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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 277
After Japan invaded Southeast Asia, they cut off the US supply of natural rubber to the
US. Standard Oil was unable to produce Buna for US war efforts because they had given the
Nazis control of this technology. While they had shared technology critical to Buna's
development with the Nazis, they had not required the Nazis to reciprocate by sharing their
technology. A war calamity was only avoided when other US firms developed processes for the
production of synthetic rubber.
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Standard Oil made additional essential contributions to the Nazi war effort. One of these
included the transfer of technology regarding lubricating oil and its additives (primarily
tetraethyl-lead) through its Ethyl Gasoline Corporation owned jointly with General Motors.
Germany needed this technology desperately but didn’t have it. The Ethyl Corp. had been
warned by Du Pont, the principal stockholder in General Motors that tetraethyl-lead, a fuel
additive that acts as a lubricant; would be very valuable to Germany's war efforts. A Du Pont
representative wrote the following to Ethyl:
It has been claimed that Germany is secretly arming. Ethyl lead would
doubtless be a valuable aid to military aeroplanes. I am writing you this to say that
in my opinion, under no condition should you or the Board of Directors of the
Ethyl Corporation disclose any secrets or “know-how” in connection with the
manufacture of tetraethyl lead in Germany.
What Standard Oil had proposed to Ethyl Corp. was that they enter into a partnership
with I.G. Farben to build tetraethyl-lead plants in Germany. Astoundingly the US War
Department approved the venture and transfer of technology. An I.G. Farben memo states the
importance of this additive to the Nazi’s war efforts:
Without tetraethyl-lead the present methods of warfare would be
impossible. The fact that since the beginning of the war we could produce
tetraethyl lead is entirely due to the circumstances that shortly before, the
Americans presented us with the production plans, complete with their know-
how.
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In 1939 prior to the outbreak of WW II, the tetraethyl-lead plants were not at an
operational stage yet and Germany was in desperate need. They turned to their American
partners. “Just before World War II broke out, Ethyl-Standard shipped 500 tons of ethyl lead
[from America] to the Reich Air Ministry through I.G. Farben, with payment secured by letter of
Brown Bros. Harriman dated Sept. 21, 1938.” Standard Oil also provided Germany a stockpile of
aviation gasoline. The gasoline and and tetraethyl-lead had a market value of $20 million. I.G.
Farben who acted as an agent on behalf of the Nazi government initiated this transaction. I don’t
think it is necessary to mention the importance of aviation fuel and aviation lubricants to the
Nazi war effort.
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At the time of the above transaction, I. G. Farben’s assets in the United States were
controlled by a holding company called American I. G. Farben Chemical Corp. The Board of
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