Anti-Nazi Quotes
German-Americans were split before the war into pro and anti-Nazi factions.
The military security people were so used to ferreting out communists in the 1930s that they had a hard time adjusting to the fact that the security risks or people who might have German connections or backgrounds. Many immigrant scientists were recruited for work on the Manhattan project to build the atomic bomb and they only did security clearances. The military security people kept checking on any communist background they might have had as opposed to possible connections with fascist organizations. By the end of the war they had adjusted but then had to go back to looking for communists as the Cold War evolved.
The general was replacing George S. Patton as commander of the Third Army. Patton had opposed the deNazification policy of the allies and caused a great deal of public relations difficulty for the army command and the administration, as reporters would frequently print his views. Truscott was one of Patton’s loyal assistants. The minute he took over, the press wanted to find out if his views were the same as his former boss regarding the Nazis. They were quite different. Reporters had no story.
In 2017 President Donald Trump, in resposnse to a Nazi, KKK, & White Supremicists "March" in Charlottesville, Virginia and a citizen counter protest, in whcih one of the White Supremicists ran down in a car a number of citizen protesters killing one, equated the two groups be saying that there was violence on both sides. Most of the country was outraged, and Frazier was the first member of the President's Business Advisory Council resigned in protest, making this statement. Many did so also, and Trump in a desparate effort to avoid the embarassing news each time there was anotehr resignation be a leading CEO, disbanded his 3 citizen advisorty councils.