TIL Joe McCarthy, the US Senator responsible for blacklisting thousands of Americans accused of being a communist, was a well known Nazi sympathizer who was largely responsible for ensuring that the vast majority of Nazi's were not prosecuted in Nuremberg
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/senator-mccarthys-nazi-problem-180975174/
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