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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 270
Equipment Corporation. Next the government set out after two companies held by the Harriman
Fifteen Holding Company (HFHC). These included Silesian-American Corporation and
Hamburg-Amerika Line. The directors of HFHC included Averill Harriman, George Hebert
Walker, and Prescott Bush.
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The holding company held a one-third stake in “a complex of
steel-making, coal-mining and zinc-mining activities in Germany and Poland.” A Thyssen
associate, Friedrich Flick owned two-thirds. Averell Harriman served as Chairman of one of
these companies, Consolidated Silesian Steel.
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In the last few years this subject has been delved into deeper by several researchers.
These include John Loftus, former federal prosecutor, John Buchanan, freelance investigative
journalist and Ben Aris and Duncan Campbell, corespondents for The Guardian in London.
Much of their discoveries come from newly declassified documents. Following is a brief
summary of the startling discoveries they made.
After the war Fritz Thyssen admitted that he financed Hitler. Thyssen owned the largest
steel and coal company in Germany. UBC and it directors directly aided Hitler in gearing up for
his invasion of Poland. After the US entered the war the directors of UBC continued to act on
behalf of the Nazis and took efforts to conceal the true nature of UBC. John Buchanan writes in
an article that appeared in the The New Hampshire Gazette:
According to government documents, it [UBC] was in reality a clearing
house for a number of Thyssen-controlled enterprises and assets, including as
many as a dozen individual businesses.... The company's activities were
administered for Thyssen by a Netherlands-born, naturalized U.S. citizen named
Cornelis Lievense, who served as president of UBC.... the government documents
show, Bush and his partners increased their subterfuge to try to conceal the true
nature and ownership of their various businesses, particularly after the U.S.
entered the war.... However, the government documents note that Bush,
Harriman, Lievense and the other UBC stockholders were in fact “nominees,” or
phantom shareholders, for Thyssen and his Holland bank, meaning that they acted
at the direct behest of their German client.... The documents from the Archives
also show that the Bushes and Harrimans shipped valuable U.S. assets, including
gold, coal, steel and U.S. Treasury and war bonds, to their foreign clients overseas
as Hitler geared up for his 1939 invasion of Poland, the event that sparked World
War II.
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Aris and Campbell note that “Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a number
of companies involved with Thyssen.” They further write: “A report issued by the Office of
Alien Property Custodian in 1942 stated of the companies that 'since 1939, these (steel and
mining) properties have been in possession of and have been operated by the German
government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance to that country's war effort'”.
“Erwin May, a treasury attache and officer for the department of investigation in the
APC, was assigned to look into UBC's business.... May wrote in his report of August 16 1941:
'Union Banking Corporation, incorporated August 4 1924, is wholly owned by the Bank voor
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