@Strandjunker

Agreed, but the defense of "I was only increasing shareholder value" was accepted as a defense for corporations.

It successfully got those corporate interests acquitted, the same ones who funded the Nazis from 1933 onwards.

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5815470-fossil-fuel-industry-accountability/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/business/oil-liability-shield-laws-climate-lawsuits.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/utah-fossil-fuels-legal-shield

We can be assured that the kleptocrats of Project 2025 are laying the groundwork to escape culpability.
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

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https://www.salon.com/2024/11/05/and-the-money-men-billionaires-are-making-the-hitler-mistake/

The financial backers who platformed the Nazis.

Hitler had lots of American friends
http://bradleywhart.com/hitlers-american-friends/

Hitler had lots of aristocratic friends
https://susanronald.com/books-panel/hitlers-aristocrats/

Hitler had lots of media friends too
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2022-04-19/newspaper-axis-six-press-barons-who-enabled-hitler

Hitler had lots of corporate friends too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Billionaires

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19125905/

Consequences await Trump’s corporate oligarchs too
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben_Trial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp_trial

@Lynnd

Charles Stross's science fiction novel Glasshouse got me interested in how The Moneyed manipulate narratives about history for self-advantage.

Why is the murder of historians & destruction of their work so critical to the powerful in the prelude to war?

Self-serving narratives about the Civil War and "Slavery is Good for You" feeds the financialization & entrenchment of inhumanity, for example.

Just like how banking & private equity hedge fund managers fund ecocide now.

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Until Rachel Maddow & Sarah Paine started discussing the role of elites in the rise of Hitler, I had never heard of how a domino of world events was set in motion by Gilded Age robber barons & their irresponsible greed.

Henry Ford should have faced trial for trading with the enemy.

90 million people died from his bigotry.

Trump & his MAGA billionaires should be facing trial for RICO and threat funding.