Guardian: "How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power"

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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
The Guardian

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator
Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of
companies that profited from their involvement with
the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

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.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
 

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