~~~ The Bush & Hitler
Connection ~~~
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.

Confirmation has been obtained
from files in the US National
Archives that a firm of which
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~~~ The Bush & Hitler
Connection ~~~
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.

Confirmation has been obtained
from 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.

But the declassified documents
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.

Documents reveal that the firm
Prescott Bush worked for,
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH),
acted as a US base for the
German industrialist, Fritz
Thyssen, who helped finance
Hitler in the 1930s before
falling out with him at the
end of the decade. Bush was
the director of the New
York-based Union Banking
Corporation (UBC) that
represented Thyssen's US
interests and he continued to
work for the bank after
America entered the war.

Another document uncovers
details of a planned coup in
the USA in 1933 by a group of
right-wing American
businessmen. The coup was
aimed at toppling President
Franklin D Roosevelt with the
help of half-a-million war
veterans. The plotters, who
were alleged to involve some
of the most famous families in
America, (owners of Heinz,
Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell
Hse & George Bush's
Grandfather, Prescott)
believed that their country
should adopt the policies of
Hitler and Mussolini to beat
the great depression.

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