The Bushes and Hitler: A Facist Love Story
When Grandpa was in bed with Nazis, Was Little Georgy taking Notes?
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It's no big secret that Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of Presidents, made money off the Nazis. Even after Pearl Harbor and the subsequent declaration of war by Japan and Germany, Bush continued dealing with Germany, making money and helping the financial architects of Nazism make money. Eventually, the company he directed had its funds seized under the 1942 "Trading with the Enemy Act." Brown Brothers Harriman, the company Bush worked for, was a US base for Fritz Thyssen, who before falling out with Hitler by 1940 had financed the dictators rise throughout the 30's. Union Banking Corperation was another Nazi sympathising business that Prescott Bush was involved with. More tantalising are Bush's links to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC), based in mineral rich Silesia on the German-Polish border. During the war, the company made use of Nazi slave labour from the concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Documents released from the National Archives last year make it rather clear that at least part of the Bush family fortune was made through these companies.
You'd think that having money seized in the early forties would be bad. But Bush failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.
The last seizure by the government came in 1952, the same year Prescott Bush announced his campaigne for the Senate.
The best point that can be drawn from all this is that the Bushes are an unscrupulous family who will crawl into bed with anyone to make a buck. This is the way G.H.W. Bush was brought up, and it's the way that G.W. Bush was brought up. These are definitely "ends justify the means" people. We can see echoes of this sort of thing by G.W. Bush's dealings with former warlord Hamid Karzai and former Ba'athist strongman Ayyad Allawi, as well as former dealings with convicted felon Ahmed Chalabi.
More information can be had from the National Archives, which releases documents dealing with the subject of Prescott Bush and his Nazi money-making machine last year.
You'd think that having money seized in the early forties would be bad. But Bush failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.
The last seizure by the government came in 1952, the same year Prescott Bush announced his campaigne for the Senate.
The best point that can be drawn from all this is that the Bushes are an unscrupulous family who will crawl into bed with anyone to make a buck. This is the way G.H.W. Bush was brought up, and it's the way that G.W. Bush was brought up. These are definitely "ends justify the means" people. We can see echoes of this sort of thing by G.W. Bush's dealings with former warlord Hamid Karzai and former Ba'athist strongman Ayyad Allawi, as well as former dealings with convicted felon Ahmed Chalabi.
More information can be had from the National Archives, which releases documents dealing with the subject of Prescott Bush and his Nazi money-making machine last year.