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Old 01-12-2007, 03:24 PM
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Interesting article....

I'm Jewish as are many of my friends, and over the years I've met many older Jewish people that will not buy a BMW or Mercedes due to the fact that they are German vehicles and that those companies played a part in building up the Nazi military before and during WWII. So I found this article very interesting....

Nazis rode to war on GM wheels
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Old 01-12-2007, 03:41 PM
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Wow thats long. But interesting.
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Old 01-12-2007, 03:47 PM
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You should ask the same question to George Bush's grandfather...


http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/...312540,00.html
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Umm are you shocked lol? I told you the Bush family is evil :P
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Old 01-12-2007, 04:08 PM
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Umm are you shocked lol? I told you the Bush family is evil :P

I’m not shocked.

Plenty of European and US companies (and also governments all over the world) helped the Nazis.

Money rules the world…
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Old 01-12-2007, 04:58 PM
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I knew about Opal and that they helped build up the Nazi war machine, but I did not realize they were such a large part of it. I remember reading that in the late 1940s, GM received several billion dollars in reperations from the US government for the damange caused to their Opal factories during the allied bombing of Germany. Yes, you read that right....our government apoligized and paid reparations for damange done when we bombed factories that made Nazi war vehicles.
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Just type "financing hitler" in and see ....
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The US is also the worlds largest arms supplier bush or no bush we have supported other armies by selling them equipment since WW1 it's no shock and no supprise it's profit wars are only expensive if you are not selling the guns and bullets
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Old 01-12-2007, 05:50 PM
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Old 01-12-2007, 05:56 PM
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Just type "financing hitler" in and see ....
Figures.... the first word in the title of the first link is "Bush".

If you actually look into it, Prescott Bush was nothing more than a high level employee for a bank that did business with the Nazis. While the bank itself was prosecuted for violating "trading with the enemy" laws, Bush himself was not an officer of the company, and thus he was not prosecuted as an individual.

There are many other big names who were much more guilty of doing business with the Nazis during wartime.....people like Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller and William Randolph Hearst.
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