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Their editorial board would have known better. But, I wonder how many Americans have any idea at all about how many Nazi sympathizers there were in the United States prior to World War 2, who they were and how much influence they had. The world would be a much, much different, place if Hitler had won that war, it is conceivable that the Jewish population of the world would have been completely wiped out, along with a lot of others. There were a lot of Americans who sympathized with him, and who helped all through the war and Lindbergh was one of them.

The ignorance of history is one of the reasons we are now seeing yet another movement of hatred sweep across this country. There are a lot of Americans who despise Western Europeans because they are "liberal and woke," but they fail to realize what it has taken to break down those barriers of racism, bigotry and hatred and achieve a level of recognition of human dignity and equality. It took literally bombing and burning Germany to the ground, the literal destruction of an entire country, on a massive, incomprehensible scale, something about which most Americans have no idea at all, to burn the inhumane evil of Nazism out of the country. It still rears its ugly head there from time to time.

But I'm afraid that we are heading to the destruction of this country by our lack of understanding of history, and things like this, along with what appears to be a mirror image of the same kind of prejudice, bigotry and hatred pushing itself into our politics, are moving us down that road.