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Prescott Bush
Holocaust Survivors Sue Bush Family over Nazi Link
25-Sep-04
Prescott Bush
The Guardian: "The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly
discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott
Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were
seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60
years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against
the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of
pre-election controversy. The evidence has also prompted one former US
Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should
have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the
enemy." Giving aid and comfort to the enemy is called TREASON.
W's Grandpa Prescott Was Caught with Bogus Medals Too
23-Aug-04
Prescott Bush
"During WWI, it was reported that Prescott Sheldon Bush (W's grandfather,
Poppy's father) had received the Cross of the Legion of Honor, the
Victoria Cross, and the Distinguished Service Cross 'for a deed of rare
valor and great military importance' YET, 'Four weeks after the news of
the decorated Prescott Bush appeared in the newspaper, the following
Notice appeared: 'A cable received from my son, Prescott S. Bush, brings
word that he has not been decorated, as published in the papers a month
ago. He feels dreadfully troubled that a letter, written in a spirit of
fun, should have been misinterpreted. He says he is no hero and asks me to
make explanations. I will appreciate your kindness in publishing this
letter.... Flora Sheldon Bush.' Prescott Bush was discharged in mid-1919,
and returned for a short time to Columbus, Ohio. But his humiliation in
his home town was so intense that he could no longer live there. The 'war
hero' story was henceforth not spoken of in his presence."
Prescott's Grandson Blocks Justice for Nazi Victim
11-Dec-03
Prescott Bush
Simon Rozenkier is suing Bayer and Schering for complicity in grotesque
medical experiments performed on him by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele and
fellow torturers from I.G. Farben. Incredibly, Bush is trying to have
Rozenkier's case dismissed. He writes: "After my years of [military]
service to this country in Korea, I always expected the president of the
United States to stand by me against my persecutors. I never realized that
Prescott Bush, Bush's grandfather, made a fortune on Wall Street during
the 1930s selling war bonds for Nazi Germany and 'cloaking' American
assets owned by German companies [also partners of I.G Farben!]. Now I
understand why the Bush administration is urging the presiding judge to
dismiss my case and placing legal closure for corporate perpetrators ahead
of moral and financial closure for victims of the Holocaust. The apple
never falls far from the tree." Perhaps Joe Conason and Eric Alterman
would like to reconsider their dismissal of the Prescott Bush story.
What Should We Make of the Charge Linking the Bush Family Fortune to
Nazism?
25-Nov-03
Prescott Bush
Herbert Parmet writes: "In the summer and fall of 1942, Congress, under
the authority of the Trading With the Enemy Act, seized the first group of
entities, the UBC, the Holland-American Trading Corporation, and the
Hamburg-American Line. Buchanan's diligence has discovered that the latter
'reportedly smuggled Nazi spies into the U.S. before the war and
encouraged U.S. 'Patriots' to travel to Germany and proselytize for Hitler
in the early 1930s.' Much of this is confirmed by the new documentation.
The UBC was not a 'bank' at all but 'in reality a clearing house' for many
assets and enterprises held by Fritz Thyssen, a German steel magnate who
has written about his role in helping to finance the Third Reich. Located
close to Bush's 59 Wall Street office, it was 'founded in 1924 by W.
Averell Harriman on behalf of Thyssen and his Bank voor Handel en
Scheepvaart N. V. of Holland.'"
Bush-Nazi Treason Lives On in the Present
24-Nov-03
Prescott Bush
From Connie Cook Smith's weblog: "In the 10/22/03 issue of The New York
Observer, Joe Conason writes about George W. Bush's grandpa -- Prescott
Bush's money-laundering and lengthy support for the Nazis -- until
Congress forced the man to stop in late 1942. Yet Joe apparently believes
that's all there is to it. He writes: 'Imputing Nazi sympathies to the
President or his family (now) ought to be beneath his adversaries.' Joe
and I are usually on the same page, politically. But minimizing the
Bush-Nazi connection is a deep disservice to all Americans, who have a
right to know the horrific truth. Joe-- and any interested reader -- ought
to check out the Congressional Record, September 4, 1969. (It's not yet
available online, but it can be viewed at all federal deposit libraries in
most large cities). Here's what you will find: George Bush Sr., then a
congressman, sponsored testimony from race scientists William Shockley and
Arthur Jensen."
The Bushes and the Farishes: These Nazi-Trading Families Go Way Back...
13-Nov-03
Prescott Bush
"In 1980, when George H.W. Bush was elected vice president, he placed his
father's family inherence in a blind trust. The trust was managed by his
old friend and quail hunting partner, William 'Stamps' Farish III. Bush's
choice of Farish to manage the family wealth is quite revealing in that it
demonstrates that the former president might know exactly where some of
his inheritance originated. Farish's grandfather, William Farish [Sr.], on
March 25th, 1942, pleaded 'no contest' to conspiring with Nazi Germany
while president of Standard Oil in New Jersey. He was described by Senator
Harry Truman in public of approaching 'treason' for profiting off the Nazi
war machine. Standard Oil, invested millions in IG Farben, who opened a
gasoline factory within Auschwitz in 1940. The billions 'Stamps' inherited
had more blood on it then Bush, so the paper trail of UBC stock would be
safe during his 12 years in presidential politics." Thanks to GWB, Stamps
Farish is now our Ambassador to London.
Scheming With the Enemy
13-Nov-03
Prescott Bush
Nico Pitney writes: "You missed an impressive milestone last week, if you
did not have one eye watching the news ticker. The Associated Press, the
largest newsgathering organization in the world, released a story about
the ties between George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, and Nazi
Germany. It was their first report on this subject in more than 60
years... This story, and the fact that it was completely ignored by the
mainstream press for so long, is eerie in its own right. Given the ties
being found between the Bush circle, Saudi royalty and the bin Laden
family, and the mainstream media's equally eerie reluctance to cover them,
the Prescott Bush story is pretty damned disturbing." Sleeping with the
Evil-Doers: Hitler, the Bin Ladens, Noriega, Hussein, Iran-Contra --
that's just Bush Family "bidness" for ya.
Prescott Bush Robbed Geronimo's Tomb and Brought His Skull & Bones to Yale
10-Nov-03
Prescott Bush
Indian Country Today reports, "'They dug up Geronimo's body in 1918. His
body is at the Skull and Bones Museum. Grandfather Prescott Bush dug it
up,' [former San Carlos Apache tribal councilman Raleigh] Thompson said.
The grave robbing was exposed when Apache leaders received a photo and
information in the 1980s... of the cult museum's display of Geronimo's
remains in a glass cage [and] a copy of a Skull and Bones Society log
book, in which the 1918 grave robbery was recorded. According to the Skull
and Bones log book entry, Prescott Bush, grandfather of George W. Bush,
and five other officers at Fort Sill, Okla., desecrated Geronimo's
grave... [Apache leaders] met with Skull and Bones officials and Jonathan
Bush, George HW Bush's brother, in NYC in 1986. However, Thompson said the
skull that the Skull and Bones Society offered to return to the Apache
delegation was that of a young boy, not Geronimo, and the Apache leaders
refused it... 'I think they switched the skull on us.'"
Should We Help BushRove Scrub the Truth about Grandpa Prescott's Nazi
Fortune?
10-Nov-03
Prescott Bush
To make sure John Buchanan's powerful exposes about Prescott Bush's Nazi
ties get the exposure they deserve, Democrats.com sent copies to
progressive journalists and bloggers. Jesse Berney, who edits the
excellent Wage Slave Journal, wrote a commentary
(http://www.wage-slave.org/archives/00000281.html) criticizing us for
circulating Buchanan's story. What do you think? Should Democrats.com call
attention to Buchanan's explosive work? Or should we help the Bush family
and Karl Rove scrub the truth from our collective consciousness? Join the
discussion in Democrats.community
Explosive! Documents Reveal Prescott Bush's Nazi Business Continued Until
1951. The Bush Family Dynasty Is Based On Trading With Enemies - And REAL
Treason
09-Nov-03
Prescott Bush
Investigative reporter John Buchanan broke 60 years of silence recently
when he uncovered documents showing Prescott Bush's business was seized by
Congress in 1942 for trading with the enemy. Now Buchanan has gone even
further, documenting Prescott's role in many more Nazi-related businesses
as late as 1951. "[Democrats.com co-founder Bob] Fertik and others,
including former Justice Department Nazi war crimes prosecutor John
Loftus... believe Prescott Bush and the Harrimans should have been tried
for treason. Now, say Fertik and Loftus, there should be a Congressional
investigation into the Bush family's Nazi past and its concealment from
the American people for 60 years. 'The American people have a right to
know, in detail, about this hidden chapter of our history,' says Loftus,
author of The Secret War Against the Jews. 'That's the only way we can
understand it and deal with it.'"
Imagine if Bush's 'Murder=Progress' Line Had Been Used by Napoleon, Custer
and Grandpa Prescott (Satire)
07-Nov-03
Prescott Bush
Chris Floyd uses Bush's "their-killing-implies-our-progress" line to
invent quotes by figures from the past -- including Grandpa Prescott. "The
more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react,"
said Prescott Bush, director of Union Banking Corporation, the day after a
World War II raid by British bombers damaged operations of UBC's Silesian
American Corporation near Oswiecim, Poland. "The more progress we make on
the ground, creating jobs and increasing profits for our German partners
and our shareholders in the Homeland, the more desperate these killers
become... I'm sure that whatever happens -- even if, say, our assets are
seized by the United States government under the Trading with the Enemy
Act or some such -- we will not be charged as traitors, collaborators or
sugar daddies for Hitler, but will actually have our assets returned after
the war so we can cash them in and launch a family political dynasty based
on war profiteering and military aggression."
The Ultimate Double Dealers: Bushes-Harrimans Traded with BOTH the Nazis
and Stalin
07-Nov-03
Prescott Bush
"Buchanan - What is the most damning single thing you've learned in your
20 years of working on this? Loftus - That it wasn't just the Nazis. The
Harrimans backed a Communist-Soviet front of international trade and they
sold the Czar's gold to support the Bolsheviks and fund the Russian
Revolution. W. Averell Harriman also did business through other Brown
Brothers Harriman and Harriman Fifteen Corp. enterprises that did business
with Joseph Stalin as he purged his opposition. Buchanan - How many people
died while Brown Brothers Harriman and the Bush-Walker-Harriman
partnership did business with Stalin? Loftus - Millions, including
American and Allied soldiers and people in concentration camps, both in
Germany and Russia." Hey, this is just business as usual for the Wasp
Mafia. Bush Sr. would go on to sell weapons to BOTH Iran and Iraq during
the 80's. The Bushes and the Bin Ladens have done business for years (esp.
the Carlyle Group). Salem Bin Laden invested in Dubya's oil companies.
Mrs. Prescott Bush Was 'Ready for Hitler' - While Prescott Was Funding
Him!
30-Oct-03
Prescott Bush
The Bush Family is clearly in shock over John Buchanan's discovery of
documents proving Prescott Bush treasonously financed the Nazis. Now they
are trying to whitewash Prescott's sins by beatifying Prescott's wife
Dorothy. "The new Indian Field Road headquarters of the Greenwich chapter
of the American Red Cross is named in honor of the late Dorothy Walker
Bush, a Greenwich Red Cross motor corpswoman during World War II, mother
of former President Bush and grandmother of the current resident... 'Ma
was ready for Hitler, Barbara Bush said during a short address to about 75
Red Cross donors." We wonder - was Dorothy "ready for Hitler" before
August 1942, when Prescott was illegally - treasonously - financing
Hitler, or after? And don't overlook the fact that her husband Prescott
was the junior partner to her very important father George Herbert Walker
- the "HW" in GHWB and the "W" in GWB.
Prescott Bush Story Was - and Is - about Media Suppression of Bush
Skeletons
29-Oct-03
Prescott Bush
John Sugg writes that Prescott Bush's Nazi business-based "financial
empire is what enabled the C-student,
affirmative-action-for-the-privileged Yale grad to launch the career that
led to his 2000 electoral putsch. Moreover, the patterns established by
the previous generations have disturbing echoes today in the Bush family's
intricate connections to Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family. 'That's
the relevance,' Sheldon Drobny, a Chicago investment banker who is
starting a liberal talk show network, told me. 'Trading with the enemy is
trading with the enemy. It doesn't matter what enemy it is at the time.'
It's an astounding story - one you won't read in the same media that daily
stuffed our heads with rumor, innuendo, suspicion and a few facts about
Bill Clinton's sexual foibles. As Drobny puts it, the mounting
significance of the Bush-Nazi evidence is that it unmasks Big Media's
'sins of suppressing the news.'" And the suppression continues at NY
Times, PentaPost, LA Times, etc...
Prescott Bush Used Dirty Tricks to Keep UN out of Connecticut
26-Oct-03
Prescott Bush
"Once the U.N. headquarters and a vast international city of skyscrapers
were supposed to rise [in Greenwich CT], amid the genteel estates and
rolling hills of this wealthy suburb. To obtain the land for this new
city, a State Department official in 1946 proposed to use eminent domain
to seize several dozen estates, not the least those of Time publisher
Henry Luce, financier John S. Rockefeller and Wall Street banker and
future U.S. Sen. Prescott Bush, father to the former president and
grandfather to the current one. This proposal [enraged] Greenwich estate
owners. In a revolt of the gilt-laden, the landowners fashioned a campaign
called 'No to UNOville!' With a referendum and a few dirty tricks, they
beat back the plan... 'The anti-U.N. folks raised a ton of money,' Udain
recalled, 'and they began spreading rumors that camels would walk down the
streets.' There was uglier stuff, too. This was a WASP enclave, and many
whispered of Jews and Russians taking over downtown Greenwich."
Fox Attacks Bush-Nazi Expose
23-Oct-03
Prescott Bush
Karl Rove is clearly terrified of John Buchanan's explosive expose
documenting Prescott Bush's TREASONOUS Nazi fortune. On "Special Report
with Brit Hume," right-winger Byron York attacked the Bush-Nazi link as
"the farthest fringes of the political debate." He attacked venture
capitalist Sheldon Drobny, who is launching a liberal talk radio network,
for writing with perfect accuracy: "Very few Americans know that Prescott
Bush, our president's grandfather, supplied Nazi Germany with support for
its re-armament. The information is documented, but is not known by most
Americans because, as in any successful, fascist regime, the press is
prevented from publishing it." Hey Brit, why don't you invite John
Buchanan on to your show to show your audience the PROOF??? E-mail
Hume@foxnews.com
Did Prescott Bush Build His Family's Political Dynasty with Blood Money
from Financing the Nazis? Conason Says 'Get Over It'
22-Oct-03
Prescott Bush
Joe Conason is one of our favorite "patriotic progressive" journalists.
But sometimes even Conason is simply wrong - as with his attack on those
of us who are calling attention to the astonishing revelation by
investigative reporter John Buchanan that W's famous grandfather Prescott
made his fortune financing the Nazi war machine. Prescott's Union Banking
Corp. was seized by Congress under the "Trading with the Enemy Act" on
10/20/1942 - that's REAL treason, not Ann Coulter's kind. Yet in 1951,
Prescott walked away with $750,000 ($5 million today), which helped
finance his campaign for U.S. Senate in 1952. This stunning fact was
scrubbed from history during Prescott's lifetime, so his Connecticut
voters never knew, nor did those who voted for his son and grandsons. But
previously hidden WWII-era records are now revealing the truth. So the
LIVING Bushes are now LYING - through an authorized biography of Prescott
that scandalously scrubs his treasonous business dealings.
Do Skull and Bones Have Geronimo's Skull?
21-Oct-03
Prescott Bush
Indian Country Today: "Alexandra Robbins, author of 'Secrets of the Tomb,'
said law enforcement officers should determine if the secret Skull and
Bones Society, to which the Bush family belongs, has stolen items in its
possession, including the remains of Geronimo. 'Why haven't law
enforcement officers been in there in the last 200 years,' Robbins said of
the secret tomb in Connecticut. 'If they truly do have Geronimo's skull,
then that is appalling,' Robbins told Indian Country Today in a telephone
interview, following her appearance on 60 Minutes... [She] believes a 1918
Skull and Bones logbook is authentic. It chronicles grandfather Prescott
Bush and other army officers desecrating the grave of Geronimo in Fort
Sill, Okla... 'I have heard from a lot of Native Americans that want to
set up a protest. I think they should, to settle this matter once and for
all... [Former] President Bush said that he preferred it remain secret,'
Robbins said, quoting Bush's press secretary."
Yes, Howie Kurtz, Prescott Bush DID Get Rich From the Nazis
20-Oct-03
Prescott Bush
Counterspin's Hesiod writes, "THE EDUCATION OF HOWARD KURTZ: Howie
examines 'Bush hatred' in his latest piece in the Washington Post. One
example he casually throws on the pile, is this item: '[Byron] York also
notes that Sheldon Drobny, who is arranging financing for a liberal talk
radio network, has alleged online that the resident's grandfather,
Prescott Bush, did business with the Third Reich but that 'as in any
fascist regime, the press is prevented from publishing it.' You write
that, Howie, as if you think it's not true! We all know different, now,
don't we? E-mail Howard Kurtz , and politely ask him to correct the
record. Make sure you send him supporting links, documenting Prescott
Bush's involvement in a Nazi financial front operation . Before this week,
the last time any mainstream news organization did a story on Prescott
Bush's dealings with Nazis, was during World War II!"
Help Investigative Reporter John Buchanan Expose the Cover-up of Prescott
Bush's Nazi Fortune
18-Oct-03
Prescott Bush
In a letter to the Democrats.com News Editor, investigative reporter John
Buchanan writes, "The 'biography' you refer to is a hoax ('Duty, Honor,
Country: The Life and Legacy of Prescott Bush' by Mickey Herskowitz). It
shows to a scary and obvious extent how far the Bush family and their
corporate co-conspirators will go to conceal its criminal and treasonous
past, which will now be exposed to the world, thanks to individual
citizens like you who are rising up and demanding the truth... I am
demanding publicly... that the right-wing 'religious' publisher, Rutledge
Hill Press, withdraw it from bookstores and apologize to the American
people... It is a joke, an outright fraud... PLEASE help bring the
righteous rage of the people down on them with incoming e-mails" to
lstone@rutledgehillpress.com, gstone@rutledgehillpress.com,
lhoneybone@rutledgehillpress.com, byork@nationalreview.com,
kobeirne@nationalreview.com, comments.lowry@nationalreview.com
Prescott Bush: 'Hitler's Angel' was The Nazi's Banker in America
18-Oct-03
Prescott Bush
"On December 13, 1941, six days after the attack at Pearl Harbor,
Roosevelt signed the 'Trading With the Enemy Act'. This act banned
business dealings with the enemies of the US. Prescott Bush ignored this
and continued to do business with the Nazis... [In the summer of 1942,]
the NY Tribune had discovered and written on the Bush-Thyssen connection.
The Tribune hung the moniker of 'Hitler's Angel' on Bush. On October 20,
1942, after investigation by the US government, Vesting Order 248 was
executed [and] Bush lost his power in the Union Banking Corporation. Bush
resigned as managing director in 1943, but still retained his stock
interests... Bush received $750,000 [about $5 million in today's dollars]
for his share of UBC, a princely sum in 1951, but nothing compared to the
millions the Thyssen family got back. Prescott used some of this Nazi cash
to bankroll his son George Herbert Walker Bush's first business enterprise
and to support [Prescott's] successful bid for Senate in 1952."
After 61 Years, AP Finally Reports on Prescott Bush's Treasonous Nazi
Financing!
18-Oct-03
Prescott Bush
After 61 years, AP reports: "Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank
seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German
industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government
documents show. Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking
Corp., a NY investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen
family, according to recently declassified National Archives documents
reviewed by AP... Reports of Bush's involvement with the seized bank have
been circulating on the Internet for years and have been reported by some
mainstream media. The newly declassified documents provide additional
details about the Union Banking-Thyssen connection. Trent Duffy, a
spokesman for Bush, declined to comment... Union Banking was seized by the
government in October 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act... The new
documents were first reported by freelance writer John Buchanan in The New
Hampshire Gazette." Search Democrats.com for "Prescott".
Did Prescott Bush Steal Geronimo's Skull?
14-Oct-03
Prescott Bush
Indian Country Today: "A secret society at Yale University boasts of
harboring skulls and bones of humans and members of that society have
become some of the most powerful people in America by virtue of the
network established by the society. Resident George W. Bush, his father
and grandfather are and were members of the Skull and Bones Society... In
1986 some members of the Skull and Bones Society contacted members of the
Apache Nation, the San Carlos Apache specifically and told them the Skull
and Bones Society had Geronimo's skull on display. The story was told how
a written journal detailed the raid on the Chiricahua Apache's grave at
Fort Sill, Okla. And that Patriarch [Prescott] Bush led the dig [in
1918].... It is the belief of the Fort Sill Apache, where Geronimo died
and where his family resided that the skull at the Skull and Bones Society
is not that of their revered and historic leader, Darrow said. It may be a
skull of another of the Chiricahua leaders, Mangas Colorados."
Media Continues to Cover-up the Bush Family's Nazi Past
14-Oct-03
Prescott Bush
John Buchanan writes: "After 60 years of inattention and even denial by
the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National
Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the
grandfather of... George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S.
banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from
1926 until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his
'enemy national' partners... Major U.S. media outlets, including ABC News,
NBC News, The New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Los
Angeles Times and Miami Herald, have repeatedly declined to investigate
the story when information regarding discovery of the documents was
presented to them beginning Friday, August 29. Newsweek U.S. correspondent
Michael Isikoff, famous for his reporting of big scoops during the
Clinton-Lewinsky sexual affair of the 1990s, declined twice to accept an
exclusive story based on the documents from the archives."
'History is a Reminder of What's Possible', said Bush after Touring
Auschwitz
05-Jun-03
Prescott Bush
"'History is a reminder of what's possible.' These were the words spoken
by... Bush as he emerged from a guided tour of the gas chambers at
Auschwitz... What precisely [he] meant by this banal comment is not clear.
However, given Bush's political record--assembly-line executions in Texas,
Guantanamo's Camp X-Ray, the indefinite imprisonment of US citizens
without charges, two preemptive wars--it could be open to the most
sinister of interpretations. There is no doubt that the visit to Auschwitz
was choreographed to serve immediate policy objectives: invoking the
horrors of Hitler's concentration camps to further an agenda of militarism
and domestic repression. Perhaps no greater disservice could be done to
the memory of the six million Jews and the millions of others who were
murdered by the Nazis. In Bush's case, covering up the historical origins
of fascism in Germany serves a particular, indeed personal, function."
Namely, Prescott Bush made his fortune financing the Nazis.
Newsweek/Poland Exposes Grandpa Bush's Evil Auschwitz Profits
01-Jun-03
Prescott Bush
After 1942, the US media buried the fact that Prescott Bush traded with
the Nazis. But there was this BRIEF note in the Polish edition of Newsweek
in January: "BUSH Family profited from slave work by prisoners of the
Auschwitz concentration camp. Prescott Sheldon Bush, grandfather of George
Walker Bush, had financial dealings during World War II with the Nazis,
amassing a family fortune as a banker. Prescott Bush, was a shareholder of
the company United Banking Corporation, working with industrialist Fritz
Thyssen from the Nazistowskiego Silesian Consolidated Steel Corporation,
where Auschwitz prisoners worked. The American press blew the whistle in
1942, and the U.S. government conducted an audit of USA UBC's books. The
Roosevelt administration shut down UBC's operation under the Trading with
the Enemy act signed in 1941[correction: 1942]. The Company was allowed to
continue operations, but with restrictions. Namely, no more dealing with
Nazis." Demand US coverage for this story!
Bush Visits Auschwitz -- Where His Grandfather Profited from Slave Labor
31-May-03
Prescott Bush
"George W. Bush has toured the former Nazi death camps at Auschwitz and
Birkenau." No doubt, the US Media will fail to mention that Prescott Bush
was a financier of the Nazis. The assets of Prescott's companies were
seized in 1942, under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Given his family's
history, it is surreal that Bush said, "The sites are a sobering reminder
of the power of evil and the need for people to resist evil." Yes Bush,
but your family participated in this evil. Your visit is a sobering
reminder of the evil power of the Bush family. And now this evil has found
its greatest expression -- with you as the arrogant, despotic leader of
the (formerly) free World. "Mankind must come together to fight such dark
impulses," he said. "May God bless the victims and their families and may
we always remember.'" Except that Bush does not want us to remember that
his family made their fortune financing the Nazis.
Did Prescott Bush Manage the Slave Labor Force in Auschwitz?
31-May-03
Prescott Bush
Toby Rogers writes: "According to classified documents from Dutch
intelligence and US government archives, ...George W. Bush's grandfather,
Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor. In
fact, ...Bush himself is an heir to these profits from the holocaust which
were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president
George Herbert Walker Bush." From Page 3 of this article: "Nobody's made
the connection before between Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation,
Auschwitz and Prescott Bush,' John Loftus told Clamor. 'That was the
reason why Auschwitz was built there. The coal deposits could be processed
into either coal or additives for aviation gasoline.' A portion of the
slave labor force in Poland was 'managed by Prescott Bush,' according to a
Dutch intelligence agent. In 1941, slave labor had become the lifeblood of
the Nazi war machine. The resources of Poland's rich steel and coal field
played an essential part in Hitler's invasion of Europe."
Can War-Weary Germans Stop Nazi Banker Prescott Bush's Grandson?
22-Jan-03
Prescott Bush
Marc Ash writes, "In October of 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy
Act, the U.S. government halted operations at NY's Union Banking
Corporation. A bank official was charged with 'Running Nazi front groups
in the United States.' His name: Prescott Bush. Prescott Bush, father of
future U.S President George Herbert Walker Bush and grandfather of George
W. Bush, had been hard at work on behalf of his Nazi partners. In flagrant
violation of U.S. law, Prescott Bush had worked tirelessly to launder
money, procure raw materials, arrange transportation and provide guidance
for the Nazi war effort and the German army he had helped to build... It
was the German people who, with their faith in country and leadership, and
even their loyalty to the Fatherland, made possible the greatest nightmare
the world has ever known. It is those same German people who stand today
before Europe and the world in unflinching opposition to this latest world
conquering force."
The Bush Family / Third Reich Connection -- We Report -- You Decide
28-May-02
Prescott Bush
Susie Davidson writes, that many sources "attest to a definite link
between the Bush family and the Nazis... Prescott Bush, W’s grandfather,
was a principal in New York’s Union Banking Corporation from the late
1930’s-1940’s.This bank was owned by key Nazi industrialists, who funneled
money into it through another bank located in Holland. [Toby Rogers says
that] Union Banking became an ‘out and out Nazi money-laundering machine.’
[In 1942] the U.S. government siezed Prescott’s banking operations under
the Trading With the Enemy Act]. Nonetheless, when the bank was liquidated
in 1951, [W’s family] received $1.5 million in proceeds... The powerful
partners in these ignoble ventures are reputedly those who boosted the
Bushes into the CIA and government positions. [The 1942 seizures came too
late]; Bush’s family had already centrally financed and armed Hitler and
the Nazi war industries." Neil Bush was even named after one of the Bush
Nazi bid'ness cronies!
'Heir to the Holocaust: Prescott Bush, $1.5 Million and Auschwitz'
30-Apr-02
Prescott Bush
Writes Toby Rogers: "While the Enron scandal currently unfolds, another
Bush family business scandal lurks beneath the shadows of history that may
dwarf it... According to classified documents from Dutch intelligence and
US government archives, George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush made
considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor. In fact, Bush himself is
an heir to these profits from the holocaust which were placed in a blind
trust in 1980 by his father, former president George Herbert Walker
Bush... A case can be made that the inheritors of the Prescott Bush estate
could be sued by survivors of the Holocaust and slave labor communities...
A portion of the slave labor force in Poland was 'managed by Prescott
Bush,' according to a Dutch intelligence agent... There is no question
that the Bush family needs to donate at least $1.5 million [approx. $10
million in today's dollars] to the proper holocaust reparation fund."
If Bush's 'Philo-Semitism' is Genuine, He Should Publicly Apologize for
Prescott Bush's Traitorous Nazi Financing!
25-Apr-02
Prescott Bush
Writes Anne Kornblut [w/corrections]: "Starting with [proven] accusations
that Prescott Bush was a Nazi collaborator before [and AFTER] Pearl
Harbor, the Bush dynasty has generally been viewed with suspicion and at
times outright hostility by Jewish Americans. The elder President Bush
outraged the Jewish community with a series of perceived insults [as well
as having old Nazi collaborators in his '88 campaign]. [And] the younger
Bush… once expressed doubt about whether non-Christians could get into
heaven… Prescott Bush was a director of a New York bank where rich Germans
who supported the Nazis stashed millions in personal wealth. He was still
a director at the bank, Union Banking Corp., when its assets were frozen
under the Trading With the Enemy Act in 1941 [WRONG, it was on 10/20/42]—a
fact that has provided endless fodder for leftists and conspiracy
theorists.". At least Anne didn't call them 'terrorists'! (See scans of
docs at www.mbpolitics.com/bush2000/VestingExplain.htm).
Boston Globe Breaks Story Of Bush-Nazi Partnership! (Part 2)
25-Apr-01
Prescott Bush
The article also suggests that the asset seizure caused Prescott to have a
change of conscience, so that he became active in the war bond effort,
rather than that this facade of patriotism was a cynical ploy by an
exposed traitor. The article later portrays Prescott as a hero of sorts
for maneuvering against Joe McCarthy. But Prescott may have been worried
that McCarthy would look into his firm Brown Brothers Harriman's alleged
business deals in the Soviet Union. These allegations seem plausible given
BBH's international scope, and the fact that Averell Harriman was at one
time our ambassador to the Soviet Union. Note also how the article
reinforces the familiar Bush family myths about their belief in "loyalty",
"family" and "noblesse oblige." For good measure, there is even a quote by
one of the Bushes implying that Prescott's traitorous values were steeped
in the "Ten Commandments!" (Part Two begins with a few paragraphs about
the asset seizure and cover-up).
Boston Globe Breaks Story Of Bush-Nazi Partnership! (Part 1)
24-Apr-01
Prescott Bush
In a two-part series on the rise of the Bush Dynasty, the Boston Globe
mentions that Dubya's grandfather Prescott Bush partnered with Nazi
industrialists, until his assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading
with the Enemy Act, when our troops were days away from fighting the Nazis
in North Africa. Although the article appears to whitewash this sordid
history, this still may be the first time that a major national paper has
covered it -- since the cover-up almost 60 years ago. Maybe readers of
newsletters and sites like Democrats.com helped get this secret out -- so
that the Bush/Rove propaganda machine now has to deal with it? The article
seems to try to put the best face on this major crack in the Bush family
facade. It implies that the Nazi partnership was merely a bad business
deal, rather than that Prescott Bush built and ran one of the most
extensive networks of Nazi front companies for more than a decade. (Part
One below discusses the period before the asset seizure).
Bush Lectures At Holocaust Museum Despite His Family's Sordid Nazi Past
19-Apr-01
Prescott Bush
Bush visited DC's Holocaust Museum Wednesday, where he made statements
about the importance of remembering the horror of the Holocaust. But Bush
did not apologize for -- let alone even acknowledge -- his own family's
long history of Nazi alliances. Before WWII, his grandfather Prescott Bush
and his great-grandfather Bert Walker set up a series of front companies
with Nazi industrialists, including the notorious Thyssen family and IG
Farben -- best known for supplying gas for the camp ovens. Eventually,
Prescott Bush's companies' assets were seized under the Trading with the
Enemy Act in 1942, when our troops were days away from fighting the Nazis
in Africa. In 1980 the Bush network was linked to Nazi Klaus Barbie's
Bolivian coup. In 1988, journalist Russ Bellant exposed the presence of
old Nazi collaborators in the Bush presidential campaign. George W. played
a key role in the Bush '88 campaign. (To read more, go to our "Compass"
search engine, enter "nazi" and scroll down.)
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Bush book: Chapter -2-
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton
Chaitkin
Chapter - II - The Hitler Project
Bush Property Seized--Trading with the Enemy
In October 1942, ten months after entering World War II, America was preparing
its first assault against Nazi military forces. Prescott Bush was managing
partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. His 18-year-old son George, the future U.S.
President, had just begun training to become a naval pilot. On Oct. 20, 1942,
the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New
York City which were being conducted by Prescott Bush.
Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over the Union Banking
Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian
seized Union Banking Corp.'s stock shares, all of which were owned by Prescott
Bush, E. Roland `` Bunny '' Harriman, three Nazi executives, and two other
associates of Bush.@s1
The order seizing the bank `` vests '' (seizes) `` all of the capital stock of
Union Banking Corporation, a New York corporation, '' and names the holders of
its shares as:
`` E. Roland Harriman--3991 shares ''
[chairman and director of Union Banking Corp. (UBC); this is `` Bunny ''
Harriman, described by Prescott Bush as a place holder who didn't get much
into banking affairs; Prescott managed his personal investments]
`` Cornelis Lievense--4 shares ''
[president and director of UBC; New York resident banking functionary for the
Nazis]
`` Harold D. Pennington--1 share ''
[treasurer and director of UBC; an office manager employed by Bush at Brown
Brothers Harriman]
`` Ray Morris--1 share ''
[director of UBC; partner of Bush and the Harrimans]
`` Prescott S. Bush--1 share ''
[director of UBC, which was co-founded and sponsored by his father-in-law
George Walker; senior managing partner for E. Roland Harriman and Averell
Harriman]
`` H.J. Kouwenhoven--1 share ''
[director of UBC; organized UBC as the emissary of Fritz Thyssen in
negotiations with George Walker and Averell Harriman; managing director of
UBC's Netherlands affiliate under Nazi occupation; industrial executive in
Nazi Germany; director and chief foreign financial executive of the German
Steel Trust]
`` Johann G. Groeninger--1 share ''
[director of UBC and of its Netherlands affiliate; industrial executive in
Nazi Germany]
`` all of which shares are held for the benefit of ... members of the Thyssen
family, [and] is property of nationals ... of a designated enemy country....
''
By Oct. 26, 1942, U.S. troops were under way for North Africa. On Oct. 28, the
government issued orders seizing two Nazi front organizations run by the
Bush-Harriman bank: the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless
Steel Equipment Corporation.@s2
U.S. forces landed under fire near Algiers on Nov. 8, 1942; heavy combat raged
throughout November. Nazi interests in the Silesian-American Corporation, long
managed by Prescott Bush and his father-in-law George Herbert Walker, were
seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act on Nov. 17, 1942. In this action,
the government announced that it was seizing only the Nazi interests, leaving
the Nazis' U.S. partners to carry on the business.@s3
These and other actions taken by the U.S. government in wartime were,
tragically, too little and too late. President Bush's family had already played
a central role in financing and arming Adolf Hitler for his takeover of Germany;
in financing and managing the buildup of Nazi war industries for the conquest of
Europe and war against the U.S.A.; and in the development of Nazi genocide
theories and racial propaganda, with their well-known results.
The facts presented here must be known, and their implications reflected upon,
for a proper understanding of President George Herbert Walker Bush and of the
danger to mankind that he represents. The President's family fortune was largely
a result of the Hitler project. The powerful Anglo-American family associations,
which later boosted him into the Central Intelligence Agency and up to the White
House, were his father's partners in the Hitler project.
President Franklin Roosevelt's Alien Property Custodian, Leo T. Crowley, signed
Vesting Order Number 248 seizing the property of Prescott Bush under the Trading
with the Enemy Act. The order, published in obscure government record books and
kept out of the news,@s4 explained nothing about the Nazis involved; only that
the Union Banking Corporation was run for the `` Thyssen family '' of `` Germany
and/or Hungary ''--`` nationals ... of a designated enemy country. ''
By deciding that Prescott Bush and the other directors of the Union Banking
Corp. were legally front men for the Nazis, the government avoided the more
important historical issue: In what way were Hitler's Nazis themselves hired,
armed and instructed by the New York and London clique of which Prescott Bush
was an executive manager? Let us examine the Harriman-Bush Hitler project from
the 1920s until it was partially broken up, to seek an answer for that question.
Origin and Extent of the Project
Fritz Thyssen and his business partners are universally recognized as the most
important German financiers of Adolf Hitler's takeover of Germany. At the time
of the order seizing the Thyssen family's Union Banking Corp., Mr. Fritz Thyssen
had already published his famous book, I Paid Hitler,@s5 admitting that he had
financed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement since October 1923. Thyssen's role
as the leading early backer of Hitler's grab for power in Germany had been noted
by U.S. diplomats in Berlin in 1932.@s6 The order seizing the Bush-Thyssen bank
was curiously quiet and modest about the identity of the perpetrators who had
been nailed.
But two weeks before the official order, government investigators had reported
secretly that `` W. Averell Harriman was in Europe sometime prior to 1924 and at
that time became acquainted with Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist. ''
Harriman and Thyssen agreed to set up a bank for Thyssen in New York. ``
[C]ertain of [Harriman's] associates would serve as directors.... '' Thyssen
agent `` H. J. Kouwenhoven ... came to the United States ... prior to 1924 for
conferences with the Harriman Company in this connection.... ''@s7
When exactly was `` Harriman in Europe sometime prior to 1924 ''? In fact, he
was in Berlin in 1922 to set up the Berlin branch of W.A. Harriman & Co. under
George Walker's presidency.
The Union Banking Corporation was established formally in 1924, as a unit in the
Manhattan offices of W.A. Harriman & Co., interlocking with the Thyssen-owned
Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart (BHS) in the Netherlands. The investigators
concluded that `` the Union Banking Corporation has since its inception handled
funds chiefly supplied to it through the Dutch bank by the Thyssen interests for
American investment. ''
Thus by personal agreement between Averell Harriman and Fritz Thyssen in 1922,
W.A. Harriman & Co. (alias Union Banking Corporation) would be transferring
funds back and forth between New York and the `` Thyssen interests '' in
Germany. By putting up about $400,000, the Harriman organization would be joint
owner and manager of Thyssen's banking operations outside of Germany.
How important was the Nazi enterprise for which President Bush's father was the
New York banker?
The 1942 U.S. government investigative report said that Bush's Nazi-front bank
was an interlocking concern with the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works
Corporation or German Steel Trust) led by Fritz Thyssen and his two brothers.
After the war, Congressional investigators probed the Thyssen interests, Union
Banking Corp. and related Nazi units. The investigation showed that the
Vereinigte Stahlwerke had produced the following approximate proportions of
total German national output:
50.8% of Nazi Germany's pig iron
41.4% of Nazi Germany's universal plate
36.0% of Nazi Germany's heavy plate
38.5% of Nazi Germany's galvanized sheet
45.5% of Nazi Germany's pipes and tubes
22.1% of Nazi Germany's wire
35.0% of Nazi Germany's explosives.@s8
Prescott Bush became vice president of W.A. Harriman & Co. in 1926. That same
year, a friend of Harriman and Bush set up a giant new organization for their
client Fritz Thyssen, prime sponsor of politician Adolf Hitler. The new German
Steel Trust, Germany's largest industrial corporation, was organized in 1926 by
Wall Street banker Clarence Dillon. Dillon was the old comrade of Prescott
Bush's father Sam Bush from the `` Merchants of Death '' bureau in World War I.
In return for putting up $70 million to create his organization, majority owner
Thyssen gave the Dillon Read company two or more representatives on the board of
the new Steel Trust.@s9
Thus there is a division of labor: Thyssen's own confidential accounts, for
political and related purposes, were run through the Walker-Bush organization;
the German Steel Trust did its corporate banking through Dillon Read.
The Walker-Bush firm's banking activities were not just politically neutral
money-making ventures which happened to coincide with the aims of German Nazis.
All of the firm's European business in those days was organized around
anti-democratic political forces.
In 1927, criticism of their support for totalitarianism drew this retort from
Bert Walker, written from Kennebunkport to Averell Harriman: `` It seems to me
that the suggestion in connection with Lord Bearsted's views that we withdraw
from Russia smacks somewhat of the impertinent.... I think that we have drawn
our line and should hew to it. ''@s1@s0
Averell Harriman met with Italy's fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini. A
representative of the firm subsequently telegraphed good news back to his chief
executive Bert Walker: `` ... During these last days ... Mussolini ... has
examined and approved our c[o]ntract 15 June. ''@s1@s1
The great financial collapse of 1929-31 shook America, Germany and Britain,
weakening all governments. It also made the hard-pressed Prescott Bush even more
willing to do whatever was necessary to retain his new place in the world. It
was in this crisis that certain Anglo-Americans determined on the installation
of a Hitler regime in Germany.
W.A. Harriman & Co., well-positioned for this enterprise and rich in assets from
their German and Russian business, merged with the British-American investment
house, Brown Brothers, on January 1, 1931. Bert Walker retired to his own G.H.
Walker & Co. This left the Harriman brothers, Prescott Bush and Thatcher M.
Brown as the senior partners of the new Brown Brothers Harriman firm. (The
London, England branch of the Brown family firm continued operating under its
historic name--Brown, Shipley.)
Robert A. Lovett also came over as a partner from Brown Brothers. His father,
E.H. Harriman's lawyer and railroad chief, had been on the War Industries Board
with Prescott's father. Though he remained a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman,
the junior Lovett soon replaced his father as chief executive of Union Pacific
Railroad.
Brown Brothers had a racial tradition that fitted it well for the Hitler
project! American patriots had cursed its name back in U.S. Civil War days.
Brown Brothers, with offices in the U.S.A. and in England, had carried on their
ships fully 75 percent of the slave cotton from the American South over to
British mill owners. Now in 1931, the virtual dictator of world finance, Bank of
England Governor Montagu Collet Norman, was a former Brown Brothers partner,
whose grandfather had been boss of Brown Brothers during the U.S. Civil War.
Montagu Norman was known as the most avid of Hitler's supporters within British
ruling circles, and Norman's intimacy with this firm was essential to his
management of the Hitler project.
In 1931, while Prescott Bush ran the New York office of Brown Brothers Harriman,
Prescott's partner was Montagu Norman's intimate friend Thatcher Brown. The Bank
of England chief always stayed at the home of Prescott's partner on his
hush-hush trips to New York. Prescott Bush concentrated on the firm's German
activities, and Thatcher Brown saw to their business in old England, under the
guidance of his mentor Montagu Norman.@s1@s2
Hitler's Ladder to Power
Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany January 30, 1933, and absolute
dictator in March 1933, after two years of expensive and violent lobbying and
electioneering. Two affiliates of the Bush-Harriman organization played great
parts in this criminal undertaking: Thyssen's German Steel Trust; and the
Hamburg-Amerika Line and several of its executives.@s1@s3
Let us look more closely at the Bush family's German partners.
Fritz Thyssen told Allied interrogators after the war about some of his
financial support for the Nazi Party: `` In 1930 or 1931 ... I told [Hitler's
deputy Rudolph] Hess ... I would arrange a credit for him with a Dutch bank in
Rotterdam, the Bank fu@aur Handel und Schiff [i.e. Bank voor Handel en
Scheepvaart (BHS), the Harriman-Bush affiliate]. I arranged the credit ... he
would pay it back in three years.... I chose a Dutch bank because I did not want
to be mixed up with German banks in my position, and because I thought it was
better to do business with a Dutch bank, and I thought I would have the Nazis a
little more in my hands... .
`` The credit was about 250-300,000 [gold] marks--about the sum I had given
before. The loan has been repaid in part to the Dutch bank, but I think some
money is still owing on it.... ''@s1@s4
The overall total of Thyssen's political donations and loans to the Nazis was
well over a million dollars, including funds he raised from others--in a period
of terrible money shortage in Germany.
Friedrich Flick was the major co-owner of the German Steel Trust with Fritz
Thyssen, Thyssen's long-time collaborator and occasional competitor. In
preparation for the war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg, the U.S. government said
that Flick was `` one of leading financiers and industrialists who from 1932
contributed large sums to the Nazi Party ... member of `Circle of Friends' of
Himmler who contributed large sums to the SS. ''@s1@s5
Flick, like Thyssen, financed the Nazis to maintain their private armies called
Schutzstaffel (S.S. or Black Shirts) and Sturmabteilung (S.A., storm troops or
Brown Shirts).
The Flick-Harriman partnership was directly supervised by Prescott Bush,
President Bush's father, and by George Walker, President Bush's grandfather.
The Harriman-Walker Union Banking Corp. arrangements for the German Steel Trust
had made them bankers for Flick and his vast operations in Germany by no later
than 1926.
The Harriman Fifteen Corporation (George Walker, president, Prescott Bush and
Averell Harriman, sole directors) held a substantial stake in the Silesian
Holding Co. at the time of the merger with Brown Brothers, Jan. 1, 1931. This
holding correlated to Averell Harriman's chairmanship of the Consolidated
Silesian Steel Corporation, the American group owning one-third of a complex of
steel-making, coal-mining and zinc-mining activities in Germany and Poland, in
which Friedrich Flick owned two-thirds.@s1@s6
The Nuremberg prosecutor characterized Flick as follows:
`` Proprietor and head of a large group of industrial enterprises (coal and iron
mines, steel producing and fabricating plants) ... `Wehrwirtschaftsfuh@aurer',
1938 [title awarded to prominent industrialists for merit in armaments
drive--`Military Economy Leader'].... ''@s1@s7
For this buildup of the Hitler war machine with coal, steel and arms production,
using slave laborers, the Nazi Flick was condemned to seven years in prison at
the Nuremberg trials; he served three years. With friends in New York and
London, however, Flick lived into the 1970s and died a billionaire.
On March 19, 1934, Prescott Bush--then director of the German Steel Trust's
Union Banking Corporation--initiated an alert to the absent Averell Harriman
about a problem which had developed in the Flick partnership.@s1@s8 Bush sent
Harriman a clipping from the New York Times of that day, which reported that the
Polish government was fighting back against American and German stockholders who
controlled `` Poland's largest industrial unit, the Upper Silesian Coal and
Steel Company.... ''
The Times article continued: `` The company has long been accused of
mismanagement, excessive borrowing, fictitious bookkeeping and gambling in
securities. Warrants were issued in December for several directors accused of
tax evasions. They were German citizens and they fled. They were replaced by
Poles. Herr Flick, regarding this as an attempt to make the company's board
entirely Polish, retaliated by restricting credits until the new Polish
directors were unable to pay the workmen regularly. ''
The Times noted that the company's mines and mills `` employ 25,000 men and
account for 45 percent of Poland's total steel output and 12 percent of her coal
production. Two-thirds of the company's stock is owned by Friedrich Flick, a
leading German steel industrialist, and the remainder is owned by interests in
the United States. ''
In view of the fact that a great deal of Polish output was being exported to
Hitler Germany under depression conditions, the Polish government thought that
Prescott Bush, Harriman and their Nazi partners should at least pay full taxes
on their Polish holdings. The U.S. and Nazi owners responded with a lockout. The
letter to Harriman in Washington reported a cable from their European
representative: `` Have undertaken new steps London Berlin ... please establish
friendly relations with Polish Ambassador [in Washington]. ''
A 1935 Harriman Fifteen Corporation memo from George Walker announced an
agreement had been made `` in Berlin '' to sell an 8,000 block of their shares
in Consolidated Silesian Steel.@s1@s9 But the dispute with Poland did not deter
the Bush family from continuing its partnership with Flick.
Nazi tanks and bombs `` settled '' this dispute in September, 1939 with the
invasion of Poland, beginning World War II. The Nazi army had been equipped by
Flick, Harriman, Walker and Bush, with materials essentially stolen from Poland.
There were probably few people at the time who could appreciate the irony, that
when the Soviets also attacked and invaded Poland from the East, their vehicles
were fueled by oil pumped from Baku wells revived by the Harriman/Walker/Bush
enterprise.
Three years later, nearly a year after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the
U.S. government ordered the seizure of the Nazis' share in the Silesian-American
Corporation under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Enemy nationals were said to
own 49 percent of the common stock and 41.67 percent of the preferred stock of
the company.
The order characterized the company as a `` business enterprise within the
United States, owned by [a front company in] Zurich, Switzerland, and held for
the benefit of Bergwerksgesellschaft George von Giesche's Erben, a German
corporation.... ''@s2@s0
Bert Walker was still the senior director of the company, which he had founded
back in 1926 simultaneously with the creation of the German Steel Trust. Ray
Morris, Prescott's partner from Union Banking Corp. and Brown Brothers Harriman,
was also a director.
The investigative report prior to the government crackdown explained the ``
NATURE OF BUSINESS: The subject corporation is an American holding company for
German and Polish subsidiaries, which own large and valuable coal and zinc mines
in Silesia, Poland and Germany. Since September 1939, these properties have been
in the possession of and have been operated by the German government and have
undoubtedly been of considerable assistance to that country in its war effort.
''@s2@s1
The report noted that the American stockholders hoped to regain control of the
European properties after the war.
Control of Nazi Commerce
Bert Walker had arranged the credits Harriman needed to take control of the
Hamburg-Amerika Line back in 1920. Walker had organized the American Ship and
Commerce Corp. as a unit of the W.A. Harriman & Co., with contractual power over
Hamburg-Amerika's affairs.
As the Hitler project went into high gear, Harriman-Bush shares in American Ship
and Commerce Corp. were held by the Harriman Fifteen Corp., run by Prescott Bush
and Bert Walker.@s2@s2
It was a convenient stroll for the well-tanned, athletic, handsome Prescott
Bush: From the Brown Brothers Harriman skyscraper at 59 Wall Street--where he
was senior managing partner, confidential investments manager and adviser to
Averell and his brother `` Bunny ''--he walked across to the Harriman Fifteen
Corporation at One Wall Street, otherwise known as G.H. Walker & Co.--and around
the corner to his subsidiary offices at 39 Broadway, former home of the old W.A.
Harriman & Co., and still the offices for American Ship and Commerce Corp., and
of the Union Banking Corporation.
In many ways, Bush's Hamburg-Amerika Line was the pivot for the entire Hitler
project.
Averell Harriman and Bert Walker had gained control over the steamship company
in 1920 in negotiations with its post-World War I chief executive, Wilhelm Cuno,
and with the line's bankers, M.M. Warburg. Cuno was thereafter completely
dependent on the Anglo-Americans, and became a member of the Anglo-German
Friendship Society. In the 1930-32 drive for a Hitler dictatorship, Wilhelm Cuno
contributed important sums to the Nazi Party.@s2@s3
Albert Voegler was chief executive of the Thyssen-Flick German Steel Trust for
which Bush's Union Banking Corp. was the New York office. He was a director of
the Bush-affiliate BHS Bank in Rotterdam, and a director of the Harriman-Bush
Hamburg-Amerika Line. Voegler joined Thyssen and Flick in their heavy 1930-33
Nazi contributions, and helped organize the final Nazi leap into national
power.@s2@s4
The Schroeder family of bankers was a linchpin for the Nazi activities of
Harriman and Prescott Bush, closely tied to their lawyers Allen and John Foster
Dulles.
Baron Kurt von Schroeder was co-director of the massive Thyssen-Hu@autte foundry
along with Johann Groeninger, Prescott Bush's New York bank partner. Kurt von
Schroeder was treasurer of the support organization for the Nazi Party's private
armies, to which Friedrich Flick contributed. Kurt von Schroeder and Montagu
Norman's prote@aage@aa Hjalmar Schacht together made the final arrangements for
Hitler to enter the government.@s2@s5
Baron Rudolph von Schroeder was vice president and director of the
Hamburg-Amerika Line. Long an intimate contact of Averell Harriman's in Germany,
Baron Rudolph sent his grandson Baron Johann Rudolph for a tour of Prescott
Bush's Brown Brothers Harriman offices in New York City in December 1932--on the
eve of their Hitler-triumph.@s2@s6
Certain actions taken directly by the Harriman-Bush shipping line in 1932 must
be ranked among the gravest acts of treason in this century.
The U.S. embassy in Berlin reported back to Washington that the `` costly
election campaigns '' and `` the cost of maintaining a private army of 300,000
to 400,000 men '' had raised questions as to the Nazis' financial backers. The
constitutional government of the German republic moved to defend national
freedom by ordering the Nazi Party private armies disbanded. The U.S. embassy
reported that the Hamburg-Amerika Line was purchasing and distributing
propaganda attacks against the German government, for attempting this
last-minute crackdown on Hitler's forces.@s2@s7
Thousands of German opponents of Hitlerism were shot or intimidated by privately
armed Nazi Brown Shirts. In this connection we note that the original ``
Merchant of Death, '' Samuel Pryor, was a founding director of both the Union
Banking Corp. and the American Ship and Commerce Corp. Since Mr. Pryor was
executive committee chairman of Remington Arms and a central figure in the
world's private arms traffic, his use to the Hitler project was enhanced as the
Bush family's partner in Nazi Party banking and trans-Atlantic shipping.
The U.S. Senate arms-traffic investigators probed Remington after it was joined
in a cartel agreement on explosives to the Nazi firm I.G. Farben. Looking at the
period leading up to Hitler's seizure of power, the Senators found that ``
German political associations, like the Nazi and others, are nearly all armed
with American ... guns.... Arms of all kinds coming from America are
transshipped in the Scheldt to river barges before the vessels arrive in
Antwerp. They then can be carried through Holland without police inspection or
interference. The Hitlerists and Communists are presumed to get arms in this
manner. The principal arms coming from America are Thompson submachine guns and
revolvers. The number is great. ''@s2@s8
The beginning of the Hitler regime brought some bizarre changes to the
Hamburg-Amerika Line--and more betrayals.
Prescott Bush's American Ship and Commerce Corp. notified Max Warburg of
Hamburg, Germany, on March 7, 1933, that Warburg was to be the corporation's
official, designated representative on the board of Hamburg-Amerika.@s2@s9
Max Warburg replied on March 27, 1933, assuring his American sponsors that the
Hitler government was good for Germany: `` For the last few years business was
considerably better than we had anticipated, but a reaction is making itself
felt for some months. We are actually suffering also under the very active
propaganda against Germany, caused by some unpleasant circumstances. These
occurrences were the natural consequence of the very excited election campaign,
but were extraordinarily exaggerated in the foreign press. The Government is
firmly resolved to maintain public peace and order in Germany, and I feel
perfectly convinced in this respect that there is no cause for any alarm
whatsoever. ''@s3@s0
This seal of approval for Hitler, coming from a famous Jew, was just what
Harriman and Bush required, for they anticipated rather serious `` alarm ''
inside the U.S.A. against their Nazi operations.
On March 29, 1933, two days after Max's letter to Harriman, Max's son, Erich
Warburg, sent a cable to his cousin Frederick M. Warburg, a director of the
Harriman railroad system. He asked Frederick to `` use all your influence '' to
stop all anti-Nazi activity in America, including `` atrocity news and
unfriendly propaganda in foreign press, mass meetings, etc. '' Frederick cabled
back to Erich: `` No responsible groups here [are] urging [a] boycott [of]
German goods[,] merely excited individuals. '' Two days after that, On March 31,
1933, the American-Jewish Committee, controlled by the Warburgs, and the B'nai
B'rith, heavily influenced by the Sulzbergers (New York Times), issued a formal,
official joint statement of the two organizations, counseling `` that no
American boycott against Germany be encouraged, '' and advising `` that no
further mass meetings be held or similar forms of agitation be employed.
''@s3@s1
The American Jewish Committee and the B'nai B'rith (mother of the ``
Anti-Defamation League '') continued with this hardline, no-attack-on-Hitler
stance all through the 1930s, blunting the fight mounted by many Jews and other
anti-fascists.
Thus the decisive interchange reproduced above, taking place entirely within the
orbit of the Harriman/Bush firm, may explain something of the relationship of
George Bush to American Jewish and Zionist leaders. Some of them, in close
cooperation with his family, played an ugly part in the drama of Naziism. Is
this why `` professional Nazi-hunters '' have never discovered how the Bush
family made its money?
The executive board of the Hamburg Amerika Line (Hapag) met jointly with the
North German Lloyd Company board in Hamburg on Sept. 5, 1933. Under official
Nazi supervision, the two firms were merged. Prescott Bush's American Ship and
Commerce Corp. installed Christian J. Beck, a long-time Harriman executive, as
manager of freight and operations in North America for the new joint Nazi
shipping lines (Hapag-Lloyd) on Nov. 4, 1933.
According to testimony of officials of the companies before Congress in 1934, a
supervisor from the Nazi Labor Front rode with every ship of the Harriman-Bush
line; employees of the New York offices were directly organized into the Nazi
Labor Front organization; Hamburg-Amerika provided free passage to individuals
going abroad for Nazi propaganda purposes; and the line subsidized pro-Nazi
newspapers in the U.S.A., as it had done in Germany against the constitutional
German government.@s3@s2
In mid-1936, Prescott Bush's American Ship and Commerce Corp. cabled M.M.
Warburg, asking Warburg to represent the company's heavy share interest at the
forthcoming Hamburg-Amerika stockholders meeting. The Warburg office replied
with the information that `` we represented you '' at the stockholders meeting
and `` exercised on your behalf your voting power for Rm [gold marks] 3,509,600
Hapag stock deposited with us. ''
The Warburgs transmitted a letter received from Emil Helfferich, German chief
executive of both Hapag-Lloyd and of the Standard Oil subsidiary in Nazi
Germany: `` It is the intention to continue the relations with Mr. Harriman on
the same basis as heretofore.... '' In a colorful gesture, Hapag's Nazi chairman
Helfferich sent the line's president across the Atlantic on a Zeppelin to confer
with their New York string-pullers.
After the meeting with the Zeppelin passenger, the Harriman-Bush office replied:
`` I am glad to learn that Mr. Hellferich [sic] has stated that relations
between the Hamburg American Line and ourselves will be continued on the same
basis as heretofore. ''@s3@s3
Two months before moving against Prescott Bush's Union Banking Corporation, the
U. S. government ordered the seizure of all property of the Hamburg-Amerika Line
and North German Lloyd, under the Trading with the Enemy Act. The investigators
noted in the pre-seizure report that Christian J. Beck was still acting as an
attorney representing the Nazi firm.@s3@s4
In May 1933, just after the Hitler regime was consolidated, an agreement was
reached in Berlin for the coordination of all Nazi commerce with the U.S.A. The
Harriman International Co., led by Averell Harriman's first cousin Oliver, was
to head a syndicate of 150 firms and individuals, to conduct all exports from
Hitler Germany to the United States.@s3@s5
This pact had been negotiated in Berlin between Hitler's economics minister,
Hjalmar Schacht, and John Foster Dulles, international attorney for dozens of
Nazi enterprises, with the counsel of Max Warburg and Kurt von Schroeder.
John Foster Dulles would later be U.S. Secretary of State, and the great power
in the Republican Party of the 1950s. Foster's friendship and that of his
brother Allen (head of the Central Intelligence Agency), greatly aided Prescott
Bush to become the Republican U.S. Senator from Connecticut. And it was to be of
inestimable value to George Bush, in his ascent to the heights of `` covert
action government, '' that both of these Dulles brothers were the lawyers for
the Bush family's far-flung enterprise.
Throughout the 1930s, John Foster Dulles arranged debt restructuring for German
firms under a series of decrees issued by Adolf Hitler. In these deals, Dulles
struck a balance between the interest owed to selected, larger investors, and
the needs of the growing Nazi war-making apparatus for producing tanks, poison
gas, etc.
Dulles wrote to Prescott Bush in 1937 concerning one such arrangement. The
German-Atlantic Cable Company, owning Nazi Germany's only telegraph channel to
the United States, had made debt and management agreements with the
Walker-Harriman bank during the 1920s. A new decree would now void those
agreements, which had originally been reached with non-Nazi corporate officials.
Dulles asked Bush, who managed these affairs for Averell Harriman, to get
Averell's signature on a letter to Nazi officials, agreeing to the changes.
Dulles wrote:
Sept. 22, 1937
Mr. Prescott S. Bush
59 Wall Street, New York, N.Y.
Dear Press,
I have looked over the letter of the German-American [sic] Cable Company to
Averell Harriman.... It would appear that the only rights in the matter are
those which inure in the bankers and that no legal embarrassment would result,
so far as the bondholders are concerned, by your acquiescence in the
modification of the bankers' agreement.
Sincerely yours,
John Foster Dulles
Dulles enclosed a proposed draft reply, Bush got Harriman's signature, and the
changes went through.@s3@s6
In conjunction with these arrangements, the German Atlantic Cable Company
attempted to stop payment on its debts to smaller American bondholders. The
money was to be used instead for arming the Nazi state, under a decree of the
Hitler government.
Despite the busy efforts of Bush and Dulles, a New York court decided that this
particular Hitler `` law '' was invalid in the United States; small bondholders,
not parties to deals between the bankers and the Nazis, were entitled to get
paid.@s3@s7
In this and a few other of the attempted swindles, the intended victims came out
with their money. But the Nazi financial and political reorganization went ahead
to its tragic climax.
For his part in the Hitler revolution, Prescott Bush was paid a fortune.
This is the legacy he left to his son, President George Bush.
An Important Historical Note:
How the Harrimans Hired Hitler
It was not inevitable that millions would be slaughtered under fascism and in
World War II. At certain moments of crisis, crucial pro-Nazi decisions were made
outside of Germany. These decisions for pro-Nazi actions were more aggressive
than the mere `` appeasement '' which Anglo-American historians later preferred
to discuss.
Private armies of 300,000 to 400,000 terrorists aided the Nazis' rise to power.
W.A. Harriman's Hamburg-Amerika Line intervened against Germany's 1932 attempt
to break them up.
The 1929-31 economic collapse bankrupted the Wall-Street-backed German Steel
Trust. When the German government took over the Trust's stock shares, interests
associated with Konrad Adenauer and the anti-Nazi Catholic Center Party
attempted to acquire the shares. But the Anglo-Americans--Montagu Norman, and
the Harriman-Bush bank--made sure that their Nazi puppet Fritz Thyssen regained
control over the shares and the Trust. Thyssen's bankrolling of Hitler could
then continue unhindered.
Unpayable debts crushed Germany in the 1920s, reparations required by the
Versailles agreements. Germany was looted by the London-New York banking system,
and Hitler's propaganda exploited this German debt burden.
But immediately after Germany came under Hitler's dictatorship, the
Anglo-American financiers granted debt relief, which freed funds to be used for
arming the Nazi state.
The North German Lloyd steamship line, which was merged with Hamburg-Amerika
Line, was one of the companies which stopped debt payments under a Hitler decree
arranged by John Foster Dulles and Hjalmar Schacht.
Kuhn Loeb and Co.'s Felix Warburg carried out the Hitler finance plan in New
York. Kuhn Loeb asked North German Lloyd bondholders to accept new lower
interest steamship bonds, issued by Kuhn Loeb, in place of the better pre-Hitler
bonds.
The Opposition
New York attorney Jacob Chaitkin, father of coauthor Anton Chaitkin, took the
cases of many different bondholders who rejected the swindle by Harriman, Bush,
Warburg, and Hitler. Representing a women who was owed $30 on an old steamship
bond--and opposing John Foster Dulles in New York municipal court--Chaitkin
threatened a writ from the sheriff, tying up the 30,000 ton transatlantic liner
Europa until the client received her $30. (New York Times, January 10, 1934, p.
31 col. 3).
The American Jewish Congress hired Jacob Chaitkin as the legal director of the
boycott against Nazi Germany. The American Federation of Labor cooperated with
Jewish and other groups in the anti-import boycott. On the other side, virtually
all the Nazi trade with the United States was under the supervision of the
Harriman interests and functionaries such as Prescott Bush, father of President
George Bush.
Meanwhile, the Warburgs demanded that American Jews not `` agitate '' against
the Hitler government, or join the organized boycott. The Warburgs' decision was
carried out by the American Jewish Committee and the B'nai B'rith, who opposed
the boycott as the Nazi military state grew increasingly powerful.
The historical coverup on these events is so tight that virtually the only
expose@aa of the Warburgs came in journalist John L. Spivak's `` Wall Street's
Fascist Conspiracy, '' in the pro-communist New Masses periodical (Jan. 29 and
Feb. 5, 1934). Spivak pointed out that the Warburgs controlled the American
Jewish Committee, which opposed the anti-Nazi boycott, while their Kuhn Loeb and
Co. had underwritten Nazi shipping; and he exposed the financing of pro-fascist
political activities by the Warburgs and their partners and allies, many of whom
were bigwigs in the American Jewish Committee and B'nai B'rith.
Given where the Spivak piece appeared, it is not surprising that Spivak called
Warburg an ally of the Morgan Bank, but made no mention of Averell Harriman. Mr.
Harriman, after all, was a permanent hero of the Soviet Union.
John L. Spivak later underwent a curious transformation, himself joining the
coverup. In 1967, he wrote an autobiography (A Man in His Time, New York:
Horizon Press), which praises the American Jewish Committee. The pro-fascism of
the Warburgs does not appear in the book. The former `` rebel '' Spivak also
praises the action arm of the B'nai B'rith, the Anti-Defamation League.
Pathetically, he comments favorably that the League has spy files on the
American populace which it shares with government agencies.
Thus is history erased; and those decisions, which direct history into one
course or another, are lost to the knowledge of the current generation.
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NOTES:
1. Office of Alien Property Custodian, Vesting Order No. 248. The order was
signed by Leo T. Crowley, Alien Property Custodian, executed October 20, 1942;
F.R. Doc. 42-11568; Filed, November 6, 1942, 11:31 A.M.; 7 Fed. Reg. 9097 (Nov.
7, 1942). See also the New York City Directory of Directors (available at the
Library of Congress). The volumes for the 1930s and 1940s list Prescott Bush as
a director of Union Banking Corporation for the years 1934 through 1943.
2. Alien Property Custodian Vesting Order No. 259: Seamless Steel Equipment
Corporation; Vesting Order No. 261: Holland-American Trading Corp.
3. Alien Property Custodian Vesting Order No. 370: Silesian-American Corp.
4. The New York Times on December 16, 1944, ran a five-paragraph page 25 article
on actions of the New York State Banking Department. Only the last sentence
refers to the Nazi bank, as follows: `` The Union Banking Corporation, 39
Broadway, New York, has received authority to change its principal place of
business to 120 Broadway. ''
The Times omitted the fact that the Union Banking Corporation had been seized by
the government for trading with the enemy, and even the fact that 120 Broadway
was the address of the government's Alien Property Custodian.
5. Fritz Thyssen, I Paid Hitler, 1941, reprinted in (Port Washington, N.Y.:
Kennikat Press, 1972), p. 133. Thyssen says his contributions began with 100,000
marks given in October 1923, for Hitler's attempted `` putsch '' against the
constitutional government.
6. Confidential memorandum from U.S. embassy, Berlin, to the U.S. Secretary of
State, April 20, 1932, on microfilm in Confidential Reports of U.S. State Dept.,
1930s, Germany, at major U.S. libraries.
7. Oct. 5, 1942, Memorandum to the Executive Committee of the Office of Alien
Property Custodian, stamped CONFIDENTIAL, from the Division of Investigation and
Research, Homer Jones, Chief. Now declassified in United States National
Archives, Suitland, Maryland annex. See Record Group 131, Alien Property
Custodian, investigative reports, in file box relating to Vesting Order No. 248.
8. Elimination of German Resources for War: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of
the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress;
Part 5, Testimony of [the United States] Treasury Department, July 2, 1945. P.
507: Table of Vereinigte Stahlwerke output, figures are percent of German total
as of 1938; Thyssen organization including Union Banking Corporation pp. 727-31.
9. Robert Sobel, The Life and Times of Dillon Read (New York: Dutton-Penguin,
1991), pp. 92-111. The Dillon Read firm cooperated in the development of Sobel's
book.
10. George Walker to Averell Harriman, Aug. 11, 1927, in the W. Averell Harriman
papers at the Library of Congress (designated hereafter WAH papers).
11. `` Iaccarino '' to G. H. Walker, RCA Radiogram Sept. 12, 1927. The specific
nature of their business with Mussolini is not explained in correspondence
available for public access.
12. Andrew Boyle, Montagu Norman (London: Cassell, 1967).
Sir Henry Clay, Lord Norman (London, MacMillan & Co., 1957), pp. 18, 57, 70-71.
John A. Kouwenhouven, Partners in Banking ... Brown Brothers Harriman (Garden
City: Doubleday & Co., 1969).
13. Coordination of much of the Hitler project took place at a single New York
address. The Union Banking Corporation had been set up by George Walker at 39
Broadway. Management of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, carried out through Harriman's
American Ship and Commerce Corp., was also set up by George Walker at 39
Broadway.
14. Interrogation of Fritz Thyssen, EF/Me/1 of Sept. 4, 1945 in U.S. Control
Council records, photostat on page 167 in Anthony Sutton, An Introduction to The
Order (Billings, Mt.: Liberty House Press, 1986).
15. Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression--Supplement B, by the Office of United States
Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality, United States Government
Printing Office, (Washington: 1948), pp. 1597, 1686.
16. `` Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation - [minutes of the] Meeting of
Board of Directors, '' Oct. 31, 1930 (Harriman papers, Library of Congress),
shows Averell Harriman as Chairman of the Board.
Prescott Bush to W.A. Harriman, Memorandum Dec. 19, 1930 on their Harriman
Fifteen Corp.
Annual Report of United Konigs and Laura Steel and Iron Works for the year 1930
(Harriman papers, Library of Congress) lists `` Dr. Friedrich Flick ... Berlin
'' and `` William Averell Harriman ... New York '' on the Board of Directors.
`` Harriman Fifteen Corporation Securities Position February 28, 1931, ''
Harriman papers, Library of Congress. This report shows Harriman Fifteen
Corporation holding 32,576 shares in Silesian Holding Co. V.T.C. worth (in
scarce depression dollars) $1,628,800, just over half the value of the Harriman
Fifteen Corporation's total holdings.
The New York City Directory of Directors volumes for the 1930s (available at the
Library of Congress) show Prescott Sheldon Bush and W. Averell Harriman as the
directors of Harriman Fifteen Corp.
`` Appointments, '' (three typed pages) marked `` Noted May 18 1931 W.A.H., ''
(among the papers from Prescott Bush's New York Office of Brown Brothers
Harriman, Harriman papers, Library of Congress), lists a meeting between Averell
Harriman and Friedrich Flick in Berlin at 4:00 P.M., Wednesday April 22, 1931.
This was followed immediately by a meeting with Wilhelm Cuno, chief executive of
the Hamburg-Amerika Line.
The `` Report To the Stockholders of the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, '' Oct.
19, 1933 (in the Harriman papers, Library of Congress) names G.H. Walker as
president of the corporation. It shows the Harriman Fifteen Corporation's
address as 1 Wall Street--the location of G.H. Walker and Co.
17. Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression--Supplement B, op. cit., p. 1686.
18. Jim Flaherty (a BBH manager, Prescott Bush's employee), March 19, 1934 to
W.A. Harriman.
`` Dear Averell:
In Roland's absence Pres[cott] thought it advisable for me to let you know
that we received the following cable from [our European representative] Rossi
dated March 17th [relating to conflict with the Polish government]....''
19. Harriman Fifteen Corporation notice to stockholders Jan. 7, 1935, under the
name of George Walker, President.
20. Order No. 370: Silesian-American Corp. Executed Nov. 17, 1942. Signed by Leo
T. Crowley, Alien Property Custodian. F.R. Doc. 42-14183; Filed Dec. 31, 1942,
11:28 A.M.; 8 Fed. Reg. 33 (Jan. 1, 1943).
The order confiscated the Nazis' holdings of 98,000 shares of common and 50,000
shares of preferred stock in Silesian-American.
The Nazi parent company in Breslau, Germany wrote directly to Averell Harriman
at 59 Wall St. on Aug. 5, 1940, with `` an invitation to take part in the
regular meeting of the members of the Bergwerksgesellsc[h]aft Georg von
Giesche's Erben.... '' WAH papers.
21. Sept. 25, 1942, Memorandum To the Executive Committee of the Office of Alien
Property Custodian, stamped CONFIDENTIAL, from the Division of Investigation and
Research, Homer Jones, Chief. Now declassified in United States National
Archives, Suitland, Maryland annex. See Record Group 131, Alien Property
Custodian, investigative reports, in file box relating to Vesting Order No. 370.
22. George Walker was a director of American Ship and Commerce from its
organization through 1928. Consult New York City Directory of Directors.
`` Harriman Fifteen Corporation Securities Position February 28, 1931, '' op.
cit. The report lists 46,861 shares in the American Ship & Commerce Corp.
See `` Message from Mr. Bullfin, '' Aug. 30, 1934 (Harriman Fifteen section,
Harriman papers, Library of Congress) for the joint supervision of Bush and
Walker, respectively director and president of the corporation.
23. Cuno was later exposed by Walter Funk, Third Reich Press Chief and Under
Secretary of Propaganda, in Funk's postwar jail cell at Nuremberg; but Cuno had
died just as Hitler was taking power. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of
the Third Reich (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960), p. 144. Nazi Conspiracy
and Aggression--Supplement B, op. cit., p. 1688.
24. See `` Elimination of German Resources for War, '' op. cit., pp. 881-82 on
Voegler.
See Annual Report of the (Hamburg-Amerikanische-Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft
(Hapag or Hamburg-Amerika Line), March 1931, for the board of directors. A copy
is in the New York Public Library Annex at 11th Avenue, Manhattan.
25. Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression--Supplement B, op. cit., pp. 1178, 1453-54,
1597, 1599.
See `` Elimination of German Resources for War, '' op. cit., pp. 870-72 on
Schroeder; p. 730 on Groeninger.
26. Annual Report of Hamburg-Amerika, op. cit.
Baron Rudolph Schroeder, Sr. to Averell Harriman, Nov. 14, 1932. K[night]
W[ooley] handwritten note and draft reply letter, Dec. 9, 1932.
In his letter, Baron Rudolph refers to the family's American affiliate, J. Henry
Schroder [name anglicized], of which Allen Dulles was a director, and his
brother John Foster Dulles was the principal attorney.
Baron Bruno Schroder of the British branch was adviser to Bank of England
Governor Montagu Norman, and Baron Bruno's partner Frank Cyril Tiarks was
Norman's co-director of the Bank of England throughout Norman's career. Kurt von
Schroeder was Hjalmar Schacht's delegate to the Bank for International
Settlements in Geneva, where many of the financial arrangements for the Nazi
regime were made by Montagu Norman, Schacht and the Schroeders for several years
of the Hitler regime right up to the outbreak of World War II.
27. Confidential memorandum from U.S. embassy, Berlin, op. cit.
28. U.S. Senate `` Nye Committee '' hearings, Sept. 14, 1934, pp. 1197-98,
extracts from letters of Col. William N. Taylor, dated June 27, 1932 and Jan. 9,
1933.
29. American Ship and Commerce Corporation to Dr. Max Warburg, March 7, 1933.
Max Warburg had brokered the sale of Hamburg-Amerika to Harriman and Walker in
1920. Max's brothers controlled the Kuhn Loeb investment banking house in New
York, the firm which had staked old E.H. Harriman to his 1890s buyout of the
giant Union Pacific Railroad.
Max Warburg had long worked with Lord Milner and others of the racialist British
Round Table concerning joint projects in Africa and Eastern Europe. He was an
advisor to Hjalmar Schacht for several decades and was a top executive of
Hitler's Reichsbank. The reader may consult David Farrer, The Warburgs: The
Story of A Family (New York: Stein and Day, 1975).
30. Max Warburg, at M.M. Warburg and Co., Hamburg, to Averill [sic] Harriman,
c/o Messrs. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., 59 Wall Street, New York, N.Y., March
27, 1933.
31. This correspondence, and the joint statement of the Jewish organizations,
are reproduced in Moshe R. Gottlieb, American Anti-Nazi Resistance, 1933-41: An
Historical Analysis (New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1982).
32. Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain
Other Propaganda Activities: Public Hearings before A Subcommittee of the
Special Committee on Un-American Activities, United States House of
Representatives, Seventy Third Congress, New York City, July 9-12,
1934--Hearings No. 73-NY-7 (Washington: U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1934). See
testimony of Capt. Frederick C. Mensing, John Schroeder, Paul von
Lilienfeld-Toal, and summaries by Committee members.
See New York Times, July 16, 1933, p. 12, for organizing of Nazi Labor Front at
North German Lloyd, leading to Hamburg-Amerika after merger.
33. American Ship and Commerce Corporation telegram to Rudolph Brinckmann at
M.M. Warburg, June 12, 1936.
Rudolph Brinckmann to Averell Harriman at 59 Wall St., June 20, 1936, with
enclosed note transmitting Helfferich's letter.
Reply to Dr. Rudolph Brinckmann c/o M.M. Warburg and Co, July 6, 1936, in the
Harriman papers at the Library of Congress. The file copy of this letter carries
no signature, but is presumably from Averell Harriman.
34. Office of Alien Property Custodian, Vesting Order No. 126. Signed by Leo T.
Crowley, Alien Property Custodian, executed August 28, 1942. F.R. Doc. 42-8774;
Filed September 4, 1942, 10:55 A.M.; 7 F.R. 7061 (No. 176, Sept. 5, 1942.) July
18, 1942, Memorandum To the Executive Committee of the Office of Alien Property
Custodian, stamped CONFIDENTIAL, from the Division of Investigation and
Research, Homer Jones, Chief. Now declassified in United States National
Archives, Suitland, Maryland annex. See Record Group 131, Alien Property
Custodian, investigative reports, in file box relating to Vesting Order No. 126.
35. New York Times, May 20, 1933. Leading up to this agreement is a telegram
which somehow escaped the shredder and may be seen in the Harriman papers in the
Library of Congress. It is addressed to Nazi official Hjalmar Schacht at the
Mayflower Hotel, Washington, dated May 11, 1933: `` Much disappointed to have
missed seeing you Tuesday afternoon.... I hope to see you either in Washington
or New York before you sail.
with my regards W.A. Harriman ''
36. Dulles to Bush letter and draft reply in WAH papers.
37. New York Times, Jan. 19, 1938.
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become. The entire cabal is in full-on media blitz mode with Rummy,
Dick and Theodosius, er, Bush slamming their foreign opponents with
the latest absurd tag "Islamic Fascists;" and, their domestic ones
as "Nazi appeasers." Or, in the deranged mind of Condi Rice;
domestic opponents are tantamount to folks who would have stopped
the Civil War and allowed slavery to continue in the South.
It's not just desperate; it's monumentally moronic, given the real
history. This bizarre trip on the Wayback Machine demands a deeper
look--though don't look to the mainstream media. Given the opening,
one would think that everyone by now would be fully informed that
the Bush Family took "Nazi appeasement" to far greater heights and
were actually part of an American faction of documented Nazi
SUPPORTERS.
We're also unlikely to see much mainstream media analysis of the new
"Islamic Fascist" branding of those opposing the Empire's designs on
the Middle East. As Sir Winston Bush gets a media pass as he tries
to conflate fascism, communism and Islam while also trying to
ironically tie his criminal wars to WWII and the Cold War, it
warrants our own trip on the Wayback Machine to see just what the
Bush family was doing during those earlier "good wars."
Samuel Bush: arms merchant
George W. Bush's great-grandfather, Samuel Bush was charter member
of the military/industrial complex. In 1918, he was chief of the
Ordnance, Small Arms and Ammunition Section for the War Industries
Board, with oversight responsibility for Percy Rockefeller's
Remington Company. Rockefeller had helped get Bush's son, Prescott
into Yale and Skull and Bones in 1916.
A 1926 Senate Munitions Inquiry (the Nye Committee) into the
military/industrial complex's WWI windfall examined Samuel Bush's
dealings with Remington as part of his War Industries Board duties.
Virtually ALL of the records of Samuel Bush's efforts were destroyed
by the National Archives "to save space."
Prescott Sheldon Bush; George Herbert Walker: Nazi collaborators
George W. Bush's grandfather, former Connecticut Senator Prescott S.
Bush was a Wall Street banker with Brown Brothers Harriman. (Averill
Harriman was also instrumental in getting young Prescott into Yale
and S&B.) Bush's maternal grandfather George Herbert Walker was the
bank's first president. Walker built the famed Bush family estate at
Kennebunkport on Walker Point. Prescott Bush joined W. A. Harriman &
Company in 1926 and became its CEO.
Harriman Bank was the official Nazi financial conduit in the US.
Closely tied to Fritz Thyssen, who proudly claimed in his 1941 book
"I Paid Hitler" that he was the Nazi Party's first and greatest
financial backer. The Union Banking Corporation (UBC) was a
subsidiary of Harriman created by Walker and it was used for Nazi
financial matters. Thyssen provided 100,000 gold marks ($10 million
in today's dollars) to the Nazis in 1923 just prior to Hitler's
failed putsch. By 1941, UBC held a private Nazi stash of over
$3,000,000 ($36 million in today's dollars) in its New York vaults.
After the war, a Treasury Department investigation reported that
during the two years after the Stock Market crash; "Thyssen
dedicated his fortune and his influence to the single purpose of
bringing Hitler to power. In 1932, he arranged the now famous
meeting in the Düsseldorf Industrialists' Club, at which Hitler
addressed the leading businessmen of the Ruhr and the Rhineland. At
the close of Hitler's speech, Thyssen cried, `Heil Herr Hitler'. By
the time of the German elections later that year, Thyssen had
succeeded in eliciting contributions to Hitler's campaign fund from
all of the big industrial combines. He himself is reported to have
spent 3,000,000 ($30 million today) marks on the Nazis in 1932
alone.
During 1933 Thyssen served as intercessor between von Hindenburg,
von Papen, and Hitler. He brought them together at a secret meeting
which laid the basis for the appointment of Hitler as
Reichschancellor."
It was Thyssen, not Prescott Bush as some now claim, who was called
"Hitler's Angel" by the New York Herald Tribune. He later fled
Germany in 1939.
Even though Hitler had declared war on the US, it was still legal
for UBC to conduct finances for the Nazis. But, after Pearl Harbor
that outrage finally changed. After another ten months of
Bush/Harriman/UBC work for the Nazis; in November 1942, under the
Trading With the Enemy Act, all of the Harriman business interests
were seized by the government, including UBC.
The assets were held by the government for the duration of the war
and then quickly returned. Prescott Bush' interest in UBC consisted
of One Share--worth $1,500,000 ($19 million in today's dollars) at
the time UBC was disbanded in 1951. (The Harriman family garnered $4
billion!) It was the money used to start the Bush Family Texas oil
empire.
Another Harriman subsidiary through Silesian Holding Co.;
Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation saw the Harriman-Bush group
owning one-third of a complex of steel making, coal-mining, and
zinc-mining activities in Germany and Poland. The other two-thirds
were owned by Wehrwirtschaftsführer (Military Economy Leader)
Friedrich Flick. Silesian Holding Company's president was George
Walker and its sole directors were Prescott Bush and Averill
Harriman.
Silesian Steel used slave labor from Auschwitz (even before the
concentration camp was built there) in its coal, iron and zinc
mining operations. At Nuremberg, Flick was sentenced to seven years
for Silesian's role in building up the Nazi war machine. Harriman,
Bush and Walker were never charged.
June 14, 1940, nine months after the Nazis conquered Poland, the IG
Farben Company opened an Auschwitz factory and slave labor camp in
occupied Poland, to produce artificial rubber and gasoline from
coal. This was done in a partnership with Rockefeller's Standard Oil
Company (EXXON).
The millions made off the labor of hundreds of thousands of Nazi
victims were inherited by William S. Farish III, grandson of William
S. Farish, the head of the IG/Standard cartel. Farish III is George
H.W. Bush's best friend and the person who took over Bush's assets
and managed them in a blind trust after Bush was elected
vice-president.
Investigator John Loftus has said, "As a former federal prosecutor,
I would make a case for Prescott Bush, his father-in-law (George
Walker) and Averill Harriman to be prosecuted for giving aid and
comfort to the enemy. They remained on the boards of these companies
knowing that they were of financial benefit to the nation of
Germany."
I've yet to take the Wayback Machine back to investigate Rice's
whopper that decrying the carnage of the U.S. Civil War meant
supporting leaving Slavery in place. But, I'm pretty certain that
the same unsavory links to what John Trudell calls, "the colonial
industrial class" were just as odious in the 1860s.
MICHAEL DONNELLY has numerous family members who fought in WWII
against the Nazis while the Bush family was enriching themselves
collaborating. He can be reached at pahtoo@aol.com
National News
“Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951” - Federal
Documents
By John Buchanan and Stacey Michael
from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7,
2003
After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he
managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen,
Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. 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.
Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues
routinely attempted to conceal their activities from
government investigators.
Bush's partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled
ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman
and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their
quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from
1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking
firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.
The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Although the additional seizures under the Trading with the
Enemy Act did not take place until after the war, documents
from The National Archives and Library of Congress confirm
that Bush and his partners continued their Nazi dealings
unabated. These activities included a financial relationship
with the German city of Hanover and several industrial
concerns. They went undetected by investigators until after
World War Two.
At the same time Bush and the Harrimans were profiting from
their Nazi partnerships, W. Averell Harriman was serving as
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal emissary to the
United Kingdom during the toughest years of the war. On
October 28, 1942, the same day two key Bush-Harriman-run
businesses were being seized by the U.S. government, Harriman
was meeting in London with Field Marshall Smuts to discuss the
war effort.
Denial and Deceit
While Harriman was concealing his Nazi relationships from his
government colleagues, Cornelius Livense, the top executive of
the interlocking German concerns held under the corporate
umbrella of Union Banking Corporation (UBC), repeatedly tried
to mislead investigators, and was sometimes supported in his
subterfuge by Brown Brothers Harriman.
All of the assets of UBC and its related businesses belonged
to Thyssen-controlled enterprises, including his Bank voor
Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam, the documents state.
Nevertheless, Livense, president of UBC, claimed to have no
knowledge of such a relationship. "Strangely enough, (Livense)
claims he does not know the actual ownership of the company,"
states a government report.
H.D Pennington, manager of Brown Brothers Harriman and a
director of UBC "for many years," also lied to investigators
about the secret and well-concealed relationship with
Thyssen's Dutch bank, according to the documents.
Investigators later reported that the company was "wholly
owned" by Thyssen's Dutch bank.
Despite such ongoing subterfuge, U.S. investigators were able
to show that "a careful examination of UBC's general ledger,
cash books and journals from 1919 until the present date
clearly establish that the principal and practically only
source of funds has been Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart."
In yet another attempt to mislead investigators, Livense said
that $240,000 in banknotes in a safe deposit box at
Underwriters Trust Co. in New York had been given to him by
another UBC-Thyssen associate, H.J. Kouwenhoven, managing
director of Thyssen's Dutch bank and a director of the August
Thyssen Bank in Berlin. August Thyssen was Fritz's father.
The government report shows that Livense first neglected to
report the $240,000, then claimed that it had been given to
him as a gift by Kouwenhoven. However, by the time Livense
filed a financial disclosure with U.S. officials, he changed
his story again and reported the sum as a debt rather than a
cash holding.
In yet another attempt to deceive the governments of both the
U.S. and Canada, Livense and his partners misreported the
facts about the sale of a Canadian Nazi front enterprise, La
Cooperative Catholique des Consommateurs de Combustible, which
imported German coal into Canada via the web of
Thyssen-controlled U.S. businesses.
"The Canadian authorities, however, were not taken in by this
maneuver," a U.S. government report states. The coal company
was later seized by Canadian authorities.
After the war, a total of 18 additional Brown Brothers
Harriman and UBC-related client assets were seized under The
Trading with the Enemy Act, including several that showed the
continuation of a relationship with the Thyssen family after
the initial 1942 seizures.
The records also show that Bush and the Harrimans conducted
business after the war with related concerns doing business in
or moving assets into Switzerland, Panama, Argentina and
Brazil - all critical outposts for the flight of Nazi capital
after Germany's surrender in 1945. Fritz Thyssen died in
Argentina in 1951.
One of the final seizures, in October 1950, concerned the U.S.
assets of a Nazi baroness named Theresia Maria Ida Beneditka
Huberta Stanislava Martina von Schwarzenberg, who also used
two shorter aliases. Brown Brothers Harriman, where Prescott
Bush and the Harrimans were partners, attempted to convince
government investigators that the baroness had been a victim
of Nazi persecution and therefore should be allowed to
maintain her assets.
"It appears, rather, that the subject was a member of the Nazi
party," government investigators concluded.
At the same time the last Brown Brothers Harriman client
assets were seized, Prescott Bush announced his Senate
campaign that led to his election in 1952.
Investigation Investigated?
In 1943, six months after the seizure of UBC and its related
companies, a government investigator noted in a Treasury
Department memo dated April 8, 1943 that the FBI had inquired
about the status of any investigation into Bush and the
Harrimans.
"I gave 'a memorandum' which did not say anything about the
American officers of subject," the investigator wrote.
"(Another investigator) wanted to know whether any specific
action had been taken by us with respect to them."
No further action beyond the initial seizures was ever taken,
and the newly-confirmed records went unseen by the American
people for six decades.
What Does It All Mean?
So why are the documents relevant today?
"The story of Prescott Bush and Brown Brothers Harriman is an
introduction to the real history of our country," says L.A.
art book publisher and historian Edward Boswell. "It exposes
the money-making motives behind our foreign policies, dating
back a full century. The ability of Prescott Bush and the
Harrimans to bury their checkered pasts also reveals a
collusion between Wall Street and the media that exists to
this day."
Sheldon Drobny, a Chicago entrepreneur and philanthropist who
will soon launch a liberal talk radio network, says the
importance of the new documents is that they prove a long
pattern of Bush family war profiteering that continues today
via George H.W. Bush's intimate relationship with the Saudi
royal family and the bin Ladens, conducted via the
super-secret Carlyle Group, whose senior advisers include
former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III.
In the post-9/11 world, Drobny finds the Bush-Saudi connection
deeply troubling. "Trading with the enemy is trading with the
enemy," he says. "That's the relevance of the documents and
what they show."
Lawrence Lader, an abortion rights activist and the author of
more than 40 books, says "the relevance lies with the fact
that the sitting President of the United States would lead the
nation to war based on lies and against the wishes of the rest
of the world." Lader and others draw comparisons between
President Bush's invasion of Iraq and Hitler's occupation of
Poland in 1939 - the event that sparked World War Two.
However, others see an even larger significance.
"The discovery of the Bush-Nazi documents raises new questions
about the role of Prescott Bush and his influential business
partners in the secret emigration of Nazi war criminals, which
allowed them to escape justice in Germany," says Bob Fertik,
co-founder of Democrats.com and an amateur 'Nazi hunter.' "It
also raises questions about the importance of Nazi recruits to
the CIA in its early years, in what was called Operation
Paperclip, and Prescott Bush's role in that dark operation."
Fertik and others, including former Justice Department Nazi
war crimes prosecutor John Loftus, a Constitutional attorney
in Miami, and a former Veterans Administration official,
believe Prescott Bush and the Harrimans should have been tried
for treason.
What Next?
Now, say Fertik and Loftus, there should be a Congressional
investigation into the Bush family's Nazi past and its
concealment from the American people for 60 years.
"The American people have a right to know, in detail, about
this hidden chapter of our history," says Loftus, author of
The Secret War Against the Jews. "That's the only way we can
understand it and deal with it."
For his part, Fertik is pessimistic that even a Congressional
investigation can thwart the war profiteering of the present
Bush White House. "It's impossible to stop it," he says, "when
the worst war profiteers are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney,
who operate in secrecy behind the vast powers of the White
House."
---
John Buchanan is a journalist and magazine writer based in
Miami Beach. He can be reached by e-mail at
jtwg@bellsouth.net.
Stacey Michael is a New Orleans-based journalist and the
author of Religious Conceit. His most recent book is Weapons
of Mass Dysfunction: The Art of "Faith-Based" Politics, due in
early 2004. He can be reached by email at
staceymichael@religiousconceit.com.
BUSH FAMILY, American ROYALS!
Thanks to Anita Sands Hernandez for the following.
THOSE WHO DISMANTLED OUR CONSTITUTION
by Brian Downing Quig
It is commonly assumed that there is no aristocracy, let alone a
nobility, in America. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In
his work, Ancestors of American Presidents, Gary Boyd Roberts of the
New England Historic Genealogical Society reveals nineteen
presidents descended from Edward III.
John Galt (a pen name of a researcher fearing to be identified), in
an unpublished manuscript (now in my possession), The Genealogy of
the New World Order, has traced the royal ancestry of George Bush,
which traces from Charlemagne and Alfred the Great, all the way down
through George Bush's 32 presidential cousins!
Sadly, this manuscript may remain unpublished. Galt and I were
scheduled to do a 2 hour radio interview on Tom Valentine's Radio
Free America, a shortwave broadcast that reaches 250,000 listeners
who are especially attuned to such topics. Just two days before the
interview, a fire burned down the transmitting station.
Unfortunately, this fire, which involved no foul play, according to
Valentine, frightened Galt who now refuses to communicate with me or
anyone else on these matters. Nonetheless, I am convinced of the
soundness of Galt's conclusions.
I attended the Southwest Genealogical Conference, which met last
year at the Hyatt Regency, downtown Phoenix, during which Galt
presented the most controversial aspects of his work to the top
authorities there. Everyone acquiesced to the depths of his
knowledge. Several of the attendees were close personal friends of
Gary Boyd Roberts.
Both George Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush (of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce,
Fenner and Smith) are descended from the same Pierce family of
England as President Franklin Pierce. Originally known as the
enormously powerful Percy family of England, a name change to Pierce
was required along with a quick immigration to America, when their
involvement in the failed Gun Powder Plot to blow up Parliament
became known. One of the Percy castles, where this plot was hatched
was known as Sion House.
Other notable Bush relatives include the Grovsner families of
England and America, and the Taft family of Ohio. The Grovsners of
England are the Dukes of Westminster who own the most substantial
properties in the City of London --- the banker's capital. Of over
100,000 acres of Grovsner property, most is in the financial
district of London! In America, the Grovsners founded Nation
Geographic. National Geographic is known for sweeping down on the
archeological treasures of the world, especially those of a
religious significance, and spiriting them away to the Smithsonian
Institute, controlled by their cousins the Smithsons, also descended
from the Percys. Imposing false interpretations on religious finds
is very important to the House of Sion. As interesting as these
family affiliations are, it is the Taft family which turns out to be
the most politically interesting.
Although George Bush's official 1980 presidential candidate
biography listed both his Presidency of the TRILATERAL COMMISSION
and his membership in the YALE secret society SKULL AND BONES, no
major news organization mentioned either of these telling
affiliations. Let us take a closer look at SKULL AND BONES.
SKULL AND BONES (S&B), was first established by the graduating class
of 1832 of YALE UNIVERSITY by William Harrison Russell and Alphonso
Taft, the father of President William Howard Taft. It is significant
to note that Alphonso Taft was thereafter powerful enough to
manipulate his son into both the presidency and the Chief
Justiceship of the U.S. SUPREME COURT. Each year S&B graduating
seniors would initiate only 15 new members...selected exclusively
from the ranks of the offspring of the super wealthy. From the
beginning, S&B was the recruiting grounds for William Harrison
Russell's RUSSELL TRUST COMPANY which managed the SKULL AND BONES
treasury.
Founded in 1823, the RUSSELL TRUST COMPANY superseded the Perkins
family to become the dominant opium trafficking syndicate in North
America. The shipping manifests from those days have survived intact
to make this claim solid. Russell's partners in this venture were
those loyal to the Crown of ENGLAND, and this allegiance persists to
this day with their descendants, who comprise what is known today as
the EASTERN LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT. Although there are more
billionaires in AMERICA than in GREAT BRITAIN, the largest
billionaires of AMERICA still cannot hold a candle to the largest
billionaires of ENGLAND. The wealth of the Royal Family of GREAT
BRITAIN and this Tory group in AMERICA was all founded on the
illegal opium trade from TURKEY to CHINA. Today nothing has
facilitated the illegal narcotics trade as much as the phoney drug
war of the Reagan/Bush era. A dozen books name Theodore Shackley
(who served as number two under George Bush in the CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY) as the man who organized the opium trade in the
Golden Triangle. Contra cocaine, Mena, Arkansas---it all tempts one
to speculate that maybe the Bush family never abandoned their
interest in this most lucrative narcotics business.
Among Russell's partners was Warren Delano, Jr., Chief of RUSSELL
TRUST operations in Canton, CHINA. Delano was the grandfather of
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, another Bush cousin. Other
Russell partners were John Cleve Green, whose opium fortunes
financed PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Abiel Abbott Low, whose opium fortune
financed the construction of COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Joseph Coolidge,
whose son organized the UNITED FRUIT COMPANY, and his grandson,
Archibald Cary Coolidge, who was a founding executive officer of the
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS. Is the reader beginning to discern a
pattern?
It is therefore little wonder that those tapped yearly for S&B have
gone on to positions of enormous power. Take for example, publishers
Henry Luce (S&B 1920) and William F. Buckley (S&B 1950, NEW YORK
TIMES GENERAL MANAGER Amory Howe Bradford (S&B 1934), CIA power
players William P. Bundy (S&B 1939), McGeorge Bundy (S&B 1940),
Richard Bissel (S&B 1932), Senator David Bowen, Chairman of the
Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee (S&B 1963, and anti-war
activist Reverend William Sloan Coffin (S&B 1949)....remember, this
group intends to control both sides of every national debate.
Starting to see a pattern?
This just scratches the surface of Anthony Sutton's most scholarly
work on this YALE secret society, THE ORDER. Sutton's subsequent
work, HOW THE ORDER CREATES WAR AND REVOLUTION reveals that half of
the board of directors of J.P. MORGAN AND COMPANY were S&B
graduates. The black flag with the white skull and crossbones
emblem, which was the corporate flag gracing all Russell Trust
Company ships, which was adopted as the emblem of the SKULL AND
BONES fraternity at YALE, acquired such a reputation back then that
even to this day it symbolizes piracy.
Is it not strange that the media spent so much time lint-picking the
personalities of the candidates in the 1990 election and showed no
interest in George Bush's membership in a secret society whose
initiation rites involved carrying the new recruit naked in a coffin
into a building the society calls "the Tomb"?
Eventually, S&B came to be dominated by BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN, the
largest private investment bank in AMERICA. The CEO of this power
group, Averell Harriman, was the mentor of George Bush's father,
Prescott Bush. George Bush's grandfather George Herbert Walker,
served as president of BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN. The Bush family has
SPENT three generations in service to the Harriman interests. That
is why it is downright nefarious that it was the widow of Averell
Harriman, Pamela Harriman, who was the principle backer of Bill
Clinton for President. When Clinton lost the campaign for Governor
of Arkansas, it was Pamela who picked him up, dusted him off and
made him chairman of PAM-PAC--the largest fund raising source for
the Democratic Party. Some cynics think that George Bush is still
president, using Bill Clinton as a front, just as he had used Ronald
Reagan. Remember, anyone who wanted to meet with President Reagan
had to first go through Bush's former campagn manager, Chief of
Staff James Baker.
There is a book that was recently on the New York Times bestsellers
list about Pamela Harriman, entitled LIFE OF THE PARTY. This book,
written by the diplomatic correspondent for TIME MAGAZINE, minces no
words about the fact that Pamela Harriman "put the Clinton
Administration together". In fact it notes that an ancestor of
Pamela's conspired with the Percys in the Gun Powder Plot.
BROWN BROTHERS HARRRIMAN headed by Averell Harriman, the SULLIVAN
AND CROMWELL LAW FIRM, headed by John Foster Dulles and the UNION
BANK, headed by George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush, came to
represent the entire business interests of the NAZI cartels in the
U.S. before and during World War II. It may therefore seem
astounding to the average reader that, after the war John Dulles
could go on to be Secretary of State, his brother Allen Dulles
Director of CIA and Averell Harriman Ambassador to the USSR. An
understanding of this anomaly will provide a key to how the world is
run.
A careful reading of Anthony Sutton's works, WALL STREET AND THE
BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION and WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER will
reveal that the wealthiest individuals in the world (including John
D. Rockefeller and Prescott Bush) financed the left wing Bolsheviks
and the right wing Nazis and clashed them in war for profit and
power. The two Wall Street firms most in the forefront of the
financing of the Bolshevik revolution were J.P. MORGAN and BROWN
BROTHERS HARRIMAN. A full half of the board of directors of these
two firms were former members of SKULL AND BONES at YALE!! Percy
Rockefeller, Prescott Bush and Roland Harriman were in the same
pledge class.
This group intends to control both sides of every conflict. Fletcher
Prouty's book, JFK, VIETNAM AND THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
KENNEDY (now in local bookstores), will provide an insider's
viewpoint of how these same centers of finance stay on top by
controlling both Communist and anti-Communist armies.
The influence of the YALE secret society, S&B, on world affairs is
so great that a short article like this cannot attempt more than
present an outline and a direction for further research. Needless to
say, this group has cut through history like a snowplow. As
previously stated, Alfonso Taft, co-founder of S&B and ancestor of
George Bush, was sufficiently influential to manipulate his son,
William Howard Taft, into both the presidency (1909-1913) and then
the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court. Quite significantly it
was during the Taft presidency that our constitution was dismantled.
As Chief Justice, Taft fashioned the state constitutions of Arizona
and New Mexico--also highly significant.
During the Taft presidency, the bills which forever altered the
balance of power of The Constitution were incubated. The 17th
Amendment, calling for the direct election of senators, guaranteeing
that senatorial elections could be purchased by big money interests
was passed April 1913. Previously, while senators were elected by
the state legislatures, the U.S. Senate was a bastion of
conservative resistance to the elitists. If our state legislators
had the power to elect our U.S. senators, many of us would take the
trouble to get to know who they are.
Now the only people who "invest" in state legislators are those
whose economic interests are directly impacted.
The Federal Reserve Act and the Income Tax Amendment (16th
Amendment) of 1913 also issued directly from the Taft presidency.
William Taft served as Commissioner of Internal Revenue just before
being elected president. It is hard to imagine anything more
oppressive than the IRS, which has been ruthlessly used to
systematically destroy the middle class of America. Anyone who
seriously wishes to understand how the Federal Reserve was used to
utterly subvert the intention of the Constitution must read THE
SECRETS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE, by Eustice Mullins. Pushed through
congress by Senator Nelson Aldridge, the maternal grandfather of
David Rockefeller, this act of infamy marks the death knell of this
nation's economic freedom.
The Federal Reserve is not federal , but is a consortium of private
central banks. The federal government does not own a single share,
and none of us can buy a share of this--the most lucrative corporate
stock in the world. Shares are held today by the heirs of the
original 20 founding families. With profits exceeding 150 billion
per annum, no corporation in the world comes anywhere close. The
Federal Reserve is simply the single most impactful agency upon the
U.S. economy and the world's principle engine for the
mal-distribution of wealth. If the profits of the Federal Reserve
are compounded from its inception to the present, a sum roughly
equivalent to the national debt results. Back then, Wall Street
interests "fought" this bill while all along they were its authors.
Sadly I note that these same tactics are successfully used to this
day.
Averell Harriman grew up on a 20,000 acre estate in New York. His
father, W.A. Harriman was the original owner of the SOUTHERN PACIFIC
RAILROAD, which runs through northern Arizona. William Boyce
Thompson , who left Arizona the Thompson Arboretum near Globe, was
the first governor of the Federal Reserve.
The presidential election of 1912 had a great deal in common with
the 1990 election---ALL THREE CANDIDATES WERE FINANCED BY THE SAME
INTERESTS!! William Taft would have beaten Woodrow Wilson in a
two-way race but another Republican, Teddy Roosevelt entered the
race to divide the Republican vote. What did Taft care; he was
promised the Chief Justiceship of the U.S. Supreme Court. With the
Federal Reserve sure to become law, the international bankers now
had a mechanism in place to fund a world war. They needed a popular
Democratic president to lead the masses into war. Enter Woodrow
Wilson.
Mounted on a wall in the Wrigley Mansion, former home of P.T.
Wrigley, is a letter Teddy Roosevelt wrote to P.T. Wrigley thanking
him for "the first and largest financial contribution" to his 1912
race for the presidency. On the way to Sedona is a resort that once
served as a principle watering hole for the wealthiest men in the
world. Known as Castle Hot Springs, this resort was built in 1888 by
Frank Murphy, the contractor who built the SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
for W.A. Harriman. To this day the summer homes there of John D.
Rockefeller I and P.T. Wrigley sit side by side with those of the
grandfather of Casper Weinberger and Cornelius Vanderbuilt.
e-mail: quig@dcia.com
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Defending Bush's Nazi connection
By Robert Lederman
10-29-3
The viewpoint in the article below shows why the AP suddenly
took up this theme - on behalf of the Bush campaign in order
to downplay it in anticipation of the election in 2004 so it
could not come up then. Thyssen, according to the "logic" of
this interpretation, was not against Jews and later had a
falling out with the Nazis, so therefore Prescott Bush
spending ten years helping finance Nazism via Thyssen's
Nazi-controlled front companies on Wall Street was not
anti-Semitic, and therefore Prescott Bush was not a Nazi.
To further the a-historic logic of this view, if being put
in prison by the Nazis like Thyssen was "proof" you weren't
really one, then thousands of top Nazis enthusiasts in the
SA who Hitler had imprisoned and killed for his own
political reasons in the early 1930's were all really good
guys too. I guess that makes those who personally imported
all those Nazis to America after WWII, who were the lawyers
for IG Farben such as William Casey, Kissenger, the Dulles
brothers etc. were really good guys as well. It's just those
who like me dare to bring up the Bush-Nazi connection who
are despicable bad guys.
Of course, this interpretation completely ignores that the
Bush family were very big supporters of eugenics (including
Prescott, his partner Harriman and Pres. Bush I), were
well-known to be anti-Semitic and that Hitler's hatred for
and intention to kill the Jews was well-known long before he
ever came to power. It also ignores that in 1930's America
had a huge and very public Nazi movement, which hardly fits
into the picture of America's wealthiest corporate bosses
being ignorant of what they were supporting. To say you
actively supported Hitler for a decade but didn't know he
intended to kill millions of Jews, Poles, Russians, Gypsies
is exactly the defense the Nazis used at Nuremberg. Does
anybody really think Prescott Bush, Rockefeller, Ford etc.
were clueless as to what Hitler was up to during the time
they were actively funding and ideologically supporting him
and his IG Farben concentration camp-slave labor factories?
As to the issue of the number of shares in Union Bank, yes,
Prescott had only one share according to the 11/7/42
Congressional Record, but there were only seven shareholders
total. It's not like he was one of thousands of
shareholders. See the Federal Register page here:
http://www.mbpolitics.com/bush2000/Vesting.htm
Blaming GW Bush for Prescott's action would indeed be unfair
if that was all there is to it. In reality, the entire three
generation Bush political dynasty has countless connections
to Nazis, fascism, eugenics, corporate crime, the CIA
bringing thousands of former SS officials to the US, the
pharmaceutical companies formerly known as IG Farben etc.
Their family fortune - which is the basis for every Bush's
political position today - all came directly from supporting
the Nazis.
http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=8054
Bush 'Nazi' smear unworthy of critics Joe Conason - The New
York Observer
10.22.03 - Liberal invective against George W. Bush has not
yet descended to the depths plumbed by conservatives in
their crusade against the Clintons, but that isn't because
nobody's trying. Mr. Bush's most zealous opponents
apparently believe that his faults, and those of his cronies
and his administration, will be insufficient to unseat him
next year.
That may be why some Bush critics have been circulating a
story about the financial connections between his paternal
grandfather, Prescott Bush Sr., and a Nazi industrial
magnate named Fritz Thyssen.
The sinister cooperation between prominent American
businessmen and their counterparts in Hitler's Germany is an
important episode whose details are still being revealed by
historians. It instructs us about the terrible crimes that
can be committed in the pursuit of profit by men (and they
were all men) who regard themselves as a superior race and
class. It implicates such famous names as Ford, Standard
Oil, General Motors and Dupont. In the case of Prescott Bush
Sr., this sorry history shows that even a man who later
displayed decent instincts could have been guilty of awful
judgment and worse.
According to archival and declassified material recently
published, the founder of the Bush political dynasty had
much to answer for during his earlier career on Wall Street.
Picking up on an investigative story in the New Hampshire
Gazette, last week the Associated Press reported on Prescott
Sr.'s role in the Union Banking Corp., which served as a
front for Thyssen's conglomerate.
Quite reasonably, the U.S. government suspected Union
Banking of aiding the Nazis through Thyssen, who had helped
to finance Hitler's rise and whose coal and steel holdings
were integral to the German war machine. That suspicion led
federal officials to seize Union Banking's assets in October
1942 under the Trading With the Enemy Act. While Prescott
Sr. held only a single share of Union Banking stock, he also
served as one of seven corporate directors whose apparent
purpose was to help Thyssen conceal the bank's real
ownership.
What the A.P. story notes -- unlike many of the Internet
stories circulating about the "Bush-Nazi connection" -- is
that, by 1938, Fritz Thyssen had fallen out with the Nazi
regime he had helped bring to power, evidently "over their
persecution of Catholics and Jews." After fleeing to neutral
Switzerland, Thyssen was arrested by the Nazis. At the
moment when his U.S. assets were seized, Thyssen was in a
Nazi prison, where he remained until the end of the war.
Those complicating facts don't absolve Thyssen or his
American associates. The involvement of Prescott Sr. and
other members of the American business aristocracy with
Nazi-era industry was shameful, and in some instances
illegal -- and they knew it.
Like so many Americans who made deals with fascist interests
or lent political support to them during the 30's, those
businessmen got off rather easily after the war. Most of
them, including Bush, were permitted to keep the money they
had made with the Germans.
They're all dead now, however. Prescott Sr. died more than
30 years ago.
Before he went to his final reward, the Bush patriarch was
elected from Connecticut to the U.S. Senate, where he served
from 1952 until he retired 10 years later. He was a liberal
Eisenhower Republican who distinguished himself as an
opponent of McCarthyism and an advocate of public housing.
Henry Ford was a Nazi collaborator. Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
was a Nazi sympathizer. Unless additional information
emerges to indict him, Prescott Bush Sr. was neither. To
misuse such terms for political advantage against his
grandson is to trivialize very grave offenses.
Whatever the President's grandfather did or may have done,
how does that reflect on George W. Bush? In 1942, he hadn't
been born yet. If he is nevertheless accountable for
Prescott Sr.'s actions, fairness requires that a similar
standard be applied to other descendants of politicians and
businessmen whose attitude toward Nazism was, at best,
ambivalent. Should anyone named Kennedy, Harriman, Dupont or
Fish be arraigned for the offenses of their dead ancestors?
Should everyone boycott Ford Motors?
The obvious answer is no. In America, the sins of the
fathers are not held against the children, nor should they
be. Although the Bushes have too often lowered themselves
into the gutter for political gain, that doesn't give
license to libels against them.
It is ironic that the President would be arraigned on a bum
rap at a moment when his poll numbers are declining, his
advisers admit he is vulnerable, and several books
excoriating him have appeared on the best-seller lists.
There are many unflattering terms that can and should be
used to describe George W. Bush. He is, among other things,
a truly bad President. But neither his offenses, nor the
Republican Party's politics of personal destruction, can
justify using such tactics against him. Imputing Nazi
sympathies to the President or his family ought to be
beneath his adversaries.
COPYRIGHT (c) 2003 THE NEW YORK OBSERVER
For the page from the Federal Register of November 7th 1942
showing the Bush family assets seized by the US Congress for
being Nazi fronts see:
http://www.mbpolitics.com/bush2000/Vesting.htm I recently
had the National Archive photocopy and mail me this exact
page in order to conclusively verify it. It's real and they
sent it to me for free. Here's their website:
http://www.archives.gov/
For an authoritative and very detailed report on the
Bush-Nazi connection by former US Dept. of Justice Nazi War
Crimes prosecutor and President of the Florida Holocaust
Museum, John Loftus, see: http://www.john-loftus.com/
http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/ Jewish Advocate 7/18/2001
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Robert Lederman: NYC Street Crusader Takes on Giuliani,
Bush's Nazi Past
By Susie Davidson Advocate Correspondent
Don't get on Robert Lederman's bad side. Just ask Rudy
Giuliani.
Artist, First Amendment activist and Greenwich Village
Gazette (and other mags) columnist Lederman has waged an
eight-year, one-man campaign, to the tune of hundreds of
essays, 41 arrests, hundreds of paintings, postcards and
well-maintained websites, all aimed at the erstwhile Big
Apple mayor. His art often appears at demonstrations against
issues like the Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo incidents,
West Nile pesticide spraying ("Orthodox Jews Gassed Again!"
he accuses, as the poison hits religious areas on Friday
evenings) and Guiliani's homeless policies. His work has
appeared in People, New York Magazine, the Times, New York
Post Daily News and Newsday; he's been featured on 20/20 and
CNN.
His titles include: "Racist Rudy," "KKK-iani," "The
Godmother," "Jailiani," "Enemy of Art," "Fooliani,"
"Ghouliani," and "Mussoliniani."
Why Giuliani?
Lederman, 50,'s first beef with the mayor occurred in 1994,
when street artists arrested for selling art without
licenses formed A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists' Response to Illegal
State Tactics), and in a case that reached the U.S. Supreme
Court, ultimately won a lawsuit against the mayor (one of
many Lederman legal challenges to Hizzoner).
He had personal experience; in the '80's, occasionally
homeless, he sold artwork instead of panhandling.
Following this victory, Lederman's arrest profile widened:
unlawful vendoring, unauthorized posting, disorderly
conduct, inciting to riot, resisting arrest, carrying a tape
recorder and obstruction of governmental administration.
Every case was dismissed with no fines.
Lederman welcomes the media exposure for his causes and his
artwork, which are, incidentally, not limited to New York,
or to secular themes.
Lederman contributed "A Jewish Perspective on GW Bush" to
the recently released 100 Days: An Anthology (ed. Andrea
Brady, Barque Press). It's a scathing, fact-filled and
documented expose of the Nazi shadows looming behind the
Bush family and their cohorts.
"For a Jewish person," he begins, "learning that the
President's family fortune and political connections began
with financing Hitler (in the Standard Oil/IG Farben
concerns) is a serious matter."
There are no Jewish members of Bush's cabinet, he notes,
while Ari Fleischer's role adds "ethnic credibility in the
event questions arise regarding the President's Hitler
connection." Lederman accuses Bush of appointing, and
embracing, a few token Blacks and minorities. "In Nazi
Germany," he analogizes, "there were Jewish leaders, the
Judenrate, who similarly advised their followers not to
resist Adolf Hitler. Elevating a few members of a targeted
group is an effective way to disarm your victims."
Lederman names prominent American Nazi collaborators. After
the war? "The US government," he charges, "brought thousands
of Nazis to America, provided them with false identities and
established them in the newly formed CIA, in universities,
in the media, in medical and psychological research
institutions and in the US military."
Allen Dulles, GHW Bush associate and fellow Nazi financier,
became the CIA's first director. His brother, John Foster
Dulles, major shareholder and lawyer for Standard Oil/IG
Farben, became U.S. Secretary of State. William Casey,
Reagan's CIA director who "helped the Dulles' bring Nazis to
the U.S.", "created the Manhattan Institute - the think tank
that invented GW Bush's political agenda and advises him on
a daily basis.
"It was the first Bush administration," Lederman writes,
"which gave Saddam Hussein the chemical and biological
weapons we've spent the past decade trying to locate in
Iraq. It was the anti-Semitic, anti-Christian Arab oil
partners of the Bush family that our soldiers risked their
lives to protect in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during the Gulf
War. The corrupt dynasties that oppressively rule these Arab
nations were among Hitler's closest allies in WWII."
W? The Christian far right, John Ashcroft, Bob Jones U., the
inauguration exclusion of non-Christians, the fact that
abortion, globally opposed by Bush in an initial act, was
strictly prohibited in Nazi Germany but forced upon Jewish
women - all are exposed and denounced.
"All I'd ask of President Bush," he closes, "is something
very simple for him to do. Mr. President, please make a
public statement - as many of the corporations associated
with you have already done - acknowledging your family's
past relationship with Nazi Germany, and then, apologize for
it - as the Pope recently did.
"Unlike your father, former President Bush, who said it was
time to forgive Nazi Germany's war criminals, you have made
seemingly sincere speeches about the Holocaust while
fundraising at synagogues and Jewish community centers.
"Now it's time for you to complete the 'healing process' you
are always referring to and publicly repent for your
family's part in bringing the Holocaust about."
Will Lederman's message reach Bush?
Ask Mayor Giuliani.
Copyright 2001 Susan J. Davidson This article appeared in
the July 18, 2001 issue of the Jewish Advocate
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How The Bush Family Made Its
Fortune From The Nazis
The Dutch Connection
By Attorney John Loftus
©. 2000-2002 John Loftus
7-2-2
John Loftus, is a former U.S. Department of Justice Nazi War
Crimes prosecutor, the President of the Florida Holocaust
Museum and the highly respected author of numerous books on
the CIA-Nazi connection including The Belarus Secret and The
Secret War Against the Jews, both of which have extensive
material on the Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection.
For the Bush family, it is a lingering nightmare. For their
Nazi clients, the Dutch connection was the mother of all
money laundering schemes. From 1945 until 1949, one of the
lengthiest and, it now appears, most futile interrogations
of a Nazi war crimes suspect began in the American Zone of
Occupied Germany. Multibillionaire steel magnate Fritz
Thyssen-the man whose steel combine was the cold heart of
the Nazi war machine-talked and talked and talked to a joint
US-UK interrogation team. For four long years, successive
teams of inquisitors tried to break Thyssen's simple claim
to possess neither foreign bank accounts nor interests in
foreign corporations, no assets that might lead to the
missing billions in assets of the Third Reich. The
inquisitors failed utterly.
Why? Because what the wily Thyssen deposed was, in a sense,
true. What the Allied investigators never understood was
that they were not asking Thyssen the right question.
Thyssen did not need any foreign bank accounts because his
family secretly owned an entire chain of banks. He did not
have to transfer his Nazi assets at the end of World War II,
all he had to do was transfer the ownership documents -
stocks, bonds, deeds and trusts--from his bank in Berlin
through his bank in Holland to his American friends in New
York City: Prescott Bush and Herbert Walker. Thyssen's
partners in crime were the father and father-in-law of a
future President of the United States.
The allied investigators underestimated Thyssen's reach, his
connections, his motives, and his means. The web of
financial entities Thyssen helped create in the 1920's
remained a mystery for the rest of the twentieth century, an
almost perfectly hidden underground sewer pipeline for
moving dirty money, money that bankrolled the post-war
fortunes not only of the Thyssen industrial empire...but the
Bush family as well. It was a secret Fritz Thyssen would
take to his grave.
It was a secret that would lead former US intelligence agent
William Gowen, now pushing 80, to the very doorstep of the
Dutch royal family. The Gowens are no strangers to
controversy or nobility. His father was one of President
Roosevelt's diplomatic emissaries to Pope Pius XII, leading
a futile attempt to persuade the Vatican to denounce
Hitler's treatment of Jews. It was his son, William Gowen,
who served in Rome after World War II as a Nazi hunter and
investigator with the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps.
It was Agent Gowen who first discovered the secret Vatican
Ratline for smuggling Nazis in 1949. It was also the same
William Gowen who began to uncover the secret Dutch pipeline
for smuggling Nazi money in 1999.
A half-century earlier, Fritz Thyssen was telling the allied
investigators that he had no interest in foreign companies,
that Hitler had turned on him and seized most of his
property. His remaining assets were mostly in the Russian
Occupied Zone of Germany (which he knew were a write-off
anyway). His distant (and disliked) relatives in neutral
nations like Holland were the actual owners of a substantial
percentage of the remaining German industrial base. As
innocent victims of the Third Reich, they were lobbying the
allied occupation governments in Germany, demanding
restitution of the property that had been seized from them
by the Nazis.
Under the rules of the Allied occupation of Germany, all
property owned by citizens of a neutral nation which had
been seized by the Nazis had to be returned to the neutral
citizens upon proper presentation of documents showing proof
of ownership. Suddenly, all sorts of neutral parties,
particularly in Holland, were claiming ownership of various
pieces of the Thyssen empire. In his cell, Fritz Thyssen
just smiled and waited to be released from prison while
members of the Dutch royal family and the Dutch intelligence
service reassembled his pre-war holdings for him.
The British and American interrogators may have gravely
underestimated Thyssen but they nonetheless knew they were
being lied to. Their suspicions focused on one Dutch Bank in
particular, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, in
Rotterdam. This bank did a lot of business with the Thyssens
over the years. In 1923, as a favor to him, the Rotterdam
bank loaned the money to build the very first Nazi party
headquarters in Munich. But somehow the allied
investigations kept going nowhere, the intelligence leads
all seemed to dry up.
If the investigators realized that the US intelligence chief
in postwar Germany, Allen Dulles, was also the Rotterdam
bank's lawyer, they might have asked some very interesting
questions. They did not know that Thyssen was Dulles' client
as well. Nor did they ever realize that it was Allen
Dulles's other client, Baron Kurt Von Schroeder who was the
Nazi trustee for the Thyssen companies which now claimed to
be owned by the Dutch. The Rotterdam Bank was at the heart
of Dulles' cloaking scheme, and he guarded its secrets
jealously.
Several decades after the war, investigative reporter Paul
Manning, Edward R. Murrow's colleague, stumbled across the
Thyssen interrogations in the US National Archives. Manning
intended to write a book about Nazi money laundering.
Manning's manuscript was a dagger at Allen Dulles' throat:
his book specifically mentioned the Bank voor Handel en
Scheepvaart by name, albeit in passing. Dulles volunteered
to help the unsuspecting Manning with his manuscript, and
sent him on a wild goose chase, searching for Martin Bormann
in South America.
Without knowing that he had been deliberately sidetracked,
Manning wrote a forward to his book personally thanking
Allen Dulles for his "assurance that I was "on the right
track, and should keep going.'"Dulles sent Manning and his
manuscript off into the swamps of obscurity. The same
"search for Martin Bormann"scam was also used to
successfully discredit Ladislas Farago, another American
journalist probing too far into the laundering of Nazi
money. American investigators had to be sent anywhere but
Holland.
And so the Dutch connection remained unexplored until 1994
when I published the book "The Secret War Against the
Jews."As a matter of historical curiosity, I mentioned that
Fritz Thyssen (and indirectly, the Nazi Party) had obtained
their early financing from Brown Brothers Harriman, and its
affiliate, the Union Banking Corporation. Union Bank, in
turn, was the Bush family's holding company for a number of
other entities, including the "Holland American Trading
Company."
It was a matter of public record that the Bush holdings were
seized by the US government after the Nazis overran Holland.
In 1951, the Bush's reclaimed Union Bank from the US Alien
Property Custodian, along with their "neutral" Dutch assets.
I did not realize it, but I had stumbled across a very large
piece of the missing Dutch connection. Bush's ownership of
the Holland-American investment company was the missing link
to Manning's earlier research in the Thyssen investigative
files. In 1981, Manning had written:
"Thyssen's first step in a long dance of tax and currency
frauds began [in the late 1930's] when he disposed of his
shares in the Dutch Hollandische-Amerikanische Investment
Corporation to be credited to the Bank voor Handel en
Scheepvaart, N.V., Rotterdam, the bank founded in 1916 by
August Thyssen Senior."
In this one obscure paragraph, in a little known book,
Manning had unwittingly documented two intriguing points: 1)
The Bush's Union Bank had apparently bought the same
corporate stock that the Thyssens were selling as part of
their Nazi money laundering, and 2) the Rotterdam Bank, far
from being a neutral Dutch institution, was founded by Fritz
Thyssen's father. In hindsight, Manning and I had uncovered
different ends of the Dutch connection.
After reading the excerpt in my book about the Bush's
ownership of the Holland-American trading Company, retired
US intelligence agent William Gowen began to put the pieces
of the puzzle together. Mr. Gowen knew every c orner of
Europe from his days as a diplomat's son, an American
intelligence agent, and a newspaperman. William Gowen
deserves sole credit for uncovering the mystery of how the
Nazi industrialists hid their money from the Allies at the
end of World War II.
In 1999, Mr. Gowen traveled to Europe, at his own expense,
to meet a former member of Dutch intelligence who had
detailed inside information about the Rotterdam bank. The
scrupulous Gowen took a written statement and then had his
source read and correct it for error. Here, in summary form,
is how the Nazis hid their money in America.
After World War I, August Thyssen had been badly burned by
the loss of assets under the harsh terms of the Versailles
treaty. He was determined that it would never happen again.
One of his sons would join the Nazis; the other would be
neutral. No matter who won the next war, the Thyssen family
would survive with their industrial empire intact. Fritz
Thyssen joined the Nazis in 1923; his younger brother
married into Hungarian nobility and changed his name to
Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza. The Baron later claimed Hungarian
as well as Dutch citizenship. In public, he pretended to
detest his Nazi brother, but in private they met at secret
board meetings in Germany to coordinate their operations. If
one brother were threatened with loss of property, he would
transfer his holdings to the other.
To aid his sons in their shell game, August Thyssen had
established three different banks during the 1920's -- The
August Thyssen Bank in Berlin, the Bank voor Handel en
Scheepvaart in Rotterdam, and the Union Banking Corporation
in New York City. To protect their corporate holdings, all
the brothers had to do was move the corporate paperwork from
one bank to the other. This they did with some regularity.
When Fritz Thyssen "sold" the Holland-American Trading
Company for a tax loss, the Union Banking Corporation in New
York bought the stock. Similarly, the Bush family invested
the disguised Nazi profits in American steel and
manufacturing corporations that became part of the secret
Thyssen empire.
When the Nazis invaded Holland in May 1940, they
investigated the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in
Rotterdam. Fritz Thyssen was suspected by Hitler's auditors
of being a tax fraud and of illegally transferring his
wealth outside the Third Reich. The Nazi auditors were
right: Thyssen felt that Hitler's economic policies would
dilute his wealth through ruinous war inflation. He had been
smuggling his war profits out through Holland. But the
Rotterdam vaults were empty of clues to where the money had
gone. The Nazis did not know that all of the documents
evidencing secret Thyssen ownership had been quietly shipped
back to the August Thyssen Bank in Berlin, under the
friendly supervision of Baron Kurt Von Schroeder. Thyssen
spent the rest of the war under VIP house arrest. He had
fooled Hitler, hidden his immense profits, and now it was
time to fool the Americans with same shell game.
As soon as Berlin fell to the allies, it was time to ship
the documents back to Rotterdam so that the "neutral" bank
could claim ownership under the friendly supervision of
Allen Dulles, who, as the OSS intelligence chief in 1945
Berlin, was well placed to handle any troublesome
investigations. Unfortunately, the August Thyssen Bank had
been bombed during the war, and the documents were buried in
the underground vaults beneath the rubble. Worse, the vaults
lay in the Soviet Zone of Berlin.
According to Gowen's source, Prince Bernhard commanded a
unit of Dutch intelligence, which dug up the incriminating
corporate papers in 1945 and brought them back to the
"neutral" bank in Rotterdam. The pretext was that the Nazis
had stolen the crown jewels of his wife, Princess Juliana,
and the Russians gave the Dutch permission to dig up the
vault and retrieve them. Operation Juliana was a Dutch fraud
on the Allies who searched high and low for the missing
pieces of the Thyssen fortune.
In 1945, the former Dutch manager of the Rotterdam bank
resumed control only to discover that he was sitting on a
huge pile of hidden Nazi assets. In 1947, the manager
threatened to inform Dutch authorities, and was immediately
fired by the Thyssens. The somewhat naive bank manager then
fled to New York City where he intended to talk to Union
Bank director Prescott Bush. As Gowen's Dutch source
recalled, the manager intended "to reveal [to Prescott Bush]
the truth about Baron Heinrich and the Rotterdam Bank, [in
order that] some or all of the Thyssen interests in the
Thyssen Group might be seized and confiscated as German
enemy property. "The manager's body was found in New York
two weeks later.
Similarly, in 1996 a Dutch journalist Eddy Roever went to
London to interview the Baron, who was neighbors with
Margaret Thatcher. Roever's body was discovered two days
later. Perhaps, Gowen remarked dryly, it was only a
coincidence that both healthy men had died of heart attacks
immediately after trying to uncover the truth about the
Thyssens.
Neither Gowen nor his Dutch source knew about the
corroborating evidence in the Alien Property Custodian
archives or in the OMGUS archives. Together, the two
separate sets of US files overlap each other and directly
corroborate Gowen's source. The first set of archives
confirms absolutely that the Union Banking Corporation in
New York was owned by the Rotterdam Bank. The second set
(quoted by Manning) confirms that the Rotterdam Bank in turn
was owned by the Thyssens.
It is not surprising that these two American agencies never
shared their Thyssen files. As the noted historian Burton
Hersh documented:
"The Alien Property Custodian, Leo Crowley, was on the
payroll of the New York J. Henry Schroeder Bank where Foster
and Allen Dulles both sat as board members. Foster arranged
an appointment for himself as special legal counsel for the
Alien Property Custodian while simultaneously representing
[German] interests against the custodian."
No wonder Allen Dulles had sent Paul Manning on a wild goose
chase to South America. He was very close to uncovering the
fact that the Bush's bank in New York City was secretly
owned by the Nazis, before during and after WWII. Once
Thyssen ownership of the Union Banking Corporation is
proven, it makes out a prima facie case of treason against
the Dulles and Bush families for giving aid and comfort to
the enemy in time of war.
PART TWO
The first key fact to be proven in any criminal case is that
the Thyssen family secretly owned the Bush's Bank. Apart
from Gowen's source, and the twin American files, a third
set of corroboration comes from the Thyssen family
themselves. In 1979, the present Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza
(Fritz Thyssen's nephew) prepared a written family history
to be shared with his top management. A copy of this
thirty-page tome entitled "The History of the Thyssen Family
and Their Activities"was provided by Gowen's source. It
contains the following Thyssen admissions:
"Thus, at the beginning of World War II the Bank voor Handel
en Scheepvaart had become the holding of my father's
companies - a Dutch firm whose only shareholder was a
Hungarian citizen..Prior to 1929, it held the shares of .the
August Thyssen Bank, and also American subsidiaries and the
Union Banking Corporation, New York.The shares of all the
affiliates were [in 1945] with the August Thyssen Bank in
the East Sector of Berlin, from where I was able to have
them transferred into the West at the last moment"
"After the war the Dutch government ordered an investigation
into the status of the holding company and, pending the
result, appointed a Dutch former general manager of my
father who turned against our family.. In that same year,
1947, I returned to Germany for the first time after the
war, disguised as a Dutch driver in military uniform, to
establish contact with our German directors"
"The situation of the Group gradually began to be resolved
but it was not until 1955 that the German companies were
freed from Allied control and subsequently disentangled.
Fortunately, the companies in the group suffered little from
dismantling. At last we were in a position to concentrate on
purely economic problems -- the reconstruction and extension
of the companies and the expansion of the organization."
"The banking department of the Bank voor Handel en
Scheepvaart, which also functioned as the Group's holding
company, merged in 1970 with Nederlandse Credietbank N.V.
which increased its capital. The Group received 25
percent.The Chase Manhattan Bank holds 31%. The name
Thyssen-Bornemisza Group was selected for the new holding
company."
Thus the twin US Archives, Gowen's Dutch source, and the
Thyssen family history all independently confirm that
President Bush's father and grandfather served on the board
of a bank that was secretly owned by the leading Nazi
industrialists. The Bush connection to these American
institutions is a matter of public record. What no one knew,
until Gowen's brilliant research opened the door, was that
the Thyssens were the secret employers of the Bush family.
But what did the Bush family know about their Nazi
connection and when did they know it? As senior managers of
Brown Brothers Harriman, they had to have known that their
American clients, such as the Rockefellers, were investing
heavily in German corporations, including Thyssen's giant
Vereinigte Stahlwerke. As noted historian Christopher
Simpson repeatedly documents, it is a matter of public
record that Brown Brother's investments in Nazi Germany took
place under the Bush family stewardship.
When war broke out was Prescott Bush stricken with a case of
Waldheimers disease, a sudden amnesia about his Nazi past?
Or did he really believe that our friendly Dutch allies
owned the Union Banking Corporation and its parent bank in
Rotterdam? It should be recalled that in January 1937, he
hired Allen Dulles to "cloak" his accounts. But cloak from
whom? Did he expect that happy little Holland was going to
declare war on America? The cloaking operation only makes
sense in anticipation of a possible war with Nazi Germany.
If Union Bank was not the conduit for laundering the
Rockefeller's Nazi investments back to America, then how
could the Rockefeller-controlled Chase Manhattan Bank end up
owning 31% of the Thyssen group after the war?
It should be noted that the Thyssen group (TBG) is now the
largest industrial conglomerate in Germany, and with a net
worth of more than $50 billion dollars, one of the
wealthiest corporations in the world. TBG is so rich it even
bought out the Krupp family, famous arms makers for Hitler,
leaving the Thyssens as the undisputed champion survivors of
the Third Reich. Where did the Thyssens get the start-up
money to rebuild their empire with such speed after World
War II?
The enormous sums of money deposited into the Union Bank
prior to 1942 is the best evidence that Prescott Bush
knowingly served as a money launderer for the Nazis.
Remember that Union Banks' books and accounts were frozen by
the U.S. Alien Property Custodian in 1942 and not released
back to the Bush family until 1951. At that time, Union Bank
shares representing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of
industrial stocks and bonds were unblocked for distribution.
Did the Bush family really believe that such enormous sums
came from Dutch enterprises? One could sell tulip bulbs and
wooden shoes for centuries and not achieve those sums. A
fortune this size could only have come from the Thyssen
profits made from rearming the Third Reich, and then hidden,
first from the Nazi tax auditors, and then from the Allies.
The Bushes knew perfectly well that Brown Brothers was the
American money channel into Nazi Germany, and that Union
Bank was the secret pipeline to bring the Nazi money back to
America from Holland. The Bushes had to have known how the
secret money circuit worked because they were on the board
of directors in both directions: Brown Brothers out, Union
Bank in.
Moreover, the size of their compensation is commensurate
with their risk as Nazi money launderers. In 1951, Prescott
Bush and his father in law each received one share of Union
Bank stock, worth $750,000 each. One and a half million
dollars was a lot of money in 1951. But then, from the
Thyssen point of view, buying the Bushes was the best
bargain of the war.
The bottom line is harsh: It is bad enough that the Bush
family helped raise the money for Thyssen to give Hitler his
start in the 1920's, but giving aid and comfort to the enemy
in time of war is treason. The Bush's bank helped the
Thyssens make the Nazi steel that killed allied soldiers. As
bad as financing the Nazi war machine may seem, aiding and
abetting the Holocaust was worse. Thyssen's coal mines used
Jewish slaves as if they were disposable chemicals. There
are six million skeletons in the Thyssen family closet, and
a myriad of criminal and historical questions to be answered
about the Bush family's complicity. ___
First published September, 2000
This article is provided courtesy of Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz
and Tetrahedron Publishing Group www.tetrahedron.org
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/new_world_order/bush_nazis.html
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