My mom, fiance and I were talking about how people were protesting and she said it reminded her of the way that people protested before WWII. I said, Oh, you mean Vietnam, not the WWII right? And she said, No, well then too, but she told me that there were people protesting fighting Hitler or helping the Jews and Europe during WWII, and that a lot of the people doing it now sounded like they did back then. My mom is 81.
I had no known there was much protest before WWII, so this was interesting...
Any one you know more about this?
2007-10-12 03:51:57 · 10 answers · asked by inzaratha 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
My mom worked two jobs back then and volunteered about the USO so she was not protesting, I don't want anyone to get any wrong ideas!
2007-10-12 03:53:15 · update #1
*there* typo
2007-10-12 03:54:01 · update #2
The difference being between then and now, MOST of the protestors were jailed as sympathizers. The Nazi Bund parties were constantly under surveillance and subject to raids and imprisonment.
THAT'S what needs to be done today. We can get nothing DONE, because of some jerk-wad protesting and saying how we shouldn't be doing what we are doing.
They said it 60 years ago too. If we hadn't, the world WOULD be speaking German.
Now, we are dangerous close to a world that will be speaking arabic. Whichever dialect the terrorists may be.
If you're not willing to help get the dirty jobs done; get OUT of the way and let someone with the guts to do it.
God bless the WWII generation. We need them all back and about 21 years old. They could put the world right again.
2007-10-12 04:04:47 · answer #1 · answered by Quietman40 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is true.
First off in all fairness the whole Jewish issue was only rumours until the end of the war and they saw it first hand.
Secondly, the way to solve problems is not always kill more innocent people and dig more graves. In war more innocence are killed then combatant's.
You have to even understand that there are some of us who will always be against war. Fortunately my father did not go but those who did saw things that were terrible.
Even the allies killed in one three night raid on Dresden 100,000 women and children in fire bombing so terrible it was pulling babies out of mothers arms 10 miles from the heat.
The war was almost over and they chose to do this to two German towns. Then the worst part is the pictures of piled bodies was put up at the holocaust museum. Later taken down when it was shown to be German bodies not Jews.
wars are created and have repercussions that never end.
If rich Americans, like George Bushes grandfather, had not financed tie Nazi party they would never had made it to the top. And don't tell me it is not true the documentation is all over the place and open. Even Henry Ford was pro nazi.
2007-10-12 11:02:22 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the things the answers above say are essentially true. Overall WW2 was popular as wars go, but there were protesters for a variety of reasons: isolationism, antisemitism, etc. It is also important to note that many people did not believe the horror stories coming from overseas since they were told all sorts of tales during WW 1 about Germans bayoneting babies, etc, which pretty much turned out to be untrue.
The American people felt like they had been had and they didn't want to be had again. Pearl Harbor changed all that.
2007-10-12 11:01:51 · answer #3 · answered by geniepiper 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most of the country was isolationist, especially Republicans, and opposed the US entering the war before Pearl Harbor. Since Roosevelt was involving us with lend lease and building up the military people felt he was leading us to war and there were protest. I think that after Pearl Harbor public demonstrations stopped but some people believed that Roosevelt knew the attacked was planed or set it up to gain support for his war plans, much like the conspiracy theories that circulate around Bush and 9/11.
2007-10-12 11:45:56 · answer #4 · answered by meg 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well yeah, we were not the superpower we are today and noone wanted to get involved. It wasn't affecting us directly and we had already been through WWI fairly recently. It wasn't until that war that the US really showed what we were capable of militarily.
I'm sure there were people protesting WWI, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the Revolutionary War... It's all cyclical. War is war is war.
2007-10-12 10:57:41 · answer #5 · answered by LB 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There were a number of cultures and religious groups that stood strong for the U.S. not getting involved in wars over seas, let alone ANY wars.
Keep in mind, a number of theses people later volunteered as medics and corpsman over seas during the war -- appreciating the value of stopping fascism, but keeping to their beliefs of the sanctity of human life.
2007-10-12 10:57:40 · answer #6 · answered by Andy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most of them were Leftists who were against us going after Hitler because he was allied with communist Stalin. Once Hitler turned on the communists many of them joined the fight.
2007-10-12 10:58:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
not only that there was an american nazi party which had their own newspapers! AND they still exist and have a website (below) nuts aint it? the other website is a story of nazi sympathizers during WWII. Tell your mom thanks for her support!
2007-10-12 10:58:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Back then america was more of a isolationist country that why. Too bad we stick our nose in everyones business now adays.
2007-10-12 10:55:05 · answer #9 · answered by Kirk Neel 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes
2007-10-12 10:53:38 · answer #10 · answered by luke 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋