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Bush Family History with Nazism
Govt. Investigated Their Financing of Hitler
By Carla Binion
This article on Nazis in the Republican party was originally published in
Online Journal on 1/28/00. The following includes additional information
regarding George H. W. Bush's father, Prescott, and his maternal grandfather,
George Herbert (Bert) Walker, and the fact that the U. S. government
investigated their financing Adolf Hitler.
One book referenced here, Christopher Simpson's "Blowback," was praised by
journalist Seymour Hersh as "the ultimate book about the worst kind of cold
war thinking." Nora Levin, Director, Holocaust Archive, Gratz College, said
"The full story of this country's shameful, cynical collaboration with Nazi
criminals has not been told until now with the publication of Simpson's
book." Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman said, "Blowback is a must read for
anyone who wants to understand postwar policy on Nazi war criminals and the
cold war."
In another Simpson book, "The Splendid Blonde Beast," the author wrote about
George H. W. Bush's father, Prescott, and his maternal grandfather, George
Herbert Walker. Both Bert Walker and Prescott Bush were powerful financial
supporters of Adolf Hitler.
Walker was president of Union Banking Corporation, a firm that traded with
Germany and helped German industrialists consolidate Hitler's political
power. Simpson says Union Banking became a Nazi money-laundering machine.
Walker helped take over North American operations of Hamburg-Amerika Line, a
shipping line and cover for I. G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the U. S.
Hamburg-Amerika smuggled in German agents, and brought in money for bribing
American politicians to support Hitler. A 1934 congressional investigation
showed Hamburg-Amerika subsidized Nazi propaganda efforts in the U. S.
George H. W. Bush's father, Prescott, was a board member of Union Banking and
a senior partner in a Union Banking affiliate -- the investment firm Brown
Brothers, Harriman. The U. S. government investigated both Bert Walker and
Prescott Bush, and under the Trading with the Enemy Act seized all shares of
Union Banking, including shares held by Prescott Bush. The government held
that "huge sections of Prescott Bush's empire had been operated on behalf of
Nazi Germany and had greatly assisted the German war effort."
For more on Nazis and the Bush family, here is last January's article:
Nazis and the Republican Party
By Carla Binion
January 28, 2000 | Investigative reporter Christopher Simpson says in
"Blowback" that after World War II, Nazi �migr�s were given CIA subsidies
to build a far-right-wing power base in the U. S. These Nazis assumed
prominent positions in the Republican Party's "ethnic outreach
committees." Simpson documents the fact that these Nazis did not come to
America as individuals but as part of organized groups with fascist
political agendas. The Nazi agenda did not die along with Adolf Hitler. It
moved to America (or a part of it did) and joined the far right of the
Republican Party.
Simpson shows how the State Department and the CIA put high-ranking Nazis
on the intelligence payroll "for their expertise in propaganda and
psychological warfare," among other purposes. The most important Nazi
employed by the U.S. was Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's most senior eastern
front military intelligence officer. After Germany's defeat became
certain, Gehlen offered the U. S. certain concessions in exchange for his
own protection. Gehlen promoted hyped up cold war propaganda on behalf of
the political right in this country, and helped shape U.S. perceptions of
the cold war.
Journalist Russ Bellant ("Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican
Party") shows that Laszlo Pasztor, a convicted Nazi war collaborator,
built the Republican �migr� network. Pasztor, who served as adviser to
Republican Paul Weyrich, belonged to the Hungarian Arrow Cross, a group
that helped liquidate Hungary's Jews. Pasztor was founding chairman of the
Republican Heritage Groups Council.
Two months before the November 1988 presidential election, a small
newspaper, Washington Jewish Week, disclosed that a coalition for the Bush
campaign included a number of outspoken Nazis and anti-Semites. The
article prompted six leaders of Bush's coalition to resign.
According to Russ Bellant, Nazi collaborators involved in the Republican
Party included:
(1) Radi Slavoff, GOP Heritage Council's executive director, and head of
"Bulgarians for Bush." Slavoff was a member of a Bulgarian fascist group,
and he put together an event in Washington honoring Holocaust denier,
Austin App.
(2) Florian Galdau, director of GOP outreach efforts among Romanians, and
head of "Romanians for Bush." Galdau was once an Iron Guard recruiter,
and he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Valerian Trifa.
(3) Nicholas Nazarenko, leader of a Cossack GOP ethnic unit. Nazarenko was
an ex-Waffen SS officer.
(4) Method Balco, GOP activist. Balco organized yearly memorials for a
Nazi puppet regime.
(5) Walter Melianovich, head of the GOP's Byelorussian unit. Melianovich
worked closely with many Nazi groups.
(6) Bohdan Fedorak, leader of "Ukranians for Bush." Fedorak headed a Nazi
group involved in anti-Jewish wartime pogroms.
The Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article on the Bush team's inclusion of
Nazis (David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush backer one of several with possible
Nazi links," September 10, 1988.) The newspaper also ran an investigative
series on Nazi members of the Bush coalition. The articles confirmed that
the Bush team included members listed by Russ Bellant.
Journalist Martin A. Lee, has written for The Nation, Rolling Stone, The
San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. In "The Beast Reawakens,"
Lee confirms that during both the Reagan and Bush years, the Republican
Party's ethnic outreach arm recruited members from the Nazi �migr� network.
Lee says that the Republican Party's ethnic outreach division had an
outspoken hatred of President Jimmy Carter's Office of Special
Investigations (OSI), an organization dedicated to tracking down and
prosecuting Nazi war collaborators who entered this country illegally.
Former Republican Pat Buchanan attacked Carter's OSI after it deported a
few suspected Nazi war criminals.
According to Lee, public relations man Harold Keith Thompson was principal
U.S. point man for the postwar Nazi support network known as die Spinne,
or the Spider. In the late 40s and early 50s, Thompson worked as the chief
North American representative for the remaining National Socialist German
Worker's Party and the SS. Lee writes that the wealthy Thompson gave
generously to Republican candidates Senator Jesse Helms and would-be
senator Oliver North. Thompson's money gained him membership in the GOP's
Presidential Legion of Merit. Lee says Thompson also "received numerous
thank-you letters from the Republican National Committee." Those letters
are now in the Hoover Institution Special Collections Library.
Christopher Simpson writes in "Blowback" that in 1983, Ronald Reagan
presented a Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, to CIA
�migr� program consultant James Burnham. Burnham was a psychological
warfare consultant who promoted something called "liberationism." Just
before the 1952 election, the CIA worked up a multimillion-dollar public
relations campaign aimed at selling Americans on expanding cold war
activities in Europe. Part of the guiding theory (given the name
"liberationism") was the idea that certain Nazi leaders from World War II
should be brought in as "freedom fighters" against the USSR.
Reagan said that Burnham's ideas on liberation "profoundly affected the
way America views itself and the world," adding, "I owe [Burnham] a
personal debt, because throughout the years of travelling on the
mashed-potato circuit I have quoted [him] widely." Reagan may not have
known Burnham's theories were based on his work on projects that enlisted
many Nazi collaborators, but it seems that Reagan's CIA Director Casey or
former CIA Director, Vice President George Bush, would have informed him.
At a May 9, 1984 press conference, Simon Wiesenthal said, "Nazi criminals
were the principal beneficiaries of the Cold War." The cold war mentality,
hyped by Reinhard Gehlen and other Nazis, became the shelter for tens of
thousands of Nazi criminals. Helping the far right in this country to
promote cold war hysteria became the Nazi war criminals "reason for
being." As Christopher Simpson says, the cold war became those criminals'
means "to avoid responsibility for the murders they had committed."
Journalist Seymour Hersh says Christopher Simpson's "Blowback" is "the
ultimate book about the worst kind of cold war thinking, in which some of
our most respected statesmen made shameful decisions that they mistakenly
believed to be justified." To this day, says Simpson, the U. S.
intelligence agencies hide the scope of their post-World War II
collaboration with Nazi criminals.
Are Republicans like George H. W. Bush, Oliver North, and Jesse Helms
aware they have been assisted by Nazi collaborators? Bush once worked for
the CIA and should have known about the nature of the Nazis in his '88
campaign. No doubt he knows the history of Nazi/CIA collaboration. Whether
or not Bush knew of the fascists' involvement in his campaign, the
Republican Party should have done a far better screening job. One thing is
certain: The intelligence agencies know the scope and extent of Nazi
involvement with the political right in this country. It is a shame they
keep it hidden from the majority of the American people.
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