Prescott Bush's Nazi Collaboration Mentioned on American Television

I like the moniker "Barbie" for that blonde piece of trash with pudding for a brain!

I became so enraged while listening to the "conversation" that I nearly took my monitor and threw it out my office window I was so pissed at that idiot.

Someone should get a few rolls of leftover duct tape and wrap it around her mouth and wrists to shut her the hell up.

I particularly went off on her "brilliant" retort about no one questioning Obama's family history. What the fuck was that? Like Obama's grandfather posessed any influence in the directions the country was taking in the 30's. What a stupid bitch!

Speaking of backgrounds, I'd be interested to know "Barbie's". Was she the daughter of privilege or did she get the advantages of other "boomers" such as myself from the New Deal. Was she privately schooled or did she attend public schools? If the latter, then she has been co-opted by the wealth enjoyed from her QB husband's sports contract. If she is from an upper crust background, everything she has to say needs to be taken with a great many grains of salt. In other words, her words are worthless!

Was happy to see the subject brought up my MSM. "Barbie" is ridiculous and to know that something we've been talking about has bubbled through to MSM is a good sign. When some folks I know (who don't care much about anything important to me) hear this drivel it makes them think a little. Am glad I know about the "discourse" on The View. If I hadn't, could not have pointed it out to folks that watch way too much television. Couldn't have found out about it without this posting. My two cents. R.

That Prescott Bush did business with Fritz Thyssen during the 1930s while Thyssen was a supporter of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler, is well known and well documented.

The connections through UBC and Brown Brothers Harriman (Prescott was a founding partner) is well established in the lead-up to the war.

"By the late 1930s, Brown Brothers Harriman, which claimed to be the world's largest private investment bank, and UBC had bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, fuel, steel, coal and US treasury bonds to Germany, both feeding and financing Hitler's build-up to war."

Thyssen had to later pay 500,000 DM for cruel treatment of Jewish employees though he flatly denied using concentration camp labor in his family owned steel business.

And though it is harder to discover whether or not UBC and Brown Brothers continued to profit from the German connections in violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act after we declared war, what is perfectly clear is that while Jewish people were being rounded up by the Nazis, Prescott Bush's company was doing business with and sent money to Thyssen and by extention, the Nazi Party.

That, toofew, is a fact. And I am glad you brought this up because it gave me a great opportunity to put some info out there for others to research on their own.

So when G.W.Bush talks about "sympathizers" with the Nazi Party, he really should first explain grand-pappy's Brown Brother's Harriman checks that ended up in Hitler's war chest. Don't you think?

according to an MIT report done on the subject of that very slave labor from Auschwitz:

"The most tantalising part of the story remains shrouded in mystery: the connection, if any, between Prescott Bush, Thyssen, Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC) and Auschwitz.

Thyssen's partner in United Steel Works, which had coal mines and steel plants across the region, was Friedrich Flick, another steel magnate who also owned part of IG Farben, the powerful German chemical company.

Flick's plants in Poland made heavy use of slave labour from the concentration camps in Poland. According to a New York Times article published in March 18 1934 Flick owned two-thirds of CSSC while "American interests" held the rest.

The US National Archive documents show that BBH's involvement with CSSC was more than simply holding the shares in the mid-1930s. Bush's friend and fellow "bonesman" Knight Woolley, another partner at BBH, wrote to Averill Harriman in January 1933 warning of problems with CSSC after the Poles started their drive to nationalise the plant. "The Consolidated Silesian Steel Company situation has become increasingly complicated, and I have accordingly brought in Sullivan and Cromwell, in order to be sure that our interests are protected," wrote Knight. "After studying the situation Foster Dulles is insisting that their man in Berlin get into the picture and obtain the information which the directors here should have. You will recall that Foster is a director and he is particularly anxious to be certain that there is no liability attaching to the American directors."

BBH listed above is Brown Brothers Harriman; the company that Prescott Bush co-founded and was running during the 30's. Knight Woolley was a personal friend of Prescott's.