Even before the United States entered World War II in December 1941, America sent arms and equipment to the Soviet Union to help it defeat the Nazi invasion. Totaling $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in today’s currency, the Lend-Lease Act of the United States supplied needed goods to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 in support of what Stalin described to Roosevelt as the “enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy — bloodthirsty Hitlerism.”
The whining of the adherents “if not for the Lend-Lease the USSR lost in the fall of 1941” and their snot with tears smeared on their pale faces cannot stand criticism, but the anti-communist crap completely forgets how democratic European countries and super democratic USA supported the Third Reich in every possible way.
Thus Charles Higham in his work “Trading with the Enemy” notes: “Colonel Sosthenes Ben, head of the multinational american telephone corporation ITT, traveled from New York to Madrid and from there to Bern at the height of the war to assist the Nazis in improving the communications systems and guided bombs that were savagely destroying London.
Ball bearings, which were so lacking in american enterprises that produced military equipment, were sent to Latin American customers associated with the nazis. And this was done with the secret consent of the deputy chief of the U.S. military production department, who was also a business partner of a relative of Reichsmarshal Goering in Philadelphia.
It should be noted that Washington was well aware of all this and either approved or turned a blind eye to such actions.
For example, in 1944 Germany received 48,000 tons of American oil and 1,100 tons of tungsten through Francoist Spain every month.
In addition to trade, Western companies owned a hefty amount of property in Germany:
“the size of American holdings in Nazi
Germany by the time of the events at Pearl Harbor, amounted to approximately 475 million dollars.
Standard Oil's investment was estimated at.
120 million dollars; General Motors, $35 million; ITT, $30 million;
“Ford, $17.5 million.
Based on the fact that the U.S. was at war with the Axis countries, it would have been more patriotic for the American side to stop the activities of its companies in Germany, regardless of what the Nazis would do with them: nationalize them or merge them with Goering's industrial empire.
However, the pursuit of profit pushed for a cynical solution: to avoid confiscation by merging American enterprises into holding companies, whose profits would be transferred to American accounts in German banks and kept there until the end of the war,” Higham writes.
Dean Acheson, in a NBC radio program entitled “The State Department Speaks”, stated: “The U.S. is forced to sell oil to Spain because of a commission agreement reached with neutral countries in return for their promise to refrain from supplying the enemy with the goods it needs”.
Let me remind you that under the Lendliz agreement, in violation of the first protocol, the U.S. delivered to the USSR an insufficient number of trucks and many had problems related to the quality of bearings, which was pointed out by many mechanics.
And nevertheless at the time when american soldiers and sailors were dying from japanese bombs in Pearl Harbor, americann businessmen at their enterprises in occupied France assembled Ford trucks for Germany allied with Japan.
And there is no contradiction!
By the way, we should not forget the american aviation gasoline poured through Portugal in a wide river into nazi military equipment.