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4. "Hitler's banker" - as Prescott Bush was called
Fri Jun 14, 2024, 11:54 AM
Jun 2024

He managed their Wall Street investments at least as far back as 1927 - and well: like the Bushes and Churchill, the Nazis shorted just before the Great Crash thanks to Prescott - who continued to manage their money until his bank was seized in 1942.

But as you know, he was certainly not the only U.S. executive to back Hitler - whom they saw as a model for the kind of iron-fisted, union-busting and "pro-business" governance they preferred.

Like a certain other authoritarian windbag...

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