Re: [Fwd: The Bush Family and the Nazis]

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Isn't Executive Intelligence Review a Lyndon Larouche-related outfit?

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

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Perhaps the most comprehensive book on the Bush family, including its connections with the Nazis, is:

Tarpley, Webster G., and Anton Chaitkin. 1991. George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography: Executive Intelligence Review (http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm)

Jonathan
 

Michael Perelman wrote:

Jim Craven sent this to the Marxism list.

The Bush Family and the Jews

How the Bush Family made its fortune from the Nazis

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Heir to the Holocaust

originally published in Clamor Magazine by Toby Rogers

While the Enron scandal currently unfolds, another Bush family business
scandal lurks beneath the shadows of history that may dwarf it. On April
19,
2001, President George W. Bush spent some of Holocaust Remembrance Day
in
the Capital Rotunda with holocaust survivors, allied veterans, and their

families. In a ceremony that included Jewish prayers and songs sung by
holocaust victims in the camps, Benjamin Meed, a survivor of the Warsaw
ghetto uprising, movingly described to the gathering what he experienced
on
April 19, 1943.

"I stood outside a Catholic church, which faced the ghetto," Mr. Meed
said,
"a young Jewish boy posing as a gentile. As I watched the ghetto being
bombarded by the German artillery, I could see many of the Jews of my
community jumping out of windows of burning buildings. I stood long and
mute." The survivor concluded his reminiscence saying, "We tremble to
think
what could happen if we allow a new generation to arise ignorant of the
tragedy which is still shaping the future."

President Bush, appearing almost uncomfortable, read a statement that
saidthat humanity was "bound by conscience to remember what happened"
and
that "the record has been kept and preserved." The record, Mr. Bush
stated,
was that one of the worst acts of genocide in human history "came not
from
crude and uneducated men, but from men who regarded themselves as
cultured
and well schooled, modern men, forward looking. Their crime showed the
world
that evil can slip in and blend in amid the most civilized surroundings.
In
the end only conscience can stop it."

But while President Bush publicly embraced the community of holocaust
survivors in Washington last spring, he and his family have been keeping
a
secret from them for over 50 years about Prescott Bush, the president's
grandfather. According to classified documents from Dutch intelligence
and
US government archives, President George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott

Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor. In fact,
President
Bush himself is an heir to these profits from the holocaust which were
placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president George
Herbert Walker Bush.

Throughout the Bush family's decades of public life, the American press
has
gone out of its way to overlook one historical fact - that through Union

Banking Corporation (UBC), Prescott Bush, and his father-in-law, George
Herbert Walker, along with German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, financed
Adolf Hitler before and during World War II. It was first reported in
1994
by John Loftus and Mark Aarons in The Secret War Against the Jews: How
Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People.

The US government had known that many American companies were aiding
Hitler,
like Standard Oil, General Motors and Chase Bank, all of which was
sanctioned after Pearl Harbor. But as The New York Times reporter
Charles
Higham later discovered, and published in his 1983 groundbreaking book,
Trading With The Enemy; The Nazi American Money Plot 1933-1949, "the
government smothered everything during and even after the war."

Why?
According to Higham, the US government believed "a public scandal ...
would
have drastically affected public morale, caused widespread strikes and
perhaps provoked mutinies in the armed services." Higham claims the
government thought "their trial and imprisonment would have made it
impossible for the corporate boards to help the American war effort."
However, Prescott Bush's banks were not just financing Hitler as
previously
reported. In fact, there was a distinct business link much deeper than
Mr.
Higham or Mr. Loftus knew at the time their books were published. A
classified Dutch intelligence file which was leaked by a courageous
Dutch
intelligence officer, along with newly surfaced information from U.S.
government archives, "confirms absolutely," John Loftus says, the direct

links between Bush, Thyssen and genocide profits from Auschwitz.

The business connections between Prescott Bush and Fritz Thyssen were
more
direct than what has been previously written. This new information
reveals
how Prescott 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, Thyssen & Co., with
50,000 German workers and annual production of 1,000,000 tons of steel
and
iron, was buckling under the war's pressure. As the main supplier of the

German military, August Thyssen knew Germany would be defeated once the
US
entered the war.

At 74, "King" August Thyssen knew he was also running out of time. His
first
born "prince" Friedrich (Fritz) Thyssen, had been groomed at the finest
technical business schools in Europe and was destined to inherit his
father's estimated $100,000,000 fortune and an industrial empire located
at
Muehhlheim on the Ruhr. In addition to Fritz, plans were also made for
the
second son Heinrich. At the outbreak of the war, Heinrich Thyssen
discreetly
changed his citizenship from German to Hungarian and married the
Hungarian
aristocrat Baroness Margrit Bornemisza de Kaszon. Soon Heinrich Thyssen
switched his name to Baron Thyssen Bornemisza de Kaszon.

Near the end of World War I, August Thyssen opened the Bank voor Handel
en
Scheepvaart in Rotterdam. The neutral Holland was the perfect location
outside of Germany to launder assets from the August Thyssen Bank in
Berlin
when the financial demands of the Allied forces surfaced. But the war
ended
much sooner than even Thyssen calculated and what developed caught the
"Rockefeller of the Ruhr" off guard.

On November 10, 1918, German socialists took over Berlin. The following
morning at 5 a.m., what was left of Germany surrendered to the Allies,
officially ending World War I. "At the time of the Armistice and the
signing
of the Treaty of Versailles, my Father and I were deeply saddened by the

spectacle of Germany's abject humiliation," Thyssen recalled later in
his
autobiography, I Paid Hitler.

After the war, chaos descended on Germany as food ran short. Winter was
looming over a starving nation when on Dec. 7, 1918, the socialist
Spartacists League came knocking on the Thyssen Villa with armed
militia.
August and Fritz were arrested and dragged from jail to jail across
Germany
for four days. Along the way, they were lined up in staged executions
designed to terrorize them.

It worked. When released, the two Thyssens were horrified at the new
political climate in their beloved Germany. They could not accept that
Germany was responsible for its own demise. All Germany's problems, the
Thyssens felt, "have almost always been due to foreigners." It was the
Jews,
he and many others believed, who were secretly behind the socialist
movement
across the globe.

Meanwhile Fritz's younger brother Baron Thyssen Bornemisza de Kaszon
moved
to Rotterdam and became the principal owner of the Bank voor Handel en
Scheepvaart. All the Thyssens needed now was an American branch. 1920s:
The
Business Ties That Bind Railroad baron E.H. Harriman's son Averell
wanted
nothing to do with railroads, so his father gave him an investment firm,

W.A. Harriman & Company in New York City. E.H. hired the most qualified
person in the country to run the operation, George Herbert Walker.
Averell
hired his little brother Edward Roland "Bunny" Harriman as a vice
president.

By 1920, George Herbert Walker had already built a fortune in Missouri.
Walker, a charismatic former heavyweight boxing champion, was a human
pit
bull. He lived life to the fullest, owning mansions around the east
coast
and one of the most extravagant apartments in Manhattan. His hobbies
were
golf, hunting, drinking scotch and beating his sons to a pulp. Elsie
Walker,
one of Walker's grandchildren described Walker as a "tough old bastard"
whose children had no love "for their father." He was also religious
bigot
who hated Catholics, although his parents raised him to be one.
According to
other sources, he also did not like Jews.

In 1922, Averell Harriman traveled to Germany to set up a W.A. Harriman
&
Co. branch in Berlin. The Berlin branch was also run by Walker. While in

Germany, he met with the Thyssen family for the first time. Harriman
agreed
to help the Thyssens with their plan for an American bank. The following

year, a wounded Germany was growing sicker. The government had no
solution
and froze while Germany rotted from within. With widespread strikes and
production at a near standstill, Fritz Thyssen later recalled, "We were
at
the worst time of the inflation. In Berlin the government was in
distress.
It was ruined financially. Authority was crumbling. In Saxony a
communist
government had been formed and the Red terror, organized by Max Hoelz,
reigned through the countryside.

The German Reich ... was now about to crumble." In October, 1923, an
emotionally desperate Fritz Thyssen went to visit one of his and
Germany's
great military heroes, General Erich Ludendorff. During the 1918
socialist
rule in Berlin, Ludendorff organized a military resistance against the
socialists and the industrialists were in great debt to him. When
Thyssen
met with Ludendorff, they discussed Germany's economic collapse. Thyssen
was
apocalyptic, fearing the worst was yet to come. Ludendorff disagreed.
"There
is but one hope," Ludendorff said, "Adolph Hitler and the National
Socialist
party." Ludendorff respected Hitler immensely. "He is the only man who
has
any political sense." Ludendorff encouraged Thyssen to join the Nazi
movement. "Go listen to him one day" he said to Thyssen.

Thyssen followed General Ludendorff's advice and went to a number of
meetings to hear Hitler speak. He became mesmerized by Hitler. "I
realized
his orator gifts and his ability to lead the masses. What impressed me
most
however was the order that reigned over his meetings, the almost
military
discipline of his followers." Thyssen arranged to meet privately with
Hitler
and Ludendorff in Munich. Hitler told Thyssen the Nazi movement was in
financial trouble, it was not growing fast enough and was nationally
irrelevant. Hitler needed as much
money as possible to fight off the Communists/Jewish conspiracy against
Europe. Hitler envisioned a fascist German monarchy with a nonunion,
antilock national work force.

Thyssen was overjoyed with the Nazi platform. He gave Hitler and
Ludendorff
100,000 gold marks ($25,000) for the infant Nazi party. Others in the
steel
and coal industries soon followed Thyssen's lead, although none came
close
to matching him. Many business leaders in Germany supported Hitler's
secret
union-hating agenda. However, some donated because they feared they
would be
left out in the cold if he actually ever seized power. Most industry
leaders
gave up on Hitler after his failed coup in 1923. While Hitler spent a
brief
time in jail, the Thyssens, through the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart,

opened the Union Banking Corporation in 1924.

Union Banking Corporation
Early in 1924, Hendrick J. Kouwenhoven, the managing director of Bank
voor
Handel en Scheepvaart, traveled to New York to meet with Walker and the
Harriman brothers. Together, they established The Union Banking
Corporation.
The UBC's headquarters was located at the same 39 Broadway address as
Harriman & Co. As the German economy recovered through the mid to late
'20s,
Walker and Harriman's firm sold over $50,000,000 worth of German bonds
to
American investors, who profited enormously from the economic boom in
Germany. In 1926, August Thyssen died at the age of 84. Fritz was now in

control of one of the largest industrial families in Europe. He quickly
created the United Steel Works (USW), the biggest industrial
conglomerate in
German history. Thyssen hired Albert Volger, one of the Ruhr's most
influential industrial
directors, as director General of USW. Thyssen also brought Fredich
Flick,
another German family juggernaut, on board. Flick owned coal and steel
industries throughout Germany and Poland and desperately wanted to
invest
into the Thyssen empire. One of the primary motivations for the
Thyssen/Flick massive steel and coal merger was suppressing the new
labor
and socialist movements.

That year in New York, George Walker decided to give his new son in law,

Prescott Bush, a big break. Walker made Bush a vice president of
Harriman &
Co. Prescott's new office employed many of his classmates from his Yale
class of 1917, including Roland Harriman and Knight Woolley. The three
had
been close friends at Yale and were all members of Skull and Bones, the
mysterious on-campus secret society. Despite the upbeat fraternity
atmosphere at Harriman & Co., it was also a place of hard work, and no
one
worked harder than Prescott Bush.

In fact, Walker hired Bush to help him supervise the new Thyssen/Flick
United Steel Works. One section of the USW empire was the Consolidated
Silesian Steel Corporation and the Upper Silesian Coal and Steel Company

located in the Silesian section of Poland. Thyssen and Flick paid Bush
and
Walker generously, but it was worth every dime. Their new business
arrangement pleased them all financially, and the collective talents of
all
four men and their rapid success astonished the business world.

In the meantime Hitler and the Nazi party were broke. Since the German
economic recovery, members and donations had dried up, leaving the Nazi
movement withering on the vine. In 1927, Hitler was desperate for cash;
his
party was slipping into debt. Hitler told his private secretary Rudolf
Hess
to shake down wealthy coal tycoon and Nazi sympathizer Emil Kirdorf.
Kirdorf
paid off Hitler's debt that year but the following year, he too had no
money
left to contribute.

In 1928, Hitler had his eyes on the enormous Barlow Palace located in
Briennerstrasse, the most aristocratic section of Munich. Hitler wanted
to
convert the palace into the Nazi national headquarters and change its
name
to the Brown House but it was out of his price range. Hitler told Hess
to
contact Thyssen. After hearing the Hess appeal, Thyssen felt it was time
to
give Hitler a second chance. Through the Bank voor Handel en
Scheepvaart,
Thyssen said he "placed Hess in possession of the required funds" to
purchase and redesign the Palace. Thyssen later said the amount was
about
250,000 marks but leading Nazis later claimed that just the re-molding
cost
over 800,000 marks (equivalent to $2 million today).

Regardless of the cost, Hitler and Thyssen became close friends after
the
purchase of the Brown House. At the time, neither knew how influential
that
house was to become the following year when, in 1929, the great
depression
spread around the world. With the German economic recovery up in flames,

Hitler knew there was going to be a line out the door of industrialists
waiting to give him cash.

1930s: Hitler Rises - Thyssen/Bush Cash In
Thyssen would later try to claim that his weekends with Hitler and Hess
at
his Rhineland castles were not personal but strictly business and that
he
did not approve of most of Hitler's ideas, but the well-known journalist
R.G
Waldeck, who spent time with Thyssen at a spa in the Black Forest,
remembered quite differently. Waldeck said when he and Thyssen would
walk
through the cool Black Forest in 1929-30, Thyssen would tell Waldeck
that he
believed in Hitler. He spoke of Hitler "with warmth" and said the Nazis
were
"new men" that would make Germany strong again. With the depression
bleeding
Europe, Thyssen's financial support made Hitler's rise to power almost
inevitable.

The great depression also rocked Harriman & Co. The following year,
Harriman
& Co. merged with the London firm Brown/Shipley. Brown/Shipley kept its
name, but Harriman & Co. changed its name to Brown Brothers, Harriman.
The
new firm moved to 59 Wall St. while UBC stayed at 39 Broadway. Averell
Harriman and Prescott Bush reestablished a holding company called The
Harriman 15 Corporation. One of the companies Harriman had held stock in
was
the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company. Two thirds of the company was
owned
by Friedrich Flick. The rest was owned by Harriman.

In December 1931, Fritz Thyssen officially joined the Nazi party. When
Thyssen joined the movement, the Nazi party was gaining critical mass
around
Germany. The charismatic speeches and persona of Hitler, the depression
and
the Thyssen's Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart all contributed to
Hitler's
sudden rise in popularity with the German people. In September 1932,
Thyssen
invited a group of elite German industrial tycoons to his castle to meet

with Hitler. They spent hours questioning Hitler, who answered all their

questions with the'"utmost satisfaction," Thyssen remembered. The money
poured in from the industrial circles mostly due to Hitler's
"monarchistic
attitude" towards labor and issues of class.

But by November, German voters grew weary of Hitler's antidemocratic
tendencies and turned to the Communist party, which gained the most
seats in
the fall election. The Nazis lost a sweeping 35 seats in the Reichstag,
but
since the Nazis were already secretly negotiating a power sharing
alliance
with Hindenberg that would ultimately lead to Hitler declaring himself
dictator, the outcry of German voters was politically insignificant.

By 1934, Hindenberg was dead and Hitler completely controlled Germany.
In
March, Hitler announced his plans for a vast new highway system. He
wanted
to connect the entire Reich with an unprecedented wide road design,
especially around major ports. Hitler wanted to bring down unemployment
but,
more importantly, needed the new roads for speedy military maneuvers.
Hitler
also wanted to seriously upgrade Germany's military machine. Hitler
ordered
a'"rebirth of the German army" and contracted Thyssen and United Steel
Works
for the overhaul. Thyssen's steel empire was the cold steel heart of the
new
Nazi war machine that led the way to World War II, killing millions
across
Europe.

Thyssen's and Flick's profits soared into the hundreds of millions in
1934
and the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart and UBC in New York were
overflowingwith money. Prescott Bush became managing director of UBC and

handled the day-to-day operations of the new German economic plan.
Bush's
shares in UBC peaked with Hitler's new German order. But while
production
rose, cronyism did as well.

On March 19, 1934, Prescott Bush handed Averell Harriman a copy of that
day's New York Times. The Polish government was applying to take over
Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation and Upper Silesian Coal and
Steel
Company from'"German and American interests" because of rampant
"mismanagement, excessive borrowing, fictitious bookkeeping and gambling
in
securities." The Polish government required the owners of the company,
which
accounted for over 45% of Poland's steel production, to pay at least its

full share of back taxes. Bush and Harriman would eventually hire
attorney
John Foster Dulles to help cover up any improprieties that might arise
under
investigative scrutiny.

Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939 ended the debate about Consolidated
Silesian Steel Corporation and Upper Silesian Coal and Steel Company.
The
Nazis knocked the Polish Government off Thyssen, Flick and Harriman's
steel
company and were planning to replace the paid workers. Originally Hitler

promised Stalin they would share Poland and use Soviet prisoners as
slaves
in Polish factories. Hitler's promise never actually materialized and he

eventually invaded Russia.

1940s: Business As Usual
Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation was located near the Polish town
of
Oswiecim, one of Poland's richest mineral regions. That was where Hitler
set
up the Auschwitz concentration camp. When the plan to work Soviet
prisoners
fell through, the Nazis transferred Jews, communists, gypsies and other
minority populations to the camp. The prisoners of Auschwitz who were
able
to work were shipped to 30 different companies. One of the companies was
the
vast Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation. "Nobody's made the
connection
before between Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, Auschwitz and
Prescott Bush," John Loftus told Clamor. "That was the reason why
Auschwitz
was built there. The coal deposits could be processed into either coal
or
additives for aviation gasoline."

Even though Thyssen and Flick's Consolidated Steel was in their
possession,
Hitler's invasions across Europe spooked them, bringing back memories of

World War I. Thyssen and Flick sold Consolidated Steel to UBC. Under the

complete control of Harriman and management of Bush, the company became
Silesian American Corporation which became part of UBC and Harriman's
portfolio of 15 corporations. Thyssen quickly moved to Switzerland and
later
France to hide from the terror about to be unleashed by the Nazi war
machine
he had helped build.

A portion of the slave labor force in Poland was "managed by Prescott
Bush,"
according to a Dutch intelligence agent. In 1941, slave labor had become
the
lifeblood of the Nazi war machine. The resources of Poland's rich steel
and
coal field played an essential part in Hitler's invasion of Europe.
According to Higham, Hitler and the Fraternity of American businessmen
"not
only sought a continuing alliance of interests for the duration of World
War
II, but supported the idea of a negotiated peace with Germany that would
bar
any reorganization of Europe along liberal lines. It would leave as its
residue a police state that would place the Fraternity in postwar
possession
of financial, industrial, and political autonomy."

Six days after Pearl Harbor and the US declaration of war at the end of
1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau and US Attorney General Francis Biddle signed the Trading
With
the Enemy Act, which banned any business interests with US enemies of
war.
Prescott Bush continued with business as usual, aiding the Nazi invasion
of
Europe and supplying resources for weaponry that would eventually be
turned
on American solders in combat against Germany.

On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government had had enough of Prescott Bush
and
his Nazi business arrangements with Thyssen. Over the summer, The New
York
Tribune had exposed Bush and Thyssen, whom the Tribune dubbed "Hitler's
Angel." When the US government saw UBC's books, they found out that
Bush's
bank and its shareholders "are held for the benefit of ... members of
the
Thyssen family, [and] is property of nationals ... of a designated enemy

country." The list of seven UBC share holders was:
E. Roland Harriman - 3991 shares
Cornelis Lievense - 4 shares
Harold D.Pennington - 1 share
Ray Morris-- 1 share
Prescott S. Bush - 1 share
H.J. Kouwenhoven - 1 share
Johann G. Groeninger - 1 share.

The UBC books also revealed the myriad of money and holding companies
funneled from the Thyssens and the government realized UBC was just the
tip
of the iceberg. On November 17, 1942, The US government also took over
the
Silesian American Corporation, but did not prosecute Bush for the
reasons
Higham noted earlier. The companies were allowed to operate within the
Government Alien Property custodian office with a catch - no aiding the
Nazis. In 1943, while still owning his stock, Prescott Bush resigned
from
UBC and even helped raise money for dozens of war-related causes as
chairman
of the National War Fund.

After the war, the Dutch government began investigating the whereabouts
of
some jewelry of the Dutch royal family that was stolen by the Nazis.
They
started looking into books of the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart. When
they
discovered the transaction papers of the Silesian American Corporation,
they
began asking the bank manager H.J. Kounhoven a lot of questions.
Kouwenhoven
was shocked at the discovery and soon traveled to New York to inform
Prescott Bush. According to Dutch intelligence, Kouwenhoven met with
Prescott soon after Christmas, 1947. Two weeks later, Kouwenhoven
apparently
died of a heart attack.

1950s: Bush Sells UBC Stock
By 1948, Fritz Thyssen's life was in ruins. After being jailed by the
Nazis,
he was jailed by the Allies and interrogated extensively, but not
completely, by US investigators. Thyssen and Flick were ordered to pay
reparations and served time in prison for their atrocious crimes against

humanity.

On February 8, 1951, Fritz Thyssen died bitterly in Argentina at the age
of
78. Thyssen was angry at the way he was treated by Europe after the war
and
how history would remember him as Hitler's most important and prominent
financier. When Thyssen died, the Alien Property Custodian released the
assets of the Union Banking Corporation to Brown Brothers Harriman. The
remaining stockholders cashed in their stocks and quietly liquidated the

rest of UBC's blood money.

Prescott Bush received $1.5 million for his share in UBC. That money
enabled
Bush to help his son, George Herbert Walker Bush, to set up his first
royalty firm, Overby Development Company, that same year. It was also
helpful when Prescott Bush left the business world to enter the public
arena
in 1952 with a successful senatorial campaign in Connecticut. On October

8th, 1972, Prescott Bush died of cancer and his will was enacted soon
after.
In 1980, when George H.W. Bush was elected vice president, he placed his

father's family inherence in a blind trust. The trust was managed by his
old
friend and quail hunting partner, William "Stamps" Farish III. Bush's
choice
of Farish to manage the family wealth is quite revealing in that it
demonstrates that the former president might know exactly where some of
his
inheritance originated. Farish's grandfather, William Farish Jr., on
March
25th, 1942, pleaded "no contest" to conspiring with Nazi Germany while
president of Standard Oil in New Jersey. He was described by Senator
Harry
Truman in public of approaching "treason" for profiting off the Nazi war

machine. Standard Oil, invested millions in IG Farben, who opened a
gasoline
factory within Auschwitz in 1940. The billions "Stamps" inherited had
more
blood on it then Bush, so the paper trail of UBC stock would be safe
during
his 12 years in presidential politics. It has been 60 years since one of
the
great money laundering scandals of the 20th century ended and only now
are
we beginning to see the true historical aspects of this important period
of
world history, a history that the remaining Holocaust survivors beg
humanity
to "never forget."

Loftus believes history will view Prescott Bush as harshly as Thyssen.
"It
is bad enough that the Bush family helped raise the money for Thyssen to

give Hitler his start in the 1920s, but giving aid and comfort to the
enemy
in time of war is treason. The Bush bank helped the Thyssens make the
Nazi
steel that killed Allied solders. As bad as financing the Nazi war
machine
may seem, aiding and abetting the Holocaust was worse. Thyssen's coal
mines
used Jewish slaves as if they were disposable chemicals. There are six
million skeletons in the Thyssen family closet, and a myriad of criminal
and
historical questions to be answered about the Bush family's complicity."

There is no question that the Bush family needs to donate at least $1.5
million to the proper holocaust reparation fund. Since Prescott Bush is
dead, the only way to compensate is for the main inheritors of his
estate to
make amends with surviving slaves and the families of slaves who died in

Bush and Thyssen's coal mines. If the Bush family refuses to contribute
the
money to compensate for Prescott Bush's involvement in the Holocaust, it
is
like denying the Holocaust itself and their role in one of the darkest
moments in world history.

Special thanks to John Loftus, Emmy winning journalist, author and
current
president of the Florida Holocaust Museum.pen-l@xxxxxx

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Chico, CA 95929
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