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.
What's truly hysterical is your defense of a known, self-admitted Nazi sympathizer Willie.
"He only admired their state-of-the-art military aviation technology."
No Willie, he wanted the US to ally itself with Hitler's Germany, and despised Great Britain.
(photo taken at a 1941 America First rally - Burton K Wheeler next to Charles Lindbergh)
"There is only one danger in the world-that is the yellow danger. China and Japan are really bound together against the white race. There could only have been one efficient weapon against this alliance.... Germany.... the ideal setup would have been to have had Germany take over Poland and Russia, in collaboration with the British, as a bloc against the yellow people and Bolshevism. But instead, the British and the fools in Washington had to interfere. The British envied the Germans and wanted to rule the world forever. Britain is the real cause of all the trouble in the world today." -- Charles Lindbergh, December 17, 1941 (ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor)
Willie's other "heroes" include Henry Ford, author of The International Jew, The World's Foremost Problem, and Patrick J. Buchanan, America's best known Hitler apologist.
Willie quotes Karl Marx's attack on the western economic models, and believes the Herbert Matthews-New York Times version if Fidel Castro's proletariat revolution and how the evils of American Imperialism brought Castro to power, as he demonstrates all over this thread.