[Yo-Yo]

Taken to the extreme, almost half of all German doctors in the 1930s joined the Nazi Party early, which was a higher rate than any other profession. Their education and intelligence did not shield them from madness – quite the opposite.

False premise right there. The public image of the NAZI party in the 1930s was to lift Germany out of a prolonged depression and runaway inflation, and to restore Germany as a dignified country again instead of a whipping boy who continued to be punished over WWI. A message of "Make Germany Great Again" if you will.

You can't use the advantage of knowing how NAZI Germany ended up to condemn those who joined at the beginning.

Even Henry Ford worked briefly with NAZI Germany, and we were allowing NAZI Germany Zeppelins to conduct passenger service between Germany and the United States.

Let us also condemn the person who gave the NAZIs permission to land at the Naval base in Lakehurst, NJ in 1937 while we're at it.

[MeganC]

Concur.

It’s also notable that when Hitler was Time Magazine’s 1938 Man of The Year this was not a snarky act. Not at all. The actual article is very complimentary towards Hitler and it was concurrently supportive of the FDR New Deal that had initiatives similar to that of the Hitler administration.

[mitch5501]

Yet Bonhoeffer realised the evil of Nazism as early as 1933

[Bonemaker]

“Even Henry Ford worked briefly with NAZI Germany”

You are of course correct. Charles Lindburgh among other perfectly decent, respectable people were in awe of early NAZI successes economically and socially. My mother in law...may she rest in piece..spent a couple of months there in 1936 and was thoroughly impressed. Who the hell knew what was yet to come? Indeed, there are serious storm clouds approaching us right now.