Editing ITT Inc. (section)

=== German subsidiaries in the Nazi period ===
On August 3, 1933, [[Adolf Hitler]] received [[Sosthenes Behn]] (then the CEO of <noinclude>ITT</noinclude><!--These tags are used to refine the excerpt at [[Business_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany]]--><includeonly>[[ITT Inc.|ITT]]</includeonly>) and his German representative, Henry Mann, in one of his first meetings with US [[businessmen]].<ref name="sampson"/><ref>''AMERICAN VISITS HITLER. Behn of National City Bank Confers With Chancellor in Alps''. ''New York Times'', 1933-08-04, {{cite news |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D17F9345A16738DDDAD0894D0405B838FF1D3 |title= AMERICAN VISITS HITLER.; Behn of National City Bank Con- fers With Chancellor in Alps. |access-date=2013-05-16 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140307030411/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D17F9345A16738DDDAD0894D0405B838FF1D3 |archive-date= 2014-03-07 |newspaper=The New York Times |date= 1933-08-04 }}</ref><ref>»Empfänge beim Reichskanzler«, ''Vossische Zeitung'', Berlin 1933-08-04, Abendausgabe, Seite 3, {{cite web |url= http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/dfg-viewer/?set%5Bimage%5D=3&set%5Bzoom%5D=max&set%5Bdebug%5D=0&set%5Bdouble%5D=0&set%5Bmets%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fzefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de%2Foai%2F%3Ftx_zefysoai_pi1%255Bidentifier%255D%3D5ce888cb-9b7f-4738-acd3-f8170a34e3b9 |title= Vossische Zeitung Berlin 1933-08-04 |access-date=2013-05-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140307025835/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/dfg-viewer/?set%5Bimage%5D=3&set%5Bzoom%5D=max&set%5Bdebug%5D=0&set%5Bdouble%5D=0&set%5Bmets%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fzefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de%2Foai%2F%3Ftx_zefysoai_pi1%255Bidentifier%255D%3D5ce888cb-9b7f-4738-acd3-f8170a34e3b9 |archive-date=2014-03-07 }}</ref>{{request quotation|date=February 2023}}

In his book ''Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler'', [[Antony C. Sutton]] claims that ITT subsidiaries made cash payments to [[Schutzstaffel|SS]]-leader [[Heinrich Himmler]]. ITT, through its subsidiary [[C. Lorenz AG]], owned 25% of [[Focke-Wulf]], the German aircraft-manufacturer, builder of some of the most successful [[Luftwaffe#Interwar period|Luftwaffe]] fighter-aircraft. In the 1960s, ITT Corporation won $27 million in compensation for damage inflicted on its share of the Focke-Wulf plant by [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] bombing during [[World War II]].<ref name="sampson"/> In addition, Sutton's book uncovers that ITT owned shares of ''Signalbau AG, Dr. Erich F. Huth'' (Signalbau Huth), which produced for the German [[Wehrmacht]] [[radar]] equipment and [[transceiver]]s in [[Berlin]], [[Hanover]] (later [[Telefunken]] factory), and other places. While ITT - Focke-Wulf planes were bombing Allied ships and ITT lines were passing information to German submarines, ITT direction-finders were saving other ships from torpedoes.<ref>The Office of Military Government US Zone in Post-war Germany 1946-1949, declassified per Executive Order 12958, Section 3.5 NND Project Number: NND 775057 by: NND Date: 1977</ref> The payments to Himmler were noted in a 1946 banking investigation report by the Office of Military Government, United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Adams |first1=Foster |last2=Lang |first2=Emil |date=March 1, 1946 |title=OMGUS, Finance Division, Bank Investigation Report: Baron Kurt von Schroeder |url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77304102?objectPage=20 |access-date=March 7, 2024 |website=National Archives Catalog}}</ref>

In 1943, ITT became the largest shareholder of Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH with 29%, and remained so for the duration of the war. This was due to [[Café HAG|Kaffee HAG]]'s share falling to 27% after the death in May of Kaffee HAG chief [[Ludwig Roselius|Dr. Ludwig Roselius]]. [[OMGUS]] documents reveal that the role of the HAG conglomerate could not be determined during WWII.<ref>Leidig, Ludwig. Bombshell. sbpra, 2013 {{ISBN|978-1-62516-346-2}}</ref>