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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (41798)	10/2/2000 11:48:10 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

Not much. This is not exactly an avocation of mine. However, I checked, and he is characterized as a former New York Times reporter who is known primarily as "a controversial Hollywood biographer" who also wrote a book about Errol Flynn's alleged Nazi connections.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (41798)	10/3/2000 1:31:16 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 769670

Especially GE, DuPont, and Esso --- but they were never denazified after the war.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (41798)	10/3/2000 2:01:18 PM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 769670

Brumar- In Trading With the Enemy, Charles Higham documents the role of Standard Oil of New Jersey, owned by the Chase Manhattan Bank, and I.G. Farben's Sterling Products with the Bank for International Settlements. Standard Oil tankers plied the sea lanes with fuel for the Nazi war machine. When the Nazis occupied Europe, the banking exchanges between Britain and the U.S. on the one hand and Germany on the other carried on as usual. Trading With The Enemy by Higham is out of print. amazon.com nara.gov 34. Higham, Charles. Trading with the enemy: the Nazi-American money plot, 1933-1949. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983. xx, 277 pp. Note: Higham's book on Nazi-American wartime business relations revolves around the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, established in 1930 under the Young Plan to handle German reparations to the Allies after World War I, but under Hitler's control by the outbreak of World War II. Shelved in the library at HF3099.H5. 35. Higham, Charles. American swastika: the shocking story of Nazi collaborators in our midst from 1933 to the present day. New York: Doubleday, 1985. xvii, 332 pp. Note: Information on trade with Nazi Germany by American businesses. If you do a google.com search you'll find quite a bit of material related to his thesis.