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"Well I do hate to say it but we've always had an "us or them" mentality to the rest of the world. I mean we were so isolationist that we were willing to watch Europe burn from afar rather than do anything. There's no telling what would have happened without Pearl Harbor; the U.S. may never have joined the war against Germany at all, in fact."

The rich would have made more money selling arms to both sides. (In fact some did.)




You might have read this already. mebbe not.

"wall Street and the Rise of Hitler"

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0945001533

You can probably find it as a pdf someplace too, as it is a pretty old book. Read it and try to see the difference between the US industrialists and German industrialists in the dock at Nueremburg. Same sh*t, different piles imho.


The rich and their employees both.




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