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Before they started a war they were mainstream-acceptable in the USA. Henry Ford, Charles Couglin, Friends of New Germany etc. It can be argued the mainstream culture / value system doesn't reject Nazism because it's evil, but because they were "the enemy" in WW2.

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All this tells me is that your average american is a moral midget, which is not surprising to me.

The average Americans went to war and defeated the Nazis.

The average person can be fooled into supporting anything most of the time. The list of bad wars Americans have supported (at least initially) is longer than the good ones.

Normative language used as shorthand for current consensus for whether the conflict was justified given the likely alternative outcomes for not engaging.

"things changed as more and more facts came out"

is learning and changing hypocrisy?

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