Yawn. Sorry, the allegations that site makes happen to be about a subject that I have researched in respectable, scholarly journals and books. I've been working on a history of the Great Depression for a while now. Spent months working on the Young Plan, the Dawes Plan, German bonds, I.G. Farben, the whole bit. And the allegations that site makes are almost entirely without basis.
When you peel back the layers to get to the truth, those allegations unravel (there's a grain of truth about Ford and a smidgen more about Thyssen, but grossly misrepresented in the source you cite.)
Here's a bibliography from a paper I wrote on Nazi economic policy, which is enough to get you started:
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Barkai, Avraham, Nazi Economics, translated from the German by Ruth Hadass-Vashitz, Oxford: Berg Press (1990)
Frank, Otto, with the collaboration of Milton Fried, The Nazi Economic System - Germany's Mobilization for War (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press 1944).
James, Harold, The German Slump, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1986)
Klein, Burton, Germany's Economic Preparations for War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1959)
Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Nazi Criminality, Nazi Aggression and Conspiracy, Washington, US GPO (1946)
Nathan, Otto, Nazi War Finance and Banking, Finance Research Program, National Bureau of Economic Research, April, 1944
Overy, R.J., The Nazi Economic Recovery, 1932-1938, 2nd. Ed., Cambridge University Press (1996)
Poole, Kenyon E., German Financial Policies, 1932-1939 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1939).
Ritschl, Albrecht. "Deficit Spending in the Nazi Recovery, 1933-1938: A Critical Reassessment." University of Zurich Working Paper No. 68, December 2000
Sommariva, Andrea and Tullio, Giuseppe, German Macroeconomic History, 1880-1979, New York: St. Martin's Press
Spoerer, Mark, "Window-dressing in German interwar balance sheets," in Accounting, Business & Financial History, 8 (1998)
Statistisches Reichsamt, Statistisches Jarbuch für das Deutsches Reich, 1939-40, 1941-42.
United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Overall Economic Effects Division, The Effects of Strategic Bombing on the German War Economy (1945), under the direction of J. Kenneth Galbraith, with Burton H. Klein acting as Assistant Director, both professional economists.
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Now, thank you for allowing me to bloviate a bit about one of my favorite topics, but it's probably OT and time to move on.
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