Old Nazis, the New Right and the Reagan Administration.

"As late as 1988, there were a number of genuine pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic types from Eastern and Central Europe in the Republican Party's National Republican Heritage Groups Council. Several of these worthies were leaders of the George Bush presidential campaign's ethnic outreach arm, the Coalition of American Nationalities, despite the fact that their checkered past was not a big secret. One of them, Laszlo Pasztor (or Pastor) had served in the pro-Nazi Hungarian government's embassy in Berlin during the war. This had been revealed in a 1971 page-one story in the Washington post. When this past was again brought up in September 1988, the Republicans were obliged to dump Pasztor and four others of his ilk from Bush's campaign."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Republican_Heritage_Groups_Council

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZWAHmLuZeIoC&pg=PT1&lpg=PT1&dq=russ+bellant+reagan&source=web&ots=ren-OAVWct&sig=wL230yVDzEVlL8zwABLL2uaKcFU
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From THE BONZO YEARS: http://www.quickchange.com/reagan/1985.html

3/21/85
At his 29th press conference, President Reagan explains that he has no intention of visiting a concentration camp site during his upcoming visit to West Germany. To do so, he explains, would impose an unpleasant guilt trip on a nation where there are "very few alive that remember even the war, and certainly none of them who were adults and participating in any way." A soldier who was twenty in 1940 would only be 65 at the time this was said.

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4/11/85
The White House announces that President Reagan will lay a wreath at the Bitburg, West Germany, military cemetery housing the graves of both American and Nazi soldiers. It is quickly noted that there are, in fact, no Americans buried there.

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4/18/85
While Michael Deaver is in West Germany searching for an "appropriate" concentration camp for the President to visit, President Reagan defends his visit to Bitburg by claiming the German soldiers "were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps."

4/29/85
President Reagan defends the Bitburg visit as "morally right," adding, "I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform for four years myself." President Reagan spent his time during World War Two in Hollywood, making training films.

5/5/85
After having visited the Bergen-Belsen death camp, President Reagan makes an eight minute stop at Bitburg. During the ceremony, he cites a letter from 13-year-old Beth Flom who, he claims, "urged me to lay the wreath at Bitburg cemetery in honor of the future of Germany." In fact, she urged him not to go at all.

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Reagan was a monster.

and of course the Bush** family loved the Nazis so much they bankrolled 'em!

Before Pruneface was nominated for the new dime, his supporters aimed to end the New Deal before it got started.



Thank you for starting a most important thread, laststeamtrain. Russ Belant and Chip Berlet are brave and noble researchers. Two real patriots, as well.



What these NAZIs running the USG are: traitors.

Bellant on the 'Coors Connection' was a great little book, too.

The neocon hagiography of Reagan really, really ticks me off.

People just don't seems to understand the difference between the perception & the reality. Big, big shadow falls in between full of the worst people in the world, some of whom are in the current Bush administration.

I love it when a plan comes together.

I think that's where I learned that Abramoff and Oliver North were connected through the pro-fascist World Anti-Commmunist League, if I'm not mistaken.