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A 5 page paper that focuses on Charles A. Lindbergh's anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi views as expressed in his 1941 America First rally speech and the repercussions these views had on the aviator's life. Included is a discussion of Lindbergh's secret aerial combat missions during World War II as well as the eventual return of respect and admiration he was able to achieve in the years following the war. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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a speech at a movement rally in Des Moines, Iowa. This speaker claimed that the Jewish people, along with the Roosevelt Administration and the British government, were together mounting
a campaign that was "pressing this country toward war" (Lindbergh PG; Frankel, Arias & Francis 157). He claimed that America should refrain from joining forces against the country of
Germany, because the destruction of this country would leave the world open to the expansion of Soviet rule (157). As Hitler and his Third Reich stormed across the face
of Europe and began the mass atrocities that eventually became known as the Holocaust, this isolationist speaker spoke of American Jews as "other" people whose interests were "not American" and
implied that they were in the process of "undermining the very foundation of the United States" (Lindbergh PG; Seymour B09). This shocking speech, labeled by Republican Wendell Willkie as "the
most un-American talk in my time" was not just the ramblings of an ordinary anti-war soapbox orator (PG; Frankel, Arias & Francis 157). On the contrary, these seemingly pro-Nazi
and anti-Semitic words were spoken by one of the United States most endearing and beloved heroes, Americas sweetheart of aviation, Charles A. Lindbergh. This was the man that over
4 million Americans had thronged the streets of Manhattan to see and used an estimated 7,430,000 feet of newsreel to record just a short 14 years before, in 1927, when
he completed his 33 1/2 hour solo Trans-Atlantic flight (Tanenhaus PG; Seymour B09). This was the man whose grief the nation had shared just 9 years prior, in 1932,
when his firstborn son had been abducted and murdered (Frankel, Arias & Francis 157). This was the man, nicknamed the "Lone Eagle" by an adoring press, who through his
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