Did Bush's Grandfather get his assets seized for profiting off of Hitler?

Question

This isn't true is it? The Bush's didn't have the American government seize their assets for being Nazi's?

Answer 1

I know the Bush family has extensive Nazi connections. Prescott Bush helped Nazi's escape after WW2, and had business dealings with Nazi's.

The Bush's helped finance the Waffen SS and SA.

The Bush family has had dealings with Saddam Hussein involving oil drilling and real estate.

The Bush family has connections to the Bin Laden family. This includes a close partnership in the Carlyle group and Arbusto oil. The Bin Ladens and the Bush's have had a long close relationship.

However I don't know if they actually had money taken away being the Bush family has been known to bribe politicians.

It's funny how the Bush family has business dealings with people and governments who kill Americans. The people who are the biggest threat to our national security are friends and partners with the Bush's.

Makes you wonder who's side the Bush's are on.http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_09_01_carlyle.html

Answer 2

Please read the story on Prescott S. Bush on Wikipedia, and quit flapping your gums about the man being a Nazi, which is totally false.

How about American General Norman Schartzkopf of "Desert Storm" fame? His aunt, German singer Elizabeth Schwatzkopf nominally "joined" the Nazi party in the 30's, so she could continue her opera career. Now, 75 years later, SO WHAT?

Answer 3

Prescott Bush did business with the Hitler regime.
No he didn't get his assets seized either.


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Answer 4

The grandfather was playing footsies with the Nazis. They just had things in common. Money and racism.

Read this
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/20/1066631359649.html

Answer 5

All I know is that abortion should have been legal back then, that way daddy Bush would never have been born and it would have fixed the gene pool.

Answer 6

War seizures controversy
Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street connection for German companies and the varied U.S. financial interests of Fritz Thyssen, who had been an early financial backer of the Nazi party until 1938, but who by 1939 had fled Germany and was bitterly denouncing Hitler. Dealing with Nazi Germany wasn't illegal when Hitler declared war on the US, but, six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed the Trading With the Enemy Act. On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City.

The Harriman business interests seized under the act in October and November 1942 included:

Union Banking Corporation (UBC) (for Thyssen and Brown Brothers Harriman)
Holland-American Trading Corporation (with Harriman)
the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation (with Harriman)
Silesian-American Corporation (this company was partially owned by German entity; during the war the Germans tried to take the full control of Silesian-American. In response to that, American government seized German owned minority shares in the company, leaving the U.S. partners to carry on the business.)
The assets were held by the government for the duration of the war, then returned afterward. UBC was dissolved in 1951. Bush's interest in UBC consisted of one share. For it, he was reimbursed $1,500,000. These assets were later used to launch Bush family investments in the Texas energy industry. This presupposes that Union Banking Corporation was worth $4 billion, of which almost all would have been paid to the Harrimans. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030214.html by Cecil Adams addresses this claim with some skepticism.

Toby Rogers has claimed that Bush's connections to Silesian businesses (with Thyssen and Flick) make him complicit with the mining operations in Poland which used slave labor out of Oswiecim, where the Auschwitz concentration camp was later constructed. Allegations that Prescott Bush profited from slave labor or the Auschwitz concentration camp remain unsubstantiated.

There are unsubstantiated rumors concerning Prescott Bush's associations with the Nazi party. The Anti-Defamation League has stated, "Rumors about the alleged Nazi 'ties' of the late Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, have circulated widely through the Internet in recent years. These charges are untenable and politically motivated." [5] The rumors began with extreme right-wing attacks on George H.W. Bush during his 1980 presidential run and were renewed during his 1988 run.

The New York Herald-Tribune referred to the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, as "Hitler's Angel" and mentioned Bush only as an employee of the investment banking firm Thyssen used in the USA. The label was ironic, since by the time the Tribune article appeared, Hitler had turned on Thyssen and imprisoned him. Reportedly, however, there has been a determined effort by Canadian bloggers, apparently connected with Lyndon LaRouche, to circulate reports that Bush himself was known as "Hitler's Angel".

Some records in the National Archives, including the Harriman papers, document the continued relationship of Brown Brothers Harriman with Thyssen and some of his German investments up until his 1951 death.[5] Investigator John Loftus has said, "As a former federal prosecutor, I would make a case for Prescott Bush, his father-in-law (George Walker) and Averill Harriman [to be prosecuted] for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. They remained on the boards of these companies knowing that they were of financial benefit to the nation of Germany." Two former slave laborers from Poland have filed suit in London against the government of the United States and the heirs of Prescott Bush in the amount of $40 billion. A class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. in 2001 was dismissed.[6]

Answer 7

why not his family fortune was made by growing pumpkins look at bushs head for example

Answer 8

i have read the prescott bush report at wikipedia...so should the rest of you...but liberals won't.

Answer 9

No.. they were not Nazis"

Answer 10

no