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To: thewonder

"President Bush owes his family inheritance to Adolf Hitler, and his grandfather, Prescott Bush, helped finance the Nazi rise to power in Germany. These stories had circulated for years but resurfaced on May 13, 2003, in the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma, headlined, "Bush Family Funded Adolf Hitler." As the Associated Press reports, Prescott had been on the board of Union Banking Corp., whose majority owner, the Thyssen family of Germany, indeed had funded the Nazis against a feared communist takeover of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Family leader Fritz Thyssen broke with Hitler over the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom against the Jews, was stripped of his citizenship and fortune, and was in a Nazi prison at the time the elder Bush sat on that board. There is no evidence that Prescott Bush, who owned just one share of Union Banking, had anything to do with the Thyssen political work in Germany.

Some critics go even further to accuse the president of having inherited ill-gotten profits from a Nazi slave-labor operation near the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. But the Polish company in which Prescott Bush had an interest, Silesian-American Corp., was stolen by the Nazis in 1939, the year before Auschwitz was built. Discussing this controversy, columnist Joe Conason of the New York Observer writes, "Henry Ford was a Nazi collaborator. Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was a Nazi sympathizer. Unless additional information emerges to indict him, Prescott Bush Sr. was neither. To misuse such terms for political advantage against his grandson is to trivialize very grave offenses.""


12 posted on 05/30/2004 8:24:34 AM PDT by Remember_Salamis (Freedom is Not Free)
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To: Remember_Salamis; All
I'm sure he is aware of currency speculator and Leftist financier George Soros' father's status as an "Honorary Aryan" in the Third Reich. It wasn't often Hungarian Jews went on holiday in Berlin under Hitler's regime.
I wonder if he was aware or even cares Mr. Soros is a supporter of NAFTA and FTAA. Soros is against Bush for financial gain.
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18 posted on 05/30/2004 9:09:08 AM PDT by olde north church (compensation is a female canine)
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To: Remember_Salamis

Saying they had ties to hitler is like saying a Palestinian Christian has ties to hitler because he is selling cucumbers and paying taxes to the PLO.


42 posted on 05/30/2004 3:25:55 PM PDT by JudgemAll
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To: Remember_Salamis

I dont think FDR would have suffered a Bush family with ties to Hitler during the war. I think these were cutoff once it was officialy known that hitler was a scumbags.

The Bush never rooted for Hitler against America or freedom, let alone begged to them in any way.

But of course scumbags like to mess and to claim they beg less than the Bushs would do.


43 posted on 05/30/2004 3:28:05 PM PDT by JudgemAll
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