money at the time - but there is no documentary evidence to support this claim) These supposed assets were later used to launch Bush family investments in the Texas energy industry. Toby Rogers has claimed that Bush's connections to Silesian businesses (with Thyssen and Flick) make him complicit with the mining operations in Nazi-occupied Poland which used 272
slave labor out of Oświęcim, where the Auschwitz concentration camp was later constructed. The New York Herald-Tribune referred to Thyssen as "Hitlers Angel" and mentioned