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Nazi billionaires, capitalist ethics, and other notable contradictions

The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth

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The Aryanizing Patriarch and the Rothschild Bank

August One Fink senior was deemed to be the richest man in Bavaria, but also the stingiest man by the Nazi party. He refused to spend any money of his own on raising money for a new museum kind of Hitler's pet project - Deutsche Kunst. And he did this so successfully that he was allowed as a thank you to Aryanize two private banks. The first was the Trifus Bank in Berlin and the second was the Rothschild Bank in Austria.

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