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The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. |
Bush - Nazi Link Confirmed
By by John Buchanan
from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 1, October 10, 2003
By John Buchanan
Exclusive to The New Hampshire Gazette
WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S.
media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and
Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President
George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative
for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942,
when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his "enemy national"
partners.
The documents also show that Bush and his colleagues, according to reports
from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and FBI, tried to conceal their
financial alliance with German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, a steel and coal
baron who, beginning in the mid-1920s, personally funded Adolf Hitler's rise
to power by the subversion of democratic principle and German law.
Furthermore, the declassified records demonstrate that Bush and his
associates, who included E. Roland Harriman, younger brother of American
icon W. Averell Harriman, and George Herbert Walker, President Bush's
maternal great-grandfather, continued their dealings with the German
industrial baron for nearly eight months after the U.S. entered the war.
No Story?
For six decades these historical facts have gone unreported by the
mainstream U.S. media. The essential facts have appeared on the Internet and
in relatively obscure books, but were dismissed by the media and Bush family
as undocumented diatribes. This story has also escaped the attention of
"official" Bush biographers, Presidential historians and publishers of U.S.
history books covering World War II and its aftermath.
The White House did not respond to phone calls seeking comment.
The Summer of '42
The unraveling of the web of Bush-Harriman-Thyssen U.S. enterprises, all of
which operated out of the same suite of offices at 39 Broadway under the
supervision of Prescott Bush, began with a story that ran in the New York
Herald-Tribune on July 30, 1942. By then, the U.S. had been at war with
Germany for nearly eight months.
"Hitler's Angel Has $3 Million in U.S. Bank," declared the headline. The
lead paragraph characterized Fritz Thyssen as "Adolf Hitler's original
patron a decade ago." In fact, the steel and coal magnate had aggressively
supported and funded Hitler since October 1923, according to Thyssen's
autobiography, I Paid Hitler. In that book, Thyssen also acknowledges his
direct personal relationships with Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Rudolf
Hess.
The Herald-Tribune also cited unnamed sources who suggested Thyssen's U.S.
"nest egg" in fact belonged to "Nazi bigwigs" including Goebbels, Hermann
Goering, Heinrich Himmler, or even Hitler himself.
Business is Business
The "bank," founded in 1924 by W. Averell Harriman on behalf of Thyssen and
his Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V. of Holland, was Union Banking
Corporation (UBC) of New York City. According to government documents, it
was in reality a clearing house for a number of Thyssen-controlled
enterprises and assets, including as many as a dozen individual businesses.
UBC also bought and shipped overseas gold, steel, coal, and U.S. Treasury
and war bonds. The company's activities were administered for Thyssen by a
Netherlands-born, naturalized U.S. citizen named Cornelis Lievense, who
served as president of UBC. Roland Harriman was chairman and Prescott Bush a
managing director.
The Herald-Tribune article did not identify Bush or Harriman as executives
of UBC, or Brown Brothers Harriman, in which they were partners, as UBC's
private banker. A confidential FBI memo from that period suggested, without
naming the Bush and Harriman families, that politically prominent
individuals were about to come under official U.S. government scrutiny as
Hitler's plunder of Europe continued unabated.
After the "Hitler's Angel" article was published Bush and Harriman made no
attempts to divest themselves of the controversial Thyssen financial
alliance, nor did they challenge the newspaper report that UBC was, in fact,
a de facto Nazi front organization in the U.S.
Instead, the government documents show, Bush and his partners increased
their subterfuge to try to conceal the true nature and ownership of their
various businesses, particularly after the U.S. entered the war. The
documents also disclose that Cornelis Lievense, Thyssen's personal appointee
to oversee U.S. matters for his Rotterdam-based Bank voor Handel en
Scheepvaart N.V., via UBC for nearly two decades, repeatedly denied to U.S.
government investigators any knowledge of the ownership of the Netherlands
bank or the role of Thyssen in it.
UBC's original group of business associates included George Herbert Walker,
who had a relationship with the Harriman family that began in 1919. In 1922,
Walker and W. Averell Harriman traveled to Berlin to set up the German
branch of their banking and investment operations, which were largely based
on critical war resources such as steel and coal.
The Walker-Harriman-created German industrial alliance also included
partnership with another German titan who supported Hitler's rise, Friedrich
Flick, who partnered with Thyssen in the German Steel Trust that forged the
Nazi war machine. For his role in using slave labor and his own steel, coal
and arms resources to build Hitler's war effort, Flick was convicted at the
Nuremberg trials and sentenced to seven years in prison.
The Family Business
In 1926, after Prescott Bush had married Walker's daughter, Dorothy, Walker
brought Bush in as a vice president of the private banking and investment
firm of W.A. Harriman & Co., also located in New York. Bush became a partner
in the firm that later became Brown Brothers Harriman and the largest
private investment bank in the world. Eventually, Bush became a director of
and stockholder in UBC.
However, the government documents note that Bush, Harriman, Lievense and the
other UBC stockholders were in fact "nominees," or phantom shareholders, for
Thyssen and his Holland bank, meaning that they acted at the direct behest
of their German client.
Seized
On October 20, 1942, under authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act, the
U.S. Congress seized UBC and liquidated its assets after the war. The
seizure is confirmed by Vesting Order No. 248 in the U.S. Office of the
Alien Property Custodian and signed by U.S. Alien Property Custodian Leo T.
Crowley.
In August, under the same authority, Congress had seized the first of the
Bush-Harriman-managed Thyssen entities, Hamburg-American Line, under Vesting
Order No. 126, also signed by Crowley. Eight days after the seizure of UBC,
Congress invoked the Trading with the Enemy Act again to take control of two
more Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses - Holland-American Trading Corp.
(Vesting Order No. 261) and Seamless Steel Equipment Corp (Vesting Order No.
259). In November, Congress seized the Nazi interests in Silesian-American
Corporation, which allegedly profited from slave labor at Auschwitz via a
partnership with I.G. Farben, Hitler's third major industrial patron and
partner in the infrastructure of the Third Reich.
The documents from the Archives also show that the Bushes and Harrimans
shipped valuable U.S. assets, including gold, coal, steel and U.S. Treasury
and war bonds, to their foreign clients overseas as Hitler geared up for his
1939 invasion of Poland, the event that sparked World War II.
That's One Way to Put It
Following the Congressional seizures of UBC and the other four
Bush-Harriman-Thyssen enterprises, The New York Times reported on December
16, 1944, in a brief story on page 25, that UBC had "received authority to
change its principal place of business to 120 Broadway." The Times story did
not report that UBC had been seized by the U.S. government or that the new
address was the U.S. Office of the Alien Property Custodian. The story also
neglected to mention that the other UBC-related businesses had also been
seized by Congress.
Still No Story?
Since then, the information has not appeared in any U.S. news coverage of
any Bush political campaign, nor has it been included in any of the major
Bush family biographies. It was, however, covered extensively in George H.W.
Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, by Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin.
Chaitkin's father served as an attorney in the 1940s for some of the victims
of the Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses.
The book gave a detailed, accurate accounting of the Bush family's long Nazi
affiliation, but no mainstream U.S. media entity reported on or even
investigated the allegations, despite careful documentation by the authors.
Major booksellers declined to distribute the book, which was dismissed by
Bush supporters as biased and untrue. Its authors struggled even to be
reviewed in reputable newspapers. That the book was published by a Lyndon
LaRouche's organization undoubtedly made it easier to dismiss, but does not
change the facts.
The essence of the story been posted for years on various Internet sites,
including BuzzFlash.com and TakeBackTheMedia.com, but no online media seem
to have independently confirmed it.
Likewise, the mainstream media have apparently made no attempt since World
War II to either verify or disprove the allegations of Nazi collaboration
against the Bush family. Instead, they have attempted to dismiss or
discredit such Internet sites or "unauthorized" books without any
journalistic inquiry or research into their veracity.
Loyal Defenders
The National Review ran an essay on September 1 by their White House
correspondent Byron York, entitled "Annals of Bush-Hating." It begins
mockingly: "Are you aware of the murderous history of George W. Bush -
indeed, of the entire Bush family? Are you aware of the president's Nazi
sympathies? His crimes against humanity? And do you know, by the way, that
George W. Bush is a certifiable moron?" York goes on to discredit the "Bush
is a moron" IQ hoax, but fails to disprove the Nazi connection.
The more liberal Boston Globe ran a column September 29 by Reason magazine's
Cathy Young in which she referred to "Bush-o-phobes on the Internet" who
"repeat preposterous claims about the Bush family's alleged Nazi
connections."
Poles Tackle the Topic
Newsweek Polska, the magazine's Polish edition, published a short piece on
the "Bush Nazi past" in its March 5, 2003 edition. The item reported that
"the Bush family reaped rewards from the forced-labor prisoners in the
Auschwitz concentration camp," according to a copyrighted English-language
translation from Scoop Media (www.scoop.co.nz). The story also reported the
seizure of the various Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses.
Still Not Interested
Major U.S. media outlets, including ABC News, NBC News, The New York Times,
Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald, have
repeatedly declined to investigate the story when information regarding
discovery of the documents was presented to them beginning Friday, August
29. Newsweek U.S. correspondent Michael Isikoff, famous for his reporting of
big scoops during the Clinton-Lewinsky sexual affair of the 1990s, declined
twice to accept an exclusive story based on the documents from the archives.
Aftermath
After the seizures of the various businesses they oversaw with Cornelis
Lievense and his German partners, the U.S. government quietly settled with
Bush, Harriman and others after the war. Bush and Harriman each received
$1.5 million in cash as compensation for their seized business assets.
In 1952, Prescott Bush was elected to the U.S. Senate, with no press
accounts about his well-concealed Nazi past. There is no record of any U.S.
press coverage of the Bush-Nazi connection during any political campaigns
conducted by George Herbert Walker Bush, Jeb Bush, or George W. Bush, with
the exception of a brief mention in an unrelated story in the Sarasota
Herald Tribune in November 2000 and a brief but inaccurate account in The
Boston Globe in 2001.
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--
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me
to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been
enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money
power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the
prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and
the Republic is destroyed."
-- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F.
Elkins)
Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)
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