{"id":307399,"date":"2025-04-25T06:12:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=307399"},"modified":"2025-04-26T05:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:56:17","slug":"the-christian-front-americas-answer-to-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=307399","title":{"rendered":"The Christian Front &#8211; America&#8217;s Answer to Communism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HenryMakow.com \u2013 April 24, 2015<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>In the 1930&#8217;s many Americans looked to Nazi Germany for inspiration in their opposition to the Communist Rothschild banking cartel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Before Donald Trump, there was Father Charles Coughlin, who popularized fascism for Americans in the 1930s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2015\/12\/trump-coughlin-nazis-christian-front-kristallnacht-antisemitism-kasich-fascism\/\">https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2015\/12\/trump-coughlin-nazis-christian-front-kristallnacht-antisemitism-kasich-fascism\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>When Fascism Was American<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By\u00a0Joe Allen \u2013 (excerpt by henrymakow.com)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>In the United States, the public and the press were virtually unanimous <\/strong>in condemning Kristallnacht, with one poll reporting that nearly 94 percent of Americans disapproved of Germany&#8217;s treatment of Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite Nazism&#8217;s unpopularity, one voice took to the airwaves to defend these actions &#8212; Father Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest based in Royal Oak, Michigan. Coughlin was a popular radio personality with an audience of millions, largely concentrated in the northeastern United States, and in New York City in particular.<\/p>\n<p>In a highly anticipated broadcast that took place eleven days after Kristallnacht, Coughlin began by posing three questions: &#8220;Why is there persecution in Germany today?&#8221;; &#8220;How can we destroy it?&#8221;; and why is &#8220;Nazism so hostile to Jewry?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Coughlin presented a simple answer: Nazism was a &#8220;defense mechanism against Communism,&#8221; and that the &#8220;rising generation of Germans regard Communism as a product not of Russia, but of a group of Jews who dominated the destinies of Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrymakow.com\/2025\/04\/christian-front-america-answer.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Donald Trump, there was Father Charles Coughlin, who popularized fascism for Americans in the 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":307403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307401,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307399\/revisions\/307401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/307403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}