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KRANEFUSS of BRABAG
Emil Heinrich On board of Board of
MEYER all I.T.T. A.E.G.
German
subsidiaries: 
Standard/Mix
&
Genest/Lorenz
Emil Chairman of
HELFFRICH DAPAG (94-
percent owned
by Standard of
New Jersey
Friedrich I.G. Farben Board of
 
FLICK A.E.G.
Kurt von On board of all
SCHRODER I.T.T.
subsidiaries in
Germany
Similarly, we can identify other Wall Street institutions represented in the early Keppler's
Circle of Friends, confirming their monetary contributions to the National Trusteeship Fund
operated by Rudolf Hess on behalf of Adolf Hitler. These representatives were Emil
Heinrich Meyer and banker Kurt von Schroder on the boards of all the I.T.T. subsidiaries in
Germany, and Emil Helffrich, the board chairman of DAPAG, 94-percent owned by
Standard Oil of New Jersey.
Wall Street in the S.S. Circle
Major U.S. multi-nationals were also very well represented in the later Heinrich Himmler
Circle and made cash contributions to the S.S. (the Sonder Konto S) up to 1944  while
World War II was in progress.
Almost a quarter of the 1944 Sonder Konto S contributions came from subsidiaries of
International Telephone and Telegraph, represented by Kurt von Schröder. The 1943
payments from I.T.T. subsidiaries to the Special Account were as follows:
Mix & Genest A.G. 5,000 RM
C. Lorenz AG 20,000 RM
Felten & Guilleaume 25,000 RM
Kurt von Schroder 16,000 RM
And the 1944 payments were:
Mix & Genest A.G. 5,000 RM
C. Lorenz AG 20,000 RM
Felten & Guilleaume 20,000 RM
Kurt von Schroder 16,000 RM
Sosthenes Behn of International Telephone and Telegraph transferred wartime control of
Mix & Genest, C. Lorenz, and the other Standard Telephone interests in Germany to Kurt
von Schroder  who was a founding member of the Keppler Circle and organizer and
treasurer of Himmler's Circle of Friends. Emil H. Meyer, S.S. Untersturmfuehrer, member
of the Vorstand of the Dresdner Bank, A.E.G., and a director of all the I.T.T. subsidiaries in
Germany, was also a member of the Himmler Circle of Friends  giving I.T.T. two
powerful representatives at the heart of the S.S.
A letter to fellow member Emil Meyer from Baron von Schroder dated February 25, 1936
describes the purposes and requirements of the Himmler Circle and the long-standing nature
of the Special Account 'S' with funds at Schroder's own bank  the J,H. Stein Bank of
Cologne:
Berlin, 25
February 1936
(Illegible
handwriting)
To Prof. Dr. Emil H. Meyer
S.S. (Untersturmfuchrer) (second lieutenant) Member of the Managing Board
(Vorstand) of the Dresdner Bank
Berlin W. 56,
Behrenstr. 38
Personal!
To the Circle of Friends of the Reich Leader SS
At the end of the 2 day's inspection tour of Munich to which the Reich Leader
SS had invited us last January, the Circle of Friends agreed to put  each one
according to his means  at the Reich Leader's disposal into "Special Account
S" (Sonder Konto S), to be established at the banking firm J.H. Stein in
Cologne, funds which are to be used for certain tasks outside of the budget.
This should enable the Reich Leader to rely on all his friends. In Munich it was
decided that the undersigned would make themselves available for setting up
and handling this account. In the meantime the account was set up and we want
every participant to know that in case he wants to make contributions to the
Reich Leader for the aforementioned tasks  either on behalf of his firm or the
Circle of Friends  payments may be made to the banking firm J.H. Stein,
Cologne (Clearing Account of the Reich Bank, Postal Checking Acount No.
1392) to the Special Account S.
: Heil Hitler!
(Signed) Kurt
Baron von
Sehroder
(Signed)
Steinbrinck3
This letter also explains why U.S. Army Colonel Bogdan, formerly of the Schroder Banking
Corporation in New York, was anxious to divert the attention of post-war U.S. Army
investigators away from the J. H. Stein Bank in Cologne to the "bigger banks" of Nazi
Germany. It was the Stein Bank that held the secrets of the associations of American
subsidiaries with Nazi authorities while World War II was in progress. The New York
financial interests could not know the precise nature of these transactions (and particularly
the nature of any records that may have been kept by their German associates), but they
knew that some record could well exist of their war-time dealings  enough to embarrass [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]