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Nice post. But this is not correct:

“...and Bush was prosecuted for them under the Trading with the Enemy Act.”

See here:

"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."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

Thyssen opposed Hitler starting in 1938, and spent the war in concentration camps. Bush would have been supporting a major opponent of Hitler during the war.

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