TRADING WITH THE ENEMY: AN EXPOSE OF THE NAZI-AMERICAN MONEY
PLOT 1933-1949 Chapter 7: Globes of Steel Throughout World War
II, Sosthenes Behn was an investor in the Swedish Enskilda Bank,
chief financier of the colossal ball-bearings trust known as
SKF. Goring's cousin Hugo von Rosen and William L. Batt, vice-
chairman of the War Production Board, were directors of SKF in
America throughout the war, dedicated to keeping South American
companies on the Proclaimed List supplied with ball bearings.
Tiny ball bearings were essential to the Nazis: The Luftwaffe
could not fly without them, the tanks and armored cars could not
roll in their missions of death. ITT's Focke-Wulfs, Ford's autos
and trucks for the enemy, would have been powerless without
them. Indeed, World War II could not have been fought without
them. Focke-Wulfs used at least four thousand bearings per
plane: roughly equivalent to those used by the Flying
Fortresses. Guns, bombsights, electrical generators and engines,
ventilating systems, U-boats,