Ethiopian News, Current Affairs and Opinion Forum
Naga Tuma
Member+
Posts: 5496
Joined: 24 Apr 2007, 00:27

Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Naga Tuma » 13 Oct 2021, 19:46

Seriously, why did America fight against the Nazis if it was going to become a breeding place and playground for Nazi thugs, pigs, piglets, and puppies? Their unique pretensions are bottomless.

Can this simple question be explained by the explainer in chief Bill Clinton or can it be dismissed as an unfounded question?

Blueshift
Member
Posts: 1226
Joined: 30 Mar 2021, 19:34

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Blueshift » 13 Oct 2021, 19:52

Tuma,

The Nazi's do not rule America. :lol: :lol: Idiot. America fought for freedom. No matter how ugly you are, you are a free man. if you don't interfere in anybody's freedom, you can be a closet Nazi. Just don't act on what shyyyt you believe. That is what America is about. :lol: :lol: :lol: You pretend to be intelligent, but you are just an idiot. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Somaliman
Member
Posts: 4803
Joined: 09 Nov 2007, 20:12
Location: Heaven

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Somaliman » 13 Oct 2021, 20:09

America entered World War II to fight Nazi Germany, and not Nazism.

Sabur
Member
Posts: 1364
Joined: 11 Aug 2018, 07:41

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Sabur » 13 Oct 2021, 22:11


The idiocracy of some person is beyond measures. "America fought for Freedom, bla bla bla". What the Fvck is this Freedom !

The Black Americans who fought against Nazi Germany during WWII, for the so called freedom, came back home to the US to face one of the worst discrimination of Jim Crow.

Even during the war, captured Nazi Soldiers by the Americans were treated far better than the Black American Soldiers.

The Captured white Nazi soldiers were well fed and sheltered inside warm houses with the White Americans Soldiers while the Black American Soldiers were thrown out in the cold without food desperately holding for their lives shivering .



https://www.history.com/news/black-sold ... rimination

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/maga ... acism.html




Tiago
Member
Posts: 2020
Joined: 30 Jul 2018, 02:09

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Tiago » 14 Oct 2021, 01:37

The course of relations between Germany and the United States had deteriorated since the beginning of World War II, inevitably so given the increasing cooperation between the United States and the United Kingdom. The Destroyers for Bases Agreement, Lend-Lease, the Atlantic Charter, the hand-over of military control of Iceland from the United Kingdom to the United States, the extension of the Pan-American Security Zone, and many other results of the special relationship which had developed between the two countries had put a strain on relations between the US, still technically a neutral country, and Nazi Germany. US destroyers escorting American supply vessels bound for the UK were already engaged in an undeclared de facto war with German U-boats.[2] Roosevelt's desire to help the UK, despite the objections of the influential US isolationist lobby, and legal impediments imposed by Congress which prevented direct involvement in the war, brought the US to push hard against the traditional boundaries of neutrality..
Wikipedia

The assertion US fought for “freedom “ is bollocks

DefendTheTruth
Member+
Posts: 9755
Joined: 08 Mar 2014, 16:32

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by DefendTheTruth » 15 Oct 2021, 02:50

Blueshift wrote:
13 Oct 2021, 19:52
Tuma,

The Nazi's do not rule America. :lol: :lol: Idiot. America fought for freedom. No matter how ugly you are, you are a free man. if you don't interfere in anybody's freedom, you can be a closet Nazi. Just don't act on what shyyyt you believe. That is what America is about. :lol: :lol: :lol: You pretend to be intelligent, but you are just an idiot. :lol: :lol: :lol:
BullShi*t,

I could see how your insecurity is driving wild.

How did America fought for freedom? Were the Nazis against freedom in their adventures, if yes, then why did they need to cross borders to fight for/against freedom? Couldn't have they done that within their own border? If the objective(s) of the Nazis was (were) never have been about freedom, then the Americans couldn't have been to defend freedom.

The goal of the Nazis have been about Lebensraum (living space) and as such it was about need of material, not about defending or suppressing values like freedom.

The Americans and others, who fought against the Nazis, were to thwart the goal of Nazis Lebensraum ambitions, a material need, not about a value.

Get this simple logic into your mini skull filled with the mass of bullshiit.

Zmeselo
Senior Member+
Posts: 33606
Joined: 30 Jul 2010, 20:43

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Zmeselo » 15 Oct 2021, 04:22

Operation Paperclip

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. Conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), it was largely carried out by special agents of the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps (CIC). Many of these personnel were former members, and some were former leaders, of the Nazi Party.


Kurt H. Debus, a former V-2 rocket scientist who became a NASA director, sitting between U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1962 at a briefing at Blockhouse 34, Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex.

The primary purpose for Operation Paperclip was U.S. military advantage in the Soviet–American Cold War, and the Space Race. In a comparable operation, the Soviet Union relocated more than 2,200 German specialists—a total of more than 6,000 people including family members—with Operation Osoaviakhim during one night on October 22, 1946.

In February 1945, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) set up T-Force, or Special Sections Subdivision, which grew to over 2,000 personnel by June. T-Force examined 5,000 German targets with a high priority on synthetic rubber and oil catalysts, new designs in armored equipment, V-2 (rocket) weapons, jet and rocket propelled aircraft, naval equipment, field radios, secret writing chemicals, aero medicine research, gliders, and
scientific and industrial personalities.
When large numbers of German scientists began to be discovered in late April, Special Sections Subdivision set up the Enemy Personnel Exploitation Section to manage and interrogate them. Enemy Personnel Exploitation Section established a detention center, DUSTBIN, first in Paris and later in Kransberg Castle outside Frankfurt. The US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) established the first secret recruitment program, called Operation Overcast, on July 20, 1945, initially
to assist in shortening the Japanese war and to aid our postwar military research.
The term "Overcast" was the name first given by the German scientists' family members for the housing camp where they were held in Bavaria. In late summer 1945, the JCS established the JIOA, a subcommittee of the Joint Intelligence Community, to directly oversee Operation Overcast and later Operation Paperclip. The JIOA representatives included the army's director of intelligence, the chief of naval intelligence, the assistant chief of Air Staff-2 (air force intelligence), and a representative from the State Department. In November 1945, Operation Overcast was renamed Operation Paperclip by Ordnance Corps officers, who would attach a paperclip to the folders of those rocket experts whom they wished to employ in America.

In a secret directive circulated on September 3, 1946, President Truman officially approved Operation Paperclip and expanded it to include 1,000 German scientists under
temporary, limited military custody.

_______________




The CIA and Nazi War Criminals
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/index.htm


________________




American Nazis parade on East 86th St. in New York City around 1939. Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images

Zmeselo
Senior Member+
Posts: 33606
Joined: 30 Jul 2010, 20:43

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Zmeselo » 15 Oct 2021, 06:55



What America Taught the Nazis

In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in codified racism—the United States.

By Ira Katznelson

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... is/540630/


Oliver Munday

NOVEMBER 2017

There was no more extravagant site for Third Reich political theater than the spectacular parade grounds, two large stadiums, and congress hall in Nuremberg, a project masterminded by Albert Speer. From 1933 to 1938, he choreographed massive rallies associated with the annual conference of the Nazi Party, assemblies made famous by Leni Riefenstahl’s stunning documentaries https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/movi ... .html?_r=0 of 1933 and 1935, The Victory of Faith and Triumph of the Will. Nuremberg was the setting for the September 1935 “Party Rally of Freedom,” at which a special session of the Reichstag passed, by acclamation, legislation that disqualified Jews as Reich citizens with political rights, forbade them to marry or have sex with persons identified as racial Germans, and prohibited any display by Jews of national colors or the new national flag, a banner with a swastika.

Just eight days after the Reich Citizenship Law, the Law on the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, and the Reich Flag Law were formally proclaimed by Adolf Hitler, 45 Nazi lawyers sailed for New York under the auspices of the Association of National Socialist German Jurists. The trip was a reward for the lawyers, who had codified the Reich’s race-based legal philosophy. The announced purpose of the visit was to gain
special insight into the workings of American legal and economic life through study and lectures,
and the leader of the group was Ludwig Fischer.

As the governor of the Warsaw District half a decade later, he would preside over the brutal order of the ghetto.


Princeton

Every day brings fresh reminders that liberal and illiberal democracy can entwine uncomfortably, a timely context for James Q. Whitman’s Hitler’s American Model, which examines how the Third Reich found sustenance for its race-based initiatives in American law. Upon docking, the Germans attended a reception organized by the New York City Bar Association. Everyone in the room would have known about the recent events in Nuremberg, yet the quest by leading Nazi jurists to learn from America’s legal and economic systems was warmly welcomed.

Whitman, a professor at Yale Law School, wanted to know how the United States, a country grounded in such liberal principles as individual rights and the rule of law, could have produced legal ideas and practices
that seemed intriguing and attractive to Nazis.
In exploring this apparent incongruity, his short book raises important questions about law, about political decisions that affect the scope of civic membership, and about the malleability of Enlightenment values.

_______________

Not even South Africa had a set of relevant race laws as developed as those in the U.S.

_______________

Pushing back against scholarship that downplays the impact in Nazi Germany of the U.S. model of legal racism, Whitman marshals an array of evidence to support the likelihood
that the Nuremberg Laws themselves reflect direct American influence.
As race law’s global leader, Whitman stresses, America provided the most obvious point of reference for the September 1933 Preußische Denkschrift, the Prussian Memorandum, written by a legal team that included Roland Freisler, soon to emerge as the remarkably cruel president of the Nazi People’s Court. American precedents also informed other crucial Nazi texts, including the National Socialist Handbook for Law and Legislation of 1934–35, edited by the future governor-general of Poland, Hans Frank, who was later hung at Nuremberg. A pivotal essay in that volume, Herbert Kier’s recommendations for race legislation, devoted a quarter of its pages to U.S. legislation—which went beyond segregation to include rules governing American Indians, citizenship criteria for Filipinos and Puerto Ricans as well as African Americans, immigration regulations, and prohibitions against miscegenation in some 30 states. No other country, not even South Africa, possessed a comparably developed set of relevant laws.

Especially significant were the writings of the German lawyer Heinrich Krieger,
the single most important figure in the Nazi assimilation of American race law,
who spent the 1933–34 academic year in Fayetteville as an exchange student at the University of Arkansas School of Law.

Seeking to deploy historical and legal knowledge in the service of Aryan racial purity, Krieger studied a range of overseas race regimes, including contemporary South Africa, but discovered his foundation in American law. His deeply researched writings about the United States began with articles in 1934, some concerning American Indians and others pursuing an overarching assessment of U.S. race legislation—each a precursor to his landmark 1936 book, Das Rassenrecht in den Vereingten Staaten (“Race Law in the United States”).

Whitman’s “smoking gun” is the transcript of a June 5, 1934, conference of leading German lawyers gathered to exchange ideas about how best to operationalize a racist regime. The record reflects how the most extreme among them, who relied on Krieger’s synoptic scholarship, were especially drawn to American legal codes based on white supremacy. The main conceptual idea was Freisler’s. Race, he argued, is a political construction. In both America and Germany, the importance and meaning of race for the most part had been determined less by scientific realities or social conventions than by political decisions enshrined in law.

But even indisputable evidence of the Germans’ intense interest in American models doesn’t clinch a formative role for U.S. racial law, as Whitman himself is careful to acknowledge. After all, Nazism’s intellectual and political leaders may well have utilized American examples merely to make more legitimate the grotesque designs they already planned to pursue. In any case, answering the question of cross-national influence is ultimately less important than Whitman’s other goal, which is to examine the status of racial hierarchy in the United States through Nazi eyes.
What the history presented in this book demands that we confront,
he writes,
are questions not about the genesis of Nazism, but about the character of America.
His disturbing report thus takes its place within the larger history of the United States as a polity founded on principles of human equality, Enlightenment reason, and constitutional limits on state power, yet molded by the prodigious evil and long-term consequences of chattel slavery based on race. To read Hitler’s American Model is to be forced to engage with the stubborn fact that during the 1933–45 period of the Third Reich, roughly half of the Democratic Party’s members in Congress represented Jim Crow states, and neither major party sought to curtail the race laws so admired by German lawyers and judges.

How to understand the relationship between race and democracy has been a pressing question ever since the United States was founded. The deep tension between the two—summed up in the irony of a plantation named Equality in Port Tobacco, Maryland, filled with slaves and owned by Michael Jenifer Stone, one of the six members of that state’s delegation to the House of Representatives in the First Federal Congress—puzzled the great student of American equality Alexis de Tocqueville. In Democracy in America, published precisely a century before the Nuremberg Laws, he began a discussion of
the three races that inhabit the territory of the United States
by announcing that these topics
are like tangents to my subject, being American, but not democratic, and my main business has been to describe democracy.

Zmeselo
Senior Member+
Posts: 33606
Joined: 30 Jul 2010, 20:43

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Zmeselo » 15 Oct 2021, 10:04



World news
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president

Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/ ... ndworldwar

Sat 25 Sep 2004

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. https://www.theguardian.com/world/germany

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.

Remarkably, little of Bush's dealings with Germany has received public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the documentation involving him. But now the multibillion dollar legal action for damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush family, and the imminent publication of three books on the subject are threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W, as he seeks re-election.

While there is no suggestion that Prescott Bush was sympathetic to the Nazi cause, the documents reveal that the firm he worked for, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), acted as a US base for the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler in the 1930s before falling out with him at the end of the decade. The Guardian has seen evidence that shows Bush was the director of the New York-based Union Banking Corporation (UBC) that represented Thyssen's US interests and he continued to work for the bank after America entered the war.

Tantalising

Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow Thyssen to move assets around the world.

Thyssen owned the largest steel and coal company in Germany and grew rich from Hitler's efforts to re-arm between the two world wars. One of the pillars in Thyssen's international corporate web, UBC, worked exclusively for, and was owned by, a Thyssen-controlled bank in the Netherlands. More tantalising are Bush's links to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC), based in mineral rich Silesia on the German-Polish border. During the war, the company made use of Nazi slave labour from the concentration camps, including Auschwitz. The ownership of CSSC changed hands several times in the 1930s, but documents from the US National Archive declassified last year link Bush to CSSC, although it is not clear if he and UBC were still involved in the company when Thyssen's American assets were seized in 1942.

Three sets of archives spell out Prescott Bush's involvement. All three are readily available, thanks to the efficient US archive system and a helpful and dedicated staff at both the Library of Congress in Washington and the National Archives at the University of Maryland.

The first set of files, the Harriman papers in the Library of Congress, show that Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a number of companies involved with Thyssen.

The second set of papers, which are in the National Archives, are contained in vesting order number 248 which records the seizure of the company assets. What these files show is that on October 20 1942 the alien property custodian seized the assets of the UBC, of which Prescott Bush was a director. Having gone through the books of the bank, further seizures were made against two affiliates, the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. By November, the Silesian-American Company, another of Prescott Bush's ventures, had also been seized.

The third set of documents, also at the National Archives, are contained in the files on IG Farben, who was prosecuted for war crimes.

A report issued by the Office of Alien Property Custodian in 1942 stated of the companies that
since 1939, these (steel and mining) properties have been in possession of and have been operated by the German government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance to that country's war effort.
Prescott Bush, a 6ft 4in charmer with a rich singing voice, was the founder of the Bush political dynasty and was once considered a potential presidential candidate himself. Like his son, George, and grandson, George W, he went to Yale where he was, again like his descendants, a member of the secretive and influential Skull and Bones student society. He was an artillery captain in the first world war and married Dorothy Walker, the daughter of George Herbert Walker, in 1921.

In 1924, his father-in-law, a well-known St Louis investment banker, helped set him up in business in New York with Averill Harriman, the wealthy son of railroad magnate E H Harriman in New York, who had gone into banking.

One of the first jobs Walker gave Bush was to manage UBC. Bush was a founding member of the bank and the incorporation documents, which list him as one of seven directors, show he owned one share in UBC worth $125.

The bank was set up by Harriman and Bush's father-in-law to provide a US bank for the Thyssens, Germany's most powerful industrial family.

August Thyssen, the founder of the dynasty had been a major contributor to Germany's first world war effort and in the 1920s, he and his sons Fritz and Heinrich established a network of overseas banks and companies so their assets and money could be whisked offshore if threatened again.

By the time Fritz Thyssen inherited the business empire in 1926, Germany's economic recovery was faltering. After hearing Adolf Hitler https://www.theguardian.com/world/adolf-hitler speak, Thyssen became mesmerised by the young firebrand. He joined the Nazi party in December 1931 and admits backing Hitler in his autobiography, I Paid Hitler, when the National Socialists were still a radical fringe party. He stepped in several times to bail out the struggling party: in 1928 Thyssen had bought the Barlow Palace on Briennerstrasse, in Munich, which Hitler converted into the Brown House, the headquarters of the Nazi party. The money came from another Thyssen overseas institution, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvarrt in Rotterdam.

By the late 1930s, Brown Brothers Harriman, which claimed to be the world's largest private investment bank, and UBC had bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, fuel, steel, coal and US treasury bonds to Germany, both feeding and financing Hitler's build-up to war.

Between 1931 and 1933 UBC bought more than $8m worth of gold, of which $3m was shipped abroad. According to documents seen by the Guardian, after UBC was set up it transferred $2m to BBH accounts and between 1924 and 1940 the assets of UBC hovered around $3m, dropping to $1m only on a few occasions.

In 1941, Thyssen fled Germany after falling out with Hitler but he was captured in France and detained for the remainder of the war.

There was nothing illegal in doing business with the Thyssens throughout the 1930s and many of America's best-known business names invested heavily in the German economic recovery. However, everything changed after Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Even then it could be argued that BBH was within its rights continuing business relations with the Thyssens until the end of 1941 as the US was still technically neutral until the attack on Pearl Harbor. The trouble started on July 30 1942 when the New York Herald-Tribune ran an article entitled "Hitler's Angel Has $3m in US Bank". UBC's huge gold purchases had raised suspicions that the bank was in fact a "secret nest egg" hidden in New York for Thyssen and other Nazi bigwigs. The Alien Property Commission (APC) launched an investigation.

There is no dispute over the fact that the US government seized a string of assets controlled by BBH - including UBC and SAC - in the autumn of 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy act. What is in dispute is if Harriman, Walker and Bush did more than own these companies on paper.

Erwin May, a treasury attache and officer for the department of investigation in the APC, was assigned to look into UBC's business. The first fact to emerge was that Roland Harriman, Prescott Bush and the other directors didn't actually own their shares in UBC but merely held them on behalf of Bank voor Handel. Strangely, no one seemed to know who owned the Rotterdam-based bank, including UBC's president.

May wrote in his report of August 16 1941:
Union Banking Corporation, incorporated August 4 1924, is wholly owned by the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. My investigation has produced no evidence as to the ownership of the Dutch bank. Mr Cornelis [sic] Lievense, president of UBC, claims no knowledge as to the ownership of the Bank voor Handel but believes it possible that Baron Heinrich Thyssen, brother of Fritz Thyssen, may own a substantial interest.
May cleared the bank of holding a golden nest egg for the Nazi leaders but went on to describe a network of companies spreading out from UBC across Europe, https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news America and Canada, and how money from voor Handel travelled to these companies through UBC.

By September May had traced the origins of the non-American board members and found that Dutchman HJ Kouwenhoven - who met with Harriman in 1924 to set up UBC - had several other jobs: in addition to being the managing director of voor Handel he was also the director of the August Thyssen bank in Berlin and a director of Fritz Thyssen's Union Steel Works, the holding company that controlled Thyssen's steel and coal mine empire in Germany.

Within a few weeks, Homer Jones, the chief of the APC investigation and research division sent a memo to the executive committee of APC recommending the US government vest UBC and its assets. Jones named the directors of the bank in the memo, including Prescott Bush's name, and wrote:
Said stock is held by the above named individuals, however, solely as nominees for the Bank voor Handel, Rotterdam, Holland, which is owned by one or more of the Thyssen family, nationals of Germany and Hungary. The 4,000 shares hereinbefore set out are therefore beneficially owned and help for the interests of enemy nationals, and are vestible by the APC,
according to the memo from the National Archives seen by the Guardian.

Red-handed

Jones recommended that the assets be liquidated for the benefit of the government, but instead UBC was maintained intact and eventually returned to the American shareholders after the war. Some claim that Bush sold his share in UBC after the war for $1.5m - a huge amount of money at the time - but there is no documentary evidence to support this claim. No further action was ever taken nor was the investigation continued, despite the fact UBC was caught red-handed operating a American shell company for the Thyssen family eight months after America had entered the war and that this was the bank that had partly financed Hitler's rise to power.

The most tantalising part of the story remains shrouded in mystery: the connection, if any, between Prescott Bush, Thyssen, Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC) and Auschwitz.

Thyssen's partner in United Steel Works, which had coal mines and steel plants across the region, was Friedrich Flick, another steel magnate who also owned part of IG Farben, the powerful German chemical company.

Flick's plants in Poland made heavy use of slave labour from the concentration camps in Poland. According to a New York Times article published in March 18 1934 Flick owned two-thirds of CSSC while "American interests" held the rest.

The US National Archive documents show that BBH's involvement with CSSC was more than simply holding the shares in the mid-1930s. Bush's friend and fellow "bonesman" Knight Woolley, another partner at BBH, wrote to Averill Harriman in January 1933 warning of problems with CSSC after the Poles started their drive to nationalise the plant.
The Consolidated Silesian Steel Company situation has become increasingly complicated, and I have accordingly brought in Sullivan and Cromwell, in order to be sure that our interests are protected,
wrote Knight.
After studying the situation Foster Dulles is insisting that their man in Berlin get into the picture and obtain the information which the directors here should have. You will recall that Foster is a director and he is particularly anxious to be certain that there is no liability attaching to the American directors.
But the ownership of the CSSC between 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland and 1942 when the US government vested UBC and SAC is not clear.
SAC held coal mines and definitely owned CSSC between 1934 and 1935, but when SAC was vested there was no trace of CSSC. All concrete evidence of its ownership disappears after 1935 and there are only a few traces in 1938 and 1939,
says Eva Schweitzer, the journalist and author whose book, America and the Holocaust, is published next month.

Silesia was quickly made part of the German Reich after the invasion, but while Polish factories were seized by the Nazis, those belonging to the still neutral Americans (and some other nationals) were treated more carefully as Hitler was still hoping to persuade the US to at least sit out the war as a neutral country. Schweitzer says American interests were dealt with on a case-by-case basis. The Nazis bought some out, but not others.

The two Holocaust survivors suing the US government and the Bush family for a total of $40bn in compensation claim both materially benefited from Auschwitz slave labour during the second world war.

Kurt Julius Goldstein, 87, and Peter Gingold, 85, began a class action in America in 2001, but the case was thrown out by Judge Rosemary Collier on the grounds that the government cannot be held liable under the principle of "state sovereignty".

Jan Lissmann, one of the lawyers for the survivors, said:
President Bush withdrew President Bill Clinton's signature from the treaty [that founded the court] not only to protect Americans, but also to protect himself and his family.
Lissmann argues that genocide-related cases are covered by international law, which does hold governments accountable for their actions. He claims the ruling was invalid as no hearing took place.

In their claims, Mr Goldstein and Mr Gingold, honorary chairman of the League of Anti-fascists, suggest the Americans were aware of what was happening at Auschwitz and should have bombed the camp.

The lawyers also filed a motion in The Hague asking for an opinion on whether state sovereignty is a valid reason for refusing to hear their case. A ruling is expected within a month.

The petition to The Hague states:
From April 1944 on, the American Air Force could have destroyed the camp with air raids, as well as the railway bridges and railway lines from Hungary to Auschwitz. The murder of about 400,000 Hungarian Holocaust victims could have been prevented.
The case is built around a January 22 1944 executive order signed by President Franklin Roosevelt calling on the government to take all measures to rescue the European Jews. The lawyers claim the order was ignored because of pressure brought by a group of big American companies, including BBH, where Prescott Bush was a director.

Lissmann said:
If we have a positive ruling from the court it will cause [president] Bush huge problems and make him personally liable to pay compensation.
The US government and the Bush family deny all the claims against them.

In addition to Eva Schweitzer's book, two other books are about to be published that raise the subject of Prescott Bush's business history. The author of the second book, to be published next year, John Loftus, is a former US attorney who prosecuted Nazi war criminals in the 70s. Now living in St Petersburg, Florida and earning his living as a security commentator for Fox News and ABC radio, Loftus is working on a novel which uses some of the material he has uncovered on Bush. Loftus stressed that what Prescott Bush was involved in was just what many other American and British businessmen were doing at the time.
You can't blame Bush for what his grandfather did any more than you can blame Jack Kennedy for what his father did - bought Nazi stocks - but what is important is the cover-up, how it could have gone on so successfully for half a century, and does that have implications for us today?
he said.
This was the mechanism by which Hitler was funded to come to power, this was the mechanism by which the Third Reich's defence industry was re-armed, this was the mechanism by which Nazi profits were repatriated back to the American owners, this was the mechanism by which investigations into the financial laundering of the Third Reich were blunted,
said Loftus, who is vice-chairman of the Holocaust Museum in St Petersburg.
The Union Banking Corporation was a holding company for the Nazis, for Fritz Thyssen,
said Loftus.
At various times, the Bush family has tried to spin it, saying they were owned by a Dutch bank and it wasn't until the Nazis took over Holland that they realised that now the Nazis controlled the apparent company and that is why the Bush supporters claim when the war was over they got their money back. Both the American treasury investigations and the intelligence investigations in Europe completely bely that, it's absolute horseshit. They always knew who the ultimate beneficiaries were.
There is no one left alive who could be prosecuted but they did get away with it,
said Loftus.
As a former federal prosecutor, I would make a case for Prescott Bush, his father-in-law (George Walker) and Averill Harriman [to be prosecuted] for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. They remained on the boards of these companies knowing that they were of financial benefit to the nation of Germany.
Loftus said Prescott Bush must have been aware of what was happening in Germany at the time.
My take on him was that he was a not terribly successful in-law who did what Herbert Walker told him to. Walker and Harriman were the two evil geniuses, they didn't care about the Nazis any more than they cared about their investments with the Bolsheviks.
What is also at issue is how much money Bush made from his involvement. His supporters suggest that he had one token share. Loftus disputes this, citing sources in "the banking and intelligence communities" and suggesting that the Bush family, through George Herbert Walker and Prescott, got $1.5m out of the involvement. There is, however, no paper trail to this sum.

The third person going into print on the subject is John Buchanan, 54, a Miami-based magazine journalist who started examining the files while working on a screenplay. Last year, Buchanan published his findings in the venerable but small-circulation New Hampshire Gazette under the headline
Documents in National Archives Prove George Bush's Grandfather Traded With the Nazis - Even After Pearl Harbor.
He expands on this in his book to be published next month - Fixing America: Breaking the Stranglehold of Corporate Rule, Big Media and the Religious Right.

In the article, Buchanan, who has worked mainly in the trade and music press with a spell as a muckraking reporter in Miami, claimed that,
the essential facts have appeared on the internet and in relatively obscure books but were dismissed by the media and Bush family as undocumented diatribes.
Buchanan suffers from hypermania, a form of manic depression, and when he found himself rebuffed in his initial efforts to interest the media, he responded with a series of threats against the journalists and media outlets that had spurned him. The threats, contained in e-mails, suggested that he would expose the journalists as
traitors to the truth.
Unsurprisingly, he soon had difficulty getting his calls returned. Most seriously, he faced aggravated stalking charges in Miami, in connection with a man with whom he had fallen out over the best way to publicise his findings. The charges were dropped last month.

Biography

Buchanan said he regretted his behaviour had damaged his credibility but his main aim was to secure publicity for the story. Both Loftus and Schweitzer say Buchanan has come up with previously undisclosed documentation.

The Bush family have largely responded with no comment to any reference to Prescott Bush. Brown Brothers Harriman also declined to comment.

The Bush family recently approved a flattering biography of Prescott Bush entitled Duty, Honour, Country by Mickey Herskowitz. The publishers, Rutledge Hill Press, promised the book would
deal honestly with Prescott Bush's alleged business relationships with Nazi industrialists and other accusations.
In fact, the allegations are dealt with in less than two pages. The book refers to the Herald-Tribune story by saying that
a person of less established ethics would have panicked ... Bush and his partners at Brown Brothers Harriman informed the government regulators that the account, opened in the late 1930s, was 'an unpaid courtesy for a client' ... Prescott Bush acted quickly and openly on behalf of the firm, served well by a reputation that had never been compromised. He made available all records and all documents. Viewed six decades later in the era of serial corporate scandals and shattered careers, he received what can be viewed as the ultimate clean bill.
The Prescott Bush story has been condemned by both conservatives and some liberals as having nothing to do with the current president. It has also been suggested that Prescott Bush had little to do with Averill Harriman and that the two men opposed each other politically.

However, documents from the Harriman papers include a flattering wartime profile of Harriman in the New York Journal American and next to it in the files is a letter to the financial editor of that paper from Prescott Bush congratulating the paper for running the profile. He added that Harriman's
performance and his whole attitude has been a source of inspiration and pride to his partners and his friends.
The Anti-Defamation League in the US is supportive of Prescott Bush and the Bush family. In a statement last year they said that
rumours about the alleged Nazi 'ties' of the late Prescott Bush ... have circulated widely through the internet in recent years. These charges are untenable and politically motivated ... Prescott Bush was neither a Nazi nor a Nazi sympathiser.
However, one of the country's oldest Jewish publications, the Jewish Advocate, has aired the controversy in detail.

More than 60 years after Prescott Bush came briefly under scrutiny at the time of a faraway war, his grandson is facing a different kind of scrutiny but one underpinned by the same perception that, for some people, war can be a profitable business.

Somaliman
Member
Posts: 4803
Joined: 09 Nov 2007, 20:12
Location: Heaven

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Somaliman » 15 Oct 2021, 14:03

The US did even vote for a fascist Nazi sympathiser, who has even claimed that "Hitler did a lot of good things" as a president - and of course, this fucker is Trump.

Blueshift
Member
Posts: 1226
Joined: 30 Mar 2021, 19:34

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Blueshift » 15 Oct 2021, 14:49

Shii-tty head nigg'ars such as defend the lie,

Had the Nazis won, you darky aszz would be turned to ashes by now. :evil: The USA at the time, as it is today , has been a work in progress in the right direction. It will continue so. To Hitler and co., you are nothing but sub animals. Guess what, African leaders continue to prove him right.
Wishy washy , Coward Sabur, if it wasn't cowards like you, the Eritrean people would have faired much better today. Look at your shii-ty face in the mirror asz_hole. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Blueshift
Member
Posts: 1226
Joined: 30 Mar 2021, 19:34

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Blueshift » 15 Oct 2021, 15:22

By the way,

When Hitler proposed to Winston Churchill to share the resources of the world, through his crazy deputy Rudolf Hess, Churchill told Hitler to fu_-ck himself . Not word for word off course. But, that was very much the response Churchill gave to Hitler . :lol: :lol:

Naga Tuma
Member+
Posts: 5496
Joined: 24 Apr 2007, 00:27

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Naga Tuma » 21 Oct 2021, 01:51

By pigs and piglets, I mean irrational creatures that go on a stampede against a passerby.

Thank you Zmeselo for sharing the historical documents.

Naga Tuma
Member+
Posts: 5496
Joined: 24 Apr 2007, 00:27

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Naga Tuma » 02 Mar 2022, 19:39

This simple question was out of curiosity. One now wonders if the Nazis exist in Ukraine in this 21st century.

How sad that the people of Ukraine, who from a distance look like a humble bunch, have to find themselves in the crosshairs of a former intelligence officer of the former USSR and the Nazis in Ukraine if they truly exist there.

I say a humble bunch with reverence to humbleness. I ask if the Nazis truly exist in Ukraine at this age in humankind's history. Do they exist in President Putin's wild imagination or is it based on well founded intelligence that is compromising to the leadership of Ukraine regarding its Russian speaking citizens of its breakaway regions?

Another simple question to ask here is why would a former intelligence officer of a former global power who considers its fall the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century blemish his longtime career as an intelligence officer when he is now 69 years old and serving as the President of a veto wielding global power if he hasn't found an envelope of Nazis in Ukraine? Common sense suggests that it is unlikely.

So, if it is likely that he has found an envelope of Nazis in Ukraine, a more serious question to ask is why many Americans aren't shell shocked by President Putin's bombshell.

Many of us are accustomed to hearing the dichotomy between democracy and autocracy. In that dichotomy, we forget that there may be the Nazis with their genocidal ideology. Surely, democracy is preferred over autocracy. Then again, a genocidal ideology is worse than autocracy.

Such an ideology can not be graduated into Nazi and neo-Nazi. It was a package that was fought against, defeated, brought to justice, and consigned to the books of history after the conclusion of the second World War.

If it enveloped and reared its head in Ukraine or anywhere else in the world and provided that President Putin holds credible intelligence about it, why wouldn't he stand as the Messiah of the Russian State in particular and of the world at large?

To the extent that he has well founded intelligence about the Nazis in Ukraine, he stands to litigate America's conviction to the second World War. After all, it wasn't the first state to declare war against the Nazi of Germany. If it had a moral ground in fighting against the Nazi in the 20th century after it joined the war against it, why wouldn't it have the same moral ground in fighting against the same in the 21st century? Was its fight against Adolf Hitler instead of Nazi ideology as it has already been suggested? In that case, the only conclusion one can reach is that there are actually some in America that have been Big Brothers of Adolf Hitler with bigger Nazism. What else can one conclude if many Americans aren't shell shocked by President Putin's bombshell about the Nazis in Ukraine?

Somaliman
Member
Posts: 4803
Joined: 09 Nov 2007, 20:12
Location: Heaven

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Somaliman » 02 Mar 2022, 20:22

Naga Tuma wrote:
02 Mar 2022, 19:39
This simple question was out of curiosity. One now wonders if the Nazis exist in Ukraine in this 21st century.

How sad that the people of Ukraine, who from a distance look like a humble bunch, have to find themselves in the crosshairs of a former intelligence officer of the former USSR and the Nazis in Ukraine if they truly exist there.

I say a humble bunch with reverence to humbleness. I ask if the Nazis truly exist in Ukraine at this age in humankind's history. Do they exist in President Putin's wild imagination or is it based on well founded intelligence that is compromising to the leadership of Ukraine regarding its Russian speaking citizens of its breakaway regions?

Another simple question to ask here is why would a former intelligence officer of a former global power who considers its fall the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century blemish his longtime career as an intelligence officer when he is now 69 years old and serving as the President of a veto wielding global power if he hasn't found an envelope of Nazis in Ukraine? Common sense suggests that it is unlikely.

So, if it is likely that he has found an envelope of Nazis in Ukraine, a more serious question to ask is why many Americans aren't shell shocked by President Putin's bombshell.

Many of us are accustomed to hearing the dichotomy between democracy and autocracy. In that dichotomy, we forget that there may be the Nazis with their genocidal ideology. Surely, democracy is preferred over autocracy. Then again, a genocidal ideology is worse than autocracy.

Such an ideology can not be graduated into Nazi and neo-Nazi. It was a package that was fought against, defeated, brought to justice, and consigned to the books of history after the conclusion of the second World War.

If it enveloped and reared its head in Ukraine or anywhere else in the world and provided that President Putin holds credible intelligence about it, why wouldn't he stand as the Messiah of the Russian State in particular and of the world at large?

To the extent that he has well founded intelligence about the Nazis in Ukraine, he stands to litigate America's conviction to the second World War. After all, it wasn't the first state to declare war against the Nazi of Germany. If it had a moral ground in fighting against the Nazi in the 20th century after it joined the war against it, why wouldn't it have the same moral ground in fighting against the same in the 21st century? Was its fight against Adolf Hitler instead of Nazi ideology as it has already been suggested? In that case, the only conclusion one can reach is that there are actually some in America that have been Big Brothers of Adolf Hitler with bigger Nazism. What else can one conclude if many Americans aren't shell shocked by President Putin's bombshell about the Nazis in Ukraine?





and the Nazis in Ukraine if they truly exist there.



Naga Tuma
Member+
Posts: 5496
Joined: 24 Apr 2007, 00:27

Re: Why did America fight against the Nazis?

Post by Naga Tuma » 09 Mar 2022, 17:19

Thank you Somaliman for sharing the clips. I have now a better idea about the Nazis in Ukraine.

What a sad state for the peaceful citizens of Ukraine that find such shameful group of people in their midst and that President Putin finds himself having to deal with such a group in a neighboring country in which Russian speaking people also live. Like many other countries, the former USSR fought against them during the second World War.

I have heard on TV on a good authority of David Gergen that NATO was formed after that war to keep Germany in check and Russia out, or something to that effect. He was mad that Donald Trump considered it obsolete. If I remember correctly, that was the only time I heard him call Trump a SOB on TV for considering NATO obsolete.

If a picture speaks a thousand words, the map of NATO countries next to Ukraine and Russia speaks volumes. It looks a mammoth of the coldest most densely populated anxious continent that is led by the US, which is on a different continent across an ocean.

Why aren't some people in the US not decent enough to see the map and try to understand if President Putin considers Ukraine his China's Vietnam and call out the mammoth that gets application from a country in which Nazis live at this age in human history responsible for what the peaceful people of Ukraine are going through now? The Chinese say that when the forehead falls, it is the nose that bleeds first. Some Americans know how to say somebody's right to swing arms stops where somebody else's nose begins.

I can't forget a single picture or video clip that helped me understand the thinking processes of the leader of North Korea in his efforts to develop missiles. That picture clearly came across as the US saying I can land a spear at your doorstep and order you to not sharpen any spear inside your home. I understood Chairman Kim Jong Un's response as asking "excuse me, what did you say?"

So, if President Putin's response is as asking "excuse me, what did you chant in Ukraine where the Russian speaking people also live?" what does it take any decent person anywhere in the world to put himself or herself in his shoes and understand his question?

As much as Ukraine has the right to defend itself, can it state that its freedom to appeal to NATO, which was hostile to Russia from the get go as testified to by David Gergen, stops where Russia's nose begins? Wouldn't any decent person hear these chants and ask about President Putin's bombshell charge about the Nazis in Ukraine? After all, what is democratic about NATO? Can the democratic tie wearing Congressman Mike Quigley of Illinois define the essence of democracy better than David Gergen and explain what NATO has to do with it?

Does our warmest resting continent see the pictures at the door steps of North Korea and Russia and read the volumes that they speak? I can only wonder from a distance.

Post Reply