The Rocketeer
Unclear and Present Danger
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Nazism and the Red Scare
There was a good deal of paranoia and fear I think probably correctly felt about Nazism to the point which some historians talk about there being a brown scare in the 30s. There were organizations that were openly pro-Nazi in the US that kind of went underground or kind of tried to melt with more respectable or mainstream groups eventually as you know we got closer to war. Charles Lindbergh has a weird cameo in the movie because they take up they they strap symbol when they're testing out the rocket he cut down a statue of Charles Lindergh for their test launch.
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