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Originally Posted by recycled sixtie
Here or in parf?
Would like to know if those of German origin such as those members' fathers/mothers/grandparents came to the US before WW2 had some knowledge of what Hitler was doing before WW2? Or his intentions?
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France and England were well aware of what Hitler was doing. The French did nothing when Hitler ignored the Versailles Treaty and retook the Rhineland in 1934. England appeased him all the way up until he invaded Poland. They didn't lift a finger when he took Austria in 1936 and the Sudetenland in 1938. The Nuremburg Laws were enacted in 1935. What was unclear about his intentions?
If anyone was really caught by surprise, I'd say it was Russia, since they had a non-aggression pact with Germany and, upon being told by a spy in the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo that Germany was about to attack Russia, Stalin had that spy recalled and executed. He really didn't believe it was coming. Everyone else knew and did nothing.