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

[Joe Allonby]

Prescott Bush apparently was all that big a guy at Brown Bros. Harriman.

In most of my reading on this subject it appears that he was somewhat
inexperienced and didn't really know what was going on with the Nazi money
laundering.

On 9/13/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
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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.
>
> ...continues:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
>
>
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