Who Started World War II?

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Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn

Interesting. FDR understood quickly that a strong Germany liberated from the international finance was a huge threat against the capitalist world. That's why, already in January 1939, the US were actively preparing for war.

Why would a strong or whatever Germany be "liberated from the international finance"? That only happens in case of war, and the money markets are not "international" anymore during war time.

Also, contrary to some views (i was astonished to see this just of all in the US), Germany was capitalistic as it always had been. Big industry was not touched, a lot of former jewish companies were "of course" being shut down, joined other companies, or nationalised. Miltary and politics had to pay for all services and hardware, it was just that the money for all that was stolen from the jews, and with printing more money.

In case of the Junkers works, the company was still a capitalistic one, just with another head. Hugo Junkers had shown no love for the Nazi regime, so he was neutralised, and most probably murdered.

Despite the name "national socialism", this was no socialism at all. The name was just used to also get the left to support the party as long as such support counted, before Hitler's enabling act and the begin of the official dictatorship.


FD Roosevelt certainly had no love for dictatorships, and especially wanted to help England, so he managed to help against the will of the congress, which at first wanted to stay out of the war. But it sure was not his fear of a financially independent Germany that made him try to support England. Without the war the german financial system would have collapsed quickly.