Bush's grandfather was director of bank seized by govt for affiliation with Nazi-funding...

Associated Press ^ | 10-17-03

[Brian S]

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.

Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp., a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen family, according to recently declassified National Archives documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

[deport]

And may I ask, what does this have to do with the price of eggs in China?

[C210N]

This alone, what happened at this bank 50 years ago is no
big deal... BUT, if it now gets reported that there
was groping involved 50 years ago, the combination will
be BIG news!

[Agnes Heep]

I guess this means GWB is a Nazi?

[inquest]

...according to recently declassified National Archives documents....

I'd be curious to know who made the decision to declassify them at this time, and what the decisionmaking process was.

[11th Earl of Mar]

And Bill Clinton's father abused alcohol and women.

But did they report that?

[the Real fifi]

In fact, this story is not new, not based on declasified docuemtns byt has been in the ether for years.

[Nebullis]

Bush's grandfather was director of bank seized by government for affiliation with Nazi-funding German industrialist OMG!

Coming up: Mapplethorpe took nude pictures of George W. Bush!

[antiRepublicrat]

Bush's grandfather worked at a bank. The bank had ties to someone who bankrolled Hitler.

He had a small equity in the bank, plus he was partners with the firm that handled all their transactions -- likely transactions that were used to help fund the Nazis. The article also said the only reason he wasn't prosecuted was lack of resources.

Anyway, who cares? It's old news, and besides, the Art. 3, Sec. 3 says that even cases of treason won't work corruption of blood. Did anyone care that Joseph Kennedy was a criminal? It has no reflection on the current president.

[dasboot]

Well Georgie and his sibs are PROOF that Prescott groped at least one gal. Wonder is the missus said "No!....Don't!...Stop!" Or "NO! Don't stop!" It's a real he-said/she-said.

[dasboot]

Does Bill really know who his father is?

[shhrubbery!]

I think the writer misspelled his name. It should be Jonathan D. Salant Slant.

We have to wait until the penultimate paragraph to find out this crucial bit of information about Grandfather Bush's so-called Nazi connection:

Fritz Thyssen broke with the Nazis in 1938 over their persecution of Catholics and Jews, and fled to Switzerland. He later was arrested and spent 1941 to 1945 in a Nazi prison.

[Endeavor]

this is so old.

[dts32041]

I do think Ted Kennedy's father actually helped to bank roll Hitler along, with the Henry Ford.

[dogbyte12]

Prescott Bush, Joe Kennedy... same difference. I don't honestly care. It just shows that political dynasties have skeletons in the closet. I already read about this years ago. These records have already been leaked out on the net. It's just confirmed now. Harriman's were involved as well, and they were democrats, just like the Kennedy clan. It was business, nothing personal. I doubt that any of them were actual Nazis, they just wanted Nazi money.

[Waco]

Wasn't it the Rothchilds who often bankrolled BOTH sides in a conflict? Efficiency I reckon?

[Peach]

I have equity in a large insurance agency in New York. Does that mean I know about all their transactions? No, of course not.

The first sentence is deliberately written to make it sound like Bush's grandfather directly bankrolled Hitler, and that is simply not the case.

[dasboot]

I guess this means GWB is a Nazi?

It's a whole octopus, tenticles, sleeper-cell, brain-in-the-jar (pulsating) enslave-the-planet Freemason thing. Bet he burned ants with a magnifying glass, too. SICKO!

[Chairman Fred]

No, no, you're missing the point!

W is guilty of a crime that was committed before he was born!!

AP (All-Pressitutes): giving us a new legal concept: Prenatal - even pre-conception - criminality!!

Desperation makes some people truly silly.

[US_MilitaryRules]

I have a friend, whose father in laws grampas DAD was a janitor at a place where they picked on Irish imigrants! This friends son is running for Dog Catcher. Do you think they will tar and feather him in the news?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Who would've thought that a Dutch bank would do business with German companies. Good thing WW2 broke out so we could tell who the bad guys were.