Have you read “Conjuring Hitler” by Guido Preparata? It proposes the thesis that it was Britain (controlled by the international bankers, mostly Zionists) who was running the WWII show, and that Stalin would not act without Britain’s and the bankers’ consent.
 

Well, I ordered a copy of the Preparata book, and read it. I hate to say it, but he comes across as a total conspiracy-crank and a crackpot.

The book significantly references the short earlier Antony Sutton book on Wall Street/Hitler, which I’d brought a couple of years ago, so I dug it out and finally read it. Sure enough, Sutton also comes across like a conspiracy-crank and a crackpot.

I’m certainly not saying these books are totally worthless since they gather together lots of interesting references. But the candor and/or judgment of the authors is so dreadful, I just don’t think I can trust them on anything at all.

One interesting thing I’ve noticed about WWII conspiracy-cranks is that they’re usually utterly, *utterly* terrified of discussing the Jewish role in promoting the war, even though (as I cited in my article) the private statements of Chamberlain and numerous other key players put Jewish influence at the absolute center.

For example, neither Preparata nor Sutton have any entry for “Jews” in their detailed index, with Sutton for safety’s sake, even avoiding any index entry starting with the letter “J.” So you write a “conspiracy” book about Wall Street, Hitler, and WWII and have no index entry for “Jews”—ha, ha, ha. Quite a number of the key individuals Sutton mentions were Jewish, but you’d never know it from Sutton’s book.

Sutton also repeatedly mentions Hitler’s diabolical plan to conquer the entire world. Hmmm…

Meanwhile, Preparata focuses on the diabolical plot of the British elites to destroy Germany. Okay. But instead of simply attacking Germany when it was almost totally disarmed and helpless in the 1920s, they plotted to build up a very powerful German military under Hitler, and *then* start a war (and get defeated in 1940!) presumably because that was much more “challenging.”

Similarly, everyone knows of Parvus, the Jewish Marxist from Russia, whom the Germans used to provide heavy financing to Lenin’s Bolsheviks in hopes of promoting a revolution. The plan succeeded, and with their Russian allies in revolutionary turmoil, the British almost lost the war to Germany. Okay. But based on zero evidence, Preparata claims that Parvus was actually a *British* agent, who tricked the Germans into funding the Bolshevik Revolution and thereby almost winning the war. Those diabolical British!

Preparata also seems to believe that during the 1920s and 1930s, the British elites and the top Soviets were secret allies, both cooperating to build up Hitler’s military machine so as to better destroy Germany. He also believes that all the top British figures who seemed to be pro-German or friendly towards Hitler, from Edward VIII on down, were actually part of a diabolical anti-German British plot. Although everyone thought that Churchill and Chamberlain were bitter adversaries, they were actually secretly working together to destroy Germany by building up the German military into the strongest in the world.

I could provide a very long list of Preparata’s additional crackpottery, but it just isn’t worth it.

I think I’ve heard that the LaRouchies always claimed that there was a secret British conspiracy currently running the world, so I’d guess that Preparata sold lots of his books in those circles.
 

Replies: @Makia Freeman

Building Germany up so as to goad it into attacking its neighbors would then give Britain and the US (led by the bankers) the excuse they needed to permanently bring Germany to its knees AND whip up antisemitism to justify Israel..
 

Replies: @Corvinus