Suppose you're back in the WWII years and you just learn about German atrocities.

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48. I do think Nazi Germany pursued territory and in a aggressive manner

though Hitler attempted to be clever in this...punishing those who pushed the Treaty of Versailles, seeking ethnic German connections in the lands targeted for assimilation, while claiming to fight socialist/anti-capitalist movements.

It seems that did influence how Americans viewed the changing European borders and the threat of Germany...it mostly was limited to raised eyebrows.

It seems territorial expansion of Germany into N. Am was mostly played out in pursuit of petroleum from Mexico. Germany had pretty obvious needs to secure energy sources it lacked, and for a time Germany and Italy exploited American anger and trade policy intended to punish Mexico for seizing control some American oil co assets.

For the most part it seems the threat of Nazi Germany to the US was due to Nazi Germany being an ally of Japan...a circumstance that was sealed around belief that both nations deserved expansion and both were anti-communist.

Isn't it curious that anti-communist philosophy actually guided Western politics for nearly 50 years after WWII and in that half century American interests spread towards hegemonic control of the northern hemisphere