Thread by @JimmyFalunGong

did you ever wonder who funded the Nazi party? it's a lot more complicated of a question than you'd think.

we talk about the Thule Society again they didn't fund that much of the party, instead providing the spiritual ideology

then there's the White Russians, like Alfred Rosenberg, who first brought the Protocols to Hitler

well, he wasn't quite a white russian, but you know.

then we talk about the funding of the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi newspaper, ran by Max Amann, the guy who witnessed Hitler's hysterical blindness

Dr. Emil Gansser, an executive at Siemens & Halske, got Hitler to speak at the prestigious National Club of Berlin, where he made connections

Admiral von Trotha, who probably funneled the Nazis funds from the Navy covertly

JF Lehmann again, from Thule

Kurt Lüdecke, who becomes extremely important to our story of Nazi fundraising

Ernst Hanftstaengl, probably the first German-American Nazi, and spy. lmao would you trust this guy?

another guy hidden in the shadows: Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, very spooky

everyone's favorite beer from St. Louis also gave funds

industrialists Fritz Thyssen and Ernst Borsig gave small amounts in the early days

Hitler made an early connection with Prince Ahrenberg, who bragged to Hitler of having been sentenced to 12 years for "having killed a n*****", which it looks like he served like 3, in Deutsch-Südwestafrika

Admiral Canaris also funneled funds to the Nazis covertly

then there's Hermann Ehrhardt, who ran one of the freikorps, who also ran the Viking Bund and the Organization Consul, an out-and-out paramilitary death squad via by German naval intelligence and funds

the Organization Consul killed Matthias Erzberger and Walther Rathenau, high-ranking government officials, and the Nazis' ties to the OC were pretty strong

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and finally we discuss General Ludendorff, who's come up in prior episodes

at Programmed to Chill, we're just getting started. it's probably not giving away the game to say there's 4 more episodes on early Nazi funding coming up, so check it out.