To: Bommer
**Now that he's in France, maybe he can recreate his grandfathers Anti-Semetic and pro-NAZI stance as well. **
Do you have a source for this allegation?
To: homeschool mama
Bommer probably doesn't. Flamer: toss and run.
Some who knew Lindy's contemporaries say that Lindy was what we might now call an isolationist. At his time, many said out loud that we should keep our troops home and not send 'em to Europe again to die over there.
Thus, that era's crop of antagonistic divisiveness converted that to "oh, therefor you must be pro-nazi, therefor anti-semitic.
That's my opinion.
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05/02/2002 7:47:56 AM PDT by
AzJP
To: homeschool mama
Unfortunately, it's true. Lindbergh was an "America First" -er (isolationist) who made speeches against President Roosevelt and "the Jews" who were trying to drag us into World War II. He also visited Nazi Germany in the mid-Thirties, and made a number of statements praising the Nazi regime, including expressions of admiration for their racial and eugenics policies. To some extent, Lindbergh later redeemed himself by flying combat missions in the Pacific (as a civilian technical adviser, he had resigned his Army Air Corps Reserve commission in protest over Franklin Roosevelt's attempts to get us involved in WWII).
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