The campaign to revise Hitler’s reputation has gone on for 50 years, but there’s another strategy now. Some of it is built on the work of the head of the Gestapo—who may have enjoyed a comfortable retirement in America.
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A five-day uprising by Irish immigrants in New York was ostensibly against the draft, but was in fact a chance for Irish mobs to attack and murder as many black people as possible.
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A nationwide genetic-purity movement promoted methods that eventually were adopted by the Third Reich. And everyone from John D. Rockefeller to W. E. B. Du Bois supported it.
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