Bush/Nazi Link Continued

By John Buchanan and Stacey Michael

from The New Hampshire Gazette
Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003

Prescott Bush

After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen “enemy national” relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.

Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.

Bush’s partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.

The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment.

Although the additional seizures under the Trading with the Enemy Act did not take place until after the war, documents from The National Archives and Library of Congress confirm that Bush and his partners continued their Nazi dealings unabated. These activities included a financial relationship with the German city of Hanover and several industrial concerns. They went undetected by investigators until after World War Two.

At the same time Bush and the Harrimans were profiting from their Nazi partnerships, W. Averell Harriman was serving as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s personal emissary to the United Kingdom during the toughest years of the war. On October 28, 1942, the same day two key Bush-Harriman-run businesses were being seized by the U.S. government, Harriman was meeting in London with Field Marshall Smuts to discuss the war effort.

Denial and Deceit

While Harriman was concealing his Nazi relationships from his government colleagues, Cornelius Livense, the top executive of the interlocking German concerns held under the corporate umbrella of Union Banking Corporation (UBC), repeatedly tried to mislead investigators, and was sometimes supported in his subterfuge by Brown Brothers Harriman.

All of the assets of UBC and its related businesses belonged to Thyssen-controlled enterprises, including his Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam, the documents state.

Nevertheless, Livense, president of UBC, claimed to have no knowledge of such a relationship. “Strangely enough, (Livense) claims he does not know the actual ownership of the company,” states a government report.

H.D Pennington, manager of Brown Brothers Harriman and a director of UBC “for many years,” also lied to investigators about the secret and well-concealed relationship with Thyssen’s Dutch bank, according to the documents.

Investigators later reported that the company was “wholly owned” by Thyssen’s Dutch bank.

Despite such ongoing subterfuge, U.S. investigators were able to show that “a careful examination of UBC’s general ledger, cash books and journals from 1919 until the present date clearly establish that the principal and practically only source of funds has been Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart.”

In yet another attempt to mislead investigators, Livense said that $240,000 in banknotes in a safe deposit box at Underwriters Trust Co. in New York had been given to him by another UBC-Thyssen associate, H.J. Kouwenhoven, managing director of Thyssen’s Dutch bank and a director of the August Thyssen Bank in Berlin. August Thyssen was Fritz’s father.

The government report shows that Livense first neglected to report the $240,000, then claimed that it had been given to him as a gift by Kouwenhoven. However, by the time Livense filed a financial disclosure with U.S. officials, he changed his story again and reported the sum as a debt rather than a cash holding.

In yet another attempt to deceive the governments of both the U.S. and Canada, Livense and his partners misreported the facts about the sale of a Canadian Nazi front enterprise, La Cooperative Catholique des Consommateurs de Combustible, which imported German coal into Canada via the web of Thyssen-controlled U.S. businesses.

“The Canadian authorities, however, were not taken in by this maneuver,” a U.S. government report states. The coal company was later seized by Canadian authorities.

After the war, a total of 18 additional Brown Brothers Harriman and UBC-related client assets were seized under The Trading with the Enemy Act, including several that showed the continuation of a relationship with the Thyssen family after the initial 1942 seizures.

The records also show that Bush and the Harrimans conducted business after the war with related concerns doing business in or moving assets into Switzerland, Panama, Argentina and Brazil – all critical outposts for the flight of Nazi capital after Germany’s surrender in 1945. Fritz Thyssen died in Argentina in 1951.

One of the final seizures, in October 1950, concerned the U.S. assets of a Nazi baroness named Theresia Maria Ida Beneditka Huberta Stanislava Martina von Schwarzenberg, who also used two shorter aliases. Brown Brothers Harriman, where Prescott Bush and the Harrimans were partners, attempted to convince government investigators that the baroness had been a victim of Nazi persecution and therefore should be allowed to maintain her assets.

“It appears, rather, that the subject was a member of the Nazi party,” government investigators concluded.

At the same time the last Brown Brothers Harriman client assets were seized, Prescott Bush announced his Senate campaign that led to his election in 1952.

Investigation Investigated?

In 1943, six months after the seizure of UBC and its related companies, a government investigator noted in a Treasury Department memo dated April 8, 1943 that the FBI had inquired about the status of any investigation into Bush and the Harrimans.

“I gave ‘a memorandum’ which did not say anything about the American officers of subject,” the investigator wrote. “(Another investigator) wanted to know whether any specific action had been taken by us with respect to them.”

No further action beyond the initial seizures was ever taken, and the newly-confirmed records went unseen by the American people for six decades.

What Does It All Mean?

So why are the documents relevant today?

“The story of Prescott Bush and Brown Brothers Harriman is an introduction to the real history of our country,” says L.A. art book publisher and historian Edward Boswell. “It exposes the money-making motives behind our foreign policies, dating back a full century. The ability of Prescott Bush and the Harrimans to bury their checkered pasts also reveals a collusion between Wall Street and the media that exists to this day.”

Sheldon Drobny, a Chicago entrepreneur and philanthropist who will soon launch a liberal talk radio network, says the importance of the new documents is that they prove a long pattern of Bush family war profiteering that continues today via George H.W. Bush’s intimate relationship with the Saudi royal family and the bin Ladens, conducted via the super-secret Carlyle Group, whose senior advisers include former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III.

In the post-9/11 world, Drobny finds the Bush-Saudi connection deeply troubling. “Trading with the enemy is trading with the enemy,” he says. “That’s the relevance of the documents and what they show.”

Lawrence Lader, an abortion rights activist and the author of more than 40 books, says “the relevance lies with the fact that the sitting President of the United States would lead the nation to war based on lies and against the wishes of the rest of the world.” Lader and others draw comparisons between President Bush’s invasion of Iraq and Hitler’s occupation of Poland in 1939 – the event that sparked World War Two.

However, others see an even larger significance.

“The discovery of the Bush-Nazi documents raises new questions about the role of Prescott Bush and his influential business partners in the secret emigration of Nazi war criminals, which allowed them to escape justice in Germany,” says Bob Fertik, co-founder of Democrats.com and an amateur ‘Nazi hunter.’ “It also raises questions about the importance of Nazi recruits to the CIA in its early years, in what was called Operation Paperclip, and Prescott Bush’s role in that dark operation.”

Fertik and others, including former Justice Department Nazi war crimes prosecutor John Loftus, a Constitutional attorney in Miami, and a former Veterans Administration official, believe Prescott Bush and the Harrimans should have been tried for treason.

What Next?

Now, say Fertik and Loftus, there should be a Congressional investigation into the Bush family’s Nazi past and its concealment from the American people for 60 years.

“The American people have a right to know, in detail, about this hidden chapter of our history,” says Loftus, author of The Secret War Against the Jews. “That’s the only way we can understand it and deal with it.”

For his part, Fertik is pessimistic that even a Congressional investigation can thwart the war profiteering of the present Bush White House. “It’s impossible to stop it,” he says, “when the worst war profiteers are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, who operate in secrecy behind the vast powers of the White House.”

John Buchanan is a journalist and magazine writer based in Miami Beach. He can be reached by e-mail at jtwg@bellsouth.net.

Stacey Michael is a New Orleans-based journalist and the author of Religious Conceit. His most recent book is Weapons of Mass Dysfunction: The Art of “Faith-Based” Politics, due in early 2004. He can be reached by email at staceymichael@religiousconceit.com.

7 thoughts on “Bush/Nazi Link Continued”

  1. If you listen to John Loftus, ( ( In His Video at my link ) a former U.S. Department of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor ) , ( one of the most extensive authority on the American Collaboration with the Nazis ) he stated that 150 people from 150 separate American companies stayed in Nazi Germany during the war and gave aid and comfort to the enemy – Not one of them were charged. He also stated that 70 percent of the funding that built the Nazi party came from Wall Street in America. At the end of the war the Rockefellers owned 31 percent of the Thyssen Group and Bush owned Union Bank – The Union Bank was the conduit for laundering the Rockefeller’s Nazi investments back to America and was owned by Prescott Bush through the Holland-American investment company. ( Quote from Wikipedia – Eugenics In The U.S. ) ( The Rockefeller Foundation helped develop and fund various German eugenics programs, including the one that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.)
    So if the U.S. built the Nazi government and their programs of eugenics and used the entire process as a collaborated effort to control , give aid and comfort to the enemy and collaborate with our created German government for financial gain , shouldn’t they have to return all of the claimed neutral assets and default on all of the territory seized and be forced to remove their bases from Germany ?
    It’s time these families , the U.S. government and those companies come forward and admit that they were wrong and be responsible.

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=C-fM7i2GW0k
    At abt 41.50
    Info About Haroon_Rashid_Aswat As A Double Agent For MI-6 – & other complicity

    http://inboxrgh.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/u-s-created-and-executed-genocide-in-germany/
    Christian Genocide – America Funding Al Qaeda – See Arab Nazi Connection in Video
    http://inboxrgh.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/christian-genocide-in-syria/
    From Samuel The Merchant Of Death – Presoctt – George Sr & Jr – Bush and the vast history of ………

    American Secrets to be released soon – Trailer
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO0JuhS5sMg&feature=player_embedded

  3. http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/new_world_order/bush_nazis.html

    One of the most interesting things I found about this article ( by John Loftus, a former U.S. Department of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor ) is the Bush / Rockefeller Connection is horrifying – Especially considering the Rockefellers owned 31 percent of the Thyssen Group and Bush owned Union Bank !

    The Rockefeller Foundation helped develop and fund various German eugenics programs, including the one that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.[

    http://inboxrgh.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/u-s-created-and-executed-genocide-in-germany/

  4. I guess this doesn’t mean much to those who “hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil” approach to life!

  5. No one is above the Law, regaurdless of their name or wealth. Not the Bush’s of the world nor the Chenny’s. A war criminal is a war criminal no mater how they present their selves.
    The truth to new world order is accepting these facts, new world order requires team effort not dictators. If what Bush and Chenny had done was just a blemish on new world order I’d find that acceptable. I might even say give them the benifit of the dought there intenstion meant well.
    There’s no way that duo had any good intensions, its all about oil , money and control to this pair, after all its the haves and have nots. An statement by Bush daring any one to defy him. F it what ever

  6. Well, not all that suprising. Before the second worldwar started, in the States several; “race experts” stated in theorie (and recorded theorie in the national “scientific” liberary of the states!) that the “white race” was superior in several, to them importend genetic issues, aspects. Intellegence was stated as one of them, in regard to other genetic pools and races. This is where Hitler had a lot of insperation from in regard to his race theories.

    In regard to that period of time, but esspecially; men, the did not know the reach of time and collisions by and for men. But..in regard to the time now; appalling information which if investigated and confirmd, states one thing. Hypocratie is not only a Greek word, but also underlines the Israeli relationship in regard to the Americans and there statement tot the gaza and second world war.

    Appalling information, the public has the right to know the facts.

    Robin

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