Reply #13: Prescott Bush helped finance Hitler's private army in the 30's. Stunning.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

(Wow. THIS IS A FIND! This link with a lengthy detailed history of W's grandpa financing the Nazi party and Hitler's takeover of Germany in the 1930's is the most comprehensive history I've seen on the US/English financing of fascism. I'm still reading, damn.-JOM)
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/listservs/spoons/woodco-greens.archive/woodco-greens.0006
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Certain actions taken directly by the Harriman-Bush shipping
line in 1932 must be ranked among the gravest acts of treason in this
century. The U.S. Embassy in Berlin reported back to Washington that
the "costly election campaigns" and "the cost of maintaining a
private
army of 300,000 to 400,000 men" had raised questions as to the Nazis'
financial backers. The constitutional government of the German
republic moved to defend national freedom by ordering the Nazi Party
private armies disbanded. The U.S. Embassy reported that the
"Hamburg-Amerika Line was purchasing and distributing
propaganda attacks a gainst the German government, for attempting
this
last-minute crackdown on Hitler's forces." Note #2 Note #7 Thousands
of German opponents of Hitlerism were shot or intimidated by
privately
armed Nazi Brown Shirts. In this connection, we note that the
original
"Merchant of Death," Samuel Pryor, was a founding director of both
the
Union Banking Corp. and the American Ship and Commerce Corp. Since
Mr.
Pryor was executive committee chairman of Remington Arms and a
central
figure in the world's private arms traffic, his use to the Hitler
project was enhanced as the Bush family's partner in Nazi Party
banking and trans-Atlantic shipping.
The U.S. Senate arms-traffic investigators probed Remington after it
was joined in a cartel agreement on explosives to the Nazi firm I.G.
Farben. Looking at the period leading up to Hitler's seizure of
power, the senators found that "German political associations, like
the Nazi and others, are nearly all armed with American ... guns....
Arms of all kinds coming from America are transshipped in the Scheldt
to river barges before the vessels arrive in Antwerp. They then can
be
carried through Holland without police inspection or interference.
The
Hitlerists and Communists are presumed to get arms in this manner.
The principal arms coming from America are Thompson submachine guns
and revolvers. The number is great."