IBM, Disney, Bush: Nazis?

[jbor]

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>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>

> Very quickly, elaboration to follow, if, but, more
> likley, when, I get a chance.  Pre-war, at least,
> Disney was an admirer of sorts of Hitler's.  As were,
> as I recall, Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, Joseph
> Kennedy, to name some prominent names.

As were the government leaders of the U.S. and Britain (though not France or
Russia so much). Isn't this the point? Everyone was still doing business as
ususal with Nazi Germany right up until the evening before war was declared.
And the U.S. (and thus any corporation registered in the U.S.?), by virtue
of its neutrality, continued to (or, at least, theoretically could) do
business with Nazi Germany right up until Pearl Harbour in Dec '41. Or so it
might be argued. And even then it took an extra two days for them to declare
war on Germany and Italy after the declaration against Japan! Who knows, if
the Japanese *hadn't* bombed the U.S. Pacific Fleet -- and it was totally
unexpected and pretty dumb that they did -- the U.S. govt might *never* have
entered the European War at all, and then where would we be?

Labelling corporations and selected individuals as "admirers" of Hitler, or
"war criminals", in order to discredit their descendants and thereby promote
their descendants' opponents, is actually a distortion of the "historical
record" imo.

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