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Position:Home>History> How did the U.S.A HELP Germany in ww2?Question: How did the U!.S!.A HELP Germany in ww2!? i know they hepled by supplying germnay with ammo just b4 or druing the war (obivously before usa joined) i herd sumwere that usa was isolted and they needded money so they sold materials ammo etc to germany!? so what did happen, i need proof aswellWww@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Gavin's right!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Actually!. like the above poster I think you have some things mixed up here!. There were firms in the USA that were interested in selling to Germany even under the Hitler government, but because of their attempt to strengthen the German economy the Nazis made it very difficult to sell in Germany, specifically if a German firm wanted to purchase from a foreign supplier (such as in the USA) the Germans could not pay in foreign exchange but only in credits that could be used for the purchase of other goods made in Germany (there was a discount offered to sweeten the deal, but it was still very difficult)!. The Soviet Union, however, had a special arrangement with Germany because of the Nonaggression Pact, and there were allowances for trade with Russia!. In fact, much of the raw materials and fuel used by the German army in the first year of the invasion of Russia had actually been supplied by Russia!. A very famous trivia is that the last Russian supply train to cross the frontier into Germany arrived two hours before the invasion began and was allowed in as if nothing was going to happen!Www@QuestionHome@Com The U!.S!. was not supplying Germany but rather England during the war years prior to the U!.S!. involvement in it!. In fact the U!.S!. had cut off Germany before the war even started, the Hindenburg and other dirigibles would have been filled with helium not hydrogen but the U!.S!. had a monopoly on helium at the time and stopped supplying it to Germany because the Nazis were in power!. There were also German assets in America that had been frozen once the war started so obviously the information you have is incorrect and the U!.S!. was not supplying Germany with money or weapons during the war!. Ironically it was England who supplied Hitler with the diamonds he needed for production during the war!. There were diamonds being smuggles out of the country and no action was taken to stop it, DeBeers had a monopoly on the diamond market and was very corrupt!. Germany would never have had enough diamonds to keep up production for very long if it had not been for all the ones smuggled to them from England!.Www@QuestionHome@Com A lot of US firms continued to deal with the Nazis after September 1, 1939, when they invaded Poland!. Once Hitler declared war on the US in Dec!.1941, that all pretty much finished!. They did sell a lot of trucks to the Fascists in Spain under Franco-one of the reasons he was able to switch forces to threatened fronts and to attack much more rapidly than the legitimate government of Spain was the huge number of GM trucks he had!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Not exactly did they help them before the big battle but after! After WW2 there was the Soviet-Union who tried in take over Germany which to result there was a large wall built between Germany and the Soviet-Union!. I truly think that if there were no Americans in Germany at that exact moment, Russian would of took over Germany!.Www@QuestionHome@Com IBM sold Germany tabulating machines which helped speed the process of the 'final solution'!. http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/IBM_and_the!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com IBM operated throughout the war to sell Germany business machines!. The Bushes (the elder Bush's father) were also involved in doing business with Germany!. The USA does not have a clean slate!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |