Can't people see a difference between profiting from trade with (and maybe agreeing with) the Nazis and actually helping Hitler's rise to power? The trading puts them on the wrong side morally but Hitler gained power without them, would have behaved the same way without them, and would have still lost the war without them.DonQuixote said:This article might help: How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
From the Guardian, 0/25/04
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,5024413-110878,00.html
"George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholdr of companies that profited from thir involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany....
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and a hum of pre-election controversy."
Read on.
The Bush family helping his rise to power is a big, irational stretch.