THE BALKAN TRAP

Genre
World war I
Number of episodes
1
Length
44

War is a tragedy of death and destruction... But for business, war is an excellent investment opportunity. At Nuremburg, Hjalmar Schacht, the chief economist of Nazi Germany, said bitterly: It was the dollar that started the Second World War, and it was the dollar that won it. Years later, we can finally understand his mysterious words. Formerly secret documents tell us how America invested $474 million in Hitlers economy before early 1941. Some of the biggest American companies, such as Standard Oil, General MotThe world will never forget the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne, the event that triggered World War I. Over the century, many terrible wars have swept across the globe, but the Balkans is still a high-risk area on the map of Europe. The ongoing military, political, religious and ethnic conflict between Serbia and Albania can trace its roots to the events of the early twentieth century, to the time when Serbia, the Russian Empires key ally in the Balkans, was the main obstacle in the path of the military ambitions of Germany and Austria-Hungary. In June 1913, Austria mustered an 80,000-strong Albanian army, which would carry out terrorist activities throughout Serbia. And in June 1914, the fatal shots rang out... ors, ITT, and Ford, made huge profits.

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