How the Bush Family Wealth Is Linked to the Jewish Holocaust

HEIR TO THE HOLOCAUST Prescott Bush, 1.5 Million Dollars and Auschwitz: How the Bush Family Wealth is Linked to the Jewish Holocaust While the Enron scandal currently cultured and well schooled, modern men, like Standard Oil, General Motors and Chase unfolds, another Bush family business scandal forward looking. Their crime showed the Bank, all of which was sanctioned after Pearl lurks beneath the shadows of history that may world that evil can slip in and blend in amid Harbor. But as The New York Times reporter dwarf it. the most civilized surroundings. In the end Charles Higham later discovered, and On April 19, 2001, President George W. only conscience can stop it.” published in his 1983 groundbreaking book,– Bush spent some of Holocaust Remembrance But while President Bush publicly Trading With The Enemy; The Nazi American Day in the Capital Rotunda with holocaust embraced the community of holocaust Money Plot 1933-1949, “the government survivors, allied veterans, and their families. survivors in Washington last spring, he and smothered everything during and even after In a ceremony that included Jewish prayers his family have been keeping a secret from the war.” Why? and songs sung by holocaust victims in the them for over 50 years about Prescott Bush, According to Higham, the US camps, Benjamin Meed, a survivor of the the president’s grandfather. According to government believed “a public scandal ... Warsaw ghetto uprising, movingly described classified documents from Dutch intelligence would have drastically affected public morale, to the gathering what he experienced on April and US government archives, President caused widespread strikes and perhaps 19, 1943. George W. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush provoked mutinies in the armed services.” “I stood outside a Catholic church, which made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave Higham claims the government thought “their faced the ghetto,” Mr. Meed said, “a young labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an trial and imprisonment would have made it Jewish boy posing as a gentile. As I watched heir to these profits from the holocaust which impossible for the corporate boards to help the ghetto being bombarded by the German were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his the American war effort.” artillery, I could see many of the Jews of my father, former president George Herbert However, Prescott Bush’s banks were community jumping out of windows of Walker Bush. not just financing Hitler as previously burning buildings. I stood long and mute.” reported. In fact, there was a distinct business The survivor concluded his reminiscence Throughout the Bush family’s decades link much deeper than Mr. Higham or Mr. saying, “We tremble to think what could of public life, the American press has gone Loftus knew at the time their books were happen if we allow a new generation to arise out of its way to overlook one historical fact published. ignorant of the tragedy which is still shaping – that through Union Banking Corporation A classified Dutch intelligence file which the future.” (UBC), Prescott Bush, and his father-in-law, was leaked by a courageous Dutch President Bush, appearing almost George Herbert Walker, along with German intelligence officer, along with newly surfaced uncomfortable, read a statement that said that industrialist Fritz Thyssen, financed Adolf information from U.S. government archives, humanity was “bound by conscience to Hitler before and during World War II. It was “confirms absolutely,” John Loftus says, the remember what happened” and that “the first reported in 1994 by John Loftus and direct links between Bush, Thyssen and record has been kept and preserved.” The Mark Aarons in–The Secret War Against the genocide profits from Auschwitz. record, Mr. Bush stated, was that one of the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the The business connections between worst acts of genocide in human history Jewish People. Prescott Bush and Fritz Thyssen were more “came not from crude and uneducated men, The US government had known that direct than what has been previously written. clamor may/june 02 but from men who regarded themselves as many American companies were aiding Hitler, This new information reveals how Prescott 54 by Toby Rogers illustration Ryan James Bush and UBC, which he managed directly, profited from the Holocaust. A case can be made that the inheritors of the Prescott Bush estate could be sued by survivors of the Holocaust and slave labor communities. To understand the complete picture of how Prescott Bush profited from the Holocaust, it is necessary to return to the year 1916, where it all began. Post World War I: Thyssen Empire On The Ropes By 1916, August Thyssen could see the writing on the wall. The “Great War” was spinning out of control, grinding away at Germany’s resources and economy. The government was broke and his company, changed his citizenship from German to Thyssen & Co., with 50,000 German workers Hungarian and married the Hungarian and annual production of 1,000,000 tons of aristocrat Baroness Margrit Bornemisza de steel and iron, was buckling under the war’s Kaszon. Soon Heinrich Thyssen switched his pressure. As the main supplier of the German name to Baron Thyssen Bornemisza de military, August Thyssen knew Germany Kaszon. would be defeated once the US entered the Near the end of World War I, August war. Thyssen opened the Bank voor Handel en At 74, “King” August Thyssen knew he Scheepvaart in Rotterdam. The neutral was also running out of time. His first born Holland was the perfect location outside of Germany to launder assets from the August “prince” Friedrich (Fritz) Thyssen, had been groomed at the finest technical business Thyssen Bank in Berlin when the financial schools in Europe and was destined to inherit demands of the Allied forces surfaced. But may/june 02 his father’s estimated $100,000,000 fortune the war ended much sooner than even Thyssen and an industrial empire located at calculated and what developed caught the Muehhlheim on the Ruhr. “Rockefeller of the Ruhr” off guard. In addition to Fritz, plans were also made On November 10, 1918, German clamor for the second son Heinrich. At the outbreak socialists took over Berlin. The following of the war, Heinrich Thyssen discreetly morning at 5 a.m., what was left of Germany 55 surrendered to the Allies, officially ending agreed to help the Thyssens with their plan the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, opened World War I. “At the time of the Armistice for an American bank. the Union Banking Corporation in 1924. and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, The following year, a wounded Germany my Father and I were deeply saddened by the was growing sicker. The government had no Union Banking Corporation spectacle of Germany’s abject humiliation,” solution and froze while Germany rotted from Thyssen recalled later in his autobiography, I within. With widespread strikes and Early in 1924, Hendrick J. Paid Hitler. production at a near standstill, Fritz Thyssen Kouwenhoven, the managing director of Bank After the war, chaos descended on later recalled, “We were at the worst time of voor Handel en Scheepvaart, traveled to New Germany as food ran short. Winter was the inflation. In Berlin the government was York to meet with Walker and the Harriman looming over a starving nation when on Dec. in distress. It was ruined financially. Authority brothers. Together, they established The 7, 1918, the socialist Spartacists League came was crumbling. In Saxony a communist Union Banking Corporation. The UBC’s knocking on the Thyssen Villa with armed government had been formed and the Red headquarters was located at the same 39 militia. August and Fritz were arrested and terror, organized by Max Hoelz, reigned Broadway address as Harriman & Co. dragged from jail to jail across Germany for through the countryside. The German Reich As the German economy recovered four days. Along the way, they were lined up ... was now about to crumble.” through the mid to late ‘20s, Walker and in staged executions designed to terrorize In October, 1923, an emotionally Harriman’s firm sold over $50,000,000 worth them. desperate Fritz Thyssen went to visit one of of German bonds to American investors, who It worked. When released, the two his and Germany’s great military heroes, profited enormously from the economic boom Thyssens were horrified at the new political General Erich Ludendorff. During the 1918 in Germany. In 1926, August Thyssen died at climate in their beloved Germany. They socialist rule in Berlin, Ludendorff organized the age of 84. Fritz was now in control of one could not accept that Germany was a military resistance against the socialists and of the largest industrial families in Europe. responsible for its own demise. All the industrialists were in great debt to him. He quickly created the United Steel Works Germany’s problems, the Thyssens felt, When Thyssen met with Ludendorff, they (USW), the biggest industrial conglomerate “have almost always been due to foreigners.” discussed Germany’s economic collapse. in German history. Thyssen hired Albert It was the Jews, he and many others believed, Thyssen was apocalyptic, fearing the worst Volger, one of the Ruhr’s most influential who were secretly behind the socialist was yet to come. Ludendorff disagreed. industrial directors, as director General of movement across the globe. “There is but one hope,” Ludendorff said, USW. Meanwhile Fritz’s younger brother “Adolph Hitler and the National Socialist Thyssen also brought Fredich Flick, Baron Thyssen Bornemisza de Kaszon party.” Ludendorff respected Hitler another German family juggernaut, on board. moved to Rotterdam and became the immensely. “He is the only man who has any Flick owned coal and steel industries principal owner of the Bank voor Handel en political sense.” Ludendorff encouraged throughout Germany and Poland and Scheepvaart.

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