Nazi

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There is a long and documented history of Nazi involvement with certain American families and corporations. Most were not of German origin. Many Americans including Henry Ford admired Adolf Hitler and Nazi achievements in highway building and achieving nearly full employment. Nazi measures in this regard were not all that different from those of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. However, Nazi eugenics and racism (which combined in ways that even many eugenicists and racists rejected) kept most Americans from embracing explicitly the anti-Nazi cause.

Origins of the Nazis

Hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920s after World War I impoverished almost the entire middle class, and caused many Germans, especially in Berlin, to do things they would not otherwise have done. Berlin's reputation as a decadent culture capital was enhanced in part by the fact that there were no limits on what (or who) could be bought. Many rural Germans strongly rejected what they saw as intrusions of non-German influences. Those forced to sell land, especially to enterprising Jews from France, the UK and USA, resented these influences even more and became open to the Nazi message.

According to John Kenneth Galbraith, the Nazis were not stellar economic performers, but simply pragmatic money managers who were not bound by any particular theory (once they abandoned the socialism in their party's name). Rather they resembled the monetary players of later years in trusting no theory (or theorist) too much. They were however focused on re-arming the German state.

Bush family and Bush League entanglements

Before and during the war, Prescott Bush sold scrap metal and other useful goods to the Nazis. He had more than one company confiscated for this during the war, and it's not clear how many others would have been involved. It's hard to say what influence this had on George H. W. Bush.

In 1946 the Cold War began, and despite Harry Truman's demand that the newly-formed Central Intelligence Agency not employ any former Nazis, the former German Abwehr were the only people with detailed records and intelligence on the Soviet Union, the Western parts of which they had quite recently occupied (1942-3). This was absolutely essential information to the US.

The House Un-American Activities Committee focused on communists exclusively and may have been a distraction intended to discourage investigation of Nazi ties in upper reaches of government and sensitive agencies.

From 1946-61 it is unclear how involved the elder Bush was in CIA activities, but he is very widely believed to have been the CIA contact for the Bay of Pigs. The two ships that landed that day were named Houston and Barbara. By this time, former Nazis were beginning to get old, but their former clients in Syria and Iraq (the Ba'ath Party was modelled on the Nazis) were becoming powerful due to oil. GHW Bush's contacts in this region were excellent. His power in Washington was also significant. When he was named in connection with the JFK assassination of 1963, in 1977, he was immediately and strangely elevated (during the Democratic administration of Jimmy Carter) ro run the CIA. Luring the Soviets into Afghanistan in 1979 was a major strategy of this administration. Three years later, the Iran-Contra affair, largely believed to be Bush's handiwork, resulted in Ronald Reagan ascending to office - with GHWB as his VPOTUS.

This ascent corresponded neatly with the period in which former Nazi agents recruited during the 1930s were the most useful spies on the Soviets.

The seeming Reagan assassination attempt of 1981, the Saddam-Rumsfeld handshake, GHWB's rise in the U.S. presidential election, 1988, and events leading up to the UN-Iraq war of 1991, can be partly explained by power connections formed during the years immediately following World War II in which Nazi influence was at its peak within the CIA.

There is also some evidence that GHWB is nervous about Cold War records coming to light. He has publicly contradicted Jeb Bush about his desire to run in the U.S. presidential election, 2008.

Modern use

Today there are numerous ineffective neo-Nazi groups of no particular political power, mostly in Eastern Europe. The term:Islamonazism, or its Bush version Islamofascism, is ironically used to describe regimes that reacted to genuine Nazi-inspired regimes. And even more ironically it is used by persons whose family has had more than its share of such ties historically.