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How the Bush family made its fortune from the Nazis, by Robert Lederman

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For the Bush family, it is a lingering nightmare. For their Nazi clients, the Dutch connection was the mother of all money laundering schemes. From 1945 until 1949, one of the lengthiest and, it now appears, most futile interrogations of a Nazi war crimes suspect began in the American Zone of Occupied Germany. Multibillionaire steel magnate Fritz Thyssen-the man whose steel combine was the cold heart of the Nazi war machine-talked and talked and talked to a joint US-UK interrogation team. For four long years, successive teams of inquisitors tried to break Thyssen's simple claim to possess neither foreign bank accounts nor interests in foreign corporations, no assets that might lead to the missing billions in assets of the Third Reich. The inquisitors failed utterly.

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This article is by Archie on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:46:02 PM
This Article Is Bullshit by aberamsay on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:25:08 PM
American Capitalism and the Nazis by Ed Encho on Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:59:56 AM