How World War 2 Was Financed: Ford, IBM, and a Secret Swiss Bank
Long-form22:18EducationPublished Sep 7, 2026, 1:30 PM · 6w ago
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Description
In 1940, an American banker sat on the board of a secretive Swiss bank alongside Hitler's own economics minister — and kept doing business through the deadliest war in history. This is the documented, fact-checked story of how World War II was actually financed: from the Treaty of Versailles and the Dawes Plan's "circular money machine," through Ford, GM, IBM, Standard Oil, and ITT's operations inside Nazi Germany, to the Swiss bank that laundered looted gold and survived a direct order to shut it down.
Every claim in this video is sourced from declassified US Army intelligence reports, Nuremberg trial testimony, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission records, congressional hearings, and published historical research — and where the popular version of this story gets ahead of the evidence (yes, including a couple of "facts" you've probably heard before), we say so.
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Details
- Published
- Sep 7, 2026, 1:30 PM
- Length
- 22:18 (1,338 s)
- Format
- Long-form
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- Education
- Audio language
- EN
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- HD
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- Video ID
- r9UOttanCmA
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