• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    9 months ago

    I ran across this yesterday in a book I was reading. From spring 1940:

    “Sentiment for going to war with Germany has increased since the Nazi invasion,” Dr. George Gallup, the nation’s best-known pollster, wrote while British warships were still ferrying retreating Allied troops off the Continent, “but the increase has been less than four percent. A nation-wide survey just completed finds the country still more than 13 to 1 against American entrance into the conflict.”

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      9 months ago

      So, what you’re saying is, Americans whitewashed literal Hitler because they thought “maybe both sides are the same?”