Is it true that Prescott Bush (our President's Grandpa) provided funding to Nazi Germany?

Question

Why are people bringing up Joe Kennedy? Did I say anything about him in my question?

Answer 1

This is from the Guardian from-yes before the 2004 election:

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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html

This from Fox News(not exactly a cover story):

WASHINGTON — President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100474,00.html

Answer 2

Yes and the Union Bank did not stop financial transactions with Germany until 1942, around the time American and British forces were being chewed up by Romel's Afrika Korps at Kaiserine Pass. Prescott Bush only stopped when the government forced him to quit. A fine upstanding patriot.

Its not well known that Texaco sold oil to the Nazis until 1942, Ford Motor Company owned the Opal Truck Manufacturing plants in Germany and got war repariations from the US for Allied bombing, and ITT had offices in South America that provided information and intelligence to the German UBoat arm of the Kriegsmarine - through out WW II. Also General Electric owned plants in Germany run by I. G Faben. Just multinational corporations doing what the do best.

Answer 3

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power!


Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president .

Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Saturday September 25, 2004
The Guardian


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.

It was only through my teaching "The Diary of Anne Frank" to my middle schoolers and the research involved did I find not only this to be true -but also that Anne Frank's own father, Otto supplied medical supplies to the German's in exchange for funds. It has been said that they really weren't in hiding for "fear' of being caught, but later on, others who were involved turned them in. Otto himself was a regular in New York City and had many dealings that were questionable. I'm not saying how I feel one way or another however, I do know that in this world of greed and money and power- things have not ever changed! If you study the Kennedy's rise to power - they got theirs through the illegal sale of alcohol. So - what can you say? Anything is possible where money, power and dirt on each other is concerned.

Answer 4

YES!!!

http://hnn.us/articles/1811.html

Answer 5

Yes it is true, until the aggressions started. At the same time Joseph Kennedy was supplying Nazi Germany with materials they needed for the war. Until Nazi Germany started their aggressions against other nations there was no reason not to trade with them.

(Although Kennedy did continue to hold his stocks in Nazi owned companies)

ALL US trade with Nazi Germany stopped with the invasion of Poland.

Answer 6

Absolutely true. Granpere Bush was a staunch advocate of the basics of Nazism and Fascism. And, themember of the family with whom began the lifelong exercise of grand theft of taxpayer dollars. Since his generation, not one single Bush adult has earned an honest living. It has all been taxpayer financed. The family went from abject poverty to every member of the family being a Billionaire, thanks to Taxpayer Dollars.

And to think that 50% of the hard working, taxpaying, shrinking middle class voted for the latest incarnation of family idiot. Amazing, isn't it.

Answer 7

George Bush is reincarnated Adolf Hitler.

Answer 8

I thought it was President Kennedy's dad who was in Germany pandering to Hitler. It's about business and making money. Friends are people in our life one day and the next they are enemies.
if you can't do something positive for me or my business, bye bye

Answer 9

How about US Ambassador to Great Britain Nazi Sympathizer Joe Kennedy who got run out of England for his backing of Hitler.

Answer 10

Yes, he was a Nazi collaborator.