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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:29 PM
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Stop calling Bush's Grandfather an "appeaser"
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Prescott Bush was a Collaborator...

appease

1. to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
2. to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage: The fruit appeased his hunger.
3. to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/appeaser

Collaborate

1. to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
2. to cooperate, usually willingly, with an enemy nation, esp. with an enemy occupying one's country: He collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Collaborator

Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law, 5710-1950*

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"crime against humanity" means any of the following acts:

murder, extermination, enslavement, starvation or deportation and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, and persecution on national, racial, religious or political grounds;

"war crime" means any of the following acts:

murder, ill-treatment or deportation to forced labour or for any other purpose, of civilian population of or in occupied territory; murder Or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas; killing of hostages; plunder of public or private property; wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages; and devastation not justified by military necessity.

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1950_1959/Nazis%20and%20Nazi%20Collaborators%20-Punishment-%20Law-%20571

Pursuit of Nazi collaborators

http://www.indopedia.org/Pursuit_of_Nazi_collaborators.html#Background
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