This interlock between their Nazi German operations put Farish together with Prescott Bush in a
small, select group of mthat they would never be punished.en operating from abroad through Hitler's `` revolution, '' and calculating
In 1939, Farish's daughter Martha married Averell Harriman's nephew, Edward Harriman Gerry,
and Farish in-laws became Prescott Bush's partners at 59 Broadway.@s1@s5
Both Emil Helfferich and Karl Lindemann were authorized to write checks to Heinrich Himmler,
chief of the Nazi S.S., on a special Standard Oil account. This account was managed by the
German-British-American banker, Kurt von Schroeder. According to U.S. intelligence documents
reviewed by author Anthony Sutton, Emil Helfferich continued his payments to the S.S. into 1944,
when the S.S. was supervising the mass murder at the Standard-I.G. Farben Auschwitz and otherdeath camps. Helfferich told Allied interrogators after the war that these were not his personal
contributions--they were corporate Standard Oil funds.@s1@s6
After pleading no contest '' to charges of criminal conspiracy with the Nazis, William Stamps Farish was fined $5,000. (Scompany and for several subsidiaries.) This of course did not interfere with the millions of dollarsimilar fines were levied against Standard Oil--$5,000 each for the parent that Farish had acquired in conjunction with Hitler's New Order, as a large stockholder, chairman and president of Standard Oil. All the government sought was the use of patents which his company had given to the Nazis--the Auschwitz patents--but had withheld from the U.S. military and industry. But a war was on, and if young men were to be asked to die fighting Hitler ... something more was needed. Farish was hauled before the Senate committee investigating the national defense program. The committee chairman, Senator Harry Truman, told newsmen before Farish testified: I think
this approaches treason. ''@s1@s7
Farish began breaking apart at these hearings. He shouted his indignation '' at the Senators, and claimed he was not disloyal. ''
After the March-April hearings ended, more dirt came gushing out of the Justice Department andthe Congress on Farish and Standard Oil. Farish had deceived the U.S. Navy to prevent the Navy
from acquiring certain patents, while supplying them to the Nazi war machine; meanwhile, he was
supplying gasoline and tetraethyl lead to Germany's submarines and air force. Communications
between Standard and I.G. Farben from the outbreak of World War II were released to the Senate,
showing that Farish's organization had arranged to deceive the U.S. government into passing overNazi-owned assets: They would nominally buy I.G.'s share in certain patents because `` in the event (^)
of war between ourselves and Germany ... it would certainly be very undesirable to have this 20
percent Standard-I.G. pass to an alien property custodian of the U.S. who might sell it to an
unfriendly interest. ''@s1@s8
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (father of David, Nelson and John D. Rockefeller III), controlling owner of
Standard Oil, told the Roosevelt administration that he knew nothing of the day-to-day affairs of his
company, that all these matters were handled by Farish and other executives.@s1@s9
In August, Farish was broughtFarish was crushed under the intense, public grilling; he became morose, ashen. While Prescott back for more testimony. He was now frequently accused of lying.
Bush escaped publicity when the government seized his Nazi banking organization in October,
Farish had been nailed. He collapsed and died of a heart attack on Nov. 29, 1942.
The Farish family was devastated by the exposure. Son William Stamps Farish, Jr., a lieutenant in