Obviously too many were "entranced" with Hitler and Nazism.
The article goes further, though. Take this part: After detailing previous difficulties to get access to Germany’s archives to do genealogy, Clark writes, “Now, due to the importance given to the racial question, and the almost necessity of proving that one’s grandmother was not a Jewess, the old record books have been dusted off and stand ready and waiting for use. No questions are asked. In fact some of the Saints instead of being refused by the pastors now have received letters of encouragement complimenting them for their patriotism.”
Obviously in 1933 it had not yet rose to the persecution of 1938 and then what followed with the holocaust in the years after. Yet this statement by the Mormon church was still racist (what they referenced as "the racial question.") Why would distinguishing the races to such an emphasis be deemed "patriotic" by the Mormon church.
No matter what you say about the current of the times, nobody was holding a gun to the Mormon church's head in 1933, forcing them either to make racist-claims-as- patriotism or even to run the propaganda piece at all!
I understand that. All I was saying was at the time in the 1930’s people were enamored of what was happening in Europe. This was before Germany had its concentration camps for Jews. I am not defending the LDS in this. All I’m saying is that was the way people saw Germany.
And we know how racism had been wiped out in all other faiths by 1933, so this is clearly an outrageous abberation by this apostate religion of mormonism.
Seriously, again, history is a fun topic and the author should study it some to understand context. Our own country had yet to go through it's civil rights period.