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Part One: Charles Koch: The Luke Skywalker of Rich People

Behind the Bastards

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Fred Koch and the Nazis

In 1934, the company that hired Koch's company was an American company as well. It was run by a guy named William Davis who was a big time Nazi sympathizer. Now back in World War I, Germany had starved halfway to death under a brutal British naval blockade. The president of one American bank refused to fund Davis's planned refinery because he didn't want to help the Nazis rearm.

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