“Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951” - Federal Documents

[Demeter]

http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi_2

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.

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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."

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John Buchanan is a journalist and magazine writer based in Miami Beach. He can be reached by e-mail at [e-mail].

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 [e-mail].




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[peacebird]

1. apple don't fall far from the tree....

[indepat]

2. Achtung mien herr

[Totallybushed]

3. Whadda mean, 1951??

Who are they dealing with now?!

[BridgeTheGap]

4. skull & bones at work!

Harriman was a member too.

[11cents]

5. Thyssen turned against the Nazis after Kristallnacht (1938)

...and finished up the Nazi years in a concentration camp. Just sayin'. He was in fact typical of the kind of German nationalist reactionary who boosted the Nazis into power under the assumption that they could be used and controlled -- not anyone to be admired, but the accounts I've read of this matter leave out seemingly pertinent facts, to put it mildly.

[EST]

6. Good stuff.

Robert Parry also has done a huge history on these and other Bush misadventures. For us, its is an indictment of the whole clan, but, for republiclowns, whose forgiving nature is legend, it will be democratic whining or ancient history and of no concern.
Sometimes it's difficult no to throw up, the greed, hypocrisy, double dealing, and criminalitf is so glaring.

[AwakeAtLast]

7. Reparations

Take everything they have. All of it. Every last cent from every last one of them! Give it to families of Holocaust victims for goodness sake!

[Morgana LaFey]

8. K&R

[Uncle Joe]

9. Thanks for the post Demeter

Kicked and recommended

[rman]

10. kick

[marmar]

11. Why has this country been cursed with this family?

Fuck the Bushes!

[Judi Lynn]

12. This SHOULD be investigated thoroughly, publicly.

From the article:

"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."
(snip)

This is an excellent article. Thanks for the chance to see it.

[FogerRox]

13. KnR, thanks.

[reprobate]

14. I saved the entire article from the link as a PDF. I'll be snail mailing it along

with a personal letter to each of my senators and representatives. This is not impeachable material in itself, but it does go to, as they say in the lawyer shows, show a continuing pattern.

'Dumb as a Rock' George could not come up with these ideas to trade with the enemy by himself, he learned it from his daddy and granddaddy.

My suggestion? Give them each a rifle, stand them in a circle, and yell 'FIRE'.