Oscar-winning US filmmaker Oliver Stone says Adolf Hitler was 'enabled by Western bankers'By Michael Casey(CP)–1 day ago
BANGKOK, Thailand — Adolf Hitler was a psychopath and a monster butrose to power thanks to big business leaders and other supporters whoappreciated his vow to destroy communism and control workers, Hollywoodfilmmaker Oliver Stone said Monday.
Stone, who is working on a10-part documentary on the 20th century titled "The Secret History ofthe United States," said the German dictator was "enabled by Westernbankers" and managed to "seduce" Germany's military industrial complex.
"Hitleris a monster. There is no question. I have no empathy for Hitler atall. He was a crazy psychopath," Stone told reporters in the Thaicapital. "But like Frankenstein was a monster, there was a Dr.Frankenstein. He is product of his era."
Stone was in Bangkok togive a lecture to high school students on the role of film inpeace-building as part of a visit organized by the Vienna-basedInternational Peace Foundation.
He said the aim of hisdocumentary, which two historians are helping him with, was to offer afuller understanding of the 20th century and how some of those lessonsmay be relevant to President Barack Obama in 2010.
"What has America become? How can we in America not learn from Germany in the 1930s," the Oscar-winning director asked.
Earlierin the day, Stone told about 300 students that his 1991 movie "JFK,"was his most controversial to date and that the United States remainsin denial over the possibility that someone other than Lee HarveyOswald could have assassinated John F. Kennedy.
Stone saidexploring alternative theories over the JFK assassination remains toosensitive for those in the media or academia who "would be endangeringtheir careers and their position."
"To this day, many keyAmericans in power are in total denial about this story," Stone said."They don't even want to know about the possibility that he was killedby someone other than Lee Harvey Oswald. It is a national fairy tale."
"JFK" ridicules the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone and suggests a massive conspiracy.
Stone'sfilm centred on a theory by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrisonthat a CIA-led mutiny killed the president and the plotters walked awayunscathed. Garrison's theories went to court in 1967, but Clay Shaw,the alleged "evil genius" behind the assassination, was acquitted.
Stonesaid Monday he thought it was "a good thing" to revisit the JFKassassination. But he came under fire from the historians and filmreviewers who contended Stone had fudged facts, invented characters andelevated speculation to truth to support his burning belief that thekilling was a high-level government conspiracy.
"It's an amazingstory and I did it," Stone said. "I thought I would be respected forit, and I was lambasted in the establishment press. I was called amyth-maker, a propagandist. I didn't see it coming. I thought theKennedy murder was safe."
Stone is famous for several othermovies, including the Vietnam War films "Born on the Fourth of July"and "Platoon," which won four Oscars, including best picture and bestdirector.
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Part 5.Not only did the banksters and industrialists create the Frankensteinmonster Hitler, they also funded and supported Soviet communism fromits inception. In
Wall Street and The Bolshevik Revolution, Antony Sutton details this relationship