Two articles by Dr. Werner Rügemer:

(1) Hitler’s War Against The Soviet Union: Also, a Proxy War For The US

(2) “Broken America”: The Dangerous Endgame of US-led Capitalism

 

 

Hitler’s War Against The Soviet Union: Also, a Proxy War For The US

By Dr. Werner Rügemer

Spring 2026

Abstract:

This article argues that the United States utilized Adolf Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union as a proxy war to combat socialism. While publicly maintaining neutrality and later becoming an ally, US capitalists systematically supported fascist regimes in Europe—particularly Nazi Germany—politically, economically, and technologically from the 1920s onward. Major American corporations, including Ford, General Motors, IBM, and Standard Oil, provided crucial military supplies, technology, and financial services to the Wehrmacht, enabling Hitler’s blitzkriegs and war of annihilation against the USSR. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), dominated by Wall Street and serving as Hitler’s war bank, facilitated the transfer of looted gold and resources while maintaining extraterritorial operations throughout World War II. The US only provided limited Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union after Stalingrad, delaying the opening of a second front until 1944. Post-war, the US protected Nazi collaborators and continued using the BIS for anti-communist economic restructuring through the Marshall Plan, demonstrating that the primary American objective was not defeating fascism but destroying the Soviet Union as the main enemy of capitalism.

Keywords: anti-communism, Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Proxy war, Nazi Germany, US corporations.

Rügemer, W. (2026). Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union: also a proxy war for the US. BRIQ Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly, 7(2), 221-238.

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“Broken America”: The Dangerous Endgame of US-led Capitalism

By Dr. Werner Rügemer

2025

Abstract

The USA is a fragile oligarchy rotting from within. The profi ts of the leading capitalists are higher than ever—and the USA leads in mass poverty and disease, private and public debt and right wing politics. Industrial innovation and infrastructure are at an all-time low. The same applies, albeit not to such an extreme degree, to countries associated with the USA. These oligarchic regimes would continue in this vein including also genocidal practices if it weren’t for the growing multi-polar self-organization of the much larger “rest” of mankind, such as BRICS: hence the arms build-up against Russia, China, and resistance in the Global South, with the threat of world war looming. So how can cooperation be deepened, including non-state cooperation, through democratic and anti-capitalist movements in civil society?

WORLD MARXIST REVIEW, 2025. VOL. 2, NO. 4, 129−142

https://dx.doi.org/10.62834/48f0ed84

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Dr. Werner Rügemer:

https://werner-ruegemer.de/