Talk:Fritz Thyssen/Archives/2013

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How can you tell the story of Steel Magnate Thyssen without mentioning Prescott Bush was on the board of directors of the NY Bank owned by Thyssen; and that the money Thyssen made forging Nazi Steel war machines was transferred from his German bank to his Swiss Bank and finally to his NY Bank where it came under the directorship of Prescott Bush, grandfather of George Bush war criminal president and father of George Herbert Walker Bush senior, who was former CIA chief, vice president and president? How can you sell this patent bogus propaganda, pretending Thyssen wasn't a wretched war profiteer who had massive influence in the US during and after the war? In fact, during the war, Thyssen's NY bank, that Prescott Bush served on the board of directors, was prosecuted under the Trading with the Enemy act and fined a paltry sum, for the bank having invested the money of Josef Mengele who was THE MOST PROMINENT figure in designing the Nazi death camps. In my opinion, the whole subject of Nazi's requires mentioning AshkeNazi Jew Rothschild's control of the Nazi's. But I'm sure propaganda sale wikipedia will make this all disappear in the moments after I save it. John Loftus was hired by the Justice Department to investigate Nazi war crimes. He continued to investigate Nazi war crimes far beyond his duty to the Justice Department and eventually broke the story that the Nazi's were heavily invested in America even during the war. It's a traitorous disservice to every American that wikipedia scrub knowledge of massive Nazi cash, Thyssen cash, having bought support for Nazi causes in the US. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danielvincentkelley (talk • contribs) 16:33, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

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Lots of non NPOV stuff left -- I fixed some typos and added the numbers of shares of Union Banking Corporation (prior typo was "United"), and, rather than gutting the article, added warnings to the iffy sections. Also added the Harriman links. --- Dave Dec. 14, 2005

Something doesn't smell right

I'm leaning heavily to taking out the section on Thyssen's supposed August 1944 meeting with industrialists on a post-war future for Nazism. It strikes me as odd that the Nazis, particularly if they hated Thyssen as much as the article alleges, would have temporarily released him from a concentration camp to go to a secret meeting of industrialists, or even odder that he would have returned to the camp. Pat Payne 17:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

This article consists mostly of unsourced slanders and looks to me like a LaRouche hatchet job. I will try to find some factual material about Thyssen. He wasn't a very nice man but he did finish up in a concentration camp so I think he is entitled to fair treatment. All the irrelevant stuff about the Bush family should be deleted. Adam 04:03, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I have now rewritten the article. Adam 11:50, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

"German nationalist"

Why is his nationality mentioned again? And what does qualify him to be a nationalist more than the average person of those times? --AchtungAchtung 19:14, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

This is not true: "did not join the Nazi Party until 1933" Fritz Thyssen spent for the Nazis allready 1932 and became allready 1931 member of the NSDAP. http://www.d-nb.de/index.htm - PLEASE KEEP WIKIPEDIA CLEAN OF LIES!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.218.157.252 (talk) 08:49, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Genealogy

The "Descendants" section seems excessive, especially since none of them appear notable. I don't see a source either. While it looks like someone spent a lot of time on it, I don't think it belongs. Is there any reason to keep it?   Will Beback  talk  01:18, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Delete - genealogies are great for royalty, but they're all notable anyway. Rklawton (talk) 04:12, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

I am I the only one who sees this is an oxymoron?

"Thyssen accepted the exclusion of Jews from German business and professional life by the Nazis, and dismissed his own Jewish employees, but he did not share Hitler's violent anti-Semitism." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.250.234.224 (talk) 15:08, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

There are three paths here:

1. Embrace Hitler's anti-Semitism and take an active role in persecution beyond what is required
2. Do what has to be done to stay in business - but nothing more
3. Resist Hitler and face the consequences

Doing the minimum necessary to stay in business is not the same thing as embracing Hitler's ideology. On an (arguably) much less evil scale, it's like agreeing that man-made global warming is a bad thing yet driving a car. This is not to say that Thyssen's actions weren't morally repugnant, it's just repugnant on a much lesser scale. At any rate, it's not an oxymoron. It's more like - cowardly and hypocritical. Rklawton (talk) 18:20, 21 July 2012 (UTC)