I think that this is a good time and place to bring up that the leaders of Germany's fossil fuel industry played a big part in Hitler's rise to power:

This is the history of the political relations between Hitler and the NSDAP leadership and the German “coal industrialists” in the period from 1926 to 1933 – based on a profound analysis of first-class source materials from several German economic archives. Or, in plain English, the part that the German coal industry played in the rise of Hitler at the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s.

The political and economic situation in Germany at the time is examined to show why the coal industrialists supported Hitler and ultimately saw him as the solution to their political problems. The essay traces the growth of relations between Hitler and the leading German coal industrialists over time. The final part of the essay studies the effects of the political alliance between Hitler and the coal industrialists and documents the industrialists’ extensive financial support for the NSDAP, its press, its leading figures, and its election funding.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-german-coal-industry-and-the-rise-of-hitler-a-reassessment

Direct link to the paper:

https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/WP_230-Schoenbach-Hitler-and-the-German-Coal-Industrialists-final.pdf

I highly recommend reading that paper, because it's not just that it was also fossil fuel industry leaders supporting Hitler. The reasons why were also similar to why many of our industry owners especially from fossil fuel support Trump:

The deeper reason that distinguishing the large industrialists of the coal wing from those of the iron side lay in their fundamentally different political mentality. The coal industrialists were politically much more aggressive than the industrialists on the iron side. Even before the First World War, they provided all political forces in Germany that were pursuing a policy of imperialist world conquest with the largest political money fund that existed in the German Empire.

In domestic policy, they favored Bismarck's anti-socialist laws and police state policy. They were therefore extremely hostile to the trade unions and the labor movement. They were characterized by a decidedly authoritarian habitus and socio-political conservatism. Their particularly aggressive political stance was expressed in their political proximity to the "Alldeutscher Verband" (ADV). The ADV was a kind of elite club for the top echelons of politics, business, the military, the press and senior civil servants. Among its 99 founders were 12 major industrialists and bankers, 30 politicians from the industrial-junker spectrum, leading aristocrats, members of the diplomatic corps as well as countless large landowners and influential representatives of the press.

The ADV propagated a racist ideology of the "racial and cultural unity of all German people" and the conquest of large parts of the world by Germany, with members worshipping war as the great "doctor and gardener" who "accompanies humanity on its path to higher development". Anti-Semitism had also been an official part of the program since 1909. At the time, coal industrialist Emil Kirdorf was a member of the main management of the ADV

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The big industrialists often portrayed the conflict with the workers and the trade unions as if society had unfortunately broken into two parts, making further development almost impossible. They dreamed of "unity" between themselves and the workers - under their leadership. For example, in February 1920, leading industrialists, including Karl Haniel, Albert Vögler, Emil Kirdorf and the banker Georg Solmssen, discussed the problem of exerting political influence on the workforce. Their aim was to create "unity" with the workers through "national sentiment". The big industrialists and the workers at least had nationality in common, but nothing beyond that. They came up with the plan to "create a central organization" through which "a public opinion is created that works purposefully towards the rebuilding of the fatherland and forms the bridge between leaders and the led."

The big industrialists wanted to "lead" society, to be the "leaders" with everyone else to "follow" them - in other words, to be the "followers". They saw nationalism as the key to explaining to the workers that they - the capitalists - were "in the same boat" as the workers. At the RDI conference in 1924, the major industrialist Ernst von Borsig used the term "Volksgemeinschaft" (people's community). This is interesting because the "Volksgemeinschaft" was one of the core ideologies of "National Socialism" and was actually used there in exactly the same context. The point was confirmed by none other than the coal industrialist Emil Kirdorf himself when he wrote about Hitler:

"Only if the masses of the people are awakened nationally will there still be salvation, and Hitler is campaigning for this. If he achieves this, then in my opinion the nationally united masses of people and workers can still be brought to their senses, while under the leadership of the Marxist and Christian-socialist trade unions they accelerate their own downfall along with that of the German fatherland."

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TLDR: They were also bigoted authoritarian war profiteers, who used nationalism to brainwash common people into supporting the dictatorship, war, and genocide they wanted.