Today, no one likes Nazi to the point that you can't even show swastikas and pictures of Hitler have to be subtly added and only for brief periods of time.
Before we became so uptight about them that we couldn't technically admit they existed, they were everywhere until communists replaced them (and even then, cartoons or comics or even books would slip in a mention or a short mockery.
But America once had the opposite idea bout Nazis. When the most famous patriotic superhero, Captain AMerica, was created, his covers sported him running up to Hitler and punching the fuhrer in the face. This alone earned the creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby several death threats in the mail by American Nazis and Nazi sympathizers.
That is no joke or even myth; these people were not a weird and batshit minority. This was normal and praised. America had a strong Nazi sentiment to the point that comics about a man who burst through a wall like the Kool-Aid man later would and smacked the leader of a genocidal war in another continent made them fear for their lives and America felt this was normal.
Be assured the entire country changed it's mind after the attack on Pearl Harbor, but always remember: America once thought Hitler was A-OK.
Let's hope the New Year will bring in more tolerance.
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