...it shows how common war profiteering is, how often it is bungled, how risky it is, and how money speaks louder than ideology to some people, but ideology is what eventually wins in the end anyway. The problem with that writer is he assumes or expects his readers to assume that everyone knew exactly where they were headed when they first started their investments that eventually got tangled up in Hitler's web. What I see are American investors and industrialist trying to make a profit, getting entangled in Hitler's web of deceit, then looking for a way to get out of it without losing it all. Their efforts to keep assetts away from the Soviets I find to be commendable. So, where was this author's condemnation of Armand Hammer and a portrayal of his part in things at the time? Sadly, lacking. Interesting tale, woven into his own fabric of deceit. Loftus also sounds like a front man for certain Holocaust groups that are hoping to create a favorable political situation and later to sue for a good payoff day, like they accomplished in Europe. Prelude to a ripoff?