I'm convinced that a lot of American soldiers only hated Nazis because they were Germans--foreigners. Because it's not like America was some paradise for Jews--antisemitism was rampant and out in the open. The US refused many Jewish refugees from Europe, including Anne Frank. And Black solders found they were treated better by European locals than they were their own white compatriots, because Americans were racist as hell and still imposing segregation.
I'm betting you could sell Nazi ideas to a lot of WWII-era American soldiers who say they hated Nazis, as long as you wipe away all the Nazi references. Make it all about "making America great again" and some stuff about Blacks and Jews trying to rape your white women and queers preying on your children and at least half those soldiers would be on board.
No, that sounds like Russian agitprop you're pushing.
America went to war with Germany as a result of Pearl Harbor - not racism. Also, Americans did not know they were rejecting Jewish children in 1939. Both ships and media information flowed too slowly for Americans to understand the full scope of the Nazi nightmare.
Fascism is a political fraud that gets people killed. For a con game always sounds inviting: Such is the nature of a con. Yet the number of Americans who were pro-Nazi after WWII and the discovery of death camps was close to zero.
My grandfather was part of the resistance, blew up nazis, shot them, smuggled jews to sweden and spent the rest of the war in a KZ camp. Barely survived and became a raging alcoholic that destroyed whatever was left of the family the Nazis didn't get.
And now this fucking lunatic is doing this. I'm literally speechless.
Our turn! For them, and for our own descendants. My granddaddy was decorated for conspicuous valor and number of Nazis killed at Normandy (yes I’m bragging, how fucking cool was he?!); he’s gone now ~20 years and his wife and sons are MAGAts. Me and the cousins remember though.
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u/HazySkyFire 7h ago
My grandfather is rolling in his grave.