While Bush decries Nazi appeasement, he forgets family ties

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.

Of course, this does not mean Prescott was a Nazi sympathizer, but it certainly proves he was willing to talk to the rat bastards, and take their money.