Did the Republicans side with the Germans and the Japanese during World War Two?

[Joanne98]

Because they're siding with them NOW! Maybe they were secretly working for Hitler during the "Big One".

Should we have congressional HEARINGS? Should we investigate the secret connection between the Republicans and the NAZIS and the FASCISTS?

Is there a FOURTH REICH? Is it located in Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky?

If you think Congress should have "WHY ARE THE REPUBLICANS TRAITORS?" hearings...

REC THIS THREAD!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Grandpappy Bush did.

:shrug:

[Mist]

3. Yes, Hitler was popular with some conservative businessmen. nt

[rurallib]

2. didn't a lot of American businesses help bankroll Hitler?

not the least of which was granpappy Bush?

[old mark]

4. Actually, the republicans were isolationists before WWII, and were

very much against helping the British and ther allies against the Germans and Japanese. Republicans were against the Lend-Lease program of "loaning" war materiel to Britian and (especially) The Soviet Union. Many republicans were in favor of letting the Nazi armies bleed the Soviet Armies completely to death so they could not threaten us after WWII.
Republicans were against allowing boatloads of European Jews to land in the US after they had managed to escapr from Nazi overrun Europe. They claimed the reports of death camps were lies fabricated by Jewish organizations to get more Jews into the USA for whatever reason.

Republicans were againse the incorporation of Black troops into combat units, especially specialized and skilled units such as tank/armor and avaition units. They managed to keep the Black soldiers fighting in seperate units, mostly comanded by white officers, till Truman ended segregation in the US Armed Porces after the war.FWIW, all Black combat units served proudly and distinguished themselves many times when they finally were allowed to fight.

Were they "officially" allied with the Facists? I couldn't say.
Were they Facists in reality and in practice? No doubt about it.

mark

[Joanne98]

10. Well, maybe they were against helping the British, because they were secretly

helping the enemy. Now that they have openly tried to destroy America, it sounds like they did. Yep. We need hearings!

[GoesTo11]

5. Business leaders plotted to overthrow Roosevelt to install Fascism here

Read all about it.

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

[PDJane]

6. Yes, and US businesses made large amounts of cash

supplying the third Reich with things like computers to keep track of the inmates of places like Aushwitz.

In point of fact, eugenics was an American export to Germany, not the other way around. (see USA Today, among others http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-09-14-book-usat_x.htm )

[Mist]

7. Not to mention, how the hell did Hitler build up Germany's tank divisions and

air force during a world-wide depression, and, in Germany's case, having come through the currency inflation post-WW1?

[old mark]

11. A lot of large US corporations had subsidieries in Germany - Chemical companies,

engineering companies, oil and weapons companies.
Then the Bush family conections, German investments in the US markets.

A lot of this trade continued via neutral countries throughout the war.

mark

[Phred42]

8. A group of them in fact even attempted a COUP against FDR

Bush, Dupont, and others

Do a little research on Smedley Butler

[Joanne98]

9. Did the Republicans cheer when our troops died on the fields of Europe?

Are they still agents actively spying for the Axis powers? Should they be THROWN OUT OF THE MILITARY AND POLICE FORCES?