it could be that W. has done something to make up for his grandfather's actions
by freeing Afghanistan women. But then there's Iraq... Which actually only
history can judge. We're too close to the action and emotion at this point - I
think.
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From: Alison Rose Levy <LevyAR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2004/10/27 Wed PM 08:40:41 PDT
To: <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ConstellationTalk] Body language
Hi, I'd be interested to hear your comments on a possible entanglement from
Bush's paternal line. US government documents reveal that Bush's
grandfather was the front man for Fritz Thyssen, widely recognized as the
principle financier of Hitler. Americans helping to finance the Third Reich
could be considered unacknowledged perpetrators whose role has been ignored,
and thus remains a family secret.
This briefly summarizes a recent Guardian feature story which appears well
researched and is worth a read.
Bush Grandfather Played Key Role in Financing Hitler's Rise
U.S. government documents declassified in the last year appear to lend
substance and confirmation to long circulating rumors that Prescott Bush,
the current president's grandfather played a key role in the financing of
the rise of the Third Reich. From 1926 through 1942, Bush was a director,
shareholder and front man of companies that, "profited from their
involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany," wrote Ben Aris and
Duncan Campbell in a September 25, 2004 article published in the British
newspaper, The Guardian.
link to story here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
Through his job as Bank President of the United Banking Company, a
subsidiary of the prestigious Wall Street banking firm, Brown Brothers
Harriman, Bush's involvement with Fritz Thyssen, widely recognized as the
chief financial architect of Nazism, continued until 1942 when Bush's
holdings were seized (after Pearl Harbor) under the Trading with the Enemy
Act, according to government documents, cited by several journalists.
Government investigators in 1941 found that Prescott Bush held stock shares
in an interlocking series of companies and banks on behalf of enemy
nationals, according to a memo from the National Archives seen by the
Guardian. It is rumored that Bush sold his share in UBC after the war for
$1.5 million, and that this perhaps may have formed a basis for the Bush
family fortune.
In addition, they claim that Bush appears to be linked to a Silesian steel
company that used
slave labor from concentration camps, including Auschwitz. A court case for
damages launched by survivors lost in court on a technicality, that was just
recently signed into law by George W. Bush, the Guardian, reporters say.
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