Episode 4: Spectacle

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Elements of the American ultra right -- including the trailing ends of the America First movement -- begin taking up a strange new cause after the war... sympathy for Nazi war criminals. The surprising efforts to oppose the Nazi war crimes trials, and advocate for individual Nazis at home and abroad, will involve some of the most high-profile voices on the American right, and will jumpstart the career of one rising Republican star, Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

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0:00.0	The cartoon appeared on the front page, right in the middle, above the fold.
0:10.0	Already we are having sentences passed on the defendant who were found guilty this morning.
0:16.0	It's the day after the Nuremberg verdicts in October 1946.
0:21.0	The surviving leadership of the Nazi regime has been convicted of war crimes, many of them sentenced to death.
0:27.0	On the count of the indictment, on which you have been convicted,
0:31.0	the criminal sentences you to death by change.
0:35.0	The cartoon that appeared on the front page of the newspaper, right after those verdicts,
0:40.0	showed a Nazi soldier standing on top of a makeshift pedestal and on the pedestal it says quote
0:47.6	German martyr. Below that it says Nazi criminal convicted by a biased court composed of Germany's
0:56.0	enemies in an illegally conducted trial upon unlawful evidence
1:01.2	illicitly procured.
1:04.2	It's the day after the Nuremberg verdicts and on the front page of this newspaper
1:09.2	the convicted Nazis are martyrs.
1:18.0	The publication that ran that cartoon on the front page that day. It was not a German newspaper.
1:20.0	It was not some old Nazi paper somehow still being published over there.
1:24.4	Now this was the Chicago Tribune.
1:28.2	According to the front page of the Chicago Tribune, right after the Nuremberg verdicts are announced when the Nazi war criminals are convicted among other things for orchestrating the holocaust.
1:39.0	On the front page of the Tribune, those Nazis are the martyrs.
1:44.0	And the real crime here is the fact that the allies
1:47.3	put the Nazis on trial at all.
1:52.1	The Chicago Tribune in the 1930s and 1940s was a Goliath.
1:56.7	It was one of the most widely read newspapers in the whole country.
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