Higham (1983) labeled this interconnected group of international corporate giants The Fraternity. These included First National Bank (affiliated with J. P. Morgan), National City Bank, and Rockefeller’s Chase National Bank, as mentioned above. These banks had connections with Hitler’s Reichsbank and the Bank for International Settlements of Switzerland. For example, in 1944, T. H. McKittrick, the American president of the bank, held an annual meeting of bankers from Germany, Japan, Italy, Britain, and America to discuss millions of dollars’ worth of gold that had been sent to the bank by the
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