re Guardian - How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise

[pynchonoid]

Thanks for posting the link.  The Guardian story does
seem to be based on new info and sound journalistic
practice -- it's well worth reading, reconfirming the
stain on the US that the Bush family represents.

[...]The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly
discovered files in the US National Archives that a
firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was
involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his
company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading
with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later
to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany
against the Bush family by two former slave labourers
at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war
crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's
action should have been grounds for prosecution for
giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been
bubbling under the surface for some time. There has
been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi"
connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the
new documents, many of which were only declassified
last year, show that even after America had entered
the war and when there was already significant
information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he
worked for and profited from companies closely
involved with the very German businesses that financed
Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested
that the money he made from these dealings helped to
establish the Bush family fortune and set up its
political dynasty. 

[...]Three sets of archives spell out Prescott Bush's
involvement. All three are readily available, thanks
to the efficient US archive system and a helpful and
dedicated staff at both the Library of Congress in
Washington and the National Archives at the University
of Maryland.

The first set of files, the Harriman papers in the
Library of Congress, show that Prescott Bush was a
director and shareholder of a number of companies
involved with Thyssen.

The second set of papers, which are in the National
Archives, are contained in vesting order number 248
which records the seizure of the company assets. What
these files show is that on October 20 1942 the alien
property custodian seized the assets of the UBC, of
which Prescott Bush was a director. Having gone
through the books of the bank, further seizures were
made against two affiliates, the Holland-American
Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment
Corporation. By November, the Silesian-American
Company, another of Prescott Bush's ventures, had also
been seized.

The third set of documents, also at the National
Archives, are contained in the files on IG Farben, who
was prosecuted for war crimes. [...]

read it all:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power 

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the
Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the
Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that
culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy
Act are still being felt by today's president 

Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Saturday September 25, 2004



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