None were ever even tried, although they were the financial backers of a coup against FDR that sought to install a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. similar to the ones they were backing in Germany and Italy. Even after the war started and Bush's shipping company, which had been used for years to smuggle arms to Hitler and to smuggle Nazi spies into America, was seized, Bush managed to walk away relatively unscathed. (Bush's bank, the Union Bank, a Nazi front, was also seized under the Trading With the Enemies Act in 1942.) Below is an extract from Vesting Order No. 126:
Seizure of all the assets of the Hamburg-American Line and of the North German Lloyd and of all the American branches jointly operated by them. Prescott Bush, George Herbert Walker and others operated the U.S. arm of Hamburg-American Line, seized herewith. Among other things, the company offered a cash reward to any American who would travel to Germany on a one-way ticket and proselytize for Hitler. The line also smuggled Nazi spies into the U.S., even after America had entered the war. President Roosevelt felt this constituted treason.
I'm posting the BBC documentary below so you can grasp for yourself the scope of the coup attempt by some of the biggest names in Big Business who were every bit as disloyal and fascist-oriented then as our current batch of plutocrats and corporate bigwigs are today-- and have always been. By not moving against them-- albeit, as you will see below, for good reason-- Roosevelt enabled future generations of fascist businessmen to just keep on trying, as they are today through political lackeys they financed... from Scott Walker and Paul Ryan in Wisconsin to Rick Snyder in Michigan, John Kasich and Rob Portman in Ohio and Rick Scott and Marco Rubio in Florida. Because they will never be satisfied until they reinstitute slavery or serfdom again-- not even with their wealth growing exponentially and corporate profits up 81% and taxes on the rich at historical-- and disgraceful-- lows.
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