BernardR wrote:And Pacelbel believes that Prescott Bush, George W. Bush's grandfather, by virtue of the fact that he worked for Harriman who had an employee named Fritz Thyssen who contributed to Hitler in the 30's and then stopped contributing in 1939m was a Nazi or at the very least, A Nazi sympathizer. This, of course, makes George W. Bush a Nazi!
Pachelbol now wears a tinfoil hat!!!!!!

yeah, how 'bout that! And what kind of hat do you wear? A pointy dunce hat, of course. Your blather has not one iota of a quote from any source to prove otherwise. Why don't you do some research, sparrowfart/BernR, before you talk? I have. There are 251,000 hits on the internet for Prescott Bush and Nazis connection. The documents were......shhhhhh......secret.....at first. They are now public which is why they are available at the Natl'l Archives and Lib. of Congress.
QUOTE guardian.co.uk/usa/story
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president
Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Saturday September 25, 2004
The Guardian
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
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. But now the multibillion dollar legal action for damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush family, and the imminent publication of three books on the subject are threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W, as he seeks re-election.
(Pachelbel's statement: They sure stifled anything about that during the election, didn't they? A bit of political clout helps eh?) Gutless Democrats?
While there is no suggestion that Prescott Bush was sympathetic to the Nazi cause, the documents reveal that the firm he worked for, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), acted as a US base for the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler in the 1930s before falling out with him at the end of the decade. The Guardian has seen evidence that shows Bush was the director of the New York-based Union Banking Corporation (UBC) that represented Thyssen's US interests and he continued to work for the bank after America entered the war.
Tantalising
Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow Thyssen to move assets around the world.
Thyssen owned the largest steel and coal company in Germany and grew rich from Hitler's efforts to re-arm between the two world wars. One of the pillars in Thyssen's international corporate web, UBC, worked exclusively for, and was owned by, a Thyssen-controlled bank in the Netherlands. More tantalising are Bush's links to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC), based in mineral rich Silesia on the German-Polish border. During the war, the company made use of Nazi slave labour from the concentration camps, including Auschwitz. The ownership of CSSC changed hands several times in the 1930s, but documents from the US National Archive declassified last year link Bush to CSSC, although it is not clear if he and UBC were still involved in the company when Thyssen's American assets were seized in 1942.
Three sets of archives spell out Prescott Bush's involvement. All three are readily available, thanks to the efficient US archive system and a helpful and dedicated staff at both the Library of Congress in Washington and the National Archives at the University of Maryland.
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now, if you fools who chortle that Bush is innocent would post something concrete, other than your silly opinions, that states that Bush was NEVER involved I might believe you. Can you find at least 100,000 hits on the computer to back up your statements? I challenge you to do so.
Here are more sites with Bush/Nazi connection:
www.nhgazette.com, www.geocities.com, www.tarpley.net, lpdallas.org/feature/draheim
Obviously I am not going to post all 250,000 sites for you. What do you think I am - a reference library?
A2K is supposed to be about learning and knowledge. Not covering up facts. You have a long, long way to go.
You can't be a little bit pregnant. And you can't be involved a little bit with the Nazis - you either are, or you aren't. You're either with us or against us, eh?

If you are naive enough to think Prescott Bush could be director and/or on the boards for these people while he had absolutely NO knowledge of what was going on then I expect you'll believe anything your government and press (same thing in Americ) tells you. Way to go, suckers....