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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.bsky.social · 9 days
Something I think about a lot lately is how much Nazi support there actually was in the US and if things had gone slightly differently we would not have been calling ourselves the good guys of WWII
Avatar Jorge Caballero @datadrivenmd.social · 9 days
Posting this screenshot from the NYT archives for no particular reason
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Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 9 days
A fun historical fact is that the German-supported Nazi Party in New York was basically destroyed by Jewish-led organized crime groups. www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...
Gangsters vs. Nazis: How the Jewish Mob fought American admirers of the Third Reichwww.tabletmag.com Emboldened by Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in 1933, and fueled by the Great Depression, anti-Semitism increased throughout the United States, and over 100 anti-Semitic organizations sprung up acr...
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Melissa @melissagayle.bsky.social · 8 days
And in LA a Jewish-led spy ring took down the Nazis trying to infiltrate the movie business and murder Louis B. Mayer, William Wyler, and a bunch of other prominent Hollywood Jews while the FBI was focused on Communists. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Pulitzer Finalist ‘Hitler in Los Angeles’ Optioned by ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Producer (Exclusive)www.hollywoodreporter.com Chris Bremner is attached to adapt the true story of how an amateur spy ring foiled Nazi plots in Hollywood, including one to assassinate Charlie Chaplin and other stars.
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Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 8 days
Adding this to my reading list.
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Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 8 days
It's great! Changed my entire outlook and I started using those same techniques on local shitlords to great effect. Leon Lewis was a hero and it's awful watching Jonathan Greenblatt trample all over his proud legacy at the ADL
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Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 8 days
I have this crank theory my grandpa, a San Diego newspaper guy, was involved, but no real proof
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chrisincal.24 @chrisincal.bsky.social · 8 days
My grandpa, a Los Angeles newspaper guy (he had the franchise for delivering about 10k of those things daily in Ventura County, for 40 years. He put his five kids through college on that too.)