
Episode 4: A Bad Angle
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
How Many Americans Receive Nazi Propaganda in Their Mailboxes
George Sylvester Wiric and his allies sent anti-interventionist propaganda through the US Postal Service. Members of Congress who were working with this Nazi agent represented a bunch of different states up and down the political spectrum. The America First Committee started up in 1940 as a pressure group to try to stop the United States from getting involved in the Second World War. It's really a scheme of genius in some ways, but it's almost something from a James Bond film.
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