THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 24, 1939.
HITLER'S NEST-EGGS
Der Fuehrer boasts of his impecuniosity, but the fact is that royalties from his book “Moin Kampf" and investments in German real estate and industrial firms make him one of Ger- many's wealthiest men. This money is deposit- ed throughout Europe in 15 bank accounts under three names.
"I have remained a man of people, a modest and poor fellow.
the
He pur-
Three years ago I listened to Adolf to invest his Fuehrer's accumulated Hitler score the greatest oratorical wealth in sound securities. success of his life as he dramatically chased real estate in Munich, Berlin confessed to a deliriously cheering and and Cologne, and enlarged the Franz helling crowd overflowing Berlin's Eher Verlag (the official publishing Sportpalast:
house of the Reich since the seizure of power) by "acquiring". other print- ing and publishing firms. First he bought Bavaria's largest printing house, M. Mueller & Sons, and several paper factories. Then he bought out the huge publishing house of Knorr and Hirth, and the Ullstein enter- prises in Berlin. He secured a con- troling interest in Haasenstein and Vogler, Germany's largest advertising With the Ullstein agency.
concern,
I am, as a matter of fact, the only
statesman in the world who has bank account!"
no
And again, a few weeks ago, at the opening of his millennial edifice in the Wilhelmstrasse, he repeated part of that earller speech, and said: "As a German comrade I am to-day exactly what I have always been and I do not want to be any more!"
MAGNIFICENT
ORATOR - AND WHAT?
of
for which Amann paid a reputed five. million marks of Hitler's money, he acquired several complete blocks plants and tenement houses in almost every district of the German capital. In Munich he owns the greater part of the Thiersch Strasse, and has large The Third Reich's Fuehrer is, in- plots in the exclusive Maximilan deed, a magnificent orator who does Strasse as well. In 1937 Amann in- not hesitate to use Ersatz for truth vested a considerable sum of Hitler's whenever he needs another trick money in Field Marshal Goering's in- hypnotize his audience. In three years dustrial enterprises, the Hermann of research I have ascertained that Goering Works. the "modest and poor fellow' is, in fact, one of the wealthiest men in Germany, whose money is kept in fifteen bank accounts both inside and outside the Reich.
to
LITTLE OVERSEAS
The Fuehrer, savage, pounds home bis
points
At Paris, France, at the Bureau money wherever they land. This ex- Central des Cheques Postaux, rue des Favourites, account number 190,066, in the name of Amann;
At The Hague, Holland, at the Post- cheque en Girodienst, Specineplein, account number 211,848, in the name of Amann;
plains why it is necessary to keep funds, in places like Budapest, Buch- arest and Belgrade, where local cur- rency regulations make it impossible. to withdraw suma except for domes- tic use.
AN INTERESTING
FACT
Looking at Herr Hitler's financial policy from this political angle, one
ONE BANK QUITE
INADEQUATE
At Brussels, Belgium, at the office To-day any one banking house is des Cheque Postaux, account number All of his fortune, one of Germany's considered inadequate to hold all the 350,797, in the name of Amann;
Therefore At Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, at largest, has been accumulated during earnings of Herr Hitler. his years as a politician. The bulk of Amann has distributed his Fuehrer's Postovni Sporitelna, account number discovers a rather interesting fact:
The 77,303, in the name of Franz it, however, has been garnered since, savings among several banks.
Eher Herr Hitler keeps no money in Italy, which fact, in itself, rules out the Immediately after his assumption largest sum in Hitler's own name is Verlag;
the possibility of his ever'-fleeing to of power. he magnanimously relin- at the Bayerische Gemeindebank,
At Warsaw, Poland, at quished the only legitimate salary of Girozentrale, Munich, almost next
Pocztowa protective hospitality of Signor Mus- Kasa Öszczednosci, Jasna, account solini, junior partner in the Rome- his life: the 48,000 marks the Reich door to the Brown House. There are number 194,121, in the name of Franz Berlin Axis. It seems pays its Chancellors annually.
that Herr The large deposits with the Bayerische
Eher Verlag;
Amann, the Fuehrer's omniscient bulk of his Income comes from the Gemeinde und Wechselbank; the Mu-
business-brain, considers the Axis less royalties paid to him from "Mein nich Branch of the Deutsche Bank
At Budapest, Hungary, at the Mag- secure than Herr Hitler wants the Kampf" which is to-day the best sell- and Disconto Gesellschaft; and
yar Kiralyi Postatakarek-Penztar, ac- world to believe it is. ing book in the world.
count number 13,532, in the name of
BOOSTING THE
SALES
This book has its own story.
Dur-
in
BY LADISLAS Philip Bouhler;
FARAGO
ing his first vears in nower there was both the Berlin and Munich offices of still a regrettable lack of reader-In- the Bank of German Workers, a terest in the Nazi Bible and Hitler
At Belgrade, Jugoslavia, at Cekodní Ured, account number 68,237, in name of Philip Bouhler;
the
At Bucharest, Rumania, at Casa National de Economie ci Cecuri, ac-
was dissatisfled. Max Amann. Hitler's former Socialist Party institution seiz- count number 24,968, in the name of
ed by Nazis.
these German institutions.
personal fiscal agent since 1921 and business manager of the Nazi party
Herr Amanın does not feel quite since 1922, found ways and means satisfied with the safety and secur- to increase the book's sale. He sug- ity of gested that the Fuehrer order it to be presented as a gift to every newly wed couple in Germany. The contes are now bought for cash, by the Ger- man State, with tàxnavers” money and for bulk purchase. Simultaneously he
Bouhler, who is the trusted chief of Hitler's Personal Office.
EXCHANGE REGULATIONS!
The strict German exchange regu-
dual or business enterprise may keep the bank accounts outside Germany with- the out the specific permission of the
norted to the Reichsbank immediate-
MOSLEM
WORLD TO
AID BRITAIN AND FRANCE
London. To-day.
Emir Abdullah of Trans- Jordan, in a nublic speech
Therefore a substantial part of Hitler's fortune is placed in several foreign countries. The largest sum was in- vested in Swiss francs and kept at lations decree that no private indivi- the Swiss Bank Corporation in even without the usual trade discount Switzerland, until 1837, when induced the Minister of Education to franc was devalued. To avoid distribute the book free to children possibility of a further loss, Herr Reichsbank. Moreover, all payments vesterday, affirmed Arm suv- at the end of school terms; and to Amann instructed the Bank to trans made into such accounts must be re-port for the Democracies, and
the West End purchase a great number of coples for fer the money to every school library.
Branch of the Swiss Bank Corpora- ly in order that the suma abroad may ended with a prayer for Allied tion; 116 Regent Street, London, on be utilized in the complicated Gerevictory
man "clearing system". Hitler's oc- counts, however, are untouchable, and He said: “Trans-Jordan stands with contain funds which are not register the Democracies
In the struggle ed with the Reichsbank. Arnold Bern- | against aggression. stein, president of a German-Ameri- can steamshid camnany, was senten- ced to ten years' imprisonment year for a simflar "crime".
In spite of its tremendous sale, the whose books it now appears as a original price of 8.50 marks ($3.40, pound sterling deposit in the
name
a high price for Germany) was never of the Franz Eher Verlag, represent reduced. Herr Hitler's royalty. on eached by Max Amann of Munlch. copy is 68c. In 1934 his income from royalties on coples distributed among newlyweds amounted to $503,200, and
during 1937 it reached the fabulous sum of $700,000. Though figures for
+
NAMES AND NUMBERS
the total annual sale are lacking, his ... According to the records kept annual rovalty can safely be estimat- Amann's aidling offles, there" ed at $850,000.
MAX AMANN'S
DISCRETION
other dennisits as well. scaffered nine European countries under three different names. These accounts are
as follows:
last
This elever scattering” of funds in practicsīlv every Turronean cau has another, nét xo Adanelal, signif, cance. Athuch the Naris Inelet that
"Freedom must be sunnarted and respectéd, and we stand by the side of Britain and France till the end.
"The Manleṁ world must atand with the 'Damdaraefen, who have berun ga unda the fatters of the
their regime will last for at least a The Emir assealed to the whole. thousand years.. Hare, Amann wants. Arab wyield to bure feelings of mallee At Bern, Switzerland, at the Bun- to make sure that, in case it should and to follow tri the footsteps of the Bv 1980 there was so much cash dow Postscheckamt, account number and hofors lie fleste millennium and | right Beople.
on hand that Max Amann decided to 111-7.205. in the name of May Am- he and his Fuehrer de compelled to The speech was loudly applauded. manipulata Hifler's vast förtune, and - ann:
emigrats"in a hurry, they would indi