120 Broadway NYC -- Hitler's Secret Backers, Sidney Warburg, Mapped out.
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The book "Hitler's Secret Backers" by the pseudo-name "Sidney" Warburg was published in Holland during an extremely dangerous time. Hitler was already installed as dictator in Germany and used roving assassinations (called "feme" killings) for political advancement. Journalists in Germany had been killed and their publications destroyed, and some fled the country to Holland where their journalistic skills would be useful in observing what was happening and ferreting out details. The evidence is that the book was written by such exiles and named to focus attention where the spotlight should be. In 1933 there were certain facts which would not be general public knowledge, carefully concealed by allies of Hitler in other countries. This book describes relationships which ought not be known unless skillful digging was involved, perhaps even with an inside man.
By itself the matter could be looked at as unsupported gossip, except that there was a very similar operation went on the same time period and involved the same cast of plotters and involved the similar amounts of financing. That was the Plot to Seize the White House, and there were three attempted assassinations of FDR during the time between election and taking oath of office. No less a person than the highest ranking Marine Corp Brigadier-General (retired) Smedley Butler testified against the plotters of the abortive FDR-overthrow.
Both these plots were centered around 120 Broadway, and involved Wall Street Banksters known to be involved in organized crimes or overthrow of democracy in favor of fascism. Records of facts only declassified or available in the 21st century confirm today what could not be 100% certain then.
"For example, in the book, Sidney Warburg claims to have met with an obscure banker von Heydt in 1933. We now know in 1982 from the German records that in 1933 the Dutch Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V., was a channel of funds for the Nazis. The earlier name for this bank was the von Heydt Bank. Coincidence? How would Sidney Warburg know in 1933?" -- Hitler's Secret Backers
"For example, in the book, Sidney Warburg claims to have met with an obscure banker von Heydt in 1933. We now know in 1982 from the German records that in 1933 the Dutch Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V., was a channel of funds for the Nazis. The earlier name for this bank was the von Heydt Bank. Coincidence? How would Sidney Warburg know in 1933?" -- Hitler's Secret Backers
"Fritz Thyssen and W.A. Harriman Company of New York
Another elusive case of reported financing of Hitler is that of Fritz Thyssen, the German steel magnate who associated himself with the Nazi movement in the early 20s. When interrogated in 1945 under Project Dustbin,11 Thyssen recalled that he was approached in 1923 by General Ludendorf at the time of French evacuation of the Ruhr. Shortly after this meeting Thyssen was introduced to Hitler and provided funds for the Nazis through General Ludendorf. In 1930-1931 Emil Kirdorf approached Thyssen and subsequently sent Rudolf Hess to negotiate further funding for the Nazi Party. This time Thyssen arranged a credit of 250,000 marks at the Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V. at 18 Zuidblaak in Rotterdam, Holland, founded in 1918 with H.J. Kouwenhoven and D.C. Schutte as managing partners.12 This bank was a subsidiary of the August Thyssen Bank of Germany (formerly von der Heydt's Bank A.G.). It was Thyssen's personal banking operation, and it was affiliated with the W. A. Harriman financial interests in New York. Thyssen reported to his Project Dustbin interrogators that:
I chose a Dutch bank because I did not want to be mixed up with German banks in my position, and because I thought it was better to do business with a Dutch bank, and I thought I would have the Nazis a little more in my hands.13"
-- Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler.
