The GW Bush Gang: IG Farben 2001

[Eric Rosenbloom]

Cat Hamilton wrote:
> What evidence is there that the Bush family helped build up Nazi Germany?

Here's where I first read about it:

<http://onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Binion122100/binion122100.html>

It mostly reports from a couple of books by Christopher Simpson, a
respectable academic and investigative reporter. An excerpt of the article:

    Walker [George H.W.'s maternal grandfather, George Herbert] was
president of Union Banking Corporation, a firm that traded with Germany
and helped German industrialists consolidate Hitler's political power. 
Simpson says Union Banking became a Nazi money-laundering machine.
    Walker helped take over North American operations of Hamburg-Amerika
Line, a shipping line and cover for I. G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit
in the U. S.  Hamburg-Amerika smuggled in German agents, and brought in
money for bribing American politicians to support Hitler.  A 1934
congressional investigation showed Hamburg-Amerika subsidized Nazi
propaganda efforts in the U. S.
    George H. W. Bush's father, Prescott, was a board member of Union
Banking and a senior partner in a Union Banking affiliate -- the
investment firm Brown Brothers, Harriman. The U. S. government
investigated both Bert Walker and Prescott Bush, and under the Trading
with the Enemy Act seized all shares of Union Banking, including shares
held by Prescott Bush. The government held that "huge sections of
Prescott Bush's empire had been operated on behalf of Nazi Germany and
had greatly assisted the German war effort."



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