FACTS: Barack's (great) Uncle Liberated Jews while Bush's Grandfather did business with the Nazi

[FrenchieCat]

The Democratic presidential candidate said the story is accurate except that the camp was Buchenwald, not Auschwitz.

"Senator Obama's family is proud of the service of his grandfather and uncles in World War II - especially the fact that his great uncle was a part of liberating one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald," campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. "Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically."
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Aides said Tuesday that his grandmother's brother, Charlie Payne, helped
liberate a Buchenwald sub-camp in April 1945 as part of the 89th Infantry
Division.
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On April 4, 1945, the 89th overran Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Ohrdruf was the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by U.S. troops in Germany, according to the museum. A week later, on April 12, Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Omar Bradley visited Ohrdruf to see, firsthand, evidence of Nazi atrocities against concentration camp prisoners.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/987958.html

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the 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 to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
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Remarkably, little of Bush's dealings with Germany has received public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the documentation involving him. But now the multibillion dollar legal action for damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush family, and the imminent publication of three books on the subject are threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

[FARAFIELD]

1. Didnt Roves Grandfather do something with the Nazis as well?

[FrenchieCat]

4. Rove learned well from studying Nazi Propaganda.....that I am sure of.....

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. because people don't know about the Bush Nazi connection

but they are trying to make out Obama is a Muslim

[FrenchieCat]

8. That's the sad truth!

[kenny blankenship]

3. yeahbut if you bother to notice, Barack's Great-Uncle waited FOUR YEARS to liberate Buchenwald

Thanks A LOT Barack's Great-Uncle! You fucking anti-Semite.

[FrenchieCat]

5. Am I looking at a clue in your post?

like this one?---> :sarcasm:

[Ian_rd]

6. Now that's a comparison that I can kick and rec.

Talk about a pleasant "change!" :D

[FrenchieCat]

7. A study in contrast........

[Voice for Peace]

9. passion fruit vs buttfruit

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, FrenchieCat.

[K Gardner]

11. K&R