Sadly there were Nazis in the US government before and during WW2.
The Dullas brothers are the prime examples. They spearheaded operation paperclip, which rescued Nazi scientists and moved them to the US.
The Dullas brothers are the reason why the US loved arming South American dictators from the 50s onward.
They also pulled a Japanese war criminal out of prison and put him in power in post war Japan.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We only caught German Nazis. In America, Nazis were in power or the heads of major corporations (See Henry Ford).
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And when we caught them, we brought them back to Hunstville, Alabama to make ICBMs for Eisenhower. The fascism was fine, just so long as it was deployed to kill the real enemy - Communists.
Assassassin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Shit, after operation paperclip it was pretty obvious that high level leadership didn’t have that much of an issue with Nazi ideology. It was true then, and it hasn’t become any less true as time has separated us from the atrocities they commited.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
That nostalgia filter though…