Projection: Bush Family Profited From Nazis

3:02 pm EST May 15th, 2008 | News | 7 Comments

This article is popping up again after Bush’s attack in foreign territory.

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George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator’s action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

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7 Responses to “Projection: Bush Family Profited From Nazis”

  1. Duros62 says:
    May 15, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    And the legacy continues to this day.

    When President George W. Bush froze assets connected to Osama bin Laden, he didn’t tell the American people that the terrorist mastermind’s late brother was an investor in the president’s former oil business in Texas. He also hasn’t leveled with the American public about his financial connections to a host of shady Saudi characters involved in drug cartels, gun smuggling, and terrorist networks.

  2. Duros62 says:
    May 15, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    And continues.

    According to an article in the May 5 issue of New Yorker magazine, several bin Laden family members — part of a large, Saudi Arabian family that made a fortune in the construction business — invested about $10 million in a private equity fund operated by former subsidiary of Bechtel before Sept. 11.

    Fremont Group, a San Francisco-based private investment firm, once was a unit of Bechtel, and its board still includes Bechtel CEO Riley P. Bechtel and former U.S. Secretary of State and former Bechtel President George P. Shultz, along with several current Bechtel directors.

  3. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    May 15, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    “The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives…”

    Really? They just obtained confirmation? The fact that he was found guilty during the war wasn’t enough evidence for them.

  4. merl says:
    May 16, 2008 at 4:15 am

    3 generations of treason. prescott and the nazis, bush 41 and Iran contra, chickengeorges blowing the cover of a CIA asset.

  5. niraj says:
    May 16, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    guess who else profited from the nazis: good ole joseph kennedy of, you know, the kennedy clan, whose son teddy and grandson patrick are still in congress doing all sorts of crazy things.

  6. daniel rotter says:
    May 16, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    “guess who else profited from the nazis: good ole Joseph Kennedy…”

    And your evidence is…

    “…whose son teddy and grandson patrick are still in congress doing all sorts of crazy things.”

    Neither Teddy nor Patrick are President of the U.S.A.

  7. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    May 17, 2008 at 11:41 am

    niraj: “…whose son teddy and grandson patrick are still in congress doing all sorts of crazy things.”

    daniel rotter: “Neither Teddy nor Patrick are President of the U.S.A.”

    And I don’t remember either of those being responsible for calling political opponents traitors either.