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Bush family funded Adolf Hitler
13.05.2003 [14:40]

Have you ever wondered how Adolph Hitler - a mediocre
painter of Austrian origin - transformed himself into Germany's
Fuhrer during the 1930s and 1940s?

The Nazi phenomenon was no historical coincidence, and far
less a philosophical whim made real by just one man. Nazism had
its followers, many of them exceptionally wealthy, veritable
alchemists of the financial world back then.

According to research carried out over the last few years,
Wall Street bankers (amongst others) financed Hitler's rise to
power whilst making large profits at the same time. What is yet
still more deplorable is the fact that relatives of the current
U.S. president were amongst this group of individuals.

U.S. authors Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Cheitkin reveal
in the recently published George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
that Prescott Bush (George W. Bush's grandfather) and other
directors of the Union Banking Company (UBC) were Nazi
collaborators.

The book relates how in 1922 - when national socialism was
emerging - railroad impresario W. Averell Harriman traveled to
Berlin and interviewed the Thyssen family with a view to founding
a German-U.S. bank. The Thyssens were already behind-the-scenes
owners of several financial institutions that allowed them to
transfer their money from Germany to the Netherlands and from
there onto the United States.

The banks in question were the August Thyssen Bank whose
headquarters were located in Berlin; the Bank voor Handel
(Netherlands) and the Union Banking Corporation (New York). At
the beginning of the 1920s, one of the members of this family,
Fritz Thyssen - author of I Paid Hitler - contributed some
$25,000 USD to the recently formed German National Socialist
Workers' Party, becoming the prime and most important financier
of the Fuhrer in his ascent to power.

According to the book's authors, Thyssen was fascinated by
Hitler, citing his talent as a public speaker and his ability to
lead the masses. However, what impressed him most was the order
that prevailed at his rallies and the almost military discipline
of his followers.

And so, in 1931 Thyssen joined the Nazi party, becoming one
of the most powerful members of the Nazi war machine.

At that time, the magnate presided over the German Steel
Trust, a steel industry consortium founded by Clarence Dillon,
one of Wall Street's most influential men. One of Dillon's most
trustworthy collaborators was Samuel Bush: Prescott's father,
George Senior's grandfather and great-grandfather of the current
U.S. president George W. Bush.

In 1923, Harriman and the Thyssens decided to set up a bank
and appointed George Herbert Walker - Prescott's father-in-law -
as president. Later, in 1926, they established the Union Banking
Corporation (UBC) with Prescott Bush at the helm. That same year,
he was also named vice president and partner at Brown Brothers
Harriman. Both firms allowed the Thyssens to send money to the
United States from Germany via the Netherlands.

U.S. economist Victor Thorn has noted that although a large
number of other corporations aided the Nazis (such as Standard
Oil and Rockefeller's Chase Bank, as well as U.S. automobile
manufacturers) Prescott Bush's interests were much more profound
and sinister.

Thorn adds that UBC became a secret channel to protect Nazi
capital leaving Germany for the United States via the
Netherlands. When the Nazis needed to retrieve their funds, Brown
Brothers Harriman sent them directly to Germany.

In this way, UBC received money from the Netherlands and
Brown Brothers Harriman sent it back. And who was on the
executive of both of these companies? Prescott Bush himself, the
Nazis' first money launderer.

In their book, Tarpley and Cheitkin explain that in this
way a significant part of the Bush family's financial base is
related to supporting and aiding Adolph Hitler. Therefore, the
current U.S. president, just like his father (former CIA
director, vice president and president) reached the peak of the
U.S. political hierarchy thanks to his great-grandfather and
grandfather and generally his entire family, who financially
aided and encouraged the Nazis.

Some time later, in October 1942, the U.S. authorities
confiscated Nazi bank funds from the New York UBC, whose then
president was Prescott. The firm was condemned as a financial and
commercial collaborator with the enemy and all its assets were
seized.

Later, the U.S. government also ordered the seizure of the
assets of a further two leading financial agencies directed by
Prescott through the accounts of the Harriman banking
institution: the Holland-America Trading Corporation (a
U.S.-Dutch commercial firm) and the Seamless Steel Equipment
Corporation.

Then on November 11, 1942, an embargo was imposed on the
Silesian-American Corporation - another firm headed by Bush and
Walker - under the same Trading with the Enemy Act.

However, in 1951, the embargo was lifted and the
enterprising businessman recovered some $1.5 million USD,
earmarked for new investments largely to swell the Bush family's
patrimony.

To this should be added a resumé of files belonging to
Dutch and U.S. information services confirming the direct links
between Prescott Bush, the German Thyssen family and the blood
money of a group of rich U.S. families from the Second World War.

Tarpley and Cheitkin affirm that the great financial crash
of 1929-1931 affected the United States, Germany and Britain,
weakening their respective governments. At the same time,
Prescott Bush became even more diligent, still more desirous of
doing everything that was necessary to safeguard his place in the
world. It was during this crisis that some members of the
Anglo-U.S wealthy class supported the installation of Hitler's
regime in Germany.

To sum up, the authors categorically state that the Bush
family's fortune arose as a result of its unconditional support
for Adolph Hitler's political project.

The UBC, under Prescott Bush's direction and with the
long-term cooperation of Fritz Thyssen's German Steel Trust
participated in the emergence, preparation and financing of the
Nazi war machine through the manufacture of armored vehicles,
fighter planes, guns and explosives.

The Bush family's habit of dominating territories and
wealth is nothing new. Their fascist genes were generated during
the 1930s. Therefore defining the occupation of Afghanistan and
Iraq and the threats to other countries as a continuance of
blitzkreig offensives as fascist is no blunder. Neither is
convening an anti-fascist front is a rhetorical exercise.




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