{"id":36983,"date":"2026-10-03T03:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/?p=36983"},"modified":"2026-10-03T03:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:45:48","slug":"discus-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/discus-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles : 09 d\u00e9cembre 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><basefont\/> <a> <\/p>\n<div><b>Articles<\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<hr\/>\n<ul> <\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Haut de la page\" height=\"12\" src=\"https:\/\/harissa.com\/discus\/icons\/mark_top.gif\" width=\"12\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Message pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent\" height=\"12\" src=\"https:\/\/harissa.com\/discus\/icons\/mark_up.gif\" width=\"12\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Message suivant\" height=\"12\" src=\"https:\/\/harissa.com\/discus\/icons\/mark_down.gif\" width=\"12\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bas de la page\" height=\"12\" src=\"https:\/\/harissa.com\/discus\/icons\/mark_bottom.gif\" width=\"12\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lien vers ce message\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/harissa.com\/discus\/icons\/tree_m.gif\" width=\"20\"\/>  Par <b>Soleil (Soleil)<\/b> le lundi 09 d\u00e9cembre 2002 &#8211; 06h49: <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> HEIR TO THE HOLOCAUST <\/p>\n<p>Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Capital Rotunda with holocaust  <br \/>survivors, allied veterans, and their families. In a ceremony that  <br \/>included Jewish prayers and songs sung by holocaust victims in the  <br \/>camps, Benjamin Meed, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto uprising,  <br \/>movingly described to the gathering what he experienced on April 19,  <br \/>1943. <\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0I stood outside a Catholic church, which faced the ghetto,\u00a0\u00bb Mr. Meed  <br \/>said, \u00ab\u00a0a young Jewish boy posing as a gentile. As I watched the  <br \/>ghetto being bombarded by the German artillery, I could see many of  <br \/>the Jews of my community jumping out of windows of burning buildings.  <br \/>I stood long and mute.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<p>The survivor concluded his reminiscence saying, \u00ab\u00a0We tremble to think  <br \/>what could happen if we allow a new generation to arise ignorant of  <br \/>the tragedy which is still shaping the future.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<p>President Bush, appearing almost uncomfortable, read a statement that  <br \/>said that humanity was \u00ab\u00a0bound by conscience to remember what  <br \/>happened\u00a0\u00bb and that \u00ab\u00a0the record has been kept and preserved.\u00a0\u00bb The  <br \/>record, Mr. Bush stated, was that one of the worst acts of genocide  <br \/>in human history \u00ab\u00a0came not from crude and uneducated men, but from  <br \/>men who regarded themselves as cultured and well schooled, modern  <br \/>men, forward looking. Their crime showed the world that evil can slip  <br \/>in and blend in amid the most civilized surroundings. In the end only  <br \/>conscience can stop it.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<p>But while President Bush publicly embraced the community of holocaust  <br \/>survivors in Washington last spring, he and his family have been  <br \/>keeping a secret from them for over 50 years about Prescott Bush, the  <br \/>president&rsquo;s grandfather. According to classified documents from Dutch  <br \/>intelligence and US government archives, President George W. Bush&rsquo;s  <br \/>grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz  <br \/>slave labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an heir to these  <br \/>profits from the holocaust which were placed in a blind trust in 1980  <br \/>by his father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush. <\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Bush family&rsquo;s decades of public life, the American  <br \/>press has gone out of its way to overlook one historical fact \u2013 that  <br \/>through Union Banking Corporation (UBC), Prescott Bush, and his  <br \/>father-in-law, George Herbert Walker, along with German industrialist  <br \/>Fritz Thyssen, financed Adolf Hitler before and during World War II.  <br \/>It was first reported in 1994 by John Loftus and Mark Aarons in The  <br \/>Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the  <br \/>Jewish People. <\/p>\n<p>The US government had known that many American companies were aiding  <br \/>Hitler, like Standard Oil, General Motors and Chase Bank, all of  <br \/>which was sanctioned after Pearl Harbor. But as The New York Times  <br \/>reporter Charles Higham later discovered, and published in his 1983  <br \/>groundbreaking book, Trading With The Enemy; The Nazi American Money  <br \/>Plot 1933-1949, \u00ab\u00a0the government smothered everything during and even  <br \/>after the war.\u00a0\u00bb Why? <\/p>\n<p>According to Higham, the US government believed \u00ab\u00a0a public scandal &#8230;  <br \/>would have drastically affected public morale, caused widespread  <br \/>strikes and perhaps provoked mutinies in the armed services.\u00a0\u00bb Higham  <br \/>claims the government thought \u00ab\u00a0their trial and imprisonment would  <br \/>have made it impossible for the corporate boards to help the American  <br \/>war effort.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<p>However, Prescott Bush&rsquo;s banks were not just financing Hitler as  <br \/>previously reported. In fact, there was a distinct business link much  <br \/>deeper than Mr. Higham or Mr. Loftus knew at the time their books  <br \/>were published. <\/p>\n<p>A classified Dutch intelligence file which was leaked by a courageous  <br \/>Dutch intelligence officer, along with newly surfaced information  <br \/>from U.S. government archives, \u00ab\u00a0confirms absolutely,\u00a0\u00bb John Loftus  <br \/>says, the direct links between Bush, Thyssen and genocide profits  <br \/>from Auschwitz. <\/p>\n<p>The business connections between Prescott Bush and Fritz Thyssen were  <br \/>more direct than what has been previously written. This new  <br \/>information reveals how Prescott Bush and UBC, which he managed  <br \/>directly, profited from the Holocaust. A case can be made that the  <br \/>inheritors of the Prescott Bush estate could be sued by survivors of  <br \/>the Holocaust and slave labor communities. To understand the complete  <br \/>picture of how Prescott Bush profited from the Holocaust, it is  <br \/>necessary to return to the year 1916, where it all began. <\/p>\n<p>Post World War I: Thyssen Empire On The Ropes <\/p>\n<p>By 1916, August Thyssen could see the writing on the wall. The \u00ab\u00a0Great  <br \/>War\u00a0\u00bb was spinning out of control, grinding away at Germany&rsquo;s  <br \/>resources and economy. The government was broke and his company,  <br \/>Thyssen &amp; Co., with 50,000 German workers and annual production of  <br \/>1,000,000 tons of steel and iron, was buckling under the war&rsquo;s  <br \/>pressure. As the main supplier of the German military, August Thyssen  <br \/>knew Germany would be defeated once the US entered the war. <\/p>\n<p>At 74, \u00ab\u00a0King\u00a0\u00bb August Thyssen knew he was also running out of time.  <br \/>His first born \u00ab\u00a0prince\u00a0\u00bb Friedrich (Fritz) Thyssen, had been groomed  <br \/>at the finest technical business schools in Europe and was destined  <br \/>to inherit his father&rsquo;s estimated $100,000,000 fortune and an  <br \/>industrial empire located at Muehhlheim on the Ruhr. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to Fritz, plans were also made for the second son  <br \/>Heinrich. At the outbreak of the war, Heinrich Thyssen discreetly  <br \/>changed his citizenship from German to Hungarian and married the  <br \/>Hungarian aristocrat Baroness Margrit Bornemisza de Kaszon. Soon  <br \/>Heinrich Thyssen switched his name to Baron Thyssen Bornemisza de  <br \/>Kaszon. <\/p>\n<p>Near the end of World War I, August Thyssen opened the Bank voor  <br \/>Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam. The neutral Holland was the  <br \/>perfect location outside of Germany to launder assets from the August  <br \/>Thyssen Bank in Berlin when the financial demands of the Allied  <br \/>forces surfaced. But the war ended much sooner than even Thyssen  <br \/>calculated and what developed caught the \u00ab\u00a0Rockefeller of the Ruhr\u00a0\u00bb  <br \/>off guard. <br \/>On November 10, 1918, German socialists took over Berlin. The  <br \/>following morning at 5 a.m., what was left of Germany surrendered to  <br \/>the Allies, officially ending World War I. \u00ab\u00a0At the time of the  <br \/>Armistice and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, my Father and  <br \/>I were deeply saddened by the spectacle of Germany&rsquo;s abject  <br \/>humiliation,\u00a0\u00bb Thyssen recalled later in his autobiography, I Paid  <br \/>Hitler. <\/p>\n<p>After the war, chaos descended on Germany as food ran short. Winter  <br \/>was looming over a starving nation when on Dec. 7, 1918, the  <br \/>socialist Spartacists League came knocking on the Thyssen Villa with  <br \/>armed militia. August and Fritz were arrested and dragged from jail  <br \/>to jail across Germany for four days. Along the way, they were lined  <br \/>up in staged executions designed to terrorize them. <\/p>\n<p>It worked. When released, the two Thyssens were horrified at the new  <br \/>political climate in their beloved Germany. They could not accept  <br \/>that Germany was responsible for its own demise. All Germany&rsquo;s  <br \/>problems, the Thyssens felt, \u00ab\u00a0have almost always been due to  <br \/>foreigners.\u00a0\u00bb It was the Jews, he and many others believed, who were  <br \/>secretly behind the socialist movement across the globe. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Fritz&rsquo;s younger brother Baron Thyssen Bornemisza de Kaszon  <br \/>moved to Rotterdam and became the principal owner of the Bank voor  <br \/>Handel en Scheepvaart. All the Thyssens needed now was an American  <br \/>branch. <\/p>\n<p>1920s: The Business Ties That Bind <\/p>\n<p>Railroad baron E.H. Harriman&rsquo;s son Averell wanted nothing to do with  <br \/>railroads, so his father gave him an investment firm, W.A. Harriman &amp;  <br \/>Company in New York City. E.H. hired the most qualified person in the  <br \/>country to run the operation, George Herbert Walker. Averell hired  <br \/>his little brother Edward Roland \u00ab\u00a0Bunny\u00a0\u00bb Harriman as a vice president. <\/p>\n<p>By 1920, George Herbert Walker had already built a fortune in  <br \/>Missouri. Walker, a charismatic former heavyweight boxing champion,  <br \/>was a human pit bull. He lived life to the fullest, owning mansions  <br \/>around the east coast and one of the most extravagant apartments in  <br \/>Manhattan. His hobbies were golf, hunting, drinking scotch and  <br \/>beating his sons to a pulp. Elsie Walker, one of Walker&rsquo;s  <br \/>grandchildren described Walker as a \u00ab\u00a0tough old bastard\u00a0\u00bb whose  <br \/>children had no love \u00ab\u00a0for their father.\u00a0\u00bb He was also a religious  <br \/>bigot who hated Catholics, although his parents raised him to be one.  <br \/>According to other sources, he also did not like Jews. <\/p>\n<p>In 1922, Averell Harriman traveled to Germany to set up a W.A.  <br \/>Harriman &amp; Co. branch in Berlin. The Berlin branch was also run by  <br \/>Walker. While in Germany, he met with the Thyssen family for the  <br \/>first time. Harriman agreed to help the Thyssens with their plan for  <br \/>an American bank. <\/p>\n<p>The following year, a wounded Germany was growing sicker. The  <br \/>government had no solution and froze while Germany rotted from  <br \/>within. With widespread strikes and production at a near standstill,  <br \/>Fritz Thyssen later recalled, \u00ab\u00a0We were at the worst time of the  <br \/>inflation. In Berlin the government was in distress. It was ruined  <br \/>financially. Authority was crumbling. In Saxony a communist  <br \/>government had been formed and the Red terror, organized by Max  <br \/>Hoelz, reigned through the countryside. The German Reich &#8230; was now  <br \/>about to crumble.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<p>In October, 1923, an emotionally desperate Fritz Thyssen went to  <br \/>visit one of his and Germany&rsquo;s great military heroes, General Erich  <br \/>Ludendorff. During the 1918 socialist rule in Berlin, Ludendorff  <br \/>organized a military resistance against the socialists and the  <br \/>industrialists were in great debt to him. When Thyssen met with  <br \/>Ludendorff, they discussed Germany&rsquo;s economic collapse. Thyssen was  <br \/>apocalyptic, fearing the worst was yet to come. Ludendorff  <br \/>disagreed. \u00ab\u00a0There is but one hope,\u00a0\u00bb Ludendorff said, \u00ab\u00a0Adolph Hitler  <br \/>and the National Socialist party.\u00a0\u00bb Ludendorff respected Hitler  <br \/>immensely. \u00ab\u00a0He is the only man who has any political sense.\u00a0\u00bb  <br \/>Ludendorff encouraged Thyssen to join the Nazi movement. \u00ab\u00a0Go listen  <br \/>to him one day\u00a0\u00bb he said to Thyssen. <\/p>\n<p>Thyssen followed General Ludendorff&rsquo;s advice and went to a number of  <br \/>meetings to hear Hitler speak. He became mesmerized by Hitler. \u00ab\u00a0I  <br \/>realized his orator gifts and his ability to lead the masses. What  <br \/>impressed me most however was the order that reigned over his  <br \/>meetings, the almost military discipline of his follo  <br \/>wers.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<p>Thyssen arranged to meet privately with Hitler and Ludendorff in  <br \/>Munich. Hitler told Thyssen the Nazi movement was in financial  <br \/>trouble, it was not growing fast enough and was nationally  <br \/>irrelevant. Hitler needed as much money as possible to fight off the  <br \/>Communists\/Jewish conspiracy against Europe. Hitler envisioned a  <br \/>fascist German monarchy with a nonunion, antilock national work force. <\/p>\n<p>Thyssen was overjoyed with the Nazi platform. He gave Hitler and  <br \/>Ludendorff 100,000 gold marks ($25,000) for the infant Nazi party.  <br \/>Others in the steel and coal industries soon followed Thyssen&rsquo;s lead,  <br \/>although none came close to matching him. Many business leaders in  <br \/>Germany supported Hitler&rsquo;s secret union-hating agenda. However, some  <br \/>donated because they feared they would be left out in the cold if he  <br \/>actually ever seized power. <\/p>\n<p>Most industry leaders gave up on Hitler after his failed coup in  <br \/>1923. While Hitler spent a brief time in jail, the Thyssens, through  <br \/>the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, opened the Union Banking  <br \/>Corporation in 1924. <\/p>\n<p>Union Banking Corporation <\/p>\n<p>Early in 1924, Hendrick J. Kouwenhoven, the managing director of Bank  <br \/>voor Handel en Scheepvaart, traveled to New York to meet with Walker  <br \/>and the Harriman brothers. Together, they established The Union  <br \/>Banking Corporation. The UBC&rsquo;s headquarters was located at the same  <br \/>39 Broadway address as Harriman &amp; Co. <\/p>\n<p>As the German economy recovered through the mid to late `20s, Walker  <br \/>and Harriman&rsquo;s firm sold over $50,000,000 worth of German bonds to  <br \/>American investors, who profited enormously from the economic boom in  <br \/>Germany. In 1926, August Thyssen died at the age of 84. Fritz was now  <br \/>in control of one of the largest industrial families in Europe. He  <br \/>quickly created the United Steel Works (USW), the biggest industrial  <br \/>conglomerate in German history. Thyssen hired Albert Volger, one of  <br \/>the Ruhr&rsquo;s most influential industrial directors, as director General  <br \/>of USW. <\/p>\n<p>Thyssen also brought Fredich Flick, another German family juggernaut,  <br \/>on board. Flick owned coal and steel industries throughout Germany  <br \/>and Poland and desperately wanted to invest into the Thyssen empire.  <br \/>One of the primary motivations for the Thyssen\/Flick massive steel  <br \/>and coal merger was suppressing the new labor and socialist movements. <\/p>\n<p>That year in New York, George Walker decided to give his new son in  <br \/>law, Prescott Bush, a big break. Walker made Bush a vice president of  <br \/>Harriman &amp; Co. Prescott&rsquo;s new office employed many of his classmates  <br \/>from his Yale class of 1917, including Roland Harriman and Knight  <br \/>Woolley. The three had been close friends at Yale and were all  <br \/>members of Skull and Bones, the mysterious on-campus secret society.  <br \/>Despite the upbeat fraternity atmosphere at Harriman &amp; Co., it was  <br \/>also a place of hard work, and no one worked harder than Prescott  <br \/>Bush. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, Walker hired Bush to help him supervise the new  <br \/>Thyssen\/Flick United Steel Works. One section of the USW empire was  <br \/>the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation and the Upper Silesian  <br \/>Coal and Steel Company located in the Silesian section of Poland.  <br \/>Thyssen and Flick paid Bush and Walker generously, but it was worth  <br \/>every dime. Their new business arrangement pleased them all  <br \/>financially, and the collective talents of all four men and their  <br \/>rapid success astonished the business world. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime Hitler and the Nazi party were broke. Since the  <br \/>German economic recovery, members and donations had dried up, leaving  <br \/>the Nazi movement withering on the vine. In 1927, Hitler was  <br \/>desperate for cash; his party was slipping into debt. Hitler told his  <br \/>private secretary Rudolf Hess to shake down wealthy coal tycoon and  <br \/>Nazi sympathizer Emil Kirdorf. Kirdorf paid off Hitler&rsquo;s debt that  <br \/>year but the following year, he too had no money left to contribute. <\/p>\n<p>In 1928, Hitler had his eyes on the enormous Barlow Palace located in  <br \/>Briennerstrasse, the most aristocratic section of Munich. Hitler  <br \/>wanted to convert the palace into the Nazi national headquarters and  <br \/>change its name to the Brown House but it was out of his price range.  <br \/>Hitler told Hess to contact Thyssen. After hearing the Hess appeal,  <br \/>Thyssen felt it was time to give Hitler a second chance. Through the  <br \/>Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, Thyssen said he \u00ab\u00a0placed Hess in  <br \/>possession of the required funds\u00a0\u00bb to purchase and redesign the  <br \/>Palace. Thyssen later said the amount was about 250,000 marks but  <br \/>leading Nazis later claimed that just the re-molding cost over  <br \/>800,000 marks (equivalent to $2 million today). <\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the cost, Hitler and Thyssen became close friends after  <br \/>the purchase of the Brown House. At the time, neither knew how  <br \/>influential that house was to become the following year when, in  <br \/>1929, the great depression spread around the world. With the German  <br \/>economic recovery up in flames, Hitler knew there was going to be a  <br \/>line out the door of industrialists waiting to give him cash. <\/p>\n<p>1930s: Hitler Rises \u2013 Thyssen\/Bush Cash In <\/p>\n<p>Thyssen would later try to claim that his weekends with Hitler and  <br \/>Hess at his Rhineland castles were not personal but strictly business  <br \/>and that he did not approve of most of Hitler&rsquo;s ideas, but the well- <br \/>known journalist R.G Waldeck, who spent time with Thyssen at a spa in  <br \/>the Black Forest, remembered quite differently. Waldeck said when he  <br \/>and Thyssen would walk through the cool Black Forest in 1929-30,  <br \/>Thyssen would tell Waldeck that he believed in Hitler. He spoke of  <br \/>Hitler \u00ab\u00a0with warmth\u00a0\u00bb and said the Nazis were \u00ab\u00a0new men\u00a0\u00bb that would  <br \/>make Germany strong again. With the depression bleeding Europe,  <br \/>Thyssen&rsquo;s financial support made Hitler&rsquo;s rise to power almost  <br \/>inevitable. <\/p>\n<p>The great depression also rocked Harriman &amp; Co. The following year,  <br \/>Harriman &amp; Co. merged with the London firm Brown\/Shipley.  <br \/>Brown\/Shipley kept its name, but Harriman &amp; Co. changed its name to  <br \/>Brown Brothers, Harriman. The new firm moved to 59 Wall St. while UBC  <br \/>stayed at 39 Broadway. Averell Harriman and Prescott Bush  <br \/>reestablished a holding company called The Harriman 15 Corporation.  <br \/>One of the companies Harriman had held stock in was the Consolidated  <br \/>Silesian Steel Company. Two thirds of the company was owned by  <br \/>Friedrich Flick. The rest was owned by Harriman. <\/p>\n<p>In December 1931, Fritz Thyssen officially joined the Nazi party.  <br \/>When Thyssen joined the movement, the Nazi party was gaining critical  <br \/>mass around Germany. The charismatic speeches and persona of Hitler,  <br \/>the depression and the Thyssen&rsquo;s Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart all  <br \/>contributed to Hitler&rsquo;s sudden rise in popularity with the German  <br \/>people. <\/p>\n<p>In September 1932, Thyssen invited a group of elite German industrial  <br \/>tycoons to his castle to meet with Hitler. They spent hours  <br \/>questioning Hitler, who answered all their questions with the'\u00a0\u00bbutmost  <br \/>satisfaction,\u00a0\u00bb Thyssen remembered. The money poured in from the  <br \/>industrial circles mostly due to Hitler&rsquo;s \u00ab\u00a0monarchistic attitude\u00a0\u00bb  <br \/>towards labor and issues of class. <\/p>\n<p>But by November, German voters grew weary of Hitler&rsquo;s antidemocratic  <br \/>tendencies and turned to the Communist party, which gained the most  <br \/>seats in the fall election. The Nazis lost a sweeping 35 seats in the  <br \/>Reichstag, but since the Nazis were already secretly negotiating a  <br \/>power sharing alliance with Hindenberg that would ultimately lead to  <br \/>Hitler declaring himself dictator, the outcry of German voters was  <br \/>politically insignificant. <\/p>\n<p>By 1934, Hindenberg was dead and Hitler completely controlled  <br \/>Germany. In March, Hitler announced his plans for a vast new highway  <br \/>system. He wanted to connect the entire Reich with an unprecedented  <br \/>wide road design, especially around major ports. Hitler wanted to  <br \/>bring down unemployment but, more importantly, needed the new roads  <br \/>for speedy military maneuvers. <\/p>\n<p>Hitler also wanted to seriously upgrade Germany&rsquo;s military machine.  <br \/>Hitler ordered a'\u00a0\u00bbrebirth of the German army\u00a0\u00bb and contracted Thyssen  <br \/>and United Steel Works for the overhaul. Thyssen&rsquo;s steel empire was  <br \/>the cold steel heart of the new Nazi war machine that led the way to  <br \/>World War II, killing millions across Europe. <\/p>\n<p>Thyssen&rsquo;s and Flick&rsquo;s profits soared into the hundreds of millions in  <br \/>1934 and the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart and UBC in New York were  <br \/>overflowing with money. Prescott Bush became managing director of UBC  <br \/>and handled the day-to-day operations of the new German economic  <br \/>plan. Bush&rsquo;s shares in UBC peaked with Hitler&rsquo;s new German order. But  <br \/>while production rose, cronyism did as well. <\/p>\n<p>On March 19, 1934, Prescott Bush handed Averell Harriman a copy of  <br \/>that day&rsquo;s New York Times. The Polish government was applying to take  <br \/>over Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation and Upper Silesian Coal  <br \/>and Steel Company from'\u00a0\u00bbGerman and American interests\u00a0\u00bb because of  <br \/>rampant \u00ab\u00a0mismanagement, excessive borrowing, fictitious bookkeeping  <br \/>and gambling in securities.\u00a0\u00bb The Polish government required the  <br \/>owners of the company, which accounted for over 45% of Poland&rsquo;s steel  <br \/>production, to pay at least its full share of back taxes. Bush and  <br \/>Harriman would eventually hire attorney John Foster Dulles to help  <br \/>cover up any improprieties that might arise under investigative  <br \/>scrutiny. <\/p>\n<p>Hitler&rsquo;s invasion of Poland in 1939 ended the debate about  <br \/>Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation and Upper Silesian Coal and  <br \/>Steel Company. The Nazis knocked the Polish Government off Thyssen,  <br \/>Flick and Harriman&rsquo;s steel company and were planning to replace the  <br \/>paid workers. Originally Hitler promised Stalin they would share  <br \/>Poland and use Soviet prisoners as slaves in Polish factories.  <br \/>Hitler&rsquo;s promise never actually materialized and he eventually  <br \/>invaded Russia. <\/p>\n<p>1940s: Business As Usual <\/p>\n<p>Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation was located near the Polish  <br \/>town of Oswiecim, one of Poland&rsquo;s richest mineral regions. That was  <br \/>where Hitler set up the Auschwitz concentration camp. When the plan  <br \/>to work Soviet prisoners fell through, the Nazis transferred Jews,  <br \/>communists, gypsies and other minority populations to the camp. The  <br \/>prisoners of Auschwitz who were able to work were shipped to 30  <br \/>different companies. One of the companies was the vast Consolidated  <br \/>Silesian Steel Corporation. <\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Nobody&rsquo;s made the connection before between Consolidated Silesian  <br \/>Steel Corporation, Auschwitz and Prescott Bush,\u00a0\u00bb John Loftus told  <br \/>Clamor. <\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0That was the reason why Auschwitz was built there. The coal deposits  <br \/>could be processed into either coal or additives for aviation  <br \/>gasoline.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<p>Even though Thyssen and Flick&rsquo;s Consolidated Steel was in their  <br \/>possession, Hitler&rsquo;s invasions across Europe spooked them, bringing  <br \/>back memories of World War I. Thyssen and Flick sold Consolidated  <br \/>Steel to UBC. Under the complete control of Harriman and management  <br \/>of Bush, the company became Silesian American Corporation which  <br \/>became part of UBC and Harriman&rsquo;s portfolio of 15 corporations.  <br \/>Thyssen quickly moved to Switzerland and later France to hide from  <br \/>the terror about to be unleashed by the Nazi war machine he had  <br \/>helped build. <\/p>\n<p>A portion of the slave labor force in Poland was \u00ab\u00a0managed by Prescott  <br \/>Bush,\u00a0\u00bb according to a Dutch intelligence agent. In 1941, slave labor  <br \/>had become the lifeblood of the Nazi war machine. The resources of  <br \/>Poland&rsquo;s rich steel and coal field played an essential part in  <br \/>Hitler&rsquo;s invasion of Europe. <\/p>\n<p>According to Higham, Hitler and the Fraternity of American  <br \/>businessmen \u00ab\u00a0not only sought a continuing alliance of interests for  <br \/>the duration of World War II, but supported the idea of a negotiated  <br \/>peace with Germany that would bar any reorganization of Europe along  <br \/>liberal lines. It would leave as its residue a police state that  <br \/>would place the Fraternity in postwar possession of financial,  <br \/>industrial, and political autonomy.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<p>Six days after Pearl Harbor and the US declaration of war at the end  <br \/>of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of the Treasury  <br \/>Henry Morgenthau and US Attorney General Francis Biddle signed the  <br \/>Trading With the Enemy Act, which banned any business interests with  <br \/>US enemies of war. Prescott Bush continued with business as usual,  <br \/>aiding the Nazi invasion of Europe and supplying resources for  <br \/>weaponry that would eventually be turned on American solders in  <br \/>combat against Germany. <\/p>\n<p>On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government had had enough of Prescott  <br \/>Bush and his Nazi business arrangements with Thyssen. Over the  <br \/>summer, The New York Tribune had exposed Bush and Thyssen, whom the  <br \/>Tribune dubbed \u00ab\u00a0Hitler&rsquo;s Angel.\u00a0\u00bb When the US government saw UBC&rsquo;s  <br \/>books, they found out that Bush&rsquo;s bank and its shareholders \u00ab\u00a0are held  <br \/>for the benefit of &#8230; members of the Thyssen family, [and] is  <br \/>property of nationals &#8230; of a designated enemy country.\u00a0\u00bb The list of  <br \/>seven UBC share holders was: <\/p>\n<p>E. Roland Harriman \u2013 3991 shares <br \/>Cornelis Lievense \u2013 4 shares <br \/>Harold D.Pennington \u2013 1 share <br \/>Ray Morris\u2013\u2013 1 share <br \/>Prescott S. Bush \u2013 1 share <br \/>H.J. Kouwenhoven \u2013 1 share <br \/>Johann G. Groeninger \u2013 1 share. <\/p>\n<p>The UBC books also revealed the myriad of money and holding companies  <br \/>funneled from the Thyssens and the government realized UBC was just  <br \/>the tip of the iceberg. On November 17, 1942, The US government also  <br \/>took over the Silesian American Corporation, but did not prosecute  <br \/>Bush for the reasons Higham noted earlier. The companies were allowed  <br \/>to operate within the Government Alien Property custodian office with  <br \/>a catch \u2013 no aiding the Nazis. In 1943, while still owning his stock,  <br \/>Prescott Bush resigned from UBC and even helped raise money for  <br \/>dozens of war-related causes as chairman of the National War Fund. <\/p>\n<p>After the war, the Dutch government began investigating the  <br \/>whereabouts of some jewelry of the Dutch royal family that was stolen  <br \/>by the Nazis. They started looking into books of the Bank voor Handel  <br \/>en Scheepvaart. When they discovered the transaction papers of the  <br \/>Silesian American Corporation, they began asking the bank manager  <br \/>H.J. Kounhoven a lot of questions. Kouwenhoven was shocked at the  <br \/>discovery and soon traveled to New York to inform Prescott Bush.  <br \/>According to Dutch intelligence, Kouwenhoven met with Prescott soon  <br \/>after Christmas, 1947. Two weeks later, Kouwenhoven apparently died  <br \/>of a heart attack. <\/p>\n<p>1950s: Bush Sells UBC Stock <\/p>\n<p>By 1948, Fritz Thyssen&rsquo;s life was in ruins. After being jailed by the  <br \/>Nazis, he was jailed by the Allies and interrogated extensively, but  <br \/>not completely, by US investigators. Thyssen and Flick were ordered  <br \/>to pay reparations and served time in prison for their atrocious  <br \/>crimes against humanity. <\/p>\n<p>On February 8, 1951, Fritz Thyssen died bitterly in Argentina at the  <br \/>age of 78. Thyssen was angry at the way he was treated by Europe  <br \/>after the war and how history would remember him as Hitler&rsquo;s most  <br \/>important and prominent financier. <\/p>\n<p>When Thyssen died, the Alien Property Custodian released the assets  <br \/>of the Union Banking Corporation to Brown Brothers Harriman. The  <br \/>remaining stockholders cashed in their stocks and quietly liquidated  <br \/>the rest of UBC&rsquo;s blood money. <\/p>\n<p>Prescott Bush received $1.5 million for his share in UBC. That money  <br \/>enabled Bush to help his son, George Herbert Walker Bush, to set up  <br \/>his first royalty firm, Overby Development Company, that same year.  <br \/>It was also helpful when Prescott Bush left the business world to  <br \/>enter the public arena in 1952 with a successful senatorial campaign  <br \/>in Connecticut. On October 8th, 1972, Prescott Bush died of cancer  <br \/>and his will was enacted soon after. <\/p>\n<p>In 1980, when George H.W. Bush was elected vice president, he placed  <br \/>his father&rsquo;s family inherence in a blind trust. The trust was managed  <br \/>by his old friend and quail hunting partner, William \u00ab\u00a0Stamps\u00a0\u00bb Farish  <br \/>III. Bush&rsquo;s choice of Farish to manage the family wealth is quite  <br \/>revealing in that it demonstrates that the former president might  <br \/>know exactly where some of his inheritance originated. Farish&rsquo;s  <br \/>grandfather, William Farish Jr., on March 25th, 1942, pleaded \u00ab\u00a0no  <br \/>contest\u00a0\u00bb to conspiring with Nazi Germany while president of Standard  <br \/>Oil in New Jersey. He was described by Senator Harry Truman in public  <br \/>of approaching \u00ab\u00a0treason\u00a0\u00bb for profiting off the Nazi war machine.  <br \/>Standard Oil, invested millions in IG Farben, who opened a gasoline  <br \/>factory within Auschwitz in 1940. The billions \u00ab\u00a0Stamps\u00a0\u00bb inherited had  <br \/>more blood on it then Bush, so the paper trail of UBC stock would be  <br \/>safe during his 12 years in presidential politics. <\/p>\n<p>It has been 60 years since one of the great money laundering scandals  <br \/>of the 20th century ended and only now are we beginning to see the  <br \/>true historical aspects of this important period of world history, a  <br \/>history that the remaining Holocaust survivors beg humanity to \u00ab\u00a0never  <br \/>forget.\u00a0\u00bb <br \/>Loftus believes history will view Prescott Bush as harshly as  <br \/>Thyssen. \u00ab\u00a0It is bad enough that the Bush family helped raise the  <br \/>money for Thyssen to give Hitler his start in the 1920s, but giving  <br \/>aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war is treason. The Bush bank  <br \/>helped the Thyssens make the Nazi steel that killed Allied solders.  <br \/>As bad as financing the Nazi war machine may seem, aiding and  <br \/>abetting the Holocaust was worse. Thyssen&rsquo;s coal mines used Jewish  <br \/>slaves as if they were disposable chemicals. There are six million  <br \/>skeletons in the Thyssen family closet, and a myriad of criminal and  <br \/>historical questions to be answered about the Bush family&rsquo;s  <br \/>complicity.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<p>There is no question that the Bush family needs to donate at least  <br \/>$1.5 million to the proper holocaust reparation fund. Since Prescott  <br \/>Bush is dead, the only way to compensate is for the main inheritors  <br \/>of his estate to make amends with surviving slaves and the families  <br \/>of slaves who died in Bush and Thyssen&rsquo;s coal mines. If the Bush  <br \/>family refuses to contribute the money to compensate for Prescott  <br \/>Bush&rsquo;s involvement in the Holocaust, it is like denying the Holocaust  <br \/>itself and their role in one of the darkest moments in world history.  <\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to John Loftus, Emmy winning journalist, author and  <br \/>current president of the Florida Holocaust Museum. <\/p>\n<p>Article by Toby Rogers originally appeared in Clamor Magazine <\/p>\n<p>Source quoted from:  <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propagandamatrix.com\/archivebushclan.html\">http:\/\/www.propagandamatrix.com\/archivebushclan.html<\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Haut de la page\" height=\"12\" src=\"https:\/\/harissa.com\/discus\/icons\/mark_top.gif\" width=\"12\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Message pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent\" height=\"12\" src=\"https:\/\/harissa.com\/discus\/icons\/mark_up.gif\" width=\"12\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Message suivant\" height=\"12\" src=\"https:\/\/harissa.com\/discus\/icons\/mark_down.gif\" width=\"12\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bas de la page\" height=\"12\" src=\"https:\/\/harissa.com\/discus\/icons\/mark_bottom.gif\" width=\"12\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lien vers ce message\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/harissa.com\/discus\/icons\/tree_m.gif\" width=\"20\"\/>  Par <b>Admin (Admin)<\/b> le jeudi 30 ao\u00fbt 2007 &#8211; 03h17: <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Articles Par Soleil (Soleil) le lundi 09 d\u00e9cembre 2002 &#8211; 06h49: HEIR TO THE HOLOCAUST Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Capital Rotunda with holocaust survivors, allied veterans, and their families. 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