Hitler & the Nazis and the Koch Brothers' Family - Some Key Dates on the Timeline (part 1)
(this post does not focus on Fred Koch's work with Stalin in the Soviet Union and Stalin was responsible for well over 3 million deaths)
1926 - Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is published - it has undeniably genocidal passages and full-throated advocacy for war crimes
February 27th, 1933 - Reichstag Fire Decree - the Nazis' first big step
The decree nullified many of the key civil liberties of German citizens. It was used as the legal basis for the imprisonment (Without Trial) of anyone considered to be opponents of the Nazis, and to suppress publications not considered "friendly" to the Nazi cause.
March 22, 1933 - Dachau Concentration Camp established and imprisons (in forced labor camps) political prisoners, Communists and then Jews, Foreign Nationals, Homosexuals et al. - (ultimately there are over 32,000 documented deaths there)
April 7th, 1933 - Jews officially barred from Civil Service, University and State positions in Germany
>>> 1934 - Mr. Fred Koch (father of the "Koch Brothers" and from whom they inherited hundreds of millions of dollars) has a company known as Winkler-Koch Engineering, which has "provided the engineering plans and began overseeing the construction" of a large Nazi oil refinery in Hamburg (with Adolf Hitler's personal approval).
September 15, 1935 - Nuremberg Laws institutionalize racism and anti-semitism
>>> 1938 - patriarch Fred Koch wrote that "the only sound countries in the world are Germany, Italy and Japan"
Fred Koch wrote that "the only sound countries in the world are Germany, Italy and Japan". To make sure his children (the "Koch Brothers") got the right ideas, he hired a German nanny. The nanny was such a fervent Nazi that when France fell in 1940, she resigned and returned to Germany.
November 9, 1938 - "Kristallnacht" - Pogrom against German Jews where 91 murdered + 30,000 sent to concentration camps + 1,000 synagogues burned
January 30, 1939 - Hitler in Reichstag speech: "if war erupts it will mean the Vernichtung (extermination) of European Jews"
1939 through 1945 - World War II
>>> 1960 - Fred Koch self-published his own book, A Business Man Looks at Communism where he wrote : "The colored man looms large in the Communist plan to take over America." He strongly supported the movement to impeach chief justice Earl Warren, after the supreme court voted to desegregate public schools in Brown v Board of Education. His sons became Birchers too, although Charles was more enamored of "antigovernment economic writers" than communist conspiracies.
>>> 1960s through 1980s - The Koch Brothers (Charles & David Koch themselves) repeatedly financially support Holocaust Deniers and defenders of Nazis
