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.

[Poohbah]

In other breaking news, representatives of the Empire of Japan signed surrender documents aboard the USS Missouri...

[Brian S]

I have voted for GWB six times in my life.

4 times in the great State of Texas for Governor and 2 times here in Michigan, for President.

I fully intend to vote for him again in 2004 but he is still going to have to earn that vote.

Shining light on stories such as these do no harm, IMHO. We know their motive and intentions.

The worst we could do is to pretend these stories don't exist and do nothing to counter them.

[teletech]

I swear you must spend every waking hour looking for this crap just so you can post it on FR. Why bother?

[Toespi]

I guess we can expect gas chambers in the not too distant future.

[Wolfstar]

Maybe somebody deep in the bowls of the federal government is still searching for Benedict Arnold, too, although I hear tell he's been holding up dirt somewhere in England for about two centuries. Sorry for the sarcasm, but the events this stupid AP article refers to happened 65 years ago or more. And no, 10 years, 20, 40, 60, 100 years from now, no one will be persecuting any descendent of the 9/11 hijackers should anyone be identified as such. The point of this AP piece is not to persecute George W. Bush, but to tag him with the "Nazi" label. To the Left, everybody on the political Right is supposed to be a Nazi, dontcha know.

[Grampa Dave]

Why do I have a really hard time believing you.

I have never seen you post a single postivie thing about our president, our economy, the war in Iraq and what has happened in Iraq since the war.

You should just like the those afflicted with I'm for GW, but, ______________.

Sure Buckeroo!

[Billthedrill]

Oh, OK. Dig the old fellow up and flog his corpse. Sheesh...

[StriperSniper]

Don't worry, if it's going to even be close, the BWitch will be in it. She was tuning up on the floor of the Senate this evening.

[Brian S]

See post #58. Had this not been on a AP, Reuters or AFP wire...I wouldn't have posted it.

Chances are, with the current coverage, you will most likely find this article in one of the weekend editions of your local newspaper.

BTW...I enjoy posting articles hot off the wires. Best breaking news to be found is here on FR.

[WhiteGuy]

Interesting..............

I appreciate your opinion, Thanks

[Brian S]

You need to have your eye 'scription updated then:

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Granted, I post many negative articles also but there are more negative articles published.

If you think I deserved to be "ZOTTED" for pushing the news...I'll ping Jim Robinson for you.

Anytime he wants me to back off...all he has to do is insist and its done.

[the Real fifi]

John Loftus is a fabulist. Nothing he says should ever be taken at face value.

[Hot Tabasco]

a bank controlled by the Thyssen family

Holly Sh*&! I'm a nazi because I work for a subsidiary of Thyssen/Krupp.......

Damn, now I've got to learn how to speak German........

[gaspar]

This story has been hanging around the internet for months. The conspirators even have the Bush family obtaining the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation from Fritz Thyssen in order to support the Nazis. According to that tale, when Fritz became a worried man the Bush family became involved in the 1938 purchase because of close family ties to I.G. Farben which, supposedly, wanted slave labor for Auschwitz. Unfortunately, Auschwitz was not established until 1940 and became a death camp in 1942.

Most significantly, Union Banking Corportation was founded in 1924 by W. Averell Harriman (later FDR's ambassador to the USSR in WWII). The Thyssen involvement was disguised by using the Bank Voor Handel as a cutout. Its primary responsibility was to manage the Theyssen family funds, which it did until October 1942. It can be said that the Harriman family was even more intimately involved with the Thyssen then the Bush ever were.

It this crap continues we can soon expect a book from the political right which claims that when FDR supported Harriman (a man who later made an unsuccessful run for President) he was supporting both a Nazi sympathizer and then a Communist dupe.

[el_texicano]

Hell, if you go far enough back in Bush's geneology, you'll eventually find the man that brought sin into the world. Now that would be really damning...

I can see the New York Times headlines now..."Bush Tied to the Origin of Sin!!!!

Sheesh...gimme a break!!

[Poohbah]

Sheesh...gimme a break!!

The New York Slimes would ask, "Arm or leg, sir?"

[Peach]

I'm saving your post and all that good information in there. Thank you!

[Swordmaker]

The article also said the only reason he wasn't prosecuted was lack of resources.

Actually, AntiRepublicrat, the article says:

No charges were brought against Union Banking's American directors. The federal government was too busy trying to fight the war, said Donald Goldstein, a professor of public and international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. "We did not have the resources to do these things," Goldstein said.

In other words, a liberal college professor's opinion is that is the reason the American Director's were not prosecuted. I wold suspect that the real reason they were not is that Thyssen had broken with the Nazi part in 1938... and was languishing in a Nazi prison! The Bank was siezed because it was a German Asset, just as almost all other German assets were siezed in WWII, not because it was "financing" the Nazis.

AR, there were literally NO CHARGES TO BE BROUGHT!

Now, I am surprised that AP has not learned that George Bush's fourteenth cousin, twice removed, by marriage, is a child molester. That would be of more true value in assessing the character of George W. Bush than this irrelevant tripe.

[teletech]

See post #58. Had this not been on a AP, Reuters or AFP wire...I wouldn't have posted it.

Chances are, with the current coverage, you will most likely find this article in one of the weekend editions of your local newspaper.

BTW...I enjoy posting articles hot off the wires. Best breaking news to be found is here on FR.

I guess you feel ANYTHING the Bush hating AP prints is newsworthy?

My local paper, The Downers Grove Reporter, doesn't agree. I have yet to see them pick up anything the AP puts out.

As to your posting articles "off the wires", you mean to tell me you and your twin arte cannot find one single POSITIVE article "off the wires"? Nonsense!

[SuziQ]

Boy, it looks like the AP is having so much trouble finding bad stuff to say about Dubya that they're dragging his Grandaddy into it!!