1. There's an essay, and maybe even book, to be written about prominent Americans who visited Nazi Germany & were impressed by what they saw
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2. I'm talking about people like John F. Kennedy, Walker Percy, Philip Johnson, James Laughlin, and Charles Lindberg.
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3. James Laughlin, arguably best American publisher ever, visited Germany in 1933.“Hitler is as perfect an idealist as he could be" he wrote
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4. "Fascism? The right thing for Germany. . . . What are the evils of fascism compared to communism?” JFK, age 20, during 1937 German trip
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5. JFK here was echoing the views of his awful father, but also broader American elite opinion of 1930s.
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6. Incoming Princeton freshman class of 1938 named Hitler as the figure they most admired in the world.
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@sreddi515 I'm assuming ones who voted for Hitler didn't vote for Einstein.
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