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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere Were American Nazi Summer Camps Across the US in the 1930s
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(15,041 posts)Jewry and the threat posed by the Comintern, the Communist International. Nazism could hardly contain itself within restrictive borders when its very raison d'être was an international struggle against worldwide threats.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Same fruit of the poison tree.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)1939
(1,683 posts)Hitler and Mussolini were minor league compared to Stalin and Mao (or was it a function of Stalin and Mao having more opportunity).
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Depending on which camp you were talking about and what year it was.
1939
(1,683 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)to people being fired from their jobs for saying politically incorrect things?
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Nordland
interestingly its collapse set precedent for the purge of the CPUSA
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)The Irish remained neutral in WWII and were somewhat helpful to the Nazis. Basically because they hated the English.
The Fascists were also good at making the argument that theirs was a Catholic (e.g., Hitler and most Italians) vs. Protestant thing.
Archae
(46,354 posts)Their Father said flat out no.
He wanted nothing to do with Hitler.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)And grew up in Brooklyn. In 1935 my great-grandmother tried to get my mom to join one of the hilter youth organizations here in the U.S. Fortunately, in typical Brooklyn fashion, both my grandparents told my great-grandmother to take a hike.
on edit: the irony is: my great-grandmother was Jewish.
ProfessorGAC
(65,208 posts). . .that in america one is allowed to hold extreme and unpopular opinions? For better or worse, we don't stop people from believing in what they want to believe, no matter how loony or unpopular it may be.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)It is scary how plausible it is that some Americans would embrass Nazism so completely.