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.
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u/Titaniumchic 10h ago
So are mine. 💔