American Fred Koch Helped Build the Nazi’s WWII Refineries. Did His Sons Betray the World?
You be the judge.
Frederich Chase Koch, was the son of a Dutch printer born in Quanah, TX in 1900. A headstrong child, he once ran away to live with the Comanches for a brief period of time. Unfortunately, he didn’t stay.
He wound up with a chemical engineering degree from MIT and invented an improved process for refining gasoline from crude oil in 1927.
When he tried to compete with the major oil companies, they successfully tied him up in court with charges of patent infringement. He went abroad with his technology, eventually supplying the necessary technology, plans, and consultation needed to build 15 refineries for Stalin in the early 1930s.
A book called “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer elucidates a little-known aspect of Fred Koch’s career that the family would rather forget. It explains how Koch was tied to Hitler’s war plans.
The technology Koch had developed was useful in refining high octane fuel, which is exactly what Hitler needed to power the planes of his Luftwaffe. In partnership with a William Davis, Fred Koch provided the technical help needed for Hitler to build a refinery that processed one thousand tons of crude per day into high quality fuel and other products…
