Bush's "Reich" family values

by Barbara Jean Hope*

Those who express the idea that during and after the improper installation 
of an illegitimate President there is more than a whiff of fascism in the 
air are frighteningly correct.

Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich were funded in part by the American right 
wing. Prominent among those who funded the German Nazi Party in the 1930s 
and beyond were the great-grandfather, George Herbert Walker, and the 
grandfather, Prescott Bush, of White House Resident George W Bush.

Through industrialist Fritz Thyssen, W A Harriman and Company and the Bush-
owned Union Banking Company, the Bush family sold more than US$50 million 
in German bonds to American investors. According to the Sarasota 
(Herald-Tribune), (The Bush family fortune came from the Third 
Reich).

An article in the Philadelphia City Paper (1/18/01) by Robert 
Lederman revealed that, "Along with the Rockefellers, DuPonts, General 
Motors, and Henry Ford, banks and shipping companies operated by the Bush 
family were crucial players in setting up the industrial power behind the 
Third Reich."

Those companies poured hundreds of millions of dollars into IG Farben, the 
company that put gas into Hitler's gas chambers. It produced Zyklon B and 
other gasses used to murder the victims of the Holocaust (Jews, Gypsies, 
Communists and others).

IG Farben also built and operated more than 40 concentration camps, among 
them Auschwitz.

The Bush family knew what they were doing. They hired Alan Dulles, who was 
later a head of the CIA, to hide the relationship between their money and 
Nazi murderers.

Lederman states that chemicals, weapons, drugs, synthetic fuels and other 
materials vital to the Nazi war machine were manufactured at IG Farben's 
slave labour factories/death camps.

(In addition, eugenicists [such as] Dr Josef Mengele used the human 
subjects in the camps for experiments, the data from which are today the 
basis for many drugs marketed by the pharmaceutical industry.)

With the end of WW2, IG Farben was split up by the Allies into different 
pharmaceutical companies.

Some of those offshoot companies are Bayer, Hoechst, BASF, the Agfa-Gevaert 
Group and Cassella AG — huge companies that, incidentally, price drugs out 
of the reach of most of the human beings on the earth.

The interest in eugenics and false (genetic science) is also a direct 
offshoot of the Third Reich.

Charles Murray (co-author of the laughably flawed and racist The Bell 
Curve) is mentioned with great approval on the Web sites of right-wing 
think tanks. The connection between Nazis, the Bush family and the 
Republican right wing does not end there.

In his 1988 book, Blowback, investigative reporter Christopher 
Simpson said that after WW2, Nazi immigrants were subsidised by the CIA to 
build a power base for the right wing in the US.

Simpson documents the fact that those Nazis did not come to the US as 
individuals but as well-organised groups that had an anti-Communist, pro-
Fascist ideology and agenda.

The Cold War was in very large measure driven by Nazi war criminals who 
were welcomed into the US and subsidised by the US right wing.

Also, part of the propaganda effort was to deflect even harsher 
condemnation away from the ideology of Fascism.

Simpson's book tells how the US State Department and the CIA put high-
ranking Nazis on the intelligence payroll in order to use (their expertise 
in propaganda and psychological warfare).

Reinhold Gehlen, Hitler's most senior eastern front military intelligence 
officer, was employed by the US to fight an intelligence war against the 
American people, right here in America.

Concocting propaganda against socialism became a shameless business that 
was a crime against the intelligence and human rights of the American 
people.

No lie against the former USSR was too brazen to tell, no slander against 
American Communists was too outrageous to (report). Simon Wiesenthal said 
in a 1984 press conference, "Nazi criminals were the principal 
beneficiaries of the Cold War".

And, of course, aside from recently installed Resident Bush's great-
grandfather and grandfather, Papa Bush has been seen consorting with 
racists, Nazis and anti-Semites.

During the 1988 US Presidential campaign of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 
Washington Jewish Week revealed that a number of "outspoken" Nazis 
and anti-Semites were included in a "coalition" supporting the Bush 
campaign.

Six leaders of Bush the Elder's campaign were forced to resign. Included in 
those "Nazis for Bush" were: * Nicholas Nazarenko, leader of a Cossack GOP 
ethnic unit a part of the "ethnic outreach committees" formed by the 
Republican Party after WW2 to shield Nazis. Nazarenko was an ex-Waffen SS 
officer.

* Bohdan Fedorak, leader of (Ukrainians for Bush). Fedorak headed a Nazi 
group involved in anti-Jewish wartime pogroms. A September 10, 1988, 
(Philadelphia Inquirer) article by David Lee Preston was headlined, 
"Fired Bush backer one of several with possible Nazi links". The article 
confirmed the Washington Jewish Week's assertions.

Is there a chance that former President Bush (won't it be good to say the 
same thing about Dubya?) didn't know he was hobknobbing with Nazis? What 
are the chances that a former head of the CIA would not have known that?

None.

So, from the beginning of the Third Reich until today, the Republican right 
wing has been in bed with Fascists. Maybe that's where they got the idea 
that all votes do not count.

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* Barbara Jean Hope is a reader in Philadelphia.

People's Weekly World, paper of Communist Party of USA