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To: laconic
What Lindbergh did in 1937 wasn't right, but he was joined in his initial positive comments on Hitler by none other than Winston Churchill.

Funny how you folks try to erase the sh*t from Lindbergh's record by citing others who were, supposedly, worse or as bad. See, it deosn't work. Ol' NB there tried to drag in Truman, you're trying to drag in Churchill. None of them actually tried to build a nazi organization in America. None of them worked actively on Hitler's behalf either, but Lindbergh most certainly did.

Lindbergh actively supported the war effort by flying more than 60 combat missions in the Pacific

After he was excluded from the air force he flew civilian missions as test pilot, which sometimes landed him in combat. True. But note well his biographer's take on why he was willing to take arms against the Japanes:

What, one might have wondered at the time, would be the catalyst to spur the reluctant aviator into war? A hint, says Cole, may lie in his declaration that America's "bond with Europe is a bond of race and not of political ideology," and that "The average intellectual superiority of the white race...is countered by the sensate superiority of the black race." Thus, he added, if the white race were "ever seriously threatened, it may then be time for us to take our part in its protection, to fight side by side with the English, French and Germans, but not with one against the other for our mutual destruction."

he also tendered intelligence on the Luftwaffe to the US Army

But not as a spy. As an official observer sent to germany to inspect the Luftwaffe, all open and above board, with the Germans full cooperation. He even was given opportunity to fly most of their planes.

And the "intelligence" he tendered? It seems to have been strictly to the tune of "do not even think of tackling the Germans". If fact, he was a German "agent of influence", and it's perfectly obvious from Göbbels's diary that this was in collusion with the Germans.

So, Fonda and Brown. You seem to think that that these two critters are bad redeems the nazis. What brainrot.

38 posted on 08/04/2003 7:09:08 PM PDT by Cachelot (~ In waters near you ~)
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To: Cachelot
Lindbergh "built a nazi organization in America?" I've never heard the wildest kook make that charge. Also, I see you made reference to some possible exoneration of the Hauptman creep in the baby's kidnapping; ain't gonna happen, he was guilty as sin and got exactly what he deserved. Also interesting how Col. Lindbergh, who publicly regretted his visit to Nazi Germany, is still roasted over the coals while there is dead silence over the widespread support, even adulation, in Hollywood and the media for Joe Stalin, despite his deliberate campaign of starvation against 12 million Ukrainians and his murder of tens of millions of Russians.
39 posted on 08/04/2003 7:21:08 PM PDT by laconic
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