I know this will be common knowledge to some Kossacks already, but Rumsfeld's recent effort to tar those opposing his illegal war as "appeasers" equivalent to those backing Nazis makes me boil. I am angry enough to want to see the Bush connections to Nazis out there in the public domain.
Enjoy a little Bush family history courtesy of the Guardian! Note that the Bush family retained its ties to the Nazis throughout the war and up until 1951.
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
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.
4 BUSH GENERATIONS:
Being a war criminal runs in the family.
Financing fascists into power runs in the family.
Profiteering from war runs in the family.
Escaping accountability runs in the family.
Hat tip to
prismeshebdo.com for the nifty photo of George W's great-grandfather, Samuel Bush, the first of 4 generations of Bush war mongering, war profiteering, war criminals who were traitors to American values and friends of American enemies. Now more from
the Guardian:
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. . . .
But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty. . . .
Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow Thyssen to move assets around the world. . . .
Three sets of archives spell out Prescott Bush's involvement. All three are readily available, thanks to the efficient US archive system and a helpful and dedicated staff at both the Library of Congress in Washington and the National Archives at the University of Maryland.
The first set of files, the Harriman papers in the Library of Congress, show that Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a number of companies involved with Thyssen.
The second set of papers, which are in the National Archives, are contained in vesting order number 248 which records the seizure of the company assets. What these files show is that on October 20 1942 the alien property custodian seized the assets of the UBC, of which Prescott Bush was a director. Having gone through the books of the bank, further seizures were made against two affiliates, the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. By November, the Silesian-American Company, another of Prescott Bush's ventures, had also been seized.
The third set of documents, also at the National Archives, are contained in the files on IG Farben, who was prosecuted for war crimes.
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". . . .
"This was the mechanism by which Hitler was funded to come to power, this was the mechanism by which the Third Reich's defence industry was re-armed, this was the mechanism by which Nazi profits were repatriated back to the American owners, this was the mechanism by which investigations into the financial laundering of the Third Reich were blunted," said Loftus, who is vice-chairman of the Holocaust Museum in St Petersburg.
"The Union Banking Corporation was a holding company for the Nazis, for Fritz Thyssen," said Loftus. "At various times, the Bush family has tried to spin it, saying they were owned by a Dutch bank and it wasn't until the Nazis took over Holland that they realised that now the Nazis controlled the apparent company and that is why the Bush supporters claim when the war was over they got their money back. Both the American treasury investigations and the intelligence investigations in Europe completely bely that, it's absolute horseshit. They always knew who the ultimate beneficiaries were."
Here's the Bush family album of warmongering war profiteers. Hat tip to
ecosyn.com, who also provides more details and links on Bush family connections to the Nazis:
Samuel Prescott Bush, "Merchant of Death"
George Herbert Walker, Nazi financier
Prescott Bush, banker to Hitler, Auschwitz and Thyssen
George Herbert Walker Bush, Mr. "October Surprise"
George Walker Bush, Warmonger-in-Chief
Really makes you wonder about:
- the mechanism by which George W. Bush and the GOP came to power;
- the mechanism by which the US defence industry was financed by two unnecessary wars leading to costly occupations;
- the mechanism by which warmonger profits were repatriated back to GOP and Saudi owners;
- the mechanism by which investigations into financial laundering and profiteering by the GOP were blunted.
History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes! - Mark Twain