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The Bushes and Hitler’s Appeasement
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Robert Parry
Global Research
May 21, 2008
The irony of George W. Bush going before the Knesset and mocking the late Sen. William Borah for expressing surprise at Adolf Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland is that Bush’s own family played a much bigger role assisting the Nazis.
If Borah, an isolationist Republican from Idaho, sounded naive saying "Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided," then what should be said about Bush’s grandfather and other members of his family providing banking and industrial assistance to the Nazis as they built their war machine in the 1930s?
The archival evidence is now clear that Prescott Bush, the president’s grandfather, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from and collaborated with key financial backers of Nazi Germany.
That business relationship continued after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 and even after Germany declared war on the United States following Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. It stopped only when the U.S. government seized assets of Bush-connected companies in late 1942 under the "Trading with the Enemy Act."
So, perhaps instead of holding up Sen. Borah to ridicule, Bush might have acknowledged in his May 15 speech that his forebears also were blind to the dangers of Hitler.
Bush might have noted that his family’s wealth, which fueled his own political rise, was partly derived from Nazi collaboration and possibly from slave labor provided by Auschwitz and other concentration camps.
A more honest speech before the Knesset – on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s founding – might have contained an apology to the Jewish people from a leading son of the Bush family for letting its greed contribute to Nazi power and to the horrors of the Holocaust. Instead, there was just the jab at Sen. Borah, who died in 1940.
President Bush apparently saw no reason to remind the world of a dark chapter from the family history. After all, those ugly facts mostly disappeared from public consciousness soon after World War II.
Protected by layers of well-connected friends, Prescott Bush brushed aside the Nazi scandal and won a U.S. Senate seat from Connecticut, which enabled him to start laying the foundation for the family’s political dynasty.
In recent years, however, the archival records from the pre-war era have been assembled, drawing from the Harriman family papers at the Library of Congress, documents at the National Archives, and records from war-crimes trials after Germany’s surrender.
Managers for the Powerful
One can trace the origins of this story back more than a century to the emergence of Samuel Bush, George W. Bush’s great-grandfather, as a key manager for a set of powerful American business families, including the Rockefellers and the Harrimans. [See Consortiumnews.com's "Bush Family Chronicles: The Patriarchs."]
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That chapter took an important turn in 1919 when investment banker George Herbert Walker teamed up with Averell Harriman, scion to a railroad fortune, to found a new investment banking firm, W.A. Harriman Company.
The Harriman firm was backed by the Rockefellers’ National City Bank and the Morgan family’s Guaranty Trust. The English-educated Walker assisted in assembling the Harriman family’s overseas business investments.
In 1921, Walker’s favorite daughter, Dorothy, married Samuel Bush’s son Prescott, a Yale graduate and a member of the school’s exclusive Skull and Bones society. Handsome and athletic, admired for his golf and tennis skills, Prescott Bush was a young man with the easy grace of someone born into the comfortable yet competitive world of upper-crust contacts.
Three years later, Dorothy gave birth to George Herbert Walker Bush in Milton, Massachusetts.
Lifted by the financial boom of the 1920s, Prescott and Dorothy Bush were on the rise. By 1926, George Herbert Walker had brought his son-in-law in on a piece of the Harriman action, hiring him as a vice president in the Harriman banking firm.
By the mid-Thirties, Prescott Bush had become a managing partner at the merged firm of Brown Brothers Harriman. The archival records also show that Brown Brothers Harriman served as the U.S. financial service arm for German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, an early funder of the Nazi Party.
Thyssen, an admirer of Adolf Hitler since the 1920s, joined the Nazi Party in 1931 when it was still a fringe organization. He helped bail the struggling party out with financial help, even providing its headquarters building in Munich.
Meanwhile, Averell Harriman had launched the Hamburg-Amerika line of steamships to facilitate the bank’s dealings with Germany, and made Prescott Bush a director. The ships delivered fuel, steel, coal, gold and money to Germany as Hitler was consolidating his power and building his war machine.
Other evidence shows that Prescott Bush served as the director of the Union Banking Corp. of New York, which represented Thyssen’s interests in the United States and was owned by a Thyssen-controlled bank in the Netherlands.
As a steel magnate, Thyssen was amassing a fortune as Hitler rearmed Germany. Documents also linked Bush to Thyssen’s Consolidated Silesian Steel Company, which was based in mineral-rich Silesia on the German-Polish border and exploited slave labor from Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz. But records at the National Archives do not spell out exactly when Bush’s connection ended or what he knew about the business details.
In 1941, Thyssen had a falling out with Hitler and fled to France where he was captured. Much of Thyssen’s empire went under the direct control of the Nazis, but even that did not shatter the business ties that existed with Prescott Bush and Harriman’s bank.
It wasn’t until August 1942 that newspaper stories disclosed the secretive ties between Union Banking Corp. and Nazi Germany.
After an investigation, the U.S. government seized the property of the Hamburg-Amerika line and moved against affiliates of the Union Banking Corp. In November 1942, the government seized the assets of the Silesian-American Corp. [For more details, see an investigative report by the U.K. Guardian, Sept. 25, 2004.]
No Kiss of Death
For most public figures, allegations of trading with the enemy would have been a political kiss of death, but the disclosures barely left a lipstick smudge on Averell Harriman, Prescott Bush and other business associates implicated in the Nazi business dealings.
"Politically, the significance of these dealings – the great surprise – is that none of it seemed to matter much over the next decade or so," wrote Kevin Phillips in American Dynasty.
"A few questions would be raised, but Democrat Averell Harriman would not be stopped from becoming federal mutual security administrator in 1951 or winning election as governor of New York in 1954. Nor would Republican Prescott Bush (who was elected senator from Connecticut in 1952) and his presidential descendants be hurt in any of their future elections."
Indeed, the quick dissipation of the Nazi financial scandal was only a portent of the Bush family’s future. Unlike politicians of lower classes, the Bushes seemed to travel in a bubble impervious to accusations of impropriety, since the Eastern Establishment doesn’t like to think badly of its own. [For details, see Robert Parry's Secrecy & Privilege.]
To this day – as President Bush showed by mocking the long-forgotten Sen. Borah and then wielding the Nazi "appeasement" club against Barack Obama and other Democrats – the assumption remains that the bubble will continue to protect the Bush family name.
However, the evidence from dusty archives suggests that the Bush family went way beyond appeasement of Adolf Hitler to aiding and abetting the Nazis.
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May 21st, 2008 at 8:32 am
“However, the evidence from dusty archives suggests that the Bush family went way beyond appeasement of Adolf Hitler to aiding and abetting the Nazis.”
That much is provable and certain. People should also beware of the warning that was given by General Smedley Butler when he named corporations that were headed by fascist families who were actively planning on taking over our government. You also have long standing corporations that aided and abetted the Nazis like IBM who created the holorith machines for Hitler’s use, and whose CEO Watson went to Germany personally more than once, and even had lunches with Adolf Hitler. There is an uncomfortable amount of corporations still here in the united states that supported Hitler, and who were of the fascist mindset and even planned on taking over our government, anyone with a mind should be very very worried.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:38 am
UK , US , Can. and many others put up the nazi party… financing was from anti-semit and anti-comie campains….from industrials developers…….Canada even took loans from brith crown , passing the money to US corporates to fuel up nazi party.
Bush and cie are the worst hypocrites…WWII was to stop Hitler’s defection from original plans…then everybody was in the race for dominating showbizness.
since then it has’nt stoped!!!
they demonized Hitler for doing what they wanted to do….everything below Hitler is not that bad.
image-nation is the problem with ppl today…showbizz!!!
W.Bush looks like a monkey playing with LEGO head Harper.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:24 am
“I have no fear but that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.” — Thomas Jefferson
How could Thomas Jefferson have forseen the vile snakes that would come in and become the ‘masters’? This stasrted happening a loooooooong time ago, and is still festering today.
“Politicians and diapers should be changed often – and for the same reason.”
http://www.firecongress.meetup.com
May 21st, 2008 at 9:28 am
Bush family not Kennedy Family are now Camelot’s of American Politics. Bush Family are producing future Generations who will rule United States into 22nd Century.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:35 am
U.S. will be governed by Vatican Law. Bush has hinted
at this already. Jesuit assassins enjoy murder. I loathe
all things Catholic. We best be wary of Catholic neighbors,
fake christians and zionist sympathizers.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:37 am
#3 TXGIRL…good one…:)
May 21st, 2008 at 9:37 am
No one will take control of the Oval Office without the support from the Great State of Israel.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:51 am
#6 fleur de lys, Hiya, Good morning, thanks, wish I’d thought of it myself! haha
May 21st, 2008 at 9:53 am
Who Owns the New York Federal Reserve?
Each of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks is organized as a corporation in much the same way as many other firms. According to Swiss and Saudi contacts, “Foreigners” own the controlling interest in the shares of the New York Fed.
Rothschild Banks of London and Berlin
Lazard Brothers Banks of Paris
Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam
Lehman Brothers of New York
Kuhn, Loeb Bank of New York
Chase Manhatten Bank, and
Goldman, Sachs of New York
Citibank
Chase Manhatten Bank
Morgan Guaranty Trust
Chemical Bank
Manufacturers Hanover Trust
Bankers Trust Company
National Bank of North America, and
Bank of New York.
According to various research these institutions in 1983 owned a combined 63% of the New York Fed’s stock. These American banks, in turn, were owned by European financial institutions. Since the commercial banks in the New York Fed’s district elect its board of directors, the London Connection is able to use their American agents to pick the Bank’s directors and ultimately control the whole Federal Reserve System.
… The most powerful men in the United States were themselves answerable to another power, a foreign power, and a power which had been steadfastly seeking to extend its control over the republic since its very inception. The power was the financial power of England, centered in the London Branch of the House of Rothschild.
The fact is that in 1910, the United States was for all practical purposes being ruled from England, and so it is today.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:55 am
Ich mag die Bush-Familie. Sie denken, wie ich tue, aber sie mehr geöffnet sind mit, was sie tun, und die Leute können es nicht sehen noch.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:58 am
JESUS SAVES FROM SIN, DEATH, AND HELL.
ALLAH AND MOHAMMAD CANNOT SAVE YOU, BUDDHA CANNOT SAVE YOU, YOUR CHURCH CANNOT SAVE YOU, YOUR PRIEST CANNOT SAVE YOU, AND YOU CANNOT SAVE YOURSELF.
JESUS CHRIST IS GOD IN THE FLESH, AND THE ONLY ONE THAT CONQUERED SIN, DEATH, AND HELL. HE PROVED IT BY NEVER SINNING AND BY RESURRECTING FROM THE DEAD. THEREFORE, ONLY THE LORD JESUS CHRIST CAN SAVE YOU.
The Bible says;
1. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Acts 4:12
2. Jesus said; I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6
3. ……and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved………Isaiah 45:21,22
4. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Titus 2:13
5. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true,
even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. I John 5:20
6. ….if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Romans 10:9
7. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13
8. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. Matthew 10:22
9. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned. Mark 16:16
10. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:17
11. Jesus said; I am the door: by me if any man shall enter in, he shall be saved………John 10:9
12. And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved……Acts 16:31
13. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Romans 5:9
14. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8
May 21st, 2008 at 9:59 am
#9 Spatrtan Patriot, Darn good info, well done, Thanks!
May 21st, 2008 at 10:24 am
I WANT TO KNOW WHY THIS IS NOT ON CNN OR FOXNEWS EVERY DAY……..DON’T YOU THINK THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHO WON ‘AMERICAN IDOL’ OR ‘DANCING WITH THE STARS’, IS EVRYBODY GOING CRAZY ? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE ? PEOPLE THIS MAN (WHO’S FAMILY IS CONNECTED WITH THE NAZIS) IS SELLING THIS COUNTRY BIT BY BIT TO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS (NAFTA) AND THE ONLY THING WE CAN DO IS TALK ABOUT IT ON THE DAMN INTERNET, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHERE IF PEOPLE DID’NT LIKE WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS DONG THEY WOULD ALL STAND UP TOGETHER AND PROTEST. THAT IS WHY BUSH AND HIS CORPORATE BUDDIES CAN DO WHAT EVER THEY LIKE; BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
IF YOUR TIRED OF THIS CRAP THEN YOU SHOULD COME TO THE “FREEDOM RALLY” IN WASHINGTON DC ON JULY 12TH 2008 AND BRING EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO DO SOMETHING.
Miss Manners Reply:
February 8th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
It’s called a “caps lock” silly.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:51 am
This is vital information that needs to be out in the public for everyone to hear about and understand. The thing is is that people are distracted by the media about senseless crap! The people must wake up! The people have to be told! Keep up the fight against the New World Order!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Freedom will prevail!
May 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am
The government just treats the American tax payers like a bunch of freakin’ mushrooms they just keep us in the dark..
May 21st, 2008 at 11:22 am
I plan to hold-up a sign in Topeka, KS on 6th/Webster… So, if you’re interested, take a lookit:
WARNING: GWB plans to attack Iran, thus, soon martial law will be put into effect when that happens; one week?? before November 4th, ‘08, be ready for a ‘coup d’etat’ (overthrow of government). Doesn’t matter what political party you belong to, live free or die.
I believe this to be true, everything fits, too: the coming of Christ, the Iraq war, the turmoil in the middle east, Israel/Iran, the FEMA/foreign troops on standby, 9/11 ‘terrorist’ attack, the Prez who LIEd like a rug, the concentration camps in our country but nobody in them, the superficial feces on your TV to blind you from reality, etc, etc, etc…
Let’s hope this never happens, but if a ‘coup’ (French, pronounced: ‘koo’) occurs in our own nation like I’m pretty sure it will, what’re you gonna do?? You gonna stand and fight?? or be rounded-up like sheep to be led to the slaughter?? We have six months. Chop, chop.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:36 am
In support of post #9:
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” Written by Jefferson in a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802).
Thomas Jefferson
May 21st, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Thank you for this. I know about everything you stated in this story and was really bent out of shape to hear the news media cover it without mentioning the irony of the Bush-Walker connection to the nazi rise. Sad as it is that the true history of this country is withheld while they feed us and our children this garbage. I have often thought why no one has really asked how could a country have the power to wage a war on the world 20 years after unconditional surrender? Thanks again, Good work.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
There’s MUCH more to this Nazi connection that needs to be exposed. Prescott Bush was punished for his treasonous acts with being involved with converting the OSS into the CIA at the end of WWII. In turn, high levels SS officers as well as Nazi scientists were recruited and protected by the CIA where they created the seed culture. Experiments from the Nazi death camps were continued in the US. This includes fluoridating water and the MKULTRA prject (child rape and schizoid programmed assassins).
Research shows that Fluoride reduces IQ’s by 20 points and makes populations tame and easy to control.
66% of Americans are drugged this way.
This might help explain the American public’s acquiescence to the police state.
Got to hand it to these Nazis!
Looks like they won the war after all….
Write letters to your local newspaper’s editorial page.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:34 pm
GERMANY AND USA SHOULD OF ALLIED IN 1939! TERRORISM WOULD NOT EXIST TODAY.
WE WOULD BE LIVING IN A WONDERFUL WORLD OF ONLY 500 MILLION PEOPEL, OUR AIR, WATER AND SOIL WOULD BE CLEAN.
THERE WOULD BE NO ILLEGALS IN OUR COUNTRY.
WE WOULD BE FLYING SPACE CARS TO AND FROM MARS.
May 21st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I walk through the land where the fallen angel is kept
But I would never bow down to a pagan habit,
Like roman god’s that were faggots named after the planets
The connotations of revelations taken for granted
Mark of the beast, the government microchips implanted
I’ll be branded a manic for speakin’ the truth
And I’ll be murdered as soon as I hit the streets with the proof
Illuminati trying to raise the devil at any cost
They probably cloned Jesus with the blood off of the cross
And I know it’s the same motherfuckers I see,
That genetically engineered HIV
Controlling the population according to mathematics
Generated by Masons and the military industry sponsorin’ terror
Creatin’ a profit margin that’ll last forever
The Crusades and Vietnam stand blasted together
And you believe in “whatever”
Even the federal promise,
But the spawn of Satan can never be honest
The poor people pay homage
And pray to a god that the Vatican themselves don’t really even believe in
Cause they would rather worship money and the physical demons
Without biblical reason
I execute them for treason
I don’t need an alibi
‘Cause my place in history is the book of Malika
MOTHERFUCKER
May 21st, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I am with that Dale. Malachi is a good book.
May 21st, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Night all!
May 21st, 2008 at 11:00 pm
On Thursday / March 13, 2008, there was a “secret” closed-door meeting of The United States House Of Representatives in Washington. In the history of The United States this is only the fourth time a secret meeting was held by the house.
Even though all Representatives were sworn to secrecy by House Rules XVII, some of the members were so shocked, horrified, furious, and concerned about the future of America by what was revealed to them inside the secret meeting, that they have started to leak this secret information.
The mass media has said almost nothing about the secret meeting of the House, mentioning only one of the items being discussed (the new surveillance techniques that are going to be used by the U.S. Government to watch all American citizens).
Here is what was revealed at this secret meeting:
* The imminent collapse of the U.S. Economy to occur sometime in 2008, (September / October).
* The imminent collapse of the U.S. Government finances sometime in 2009, (June / July).
* The possibility of Civil War inside the United States as a result of these collapses.
* The advanced round-ups of targeted “Insurgent U.S. Citizens” likely to move against the government.
* The detention of those rounded up at “REX – 84 / FEMA Camps” constructed throughout the United States (estimated to number over 800 facilities).
* The possibility of public retaliation against members of Congress for the collapses.
* The location of “Safe Facilities” for members of Congress and their families, to reside during massive civil unrest (Mt. Weather, Virginia and Greenbriar, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, these sites are also part of “COG” Continuity of Government).
* The necessary and unavoidable merger of The U.S. with Canada and Mexico thus creating and establishing “The North American Union”.
* The issuance of a new currency called the AMERO for all three nations as part of a world economic solution.
PREPARE NOW TO DEFEND OUR NATION AGAINST TYRANNY AND RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION!
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
HOO-YAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:06 am
Dear Preacher,
It’s people like you that are blinding the public with your religiously political rhetoric.
Jesus was awesome. So was Muhammad. And Moses rocked too. It doesn’t mean they have to be used as tools to control people.
Stop pushing your religious BS on people and actually WAKE THEM UP with real information.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:40 am
#21 Dale thanks, well said. I like Malachi as well.
Thanks preacher for ignoring the pagans. Keep those
postings up, Scripture is the armor of truth.
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
http://www.jordanmaxwell.com
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 am
DID YOU KNOW Hitler is burning in the Lake of FIRE AND BRIMSTONE
GOD HATES RACISM 1st John 3:15
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:23 am
#28: Which lake of fire, the first or the second??? OHHH…that’s right non of us have been JUDGED yet in accordance with revelations Book of Life!!! “You know when I talk god he said he’d understand so stick by me I’ll be your guiding hand but….don’t ask me what I think of you…I might not give you the answer that YOU want me to!!! Peter Green Fleetwood Mac,
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:07 am
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May 23rd, 2008 at 11:14 am
For more history about Bush family ties to the Nazis See:
Shadow Of The Swastika, An open letter to All Americans.(The Elkhorn Manifesto)
http://www.hempfarm.org/Papers.....stika.html
Documented evidence of a secret business and political alliance between the U.S. “Establishment” and the Nazis- Before, During and After World War II- up to the present.(1996)