In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler was able to build his war machine and carry out the horrific Holocaust with the direct assistance of major US corporations.
US bankers financed his regime through debt restructuring led by the houses of Morgan and Rockefeller. Standard Oil (Rockefeller) enabled the Nazis to refine synthetic fuel via the hydrogenation of coal—a technology critical to powering the German military. Henry Ford, a proud antisemite, provided the regime with Ford-Werke, which supplied transport vehicles for personnel and weapons. General Motors, through its Opel subsidiary, became Germany’s largest automaker and built the trucking industry alongside Ford for the German war effort.
International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT), under CEO Sosthenes Behn, purchased a major stake in Focke-Wulf, the manufacturer of deadly fighter planes, and supplied the Nazi state with advanced telecommunications, radar components, and even managed telephone systems in occupied Europe. General Electric (GE) held cross-licensing agreements and patents with German firms like Siemens and AEG, and was a partner in forming IG Farben. Alcoa made agreements with IG Farben that restricted US production of magnesium—a key aircraft metal—handing Germany a significant technological edge.
IBM’s German subsidiary, Dehomag, provided the Nazi state with punch-card tabulator systems. These were not simple counting tools; they were sophisticated data processors that enabled the bureaucracy of genocide. IBM machines were used to identify, categorize, and track populations for census, conscription, and—most infamously—for the persecution of Jews and other targeted groups.
Each of these corporations collected royalties on German military technology throughout the war.
Even though the Trading with the Enemy Act was passed in 1917, it meant nothing when it came to trading with Hitler for profit. These companies acted with impunity, beyond US law, and enabled a genocidal war machine.
Today, as genocide unfolds in Gaza, the names have changed—but the pattern of corporate complicity remains.
Amazon and Google provide the foundational cloud and AI infrastructure through “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract that supplies the Israeli military with the data storage and processing power required for surveillance, intelligence, and real-time targeting.
Palantir acts as the central brain, using its data fusion platforms to integrate intelligence from drones, satellites, and spies—creating an operational picture used for precise targeting that has killed thousands of civilians, aid workers, and journalists.
Oracle provides the critical database and cloud systems that manage vast surveillance data, forming the backbone of an intelligence apparatus used in a campaign of collective punishment.
Microsoft powers the military’s cloud infrastructure and AI tools, which process surveillance data and coordinate operations that have devastated civilian life.
The historical record shows that freezing assets or imposing penalties is not enough to stop genocide. The executives of Big Tech must be investigated and prosecuted for their roles. They must be held fully accountable for the crimes their technologies enable. They should not be free to retreat to bunkers in Hawaii or Patagonia, or sail their yachts openly in the Mediterranean, while their tools fuel slaughter.
The people of the world demand justice. These corporations and the executives who run them form the head of the snake—lobbying for war, promoting conflict, and profiting from inhumanity. They must all be held accountable.
Therefore, it is imperative to support this petition calling on the Spanish government to investigate these criminal enterprises and their executives under principles of universal jurisdiction, and to bring them to justice under international law.
Kindly sign this open petition demanding a full investigation into Big Tech’s crimes and the executives responsible. Without accountability, the cycle of violence will continue unabated—and we will witness only more carnage and pain caused by the war profiteers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
