Original sentence: Business transactions with Germany were not illegal when Hitler declared war on the United States (December 11, 1941), but, six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Trading With the Enemy Act after it had been made public that U.By 1941 Thyssen no longer had control over his banking empire which was in the hands of the Nazi government.Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street connection for several German companies and the varied U.He was later jailed by the Nazis for his opposition to the regime.The order cited only the Union Banking Corporation (UBC), of which Prescott Bush held one share, which had connections with a Dutch bank owned by Thyssen.The underlying importance is Hitler's known ideology; intelligent business partners clearly knew who they were doing business with.There is no evidence that Thyssen, Harriman or Bush were willing to do so with Hitler.Thyssen had been an early financial backer of the Nazi party until 1938, but by 1939 had fled Germany and was bitterly denouncing Hitler.by his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker.financial interests of Fritz Thyssen.government ordered the seizure of German banking operations in New York City
Edited sentence: Business transactions for profit with Nazi Germany were not illegal when Hitler declared war on the United States (December 11, 1941), but, six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Trading With the Enemy Act after it had been made public that U.Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street connection for German companies and the varied U.The order, published in obscure government record books and kept out of the news, cited only the Union Banking Corporation (UBC) connections with Von Thyssen.The underlying importance is Hitler's known ideology; intelligent business partners like Bush and Thyssen and Harriman clearly knew who they were doing business with and were willing to do so.by his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker, to help supervise the new Thyssen/Flick United Steel Works.financial interests of Fritz Thyssen, who had been an early financial backer of the Nazi party until 1938, but who by 1939 had fled Germany and was bitterly denouncing Hitler.government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City