Who is behind Nazi Party?
Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners.
Not who made decisions, or why.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
On the record
Sourced links that no one presents as their own account, as recorded so far. Others may exist.
Led by
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Adolf Hitler
leads
Scholarship & press
1
Hindenburg appointed him Chancellor with two Nazi seats in the cabinet.
Money in
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Fritz Thyssen
funded
1923
Scholarship & press
23
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.
- Nazi Party, Rhenish Gau funded Aug 1930 sent on over 30 percent of what its treasurer received Scholarship & press 4
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Adolf Hitler Spende
funded
Scholarship & press
5
This is the Harvard Nuremberg Trials Project’s gloss in its Krupp-case summary. Tooze describes the fund differently.
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Fritz Thyssen
funded
Scholarship & press
2
Countersigned a Dutch bank’s loan to the party; Thyssen later put it at 200,000 to 400,000 marks. Turner does not name the bank.
Going further
Proof 5 sources
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Paul von Hindenburg, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Scholarship & press
gave his Nazi Party two seats in the cabinet
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German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler, by Henry Ashby Turner Jr., Oxford University Press (Internet Archive lending copy), 1985.
Scholarship & press
the Nazis probably benefited in 1923 from the largesse of another Ruhr industralist, Fritz Thyssen.
Thyssen responded by countersigning a loan from a Dutch bank to the NSDAP in an amount he later variously estimated at sums ranging from 200,000 to 400,000 marks.
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Documents: Bush's Grandfather Directed Bank Tied to Man Who Funded Hitler, Associated Press (as republished by Fox News), 17 Oct 2003.
Scholarship & press
an early financial supporter of Hitler
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German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford University Press, 1985; page numbers come from the running heads of a scanned copy and may be off by one), Oxford University Press, 1985.
Scholarship & press
Of the money received by the Gau treasurer, over 30 percent went to the national headquarters in Munich.
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NMT Case 10: USA vs. Alfried Krupp, et al., Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project.
Scholarship & press
Adolf Hitler Spende: a fund collected from German industry, banking, and agriculture, the largest private source of funds for the NSDAP, set up by Gustav Krupp in 1933
How this answer is built
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