JFK admired Hitler

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Hitler would have been a pretty cool guy if he wasn't a genocidal racist who started a war.

Well, the "unnatural" liaison with a rather close female relative might be brought up. Plus the fact that he was a police spy when he joined the Nazi Party would make me not trust him so much.

 

[Border Reiver]

Let's be accurate - he was an army spy when he joined the Nazi party.

 

[Craig B]

Let's be accurate - he was an army spy when he joined the Nazi party.

No problem. Armies and small xenophobic groups who meet in bar cellars tend to get along just fine.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

Let's be accurate - he was an army spy when he joined the Nazi party.

I deny that JFK was an army spy when he joined the Nazi Party!

 

[Craig B]

I deny that JFK was an army spy when he joined the Nazi Party!

No 'cos he was in the Navy.

 

[MaGZ]

It is important to remember that the favorable impression that the Soviet Union was having on many in the US wasn't because of some self delusion process but because the US was in the midst of what seemed like the failure of the capitalist system and the Soviet Union was doing a very good job of controlling what information came out of the Soviet Union. Americans saw mostly bad national economic news in the morning paper and only good economic news from the USSR.

Part of the favorable reporting on the Soviet Union came from NYT reporter Walter Duranty. He essentially became a Soviet propagandist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty

 

[MaGZ]

JFK sent a contribution to the America First Committee saying “What you are doing is vital.”

http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=930&loc..

 

[MinnesotaBrant]

Wasn't fascism still a viable alternative back in JFK's day? Weren't we still hosing college students and negros? "(Yes I know the term negro. I think they were called something worse back in the 60's.)" It's impossible to judges someone from the 60's by today's terms. I am sure they will be judging us for our squandering of resources 50 years from now.

 

[Craig B]

Part of the favorable reporting on the Soviet Union came from NYT reporter Walter Duranty. He essentially became a Soviet propagandist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty

He did indeed, and a corrupt and mendacious one too. http://www.nytco.com/company/awards/statement.html

 

[paiute]

Part of the favorable reporting on the Soviet Union came from NYT reporter Walter Duranty. He essentially became a Soviet propagandist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty

Lulz from the link:

"In a New York Times article dated 23 August 1933, Duranty wrote, "Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda. The food shortage, however, which has affected the whole population in the last year and particularly in the grain-producing provinces—the Ukraine, North Caucasus, the Lower Volga—has, however, caused heavy loss of life."

So they did not have a famine - instead they had a food shortage with heavy loss of life.