Fritz Thyssen, I Paid Hitler (1941 )
▻https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.239690/page/n2/mode/1up
When, at the outbreak of the war in September, 1939, Fritz Thyssen, the great German industrialist, fled from Germany to Switzerland, almost all the newspapers, magazines, syndicates, and publishers of the world tried to obtain his memoirs, or at least the true story of his rupture with Hitler and his escape from Nazi Germany.
The story of the man who was the greatest industrial power in Germany, who was an ardent German nationalist, who organised the passive resistance in the Ruhr in 1923 ; the man who for more than fifteen years backed Hitler and financed his movement — the story of the great German capitalist who helped the Nazis into power because he believed that they were the people who could save his country from Bolshevism and who have now confiscated all his property — this is indeed one of the most unusual stories of this world crisis.