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

Guardian ^ | 09/25/04 | Ben Aris

[dfwgator]

[wagglebee]

All of this has been around for years, and nobody in the US wants to touch it for one simple reason, there are too many big names involved.

Joe Kennedy was a big supporter of Hitler, but he's not the biggest problem. Prescott Bush's boss was Averill Harriman. Harriman was one of FDR's closest personal and political friends. He was also THE MAJOR financial backer for the Democrat party for decades. His widow, Pamela Harriman, was the biggest backer of Clinton in 1992 and is largely responsible for him winning the presidency.

The bottom line is that there was a lot of money to be made in Germany in the late 1930s and early 40s and a lot of Americans took advantage of it. But it is probable that none of these people knew of Hitler's genocide plans. This story will keep coming up as long as the Bush's are in public office, and it will always "get buried" because too many other families would be brought into it.

[Tench_Coxe]

I wonder if Godwin's Law applies to the media.

[sully777]

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