The NAZIs were war criminals, the SS as bad as they come.
Regarding Reagan, the GOP and Bitburg, things also get very complicated, especially for those new to the story.
Mr. Randy Reynolds does an excellent job of summing up the history:
PRESCOTT BUSH AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF WAR PROFITEERINGby Randy Reynolds
Friday, April 13, 2007
When the Remingtons, duPonts, Rockefellers, Mellons, J.P. Morgan, George Herbert Walker, Samuel Bush and Prescott Bush, as well as other representatives of America's corporate elite decided to overthrow the government of the United States in 1934, they recruited retired Marine General Smedley Butler to lead it.
Butler was a two-time winner of the Medal of Honor, a man with a first-rate mind. He intended from the outset to infiltrate the group and turn them in. He did so and Congress held hearings, (the McCormack-Dickstein Hearings) headed by future Speaker John McCormack.
The group had planned to replace President Franklin Roosevelt with someone who would at first be called an "Assistant to the President" to take over the day-to-day operations of government. Remington would supply the arms, Smedley would get the "bonus army"--a half million World War I veterans--to march on Washington and Roosevelt would be shunted aside as Chancellor Hitler (much admired by America's industrialists) had done to President Hindenburg in Germany.
The group intended to establish a Fascist regime that would send undesirables, including the unemployed, the Jews and political opponents to concentration and/or extermination camps.
Portions of the coup were carried out. The group paid to "own" the editorial policy of 25 major newspapers and sent fellow-plotters to help edit those papers.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (co-founded by Samuel Bush) publicly proposed a plan to control "subversion" that would resemble the Patriot Act of Bush's great-grandson's Presidency in 2001.
After General Butler collected names and details, he went public. The story was a sensation for a couple of days, but was quickly pushed off the front pages by a "red scare"--stories of Communist infiltration of the IWW Union.
In the McCormack-Dickstein hearings, none of the powerful citizens involved in the plot was called to testify. They were above that sort of thing.
Although Prescott Bush was a lowly tire salesman when he married Dorothy Walker, his fortunes had quickly improved. His father-in-law George Herbert Walker elevated him to the vice-presidency of Brown Brothers Harriman, which financed exports of gold, steel, weapons and people to Nazi Germany.
Bush ran Hamburg-American passenger line on which American Nazi sympathizers emigrated to Germany under the tutelage of a Nazi "political director." Bush also helped organize and run UBC, a bank holding company that oversaw many of Hitler's worldwide investments.
From tire salesman to Hitler's chief banker and exporter in America, Prescott Bush had come a long way by the time Hamburg-American and UBC were confiscated by the U.S. government. Instead of being tried for treason, his name was kept out of the spotlight and he was given 1.5 million dollars for his one share of stock in UBC.
Five years after World War II, a Connecticut senator died. Prescott Bush who maintained residences in four different states ran for the vacant seat and lost. Two years later another Connecticut senator died, and this time, Bush won.
He personally recruited Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for president. He and his fellow war profiteers would be bitterly disappointed by Eisenhower's warnings against the military-industrial complex....but that was in the future.
Bush also pushed for Richard Nixon as Vice-President, and was a major donor to Nixon until well into the 1960's.
So there was a point in the 50's, when Prescott Bush must have felt like the king of the world:
• He had survived being implicated in a coup against a President of the United States.
• He had thrived even after the defeat of his major client, Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
• He had avoided being tried for treason, though the Justice Department had considered it.
• Both the President and Vice-President of the United States were personally indebted to
him.
• His lawyer Allen Dulles was head of the CIA (and gave his boy George H.W. Bush a job.)
• His business partner John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State.
• His business partner Averell Harriman was Governor of New York, later Ambassador to
the Soviet Union.
• Best of all, wars were breaking out all over the globe.
It was the dawn of a golden age of war profiteering.
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http://reynoldswriter.blogspot.com/2007/04/prescott-bush-and-golden-age-of-war.html A bit on the connections between Old Money and the Reich:
Know your BFEE: Spawn of Wall Street and the Third ReichThank you for the important information, formercia. I owe your father my infinite thanks for my freedom and our country.
Way back in the day, I met a former infantryman who opened up and told me about his experience with prisoners in the closing weeks of the war.
"I was in line for breakfast and we had some POWs serving us. It was my turn and I asked for some butter for my bread. This guy serving me said, 'Kein busser fur Amerikanen.' I said, 'What?' and the guy replied 'Busser ist fur Deutscher.' So I pulled out my .45 and shot him in the head."
The guy was a very nice man. His wife was a beautiful, younger woman who was very kind to me. At the time, she was dying of cancer. Anyway, I was too shocked to stutter out much more than "What? Why?"
The veteran said: "We had just been fighting these bums a few hours earlier. This guy may've been the one responsible for killing a bunch of my friends. When he said that there was no butter for me, but there was butter for the German POWs, I got angry."
If he hadn't told me the story, I'd say he was a regular guy. In reality, he was an extraordinary guy in the most crazy of circumstances -- a world at war.