BUSH- NAZI LINK CONFIRMED



Documents in National Archives Prove George W. Bush's

Grandfather Traded with Nazis - Even After Pearl Harbor

by John Buchanan (Exclusive to the New Hampshire Gazette)



WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial

by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in

The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that

Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush,

served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative

for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926

until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush

and his "enemy national" partners.

The documents also show that Bush and his colleagues, according

to reports from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, tried to

conceal their financial alliance with German industrialist Fritz

Thyssen, a steel and coal baron who, beginning in the mid-1920s,

personally funded Adolf Hitler's rise to power by the subversion

of democratic principle and German law.

Furthermore, the declassified records demonstrate that Bush

and his associates, who included E. Roland Harriman, younger

brother of American icon W. Averell Harriman, and George

Herbert Walker, President Bush's maternal great-grandfather,

continued their dealings with the German industrial tycoon for

nearly a year after the U.S. entered the war.

No Story?

For six decades these historical facts have gone unreported

by the mainstream U.S. media. The essential facts have

appeared on the Internet and in relatively obscure books, but

were dismissed by the media and Bush family as undocumented

diatribes. This story has also escaped the attention of "official"

Bush biographers, Presidential historians and publishers of U.S.

history books covering World War II and its aftermath.

The White House did not respond to phone calls seeking comment.

The Summer of '42

The unraveling of the web of Bush-Harriman-Thyssen U.S.

enterprises, all of which operated out of the same suite of

offices at 39 Broadway in New York under the supervision of

Prescott Bush, began with a story that ran simultaneously in

the New York Herald-Tribune and Washington Post on July 31,

1941. By then, the U.S. had been at war with Germany for

nearly eight months.

"Hitler's Angel Has $3 Million in U.S. Bank," declared the front-page

Herald-Tribune headline. The lead paragraph characterized Fritz

Thyssen as "Adolf Hitler's original patron a decade ago." In fact,

the steel and coal magnate had aggressively supported and funded

Hitler since October 1923, according to Thyssen's autobiography,

I Paid Hitler. In that book, Thyssen also acknowledges his direct

personal relationships with Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Rudolf

Hess.

The Herald-Tribune also cited unnamed sources who suggested

Thyssen's U.S. "nest egg" in fact belonged to "Nazi bigwigs" including

Goebbels, Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, or even Hitler himself.

Business is Business

The "bank," founded in 1924 by W. Averell Harriman on behalf of

Thyssen and his Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V. of Holland,

was Union Banking Corporation (UBC) of New York City. According

to government documents, it was in reality a clearing house for a

number of Thyssen-controlled enterprises and assets, including as

many as a dozen individual businesses. UBC also bought and shipped

overseas gold, steel, coal, and U.S. Treasury bonds. The company's

activities were administered for Thyssen by a Netherlands-born,

naturalized U.S. citizen named Cornelis Lievense, who served as

president of UBC. Roland Harriman was chairman and Prescott Bush

a managing director.



The Herald-Tribune article did not identify Bush or Harriman

as executives of UBC, or Brown Brothers Harriman, in which

they were partners, as UBC's private banker. A confidential

FBI memo from that period suggested, without naming the

Bush and Harriman families, that politically prominent individuals

were about to come under official U.S. government scrutiny as

Hitler's plunder of Europe continued unabated.

After the "Hitler's Angel" article was published Bush and Harriman

made no attempts to divest themselves of the controversial

Thyssen financial alliance, nor did they challenge the newspaper

report that UBC was, in fact, a de facto Nazi front organization in

the U.S.

Instead, the government documents show, Bush and his partners

increased their subterfuge to try to conceal the true nature and

ownership of their various businesses, particularly after the U.S.

entered the war. The documents also disclose that Cornelis Lievense,

Thyssen's personal appointee to oversee U.S. matters for his

Rotterdam-based Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V., via UBC

for nearly two decades, repeatedly denied to U.S. government

investigators any knowledge of the ownership of the Netherlands

bank or the role of Thyssen in it. Brown Brothers Harriman sent

letters to the government seeking reconsideration of the seizures

by using false information.

UBC's original group of business associates included George

Herbert Walker, President Bush's maternal great-grandfather,

who had a relationship with the Harriman family that began in

1919. In 1922, Walker and W. Averell Harriman traveled to

Berlin to set up the German branch of their banking and

investment operations, which were largely based on critical

war resources such as steel and coal.

The Walker-Harriman-created German industrial alliance also

included partnership with another German titan who supported

Hitler's rise, Friedrich Flick, who partnered with Thyssen in the

German Steel Trust that forged the Nazi war machine. For his

role in using slave labor and his own steel, coal and arms

resources to build Hitler's war effort, Flick was convicted at the

Nuremberg trials and sentenced to prison.

The Family Business

In 1926, after Prescott Bush had married Walker's daughter,

Dorothy, Walker brought Bush in as a vice president of the

private banking and investment firm of W.A. Harriman & Co.,

also located in New York. Bush became a partner in the firm

that later became Brown Brothers Harriman and the largest

private investment bank in the world. Eventually, Bush became

a director of and stockholder in UBC.

However, the government documents note that Bush, Harriman,

Lievense and the other UBC stockholders were in fact "nominees,"

or phantom shareholders, for Thyssen and his Holland bank,

meaning that they acted at the direct behest of their German

client.

Seized

On October 20, 1942, under authority of the Trading with the

Enemy Act, the U.S. Congress seized UBC and liquidated its

assets after the war. The seizure is confirmed by Vesting

Order No. 248 in the U.S. Office of the Alien Property Custodian

and signed by U.S. Alien Property Custodian Leo T. Crowley.

In August, under the same authority, Congress had seized the

first of the Bush-Harriman-managed Thyssen entities,

Hamburg-American Line, under Vesting Order No. 126, also

signed by Crowley. Eight days after the seizure of UBC,

Congress invoked the Trading with the Enemy Act again to

take control of two more Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses

- Holland-American Trading Corp. (Vesting Order No. 261)

and Seamless Steel Equipment Corp. (Vesting Order No. 259).

The documents from the Archives also show that the Bushes

and Harrimans shipped valuable U.S. assets, including gold, coal,

steel and U.S. Treasury bonds, to their foreign clients overseas

between 1931-33, as Hitler engineered his rise to power.

Still No Story?

Since 1942, the information has not appeared in any U.S. news

coverage of any Bush political campaign, nor has it been included

in any of the major Bush family biographies. It was, however,

covered extensively in George H.W. Bush: The Unauthorized

Biography, by Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin. Chaitkin's

father served as an attorney in the 1940s for some of the

victims of the Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses.

The book gave a detailed, accurate accounting of the Bush

family's long Nazi affiliation, but no mainstream U.S. media

entity reported on or even investigated the allegations,

despite careful documentation by the authors. Major

booksellers declined to distribute the book, which was

dismissed by Bush supporters as biased and untrue. Its authors

struggled even to be reviewed in reputable newspapers. That

the book was published by Lyndon LaRouche's organization

undoubtedly made it easier to dismiss, but does not change

the facts.

The essence of the story has been posted for years

on various Internet sites, including BuzzFlash.com and

TakeBackTheMedia.com, but no online media seem to

have independently confirmed it.

In the 1990s, former U.S. Justice Department Nazi war

crimes prosecutor John Loftus, now honorary president

of the Florida Holocaust Museum, wrote a book and launched

a web site (www.john-loftus.com) which did breakthrough

reporting, including establishing the link between Prescott

Bush, Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation and forced

labor at Auschwitz. Although the widely-respected Loftus

established a successful international speaking career with

his information, no U.S. newspaper or major TV news

program acknowledged his decade of work, nor did he ever

see many of the recently released documents.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media have apparently made no

attempt since World War II to either verify or disprove the

allegations of Nazi collaboration against the Bush family.

Instead, they have attempted to dismiss or discredit such

Internet sites or "unauthorized" books without any journalistic

inquiry or research into their veracity.

Loyal Defenders

The National Review ran an essay on September 1 by their

White House correspondent Byron York, entitled "Annals of

Bush-Hating." It begins mockingly: "Are you aware of the

murderous history of George W. Bush - indeed, of the

entire Bush family? Are you aware of the president's Nazi

sympathies? His crimes against humanity? And do you know,

by the way, that George W. Bush is a certifiable moron?"

York goes on to discredit the "Bush is a moron" IQ hoax,

but fails to disprove the Nazi connection.

The more liberal Boston Globe ran a column September 29

by Reason magazine's Cathy Young in which she referred

to "Bush-o-phobes on the Internet" who "repeat preposterous

claims about the Bush family's alleged Nazi connections."

Poles Tackle the Topic

Newsweek Polska, the magazine's Polish edition, published

a short piece on the "Bush Nazi past" in its March 5, 2003

edition. The item reported that "the Bush family reaped

rewards from the forced-labor prisoners in the Auschwitz

concentration camp," according to a copyrighted

English-language translation from Scoop Media

(http://www.scoop.co.nz).

The story also reported the seizure of the various

Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses.

Still Not Interested

Major U.S. media outlets, including ABC News, NBC News,

CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post, Washington

Times, Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald, as well as

Knight-Ridder Newspapers, have repeatedly declined to

investigate the story when information regarding discovery

of the documents was presented to them beginning Friday,

August 29. Newsweek U.S. correspondent Michael Isikoff,

famous for his reporting of big scoops during the

Clinton-Lewinsky sexual affair of the 1990s, declined twice

to accept an exclusive story based on the documents

from the archives.

Aftermath

In 1952, Prescott Bush was elected to the U.S. Senate,

with no press accounts about his well-concealed Nazi past.

There is no record of any U.S. press coverage of the

Bush-Nazi connection during any political campaigns

conducted by George Herbert Walker Bush, Jeb Bush,

or George W. Bush, with the exception of a brief mention

in an unrelated story in the Sarasota Herald Tribune in

November 2000 and a brief but inaccurate account in

The Boston Globe in 2001.

John Buchanan is an award-winning and internationally

published journalist and investigative reporter with 33

years of experience in New York, Los Angeles, Washington

and Miami. His work has appeared in more than 50

newspapers, magazines and books. He can be reached

by e-mail at: [email protected].

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