Posted on 01/26/2010 9:26:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
BANGKOK, Thailand Adolf Hitler was a psychopath and a monster but rose to power thanks to big business leaders and other supporters who appreciated his vow to destroy communism and control workers, Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone said Monday.
Stone, who is working on a 10-part documentary on the 20th century titled "The Secret History of the United States," said the German dictator was "enabled by Western bankers" and managed to "seduce" Germany's military industrial complex.
"Hitler is a monster. There is no question. I have no empathy for Hitler at all. He was a crazy psychopath," Stone told reporters in the Thai capital. "But like Frankenstein was a monster, there was a Dr. Frankenstein. He is product of his era."
Stone was in Bangkok to give a lecture to high school students on the role of film in peace-building as part of a visit organized by the Vienna-based International Peace Foundation.(continued)
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Right. Thanks.
I was always confused about whether he was related, or not.
He was also involved in the UFO stuff IIRC.
Wasn’t aware of the UFO connection. Postwar he was involved in some things that I wouldn’t exactly call “computers”, functionally more like a PDA or digital encyclopedia IIRC, but about the size of a desk.
I’m 98% certain he was involved in the earlier UFO stuff. I forget in what role.
Some sort of oversight, I think.
Western countries enabled Hitler.
Just as true as Stone’s statement - and just as meaningless.
nonsense.
Brown Brothers Harriman, Precott Bush’s employer, did do business with German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, who was briefly a Nazi before breaking with Hitler. Thyssen spent the war in Dachau. His American interests were seized by the US government after Pearl Harbor.
Bush, Harriman, the Dulles brothers, were all Anglophiles and not in the least Nazi sympathizers.
Thank you for the information. The problem is there's a guy with a radio audience in the millions who needs to have that drummed into his head.
Virtually every month Prescott and his family are attacked on George Noory's CoastToCoastAM program, it was more often when GW was president -- people can knock C2C but it has an audience in the millions.
Only once was I able to get Noory to respond to my on-air "e-mail" and ask his guest about Harriman.
The guest responded as you did -- Noory commented something like it seems like they all were over there and promptly forgot it.
Next month, another guest (usually a regular) repeating the charges of Bush family + Nazis.
It is hard to believe that anyone takes “Coast to Coast” or MSNBC seriously, but apparently some do.
Man who go through airport turnstyle sideways going to Bangkok.
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