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.