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It's September, 1941, and Charlie is fully entrenched in the anti-war effort. Here's a quote.
Let's stipulate that he was indeed an anti-Semite (very little evidence points to the contrary, although his wife claimed otherwise). Also, we need to take into account that his "tolerance" speech quoted above coincided with Germans deporting their Jews, the establishment of Jewish ghettos in Poland and Operation Barbarrosa; which along with it, introduced the wholesale slaughter of Eastern European Jews. All of these atrocities were all already in full swing by Sept 1941. There is no way that Lindbergh could not have known about them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa
Millions supported the idea of non-interventionist, neutrality. The largest of them was a band in Chicago named America First; for which Lindbergh was the chief spokesman.
The fundamental point of contention was Roosevelt's "Lend Lease" policy:
a policy which rendered all pretense of US neutrality essentially meaningless. The biggest argument for neutrality and against Roosevelt policy seems to have been the general distaste all throughout America for helping Communist Russia.
The alternative history questions:
1. Would Germany have won the war if not for US intervention?
2. Would the Holocaust have occurred had Germany won the war?
3. How different would the world be if Lindbergh had run in 1940*, and he managed to pull off a Trump by winning the White House?
Note: *
"Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation."
He went on to warn of "large [Jewish] ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh#Pre-war_activities_and_politics
Let's stipulate that he was indeed an anti-Semite (very little evidence points to the contrary, although his wife claimed otherwise). Also, we need to take into account that his "tolerance" speech quoted above coincided with Germans deporting their Jews, the establishment of Jewish ghettos in Poland and Operation Barbarrosa; which along with it, introduced the wholesale slaughter of Eastern European Jews. All of these atrocities were all already in full swing by Sept 1941. There is no way that Lindbergh could not have known about them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa
Millions supported the idea of non-interventionist, neutrality. The largest of them was a band in Chicago named America First; for which Lindbergh was the chief spokesman.
The America First Committee (AFC) was the foremost United States non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. Started on September 4, 1940, it was dissolved on December 10, 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor had brought the war to America. Membership peaked at 800,000 paying members in 450 chapters. It was one of the largest anti-war organizations in American history.
...Two men who would later become presidents, John F. Kennedy and Gerald Ford, supported and contributed to the organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee
The fundamental point of contention was Roosevelt's "Lend Lease" policy:
The Lend-Lease policy...an American program to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy by distributing food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. The aid went to the United Kingdom, China, and later the Soviet Union, Free France, and other Allied nations. It included warships and warplanes, along with other weaponry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease
a policy which rendered all pretense of US neutrality essentially meaningless. The biggest argument for neutrality and against Roosevelt policy seems to have been the general distaste all throughout America for helping Communist Russia.
The alternative history questions:
1. Would Germany have won the war if not for US intervention?
2. Would the Holocaust have occurred had Germany won the war?
3. How different would the world be if Lindbergh had run in 1940*, and he managed to pull off a Trump by winning the White House?
Note: *
The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. The novel follows the fortunes of the Roth family during the Lindbergh presidency, as antisemitism becomes more accepted in American life and Jewish-American families like the Roths are persecuted on various levels. The narrator and central character in the novel is the young Philip, and the care with which his confusion and terror are rendered makes the novel as much about the mysteries of growing up as about American politics. Roth based his novel on the isolationist ideas espoused by Lindbergh in real life as a spokesman for the America First Committee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plot_Against_America