The Kochs & the Nazis: Book Reveals Billionaires' Father Built Key Oil Refinery for the Third Reich

[@chapter_black3234]

Fred Koch became angry toward Communism because of the nationalization of the oil refinery, not because of the awful crimes of Stalin

[@chrisbayridge23]

Joel Harold the West funded and armed a counter-revolution in the Soviet Union shortly after World War 1 most of the people who died during that time were starved to death as forces backed by the West and the Communists burned Villages and Farms to the ground all across Southern Russia

[@starmanskye]

lew; Can't refute something with critical thinking, logic or facts, just go for the cheapshot character assassination. That about sums-up your 'integrity', eh? ~ ; )

[@jonathanstill29]

Sounds as if you touched a sensitive nerve there, Joel ! Touchy aren't they ?

[@joemonroe9456]

This is so intellectually dishonest. It was 5 years before the war. And the sons are supposed to be responsible for HItler's crimes some how. This is known as yellow journalism.

[@soulergy1soulrgy1]

​@@joemonroe9456 is called brainwashing when you are so young everything your parents say stays in the brain.

[@davidcopperfield-notthemag397]

So these are the people who are about to get a huge tax cut???

[@leealexander3507]

Yes

[@jonathanstill29]

Yes.

[@forlangspencer5136]

They’re getting what they paid for.

[@augustlandmesser1520]

Why else would they invest in policy?

[@michaelpreston233]

A nice French Style Revolution is in order.

[@christal2641]

This book belongs in EVERY LIBRARY! Thank you for publicizing it!

[@72marshflower15]

It’s been the U.S. all along. I pointed this out here years ago and now look at Ukraine.. I was correct.

[@Fab24hdumans]

Don't forget the Bush family who also made their fortune out of the WWII...

[@monikapadilla3949]

Fab24hdumans Bush family are known in Texas as child traffickers and pedophiles!!! They have child sex parties in their ranches in Odessa and midland Texas where underground tunnels were used to transport kids to bush elite pediphile parties! This is their legacy here in Trxas .

[@thomasjaggers3576]

Does make you wonder if Fred and Prescott where buddies...

[@clairedeiotte8898]

Bush is a federalist too

[@cadittac3411]

dont forget Bushes are jewish

[@janedoe8570]

@@monikapadilla3949 Wow that's news to me where can I find this information???

[@JustMe-cl4qc]

Hateful Greedy people are the lowest forms of life

[@vladimir0700]

I think what's really significant is not so much the sinister nature of people like the Kochs but how blind and ignorant the common man is of what's going on in our world. After all, but for that ignorance, people like the Kochs could not succeed in their sinister plans.

[@robanderson84]

education helps, but how to change things is still hard to figure out, sigh...

[@deannadelmar4485]

And you have fixed this horror with all your wisdom? You are part of the ignorant?

[@starmanskye]

Deanna; Well gosh, mustn't talk about and critique things until someone else 'fixes' them, is that your point? Your 'solution' to widespread blindness and ignorance is to double-down on it. Brilliant!!!

[@jonathanstill29]

@@starmanskye Well Stated !

[@jonathanstill29]

@Richard Cole -we are already seeing the " dumbing down " of the American populace. The illiterate find it easier to let other people do the thinking for them and so appeal to the lowest common denominator mentally, emotionally, spiritually. They' re easier to control that way, when they can't think for themselves, have a limited vocabulary so they can't express themselves, and /or find it taxing to employ deductive or rational reasoning. Like sheep they can be led by their emotions, base desires and by forceful personality types.....like Hitler was. If any of this sounds familiar, you are now held captive in the Trump Zone. ooooOOWEeeoooo ! ! ! Scary, isn't it ?

[@winnanne1]

"Behind every great fortune is a crime." Victor Hugo.

[@ibrahimkuyumcu2649]

"Details make the man." Hugo Boss

[@TerraRubicon]

It's ironic that Fred Koch condemned communism (and even founded the John Birch Society) but had no reservations accepting communist money. Profit mends all wounds so it seems.

[@Vbluevital]

The John Birch Society goes hand in hand with fascist supremists and Nazis. I attend a school with the head of the JBS, he detested his father.

[@jonathanstill29]

....when that's where your loyalty lies......

[@payank505]

Koch response says they didn't help "During WWII". Mayer wrote it was in 1934-35. So they didn't deny he did it.

[@jorgegomez524]

payank505 in i1934-35 there were lot of american jews companies also making money with germany. dont forget hollywood, to give an exemple. maybe even some Mayer company...

[@glennwhite3286]

If a TV ad is going to get you to vote for a candidate that says, ' we need to cut aide too the needed or cutting regulation that prevent a company from dumping its waste into a river that feeds into the drinking water of your town just so you can have a JOB. Then money is not the problem in politics, it's the people that vote against their own self interest.

[@artcircus4772]

Don't blame the powerless

[@JoelLittle-mm8ed]

The Koch brothers benefited tremendously from the incredible scientific and research advances that came out of Germany .

[@zenlei8258]

Are you suggesting Shell, Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, BP, etc. do not have good oil refinery technology in the late 1950s ? Can you please provide examples to advanced technology they got from Germany after WW2 ?

[@Susieq26754]

If they would blackmail their own brother, you know what evil they are capable of.

[@wilhelmheinzerling5341]

Why would people dislike this video...?

[@fifermcgee5971]

Perhaps they don't like the truth.

[@discipleofsakura]

I honestly wonder what it's like to be so goddamn evil. At least one if the brothers is burning in Hell now. All that hoarded money sure helped when the Reaper came for him, huh?

[@elizabethsullivan7176]

It's for bastards like these that I hope there is a Hell

[@c.profits6156]

Funny how I would have agreed with this statement on the Koch’s a year ago. But now on the brink of communism I’d take Koch politicians any day. There is no utopia

[@addysidhu5669]

What they will tell their grandkids that how they kill the planet? Just how they will explain to them?

[@HoloScope]

@@c.profits6156 you're delusional

[@art4freak795]

No one person or family should have that disgusting amount of money

[@Zeldarw104]

My thoughts exactly!! 🤨 T)o. M)uch. I)ncome. Damn-it!!🗣️

[@LolLol-nn8td]

@@Zeldarw104 so your poor and jelous

[@LolLol-nn8td]

so you're poor and jealouss

[@art4freak795]

@@LolLol-nn8td no am not, it's just common sense, that was how monarchy worked.

[@LolLol-nn8td]

@@art4freak795 some of us have hard-working parents who earnt their billions. Your parents' fault for being lazy pigs.

[@Rhythmicons]

Of course they did. W Bush's Grandfather Prescott Bush had his assets frozen for supplying raw materials to them as well.

[@Ominousheat]

So the Koch dynasty helped to create blitzkrieg because without airpower that tactic does not work. I would say that is something to be ashamed of. But are they? Have they shown any regret? Of course not. War is nothing but unadulterated money to them. And they have clearly been the backbone of global weapons manufacturing ever since. They have helped create nay instigated the overwhelming number of wars that have happened since the bomb dropped. All for self interest. The Kochs belong to be put up against a wall and shot. Then buried in an unmarked grave. Just please someone make them and their ilk suffer the way they have manufactured global suffering.

[@GARRY3754]

People need to galvanize and not let them divide us. It’s great to point this out but nothing will change unless people of all strata come together.

[@patrickhenry9846]

This Corporation should have been nationalized long, long ago.

[@peter8488]

Hopefully Wyatt Koch is the future of the Koch's and with his bold shirts the Koch legacy will sputter out.

[@francosoliman103]

And these Brothers called themselves Americans. They are Not even close. No words can describe just how Vile these brothers are. Even the Devil will reject them.

[@robertperez357]

Sooooooo!Bill Maher was not wrong to hope for Koch's death to be painful. AWSOME

[@12artman]

Amy, love Dem. Now but one request. I find it all very difficult to teach others political theory when phrases like "right wing radicals" are used to describe people like the Koch brothers. They are "right wing reactionaries" not radicals. Maybe this is one of the reasons so many average people have a hard time figuring out just where these terms fit into political commentary. It's not valid in political terminology and while we are trying to come to terms with the many terms used by the media (alt-right, etc.) it helps so much to be accurate or, at least, plain within the context of 'political science'.

[@patrickhenry9846]

Simple English please.

[@georgekovacs4278]

Thank you David, the difference between a "radical" and a "reactionary'' politically and philosophically, is so profound that each term, 'to the root' and 'choosing not to 'pro-act'', that each needs its own spectrum and not be included together as separate ends of the same spectrum. That professional journalists seem to continually mistake these terms and call a nationalistic bigot a "right-winged radical" indicates tmal a problem at the university level education of both poly-sci and journalism grad students. That's taking into account the far-rights 'dumbing down' of the entire educational system. I do hope I've used "Plain English" to be understood by the "lowest common denominator" of English language readers.🗿

[@angelmatos9143]

This book should be required reading in America.

[@evandrolima1724]

I'm not saying they were NAZIs, but they were NAZIs! ;)

[@mexicanusrex9418]

The rotten apples fall close to the rotten tree.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

Jesus would have thrown these evil "money mongers" out of the "temple" of democracy...

[@theresacarmen6220]

Citizens United was the worst thing to happen to us in the last part of the 20th century.

[@jerryblanton587]

These are the guys that are gonna destroy the Eco system all for profit

[@fifermcgee5971]

Money, money, money is all that counts with these people. Greed.

[@darleneshriver3270]

So he was a traitor? When did the Koch's come to America? They need to be held responsible for crimes against he environment, and the on to the others!

[@MrHarryc727]

Ever heard of Henry Ford support for Nazi party?

[@chrisbayridge23]

Harry C Henry Ford even included a book with new car purchases called the international Jew anti-semitic propaganda book

[@trishahopkins6574]

It amuses me that one of the Koch brothers actually used to like doing “koch” as his favourite pastime

[@fredfrond6148]

To be fair Mr. Fred Koch built the refineries for Stalin also. They were willing to work for any evil dictator. Just like trump likes MBS from Saudi Arabia and little rocket man.

[@christopherhoyt7195]

Why is Fred Kochs building of oil refineries for the Third Reich prominently displayed, then the mention of him first having built refineries for the Soviets rushed over? Clearly, the Soviets surpassed rhe Nazis in duration and damage caused to humanity. The Soviets were not liberators, but the authoritarian regime that crushed their former allies the Nazis.

[@Rhythmicons]

He's describing a patronage system where the wealthiest don't participate in politics but sponsor the candidates.

[@yaktown1985]

Can't wait to Charles join David...

[@BaldwinBay]

One is dead. The other one will not live much longer. Money will be worthless one day.

[@chaunceywallace6447]

She's not saying they were nazis! Why not? They are!.

[@leapfrog4561]

Funny Tim Ferris interviewed Charles Koch recently on his podcast and Charles made it sound like all he really cared about was humanity. I don’t know if Tim actually believed it but I sure didn’t.

[@patrickmitchell4134]

Most wealthy people made money during WW2. Isn’t that the purpose of most wars.

[@genedebsfan]

You are one of the few that get it!

[@r.b.l.5841]

imagine being responsible for so much hardship across the world to be what - richer than some other super rich people? What possible motivation can be behind such people.

[@firebouy]

I am reading this book now and am shook by the details! The Koch Bros are scaaaaaary.

[@airmark02]

" the Banality of Evil ? "

[@SmithFam2323]

The Koch’s are Super Villains period.

[@shadowdance4666]

Where’s David’s grave I feel like Dancing on it

[@MrBuzben]

When will we learn?

[@DanielField2023]

When these Fucking Dumb Bell Idiots American weak up.

[@Eric-ye5yz]

Donations are a form of free speech are they ??? So the more money you have, the more free speech you have..…. is that how it is ?

[@TheThisisliving]

Who ever the Kochs vote for I will not vote for...It's easy for us poor people. Us people who don't have a billion dollars. Just don't do it.

[@rogerparker4468]

Found about all these Nazi collaborations and connections but couldn't find out how Koch personally felt about the Nazis? Nothing is known about this spefficially? Strange

[@peacedove9513]

GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!! We will NEVER have a Free and open DEMOCRACY!!

[@goudagalindo1790]

The Koch family sound like Marvel villains. We need Spider Man or someone like Iron Man to help us fight these evil brothers.

[@PraiseMedusa]

Or SpiderWoman

[@leealexander3507]

There are plenty more to replace them.

[@ChicagoTurtle1]

Wow amazing. None of us should be surprised by the fascist influences behind the Koch family. But I don’t want to diminish the importance of such findings. I think this needs to be brought to the awareness of the general public even more some how. The question is ...how??

[@peteklinger6150]

Once a " Reichwinger " , always a " Reichwinger " .... and it becomes generational . " Corporate Money " = Corruption & Greed .

[@ellenkayman8255]

The USA like Australia and the UK does not have representative govt. Representatives vote on party lines and not for their electorates. Concerned that they won't gain preselection this ensures party unity and non representative govt. The system doesn't support representative govt and therefore lacks democratic process. The difference between these countries and totalitarian regimes is the monopoly of force. Ask Assange. Hitler had Henry Ford's photo on his wall. Look at the association between him and many others like the Bank of England and Hitler's Germany. Guns need wars and ward need excuses.

[@EdMeares]

Ms. Mayer's adding the minor-but-fascinating detail about Fred Koch, sets my imagination sailing into the universe of might-have-beens. The father of the current generation of obscenely wealthy, ruthlessly anti-democratic Kochs, was scheduled to board the ill-fated flight of the Hindenburg, the passenger-carrying dirigible whose ending was so disastrous and spectacular (the fatality-rate was 100%) in a New Jersey airfield in 1937. BUT he was delayed from climbing the gang-plank due to last-minute business. The twins, David & William, would not have been born (their birth-date occurring in 1940), so the other arch-conservative, democracy-hating brother, Charles (born in '35), would have had to carry out many of his projects to destroy the government of the US from within virtually by himself. How much different would things be today if Fred had made that flight?

[@heeeresjohnny7503]

Pfffff.....most of them were doin bizness with those people in those days, ford, rockefeller, hughes, bushes etc....

[@FlbcImp]

Who says you can't buy a government

[@jones1351]

"Not saying they were Nazis..." They just had Nazi - like tendencies.

[@billsmith2212]

We need to recruit the terminally ill to do the dirty work that no one else has the guts for !

[@markjones9752]

Dead dead dead....

[@dat219]

Good info . Is there a George soros video in democracy now that I can view . I have listened to democracy now on NPR , I try to get information from several views , thanks

[@yaadapaah7851]

There’s always an end to everything.Time will tell .Remember we r all visitors of this beautiful world.

[@mr.d.4175]

BeforeHitler their daddy helped Stalin. Real americans.

[@patrickjenkins9167]

🗿 Jane Mayer: All I can say is...W O W❗ You are ONE SMART COOKIE. I admire your style. ✔

[@bestcommenteronyoutube9338]

I love democracy now but it is scary how misleading these titles can be. The author admits early in the conversation- Fred Koch, an American businessman went to Germany in 1934 (during peacetime) and built a refinery. The liberal headline reads. “The Koch brothers father built a refinery for Nazi Germany personally endorsed by Hitler” Yikes

[@bonntv]

Koch & Dulles

[@nathannomad984]

At least one of the assholes is gone, with any luck the other will croak soon!

[@72marshflower15]

@Democracy Now ~ I told you so..

[@RoxanneM-]

She says the personal idea about Hitler and the Nazis of the Koch is unknown, but they didn’t seem disgusted by it nor did anything to help, and made business with Hitler. So there goes the predatory quality of their essence as individuals, as well. It doesn’t matter from which side you cut it - it doesn’t bode well for them our idea, accurate idea of who they are.

[@stevehunsberger7017]

in short Koch has recreated or tried to create and fractured society with only corporate interest. right now they are winning. but .. this game is not over.

[@buckeyewill2166]

“Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob…” Franklin Delano Roosevelt

[@Wamsuo58u]

Good riddance

[@rohjo]

David is dead. Keep hope alive. Tulsi 2020

[@angelmatos9143]

While Mitch McConnell was their stooge.

[@truthseeker4280]

Why I am not surprised.

[@reesetorwad8346]

"Good riddance to bad rubbish."

[@bebrave1622]

Wonder if there was any Koch ever that was good and escaped.

[@1Tomrider]

It seems that anything that lasts long enough eventually becomes respectable, especially if they're also rich.

[@reginaldmcnab3265]

There need to be lay that says only the government can provide money to the candidates and each can candidate receive equal amount and has the same amount of air time, and may the better candidate wins. And no group or individual other than the government can provide money.

[@damirzanne]

David Koch’s net worth at this moment is $0 lmao ....

[@kurvitaschthedictator]

what did I just randomly stumble upon?

[@tomandrews1060]

One down one to go

[@ericmoore6769]

The Koch brothers Bought NPR five years ago. That's why Americans have swallowed the propaganda about England should "remain" the property of German banks. The woke American left believes in pro Nazi classic bullshit. Such a shame.

[@lawrenceholst3808]

One generation of people succeeds another, the best of them are best in character.The final outcome is not mans decisions but rather his choice

[@scottmcfadyen293]

What i find interesting is how the beliefs of the father gets passed on as a virus to the children and the cycle of poisoned actions continues on. what is brought by an emotional attachment, becomes the voice of another generation and the same ill drives thrive in another generation .. and we all pay the price !

[@goudagalindo1790]

The Koch family sound like Marvel villains. We need Spider Man to help us.

[@feloniousmonk1973]

+Guada Galindo how many times are you going to say that?? It's 3 times already.

[@mw3516405]

Carlin : It's a big club ?

[@stephenverchinski409]

Oh, and lets not forget the Harrimans coal and steel. Guess who Pamela would befriend?

[@HoosierRooster]

Dutch Royal shell provided the fuel for the Nazis

[@jdavi195]

What's concerning is that the Koch brothers are the idols of all libertarians.

[@cornellhoward3757]

Can't take it with you only the bad or good we do as people follow us into death door, no cash allowed!

[@robertallen5422]

"Koch must have felt real good shedding his human 'skin' and finally letting his scales get a chance to breathe."

[@ianmuir3640]

There has no be a Limit on donations just like the UK

[@blueunicornhere]

What... no mention of Ilsa Koch? They have the same name. Or what about the koch-a- cola Corp. Lots of nazis enjoyed their coke until the war was declared so coke created fanta so nazis could still enjoy fanta. Way to go coke brothers. Trade with the enemy. Oh and let's not forget Prescott bush and brown brothers harriman bank... oh that doesn't have a name that rhymes with koch. Sorry let's forget that reference like history did.

[@mr.d.4175]

Glad he died from a dirty asshole. Just like him.

[@annpringle8219]

David Koch is dead now! May he suffer in peace! Dirty brothers !

[@gilbertwoodward75]

HOT DAMN educated people in the comment section

[@mervinavila888]

The only thing they really want they can't buy with all that money is being young again

[@natural12-c3c]

One of the American Nazis

[@DouglasKYoung]

Another history of assisting Nazi's efforts includes Texaco selling lubricants (as I recall)