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AmericanHeritage.com / Nazi Saboteurs Land on Long Island! (http://www.americanheritage.com/rss/articles/web/20070627-nazis-sabotage-world-war-II-coast-guard-long-island-amagansett.shtml - broken link)
Shortly after midnight on June 13, 1942, a German submarine lifted off the bottom, where it had been waiting, and surfaced near the sleepy eastern Long Island town of Amagansett. It soon put ashore four men wearing German uniforms. They had with them explosives and other demolition equipment sufficient for a two-year career in sabotage, plus $175,200 in cash—more than $2 million in today’s money.
The German government had decided that a major sabotage operation would be the most efficacious way to harm the nascent American war effort and damage American morale. Four days later, another team of four saboteurs landed at Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Florida. But the entire operation was a fiasco virtually from the first minute, and by June 27, 65 years ago today, all eight men were in the hands of the FBI.
Read the whole story at: AmericanHeritage.com / Nazi Saboteurs Land on Long Island! (http://www.americanheritage.com/rss/articles/web/20070627-nazis-sabotage-world-war-II-coast-guard-long-island-amagansett.shtml - broken link)
READ THE WHOLE STORY AND THEN ASK YOURSELF, YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR FRIENDS, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TODAY TO THESE SABOTEURS?
What country declared war on us? Afghanistan? Iraq?
I dont think so. If a nation sent its citizens to attack us, it was Saudi Arabia, but they are kissing close to the Bush clan, so they got a free pass, and Dubya tried to outdo Daddy in Iraq.
WWII was over 60 years ago. Today's saboteurs are within our very own borders.
What country declared war on us? Afghanistan? Iraq?
I dont think so. If a nation sent its citizens to attack us, it was Saudi Arabia, but they are kissing close to the Bush clan, so they got a free pass, and Dubya tried to outdo Daddy in Iraq.
WWII was over 60 years ago. Today's saboteurs are within our very own borders.
Who was that guy who bowed, which is a sign of obedience, to that same Saudi ruler? That did happen and it seems to me that the bower was a man named Barack Hussein Obama. Am I really wrong?
What would Obama do to those saboteurs today? He wouldn't try to get them to tell him anything if they refused a nicely worded question so I wonder if he would just send them back home or turn them loose in the US. Something like that since he just doesn't believe in making people like that uncomfortable.
President Roosevelt wanted a high-profile trial to send a message to Germany about what happens to saboteurs, and that was exactly what he got. The story of the capture and trial was front-page news all over the country.
AmericanHeritage.com / Nazi Saboteurs Land on Long Island! (http://www.americanheritage.com/rss/articles/web/20070627-nazis-sabotage-world-war-II-coast-guard-long-island-amagansett.shtml - broken link)
Dasch was sentenced to 30 years and Burger to life in a federal penitentiary. The other six were executed on August 8, less than two months after their landing on American soil. Many of those the men had contacted before their apprehension were arrested, and some were tried and convicted of treason or other crimes.
AmericanHeritage.com / Nazi Saboteurs Land on Long Island! (http://www.americanheritage.com/rss/articles/web/20070627-nazis-sabotage-world-war-II-coast-guard-long-island-amagansett.shtml - broken link)
AmericanHeritage.com / Nazi Saboteurs Land on Long Island! (http://www.americanheritage.com/rss/articles/web/20070627-nazis-sabotage-world-war-II-coast-guard-long-island-amagansett.shtml - broken link)
Shortly after midnight on June 13, 1942, a German submarine lifted off the bottom, where it had been waiting, and surfaced near the sleepy eastern Long Island town of Amagansett. It soon put ashore four men wearing German uniforms. They had with them explosives and other demolition equipment sufficient for a two-year career in sabotage, plus $175,200 in cash—more than $2 million in today’s money.
The German government had decided that a major sabotage operation would be the most efficacious way to harm the nascent American war effort and damage American morale. Four days later, another team of four saboteurs landed at Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Florida. But the entire operation was a fiasco virtually from the first minute, and by June 27, 65 years ago today, all eight men were in the hands of the FBI.
Read the whole story at: AmericanHeritage.com / Nazi Saboteurs Land on Long Island! (http://www.americanheritage.com/rss/articles/web/20070627-nazis-sabotage-world-war-II-coast-guard-long-island-amagansett.shtml - broken link)
READ THE WHOLE STORY AND THEN ASK YOURSELF, YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR FRIENDS, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TODAY TO THESE SABOTEURS?
Ah! I love the smell of Nazis in the morning! What's interesting is how active and accepted the Nazi Party (German American Bund) was in the US in the preceding decade. There was a similar a similar Party in Canada and any other country with a significant German population. They had a lot of support from the big Capitalistic interests because of their anti-socialist and anti-Jewish rhetoric. They campaigned in the 1936 presidential election against Franklin Delano Roosevelt—who they charged was part of the Jewish-Bolshevik “conspiracy”. The American Nazis chose a real dummy for their leader and Berlin never trusted him. Americans feared a hidden subversive element organized by the Bund would cause them problems during the War. Instead only a few minor attempts at espionage and sabotage occurred, all from outside the country. They did help to give a sense of legitimacy and identity to the anti-semites, racists and anti-socialists in America that persists to this day. It brings to mid the proverbial question, "Who really won the war?"
Ah! I love the smell of Nazis in the morning! What's interesting is how active and accepted the Nazi Party (German American Bund) was in the US in the preceding decade. There was a similar a similar Party in Canada and any other country with a significant German population. They had a lot of support from the big Capitalistic interests because of their anti-socialist and anti-Jewish rhetoric. They campaigned in the 1936 presidential election against Franklin Delano Roosevelt—who they charged was part of the Jewish-Bolshevik “conspiracy”. The American Nazis chose a real dummy for their leader and Berlin never trusted him. Americans feared a hidden subversive element organized by the Bund would cause them problems during the War. Instead only a few minor attempts at espionage and sabotage occurred, all from outside the country. They did help to give a sense of legitimacy and identity to the anti-semites, racists and anti-socialists in America that persists to this day. It brings to mid the proverbial question, "Who really won the war?"
It's also worth noting the proposed Business Plot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia had its roots in what was happening in Germany. The far right in this country very much mirrors what took hold of Germany in 1933 and led to its complete and utter destruction from both the East and West.
Nazism today comes from within, and right wing extremism is at least a great a threat as radical Islamic terrorism.
It's also worth noting the proposed Business Plot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia had its roots in what was happening in Germany. The far right in this country very much mirrors what took hold of Germany in 1933 and led to its complete and utter destruction from both the East and West.
Nazism today comes from within, and right wing extremism is at least a great a threat as radical Islamic terrorism.
The Islamists are only slightly to the Right of what we have here at home.
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