Bush Family Involvement in Nazi Industry: Check Out Dave Emory's Interview with John Buchanan

Supplementing information presented in FTR#'s 435, 479, this program
presents John Buchanan, the journalist who uncovered recent
information adding to the growing body of knowledge about the Bush
family's involvement with Nazi industry. In addition to discussion of
Prescott Bush's participation in the Nazi flight capital program that
moved the Third Reich's funds out of Europe and into neutral countries
after World War II, the program sets forth John Buchanan's harrowing
experience at the hands of vengeful government officials looking to
punish him for his efforts. Another important discovery concerns
John's uncovering of the fact that Prescott Bush, Sr. was an early
financier of the Liberty League, a domestic fascist organization that
plotted to overthrow President Roosevelt in 1934.

Program Highlights Include: Description of the establishment by
listeners to this program of a website that features the declassified
documents about the Bush family's involvement with Nazi industry
(www.debatecomics.org/BushFamilyFortune/); John's discussion of a law
suit against the Bush family by two Auschwitz survivors; further
revelations concerning the Bush-connected Hamburg-Amerika line's pro-
Nazi activities in the United States; a successful wager John
undertook with The Guardian (a British paper) betting that they could
not impugn the authenticity of the documents he had uncovered.

1. This interview highlights John Buchanan's political odyssey,
undertaken to uncover the truth of the Bush family's involvement with
Nazi industry. In FTR#435, we examined John's magnificent articles
written for The New Hampshire Gazette about the Bush family's Third
Reich connections. Most important of the revelations contained in
Buchanan's articles is the disclosure that Prescott Bush (Sr.)
continued his involvement with the Nazi money machine after World War
II. Specifically, he continued to deal with individuals and
institutions that were moving Nazi monies out of Germany and into
neutral countries between the years of 1945 and 1951. This places Bush
squarely in the Bormann flight capital milieu, about which we have
spoken so often. (The text of the New Hampshire Gazette articles is
reproduced in the description for FTR#435. The declassified documents
themselves are available online. More about the Bush family's Nazi
involvement can be found in-among other programs-FTR#'s 273, 361, 370,
479.)

2. The substance of the Bush family's involvement with Nazi industry
can be found in the broadcasts cited immediately above. Mr. Emory
feels it would be pointless to restate the details, in that they have
been presented so often before. FTR#479 contains the most recent
treatment of the subject. This program will only highlight aspects of
the research that have not been discussed previously.

3. Among the points raised by Mr. Buchanan is the fact that after his
articles were printed in The New Hampshire Gazette, almost no news
organizations would follow up on the story. The Guardian-a British
paper-engaged in a friendly wager with Mr. Buchanan, who wagered that
no one could impugn the authenticity of the documents he had
uncovered. John notes that recently-as discussed in FTR#479-two
Auschwitz survivors have filed a $40 billion suit against the Bush
family because some of their investments utilized slave labor. In
particular, Mr. Buchanan notes that the Bush family had some stock in
the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, which used slave labor at
Auschwitz.

4. John relates how a group of listeners in the Midwest (high school
students and their teacher) obtained copies of the documents he had
uncovered and put them on the web, with copyrighted introductions that
he had written. Mr. Emory notes that if teenagers can do something
this brave, heroic and important, adult listeners should be able to do
more.

5. Next, John presents a harrowing tale of some of the official
retribution to which he was subjected because of his investigations.
Detained by two people misrepresenting themselves as "Secret Service
Agents," John was told he was being investigated for allegedly
threatening the life of the President of the United States. No
concrete proof was given (as he had done no such thing), but they
nonetheless demanded, and received, access to all of John's personal
records and contacts. After that, he was detained in Florida and told
he had threatened the life of someone he had never met and whose name
was not presented to him. He was then told that his public defender
had lost his file and that he was in deep trouble. He would probably
be convicted, according to the legal authorities. Fortunately, a
benefactor came to his assistance and he was released and exonerated.

6. Mr. Buchanan then relates some information that he had just gleaned
from the files of the McCormack-Dickstein Committee. In those files,
he found that the Hamburg-Amerika Line, one of the most prominent of
the Bush family's Nazi businesses, was financing a Nazi newspaper in
the United States and supporting the establishment of a full-blown
Nazi movement in this country.

7. Among the most substantively interesting of John's recent
discoveries is the fact that Prescott Bush was an early financier of
the Liberty League, a domestic fascist organization that was the
primary element in the 1934 fascist plot to overthrow President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (For more about the 1934 coup attempt, see-
among other programs-FTR#'s 448, 475.)

8. The program reviews a passage from Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile
about the Nazis' preparations for their postwar underground revival.
" . . . Dr. Scheid also affirmed, 'The ground must now be laid on the
financial level for borrowing considerable sums from foreign countries
after the war.' As an example of the kind of support that had been
most useful to Germany in the past, Dr. Scheid cited the fact that
'patents for stainless steel belonged to the Chemical Foundation, Inc.
New York, and the Krupp Company of Germany, jointly, and that of the
United States Steel Corporation, Carnegie, Illinois, American Steel &
Wire, National Tube, etc., were thereby under an obligation to work
with the Krupp concern.' He also cited the Zeiss Company, the Leica
Company, and the Hamburg-Amerika line as typical firms that had been
especially effective in protecting German interests abroad. He gave
New York addresses to the twelve men."
(Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC];
Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0-8184-0309-8; p. 25.)

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