Newly Uncovered US Documents: Bush Ancestor's Bank Seized by Gov't: "President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist [Fritz Thyssen] who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show... Fritz Thyssen was an early financial supporter of Hitler, whose Nazi party Thyssen believed was preferable to communism."

Newly Uncovered US Documents: Bush Ancestor's Bank Seized by Gov't: "President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist [Fritz Thyssen] who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show... Fritz Thyssen was an early financial supporter of Hitler, whose Nazi party Thyssen believed was preferable to communism."