The view from 50,000 feet:

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11. Given how many Americans were NAZI sympathizers/enablers from Charles Lindberg through

a major proportion of Congress in the 1930s and onward, why stop there? The groups that tried to defeat Roosevelt and to assist Hitler in gaining a foothold in the US:
America First
German American Bund
Silver Legion
Christian Front

Al those groups and more were actively promoting and later worked to cover up the NAZI atrocities. They were Americans. Despicable as one can describe, yet NOTHING happened to them. Let us include them in a full accounting. So, many: Father Coughlin, Sen. Burton Wheeler (MT), Garland Alderman (violence-promoting leger of America First), Gerald Nye (ND), George Viereck, Sen. Ernest Lundeen, Leon Lewis, William Dudley Paley, Congressman Hamilton Fish III, and so many others.

I know of nothing any of those mentioned or the many others I have not--all Americans--did to atone, make amends, or do anything to obviate the damage and near loss of this country to Nazism and to Hitler.

They did not live in Germany at the time and thus were not FORCED to behave and act on behalf of Hitler as they did in this country. That is the main difference I see in them and the NASA-"founder," Werner von Braun. Perhaps his support for Nazism extended to promoting the Holocaust. If so, I would agree with you, but I would appreciate your directing me to that information.

Since you have made a comparison of my commentary and questions with re: Werner von Braun to Kubrick mocking him in Dr Strangelove, I would appreciate your responding to my inquiry. You state that "There were no apologies worth anything from him to the day he died." By that I assume you mean that he DID make apologies that you construe as self-serving and insincere. Perhaps so. Can you expand on that?

If you prefer to let your Canadian poster upstream who derided me (and most Americans) as "unbelievably stupid" and went on to attack others on this site for the election of Trump, then feel free not to answer, but I think the many years we have cordially interacted her together might warrant more than that. I do not believe I have ever been less than polite with you--even where we disagree. I'm not sure we even disagree at all now. I simply ask you to clarify and yes, politely educate me where appropriate.