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Controversy over Nazi sympathies
Between 1932 and 1940, Johnson was an "antisemite, fascist sympathizer, and active propagandist for the Nazi government."[9] He attempted to start a fascist party in the United States.[10] As a correspondent for the newspaper Social Justice, which was edited by the antisemitic cleric Father Charles Coughlin, he made several trips to Germany, sympathetically covering the huge Nazi rally at Nuremberg and the German invasion of Poland in 1939. The American correspondent William Shirer who also covered the German invasion of Poland, noted his enthusiasm for the Germans and called him "The American fascist."[6]
A September 1940 article in Harper's listed Johnson as among leading American Nazis. An FBI investigation found that "Johnson had developed extensive contacts with the German Propaganda and Foreign Ministries while in Germany and then returned to propagandize on the Nazis' behalf in the United States." He was not prosecuted. However, when he was considered for a possible government position, an FBI agent sent a memo to J. Edgar Hoover saying, "I can think of no more dangerous man to have working in an agency which possesses so many military secrets."[6]
In his Social Justice report on his trip to Poland, author Marc Wortman has observed, "Johnson declared that the German victory amounted to an unmitigated triumph for the Polish people and that nothing in the war's outcome need concern Americans." Johnson went on to say that German forces had not significantly harmed Polish civilians, and said that "99 percent of the towns I visited since the war are not only intact but full of Polish peasants and Jewish shopkeepers." He said reports of Nazi mistreatment of Poles was "misinformed."[6]
Johnson wrote in Social Justice that "Lack of leadership and direction in the state has let the one group get control who always gain power in a nation's time of weakness—the Jews," he wrote. In a letter to a friend, he said, "We saw Warsaw burn and Modlin being bombed. It was a stirring spectacle."[32]
Johnson sought to distance himself from his views on Nazis after the outbreak of World War II.[33][34] In 1993 he told Vanity Fair, "I have no excuse (for) such unbelievable stupidity. ... I don't know how you expiate guilt."[9]
In 1956, he donated a design for Congregation Kneses Tifereth Israel in Port Chester, New York. Architecture professor Anat Geva observed in a paper that "all critics agree that his design of the Port Chester Synagogue can be considered as his attempt to ask for forgiveness," although Johnson never discussed the matter with the congregation. His biographer Schulze says the design was done "out of practicality not so much by shame following an investigation of his political activities."[10]
A 2018 New Yorker article notes that "in 1964, well after he had been forced to abjure his Nazi past, he insisted in letters that Hitler was 'better than Roosevelt.'"[5]
Σε αυτο το επιπεδο, δεν ηταν απλα συμπαθων, αλλα πρακτορας. Στην Σοβιετικη Ενωση θα ειχε εκτελεστει με συνοπτικες διαδικασιες πριν καν τον πολεμο, και δε θα χε χτισει αυτες τις μαλακιες και δε θα χαμε προβληματα τωρα. Νατα τα καλα του Σταλιν.
