AMERICAN NAZI PAST

I use Libraries a lot. One of my favourite area's is or was in the old newspaper files. At one time we used to be able to go to a Library and have access to fich's from newspapers going back quite aways. Not any more as the Israeli newspapers have put a stop to that. I can understand why. Too many skelitons in the closet. Not too many years back I was up at the UNIVERSITY OF B.C. doing some research in the map room when I was pleasantly surprised to see lovely, red bound, huge binders of old newspapers from the US. I immediatly went to the years between 1938 to 1941. I was puzzled at first with what immediatly caught my attention. Not the news, but the pictures! What was this I was looking at? Nazi's in parades! Brown shirts marching in 4th of July parades in New York! Well, I thought, of course this was before the war and we must remember that the US had a very large population of Germans. They came over to fight for England during the American Revolution and many of them stayed. Then there were the ones that came over after the 1st world war. And of course they would still have a connection to their homeland.

Considering this I went to a later date after England and Canada had declared war on Nazi Germany. I saw the same thing in all of the huge folio's up until Dec. 7th,1941. The parades were photographed from one side of America to the other. In every parade across America I saw brown shirts marching with their Nazi uniforms and flags and people cheering them. It didn't matter what holiday they were celibrating they were in these parades.

To say that I was shocked to discover this was an understatement. For days I pondered on this anomoly. Then I thought back to a book I had at one time that had been banned in both the US and Canada called "High Treason". It was a shocking book written during the war that exposed America's treatment of Jews trying to escape the holacost. Ships that brought thousands of them to our shores were denied entrance and sat off the coast, while the people on board slowly starved for food. One of these ships contained children.

Then I thought of all the men who were in those parades! Were they in the armies that went overseas to fight agains't the regime they paraded for? Worked in the factories? Or manned the ships that sat off the coast of the States like sitting ducks, back lit by the lights of the city, as U-boats sunk them? Did they die on the beaches of Normandy? On D-Day?

When I started reading of how the US had brought over German Scientists to work on the Atom Bomb and brought over many of the top brass and their families I understood the connection. I felt a deep sense of betrayel of the families that lost sons and daughters to that war. And now I see the betrayel of the present day of the sons of those same Nazi's who are now undermining America Under the Bush regime.