The Bush Family's Ties to the Nazis

I researched Nazis who'd fled to South America once, and to my surprise I found the Bush family. It wasn't what I was expecting, but there it was. It's like the time I looked for the three class action lawsuits against Walmart and found 72. You never know what you're going to find when you look under a rock and all these critters crawl out.

Grandpa and Senator Prescott Bush financially profited through UBC Bank, which worked with the German industrial complex in Germany. The German Thyssen family, which had direct business relationships with Prescott Bush, used slave labor from Auschwitz, a concentration camp built by Nazis to exterminate Jews, primarily. Two Auschwitz survivors sued the Bush family and others for damages. A judge dismissed their claim for spurious reasons, in my opinion. A war crime is a war crime. No one, no matter how wealthy and prominent, should profit from war crimes.

There was also a difficult and worrisome time during Dubya's presidency when his daughter Jenna Bush, accompanied by a UNICEF associate, went to Paraguay to buy a large piece of property near Bolivia. Now why would then Pres. George W. Bush want property in Paraguay, a country where Simon Wiesenthal looked for Nazis? For an escape in case things turned ugly in the U.S., as in possible prosecution for war crimes? According to Wonkette, as quoted by the Daily Kos, the Paraguayan Senate voted to "grant U.S. troops immunity from national and International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction."

Immediately after immunity was granted, 500 heavily armed U.S. troops arrived with planes, helicopters, and land vehicles at a Paraguayan air base that happens to be at the northern tip of Paraguay near the Bolivian/Brazilian border. More reportedly arrived afterward.

Despite the overt anti-semitism of Prescott Bush, Dubya's grandfather, and that of his father, George Herbert Walker Bush, George W. Bush turned the page by embracing the Christian faith as part of his struggle to renounce his alcoholism. He went to Jerusalem. He was astonished at the tiny size of Israel relative to its Arab neighbors. He visited the Holocaust Memorial in Israel.

Dubya did not express the anti-semitic views of his father and grandfather. Dubya became pro-Israel and became sympathetic to the victims of the Holocaust, something his father and grandfather never would have done.