch-brothers-father-helped-build-nazi-oil-refinery-book-says

he father of billionaires Charles and David Koch helped build a Nazi oil refinery, according to a new book about some of America’s wealthiest families.

The book, Dark Money by Jane Mayer, describes businessman Fred C. Koch’s success in Europe prior to World War II, according to a New York Times report. One of Koch’s projects was a major oil refinery for Nazi Germany, which Adolph Hitler personally approved, according to the book.

Koch Industries spokesperson Ken Spain said that company officials had not read the book and did not assist Mayer in her research. “If the content of the book is reflective of Ms. Mayer’s previous reporting of the Koch family, Koch Industries or Charles’s and David’s political involvement, then we expect to have deep disagreements and strong objections to her interpretation of the facts and their sourcing,” Spain told the Times.
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Koch Brothers' Father Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says (Original Post) eridani Jan 2016 OP
America EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #1
Koch also built gladium et scutum Jan 2016 #3
gotta love it EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #4
That puts the Koch in the column with Prescott Bush who managed Silesian-American Co leveymg Jan 2016 #2

EdwardBernays

(3,343 posts)
4. gotta love it
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 09:03 AM
Jan 2016

Of course the CIA is STILL collaborating with mass murders and helping them kill civilians...

Same as it ever was I suppose...

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
2. That puts the Koch in the column with Prescott Bush who managed Silesian-American Co
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 08:42 AM
Jan 2016

That Wall St entity owned most of the coal mines in southwestern Poland that fed the world's largest synthetic oil and rubber plant at Buna. The slave labor camp built to operate the plants and dozens of other businesses was named Auschwitz 3.

Silesian-American was seized in 1942 as Nazi-owned property by the Enemy Assets control office.

This one was papered over for many years, as well.

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