I don't dispute that WWII was, in part, about economic power. But I don't see where Hitler's and Stalin's slaughter of millions and millions of people had anything to do with protecting financial interests; unless you are saying that those slaughters were the means to gain or consolidate the power to protect financial interests. I would maintain that their mass exterminations were counterproductive economically and that their root was sheer madness.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!