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by seadan83 575 days ago
More akin to WWII.. not vietnam. The US was reluctant to join, and was home to millions who were quite happy with Hitler. [1][2]

"In 1940, a group of Yale University students founded the America First Committee to oppose US intervention in the European war." [1]

"In its various expressions, the pro-Nazi stance during those years was mostly focused not on creating an active military alliance with Germany or bringing the U.S. under Nazi control (something Hitler himself thought wouldn’t be possible) but rather on keeping the U.S. out of war in Europe." [2]

[1] https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/ma...

[2] https://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book/

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I wonder what all those pro-Hitler Americans had to say in the years and decades after WWII.
"Hitler was fighting American expansionism".