Good luck with all that!
I heard Arnold's dad was a Nazi. I also heard Mel Gibson's dad made some derrogatory comments about jews. IBM traded with the Nazis as did MANY companies.
My point is, so what? Yep, Nazi's were bad and most everybody knows it. Bush isn't going to be un-elected if indeed some ancestor of his traded with some Nazi oil people.
God only knows what kind of crap my great-grandfather did and same goes to the writer of this article.
Technically, if the second part of this staement were true, it wouldn't be George Walker Bush who would have benefited monetarily. It would have been George Herbert Walker Bush, his father.
But then I suppose that this idiot believes that Prescott set up a fund to bequeath, upon his death, to GWB. Of course, that account would have been called, "All my Nazi Money".
1. Fritz Thyssen was arrested an put in a concentration camp by the Nazis. He had a falling out with Hitler over... Anti-Semitism! (Thyssen was a German nationalist, not an anti-Semite.)
2. At the time Prescott Bush became a director of UBC it was not illegal to do business with the Third Reich or business based there.
3. At the time UBC was seized, Prescott Bush was not found guilty of any wrong doing. On the contrary, when UBC was seized he was paid $1.5 million (in 1942 dollars!) for his single share.
On irrelevant side, a lot of other folks made money doing business with the Reich: IBM, IT&T, Ford, GM, Standard Oil, etc. Again, what they did was not illegal. Ford and GM had plants in Germany and were compensated for bomb damage after the war...
On the illegal side, Standard Oil continued deliver oil to Spain (where it was shipped through France to Germany, well after the US went to war with Germany.
Isn't funny, though, how nobody goes after folks like Armand Hammer (a sponsor of Gore's daddy) who did business with the Commies, though?
Simple...You just say..."Hitler was a socialist, pro-abortion, anti-Jew, anti-Christian, pro-gun control...so your fear should be the Democrat party who has a KKK member they call the "conscience of the Senate."