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CreativeDominant -> RE: Nazis, literal nazis, inspired by the US? (3/16/2015 6:57:37 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
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ORIGINAL: Zonie63
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ORIGINAL: Aylee
The left was just fine with Hitler and Nazism until Russia was invaded.
Not at all. Liberals and progressives were very much against Hitler and Nazism, including FDR and many in his administration. He did what he could to help the Allied cause against Hitler, short of declaring war, which he knew he didn't have enough congressional support to get.
On the other hand, Hitler found some supporters from the American far right, although from what I've read, many of them were such crackpots that even the Nazis didn't want them.
As for the far left, they weren't exactly "fine" with Hitler, even though the Soviets signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler. It may have been a calculated maneuver, although there were still extreme fundamental differences between the far left and far right.
Indeed, without Standard Oil (Rockefeller) and their fuel, the Luftwaffe's bombers don't get off the ground. And I am sure Prescott Bush's Union Bank helped the cause, laundering $3 million in Nazi dollars.
As in most wars, western bankers are only too happy to finance both sides.
What inspired Hitler as much as anything the US did, was how the govt, dealt with the American Indian. A concerted Republican policy BTW.
On June 27, 1865, General William Tecumseh Sherman was given command of the Military District of the Missouri, which was one of the five military divisions into which the U.S. government had divided the country.
Sherman received this command for the purpose of commencing the 25-year war against the Plains Indians, primarily as a form of veiled subsidy to the government-subsidized railroad corporations and other politically connected corporations involved in building the transcontinental railroads.
These corporations were the financial backbone of the Republican Party. Indeed, in June 1861, Abraham Lincoln, former legal counsel of the Illinois Central Railroad, called a special emergency session of Congress not to deal with the two-month-old Civil War, but to commence work on the Pacific Railway Act.
Subsidizing the transcontinental railroads was a primary (if not the primary) objective of the new Republican Party.
And I'm sure you can cite a source that verifies that Hitler often...or even once...spoke/wrote of the inspiration provided by this chapter of American history.
If you can't, then why not just go ahead and admit that it was a way to use American wrongdoings that may...or may not have...inspired Hitler to include a slam at the Republican Party of 160 years ago. A party...As is often said about the Democratic Party...is quiet a bit different than the party today.
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