Date Posted: 22:24:11 03/27/02 Wed Author: Tee Jay Subject: The Bush Family's History of Nazi Affiliation Do disseminate this information to other interested parties. References are at the end of the post. In October 1942, ten months after entering World War II, America was preparing its first assault against Nazi military forces. Prescott Bush was managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. His 18-year-old son George, the future U.S. President, had just begun training to become a naval pilot. On Oct. 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were being conducted by Prescott Bush. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over the Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.'s stock shares, all of which were owned by Prescott Bush, E. Roland `` Bunny '' Harriman, three Nazi executives, and two other associates of Bush. (1) By Oct. 26, 1942, U.S. troops were under way for North Africa. On Oct. 28, the government issued orders seizing two Nazi front organizations run by the Bush-Harriman bank: the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. (2) U.S. forces landed under fire near Algiers on Nov. 8, 1942; heavy combat raged throughout November. Nazi interests in the Silesian-American Corporation, long managed by Prescott Bush and his father-in-law George Herbert Walker, were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act on Nov. 17, 1942. In this action, the government announced that it was seizing only the Nazi interests, leaving the Nazis' U.S. partners to carry on the business. (3) Bush and Quayle's advisers in 1988 included several European fascist activists, including Nazi collaborator Laszlo Pasztor, who had served as junior envoy in Berlin for the Arrow Cross regime in his native Hungary; Florian Goldau, who had been recruiter for the Romanian Iron Guard; Bohdan Fedorak, who had headed a Ukranian pro-Nazi group involved in wartime pogroms; and Croatian-born agitator Jerome Brentar, a fixture on the Holocaust denial circuit. (4) Discussing what he would say to Israeli Jews upon arriving in the middle east in 1993, George W. joked: "[You're all] going to hell." (5) Tapes of the Bush Family's long-time spiritual adviser, Billy Graham, have revealed that Graham used to have vehemently anti-Semitic conversations with Nixon. For example, Graham blamed "satanic Jews" for the nation's problems. After agreeing with Nixon that left-wing Jews dominate the news-media, Graham stated that "They're the ones putting out the pornographic stuff," and the Jewish "stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain." He also admitted that "a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine.... But they don't know how I really feel about what they are doing about this country." (6) Whether one is for or against it, the death penalty is a serious issue. When Karla Faye Tucker was asked, just before her execution, "What would you say to Governor Bush?" George W. showed the sensitivity of a Nazi when he mocked her: "Please... don't kill me!" (7) References: 1. Office of Alien Property Custodian, Vesting Order No. 248. The order was signed by Leo T. Crowley, Alien Property Custodian, executed October 20, 1942; F.R. Doc. 42-11568; Filed, November 6, 1942, 11:31 A.M.; 7 Fed. Reg. 9097 (Nov. 7, 1942). See also the New York City Directory of Directors (available at the Library of Congress). The volumes for the 1930s and 1940s list Prescott Bush as a director of Union Banking Corporation for the years 1934 through 1943. 2. Alien Property Custodian Vesting Order No. 259: Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation; Vesting Order No. 261: Holland-American Trading Corp. 3. Alien Property Custodian Vesting Order No. 370: Silesian-American Corp. 4. Washington Jewish Week, September 8, 1988. 5. Austin-American Statesman, December 1, 1998. 6. David Firestone, "Billy Graham Responds to Lingering Anger Over 1972 Remarks on Jews." New York Times, Sunday, March 17, 2002. 7. Talk, Sept 1999, Quoted in The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a national disorder, by MC Miller