NP WWII, financing the Nazis, Bush

[Doug Millison]

This appeared on the PSYARTS list today:

>This is liable to  knock your hearts into your socks -- the Bush family
>helped finance the Nazi war effort:
>
>http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm



from that site:

George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & 
Anton Chaitkin


Chapter - II - The Hitler Project

Bush Property Seized--Trading with the Enemy

In October 1942, ten months after entering World War II, America was 
preparing its first assault
against Nazi military forces. Prescott Bush was managing partner of 
Brown Brothers Harriman. His
18-year-old son George, the future U.S. President, had just begun 
training to become a naval pilot.
On Oct. 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi 
German banking operations in
New York City which were being conducted by Prescott Bush.

Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over the 
Union Banking Corporation, in
which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian seized 
Union Banking Corp.'s stock
shares, all of which were owned by Prescott Bush, E. Roland `` Bunny 
'' Harriman, three Nazi
executives, and two other associates of Bush. at s1

The order seizing the bank `` vests '' (seizes) `` all of the capital 
stock of Union Banking
Corporation, a New York corporation, '' and names the holders of its shares as:

           `` E. Roland Harriman--3991 shares ''
           [chairman and director of Union Banking Corp. (UBC); this 
is `` Bunny '' Harriman, described by Prescott
           Bush as a place holder who didn't get much into banking 
affairs; Prescott managed his personal
           investments]

           `` Cornelis Lievense--4 shares ''
           [president and director of UBC; New York resident banking 
functionary for the Nazis]

           `` Harold D. Pennington--1 share ''
           [treasurer and director of UBC; an office manager employed 
by Bush at Brown Brothers Harriman]

           `` Ray Morris--1 share ''

           [director of UBC; partner of Bush and the Harrimans]

           `` Prescott S. Bush--1 share ''
           [director of UBC, which was co-founded and sponsored by his 
father-in-law George Walker; senior
           managing partner for E. Roland Harriman and Averell Harriman]

           `` H.J. Kouwenhoven--1 share ''
           [director of UBC; organized UBC as the emissary of Fritz 
Thyssen in negotiations with George Walker and
           Averell Harriman; managing director of UBC's Netherlands 
affiliate under Nazi occupation; industrial
           executive in Nazi Germany; director and chief foreign 
financial executive of the German Steel Trust]

           `` Johann G. Groeninger--1 share ''
           [director of UBC and of its Netherlands affiliate; 
industrial executive in Nazi Germany]

           `` all of which shares are held for the benefit of ... 
members of the Thyssen family, [and] is
           property of nationals ... of a designated enemy country.... ''

By Oct. 26, 1942, U.S. troops were under way for North Africa. On 
Oct. 28, the government issued
orders seizing two Nazi front organizations run by the Bush-Harriman 
bank: the Holland-American
Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. at s2

U.S. forces landed under fire near Algiers on Nov. 8, 1942; heavy 
combat raged throughout
November. Nazi interests in the Silesian-American Corporation, long 
managed by Prescott Bush and his
father-in-law George Herbert Walker, were seized under the Trading 
with the Enemy Act on Nov. 17,
1942. In this action, the government announced that it was seizing 
only the Nazi interests, leaving
the Nazis' U.S. partners to carry on the business.

These and other actions taken by the U.S. government in wartime were, 
tragically, too little and too
late. President Bush's family had already played a central role in 
financing and arming Adolf Hitler for
his takeover of Germany; in financing and managing the buildup of 
Nazi war industries for the
conquest of Europe and war against the U.S.A.; and in the development 
of Nazi genocide theories
and racial propaganda, with their well-known results.

[snip ... no time now to read the rest but it looks interest. Your 
mileage may vary.]
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