How The Bush Family Made Its Nazi Fortune, Confirmed.

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I came across this article a few years ago while doing research for my book titled Shock and Awe on America. I was intrigued by the hard hitting article and today I present it to you, so the chain of Truth, Justice and “Payback is a Bitch” will not be broken…

John Loftus, is a former U.S. Department of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor, the President of the Florida Holocaust Museum and the highly respected author of numerous books on the CIA-Nazi connection including The Belarus Secret and The Secret War Against the Jews, both of which have extensive material on the Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection.

For the Bush family, it is a lingering nightmare. For their Nazi clients, the Dutch connection was the mother of all money laundering schemes. From 1945 until 1949, one of the lengthiest and, it now appears, most futile interrogations of a Nazi war crimes suspect began in the American Zone of Occupied Germany. Multibillionaire steel magnate Fritz Thyssen-the man whose steel combine was the cold heart of the Nazi war machine-talked and talked and talked to a joint US-UK interrogation team. For four long years, successive teams of inquisitors tried to break Thyssen’s simple claim to possess neither foreign bank accounts nor interests in foreign corporations, no assets that might lead to the missing billions in assets of the Third Reich. The inquisitors failed utterly.

Why? Because what the wily Thyssen deposed was, in a sense, true. What the Allied investigators never understood was that they were not asking Thyssen the right question. Thyssen did not need any foreign bank accounts because his family secretly owned an entire chain of banks. He did not have to transfer his Nazi assets at the end of World War II, all he had to do was transfer the ownership documents – stocks, bonds, deeds and trusts–from his bank in Berlin through his bank in Holland to his American friends in New York City: Prescott Bush and Herbert Walker. Thyssen’s partners in crime were the father and father-in-law of a future President of the United States.

The allied investigators underestimated Thyssen’s reach, his connections, his motives, and his means. The web of financial entities Thyssen helped create in the 1920’s remained a mystery for the rest of the twentieth century, an almost perfectly hidden underground sewer pipeline for moving dirty money, money that bankrolled the post-war fortunes not only of the Thyssen industrial empire…but the Bush family as well. It was a secret Fritz Thyssen would take to his grave.

It was a secret that would lead former US intelligence agent William Gowen, now pushing 80, to the very doorstep of the Dutch royal family. The Gowens are no strangers to controversy or nobility. His father was one of President Roosevelt’s diplomatic emissaries to Pope Pius XII, leading a futile attempt to persuade the Vatican to denounce Hitler’s treatment of Jews. It was his son, William Gowen, who served in Rome after World War II as a Nazi hunter and investigator with the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. It was Agent Gowen who first discovered the secret Vatican Ratline for smuggling Nazis in 1949. It was also the same William Gowen who began to uncover the secret Dutch pipeline for smuggling Nazi money in 1999.

A half-century earlier, Fritz Thyssen was telling the allied investigators that he had no interest in foreign companies, that Hitler had turned on him and seized most of his property. His remaining assets were mostly in the Russian Occupied Zone of Germany (which he knew were a write-off anyway). His distant (and disliked) relatives in neutral nations like Holland were the actual owners of a substantial percentage of the remaining German industrial base. As innocent victims of the Third Reich, they were lobbying the allied occupation governments in Germany, demanding restitution of the property that had been seized from them by the Nazis.

Under the rules of the Allied occupation of Germany, all property owned by citizens of a neutral nation which had been seized by the Nazis had to be returned to the neutral citizens upon proper presentation of documents showing proof of ownership. Suddenly, all sorts of neutral parties, particularly in Holland, were claiming ownership of various pieces of the Thyssen empire. In his cell, Fritz Thyssen just smiled and waited to be released from prison while members of the Dutch royal family and the Dutch intelligence service reassembled his pre-war holdings for him.

The British and American interrogators may have gravely underestimated Thyssen but they nonetheless knew they were being lied to. Their suspicions focused on one Dutch Bank in particular, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, in Rotterdam. This bank did a lot of business with the Thyssens over the years. In 1923, as a favor to him, the Rotterdam bank loaned the money to build the very first Nazi party headquarters in Munich. But somehow the allied investigations kept going nowhere, the intelligence leads all seemed to dry up.

If the investigators realized that the US intelligence chief in postwar Germany, Allen Dulles, was also the Rotterdam bank’s lawyer, they might have asked some very interesting questions. They did not know that Thyssen was Dulles’ client as well. Nor did they ever realize that it was Allen Dulles’s other client, Baron Kurt Von Schroeder who was the Nazi trustee for the Thyssen companies which now claimed to be owned by the Dutch. The Rotterdam Bank was at the heart of Dulles’ cloaking scheme, and he guarded its secrets jealously.

Several decades after the war, investigative reporter Paul Manning, Edward R. Murrow’s colleague, stumbled across the Thyssen interrogations in the US National Archives. Manning intended to write a book about Nazi money laundering. Manning’s manuscript was a dagger at Allen Dulles’ throat: his book specifically mentioned the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart by name, albeit in passing. Dulles volunteered to help the unsuspecting Manning with his manuscript, and sent him on a wild goose chase, searching for Martin Bormann in South America.

Without knowing that he had been deliberately sidetracked, Manning wrote a forward to his book personally thanking Allen Dulles for his “assurance that I was “on the right track, and should keep going.'”Dulles sent Manning and his manuscript off into the swamps of obscurity. The same “search for Martin Bormann”scam was also used to successfully discredit Ladislas Farago, another American journalist probing too far into the laundering of Nazi money. American investigators had to be sent anywhere but Holland.

And so the Dutch connection remained unexplored until 1994 when I published the book “The Secret War Against the Jews.”As a matter of historical curiosity, I mentioned that Fritz Thyssen (and indirectly, the Nazi Party) had obtained their early financing from Brown Brothers Harriman, and its affiliate, the Union Banking Corporation. Union Bank, in turn, was the Bush family’s holding company for a number of other entities, including the “Holland American Trading Company.”

It was a matter of public record that the Bush holdings were seized by the US government after the Nazis overran Holland. In 1951, the Bush’s reclaimed Union Bank from the US Alien Property Custodian, along with their “neutral” Dutch assets. I did not realize it, but I had stumbled across a very large piece of the missing Dutch connection. Bush’s ownership of the Holland-American investment company was the missing link to Manning’s earlier research in the Thyssen investigative files. In 1981, Manning had written:

“Thyssen’s first step in a long dance of tax and currency frauds began [in the late 1930’s] when he disposed of his shares in the Dutch Hollandische-Amerikanische Investment Corporation to be credited to the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, N.V., Rotterdam, the bank founded in 1916 by August Thyssen Senior.”

In this one obscure paragraph, in a little known book, Manning had unwittingly documented two intriguing points: 1) The Bush’s Union Bank had apparently bought the same corporate stock that the Thyssens were selling as part of their Nazi money laundering, and 2) the Rotterdam Bank, far from being a neutral Dutch institution, was founded by Fritz Thyssen’s father. In hindsight, Manning and I had uncovered different ends of the Dutch connection.

This is just part of the original Article, to read the full article use the link below.

This is the full article

Teeluck’s Note…Allen Dulles went on to become the Chief Advisor to Republican Nominee Thomas E. Dewey and later under President Eisenhower he was appointed  the Director of the CIA. Under Dulles’s direction, the CIA created MK-Ultra, a top secret mind control research project which was managed by Sidney Gottlieb. Dulles also personally oversaw Operation Mockingbird, a program which influenced American media companies as part of the “New Look”.

This other link is a news story run by The Guardian, a reputable and sound News Media Giant, whose story parallels the above article.

Their opening salvo is thus…

How Bush’s Grandfather Helped Hitler’s Rise To Power

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.

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13 years ago

Another to make large profits before and during the war was IBM. Anyone interested in further research should look at the book “IBM and the Holocaust”.

Jen Jensen
13 years ago

That would be “its”, not “it’s” in the headline.

Osori
13 years ago

Tee,
I’d known of the Bush involvement and this helped fill in a lot of blanks.
I hadn’t been aware of the scumbag Dulles’s involvement, but it’s not surprising.Also because he and his brother John Foster Dulles shared investments logically the connections went even further.
The Dulles family investments in Chiquita Banana led directly to their overthrow of the Arbenz presidency in Guatemala and the ensuing massacres of tens of thousands of Maya, so the $ trail continued to lead to death and destruction.

Reply to  Osori
13 years ago

Oso..Have you received my messages?

osori
Reply to  Professor Mike
13 years ago

Thanks Mike!

13 years ago

Politicians again…booooring

No offence Lucky…great post and all that but politicians are polticians so what’s new?

13 years ago

We have gut feelings about people in Politics and many of those feelings in time prove true. I just don’t understand why we have to wait years to find out some of the truths. Investigative reporting is a long forgotten way of the news.
Tee great story here, I didn’t know much of what you wrote but appreciated you writing it. I learned.

13 years ago

Tom’s right, just one more off the assembly line of the imperialist clown factory. I just hope the next genocidal yokel knows how to dance. Entertain me, dammit!

Tom
13 years ago

Many business people profited from WW II while doing business with Hitler. War is a most profitable business.
So what do we do with this information?
Joe Kennedy made money running illegal liquor, and used that money to finance the political lives of his sons.
Our government has been responsible for the ousting of justly elected leaders of their country, in favor of people we thought would be more agreeable to us. Murder attempts against the leaders of other countries, etc.
Reporting past abuses by our citizens, or our government has not stopped continuing abuses.
We do need to set the record straight for History.
Besides that, I don’t believe this will effect the Bush historical record as far as being Presidents.
History will write that President Bush (Jr.) will be remembered for adding another 6 trillion dollars to the Republicans multi trillion dollar debts, that reached 13 trillion in less than 30 years. A needless war, in which thousands of American soldiers died, and the truth about that aggression.

Admin
13 years ago

I have read about this but have never been one to buy into such theories, however the more I learn the more I suspect this allegation has legs. Great analysis Tee.

Teeluck
Reply to  Professor Mike
13 years ago

Many have heard the theories, so I tried to give the links that I think will help to bring the story home.
The Guardian’s take on it is really powerful, for a large Media Organization.

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