Posted on 10/24/2020 11:56:55 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
During the final presidential debate Thursday night, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden claimed that the United States "had a good relationship with Hitler before he in fact invaded Europe."
Biden appeared to be attempting to make a larger point about President Trump's working relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, though in context it left many observers scratching their heads.
Biden appeared to be attempting to make a larger point about President Trump's working relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, though in context it left many observers scratching their heads.
Though public sentiment in pre-WWII America was strongly opposed to any entanglement in European affairs, particularly following the bloodbath of World War I, there was an overriding antipathy for Hitler and his Nazi party within the United States.
In September 1939, as Hitler began his assault across Europe, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt told the American people, "This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well." It was a thinly veiled acknowledgement of widespread national disdain for Germany and its leader.
Given these, and several other fairly well-established historical facts demonstrating America's consistent hostility towards Hitler's regime, it is not immediately clear, barring a clumsy attempt at humor, what "good relationship" the former vice president was referring to.
Don’t get me started about Easter Island....
All the democrats had to know how crazy Biden was. they needed him to pull in the bribe money for the party.
I bet every file on him in other countries describe him as a loon.
“Henry Ford had no problem whatsoever doing business with Nazi Germany. When the war began in 1939, Ford professed himself neutral, but his and his companys actions belie that claim. Before America joined the war, Ford had no problem supplying Germany with war materials, but declined to supply the British RAF with aircraft engines.
“Large American banks and George W. Bushs grandfather financed the Nazis.
“American manufacturing companies were big supporters of the Nazis.
“IBM put the blitz in blitzkrieg. The whole war effort was organized on Hollerith machines from 1933 to 1945. This is when information technology comes to warfare. At the same time, IBM was supporting the entire German war machine directly from New York until the fall of 1941 .
“There is a preponderance of evidence on the net.”
Excellent post. Brown Brothers Harriman (the Bushies and the Harrimans) was notorious.
There is a story that when Israel’s admission to the UN was coming up for a vote, Ben Gurion and his intelligence service people paid a visit to Nelson Rockefeller and showed him documentation that illustrated the cooperation that went on between the Rockefeller family and the Nazis.
The Israelis threatened to publish this information unless Rockefeller used his influence with Latin American countries (influence which was considerable at that time on account of Rockefeller investments there) to have them vote in favor of Israel’s admission.
Rockefeller used his influence and the Latin American countries voted “yes,” providing the necessary majority for Israel’s admission.
And, US oil companies had a cozy relationship with the Nazis. However, all this notwithstanding, we were also supplying all of Hitler's enemies with weapons and supplies long before we even entered the war.
The US commies were OK with Hitler, as long as the Ribbentrop/Molotov pact was in effect. They characterized Roosevelt as a war-monger.
Then, when Germany sent its troops into the USSR, the commies did a U-turn.
No we weren’t, however Time magazine did name Adolph Hitler their man of the year- Twice!
Both Ford-Koln (Cologne) and GM owned Opel built trucks for the German Military, although the German assets were put into a trust.
I believe so.
People in Berlin, NH changed the pronunciation of their town’s name to make it different from the capital of Germany.
I formerly owned a college history textbook that was published in 1939. In it Hitler was discussed with great optimism, in particular regarding what he was doing for the German people. At that point in history Hitler was not widely regarded as significantly more evil than many other figures of the day. In part, it was recognized what the French had done in vengeance after WWI was particularly unfair, and much of the information we possess today was unknown then or the events had not yet happened.
If you want to understand historical events, sources closer to the time can offer significant insight. Modern historians (using the term quite loosely) sometimes claim that the latest account of historical events will be more profound and insightful as it is further removed from the biases that existed at the time the events occurred, but IMO that is just a rationalization for the introduction of modern biases and agendas. I think the very existence of the 1619 and Lincoln Projects support my position on that.
Like a history textbook (for California state schools) published in 1888 would offer better information about "The War of Secession."
Amazing how quiet Easter Island has been since we nuked it, ending the Crimean War.
Still, we more or less had "normal" relations with Germany in the Thirties. Some people were aware of what was going on and angry about it, but most people had little idea what was happening and no idea of what was coming.
Hell, the Nazi’s were our best friends until they bombed Pearl Harbor!
It might. But one written in 1859 might give you better insight.
Since Godwin’s law has already been invoked, ...
Well, the Democrats of course provided the template for Adolf Hitler. They strongly espouse eugenics as a great advancement of science and, listening to the “scientists,” dispatched their terrorist organizations to oppress blacks, Catholics, and various other Americans who didn’t fit in the “white Anglo-Saxon Protestant” master race. State governments even forcibly sterilized numerous Americans and institutionalized others involuntarily. The Planned Parenthood organization launched a program to compel African-Americans to quit procreating new babies and even advocated for killing any babies conceived, especially black babies.
After the American army ended and revealed the horror of the Nazi Reich, these Democrat tactics did not change. They just changed their marketing slogans. Planned Parenthood to this very day aims to kill babies and principally kills black babies. Democrats spent much of this summer terrorizing American cities, killing and maiming police officers, and torching businesses. Many black Americans lost their lives, their families, their jobs, their businesses, their sense of security, and more as these terrorists rampaged through their neighborhoods and communities.
So perhaps Biden means that his faction of the Democrat party still endorses the destructive, lethal racist ideology that Adolf Hitler took to its logical conclusion. And who can disagree?
Maybe he was thinking of President Neville Chamberlain when he signed the peace agreement.....just before the Germans bombed Pearl’s Harbor.
It’s one of the reasons they want to destroy history - one less way to demonstrate how stupid they are. Neither can remember where the Hell they are - how can they remember something that happened over a week ago?
At least Chamberlain had the intellectual honesty and decency to admit he was wrong for trusting Shitler.
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