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American Swastika/the Shocking Story of Nazi Collaborators in Our Midst from 1933 to the Present Day

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Hitler was a known evil for the world as early as 1922. Western powers and western corporations loved Hitler and were not at all disturbed by his vile racist hatreds. Every year that passes, there is more and more evidence of specific U.S. collaboration with Hitler and his Nazi underlings. Recently released documents demonstrate beyond any doubt that U.S. complicity post-WWII was far greater than anyone at first was willing to admit and now there can be no denial. Not only did the U.S. collaborate with Nazi racists and war criminals but also some of the most prominent and destructive medical experimenters ever known to humankind. The U.S. helped them escape Europe and hide in various places in the United States and South America. Higham's work is only limited by the documents then available, no doubt his works could be expanded a hundred fold today.

An excellent book, well researched ... but not very well written. Perhaps the reader needs more of a background in WWII and the various and sundry characters in order to follow them around (there are so many!); while I am more interested in the facts. And someone needs to tell this author that there is no such word as "ironical". How that got past editors and publishers I will never know!

Still, this book is important history for understanding the roots of why our government is so out of control today -- it started then. It continues and will remain until we, as citizens, begin to take some responsibility and hold them accountable for the "Democracy" they claim to be while exporting more of the same.

One of the many biases of this book is that it ignores the fact that during the early 1930's Hitler seemed to be yet another right wing kook, which Europe and Latin America were full of. There were hardly any liberal democracies in that age, so companies did deal with left wing and right wing dictators. Most American, British and French companies did stop dealing with him once it became obvious that he was worse than your average banana republic dictator.
As for the post W.W.2 "collaborations", the U.S. actively pursued Nazi war criminals. Only some rocket and nuclear scientist who had knowledge thought to be necessary to defeat Stalin (who killed nearly as many as Hitler) were employed.
Dated, paranoid book.