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Default Bush grandpa's t ies to Nazis clearer on 70th Auschwitz memorial

On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 6:10:02 PM UTC-5, Acme Bully Control wrote:
> As the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz comes and goes,
> the long-controversial links between American industrialists and the
> rise of the Nazi regime have become clearer, thanks to recently
> uncovered documents.
>
> The ties between Hitler's Nazis and American businessmen such as Henry
> Ford, Averell Harriman, and Senator Prescott Bush, the father of George
> HW Bush, have long been cited in lawsuits filed by Holocaust survivors
> seeking compensation for their suffering. The late Senator Prescott
> Bush's German assets were seized in 1942 by President Franklin Delano
> Roosevelt under the Trading with the Enemy Act, which also carried
> prison penalties which Bush escaped. Historical scholarship over the
> last decade shows that Bush was deeply enmeshed in business which was
> vital to the rise of Nazi Germany, and almost certainly knew that his
> profits were driven by slave labor.
>
> The January 27th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the
> Soviets was the last decade anniversary which most survivors expected to
> be able to attend.
>
> In groundbreaking reporting, the New Hampshire Gazette said in 2003, in
> "Bush-Nazi Link Confirmed," that:
>
> ""The documents from the [National] Archives...show that the Bushes and
> Harrimans shipped valuable U.S. assets, including gold, coal, steel and
> U.S. Treasury and war bonds, to their foreign clients overseas as Hitler
> geared up for his 1939 invasion of Poland, the event that sparked World
> War II.""
>
> Previously, the families of American industrialists such as Bush have
> maintained that their business ties with the Third Reich were at arm's
> length, and that the companies were unaware of what Hitler was doing to
> Jews and other "displaced persons." The American companies were heavily
> involved in German business during Hitler's rise between 1933, when
> Adolf Hitler consolidated dictatorial powers after the "Reichstag Fire,"
> through the 1939 invasion of Poland, and even after the bombing of Pearl
> Harbor and the declaration of war upon Germany by the United States.
> Many say that the German "economic miracle" in fact was built on the
> slave labor of Jews, Poles, and other "undesirables" under the Nazi regime.


Don't you know ? It is all about money. Sad sad sad