If Hitler and the Nazi Party as a mass movement were conceived in the pan-German Thule Society and nursed by the Army and Navy combined, this programme reveals that finally they were brought to the altar of power by high finance and industry, in particular by the owners of the new light industries of the second industrial revolution, supported by the banks, in particular the giant Deutsche Bank to which von Schröder’s Cologne Bank was affiliated. Emil Georg von Stauss of the Deutsche Bank was prominent in the group of investors von Schröder formed after this key meeting to underwrite Nazi
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