Hitler, I.G. Farben, Rockefeller, Averill Harriman

Prescott Bush connection to the Merchants of Death industry came from his father Samuel P. Bush who worked for Buckeye Steel Castings Company which manufactured railway parts for the railroad industry and barrels for guns and casings for shells for Remington Arms.

On July 23, 2007, the BBC Radio 4 series Document reported on the alleged Business Plot and the archives from the McCormack-Dickstein Committee hearings. The program mentioned Bush's directorship of the Hamburg-America Line, a company that the committee investigated for Nazi propaganda activities, and the 1933 attempt to stage a military coup against President FDR to install a fascist dictatorship in the United States.

During WWII, IG Farben manufactured 84% of Germany's explosives, and the gas used in the concentration camps. Its secret trading partner, U.S. Standard Oil, JD Rockefeller's company, sold ingredients to the Nazi's that were key to their abilities to carry out the London Blitz.

The Union Banking Corporation's assets were seized by the US Government for violations of the "Trading with the Enemy" Act. Prescott Bush, grandfather to George W, was a director and vice president of that bank.