For those of us baby boomers, who grew up with dads (and a few moms) who fought in the European theater of World War II, or even those who fought in the Pacific, Nazis were always the unmentionables, the very embodiment of evil. Many of us had family who were in Nazi concentration camps themselves (I had a relative who survived Auschwitz) , or there were the survivors themselves,, telling the stories of being tortured and starved. In the immediate post-war period in the United States, there were very small numbers of Nazi supporters, but before and during the Second World War, the Hitler government recruited dedicated agents, including Senators and House representatives, to take over the United States government. In 2023, Rachel Maddow expanded on the research she did for the powerful podcast ULTRA, and published PREQUEL: AN AMERICAN FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM. Maddow had uncovered an amazing plot: the German government recruited such traitors as Philip Johnson- famous architect and socialite and Hamilton Fish III, a congressman from New York, as well as paid for Nazi summer camps and junior Nazi regiments- in places like Long Island. As soon as Hitler was defeated, these men suddenly were no longer Nazis : Philip Johnson became the head of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, and his Nazi collaboration went into hiding.
HITLER: TRUMP'S FAVE
HITLER: TRUMP'S FAVE
HITLER: TRUMP'S FAVE
For those of us baby boomers, who grew up with dads (and a few moms) who fought in the European theater of World War II, or even those who fought in the Pacific, Nazis were always the unmentionables, the very embodiment of evil. Many of us had family who were in Nazi concentration camps themselves (I had a relative who survived Auschwitz) , or there were the survivors themselves,, telling the stories of being tortured and starved. In the immediate post-war period in the United States, there were very small numbers of Nazi supporters, but before and during the Second World War, the Hitler government recruited dedicated agents, including Senators and House representatives, to take over the United States government. In 2023, Rachel Maddow expanded on the research she did for the powerful podcast ULTRA, and published PREQUEL: AN AMERICAN FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM. Maddow had uncovered an amazing plot: the German government recruited such traitors as Philip Johnson- famous architect and socialite and Hamilton Fish III, a congressman from New York, as well as paid for Nazi summer camps and junior Nazi regiments- in places like Long Island. As soon as Hitler was defeated, these men suddenly were no longer Nazis : Philip Johnson became the head of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, and his Nazi collaboration went into hiding.