International Thief Thief!!!!

So there's this Fela song called ITT about this corporation that was up to some shady business in Nigeria in the 70s... Naturally, I was kindof curious about what their deal was and today I decided to wiki them.

Among horrid things like financing Pinochet and the overthrow of the chilean government in the 70s, we have this little gem...


"According to Anthony Sampson's book The Sovereign State of ITT, one of the first American businessmen Hitler received after taking power in 1933 was Sosthenes Behn, then the CEO of ITT and his German representative, Henry Mann. Antony C. Sutton, in his book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, makes the claim that ITT subsidiaries made cash payments to SS leader Heinrich Himmler.
ITT, through its subsidiary The Lorenz Company, owned 25% of Focke-Wulf, the German aircraft manufacturer, builder of some of the most successful Luftwaffe fighter aircraft. In the 1960s, ITT Corporation won $27 million in compensation for damage inflicted on its share of the Focke-Wulf plant by WWII Allied bombing.^[3] In addition, Sutton’s book uncovers that ITT owned Huth and Company, G.m.b.H. of Berlin, which made radio and radar parts that were used in equipment going to the Wehrmacht."


dude, 27 million dollars...
to nazi collaborators...
in the 60s...
I would have figured people would still have been pretty sore about WW2 in those days.
what in the fuck is that about?


my guess is that they had some super defense technology or something and they were like "we'll give it to the russians..."
I mean really though...
what the fuck is wrong with people?