{"id":151949,"date":"2015-05-18T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=151949"},"modified":"2015-05-18T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T15:15:46","slug":"history-of-world-war-ii-america-was-providing-military-aid-to-the-ussr-while-also-supporting-nazi-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/history-of-world-war-ii-america-was-providing-military-aid-to-the-ussr-while-also-supporting-nazi-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"History of World War II: America Was Providing Military Aid to the USSR, While Also Supporting Nazi Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Besides weapons, other supplies were also provided under lend-lease. And those figures are absolutely indisputable indeed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Specifically, the USSR received 2,586,000 tons of\u00a0<strong>aviation fuel<\/strong>, an amount equal to<strong>\u00a037%<\/strong>\u00a0of what was produced in the Soviet Union during the war, plus almost 410,000\u00a0<strong>automobiles<\/strong>, making up\u00a0<strong>45%<\/strong>\u00a0of the Red Army\u2019s vehicle fleet (not counting cars captured from the enemy).\u00a0<strong>Food<\/strong>\u00a0shipments also played a significant role, although very little was provided during the first year of the war, and the US supplied only about\u00a0<strong>15%<\/strong>\u00a0of the USSR\u2019s canned meat and other nonperishables.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This support also included machine tools, railway tracks, locomotives, rail cars, radar equipment, and other useful items without which a war machine can make little headway.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of course this list of lend-lease aid looks very impressive, and one might feel sincere admiration for the American partners in the anti-Hitler coalition, except for one tiny detail:\u00a0<strong>US manufacturers were also supplying Nazi Germany at the same time \u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>F<strong>or example, John D. Rockefeller Jr. owned a controlling interest in the Standard Oil corporation, but the next largest stockholder was the German chemical company I. G. Farben, through which the firm sold $20 million worth of gasoline and lubricants to the Nazis.<\/strong> And the Venezuelan branch of that company sent 13,000 tons of crude oil to Germany each month, which the Third Reich\u2019s robust chemical industry immediately converted into gasoline. But business between the two nations was not limited to fuel sales \u2014 in addition, tungsten, synthetic rubber, and many different components for the auto industry were also being shipped across the Atlantic to the German F\u00c3\u00bchrer by Henry Ford. In particular, it is no secret that 30% of all the tires produced in his factories were used by the German Wehrmacht.<\/p>\n<p>The full details of <strong>how the Fords and Rockefellers colluded to supply Nazi Germany<\/strong> are still not fully known because those were strictly guarded trade secrets, but even the little that has been made public and acknowledged by historians makes it clear that the war did not in any way slow the pace of the US trade with Berlin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/history-of-world-war-ii-americas-was-providing-military-aid-to-the-ussr-while-also-supporting-nazi-germany\/5449378\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides weapons, other supplies were also provided under lend-lease. And those figures are absolutely indisputable indeed. Specifically, the USSR received 2,586,000 tons of\u00a0aviation fuel, an amount equal to\u00a037%\u00a0of what was produced in the Soviet Union during the war, plus almost 410,000\u00a0automobiles, making up\u00a045%\u00a0of the Red Army\u2019s vehicle fleet (not counting cars captured from the enemy).\u00a0Food\u00a0shipments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-151949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}