(Bradley) "Hart, who came to the topic via research on the eugenics movement and the history of Nazi sympathy in Britain, says he realized early on that there was a lot more to the American side of that story than most textbooks acknowledged. Some of the big names might get mentioned briefly — the radio priest Father Charles Coughlin, or the highly public German American Bund organization — but in general, he says, the American narrative of the years leading up to World War II has elided the role of those who supported the wrong side. And yet, American exchange students went to Germany and returned with glowing reviews, while none other than Charles Lindbergh denounced Jewish people for pushing the U.S. toward unnecessary war. In its various expressions, the pro-Nazi stance during those years was mostly focused not on creating an active military alliance with Germany or bringing the U.S. under Nazi control (something Hitler himself thought wouldn’t be possible) but rather on keeping the U.S. out of war in Europe."
More Americans Supported Hitler Than You May Think. Here's Why One Expert Thinks That History Isn't Better Known
A few famous Americans who were Nazi sympathizers and who helped their cause:
Henry Ford
Prescott Bush
Charles Lindbergh
Big Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden in the late 1930's
American Nazism and Madison Square Garden | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
"Anti-Jewish sentiment in the U.S. wasn’t restricted to pro-Hitler groups, however. Until the U.S. entered World War II, in 1941, countless Americans opposed U.S. involvement in the war — despite relatively widespread media coverage of Hitler’s terror — including groups like the America First Committee, whose membership included anti-Semites and Nazi sympathizers. Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford, who in the 1920s distributed half a million copies of anti-Jewish rants, was among the group’s members. Charles Coughlin, an Irish Catholic priest, used his national radio show, which reached millions, to stir up anti-Jewish sentiment. His supporters formed a group called the Christian Front, which created a “Christian Index,” of non-Jewish stores to support and whose members attacked Jews in the streets of cities like New York, historian Tony Michels tells Teen Vogue."
Meet the Jewish-Americans Who Were the OG American Nazi-Punchers
The long history of American Nazism — and why we can’t forget it today
"Robert Noble, well-known in California as the co-founder of the fascist and antisemitic isolationist group Friends of Progress, proclaimed: “Japan has done a good job in the Pacific. I believe this war is going to destroy America. … We are for Germany and for Hitler.” Noble and Ellis organized a December 1941 mock trial of President Roosevelt, convicting him of being “traitorous to the American people for getting us into the war.”
Just as the revived KKK in the 1920s enjoyed mainstream support, the ideas animating U.S. fascist groups were hardly fringe. In April 1940, when asked whether “Jews have too much power and influence in this country,” a national majority answered, “yes.” After U.S. entry into the war, public participation in pro-Nazi organizations ceased, but the sentiments remained. In July 1945, the number of Americans who responded “yes” to this question about influence had risen to 67 percent.
The war drove American Nazis underground, but nativism, antisemitism and authoritarian tendencies did not vanish, even in the fastest-growing city in the country, Los Angeles. Los Angeles had been one of the largest centers of Klan activity outside the South in the 1920s and 1930s. A Klan member had been elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1923."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...-american-nazism-why-we-cant-forget-it-today/
More Americans Supported Hitler Than You May Think. Here's Why One Expert Thinks That History Isn't Better Known
A few famous Americans who were Nazi sympathizers and who helped their cause:
Henry Ford
Prescott Bush
Charles Lindbergh
Big Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden in the late 1930's
American Nazism and Madison Square Garden | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
"Anti-Jewish sentiment in the U.S. wasn’t restricted to pro-Hitler groups, however. Until the U.S. entered World War II, in 1941, countless Americans opposed U.S. involvement in the war — despite relatively widespread media coverage of Hitler’s terror — including groups like the America First Committee, whose membership included anti-Semites and Nazi sympathizers. Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford, who in the 1920s distributed half a million copies of anti-Jewish rants, was among the group’s members. Charles Coughlin, an Irish Catholic priest, used his national radio show, which reached millions, to stir up anti-Jewish sentiment. His supporters formed a group called the Christian Front, which created a “Christian Index,” of non-Jewish stores to support and whose members attacked Jews in the streets of cities like New York, historian Tony Michels tells Teen Vogue."
Meet the Jewish-Americans Who Were the OG American Nazi-Punchers
The long history of American Nazism — and why we can’t forget it today
"Robert Noble, well-known in California as the co-founder of the fascist and antisemitic isolationist group Friends of Progress, proclaimed: “Japan has done a good job in the Pacific. I believe this war is going to destroy America. … We are for Germany and for Hitler.” Noble and Ellis organized a December 1941 mock trial of President Roosevelt, convicting him of being “traitorous to the American people for getting us into the war.”
Just as the revived KKK in the 1920s enjoyed mainstream support, the ideas animating U.S. fascist groups were hardly fringe. In April 1940, when asked whether “Jews have too much power and influence in this country,” a national majority answered, “yes.” After U.S. entry into the war, public participation in pro-Nazi organizations ceased, but the sentiments remained. In July 1945, the number of Americans who responded “yes” to this question about influence had risen to 67 percent.
The war drove American Nazis underground, but nativism, antisemitism and authoritarian tendencies did not vanish, even in the fastest-growing city in the country, Los Angeles. Los Angeles had been one of the largest centers of Klan activity outside the South in the 1920s and 1930s. A Klan member had been elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1923."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...-american-nazism-why-we-cant-forget-it-today/
