Video: 'Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of 1940s Nazi Sympathizers'

(Wednesday, April 23, 1941, event scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m. EST; during World War II) — Charles Lindbergh, aviation hero-turned-isolationist, declared tonight at a mass meeting of the America First Committee in New York City that the United States “cannot win this war for England, regardless of how much assistance we extend.”

The British “have one last desperate plan remaining. They hope that they may be able to persuade us to send another American Expeditionary Force to Europe, and to share with England militarily, as well as financially, the fiasco of this war,” Lindbergh said during his address at the Manhattan Center (located at 311 West 34th Street).

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During these years before the United States entered World War II, Lindbergh’s non-interventionist stance and statements about Jews led some to suspect he was a Nazi sympathizer, although he never publicly stated support for Nazi Germany.

Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.