nov 17, 1938 - 1939: Aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh becomes a supporter of eugenics, Nazi ideology and German military expansion

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After the crisis of the kidnaping of his daughter, Lindbergh moved to France became involved with eugenics theories and became a supporter of Nazi Germany, advocating its chances to prevail in its invasion of Europe. He received honors and medals from the German high command in Germany. He was appointed leader of an isolationist group in the United States, The America First Committee. He did not change his position despite the massacres of Jews and the brutal advance of Nazi forces across Europe. After Pearl Harbor, the entry of the US into the war against Germany, public opinion in the US was united against isolationist and pro-Nazi ideologies. Lindbergh continued as a spokesperson for isolationism despite the unpopularity of the idea. Even after the defeat of Germany and Japan Lindbergh continued to promote eugenics, theories of white supremacy and the need for a mutual defense of the "white races".
Until the end he denied that he was wrong in his views of Nazism, conceding only that "power must be backed by morality."

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