It wasn't Nazi sympathizers, every US veteran I've met who served in WWII who served in Europe said it. It's a concise if harsh summation of what went on. It can't compare with the blanket statement above -- that the entire US armed forces was made up of racists, so up yours.
I hardly blame the UK for fighting as little as possible and letting the Germans punch themselves out in the USSR, while constantly insisting on sideshows that were low priority for Hitler but just by coincidence of strategic importance to the UK after the war. World War 1 had been monstrously costly in terms of human life on the allied side in the west, about 2.5 times worse than that endured by the Central Powers. Had Germany suffered equal losses, there wouldn't have been a second WW. The rapid collapse of France in 1940 is often attributed to that previous lost generation.
In 1940 the British were losing the Pacific to the Japanese, enduring the terror bombing by the Luftwaffe, and the US didn't get pulled into the war (despite FDR's best efforts) until late in 1941. Earlier in 1941 the industrial output of the US was rising, and the US was laying keel and pushing every kind of needed item that could be moved by sea to the UK, almost 3000 purpose-built cargo ships.
You are clearly no fool, yet come out with comments like fighting as little as possible. You know the history, so you know comments like that are nonsense.
“The rapid collapse of France in 1940 is often attributed to that previous lost generation.”
France still had plenty of people, but few that believed Hitler was worse than Stalin. The atrocities in Ukraine and Spain were known by the time WWII started, and French Catholics saw little reason to oppose the only people who were vehemently anti-communist: Germany.
“It can’t compare with the blanket statement above — that the entire US armed forces was made up of racists”
I made no such statement. I posted an article and I did so specifically without comment.
So, with respect, up yours too.
America’s official entry into the European Theatre was Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa in November of 1942.
Germany was trying to destroy our aid to Britain early in 1942 with their Operation Drumbeat, a massacre by their U Boats of our shipping which was at its height in February, but was practically over by July when we finally got our act together and started using convoys.
The lend lease program was Roosevelt’s way of aiding Britain before we officially got into the act.