October 6, 2003
Fourth Reich?
The Bush-Rove-Schwarzenegger Nazi Nexus
By BOB FITRAKIS and HARVEY WASSERMAN
George W. Bush's grandfather helped finance the Nazi Party. Karl
Rove's grandfather allegedly helped run the Nazi Party, and helped
build the Birkenau Death Camp. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian
father volunteered for the infamous Nazi SA and became a ranking
officer.
Together, they have destabilized California and are on the brink
of bringing it a new Reich. With the Schwarzenegger candidacy
they have laid siege to America's largest state, lining it up
for the 2004 election.
The Bush family ties to the Nazi party are well known. In their
1994 Secret War Against the Jews, Mark Aarons and John Loftus
use official US documents to establish that George Herbert Walker,
George W. Bush's maternal great-grandfather, was one of Hitler's
most important early backers. He funneled money to the rising
young fascist through the Union Banking Corporation.
In 1926, Walker arranged to have his new son-in-law, Prescott
Bush---father of President George Bush I, grandfather of George
Bush II---hired as Vice President at W.A. Harriman and Company.
Prescott became a senior partner when Harriman merged with a
British-American investment company to become Brown Brothers
Harriman. In 1934 Prescott Bush joined the Board of Directors
of Union Banking.
The bank helped Hitler rise to power. It also helped him wage
war. As late as July 31, 1941---well after the Nazi invasion
of Poland---the U.S. government froze $3 million in Union Banking
assets linked to Fritz Thyssen. Thyssen was noted in the American
press as a "German industrialist and original backer of
Adolph Hitler."
Loftus writes that Thyssen's "American friends in New York
Cityâ?|[were] Prescott Bush and Herbert Walker, the father
and father-in-law of a future President of the United States."
That would be the current president's father, George Herbert
Walker Bush, also the former CIA director.
On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure
of Nazi Germany's banking operations in New York City, which
were under the direction of Prescott Bush. The government seized
control of Union Banking Corporation under the Trading with the
Enemy Act. The liquidation yielded a reported $750,000 apiece
for Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker. The book, The Splendid
Blonde Beast: Money, Law and Genocide, goes into exhaustive detail
on Bush-Harriman Nazi money laundering. More recently, Michael
Kranish covers the same Bush-Nazi relationships in The Rise of
the Bush Family Dynasty published in the Boston Globe. Loftus
documents that "Prescott Bush knowingly served as a money
launderer for the Nazis. Remember that Union Bank's books and
accounts were frozen by the U.S. Alien Property Custodian in
1942 and not released back to the Bush family until 1951."
Often ignored are the Bush family's post-World War II dealings
with former Nazis. John Foster Dulles, who had worked with the
Bush family in the Harriman Company in laundering money for Nazi
Germany, was Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State. His brother
Allen became CIA director.
As Martin Lee documents in The Beast Reawakens, American intelligence
recruited numerous top Nazis to spy on the Soviets during the
Cold War. Many established connections to the Bush family that
had helped finance their original rise to power. In 1988 Project
Censored, in its top award, noted "how the major mass media
ignored, overlooked or undercovered at least ten critical stories
reported in America's alternative press that raised serious questions
about the Republican candidate, George Bush, dating from his
reported role as a CIA 'asset' in 1963 to his presidential campaign's
connection with a network of anti-Semites with Nazi and fascist
affiliations in 1988." Investigative reporter Russ Bellant
established ties between the Republican Party and former Axis
Nazis and fascists.
In 2000 and 2001 the Columbus Alive published a series of articles
documenting further links between Bush, Sr. and the Rev. Sun
Myung Moon and his own fascist networks in Japan and Korea.
Karl Rove has parallel ties. The shadowy Rove serves as "Bush's
Brain" in the current White House. He is the political mastermind
behind the California coup, and is now in the headlines for outing
Valerie Plame, the CIA wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson. A consummate
strategist, Rove may have outed Plame in retaliation for Wilson's
failure to back up the Bush claim that Saddam Hussein was buying
nuclear weapons materials in Africa. According to some published
reports, as many as seventy CIA operatives have been put at risk
by Rove's retaliatory strike.
According to Wilson, and to Retired U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Al
Martin (www.almartinraw.com),
Rove's grandfather was Karl Heinz Roverer, the Gauleiter of Oldenburg.
Roverer was Reich-Statthalter---Nazi State Party Chairman---for
his region. He was also a partner and senior engineer in the
Roverer Sud-Deutche Ingenieurburo A. G. engineering firm, which
built the Birkenau death camp, at which tens of thousands of
Jews, Gypsies, dissidents and other were slaughtered en masse.
Rove, who has been based in Utah and associated with the Mormon
Church, is widely viewed as the chief engineer of the current
Bush administration. He and Tom DeLay are attempting to force
the Texas legislature to redistrict its Congressional delegations,
adding seven sure seats to the Republican column. By controlling
the state houses in New York, Florida, Texas and California,
the GOP would have a lock on the four largest states in the union,
and thus the ability to manipulate vote counts and strip voter
registration rolls in the run-up to the 2004 election.
Rove is a prime behind-the-scenes mover in the Schwarzenegger
campaign. On May 1, 1939, a year after the Nazis took control
of Schwarzenegger's native Austria, his father Gustav, voluntarily
joined Hilter's infamous Strumabteilung (SA), "brown shirt"
stormtroopers. This was just six months after the brown shirts
played a key role in the bloody Kristallnacht attacks on Germany's
Jewish community.
The Vienna daily Der Standard noted recently that "Gustav,
a high-ranking Nazi, brought up the bespectacled, rather frail
boy with an iron fist and quite a few slaps in the face."
Arnold's father favored a Hitler-style mustache in photos.
On October 3, ABC News broke the story of Schwarzenegger's 1977
interview in which he was asked whom he admired. Schwarzenegger
replied, "I admire Hitler, for instance, because he came
from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to
power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and
for what he did with it."
To cover himself, Schwarzenegger has made substantial donations
to the Los Angeles-based Wiesenthal Center, which tracks down
ex-Nazis. Arnold has also renounced Hitler.
But he has not renounced his friendship with fellow Austrian
Kurt Waldheim, the one-time head of the United Nations with known
Nazi ties. The book Arnold: An Unauthorized Biography, documents
Arnold toasting Waldheim, who had participated in Nazi atrocities
during World War II, at his wedding to Maria Shriver. "My
friends don't want me to mention Kurt's name, because of all
the recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. controversy," Arnold
said. "But I love him and Maria does to, and so thank you,
Kurt."
On May 17, 2001, Schwarzenegger also met with Kenneth "Kenny
Boy" Lay of Enron at the Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles.
Through the utility deregulation plan signed into law by Pete
Wilson, Schwarzenegger's chief advisor, California was destabilized,
bankrupting the state government and opening the door for Tuesday's
recall election. Lay has been George W. Bush's chief financial
backer, and a close associate of Karl Rove's.
According to Bob Woodward's Bush at War, Bush attended a New
York Yankees game soon after the September 11 World Trade Center
disaster. He wore a fireman's jacket. As he threw out the first
pitch, the crowd roared. Thousands of fans stuck out their arms
with thumbs up. Karl Rove, sitting in the box of Yankee owner
George Steinbrenner, likened the roar of the crowd to "a
Nazi rally."
He would know.
Bob Fitrakis's Spooks, Nuke & Nazis is now available
at www.freepress.org. He is co-author with Harvey Wasserman of
The SuperPower of Peace v. Bush et. al.. available November 1.
Harvey Wasserman is author of Harvey Wasserman's History
of the United States and co-author (with Bob Fitrakis) of The
Superpower of Peace v. Bush, et. al., soon available from www.freepress.org.
Wasserman can be reached at: [email protected]
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