All Hatred is Local (and Home-grown) !

Dallas Morning News Letter to the Editor

Home-grown hatred
Re: "Struggling to Save History's Truths," Religion, Feb. 11
It isn't just the president of Iran who has denied the Holocaust. Here in America, we've had quite a few of our own – and more than a few famous citizens who were virulent in their anti-Semiticism.
Charles Lindbergh was a strong supporter of Hitler in the late 1930s and early '40s – as was Henry Ford. Joe Kennedy, the father of John F. Kennedy, despised the Jews. Prescott Bush, the grandfather of the current president, made a fortune doing business with the Nazis.
Also, Mel Gibson's father made a statement denying the Holocaust before the release of The Passion of the Christ.
So, it isn't only radicals in the Middle East.
Also, with all due respect to the Jewish people, quite a number of others were also imprisoned and executed by the Nazis: gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Freemasons, union leaders, Russian and Polish prisoners of war, and some Catholic and Protestant clergymen.
Thank you for the well-written article.
John T. Patterson, Mansfield

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