Zone1 Hitler offended by FDR's racism

[Polishprince]

Literature he distributed to African American GI's shows how upset the German Fuhrer was with Roosevelt's hatred of black people during WW2.

Mr. Hitler pointed out to black guys how much better their lives would be under national socialism as opposed to Rooseveltian Liberalism.

Considering the fact that WW2 was fought as a crusade against racism, this is really telling when America's main adversary was pointing out our own leader's hypocrisy.

German Leaflet for Black American Soldiers

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[TroglocratsRdumb]

The Dems will never admit that FDR was a racist.
They would have to erase him from the history books, teardown all of his statues and remove him from the dime.

 

[White 6]

Literature he distributed to African American GI's shows how upset the German Fuhrer was with Roosevelt's hatred of black people during WW2.

Mr. Hitler pointed out to black guys how much better their lives would be under national socialism as opposed to Rooseveltian Liberalism.

Considering the fact that WW2 was fought as a crusade against racism, this is really telling when America's main adversary was pointing out our own leader's hypocrisy.

German Leaflet for Black American Soldiers

A digital tool for studying the Holocaust through unique, original sources.

perspectives.ushmm.org

You are bringing Hitler's propaganda war targeting black soldiers to the board, the man who slaughtered millions of Jews, so now you want to see if you can get any mileage, trolling a long dead FDR and present United States is general?

 

[Muhammed]

Considering the fact that WW2 was fought as a crusade against racism

Could you explain how you came to that ridiculous conclusion?

 

[Friends]

Franklin Roosevelt had the sense to keep civil rights legislation off of the New Deal agenda. The New Deal was popular among Southern whites, and working class whites. When the Democrats adopted the civil rights movement most Southern whites and working class began to vote Republican. The Republican Party came to dominate the United States. To a large extent it continues to. Loyalties of race, nation, and ethnicity are stronger than loyalties of race. Most whites do not trust the Democrats on the issues of race, crime, and immigration, so they vote Republican, even though the Democrat Party comes closer to protecting most of their economic interests.

 

[Polishprince]

Franklin Roosevelt had the sense to keep civil rights legislation off of the New Deal agenda. The New Deal was popular among Southern whites, and working class whites. When the Democrats adopted the civil rights movement most Southern whites and working class began to vote Republican. The Republican Party came to dominate the United States. To a large extent it continues to. Loyalties of race, nation, and ethnicity are stronger than loyalties of race. Most whites do not trust the Democrats on the issues of race, crime, and immigration, so they vote Republican, even though the Democrat Party comes closer to protecting most of their economic interests.

The problem is that because of FDR's Racism, Americans were forced to serve in a Jim Crow military during WW2.

It would have been simple just to order the integration of the military services, particularly as millions of non-career people were being drafted.

My father served in WW2 and was discharged in September 1945, and never saw any black people when he was in. I know about the Tuskegee airmen, but they weren't a large group and many never saw them. Ditto for the black GI's who built the big highway in Alaska.

As a result, the black guys really didn't get much respect after the war, because the people didn't see them.

 

[TheParser]

The problem is that because of FDR's Racism, Americans were forced to serve in a Jim Crow military during WW2.

It would have been simple just to order the integration of the military services, particularly as millions of non-career people were being drafted.

My father served in WW2 and was discharged in September 1945, and never saw any black people when he was in. I know about the Tuskegee airmen, but they weren't a large group and many never saw them. Ditto for the black GI's who built the big highway in Alaska.

As a result, the black guys really didn't get much respect after the war, because the people didn't see them.

A very serious topic.

Some people that have no animosity toward African Americans feel that the esprit de corps of the Caucasian airmen, soldiers, and sailors was due to the fact they were fighting (and dying) with people who shared their culture.

Most African Americans are fine people, but they do have a distinct culture.

Mixing the two cultures would have shattered the cohesion of the armed forces.


(Hear tell, for example, that in the Vietnam War, there was a lot of unpleasantness between the two groups.)


(It is interesting that President Truman insisted -- against the advice of many leaders -- to integrate the armed forces. I have just read that he was a person of his time. That is, he regularly supposedly used you know what word when referring to African Americans. Oh, he also reportedly held most Asians in contempt!)

 

[Friends]

The problem is that because of FDR's Racism, Americans were forced to serve in a Jim Crow military during WW2.

It would have been simple just to order the integration of the military services, particularly as millions of non-career people were being drafted.

My father served in WW2 and was discharged in September 1945, and never saw any black people when he was in. I know about the Tuskegee airmen, but they weren't a large group and many never saw them. Ditto for the black GI's who built the big highway in Alaska.

As a result, the black guys really didn't get much respect after the war, because the people didn't see them.

I have talked to whites who served with blacks in the military. The experience left them with a bad opinion of blacks. Generally speaking any experience with lots of blacks, whether in the military, school, living in the same neighborhoods, or working with them seems to leave a bad impression.

If proximity with Negroes dispelled prejudice, Southern whites would be the least prejudiced whites in the United States.