How soon do we forget that it literally required an act of Congress to severe the connections between George Bushs grandfather, Prescott Bush, and the Third Reich. Files recently recovered from the National Archives reveal that a firm in which Prescott Bush was a director, had its assets seized in 1942, under the Trading with the Enemy Act. It would behoove the Israeli cabinet to keep in mind the Bush family legacy while it listens to Geogre Bushs lofty pronouncements about appeasement.
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So Obama is obliquely accused of 'appeasement'? How ironic that at the time Obamas grandfather was marching with Patton in Europe, Bushs grandfather was making money on the Nazi war machine that Obamas grandfather confronted.
Through his involvement with Brown Brothers Harriman, Prescott Bush actively represented the US interests of Fritz Thyssen, who grew rich re-arming Germant and Hitler between the world wars. Bush was also the director of United Banking Corporation, which was the sole US representitive of Thyssen in the US. The entire ugly story has been made available in three different sets of files declassified and made availiable by the Library of Congress.
A report issued by the Office of Alien Property Custodian in 1942 stated of the companies that "since 1939, these (steel and mining) properties have been in possession of and have been operated by the German government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance to that country's war effort".
Prescott Bush, a 6ft 4in charmer with a rich singing voice, was the founder of the Bush political dynasty and was once considered a potential presidential candidate himself. Like his son, George, and grandson, George W, he went to Yale where he was, again like his descendants, a member of the secretive and influential Skull and Bones student society. He was an artillery captain in the first world war and married Dorothy Walker, the daughter of George Herbert Walker, in 1921.
In 1924, his father-in-law, a well-known St Louis investment banker, helped set him up in business in New York with Averill Harriman, the wealthy son of railroad magnate E H Harriman in New York, who had gone into banking