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Oscar-winning US filmmaker Oliver Stone says Adolf Hitler was 'enabled by Western bankers'
The Canadian Press / Google News ^ | January 25, 2010 | Michael Casey

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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To: Still Thinking

Right. Thanks.

I was always confused about whether he was related, or not.

He was also involved in the UFO stuff IIRC.


41 posted on 01/28/2010 9:45:31 AM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix

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.


42 posted on 01/28/2010 1:27:56 PM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Still Thinking

I’m 98% certain he was involved in the earlier UFO stuff. I forget in what role.

Some sort of oversight, I think.


43 posted on 01/28/2010 5:22:38 PM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Western countries enabled Hitler.

Just as true as Stone’s statement - and just as meaningless.


44 posted on 01/28/2010 10:51:52 PM PST by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: J Edgar

nonsense.


45 posted on 02/17/2010 2:37:23 PM PST by iowamark
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

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.


46 posted on 02/17/2010 2:48:44 PM PST by iowamark
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RE: "Brown Brothers Harriman, Precott Bush’s employer . . . ."

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.

47 posted on 02/17/2010 4:13:19 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

It is hard to believe that anyone takes “Coast to Coast” or MSNBC seriously, but apparently some do.


48 posted on 02/17/2010 4:16:20 PM PST by iowamark
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To: chopperman

Man who go through airport turnstyle sideways going to Bangkok.


49 posted on 03/03/2010 9:09:54 AM PST by henkster (A broken government does not merit full faith and credit.)
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