History: How Nazis Tried to Steer U.S. Politics

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https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/23/us/how-nazis-tried-to-steer-us-politics.html


One day in June 1940, with much of Europe under the Nazi boot and Britain ready to fight to the death, a German diplomat in Washington wired Berlin on how to keep the United States out of the war by giving money to American politicians.


So, Mr. Thomsen said, ''a well-camouflaged lightning propaganda campaign might well prove useful'' at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia two weeks later. He asked Berlin for $3,000 to help a Republican Congressman take about 50 isolationist members of his party to Philadelphia to push for an antiwar platform.


On June 25, 1940, during the Republican Convention, full-page newspaper advertisements urged delegates to adopt an antiwar platform. The advertisements were sponsored by the National Committee to Keep America Out of Foreign Wars, whose chairman was Representative Hamilton Fish, a Republican from upstate New York who detested Roosevelt personally and politically.

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1. Republicans. Of course.

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2. There were also isolationist Democrats

But they had very little influence. A key part of the Nazi strategy was to undermine FDR by getting a pro-isolationist Republican Party in control of the House.

Putin has gone far beyond the Nazi meddling and has funneled considerable funding to the GOP through the NRA, social media, and other schemes to tilt power to Russia-friendly politicians.