[A-List] "Pedigree": Bush Gang, Bonesmen, Nazis and Eugenics (Part II)

["Craven, Jim" <jcraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

"The Bush-Farish axis had begun back in 1929. In that year, Harriman bank
bought Dresser Industries, supplier of oil-pipeline couplers to Standard and
other companies. Prescott Bush became a director and financial czar of
Dresser, installing his Yale classmate Neil Mahlon as chairman. George Bush
would later name one of his sons after the Dresser executive.

William S. Farish was the main organizer of the Humble Oil Co. of Texas,
which Farish merged into the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Farish
built up the Humble-Standard empire of pipelines and refineries in Texas.

The stock market crashed just after the Bush family got into the oil
business. The world financial crisis led to the merger of the
Walker-Harriman bank with Brown Brothers in 1931. Former Brown partner
Montagu Norman and his protégé Hjalmar Schacht paid frantic visits to New
York that year and the next, preparing the new Hitler regime for Germany.

The most important political event in those preparations for Hitler was the
infamous "Third International Conference on Eugenics", held in New York's
American Museum of Natural History August 21-23, 1932, supervised by the
International Federation of Eugenics Societies. This meeting took up the
stubborn persistence of African-Americans and other allegedly 'inferior' and
'socially inadequate' groups in reproducing, expanding their numbers, and
amalgamating with others. It was recommended that these 'dangers' to the
'better' ethnic groups and to the 'well-born', could be dealt with by
sterilization or 'cutting off the bad stock' of the 'unfit'.

Italy's fascist government sent an official representative. Averell
Harriman's sister Mary, director of 'Entertainment' for the Congress, lived
down in Virginia fox-hunting country; her state supplied the speaker on
'racial purity', W.A. Plecker, Virginia commissioner of vital statistics.
Plecker reportedly held the delegates spellbound with his account of the
struggle to stop race-mixing and inter-racial sex in Virginia.

  
The Congress proceedings were dedicated to Averell Harriman's mother; she
had paid for the founding of the race-science movement in America back in
1910, building the Eugenics Record Office as a branch of the Galton National
Laboratory in London. She and other Harrimans were usually escorted to the
horse races by old George Herbert Walker--they shared with the Bushes and
the Farishes a fascination with 'breeding thoroughbreds' among horses and
humans.

Averell Harriman personally arranged with the Walker/Bush Hamburg-Amerika
Line to transport Nazi ideologues from Germany to New York for this meeting.
The most famous among those transported was Dr. Ernst Rudin, psychiatrist at
the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy and Demography in Berlin where
the Rockefeller family paid for Dr. Rudin to occupy an entire floor for his
eugenics 'research'. Dr. Rudin had addressed the International Federation's
1928 meeting, speaking on 'Mental Aberration and Race Hygiene', while others
(Germans and Americans) spoke on race-mixing and sterilization of the unfit.
Rudin has also led the German delegation to the 1930 Mental Hygiene Congress
in Washington, D.C.

At the Harriman's 1932 New York Eugenics Congress, Ernst Rudin was
unanimously elected president of the International Federation of Eugenics
Societies. This was recognition of Rudin as founder of the German Society
for Race Hygiene, with his co-founder, Eugenics Foundation vice-president
Alfred Plotz.

As depression-maddened financiers schemed in Berlin and New York, Rudin was
now official leader of the world eugenics movement. Components of this
movement included groups with overlapping leadership dedicated to:
*sterilization of mental patients ('mental hygiene societies');
*execution of the insane, criminals and the terminally ill ('euthanasia
societies'); 
and
*eugenical race purification by prevention of births to parents from
'inferior' blood stocks ('birth control societies');

Before the Auschwitz death camp became a household word, these
British-American-European groups called openly for the elimination of the
'unfit' by means including force and violence.

Ten months later, in June 1933, Hitler's interior minister Wilhelm Frick
spoke to a eugenics meeting in the new Third Reich. Frick called the Germans
a 'degenerate' race, denouncing one-fifth of Germany's parents for producing
'feeble-minded' and 'defective' children. The following month, on a
commission by Frick, Dr. Ernst Rudin wrote 'The Law for the Prevention of
Hereditary Diseases in Posterity', the sterilization law modeled on previous
U.S. statutes in Virginia and other states.

Special courts were soon established for the sterilization of German mental
patients, the blind, the deaf, and alcoholics. A quarter million people in
these categories were sterilized. Rudin, Plotz and their colleagues trained
a whole generation of physicians and psychiatrists--as sterilizers and
killers."

(Ibid. pp. 283-284)

To be continued...