
Episode 2: The Brooklyn Boys
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
Father Coglin and the Holocaust
Father Coglin wrote fan mail to Benito Mussolini. He reprinted a speech by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Gerbels about how Jews are the real aggressors and Gentiles everywhere are just victims of the evil Jews. In 1938, he got on the radio to assure his American listeners that they shouldn't be too worried about what they might be hearing out of Germany.
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