>From: "Carl E. Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Tom Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: "Jeff Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert Lawrence" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: FW: [Blacksoil] Fwd: Bush-Nazi connection documented by US >Justice Depts' John Loftus >Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:54:22 -0500 > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: *Hempress Ahava Hamer* [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:38 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Blacksoil] Fwd: Bush-Nazi connection documented by US Justice >Depts' John Loftus > >Because we now have all this info in cyber, they are going to began >to treat us like The Intel'ligent Hebrews we have always been to >them~ The Dicktatorship is truly now in session and aint no just'us >here anymore~ > >Fidal,, help us! > > > >Hempress*)0(* > > >--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Robert Lederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >John Loftus is a former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes Prosecutor, a >highly regarded author and head of the Flordia Holocaust Museum >The Dutch Connection: > >How a famous American family made its fortune from the Nazis > >by Attorney John Loftus >3560 Coquina Key Drive SE >St. Petersburg, FL 33705 > > >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 >theheart 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 beredited >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. > >After reading the excerpt in my book about the Bush's ownership of >the Holland-American trading Company, retired US intelligence agent >William Gowen began to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Mr. >Gowen knew every corner of Europe from his days as a diplomat's son, >an American intelligence agent, and a newspaperman. William Gowen >deserves sole credit for uncovering the mystery of how the Nazi >industrialists hid their money from the Allies at the end of World >War II. > >In 1999, Mr. Gowen traveled to Europe, at his own expense, to meet a >former member of Dutch intelligence who had detailed inside >information about the Rotterdam bank. The scrupulous Gowen took a >written statement and then had his source read and correct it for >error. Here, in summary form, is how the Nazis hid their money in >America. > >After World War I, August Thyssen had been badly burned by the loss >of assets under the harsh terms of the Versailles treaty. He was >determined that it would never happen again. One of his sons would >join the Nazis; the other would be neutral. No matter who won the >next war, the Thyssen family would survive with their industrial >empire intact. Fritz Thyssen joined the Nazis in 1923; his younger >brother married into Hungarian nobility and changed his name to Baron >Thyssen-Bornemisza. The Baron later claimed Hungarian as well as >Dutch citizenship. In public, he pretended to detest his Nazi >brother, but in private they met at secret board meetings in Germany >to coordinate their operations. If one brother were threatened with >loss of property, he would transfer his holdings to the other. To aid >his sons in their shell game, August Thyssen had established >three different banks during the 1920's-The August Thyssen Bank in >Berlin, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam, and the >Union Banking Corporation in New York City. To protect their >corporate holdings, all the brothers had to do was move the corporate >paperwork from one bank to the other. This they did with some >regularity. When Fritz Thyssen "sold" the Holland-American Trading >Company for a tax loss, the Union Banking Corporation in New York >bought the stock. Similarly, the Bush family invested the disguised >Nazi profits in American steel and manufacturing corporations that >became part of the secret Thyssen empire. > >When the Nazis invaded Holland in May 1940, they investigated the >Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam. Fritz Thyssen was >suspected by Hitler's auditors of being a tax fraud and of illegally >transferring his wealth outside the Third Reich. The Nazi auditors >were right: Thyssen felt that Hitler's economic policies would dilute >his wealth through ruinous war inflation. He had been smuggling his >war profits out through Holland. But the Rotterdam vaults were empty >of clues to where the money had gone. The Nazis did not know that all >of the documents evidencing secret Thyssen ownership had been quietly >shipped back to the August Thyssen Bank in Berlin, under the friendly >supervision of Baron Kurt Von Schroeder. Thyssen spent the rest of >the war under VIP house arrest. He had fooled Hitler, hidden his >immense profits, and now it was time to fool the Americans with same >shell game. > >As soon as Berlin fell to the allies, it was time to ship the >documents back to Rotterdam so that the "neutral" bank could claim >ownership under the friendly supervision of Allen Dulles, who, as the >OSS intelligence chief in 1945 Berlin, was well placed to handle any >troublesome investigations. Unfortunately, the August Thyssen Bank >had been bombed during the war, and the documents were buried in the >underground vaults beneath the rubble. Worse, the vaults lay in the >Soviet Zone of Berlin. > >According to Gowen's source, Prince Bernhard commanded a unit of >Dutch intelligence, which dug up the incriminating corporate papers >in 1945 and brought them back to the "neutral" bank in Rotterdam. The >pretext was that the Nazis had stolen the crown jewels of his wife, >Princess Juliana, and the Russians gave the Dutch permission to dig >up the vault and retrieve them. Operation Juliana was a Dutch fraud >on the Allies who searched high and low for the missing pieces of the >Thyssen fortune. > >In 1945, the former Dutch manager of the Rotterdam bank resumed >control only to discover that he was sitting on a huge pile of hidden >Nazi assets. In 1947, the manager threatened to inform Dutch >authorities, and was immediately fired by the Thyssens. The somewhat >naive bank manager then fled to New York City where he intended to >talk to Union Bank director Prescott Bush. As Gowen's Dutch source >recalled, the manager intended "to reveal [to Prescott Bush] the >truth about Baron Heinrich and the Rotterdam Bank, [in order that] >some or all of the Thyssen interests in the Thyssen Group might be >seized and confiscated as German enemy property." The manager's body >was found in New York two weeks later. > >Similarly, in 1996 a Dutch journalist Eddy Roever went to London to >interview the Baron, who was neighbors with Margaret Thatcher. >Roever's body was discovered two days later. Perhaps, Gowen remarked >dryly, it was only a coincidence that both healthy men had died of >heart attacks immediately after trying to uncover the truth about the >Thyssens. > >Neither Gowen nor his Dutch source knew about the corroborating >evidence in the Alien Property Custodian archives or in the OMGUS >archives. Together, the two separate sets of US files overlap each >other and directly corroborate Gowen's source. The first set of >archives confirms absolutely that the Union Banking Corporation in >New York was owned by the Rotterdam Bank. The second set (quoted by >Manning) confirms that the Rotterdam Bank in turn was owned by the >Thyssens. > >It is not surprising that these two American agencies never shared >their Thyssen files. As the noted historian Burton Hersh documented: > >"The Alien Property Custodian, Leo Crowley, was on the payroll of the >New York J. Henry Schroeder Bank where Foster and Allen Dulles both >sat as board members. Foster arranged an appointment for himself as >special legal counsel for the Alien Property Custodian while >simultaneously representing [German] interests against the >custodian." > >No wonder Allen Dulles had sent Paul Manning on a wild goose chase to >South America. He was very close to uncovering the fact that the >Bush's bank in New York City was secretly owned by the Nazis, before >during and after WWII. Once Thyssen ownership of the Union Banking >Corporation is proven, it makes out a prima facie case of treason >against the Dulles and Bush families for giving aid and comfort to >the enemy in time of war. > >PART TWO > >The first key fact to be proven in any criminal case is that the >Thyssen family secretly owned the Bush's Bank. Apart from Gowen's >source, and the twin American files, a third set of corroboration >comes from the Thyssen family themselves. In 1979, the present Baron >Thyssen-Bornemisza (Fritz Thyssen's nephew) prepared a written family >history to be shared with his top management. A copy of this >thirty-page tome entitled "The History of the Thyssen Family and >Their Activities" was provided by Gowen's source. It contains the >following Thyssen admissions: > >"Thus, at the beginning of World War II the Bank voor Handel en >Scheepvaart had become the holding of my father's companies - a Dutch >firm whose only shareholder was a Hungarian citizen..Prior to 1929, >it held the shares of .the August Thyssen Bank, and also American >subsidiaries and the Union Banking Corporation, New York.The shares >of all the affiliates were [in 1945] with the August Thyssen Bank in >the East Sector of Berlin, from where I was able to have them >transferred into the West at the last moment" > >"After the war the Dutch government ordered an investigation into the >status of the holding company and, pending the result, appointed a >Dutch.former general manager of my father who turned against our >family.. In that same year, 1947, I returned to Germany for the first >time after the war, disguised as a Dutch driver in military uniform, >to establish contact with our German directors" > >"The situation of the Group gradually began to be resolved but it was >not until 1955 that the German companies were freed from Allied >control and subsequently disentangled. Fortunately, the companies in >the group suffered little from dismantling. At last we were in a >position to concentrate on purely economic problems-the >reconstruction and extension of the companies and the expansion of >the organization." > >"The banking department of the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, which >also functioned as the Group's holding company, merged in 1970 with >Nederlandse Credietbank N.V. which increased its capital. The Group >received 25 percent.The Chase Manhattan Bank holds 31%. The name >Thyssen-Bornemisza Group was selected for the new holding company." > >Thus the twin US Archives, Gowen's Dutch source, and the Thyssen >family history all independently confirm that President Bush's father >and grandfather served on the board of a bank that was secretly owned >by the leading Nazi industrialists. The Bush connection to these >American institutions is a matter of public record. What no one knew, >until Gowen's brilliant research opened the door, was that the >Thyssens were the secret employers of the Bush family. > >But what did the Bush family know about their Nazi connection and >when did they know it? As senior managers of Brown Brothers Harriman, >they had to have known that their American clients, such as the >Rockefellers, were investing heavily in German corporations, >including Thyssen's giant Vereinigte Stahlwerke. As noted historian >Christopher Simpson repeatedly documents, it is a matter of public >record that Brown Brother's investments in Nazi Germany took place >under the Bush family stewardship. > >When war broke out was Prescott Bush stricken with a case of >Waldheimers disease, a sudden amnesia about his Nazi past? Or did he >really believe that our friendly Dutch allies owned the Union Banking >Corporation and its parent bank in Rotterdam? It should be recalled >that in January 1937, he hired Allen Dulles to "cloak" his accounts. >But cloak from whom? Did he expect that happy little Holland was >going to declare war on America? The cloaking operation only makes >sense in anticipation of a possible war with Nazi Germany. If Union >Bank was not the conduit for laundering the Rockefeller's Nazi >investments back to America, then how could the >Rockefeller-controlled Chase Manhattan Bank end up owning 31% of the >Thyssen group after the war? > >It should be noted that the Thyssen group (TBG) is now the largest >industrial conglomerate in Germany, and with a net worth of more than >$50 billion dollars, one of the wealthiest corporations in the world. >TBG is so rich it even bought out the Krupp family, famous arms >makers for Hitler, leaving the Thyssens as the undisputed champion >survivors of the Third Reich. Where did the Thyssens get the start-up >money to rebuild their empire with such speed after World War II? > >The enormous sums of money deposited into the Union Bank prior to >1942 is the best evidence that Prescott Bush knowingly served as a >money launderer for the Nazis. Remember that Union Banks' books and >accounts were frozen by the U.S. Alien Property Custodian in 1942 and >not released back to the Bush family until 1951. At that time, Union >Bank shares representing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of >industrial stocks and bonds were unblocked for distribution. Did the >Bush family really believe that such enormous sums came from Dutch >enterprises? One could sell tulip bulbs and wooden shoes for >centuries and not achieve those sums. A fortune this size could only >have come from the Thyssen profits made from rearming the Third >Reich, and then hidden, first from the Nazi tax auditors, and then >from the Allies. > >The Bushes knew perfectly well that Brown Brothers was the American >money channel into Nazi Germany, and that Union Bank was the secret >pipeline to bring the Nazi money back to America from Holland. The >Bushes had to have known how the secret money circuit worked because >they were on the board of directors in both directions: Brown >Brothers out, Union Bank in. > >Moreover, the size of their compensation is commensurate with their >risk as Nazi money launderers. In 1951, Prescott Bush and his father >in law each received one share of Union Bank stock, allegedly worth >$750,000 each. One and a half million dollars was a lot of money in >1951. But then, from the Thyssen point of view, buying the Bushes was >the best bargain of the war. > >The bottom line is harsh: It is bad enough that the Bush family >helped raise the money for Thyssen to give Hitler his start in the >1920's, but giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war is >treason. The Bush's bank helped the Thyssens make the Nazi steel that >killed allied soldiers. As bad as financing the Nazi war machine may >seem, aiding and abetting the Holocaust was worse. Thyssen's coal >mines used Jewish slaves as if they were disposable chemicals. There >are six million skeletons in the Thyssen family closet, and a myriad >of criminal and historical questions to be answered about the Bush >family's complicity. > > > >__________________________________________________ >--- End forwarded message --- > > > >Free Our Tree Of Life {Hemp}!!! >SAY NO To The War On Drugs/People! >Hike/Bike/Plant/Vote/Hug/Fast today, and save our Earth tomorrow! >A Plant is a Living Organsim, not a toxic factory! > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to >http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
