Is it true George Bush's family aided the Nazis in battle?

Question

I heard it from my older brother but I'm not sure it's entirely true.

Answer 1

It might be intimated that way because funds that were invested by some people from the US were ultimately used by the Nazis.
The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that
Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his "enemy national" partners.

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
This link encapsulates alot of articles published both in the US and overseas which hashes out Prescott Bush's ties to the financial architect of the Nazi rise to power and how he and his family benefitted from his connection to Thyssen
http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/bushhitlerprojecthtm.htm

Answer 2

Seeing as how Dad was the Navy's youngest fighter pilot in World War II and was shot down, I have no idea how President George H.W. Bush had the time to run a business stateside and help the Nazis in battle.

Seems like history places him in the Pacific fighting the Japanese.

I would have to say that claim is false.

Answer 3

This question get asked about 4 times a week. Surely you could have found the answer when you keyed in the question and Yahoo Answers showed you a list of similar questions that have been asked?

Before the U.S. entered the war a lot of people invested in Nazi Germany-----The Rockerfellers, the Kennedys, American insurance companies and Wall Street firms. Don't know if the Bushs did , though.

Answer 4

No, it is not true.

George Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a director in a US investment bank, which had investments with an industrialist named Thyssen, who had supported the rise of the Nazis. But in 1939 Thyssen denounced them and fled Germany. The bank still had investments in the company.

So, it has been said by the more rabid leftists on this site that Prescott Bush therefore "supported" the Nazis, or was "banker to" the Nazis, but that's a distortion of the truth.

Answer 5

No, Its Not.

Prescott Bush (Current George) Grandfather was a Fiduciary Officer at Brown, Harriman Bros during the 1930's-1950's

One of His Responsibilties was for the Investments of Fritze Thyssen , a industrialist who joined the NSDAP in 1933 after Hitler came to power. In 1938, disgusted by Krisstallnacht, he resigned from the party. In 1939 before the Invasion of Poland, Thyssen fled to France after sending a Telegram to Hermann Goering deploring Germanys agression. In 1940 trapped in france by the German Invasion, thyssen was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp as an inmate. sometime before 1945 He was transferred to Dachau were he was liberated by the US Army's 42nd & 45th Infantry Divisions.

During his De-nazification trial, Thyssen admitted being a Party member for 5 years , was found innocent of any war crimes and his property returned. He voluntarily paid reparations to his Jewish workers for the bad treatment they recieved while he was in Dachau.

Prescott Bush was Never charged, because he committed no crime, the assets the US Government seized in 1942 were returned without Prejudice to Thyssen in 1946.

Only a Mentally Deficiant would claim a Concentration Camp Inmates frozen assets in America helped the Nazi's

Answer 6

Yes and the Bush family is also responsible for all that is wrong in the universe including the disappeance of life on mars more than 100 million years ago.

Answer 7

I would really doubt it, since George Bush Sr, was in the Pacific during the war. In case you or your brother failed history, the Nazis were in Europe, the Japanese were in the Pacific.

Answer 8

Why does this question keep coming up? It's a shame that they don't teach history in the schools any more.

Answer 9

Don't you just love misinformation?

I just heard the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy are getting married.....

Answer 10

he was a bomber pilot and was actually shot down in the pacific. I doubt if his family would support the axis powers.