More Americans Supported Hitler Than You May Think. Here's Why One Expert Thinks That History Isn't Better Known
Lily Rothman
TimeOctober 4, 2018, 11:00 AM CDT
https://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book/
"It was also possible for those who had participated in Nazi-sympathetic groups to later cloak their beliefs in the Cold War’s anti-communist push — a dynamic that had in fact driven some of them to fascism in the first place, as it seemed “tougher on communism than democracy is,” as Hart puts it. (One survey he cites found that in 1938, more Americans thought that communism was worse than fascism than vice versa.) Such people could truthfully insist that they’d always been anti-communist without revealing that they’d been fascists, and their fellow Americans were still so worried about communism that they might not press the matter."