The Strange Death of Ivar Kreuger
Could the mysterious death of a billionaire have stopped Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Second World War?
It is the ultimate, closed-room mystery.
94-years-ago, on March 12th of 1932, one of the richest men in the world, Ivar Kreuger, went into his Paris apartment. He never came out again. At first, his death was declared a suicide and the authorities quickly burnt his body – despite orders to the contrary. Then thirty-three years later Ivar Kreuger’s brother, mistress, and many others, came forward to say his death was murder.
The list of potential suspects is a very long one. It includes the Soviet KGB (very active in France at the time), the French government, Swedish business rivals, Anglo-American banks… but one thing is certain. Two days after his death, Kreuger was due to travel to Berlin to help fund the then-democratic government in Germany. He never made it to the meeting, and the government fell, leading to the rise of Adolf Hitler.
His death, in short, was life-changing for hundreds-of-millions of people around the world. Today, we examine Ivar Kreuger’s incredible life, loves, and his mysterious death.
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