Prequel
If you’re worried about what 47 and his minions are doing to the USA right now, this book won’t offer much comfort. In the 1930s, as Hitler rose to power in Germany, his agents funded an increasingly well-organised conspiracy to flood the US with Nazi propaganda. Weapons were stockpiled. Leaflets and folders were printed and – in a move that made me sit up straight and read the passage again – paid for by the taxpayer. Sympathetic politicians, you see, could frank mail from their office with a special seal and send it out postage free. And there were sympathetic politicians. It wasn’t just the famous pilot Charles Lindbergh singing the praises of Hitler and urging the US to stay out of the war. Some senators and congressmen happily echoed his sentiments; some of them even thought it would be a good idea to step into the war on Germany’s side. All they saw in Hitler was a good man taking the fight to the communists and Jews they thought were infesting the world. In shor...
