A Pledge Betrayed



Gold Fillings, Auschwitz
& George Bush




1/16/03
From the Streets of Little Beirut
By Glen Yeadon
There were little warning signs but few were paying attention when George
Bush the poppy ran for president in 1988 and 1992. First during the campaign
it surfaced that one of his campaign staffers was a distributor of pro-Nazi
propaganda. Before the ink was dry on the individual’s resignation, further
revelations showed there was in fact a number of ex-Nazis on Bush’s campaign
staff including Laszlo Pastor and Yaroslav Stetsko. Pastor was a member
of the Hungarian Arrow Cross during WWII and served as an envoy to Germany.
The Arrow Cross was known to be excessively brutal even to their Nazi allies.
Stetsko served as the prime minister of the short lived Ukrainian puppet
government. During the short reign of this puppet regime over 100,000 Jews
were slaughtered in Lvov. George Bush’s insensitivity towards victims of
the holocaust is underlined by his employment of Fred Malek, a well-known
Nazi collaborator in both his campaigns.
Upon winning the presidential race, George Bush, the poppy placed his
assets in a blind trust headed by his close friend William Stamps Farish
III. That appointment should have triggered alarm bells that something
very dark and sinister is buried in the Bush family’s past. His grandfather
William Stamps Farish sold the Japanese the gasoline used in the attack
on Pearl Harbor. Likewise, the elder Farish supplied Hitler’s war machine
with oil and tetraethyl lead. George Bush’s father, Prescott was close
friends with the elder Farish and remained so even after the elder’s testimony
before congress provoked Harry Truman to cry out "This is Treason."
In fact, during the war, Prescott had three companies seized from him
for trading with the Nazis. To understand the web of intrigue and follow
the money from the Holocaust to the Bush family we need to start with the
period immediately surrounding WWI. By 1916 August Thyssen could see that
Germany had already lost the Great War and he needed to protect his fortune.
His eldest son had been groomed to run the family steel business in the
Ruhr. His second son Heinrich discreetly changed his citizenship from German
to Hungarian and married the Hungarian aristocrat Baroness Margrit Bornemisza
de Kaszon. Near the end of the war August Thyssen opened the Bank voor
Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam. Holland was a neutral country during
the war and the new bank would serve as the perfect location to launder
funds from the Thyssen Bank in Berlin and protect his fortune from allied
financial demands. At the end of the war Heinrich now going by the name
of Baron Thyssen Bornemisza de Kaszon moved to Rotterdam and became the
principal owner of the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart. All that remained
to be done in August Thyseen’s plan was to set up an American Bank.
In 1922, Averell Harriman traveled to Germany to set up a branch of
W.A. Harriman in Berlin. Harriman had hired George Herbert Walker, George
Bush’s grandfather to run both the New York and Berlin branches of his
expanding investment firm. During his stay in Germany Harriman had met
the Thyseen family and agreed to help the Thyssen’s set up an American
bank.
In 1923, Germany was in economic shambles and Thyssen met with his friend
General Ludendorff, who advised him that Germany’s hope lied with Hitler
and the Nazi Party. Thyssen soon became a financial backer of the Nazis
and Hitler.
Early in 1924, Hendrick J. Kouwenhoven, the managing director of Bank
voor Handel en Scheepvaart, traveled to New York. Meeting with Walker and
the Harriman brothers, they founded the Union Banking Corporation. In 1926,
August Thyssen died the eldest son Fritz expanded the Thyssen empire by
creating United Steel Works. Thyssen also brought Fredich Flick on board.
The Thyssen-Flick union was designed to suppress the union movement. As
a result of the merger of Thyssen and Flick, George Walker hired
his son in law Prescott Bush to manage the United Steel Works account.
One division of United Steel Works consisted of both Consolidated Silesian
Steel Corporation and the Upper Silesian Coal and Steel Company. Both were
located in the mineral rich Silesian area of Poland. The arrangement was
extremely profitable for all four men: Thyssen, Flick, Walker and
Bush until the depression started in 1929. Congressional investigations
after the war showed that United Steel had supplied 50.8 percent of the
pig iron in Nazi Germany and likewise was a major supplier of all other
ferrous based metal products needed by Hitler’s war machine. Hence, one
of the largest munitions makers in Nazi Germany was funded by Prescott
Bush, the father and grandfather of two future US Presidents.
Due to the depression, Harriman merged with Brown forming the Brown
Brothers and Harriman firm. Internally the stock of Consolidated Silesian
Steel Company was held by the Harriman 15 Corporation formed by Harriman
and Bush. Two thirds of the stock was owned by Flick. By 1934, with Hitler
in solid control of Germany the profits from the Thyssen-Flick union soared
to over a hundred million. Both Union Bank and the Bank voor Handel en
Scheepvaart were overflowing with money. Prescott Bush became managing
director of Union Bank and took over the day-to-day operations of the German
plan.
In 1939, the Nazis invaded Poland ending a dispute over taxes between
Consolidated and the Polish government. The Nazis original plan was to
replace the workers in Polish factories with Soviet prisoners. However,
that portion of the Hitler-Stalin agreement was never implemented. Consolidated
Silesian Steel Corporation was located near the Polish town of Oswiecim.
When the plan to use Soviet prisoners as forced labor fell through,
the Nazis began shipping Jews, communists, gypsies and other minority
populations to the camp the Nazis had set up. This was the beginning of
Auschwitz. The reason Auschwitz was located there was because of the abundant
supplies of coal which could be processed into aviation fuel. I.G. Farben
soon built a plant near Auschwitz to take advantage of not only of the
nearby coal deposits but also of the slave labor supply available at Auschwitz.
According to a Dutch intelligence agent, Prescott Bush managed a portion
of the slave labor force in Poland.
Thyssen and Flick sold Consolidated Steel to UBC. Under the complete
control of Harriman and Bush’s management, the company became Silesian
American Corporation, which became part of UBC and Harriman's portfolio
of 15 corporations. As the 1930s progressed and it became clearer that
war was imminent, Bush and Harriman hired the Dulles brothers to
conceal the Nazi money and ownership in Union Bank. In concealing the involvement
of the Nazis in Union Bank, Prescott Bush and Harriman undoubtedly knew
that they were already engaged in an activity that was probably illegal
and certainly not in the best of interests of their country. Once war broke
out however, Bush’s activities on the behalf of the Nazis through Union
Banking became tantamount to treason.
The reader should understand that the concealing of Nazis assets located
in the United States through a maze of corporate shells often based in
Switzerland was an integral part of the German battle plan. In fact, the
Nazi had a word for it, tarnung or to camouflage. The primary aim of these
concealed Nazi corporations was to wage economic warfare by creating production
bottlenecks for their adversary. The reader should also be aware that two
Americans were present during the secret meeting of the German elite that
brought Hitler to power. Those two American were John Foster and Allen
Dulles.
Two of the directors of Union Banking Groninger and Kouwenhoven, were
Nazi directors of the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, formerly the von
Heydt Bank. Von Heydt was also a Nazi and has been identified as the intermediary
between the Guaranty Trust and Adolf Hitler. Both Groninger and Kouwenhoven
contributed lavishly to Himmler’s Circle of Friends. There was over forty
firms around Auschwitz using slave labor from the death camp. Soon the
Nazis had a massive store of gold from dental fillings, glasses and jewelry.
The Nazis extracted the fillings of its victims after being informed by
Degussa that the company could refine it into marketable gold bullion.
Degussa was awarded an exclusive contract with the Nazis to refine all
gold. The company was also joint owners with I.G. Farben of Degesch, a
firm that produced Zyklon-B cyanide tablets used in the gas chambers. Due
to the hoard of gold fillings stacking up at Auschweitz, Degussa built
a smelter there. The bullion was then shipped back to Berlin and commingled
with the Nazis gold stash. Undoubtedly some of it made its way back to
the banker in charge of United Steel Works, Prescott Bush.
On October 20, 1942 the United States government seized Union Banking
under the Trading with the Enemy Act. During that summer, The New York
Tribune had exposed Bush and Thyssen whom it called Hitler’s Angel.
Union Bank’s books revealed a myriad of Nazi money and holding companies.
Officials realized they had only scratched the tip of the iceberg. On November
17, 1942, the government seized Silesian American Corporation and placed
its operation under the Government Alien Property custodian office.
Following the war, authorities seeking to locate the Dutch Royal
family’s jewelry discovered the transaction papers of the Silesian American
Corporation in the books of Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart. The bank manager,
H.J. Kounhoven came under intense scrutiny and was shocked by the discovery.
Soon Kounhoven traveled to New York to inform Prescott Bush. Dutch authorities
date the meeting as soon after Christmas 1947. Two weeks later,
the otherwise healthy Dutch banker died of a heart attack. Coincidentally,
this was the method of choice of the Gehlen network for liquidating people.
The Nazis had perfected a method of inducing heart attacks that autopsies
could not detect.
On February 8, 1951, Thyssen died in Argentina. Following his death,
the Alien Property Custodian released the assets of the Union Banking Corporation
to Brown Brothers Harriman. The remaining shareholders quietly cashed in
their remaining shares. Prescott Bush received $1.5 million for his share
in Union Banking’s blood money.
This brief article has only scratched the surface of the sordid association
of Prescott Bush with the Nazis as he had yet a third company seized from
him during the war. In his first run for senator, Prescott was defeated
after his position within the eugenics movement was disclosed. George the
poppy has followed in his father’s footsteps and retained many of the same
family connections with the Nazis. For instance, as chairman of the Republican
Party he presided over the formation of the Ethnic Heritage groups of the
Republican Party. This was a reward for the Nazi quislings from Eastern
Europe for helping in the election of Nixon as president. When two or more
ethnic groups were vying for control over a particular group invariably
the group with close ties to the Nazis won out. George also shows the same
intense interest in population control. Perhaps it was for his beliefs
in eugenics, George appointed Draper as his expert on population. Or perhaps
it was more of a reward for past services rendered by Draper to the Bush
family. Draper was the former general placed in control of the military
government‘s economic division after the war. Draper was a rabid racist
and member of the Eugenics Society. He was also a former employee of Dillion
and Reed, the large Wall Street brokerage house that floated the largest
German bond offerings including one for United Steel Works. In his position
as economic czar of Germany, he stopped the dismantling of an I.G. Farben
plant and was in the ideal slot to protect his former clients that armed
Hitler, including Bush.
The same close associations are apparent with Bush junior. One interesting
pattern in international relations is ready observed that the Israeli government
moves to the hard right whenever a Bush is in the Oval Office. Considering,
Israel has one of the best intelligence agencies in the world and a perhaps
the most extensive data base on the holocaust, could the Israeli
hard-liners be blackmailing the Bushes? Do they have a smoking gun that
would at once end the political aspirations of the entire Bush clan as
well as place the family wealth at risk for damages suffered during the
Holocaust? One researcher already says the family wealth is at risk in
such suits; the ties are that strong.
Any reasonable person understands that the tragedy of 9-11 was allowed
to happen. Only the White House can order the interceptors to stand down,
once an aircraft deviates from its flight plan or contact is lost. Within
30 minutes of the time the golfer’s plane that decompressed failed to follow
directions from the control tower a fighter was alongside and shadowed
the plane until it ran out of fuel and crashed in the midwest. The story
that no fighters were available is simply a lot of bullshit. There are
probably no less than a dozen or more airports within range of New York
and Washington DC with fighter squadrons on standby. Yet, Bush wants us
to believe that the entire East Coast was left unprotected with no fighters
to provide air cover including the restricted airspace over the White House.
The 9-11 tragedy was the Reichstag fire and the so-call Patriot Act, the
enabling act for another fascist government.
With American blood about to stain the sands of the Mideast why hasn’t
the media focused on the merchant of death, who armed Saddam? They would
need to look no further than George Bush, the poppy and Vice President
Dick Cheney. Poppy Bush is rubbing his hands with glee counting potential
profits for his Carlyle Group. The group holds stocks in defense industries
that armed Saddam during the Reagan years and provided arms for the US
military. This is the way the Bush family makes it money. Just ask Prescott.
It didn’t take Dick long to learn that secret. After the first Bush administration
in which Cheney was the head of defense, he became head of Halliburton.While
at Halliburton, Dick sold hundred of millions of dollars worth of dual
use equipment to Iraq.
Stand behind the young soldiers and wave a flag for them, as they are
mere canon fodder for this fascist clique. Don’t wave a flag for the most
corrupt administration in the history of the country that’s hell-bent on
installing a fascist regime beholding to no one other than corporate interests.
Your freedom depends on it.