The story of Fritz Thyssen

Fritz Thyssen. German steel industrialist; heir of the Thyssen business and an early supporter of the Nazi Party who later broke with it.

1923

Fritz Thyssen funded Nazi Party.

Historian Henry Ashby Turner writes that the Nazis “probably benefited” from his money in 1923; he doubts the often-cited memoir passage on the sum, because the memoirs were ghostwritten.

1941

Fritz Thyssen authored I Paid Hitler.

The book appeared under his name. At Nuremberg in 1945 Thyssen denied he was its author. Emery Reves swore that Thyssen reviewed 11 of its 19 chapters and the foreword; the other 8 were dictated but never reviewed.

Fritz Thyssen appears in Fritz Thyssen und „I paid Hitler“ and German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler.

Fritz Thyssen funded Nazi Party and Hermann Göring.

According to Henry Ashby Turner.

Fritz Thyssen, involved in Hitler’s speech to the Düsseldorf Industry Club and Thyssen leaves Germany.

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