Lindbergh publicly supported the notion that Nazi Germany had a “Jewish problem,” and insisted that neither attacking Germany nor saving the Jews of Europe was in America’s interest. Moreover, notwithstanding Anne’s attempt at historic revisionism, her husband remained unapologetic and, as late as 1970, his wartime journals reflected indifference to Hitler’s brutality and clearly manifested anti-Semitism. (Certainly aware what the public response would be if it read anti-Semitic passages in his diaries, Lindbergh carefully deleted them while preparing the journals for publication.)
Anne herself, who for a time was perhaps the most reviled woman in America, wrote The Wave of the Future (1940), in which she echoed her husband’s arguments against American involvement in World War II and supported his isolationist and pro-Nazi views. She, too, later (allegedly) regretted her statements, characterizing them as “terribly stupid.”
The bottom line is that the totality of the record – including Lindbergh’s own writings – belie any claim that he wasn’t anti-Semitic. Even his wife was quoted as saying that she later experienced a feeling of profound grief over what her husband had said.
Lindbergh claimed publicly and repeatedly that Jews controlled “our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government” and that they were trying, through their ownership and control of the media, to draw America into WWII. In an infamous September 11, 1941 rally in Des Moines organized by the America First Committee, he alleged that three entities were acting contrary to American interests by dragging the country to war: FDR, the British, and the Jews.
He said that “leaders of the Jewish race are not American in interests and viewpoints.” He referred to American Jews as “other people,” and, in his diaries, he wrote: “We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence…. Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur.
>Lindbergh publicly supported the notion that Nazi Germany had a “Jewish problem,” and insisted that neither attacking Germany nor saving the Jews of Europe was in America’s interest. Moreover, notwithstanding Anne’s attempt at historic revisionism, her husband remained unapologetic and, as late as 1970, his wartime journals reflected indifference to Hitler’s brutality and clearly manifested anti-Semitism. (Certainly aware what the public response would be if it read anti-Semitic passages in his diaries, Lindbergh carefully deleted them while preparing the journals for publication.)
>Anne herself, who for a time was perhaps the most reviled woman in America, wrote The Wave of the Future (1940), in which she echoed her husband’s arguments against American involvement in World War II and supported his isolationist and pro-Nazi views. She, too, later (allegedly) regretted her statements, characterizing them as “terribly stupid.”
>The bottom line is that the totality of the record – including Lindbergh’s own writings – belie any claim that he wasn’t anti-Semitic. Even his wife was quoted as saying that she later experienced a feeling of profound grief over what her husband had said.
>Lindbergh claimed publicly and repeatedly that Jews controlled “our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government” and that they were trying, through their ownership and control of the media, to draw America into WWII. In an infamous September 11, 1941 rally in Des Moines organized by the **America First Committee**, he alleged that three entities were acting contrary to American interests by dragging the country to war: FDR, the British, and the Jews.
>He said that “leaders of the Jewish race are not American in interests and viewpoints.” He referred to American Jews as “other people,” and, in his diaries, he wrote: “We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence…. Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur.
https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/the-anti-semitism-of-charles-lindbergh/2019/03/06/
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