Nazi: Yesterday and Today. And Tomorrow?

Today...

CHICAGO -- Sen. Dick Durbin refused to apologize Wednesday for comments he made on the Senate floor comparing the actions of American soldiers at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, Soviet gulags and a "mad regime" like Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's in Cambodia. (...) "If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime _ Pol Pot or others _ that had no concern for human beings," Durbin said.

Sen. Durbin Stands by Guantanamo Remarks
By MEGAN REICHGOTT
The Associated Press
Wednesday, June 15, 2005; 10:46 PM
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Once upon a time...

240,000 pages of declassified documents were released Thursday that show the US allowed some former Nazi war criminals to live in the United States after World War II. In addition the U.S. government paid other former Nazis to work for West Germany's secret service. According to historian Norman Goda, who wrote "US Intelligence and the Nazis", FBI Director J Edgar Hoover backed allowing former Nazis to live here so they could help report on any Communists inside immigrant communities here in the United States.

U.S. Let Former Nazi War Criminals Live in Country
Democracy Now!
May 14, 2004