Posted on 01/10/2023 6:57:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
“Comrade”
I’m reading a book on the rise of Hitler in the 1930s. “In the Garden of Beasts” by Eric Larson. Centered around one of our ambassadors at the time, someone named Dodd.
Our government thought it could work with Hitler for a long time. Germany owed American businesses a lot of money from WW1 debt and the businesses wanted to get paid. Another thing: many Americans didn’t like Jews.
And Hollywood kissed Hitler’s ass in the 1930s as well, because they didn’t want to lose access to the German film market.
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