Newly-Uncovered Documents Confirm Bush-Nazi Link By John Buchanan fter 60 years of inattention and denial by the U.S. media, Anewly-uncovered U.S. govern- ment documents in The National Ar- chives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. bank- ing operative for the financial archi- tect 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 fi- Mike Dater nancial alliance with German indus- Documents in the U.S. National Archives prove that trialist Fritz Thyssen, a steel and coal George W. Bushs grandfather Prescott Bush baron who, beginning in the mid- traded with Nazis, even after Pearl Harbor. 1920s, personally funded Adolf Hit- ler’s rise to power by the subversion of spond to phone calls seeking comment sen and his Bank voor Handel en democratic principle and German law. The Summer of 42 Scheep-vaart N.V. of Holland, was the Furthermore, the declassified Union Banking Corp. (UBC) of New records demonstrate that Bush and his The unraveling of the web of Bush- York City. According to government associates, who included E. Roland Harriman-Thyssen U.S. enterprises, all documents, it was in reality a clearing Harriman, younger brother of Ameri- of which operated out of the same suite house for a number of Thyssen-con- can icon W. Averell Harriman, and of offices at 39 Broadway in New York trolled enterprises and assets, includ- George Herbert Walker, President under the supervision of Prescott Bush, ing as many as a dozen individual busi- Bush’s maternal great-grandfather, began with a story that ran in both the nesses. UBC also bought and shipped continued their dealings with the Ger- New York Herald-Tribune and Wash- overseas gold, steel, coal and U.S. man industrial tycoon for nearly a year ington Post on July 31, 1941. By then, Treasury bonds. The company’s activi- after the U.S. entered the war. the U.S. had been at war with Germany ties were administered for Thyssen by for nearly eight months. No Story? a Netherlands-born, naturalized U.S. “Hitler’s Angel Has $3 Million citizen named Cornelis Lievense, who For six decades these historical facts in U.S. Bank,” declared the front-page served as president of UBC. Roland have gone unreported by the main- Herald-Tribune headline. The lead Harriman was chairman and Prescott stream U.S. media. The essential facts paragraph characterized Fritz Thyssen Bush a managing director. have appeared on the internet and in as “Adolf Hitler’s original patron a The Herald-Tribune article did relatively obscure books, but were dis- decade ago.” In fact, the steel and coal not identify Bush or Harriman as ex- missed by the media and Bush family magnate had aggressively supported ecutives of UBC, or Brown Brothers as undocumented diatribes. This story and funded Hitler since October 1923, Harriman, in which they were partners, has also escaped the attention of “offi- according to Thyssen’s autobiography, as UBC’s private banker. A confiden- cial” Bush biographers, Presidential I Paid Hitler. In that book, Thyssen tial FBI memo from that period sug- historians and publishers of U.S. his- also acknowledges his direct personal gested, without naming the Bush and tory books about WWII. relationships with Adolf Hitler, Joseph Harriman families, that politically The White House did not re- Goebbels and Rudolf Hess. prominent individuals were about to The Herald-Tribune also cited John Buchanan is an award-winning in- come under official U.S. government unnamed sources who suggested Thys- vestigative reporter with 33 years of expe- scrutiny as Hitler’s plunder of Europe rience. His work has appeared in more than sen’s U.S. “nest egg” in fact belonged continued unabated. 50 newspapers, magazines and books. He to “Nazi bigwigs” including Goebbels, After the “Hitler’s Angel” arti- is also running as a Republican Party can- Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, cle was published, Bush and Harriman didate for U.S. president in 2004 to ex- or even Hitler himself. made no attempts to divest themselves pose the truth about 9/11. Since writing of the controversial Thyssen financial about the Bush-Nazi links, he has received Business is Business alliance, nor did they challenge the numerous death threats and been harassed The “bank,” founded in 1924 by W. with law suits. (See page 24.) Averell Harriman on behalf of Thys- report that UBC was a de facto Nazi August 2004 Issue # 54 Press for Conversion! 19 On May 31, 2003 soon after Newsweek The documents from the Polska was spiked U.S. government archives also for exposing that show that the Bushes and Harri- Prescott Bush prof- mans shipped valuable U.S. as- sets, including gold, coal, steel ited from Auschwitz, and U.S. Treasury bonds, to the Nazi slave la- their foreign clients overseas bour/concentration between 1931-1933, as Hitler camp in Poland Presi- engineered his rise to power. dent George W. Bush Aftermath and wife Laura, posed for press photos dur- In 1952, Prescott Bush was elected to the U.S. Senate, with ing their tour of the no press accounts about his death camp. The U.S. well-concealed Nazi past. There (and Canadian) corpo- is no record of any U.S. press rate media did not coverage of the Bush-Nazi link mention Prescotts Nazi dealings or George Ws inheritance. during any political campaigns conducted by George H.W. The Family Business front organization in the U.S. Bush, Jeb Bush or George W. Bush, Instead, the government docu- In 1926, after Prescott Bush had mar- with the exception of a brief mention ments show, Bush and his partners ried Walker’s daughter, Dorothy, in an unrelated story in the Sarasota increased their subterfuge to try to con- Walker brought Bush in as a vice presi- Herald Tribune (November 2000) and ceal the true nature and ownership of dent of the private banking and invest- a brief, inaccurate account in the Bos- their various businesses, particularly ment firm of W.A. Harriman & Co., ton Globe in 2001. after the U.S. entered the war. The also located in New York. Bush became Still No Story? documents disclose that Cornelis Lie- a partner in the firm that later became Brown Brothers Harriman and the Since 1942, the information has not vense, Thyssen’s personal appointee to appeared in any U.S. news coverage oversee U.S. matters for his Rotterdam- largest private investment bank in the world. Eventually, Bush became a di- of any Bush political campaign, nor based Bank voor Handel en Scheep- has it been included in any of the ma- vaart N.V., via UBC for nearly two rector of, and stockholder in, UBC. However, the government docu- jor Bush family biographies. It was, decades, repeatedly denied to U.S. gov- however, covered extensively in ernment investigators any knowledge ments note that Bush, Harriman, Lie- vense and the other UBC stockholders George Bush: The Unauthorized Bi- of the ownership of the Netherlands ography, by Webster Tarpley and bank or the role of Thyssen in it. Brown were in fact “nominees,” or phantom shareholders, for Thyssen and his Hol- Anton Chaitkin. (Chaitkin’s father was Brothers Harriman sent letters to the an attorney in the 1940s for some of government seeking reconsideration of land bank, meaning they acted at the direct behest of their German client. the victims of the Bush-Harriman- the seizures by using false information. Thyssen businesses.) Their book gave UBC’s original group of busi- Seized a detailed, accurate accounting of the ness associates included George Her- On October 20, 1942, using the Trad- Bush family’s long Nazi affiliation, but bert Walker, President Bush’s mater- ing with the Enemy Act, the U.S. Con- no mainstream U.S. media reported on nal great-grandfather, whose relation- gress seized UBC and liquidated its or even investigated the allegations. ship with the Harriman family began assets after the war. The seizure is con- Major booksellers declined to distrib- in 1919. In 1922, Walker and W. firmed by Vesting Order No. 248 in ute the book, which was dismissed by Averell Harriman traveled to Berlin to the U.S. Office of the Alien Property Bush supporters as biased and untrue. set up the German branch of their Custodian and signed by U.S. Alien Its authors struggled even to be re- banking and investment operations, Property Custodian Leo T. Crowley. viewed in reputable newspapers. That which were largely based on critical In August 1942, under the same the book was published by Lyndon war resources such as steel and coal. authority, Congress had seized the first LaRouche’s organization undoubtedly The Walker-Harriman-created of the Bush-Harriman-managed Thys- made it easier to dismiss, but does not German industrial alliance also in- sen entities, Hamburg-American Line, change the facts. cluded partnership with another Ger- under Vesting Order No. 126, also In the 1990s, former U.S. Jus- man titan who supported Hitler’s rise, signed by Crowley. Eight days after the tice Department Nazi war crimes pros- Friedrich Flick, who partnered with seizure of UBC, Congress invoked the ecutor John Loftus wrote a book and Thyssen in the German Steel Trust that Trading with the Enemy Act to take launched a web site which did break- forged the Nazi war machine. For his control of two more Bush-Harriman- through reporting, including establish- role in using slave labor and his own Thyssen businesses: Holland-Ameri- ing the link between Prescott Bush, steel, coal and arms resources to build can Trading Corp. (Vesting Order 261) Consolidated Silesian Steel Corp. and Hitler’s war effort, Flick was convicted and Seamless Steel Equipment Corp. forced labor at Auschwitz. Although at Nuremberg and sentenced to prison. (Vesting Order 259). the widely-respected Loftus established 20 Press for Conversion! Issue # 54 August 2004 a successful international speaking ca- sympathies? His crimes against hu- Still Not Interested reer with his information, no U.S. manity? And do you know, by the way, Major U.S. media outlets, including newspaper or major TV news program that George W. Bush is a certifiable ABC News, NBC News, CNN, New acknowledged his decade of work. moron?” York discredits the “Bush is York Times, Washington Post, Wash- Meanwhile, the mainstream a moron” IQ hoax, but fails to disprove ington Times, Los Angeles Times and media have made no attempt since the Nazi connection. The more liberal Miami Herald, as well as the Knight- WWII to either verify or disprove the Boston Globe ran a column Septem- Ridder newspapers, repeatedly de- allegations of Nazi collaboration ber 29 by Reason magazine’s Cathy clined to investigate when information against the Bush family. Instead, they Young in which she referred to “Bush- regarding discovery of the documents have attempted to dismiss or discredit o-phobes on the Internet” who “repeat was presented to them beginning Au- such Internet sites or “unauthorized” preposterous claims about the Bush gust 29, 2003. Newsweek U.S. corre- books without any journalistic inquiry family’s alleged Nazi connections.” spondent Michael Isikoff, famous for or research into their veracity. Poles Tackle the Topic his reporting of big scoops during the Clinton-Lewinsky sexual affair of the Loyal Defenders Newsweek Polska (Newseek’s Polish 1990s, declined twice to accept an ex- The National Review ran an essay on edition) ran the “Bush Nazi past” clusive story based on the documents September 1, 2003, by their White (March 5, 2003). It reported that “the from the archives. House correspondent Byron York, en- Bush family reaped rewards from the titled “Annals of Bush-Hating.” It be- forced-labor prisoners in the Ausch- Source: New Hampshire Gazette, Oc- gins mockingly: “Are you aware of the witz concentration camp,” according tober 10, 2003.