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199syndicates and trusts, with the fact that Emil Kirdorf wasthe founder of the Rhenish Westphalian Coal Syndicate, andthat the Krupps, Thyssens and Mannesmanns have foundedsome of Germany's vastest trusts.To the caustic pen of Richard Lewinsohn, better knownin Germany as “Morus,” we owe a great deal of informationabout the financial resources of the party which promises torepudiate Germany‟s reparation debts the first day in office.Morus has an inquisitive mind, and whenever he observessigns of unselfish and vqcal patriotism in German politics,he wants to know who finances that patriotism. Heshares the belief of the German scholar who said that politicsis the art of making your own interests appear as theinterests of the country. In his book, Das Geld in Politik^,(Money in Politics) he has traced the business ramificationsof the political parties, and has furnished valuable informationabout the financial resources of the Nazis, on which thefollowing account is partly based.Bavarian industrialists were the first to finance the nationalsocialism of Hitler and of his cohorts. Privy CouncillorAust, head of the Bavarian Federation of Industries,and his son-in-law, Herr Kuhlo, were then the principalfinancial agents of the movement. His Maffeis, an industrialdynasty in Munich, and Herr Hornschuch, prominentmanufacturer of Kulmbach, in the Upper Franconia districtof Bavaria, have long been known as the financial backersof the Hitlerites. Commercial Councillor Wilhelm Seitz andConsul General Edward Scharrer, two other representativesof the Bavarian industries, have displayed considerable zeal