[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by amber

yeah. We had just hoped Hitler would go on a slower, less obvious plan. Like "d'oh! you bombed Poland! be careful!" and then like "d'oh, you're in France!!?? ease up buddy!" And then, of course, he started bombing the **** out of England, so we had to care. Also, even though Russia was supposedly our ally during the war, and Germany et. al. our enemy, we did much more trade with Germany during those years. Also, during the Nuremburg trials, the people from the CIA (only i don't think it was called CIA then) hand picked the SS war criminal officers to head up our West German spy plans. So, really, the real higher ups weren't at that trial.

Well - my surprise was intended soley for the Henry Ford part - but thanks for the expanded stuff the WWII era is one of the most fascinating to me - I've always wanted to start reading more on it - just haven't gotten around to it yet