George Herbert Walker And Prescott Bush
Funded And Directed The Military Industrial Complex
Behind Adolf Hitler And The Nazi Revolution
Bush
Family Funded Adolf Hitler
George
Herbert Walker And Prescott Bush
Funded And Directed The Military Industrial Complex
Behind Adolf Hitler And The Nazi Revolution
by Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin
from George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
The
grandfather of President George Walker Bush (Skull & Bones, 1968)
was Prescott Bush (Skull & Bones, 1917), and his great grand father
was George Herbert Walker. Prescott Bush and George Herbert (Bert) Walker
were directors of the London-affiliated New York banking house of Brown
Brothers-Harriman and its various fronts, which funded and directed
the military-industrial complex behind Hitler and the Nazi revolution.
In 1919, George Herbert Walker had organized W.A. Harriman & Co
which merged with the British Brown Brothers in 1931. In 1924, Averell
Harriman (Skull & Bones, 1913) and Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist
who began funding Hitler in 1923, set up the Union Banking Corp in New
York to handle funds supplied to it through Thyssen's Dutch bank for
American investment. Prescott Bush, who had been an officer of the W.A.
Harriman bank since 1926, was a director of the Union Banking Corp from
1934 through 1943. According to government documents, "all of the
shares of the Union Banking Corp., were held for the benefit of members
of the Thyssen family."
The federal government did not crack down on the Bush-Harriman/Nazi
operation until 1942. After the war, Congressional investigation revealed
that Fritz Thyssen's German Steel Trust, Germany's largest industrial
corporation [which interlocked with Union Banking Corporation] produced
a high percentage of Germany's national output of metal products and
explosives. Vesting Orders signed by the Office of Alien Property Custodian,
Leo T. Crowley, which were "published in obscure government record
books and kept out of the news, explained nothing about the Nazis involved;
only that the Union Banking Corporation was run for the 'Thyssen family'
of 'Germany and/or Hungary'-- 'nationals...of a designated enemy country.'"
"In October 1942, ten months after entering World War II, America
was preparing its first assault against Nazi military forces. Prescott
Bush was managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. His 18-year-old
son George, the future U.S. President, had just begun training to become
a naval pilot. On Oct. 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure
of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were being
conducted by Prescott Bush.
"Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over
the Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S.
Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.'s stock shares,
all of which were owned by Prescott Bush, E. Roland 'Bunny' Harriman,
three Nazi executives, and two other associates of Bush. 1.
'E. Roland Harriman--3991 shares' [chairman and director of Union Banking
Corp. (UBC); this is 'Bunny' Harriman, described by Prescott Bush as
a place holder who didn't get much into banking affairs; Prescott managed
his personal investments]
'Cornelis Lievense--4 shares' [president and director of UBC; New York
resident banking functionary for the Nazis]
'Harold D. Pennington--1 share' [treasurer and director of UBC; an office
manager employed by Bush at Brown Brothers Harriman]
'Ray Morris--1 share' [director of UBC; partner of Bush and the Harrimans]
'Prescott S. Bush--1 share' [director of UBC, which was co-founded and
sponsored by his father-in-law George Walker; senior managing partner
for E. Roland Harriman and Averell Harriman]
'H.J. Kouwenhoven--1 share' [director of UBC; organized UBC as the emissary
of Fritz Thyssen in negotiations with George Walker and Averell Harriman;
managing director of UBC's Netherlands affiliate under Nazi occupation;
industrial executive in Nazi Germany; director and chief foreign financial
executive of the German Steel Trust]
'Johann G. Groeninger--1 share' [director of UBC and of its Netherlands
affiliate; industrial executive in Nazi Germany]
"all of which shares are held for the benefit of ... members of
the Thyssen family, [and] is property of nationals ... of a designated
enemy country...."
"By Oct. 26, 1942, U.S. troops were under way for North Africa.
On Oct. 28, the government issued orders seizing two Nazi front organizations
run by the Bush-Harriman bank: the Holland-American Trading Corporation
and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. 2.
"U.S. forces landed under fire near Algiers on Nov. 8, 1942; heavy
combat raged throughout November. Nazi interests in the Silesian-American
Corporation, long managed by Prescott Bush and his father-in-law George
Herbert Walker, were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act on
Nov. 17, 1942. In this action, the government announced that it was
seizing only the Nazi interests, leaving the Nazis' U.S. partners to
carry on the business. 3.
"These and other actions taken by the U.S. government in wartime
were, tragically, too little and too late. President Bush's family had
already played a central role in financing and arming Adolf Hitler for
his takeover of Germany; in financing and managing the buildup of Nazi
war industries for the conquest of Europe and war against the U.S.A.;
and in the development of Nazi genocide theories and racial propaganda,
with their well-known results.
"The facts presented here must be known, and their implications
reflected upon, for a proper understanding of President George Herbert
Walker Bush and of the danger to mankind that he represents. The President's
family fortune was largely a result of the Hitler project. The powerful
Anglo-American family associations, which later boosted him into the
Central Intelligence Agency and up to the White House, were his father's
partners in the Hitler project." 4.
How and to what extent did the Bush family direct the Hitler Project
from the 1920s until it was partially broken up in 1942? "In what
way were Hitler's Nazis themselves hired, armed and instructed by the
New York and London clique of which Prescott Bush was an executive manager?"
Equally germane is the question why? "How important was the Nazi
enterprise for which President Bush's father was the New York banker?"
What possible interest would George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush
have had in overseeing the Nazi operation?
Endnotes:
1. "The Rise of Hitler: The Reichstag Burns", The History
Place: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/burns.htm
2. The Center for Democracy and Technology:
http://www.cdt.org/security/010911response.shtml
3. Quoting Concerned Citizens Opposed to Police States; The Phase III
Report Of The U.S. Commission On National Security/21st Century
http://www.rense.com/general10/roadmap.htm
4. Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin,
George Bush: An Unauthorized Biography, Chapter II - The Hitler Project:
http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm
Source: George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
by Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin
http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm
Bush
Family Funded Adolf Hitler
IraqWar.ru, August 26, 2003
Have you ever wondered how Adolph Hitler - a mediocre painter of Austrian
origin - transformed himself into Germany's Fuhrer during the 1930s
and 1940s?
The Nazi phenomenon was no historical coincidence, and far less a philosophical
whim made real by just one man. Nazism had its followers, many of them
exceptionally wealthy, veritable alchemists of the financial world back
then.
According to research carried out over the last few years, Wall Street
bankers (amongst others) financed Hitler's rise to power whilst making
large profits at the same time. What is yet still more deplorable is
the fact that relatives of the current U.S. president were amongst this
group of individuals.
U.S. authors Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Cheitkin reveal in the recently
published George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography that Prescott Bush
(George W. Bush's grandfather) and other directors of the Union Banking
Company (UBC) were Nazi collaborators.
The book relates how in 1922 - when national socialism was emerging
- railroad impresario W. Averell Harriman traveled to Berlin and interviewed
the Thyssen family with a view to founding a German-U.S. bank. The Thyssens
were already behind-the-scenes owners of several financial institutions
that allowed them to transfer their money from Germany to the Netherlands
and from there onto the United States.
The banks in question were the August Thyssen Bank whose headquarters
were located in Berlin; the Bank voor Handel (Netherlands) and the Union
Banking Corporation (New York). At the beginning of the 1920s, one of
the members of this family, Fritz Thyssen - author of I Paid Hitler
- contributed some $25,000 USD to the recently formed German National
Socialist Workers' Party, becoming the prime and most important financier
of the Fuhrer in his ascent to power.
According to the book's authors, Thyssen was fascinated by Hitler, citing
his talent as a public speaker and his ability to lead the masses. However,
what impressed him most was the order that prevailed at his rallies
and the almost military discipline of his followers.
And so, in 1931 Thyssen joined the Nazi party, becoming one of the most
powerful members of the Nazi war machine.
At that time, the magnate presided over the German Steel Trust, a steel
industry consortium founded by Clarence Dillon, one of Wall Street's
most influential men. One of Dillon's most trustworthy collaborators
was Samuel Bush: Prescott's father, George Senior's grandfather and
great-grandfather of the current U.S. president George W. Bush.
In 1923, Harriman and the Thyssens decided to set up a bank and appointed
George Herbert Walker - Prescott's father-in-law - as president. Later,
in 1926, they established the Union Banking Corporation (UBC) with Prescott
Bush at the helm. That same year, he was also named vice president and
partner at Brown Brothers Harriman. Both firms allowed the Thyssens
to send money to the United States from Germany via the Netherlands.
U.S. economist Victor Thorn has noted that although a large number of
other corporations aided the Nazis (such as Standard Oil and Rockefeller's
Chase Bank, as well as U.S. automobile manufacturers) Prescott Bush's
interests were much more profound and sinister.
Thorn adds that UBC became a secret channel to protect Nazi capital
leaving Germany for the United States via the Netherlands. When the
Nazis needed to retrieve their funds, Brown Brothers Harriman sent them
directly to Germany.
In this way, UBC received money from the Netherlands and Brown Brothers
Harriman sent it back. And who was on the executive of both of these
companies? Prescott Bush himself, the Nazis' first money launderer.
In their book, Tarpley and Chaitkin explain that in this way a significant
part of the Bush family's financial base is related to supporting and
aiding Adolph Hitler. Therefore, the current U.S. president, just like
his father (former CIA director, vice president and president) reached
the peak of the U.S. political hierarchy thanks to his great-grandfather
and grandfather and generally his entire family, who financially aided
and encouraged the Nazis.
Some time later, in October 1942, the U.S. authorities confiscated Nazi
bank funds from the New York UBC, whose then president was Prescott.
The firm was condemned as a financial and commercial collaborator with
the enemy and all its assets were seized.
Later, the U.S. government also ordered the seizure of the assets of
a further two leading financial agencies directed by Prescott through
the accounts of the Harriman banking institution: the Holland-America
Trading Corporation (a U.S.-Dutch commercial firm) and the Seamless
Steel Equipment Corporation.
Then on November 11, 1942, an embargo was imposed on the Silesian-American
Corporation - another firm headed by Bush and Walker - under the same
Trading with the Enemy Act.
However, in 1951, the embargo was lifted and the enterprising businessman
recovered some $1.5 million USD, earmarked for new investments largely
to swell the Bush family's patrimony.
To this should be added a resumé of files belonging to Dutch
and U.S. information services confirming the direct links between Prescott
Bush, the German Thyssen family and the blood money of a group of rich
U.S. families from the Second World War.
Tarpley and Chaitkin affirm that the great financial crash of 1929-1931
affected the United States, Germany and Britain, weakening their respective
governments. At the same time, Prescott Bush became even more diligent,
still more desirous of doing everything that was necessary to safeguard
his place in the world. It was during this crisis that some members
of the Anglo-U.S wealthy class supported the installation of Hitler's
regime in Germany.
To sum up, the authors categorically state that the Bush family's fortune
arose as a result of its unconditional support for Adolph Hitler's political
project.
The UBC, under Prescott Bush's direction and with the long-term cooperation
of Fritz Thyssen's German Steel Trust participated in the emergence,
preparation and financing of the Nazi war machine through the manufacture
of armored vehicles, fighter planes, guns and explosives.
The Bush family's habit of dominating territories and wealth is nothing
new. Their fascist genes were generated during the 1930s. Therefore
defining the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and the threats to other
countries as a continuance of blitzkreig offensives as fascist is no
blunder. Neither is convening an anti-fascist front is a rhetorical
exercise.
Source:
http://www.rense.com/general40/bushfamilyfundedhitler.htm
