“…When World War II ended, over ten thousand Nazi war criminals were estimated to have come to America. Dozens came through Operation Paperclip, which brought top scientists to America, including Wernher Von Braun, who later helped NASA develop the Saturn V rocket, which took us to the moon. Others arrived through more normal immigration systems like the Displaced Persons Acts or the Refugee Relief Act. America often knew these were war criminals they were letting in. The Immigration and Naturalization Service called on them, verified who they were, and then did nothing. Nazis that came to America linked up with the Nazis already here. They kept to themselves, seldom intermarrying because they thought almost everyone else inferior. Their children were raised by Nazis; what did we think they would become when they grew up?
The Klan and the Nazis mostly got along, but weren’t best buddies. The Klan occasionally reached out to the Nazis, but the Nazis thought of the KKK as idiots and kept their distance. The Klan supported going to war against Germany in WWII. They did have several enemies in common, including Jews, Black people, and communists. Another common foe that got them to join forces was the U.S. Government. The Civil Rights Movement and government efforts that ended segregation and empowered Black voters were too much. Then there were disgruntled vets, unappreciated on their return from Vietnam. In 1979, for the first recorded time, they killed together in the Greensboro Massacre, riding in a caravan of vehicles (in separate cars) and shooting up an anti-Klan demonstration, killing four. What happened then was a precursor to seeing Confederate and Nazi flags together in Charlottesville, VA, in 2017…”