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To: Willie Green
Charles Lindburgh was a Nazi sympathizer. That's well known. He was given prizes by the Nazis. They admired him, and he returned the favor.

This was all long before WWII or the Holocaust, so I am not saying that he was a traitor or that he admired the Nazis for killing Jews.

When the Nazis got started, their big thing was that they were anti-Communist. And in fact they killed a lot of Communists, as well as Socialists and trade unionists.
128 posted on 03/20/2004 7:38:05 PM PST by CobaltBlue
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To: CobaltBlue; Luis Gonzalez
Charles Lindburgh was a Nazi sympathizer. That's well known.

No he wasn't. That's the smear.
Charles Lindbergh was a member of the America First Committee.
The AFC was founded at Yale Law School by four students: Bob Stuart, Eugene Locke, Potter Stewart and Gerald R. Ford. The first two would become U.S. ambassadors; Stewart, a Supreme Court justice; and Ford, a president.

In its statement of principles, the AFC declared that it stood for "an impregnable defense" and believed "American Democracy can best be preserved only by keeping out of the European War." It was open to all EXCEPT "Nazists, Fascists, Communists or members of other groups that place the interests of any other nation above those of our own country." Its patriotism was unpartitioned and undiluted.

He was given prizes by the Nazis. They admired him,

Everybody gave Lindbergh prizes and admired him.
His solo transatlantic flight made him the most famous person on the face of the planet.
He was more popular than Neil Armstrong, Elvis and the Beatles all wrapped up into one.

and he returned the favor.

Nah. He only admired their state-of-the-art military aviation technology.
And why wouldn't he?
Sheeeesh. The socialists in FDR's New Deal had scuttled our military spending and our military aviation capability wasn't worth crap.
That's why FDR's socialists DESPISED and smeared Lindbergh: he was an America First! CONSERVATIVE.

Louie, I think it's absolutely hilarious that, in your previous post, Mary Mostert would spin this smear against Lindbergh to highlight the hypocrisy of today's left-wing 'Rats. The trouble with you is that you don't know your left from your right in American politics. Or perhaps it's because you're actually a marxist yourself that you'd swallow this smear against Lindbergh hook, line and sinker.

130 posted on 03/20/2004 8:24:38 PM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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