Heir to the Holocaust: How the Bush Family is linked to the Jewish Holocau

[DaveSZ]

A history prof of mine mentioned this, so I decided to do some more reading about the subject:


http://www.clamormagazine.org/features/issue14.3_feature.html



On April 19, 2001, President George W. Bush spent some of Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Capital Rotunda with holocaust survivors, allied veterans, and their families. In a ceremony that included Jewish prayers and songs sung by holocaust victims in the camps, Benjamin Meed, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, movingly described to the gathering what he experienced on April 19, 1943.

"I stood outside a Catholic church, which faced the ghetto," Mr. Meed said, "a young Jewish boy posing as a gentile. As I watched the ghetto being bombarded by the German artillery, I could see many of the Jews of my community jumping out of windows of burning buildings. I stood long and mute."

The survivor concluded his reminiscence saying, "We tremble to think what could happen if we allow a new generation to arise ignorant of the tragedy which is still shaping the future."

President Bush, appearing almost uncomfortable, read a statement that said that humanity was "bound by conscience to remember what happened" and that "the record has been kept and preserved." The record, Mr. Bush stated, was that one of the worst acts of genocide in human history "came not from crude and uneducated men, but from men who regarded themselves as cultured and well schooled, modern men, forward looking. Their crime showed the world that evil can slip in and blend in amid the most civilized surroundings. In the end only conscience can stop it."

But while President Bush publicly embraced the community of holocaust survivors in Washington last spring, he and his family have been keeping a secret from them for over 50 years about Prescott Bush, the president's grandfather. According to classified documents from Dutch intelligence and US government archives, President George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an heir to these profits from the holocaust which were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush.

Throughout the Bush family's decades of public life, the American press has gone out of its way to overlook one historical fact – that through Union Banking Corporation (UBC), Prescott Bush, and his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker, along with German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, financed Adolf Hitler before and during World War II. It was first reported in 1994 by John Loftus and Mark Aarons in The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People.


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Prescott Bush was a traitor to this country, and had the blood of millions of Jews on his hands.

[bobthedrummer]

1. We have documented this fact many times here at DU

and I am always happy to provide what I can as a public service to remind everyone interested of the facts about the Bush family history and details about where some of it's wealth came from.

Prescott and The Third Reich. G.H.W.Bush and the Bin-Ladens.
George W. Bush, Richard Cheney and the Saudis. It seems like a traditional family value:puke::grr:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=199853

[ezee]

2. Great Info

Thanks!

[NNN0LHI]

3. Can't figure out why they don't sue the Bush crime family for reparations?

They have sued others very successfully for this type of thing.

Don

[DaveSZ]

4. Great info Bob

As for reparations, this Supreme Court ruling makes me wonder if those 5 justices (in the pocket of the Bushes) are covering for them.

I know it has more to do with insurance companies, so maybe I'm just being paranoid lol.


http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/2478905


March 31, 2004, 8:46PM

91 Texans to get Holocaust insurance payments
By CLAY ROBISON

Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau



AUSTIN -- Ninety-one Texans are among 16,000 Holocaust survivors and heirs worldwide who will receive $1,000 payments from an international commission that investigated Holocaust-era insurance claims.

The payments, to be mailed out this week, are going to people who believe they had an insurance policy in effect during the Holocaust but are unable to identify the insurance company, the Texas Department of Insurance announced Wednesday.

"This money does not come close to fully compensating survivors or their families. But what we hope it does is offer some solace," Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor said.

The Insurance Department worked with the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims to identify Texas survivors and their families. The state agency organized outreach events, placed information on its Web site and helped Texas survivors send claim information to the international commission.

The Texas Legislature enacted a law last year that also would have helped Holocaust survivors collect on insurance policies, but it was declared unconstitutional by Attorney General Greg Abbott.

The Texas law, which would have required the Insurance Department to set up a Holocaust registry, was patterned after a California law, which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court last June. Abbott cited the Supreme Court ruling in his opinion.

Under the short-lived Texas law, insurance companies doing business in the state would have had to provide information to the registry about European policies written from 1920 to 1945. In overturning the similar California law, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision sided with the Bush administration and insurance companies and held that the statute amounted to unconstitutional interference in foreign affairs by a state.

The high court said the executive branch of the federal government already had established a mechanism -- the international commission -- for handling Holocaust claims.

The commission was formed by insurers, the state of Israel, and Jewish and Holocaust survivor organizations.

[LeahMira]

5. Thank your teacher!

Prescott Bush was a traitor to this country, and had the blood of millions of Jews on his hands.

Please thank your history professor for telling you and your class about these things. I encourage you to continue to explore these connections, and I'm glad that your generation is hearing these stories. They need to be told. Those who are living and who are still profiting from those deeds -- even if the deeds were committed decades ago by persons long dead -- should be held accountable for the blood money, IMO.

Another part of the story that you and your history professor might find interesting is the story of American soldiers who were kept in German concentration camps during the war... right along with the Jews and others. Those who survived had to sign gag orders and their families also had to promise never to discuss wartime experiences with their soldiers. Our government to this day denies that any soldiers were ever in the camps. A friend has just published a book that includes the testimonies of sixteen men who survived and have finally agreed to break their silence. Interestingly, documents that he obtained from the German government verify the truth of what the men say. My friend believes that Americans would have been furious had they known that some of our most prominent families were deeply involved with the very monsters responsible for what these men suffered.

Sadly, we are seeing the same kinds of things happening now in Iraq. Some don't want to believe it. That's why it's so important to remember. They did it before and they will do it again.

[DaveSZ]

6. W's got some splainin' to do on this one:

http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.12.12/oped3.html

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Those complicit in this crime against my humanity should be held accountable. For nearly a year, I have been fighting in court against the German pharmaceutical companies Bayer and Schering. Now that officials in the American government are trying to undermine my legal rights I am taking my case to the court of public opinion. I ask that my story be heard.

In Auschwitz my arm was tattooed with the number 143511. While waiting to be assigned to a work detail, I was approached by a Dr. Eduard Wirths, the chief doctor at Auschwitz. Because of my red hair and fair skin, he asked if I was a German Jew. He examined me and then told me to see the other doctors. I spent a few days at Auschwitz in Block 10, where I was given shots in my arm. I later learned that the pharmaceutical companies were experimenting with drugs to cure typhus. The shots made me very sick and I could do nothing but lay in the barracks.


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After my years of service to this country in Korea, I always expected the president of the United States to stand by me against my persecutors. I never realized that Prescott Bush, President Bush's grandfather, made a fortune on Wall Street during the 1930s selling war bonds for Nazi Germany and "cloaking" American assets owned by German companies. Now I understand why the Bush administration is urging the presiding judge to dismiss my case and placing legal closure for corporate perpetrators ahead of moral and financial closure for victims of the Holocaust. The apple never falls far from the tree.


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Click link for full article.

[Must_B_Free]

7. This was debunked on Air America

by someone who had done far more research than any of us.

What he stated was to the effect that - because the city where this business was was destroyed - there was no business being done after the war had started, so they weren't "trading with the enemy". They were trading with what would become the enemy before the war started though.

Someone else can probably detail this better than I. This is what I thought I heard.