The Bush, Rove & Schwarzenegger Nazi Connection

[Photo is of Prescott Bush, grandfather of George W. Bush]

You may have known this and forgotten it, or you may have never heard about it: the past ties that link Bush, Rove and Schwarzenegger to the Nazis.

What you read here is not meant to imply that the trio of Bush, Rove and Schwarzenegger should be held responsible for the sins of the fathers, or their grandfathers, but the connections are interesting.

And, who knows, those connections might explain a few things.

None of this is new, but it has received very little play in the mainstream media. A few years ago, The Guardian (U.K.) did a comprehensive story based on information taken from the National Archives which showed that the grandfather of George W. Bush, a Republican senator from Connecticut, was nothing more than "a creepy front man for industrialists who bankrolled and built the Nazi war machine." [My emphasis]

Prescott along with Averill Harriman set up the Union Banking Corporation (UBC) back in the 1930s. "Bush was a founder and director and owned one share, valued at $125." But the UBC was not what it appeared - it was a shell, owned by a Netherlands bank, with anonymous real owners who turned out to be a German family by name of Thyssen.

"The Thyssens were a preeminent German business family that dominated the nation's iron and steel and coal businesses and were crucial to bankrolling and building the Nazi war machine." It started with "Young Fritz Thyssen ... infatuated with Hitler, ... joined the Nazi party in 1931." Young Fritz was a great find. When the Nazis got into financial trouble, Fritz came to the rescue.

"By the late '30s, along with Harriman's Brown Brothers Harriman, which claimed to be the world's largest investment bank, Bush had bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, fuel, steel, coal, and U.S. treasury bonds to Germany."

Now, before war broke out, this was not illegal. But it sure as hell didn't look good from a moral or ethical perspective. As John Loftus, a former U.S. attorney has said, "This (UBC) was the mechanism by which Hitler was funded to come to power, this was the mechanism by which the Third Reich's defense 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."

Also of interest is the fact that on October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi Germany's banking operations in New York City, which were under the direction of Prescott Bush. The government used the "Trading with the Enemy Act of gain control of the UBC.

Loftus further notes that the Bush family tried to "spin" their involvement in various ways by saying UBC was owned by a Dutch bank and it wasn't until the Nazis conquered Holland that they became aware of Nazi control of the company. Bush supporters use that same "spin" to justify the fact that the Bushes got their money back after the war.

Loftus says, that is "absolute horseshit." They always knew...they were a crucial part of it from the onset...


Karl Rove, who served as George W. Bush's mastermind for many years, has similar ties to the Nazis.

Rove's grandfather was Karl Heinz Roverer, the Gauleiter of Oldenburg. He was also the Reich-Staffhalter--Nazi State Party Chairman--for his region.

In addition, he was a partner and senior engineer witht eh Roverer Sud-Deutche Ingenierurburo A. G. engineering company, which built the Birkenau death camp "at which tens of thousands of Jews, Gypsies, dissidents and other (sic) were slaughtered en masse."


On to Schwarzenegger. One year after the Nazis seized Austria, Schwarzenegger's father, Gustav, volunteered for Hitler's infamous Strumabteilung (SA) -- the brown shirts - stormtroopers. This was six months after the brown shirts were instrumental in the Kristallnacht attacks throughout the German Jewish community.

According to the Vienna daily Der Standard, "Gustav, a high-ranking Nazi, brought up the bespectacled, rather frail boy [Arnold] with an iron fist and quite a few slaps in the face." It is said that Arnold's father wore the same type of moustache as did Adolf Hitler.

Some of us recall when ABC News told of a 1977 interview with Schwarzenegger in which, when asked whom he admired, said "I admire Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it."

Obviously this was a major mistake for Schwarzenegger. To try to atone, he gave a goodly amount of money to the Weisenthal Center in Los Angeles. And he renounced Hitler. But we all know that frequently when we blurt out something, that is exactly what we mean.

Finally, Schwarzenegger was also a close friend to the Austrian Karl Waldheim, at one time the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Even after Waldheim was excoriated for his Nazi associations, and for the fact he had taken part in Nazi atrocities, Schwarzenegger refused to renounce the friendship. He is quoted as saying, "My friends don't want me to mention Kurt's name, because of all the recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. controvery, but I love him and Maria does to, (sic) and so thank you, Kurt." (from "Arnold: An Unauthorized Biography")


It is easier now to understand why Bush would say he would like to be a dictator, and why he likes to call himself "the decider." Rove's callous, devious, underhanded political shenanigans are also better understood in the context of his background. And Arnold, well, maybe he just doesn't know any better. He's an actor, for god's sake!