Joe Kennedy had great wealth when Hitler was still a private in the German army. He didn’t get his money from anything to do with the Nazis. He stole it all legitimately on Wall Street. He was a real SOB, but he was not a Nazi.
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I thought he got money running moonshine during Prohibition.
No. He was a multi millionaire before prohibition ever started. He was not a bootlegger. Didn’t have any part in it. But as prohibition was about to end, he negotiated a deal where he became the sole distributor for Scotch whiskey in the United States. There after when booze was legal again, he got a cut of every bottle of Scotch whiskey sold in the US.
Like I said before, he was a SOB, but he wasn’t a bootlegger or a NAZI.