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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Dec 2014
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      7. I won't belabor this by quoting similar pro-Nazi thoughts from Lindberg, Johnson, Percy, Henry Ford, etc. etc.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Dec 2014
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      8. MT @imillhiser a major selling point of fascism was fascist states were capable of action during a time of mass government failure

      3 replies 4 retweets 11 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Dec 2014
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      9. MT @imillhiser one reason why FDR was such an important figure. He proved that constitutional democracy wasn't incompatible with action.

      5 replies 6 retweets 20 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Dec 2014
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      10. Another factor is anti-communism, which we see in JFK's statement: "What are the evils of fascism compared to communism?”

      3 replies 4 retweets 5 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Dec 2014
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      11. Many of these figures who admired Nazi Germany's efficiency etc. also supported appeasement in late 1930s (i.e. Kennedy family).

      3 replies 5 retweets 2 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Dec 2014
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      12. Appeasement is wrongly seen as growing out of weakness & cowardness of West. But covert sympathy for Nazism was also a factor.

      4 replies 7 retweets 10 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Dec 2014
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      13. What we call appeasement should more properly be seen as a covert alliance: propping up Nazis as bulwark against communism.

      2 replies 13 retweets 17 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Dec 2014
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      14. As several people have mentioned, there are books on this topic, but it hasn't made much of an impression on popular views of WWII.

      3 replies 2 retweets 1 like
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Dec 2014
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      15. We're lucky that Hitler was such a stark raving land-grabbing monster, so western elites eventually realized they had to oppose him.

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    10. Jerry L Maine‏ @JerryLMaine 27 Dec 2014
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      @HeerJeet ummmm... Might want to check the chronology on that. We didn't enter WW2 until after Pearl Harbor. Not bc Nazis.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Dec 2014
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      @JerryLMaine but USA already moving to anti-Nazi position (support for UK and USSR).

      10:54 AM - 27 Dec 2014
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        2. Jerry L Maine‏ @JerryLMaine 27 Dec 2014
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          @HeerJeet still, I wonder if without our troops coming in time, if Hitler would have been spread too thin, or just won, remained elite hero.

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        3. Jerry L Maine‏ @JerryLMaine 27 Dec 2014
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          @HeerJeet Do our elites today not salivate at the idea of intervening the world over? Africa, Russia... And also Asia and South America.

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