m II wrote:
Brenda Ann wrote:

Hitler was indeed a fascist. He was no socialist. He hated
socialism/communism at it's core, and turned on his alliance with
Russia as soon as he had what he wanted out of them.


The Russians were going to attack very soon. It pays to get a head start
and it's better for morale. The division of Poland was a convenience for
both of them.

I've recently read the Russians admitted to framing the Nazis for the
mass murder of thousands of Polish officers.

Note that Germany had war declared on it by the US as soon as it
couldn't afford to make the interest payments to the New York bankers.



mike

Prescott Bush's early business efforts tended to fail. He married the
daughter of a very rich man named George Herbert Walker (the guy with
the compound at Kennebunkport, Maine, that now belongs to the Bush
family, and the origin of Dubya's middle initial). Walker installed
Prescott Bush as an executive in Thyssen and Flick. From then on,
Prescott's business dealings went better, and he entered politics.

Now, the name Thyssen comes from a German named Fritz Thyssen, major
financial backer of the rise of Adolph Hitler. Thyssen was referred to
in the New York Herald-Tribune as "Hitler's Angel." During the 1930s and
early 1940s, and even as late as 1951, Prescott Bush was involved in
business dealings with Thyssen, and was inevitably aware of both
Thyssen's political activities and the fact that the companies involved
were financially benefiting the nation of Germany. In addition, the
companies Prescott Bush profited from included one engaged in mining
operations in Poland using slave labor from Auschwitz. Two former slave
laborers have sued the U.S. government and the heirs of Prescott Bush
for $40 billion.

Until the United States entered World War II it was legal for Americans
to do business with Germany, but in late 1942 Prescott Bush's businesses
interests were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Among those
businesses involved was the Hamburg America Lines, for which Prescott
Bush served as a manager. A Congressional committee, in a report called
the McCormack-Dickstein Report, found that Hamburg America Lines had
offered free passage to Germany for journalists willing to write
favorably about the Nazis, and had brought Nazi sympathizers to America.
(Is this starting to remind anyone of our current president's
relationship to the freedom of the press?)

The McCormack-Dickstein Committee was established to investigate a
homegrown American fascist plot hatched in 1933. Here's how the BBC
promoted its recent story:

"Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by
right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling
President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war
veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most
famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea,
Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their
country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the
great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about
this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy."

Actually, if you listen to the 30-minute BBC story, there is not one
word of so much as speculation as to why this story is so little known.
I think a clue to the answer can be found by looking into why this BBC
report has not led to any U.S. media outlets picking up the story this week.

The BBC report provides a good account of the basic story. Some of the
wealthiest men in America approached Marine Corps Major General Smedley
Butler, beloved of many World War I veterans, many of them embittered by
the government's treatment of them. Prescott Bush's group asked Butler
to lead 500,000 veterans in a take-over of Washington and the White
House. Butler refused and recounted the affair to the congressional
committee. His account was corroborated in part by a number of
witnesses, and the committee concluded that the plot was real. But the
names of wealthy backers of the plot were blacked out in the committee's
records, and nobody was prosecuted. According to the BBC, President
Roosevelt cut a deal. He refrained from prosecuting some of the
wealthiest men in America for treason. They agreed to end Wall Street's
opposition to the New Deal.

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