2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumA Reminder: How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
(This is an older article, but still of interest IMO.)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.
Remarkably, little of Bush's dealings with Germany has received public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the documentation involving him.
navarth
(5,927 posts)Thanks for keeping it current, RKP.
And many thanks to Ocatfish for his many comprehensive threads on the subject.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)of people and those horrible times. Trump, of course, speaks only of deportation and all. Now, that said, I am no Trump fan, but did want to serve a reminder that Jeb Bush's family is not a benevolent dynasty by any means. I just wanted to get the complete picture out again. Thanks for your reply!
navarth
(5,927 posts)about the BFEE. 'nuff said.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Successfully elected both Bushes to governor, that they only meant for one of them to be president.
Now that Dubya has done the damage that he's done, I'm sure TPTB know they'll never get another elected.
Jeb doesn't seem to be getting any momentum. I agree that it's a good idea to keep this particular Bush scandal in the forefront, but I don't think it's necessary to keep Jeb out of the White House.
cali
(114,904 posts)with Hitler
We need to stop repeating this "sins of the fathers" crap.
Bucky
(54,005 posts)Tippicanoe? P'shaw, I say. He's a "Whig in Name Only"!!
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)is what the National Archives was called by staff when I worked there in the 90s.