I hate to change the subject, but reading that article makes me a little uneasy.
Two years ago when I was a film school student, my project received a considerable financial award, The Alfred P. Sloan Award, for it's accurate and engaging portrait of science and technology.
-- I never really thought about who Alfred Sloan was before. It's interesting to now find out that on some level, he was a Nazi sympthasizer..

So how am I supposed to feel about something like that?
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you guys certainly have a fasication with WWII read many posts on here about it.

I have posted on some but in general just gave up.

All you guys (of that time) lived so far away from any modern day war you have no real idea what it was all about nearest for you was Pearl Harbour but even then that's not to close.

You didn't have the doodle bug buzing in over head , ration books, gas mask

your streets demolished daily your neighbours houses demolished your kids sent out to the farms in the country. The siren howling and people rushing to the air rade shelters.

Apart from the papers, news and histroy you guys have no real idea what it is like. I mean living during a war in a war torn country I am not talking fighting.


For me my grandparents won WWII and my mother although she was only in her early teans but I always remember her stories of how they helped and tended to the polish soldiers.

So don't give me if it wasn't for America if it wasn't for a great many countries.


On the Normandy comments being rushed so that's why the deception of where we were going to attacked was put in to plan months before we attacked.

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I don't really know how you should feel about it. Obviously your film was good and someone appreciated it, and I doubt the people currently administrating the award in his name are Nazi sympathizers. So really it has nothing to do with that.

My major problem is that this whole episode of history has been forgotton. As a Jew, we are always told "never forget". But even the history I learned as a kid had already forgotton stuff like this.

The reality is that the ideas Fascism had become quite popular in this country among the upper class, so many of them were Nazi sympathizers. It was not just a select few.

The important thing here is to be able to seperate the Racism from the Fascism in terms of the Nazis. While there were indeed a few anti-semites like Henry Ford who did support the Nazis, most of the Nazis' support came because of their economic tendencies towards Fascism.

Fascism is good for big business, and you have to remember that in the 1930s this country was moving more towards Socialism with FDR's "New Deal". Many of the wealthy elite were alarmed by this, and thus the ideas of Fascism (the exact opposite of Socialism/Communism) became popular.

But that does not mean these people approved of genocide or were racists. They simply wanted an economic system which would allow them to keep their wealth and keep the poor masses in check. They had seen what had happened 20 years earlier in Russia, and they feared the same thing was headed towards Western Europe and the United States.

Today when someone says the word "Nazi", people think of genocide. And because the Nazis were the most famous of the Fascist governments, most people associate the word "Fascism" with "Genocide" even though the two have nothing to do with eachother. As a result of the Nazis, "Fascism" has become a dirty word. Calling someone a Fascist is considered an insult. But the truth is that there are quite a few Fascists still running around out there, and from reading the posts in this forum, several in this forum have Fascist tendencies.

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