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In reply to the discussion: Why Were 10,000 Nazis Given Safe Haven in US? Kinda creepy, where are they now? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)52. A lot of NAZI Party members really were NAZIs.
And their ideas are still alive and well in our current Republican Party.
On edit, but if you were 20 in 1940, you were born in 1920. That makes you 92 at this time. Pretty harmless. But those you influenced are still around.
Some of our nation's excessive paranoia may be due to the influence of NAZIs like Reinhard Gehlen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Gehlen
Only history will tell for sure just what his role was in providing us information and informing our ideas about Eastern Europe after WWII.
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Why Were 10,000 Nazis Given Safe Haven in US? Kinda creepy, where are they now? [View all]
No Compromise
Jan 2013
OP
probuably in that tbey were members of the party though that may have been to avoid being killed
loli phabay
Jan 2013
#4
you act like everyone who joined the party was coerced. not the case. and the moral case
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#15
We've known about Operation Paperclip for over 40 years, and they're still covering up the details?
leveymg
Jan 2013
#8
What do you know of Wernher von Braun and his team of scientists, or the Gehlen Group?....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#16
Yes, very staunch in their beliefs and politics. Still very much "Master Race" ideology.
Fla Dem
Jan 2013
#46
Sorry - I forget that having a family member in the National Archives has advantages
OmahaBlueDog
Jan 2013
#33
Weirner Von Braun brought his people over to work on missles for the U.S. Nazi propagandist
ladjf
Jan 2013
#28
Transnational "Security Specialists" in service to Multinational Corporate Overlords. ~nt
99th_Monkey
Jan 2013
#29
Well, personally I'm glad Werner von Braun worked for us instead of Stalin (nt)
Recursion
Jan 2013
#38
why? cuz we didn't want the Soviets to get them when they swooped into Germany
librechik
Jan 2013
#51